The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Nate Jackson Talks Kevin Hart Roast, Comedy Critics, Dave Chappelle, Comedy Show At Brooklyn Improv

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

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A lot of money. What are you looking at this, making you talk like that? You're getting some money, man. I hear your name everywhere. Amazing. Amazing rooms. I don't like that. That's not how I like to get my money. I don't like to get my money loud. I like to be quiet. Let me take some shit off. I'm not. Nah, fuck that. They got watching Julian. Yeah. No, don't you worry about that. That ain't the swatting, Pete, man.

Don't take the jury off, man. This is a write-off internal revenue service. I'm not getting no, man. Let me rephrase. Man, Nate, you out here making move, man. Yeah, there you go. How are you, though, man? Man, things are good.

And I'm, like, really good. Like, really good. Like, I'm really good. I've had people tell me, like, I'd be all shows complaining and stuff. And that was where I was at. I'm like, I'm not complaining. This is my truth.

Right now, I am one of the, I've got to be the happiest comic in, on earth right now as we speak. Why? Why? Just too many, like, too many, like, storylines. Too much, too many, too many, too many storylines are all just like coming together and making sense. Like, you saw that interaction right there. Byron Allen. Yeah.

Yeah. Byron Allen's like, oh man, you're so, you're so fun. I'm like, what? Yeah, he did. Yeah. I mean, but like the week of Netflix is a joke, like a lot of stuff came to its own culmination. Like, probably like 19 different things that were just like, I wonder what. I think I want, like all the answers.

I'm so happy. So Brooklyn Improv, I've never been big on New York because I don't, like, it's so many people here. And I think that's an acquired taste. But it's a lot of people here, man. Absolutely. You're always like, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You know what I mean? They don't say excuse me, excuse me.

No, they stand on you like it's an international trip. I'm like, y'all don't see me? And they don't. There's too many people. But I'm starting to like, I kind of get like I get it. Like I went and checked out the cellar and all this. I'm not just doing book and improv for one week. I have two back-to-back weekend.

Oh, wow. And so we've already sold out seven shows was last weekend. And then we're going into the next weekend with, I think it might already be a rap. But I've been having fun out there. It's a nice club. I love it. And so, I mean, even that, like, the opportunity to not headline one weekend, but to just lock in, that's different. Yeah.

Yeah. Embracing all that. You know what I mean? And I went from, you know, hardworking West Coast comic to, like, finding some success and traction on the Internet to basically theaters, which is, you got one, you do one night and then you go. You don't get to eat nothing, meet nobody, see the city, or not. So for me to be like, I'm about to be in Brooklyn for 50. days. When I get home, I'm going to have an accent. We're eating everywhere, checking out everything,

seeing stuff, so you really get, like, you just get exposed to more culture and stuff. So I'm in a very happy, very happy place. What's your motivation? Is it just to be better than Gary Owen at everything? Wow. I love it because I, on the way over was like, I wonder how long before he brings up Gary. Four minutes, four minutes. I don't even think that.

No, I'm not motivated by being better than the next person. Gary had a beautiful wedding. I thought you were going to be there. out in Texas. He doesn't like him. He thought he was going to be there. He's not his real friend. Charleney's not Gary's real friend. I think that might be like the angle.

Yeah. To just like be cool but not too close. You were there? I win. I had a ball. But you wouldn't know because they're real friends. They're running around you in pictures. So I went out.

No, but he had a beautiful wedding. Bree looked amazing. The whole family was there and all that. So that's dope. I'm proud of Gary. He's doing great. That's amazing. That's going to be.

That's it. What photo did you take that you were edited out of? Or which one did they not post of you that you were looking forward to? I was at the wedding. Oh, okay. You were up for real? We didn't see no pictures. He was there.

He was there. He was in the cast. We didn't see no pictures of you. Keep looking. And they cut people off each side. Damn. Damn. It doesn't matter, though.

