The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF - BEST MOMENTS - Ms. Pat, Rickey Smiley, Damon Wayans Jr. + More

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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Yo, Charlamagne. Envy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now and he'll tell you what it is. We live?

Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. This is James calling from North Carolina. James from North Carolina. Get it off your chest, brother. Uh, yeah, I wanted to ask y'all, did y'all check out that Jamie Foxx special on Netflix yet? No, not yet. Yeah, I meant to watch it last night, but I fell asleep. I'm gonna watch it this week Oh, man, it's awesome. It's awesome. He takes you on a journey. It's more than just a stand-up Comedy show he gives him so a performance like a singing and he takes you to church He he gonna cry a little something.

I mean, it's off the chain. I keep hearing, I can't wait to see it. Everybody keep saying that. He already got nominated for a Golden Glove, so. Yeah, I can't wait to see it. Yeah, it's good. Oh, yeah, and Charlamagne, I wanted to ask you, now that 20th Century Fox is with Disney,

do you think we might get that DC versus Marvel clash? I don't know, I need Marvel to get they act together before that. I'm not even, to be honest with you, I'm not even interested in that right now because Marvel has been sucking so bad. Oh well, they might pick it up. I mean Deadpool and Wolverine was great but before that, what have we gotten good from Marvel? Last thing I remember was the vendors in Jameson. Exactly, God damn. Yes. I like

the I like Penguin on DC though. I like DC villain stuff. I never used to like DC but I like I like when they be in a villain bag. Oh yeah yeah they be rocking that. Yeah the first Joker. Thank you. The two Harley Quinn movies. The Penguin series. Fantastic. Hello who's this? Hey, what's up, man? This is Jeremiah. What's up, Jeremiah? Get it off your chest, brother.

Hey, man. Look, me and my wife, we were virgins before we got married. And I just want to get off my chest that there are a lot of men out here practicing asinine celibacy, you know, and men just not out here just being whole is like the expectation of this world It can ask you a question brother. I'm not mad at you because this is the segment of the show But why did you wake up this morning with this on your chest?

May feels good. It's good. He waited until marriage. Well, I Don't mean it since 2017 oh you admit, you know Yeah, so, you know, this is like an everyday thing like so if I have a different conversation with somebody, you admit it. Okay. You know, yeah. So, you know, this is like an everyday thing. Like, so if I have a different conversation with somebody, you know, I mean, someone like, Oh, well, I never heard of that before. But it's, you know, it's a lot of men that really need encouragement and women as well. So how was it? Was it worth the wait when you finally had sex? Yes, sir. It absolutely, uh,

ministry went out the window. Yes, sir. All right. Well, have a. Yes, sir. All right. Well, have a good one, Jeremiah. All right, thank y'all. Appreciate it. Peace. All right, brother. Hello, who's this?

Here with Benoit Envy. Hey, what's up, Trav? Man, chilling, chilling. Lauren or Jess, which one now? Both of us here, but I'm here right now. What's up? Oh, what's up, Jess? Because you got a problem.

You be trying to disappear when I call up now. No, I don't No, I don't Going on my mom star. What's going on my mom pieces? What's happening? I'm doing good. How you doing? Listen real quick I just want to talk about if I get in a new relationship, right? This ain't got nothing to do with nothing when I get in a new relationship My old man can't come beating up my new man. Yeah, my old can't get my new I mean that that's what happened to somebody

You should hope you got the kind of but people fight old If people ain't fighting over your butt your butt trash But listen my old my old man can't be beating up my new man. Now I can't beat him. I can't beat him. I can't beat the new man. I gotta protect him. Yeah, but you ain't with the new man because he can fight. You with him because he can fornicate.

I don't know. I need my new man to fight too. I need him to be able to not get punched out. I feel you. You messy, Trav. I ain't saying nothing. All right, y'all. Goodbye.

Goodbye, y'all. Hello, who's this? Hey, yes, sir. Oh damn Hey, how you doing, bro, I'm good brother. How you feeling? I'm cool. I'm cool I appreciate y'all big fan, but can I talk to you for a second? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah I'm I got a I want you to reach out to Swiss and Tim Barber's is for me I got a great idea for it and I just to Swizz and Tim Barvers for me. I got a great idea for it and I just need you to hear me out and if you like the idea, you give them my info

and have them hit me up and then I tell them what I told you. They can hear you. You're talking to 8 million people right now. I'm sure. Yeah, you say it right now, they can listen to you. God damn, all right. Nobody's still my idea. Versus needs to be just like the NFL NBA

where it's like a league and they need to divide it up into like Eastern Conference, Western Conference, etc. And then we go get all of the biggest artists from each city like New York, get like a 50 cent and he'll get all of the up and coming artists that want to, but it's going to be like a battle league, you know what I mean? And then we separated not just with artists, but athletes as well. So rappers, singers, dancers, boxers, and basketball players, one-on-one. We find the best in each city,

and then have them compete just like the NFL and NBA stuff. Do you know what I mean? That's how it needs to be. And then we monetize with ticket sales, have a platform where people subscribe to see the content, et cetera. That's how we're gonna make our money, but that's what versus needs to be.

It don't need to just be what they doing now. It needs to be like live battles, people showing up with brand new songs and seeing who the best is you will me? I like that. Yeah, I like the idea. I don't know if I like that for versus though I mean the thing we love about versus is the nostalgia the thing we love about versus is because they do give flowers to You know the OGs and the veterans right like that's what we that's what we like about versus. Yeah, we can do both though Ain't no reason we can't have them both Versus yeah, I get what you're saying. I do like that Yeah, like if y'all like I said just if you could put me on hold so I can give you my phone number and then you

Pass it on to them so I can explain that to them You're talking to 8 million people bro, not gonna hit me up though, like how can Swiss and Sam reach out to me though? Oh, we already stole that. There's it don't even matter. Hey, yo I'm just messing with you. Hold on. I'm gonna have Eddie to produce and get your email in case they want to reach out, bro Okay, what? All right. I mean at least we got the email they might want to reach out, bro. Wait, okay. What? Alright. I mean, at least we got the email. They might want to reach out. Swiss ain't no, Swiss and Tim ain't no suckers like that. They might want to say, you know what?

We did get that idea from him. Or maybe they thought about that idea already. Now it's gonna seem a little crazy. That's what you, you always say that when you want to steal somebody's idea. Yeah, I always do that. Hell yeah. We've been at that argument.

I already thought about that land shit, yeah. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Call us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.

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Hello, who's this? This is Randy. Randy from Virginia. Randy from 757. What's up, Randy? What's up with y'all? Good morning, Breakfast Club. Good morning, Charlamagne.

Peace. Good morning, Jess. Good morning, Envy. Good morning, boo. I'm so excited. I listen to y'all every morning. Oh, thank you. We morning, boo. I'm so excited. I listen to y'all every morning. Well, thank you. We appreciate you.

Thank you. Well, what I wanted to get off my chest today was, it's nothing bad. Nothing bad at all. Just, I want people to be mindful of the fact that it is flu season, the fact that it is the season for people to spread illnesses and infections. I'm a nurse here in Virginia, and I see a lot of preventable situations in our hospitals that could be prevented by people just washing their hands, keeping their kids home when they're sick,

just being mindful of the climate and what's going on. People take care of yourself so we can take care of each other. That's all I wanted to say. Well, Randy, just as the flu police here, she's the cold police. If you have a flu, if your hands are dirty. Well, Randy, just as the flu police here, she's the cold police. If you have already know if you have a flu, if your hands are dirty, she ain't even the flu and cold police. She just sneezing cough police like like people

don't be having allergies and cold and COVID. They are symptoms. So yes, absolutely. You got a brand new baby. You can't be playing out. She quarantining right now with the baby. Yes. Now, my my now ready, let me ask you a question. In your personal opinion, just asking your personal opinion, what is your thoughts on the flu shots? Because some people say take it, some people say don't. What's your personal opinion? Just curious.

Okay, it just totally depends on, a lot of times people don't believe in the flu shots because of religious preference. I will not touch that at all because if that's your religious preference, I totally understand. However for preventative Measures the flu shot is effective. So as a nurse I do advocate for the flu shot absolutely 100% Thank you, Randy. Thank you. Y'all have a good morning Hello, who's this? My name is Kim calling from Detroit. What up, doe? What's going on man? So when I want to get off my chest is a Bob dropped trucks and my first time in New York was yesterday. Okay. Why is this so dirty? Man?

That's a great question. Always trash everywhere is discussed with all that money we spend in taxes and they now they want to charge us. They already charging up for tolls. We want to charge us for when we get in the city. What's that city thing called more?, we got more tolls? Congestion pricing. Congestion pricing. I'm with you bro. We should look like Dubai with all the money that we spend in New York. Oh man, the dirtiest city I've been to so far, man.

It's just insane. Now New York is definitely dirty and you ain't get to the city so you on the Attaburras, you on Queens and the Bronx, right? Yeah, yeah. I drove through, pretty much through New York. I'm in Baltimore now, but uh. Yeah, it's disgusting. Yeah, so it's insane.

It seems like they don't pick up no trash off the highways. It's just, it's nasty. I'm not gonna lie. New York just been surviving off reputation for a long time, I'll be honest with you. Like, it's not, it's not a fly city. It's Chicago looks better than New York. Charlotte looks better than New York. Dallas looks better than New York.

Baltimore looks better than New York. I don't know about all that. All right, chill out. We can ask the brother on the phone. He literally in Baltimore right now. Now we wallowing just a little bit. All right New York. I don't know about all that. All right, chill out. We can ask the brother on the phone. He literally in Baltimore right now. Now we wildin' just a little bit. All right, whatever. I don't know about that.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. I still love my city, as dirty as it is. Call us up right now if you need to finish. The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, yo, son. You breezed up like a first day of school, black candy. And she's back. Breakfast Club. the lights on at BET. You hear me? I don't know why y'all keep lying on me like Tyler Perry's over there. I'm just over there sweeping the floor.

