Speaker 1: Elliott.
Speaker 2: Elliott is gonna do something for us, and he was
Speaker 2: maybe we want to see something and to take my guests.
Speaker 3: Let's go. So they just told me you were gonna
Speaker 3: be here like two minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Look, look, look he's not impressed around.
Speaker 3: I don't give a funk. He didn't even do anything yet.
Speaker 3: You have any money on you and you got something
Speaker 3: you got out of cash.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know why. It was in the bottom
Speaker 1: of my person.
Speaker 3: I don't want to make sure that's a real dollar.
Speaker 3: That's Andree's dollar. We got George Washington on the bill
Speaker 3: and I just pulled up a picture you real quick.
Speaker 3: But I want to I want you to personalize this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so here's what I want to do. It's blue, it's
Speaker 3: a little tough to see, but I want you to
Speaker 3: uh press down on your face about it's all good.
Speaker 3: You did it?
Speaker 4: Okay, then it went away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on the bill.
Speaker 4: Mhmm, okay, what.
Speaker 2: Is it your name?
Speaker 4: My face?
Speaker 2: Did you look at the bill before?
Speaker 4: Yea, it was George Washington here to that?
Speaker 3: Is that really on there? Is that your son? Bill?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Damn straight.
Speaker 1: Nah, come on, I mean no, breaking down, breaking down.
Speaker 4: I'm usually shocked by things. I would have probably been
Speaker 4: more impressed now, I'm just being real now a hard one.
Speaker 4: If sleafers that took a selfie in that that happened today,
Speaker 4: then I would have been it. But you said you,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know when you pull that picture
Speaker 4: of but I don't know what you did. I'm just
Speaker 4: saying I got said, I know what you did. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying? Like, all right, okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Is on George? Why where George Washington's face was? And
Speaker 3: this does not impress you.
Speaker 2: We didn't know this was gonna be a tough crowd.
Speaker 4: I am a tough because I love I love magic.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 3: That you make lists on your phone, a grocery list
Speaker 3: or anything.
Speaker 4: Nah, not for really?
Speaker 3: All right, so I do And do you have a
Speaker 3: favorite number? You have a number that means something to you?
Speaker 3: What number? Is it?
Speaker 4: Four?
Speaker 3: So here? Look go to my notes right there? Roll, yeah,
Speaker 3: go to word. It says groceries. He said four.
Speaker 4: What's four oranges?
Speaker 3: And there's no way I could have known you were
Speaker 3: gonna say four? Now, which is oranges? Remember that you
Speaker 3: said oranges? Open up that bag, ripping open, just tear
Speaker 3: it open.
Speaker 4: I love magic.
Speaker 1: M what is it?
Speaker 4: Hmmmm?
Speaker 3: Wait, here's what I want to wait.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 3: Are we warming up a little.
Speaker 1: Trying to do the map? So if I did the
Speaker 1: number I was in the phone, but you.
Speaker 3: Pick, I'm gonna show I'm gonna show you how we're
Speaker 3: all connected. At any point, just say stop. Remember the card.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if I see it. Okay, So at
Speaker 3: any point, just say stop, stop right here? All right?
Speaker 4: What is that a ten?
Speaker 3: All right here, bro, do me a favor. Just rip
Speaker 3: the corner off and hold it nice and high. Okay,
Speaker 3: and hold the other piece in the other hand. Here's
Speaker 3: what I want to do. Watch carefully right here. When
Speaker 3: you take the big piece, I'm going to do this
Speaker 3: in front of your face. We're going to lose it
Speaker 3: into the pack of the big piece. Did you feel that?
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, it's gone from the deck. You said you
Speaker 3: like magic. My hands have never left your sight, but
Speaker 3: your card is gone. You said oranges. There were oranges
Speaker 3: in that bag. I'm gonna show you how we're all connected.
Speaker 3: You stopped me at the ten of hearts. You ripped
Speaker 3: off a corner. It's gone from the deck. Do me
Speaker 3: a favor. Hand the bag of oranges to Ange. Ange,
Speaker 3: do me a favor. Take out the bag real quick,
Speaker 3: take it out, take it out, all right, right, it's out,
Speaker 3: all right. Rip open the bag. They'll rip open the
Speaker 3: bag of this Rip it open.
Speaker 1: Okay? Can I eat an orange and shake one?
Speaker 4: This one, this is the important one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you held this one on? Yes, nah, well take
Speaker 3: that out. It steals for your protection. Unwrapped that real, nah,
Speaker 3: bra you said oranges. You stopped at the ten of hearts.
