The Breakfast Club - Godfrey Talks Chicago Comedy, T.I. Mixup, Steve Harvey, Trump Audiences, Nigerian Culture + More

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

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Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, DJ Envy had to step out, but we got a very requested guest. And he's been ducking us for years now. Never that. Never that. Never that. I've never ducked out. I thought you guys just didn't get fucking better, bro. You know what I'm saying? Godfrey is here.

What's up? What's up? Good morning. How are you, man? I'm excellent, man. I mean, I'm sleepy as shit, but yeah, you guys are early. Yeah. Morning show.

That's why it's called The Breakfast Club. I thought you shot in the middle of the afternoon. There's definitely no breakfast. No breakfast. I'm starving shit. I. Morning show. That's why it's called a breakfast club. I thought you shot in the middle of the afternoon. There's definitely no breakfast. No breakfast. I'm starving shit. I got hunger breath. We've already had like great conversations

before the mic even opened. Oh yeah? You know? Yeah, we did. A little bit. He said we did. It wasn't great to me. I just thought that

you had to have a special something had to be going on for you. Godfrey, have you ever tried to be on this show? Have you ever had anybody reach out and say? Yes.

Mad people have come to me and say, yo, Godfrey wants to do Breakfast Club, but when you going to have Godfrey on Breakfast Club? But did anybody try to book it, I'm saying? Flame Monroe, that's my homie who I came up with in Chicago, he was like, he's like, you need to get on Breakfast Club. You need to. I'm going to tell him you got to get on Breakfast Club. I said, but what do I have?

I thought you had to have some shit, like a movie coming out or a TV show coming out. You have a lot. What did you say? You have a lot going on. I have a lot, but then I saw some people that ain't got shit, and I said, I can do that shit. I was like, oh, shit, I'm about to get on this. They don't do a damn thing.

I'm about to get on. I ran into you at the Nick Cannon show. Shout out to Nick Cannon first off, and sorry about his show got canceled. He didn't get a fair shake, man. Six months isn't long enough. First of all, you can keep, that's what I love about this show. You guys keep it 100 here. Absolutely.

They'll let white dudes stay on for 30 years. That's right. As average as fuck. And then we get cut off quick, man. Six months? We can't even be in animation they cut us off quick fuck like come on like uh black dynamite done i did voiceover black all right done boondocks done you're right fucking cleveland show done you're right and it was white people doing black

people voices done uh you didn't know that you didn't know that oh yeah cleveland they were all white people doing our doing black people Yeah, I remember when that was. Yeah, and then done. What else? Oh, Proud Family just came back. Might be done. I was watching that this weekend. Yeah, my boy, shout out to my boy Calvin Brown Sr., who's the head writer of that.

Boom. So it's like, but The Simpsons has been on since 1901. Yeah. They got a thousand. And what else? Like the longest running show ever. American Dad, all of that. Family Guy, all that stuff. And this is not to be-

South Park. Yeah, South Park. They're bored to death. They don't give a fuck, and they've been on forever. But Nick Cannon needed time to gel, you know what I'm saying? It's like with the nighttime talk shows and shit. They've all been on forever, and then we had to wait 20 years for the same black dude to come back And then they can't you got you got to give people a chance to get the kinks out

Yeah, they give they give those white guys and white women chances to fit. Oh And they don't get better They stay horrible not all of them, but he stay horrible and they're like fuck but I Nick Nick show I thought was cool. I was really good nice That's daytime The demographic is well, it's it's I mean, I think it's white soccer moms I think he was trying to cater to, but, and he asked me, hey, man, why don't you write on my show?

I said, okay, with Rip Michaels. Shout out to Rip Michaels. Who's the Rip? Rip, and I was like, yeah, okay, I'll do it. I've never really done, like, daytime shit. I've watched daytime, but I'm like, ah, that shit's corny. But I said it'll be a good challenge. And so writing for Nick was cool, you know what I'm saying? Just to see the way Nick works, because I've been doing

the, what's it called, the Wildin' Out shit, you know, and Nick asked me, to see the way Nick works because I've been doing the, what's it called? The wildin' out shit. Yep, yep. You know, and Nick asked me to do wildin'. I said, what's my old ass doing on wildin'? He said,

nah, man, we're gonna do old school, there's new school. And just to watch Nick work and hire so many different African Americans, and he just hires all kinds of people. But just the way he works

as a businessman. And then, boom, that's how I ran it to you. I'm telling you, Nick has hooked it up. It's always Nick Cannon hooking shit up. So that's how I ran it to you shout I'm telling you Nick has hooked it up it's always Nick Cannon shit up so that's how I got here she goes we've been wanting you to do the Breakfast Club I didn't believe you thought you were lying because I just happened to be but I was just saying, how you doing? Good to see you. But I was like, Angela, he is really nice. Like, you're, like, nicer than I, but not saying you were me, but you were super nice.

What was your perception, Godfrey? Nothing. Really. I mean, I just thought she was just, I don't know. Because, you know, I thought maybe she'd be, like, a little shitty. Not really. But you're super nice. Thank you.

Like, overly nice. You've been scoring before, Godfrey, in this business. Now, Charlamagne, we'd be like this business no charlamagne we've been like yo charlamagne god damn you were actually on facetime with shack when i saw i was on facetime with shack yeah they were talking about the ti situation you and ti because i guess ti um ti did the uhq All-Star comedy thing. He did? Yeah. Yeah, remember we talked about that. We said T.I. was going to be on that show.

We had a whole conversation. I didn't know he was doing the Shaq comedy. Yeah, during All-Star. Why are you making that face? I feel like that's a little early for that. What do you mean by early? Don't you get Godfrey back in this. No, no, no.

I'm just asking. What do you mean? I thought the Shaq comedy All comedy author thing was for people who had put in some time in the comedy game. That's not a platform you just jump out on. I mean, what?

I'm just saying. I mean, I get Shaq. I mean, I get T.I. as a celebrity and all, but I'm just talking about performance-wise. That's usually the thing that takes you to that

next level of the comedian. I didn't say it. Go ahead. Now, if you recall, we had a whole conversation up here about Godfrey and T.I. and how T.I. went on after Godfrey. Remember, we had that whole conversation. Did you hear about that?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I was in Atlanta. You spoke about it. I was in Atlanta. I know. I'm going to talk about it because it's still lingering a little bit, but me and T.I. are cool as shit, first of all.

When I was in Atlanta, I was doing an Atlanta comedy theater and I'm on stage. I did like hour 40, right? That's, you know, that's what I do. That's what the headliners do. And then my boy, Artie Fuqua, give me a shout out to Artie Fuqua. Artie. He's like, I get off stage, you know, after you're done, you laid your brother, you're like, get off stage.

He's like, Hey man, I just got to tell you something. I know this is sound strange, but I got to keep the show going. I was like, what for? He's like, TI is going up. And I literally was like, to show going. I was like, what for? He's like, T.I.'s going up. And I literally was like, to do what? I was like, what are you talking about? And he goes, he's going to do comedy. I said, oh, okay.

And I said, it's his town. Fuck it. Let him go up. And all I said was, you know, I saw T.I. because I'm T.I. fan. So I was like, yo, T.I., what's up? I went straight to the green room because I'm like, I'm done. I'm a headliner.

I'm done. I'm going to decompress. That's what I do. I don't give a fuck who's in the room. That is what I've always done. So they were like, on my podcast, they're like, yo, did you go see him? I said, no. I don't know what.

I'm a headliner. And I mean, I didn't know him to do comedy, so I'm not going to watch. Not saying he shouldn't be doing comedy. I'm just a headliner. I just finished. It was for that moment. But then I know somebody took that excerpt of me saying that, showed it to T.I., and then T.I. was in the woods.

You know when T.I. goes in the woods? On his Instagram live. He has that angle. I just want to say something that's on my heart, and I need to expeditiously take care of this situation. And I was like, oh, shit. And then, you know when T.I.'s in the woods, and he has that angle?

I go, oh, shit. It's like when Snoop Dogg is mad, all you see is his nostril. Yeah. He has his auntie scarf on. I go, oh, Snoop about to fuck somebody up. But yeah, he was like, some people were like, yo, did you hear what T.I with tea and it just it spread like wildfire

And I had dudes from the south like comics from the south calling me like yo You see that shit ti said about is that what happened and so I didn't even think about it because as a comedian That's just how we talk like yo, he's a comic. He don't put his time in this is just this is just the way We talk as comedians and they took it as an I was hating on him doing comedy. I said, nah, dude, I didn't go watch him because I'm not going to watch somebody that I don't know that's known for comedy after I've headlined. It was just for that moment.

Now, if it would have happened that T.I. came before I went up and said, hey, man, I want to do some time, I'd go, yeah, I don't give a fuck. And then I would have watched. Just to say, T.I.'s before I went up and said, hey, man, I want to do some time. I'll go, yeah, I don't give a fuck. And then I would have watched. Just to say, T.I.'s doing comedy? That's all. You know, so after that, then I addressed him right away. I said, because people, it went, I'm telling you,

everybody's like, yo, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? And of course, people can't wait to go in here. Your DM got, hey, man, you little pook-ass motherfucker. Man, T.I. can do whatever the fuck you want. I was like, yo, Nick Cannon, I told him about it. He goes, yeah, I heard about that shit. And then he FaceTimed us.

I said, let's go face-to-face. Man, I'm Chicago all day. I just want to let you know I'm Chicagoan. Even though I've been in New York for 20 years, I'm a Chicago guy. So I go face-to-face with people. I go, hey, man, let's talk about this squash. This is not a big deal. And we talked it out.

We had a really nice conversation. And he said, you know, I look at you. I go, hey, man, let's talk about this. Squashed is not a big deal. And we talked it out. We had a really nice conversation, you know? And he said, you know, I look at you as a goat, man. You wanted the greats in comedy. I said, well, I appreciate that. Was that the podcast? I heard the podcast. This is the afternoon, a few hours before the podcast. And I said, no, I appreciate that.

But then I said, you know what? I even apologized. I said, I'm sorry that you took it the wrong way. There's nothing wrong with apologizing to another dude. Right. You know, especially Blackfeet. We need to learn to just go, hey, man. I'm sorry.

