The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - RICKEY SMILEY in the Trap! | 85 South Show Podcast

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

Legendary comedian RICKEY SMILEY chops it up with Karlous Miller, Clayton English, and Justin Whitehead! || 85 SOUTH App: www.channeleightyfive.com || Twitter/IG: @85SouthShow || Our Website: www.85southshow.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm always ready. Yeah, shit. This is like a black TV show that's not on TV. Right, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, so we just... No, no matter watch TV, everybody looking in their phones. We just walk into it.

Yeah. Yeah, we'll never be like, I'm welcome back to the 85 cents. Right. It don't work like that. We had to let the music play, and everybody had to, you know, get settled. Get right, yeah. Get comfortable, get a whole vibe on. Yeah, we set the whole tone around.

Yeah. I love it. Now, this is the crazy thing. I told you this story before. I don't even know if you remember. First time I met Ricketts Smiley, I was in the 10th grade. It was at a show at Ole Miss. Me and my high school girlfriend went to the college show.

She saw you in the hallway, and she said, That's gonna look down. I was like, why the fuck, this you talk? That was some of the most embarrassing. That probably, 98, 99. Did I take off the start, right? Ah! You in the Ole Miss?

No, that's, I'm from Oxford. What? You probably know some of my brothers down now. I'm like all the cues, dark nasty, and all these guys. I know a whole lot of cues. Oh, yeah. Came through Ole Smith. Yeah, man.

Yeah, man. I live in Mississippi. Where? Cross. Russ. Ross College and Hollispray, Mississippi. I came in with the Caprabeater, brother, and I fucked with the mighty Y.E. The Jackson State, bro.

Oh, okay. I'm in Mississippi. Yeah. Okay, okay over there. Huh? Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, look at you.

Boy, you're talking about something now. Yeah. Hollisprane. What you know about that Holly Jalick, man? Oh, man. Yeah. That's right down the, you know, right down the way. Got it.

on that down, Harry, not far from Memphis. Right in the middle. Brugs came down to see me. Oh, yeah. That was a time right there, man. I'm good with all, I'm good with Jackson, Mississippi, Tulal, all the Cues.

Oh, yeah. All the Greeks. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm a Cyro, bro. That's hot spring, Mississippi grad. Came in with Calabata. The Calabata, that's hot spring.

Made by Dr. W.A. McMillan. He was the president of Russ College. Okay. And then one of my best friends, man, bro. He went to Old Miss. He's cute. Romero. Romero Miller.

That's my boy. He was a quarterback. Hey, he's a dog. My dog, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I know a few people around there. You know, North Mississippi, I could damn never run for the mayor or whatever.

Yeah. The whole Miss, I'm plugged in. Yeah. There's some wild, Big Kenning them. You know comedian Big Kenney. Oh. Hey, they, man, me, we used to do a lot of shows. And he had, you know, Haddisburg, Southern Miss.

And them some wild cues down there. Oh, yeah. Stormground, man. I used to frequent down, even before I came to QA, always be down in southern Mississippi doing shows and stuff, yeah. Jackson, Mississippi, all that shit.

Right in the middle. Yeah. North Mississippi, Highland Springs. Hey, in my woods right there, man. I love it. I'll never forget, man, I was, night we crossed, I was listening to Tom Joyner,

and I was driving back to Birmingham. We had been up all night. I mean, we could cross the burning sand. and goddamn a tummy dog came on. Oh, man. On the highway. Nick Watson, pull this motherfucker on. I got there and got that and got them shit.

I was out there getting it. I got about 25 years in the frat, huh? That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. Damn, you got to tell the story about you, baby, when you were the high school. Man, I'm telling you.

I was at the show. I want to say it was, it might have been you, JJ, and Dominique, something like that. I just reminded. end up? Wait, how did you end up doing comedy? Well, this is the story. I was, I was working at Domino's, right? Yeah. And these guys that I knew, like some guys that used to work at Dominole was starting the improv troupe. And then they was like, man, you ought to get with them, man. You'd be great for that. So I just went. And then that was like the first time I ever even performed,

like at that audition. And then I got it in the improv. And then like, like, In between our improv shows, you know, you had to go out and kind of stall the crowd why they changed the setup a little bit. So I used to go out there, and I'd take two, three minutes here. And then, you know, put me a five together and a little team. And then I did me a show. And then I started working as a firefighter.

I had to quit that. Yeah. And then I lost that job. And then I started driving a truck. And I was just like, man, if I ever get off this truck, I'd never get on a truck again. I was driving state to state, like over the road. And I was like, I'm going to do comedy somewhere as soon as I get off this truck.

I had a suit with me the whole time I was on the road. Just in case. Just in case. I popped up and they had something going on. Yeah. But I got off the truck, went home for about two weeks, and came to Atlanta. And then that's when I really started doing comedy, stand-up comedy in Atlanta. And Twisted Taco 10th Street.

Changed a whole thing. Big Drew, all them. Man, that's right. That's crazy. That was in 0-5. Ooh. 05. I started.

I started comedy. How old are you? 41. I started comedy November the 13th, 1989. Come on now. That's the first time I went on stage. Come on, man. 89.

89. Damn. How long did it take for you to get on TV? Shit, I don't know. The first shit I seen you on was Uptown Comedy Corner. Yeah, I was on, I was on. And that was some major shit to be on. Yeah.

I was on, um, um, Cunnington. coming view in 90 when D.L. Hewley was the first original. I did see you. I remember that. When they would go to ComCams. So you'd send the tape in from Birmingham and then they'll put it on on Comedy View. That was the first time. My first day. No, the Nashville Network is a show called Be a Star. That's my first television appearance. It's kind of like

Star Search for Country Music. Yeah. And they had extra time so they let comedians. go up and do two minutes. Two minutes. If you do good, they let you shoot another episode with no pay. So I went to do that, and then I would go to Zanis and ask to do a guest spot.

Got a chance to do a guest spot, and then I ended up getting paid $400 to do a weekend in Zanis, which was a lot of money, baby. Hell yeah. So I started opening up a George Wynes and Steve and all that shit, man, and it just went from there. All right, this is too good. I'm going to go ahead and do it.

Welcome back to the 85 South Show. Yeah, absolutely. It's one of those ones, man. We've got a very special guest in the house with us today. I love when I get to bring like O.J. comedians through here that can give us some history and fill in some plight and all of that, man. We've got none other than the super hilarious prank call and radio host. Hey, that nigga always represent Alabama, none other than Ricky Smiley himself.

That's just a short version. Roll down Tide. Let me tell you one thing about that Tide, man. Hey. Hey, now they got another football team in Alabama, but we're not, we don't never even speak on them. We're not going to say it. We're not going to say nothing.

It's blaspheme. Because listen here, I don't know how your name is going to be a damn tiger and you scream War Eagle. Right. That don't make no damn sense. damn sense. Don't make no sense. Now, roll tight.

Damn right. Now, it just makes sense. Toilet paper, washing powder, toilet paper. Exactly. Right. That's exactly. That's exactly what I'm saying. Now, hell.

I tell you, we start winning one. Once we start, went down there and got some of them colors. Absolutely. Start winning ball games. That's what you got to do. Now listen here. Now, nobody can talk to them blackfellas like Nick Sabin. I don't give a damn it.

I tell you. When it comes, listen, in my house, it goes, God, Nick Saban, uh-huh, roll damn time. Roll damn time. And then Jesus. And then Jesus. Yeah. But God and Jesus, they're kin folks, so they share the number one spot.