Speaker 3: You ripped off a corner. The corner disappeared. All the
Speaker 3: other oranges, by the way, empty, They're all empty, empty empty, empty,
Speaker 3: don't matter. Empty. Check this out.
Speaker 2: I mean you really gotta.
Speaker 3: I don't want to touch that. I want you to
Speaker 3: very carefully unwrap that. And you checked this out. Watch
Speaker 3: the tent of hearts with a corner missing. That is
Speaker 3: a one, one hundred percent perfect match. I'm here all night.
Speaker 4: That was really I'm not even lying to that was impressive. Okay.
Speaker 3: So before you came in here, I asked Angie to
Speaker 3: think about somebody important to her who passed away. And
Speaker 3: there's no way I can know. I haven't left the studio.
Speaker 3: Who you're thinking about is that true? So I went
Speaker 3: to an estate sale a few months ago, like I
Speaker 3: like going to and I saw this bell and this
Speaker 3: woman wouldn't tell to me. She explained that her husband
Speaker 3: did say once his and would only give it real
Speaker 3: to somebody who the bell rings for. I brought that
Speaker 3: bell with me today and I put it there a
Speaker 3: few minutes ago. Angie, could you grab that bell for me?
Speaker 3: Oh God, and Angie, I want you to put the
Speaker 3: rope through your wrist, and I want you with your
Speaker 3: index finger just pinch the rope. Okay, what do you mean? Yeah,
Speaker 3: just pinch it and you let it hang. I want
Speaker 3: you to think about the first letter of this person's
Speaker 3: first name. Okay, and again you're just thinking about this
Speaker 3: person in your mind? Is that true? A?
Speaker 2: B C? Holy shit?
Speaker 3: Does that make sense at all? Think about think about
Speaker 3: the first letter of the second and the last thing. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go rent J, L V C D K.
Speaker 2: What the fuck? What the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: Send my love to Clark Kent.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that was.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, man, you gotta go.
Speaker 3: I almost forgot hold on. I asked you to think
Speaker 3: about a random word. What was the word constantly.
Speaker 4: Come on, get out, get out, you gotta go, you
Speaker 4: gotta go, You gotta take your take.
Speaker 1: Man, great job anyway, how are you real?
Speaker 4: Hearts man?
Speaker 2: Unbelievable by the way everybody roll.
Speaker 1: How yo, let's get into Reil mode right now.
Speaker 4: Let me put these you got get rid of all
Speaker 4: the one just because like now, let me get it.
Speaker 2: When you they always put these things in front of
Speaker 2: me when I have my guests coming through.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at your your your list of films. No,
Speaker 1: it's a real list.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've done a lot of a lot.
Speaker 2: Get Out, Legendary, bird Box, Good Boys, Fatherhood, The Photograph,
Speaker 2: Space Jam, Good Burger two, There's plenty more. That's just
Speaker 2: where it starts. And now, of course it's a new
Speaker 2: one on Friday to get ready to drop dog Man.
Speaker 2: But that's a quality list of films that you have
Speaker 2: been in my guy, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I was thinking about? And dang, I guess
Speaker 4: because of the magician. Now, I feel like I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna be honest cause I want him to tell me
Speaker 4: what I'm thinking. I was. I was on the phone
Speaker 4: with Wifey yesterday and I think I was on Instagram
Speaker 4: laying down and I saw one of those portraits that
Speaker 4: have you know, they had like the portrait of the comedians.
Speaker 4: You know, everybody's on like the legends like Red Fox, Yea,
Speaker 4: Eddie Richard and Bernie and Steve Sidy, you know, everybody
Speaker 4: on there. And I like saw you know a couple
Speaker 4: of comics. They're like, you know, it's with my group,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, dagn how am I not on here?
Speaker 4: And I was and I wasn't liking this weird. It
Speaker 4: was like not like a well out thought before a second,
Speaker 4: because like, like what do I got to do? Because
Speaker 4: I intentionally a lot of the stuff I've done was
Speaker 4: to because I'm such a fan of this, was to
Speaker 4: create greatness for myself. So it's like, Okay, I got
Speaker 4: to get a sitcom that's named after me after my material.
Speaker 4: Can't have that reil on Fox on Network TV. It's like, okay,
Speaker 4: I got to be in movies and then yeah, they
Speaker 4: got to be nominatid like I did all of that,
Speaker 4: and it's like I was looking at the list like
Speaker 4: wait a minute, now I had passed some of these
Speaker 4: heroes up with the resume. I got the specials, I
Speaker 4: got everything, and I was like why nobody ever really
Speaker 4: put me in these conversations about one of the best
Speaker 4: I don't. It baffles with me sometimes. I never really
Speaker 4: cared before until last night. Was the first time I
Speaker 4: ever thought about it.