I didn't go for. To be seen. No, I went to just be like, all right, Gary's in love. I feel like there's like the game. And then there's like, this is our personal life. And so I went, I was a part of that. I was like, that's what this is going to be. True. The fact that People Magazine was snapping pictures was an afterthought until that starts

scene. I was like, oh, yeah, the cast really is here. Yeah. Because when he told us about it, I thought he was joking. Like, he was really going to have the cast of think like a man as his groomsman. It was the hottest wedding I've ever been to in my life, though. What do you mean hot? They turned the air off. Oh, wow. Gary was literally like dripping wet. They were like trying to keep him dry. And it was, it was sweltering. Lou Neal was like, man, God. Damn. It was so hot.

It was so hot. I was like, Gary, I said, you guys going to hell for your honeymoon? Why is it so hot? Where was it again? Texas, we were in Dallas. So why would they turn the air on? Got me?

I'll be honest with you. I don't give a damn about this wedding. I wasn't invited to it. I wasn't invited to it. It was super viral. He invited you when he came up here. Yes, he invited you when he came up here to do the interview when he talked about it. That wasn't a real invite.

No. That was like, I got to tell you about the wedding, I invite you. Like a real invite. comes with an invitation, crazy. Oh, yeah, well, he didn't give him an invitation, but he did tell, he did tell Charlemagne, he wanted him there. I bet Nate got an invitation.

Anyway, back to comedians with Netflix specials. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. You feel like Hollywood is kind of co-signing you now? Because you came up without any co-sides from Hollywood. Do you feel like they're buying it now? It doesn't matter? More than one thing can be true at once.

Yes. Like, there can be a part of Hollywood that is rocking with me. That's like, oh, I get it. and he translates and there can be a part that's like we just don't and then at the same time it's like who doesn't and who does may be so late it's like we already are going direct

so I think and that's the next level of whatever is when somebody connects all the dots and goes let's harness all of this that he built on his own and put that into this right like if I got 7 million 8 million followers world like on all my stuff

and if they all go watch whatever movie I'm in you just had a hell of an opening weekend and just off me and I don't even got to be the main character. So when they connect those dots, I think that that's the thing. You know what I mean?

I have some stuff coming out where it's going to put a lot of perspective. Like I did Bad Monkey season two and I was supposed to only get two episodes and ended up getting 10. And I'm legit and seems almost the entire season with John Malcovic. We're like friends now.

And I had to, I had to, that's Malcovich. I'm across a coffee table from them, I'm having to hold my own. But when that comes out, it's going to be fantastic. We're picking me like,

oh, he got chops. And so again, this past week of Netflix is a joke. Like, I used to be in L.A. going to stuff and my name ain't on the list. I'm like, I'm like, Jess, Jess. Hey, yo, I don't know them right now, son. Shut up. I'm never done that scene. No, you're good.

But that's, you know how that is. Now I was like, I'm good at you. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay, finally. Because I was there at the roast on the red card. People calling your name, they know you, they see you. People love Nate Jackson.

And that's, I hadn't seen that love before. Yeah. And I don't know what changed. I don't know if it's... What turned? What changed? God me, I think they're just like, we ain't stopping him. So...

I think consistency. Right. You think so? Yeah. And like, Shalemae said when you came in, like, your name is not only everywhere, but people are seeing you everywhere now. You know what I mean? And I can only be where I'm at.

And don't nobody tell you where they saw you. Don't nobody tell you where they saw you. You know what I don't know what happens to the room when I walked in? I just walked in it. You know what? And how was the rose? How was the rose? I thought the rose.

I had a ball. man. Anything uncomfortable? Because, you know, everybody, of course, off the moment. No, I'm a comic first. Like, you had to separate your sensibility.

Like, don't be sensitive at all. You already know going to a rose. Someone's going to, it is someone's responsibility to be wild as hell. Yeah. If not everybody on the day is, like everyone should be going nuts. Like, if you look at the history of roast

and some of the stuff that was saying, look up what Richard Pryor said about Paul Mooney at his birthday roast. But you know the difference between that? What? But you know the difference? It was close. It was actual friends.

Like, like, I'll give you that. Yeah, whatever you say amongst friends is one thing, but I think that when you bring in, like, the George Floyd's of it all. No, so I was saying outside, I literally was like, you know what? Tony Hitches had the best roast out of everybody.

He had five times more jokes than anyone. He had way more laughs per minute. He was on fire. He was killing everybody in the crowd, not just like one side was laughing. You could see it was not bipartisan. And then when he got up, he just started, you saw him win by the third or four.