Oh yeah, I forget Tyler over there. Well, Tyler and Miss Pat. Yeah, I was saying Miss Pat's sweeping the floor, but I'm glad to be season four. I'm glad. How you feeling? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. I'm just doing TV and I'm doing a tour. I'm starting my second theater tour called Hot and Flashy. Why is it flashy? Why is it hot and flashy? Not your business, because I'm grown. What you mean? I'm just asking questions, miss Pat. Why is it hot and flashy?

Because I'm hot and flashy. Why is your grease up like a condom might go over your head? Walking up here looking like a walking, walking in here, you look like a deal door. Why are you looking like that? Oh you look like a deal don't you looking like oh my god You do though too, are you I don't do deal does but keep talking I Don't need them fake by eyelashes in a wig

What makes this show so successful miss Pat cuz it's truthful people can relate to it You know it's the first time somebody like me ever been on TV to say what real people were thinking, you know We've seen all the moms before who played mama who did great jobs, but you always say that ain't my mom Mm-hmm They didn't have my aunt talk to me and I think when they put my big crazy black behind on TV I was able to I gave the people voice that never had a behind on TV, I was able to, I gave the people a voice that never had a voice on TV before. So that's all, and people come up and tell me all the time

the things that we dig into, you know, we dig into timeless station, abortion, convicted felon, everything that real people go through in life or know somebody who went through in life. So I think that's why people love the show. But it's a comedy. Don't you laugh, but you probably don't watch it. Yeah. But you mean I do watch it. Oh, I don't.

Yeah. But you may have to watch the show. You're lying. Why the lie? Because I ain't going to sit here and tell you I read your book, so don't lie to me. I read your book too, though. I ain't read your book. I read my own book one time because they paid me.

Them people dogma behind. I want you to read slow. I was getting paid hourly. So I was not in a hurry. It was going to take all the time I needed to read it. Hey, them Duhs and As and A's. It's your words, Mr. Payne. I don't care. I was getting paid by the hour and I was taking my time.

At that time, that was the most I ever got paid by the hour, so you thought I was going to read that thing? I didn't even rehearse. Usually, I rehearse to make sure I pronounce the words right. I say would you pay me Iowa? Oh, they're gonna be a long week. Yep. So the fact that you visit all of those traumas on your show, has it ever been anything like that's been very emotional for you to film? Everything is very emotional dealing with Jordan E. Cooper. The first season we was

gonna do an episode about my mama's boyfriend touching us and my mama just turning away like, because you know predators come in and they groom the family. You know they come in, they see what type of needs you got and what we needed. We needed a father figure, we need somebody to help us grocery, rent and that predator came in and he did what he wanted to do with my sister and me. And when I got, when we told our mom, she just looked the other way. So Jordan, we wrote a whole episode in the first season. And this is my first time ever being on TV. I'm like, Oh, I don't think I'm ready to visit that. So we visited in the second season,

which broke me all the way down because I was already dealing with a lot of trauma from my kid's father who I was 12, he was 22, married, shot me. So we was dealing, we was telling all those stories. Then you want me to tell a child molestation story on top. But I was like, we gotta back some of this up before I have to go to counseling. So we took that out. We did it in the second season, which was great.

Jordan said there's a healing that happens this season. What do you mean by that? He said there's a healing that, his exact quote, there's a healing that's going on in front of the lens. It was, I dealt with my mom Because my mom used to say really bad things to me, you know I'm lighter skin my sister's darkest skin, but to me my sister always been way more cuter than I was my sister Had long curly hair. She was just beautiful. She don't crack now She's a pretty bad woman.

My mama used to say ugly things to me because I had acne really bad and she would always talk about how ugly my skin was and I'm 52 and I still can hear my mom and my mind saying bad things to me. So I think that's one of the reasons why I work so hard in life is because the things that my mama said to me. So we did a whole episode where my mom come back as a ghost and what she put put on me she want me to put on my kids because her mom put on her. So then in the episode you see me break a generation of curse and at the end I broke down and I remember fighting and I said joy don't push me down and at the end I just broke

down crying and I just remember saying I hate this. Damn all that came back up. All of it because you know I never went to counseling and I've been through some stuff so to deal with what I've been through you know and I told somebody this other day I said my sister dealt with what we went through doing drugs and alcohol I dealt it by just shedding a dough on it well if you shed that dough on it one day that dough gonna open back up and all what you had behind that door is gonna eventually flow out so when I got the Miss Pat show and started telling Joy in my life, he

just keep bringing all of this stuff out. But it is a healing because it's stuff I never talked about or I never really dealt with. So I think I heal along with the audience. We think it was other ways that you like you coped like I know you said your sister did drugs. Did you do anything else? Yeah, I ate. Look at me. Chick-fil-A. He was waiting on me to say I was fat. Every time I come in, I'm fat. You said your sister did drugs. Did you do anything else? Yeah, hey look at me chick-fil-a No, it's not that is not true. Yeah, I try to it gave me gallstone Feel it comfortable where you could talk about all these stories? Because some of these stories you'd be like damn you don't know if you want to laugh with you or you just want to cry.

Cry and just be sad the whole episode. You know I do it like my comedy I'm just an open book I'm not ashamed of nothing I've been through you know I was on stage last week I mean the other night I was like oh you had Krabs gonna run fleas everybody like what? And so I was talking about the whole thing about young girls shaving a vagina. Well, I'm 52 yo mama and me We didn't shave our vagina unless we had crabs are gonna rip. No, that's true The first point I saw had bush yeah Shave them if they had crabs, but now everybody's just walking around with a bird vagina.

So I don't get it. So. Just a bird vagina. Just a bald head. It look like a bird. Mine look like a beak if I ever seen it because I got a flap in the front. I don't think.

Yo. When I put a mirror down there and it don't fog up, it look like a little bird. No, my goodness. So I don't do that All right. We got more with miss Pat when we come back don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning the Breakfast Club Everybody is DJ envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club

We're still kicking it with miss Pat the miss Pat show season 4 is out right now Charlamagne is it true that you never wanted to be famous because your mom used to always tell you that you wasn't gonna be s***? Yeah it was fame was something and I don't consider myself famous now. I consider myself with a lot of jobs because you know it's just the way my mama beat me down. She always said I wasn't good enough. She always said I wasn't s***. So in my head, I never saw myself like other people. And my husband told me, he said, that's why you don't want to do a lot of things because I was scared to get out there. I wanted to make the money, but I didn't want to be up front. And then when I got this TV show, it

really put me out there. And I didn't even know I was shy. Like if you want to take a picture with me, I do it. But then I'd be like if you want to take a picture with me I do it but then I'd be like why I used to I would ask myself why and people would come up to me and be like oh miss Pay you so great you telling my story and I'm like no I'm telling my story so if fame is something I had to get used to like I don't go to the black Walmart's cuz they won't leave me so I try to go way out in the white neighborhood cuz white people they treat fame different what's up up, Miss Pat? Black people shaking on you pulling on your wick. Look get your hands on me

I ain't nobody shaking yet Ain't nobody shaking yet F**k you What you mean? I just said ain't nobody shaking You think I ain't shakeable? I ain't gonna keep taking it I ain't gonna take you man These little dicks drop them on your head and break your damn neck.

What's wrong with him, Envy? Oh man. You know, to me, Omar, that's why I'm glad when you come up here. You and Jess got my back. I love it. How would you do at BET? I love BET. I do. I really do. I would you do it at BET? I love BET. I do.

I really do. I'm being honest. You know what? And let me just say that this is our best season ever. I don't know why it took four seasons to really get in for black people and other people to really get on it. This is our most watched season ever. Wow, congrats.

We kick nothing but ass. But you've dug it out a lot though yourself though. You have done what you had to do like most of the time Where I see you are running to you or if I see you on the red carpet or even if you hit me in the DM This is not because BET said it you do it Yeah, when you see me doing certain thing a lot of it is time is it's me out of my pocket I don't I didn't wait to BET get me on late night I had me a PR person late night didn't even want me same thing with you guys first time

I asked to come over here the note back was she ain't famous enough. Who is she? Who said that? Shut your ass up. You said that. I ain't seen that. And then I run into him at a Lee Daniel party and Lee Daniel introduced us. At a Diddy party? Oh Diddy. Oh I did see that. He went to a Diddy party. Yeah, he went to a Diddy party. I ain't never been to no Diddy party. Ever in my life. Why is everybody denying Diddy parties, Diddy?

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or a limited edition signed Jason Bobblehead. It's called Really No Really, and you can find it on the iHeartRadio app on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. It's a nice party. I never went. That don't mean you got taken in the room. That don't mean somebody touch you. That just mean you was at a diddy party. I mean everybody act like if you go to a diddy party you had to do something to diddy to be at the party. I never went. I don't know. But you probably did go, but don't deny now.

I've never been to a diddy party. You never got invited, so you look like you went to a party. They don't invite me no way. You think they, bro? The way you over there greased up. They know I'm a towel, miss Pax. The way you're hair is that. You think I'm gonna let my fucking ass in that towel?

Yeah, I think you would let somebody fuck your ass in that towel. Then when the wind will fuck you. Oh my god. Ah! That is not funny. I am a bitch. I tell you Keep that windy we Have heard a few things The picture half them plastic sh**tty's. Pick the half them plastic sh**tty's. Since you want to keep digging at me.

What you had to do to keep that? Because that's what popped Charlemagne in the world. So, you had me one of Diddy party. But tell us what you did over there. You had to take one for the team. Diddy party She let you go and if you say you know my You the reason why she got dementia That is funny as s***. What if Diddy start claiming dementia, yo? What if Diddy start claiming dementia? He better. That might be the way.