Speaker 2: You use that as motivation.
Speaker 4: I don't. Am I motivated by stuff already.
Speaker 2: Did no motivation for people to recognize I don't know if.
Speaker 4: I want because if they haven't done it now to
Speaker 4: this point, because.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take.
Speaker 4: What is it gonna take? Because I came from the
Speaker 4: Chitlin circuit, Because you know, sometimes people are like, well,
Speaker 4: you can't no, I did comic view at twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: You don't know what else to do. I don't.
Speaker 4: I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2: Maybe because your portfolio is so diverse that they don't
Speaker 2: put you in one box and.
Speaker 4: Bring up the ghettos. I did every stand up show
Speaker 4: you can. Bill Bellamy's Who Got Jokes with TV one
Speaker 4: It was Bill Bellamy and the thing.
Speaker 2: But who was in the thing that we saw?
Speaker 4: It was called Bill, he went in, It was Bernie,
Speaker 4: it was said, it was Steve, it was Ked, it
Speaker 4: was Kevin, it was it's all older than you but
Speaker 4: me and Kevin the same age, are you Yeah, here
Speaker 4: we go. I'll say this again. For some reason, it's
Speaker 4: just so weird. I don't understand. I can't understand if
Speaker 4: y'all gonna have all these people in there, because I
Speaker 4: saw grading that to draw Carmichael, who I'm older than.
Speaker 4: Je Farrell was on there, Charlie Murphy, who didn't even
Speaker 4: do stand up for a long time, who was in
Speaker 4: charge of that day. It's not even just that day,
Speaker 4: but it's when you think about it, every time these
Speaker 4: conversations do happen for some reason, and I've never complained
Speaker 4: about it. And it's weird that I'm doing your show now.
Speaker 4: Now I know how you feeling because I've had the
Speaker 4: HBO specials.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting question.
Speaker 4: Done these really cool things? Matter of fact, one of
Speaker 4: my specials it was number one in one year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but your profile, you lay low, at least you
Speaker 2: did for a long time.
Speaker 4: And that's what me and wife he talked about. I
Speaker 4: had to own the fact that. And it's so damn
Speaker 4: this is a deep this gets still a weirdly deep conversation.
Speaker 4: But like I think, early as the stuff was happening,
Speaker 4: I was I was maybe a little afraid of the greatness,
Speaker 4: because with greatness it comes you got to do the prs.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to be on no magazine covers, and
Speaker 4: it comes with other insecurities I had that had nothing
Speaker 4: to do with the career stuff. It was all the stuff,
Speaker 4: like the stuff that I think about myself now, to
Speaker 4: have all the I think, that's why I'm even thinking
Speaker 4: about it now, because I'm a I have a different mindset,
Speaker 4: I'm moving a lot differently. But it was it was
Speaker 4: because of my own self self esteem.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the first time we met? Kind of thing,
Speaker 2: So it might not be the first time we met,
Speaker 2: it was the first time I remember meeting you.
Speaker 1: And I had just saw you and Get Out, and I.
Speaker 2: Thought you you helped frame that movie in a way that, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was great movie and interesting in concept. Would you
Speaker 2: help frame that movie in a way that made that
Speaker 2: movie to me next level right, just because you added
Speaker 2: like the levity and the I don't know you just
Speaker 2: so I had just seen that and thought that of you,
Speaker 2: and then I saw you.
Speaker 1: At the Oscars.
Speaker 4: At the Oscars, I was at.
Speaker 2: The Oscars because my good friend Mary J. Blige had
Speaker 2: just got nominated for mud Bound.
Speaker 1: So we was all out there supporting my girl. I
Speaker 1: stumbled on tickets.
Speaker 2: I got it. We were there to support Mary and
Speaker 2: I saw you. You were like quiet.
Speaker 1: I was expecting comedians are usually so I thought I
Speaker 1: was and I went up to you. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: and you were very quiet. I was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: don't he don't like me.
Speaker 2: I thought you didn't like No, Well, then I realized
Speaker 2: you were just a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I was overwhelmed. Yeah, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff that I well. Also, I mean, I guess I
Speaker 4: don't trip about it neither, because I was taken in
Speaker 4: a lot at the time. Yeah, it was a lot
Speaker 4: like that. That run happened really fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can only imagine it. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of spotlight.