What's wrong with that? It doesn't mean I'm a punk. I don't do any of that shit. I say, hey, man, I'm sorry about that. But I'm not sorry about the way I felt about how we are as comedians. It's protocol. It's just, that's like, and then I told him, I said, that's like me after you finished rhyming. I go, yo, my man T, I know you just rocked this concert,

but I got a couple songs to drop real quick. You'd be like, the fuck are you playing? But you got to explain it to him in that way, because that's the world he understands. And so when I looked at it from his angle, I could see, and there were other comedians coming at him crazy. So it was a buildup. So when I said something, then it just added to the whole thing.

But we squashed it. Then I said, can you do my podcast? He said, I'd love to do your podcast. And I said, we had the podcast. Then it got a little heated because he said, man, I thought you was cool when I first met you in the green room. And then the next minute you dog. I said, it wasn't a two-faced thing. I was just talking as a comedian doing comedy 25 years and then you're doing he said but i've always been a

fan of comedy i know but i have never seen you perform it so it's just one of those things but we what cool is that but it's also true that people can hype things up so if y'all imagine you guys didn't directly have a conversation oh it could be something that really like and i said i like atlanta i I wanna be able to Come back I like it I wanna be able to come back I love Tip That's one of my favorite people

And he's one of my favorite rappers But you can't approach everything Like the rap world either though Yeah You know what I mean Cause I heard him on the podcast And he was talking like Don't poke the bell

Don't poke the bell Don't poke the bell And I was like I'm not trying to poke the bell Don't poke the bell Don't poke the bell He just kept saying No I'm a superstar I'm a superstar Don't poke the bell and I was like I'm not trying to poke the bell sir don't poke the bell don't poke the bell he just kept saying no I'm a superstar

I'm a superstar don't poke the bell and then his other boys were like yeah man fuck all that go on T.I. they were poking him up you know

cause you know we got side bets on who's gonna be the first comedian T.I. end up slapping we do we have side bets and T.I. is really

passionate about comedy man he really is. He goes up as much as he can. And, you know, yeah, he is a superstar. We know that. I mean, I listen to T.I.'s music. I'm a T.I. fan for a long time. I said, dude, I'm a fan of yours.

You know, but as far as comedy and the protection of your art form, it's just what it is. That's just how comedians talk. And I said, and then we had another conversation. He goes, you know, I'm thinking about, I want to get into different types of comedy, like physical comedy. I said, well, I said this.

I said, well, you're kind of mean, dude. Are you really ready to be vulnerable? I don't want to see T.I. fall in a little flow. I can't see you. And T.I. said, T.I., what if someone's fucking with you? Like, man, where you get them shoes from? Fuck you. That's how we talk to each other.

I said, I would hope that you can take that because that's the comedy world. So if someone dogs you and say, yo, yo, man, this shirt is fucking tight. You're going to be like, I feel that I don't appreciate you talking to me like that. Yeah. We have to expeditiously take care of this situation. I want him to be, but he really is, he's studying it. And I said man we're here to help you dog

anytime you have a question or whatever we're here to help you man it's still a process though I feel like the Shaq comedy all start thing is a rite of passage

for a lot of comics I feel like you should have a certain number of hours in before you jump on that thing I'm surprised because Shaq is a real comedy head

and I'm surprised but you know Shaq's a businessman too you know what I mean I'm surprised Shaq was like a real comedy head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Shaq's a businessman too. You know what I mean? I'm surprised Shaq was like, no, I don't want to know this man. I don't think he's ready. Did he tape it already? I think he taped it already.

Yeah, I thought it was. Wasn't it All-Star Weekend? I think it was All-Star Weekend. I heard he did all right. You know what I mean? I heard he did all right. But that was all. That was.

I appreciate the hype, though. Numbers went up. I don't mind that shit. I'm a whore for numbers. Just to let you know, just a little bit. Yeah, but it was, we're good to go. That's my man. That's my bro right there.

So, yeah. What are the comedy rules, though? Because when we talked about it here on the show, I said, I don't think Godfrey would have a problem with a seasoned comic, like a Chris Rock, a Chappelle, somebody going on after him. We've had that before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. George Wallace, you have, hey, this person's in the room.

Seinfeld's in the room. You go, oh, yeah. They're like masters at what they do. Rock, all those guys, they're masters. They've been doing it longer than me. Would they go on after you or before you? Doesn't even matter. If you're a comedian, you're in your art form,

you go, of course, you show respect. But if it was an amateur comic, I'd be like, nah. You know, if it was like a comic that's been doing fine. But even an amateur comic ain't going to do that. They're just not going to go up, you know what I mean, on a headlining show. But, yeah, if it's like a particular person, you know, that is of tenure, then you'll go, yeah, man, let them, yeah, they can go up. Yeah.

You know, it's common sense. Now, Zachary, you talk about everything on your podcast and in your stand-up. Is there anything you're like, I'm going to stay away from that topic? Damn, I'm always, I go hard in the paint, so I'm always about race. You know, I'm a big Paul Mooney fan, George Carlin, Pryor. Nah, other than like, yeah,

I don't talk about the Jewish community in a bad way. Okay. I leave that shit alone. Israel Patterson. People are like, what about Israel Patterson? I'm like, I think they're wonderful people. I don't, at certain things I just don't. But I talk about a lot of shit.

Nothing is, whatever I feel is funny for myself. You know what I mean? Because I always took myself as a unique comedian, man. You know, that's why people say, well, why? You know, because everybody's going to match your fame. Like, how come you ain't? I go, well, some of the shit I talk about,

not everybody's going to be happy with. You know what I'm saying? But, I mean, I've always taken a unique approach to race, whatever, you know what i'm saying but i i mean i i've always taken a unique approach to race whatever you know and uh intellect is my thing too you know what i mean but i came from the um the black circuit in chicago that's where i came up with deon cole and d ray davis and i brought cory holcomb to amateur night you know i like those are monsters yeah i brought i've known cory since i was 16 he was playing basketball i was baseball player whatever he played basketball with my brother whatever and yeah i'm i'm yeah i come from that circuit you know bernie mac's club bernie the cotton club

bernie mac took me under his wing shout out to george wilborn george wilborn and another brother evan lionel who these are my big brothers who like really they really created the whole chicago wing shout out to George Wilborn George Wilborn and another brother Evan Lionel who were these are my big brothers who like really they really created the whole Chicago comedy scene in which I came from and I was always that dude that was oh this is the smart college dude yeah I stayed I never I never let and then when I got to New York I was doing all the all the ghetto as a you know Def Jam roof never made Def Def Jam. Never did it. Had me audition thousands of times. Wow. I can't believe that. I never got picked for Def Jam.

I always, I feel, I always wonder like, what would have, because it's like some outlier shit, right? What would have happened if everybody in Chicago would have stayed in Chicago? Chicago would have been the biggest comedy scene period in the world probably. It probably would, but I don't know if it would beat New York though. Really? With all

those legends? Yeah. New York has a lot of legends too. Yeah, New York, but I don't know if it would beat New York, though. Really? With all those legends? Yeah. New York has a lot of legends, too. Yeah, New York. But New York has a lot of spaces to practice. But wouldn't it have that, though? If everybody would have stayed there with all that money? I don't know. I don't know because us moving away is the reason why Deion is who he is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The reason why Bernie is who he is. He eventually kind of had to leave. But when I was in Chicago, we were doing, I was doing shows about, I was doing like seven, I was performing like seven times a week.

When I got to New York, I went from seven to 30. 30 shows a week. Wow. I was doing 30 to 40 shows a week. I can't think of a city that has a better, proper comedian though.

In Chicago? Yeah. Yeah, we got Dion. Dion Cole, Bernie Mac. Dion, Bernie Mac. Hannibal Buress. Hannibal Buress. Hannibal Buress.

Shit. Who else we got? You said D-Ray Little Rel. D-Ray Davis, Little Rel. Yeah, we got, and there's some up and coming other dudes coming, too. Yeah, we got a lot of really, yeah. Well, Just Niche. Is it Just Niche? Is it Just Niche girl that she's a new person coming up? up and coming other dudes coming too yeah we got a lot of really yeah yeah well just nieces adjust niche is it just niche girl that she's a new person coming up we got oh yeah it's a lot

and we're all different everybody's so different you know a different styles I'm not gonna lie to when I came to New York though let does not knock it all do your comics love them a lot of them were doing the same kind of shit yeah it was like the same kind of style. I was like, damn, they all talking about the same shit. The Chicago guys came. We were all different. They're like, you guys are all different. I was like, look at Deon Cole, his style, my style. Corey's style was different.

Everybody was just like, wow, you guys are so... Look at Hannibal Buress, who's more an alternative comedian. Like, white hipsters love him. Yeah, exactly. I've seen Hannibal not get the best response in a black room. Like, white hipsters love him. Yeah, exactly. I've seen Hannibal not get the best response in a black room. Well, here's the thing. He's funny, though.

And he still will be funny about it. But here's the thing about a black guy. Yeah, that was funny. He told the crowd, he goes, this isn't working, is it? He's like, all right, good night. But Hannibal, but see, this is what I, this is what the problem with sometimes with black comedy is that we're put in like a box. You know, it expects you to talk about,

yo, you were so poor. Yo, ladies, if your man, it's like, that was like that, it was called, I call it black hack. It's like the same old subjects, but Hannibal was so different. I said, but a lot of us are different. Black people are not a monolith.

And I love to see guys like Hannibal. There's a lot of alternative, like the Lucas Brothers. The Lucas Brothers are Twitter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Lucas Brothers. It's nice to see that we're different. You know what I mean? That's how I like my shows.

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there's a guy named Akeem Woods who just came out the closet like four years ago. And he's fantastic, man. He's so different. And he talks about racism as a black gay man, which a lot of black gay people don't talk about, which is really real. He's different. Like I have already on my show who's different.

So I like to show differences in black comedy because I don't want people to say, oh, we just went to a black comedy show. It's just a comedy show. You know, and that's how people feel. I'm just about diversity with black comedians. That's important to me. Yeah, I saw you having this discussion

about how you know you made it when somebody steals one of your jokes. Fuck no. Who was it that said it? You know you made it when someone takes one of your jokes? Yeah. I saw that discussion on your Instagram page.