They're like, oh, he's on fire. His last joke, I turned to Dionne Cole and was like, man, he ain't had to do that, man. He hated until that. Because my thing, to me personally, I'll write whatever. Like, my pen is strong enough to be like, let's do it. But I only want to talk about people who are there alive that are, you know what I'm saying? And I get that.

It was so relevant that it's in the zeitgeist. Like it's a part of the culture. Like the George Floyd thing should have shaken the world. You know what I get it. But I don't. Like just to whip it into the back half of a metaphor To just say that you're funny I was like, ooh, that was unnecessary

Yeah But I just thought I was like I said, what's it, Stephen Jackson? Yeah I said, yeah, you're going to see him I said that I was like, yeah, you ain't gonna take that joke very like And Jeff told me Matt Barnes was that So imagine if Stephen was in that crowd

But that's what I'm saying, imagine if somebody that loves George Floyd on that level is in that crowd You're free to say the joke But boy, you got to deal with the consequences Oh, you got freedom of speech That's right But people got freedom of a bit, bing, pink, pink, pink, pink, Bink, you know what you want.

Say what you want, but she'll be binking. Jail don't scare everybody. No. You know what I'm saying? I'll be like, I go right back. That's the person who's going to do it. And some people do their jail math. They're like, okay, how much is this going to cost me?

Right, exactly. How much time I'm going to do for this? It's worth it. What's a body shot going on me? What's a chin shot going to? Yeah. That's why the highlight of the night for me was Cheryl Cat.

And it was Tony until he said the joke. I said that here, I was like, yo, he was going, going, wasn't coming up in the head. He was like, yo, it was crazy. But his ending was wild, and it just made me like, it made everybody cringe, you know, for the most part. It was like a sailboat

with hell of wind. And then that last one was like, oh, they ain't going to make the sure. Damn. Like, he had. And then Naim Lynn had an amazing saying. Yeah, Naim. It was funny. And he kind of set the tone because he was much, he was early on. Yeah. And he was on fire. And then, like, but Cheryl, again, everyone watching was like,

Crazy. She was, she was, you got to like exhale like finally, somebody, yeah, because Kevin was laughing. And Cheryl was like,

he was like, what's like at this mic? I don't feel like nothing beats black deaf comedy jam era energy. If you come from that era where you was in the deaf comedy jam like the cats, the Cheryl's,

if you come from that style of comedy, that's top tip to me. Period. I actually, I, so because we haven't had a show like that in like 20 years, I put my own bread up

and shot a show called the Super Funny Comedy Jam at my club. We got 54 comics. Like, I mean, we're in post right now. Wow. And so we're going to put that out. I spent... All up and come in? Or? No. I mean, I can run names. I don't mind that at all. Tony Roberts got a standing ovation.

Chris C.P. Powell got a standing ovation. Tony Baker's on that thing. Then there's a bunch of new faces that are like, what? Reg Thomas that just came down the line on Kevin Hart's Funny AF, Justin E. Kelly Kales, Hashima Franklin. Who else was there?

I'm telling you, we had 54 comments. Black Ron. We had voices from all over America. I flew everybody up to Tacoma, and we shot it with the same team that shot my Netflix special. So it looks amazing, sounds amazing. It's funny.

It's fast moving. I showed a couple people like, this looks like TV. I'm like, what did you think we were doing? Yeah. So that's going to come out soon. What are some of the other women that you thought would have killed?

at the Rose, not just Cheryl, because we just had Cheryl, to be honest. And Tiffany was sitting up there, Tiffany ain't come out swinging, you know what I mean? She ain't say enough and she ain't get a chance to go up there and Rose. But just up there to go after the follow the Tony Radclips and the Jays and the, you know, Shane Gillis is, yeah.

I mean, my bad, what I call him? Ratcliffe? Yeah, my bad. Like Danny Ratcliffe? No, I understand the mix up. But I'm saying like what I said out there that I'll say again, and I want to make sure I don't miss my words because I, I am, like, I love what Cheryl did.

Yeah. Fan of Cheryl. For sure. I want to put a pen in that. Cheryl's awesome. Bam, got that. In that spot, though, who else could have probably hit a home run, in my opinion? I think some more would have hit that.