They should have a whole holiday. Absolutely. Welcome to the 85 South. Man, it's just so dope. Let me just say I'm proud of you. Thank you, man. Yes, sir. I appreciate that.

Yeah. Y'all don't gotta clap for me. Don't clap for me. I clap for myself. Man, I was up. I knew not to get up, I knew not to get on Instagram at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Man, you're doing this joke about this white man telling you all this business, man. That white me out. I couldn't go back to sleep. I sat up down there the whole morning was so sleepy because of you. Hey, man. But I watched that video about 18.

He said, all of them stand with him. And she's staying with us. And the cat had two kittens, and now kittens staying with us, too. Man, I used to work with these old white dudes. Man, they were some of the funniest guys. Just them being themselves, just sit back and watch how they talk to each other. That's crazy.

That was nasty. Because they say shit to each other that black men would never say, Hey, Larry, get your short dick ass over here. That's all. And there was two brothers and their daddy, bro. Old Claudia. Yeah. Old Claudia.

I think the first time I saw, I worked with. with you. Was that Houston when we did that show with Mike else? I got pictures of it. Yeah. But I think that was because Bushwick Bill was there. Yeah. Exactly. And I felt bad because I had, he passed away in a property to tell the story. Oh, don't

then, don't. Yeah. Yeah. But he's a wild one. He's been showing up at comedy shows and fucking show up because he's a heckler. Right. He was a heckler. Right. You know comedian Kareem Green out of New York? Yeah. phenomenal comedian. Shout out of Kareem Green. I was hosting on Old National

at Throwbacks. Yeah. Kareem Green came in there, like Bushwick was Hegelham, told his ass up. But Bushwick had about 40 niggers with him. Right. They didn't call me. I'm in New York. They didn't call me. Like, man, this is a whole, you got to talk to

something about that. I was like, what the hell I'm supposed to do? I'm not there. Right. They had to walk him to his car and everything, man. It was crazy. Yeah, man. Comminate. It's wild, but I came up in an era in the 90s, but I remember doing that show with you, like, it was the first time I saw you perform, man. I was like, man, you good. I think I pulled you to the side. We went in the back. Yeah. I think it was better throwing the football that day, too. Absolutely. Right bank state. Yeah. Yeah, man. So, yeah, that was a lot of fun. But to see where you, D.C. Youngfly, uh, Carlo, uh, Chico, where all y'all have came and everything that y'all have done, man. I just sit back and watch, man, and I'm just really proud the elevation of it. comedy because man we you know back when we started we didn't have social media you had to try to get in a comedy club to figure out how you was going to get on stage over here yeah I would drive from Birmingham to Atlanta just do a

guest spot right and drive all the way back two hours you know back back back back to Burma yeah I came I caught the last little bit of that yeah like a lot of comedians don't have to do that no more yeah now to hear your name they'll just go look up a video or you know I'm saying or something like that but I remember having to actually drive and do a guest spot to get a feature spot. 79 colors up in the mountains of West Virginia. And that's a very strange place. It is.

It's not from West Virginia. At night, it turned into the scariest place you've ever been. I had never been nowhere that it's that dark. You hardly see any cars out. Everybody live up on these big old hills, and it's creepy. It's a creepy in the daytime. Absolutely. Little white guy, I thought the pumpkin gas, little white.

kid come out there, I may have some out of a movie, say, you want to see my little sister? I said, no. Hell no. Yeah, West Virginia is a very strange place. Yeah, for $250. Damn. Yeah, per night, driving up in the amount,

I had three nights, probably made about close to $1,000, something like that, and I remember driving all the way back to Birmingham by the time you pay for gas and all that. You got $1,250 left. Right, right. But my good news back then, rent was $335,000. A month for a two-bedroom apartment. Bring them back.

Yeah. Bring them back. With the asbestos and all that, bring all that back. J.B. Smooth, Corey, Holcomb, everybody who's going to be sleeping on the couch over there. Word. Yeah, I used to have, it's a keeper room. Me and Mike Elf, I remember me, earthquake and Monique split $250 one night. Damn.

In Atlanta. Driving around an earthquake white Volkswagen juttling. I'm not lying. I knew. And when it got a bag of crystals, made $250, we split it up, got a bag of crystals. and went back to Earthquake apartment to play Calico Vision. Why I remember Calico because that's what it,

yeah, back in the day. That's crazy. That was the first time I ever went to a strip club with Earthquake. It'd be so exciting just to chase that money. Yeah. Because they pay you in ones and fives and you get a knot. It looked like a lot.

Yeah. You feel like a lot. And you put the 20 on the outside. Absolutely. To make chicks in the strip club or wherever think you got a lot of money. But I played the organ at church. So when I go to strip club,

I would go in and go to sleep, going to VIP and take a night. up because I'm not a night person. You know, I get up early in the morning. So, you know, I would do the comedy club and go all the way back to Birmingham to make the $75 playing the organ at church. Like a man, you know about that, yeah.

That's what we need to do a church show on here. We'll do a church. We'll have the Sunday service jump down. Come on. We got all the instruments, man. Oh, really? We got a whole ghetto band. Like, what, the junkyard band.

Let's go. Everything. that played a metric springs like in a bad album band no you know a nigga on the mattress spring right that was the most intriguing instrument to me this niggins made mattress and he was boom kawong k'pong that's crazy man that's old cartoon right hell yeah i'm just that shit was some shocking shit though what happened to bill kiosper he taught all the black kids had to read yeah you don't remember picture pages do yes the hell i do because i wanted to get marga Do you remember the song?

That made the sound, every time you used, Bo-B-B-B-B-W-W-W-H-H-H! You remember the song? Uh-uh. Picture pages, picture pages, go and get your picture pages. Time to get your crayons and your pencil. Picture pages. Don't sing now, that's shit out of hill.

Do y'all remember that? Anybody remember picture pages? Time to watch Bill Cosby do with picture pages. She's about to crash. That's a vivid memory for her. Oh, yeah. That was the best day. Damn.

Put your damn picture page, and you draw your shit with Bill Cosby on the TV, and you got the same thing. same thing he got. And your grandmama sitting up there on the computer playing solitaire, smoking a cigarette. Hey, that's crazy. Well, everybody grandma was on those cigarettes. Oh, yeah, Pal Mal Gold.

My grandma smoked them Winston. Oh, yeah, yeah. My grandma, she switched from Winston to Palmao Gold. My grandma ain't smoked, nothing but Winston. And then we'll make you go and like the cigarette for. She, I remember buying cigarettes as a kid. Yeah. My grandma wants some Winston 100.

Yeah. And then you got to go to the store. and light it. Yeah, absolutely. That's how you learn how to pull it in. When you take the cigarette to her lit perfect, she cuss you out. Wait, your asses smoking. I'm gonna tell your mama.

Right. I'm gonna beat your head. Boy, that's crazy though. Grandma did love them cigarette. Hey, I was raised by my grandma. My grandma had a little boyfriend from New Jersey named Mr. Cliff. They would get drunk when she got a Social Security check. They would sit on the porch and drink beer.

And Mr. Cliff was real nice. But my grandma used to fuck with her. when she'd get drunk. Cuss them out real bad as shit. Yeah, yeah, because my, you need to go home with your funky ass. Yeah, she used to be flexing on them like that, but he told my grandma one day,

man, I laughed so hard through that screen. He said, you don't smell like a damn parrot your goddamn stuff. And I laughed through that damn scream, man. My grandma was mad at me, but Mr. Cliff. I was grown before I realized these old men was my grandma's boyfriend. Oh, yeah.

