The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Marsha Warfield Talks 'Night Court,' Career Legacy, One Woman Show 'The Book of Marsha' + More

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

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Good morning. How are you? I'm blessed black and highly favored. All right. How are you? I'm doing all right. All three of us in red. I know we got the memo.

That's a good sign, you know, when everybody is like in sync without even trying. That's right. As long as no Crips walking here, we'll be fine. You've been working in the business since the 70s. And you're celebrating your 70th birthday this month? Yes. Wow. Do you feel like a legend?

No, I feel like Marcia. I just, you know, I do take every day as it comes, do the best I can, and hopefully be able to rest at night comfortably. So things are going well right now, and I'm very grateful for that and very happy with the way it's going in the second half of my career. But, no, legend is something I think they just say because I'm old. You've got to have a resume to back it up, though. I don't know.

You know, if you hang around, sooner or later, somebody will say you're a legend. But I appreciate it. You know, it's nice to be thought of, well thought of by people. You just let them say that. Who know better. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's not often that someone with the, know, like you has longevity in this business and you still manage to stay booked and busy.

You want three TV shows right now. Like, what keeps you going? Well, it's not just, you know, most people don't get a chance to have one successful career. I had one, took off for 20 years and came back and have done it again so uh i'm most proud of that of the fact that i could start all over again from scratch and then uh make it work into my 70th year when they called you about the Night Court reboot was that something you wanted to do did you jump at the chance to play Roz again

or you just was like eh I don't know no I don't take gigs that I'm like eh I don't know unless there's a whole lot of money involved I'm not putting myself through that I like Night Court Night Court was good for me.

It was good to me. Hopefully, I was good to Night Court. And so when they called me, it wasn't like I expected it because they were going in a whole new direction. They're doing a whole different show. And I'm cool with that. That's fine. I wish you well. I hope it does for you what it did for me.

I told LaCretta that as soon as I met her. I said, you know, this is your gig now. My time has passed as far as this is concerned. So you take this ball and run with it. I hope it does for you what it did for me. So when they called me, I was like, well, cool, you know. I'm happy to do it. And it just seemed to snowball from there.

Yeah. I'm sure you know and see how times have changed these days. How did you feel when you found out that Roz would be getting married to a woman in the season finale? Oh, I thought it was great. And I love the fact that it's not the point of the show. The point of the show is that she's getting married. The fact that she's getting married to a woman is never

mentioned, brought up, nothing. It's not a bone of contention at all and that's a long way from where we started, you know, from where when I came out to my mother and I wasn't even coming out publicly.

I was coming out to her. And she said, well, I understand, but just don't come out as long as I'm alive. I'm like, okay. That's a small thing to ask in the bigger problem that it was growing up and everything. So I was like, cool. But now we can have uh

this character and not just representing uh being a lesbian but being a lesbian of age of color uh marrying another woman so that people know there's there's hope you know there's hope, you know. There's hope for people. You don't just stop living because you get another birthday. And you don't have to stop looking for love. You don't have to stop having sex. You don't have to stop doing anything just because you're old. So I like the way they handled it. When your mother tells you something like that, how do you not feel suppressed though? You're suppressing a huge part of yourself.

I've been suppressing a huge part of myself my whole life. I mean, from birth. And when the society says this is negative, this is bad, you know, people try to insulate their children and help them because for them, they see it as

one, a failure of their parenting and help them because for them they see it as one a failure they're parenting and two it's like the world is going to beat you up so let's guide you along this way so my whole life they've been trying they had been trying to shift me you know over to the right side it's like the way they do left-handed kids, you know, back in the day. They would tie your hands behind your back. They would force you to use your right hand because left-handed is sinful, sinister. It means left-handed in French. It was a bad thing.

And so they would let kids right with their left hand. So you had a lot of converted right-handers whose minds, you know, when you're left-handed, your mind thinks left-handed. You know, they open books backwards. They see things totally different. But then they had this corrective thing. Because I'm left-handed and I open the book the right way. No, but I've seen left-handed people the book the right way no but I've seen left handed people open it the other way

and go from the back and it's not that they're reading from the back it's just that's how they see it and so they try to shift your whole mind and same thing when you see your kids you know your kid is gay from birth you know the little boy cries whenever you put him in a blue something.

