The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Marlon Wayans Talks 'Wild Child' Tour, Jokes For Diddy, Wayans Bros Reunion + More

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Marlon Wayans To Discuss 'Wild Child' Tour, Jokes For Diddy, And Wayans Bros Reunion. Listen For More! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

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Starting point is 00:03:28 Jess is still on maternity leave. Lorna Rose is filling in, and we got a special guest in the building. I didn't even know it was him. I seen him in the hall. I stood inside. I was like, who the heck? I was looking like, what rapper is that? I was like, what New York rapper is that?
Starting point is 00:03:40 Ladies and gentlemen, Marlon Wayans is back. Welcome. Gang, gang. What's happening? How you doing? I'm good. I wore a hat just in case I start sweating, and I bought a washcloth. For some reason, I always sweat when I'm on this show, and I'm tired of people going,
Starting point is 00:03:51 why are you sweating like that? Are you on crack? I'm like, no, I quit crack in the 80s. The thing about it now is I just have vitamins. That's all. That's why we have you up there on the wall like this. And Charlotte may be asking me these hot-ass questions. And why you got me looking like Luke Dogg?
Starting point is 00:04:06 Why can't I just be regular Marlon? I mean, the artist drew it. At least I'm up there. Let me shut up. Let me not complain because I was on you for a while. I was on you for a while. You got Will Smith. You ain't got Martin and Sinead here.
Starting point is 00:04:17 You got me. Can I just represent? Justin decided to draw it. He drew it based off how people be on the show. You've never been on the show in that character. I don't know why he did that, to be honest. That nigga was high when he drew this shit. He was high when he drew that.
Starting point is 00:04:29 But he got you sweating, though. He was watching Don't Be Amazed. Like, yo, I'm going to do this looking like this. The funny thing is, we said Marlon looked like a rapper. Don't no rappers love to stage like Marlon? This nigga stayed. He stayed working. Stayed.
Starting point is 00:04:41 He never want to be home. He on the Watch All Comedy Tour right now. He hate his house. No, you know what? I do kind of hate my house. But the thing is, I just love working. I've always loved working. And finally, I got something I love to do.
Starting point is 00:04:53 And I'm getting better. And I just go, the more time I stay on the stage, and I think because I started late, it's not like I'm tired of it yet, right? So most of the time, I'm like dyslexic with life in my career. Like, you're supposed to start out doing stand-up i started out writing and producing and creating creating my tv show when i was wayne's brother when i was like 20. you know writing and producing my own movies from with
Starting point is 00:05:15 my brothers from don't be a menace to scary movie and you know doing my own stuff haunted house and then at 39 i was like yeah i think i'm gonna take stand-up serious and i'm gonna go do stand-up and everybody's like why the fuck would you do that now you already made it and i was like because i think there's there's more to get i think i could be better i've been a star for 20 something years i want to be i want to be a superstar and the only way to get there is just doing the work so i just started doing stand-up and you you had your force i remember one time you came here you said you had four specials playing it It was going to be God Loves Me, Good Grief. Now you're doing the Wild Child.
Starting point is 00:05:47 So it's Wild Child, the third installment? No, because my first two already, the first one was Woke-ish. Second one was You Know What It Is, which was on HBO Max. Third one was God Loves Me. The fourth one, Good Grief. And between that, I had the headliners,
Starting point is 00:06:03 which was me and my boys, Sidney Castillo Tony Baker DC Irvin shout out to all my people Esau McGraw and then now I'm working on the Wild Child Tour
Starting point is 00:06:13 but I probably named this one Skittles and I'm ready to film this like now it's a tight it's the more I keep doing it now I got like two hours
Starting point is 00:06:22 now I gotta shut the fuck up I'm doing too much cause I can't stay on something too long because I stopped Rubik's Cubing it. And then before you know it, I have two, three hours, and that's really hard to cut down to an hour. So I want to hurry up and do it so I know my next three. So for me, I want to get this done and retire it
Starting point is 00:06:39 so I can clear the canvas and paint something new. So what is Skittles? Taste the rainbow? You really about to just say, fuck it. You really about to say it. He wasn't here for last time. He wasn't here for last time.
Starting point is 00:06:49 He wasn't here last time. I wasn't here. He wasn't here last time. Nah, it's kind of owed to my, to my trans child. Got you. Shut your ass right up,
Starting point is 00:06:57 huh? But no, that's what I mean. That's what I'm doing. I think you're going to tell everybody, fuck it. Because everybody was giving you flack because you posted all the pictures.