I don't feel like you really from the South if you ain't never gone fishing with your grandma and an old man who'd been liking us since back in the day. Right. He'd drive around and pick her up, taking the cash of Social Security checks. Yeah.

We ain't even know. I ain't even know to our groom. You're like, that's what they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, man, sitting on the porch, smoking cigarette, toning shit, argument. Mm-hmm. They always come around the first of the month

when everybody get their Social Security check. Yep. The Army checks hit. Yeah. You know the Army, then the Social Security hit. Right. In the back. Right.

He'd be coming over there trying to take it to the casino. My grandma used to go to Alabama to the dog track, though. Oh, yeah. That's in Greenville, Alabama, something like that. Like going past Tuscaloosa. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

He used to go to that dog track for... And they up in Memphis, too. Southland Greyhound Park. I was in there gambling off dog racing. Oh, did y'all ever come up to the foot wash? My daddy went to that shit. Yeah. I ain't never go.

That's some of the most amazing shit he ever. a seed in his life. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody know what the foot wash? Yeah. Now look, when you get there,

hey, they're gonna wash your feet. Yeah. Big ass cow pasture with cow shit this high. And black people out there frying fish, barbecue and getting drunk, cussing, all that shit.

That's the best, that's the best black experience you could ever be. Yeah. That's how you end up doing comedy, man. You grow up with all those experiences. You have to,

because somebody has to be, like, be the history and the mark the moments. Right. So when you go, we go on stage and then,

we show them these characters, that's why they'd be so relatable, because everybody knows these, you know, these old people who cuss their church, or you might see Sister Johnson smoking in his parking life when she'd come in there. Yeah, that's the type of smoke. Yeah, and all the pastor.

He used to catch the pastor coming out the liquor store all the time. And he would always say, ah, you caught me. Come, my uncle worked at the liquor stuff. And every time we'll see him, he got me. You got it. But God is good. Exactly.

Y'all would have their bar up on their arm like this. You got me. I got to ask you, though, what is it like performing with a younger demographic? Because I'm, you know, I'm older now. You know, my fans still come up. My fans have aged with me. What is it like when y'all on tour of 85 South? Because, you know, my daughters and stuff love y'all and love everything y'all doing.

What is that like? I feel like that's what's really missing from our generation of comedy. I still don't feel like we perform it. front of our peers yet you get what I'm saying because comedy club audiences they like they really like right through they all my audiences like a little bit older than me half of it probably be like late 30s yeah yeah I still ain't I still haven't had a crowd of people for my generation you get what I'm saying right like I don't have a crowd full of just straight 41 year olds right So I feel like once that happens, then it'll really be a shift in the comedy.

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Yeah. You know, do a 7 o'clock show, four days. I don't really perform on weekends in comedy clubs. I do theaters. You act like, because you ain't rich as hell. Huh? Man, you get all that damn money, man. You go to work every day.

Look at y'all. Y'all got this big ass stupid. There's no fucking look at up. Look at it up. That Wal-Man, even? Look at them crooked pensions. We're still struggling. Whatever.

Y'all trying to make it look like y'all's like. You had a whole security guard to meet me in the parking lot and walk me in. Had a whole escort to go around the whole building. He ain't even security. Got somebody dropping flowers like on coming to America. Who's just bigoted in everybody. You want to say what? You got to do two jobs when you work here.

You can't just do one thing. You're the cameraman slash security. Man, please. Y'all ass selling out aren't everywhere. Man, please. I'm still. opening act. Oh, cut it out.

Open it up for Martin. You were selling out arenas in 93. That's what you're talking about. Now, you do get on, now, I was going to ask you about this. You do go out, and sometimes you just, you'll jump up, pop out on the tour with a with a Samoa or Mike or Martin, like, what is it like to still get that love and admiration for your peers where they can call and say, Ben Rick, come rock with me for two. I know you don't do what you can.

Come rock with me right quick. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'll go out. It just depends on what it is. I'm just out. age now where I can just say hey that's that's a good look that look like it's going to be a lot of fun I go so I do it now for the fun you know what I'm saying like like uh that night we were in Houston I think was me you Mike helps you know Chico DC uh yeah DC man that that was a fun night

because we was in the we was backstage throwing a football absolutely you know having a good time man ghetto boys showed up you know H-town showed up um they always show much love oh man yeah Houston going to come out. Houston going to come out. Chicago going to always come out. Columbia South Carolina. I like how Chicago do it. They make it like an event.

They go out and have dinner. You get dressed like you lady. You can put that shit on that. And Detroit. Yeah, Detroit, too. And Detroit, too. They be there early. Yeah.

Yeah, man. It's just been a, you know, been a blessing man. Because I grew up in the comedy game, Earthquake. It was earthquake. I probably. We got lotion. Yeah. You feel me? It threw me off in the dress room. I said, ah!

When I moved the cat, we got to move the censor and stuff, you know? Right, right. Yeah, man, back when we was, you know, back there grinding and auditioning to get on Showtime at the Apollo. Got on Apollo one time and got booed. Damn. But they edited the booze out and put in laugh tracks. And then a standing ovation at the end when I know I came back to Birmingham knowing that I got booed. So I didn't tell nobody I was going to be on Showtime at the Apollo.

at the Apollo. Damn. I used to be one of the tough crowds. Yeah, because I was on as a special guest. I went on as a special guest man. Went on as a special guest man. But when in air, standing ovation, the phone started ringing, started doing colleges all over the country.

I remember Deion Cole, you know. He got no special out on Netflix. Yeah, funny as hell. I got one coming. I haven't done one in 12 years. Doing a Netflix, John? I think so. Hey.

Yeah. Hey, it's funny. It's your kind of comedy. I believe it. I think me, you comedian, JJ, that's in Alabama, Mississippi. Absolutely. We got a certain kind of, a certain twist-style comedy. I see a lot of similarities that I like.

I remember JJ, I helped him out when he first started, JJ was valet and cars at the Marriott Marquis back in the day. And I used to go up there and get him. Say, hey, man, you know, I said, I got a gig for you. You want to come to do this show right here? And I just remember, you know, watching them start. But we studied under Steve, you know. Now, let me tell you this before you move on.

Yeah. Let me tell you how small the world is. Comedian JJ, JJ from the Sip. Yeah. Him and my dad was big partners when he was working down in bookhead valet in the car. My father used to stay on Old National. Right. So I didn't know that they knew each other like they do.

But one night, JJ was at my spot, and my dad was there, and he was like, you know my son? And they were like, that's your son. It was the craziest moment, brother. I never knew that. One of the nicest guys ever, man, you know. Absolutely. I watch all them comedians, man, that a lot of them passed away. I used to take them all on the road.

Tyler, Dirty South, Bernard. Tyler, Craig, one of the funniest human beings. hilarious ever seen in my life yeah I used to take old jokes that I wasn't using no more when he first started out and I would give it to him and say man just do that on stage and use it you know to build your confidence up or whatever man and we was you know we was always tight man and I just remember helping those guys shawdy shoddy I remember all of them started on 559 up here oh hell yeah yeah they were boo you but they didn't they didn't booed that night I did a little darrell

Every drug dealer in stripper in Atlanta was in 559 one night And Bruce Bruce had on an orange shirt I'll never forget he was hosting So Bruce Bruce said say hey just do five minutes if you can survive five minutes you get paid or whatever Because back then the drug dealers they rattle their keys and you ain't funny they start rattling the keys at you Oh, that's a very humbling experience. Oh yeah I've seen it happen it happen to me but I've seen it happen Yeah, and and it was about to start rattling the key and I put them glasses on, and I start doing little darrell. And I just saw Bruce Bruce sitting on the orange shirt with that orange shirt on laughing his ass off.