And he'd look, I love the pink. And they're like, no, you can't wear pink because you're a little boy. And he's like, well, I don't care. And so they start shifting you away from who you are so when when you come out and you're expecting the worst you're expecting your parent to be uh offended and and defensive and all kind of stuff and some kids get put out of their houses some kids at 15 16 their parents can't handle it well all my mother ass was you know don't put it out in public in the whole world scheme that was a small thing in my mind it was like well at least she's not disowning me she's not condemning me if they tied your hand behind your back for being left-handed i don't i don't want to know what

they did to gay people back then okay they just tell you you're different. You're different. When you started playing back the character of Roz, did it feel like a continuation or a reintroduction? There's a little bit of both. A lot of time passed. So Roz was – my goal at the time was I had just done 9-1-1 and playing Hen's mother you know with the short hair and everything it kind of established a look for that

character so I wanted Roz to be more like she was back in the day with the haircut and stuff so I got the wig and went in that direction but yeah we picked up Roz 30 years later 4 and a half or many years it's been

and uh caught up with her life and I got to meet her again too I don't know what happened to her um you was on tv when being on tv meant something like you like when it was like a real celebrity and being really famous so how did playing Roz back then in the 80s change everything for you? Well, you know, back in the day, there weren't as many opportunities. There was only three channels, and cable was new. Showtime and HBO were just about the whole game, and so they didn't have as many. There was no streaming.

There was no streaming there was no you know and i tell people about like selfies and stuff like y'all got pictures of everything you do we have no pictures we have no it was a big deal when somebody took a picture so the whole technology changed and as the technology changed the the opportunities The opportunities expanded. Plus, black people and women have pushed the boundaries so far away from where they were when I was a kid. There were no black people on the other. There were no shows like this. There was none of that stuff. All of this stuff is new and it built up from the civil rights movement through the black power movement into more demands and more Red Fox

and Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson. We need representation behind the camera. I need somebody who knows my skin tones to do my makeup. I know people to do lighting and things who can understand how to light black people yeah and so we need more managers and agents and stuff and all those things started happening and i was talking about it last night when robin harris said at the comedy store because we used to wait for paul mooney not to show up so we could take his spot. That was the only way we could get a spot at the comedy store.

And Paul Mooney always showed up. And so Robin said, I can't do this no more, Marsha. I got to work. I got to do, I'm going back home. And I said, you know, that's cool, but the industry comes through here looking for talent. He said,

I don't care. I'm going home. So he went back and worked all the clubs we worked to stay sharp, but didn't have the same exposure. Well, when he went back and then he met Michael Williams and the Comedy Act Theater became a thing, and now we have more black people behind the scenes. We have more black people coming out the mail room and becoming agents. And now they're,

then we had the cable, the cable weblets started WB to whatever, and the frog network and all those things. And so now they're looking for talent. So instead of going to the comedy store on the way home from that pool, and it kind of all came together through the efforts of everybody along the way. But Kenan and Robert Townsend doing Hollywood Shuffle independently, saying, we're going to make a movie.

Where are you going to get some money to make a movie? And they said, well, we're going to do it on our credit cards. Somebody, we're going to make a movie. And where are you going to get some money to make a movie? And they said, well, we're going to do it. We're going to do it on our credit cards. We're going to, somebody, we're going to hustle it up. And they actually hustled it up and made a movie that stands up today. And so all of those things happened, you know, kind of organically and followed the trends of the technology changes and took advantage of all of the opportunities that they made happen. And we just kept on going until now you have representation.

You have, you know, the idea that you can watch TV 24 hours a day and only see black people is mind-boggling to somebody who grew up with Ozzie and Harriet and and that kind of thing and leave it to beaver so I happen to be just come about in that time period where um it was between you, when things were coming up. And I got lucky and ended up on Night Court, and the rest is history. Wow. But I love how, like, you get excited when you talk about, like, back then and stand-up and all of that. Is that still your first love? I love stand-up.

I don't see myself as an actress, actor. I was reluctantly dragged into acting because I wanted to say my piece. I wanted to be a stand-up. I wanted to compete with the big boys. I wanted to do stand-up. And so learning how to act and all that kind of stuff, I'd learned all of that on the job. I didn't know anything. I never took it.

I took a class once and they told me to get a book and said, you know, read the book. And I opened it up and they said on the first page, the key to acting is to keep it simple. So I closed the book. I never went back to the class. So I was lucky enough to be on a show at a time. It was like the number four show on TV. You had actors. John

Larroquette getting nominated every time he opened his mouth. He got nominated for an Emmy so often he took his name out of contention. And there were Marky and these actors. And I told Harry when I first got there, I'm like, I'm not an actor. I don't know how to do this. He said, I'm not either.

I'm a magician. He said, well, just watch them and do what they do. And so they made it easy for me, and I learned on the job. This is a question for you and Jess. Elira, she does stand-up as well. Is the stage your safe space? No, it's not. It's not safe on stage.