Starting point is 00:07:02 I tripled down. I don't, I don't believe in, no, you want to start this. We're going to keep going. We're going to keep on going. No, I'm going to keep on going. We're going to keep on digging. No, you started it.
Starting point is 00:07:13 So, you know, but it's not even about them. It's really about me and my transition as a human. I throw myself under the bus because I wasn't with the shits. I wasn't like yeah this is great when they first you know decided to go down this this this road i was against it because i'm like yo you're not looking at life you know you're doing this now in your youth you may regret this when you like 45 and you have a kid and you ain't got no titties to nigga what jesus christ so you know as a parent i was like you know protesting but at the same time i went through this journey from ignorance and defiance to complete acceptance and i just think
Starting point is 00:07:58 a lot of people need to hear the truth and hear a story i tell funny truths things that you know hurt me or things that you know i i'm i'm imperfect and i'm not all the way you know there i don't always have the right answers but i think it's good to be human and be human on the stage because when you talk about truth now you're not just telling jokes now you're actually healing there's people in the audience i got people coming up to me after my show's crying like oh my god and they did it with good grief and they doing it now with the wild child tour it's. Does your son get offended? Does your son say,
Starting point is 00:08:26 Dad, enough now. Like, this is, you've been on the breakfast club twice talking about it and you've been talking like enough is enough. Oh,
Starting point is 00:08:31 they tired of my shit. But see, you like your college paid for. So what I, I gotta do is I gotta talk about things. I'm sorry, baby. You know,
Starting point is 00:08:40 dad gonna do what he do. You know, the beautiful thing about art, if you try to tweet or even probably explain what you just explained in an interview, they'd get mad at you. They probably try to cancel you.
Starting point is 00:08:50 But if you do it on stage in a, in a packaged way, it'll make more sense because it's your forum and you get to really unpack your, your truth. It's, I look at the stages. It's a therapy session,
Starting point is 00:09:01 except instead of paying a therapist $200 to, you know, to, to, to express myself, I got these jackasses paying $55 to come see me perform. And I'm like, y'all understand, I'm in therapy right now, and the audience has been my therapist. And when I hear their laughter, I find the answers.
Starting point is 00:09:19 And I'm just really grateful that God gave me this career and this thing called stand-up and this thing called art. Because I always take my broken heart and make art, and I love it. I always wanted to know with your son, did you have to sit down and say, okay, well, explain it to me. Break it down, because we come from a different place where jokes is jokes. Did you have to sit down and be like, explain what you want me to say, what you want me to call you, how you feel? Did you have to go through that? Yes, and it was want me to say, what you want me to call you, how you feel? Did you have to go through that? Yes, and it was so damn confusing because, you know, they started with pronouns.
Starting point is 00:09:49 And I'm like, look, I went to public school in New York City. I don't know shit about no pronouns. I know nouns and verbs. That's all they taught us. So they broke it down and all this. And it's just too much. And then I got to change from calling them she to now he and they. And I'm like, they, this is two of you what's what's
Starting point is 00:10:07 i don't i don't understand oh my god they are the most confusing one i'm just so confused but they took me through the tutorial and you know they know that sometimes i still because you know for 23 years you were her and now they and and they give me grace because they know, you know, okay. But he knows you still love him. They know I love him. They, he, yeah, they know I love him. I'll fight, I'll die for him no matter what. Don't matter, you know, that's my child, you know what I mean? And I think all parents should defend and pull up for their children.
Starting point is 00:10:40 You know, that's my child. I want them to be happy, and if that makes them happy, I'm happy for them. We saw you come to Boosie's defense when the back and forth was happening online with his daughter. Have you guys spoken? Like, do other parents call you because you're very open about your journey? No, I didn't fricassee. People fried me up for coming to his defense. They did, for sure.
Starting point is 00:10:59 But I wasn't coming to his defense. I'm telling people, hey, man, y'all mind your fucking business and let families work out they shit. That's private between him and his daughter and they don't need your fuel. They don't need my fuel, but I'm telling you, when you're ironing out your personal problems, that's between him and his daughter
Starting point is 00:11:18 and everybody got something the fuck to say. That's what I don't like about social media. That man is dealing with his child and they need to express themselves and hold space. We live in a society where we're unforgiving, and all we do is add fuel to fires and watch it burn and applaud. And I'm just like, yo, let that man hold space. It takes him time. When it first happened to me, it took me time.
Starting point is 00:11:44 You can't expect somebody to instantly be like, I accept everything. It takes time. And God has his way of talking to each and every one of us. We all going to have our sit down with God. I had mine, you know, and he will have his and I'll hold space that that man changes his point of view and that him and his child come together and love each other like any black father and black daughter or white or daughter, father, period. That's what I want. And people, I don't give a fuck. Oh, you shouldn't be saying. Shut the fuck up.