Speaker 4: And then I had to like act like I knew
Speaker 4: that I was doing because right like get out what
Speaker 4: was happening and was popping. And then that's what I
Speaker 4: got a deal for my shoulder, and I did Don't
Speaker 4: Go Druid, and I did all these movies that resume
Speaker 4: really is have to get out. So there was a
Speaker 4: list of movies I've done, like thirty movies since get
Speaker 4: Out Wow, which is crazy nuts nuts.
Speaker 2: But I've seen you again after that and you were
Speaker 2: like oh, I was just a little nerves.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and you were great. You came over,
Speaker 1: you showed love.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you do like you are cool.
Speaker 4: You see I'm watching I watched random interviews with you
Speaker 4: know YouTube.
Speaker 2: Was like, he doesn't know where it was.
Speaker 4: He's too you know, and you do the best interviews
Speaker 4: like man, very honest.
Speaker 2: No, you showed me so much love the second time
Speaker 2: I saw you. That's why I was like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: you like nah, I was just in my own head.
Speaker 2: I was listening to had nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I didn't like it was.
Speaker 4: It was just surreal to actually be there. It was
Speaker 4: one of those sure for the gold party too. Oh yes,
Speaker 4: so that was That was a whole thing too.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a dope career though, right.
Speaker 4: I'm so grateful, Like I you know, I pinched myself,
Speaker 4: which is why once y'all I was having that conversation
Speaker 4: with wife, but it started it made me go back
Speaker 4: to how have I thought about myself and like, going
Speaker 4: into this next part of my career life, I want
Speaker 4: to make sure I really enjoy it and embrace it
Speaker 4: and pay attention to what's happening. Yeah, and be present,
Speaker 4: be present.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. The body at work is really amazing.
Speaker 2: What about dog Man?
Speaker 4: I'm so excited about that just because you know, a big,
Speaker 4: big fan of the books, you know, and it's something
Speaker 4: really cool about doing, especially with an animated movie or
Speaker 4: show where the voices don't exist yet. So it's just
Speaker 4: the book. So the first time you ever hear one
Speaker 4: of these characters talk from this very pop the book
Speaker 4: is my voice. So now my voice is Chief. So
Speaker 4: when you think about Chief from the dog Man, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Your life is so different now too. You've had like
Speaker 2: these all these big changes.
Speaker 1: I saw some of your tamer interview with you.
Speaker 2: Given your therapy, it's props, which I'm a therapy girl too.
Speaker 2: I definitely advocate for everybody to get you some I
Speaker 2: like therapy even if there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 4: In my life, even when I think it's nothing wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you find something wrong because I go into therapy like
Speaker 4: with no, no, I don't know what I'm gonna talk about.
Speaker 4: Like I literally just go in there and we just
Speaker 4: it may start small talking. The next thing you know,
Speaker 4: it's like Damn, I ain't think about it like that
Speaker 4: and it be something I never thought about or something
Speaker 4: that was buried. It was kind of crazy and what
Speaker 4: so what did it do?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: You never had it before.
Speaker 4: This before and it changed. It changed a lot, It
Speaker 4: really changed. I don't know. It just made me more
Speaker 4: accountable for things and even kind of just like it's people.
Speaker 4: I think I over defended too at times, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: So' it was. It's been a lot, and it's helped me,
Speaker 4: like help my friends.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, is it helped the acting.
Speaker 4: What it does, it helps me get out of the
Speaker 4: like cause I can be method at times, so it
Speaker 4: helps me better at getting out the character or out
Speaker 4: that world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after you do something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's tough. Sometimes a couple of times it
Speaker 4: was tough for me to get out of it. Really,
Speaker 4: Like what bird Box was tough because the way we
Speaker 4: were shooting it, they had us like standing in the
Speaker 4: house the whole time, so like we would eat our
Speaker 4: lunches there. So when you by the time you left,
Speaker 4: it's dark outside and you really think that the bird
Speaker 4: Box things happened. So I was like peraloid, like some
Speaker 4: lunative watching that movie and the end of the way
Speaker 4: she ordered like everybody died in order of the script.
Speaker 4: But you never saw him again. It wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 4: you do movies and it's the rap, like, well that's
Speaker 4: a rap home now when you die, you just left.
Speaker 4: It was like next thing. Well, they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of crazy. Just threw you in the van.
Speaker 4: It took you to your car straight up.
Speaker 2: That's wild. That is wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it kind of could be tricky. You know,
Speaker 4: it's a movie. I did a meal, the last one.
Speaker 4: I kind of had that thing to me. What it's
Speaker 4: called the meal. It's a Hulu and it's basically just
Speaker 4: me throughout the movie. Is you gotta see? It's a
Speaker 4: sci fi thriller. And yeah, it took me about a
Speaker 4: month to get out of that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can only imagine you.