He better. But nobody ever said Ms. Pat wasn't famous to come up here. Nobody said that. Yes, you did. Because I asked, I asked. The answer was no. I saw you at that Lee Daniel thing. And Lee Daniel introduced you.

You were like, yeah, come on the show. And I'm like, and my thing was, because y'all didn't know me. I wasn't really for me and I say I'm a red rabbit You read rabbit after we sent it to you after you let me know. So I had all I had was a book I really didn't have no show or anything and I said you ain't gonna never forget me Cuz I was mad cuz I tried several times to get on here I'm glad I'm on here now, but the publicist will lie and say that if the publicist if they do reach out. I had no publicist at the time.

I could afford now. I wonder who they was talking to. I don't know who it is back there. Nobody said that. Well, we love you miss Pat. I love you guys. And you know I can't even not love miss Pat. We support you for anything that you do.

We support you. We appreciate you. I do love you miss Pat. I'll f*** with you with everything. No, we love you miss Pat. You know what he do? He will text back. He used to then text back. I would I thank, Miss Pat. I'll f*** with you and Evy. No, we love Miss Pat. You know what? He will text back. He used to then text back. I thank y'all. I thank y'all.

That headline will be so funny. Miss Pat accuses Wendy Williams of f***ing. What? What did you say? Who did you say? Who? Take that back. Don't put that out there. What did you say? I voluntarily f***ed, he wanted it.

He voluntarily. That was his first radio job. Boy, was it? Yes, it was. No, I worked in New South Carolina. Yeah, that don't count. That my little **** in New South Carolina. I did four stations in New South Carolina.

Boy, please, the rats in New York was more famous than you. You had to do what you had to do. And Bigfoot was your faggot. That's the little fight that's in the shit. The things we had to do. I ain't never had to do none of that. Oh my god. That woman is sick, Ms. Pack. I know, of you.

She erased her own memory. That's right. Y'all gonna get me in trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Pat. She's in front of the Miss Pat Show on BET Plus. Oh my God. Check it out. And again, Miss Pat, we love you.

Thank you. Well, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Miss Pat, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Larry, and Charlamagne. The guy we are, the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're asking 800-585-1051. We want all our ladies to be in the show.

We want to be in the show. We want to be in the show. We want to be in the show. We want to be in the show. We want to be in the show. We want to be in the show. We want to be Club. If you're just joining us, we're asking 800-585-1051. We want all our ladies to call, and we're asking, what's the biggest lie you told a man? Let me tell you something, man.

Being a brother and a niece, you know, to hear these women and the lies that they be telling. Taylor came in here just now, just told another lie for no reason. She said, what you should have told him is you're the only man I'm talking to that's a good one though why you blowing Taylor up? you know Taylor just used that lie

and what you mean being a brother and a niece? what? huh? you said being a brother and a niece oh I meant to say being a brother and an uncle what you gotta tell us? the hell is going on here? Lord Jesus Taylor Taylor tell them the lie you told about the orgasms.

Don't act like you wasn't in there. Y'all thought I wasn't listening. Yeah, she lied. I ain't never did this though. I mean, you just be like, oh my God, you made me **** three times. Why would you lie like that? Yeah, I ain't never tell a lie like that. My wife lied to me like that too.

Oh my God. Early on in our relationship. You ever heard this story, Jess? No, I never did. Go ahead, you like to repeat this, huh? Go ahead, huh? Tell them this story again, huh? 25 years, she ain huh? 25 years she ain't c***. Oh my god. It was 25 years. In the beginning of our relationship I could not make my wife orgasm through penetration just through the mouth. Oh my god. And she

would lie and say she was having an orgasm. How long? Wasn't that long. You said it was a decade. It was close to, it was a long time. But I was her first so we were having each other's first so we didn't know what we were doing. We were exploring each other's bodies so I didn't know and one day in an argument she told me. What is the point of women lying about that though? Because how can I get better and give you what you need if you don't tell me what I'm not right? Well you know a lot of times the woman just likes to make the guy feel good and we like to please the guy honestly. We'd be so scared to hurt y'all feelings

because y'all like bitches. So a lot of times, you know, we really do not like, a man's feelings is hurt way more. I mean, way quicker than a woman's. Yeah, you know, it's just that we show it more, but y'all that could hurt y'all like, you know, and I know that her envy when his wife said it in an argument. It did.

It's like, damn, yo, so you've been faking it all this time. You know what I mean? It did. But it made the relationship strong because now you can figure out what she likes, what she doesn't like, and whatever. Because like I said, I learned sex from watching porn. You just go and bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and you realize. And that's what you think is how it is.

So yeah. It's actually depending on what kind of porn he was watching. What kind of porn was you watching? Her feelings. He spoke to the four old lives. Her feelings. She didn't want to hurt his feelings. And that's mostly what it is. So yeah. Especially depending on what kind of porn he was watching. What kind of porn was you watching? For her feelings. He spoke to the four old lives. Her feelings, she didn't want to hurt his feelings. And that's mostly what it is. But I've never lied about that.

Cause I needs mine. That's what I'm saying. Hello, who's this? This is Sharita. Good morning. Sharita, what's the biggest lie you told Sharita? Good morning, liar. Damn.

Damn. I'm a Scorpio, of course I lied. Oh my God. Absolutely. So I lied to my parents. I met a guy on the chat line with my cousins and my friends and then I lied to my parents and told him I met him at like an honors program and that I really liked him. He was a nice guy. I was 15.

I told him I was 17 and I told my parents, my cousins, my aunts, all my friends, everybody, like we gotta stick with the story, cause I love him. Now how old was this man? He was 43. 18, turning 19.

Do you know you could have got that man locked up? That's a charge, 19 with a 15. That's what I told my parents. Told you. That's what I told my parents. But did he know you was 15? I mean, he found out when my little niece that was six toes on me.

Now, come on now. Jesus. You could have got this man locked up. You could have got this man locked up being 19. All right. But like I said, I understand that. But I covered my face as I went to my parents. I explained the situation.

And your parents' parents? Damn, it's Schneeva. She said she told her aunt, everybody look. I, you know, they're screaming. I told everybody. I had an old family meeting, like I love him. And I got to tell him myself. And my parents was like, all right, we trust you. And they met him and they met his parents.

And eventually he found out. And you know, I mean, he's a little mad, but it was kind of after the fact. So. Because he was already in love with your little ass. This is not normal. No, that's not normal. All of y'all should be arrested. This is not the fact of the the fact this is her and I say what happened with the guy with the yet now Okay, Cassie

Cassie hey girl. Now, what's the biggest lie you told somebody? Okay, the biggest lie It's my first K, y'all. Good morning again. Hey, girl. Hey, y'all, what's up? All right, my biggest lie, back in the day, I don't know if y'all remember the loop, the raving. It was like a phone call type thing.

You could call it. It was like a baiting thing, but it was over the phone. So I probably was like 15 years old. I'm lying, and I told this boy that I was in a Sierra music video. I was one of her backup dancers to climate. Mind you, I'm 15, I'm a short little fat little church girl. I'm telling him I'm a little backup dancer, Sierra video.

And I know how to do the microphone pole trick. I could dance on a pole. And he went with it. He's telling all his friends about it. He went with it. So you told him you was a little big backup dancer. Yeah, I was. He's a big backup dancer. Big, I was. Big backup dancer.

Big back backup dancer. He was a young one. I was a big back backup dancer. And he went with it. And we were talking for like a good two years. I'm telling him I'm on the road, I'm doing different video shoots. I'm like, you got to zoom in, I'm on the left. I'm on the left.

Boy, women, how old was the man? He probably was about 19, 20 at the time. We're still friends to this day, but he don't, you know. Wait, but him what? He still don't know. He don't know this part. He knew you were 15? No, he didn't know none of that at the time. I was lying here. Y'all going to get these men locked up, man.

All right, all right. What size you is now? Oh, boy. Oh! Why you didn't know I was there? I'm working on it. Is the back big or not? The back's slimmed down.

The back's slimmed down. OK, so it's a medium. She's unbiggin'. She's unbiggin' her back. All right, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Cassie. You know when you're young, you just go to that opera stage. But I'm brown now. OK, that's what, yeah, yeah. Thank you, Cassie. You know when you're young, you just go to that opera stage,

but I'm brown now. OK, that's what's up, girl. Thank you, mama. Hello, who's this? I don't want to say. Oh, boy. All right, what happened? What's the biggest lie?

So I lied to her about the last time I had sex. Say it again. I lied about the last time I had sex. You lied about the last time she had sex. OK. What did you tell him, and what was the last time? So I was You lied about the last time she had sex. Okay. What did you tell him and what was the last time? So I was pursuing this new guy, but I was still messing with my ex.

And so when it came time to like move to the next step, you know, I was like, oh, you know, I've been saving myself. I haven't had sex in like a year. But in reality, I was still messing with my ex. So, you know, I felt bad, but yeah, that's what I lied about. That's the biggest lie?

That's the biggest lie? Yeah, I ain't a bad girl. Actually, you're a great person. She puts me to shame. Let me ask you a question. You hung up on him? Stop hanging up on people so fast. You're too slow.

What'd you just raise, hey? Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Monique from Jersey. Hey, Monique from Jersey. What's the biggest lie you've been told? Um, it's pretty simple, but when I was younger, I was pregnant, I could get an abortion money. First of all, I don't like how you just say that. Like that's just a nonchalant lie. Like every woman says once in a while. Okay, why? Why? Why? She was pregnant. She was pregnant to get some abortion money. pregnant abortion money right yes that is the lie who you sound about yeah the other way around is worse when you're really pregnant you selling you got an abortion that's horrible because that's a new life but when you're not pregnant I'm pregnant just throw me five hundred thank you up we lost it like you know I'm saying that was a lot growing up in the urban community for the money you

already giving me pom-pom you giving too much. Nah, just think about it. If you say an abortion, most dudes going to be like, they're going to come up with that money, regardless. If you just ask somebody for $500 to get your nails in hand, they'll be like, nah, B. Nah, abortion is motivation money for a n***a. No, no, no, no. How many times have you done it, Monique?