Who were you talking to? Alonzo? Oh, that was David Arnold. Oh, it was Dave Arnold. David Arnold because a dude named Joe something, I guess, took one of his jokes. He said, that's when you know you made it when someone takes your shit. I go, I think it's just, that means someone else made it when they take your shit i go i i think it's just that's mean someone else made it when they take your shit because a lot of times a lot of times there's people who get on tv before you that'll steal

your shit yeah that are known people that will take your shit and then you'll see the comedian that's not famous going yo that's my bit and you won't believe that person because that person that's taking his face like that ain't your shit a lot of times it's usually that person's shit you know what I'm saying? But there's nothing you can really do about that, right, when that happens? Some comedians fight, you know. Some comedians wait for you.

Like actual physical fight? You want to be like, nah, I'm going to do that shit again. And sometimes you just go, I'll write another joke. You know what I mean? For me, I'm kind of cool because a lot of people do not take my shit. Because I do shit that a lot of people don't. The territory nobody wants to step into. The race territory.

I go into that. I'll dog out. I'll talk about interracial dating. I'll go in there. I'll go in heavy on that. Because for some reason, interracial dating, people don't really talk about that. I go in. I talk about the traumatization.

We're still traumatized. No, you know know i say love transcends color bullshit love transcends especially not nowadays i know people breaking up with their white significant others in this black lives matter my thing is this we've been boning each other for hundreds of years and racism hasn't changed you know what i mean no one has we have not boned the shit out of racism yet. You can bone the shit out of somebody and someone still be racist right after you done blew they back out. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I talk about that aspect. Like nobody even, nobody talks about, what about the part where race, where love doesn't transcend color? Slave masters used to left over the slaves. That's what I'm saying.

They didn't, like, I would say, I had a joke where I go, yo, if love transcended color, you ready? If love transcended color, the first black woman that was raped, they would have freed all the slaves the next day. Hold on, say it again now.

I don't know that that relates to love. When you say rape, it threw me off. The first black, the first slave woman that that was Rick because that's what they did I'm talking about slavery days now. Don't try to flip my shit. Yeah, so like slave masters would have love transcended color All right, that's love though. Yeah, I don't think rape equals love exactly I don't know Godfrey explain I'm sitting here I'm the first

because I was saying most of the time the relationship it wasn't love it was rape you know what I mean and they tried to hide it

like it was so that's it's like an inside you gotta yeah that's why the joke goes what the fuck you understand

where I'm coming from because a lot of times the dynamic of that and listen I'm not saying that you can't a lot of times people whenever i say this i'm not saying you can't love another race i've been out with different races you know and there's wonderful people from every race but nobody ever talks about the other aspect i think you're saying if they loved us like they lusted us if they really love they loved us like they lusted us, then there would be no racism. Usually, and I've had people go,

well, my significant other is Asian or this and that, so I understand. I go, that doesn't mean that you understand it. You know what I'm saying? Just because it's a sexual situation doesn't mean you actually understand it and actually see them as an equal because sometimes there are those situations

that happen like that is what I'm saying. You think you could marry another race nah like nah I'm giving it some thought white I would marry a white woman if she looked like a black woman. I thought she was black. Transracial. Transracial. I'm just saying the way I speak for black women,

listen, I know a lot of women from different races that are fantastic, dope, but I prefer a black woman. I prefer them. That's what I prefer. If I were to get dope, but I prefer a black woman, okay? I prefer them. That's what I prefer. If I were to get married, I just prefer them. It's not about, like, this. And a lot of times when you talk about black women in a positive light,

it's like all the other races get upset. They, like, go, oh, you don't like other. I go, no, that has nothing to do with it. Black women don't get treated right. They don't get complimented enough. Everybody copies them all the time they you know take everything that they do the trend setting that they do but then there's never any compliments there's never black women there's a lot of black men tend to shit on black

women in public forums i noticed that a lot of a lot of times we come out we come out of our mouth and say the most horrible shit about black women in public, which is crazy to me. You know what I'm saying? There's never enough positive shit. You know what I'm saying? So that's just for me. I prefer black women. That's just me. I'm not saying I've never been out with other chicks now. I mean, I'm dipped in that.

You moaned. I moaned. I have. That didn't make you love them, though. But it depends on what country I'm in. I've been to Russia. I've been to Sweden. I found it very interesting that you've done comedy in Russia and Ukraine. I was just in Russia. I did a comedy festival in Russia in 2018.

Yeah. I was the first American to do an American set in Russia. I didn't know. And my manager was like, the Russians want you. I said, for what? I said, fuck for. He's like, they have a comedy festival. I said, they laugh?

I said, god damn. There's a festival? They've only started doing comedy like seven years in Russia. How did that work? Because they're not the most freedom of speech people. That's what I'm saying. So they Skyped me. You know, they was like, hey, you know,

we've been watching all of you. The way they did it was like, Godfrey, we're very happy. We've watched all of your tapes. You're very funny. We laugh. They both face straight face. You're very hilarious. We love you.

We want to welcome you to Punchline. So second annual Punchline Festival. We cannot wait for you to come. I was like, oh, I don't know. I'm not sure. They said, we already put money in account. You're like, okay. I'm not bullshitting you. I was like... They didn't even know you were right, though. I was like, oh, they...

I looked. I said, I cannot wait to come. I cannot wait. Very good. I can't wait. I've been waiting for all my life to come. Nah, nah, nah. Hell yeah. I was like, shit. I was like. What did they see? They saw my videos on.

I've done Lithuania. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They picked me. I did a whole festival in Lithuania. They barely knew English. I did that. My videos kind of related to it. I've done Dutch comedy.

How does that work when people barely know English? I went to Puerto Rico to a comedy show. I went to go see Ida Rodriguez. Oh, Ida! And the people opening for her, everybody did Spanish. Oh, wow. So I was just sitting there, like, catching little words here and there,

but I didn't know what was going on until she went on stage. Yeah, it's just, you know what? You know, you just kind of, people kind of understand it. You know, when I did Lithuania, English was their second language. They understood what I was doing. Wow.

I talk about my dad because my people like the stuff about my father. You know, I'm Nigerian, so I would talk about my dad sounding like the Lion King on the thing. And people know the Lion King. Everybody knows that. Because the African thing is very international. Right. So there are Africans that live people know the Lion King. Everybody knows that. Because the African thing is very international.

So Africans that live in Lithuania, so they knew that. I just did the shit and they understood it, which was crazy. But the Russian thing was weird because when I went on stage, they motherfuckers had headphones on. It was like they had stations.

It looked like the UN. They had headphones on, 300 Russians. And the guy goes, oh, don't worry. We have interpreter in booth so when you talk he's going to speak in Russian into the headphones Wow and that shit worked I was like be funny motherfucker cuz I was like and when I went on that dude was I was talking he was talking like me Wow it was. I was like Fucking me matched me and you just see the Russians going ha ha ha

Like holy fuck Wow I did an hour and a half. I mean when you do a show like that, then you gotta feel invincible I feel yeah, nothing no yeah, nothing, no one can fuck with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, cause Russia, like with the whole Russian-Ukraine shit, that's like a whole, that's like a whole nother kind of white, man. They a whole nother kind of white. No, not you guys, but nah, this ain't shit. He's Puerto Rican. Oh, you Puerto Rican? Oh, nah, look at him

passing. You can be our spy. You can be like, you know those Puerto Ricans, huh? He goes, yeah. Look at this guy. Fucking damn. Platano?

God damn. Them and their plantains. You get the white dude to start talking shit. God, and that salsa. That crap. What do you think about the salsa music so loud, huh? Boy, I bet you've heard a lot of shit, no?

No, but have you heard? No, no, no. There's platano. Puerto Ricans eat platano. But Puerto Ricans eat platano. Get the fuck out of here. We all eat platanos. We all eat platanos. In Nigerians, we call it plantain or dodo.

That's what we call it, dodo. And Haitians call it banan. There's banan. So there's... Fried banana is everywhere. Yeah. Even when I was in Amsterdam, the Surinamese, you know Suriname? No.

Suriname are the black Dutch people. Okay. They look like us, but they speak Dutch. There's like... You'll see people look at me and they'll be like, I come in, what the fuck?

They're from Suriname. It's a Dutch colony in South America. And it's all people from Curacao and they have a plantain too. Wow. Yeah,

it's a big ass fried plantain, man. The yellow banana, boy. You can't get away from it, baby. We all connected by the yellow banana. How did your parents feel about you getting into the comedy world? Oh, boy. You can't get away from it, baby. As a Nigerian. We're all connected by the yellow banana. How did your parents feel about you getting into the comedy world? Oh, shit.

Okay. Now, listen. I was a pre-med psychology major in college. Wow. University of Illinois. We're Nigerians, man. Come on, man. My father always said, you have to go to college, finish your school first, then you can do

the comedy. I remember when I told my dad. God bless my parents. They're not around anymore. But my father said, wait, wait. So you're doing, because my sister told. She told on you? Yeah, fucking snitch.

Shout out to my sister, Juliana, sorry. Julie and my brother, Daniel. And he goes, so you're doing this comedy. What is that? Yeah, you know you want you doing some psychiatry, right? So yeah, he's a but why are you he just didn't understand He said so are you gonna do this as a hobby? I said no dad. I'm doing this for real He said okay, so, you know, but in case you fail Still stick with your psychiatry. so he wasn't really that happy but then when he saw me making progress he was like yeah when he saw me making progress that's

when they were supportive of it then when he saw me get on tv and shit like that then when i started talking about my father that's when he was really happy really oh my god my father said yeah i like this yeah oh because he probably started realizing. He probably started realizing, he was listening all those years. He was listening to the things I was telling him and instilling in him. I remember when he was watching Chris Rock one time. I was pissed the fuck off. He was watching Chris Rock. Hey, this is Chris Rock. Hey, he's very funny.

I was like, yeah, motherfucker, I bet that's what I've been doing. Yeah. But yeah, he when I started getting on TV and supporting myself, that's when he was they were cool with it, but they were just afraid because they just, you know, what they hear about, like, entertainment, people don't always make it. So if you become, like, if you're in medical school, if you got a regular job, you'll be fine. So that's immigrant shit. I started realizing that a lot of Nigerians have to let go of a lot of the things that they were raised on as they get into entertainment.

Yeah. They kind of have to have a different mindset of culture. Yeah, but here's the thing about, that's why when we were just talking about picking roles in Hollywood and stuff like that, a lot of that shit has to do with the culture, man. I mean, I'm not the same as every Nigerian, but there's a lot of times your parents always telling you

or your relatives say, just don't make us look foolish. Always pick something. Look dignified, please. You know what I'm saying? So I always think about that. Like every choice I make, I know I have to answer to the culture.