You know what I mean? At least a triple. Yep. You know what I'm saying? Adele Givens. Yep. Miss Laura. Leslie Jones would have ate in that spot.

Coco Brown would have flipped the entire building on its back. you would have cooked in that spot. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Chef it. Yeah. And the little chocolate, you had a little, you had a, did you see what she wore? Oh, I did on the carpet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She had like some little, what were them shoes? They were, oh my God. What were gold on the end? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were nice. The ones from leprecha. You know what? You didn't say that to my face. Wow.

I said I looked really nice, Nate. You looked amazing. Thank you. That was dope. Jeffrey Campbell. Those are Jeffrey Campbell's. Okay. But yeah, no, I'm totally with you with Adele and Leslie.

Like, yeah, absolutely. But I think that they would have rocked that spot. I think, yeah, I think so. I think, sure would be phenomenal. But I wouldn't even just say, like, oh, it needed to be a female either. Like, I would have liked to see, like, something, like, Quake would have went crazy right there. Yeah, he was there. It was just in the audience.

Yeah. I mean, we were all just there. That was our Super Bowl. I don't know. Be honest with you. So, I thought it was fun, but I think people just have to separate, like, jokes from like true sentiment you know what I mean I love that that was our Super Bowl yeah it was it was nice so who's the next one you did good too though I'm sorry the next person then did that with a rock

yeah who would you love to see get roasted decks um okay so I think I think the concept based on what I'm looking at is they're trying to get goats of different industries concept is dope yeah but to be that big right it was Tom Brady then it's this I was saying uh LeBron when he retires would be crazy Tiger Woods wow I don't think Tybalt. He's not going to be able to come back. Tiger ain't. I think Shaquille O'Neal would be wild.

Shack could be good because Shaq could take the boys. You can't act like he's not one of the greatest players ever. But LeBron, wow. That would be good. Yeah. But there's something, like, Tiger Woods would be, because he keeps getting in trouble. But I bet he'd be like, don't talk about the accidents. Yeah, yeah.

Michael Phelts, I don't know. If you don't want to talk about the accidents, you can't have in it. Yeah, man. You got to be able to talk about everything. You got to be dope. Ron will be dope, Shaq would be dope. Mm-hmm. May I-R-R-Jeter.

Jeter would be dope. What's something you think young comedians, you know, that chase the internet, chase the bar out clips, don't understand about actually becoming great on stage? There's no, you can't skip any of this. Like, at the end of the day, you're like, oh, you're killing it online, but go do this five, or go do your 10, or, all right, bet,

let me see your hour. There's only a few people who are translating across from that. And there's people that have success, but I think like, you know, that's a lot of eyes on you. You go out, people buy tickets, and then they see what's up. And then I think that we see the truth the second time somebody goes out. Because it's like, all, do they feel like you baffled them first time out? Did you just get them all mystified by the, oh, I love this clip and I love that clip, so I'm going to buy a ticket.

All right, well, when you go out that second time, did the city come back more of them? That's like, all right, well, now you're bona fide with time. Like when D.C. was going on, D. D.C. is on his ninth lap of him. You know what I'm saying? Like that's a bona fide. Desi's still out or... Hey, I'm Tori Webster and I host That Digital Take.

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I'm rocking with it. And he's funny. We might do something together. After we messed around to the laugh factory, we were seeing, like, I went to my team and was like, I'd entertain that for sure. He was already like, nice, let's go.

Yeah. Like a little, like a young what, Turner Tower, that's who he'd give me all the time, turns Howard. He reminds me of a young D-Ray. Chicago, light skin, different color eyes. Yeah. Different color eyes, light skin.

He's not about his comedy. It's stupid. D-Rae's got it. D-Rae's goaded. So, D-R-R-R-A-R-D. That's a hell of a compliment. But I also believe, like, the stage

gives you a different level of validation, too. 100%. You know, like, social media makes everybody think they're funny, but to me, a real comedian knows how to get up on that stage and make everybody laugh. And to me, that's what takes you

to that next, next level. 100%. You can't say, cut, hey, let's do that again. It is linear. I want you take to say, whatever you said, ain't no go-backs. That's right.