Starting point is 00:12:15 I'm not going to defend myself with 150 characters or whatever it is now on X. Give a fuck. I said what I said. I stand by it. Now let it go. I'll hold space for that man and his daughter to come together as a family and figure that shit out. The way me and my child came together as a family and we figured that shit out. People need space to have those honest conversations. I agree with that.
Starting point is 00:12:37 But you and your child didn't work it out through social media. No, we didn't. Like Boosie was in interviews talking. Because my child been unfollowed me. Then his child replied to an interview he did. That's the problem I be having. Like, don't tell your personal business in these interviews if you don't want the world to have an opinion about it.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Yes, but, you know, and that's to their fault. That was something. But they figured it out, and, you know, as they should. But I just hold space and hold space for prayer and hold space within myself that people can grow up, that people can change. Every person should have the opportunity to change, even brothers that are in prison.
Starting point is 00:13:16 There's a reason why there's prison. It's time for you to sit and time out and have conversations with God and reform. But when they come out, we should applaud them for the time they did. They did the time. Now, let's hold space that they're better people. Now let me ask you a question. Oh shit, I don't got myself
Starting point is 00:13:34 in trouble again. You said prison. I'm just curious. How many times have people asked you, have you ever been to a Diddy party? They pulled up that tweet. What the fuck they got to do in prison? Diddy's in prison. It just made me think about it. I seen the baby oil behind you. It just made me think about it. I seen the baby oil behind you. It just made me think about it. Oh, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:13:47 You do have a baby oil. All right, so here's the thing. I've been to 10, 15. I know Puff since he was Puff. I knew we went to college together. So I went to Howard. I always wanted to go to Diddy parties. He's at the hottest parties in D.C.
Starting point is 00:14:01 I was too young to get into those. But when I got to L. to LA and throughout the years, the 90s, come on, man, I'm biggie. I've been around a long time. And I will say this, I've never,
Starting point is 00:14:12 I've been to maybe 10, 15, some of this house, I've never seen shit. I have never, you put a lot of tests on me when they're like, oh, well, there's videos. Great.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Show me. You're going to see me sipping Ciroc and maybe pushing the deli on to the side that shit too strong but you ain't gonna you gotta put a little Ciroc in your deli on and um but you know I've never seen any of the stuff that they say happened I never been to a freak off. That's just not, and that's just not my vibes. That's not Wayne's vibes.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Beyond that, I got to honor, I go to a party or whatever, but I always got my mother, my father, and God. And you can be around things and then go, yeah,
Starting point is 00:14:56 this ain't for me. That's just never been my vibe. I don't get off. I don't even like watching porn with BBC. No, I want my dick to be the only BBC in the room. We could watch some ladies perform, sure. But every now and then you come across that one brother
Starting point is 00:15:11 and his shit is so big and you go, God damn it, dick shouldn't be that big. Don't that shit hurt? You be trying to make her feel bad. That's ridiculous, all that dick. I like putting on Asian porn because I know my dick is bigger than these. I'm going to get in trouble.
Starting point is 00:15:27 That was Asian shaming. That was dick shaming. I want to apologize. When you hear these stories, though, they be tragic stories. You hope it's not true, but you got to listen to the alleged victims. Yes. He got me sweating, damn. He on new.
Starting point is 00:15:41 He started stuff I didn't. You're too late, man. It's winter time outside. It's cold, man. You act like it's 30 degrees out. I like my fall clothes. I get to floss and show off fly shit. I wait all year for fall.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Did you have jokes immediately, like when you read some of this stuff? A billion of them. I had a puff up. I said, man, I got some jokes for you. I'm not sure you want to hear them right now. Did he respond? Listen, I hear Puff up. I said, man, I got some jokes for you. I'm not sure you want to hear them right now. Did he respond? Oh, listen, I hear him.
Starting point is 00:16:09 I've known these guys my whole life. I've been growing up in Hollywood. When it happened to Russell Simmons, I'm the wrong dude. I hit a nigga on his worst day. I hit Russell Simmons up, and I said, hey, nigga. It was like after all these allegations came out, I said, hey, nigga, you're having a terrible week. To this day, Russell hit me from Bali in some weird frickin' stretched position. That's still one of the funniest things I ever heard. So, yeah, I hit them up on their worst day, you know.