Speaker 1: Oh you got in the Kiki and one of them days.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now when something like that comes up, do you do
Speaker 2: that because that's your people, or do you mostly?
Speaker 4: I mean my it's my friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so ill me anything, I do it, You do.
Speaker 1: It, no matter the size of the role, no matter
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 4: She asked me to do. What I do it yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 2: What about everything else? Do you still have to like,
Speaker 2: do you still have to like read for stuff?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: So I have to get out, get out. Maybe with
Speaker 4: our last audition. Oh, Weirdly enough, Eric Andrey had me
Speaker 4: reef a bad trip and at the time I didn't
Speaker 4: want to do it, Like so I did terrible on
Speaker 4: purpose and he's still casting me.
Speaker 2: Why did you do that?
Speaker 4: Because I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a
Speaker 4: prank movie with Eric. You know, Eric's crazy, But.
Speaker 2: I got the movie.
Speaker 4: I almost quit the first day because we didn't have
Speaker 4: the security in the right place and we're doing something
Speaker 4: the hood with we had like that's when we did
Speaker 4: that in the movie. Our characters penises got stuck at
Speaker 4: a Chinese finger trap, and so we was like going
Speaker 4: down the street and people were loose. I didn't think
Speaker 4: that would make people.
Speaker 1: Say upset, they don't like block it off.
Speaker 4: It's like no, because it's a prank movie.
Speaker 2: So it's all he know.
Speaker 4: But I always think it's like no, it's not nothing
Speaker 4: was said up. We literally walking down the street. You
Speaker 4: get like it was like this homeless dude, like, man,
Speaker 4: they better not come over here with them dirty ass penises.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It was like so when people was like really upset
Speaker 4: that we was walking down the street and we was
Speaker 4: walking hold of each other because it was like fake
Speaker 4: petis and so it's stretching. It was, it was, it was,
Speaker 4: it's kind of wild. So we went into the wrong
Speaker 4: barber shop and we walked in there with it. I
Speaker 4: don't know what the conversation was before we walked in there,
Speaker 4: and the security wasn't in there, because a lot of
Speaker 4: times we would have security in the ahead of time.
Speaker 4: So we went in the wrong shot man, man, I
Speaker 4: don't it looked like he was looking for a gun,
Speaker 4: couldn't find it, grabbed that his barber knife, chased us
Speaker 4: out the barber shop. I broke out the trap. I
Speaker 4: walked to the hotel with my thing dangling. I walked
Speaker 4: because we weren't at Barbara the hotel. I didn't even care.
Speaker 4: I quit and the little, the little fake penis was
Speaker 4: just dangling.
Speaker 2: I walked together, my god, because I was done.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, we almost got killed. The first day,
Speaker 4: and that's when Tiffany signed on the new movie. I
Speaker 4: called Tiffany complaining, like tiff I'm gonna quit this movie.
Speaker 4: Eric is crazy, I ain't signing up for this blah
Speaker 4: blah too hard. And she was like, let me call
Speaker 4: you back. And she called Eric like, Eric, yo, did
Speaker 4: you almost get real cute? He's like, yeah, I feel bad.
Speaker 4: She's like, don't you I want to do this shit.
Speaker 4: Tiffany jumped to the movie and that's how she got out.
Speaker 4: That's what she got on all right after that.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's amazing, is it.
Speaker 4: I was really scared for my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the fact that you're willing to do it
Speaker 2: and you know.
Speaker 4: But what I learned was and just go back to
Speaker 4: the character work. I had to just stay in character.
Speaker 4: I could not be me doing the movie. So I
Speaker 4: became bub Malone and that was the only way.
Speaker 1: How long does this go on?
Speaker 4: Until we was done with the movie, so I can.
Speaker 1: Just like at home and everything, even at the.
Speaker 4: Hotel, I was just bub Malone, shut with your family
Speaker 4: alone for how long? It was about a couple of months.
Speaker 4: I had to be and he was. But it wasn't bad.
Speaker 4: But it was a good guy, so it was cool.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably my nicest ever was being bove Malone.
Speaker 4: He probably missed bood Malone.
Speaker 2: What do you do that f usually for your movies,
Speaker 2: Like you go into character and you stay there.
Speaker 4: I can yeah, yeah, if it's if it's that's wild, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I like to do that just so I could
Speaker 4: stay in the world of it. You know what I'm saying, U,
Speaker 4: lets me give it. You know, I could do honest
Speaker 4: delivery that way. So yeah, I tend to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Are you like a a comedian who acts or an
Speaker 2: actor who's a comedian.
Speaker 4: Mm, that's a great question. Damn. I feel like I'm both.