I just did it once. And it was because he was cheating. So I knew he was going to break up anyway. So I just tried to get some money as a part of it. Jesus. Hold on, you said you knew he was doing what? he was cheating. So I knew he was going to break up anyway. So I decided to get some money as a part of this. Jesus. Hold on, you said you knew he was doing what? She knew he was cheating. Oh, got you, got you, got you.

Well, look, I was with you before at one time. But you different now, right? Oh, definitely. I'm way older now. Girl, yeah, it's the more power to you, because I was right on that same rule with you. When the hell abortion started causing $500? They've been finding out for the last what five six years?

Yeah, definitely. And then each one is different you get you know you got the pill one you got the vacuum and then it's like another it's three different types of them. Really? Absolutely not that I've had them all but I know because I dropped off a couple bitches that hit the clinic before. My friends, my friends. My friends, my friends. What's the moral of the story? Women be lying? Don't lie. Don't lie. You know, I don't know. I can't even say don't lie because everybody lie when they young. Just grow up and then look back and be like, sorry.

That's it. That's it. This is The Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Jess is on maternity leave, so Long LaRosa is filling in, and we got a special guest in the building.

We about to mess up so many people heads because they're going to be in their car like, am I listening to the right station? We got the brother Ricky Smiley here, welcome brother. Man, thank you for having me man. How you feeling? Man, I'm feeling good man, it's a dream to be here. Stop it. Bro, I lay in the bed and I sit here and I just scroll and. How you feeling? Man, I'm feeling good, man. It's a dream to be here. Stop it.

Bro, I lay in the bed and I sit here and I just scroll and watch all y'all videos. I've been a fan for years. Hold on, I wanna say something before we get started with the conversation. I saw Ricky a couple weeks ago. I saw him in New Orleans at the Inspire NOLA event. And I went up to him and I said something

that I'm gonna say now. I wanna publicly apologize. I was just about to ask that. To Ricky Smiley because several years ago, I gave Ricky Smiley donkey of the day because a radio executive asked me to. And you didn't deserve that, brother. Thank you.

So I told you, when I saw you, I told you that, you know, and I wanted to say that again publicly, because I feel like if you do something to somebody publicly that you don't agree with, you should publicly apologize for it. So I want to say that to everybody, all our listeners, I want them to hear me say that you didn't deserve that and I want to apologize to you. I appreciate that man.

The first time when you walked up on me man, your energy man, the love and the respect, it takes a big person. I knew that it was all part of the game because we have a mutual one of your employees is one of my mentees Big Mac Intern oh yeah, he's a lesson as an intern and yeah, that's we I put him on stage I'm the first one to put him on stage. That's dope. We'll talk about that. I put a lot of them on stage Yeah, you have a lot of comics there start, but I really appreciate that man and don't feel no kind of way about it.

I didn't take it personally, but you know, it takes a special kind of person to apologize and stuff like that. I thought nothing of it because if I thought anything bad, I wouldn't even be here. You know what I'm saying? But I love you. I appreciate you, man. I think you're doing a fabulous job. I met you at the White House.

Yep. We see each other on the road every once in a while. I see you on the road as well. Always welling right into you and it's a pleasure meeting you. Yeah, it's. I met you at the White House. Yep. We see each other on the road every once in a while. I see you on the road as well. Always good to run into you. Yeah, absolutely. And it's a pleasure meeting you. Yes, nice to meet you.

That's right. Well, you got a new book out right now. Yes, sir. Side Show. Side Show. Now talk about what's Side Show about? You know the song, Everybody Apparently Let the Side Show Begin.

That's right. Hurry, Hurry is about a sad clown, right? My job as a professional comedian is to go on stage and make people laugh. And I lost my son about a year and, right? My job is a professional comedian is to go on stage and make people laugh. And I lost my son about a year and a half ago. It's been hard because the bills don't stop coming. I'm still a performer. I still have to go on stage.

And I had to dig deep and get in some real deep therapy to get myself together so I can continue as a performer. Because if I worked at Amazon, lifting boxes or delivering packages that's one thing but when your job is to make people laugh when you're crying on the inside with the trauma that I experienced that's what the song sideshow talk about see the man with a broken heart you can see that he is sad it hurts so bad see the girl who collect broken hearts as souvenirs,

it's all about a clown in a circus performing, but dealing with stuff on the inside. I've watched you grieve out loud online, and the only reason I don't like that, it has nothing to do with how you feel, I know how people react. And when you're already dealing with something, when you're already dealing with trauma,

and then you give it to people online, then they come at you. How do you deal with that? Oh no, it didn't bother me, Charlemagne. My job was I had to help other people because the reason I was open with it is a lot of mothers out there that lost their 18 year old, 17 year old, 16 year old, 15 year old.

My son was 32. I had a couple that had lost their two-year-old, right? And these are some of the things that I talk about in the book. It gives you glimmers of hope and the glimmers of inspiration even during our traumatic times. So my son was 32, but this couple sitting out here crying at my book saying their son was only two. And I could have lost my son at two, but God allowed me to have 32 years So you get a little gratitude from that and it's crazy that you can get gratitude from something like that Yeah, you know and you start looking at it's a helpful to the book is a helpful tool for people that's going through the grief process Because a lot of people out there and my book signings been packed with people that have lost their kids

How do you still believe right you talk about losing your father at the age of six, right? And then you lose your son. How do you just not say, you know what, there is no higher power? How do you still remain focused and still have belief and still have hope and still have all of that with going through the pain that you've gone through? I grew up in Birmingham, man.

So, you know, I got that old Southern Christian background. I went to Sunday school every Sunday. So I just have some strong belief in a close relationship with God because it was nothing and nobody to lean on. I was in an apartment in Dallas, Texas by myself, you know, when I found out that my son passed. And I had an hour and a half, I had an hour to make it to the airport. And I'm packing a bag and on the phone with my other kids letting them know what happened and trying to get myself together and preparing myself to lead because my family needed me. You know it didn't

really hit me until a year later right but at that time my son has a mother and a wonderful stepfather so I had to protect them. I had to protect my mother who was really close to my son because my mother, you know, recovering addict, my mother had 35 years clean. Had to protect her because they had a real special relationship because she could identify with the struggle. Then I had to protect my other kids. I had two kids in college getting ready to graduate college. My daughter that got shot, she was a senior in college getting ready to graduate to bail her.

And then I had my son graduate in Alabama State and then my oldest daughter. So just trying to get them and then come and say, hey, here's what happened. Our Brandon didn't make it. I need you to meet me at the house immediately. Just real calm. I need you to text me. Let me know that you're on your way. Text me when you just all of that. I had to be calm. I had to be cool. I had to get in the car with my uncles who was crying and turn the radio on the R&B station. I had to turn on Frankie Beverly and Mays and go from the airport to the house. I'm comforting them because it

reminded them of my dad's death. So I'm just a child man that sat on the front row and watched my grandparents go through what they went through. And through my grandfather, I learned how to handle the situation because that's how my grandfather handled it as well. Losing somebody, especially someone so close to your son, it changes you. Did you ever at first when you were trying to get to that, like, I mean, I guess I get through it. I don't know if you ever get through it. Were you afraid that when you got back on stage

that first time that it wouldn't be the same, like your ability to kind of push through and make people laugh wouldn't be the same? No, you know one thing about funny, it don't change. That's right. You want something to laugh at, especially in the trauma. Yeah, when your ass hit the stage, man, them jokes come, them jokes.

When you get somebody on the front row laughing, my first show was in Cleveland at the Horace Casino. And I cried from the hotel all the way to the venue, all the way backstage, blew my nose, did like that, made sure my nose was clean and walked on stage and got them jokes. And cried after I got off stage and you know, I was coming, but I've been in therapy, I was getting therapy twice a week. So I was prepared to go on stage again. My son died on a Sunday that Wednesday I was back on the radio they said take as much time as you need. Well either you lay in the bed and think about all of that or you get your ass up and go do your morning show go do your radio show because all the mothers in Chicago and in Columbia and in Charleston and in Atlanta

all over the country, their kids died too. Much is given, much is required. You can't cancel the show. God put you in this position and put you in a leadership position and you have to lead. And I still went to the Salvation Army like I do on a regular basis. I fed the homeless with my son's clothes in the car to go to the funeral home That was like dark Wednesday You have to do it all of this stuff and I don't want you to ever forget this all of this stuff in me is a test

It's a test our pastor's been teaching us that for years God is watching you through your struggles through your trials and tribulations and looking at you seeing how you're gonna handle this Are you gonna make it about you? Are you going to use this situation to help other people? But I was still smart enough to go ahead and get the help that I needed in the process because I had to get therapy because this trauma is a bad car accident. All right we got more with Ricky Smiley when we come back don't move it's the Breakfast Club good morning.