You don't get to. to say a joke, damn, all right, hold on, let me let me run that one more time. The crowd, like, what, what, boo! That's what that's what that's that's what that is. Or crickets. No, so that's what that, the truth is that, right? Like, you know, isn't Broadway more authentic than

what we watch on plays are more authentic, live plays or yeah, it's all in one direction. And the true talent is, like, I can't believe we capture it, right? There's no second take. There's no run that back. That's why I'll never stop doing stand-up because it's the true litmus test of like, do you still have your

funny are you still sharp you ever got to that place where you did a show and it was like it didn't hit today have you been there no but I have done shows where I'm like they just made me work yeah I'm like by now I would have had a certain amount of laughs I'm like to get the same amount I'm like I am sweating

under this hat like my hair line is damaged under here what market is the toughest market toughest market yeah if there is one for you New York has always been known to be a beast really everybody always says that in New York Yeah, people say that. I found like, I found, like, D.C. is also a good one to, like, really, like, see where you're at. Hollywood is tough, too, because everybody in the crowd think they're a star, too.

But they don't want to laugh. Everybody's too cool. Yeah, you're trying to be cool. You best to just talk about that. Just cook somebody. Oh, Mr. Cool right here. Like, that's how you're standing up. You know what I'm saying?

But, like, this is the thing that's changed. like with the internet like being full circle to your question like once you have the internet you actually have a following the people coming to see you you're not talking to general you're talking to your fans that like they're ready like you have uh you have a um a grace period to work it out and float like they they love you already yeah hardest show is go do a show where there's nine comics doing 10 minutes and you you see what I'm saying like Netflix is a joke big old showcase like I thought the Shack and Bert show was challenging because it was a completely sold out show but it was my

sold out. I've been sold out five years. It beat my people. That wasn't my people. That was like a rule. I had to earn again. I'm like, okay. You know I mean? My first 10 minutes, every set here in Brooklyn they're like, all right, what do you got? You know what I'm saying? And then 90 minutes later they're like, he has it.

Because you know it's a following now because I remember when I used to go to Carolines a lot, you really didn't know who was there right? Right. You looked on the post and be like so and so, so and so, like you didn't know who they were and then you had to catch. But now it's more I can follow you and be like, oh, my favorite comedian is going to be in town, I'm a little checker, so it's a lot different. But what changed for common, I feel like

maybe about four or five years ago it was very sensitive in the comedy world, right? People were scared to say certain things. People were very, put your phones away. You always want to know about cancel culture. But I feel like it opened back up now. I feel like it opened back up where it's... Yeah.

I don't know if it's open all the way, but I do know that that roast was most definitely needed. Like, because now people really are just got to understand if you don't want to be rub, just don't watch it then. Literally, that's what I said. was sitting in that room, Nate, by the end, when Meek Mill was up there performing,

I was singing a song, but I was like, yo, I don't know how I was ever canceled. Ever. Yeah, you said that somewhere, too. You're like, yeah, after watching that,

I don't know how I was canceled. Yeah, no, I'm saying that ever since the rose. I really do think, being canceled, you have to accept that and be like, I'm canceled.

You have to move like you got canceled. You don't forget Shane Gillis, that's what he did. Remember Shane Gillis? Yeah. Got the SNL gig. They went back to his old podcast, heard some slurs he said cancel them he went back to the grind so he don't give a fuck Shane

Shane could fall off tomorrow and still be good because you got a huge core fan base that's gonna keep him rich it's nothing they can do nothing they can do and that's what I'm saying but let's say he behaved like he was canceled let's say he was like man nobody wants my stuff and he shut down he didn't right like yeah that's right canceled it like you got you we don't like you and then so you stop recording songs you don't rap no more you don't She don't know jokes. She don't do no shows. That's canceled.

Like you have to accept the case. If you go, look, I'm going to still do my shows. It is what it is. Yeah. You may have just knocked me down from 20,000 Cedars to 10,000 Ciders, but, like, I'm funny. And I got a chance to say my side, two sides of every story. And there's so many other outlets. Louis C.K. was rocking all week at Netflix's.