Right. And that was all I could see through those glasses. They weren't real glass. They were magnifying glasses cut into some big-ass frames. Mm. Yeah, so to make the eyes look real big. Yeah. Now, see, that's what would be funny about some characters like that,

because, like, that shit be so spot on. It ain't no way you can make that. Yeah. Man, them drug dealer was spinning. our drinks man they were laughing so hard and I did it and it worked got got my money got on out of there yeah it was the first time you put their character on TV oh man I did it on a comic view one night my gilps was on that episode I'll never forget it my gifts had on a Dallas cowboy jersey my guest was like the crowd had been there all

day he said man just do your thing man you know or whatever he said the crowd kind of or whatever but I had a comedy club in Birmingham called the cobblestone So I was on stage every weekend, you know, so if you're on stage every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, doing two shows, your timing, it ain't that you're funnier than nobody else. You just have good time and like your pastor been preaching, you can tell when your pastor comes back to church and he's been doing revival all week, his timing, their word be like clicking. I tell people all the time, pastors ain't nothing but comedians with different kind of jokes. They think I'm crazy. Yeah, especially. I do my show Saturday night.

He'd do his show Sunday morning. Yeah. It's the same technique. Just, come on. I'd be pulling passes aside, just critiquing him. I said, hey, man, if you were to start right there and sit the doors of the church over, 12 people with the gentlemen, you kept going.

You got to know when the exit stage left. You know, because I wish I could be a coach for comedians because, you know, I see comedians make mistakes. They just don't know. They're just doing the best they can and they feel good to them. But some people don't know to say, I thank y'all, good night.

The best thing you could do is just let them do it. Sometimes you can't fix it. Oh, yeah. It just got to be the rep. Like you said, you got to keep going up there until you've got to fail until you succeed. Yeah. That's the hardest thing about commenting it to me.

Right. That shit can happen to anybody at any given time. Yeah. But wouldn't it be good if you had a good coach, somebody on the side with some experience that, like, I tell you what, but the white dudes back in the late 80s and the 90s, they would pull you to the side and coach and critique

and teach and develop you. right that's how I got good between Steve George Wallace Carl Strong they were always put you to the side and when they talk to you you better take you a pen and some paper out because back then comedians weren't trying to

help nobody because they didn't have to they're making their money and you write down all those notes and then the next show you do you try to make those corrections you know what I had to learn like you never tell the joke after the headliner headliner go out say hey thank y'all for coming out do the announcements good night

boom, boom, boom. You had to learn all that stuff. You didn't know. You think you're supposed to go back up and be funny again after the headliner. You just didn't know. And I had to learn all that stuff. But Steve was one of my best teachers, George Wallace, Carl Strong, all those guys. And you would see them on Showtime at the Apollo. That was the first outlet, Apollo and Comic View when the year or Hughley was the host. And now, it was fun back then.

You was getting that little money, but it was fun. ride around and it was no pressure because you were just the opener you know what I'm saying it's pressure now because they paid to see you so now you can come on stage

you better bring it you got to yeah you got to but that rush though that rush of just knowing hey they came to see this yeah this is what they wanted

but they put butterflies in your ass it will it will I think the best shows is like you know how as comedians and performance we put so much pressure on ourselves to come up with

shit all the time. Right. And then you'll be rocking your new hour. You'll be 30 minutes into it. Then they just start throwing out jokes they want to hear. He was like, yeah. Oh, y'all really fuck with me. Like, y'all go pay me to do these jokes.

You'll be surprised. Fuck the new shit. They were like, fuck the new shit. Then they like some shit that you really just like on the bottom of your joke list. They're like a joke that you, you know, is a two to you, but it's everything to them. It's the performance. You know. people just want to pay to see what they already love.

They want to hear you say it or see you do it. I remember the most nervous I got, we did the, what is it? It used to be, you know where the Hawks play? A Phillips Arena. It used to be the Phillips. The Omni? Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Not the Hawks. The Hawks. No, the Hawks. Man, Danelle Rollins, it was on the Martin Lawrence Tour. And Donnell Rollins had a COVID joke that he did, and it ripped the audience up. 12,000 people had got a standing ovation and guess who dumb ass sitting on the side of the laughing

and joined his show and forgot I was next. Damn. Yeah, and all the comedians backstage were looking at me like, what you're going to do? And I have a playbook, you know what I'm saying? Because I took everything, everything go back to football. And I had like six different sets. And I went through there, I was like, no, that ain't good.

That ain't good. I was like, yeah, I'm going to do this one. I pulled it out. my role manager went to put it at the foot of the stage just like I had some cliff notes and I went up there and uh you know but that's just to talk about the professionalism and the preparation of your sets

when you get in a situation because what if you, hey, we need you to do a clean show you can't talk about this, you can't talk about that you got something. That's just me. Yeah, you gotta be ready to yeah, infrastructure. Anything might happen in the crowd. Yeah.

Anything. You might have to take something out. You might have to leave something out. Yeah. And another thing that's been working for me, man, it's audience participation. I was going to ask you, though. You made your show very interactive. Yeah.

That gives the, it gives the crowd a certain kind of access to you. What made you start, like, implementing that? You know, I've been doing karaoke for years. Mm-hmm. And, uh... Now, them's some legendary shows at the start on. At the start on. Wow shit.

And my co-host is Chris. Exactly. And that's somebody you should have on, man. He'll be funny. He's funny as hell. It's hard to keep his attention. but he'll be... Oh, he talks shit.

Yeah, he talked a whole lot of... But yeah, man, doing karaoke, man, that's a whole lot of fun, man. Audience participation. It helps you with your comedic timing. It helps you with your music. So now, you know, I walk away from karaoke with something like

that I can actually do on stage on the weekend. Right. So it helps you develop your material and all that kind of stuff, man. And then you do jokes in between the acts. So every time I do karaoke here in Atlanta at the City Winery, and six to be gone in five minutes.

That's just, I just do it for fun. Yeah, it was always dope to do something outside of comedy that involve a microphone. Yeah. I used to host a lot of like amateur nights and strip nights and performing them folks, living room. I used to host the Camel Toe Contest.

What the hell is that? Who is the best Cameltoe win? MacDonald Sign up, sign, damn. Baby buddy. Cambertoe contest. How do you win a Cameltoe? What the best cameltoe look like? Y'all had the best one.

What the best cameltoe look like? It depends on what we look like. Can the camo to be too big? Yes. One girl came, her camotoe like a six by nine. Oh, what? Six by nine. Got a big pioneer down.

Two boxing gloves? Man. That was meant. Y'all roast them. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, you're the host Amm's tonight. You'll see ladies who ain't even got in the clothes.

They'll just get up there in the panties and bright. You're just going to come with the lint balls all on the back of your draws, huh? Damn. And we're supposed to give you this money. Next time y'all have a camel to-night, let me know. Hey, boy, they probably didn't outlaw shit like that now. You get two frigates. They locking people up for that.