Good morning everybody it's DJ NVJ Solarius Charlamagne the guy It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning everybody. It's DJ, NVJ, Solaris, Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Ricky Smiley. Charlamagne? How has it been like, you know, cuz when you write these books you put a lot of you know You put your most vulnerable deepest thoughts into these books and you got to go out here and do this. Yep You got to have these conversations. Yeah, how's that been for you? Oh, I've gotten used to it Okay, you know once you know how it is once you do one interview you do another interview you keep doing interviews You just get accustomed to talking about it And then you develop some really good talking points that's gonna help other people

Because what people been telling me is the feedback that I've been getting is hey, uh, bruh It's been helping me out You know how many people walk up to me and said that they lost a loved one and they can't talk about it and just because they hear you on the radio every morning now they're coming out to your book sign. I have people walking up crying almost 90% of the people that come out about a book have suffered a loss and can't talk about it and do not go to therapy. So I've been promoting therapy because when you roll your ankle you don't pull out a Bible. You go to the doctor. Absolutely. The muscle, the brain is a muscle just like your ankle. Why is it that we black folks has a stigma that we won't go get help? That don't mean that you're crazy. You have to get somebody and talk to somebody that's going

to help you process those feelings and emotions because you can go into depression, start affecting other organs in the body. Some people don't make it from their loss, they die. A lot of times people, we've been taught as kids, you keep home business in the house, right? You never really talk about what happens inside your house. Like you said, that winds up killing you. Absolutely. That depression, that anxiety, all those facts, all those feelings.

Every time you cry in me, do you know that's like popping the cap off of a pressure cooker? You're releasing. I cried this morning. Yeah. Man, I sat on the side of my hotel bed. I was having some anxiety.

I called a good friend of mine. She answered the phone when I heard her voice. I just started crying, bro. I just let it out. I just cried. I just needed to just cry. I felt it building up yesterday. And I just started crying in the changing of the season You know that that affects you and you ever think about just giving away just stopping

You know, like I don't want to do this anymore. Was that ever a mom? No, man, we got to save people man. Listen some have to die so others can live. Mm-hmm. You understand? You know no cross no crown bro we have to go through what we have to go through and we have to talk about it and I'm just trying to break the generational curse of number one not talking about it not going getting therapy and getting help and to talk about our drug addiction. I had a son and a nephew age 32 and a niece I had a son and a nephew age 32 and a niece. I had a niece, a son, a nephew all died at age 32 within two years of each other. Can you talk a little bit about that? Like just in real time when they were here dealing with the addiction and trying to help them through it and like also wanting them to get better but addiction understanding

it like it kind of takes over where it's not even just them anymore. Like it's kind of it's a big beast. Yeah. The only thing I regret I didn't have a good understanding of the illness. Because I had a niece and a nephew that was cool and calm and respectful. It didn't affect my son that way. You know, my son would go off about stuff, you know, and it damaged our relationship or whatever. Because I didn't understand like, I am your dad. You can't say't say that to me you know I'm driving around looking for you to fight you in the middle of the street you know I raised you I cook food for you you

know I'm saying I watched your clothes you slept in the bed with me when it's thunder and lightning don't say that to me you know so I just didn't have a clear understanding of that but I did everything I could to save this life would you do anything different as a dad during any of those times and a reason I'm as a You know, I have six so I like to that's that's a good question Uh, I wasn't tough on him. He was the one that I caught I was tough on my other kids Like like the other kids was like I was just really really really really tough on them And he was the one that I just kind of coddled and did everything for and took it because that's my first born. I just wish that I was tough. I know

that sounds strange because it sounds like I should say I should have been easier on him. I was easy on him. I should have been tougher on him like I was the other kids. Chapter 12 of your book is Let the Tears Fall. You said it took you a year for all of this to really like hit you. Yeah What was that day like when you were like, I'm feeling it like that first time where man They're one year anniversary a few days before that one year anniversary man. It hit me like he had just died. I Had just got off the air. I was down in South Florida because I didn't want to be in the house But that one year anniversary, I just wanted to go get away and man it hit me man

And I was I did some crying I think it was a bad mistake for me to be there by myself But I just kind of sat on the couch and just cried pretty much for a couple of days like like really cried because The only difference was I didn't have a casket and some flowers and some condolences. I had all of that to keep me Distracted when it actually happened. I had to protect everybody but that one year came and it was like it was terrible. What about the chapter when addiction chases the bloodline? Was that difficult to write because you know you got to go through your whole generational lineage with that. Was that a difficult chapter to write? No it wasn't. It was just being open and honest. My dad struggled, my mom

struggled. I had wonderful grandparents. My dad struggled, my mom struggled. I had wonderful grandparents. My granddad talked to me every day, church, Sunday school. You know, hey, here's a trumpet, play that. Here's some piano lessons, let's go do that. I did trumpet, little league football, did it all. My grandparents kept me busy with the discipline and instruction, talked to me every day. So I didn't have to, I didn't have those issues.

And then he always talked about how my dad died. So don't do this. So I just stuck with it. And to this day, I don't drink or smoke. I always wonder how grief impacts people who lost their parents at a very, very, very young age. Does it hit you later in life? Do you see somebody out with their parents

and it hits you? Like, what is it? It did when I was when I was a kid But what hurt me about my dad's death was watching my grandparents cry like that on the front row I'm in therapy for that that comes up in therapy that that wipes me out Wow, that wipes me out more than my son's death. Why I'm a grandmama's baby Like you understand you from the south watching my grandparents cry like that on their front row man I I can't get over it.

Even when my grandparents died, the only thing I could think about, their casket was in the same spot my dad's casket was. The only thing I could think about was them crying on their front row, April the 11th, 1974. Wow. I will never forget it, man. It just, it tears my soul out of my body.

I can deal with my son in death, but that's what I struggle with more than anything Wow And that's why I didn't cry my son's funeral because my granddaughter was watching me and I don't want to traumatize her like that Oh wow Dang, dang boy I'm about to cry now just sitting up here talking about this We about to all start crying I just want to hug you

Well, let's talk about something else for a second You put on a lot of comedians Ricky and I think that coming from the South, right? I don't think people realize how big you are sometimes. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think they realize how, how much money you got, number one. But also, how rich you are, and just how big you are. And I think it's almost a stigma

with comedians from the South. Like, they don't get the respect that they deserve, I think. I just do it for the love of the art. Charlamagne, envy, I remember cussing D Ray Davis out Snatching a drink out of his hand because he was too young to be drinking. Hey, give me that You know, I had a little comedy club back in Birmingham Yeah, so I would have like D Ray Corey Hogan Corey Hogan was like a man ain't never been outside of Chicago I'm like, okay, cool. Let's go on the road

You know, I would take those guys on the road Corey Corey, Hokem, DeRay, Davis, a lot of them, man, that are tired of some of them have passed away. You know, I would just take them on the road and help them because that's what Steve did for me. You know, nobody have to, don't nobody have to fool with you. You know what I'm saying? Some people can just ignore you. Steve was one of those guys, man,

that was helping in training company. I started November the 13th 1989. Wow. That's the first time I went on stage. I met Steve before he did Showtime at the Apollo. Steve's anointed man. Oh my god. Okay with nobody. You know I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Tilden and together on the Really No Really podcast our mission is to get the true answers to life's baffling questions like why they refuse to make the bathroom door go all the way to the floor we got the answer space junk block your cell signal the astronaut who almost drowned during a spacewalk gives us the answer we talked with the

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Good morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is filling in for Jess and we're still kicking in with Ricky Smiley Lauren. Now you were talking about Steve Harvey and how he gave you opportunities. I want to know who do you do that for that because you talk a lot about people that you mentor and that you help but like who's the money you do that for that like we might not know about that might have started in your clubs or just unknown and now it's like taking over comedy wise. Oh man, Lil Duvall was somebody that I have

a real good relationship with, that I was doing some, you know, mentorship. Because remember I was the host of Cunning View in 2000. So you was with a lot of people who mentored just by being on that show? Right, right, that's what, that's what. 85 South Show said. 85 South, they told me. I'm tripping like Carlos Miller was like,

bruh, I met you when I was 14 years old He was in a hotel. I got excited. I'm hearing these stories and stuff man Not realizing the impact on coming cuz I'm on BET Monday through Saturday, right? Like when when comic view really blew up it was in Atlanta and then I hosted again Charlamagne 2004 and then the year after 2000 2001 I had my own little TV show the way we do it That's first time you know and I was doing all these characters and all these voices and and all this kind of stuff So when comics needed help and needed mentorship, I would always you know, hey dress nice

Hey stop cursing. Does that curse word make that joke funny? Are you cursing just to be cursed? That's a real thing I just had that conversation with a comic. I say, hey, man, you curse too much. The cursing is not making the joke funnier. But if the curse word is a part of the punch line, then use it. I said because it's like I give the onion example like it like you eat an onion is nasty, but if you take it and chop it up and saute it and put some flour on it and you're still eating the onion but you can't taste it. It's just an analogy that I use with comics and I make them redo the joke and that's like

damn you did the same joke and got the same laugh, got a bigger laugh because people are not offended. Right. Now there was a rumor that in your contract it said that you had to wear a dress. Oh man I don't pay that stuff. God damn baby. You should have put, you had to wear a dress. Oh man, I don't pay that stuff. God damn, man. You should have put, you just bitten to the onion. You ain't putting no flour on your head.

You ain't selling that. You ain't selling that or nothing. God damn. Hey, so I, man, I started doing comedy 89, man. You think there's a contract somewhere. I'm just messing with you. I knew it. I knew it.

That didn't bother me. What bothered me was people believed it. Oh yeah they did because it's always been that thing about the wear the dress to not wear the dress to. It's comedy. Listen it's comedy. I grew up watching Flip Wilson. Flip Wilson is the greatest of all time and right when you laugh at Flip Wilson he's trying to do Geraldine. Me and my grandma, I would sit there and watch that with my grandmother. My characters came, man, I was doing prank phone calls

on the radio, I was doing Bernie Jenkins. And whoever would've thought a character that you do on the radio calling funeral homes and all this stuff turned into a character and somebody asked you to play the character in a movie. You know, it's funny that all that stuff is taboo now. He felt like he was clearing the record on Shaysha, because I think he, what was it, that he was supposed to play a movie, you know, it's funny that all that stuff is taboo now. He felt like he was clearing the record on Shaysha because I think he, what was it, that he was supposed to play a role?