Starting point is 00:16:37 And I hold prayer, you know, because I know the kids. And I'm just like, and I'm uh excusing any of those actions i saw the cassie tape that hurt my feeling and it hurt my feelings to see a black man do that to any woman or any man do that to a woman i wasn't raised like that but as much as i see that video and i heard for her you know there's a part of me and that's what i mean hold space there's a part of me that hurts for that little boy in there that was taught that kind of toxic behavior and i pray that he hurt he heals i pray that he like he's sitting with god right now i don't need to throw that man under a bus god is talking to puff right now and that's
Starting point is 00:17:17 between god and him and whatever happens happens and that's between him and god but i'm gonna pray for those kids i'm gonna pray for the I'm not going to act like stuff didn't happen and I ain't going to act like nigga I ain't got no jokes. I got some wonderful jokes that I got in my show. You got a baby oil into this? Oh everybody got a baby oil joke. He got a thousand bottles of baby oil.
Starting point is 00:17:38 He dropped that one right there. On my way to Vegas, I mean Atlantic City, it's going to be a crowd riot. We got a thousand bottles of Baby All on the Wall. But everybody got jokes, and he know what it is, and the kids know what it is. But, you know, I don't want to kick a man when he down. And I think, like I said, man, I know that family, and I pray for them all.
Starting point is 00:18:00 You know, also, too, man, the thing i love about comedians comedians say things and have conversations that everybody do be thinking i saw you on shaq's podcast okay but i do not on shaq's podcast you talked about he don't be behaving you talked about a joke that you didn't want to say which one the oh no you ain't gonna get me to say that shit i just said that that Magic Johnson had the good age. What age did you get if you lived 50 years? I want those age. He's become a billionaire with age.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Give me those age. What kind of age is this financial age? All of us have had that conversation amongst each other. What kind of age he at? You see the judgment over here? He said that? Everybody talks about it and here's the thing
Starting point is 00:18:46 you gonna get mad about a joke or you ain't and if you get mad you can fucking leave I'm not gonna retract statements I'm not gonna retract jokes they are jokes if I didn't go in these dark caves to find this little light and this little elixir called the laugh then what the fuck am I doing this for
Starting point is 00:19:02 I'm not gonna make everybody laugh at one time. I hope to tell the right joke. That's why you go on tour. That's why you work it out. That's why you throw different things out there and you let them blow up in your face. You're like a scientist.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Let me put two parts of oxygen, one part, two parts hydrogen. Bow, that blows up in your face. Well, let me try it this way. You watch people walk out, but just because they walk out don't mean it's gonna be a bad joke I should have people walk out on that joke and then that became my biggest joke. It was like there was like, oh you can't say that
Starting point is 00:19:31 Oh, I offended you. Oh, that means you listening. So let me go a little deeper Let me dig a little deeper cuz I know this oil here and when I did you know that that was that gave me an applause break, that's how how much people laughed about that because it was literally a 10-minute run of just going deeper and deeper. It started with Shaq, and it kept going, kept going, kept going, kept going. They laughed so hard at the Apollo, man. I literally could go sip me some water and take time to set up my next topic. Did Magic reach out to you?
Starting point is 00:20:08 I hope not, but I think when he sees me, he's going to kiss me in the mouth. Is it funny now, nigga? Yo. You stupid, man. But I love Magic. I love Magic. I love Shaq. I love Puff
Starting point is 00:20:25 I love all these dudes but damn it I'm a comedian and if you you know my heart like
Starting point is 00:20:31 have you not seen The Living Color have you not seen Don't Be a Menace have you not seen Scary Movie I have made a living talking shit about people
Starting point is 00:20:40 that's what the fuck I do I make fun of things and I'm not gonna I'm gonna be unforgiving when it comes to it everybody gets it you seen good grief i talked about my mama and my daddy so you think i'm gonna care about like what magic is feeling or any or shack is feeling i'm talking about my dead mother and my dead father's dick i'm telling you i'm gonna go get these jokes because that's what i gotta do i gotta heal we have to have comedians in the world. God created you all for a special reason.
Starting point is 00:21:06 I truly believe that. The same way there's doctors and lawyers, you need comedians in the world. And you need journalists. You need people that sit there and ask the hard questions. I seen you had that lady sweating, the Trump lady. Laura Trump. Yeah, she was sweating up a storm.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Started looking just like her father-in-law. I said, this crazy. You Trump. Yeah, she was sweating up a storm. Started looking just like her father-in-law. I said, this crazy. You made the white lady nervous. So let me ask a question. You can't go over there and get no love from mom. She was like, anyway. Oh, she was about to roast Lauren. You ever see that?