You know what I mean? And you want people to be proud of you. And the stuff I talk about, even when I talk about Nigerians, it can be funny, but don't clown them. You got to walk that line. You don't wanna be too buffoonish with it.

That's, I take that into consideration. I imagine if more black Americans felt that way. I'm just saying, like. Go ahead. I'm just saying, what if we did? Yeah. Yeah, it'd probably be a whole different mindset. I'm really, really conscious about that shit.

You know what I mean? I'm conscious about what you just said. I'm feeling kind of bad because I just had the, you know, Yemi Alladeh? She's Nigerian, but she's like a huge artist. She just did lip service. But she's never done an interview like that, and she's a little nervous. About the sex work? Yeah.

No, about talking about sex. Oh, nah. Yeah, yeah. Because in Nigeria, she's like, you know, they're going to be like, she's a prostitute. Yeah, yeah. You're like, you're one of these bitches. Why are you acting like these American bitches?

Why are you being a bitch? It's not your thing. You're one of the whores. How do you say how? Nigerians don't know how to curse. What did they say? Bitch, whore. What did the bad words they are using?

Because my father was an educator for 45 years on the west side of Chicago, Malcolm X College, and he did a program. My father's students were like gangbangers, you know, disciples, vice versa. They knew my dad in Chicago. And they would say, like, they would curse him. My father didn't. He would be like, oh, today this boy was just saying very bad words to me. And that's the only time we got the curse in front of my dad.

I said, what did he say? Like, motherfucker? What kind of words? I think so. I wrote it in my papers. I would just. Yeah. They would.

That whole Nigerians aren't into the bad words, really. You know what I'm saying? And I'm going to do your podcast. Oh, man. OK. I talk about saying I don't give a fuck. I was raised in America. going to do your podcast. Oh, man. Okay. I talk about saying I don't give a fuck. I was raised in America. But it's different for women, too.

Yeah, it is different for women. You don't see Nigerian women as like whorish. You just don't because it's the culture, man. I'm not saying that there aren't any, but it's just not, which is a good thing. Yeah, they wouldn't put it on display. Hell no. It's a good thing to have that reputation and culture. But it's not even about, there's like a healthy

conversation about sex. Yeah. Yeah. I can't wait. I'm ready to, she's like, are you ready? I'm like, I'm not ready. Hey Godfrey, do you eat it from the back? How much did the internet benefit Godfrey? A lot, man. The pandemic, I gained like 300,000, 350,000 new followers over the pandemic.

As soon as it hit, I was like, a lot of comments were like, yo, what are you going to do, man? I said, I'm just going to stay on live every night. I ain't doing, that's it. I mean, what else are you going to do? So I don't lose my shit. I said, I'm just going to stay on live every night, and I'm just going to fucking just be me, whatever. And that's how I gained fans. Nas, I got started contacting with.

Nas got in contact with me. You know, Kravitz got in contact with me. A lot of people were showing me, because I was just on all the time, late. I would be on with, like, Shang-4, Shang, comedian Shang. That4, Shang, comedian Shang. That's my man with Shang. I was going on with Afeon and Jay Pharoah and Aries Spears,

and they didn't know I had a lot of voices. None of them knew that, because all of them had been on TV shows. Yeah, your impersonations are very slept on. I never, ever, like, they were like, dude, I didn't, because when I did the Steve Harvey thing, which was like, that was almost an accident well nothing happens by accident right is that what you're saying I was at Sirius XM and then

um I got fired from Sirius XM and then boom went over to doing my podcast and then I said let me start I'm gonna do my podcast I'm just gonna be on I'm gonna be on live and then that's that Steve Harvey shit and then people said and i remember an afion crockett called me one time he goes nigga i didn't know you can do steve harvey i said i thought everybody does steve

harvey it's like everybody does cosby you see everybody does the but everything and it's like no i didn't do steve i was like nobody does steve harvey wow and so where people were like, man, we didn't know you could impersonate so many people. I said, I always could impersonate. I just never was on a TV show to show the shit. So I would go against Jay Pharoah. Me and Aif would go against each other. And then Steve Harvey. He's on Nick Cannon.

Steve Harvey said, yeah, I'm going to tell you right now. Yo ass, I'm going to beat your ass, boy. I'm going to beat your ass. I'm gonna tell you right now. Yo ass, I'm gonna beat your ass, boy. I'm gonna beat your ass. I'm from Cleveland. You got me fucked up. One day I was watching Family Feud for like two hours. I was on the road. I was bored.

And so you know how you get shitty? Sometimes you get shitty cable in a hotel. You're like, fucking Family Feud. I was like, road. I was bored. And so you know how you get shitty. Sometimes you get shitty cable in a hotel. You're like, fucking Family Feud. I was like, man, Steve. And I just said, I got to do this, dude. Because I've known Steve over the years as an amateur comic. Just kind of knew him. He always was cool with me.

And then I was like, yo, Steve does that a lot. Yeah. I'm going to tell you. Survey said. I don't know why or where but your ass and he does the finger thing

he got me fucked up. On Nick Cannon's show was that the first time you met him? No. I met him like before that. Since you were impersonating him. That was the first time I saw him like kind of like speaking to him over the monitor thing.

Because I know when he sent me a little DM, he's like, when I see you, I'm going to kick your ass. I just see him going, you got me all fucked up. How do you even read? I just see Steve Harvey fart. I don't know why or where, but when I see your ass, I'm going to beat your ass. You done did some fucked up shit. See, you don't do that to Steve Harvey. Karma.

Karma. Karma. Karma. Dude, all you have to do is look him up and just watch his moments. He's always always, yeah. Or whatever he does. Like, someone does the wrong answer on the family feud. He's like, what? You think I'm being abducted?

You know what I would love to see? A baby Steve Harvey with you doing the voice. Like a cartoon? Like they do Steve and A. Smith? Yes. Oh, that would be fun. But no, a cartoon, though. Oh, a Baby Steve?

Yeah, like what's that show? Like Baby A's Kids, but it's a Baby Steve? Oh, that would be fun. And you doing the voice? Let me tell you something. No, the voice gotta be grown. Oh, it'd be a baby? It's like, where's my bottle?

Oh, you got me messed up here. You supposed to breastfeed me. How am I supposed to grow? I'm a baby. Where's your titty at? Where in the hell's my milk? You got to change my diaper. I got doodle all in my ass.

But your ass, you're supposed to be my mama. You're supposed to wipe that ass. Diaper's full. That's what it is. I'm a damn in for your ass too late with the milk. Oh, you know what? I wanted to ask you, what did you think about the whole D.L. Hughley, Kanye West situation? Yo.

Oh, man. Baby Harvey is hilarious. Baby Harvey. That would be great. He's like, I like that idea, boy. That's right there. Make that money, boy. You can do me all damn day.

As long as I make some money. Oh, yeah, pause. Oh, now you think I'm in your ass now. See? Yo, that's what I'm... Impersonating, I'm going to answer you. I love impersonating. Obama, you do great with Obama.

I got rejected by SNL three times. What? Never chose me, man. My first audition, I got a standing ovation, and I didn't even get to the second round. It's too good. I didn't even get to the second round. It was weird.

I didn't get to. Yeah, it's hot as fuck, man. What's going on here, guys? I'm like, God damn. Why are you so hot over there? Oh, my Obama's not too bad. My Obama is not bad when I go, I just like The Breakfast Club. It's a good show.

Very good show. Donald Trump's an idiot. I can switch. And my Trump, man. You got a Trump? What? I hate a Trump. This is a very good show.

I'm very proud of you. Very good. It's very good. I don't like the other shows. This is very good. You're a very good host. Not so funny. You're good every once in a while. You're very pretty. Incredible.

I actually watched They Ready because he did They Ready. And so he does the... The Trump thing helps me because when I do the South, I'm in the South, I do Trump supporting... I do Trump supporting audiences, man. That's what I do. And when you do the South, I'm in the South, I do Trump-supporting audiences, man. That's what I do.

And when you do Trump, it's neutral. I don't give a damn what you voted for. I just do him. And I do the South that I'm talking about. Like, man, I'm a big fan, man. I really love the shit you do. And they're Trump-supported. And I'll just talk about

Trump. And when I do it and i go i said i would tell the like southern people say yo trump don't even hang out with you guys no not at all yeah you know what i'm saying would you ever go back to alabama trump they're very dirty people they would never go you know and so but they laugh at that shit because i didn't i'm not talking about their choice they just go man you sound just like him, man. You can't really lose with 80s celebrities, though. Trump, Hogan, Hulk Hogan. Those 80s celebrities, it is a different level iconic. Michael Jackson.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can never, anytime you impersonate, it just kind of breaks the wall. You know what I'm saying? Everyone's like, wow, you sound just like that motherfucker. So when I do Trump, shit like that, even with Trump supporters, they're like, oh, that shit was funny. You know what I mean? Now back to some current events. Yes.

D.L. Hughley versus Kanye West. I'm very current. Don't you ever say I'm not current. I'm always current. Very, very current. I am the current. Sleepy Joe. Always the current.

Okay. What were you saying? I was talking about DL versus Kanye West. I know you've been watching that. Man, yeah. Yo, that threat. Was that that threat? That threat was crazy.

That's a real threat, though. That's a real threat. I can afford to have you hurt. I can afford to have you hurt. And then you put your address out there. That's a real threat. That's, yeah. You know, I think it's kind of fucked up that it's gotten to that point.

You know, I'm a DL fan. I've known DL a long time. You know, DL's one of the great that it's gotten to that point. I'm a D.O. fan. I've known D.O. a long time. D.O. is one of the greats. You know what I'm saying? And I like his political views are dope. The way D.O. is tearing his career into more political type shit. I like D.O. I like all kinds of people.

I'm not typing shit on anybody. Because I love Kanye. And I know Kanye from Chicago. You know what I'm saying? And my man Cootie. Shout out to my man Cootie and Chike for that documentary. And Cootie came up with me as an amateur comic.