You said he was supposed to be Money Mike or something? Well, I did. When I went out there, I auditioned for that part and that's what I really auditioned for. I didn't audition for the Santa Claus, if I'm not mistaken, the Santa Claus role was supposed to be for, what's his name? He played in the first Friday, the comedian that passed away. Oh, AJ Johnson. AJ Johnson, I think AJ Johnson was supposed to play the song and this is what I heard

or whatever and they put me in that role because at that time I was on BET and stuff like that but I did audition for it, that's what I went out there and read for, my manager at the time came on the air, cleared that up. But Cube clarified it too. I assume you said that you did audition for Money Mike, but when they saw how you moved they thought you'd be better for Santa Claus. Exactly. Yeah, and I don't have no beef. I love everybody if there is an opportunity to resolve.

The rap beef and stuff with rappers getting killed, I don't want comedy to ever come to that. You know, that's not what I do. That's not how I was raised. You know, we from the South, and we just don't, we don't do that. What do you love more, stand up or radio? Oh, God, damn, that's a good question.

Radio, don't give you butterflies. Radio is just sitting here, like right now. I'm comfortable, it's cool, or whatever. Stand up gives you a little bit of anxiety because you got to perform. You got to go out there. People pay money to see you perform. But my stand up is, is being great. I'm probably funnier than I've ever been. I got a special coming out. We in negotiation with Kevin Hart right now to release the comedy special. Oh yeah. I haven't done a comedy special in like 12 years. Wow. It's funny as hell.

It looked good. It's gonna be funny. It's gonna be all over the place. Recently shot stuff? Yeah, just recently shot it. Okay. Yeah, I paid for it myself and I just went on stage and killed that ass. So I'm really excited about that.

And what made you, I mean, Kevin Hart is Kevin Hart, but a lot of people go to Netflix too. Like, how did you decide where you were gonna, who was gonna house it? Well, we're gonna see. We in negotiation now because I just did an interview with Kevin Hart and he asked me about I just shot one. I said you wanna you wanna present it. Okay, so you started Yeah, yeah, he's a good friend of mine. I absolutely love him great dude great dude Kevin man Jamie Foxx all of them have been good to me my whole career I didn't I didn't know Eddie Murphy was a fan that I met Eddie Murphy at his house or

whatever went over there one day I had a meeting with Tracy Edmonds I think they were dating at the time and she said play your prank phone call them out I was like you're lying are you serious and I ended up going over there and there's some comics over there and we had barbecue chicken Collard greens cornbread macaroni and cheese. It was like we had some real soul food and that was my first time being Eddie Murphy man That was that was a pleasure so that when you get to do stuff like that and I'm on tour with Martin Lawrence right now So that's my big brother. So the funny thing is you talk like you not wanted you not wanted him big brother so the funny thing is you talk like you not wanted you not wanted him conversation I'm just just humble man I'm still like I kind of still feel

like I'm kind of like just you still young and in the game but I feel young and in the game and I I know I'm a little older and stuff and trying to coach younger comics and I just kind of sit back and not try to do too much but I just try to make sure when I do do something that is special and that is awesome and that is funny. And my karaoke nights sell out faster than my comedy shows. My co-host has Down syndrome.

What? My co-host, Big Chris, has Down syndrome and he is the funniest damn person. If you look at my karaoke. You can see him? Huh? You can see him? No, I was sitting here trying not to laugh. I was going to ask you.

Like, can we laugh? This guy's stupid. You can see it on the right hand side. Yeah! My goodness. Chris took me to the cemetery. I think he had a cousin die. He took you to the cemetery?

Yeah, somebody had died. And we was at the wrong grave, but I just let him, let him. I didn't want to tell him that we was at Paul Bebrian grave. So I had to get him back to the car and take him to the grave. I was like, I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die.

I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Was that the wrong way, but I just let him let him tell him that was that at Paul Bebrag right? So I had to get him back to the car Show is out right now. We appreciate you for joining us bro. Thank you man. Love you. Don't be a stranger man. You can come up here anytime you want to tell.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Ricky Smiley. That is me. Bring Big Chris up here because she is single and she's looking. You surprised right? Uh, yeah. How old are you? 32. Damn. What?

Not you, sit back down. Put your love on my phone. Ricky Smiley. It's the breakfast club good morning. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. The Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money.

Florida man is a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man.

He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He's a real man. He The Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife.

Police arrested a Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. For the breakfast club, bitches. Donkey of the day, when Charlamagne the guy, I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all like this. No, Duval, y'all do it to yourself. Okay, donkey today goes to a Florida man named Kanye Ederiziz Medley. Okay, he is 20 years old

and hails from Clearwater, Florida. What does your uncle Shala always say about the great state of Florida? The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. See, this young man, Kanye, was arrested for domestic battery, a misdemeanor, and booked into the county jail. Okay

according to police reports he attacked his sister during a domestic clash. Now you know we don't condone any violence against women and attacking your sister is complete nonsense. If you can't have a healthy conversation with a sibling to work out your differences then you probably can't have a healthy conversation with anyone. But this case is slightly different because Kanye didn't attack his sister with his hands. Nah, Kanye decided to treat his sister the way Sizzle fans treated her in Australia and he decided to just throw something at it not just if I told you this man was 20 years old his name was Kanye but it spelled K-H-A-N-Y-E

he's black and he decided to throw a food item at his sister and the food item hit his sister in the back of the head and that's why he got arrested. If I told you to guess what food item he threw do you think you could do it? I'm gonna give you multiple choice. Okay. Okay. Was it A sushi, B meatloaf, C fried chicken or D tuna tartare? Oh my god, um, fried chicken. Why? Why? Why would you just assume it's fried chicken? Because if it's like fresh out the grease and they throw it, some of that hot grease gonna slide down her neck. That'd be the only way that I feel like you would be arrested. Okay.

What? Red, if I did this stick to you, Red, if I gave you these same choices, Red's Puerto Rican, Red, if I gave you these same choices, Red's Puerto Rican, my man. I know. I say Red, he's black, he's 20 years old, okay? And he threw a food item at his sister. If I gave you those same multiple choice questions, what would you guess? Jess already guessed fried chicken. Is it A, sushi, B, meatloaf, C, fried chicken, D, tuna, tartar? Yup. I'm going to go with the fresh fried chicken too. All right now, don't try to gain no points now. Why? Red, why? Why?

I can't come with it. Say it. Why? I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. You better not say it. I'm saying it out of it. All I'm saying is not a stereotype if it's true. Okay, not only do black people love fried chicken, everybody loves fried chicken. Historically, we love fried chicken because it was the only livestock slaves were allowed to keep. Chickens were the only livestock the enslaved were allowed to keep. After emancipation, women, known as waiter carriers, would sell trays of fried chicken and biscuits to travelers at train stations. The only reason fried chicken became a negative stereotype was because in 1915, a man named D.W. Griffith used the film called Breath of a Nation to show a bunch of black elected officials being unruly, drinking

liquor, eating fried chicken with their bare feet kicked up on the desk just acting like savages and the whole point of that scene, the message to the audience was to show the alleged dangers of letting black people vote. This is not a YouTube conspiracy. This is historical fact. Do your own Googles and you will see. Now the reason Kanye is getting donkey today is because he told police that the motive for him using poultry as projectiles is because he said he had not eaten and did not want

the piece of chicken the victim offered him. So he became upset. Now let's do the math here, Jess. The man claimed to be hungry, said he had not eaten so someone offers you food and you say you don't want the piece of food that they offered? Wouldn't that piss you off? Absolutely. He lucky he didn't get something thrown at him. He's ungrateful, he's unappreciative, he's unthankful, he's a thankless human. Begers cannot be choosers and I can't say that you was begging, but if you starving, one of the most incredible things the president can offer you is a piece of chicken. Now here to elaborate on the goodness of fried chicken when you are hungry is the president

of the Fat Lives Matter committee, Big Mac. I want y'all to stop playing wobble wobble whenever Big Mac comes around. Mac talk to me about the goodness of fried chicken. First off good people, this is a sad day as the president of the Fatalized Matter Committee and a member of the Gut Gang and the Big Back Brigade. It hurts to see one of your members that falling off track. Talk to me. This is just as bad as disrespecting the flag.

You don't throw no fried chicken. Not even just as a fat person, as a black person. This breaks my heart. Mm-hmm That's like saying I don't need lotion and you clearly ashy It just don't make no sense Then when somebody give you something, you know how we get we get the extra on our hands. I'm trying. Yeah Too much there you go. You got the nerve to say no and you ashy come on It's just it's sad to see and from the Book of Lizzo You know what they say is don't bite the hand that feeds you

Hmm, if you hungry and you asking for food somebody giving you food now Here's my thing about that looking at devil's advocate. We've all got a book. I know she does not the devil's advocate side of it is I Asked for food. Uh-huh. You gave me chicken. Okay growing up. The number one rule was don't eat the big piece of chicken Okay, now maybe it wasn't the big piece of chicken. Maybe it was a little No, you only get the big piece of chicken if you are the provider Why the daddy you historically got the big piece? He was the provider he treated his sister like it was his girls

It clearly they got some things going on in that house and you seen the picture of him He paid for the meat in the house. I totally understand if he ain't paid for the poultry No, you won't eat what I give all Kanye's are a little bit off. So this is not far That's true. You know what Mac you ain't wrong when you write, please give Kanye medley the sweet donkey of the day You are the donkey of the day Yee-haw We're not about to offer you no fried chicken. You know in the book of Corinthians it says you'd be trippin' if you're throwin' chicken.

It don't nobody says that. So he nobody's not read the Bible at all it might be in the book of Clarence I know even at the last supper they were beefing and they ain't throw no chicken so I know come on that is true that was donkey today today the Breakfast Club CJ envy Jess hilarious Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. C, J, N, V, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lauren LaRosa is filling in. And we got a special guest in the building.