Camel to-like, what the hell? Hey, this was a legendary run we had in Atlanta. Damn. It was just, you know, at the strip club, they're always looking for something there to get attention there to make people come. Right. Yeah. Damn.

But I'm just, I'm more excited about my book, man. you know, my son's a big fan of y'all work, and my son was a stand-up comedian as well. Absolutely. He had just started headlining. We lost him about a year and a half ago. He absolutely loved y'all and admired y'all. I know. He's real close friends with my baby mother. Really? Yeah.

You know, I did some shows together and shit. Yeah. My baby mama. Yeah. What's she a comedian? Absolutely. Who? You think I would tell these people? Oh, okay. Oh, damn. What fuck? Who you working for? I mean

We're gonna get the mic. We got him. We got him. No, I thought you ever already, I had no idea. No, we don't. Yeah. No, man, he absolutely loved y'all. He was funny.

And so that's why I wrote this book. This is your copy right here. Okay. It's called Science Show. It's on grief. If you ever went through grief. I'm still going through it. Really?

Absolutely. We lost. My mama. When? Shit, 2013. New Year's Eve. 2013. 12, 31, 13.

Really? Shit, ain't been the same since. Oh, man. I can't even say I know how you feel because my mom's, you know, still living. Oh, man, it's something crazy, bro. It's a different kind of feeling. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm talking about it changed everything. Home don't feel like home. Right. It's just like, damn, what's that? It makes you feel like. like you triven, like was that even real? Right. Yeah. But I tell you, man, this book is a great tool, man, to help you out.

It has a lot of tools in there that you can use because, you know, just because your mom passed away in 2013, it don't mean that you'll never get over it. Never. Or whatever, but it's some tools in here that'll really help you out with your grief process. Absolutely. And I'm gonna check it out. It's a bestseller on Amazon. Come on now.

Hey. Ply, I saw. Thank you all. But what's you got? Kurt Franklin over the cover. That's Plyde. Kirk Franklin looks like. Playa, I probably don't know who the hell I look like.

But it's a great book, man. Telling my story how, you know, I lost my son. How I had to man up. A lot of us men, man, callers, we don't cry. We hold it in. We try to be strong. We try to go on with our life or whatever, man. and it's really actually not good for you, man,

you have to release, you know, crying. It's like popping the steam cap off of a pressure cooker. Yeah. You know, and going to get therapy. You know what I'm trying to get black men to start going and get help. Because all of us, you know, death is a part of life. We're going to either lose somebody

or we're going to die ourselves. But we roll our ankle, we go to the doctor. But we don't go to the doctor for our mind and our brain. And there's a lot of your fans out here who don't have lost a mom, sister, brother, or whatever, going through the grief process. And this book, man, is going to help you,

get you closer to God. It's going to encourage you to go to therapy. And it's going to let you look for, it's going to give you some little, you know, helpful tools where when the cloud is gray, the beams of light that's coming through the cloud that we can't see because we so focus on the dark clouds. But God just sent so many angels and we got to always remember what our loved ones would want us to do

My son would want me to be on this show would you send here talking to y'all About funny stuff and about comedy because that's what he was That's what he became I had my son on stage telling jokes at seven years old Absolutely you know up on stage at the comedy club and you know had him opening shows when I was doing shows That you know downtown Atlanta and I would just put him up on stage write his little jokes for him and let him go up on there and perform me. He grew up and became a professional comic in a headline. That's dope. So you can go

to Amazon or rickie smiley.com. Get this book for your mom because of your demographic. I'm sure your mom probably lost her mom or your dad lost his mom. Now my mom was a big fan. I'm sure. Huge fan. She used to love all your prank calls. Really?

Her favorite one was Blue got the ashes. Blue got the ashes. My toes. My toes fellow. And when I called a funeral home? She would call and just be like, y'all just said, hello? Who got the edge? That was one of our favorites, man.

Yeah, that was, man. Oh my God. Numeric messages. Do you know I had six volumes? I had six. Oh, she had everyone. Six volumes of prank phone calls. I had an office in Birmingham,

and we were medals, prank phone calls, CDs out to folks all over the country, man. Well, I'm ready to come down there. Remember it whoops, man. My land's going to get whipped. How big a boy are you? And the other favorite one was when you called Krispy Kreme, say you want to get the greens done.

Oh, I did that at V-103. I was on a Frankski morning show, and I called that Krisper Kreme right there on punts before it burned down. Is it back open? I heard it back on. Yeah, that old Krisper Kreme, I called down there and did that prank phone car. I played it on V-103,

and my shows, all of my shows, all of my shows at Uptown sold out. Like, I did five shows in one day. My greens ain't nasty. Right. I can remember all that. Man, this, I'm telling you, she was on it, man. She should love

your prank cover. And that's why, that's why even after my son's deaf, man, I go out here and perform, man, because man, people be sick, man. People have had, other people have had losses also. You know what I'm saying? To much is given, much is required. You know, I came to Jackson,

Mississippi did the show the night I buried my granddad. Because it's like, do you want to just sit around the house and think about all of that? All of that, or you want to go to Jackson, Mississippi, and do a show. Because now got on stage, people got cancer, people on dialysis, people got oxygen tank. And it's like, you have to do it for the people because that night was probably going to be the last biggest thing some of those people were going to be able to do. So, man, sometimes as artists, we have to make sacrifices even in, I'm sure you didn't cry before. You went on some shit. I had the show the same time.

I had a show, I was on my way to a show when they called and told my mom with that. New Year's Eve. What? Yeah. I was on my way to headline. Did two hours, brought the New Year in, standing O. Then had to go deal with that.

Yeah. Absolutely. That's how I'd be. I got a call to my grandma died when I was being introduced to go on 106 in part. Got a call that my granddad died. When Martin was introduced me to go on stage, in New Orleans, and I got a call to my son that I was sitting in an apartment in Dallas by myself.

And I had to call all my kids and give them specific directions as to what they do and what happened before they heard it from anybody else, meet me in Birmingham, and I'm packing a backpack trying to get to the airport to get on the plane after I found out my son, that was my oldest son. And I wrote about all of that stuff. It's a real touching book.

It ain't just about me. It's just going to uplift and help. I hope I have a copy for Chico. Because Chico and I, we have a lot of conversation about his mom's passing as well. And I'm talking about we had some deep, long conversations, you know, about that or whatever. It'll be a helper book for all y'all.

Yeah, this is the type of, but see, like on the other side of that, that's what keeps me going creatively, though. It's knowing that, like you said, There's people out there who are using us to get through stuff. Absolutely. Absolutely. Who need that laugh. Yep.