Oh, yeah, he was a comic. Yeah, I know Cootie before. Then he started going behind the scenes. He liked going behind the scenes and filming his Channel Zero. All that shit was, I was around all of that shit. Not all the time, but I remember when Cootie was doing Channel Zero in Chicago. But the fact that the whole Kanye shit is

turned into that, I just don't want Kanye to get in trouble and get arrested for threatening. You know what I'm saying? It's inevitable, right? I've heard him. He's putting too many threats on people. I've heard him say that about four different people. Your fans might end up doing something crazy, too.

Absolutely. I think sometimes when you put that energy, I think there's some crazy fans. Right, right, right, right, right. I hope this shit gets squashed. I hope that Kanye finds peace, you know? Definitely. You know? Because, I mean, listen, nobody, you don't know what it's like.

I mean, we all know what it's like to be in a relationship and you lose your woman and whatever and you're with somebody else. You don't know how someone's going to act. We talk shit because it's not. I mean, we all know what it's like to be in a relationship and you lose your woman and whatever and you're with somebody else. You don't know how someone's gonna act. We talk shit because it's not happening to us. But, you know, you hope it doesn't have

to go to that point where, you know, because I know everyone's calling Kanye crazy and all this other shit. First of all, I think he's a genius. I'm a big Kanye fan.

But I think there's just a lot of internal shit that he needs to deal with. And I hope that we can all just, I hope he can just get that, not say help as in like he's, you know, you know what I mean?

Like he's disabled. We all need help. I go to therapy every week. Do you go to therapy? I would like to go to a therapist. Yeah, I go to therapy every week. Do you?

Yeah, absolutely. Is it help? I think, yeah, I think so. Yeah, because a lot of black folks,

we don't, we don't go for help. You know what I mean? We don't have therapy. All my Jewish friends all have therapists. All of them do. So you never went? Never went to a therapist.

Maybe one time. But I don't know if I need it, though. I'm not sure I need it, because when they ask me questions, I go, I'm good. I wasn't raised weird. Nobody put a finger in the butt. Nobody did none of that shit. No, I'm just saying, nobody did anything weird.

You know, it's always like, there was never a shh. Don't say a word. Nobody came in the room late at night. No moist booty. You gotta laugh at your trauma, man.

That's so funny. No, I never been, no. My parents, I at your trauma, man. That's so fun. That's stupid as hell, man. No, I never been. No. My parents, I got to give credit. My parents weren't perfect. But everybody, my sister, my brother, we were all treated pretty cool. You know, I'm a middle child, but I'm first son. So I got a lot of attention.

Nigeria, that's important. When you're first son, whoa. Damn, did you see that? That's a trick I always do there, shall we? A little pop of the cap. That was weird. I'm like, hey! Did you see the thing that Godfrey did on him?

I'm just always trying to outshine everybody. No, I grew up pretty normal, man. I got spanked. We're not abused. You got spanked, you know we're not abused views you got spanked you got disciplined my parents tried they were very logical and what they did we tried to use our common sense so as far as trauma maybe there's trauma as far as being a black dude in in America you know yeah I mean I've been held at

gunpoint in Chicago but you know it's a most segregated city in the country still to this day even though it was discovered by a black Haitian guy named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable. A black man discovered Chicago, the most segregated city. But yeah, I've had cops kind of harass me a little bit.

There's that trauma as far as being black and the racism thing, but I'm able to talk about it on stage every day. That's always been my thing, but I'm able to talk about it on stage, like every day. You know, that's always been my outlet. But other than that, as far as narcissism, I'm not too much of a narcissist, even though I'm doing comedy, because the thing about entertainment,

there's a lot of mental shit that goes on and we hide it through entertainment. Absolutely. We create these characters. Yes. And it's actually, we need therapy, but entertainment is like probably the only area where you can be fucked up mentally and people go no but they're eclectic no they're

fucked up yeah you know what i mean this person's is a psychopath this person's a sociopath but they're like but look at his paintings you know i think we all get raised as sociopaths only because like especially when you're a black man in this country a man period i saw that it's okay they tell you they tell you not to feel right you're not allowed to show your emotions you know you got to be damn near stoic all the time yeah yeah you know when my mother passed away man i was told not to cry yeah that's the nigerian tradition yeah yeah i was there mother's laying there dead and i had to be like, you know, my relatives were like, you can't, you're the first son. You can't do that right now. You can't.

You have to be strong for your father. Why do they think that's being strong? I don't know, but I'm African. You know, they should give me a pamphlet on all the rules. But it was like, you can't, no, you can't cry. You have to be strong for your father. Boom. You're the man in the house now. Boom. I was like, okay. It was right there at the funeral. I was like, no, you can't cry. You have to be strong for your father. Boom. You're the man in the house now.

Boom. I was like, okay. It was right there at the funeral. I was like, oh, okay. Whoop. Did you ever though? Like even when nobody wasn't around? Yeah, different times.

When my parents died, it was more shock for me. Like, cause it was like, wow, it's surreal. Like everybody doesn't take death the same way. Right. You know, you don't breathe the same way. Some people, ah, ah. I was just like, wow, this is crazy. When my father passed away, because my father passed away like 10 years ago.

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and my father's body lay at rest down the street. So I had to do a show, get off, good night, and then meet the fucking funeral director. Yikes. And just to see my father laying there, I was like, oh, God, yeah. Crazy times. Yeah, but it was like, you know, you cry sometimes, you know,

when it hits you, bam. Sometimes the weirdest things will make you cry, like, damn. I cried one time, I was in Chicago and I saw the baseball fields when my mother signed me up for Little League. I started crying. Wow. Just areas of fun.

It took you back to that moment when you were a kid. Yeah, I was like, my mother signed me up because I want to play Little League baseball. My mother signed me up to play baseball, you know? And it hits you sometimes. It varies on when it happens, you know what I'm saying? It's wild, though, because it's an era. There was an era where they literally told us

we got to be hard. Like, hardcore was that era. Like, let me fuck out of here man you be Yo, man It's a bitch man fuck that bitch Charlie Murphy that was my man Larry word up. It's like man. You see? He's a bitch, man. Fuck that bitch. Shout out to Charlie Murphy. That was my man right there. Hilarious. Word up. He's like, man, fuck that, man.

My friends would be like, man, stop crying, man. Fuck out of here, man. Crying over there, man. All his ass out here, man. Yo, this is what we're going to do. We're going to get you some pussy, man. Fuck crying. They're like, why can't I just cry over this law?

Man, fuck out of here, man. What you need to do is get smashed. Man, you get over all that. And make it even worse when you try to do that. Yeah, and make it even worse. So yeah, that's, we in our culture,

like culturally as men, even, you know, I'm sure in other, you know, the men you're supposed to not cry and shit, just keep it, especially with us, man.

Our trauma, man, we have to hold that shit in. But even society makes us not express ourselves. You know, man. We have to hold that shit in. But even society makes us not express ourselves. Our society makes it like, oh, black people, stop.

Everybody else gets to cry about their oppression and their shit. And as soon as we bring up our shit, they're like, come on, just make a song for us. But you know why, though? Because then we're holding somebody accountable. Now they gotta be accountable. You know what I mean? But Most of our oppression is holding everybody accountable. That's why with that critical race theory,

which is a stupid branding, it should be called American history done the right way. You know what I mean? Because most of American history, which is sad, our history is mainly white folks shitting on us. I'm sorry, not all whites. Okay, there's the disclaimer. But yeah, most of our shit is white folks fucking with us. I'm sorry. Not all white. Okay, there's the disclaimer. But yeah, most of our shit

is white folks fucking with us. If you look at any documentary, like when I saw the Gordon Parks doc, I'm a big nerd. I'm a nerd when it comes to documentaries of my shit. Alvin Ailey. I just watched Alvin Ailey. Gordon Parks. Alvin Ailey got a doc? What? Yeah.

Fantastic. Alvin Ailey. Gordon Parks is called A Weapon of Choice. The new Ali one. The new one on PBS. Ken Burns one. I watch a lot of documentaries. And I watch Ernest Hale.

I watch documentaries on everybody. But when it comes to ours, if you notice, all of our shit, all of our greats, always had to go through segregation. That's right. Jim Crow.

It was always met with race. Always met. Toni Morrison. Right. Her documentary is fantastic. It's always with race. Oh, because they were black. Oh, segregation.

Jim Crow. It's always that. And that's why they don't want that critical race theory in the schools, because white people will be held accountable for how fucked up they were towards us. Plain and simple. What about Native Americans? You want to talk about real American history? There are none left.

That's right. At least with black folks, we know we're around because people keep calling us names. That's right. We know we're around. Damn niggers. Well, at least we're here. Has anybody said anything about Native Americans?

Because they're not around. You know what I mean? But we're around. People conjure us up in conversations. We're like ta-da. We're like ta-da. We're magical Negroes. There are white families that bring us up

and we're not even in their house. They go, what about those niggers? Ta-da. I used to say this. I used to say this. If I could see the thought bubble of a white man, there would be like a black dick just dancing in the center of my life. They think about our dicks more than we think of them. I'm just saying.

When I would go overseas, the Europeans would be like, oh, black guy, big dick. I'm like, what? I'm just trying when I would go overseas They would always do it in some language I remember in Prague they would say feeky feeky means fuck I was like, what? I just go in the shop. I just want some clothes. What's your clothes? In Turkey? What the fuck? It's like, it's a universal thing about us. People have an obsession.

I call it negra filophobia. That's my little, I made up a Latin, negra filophobia. It's the love and hate of black people. You know what I mean? They love us so much that they hate us. You know, when someone is so jealous of you, they hate your ass. But they can't live without us. It's impossible to live without us.

But I go, well, you know, if you hate us, then leave us alone. Like, I'm not even trying. I'm actually trying to help you be a good racist. I want you to be good at it. If you don't like us, please leave every aspect of black alone. Please. Don't fuck with our culture. That's the problem I have. Is the culture that you fuck, where you keep fucking with our culture, but you keep dogging us.

Nigga this, nigga this, nigga this, nigga that. But they were like, yo, I was just at a Beyonce concert. I was like, no. That's what they say. They love our culture, but they don'tgging us nigga this nigga this nigga this nigga that but they were like yeah i was just at a beyonce concert it's like no that's what they said they love our culture but they don't love us they don't like yeah it's really weird it's a weird compartmentalization that they do i don't get it i go i wonder if going back to an earlier point you made like if if we knew how the slave master lusted for you know the slave i wonder how that impacted their women right there you know what i mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Women had to be like, you know, why do you love that black woman so much? Yeah, it's, yeah, it's, and it's a psychology that's kind of,

maybe that's a mystery we will never figure out. Because they can literally, I knew, I knew, there's, okay, remember Ray Donovan? Yeah. I love that show. And there was a scene where John Voight is getting a pedicure from this black woman. And he's like, oh, you're beautiful, you're beautiful. She's like, oh, so you like black women. Yeah, it's the men I don't like.