Yes, indeed. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Damon Wayans Jr. Welcome. Thank you, boss. Thank you, man. I always went, as a Wayans, right? Are you born into the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot like everybody else? I'm the Illuminati.

You definitely don't get hazy. I definitely walk you right in. No, I don't know. Illuminati? Yeah. No, man. How you get there? I had to earn my spot. What I'm saying, y'all been successful for so long. Oh, so success means Illuminati? You know that. Yeah, come on.

It takes, you know, yeah, you kind of just walk in at in at this point, but you know I'm a conspiracy theorist, so yeah I'm really Illuminati yeah, I thought the conspiracy theory the conspiracy theorists did like the whole Illuminati isn't that a conspiracy what? Illuminati Illuminati is a conspiracy. Yeah, I don't attach myself to that I don't attach myself to that You know, I'll be on I'll be on YouTube I'll be looking at the what is the conspiracies about the Wayans brothers did have the Wayne's family been so successful for so long I don't know if there's a conspiracy. I think it's just family working together, you know

I feel like that's what we all should be doing. Absolutely You know what I mean like I feel like black people learn best by example and so you have a bunch of examples and you just copy them. Did you study every member of your family like did you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you watch everything your dad was in? Did you watch everything Marlon was in? Like I'm talking about since you was a child like did you study everything that they did? I mean I watched the stuff that I liked. There was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man.

I don't remember Glimmer Man. My uncle Kenan did a movie with Steven Seagal. Glimmer Man? Is that what it's called? I don't remember that one. Was that a play on for Blake Man? No, I watched Blake Man. You was in it. Because I was in it. You said Glimmer Man? I don't even know what you're. Me either. Was that a play for Blank Man? No, no. I watched Blank Man.

You was in it. Because I was in it, yeah. You said Glimmer Man? I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm looking it up. They pulled it down? The Glimmer Man. It wasn't Glimmer Man.

I don't remember this one. I definitely don't remember Glimmer Man. 1996. I missed that one. Yeah, man. Yeah. I like the comedy. A lot of people did.

Yeah, I like the comedies. Yeah. You know, I like Don't Be A Menace. It's one of my favorites. Classic. Love, Major Payne. Classic. I saw a really awesome movie with Jada Pinkett and Mom Kenan. Classic. Love, major pain. Classic. That's my favorite.

I was in a movie with Jada Pinkett and Mom Keenan. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh We got a bunch of working class women. We got a big ass family. So there's like a lot of people that are just as funny as everybody, but they just don't feel like going through the Hollywood. But do they just work, do they work on the set or do they have like? We have some that work on the set. You know, we got. I love it.

Yeah, we got Uncle Sean. He works on Papa's house. Aunt Kim. She's a show runner. Yeah, how you know all this? Oh yeah, cause Marlon Fong. I was gonna act like I knew. This guy live here.

This guy. He live here. I got my daughter works on the set. She's a stand in for Essence Adkins character. Wow. And she be writing on the show too. She's great. That's it.

Yeah, she's dope. Now we got to talk about the pressures of being a wans. Is there pressure though? Pops, uncle, family, cousins. Is there any pressure? No, I don't feel like I don't feel like there's pressure I mean maybe in the beginning in the beginning it was like I used to have an alias when I went on stage Kyle Green Really? Yeah, and no one guessed it you look

Like the middle of my punchlines back you look just like your damn daddy And so I had to change it just to Damon, you you know but really I was just trying to get my bearings you know trying to like get on stage and I'd be like come to the stage Damon Wayne's son you know so that's why have you never got something because you were Wayne's like it was like a part of the family now um maybe I don't know they don't you know that's all that behind-the-scenes stuff but um you know they let you in they'll let you in just because they want to see you you know know like oh Damon Williams when I first started. So I got in some some rooms and shout out to my family for making it easier for me. You know a lot of people they frown on the Nepo baby

thing. But I think it's great. I think it's like I don't know what it I don't either. I mean I feel like it's a business. This is a business just like any other business. If there's a you know Car manufacturer and then you pass it down to his son stuff like that. It's just that's what it is I think what y'all done is phenomenal. I was phenomenal I was driving on the west side yesterday and I saw the digital billboard for Papa's house and You and your pops and I was just like man number one The OG Damien Wayne's been getting it for a long long long time man I mean is a killer and it's nothing cooler than being able to do what you love to do with your son. Like everybody we love what Bron and Bronny doing. I give it up for y'all too. Yeah man I mean I'm happy man.

We've had a really good time so far. We shot like 11 already and you know it finally came out and I'm just hoping you know people keep watching and seeing because it gets funnier and funnier. You know, the pilot is a good, it sets the stage, sets the characters, but we had a lot of suits, you know, they were like kind of like making sure that we did what they wanted us to do and then as time went on they've let us spread our wings and now we get to just be ridiculous and funny and heartfelt and you know, I love it. I love seeing my dad every damn day. Well what is Papa's House about for people that don't know? Yeah

so Papa's House is basically about a Papa who's a popular morning radio DJ and yeah a little bit and he is a he lives alone he's happily divorced he basically lives his dream of solitude until his son, who's like an immature, needy guy, moves in next door to him with his wife and his two kids and just kind of turns Papa's life upside down. And that's basically the long and short of it. We were toying with the idea of calling it Raising Damon because it's like, you know, you think it's him raising me, but then you kind of see that Papa needs him raising too.

It's a lot of old school versus new school views. I think it's really cool. My goal for the show is to bring back black comedies. Had I known that the 90s and the early 2000s were never going to be again, there were so many options. We had Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Living Single, Cosby Show, Martin, we had so many options on so many different channels. I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Tilden and together on the Really No Willie podcast,

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Bobblehead. It's called Really No Really and you can find it on the iHeartRadio app on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And had I known that we're gonna have like nothing for like you know over a decade I would have appreciated it more you know Family Matters. Nobody can explain to me why that went away because it's not like all those shows were super successful. So what happened in Hollywood that they just flipped the switch and said we don't want no more of this let's do reality television. I don't know I feel like they always use black people to kind of build up the

platforms and then just do away with them you know you're you know the living single friends thing the UPN remember UPN absolutely they use all them shows Jamie Foxx show to the Wayne's Brothers What's the Moe Show in there? Moe? Come on now, they had all these damn shows Your pop show to My Wife and Kids? My Wife and Kids? I didn't want to say that because What you mean? That was funny, I didn't want to say that

I love My Wife and Kids but like we had so many shows and I feel like now what we have We have avid we have the neighborhood. Is there anything else now? You know, they were the time there was a resurgence But a lot of black and grown-ish. Oh, yeah black is right. Yeah Yeah insecure, right? Atlanta insecure was great. I'm talking about like now like they don't ever yeah like the sitcoms like network TV I feel like it's you know, it's far and few between and I just hope that you know Maybe the show gets popular enough to be like oh, let's bring more of those You know what I mean?

I I love it because I feel like people need to see black people enjoying themselves black people making each other laugh black people making the World laugh. Mm-hmm. All right, we got more with Damon Waynes,. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Damon Wayans Jr. Lauren? How much of this show is just improv off the script?

Cause I know it's based on like you guys were really about to move next door to each other or something at one point. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot of it's improv, you know, but we have a script, but we definitely do whatever we want because it's my dad's show and he'll just let people play and so we having fun, you know. I like to improvise but you know, there's certain characters that like to just do the script and they're fine doing the script but everybody's having fun. Are you good at taking notes? Are you and your dad good at taking notes? Me? Yeah. Yeah, I take notes. I mean, I like constructive criticism.

I mean, my dad, that's how he raised me. You know, this dude is the most brutal critic of all time. I did a... Years ago, I did Deaf Comedy Jam and I got standing ovation. Like, I was nervous as hell. I got standing ovation. I do really well. I get off stage. He comes up to me. He goes, Anything you did, son. And I go, I don't know, I get off stage. He comes up to me. He goes anything you did son, and I go I don't know like eight nine. He's like seven and a half, and he just walks off

No nothing no no no No, how do you feel with your dad doing stand-up, and you know he would talk about you guys and stand up And of course he talks about you. You know masturbating on the house at that time It's that question Boys got louder How was that you as a kid when your dad used to tell him stories that one specifically? Was embarrassing because I remember one time I was about to hook up with this girl and she was like wait a minute are you the guy that does the thing with spaghetti and I was just like what and then she plays me a clip of the freaking video of him just you know talking about

me going spaghetti again I'll be right back and you know I didn't get any that day so yeah it messed me up. Did you not get any because she wanted you to do the spaghetti trick right then and there like no I'm like you can do this spaghetti trick. Yeah. No, she just she just wanted to laugh at me. She just laughed Very embarrassing. Yeah. Do you think you have an appreciation for? History being that you're surrounded by it. I mean you're making your own right, but you're always you I mean your whole life I'm sure Eddie Murphy or Samuel Hall Robert Townsend these people were just there mm-hmm like so do you have a his appreciation for it because if it was me I couldn't shut up I'd be asking a million questions yeah what time my dad kind of instilled in me not bothering

famous people like I see them and I give them a respect but I'm also like you know you do your thing. I don't want to ask you the question that I know thousands of people ask you. Like I see Eddie and I just like I'm in awe but I'm also not gonna like show him that I'm in awe. You know so I don't really but I don't like bothering famous people. But we did used to have a lot of fun. You know we my dad said that you know when when I was a kid that Eddie used to invite him and his family on their little yacht Parties and my dad would have to go on there with his you know his wife and and me as a kid I was like two years old maybe three and

And Eddie would be sitting there like man. This is isn't nice man like looking at my family like see this is what I want I want this I'm gonna go And you're like he'd leave and my dad would just be on the boat by himself with his family and there'd Be like a bunch of girls there and stuff like that a bunch of celebrities and it was really cool You know and I remember one time what my dad told me this Emmanuel Lewis, you know, man, you lose. Yes, man It's a webster Right one time and and he was like dress fly had a suit on had a watch and

a little dude and I as a baby was confused cuz I'm like you thought it was a big baby I thought it was a big baby. I'm like why he how you know all them big words? Why yeah, who gave you a watch? You know I'm like following him around the whole Yacht trying to you know see what's up up with him, you know, just like I am Maybe them shoes, you know, well your diaper at always you remember I was too. No, he just told me Walking around following him everywhere. He was like, come on man. Go he was like trying to shoot me away He was like, come on man, go. He was like trying to shoot me away So what is the you guys always keep essence Atkins booked I know she's in Papa's house She plays dr. Ivy green. Mm-hmm

What's the chemistry with her in the way is family? Like can you talk a bit about that and a decision to bring her on this show, right? Well, first of all essence Atkins keeps herself book like that woman is a phenomenal comedic actress, phenomenal actress period, but she's also like really funny. And initially my dad didn't want her to be on the show because uncle mom was like, yo, you gotta put it on. You know, she's really funny. I don't know what you're doing, you know?