You're out there by yourself. But the thing I think everybody has to keep in mind when you do stand-up is you're doing you. It's all about you. And the closer you are to who you really are, the better. You know, we come from a tradition where for years black people weren't allowed to be themselves especially well there were no very few black there was moms maybe and that was it but black men weren't allowed to have facial hair they weren't allowed to wear suits they had is your country falling apart feelingressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own

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And so in the 50s and 60s and people like like Dick Gregory and Timmy Rogers. And said, now we're going to do it different. And we're going to be people and speak our minds. This was not allowed. You weren't allowed to trick white people intellectually. And so to be yourself and to be close to who you are, you can't fail at being you. And so if you'd be the best you you can be, you're always going to succeed. I like that. You said you can't trick white people.

What did you say? You can't trick white people intellectually. That was against the law. And in the South, that was dangerous. Dick Gregory said after a show, the group of white men came in. He ordered a whole chicken. And these white men came up behind him and said, whatever you do to that chicken, we're going to do to you. You should have ate the chicken's ass.

No, he picked the chicken up and kissed it so that was the climate you know and and again he won by tricking the people for tricking them yeah it's amazing that you know they they we act like um like when it comes to entertainment, I'm going to ask you about roles that they've asked you to play. Have they ever asked you to play a role that might have been pushing some sort of propaganda? Oh, all the time. I refused. I came about in black exploitation. And before black exploitation, I don't think there had been any roles for black women where they didn't play a maid or a whore.

And most often a maid. And even some of the classics that everybody loves, Imitation of Life, you know, it's just a maid. And I said, I will never play a maid or a whore. Never. Ever. And I said, I will never play a maid or a whore. Never, ever. And so when roles came up, and the maid is, she has a heart of gold, and she winds up, and she ends up being, and she's a corpse, she comes to, but she's a maid. I said, if she's a maid, I'm not playing her.

So I turned down a lot of roles. And I think we have to start encouraging people. We have to lose the go-along-to-get-along mindset, you know, and get back to the uh to the kick-ass you know yeah mindset that you know you draw your own line in the sand and you you have the right to say no you know and and we don't always uh feel that we have that kind of agency to say man i ain't doing that even if they make you feel bad for it you know like because they will agents and you know it's even like happened to me like i i

will say no like i was offered like three or four roles to play a crackhead you know and but these would have been my first roles and i don't i didn't want to do that and I remember meeting oh my god the guy that played um Eddie Cain he was on the set of Row I did a sitcom which was my first big role um for Fox but his name was Michael yeah Michael Rainey I want to say or something like that but he played in the five heartbeats and he was Eddie Cain and I met him on set and he told me if you let them they will keep casting you for roles that they want to see you portray you know not for you know and I just I never I grew up in Baltimore City that's all I seen growing up I didn't want to play that role I'm not saying never but that's not they kept my agents kept bringing that to me my manager kept bringing

that to me and I remember him saying michael right michael right sorry i remember he was like my manager he was like this is you the scene opens you're pissing behind a dumpster yep after you snorted right alonica and i'm like and he said i could just see you playing this you don't know how insulting that was i fired him but that was that was very i just couldn't believe it. When I first read this, I thought of you. I could see you planning this. I'm like, damn.

You know, we forget they work for us. You don't work for your manager. And they take the position that you do work for them and that you have to do what they say. And you have to let them know no i'm the boss of me yeah like i said do you i'm doing me i'm not doing what you see yeah me yes so no that ain't gonna work are you having fun yeah i'm having a ball you can't tell i believe you know i walked in here in the whole room is orange and red and everything so you know this is the way it's meant to be i'm i'm doing great.

Well, tell us about your one-woman show, The Book of Marsha. People always told me that I should write a book. And I'm like, I'm not a writer. I'm a stand-up. So if you want to know my story, you have to come see me do stand-up. Ah. And I can tell you better than I can write it down. And I didn't want to go through the ghostwriter thing and have somebody else write my story, and I approve it.

So it's a kind of autobiographical stand-up. I grew up on R&B. I'm a big R&B fan. That's my thing. And so I sing a lot, and I'm not a singer, but I have music in the show. You know how you have a lot, and I'm not a singer, but I have music in the show. You know how you have a party, and whenever we have a party, there's always music playing. But at about 10 o'clock or so, that auntie comes in and says,

okay, that's enough of that bang-bang noise. Let's put on some music. Play my record. And everybody goes, what's a record? And she's, don't get smart with me, boy, and play my record. And so I'm that auntie. And this show is where I get to, like, it's like a theatrical show, but it's like coming into my kitchen.

You know, she always takes her place in the kitchen, that auntie, and starts talking about everybody else's food and stuff. So that's the way the show hopefully feels, like you've come into my party at the time where it was down now to the real people and not just the people you have to be fake with. Who helped you on the come up? Everybody. Everybody.

Everybody. You know, that first night I went to the comedy store. Well, the first night I went to do stand-up, it was because Tom Dreesen had just started an open mic night. We'd never had one in Chicago. And he had just started open mic night after he broke up with Tim Reed. And they had a Tim and Tom comedy team. And so that's when I met a bunch of people who helped me along in my career.