Starting point is 00:21:36 She said, period, bitch. She was on there. You know, I was wondering. You know, you've been coming up here for 15, 16 years. And we've talked about your brother, and Charlemagne has changed. He's evolved. He went to therapy. But see, once again.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Because I want to know. Once again, hold space for change. Charlemagne, 20 years ago, will tell you he was an asshole. He will tell you, yo, I was in a different place. I could do nothing but shake that man's hand and go yo love for real because we watched each other
Starting point is 00:22:08 grow we had our little spat beef whatever but I hold space for growth I hold space for change
Starting point is 00:22:14 why don't you bring your brother up here next time cause he's changed he's evolved he's lighter nigga don't change he stay angry Sean's still mad
Starting point is 00:22:23 he mad at me I don't know what the fuck I did I think I took a shades sorry Sean I'll bring him back you mad at me right now no no but you know what
Starting point is 00:22:31 Sean also keeps a low profile Sean don't be doing a lot of pressing stuff but Sean Sean will come up here like he's Sean's grown right
Starting point is 00:22:38 we all grow and as brothers in our industries there's no time for beef no time for that kind of negative energy. I only go through negative energy to find something positive. It always brings something positive out.
Starting point is 00:22:51 You're positive. You're a positive person. You joke a lot, but you positive. I think if I'm not mistaken, I saw, is it Sean writing on Damon's new show? Sean's writing on Damon's new show. We're about to have an announcement we're going to announce next week. I can't talk about it here, but a big announcement coming.
Starting point is 00:23:11 So I'm just going to leave it at that um like i said it's a big announcement coming you digging look and she wants the juice right now when the brothers told will be kind of crazy so this is what i do when i call to confirm stories stop okay you can't confirm or deny but am I in the right area if we say that there may be an assembly of the Wayans brothers that includes traveling and jokes
Starting point is 00:23:32 I will just say that there may be an assembly of the Wayans brothers and I'm gonna leave it at that on TV or on stage come on man y'all green
Starting point is 00:23:42 what is this this is like hot peas and butter you get warmer. I feel like there's a belt around the corner. Fuck that. No. I'm running. No.
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Starting point is 00:29:23 It's a really funny show. And, you know, Damon don't miss. And him and his son, little Damon, is brilliant. And right now there's like 62 Wayans is working over there. So, you know, the whole set is all Wayans. Did y'all send like a text out like, hey, man, new show.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Who want to help? Like a family group chat. It organically happens. Like my sister Kim is one of the show runners on the show. So she's writing on the show. We like to have family. Wow. Because my family be like, mm-mm. See, that's why that magic joke happened,
Starting point is 00:29:51 because I had nobody around. Say no. Oh, Damon be like, mm, keep that one. I got a little something more you can add to it. You realize that's one of the funniest Breakfast Club interviews? I don't even like to talk about it. Which one? When Damon Wayans was up here. Oh, Damon. I think that's the one that funniest Breakfast Club interviews? I don't even like to talk about it. Which one? When Damon Wayans was up here.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Oh, Damon. I think that's the one that made him stop doing stand-up. That's why Damon don't do stand-up. Damon don't do stand-up because he feels like the world became so judgmental. And I think he's right, but he's not. What I found is the world is judgmental on social media. When I go to comedy shows, people want to laugh. I agree.
Starting point is 00:30:27 The audience wants to laugh. Social media got the studios fucked up. They got the executives fucked up. They're not making comedies because they're scared to make comedies. They don't think people want to laugh. And I'm like, you are so wrong. And that's why we coming back, we're in the four or five. We about don't call them. People need to laugh. And'm like you are so wrong and that's why we coming back we're in the 4-5 we about dunk hard and people need to laugh
Starting point is 00:30:47 and I know my purpose you know I look at how depressed the world feels and we need to laugh again I'm going to show you his headline I don't want to say what it is but just what he said that's why you don't do no more interviews see that
Starting point is 00:31:04 grand opening grand closing That's why you don't do no more interviews. See that? Grand opening, grand closing. I got to see what he said. Me too. I want to see. I remember. Now I remember. And it's the way he said it with that look. I remember.
Starting point is 00:31:25 But here's the thing. As a comedian, that man should be able to say what the fuck he wants to say. Who are you to tell a comedian his job is to find light? I don't care where it comes from, how it comes. You take the darkest subject, the darkest topic, and you go, here's what's funny. That is what my job is. You can't criticize a fireman for not putting out part of a fire.