It was so many people that are supposedly, it's a rap for them, having great shows. Yeah, because the conversation around him was so big. But, like, also, these people. are white as fuck, too. Let's just like be all the way of hunting with it. Like, you're really, their cancellation goes to a certain point, you feel me? Like, nobody's

taking shit from them. Like, for real. But I think what Nate is saying is true. A lot of black people act like they're canceled. These people, like, I can name so. I don't want to take no names. I will. We still listen to R. Kelly. No, I'm talking about media. I can name some black community.

We mean. Like, radio doesn't play R. Kelly like they used to and he has amazing records. But I'm just keeping it. go to get some, you're like, man, that 12 play be gone on. I can name some black comedians right now who supposedly got canceled.

What they name rhyme with? They said, suck my dick, fuck y'all, okay? I'm going to do it. I ain't, I don't want to say that. You make everybody else say names. Right, exactly. And he usually say everybody else's name. I will say this, though. Okay, who were they around? So I'm, so I am. Do you think podcasts have

helped comedy? Yeah. Because they help you keep from being canceled. You can Keep your podcast going so you got your audience. You can stay on your stage. You can still keep doing your sketches and everything else that you're doing online. You can't act like you canceled, like you said. Yes.

But also... Eventually, we notice a dick riding business. So once you keep growing that audience, they'll be right back on your shit. That's a different. I'm a bit of the business, y'all right? Wait a minute. I'm not right.

No, dicks, what are you talking about? By the way, this is a perfect example. Of doing what? A power. When you got hot, because you started doing everything on your own, what happened? Everybody started writing. Hey, Nate, hey, Nate. You want to be in this show?

You want to be in that show? Blah, blah, blah. So that's what you're calling, dick riding? It's a dick riding business. It is. Okay. I just think people gravitate towards heat, like moths to a flame. Dix's a warm.

Oh, great. Dick's a warm. So, what you know what I'm saying? Once you create your own heat, I know. I don't know all the dicks are warm. Once you create your own heat, the moths will be attracted to the flame. Right. Now, let's

stop saying the word dick. But I think that and that's what I'm saying I saw all week long. Right? That was my first, like, being like, oh, I'm not gravitating to someone. There's actually people like around me.

That was what it was. Six sold-out shows at the Laugh Factory and it was packed. Like, Joe Koi popped in, and earthquake was just chilling. D.L. was, these are friends now. They're just chilling having cigars and talking like, they could go anywhere. They could be anywhere in the world, let alone,

we're going to be upstairs just chilling at nature. But they're, that, I don't know, I just felt like, like, welcome to the table, young man. Was that the biggest storyline for you that came together to welcome to the table feeling or like? For me? Yeah, that week. For me?

Because it's been 24 years of grinding and be like, y'all don't see me? Right. Yeah. How hard I got to go on stage? How sweaty do I got to be? How hard are I got to rock? How many shows I got to do?

How big do they got to be before? And then something just happened. And now I am so... There's literally nothing to complain about. I'm good with everybody. I don't have beef with nobody. I don't have... You know what I'm saying?

Whatever I did to move the needle, I already didn't took that energy. And now we're about to put 54 comics out that with Netflix-style looks. I got a TV show about to... Like, I'm happy. I'm up for some stuff right now that if I get...

You can forget about it. If it happens, I'm telling you I'm happy. My mama good, my nieces, everybody good. When you get. Not if you get. You better talk like you already got it. It's been ready to say it. I can feel it on you.

I shook my head like I got a picture. I got a picture. I'm shaking you that long. Oh, shut. You had to shake your head down. You got to shake your head down. That's the door move. She's looking that face down.

How do you tell the difference between genuine love and people who just want access to you now. Other people be like, we don't like him, well, we don't like her. Okay. Because my default is like, what's up? I'm not going to change who. I have to, I have to be me.

So you need that, you need that, you need your grim Reaper on your team. That's like, ah, nah, we see you from a mile away. To be honest with you, that's the other thing. Like, you can see it from a mile away. It's the same character. This is just a different person playing it. You know what I mean?

Like, how many times are somebody going to try to be Mr. Ha ha, ha, ha. and the hand is out next, right? Like, you start to see it after person six, especially women are easy to see, you know? It's really easy to see it. Some people, if they're, if they just can't for some reason, they're out of blind spot, their right-hand man,

or they partner or their sister, or somebody's like, I don't like her. I don't like it, you know what I mean? So it's not just, if you get close to me, you got to get, there's a whole rock of people that are like, who are you than what you want? Yeah, you got to get vetted. Do you smoke cigarette?

