00:00what's something that never feels to make me laugh a good impression like a I'm gonna give
00:17you some old-school shit Rich Little or Jay Farrell when I hear someone nail a great
00:23impression it just not only makes me laugh it just gets me excited my favorite TV
00:29comedy is Sanford and Son Red Fox you know when I was coming up that was a quintessential you know
00:39television show I felt like they he was a real junk man you feel do I have a piece of comedy advice
00:46David Banks who was good friends with Richard Pryor told me don't stay too long when I first
00:52started doing stand-up I was burning LA to fuck up I was burning it up and I was watching this dude on
00:58uh on stage and he was killing I was like goddamn man this motherfucker famous and the old David
01:05leaned over and said he stayed too long he'd been doing that joke 35 years so it's gonna work in this
01:12club but it don't work outside of here so he told me don't stay too long get in knock it out and then
01:18continue to step upwards television movie whatever I ain't got no comedy pet peeves man if you're trying
01:24to be funny just you know especially in today's world you know anything you say everybody know
01:29you know I go crazy man let that shit fly oh man come on Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy Lenny Bruce
01:36George Carlin Steve Allen Victor Borga Johnny Carson Jay Leno Arsenio Hall Whoopi Goldberg live at the Met
01:47Franklin Ajay no one knows it Eddie in my in my in my in my this is so fucked up in my early days
01:55so fucked up I gotta say that when I was younger I always had you know on the black side of town
02:01we always had a song to come up to and I had heavy D in effect but more bounce to the ounce heavy D's in
02:07effect a more bounce to the ounce you know I thought it was killing and then I went to go
02:14Triumph with Living Color.
02:16But I was used to performing in the hood,
02:18so we had to perform at the early Laugh Factory.
02:21The Laugh Factory had just kind of been born,
02:24and I had my cassette tape, and I go to the dude.
02:27I said, hey, man, when I go on stage, pop this cassette tape in.
02:31He says, what?
02:32Pop the cassette tape in, because I'm going to come up to the music.
02:34But I didn't realize it on the white side of town.
02:37They wasn't coming up to music.
02:38So when they called out my name, I'm just like, and he never hit it.
02:42But now I've gotten older.
02:44So my warm-up song is Memories by Barbra Streisand.
02:51I'm lying. I'm fucking with you.
02:53She was like, oh, that's so cute.
02:54I'm fucking around. I don't even know why.
02:56No, I'm fucking around.
02:56It's sexy red getting sexy.
02:59No, I'm fucking around.
03:01I see everything is funny.
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