Starting point is 00:31:47 He goes into burning buildings to find bodies. I go into burning buildings to find jokes. That's what I do for a living. I'm never going to not tell jokes. Period. If you get canceled, good. You know what canceled means? That means that the real niggas are staying and them bitch ass
Starting point is 00:32:03 niggas went home. So cancel me. everybody don't got the uh the back like the backing that y'all some communities are scared because they can't just walk away from stuff or they're scared that brands walk away from them now they got no money they don't have no ability like you guys have a it's different for the way you got the stage though no because we have a brand, right? Our brand has stood the test of times. We started in the 80s. Right. Damn. This is generational.
Starting point is 00:32:31 And now probably 40 years. That's beautiful. Between me, Damon, Sean, Kenan, Kim, that's 230 years of comedy between each one of us. Like we are masters at joke telling. People trust our brand with finding the fun the light when we did in living color you know Damon doing and and David and David doing men on film that's the first time gay people were introduced into your living room and people felt like oh this
Starting point is 00:33:01 is safe even gay people loved men on film because the way we do things is we try to do it with kids' gloves. We want the people that we make in front of to be like, oh, that was funny. That's why you can't cancel us for white chicks. You know who love white chicks the most? White chicks. So the people that we send up usually laugh
Starting point is 00:33:19 the loudest, and I'm sure Magic Johnson's laughing right now. You know you brought that up, and that was funny, that one I was saying earlier that we live in a generation that's all about vibes what happened to talent because you can go back to any of those in living color cast everybody on there was talented that's why y'all still here today not even just the Williams brothers the David Allen Griff the Tommy Davison, Jamie Foxx. It's like, come on. Kelly Colefield. And people don't argue it either. There's no argument of his.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey, Damon. I mean, because back then it was, you know, that's what things, social media made everybody feel like, oh, I can instantly be famous. You can be famous, but you're doing 30 second, three minute sketches, which is cute. But back in the day you had to earn it, you had to work 20, 30 years in comedy
Starting point is 00:34:09 clubs before you had a point of view that Hollywood would then want to take a chance on betting on you nowadays, you got this many followers, you got this many views people, oh my god, that's the next guy to bet on no, you have to it takes time, consistency
Starting point is 00:34:24 I've been doing this now for now, me, 35 years That's the next guy to bet on. No, you have to, it takes time, consistency. I've been doing this now for, now, me, 35 years professionally, and now I'm doing stand-up now, 14, 12, 14 years now, somewhere. And now I'm just now hitting my stride. I think my best years are ahead of me. I'm in that zone right now because it took me 40 years
Starting point is 00:34:44 to really understand my art and my craft. And comedy, now my dramatic is on point. I feel like our best years and even our Wayans years, people need to laugh. So that Wayans brand, we coming back.
Starting point is 00:34:59 With the comedy tour. I didn't say with the comedy tour. But I'm on the comedy tour, the Wild Child tour. Absolutely not. I didn't say it was a comedy tour. But I'm on a comedy tour, the Wild Child Tour. I'm in Evansville, Indiana. Where am I at? You're in November 1st,
Starting point is 00:35:13 you're in Coachella, California. Yes. November 8th, you're in Tulsa. Yes. November 16th, you're in Durham, North Carolina. November 17th,
Starting point is 00:35:21 Richmond, Virginia. And November 21st, you're in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Yes, and my greedy ass is also going to be, where am I going to be? I'm going to be in Evansville, Indiana, and that is, hold on, who sent me that? Jess, somebody sent, I'll get back to it. Jess sent it to me.
Starting point is 00:35:44 Okay, I'm in Saturday, October 26th, I'm in Aiken Theater in Evansville, Indiana. Sunday, the 27th, I'm in Louisville Palace Palace at the Louisville Palace in Louisville, Kentucky. Friday, November 8th, I'm in Tulsa at the Tulsa Theater. And then November 21st, I'm at Devo's Performatel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Thank you very much. That's a lot. But I work every weekend because this way when I'm doing jokes or this way when I'm, you know, I have a sketch show or I have a movie that I'm doing that I know where the jokes are. They're in my head.
Starting point is 00:36:14 Before I even say it, I go, don't say that. Go for that. Your instincts is built by the stage because you write on a stage. I'm not at home writing out jokes. No, I write my jokes right in front of the audience, and it's live or die every second. Wow. And that's how you get good.
Starting point is 00:36:31 What's your motivation when you hit that thing? Because you're clearly a very motivated person. I think that one of the best examples of that we saw earlier this year when you and Vlad went through what y'all went through. Fuck that nigga. Fuck him and his beard. You and Vlad went through what y'all went through. Fuck that nigga. Fuck him and his beard. You and Vlad went through what y'all went through. I didn't go through it.