Who ain't had that laugh since such and such past or since that surgery or that accident. Right. You know what I mean? We'd be helping people through a lot of shit too. Guess why I named the book Side Show. Remember that son your mom used to listen to? Let the side show begin. Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Step right on in. Yeah, that's that. Can't afford to pass it by, but guaranteed that. make you cry. This book is about you going on stage, performing, doing your show, knowing what you're going through, and how you're feeling on the inside. That's what the song is about, a side show, about a sad clown. Right. Who's performing in the circles. Most clowns are. Absolutely. Most, that's what they don't know. They say comedians are the best that hide in pain and stuff like that. Yeah. We can laugh through it. Right. Right. So I hope you

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And I, okay, I'll say, I'm going to get my ass up and go to work. Yeah, I heard you. They don't bother me. Long clock. Never. That's crazy. No. That's- I saw the clip You were pretty willing

I don't use no alarm clocks I mean, get your ass out never just saying anything on these podcasts Yeah, and then people got mad at me about it but the thing about it

is I really don't You know, I'm raised by my granddad, man My granddad has trained us man, if you got something to do you can go to bed with your job on your mind This is what my granddad said

Go to bed with your job on your mind Right, and then your folks say that too So what if your alarm clock don't go off and you got a radio something as important as a radio show and you got a commercial to read at six o'clock yeah that was my next question i was about to ask you about the radio show when the hell you'd be finding your colorful co-hosts for them now you know me and miss juicy got a got a love thing going on oh yeah when i see her she loved me and we love each other

jesus got a gospel album coming out called stop yeah stop man i'll pick me up so i can see jesus Shut up. Here you find me juicy head, man. In Dallas, man, somebody, I said, I need a little person. I'm a big Howard Stern fan. Howard Stern had Hank. The shock value. I said, I want a little person on my morning show.

And some girls, like, I ain't going to bring. She wouldn't bring her for a month. I said, please. She said, you got to be nice. Don't make fun. I promise, I promised. Man, when she bought, came in the room and bought Juicy, I saw Juicy coming down the hall, man.

I started jumping up and down. She said, what I'm going to do? I said, look, I don't get, just answer the phone, just answer the phone. So she started out answering the phone. And then she ended up on the baby house, I'm sorry, little women in Atlanta. I'm about to say the baby housewife. I was actually on that show. Little women in Atlanta?

They love me now. Yeah, I'm talking about you all over the world. Them little twins thick, man. Little J-Lo Nell. Them little J-Lo. I call them the little wiggle-wigger twins. Yeah, the one that look, yeah. They're twerking?

Yeah. I hit one of the twins. Don't do that. They don't do that. Don't do that. I went to a midget funeral, and, uh... You can't call them that. You can't say that.

You got to call them little people. Little people, you know. A little person. They didn't have a hearse. They had a PT Cruiser, man. I was like... I'm not laughing because I know they'll get on your ass.

They'll get on your ass. What the fuck is going on? I think I had one pallbearer. I was like, put him on the shirt like a radio. We didn't even have to go around and view the body. They're passing this nigger around. You want to see it? Oh, stop it.

Y'all got everybody back laughing. This dude, he had one of the finest little women I ever seen. She was so bad. Like a little mini version of like her. I was a little jealous. Yeah. You know, kids, kids be, little people throw kids off. I had to stop my grandson because we had a little person sat next to my grandson at church.

And my grandson kept turning around and said, uh-uh, turn around. And then the pastor said, hey, go in, you know, high-fired three people telling me that God is good. And I walked down this way. I was like, God is good, God is good. I look bad. My little grandson standing in his face. And before I, you know, you have to get your children because they're honest. If I can get to my grandson, he asked that man where his mama was at.

So, you know, like he would love to child or something. So I put your ass over here. Sit your ass down and talk somewhere your mom at. I am my daddy. Right, right. What's the next for you, Rick? Oh, man. That comedy special and just radio, man.

I just do little spot stuff, little television appearances here and there. I try not to work too much, man, because I grind hard for like over 30 years, man. Yeah, man. Bigson do, though. Yeah, no, no, thank you. No, man, thank y'all.

Now, I grind hard for 30 years, man. I don't have nothing else to prove. Sometimes it's okay to step aside and let the younger, you're the next generation, and let y'all kill it. And I like sitting back watching what y'all doing on my phone,

and I just do it when I feel like. You know what I'm saying? I'm real proud of you. I'm proud to be Simone. I'm proud of Jess. I'm proud of you, Chico, DC, Youngfly. I absolutely love y'all generation and y'all style of comedy or whatever, you know.

But I'm just glad that, and I hope that we played a real big part in opening those doors. You know, you most definitely did, because we're the generation that got to watch all them comic views. We were kids staying up watching that. When y'all's supposed to be in bed. Yeah, but you, man, you were.

You hosted a whole bunch of seasons of that, man. Yeah, and that was, when they first bought it to Atlanta. Yeah. You know. How many seasons did you host the Comedy View? I did two seasons. I did 2000 and 2004. Then I had another TV show on BET called The Way We Do It.

I was doing all those skits and those characters. Who in the hell left the game, though? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the who put it? Who put it? My little live band on Comedy View. But it was a lot of fun. blessing man or being on the road i had great time and then you know you start getting grandkids

like i have you know you start kind of like okay let me stay at home for the weekend i want to take my granddaughter swimming and doing little simple stuff man you know out there you know so that's why i go do radio monday through friday and sometimes that's enough because you perform for four hours every morning monday through friday so the morning show is a lot of fun and i'm performing here and there doing spot dates, you know, I do, I still do Dish Nation sometimes. You know, I come to Atlanta and do my little TV appearances and go back to Birmingham and just enjoy life. Now, you thought this was going to be an easy interview, didn't you?

No, man, this is. I got to turn the pressure up on your ass. Where Clayton go? Come on. Where Clayton? You just thought this was going to be a cake walk. No. You got a surprise for your ass.

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Who's not good at nothing But math And count money It's a valuable skill Don't let nobody Tell you that it ain't I took special ed, math class. You was this special ed for real?

No, just for math. I can't do math. Math don't make sense to me. That sounds like some special ed shit because you're going to have me believe you was in special ed and they weren't helping you with none of your other work. But I was a fool in English, though.

English and government, reading comprehension. May y'all be having a ball on that morning show? What the hell are y'all be laughing at? Come up there one morning. It's got to be on the show. It's too damn early. I had to catch out in the hour or something. Man, come up there, man.

You're out. Hell no. You know him? What? I know. Oh my God. You know him. Man, yeah, man, I love this dude right here, man.

I said, you think of life about three times. Woo, boy. What a pleasant surprise, man. What's you doing? What's up? They don't adopt me, brother. They took me in. I saw that, congratulations.

Now, that'll go, Clayton. Rick is smiling, why you kick Clayton off the tour? That's right. What's doing? Stop it. Stop it. What's doing? What's up, back?

All right? You're good? I'm good, man. How you doing, man? What's good, man? He can't do you off the tour. Oh, man, come on, man. Can't be kicking a plate on the tour, man.

What tour? Come on, man. That was a while ago. That was a while ago. What tour? It was your tour. It was your tour. My tour?

I kicked you off. Yeah. It was your tour. I said. I walked up here. I ain't never walked up to nobody say you off the tour. No, you told them people to tell them. Stop.

Did something happen? What happened? Yeah. You, uh... Why are you doing this? Good. We keep watching. Hey, what?

I'm outside, cooling. What, no. What happened? Yeah, you, uh, because Kevin was one son? Uh-huh. It was your tour manager at the time or whatever. Right. It was the time when you had me, Levar, Walker, I think Vanessa Fraction, Special K with hosts,

and sometimes said the lightning pop in. Yeah. And yeah, you, uh, yeah, you ain't like what I had on, man. You told me I had to put some shit You said, you said, we're something nice Just put something nice on And I didn't have shit I ain't had nothing nice

I thought I was doing nice If you would have told me I would have bought you something No, I didn't want no money You sound like Diddy You can't take the shopping You're the baby back You're good, you're good

You're good But it worked out for the best Everything work out Absolutely Where you're supposed to be, where he's supposed to be. Well, man, congratulations. Congratulations to you. Thank you.