And my dad was like kind of, you know, like, no, he was on, she was on your show. I don't want to have that on my show, like leave it alone. And then finally he you know He was like come in and read and she went in and like from the moment she walked in the door She was killing us like just so funny like before she even said a word of the audition She came in killed it killed it left, and she was the first person up to so Everybody yeah, like she just sucked all the energy out the room

And there was just like no one was gonna do or top that so you know so essence keeps herself but like she's just phenomenal now you also see the change of comedy right cuz you've seen everything your family has done right from blank man to live in color do you think comedy can go back there without people getting insulted about getting offended taking things personal personal? I mean, I don't think so. I mean, I feel like- Can y'all do Blank Man too? The show kind of leaves internet too.

We can do Blank Man, but is Blank Man offensive though? I feel like Blank Man was like pretty chill. I don't remember. I have to go back and watch it again. Because what we didn't think was offensive, now when you back and watch it you'll be like, dang, oh yeah, that would piss Harry Potter off. You know what I mean? True, true.

But I miss those shows. I miss the color shows and those shows that push the line and push the edge. You know what? I blame Judd Apatow. Bring him down. I'm always down to blame the white man for something. So, I mean this is a conspiracy theory but I don't think he did it intentionally but I feel like it started with Superbad.

Like Superbad came out classic, super funny and then I feel like it started with super bad like super bad came out Classic super funny, and then I feel like after that it was just no more black stuff No more black movies like it was just like you know they're like we got it from here And then they did all their you know that it was like Jewish comedies like starring Jewish people Jewish young guys Which were really funny like I love 40 year old version. I love bridesmaids I love 40 year old version I love bridesmaids I love super bad but I feel like it like just went that way and then there was no more black comedies like they don't make them anymore have you noticed that I wonder if it's because I think about what you're saying all the time because I love the tone of all those movies you did I even put get

them to the Greek in that yeah I wonder if it's because they're willing to take more yeah well they have like there's more risk. Well, they have the... Like there's a lot of things that they do in their comedy that I feel like some black people wouldn't necessarily do. They have the room to do it. I disagree. I say, I'm saying the opportunity is not there. You know there's like a bunch of black comedies being written.

They're just not being shot. They're not being given to black comedians. But I think he's asking would, like some of our big name black comedians, would they take those roles that are gonna push those boundaries because it could offend. What boundaries? I mean people are offended by everything nowadays. So it depends on who you talking about

and what you talking about. Well it's a lot of like back in the day when you look at it, living color and all of that stuff like that, they weren't afraid to pretend to be gay. They weren't afraid to. They wore dresses. Yeah, I'm not saying you gotta wear a dress, but they weren't afraid to push the limits.

There's things that I feel like black people wouldn't do. Now you just get critiqued for everything, but I think if it's funny enough, they'll let you do it. Like we let Robert Downey Jr. get away with blackface because it was funny, right? But I don't think he could do that now. I don't feel like anything is, I don't even know if Superbad could get away with being superbad now. Maybe superbad, but like 40-year- old version, I'm not sure right like these nerds not even nerds which is crazy

There's is rapey though. Now when you Haven't I haven't I Be it's not even just comedy though. I think about back as a like why was Q in high school nurse in juice They even give us an explanation. Like there was no reason. Like why? I didn't think about that. Why was this nurse just f**king the high school?

I bet you there was like a storyline that they just didn't have time to explore. They probably had to cut it. You know what I mean? All right, we got more with Damon Waynes Jr. when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club, good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Junior when we come back don't move it's the Breakfast Club good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with Damon Wayans Junior. Lauren. Are you guys gonna like because I don't I feel like to us a lot of the like the networks know that people will be offended so they try to stay away even if they want to try it right but in Papa's house Like you guys have essence Atkins who's kind of coming in and your dad is like the old school person who he's like aware of

The boundaries, but he doesn't really care and she's like you're gonna have to care Are y'all gonna kind of play around with that a little bit more and take those versus is the network like we can be cute With it, but like no because your dad be willing to go all the way there. I love it Oh, he goes there all that didn't he get in trouble on your show on your show. Yeah years ago Surfacing things for no reason well they put my picture during that whole country I do remember that. It was plastered everywhere. I was like, come on now. I was like, he didn't say it. But guess what? Gotta pay for the sins of his father. That was crazy. Um, what we-

Y'all gonna push those boundaries on the show? Yes, we are. We have. And I think that, you know, once the suits, the CBS, saw that we know what we're doing, they kinda like let us play, you know what I mean? And you'll see each episode gets funnier and funnier and funnier. And the characters get more and more well-rounded.

We deal with real issues too, which is kind of weird to have serious scenes and stuff like that, but we do that too, which just makes the comedy funnier. And I love what we're doing right now, it's it's very unique especially on CBS like we're definitely making CBS uncomfortable with the choices we're making which I think is great because we're pushing the envelope it's like we got we were competing against streaming now competing against network shows that go for it so it's like there's no time to really just play it safe. Are you ever afraid to work with your pops

because you know that he just like sabotaged his SNL situation and just walked, he purposely did things to get fired? Do you ever think that he might do that again? I don't, I think he's more patient now. I think he just wants to make a good show and spend time with his family doing it. Like I feel like this is like what he likes doing.

And so I don't think he's gonna jeopardize that. Yeah I mean that you know maybe 10 years ago maybe but like now I feel like he's just like chill and and just having fun like we just be laughing the whole day it's just I love it. And when you know you talked about you know Sean writing on the show and you know your aunt Kim being a showrunner do y'all even look outside of the family? No we have a lot of people that are from our outside of the family too like there's like 12 13 writers on the show. You said they know you guys though right? Yeah we all know they're family friends like the showrunner we he the showrunner wrote Major Payne with my dad he wrote on my

wife and kids with my dad so. The a chance strangers get a chance to yeah we got some strangers in there doing it the way yeah black people should do it I agree and I think that you know and and we're not bringing in stragglers like we're bringing people that contribute into the project they're not just being like they're not just there because their name is Wayans they're actually like contributing and being really good Keenan juniors in the writers room, which is he's so damn funny My brother Michael the writers room. It's just it's just great man This is the closest thing I've come to Being on a show that I have control over like I always kind of envy my family

Because like the first generation, because they got to come in as themselves. Like this is who we are within Living Color. Like this is who we are, take it or leave it. This is funny to us. Like I've been an actor for higher my entire career. So I've been funny in spots, but you can only be as funny as they allow you to be.

And so I love that this is kind of like the next best thing. You know, it's still my dad's baby, but I get to contribute a lot and he's very collaborative so yeah. When did you feel like you started to make your own name for yourself? Like people started saying oh that's not Damon Wayans son that's actually Damon Wayans Jr. I feel like when I had the Happy Ending show and then I booked the New World show at the same time right and so there was like a whole Uproar about that not that that was pretty cool because happy endings was my first the first show I ever auditioned for and then new Girl was the second show I ever auditioned for so I felt like I was like oh I got there's something and

And then after that I just felt like I can do my own thing Are you gonna be part of the toy that they're doing they're doing a tour? Yeah, the way you know about the comedy tour? No, all of them together. They don't be telling me nothing. I'm second generation. Nah, they barely told us. We just thought you knew and was gonna drop in here. No, I saw that clip.

I think... Yeah, yeah! I saw that clip. You are so well composed. We kept it. We kept it. No, what I was gonna say is I think it's something else. I don't think it's a tour.

I think it's something else. Lemon color, new reboot? I can't say. say is I think it's something else. I don't think it's a tour. I think it's something I can't say but what I think it is But if it is what I think it is is gonna be fire We know that but like it just happened to be something to immortalize the wings I think like the way is needed 30 for 30 or something like, you know what I'm saying? I love you though. Like do they do that for I've never seen yeah, I mean, I'll be be though but no it's gonna be it's uh, it's either like it's like something on TV or film I think what's it called? I don't know. I can't say too much As soon as it drop he gonna be the host and we gonna be like he was in here like but I gave more than he did

This is your time to shine this matter what they did to you last time It wasn't even here. they put your picture on things. You strong man. You should just blow it up right now. No I can't say because I don't know if it's true because if I say something that is wrong, I'm going to look like an idiot. I get it. So they don't even tell me that much. I hear like whispers. My family is a gossiping ass family man. Well salute to you for continuing to carry the torch the right way.

Thank you, man. And salute to y'all, man, because I came here, I forgot how many years ago. At least over a decade, I think. And then to see what you guys became is just phenomenal, man. Appreciate you, brother. Papa's House, Mondays, 8.30 on CBS. Make sure you check it out. You can stream it on Paramount Plus as well.

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