Speaker 4: But if you ever watched my stand up, I mean
Speaker 4: you knew I could probably be a good actor because
Speaker 4: I did a lot of character work on stage, Like
Speaker 4: I act out all my bits, so like if I'm
Speaker 4: doing my mom, I'm actually doing my mom. If I'm
Speaker 4: doing my dad. But that's from the Eddie Murphy school
Speaker 4: of stand up to me, Like, you know, every joke
Speaker 4: Eddie did, He'll set it up and then he'll act
Speaker 4: it out of it. Bunny falling down the stairs, he
Speaker 4: explained it, and then I'm Bunny's falling down the stairs.
Speaker 4: Then his dad is reacting. He explains everything up front,
Speaker 4: and then we just see the movie happens as he
Speaker 4: acts it out.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's I never thought about it like that. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go back back and watch man.
Speaker 4: That's what Eddie. Eddie's great at that. That's why you
Speaker 4: could just listen to him. You don't even have to
Speaker 4: watch Eddie stuff. You could just hear it and it
Speaker 4: still has the same effect.
Speaker 2: You're like a student of the game.
Speaker 4: I am a nerd of this.
Speaker 1: Yes, who's your favorite?
Speaker 4: Eddie Murphy?
Speaker 2: Does he know that?
Speaker 4: I hope so. I talk about it a lot.
Speaker 2: Have you met him and told him?
Speaker 4: No? I want to. That's one person. It's so weird
Speaker 4: because I've met everybody. I just want to have a
Speaker 4: I just want to sit down and have a conversation
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 2: Why is this not manifested?
Speaker 4: If you've said it, I don't know Eddie.
Speaker 2: He's very rich, he's very you know, he's Tiffany said.
Speaker 4: He knows who I am and stuff. He would have
Speaker 4: to attin invited to watch the fights with everybody else.
Speaker 2: Just because he knows who you are doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: get an invitation.
Speaker 4: I'm just happy he knew who I was, Like, you
Speaker 4: know that I exist as far as in this game.
Speaker 4: But Eddie is really my motivation. I mean that's why,
Speaker 4: Like the character is so many things I've done based
Speaker 4: off what Eddie has done.
Speaker 2: What is if Eddie is watching?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: What are we saying to Eddie?
Speaker 4: Eddie? I just wanted to sit down and talk.
Speaker 2: Bro, what do you want him to know?
Speaker 4: It's not what I want him to know. I just
Speaker 4: want to ask questions. What would you ask him? I
Speaker 4: really want to ask him how Harlem Knights really felt doing?
Speaker 4: Like what did it feel like being around Red and Richard? Like?
Speaker 4: What was the stories? What did you learn from that? Like?
Speaker 4: What did you hear? Like it's some visuals.
Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter should put that together, you know how they
Speaker 2: do the two people together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should do that. Oh I say we.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just inserted myself.
Speaker 2: We should call Hollywood Reporter and get you and Eddie
Speaker 2: together for you to interview him.
Speaker 4: Because I have some very specific questions for him.
Speaker 2: Man, that would be amazing. Yeah, it would be Actually,
Speaker 2: I think I'm putting it in the air for you.
Speaker 2: I think it should happen.
Speaker 4: And it's been close a couple of times for us
Speaker 4: to work together and it just didn't happen. So I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: You work with a lot of great people, though. He
Speaker 2: so you love I know, I love Pete Davison's in
Speaker 2: the new movie.
Speaker 4: Pete is so funny.
Speaker 2: Have you known him before the movie?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, p since he's young and here Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who else? I mean, whose favorites?
Speaker 4: Lou Nell Is in the movie too, who's really funny?
Speaker 4: And dog Man Yeah, oh wow, Okay plays Milly. She
Speaker 4: plays the chief secretary.
Speaker 1: I love Lounell.
Speaker 4: She's so funny.
Speaker 2: No, she's the truth.
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying, even that voice of like
Speaker 4: just having like this movie is doing something really se
Speaker 4: sure and I hope it does well.
Speaker 2: What do you want people to know about it?
Speaker 4: I just want people to know that, first of all,
Speaker 4: it's a fun movie. It's gonna be funny. It's gonna
Speaker 4: have a lot of hard a lot of action. And
Speaker 4: I think the brilliance of it on the animation side
Speaker 4: is that it looks like the book coming to life.
Speaker 4: Like you know, sometimes you watch these cartoon movies and
Speaker 4: that kind of try to do something so different and
Speaker 4: so unique. Literally, they took the illustrations from the books
Speaker 4: and put it in this movie and made it move,
Speaker 4: and it looks so cool.