Wow. That shit was heavy. Wow. I was like that, and he nailed that shit. I said, because there's dudes that literally do not like black dudes but love black women but hate our presence. I've seen that dynamic. I'm not saying everybody's like that, but I've seen it where, you know, you'll see them, you know,

with the black girl, and then as soon as, it's okay. Here's an example. Like, people say, why don't you do Vlad anymore? Right? I used to do Vlad. I was a regular on Vlad, and Vlad's come here. Vlad, there ain't no beef with me and Vlad and shit. Me and Lord Jamar would do Vlad all the time.

I thought it was a good show. I used to watch it. Just like this show. I would watch it. It may have great interviews on there. And I wanted to do it. I didn't know Vlad was a white dude. I never knew that.

I thought he was a black guy. And I started doing his shit. And then some stuff came up about the minister, you know, who I saw in Chicago. A couple weeks, I saw his last speech, Savior's Day. I used to go to Savior's Day when I was in college, you know, Chicago, you know. And he said something about the minister that I didn't agree with that wasn't the truth. You know, it wasn't the truth on a particular speech. It wasn't the truth.

You can disagree with ministers, but I don't care what you... Listen, I'm not Muslim. I'm just a black dude that just wants to pep talk. You know what I mean? And he said something that was like, oh, no, that's not true. And he was talking to D.L. Hughley at the time. D.L. was just listening to him. And he said

something, said, yeah, well, Barakhan said this, this, this. And I was like, no, that's not true. It was a metaphor, bro he he was saying something like he said something derogatory towards the jewish community i was like no he actually didn't you know what i mean i'm not down with anybody dogging anybody's community i'm not down with that but miss vericon did not say that and he said and then i was like and so everybody like you know what it's scary when royce the five nine dms you uh you know what i mean scary when Royster59 DMs you. You know what I mean?

He DMs me, say, hey, brother, we just need to talk to you for a second. And Elijah Farrakhan, Farrakhan's grandson, DMed me, hey, listen, beloved. When they say beloved, I was like, let me answer these. So then everybody's like, yo, are you still going to be doing Vlad? You don't hear what he said? Then I listened to what Vlad said, and I said, oh, hey. And me and Lord Jamar just kind of said, hey, man, why don't you like, you should like apologize to my man. You know, like what you said wasn't too cool, you know.

And he was like, well, I already made an apology. He's like, well, you didn't. It wasn't really an apology, man. I remember he corrected himself. It was like a technical difficulty. I said, just apologize. You kind of came out of it. Because what you said was what he's been plagued with all his career.

Right. And that's, like, dangerous, you know? And so, and then, and I said, and then, Lord Jamar's like, but you got mad when Nick Cannon said what he said. You got real upset. And Nick Cannon apologized. Like, literally apologized. And then went and sat down and did

research yeah he did research and all that but then you you talk about our person that that's part of our community whether we like him or not he's still a part of our community an elder you decide to be stubborn but we gotta kowtow to you that's not fair yeah i mean i was interested in that situation because i thought blad did apologize but then people didn't like the apology. But I think when people have forgotten that situation, Vlad is Jewish. Of course. I would have a conversation with him about what actually were you offended by because you have a different perspective. But he was saying he was just incorrect.

He was just incorrect in that assessment. At that point, I said, if he said something that was legit, I go, well, yeah, he did say that. But you were wrong, and you were stubborn. But I go, but you base your whole career off of our culture. But then when it comes to respecting our elders and whatever, all of a sudden that's out the window. We're just here for entertainment.

And you're a guy that dates black women and all this other shit but that's all we're good for but then when it comes to respecting the men you you you rather like try to you know have an interview where a dude gets thrown in jail or murdering each other whatever i'm just saying but then when it comes to apologizing to an elder my man and so he he became stubborn and me and and Lord Jamar, shout out to Lord Jamar, we were like, well, we're going to just cut ties. No beef. It is what it is.

But it's just for our culture, man. We got to stand up for our culture, man. That's why Dave Dash is right, though. Right about that. We got to stand up for our culture, man, because fuck just be coming in. It's like an amusement park. I'm surprised there's not

nigga land an amusement park yet god that white people just go in line and just ride on our shit there's the big dick ride alright there's the big booty ride alright and then they just get off and leave because that's it seems like we're just an amusement park that we just everybody rides on us

but then when serious shit comes everybody scatters like It's like we just want to be respected as human beings. All of this talk from the cabinet, we just want to be... It's like, how are you upset at me because I want to be treated like a human being? Why are you mad at that? I don't understand.

That's so weird. That's all we're talking about. From blues to jazz to all of American music, which is black created, it's all about expression of being treated like shit. That's where the music came from. You know, it was Negro spirituals, then it was gospel, then it was blues. It's called the fucking blues. It's not the happies.

That's right. It's called the blues, which rock and roll came from. Rock and roll, which is black, which then the white artists came and used it through country. It's all from black people being treated like shit. Hip-hop came from black people being treated like shit. R&B, rhythm and blues, black people being treated like shit. Hip-hop came from the struggles. Black people being treated like shit.

And then it's like all this expression and this entertainment, and they still separate it from like, yo, when Louis Armstrong was playing the horn, he's like, I just want to be treated right, you know? And you took it as just entertainment and not they're expressing their, hey man, can you just treat me like a human being? It's like, it's fucked up, and that's what you get tired of,

you know what I'm saying? You bought up Kaepernick, which I thought was interesting because you didn't like something that was going on with Vlad TV, so you stepped away. I just stepped away, yeah. But you have no desire going back. That would be the dumbest thing. To go back would be fucking stupid.

So how do you feel about Kaepernick, then? Still wanting to play in the NFL. There's nothing wrong with him wanting to play in the NFL. That's his desire, man. First of all, he's a quarterback, so that's significant to me. Because, you know, Tom Brady. Everyone, Tom is coming back, everyone. Thomas Brady.

The great white hope. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun. Listen, Tom Brady, great. He's awesome. I'm questioning a couple of his Super Bowls. I think they cheat for him personally. I think they cheat for him.

I don't give a fuck what anybody says. Because sometimes, you can't even tackle Tom Brady. You graze his hair. 15-yard penalty. You know? I think there was nothing wrong with Kaepernick trying to go back to play. But I think Kaepernick proved the point that, yeah, it's like a plantation almost. So why would you want to go back to the plantation?

Because he loves football. I mean, that's like saying— I feel like we love abuse in black people's minds. But no, look at how racist America is. Are we going to leave? Are you leaving America? I hear people say that, but it's like— But no, no, no.

Are we going to leave? I mean, that's what he wants. Football is different because there's a choice, right? Especially being that he's making so much money doing other things. You sued the NFL. You won your lawsuit. You sued him because, you know, for whatever the reason was, I guess discrimination and

you were unjustly kicked out of the league. Why would you want to go back? I mean, it's his decision. Of course it is. It's all our choice, but why? I mean, it's his decision. Of course it is. But why? I mean, that's the one. He loves football that much. He's still trying to go back? He's still training.

I mean, and they're like, no. I don't know what they... I just don't understand the mindset. The mindset is if you've called out this institution, you said it's oppressive, you said it's racist, you sued them. Okay, even the Super Bowl halftime show, I saw you talking about that and Jay-Z working with the NFL. Yeah.

Got to get past the kneeling. Got to get past the kneeling. But he got mad at Jay and Roc Nation for working with the league, but he still wants to work with the league. I just don't understand the logic. What, you mean Jay-Z? Well, Cap got mad at Jay-Z and Roc Nation. No, Jay-Z was, I think, listen, Jay-Z, you know, I don't know Jay-Z.

He seems like he moves in sort of a mysterious way. You don't know what he's trying to do. Maybe you got to get in to work his magic or something. I don't know. I thought the halftime thing was cool, but I go, wow, there's 32 coaches and one is black, and yet there's 32 motherfuckers crip walking. I didn't know gang banging went corporate

did you see that? I was like I don't know it was great and it pissed off white America it was fantastic but I go but it's halftime I mean we're the entertainment

are we surprised but then we're, why is there only one black coach in all of the NFL, head coach? Like, we can coach. Like, we kind of play the shit better than you. Like, how can you don't think? I'm not saying just because you're a good player, you're a good coach. But we got a lot of black people that are really good at football. There's got to be at least 10 of them that can coach. You know what I mean? You have one black

coach. Yeah, if you make up, what, 70% of the players are black? 80! Almost. And the thing is there's a lot of average white coaches that keep getting jobs. McCarthy, who was the coach at Green Bay, he just went head coach in Dallas and fucked it up over there. I agree. And that's what I'm

saying. I don't mind the halftime show. Great. Dope. But that's easy to get black people to sing. That's nothing. But to get us as a head coach, I mean, they had problems with us being quarterback. Do you know who Doug Williams is? Absolutely.

He won the Super Bowl with the Redskins. He won the Super Bowl but broke records in the Super Bowl that haven't been beat. Broke records, but nobody talks about Doug Williams, who's the coach of Grambling, Grambling State University. Well, that's because you can't talk about the Redskins. What did you say? You can't talk about the Redskins. The Washington football team.

You can't say that. Washington football. I'm sorry. Native Americans, my fault. But, yeah, it's like even in my university, University of Illinois, Big Ten, they did not want black quarterbacks. They converted everybody to defensive guys. The alumni was like, no, you, no, because the quarterback is like the head position. It's the head position.

They still have problems with black quarterbacks to this day. So I don't know i cappernick wanting to play i think he's maybe trying to prove something like hey you know what you can have your dignity you can have your rights and you can still play within the game i don't know maybe he was trying to prove something with that i don't know like i have every right to play or maybe he's trying to really show how racist they really are like i'm still want to play and they're like, nah, motherfucker. You ran off the plantation, and we didn't like that.