Uh, sometimes. I usually just hold them and then, uh, and I'll put them out, but I don't really smoke them all the time. Somebody told me that they were concerned about you smoking cigarettes. Who? They said you a chain smoker. That sounds made up. Yeah. That sounds made out why because he used the word.

They say you smoke more than Dave. And I was like, nah, I ain't never, because I've never seen Nate smoke. I'm not like I'm around him a lot, but I smoke. I smoke. If he smoked like Dave, I'd see him smoke. I smoke, but I don't think anybody smokes like Dave. And I've never seen nobody with a cigarette lit. name I'm holding another cigarette about to pull another one out the box.

You know, and holy moly, yeah, he smokes for real. I actually have some jokes about, like, that, because I had bought some cigarettes. The night that he did, he broke the record, he did six hours and, like, 38 minutes at the last factor I was there. And it was a long show, and he broke the world record at the time. And halfway through, he was like, I'm out of a cigarette.

And I had went to go get some, I smoked Newport's. And they didn't have any of the gas station. They only had American Spirit somethings. And Dave was literally like, who has an American Spirit? I was like, what? And I did the first time I had some. So I ran down and like, but he took like nine. Like he took a disrespectful amount of cigarettes.

And so, which I told him at this brush that I was at during the night. I'm telling you all these storylines came together. At that brush, I was like, hey, how many cigarettes can you take from? And they get once. Like, it was crazy. You don't pinch the whole front row off. Damn. The other cigarettes were like,

they all fell forward. I was like, this is so disrespectful. He was like, my bad. But like, at the end, I'm like, Dave, I'm Nate. And he was like, thank you very much, cigarette nigger. And then he walked off until the night. So I have a whole set called cigarette nigger that is like, all the times I've met him.

So I told him that, he was like, hilarious, you know. He knows your name now. We're good. So he did a promo where, did you see his announcement for Netflix as a joke? No. So he's sitting on, like, I don't know, I think he's on the Getty, way up above the city. All the city lights are out there,

and he's just sitting there lighting a cigarette, and Morgan Freeman is voicing it. And he's just like, Netflix, he is a joke, he's coming back to Hollywood. Something's missing. Dave, that Dave, my friend Dave. Now we got a ballgame. And then he smokes a cigarette.

But it was like epic. I went to the highest point I could find in Tacoma, Washington. We shot, put it in some AI, Trenton, my man. We locked it in and we got AI Morgan Freeman. He's like, Nate, Nate Jackson. I don't know this, nigga, but he gonna be there too. Nate got six shows.

So when I saw Dave, he was like, nigger, that promo, and that's when we just hit it off. And then I started talking about, I was like, you know, do you remember when you did that a cigarette, nigga, blah, blah, blah. Like, he was like, you're good with me. He said he's gonna come to my club. He's like, we should swap.

I'm like, I will move to Yellow Springs. Just so you'll go to Tacoma. Like that's that's massive Like if Dave Chappelle Go to my club And to come What? Yes

What What? That's going to happen It's a A club It's I got 280 It's beautiful But that kind of booking People hear about that

Across, You know what I mean? Like there's a I would argue There's a pretty good chunk Of the industry That's like what's Dave doing? Like where's his motion

Right And that's kind of like Oh well let's do that Or don't do that You know what I mean So if he's like Yeah I'll go do it Which he said

And he said it three times I'm like All three things of them one of them was real so he coming we'll see when do you I think I asked you to sort of kind of early but I want to ask you clear do you think the internet finally made gatekeepers

irrelevant for comedian? No because you can't call a venue you can't route yourself you can't go by like oh here's my 40 tour that you still need an agency you still need I mean I don't think I think it may have gotten rid of the manager

if you're willing to answer the phone or figure that scenario out I think you can get by with a strong assistant at this point but unless you have a thorough manager where you're like you get it let's build something serious but you like you know if you go hey I want to do Chicago Indianapolis I want to do Miami like they aren't even taking you serious when you call like who is this you don't got motion like that but CIA calls on your behalf and it's like oh yeah let's discuss routing because it's not just you it's their cumulative strength by having 50 comics to go through so now you're just yeah you're part of the wrong

roster. That roster is the strength. You know what I mean? So, but as far as a gatekeeper in like regards to getting exposure, yeah. Like you don't need to send set after set after set to whoever is the gatekeeper for the tonight show anymore.