Congratulations to you. Hey, man, it worked out. The money wasn't never. Look, look, it wasn't never real drama because the money came when it was supposed to come. Right. Money was always right. Right. Yeah, that was it.

Yeah, I didn't, I didn't, but it made it sound like. I tried, though. I tried to do what you did. I tried to, I said, damn, let me get some shit. I said, what he got. Right. You had some true religions. I got me some true religion.

You said, hey, man, you can't be on here wearing no jeans with rips in them. I said, God, damn, man, they came like it. I said that to you. Oh, my God. Yeah, man. You're good, though. But also, you were a different era. Right.

You was coming fresh off the suited and booted lots of, you know what I'm saying? That's your aura. See, what are you talking about? I was coming off, because I was opening up for the kings. And it was just a different kind of like. Yeah, comedians was getting suited. Absolutely. On the shows.

Absolutely. Yeah. I'm glad it worked out for you. It's always going to work out. What's for you is for you? It worked out for the pay. Hey, I might not have got what I got if I was, you know what I'm saying? Right.

Yeah. Oh my God. You're stupid. So what? What are they going to do? Fire you? I ain't been able to be fired in a minute. That's the good thing.

That's a good thing. That's always a good name. If I wouldn't have been full of shit. You see the type of shit they're asking people on podcast now. What you mean? is the wildest shit you could think of. Yeah. No.

Yeah, this ain't even... Well, I'm glad you have them, man. Oh, that's one of the funniest niggas in the world, bro. Man. I hadn't seen you performing a long time. I loved it. Man, I'm on the road, man. I gotta go to Vegas this weekend.

See? Yeah, so... I'm out here, man. Man, sit me a clip. I want to see what you got. Oh, man. We got some stuff out there. It's your ass bad, now.

Got a few little special. Ooh. Yeah. Come on. I mean, hey, man, like he was saying, You're one of them staples, especially in the South that made sure that the South could goddamn do it and pop their shit and your shit brought people together.

So we always fuck with you for that. Man, thanks, man. Because you cover all the generations, you know what I'm saying? You can watch it with your grandma. You can watch it with it. And like he said, they're going to quote it. Absolutely. You know that that's the old people's solution

to get on to comedy. Yeah. They always say, hey, you know what you need to do it on. Yeah. You need to get in there with Ricky Smiley. Hey, you get in there with Ricky Smiley. Right. I'm telling you now.

I'm telling you. They do tell you to get with a big confeder. That'll be the whole... When you get with Mickey Smiley, then I know you ain't bullshit. That's what my grandma told me about Steve. She found out that Steve Hartman was coming to the comments. She said, just go up there. Just go up there, introduce yourself and show him what you got.

Like I can just walk up there and do that shit. Hey, who the fuck trying to get on? Hey, I bought him on stage, Bob. Yes, you did. At start on. At the start on, he came to Birmingham and put him up on stage. I think, Desi Bates. He was his first time. When he came around, I just had to make that nigga take four pistols out of his pockets.

Wait a minute, for real. Hell yeah. You can't be on stage while that shit in your pocket. You know they'd be out to me, bro. I have to have something. Now I carry a can of pepper spray. Man, you know, because I used to tell them all the time. You know, you're gonna be a couple, but I have time to get that.

Take all that shit at your pocket, man. You can't be out there like that. Look, you know it wouldn't be right. If we didn't get you some of that goddamn purple and gold. Oh, I know you love that. I know you love that. Oh, yeah, that's purple and the old gold. That you're right.

Thank you, man. I don't know whether to wear it or frame it though. We don't set one out then framing. Yeah, yeah. All right. I have heard of the end frame it. Yeah. Okay, all right, I'm gonna go on.

Thank you, man. Thank you for this, man. We got you some shit, man. You know, you always work. Look, we got your own coat. We got your coat, my wife. Much of this, we can cook, he ain't bring no pentote beans or no dumplings or something in this. Come on to the house I cook for you one day.

Man, we're going on over there, fishing on that lake. Whatever you want to do? We're going to go fishing on that goddamn lake. Whatever you want to do. Yeah. And you know you're going to have to let us. You know you're going to have to let us on that back porch, too, now. You know we got to get on that back porch.

I don't care about that. You got to be there. Most definitely. Let me get a Sharpie right quick. You got to sign the table too, bro. You most definitely got to sign the table. You see, we got everybody on here from Snoop Dog to Beacon, everybody, all the people stop doing.

Man, it's an honor to be here, man. You got some more books with you? Yeah, I do. Hold up. Sign my book. It's an honor to be recognized. Man, let me just say this man, like in all seriousness, man. I really appreciate y'all and I appreciate your attitude about stuff because,

Because it was times, man, comedians had, back when I started, would correct me, getting my ass about stuff, only to make me better, only because they saw good at me in the city of with you now and see everything that you're doing. You know what I'm saying? And if I did anything the wrong way, I weren't perfect, and I might have not did that the wrong way. But man, I got love for you, man.

I'm proud of everything that you're doing. It worked out the way it's supposed to work out. Yeah. Matter of fact, I don't know. Your first manager used to, she still do stuff with the Universal? Oh, Denise Howard, yeah. That was a while ago. So I did the Universal, and that's how she sold me on working with the Universal.

Right. She was like, I. So come on, man, everything, go together, man. But one thing about, and Carlos to tell you, and I always been known pulling comics to the side, just trying to help them, just trying to, because I had a comic two weeks ago, was doing the show, I said, remember now, AT, T-Mobile might be sitting in the audience. And if you're going to use that word on stage, that word need to have a joke behind it, or they need to be so busy hearing, they need to be so busy laughing that they don't hear

that word. Right. Right. You understand what I'm saying? Absolutely. Like, you're funny got out of way to offense. Right, right, right. Exactly.

That's what I told. Yeah. It's got to be more funny than it is offended because if it's that, then it's just, like, biting the onion. But if you take that onion and saute it and put it in a skillet and put some flowers of water, it's the same onion, but you can't taste it. And it's just all about how you do stuff. And that's why I was talking earlier about coaching, man, back in the day when I started, man, comedians would pull them, especially them white dude, they would pull your ass to the side and they would correct your ass and get in your ass about every little thing.

That's what I feel like for me made me great. You know, I always, you, we, we, we, we, be on the phone for a long time. Yeah, I was waiting to say that. You looked out for me several ways, and several times, you know, I want to give you your flowers while you right here, because it's taking it back to when you, you know, you mentioned you bringing me to start on. That was on some shit.

You didn't even have to, like, you put money in my pocket and got me a room that night. Yeah, you didn't have to do that. And you was bringing me there to introduce me to Bruce. And then not only after that, you know, you put me on the road with you, put me on a couple shows, and then you helped give me a job at the radio station with head crack on what happened with all that.

But I'm talking about emailing and calling. Like you were damn trying to get the job. And I appreciate that. Like you've been calling me and you, first thing you told me was like, if you trainable and you coachable and you teachable, I can work with you. If not, you just let me know now

we can hang your damn phone up. But all of y'all have always had, everything I remember about you and everybody always had a good attitude because I'm a student of kind the funniest comedian in the country, but I know comedy. And I'm a fan, though. You know, I sit up and watch comedy, man.

I just freaking love it. And at this age and at this point, man, all I want for all of y'all, man, is just to see y'all doing what you're doing because I just think it's just outstanding. And I'm just honored to be here that y'all even thought enough of me reaching back having some of the... I guess I'm considering what D.C. called me OG.