Speaker 2: Though I can't wait to see it. How is this
Speaker 2: working in the movie business right now? I feel like
Speaker 2: it's so weird. I don't even know as a consumer.
Speaker 2: Like before it used to be like go see it
Speaker 2: this weekend for opening weekend numbers, and then it would
Speaker 2: be in the movie theater for X amount of time
Speaker 2: before we would get to see it anywhere else. I
Speaker 2: don't understand the rollouts of movies these days, like I
Speaker 2: feel like they go to the theater.
Speaker 1: For two seconds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, then I have.
Speaker 2: To try to google it to find out what streaming
Speaker 2: platform is on.
Speaker 1: Do you, I mean, just what kind of condition are
Speaker 1: we in? Is that just me and my loss?
Speaker 4: No, you're not law. But I do think it's getting
Speaker 4: back to making movies again for a real movie going experience,
Speaker 4: and so I think we're starting to see that again.
Speaker 4: I think we're seeing one of them days. Is doing
Speaker 4: as far as for comedies is big because.
Speaker 2: You know it's doing well in theaters.
Speaker 4: It is doing well in theaters, and they've ran away
Speaker 4: from putting comedies in theaters. It has been going all
Speaker 4: the way to the streamers. Like most of my movies
Speaker 4: that are like Vacation Friends Wanting Too is on Hulu.
Speaker 4: It'd have been nice to go to a movie theater.
Speaker 4: But but what one of them days is doing is
Speaker 4: opening the doors to that happening again. So which is
Speaker 4: what we're doing now. Like I'm about to direct my
Speaker 4: first movie and starting it Wow. And it's a horror comedy,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But it's hysterical and it's
Speaker 4: gonna be scary, and it's gonna be in theaters. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be in theaters. That's to go. Yeah, I'm starting
Speaker 4: in it to and directing it. Yep.
Speaker 2: And who wrote it? You wrote it too?
Speaker 4: No, but you know it's all U. It's all a
Speaker 4: group thing.
Speaker 2: Is that the future of real? Like you you want
Speaker 2: to make movies like you want to direct this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, directing and producing like I wanted. I really want
Speaker 4: to take their brains on comedy. So I did a
Speaker 4: comedy festival last year in Chicago in September that was
Speaker 4: very successful.
Speaker 1: And again this year too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Always it's going to be crazy this and this year
Speaker 4: coming up. And we did that one last year, ninety days.
Speaker 4: We put that together Wow, over sixty five comedians seven days,
Speaker 4: all the shows. So that I shot my special, my
Speaker 4: last special, I did at the festival, and you know,
Speaker 4: we're shopping it now and that's really exciting. So I've
Speaker 4: been doing a lot of things from I'm just changing
Speaker 4: the way I see business. I've been very much focused
Speaker 4: on the business of our business.
Speaker 2: That's how you get on the poster and the thing
Speaker 2: with the other guys, they want.
Speaker 4: To know that and see you do that, yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean pressed, but they haven't done that either. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I think Kevin has his version of it. No, I'm joking.
Speaker 2: Do you hate Kevin? Do you?
Speaker 4: I love Kevin Hart? God? But you know what's interesting
Speaker 4: is it is one of the things. For a long
Speaker 4: time I was trying to wait on other people to
Speaker 4: do certain things. I'm like, why this person won't do this,
Speaker 4: and why this person don't do it because you know
Speaker 4: they have more capital than me. But really, you just
Speaker 4: got to do it.
Speaker 2: You gotta get it done.
Speaker 4: You gotta get it done. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: So today everybody's gonna go to the theaters and see
Speaker 2: dog Man.
Speaker 1: Yes, what else do you want people to do for you?
Speaker 4: I mean, go see dog Man? Continue to see one
Speaker 4: of them days and look, just be on the lookout
Speaker 4: and just support. I'm literally trying, and it's so funny you
Speaker 4: say that, Like, you know, I used to always think, oh,
Speaker 4: maybe I need to be on the list of comedian grace.
Speaker 4: But that's when I'm like, baby, it's gonna be different
Speaker 4: from me because I really want to change and I
Speaker 4: want to be the George Lucas and Steven Spielberg of
Speaker 4: comedy and every which way you could think of.
Speaker 1: Yes, So maybe that's why you haven't been putting another.