Brad Sanders, who used to do the It's Your World, It's Your World radio show. And he's done a lot of movies in the Hollywood Shuffle and stuff. And Tom Dreesen and a whole bunch of other people helped me along. And I stayed in Chicago for a couple of years. And then the first night I got to the comedy store, the first person I met was John Witherspoon. He was at the door. He played tennis back then, so he had on tennis shorts

and had a sweater tied around his neck like a preppy dude. He started talking. I'm like, you're not from here. He said, no, I'm from Detroit. I'm from Chicago. He said, I'll introduce you to people. As they came in. And one of the people he introduced me to was Paul Mooney.

And he said, this is Paul Mooney. I said, hey, Paul. He said, Mr. Paul Mooney. And I said, yes, sir. And so then we hung out and started talking. That's where I learned how to drink cognac. I was young. I'm 22. I'm still in the stage

where I'm drinking fruity umbrella drinks or I'm trying to drink like grown people. I don't know. For a while, I was drinking scotch and milk. Yeah. You used to be tearing them club bathrooms up. It was nasty.

He was drinking this this drinking back then they used to light your your cognac first and so do you know burn and warm it up and they learned that you were burning all the alcohol off and so stop doing that it always came with a flourish you know and I was, like, intrigued. And he was drinking out of the snifter. And what is that? He said, this is the stuff Massa wouldn't let us have. So if it's free, always get the cognac. So I started drinking cognac.

And from that point on, he got us all on the richard pryor show um where we all got our union cards and everything and then as time went on he would help people get gigs whenever he was in you know he would recommend me and then when i got my talk show i hired him hired him as the head writer. And so we went back and forth collaborating. And that's one thing I just want to say. We talk about how we don't stick together. And I don't know where that comes from. It's like some people will come in here with everybody in their family, a whole posse full of people following behind them.

We don't stick together. We don't stick together i'm like who are they and they help him i signed him to my label i got a deal and i signed that girl over there and it's we all stand on each other's shoulders and we all stand side to side and people have always helped and open doors and Did you go and check out this source? They got a gig over there. It's not right for me, but that might work for you. And that kind of networking and everything is what made that kind of progress

I was talking about earlier happen. So we do stick together, and we have to change the narrative. It's not like you change the facts. But when other people tell your story and then you internalize it, now you're saying things that ain't true while you're living your own truth. So we have to start telling those truths and we stick together real good. And I've never had any situation. When I came back, Wanda Sykes and Kim Whitley and Adele Givens and so many others helped me in all kinds of ways, gave me gigs and just helped me out. I am passionate about how dependent we are on each other and how we come through for each other. So we need to change those narratives.

They're just lies. No, you're right. It's just for us not to forget when we get in those positions because it feels like y'all had a bunch of unwritten contracts. Like, when I get here, I'm going to look out for you. When you're here, you look out for me. Well, you know, you're kind of forced into that. At the comedy store, like I said, everybody's waiting for a spot trying to get on.

And you're all together talking, sharing, you know, as a group. And so you're kind of forced into it. But then you're looking at people like i said who are making those demands who are making changes who are who are opening doors unions that were closed and if you weren't related to somebody you didn't get in certain unions well they said no that doesn't work and let's let's open these things up and they fought for these opportunities that we, you know, washed into. So, and I think that's been tradition all along, but we don't,

we've never had the opportunity to tell those stories and now we do and we can tell them from a different perspective. You don't change the facts, but you change the perspective. You know, something can happen if we all watch an accident happen. We all saw something different from wherever we were. And if we're only hearing the side of the driver or the victim or the whatever, you get a distorted view. And when we start telling those truths,

then people start thinking in a different way and maybe have a different understanding of what went on yeah i think people like the more so focused on who didn't help them and who didn't like okay well they could have opened the door but it's a whole list of people who have yeah you know and like you said your family you got to focus on like how you got here instead of where you wanted to get because this person didn't put you there. So that speaks to everything that especially the world of comedy now that we're in and all the trajectory and everything. But I loved meeting you.

And I know you got to go. One last question. Is there anything on your bucket list career like that you for your career that you want to do that you haven't done yet i'm a my uh one woman show the book of marcia i want to do uh as a as a one woman show and have that be a special yeah i'm working to make that happen in the future and then from there i'm like i'm just grateful for every opportunity i've been blessed more than I have always appreciated. You know, when you're in the struggle and trying to make it, you think nothing's happening.

But when you look back on it, it's like, dang, I was doing a lot. And so I just want to keep on growing. You know, I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to grow old badassedly and just kick it, you know, I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to grow old badassedly and just, you know, kick the door in and keep on living until can't live no more. That's right. Ms. Warfield, it was a pleasure. We could sit here and talk to you for hours.

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