Absolutely. You definitely O.J. You definitely O.G. That's a term of respect. And I just really... I really appreciate y'all and about to get it. You know, you're emotional when you suffer the loss and shit, so everything makes you cry.

I'm probably going to cry all the way home just to be able to sit here because I'm watching y'all on my phone like every night. And I sit up, man, I'd be watching y'all, man. I'd be like, man, look at these young dudes, man, getting it. So look at it full circle. My grandma used to sit up and watch you every night on that comic view. You know what I'm saying? We used to sit up there and watch that.

We're going to watch that. That's one thing she would. That was our tradition. Right. She's gonna watch her news, you know what I'm saying, early. And she's going to watch their Comic View until she nodding off. She don't start nodding off until y'all go off. They didn't even call the Comic View. Turn, turn to make you smile.

Yeah. They called it who was really hosting it. Whoever was on there, really hosting it. That's who they're going to there. So, yeah, man, full search. Y'all remember the son, Comic View on BT, coming at you six nights a week. Get your laugh on. Hey!

Get your laugh on. You told a joke up there one time about this pregnant girl, couldn't wait to get outside, and the baby was premature or something. The baby is that big, she was changing the pamph with top paper. Nigger! I still remember, and that's an old-ass joke. You did it a long time before. The baby was so funny. You said the lady was so small.

Yeah, the baby's so small here to chain the pound with top paper. Said she'd be holding the baby like this. Just like that. This shit will funner as hell. Oh, niggie, my favorite Ricky Smiley joke is about how when your mama just drop you off over your grandma house. Come on, ma'am, need to come get y'all.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. A damn my ass fine. Nigger. They ain't called it, see if you had no clean, no shit, hey cat dog, or nothing.

Yeah, you had to put your grandmother nightgown on. Yeah, you had to put your grandmother nightgown on. You ain't having no pajamas over there. Man, come on, bro. Man. Man, way up here. Way up here. You got to go dive in the bed.

You got two box spray. Come on, man. You're looking right at the city. It's thick and tough on it's over. And the heat on 90. Yeah, and the heat go up to the top. Oh, my God. Wait, me, then you had the light to heat them.

So you got, you got to get a paper, a piggler wiggly. And you have to roll it up like you get ready to barbecue, go to the stove and get a light. Wait a... That's them gas, yeah. But no smell nothing but eyebrows, shit, man. And when you ain't got, yeah, and when you ain't got no gas in the tank, you gotta get no carousine heated

down at the end of the hallway. Yeah. Y'all ain't never catch no roach and put it in the heat them. A butterfly or something like that, now he's hitting a damn hook. Yeah, why's that bitch break dance? I mean, I catch some with it. You know the wings that be on the light or something.

They ain't catching no damn roach. Oh shit. Yeah. But that's old-schooled up, man. Being raised by your grown. That's one thing we have in coming, man. We got, you got, had no grandmom. Grandma, man, yeah.

You're going to take you in. You're going, hey, my grandma used to go grocery shopping every day. Yeah. For no reason. You didn't get what you need yesterday, Grandma? But it's just here. We back in here again. She treated like it's really the market.

And she's going to three stores. Y'all generation probably had more money, but we didn't get to. get frosted flakes and Lucky Charns. We had to just get the corn flakes. We had to put the sugar on there. Then all the sugar will go to the bottom of the bone. Yeah.

You get that little methamphetamine at the bottom, that little wimp up. We were able to get that shit. You can't wait to eat the cereal to get to that shit. Right, right. My dad is still like getting the free shit. We'll still get the shit that we can buy, but he just ain't passing up no free shit.

Right. But he was standing in line, embarrassing his hell, and still get that shit. Dang, free food. Ain't nothing like Ben. fucked up, we ate the, I remember eating the most racist cereal I ever seen. It was, you know, like, Cocoa Puffs come in the box with Sunny on that bitch. Then we had a bag of cocoa something with two monkeys on that motherfucker.

Right. It was in a dog food bag. Oh, yeah, that's the cheap food. Was it free? Once you open that shit, you got to eat all of it because it don't have no shelf life. They're like that peak fire meat. That bag is here. Don't like that peon fine meat.

You broke when your grandma come home with a bag of kabbal. Caboone. Caboom. Hey, I didn't know. I like Caboom. I thought the shit was- First of all, it turned the milk navy blue. That should let you know it's a goddamn problem right there.

This shit can't be good for you. I thought the shit was good. I said it's got marshmallow. Yeah. Yeah, that's that cheap steer. And it got expensive. This is the other one that fucked me up. I swear this had something to do with the government

and the crack conspiracy. King Vitamin. Oh, yeah. What was king vitamin? Just an old white man on there like, nigga? Yeah. It wasn't even sweet for real like Captain Crunch

with his tattered roof of your mouth up. He was like Captain Crunch if he never went to the arm. Right. If he never got no stripes. So he didn't make up, he wasn't like a captain and he was just a bride. He wasn't no king. He was just a nigga in neighborhood.

Yeah, yeah, mixed between him and Captain Cana Rooke. Yo. Mr. Wizard was a weird motherfucker too. Just had a whole bunch of white kids doing. science experiments and shit. Yeah. Mr. Rogers was creepy, too. But you used to watch it, though.

Absolutely. Yeah, Mr. Rogers. He made the white people mad because he was all about that integration. He had that black male man on there washing his feet. Oh, yeah. That started.

Yeah, they stuck their foot in the same bowl together some shit. Yeah, they cooled off in the thing. Yeah. Oh, wow. But also, Mr. Rogers, you would expect him to do something freaky. But I think the freaky thing he did

that used to say you used to swim naked every morning. He said that? Yeah. But he wouldn't, when nobody be in the pool, it was just him. Right. So that's the freakish shit they said he did. His own pool?

Yeah. That's nothing compared to what's going on now. That's what I'm saying. Usually with a motherfucker. Yeah. God. You're just popping it off. God.

No, man, I'm honest, man. You know what we're at? You got to pull up. Yeah. Hey, look, I'll come back any time. I ain't bet. I sit over there and laugh. I just want to, you know, I just want to hang.

At this ain't. I just want to hang out, have a good time. We got some more shows. He got shows. About Cologne, yep, my center minutes. We got shows around here, man. Yeah, we're shooting all of y'all's show. I'll come to all y'all show.

Hit me out. Yeah. I don't ever know where you're here. I'm at Birmingham, bro. I come here. I came here just a man. I did. You've been to our Alabama game this year?

I want to, I think I'm going Saturday. You know, we play Georgia this Saturday. Okay. You play Georgia. All y'all Georgia fans. Who is y'all? Y'all from Mississippi. Oh, Mississippi State or Old Mitch?

Old Mitch. Okay, okay. Oh, from Oxford. You got, you got Georgia, right? He went to community college. He don't give it fuck. My family is from Pensacola, but I ain't really no UGA fan, but I'm here. Don't smack me.

Oh, you went to fam? Oh, you went to fam? Yeah. I went to Alabama, man. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Trump it. You know, I'm more as Trump.

Come on, man. I ain't more as nothing. I wasn't fun to be out there in the band, man. I wasn't for being in a hundred dollars. Yeah, you marshal fan, that's like pledging. Yeah, no, they... He ain't in the band. He's just a knick on campus.

Right. Holling there for a little old and shit. Hey, man. Percy was cool. You're stupid. You're stupid. Smiley, we're out of here. Y'all be easy.

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