You went against your master. But then you have 80% of the players who are black, and they're still kneeling and still protesting in their own way. So it's like, ugh. But Kaepernick was advised by a white dude. A white veteran. A white veteran, because they were like, and I remember I was doing a show up in Auburn, New York, where Harry Tubman

is buried. And I said something about Kaepernick. I was bringing it up. And this dude goes, he's disrespecting the armed forces. He's disrespecting the armed forces, man. I said, how is he disrespecting? Nobody disrespects the armed forces. And I said, first of all,

when you lay the flag down in a football game, that's sacrilege. You're not supposed to do that. An American flag laid down on the ground, that's what they do in football. You're not supposed to do that. And you're not supposed to wear the American flag on your body. Like with bikinis, you know how they have American, they do that all the time. So I said, my man's like, he's disrespecting the armed forces. I said, he's not.

Because then I said, a white soldier told him to kneel he goes well say white soldier told him i don't need to hear this he walks out it's like when trump gets stumped with shit trump will talk trump will talk about your mama like uh trump donald you know 83% last year there was a decrease in the Medicaid he goes your wife's pretty ugly though let's be real okay he's like what he just gets personal cause Trump don't know facts he goes your wife's pretty ugly

but yeah but yeah Kaepernick I mean I think he him wanting to play football I think he's just always he's trying to make a statement, like trying to show, I want you to see how racist these motherfuckers are. I think he's bigger than football at this point. Well, now, yeah.

He's literally like Malcolm X type. He's like on some civil rights shit. It'll be interesting to see if a team picks him up, how people react, you know, who are fans of that team. Seven years. Yeah, it's like, oof. Yeah, it's nice. It's been seven years.

His arm is, he probably only can do short passes now. I want him to get what he wants. I mean, he's a therapy. He's only done short passes out. That's right. He's always like, ah, shit.

Five and out. Kaepernick, what a pass. But I don't know. Seven years out, he's going to stick with his short game. Well, to your point, it's like we look at him

as this massive figure, right? Yes. Of black revolutionaries now. So it's like, just stay where you're celebrated. Stop trying to your point, it's like we look at him as this massive figure, right, of black revolutionaries now. So it's like, just stay where you're celebrated. Stop trying to go, you know, where you're tolerated. Amen. And you're not even tolerated there. Yeah, I would love to see him

get picked up. No, you're right. I'd like to see like, but the hate, I mean, listen, the hate is real as fuck, man, like, for us. And remember, people don't try to twist my shit. I'm not saying we can't make our money, we can't do our...

But the visceral hate for us is real as shit. Especially when we get... There's a thing when you get out of line. You know what I mean? Like, when LeBron James was like, when he complimented black women, they fucking went off on him. Like, fuck you.

White women buy your sneakers, too? Yeah. White women buy your... He justed black women, they fucking went off on him. Like, fuck you. White women buy your sneakers too? Yeah. White women buy your... He just said black women. What if I'm talking about my mother? My wife. But they're thinking you're talking about girls in bikinis with ass and tits.

That's what they're thinking. But if I say I love black women, what if I'm talking about my mom? What if I'm talking about my aunt and my grandmother? What if I'm just doing that? Why do black people always got to explain what the fuck we're talking about? Because when you're hated, they don't give a fuck about you.

When you're hated, they don't care. They go, well, why is this happening? They don't care because they don't like you. Well, listen, let me ask you something along those lines. In Chicago with Jussie Smollett, you see what's happened with Jussie. Jussie Smollett. Yeah. We're watching that he got this 150-day jail sentence.

Right. So do you think. He's going to be juicy for real. He's going to be like, hey, juicy. Yeah. All right. He's like, man, it's Jesse. No, no, it ain't.

It's juicy now. Whoa. What's happening, girl? Juicy Smiley. Mm, mm, mm. All right. What's up? What's up?

Hey, what's up, Juicy? Damn, yo, Dave might have fucked Juicy up. I mean, Juicy up in jail, man. Juicy Smiley. Damn, Dave. Say his name. Oh, shit. Dave didn't think he was going to prison.

That's why he would have never did that. I thought he was going to get, like, community service or something. And he has already looks, and his reputation is kind of tarnished right now anyway. But now he's in jail. They're going to be like, yeah! Juice, hey! He's going to be walking through with his little blanket.

Yeah, Juicy! Oh, man, Juicy, dude! Is it 100% juice? Fruit, dude! Uh! Oh, shit! They got him in PC, though. Oh, yeah?

Yeah, he's in PC. Oh, that's good. They be like, juice, hey, what flavor that? Yeah. Empire. Less is life. Poor Jesse. My man.

Juice, hey. It's Jesse. Oh, whatever, boy. Honey, fit it in. dude hey it's Jesse oh whatever boy honey for today we all it's jokes baby I met I met

oh my gosh I met Jesse cool dude very nice guy and the two you don't want to hear that shit Godfrey and guess what

and guess what the two Nigerian dudes I know oh my gosh both of them from Chicago I hung. And guess what? The two Nigerian dudes I know. Oh, my God. No, both of them. You know them? From Chicago. I hung out with them.

We went to a Nigerian festival. I hung out with them. You are lying. The next time, I swear to God. You went to a Nigerian festival? A Nigerian festival because I met them. They were working at this. There's this arcade. It's like an arcade. It's called Empor them. They were working at this. There's this arcade.

It's like an arcade. It's called Emporium in Chicago on the north side. It's an arcade bar. You know how they bring out these new old arcade games with the bar. We were there

and they were the bouncer dudes there. Brothers. And I hung out with them. Okay. And then the next day we went to a Nigerian Festival in Chicago.

Hell yeah. We was eating suya. You can ask them. I don't know. Are they in jail? No, they're fine. Yeah, I know those dudes. Because when they showed up, I go,

I fucking hung out with those. I'm not even lying to you. No sauna or nothing? Or you guys been to the sauna or anything? No, hell no, man. Pause. The sauna. I mean, they're trainers.

I don't go to saunas, man. Every time you go to sauna, dudes just dick open like, hey, what's up? How you doing? Wrong room. Shit. No, because they, you know, them old white dudes there, we got their balls out and shit.

The sauna's like, oh, man. Look just like the statues, them little Greek statues. The Greek statues with the little balls out with the legs. That's what happens in the male saunas. Man, they be, they all get all sick. Yes, all the time. Saunas in the gym. I'm coming full clothes, man. I'll be like, I'm coming just like this in a sauna.

Like, shit, fuck that. And you're in a leather jacket. With a leather jacket, like, boy. And they come in just balls out like this. Oh, God, I love this sauna here. You got to come back, man. Dude, yeah. I do want to ask you, though.

Who's your Mount Rushmore of coming? Here, I knew that was coming. You knew that was coming, right? I think I knew it. Okay, let me, everybody's Mount Rushmore of comedy? Here, I knew that was coming. You knew that was coming, right? I think I knew it. Okay, let me, and everybody's Mount Rushmore is whatever they want it to be. My Mount Rushmore,

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and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You talk about Cosby. I am in it, boy. All in it. Because I worked for Cosby. It was one of my We'll be right back. six months I was around Cosby never saw any crazy shit you know he was cool but you heard things did you hear I would hear things definitely heard things I would hear stuff that's when his son was murdered I was there I was around and so I was yeah so I was were you surprised when any of these because I I was hearing it hearing it hearing it and I would hear it. I go, really? And then I wasn't, I, my thing is it was a battle because it's like, whenever he wanted to buy a, a, a, a, a, a channel, a network stuff came up the last time. The first time he wanted to buy it, they had the illegitimate

daughter shit came out when he wanted to buy a network. They had the, there's some girls said, you're my dad or whatever. And then when he wanted to buy it again, some shit came out. When he wanted to buy a network, they had, there's some girl said, you're my dad, or whatever. And then, when he wanted to buy it again, some shit came up. And people say, well, they're trying to destroy a legacy. But then, I would hear, I would, I knew people who kind of, it happened to them,

and they never reported them. I was like, shit. You know what I mean? That's how I say, my mom knew somebody that never reported it. Yeah, I knew people that literally got, you know, got handled, and shit. And My mom knew somebody that never reported it. Yeah, I knew people that literally got handled and shit. And they were like, I never reported it because I got out, whatever. So I wasn't that surprised. But it was disappointing because he is an icon comedically, what he's done for television.

He literally was the first black person to be on a national tv show i spy in the 60s with robert colp then he you know he had a cosby show before the regular cosby show he was a gym teacher in the 70s he had a he had a cosby show he was like he was a gym teacher i'm i when i tell you i'm a nerd about this shit he had a regular cosby show in the 70s then he had animation fat albert remember that then he he Then he did Texas Instruments as far as advertising, Texas Instruments. Calculators. Of course, he had Jell-O pudding.

Then he was in a show called The Electric Company. Electric Company with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno. It was like a children's show right after Sesame Street. So he was always in education, picture pages. He literally changed the eras for African Americans 60, 70. He was the first one to be on

national TV doing stand-up on the Jack Parr show and Ed Sullivan. And he influenced Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor watched him on the Ed Sullivan set. Richard was like, I want to be like that guy. I want to be like Cosby. So Richard Pryor copied Cosby for a while.

Until Richard was like, God damn, fuck this motherfucking shit. How much of Bill's self-righteousness do you think led to his demotion? That's another thing, too. When Bill was like dogging everybody, which was fucked up. He had fights. D.L. had a fight with him. Jamie Foxx

did. Eddie Murphy was the first to go, you know, Bill Cosby called me saying, why are you always cursing and da da da da you know and it was his self-righteous shit that made it even worse pull your pants up but I'm like but Cosby you were helped yourself too

there was a man by the name of Sheldon Leonard Sheldon Leonard was an actor producer and he produced I think Dick Van Dyke so he actually helped Bill Cosby and fought for Bill Cosby to be on I Spy in the 60s. So Cosby, you were helped too. I don't like when people that get

money, they act like nobody helped them. Like, motherfucker, you were helped by somebody. I don't give a damn if it was the donut man that gave you free food when you were hungry. Someone helped you to move to the next step. You know what I mean? You can't forget. So, as far as my Mount Rushmore. He's on your Mount Rushmore is what you're saying.

He's in the back of the mountain right now. He's just in the back. He's in the back. He's in the back. He's in the back. I got Pryor. I got Pryor. I got Carlin.

I got Paul Mooney. I watch Paul all the time. You know we got a Breakfast Club interview we never put out with Paul Mooney. What? Why don't you do it? I feel like, and I've been to a lot of Mooney shows, seen people walk out and love Paul Mooney, love his legacy. I've seen half the crowd walk out at your favorite place, Caroline.