Starting point is 00:36:48 And no disrespect to him. I'm over it. He disrespected me. You should see the text. How many times I was like, bro, we ain't got to do this. You're saying fuck you that we ain't got that price. Bro, we don't have to do this. Well, I'll give you $5,000.
Starting point is 00:37:03 I said, bro, we ain't got to do this. Bro, just leave it alone. We good, bro. You wait. I'm going to talk to Aries Spears about this. What the fuck are you telling my business on your platform? That's when it got tricky. How are you going to tell my business to another black man about my price?
Starting point is 00:37:20 How dare you? Now you're trying to make us crabs in a barrel. Now you're trying to make me and Aries go to war. And I'm like, see, that made me go, that's why I'm not fucking with your platform. Wait, he told you he was going to do that before the interview happened? He told me when I told him I didn't want to do the interview. He was like, the price. And I was just like, bro, the price is the price.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Let it go. You're saying fuck you to me. I didn't say fuck you to me. To this day, I still haven't said fuck you to him. The only way I said fuck you to him was when he kept going. I was like, all right, so here's what's going to happen. You're trying to diminish my value. You're trying to diminish my worth.
Starting point is 00:37:54 You're trying to diminish my prolific career that I know I have worked hard for. Now I'm going to show you. Revenge, success is a man's best revenge now I'm gonna show you me and you ain't in the same fucking league bro you have you don't have a million dollar a billion dollars a box office behind you you don't have a 35 year creating your own material your own shows your own see I'm gonna show you I'm gonna go do some legendary shit and I'm gonna go do it to everybody else except fucking you. And I went and I did Shay Shay, and he's like,
Starting point is 00:38:29 you can't get more than 300,000 views. I got more views on The Breakfast Club. Boom, first day, 2 million views. And I'm just like, enough said. Drop Mike. And besides that, fuck your beard. I don't like his beard. It looks like Trump's wig on his face.
Starting point is 00:38:45 I don't like it. What's wrong with his beard? It's ugly. It's red. It looks like Gossamer from the Looney Tunes. You know the one that had the sneakers? That monster. Well, I was just trying to ask you a question about motivation, Marlon.
Starting point is 00:38:57 I got into it. Did y'all squash it out? You're at 8.5 million now, too, by the way. I had looked earlier at the views. It's 8.5. 8.5. But he said I'm more 300. I was like, all right, cool. We didnall squash it out? You're at 8.5 million now, too, by the way. I had looked earlier at the views. It's 8.5. 8.5. But he said I'm more 300. I was like, all right, cool.
Starting point is 00:39:08 We didn't squash it. I squashed it. He's apologized a lot since then. He's still talking about it. He just asked somebody else. Deon Cole. I'm just like, get over it. I think every time he brings it up, he apologizes.
Starting point is 00:39:18 I'm just like, I accept his apology. I am not mad. I wasn't mad from day one until I roasted him on the gram. I was like, wait, hold up. You said what? And I went in on him. And then I went the other way and I showed him that way. And now I'm cool with it.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I ain't got no beef with that man. You know what I'm saying? But just, yo, put some respect on my name, bro. Don't come at me like that. I'm a peaceful dude. And if you looked at the text that me and him, the correspondence, you'd be like, yo, Marlon was a classy dude all the way through.
Starting point is 00:39:49 He messed up when he started talking about my price to other people. And y'all know this. Your value is what you say your value is. Your worth is what you say your worth is. And yes, I will state the obvious. as a black
Starting point is 00:40:05 man no you won't do that to me and i have to take that position because if i didn't take that position we took that position in the 80s to kick open fucking doors to let people know no no no no this is what we do this is how you do us and you have to state the obvious no you won't come at me like that so and i i i if he apologized i accepted it i'm not mad at him but that's why i said your motivation because it's not just that moment i think about you know uh what happened with with scary movie and how you went to go create your own thing like i feel like you need things to help push you to go do something because everything negative that happens to me i go what's positive what how do i flip this into positive there's nothing bad in life is bad everything is god one door closes
Starting point is 00:40:51 look around there's a thousand other opportunities that come your way even skittles the skittles stuff coming everything is and everything is god i will say that after losing my parents good grief yeah i still have i still have a parent god God governs me and he got me through. If I could tell you what I went through for three years beyond COVID, when I lost 60 people that I loved, it was like, God was playing a trick on me. I was just like, are you kidding me? Somebody else, my mom, whoa, how my father. And when I went through that and I was delivered i was like oh god is real
Starting point is 00:41:28 and then my daughter at the same time i was like god is real and god is so good and i'm so thankful to know him and i'm so and i will tell people you should find god before god comes to find you that's right if he comes to find you it's too late to find you, it's too late. Go seek him. He will get you through any war, any battle, and everything is positive because everything is God. Amen. There you have it. Is that what got the Wayans brothers back together to do this? Everything was God. You should know what I went through with these niggas.