It's like, look at this like, however many people are watching that, I promise I've dwarfed that this month in views. You know what I mean? Whilst I would still love to do it, but it's like, it's not like you are or you are not. And that's how it was.

If you didn't get Carson, you don't exist. Like, you're a comic? Where? But now you go to my page. People go, they see a blue check. Oh, you legit. The check or the numbers or whatever it is that makes people go, oh, there's legitimacy here. That doesn't rely on somebody who's watching a thousand tapes a day anymore.

So yes, but to a certain ladder rung before it's like, I need some help to route this. How do you test new material out? In between old material. Yeah. But I'm saying, though, like... No, that's literally like an Oreo. Okay. And the new jokes is the cream.

Okay. I'm not... Because if you do a new joke and it don't go over well, you'll spend the rest of your set trying to get them back. If you already have them, then you try your joke. And it goes well, cool. But if it doesn't, you already know what you're going to after that. Now it's not a dig.

Yeah. But see, it's the thing. You are household name now. Like, people know you wherever. So where would you go out? Or do you not care if somebody got their phone out? trying some new shit that you ain't really perfected yet you know what i mean like how do you i don't care i don't even understand why we're bagging phones all over the country i don't i don't

understand i don't understand it uh i don't care okay um here's how i see it uh i'm going to be able to post the video and way more people going to see it than you are off your iphone and i'm working with companies that make sure my name and likeness isn't out there outside of my own page just pull it copyright strike it whatever yeah um you know i mean yeah when you do you do you Did you just special, you didn't take phones either? Mm-mm. Yeah. That didn't need to.

Really, I'm encouraging it. Really? Why not? Because they mark it for them. What? Yeah. I got one. But we're going to make one post.

They're going to make, if there's 200 of them, it's 200 posts now. That doesn't interrupt what you're doing when you got phones in there? No, but I will be like, turn them glasses off because I see them, you know, they try to watch an entire show with the glasses on. Yeah, that's the new show one time. Or somebody was like. Wasn't it Kevin? It was Kevin Hart?

Right. He took it from you. Yeah. Yeah. I got her kick me out of the show with her. It took the phone and everything? He didn't take the phone. He had the metal glasses on.

You can see him beeping. It was not no metal glass. It was not the meta glass. That wasn't even taping. I got six kids. So I keep my phone on. Yeah. The wife called.

I go like this. Pick me up. And they kept seeing me. Kept up. Damn. It said bye. Right on the way. He said by right on the mic.

He said by on the bike. Yeah. The next day. The kid and I said, he said, if everybody know you by man. And they kick you out, they know it's serious. Yeah. Yeah.

I think if I was, I think if I'm like, all right, I'm rounding, I'm rounding third base on the material that's going to be in my next special, I may then get protective to be like, nah, because y'all leak something. Like, then I could understand that. But right now where I'm like, I'm throwing everything at the wall and just keeping with sticks and then throwing the sticky stuff and seeing what's even stickier. And then throwing the stickiest and then be like, what's all that stuff?

That's what I'm, doing right now. I'm having fun on stage. It literally I'm enjoying I'm enjoying myself. So that's where we're at. You want to film that? Have at it. But if they film a lot I'm like fam the camera. I know. I noticed you 10 minutes ago and you're still rolling. Or some people they pull it up and they're like right on you. Right. And like you don't see the light on your phone right now and they don't even be knowing. Oh my bad my bad my bad and then two minutes later the light back on. I'm fam. I think they're They know you do a lot of crowd work, so they want to be a part of the show.

I'm with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'll tell them, like, we got six cameras or whatever. Like, we got coverage. You know what I mean? Thank you. We don't need your little. Not a joke.

Well, come film Nate Jackson at the Brooklyn Improv. This weekend and New York City will be. Six shows. If it's not so bad already. Charge your battery and come film everything. We appreciate you for joining us, Nate. Really do, man. Nate Jackson, he's going to be at the Brooklyn Improv again.

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