It was something about that morning. It's just. He was on something else. Yeah? And I just was like, I don't want people to see Paul like that. Yeah. Was he when he was getting a little. No, it was like 10 years ago.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, Paul, I love Paul. I'm a Red Fox, and... Hold on, that's funny. He can only be four. I thought he was five. Mount Rushmore's four.

Oh, I thought, oh, because everyone always says you're top five. So those are the guys. And then you put a real guy in the back. I just put him in the back. Just in the back. He was in the front, and then when the thing, I had to go to the back. So it's Pryor, Carlin. Remember this?

Richard Pryor. Pryor, Carlin. Pryor, Carlin, Mooney, Fox. Red Fox. Mooney, Fox, okay. Red Fox. That's for me. Did you know what's so interesting about that?

All of those guys, if people wanted to, could dig up something. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I don't think it would take much digging. Oh, yeah. It wouldn't take much digging. That's what I'm saying. Back in the day, that time, they did a lot of shit.

Yeah. But we don't discuss Overton windows enough. Right, right. And how certain things were acceptable at one point in society, but then things aren't anymore. Yeah, you look at shit from maybe 15, 20 years ago, you go, God, damn. You feel like, damn, you wouldn't be able to say that shit. And a lot of things I feel like, thank God,

it's not acceptable anymore. No, yeah, of course. A lot of stuff shouldn't be acceptable, but I think we should be able to laugh at ourselves. I think we need a better dialogue. I saw some of you guys, when you're talking about about the LGBT all that stuff that you guys were doing I think that needs to be we need to be better in dialogue with that we should be able to laugh at ourselves that's real shit like I remember you said that's why you got

fired from Syria oh just like this yeah God remember the time but tell them about the time you got fired when you was doing that homophobic shit. Tell them that. Damn, man. You brought it up. You don't have to talk about it. No, I'm going to. Okay.

Listen, they hired me at SiriusXM. I was doing the show, Karen Hunter's show. I was doing her show and shit. And I was just doing little excerpts. And then they were like, oh, we want to offer you a show. Have you ever done radio? I go, not really. I do my friends' radio shows, but not really.

So I said, we want to give you a show. I said, you sure? I said, I talk shit. I talk shit. I talk shit. I don't go way out the box, but I talk shit. That's what I do. And they were like, no, we want to change up the station. You know, I said, you sure?

And it was a conservative black station. I said, are you sure? Because I go in. No. One more time. Are you sure? I kept saying and then I said, all right. So I got like an hour. Got an hour. Shit was kicking ass. I was kicking ass. I even interviewed like Jermaine Dupri.

I had meth in on my shit. I had all different types of people. And then people were like, the audience was like, because I shook up the radio station because they were used to conservative. And I came on there like, yo, what up, bitches? Just on purpose. And I had, you know, there was a lot of older people listening.

And then I started really connecting to the black truck drivers that I recognized out of the blue. I was making fun. I was like, all the black truck drivers out there, if you're out there. And black truck was like, yo, nobody ever recognized us before. They were like, man, nobody ever talks about us. And you're the first. I said, really? So I had that.

So my show, people were like, he needs more time. So I got two hours. They gave me two hours within 10 months, a two-hour show. I was prime time. So I was that. So my show, people were like, he needs more time. So I got two hours. They gave me two hours within 10 months, a two-hour show. I was prime time. So I was kicking ass. And it was called the Godfrey Complex. Yeah. And so from there, you know, I imitate people.

That's what I did. I made fun of people. That's what I did. So I went to D.C., to the Sirius XM in D.C. They got the real nice, you know Joe Madison? Yeah. Madison, I went nice, you know Joe Madison? Madison, I went on his show. Joe was like, I love what you do, brother.

I love how edgy you push it. You push the envelope. Then I went on Laura Coates' show, right? And I was waiting in the lobby to go on her show, and this truck driver, and there was this dude at the desk, right? He was real flamboyant. He was flamboyant. And you could tell because he had like makeup on but he was a guy but he had makeup whatever and so this truck driver comes in and sees me walk into the lobby and the truck driver

was like yo man i'm a big fan of the show i'm a truck driver man you might ever get a picture i say of course so it's remember there's nobody in the thing. And so the guy, and the guy was rude as shit at the desk. He goes, no pictures. No pictures. That's how he said it. He's like, no pictures. I was like, alright, but why are you so rude? Damn, dude. He's like, uh-uh, it doesn't matter. No pictures.

He's literally like Sinead. It was literally like that. It literally, it was so ridiculous. I said, alright, and the truck driver was like, he was pissed off. And I said, hey man, we can't take, you know, and I gotta go upstairs and whatever. And so, when I went on Laura Coates' show, I was making

fun of him. Not because he was gay. I was just making fun of him while he sounded. And I go, yeah. And Laura's like, yo, why are you so, like, why you seem like you're a little disturbed? I said, yeah, the dude downstairs was rude as shit, you know. And he and he she was like, well, what did he do?

I said, yeah, I was trying to get a picture with this truck driver. And, you know, because truck drivers are they subscribe to the show. And he was like, now, now, you know. And I said, you know, what we should have done was grab him by his braids and drag his ass out like he kicked that other guy out. Hate crime. Hate crime. And I talk about kicking Trump in the chest. I talked about all kinds of stuff.

Trump needs to get slapped. And they said they fired me from that. But I think it was other things. What's crazy is that's equality. You spoke about it like he was just a regular person. Thank you. You wasn't thinking about him being gay. Thank you.

That's how you would have responded to anybody who you in that moment Sometimes when people go that when they say like when some of my friends say homophobia go doesn't have homophobia, bro That's not I'm not a homophobia phobia is like No, I don't do that if I disagree with my gay friend I go I'm just disagreeing with you

there's no phobia get the fuck out of here one of my one of the guys that I travel with the most there's a comedian named Akeem Woods

I told you he came out to call don't say it don't say it don't say it he comes no I'm not gonna be like

Shabell goes your best friend I'm not transphobic my best friend I'm not transphobic I told you friend. I'm not transphobic. I told you, man, I'm not. I have a gay friend. I put him on my shows all the time.

Listen, I'm not. No, but he's a black dude, gay dude. He's just a comic, man. And he's a good dude. And it's like I'm not. It's just that we should be able to disagree with somebody and you should be able to bust his balls

but your character if your pause if your character I don't know why he said that you know what I mean man and he's so

he was like he was like you should be able to bust his balls uh oh and he should be able to bust your balls you can't do that

however you want to handle it that's how Charlamagne handles it where's that plastic booty you got in here you threw it away good yo I'm saying I should be able to talk to you like a regular I even do that on stage

I go yo the gay community you know I'm your ally yo you my peoples but you should be able to laugh at yourself now you can't be choose to play special interest this is comedy Yo, the gay community, you know, I'm your ally, yo. You're my people's, but you're able to laugh at yourself. That's right. Now you can't choose to play special interest. This is comedy. We should be able to joke about ourselves in a loving way. Because, man, you know how many of my gay friends dog out women?

And look at them, they go, have you seen the vagina? Ew, it's gross. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Gross, gross, gross. But I don't think you hate women, but we should be able to joke about that, like, in a good way. That's why I love Flame. I don't care what Flame identifies as.

He's just funny. Flame is like, I'm a he, she, we. Flame said, I'm a he, she, we. And he goes, I'm a man sometimes. You want me to be that? That's right. And they hate him. When Flame is getting hated against, what are you supposed to do?

Because he's old. I don't get it. Remember, I knew Flame when Flame first started. We were all amateurs. So I was around Flame. This is 95. I was around Flame. So Flame always told me, he's like,

God, you always treated me like a regular person, man. I said, yeah, I didn't care. I grew up on the north side of Chicago, Boys Town. I don't understand it, but that's you. I'm not going to hate you because it's your business, man. You want titties? Yeah, you got titties. I don't give a fuck.

You have a dick on your forehead. I don't give a fuck. You're a friend. You might have to discuss the dick on your forehead. No, I'm saying if you want a dick. That's your friend. You should. I don't know.

Somebody walked in the room with a dick on their forehead. Come on. We got to talk about it. Oh, yeah, but it's New York. That's true. It's New York. Don't be like, oh, you gotta do it in the forehead.

You just gotta go around. I'm just saying. I want to find you, Godfrey. When are you showing this? When is this showing? Tomorrow. Sometime. Tomorrow?

Yeah. Oh, guess what? Then check it out. I'll be in Dallas, Texas. Addison Improv. Addison Improv. You know what I'm saying? And also- March 18th through the 20th.

18th through the 20th. And then Virginia Beach, Funny Bone, March 25th through the 27th. And then I'm going to be doing the 18th season of Wildin' Out with Nick Cannon in Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? And I'm going to be consulting on it, too. So I'll be hanging out with Nick's crew in Atlanta for like two weeks and all of them. And then follow me on Instagram, Comedian Godfrey, if they don't stop blocking all the

black creators like they keep fucking doing all the time for some reason. All the black creators are always blocked. That's a fact. Like all my boyfriends are like, are you blocked? No. Us, we're like, damn, they blocked me again. They blocked me from my life again. I wonder why they keep doing that, especially the live.

I don't know. They block me a lot. And I'm like, I didn't even say anything. I block me from my life again. I wonder why they keep doing that, especially the live. I don't know. They block me a lot. And I'm like, I didn't even say anything. I'm not going against community rules. But yeah. But Instagram is Comedian Godfrey, you guys. And my podcast is in Godfrey. We trust on the Gas Digital Network.

All right? Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 p.m. Eastern. Yes. That's our guy, Godfrey the Comedian. Thank you for coming, brother. I finally made it. Absolutely. I finally made it. Absolutely. I finally made it

before you got canceled. We so happy we popped your cherry. How long was that? An hour and a half. An hour and a half? So you made an hour and a half. I made an hour and a half. You almost beat

Dick Gregory's record. Hmm, hmm, motherfucker. Hmm, hmm. God damn, hmm. Dick Gregory's the longest Breakfast Club interview ever. There are aliens, nigga. Hmm.

You never seen aliens? Nigga, I'm tired of explaining this shit aliens aliens have been running this shit hey guys i'm kate max you might know me from my popular online series the running interview show where i run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app,

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