Speaker 4: Bune because it's a whole nother thing I'm supposed to
Speaker 4: be doing. I'm learning. I'm like the business part is
Speaker 4: like the mogul of comedy. I had a dream that
Speaker 4: I was on a magazine cover and it wasn't because
Speaker 4: I was the number one comic. Is because they called
Speaker 4: me the king and give comedy and it was like no,
Speaker 4: and they would produce a director, actor, this and that,
Speaker 4: so it wasn't one category. Oh so that's coming, that's
Speaker 4: what's happening. That's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that for you real. Go get it all,
Speaker 2: Go get it all all right, guys, Well go see
Speaker 2: the movie today. It is out.
Speaker 1: The Comedy Show will be back this.
Speaker 4: Year, The Comedy Fest, wast Comedy fl will be back and.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the special will scene.
Speaker 4: It's in some great conversations with it. And then it's
Speaker 4: some more movies too, actually, which is crazy, Like I
Speaker 4: still got like I'm always working.
Speaker 2: I love that for you. Yeah, and congrats to I
Speaker 2: know things are going well with the family. Got a
Speaker 2: big old, happy, blended family right.
Speaker 4: Now getting ready and we may have a reality show
Speaker 4: that you might as well.
Speaker 1: How many kids is it?
Speaker 4: It's seven kids, but it's gonna be about the love story.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna be about the kids right away, total
Speaker 4: of seven. But we want to tell we want to
Speaker 4: tell this very beautiful, uh black love story. I love
Speaker 4: it and want to be honest and hopefully it helps
Speaker 4: other couples and people because I think Danella's so fascinating
Speaker 4: it and I believe a show that we're pitching our
Speaker 4: reality show. And then you know, look, we haven't did
Speaker 4: the wedding yet because of that, we're not even talking
Speaker 4: about it anymore because I didn't want to do a wedding.
Speaker 4: I wanted to just get hitched, and she wants to
Speaker 4: have a wedding, so we've even stopped talking about it.
Speaker 4: So you know, if the show happens, like a ship
Speaker 4: we want to let you in on what even organically
Speaker 4: it's gonna be so, and then you will see what
Speaker 4: the decision is.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for that. That's very strategic. By the way,
Speaker 2: business the business of weddings, and I'm on the business business.
Speaker 2: I heard you. That's why you're gonna have that plaque.
Speaker 2: That's why it's gonna be you, and you're gonna get
Speaker 2: that cover.
Speaker 4: Yes, me and Tyler Perry gonna be so.
Speaker 2: Funny because when you were saying that, that's the thing
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 4: That's my thought. That's who I think. It's so funny.
Speaker 4: It was a time and I'll wrap it up, but
Speaker 4: it was a time where I didn't you know, it
Speaker 4: was all a part of some of the group that
Speaker 4: was like Tyler need to do better with this and
Speaker 4: better with that and all the other blah blah blah,
Speaker 4: and honestly, this is honest got you. I remember praying
Speaker 4: about it, and God basically was telling people that's who
Speaker 4: you should be looking up to.
Speaker 1: You know what is the prayer though, Like you're praying for.
Speaker 4: And I'm glad you said that. I'm praying for God,
Speaker 4: show me, show me who I need to be looking
Speaker 4: up to who should be And that's when I started,
Speaker 4: you know, reading more about George Lucael. I started saying,
Speaker 4: that's the direction I want to go in after the career.
Speaker 4: Even because it was on strike without that prayer.
Speaker 2: Think about how different that is. So everybody's everybody's snapping
Speaker 2: on or judging or criticizing Tyler Perry and you say,
Speaker 2: he let me pray, Let me pray on this.
Speaker 4: And God was like, look, I gave you all an example.
Speaker 4: He's doing literally what he wants to do, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, And art should not be And that
Speaker 4: was another thing even within that prayer, about learning about
Speaker 4: how we shouldn't judge art the way we do. Everybody
Speaker 4: got their own voice. And if he's able to make
Speaker 4: his capital and do whatever you want with his money
Speaker 4: to entertain people that loves his.
Speaker 1: Stuff love it, Oh, I'm one of them.
Speaker 4: So that's what it's like, Who are we to judge
Speaker 4: it's his art, It's just creativity. We shouldn't be over
Speaker 4: judging each other creativity like that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I would only judge it if every single person was
Speaker 2: only making Tyler Perry content. That's the only thing that
Speaker 2: was being fed to us. Then I could understand all
Speaker 2: the harsh judgment. But when there's a world where there's
Speaker 2: a little bit of something for everybody, you want to do, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 4: You know it's we always let it tell people what
Speaker 4: to do. Day money, right, I ain't mad at them.
Speaker 2: Well, congrats on everything. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 2: the next five ten years looks like.
Speaker 4: For real, it's gonna be crazy. I believe you, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see your wedding on television.
Speaker 4: Well you're gonna see Le's go to a court house
Speaker 4: on television, get hitched
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