Starting point is 00:41:56 The point is... So the name of the tour is Everything Was God? The Wayans brother comedy tour is Everything Was God? That was tricky. You almost got me. You almost got me on that one. But I'll announce next week and I'll come back. This don't add till next week. This adds on like Monday. Cause you know we do exclusive news here too.
Starting point is 00:42:12 People come here for news. I'll come back and drop it. He don't trust us. He like I ain't trusting y'all. I ain't playing with y'all. The day that you guys are ready to break, are you publicists? Can we help you guys break that news? Okay, great. She said it right here.
Starting point is 00:42:27 I'm going to call you. Before we drop drop, I'm going to call. I got your number. I'm going to call you and I'll tell you. And I got your number. You got my number. We've had every Wayans up here, not at one time. You got too many questions. I can't get you.
Starting point is 00:42:42 It's my job. We've even had Kenan up here. That's a classic Breakfast Club interview people don't talk about. Oh, Kenan was here? Yeah, Kenan was here back in the day. That is the smartest dude. You know, I always say I'm the luckiest kid in the world, man, to grow up in a house with everybody I dreamt to be like was in my house.
Starting point is 00:42:59 I grew up in a household with legends, man. And so, you know, what I do, I do it for the village. I am only me because of the village that raised me. I'm so grateful for my journey. I've had a beautiful time. I mean, Damon, Kenan, Kim, Sean, like everybody I wanted to be like was in my house. Some of them niggas feet was on me in my bed. Like, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:43:27 It's a story that I don't think the Jacksons understand. It's a blessing, man. When are we getting that story? Which one? The family. Oh, the Wayans family story? We're talking about it. We actually created a sitcom a while ago.
Starting point is 00:43:44 That's what I mean about hollywood you know i now for me i really want to go get a lot of financing because i just want to do way and stuff and i don't need nobody telling me hey we're ready for you to do it no no no i i know when something's ready i cook it myself that's why i pay for my own specials not waiting on y'all to tell me i'm ready or what your runway is i'm'm ready. I'm going to put this special out the way it goes. Now, you want to be a part of it or you don't. And I don't need people giving me approval. I know when something's ready.
Starting point is 00:44:12 We had this thing growing up, Wayans. The funniest sitcom, and it was about our family growing up in the projects. And everybody's like, we're not doing sitcoms no more. That's why I want to go finance because I'm like, I'm going to do 100 episodes and I'm going to find the platform for it. I don't want to ask people questions no more about,
Starting point is 00:44:32 hey, can I do this? No, no, no. Do you want to do this? Cool. If not, I'm not waiting on you. But a movie. A movie would be great just to see how the life is.
Starting point is 00:44:39 You know how long that movie would be? That'd be longer than Gandhi. Just to hear all the stories. How many Wayne's is this? But I mean, to hear the stories from all the brothers and everybody, just how y'all did it, how y'all came from growing up in a small house in Brooklyn and taking it to where you guys at. Manhattan, Manhattan.
Starting point is 00:44:56 All my Manhattan people get mad. Chelsea, the way in Brooklyn. Chelsea. To how you changed the Super Bowl. Just all that in a film would just be amazing. I think we will, and we're sniffing around it. We're all talking about doing a lot of stuff, you know, everything from a book.
Starting point is 00:45:11 Because it's all, right now, it's all about the brand and the brand, right? So, you know, I think there's a book. I think there's a doc. I think there's a biopic. I think we're going to put all that together in the next, you know. But it's hard to wrangle 10 people. That's why Earth, Wind & Fire has never had an autobiography. Too many niggas in the band.
Starting point is 00:45:30 You've got to get all these different rights, and you need this person's rights and the trumpet player's rights and the saxophone player's rights. It's easy when you're a solo act. You know, it's like one person. So I think we're all going to collectivize and get this done because the people need it. I want it for the next generations coming up because it's a blueprint
Starting point is 00:45:50 for them. I'm sorry, if my brothers want to do one, I'm already working on a book for myself. But I think a collective family story is something we got to do. We appreciate you for joining us. You asked me all these hot questions.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Now I'm going to get a collect call from Diddy from jail. Magic going to kiss me in the lips. I think Diddy want to FaceTime. It's Marla. This guy's stupid. It's Marla Wayans. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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