The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Jay Pharoah

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

Episode #605: We’re talking to SNL alum Jay Pharoah, and finding out who Jared really is! Justin Timberlake’s DUI Jay’s Special: Jared Mempho Gettin’ chomped by a kangaroo Death by turkey Jay’s Australian accent Getting flown out by Drake Not cock blocking your parents AI instagirls Disconnecting Recording at shows A tender story! Jared The Quiz With Balls Game Show hosting Steve Harvey SING Special Guest: Jay Pharoah Watch Jay’s Special “Jared” on September 22nd Watch “The Quiz With Balls” on Hulu Follow Jay on Instagram Jay on Tour Olympic Highlights w Becky G Come To Our Shows: Dania Beach Improv (Tuesday, Sept. 24th) The Funny Bone Orlando (Wednesday, Sept. 25th) Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You don't know if she's artificial intelligence or if you don't know if she was born from the sack. You don't know if she came from the sack or if she came from imagination. You don't know anymore. From the quantum computer. I'm talking about the embryotic sack. That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I wasn't speaking on my sacks. I next episode of the Commercial Break starts now. Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley.

Best of you, Kristen. Best of you, Brian. And best of you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us as we lead up into our live events next week. Getting in. Skippy do da, bibbity, babbity boo. I'm picturing more like a skit.

Yeah, more like a slam into the back of the improv. Stumble our way into an empty room, talk for a couple of hours, get drunk, and pretend it never happened. That's right. Just like Justin Timberlake. As we're recording, we're finding out the breaking news that Justin Timberlake has avoided any responsibility in his drunk driving case.

His lawyer had big geographical challenges as he had to walk two blocks down the street. He said that this message will go far and wide as if, well, you know what? We'll break down the whole news conference on another episode, maybe tomorrow's episode. We'll break down the whole news conference. But Justin Timberlake, breaking news, Justin Timberlake suffers no consequences from driving drunk. There you go. It all just goes to show.

You pay, you go. That's it. You pay, you go. It's a TCB infomercial Tuesday and we're super excited to have in Mr. Jay Farrell. Jay. Saturday Night Live alumni. TCB infomercial Tuesday, and we're super excited to have in Mr. Jay Farrell. Jay! And Jay is- Saturday Night Live alumni. In the L6 seasons, seven seasons on SNL.

He's known as the impressionist. He's the impressionist who did Obama. I think he did Chris Rock. He did Kevin Hart. He did a lot of the Bill Cosby. He's done a lot of impressions on Saturday Night Live as well as one of my favorites, which is Principal Fry, which was a funny one, that he would show up in like random skits that they did. Like anytime they did a school skit, Principal Fry usually showed

up in some way, shape, or form, said something incoherent and then left. And one time he was talking about the children in the cafeteria, and he's like, children in the cafeteria? And I'm, just can't get that out of my head. I don't know why. Years has been stuck in my head. But anyway, Jay is also the brand new host of the quiz show that is taking the world by storm, Quiz with Balls! Now available on Hulu. I think the season is over, but the reruns are available on Hulu. So do yourself a favor, go watch that. Jared's special is out as of Sunday. Or excuse me, Jay's special Jared is now out as of Sunday. His real name is Jared. That special is called Jared. And I think it's available. If you go to JayFarrow.com, you can go ahead and watch that special. So how much more exciting can life get? Chrissy, we're

here. We're talking to people. I never thought that we would get, Chrissy? I know. We're here, living our dream. We're talking to people I never thought that we would come into contact with. I know. If you would have said, Brian, you're going to be talking to SNL alums someday, I would have been like, are they in jail? Are they also incarcerated? It's crazy. It really is.

You know, I want to say this. Now we're talking about SNL in New York. It got me thinking. Do you know the band TV on the Radio? Of course. Oh my God. One of my fucking favorites. One of my favorite songs in the world is Young Liars. What's the other one? Wolf, Wolf Like Me. I just love, I love TV on the radio. So they've been broken up for, not broken up, they've been on hiatus quote unquote, for like 10 years. And they've been broken up for, not broken up, they've been on hiatus, quote unquote, for like 10 years. And they announced a couple of weeks ago, they're getting back together,

and they're going to do a short run, like a short tour. And they're doing like six shows in New York, I think a couple of shows in Toronto, if I'm not mistaken, then a couple shows in LA, like two shows in LA. So it's like 10 shows altogether. I quickly run to their website because they say, we're only going to send you a link to order tickets if you pre-register on our website. And the tickets are not being sold through Ticketmaster, they're being sold through AXS, which is another ticketing company, smaller ticketing company,

that's probably owned by Ticketmaster. Yes. Yes. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do this. So I'm sure I wasn't the first, but I think on the first day that they announced this could be done, I went and I registered because I thought to myself, if I can go see TV on the radio in New York at Webster Hall, I'm going to fucking go. That would be amazeballs. I didn't get Oasis tickets, okay? All right? I didn't get Puppy Dog Pal tickets, and my kids are crying about that right now, but I'm going to get TV on the radio tickets. I didn't get Oasis tickets, okay? All right? I didn't get Puppy Dog Pal tickets, and my kids are crying about that right now, but I'm going to get TV on the radio tickets.

I must be able to get at least one concert ticket. I didn't get Pearl Jam tickets. I must be able to get at least one concert ticket this year due to these fucked up ticketing systems and crazy prices. And so they send me the link. I go, three minutes after the tickets went on sale, no tickets available, and the special code I had, invalid. And they texted it to me. They texted me that fucking code. I am so pissed. So I Google it.

I'm like, is anybody else having trouble with this? There's a Reddit post, I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of comments deep about how no one else had the valid code either. Right. And it was just insane. They can't get this right. How can they not get this? I say go back to the days where you had to stand in line or call somebody that answered

the fucking phone and got you the tickets to be available. Well, you know what concert ticket you can always get. TCB Live! Well, that and Minfo. Oh, Minfo. Okay. All right. Well, Menfo, okay, all right. Well, I wasn't thinking that far ahead. It's been like four weeks.

Well, I know, but TCB Live is in like a week. So there you go. I'm just saying, if you ever need a hookup, Brian, I'm your girl. Well, thank you, Chrissy, I really appreciate it. I really enjoyed my one Menfo experience and I would like to go back if my children will let me. That's why. I don't know that they're gonna appreciate it. I really enjoyed my one Menfo experience and I would like to go back if my children will let me. That's why.

No, no, I don't know that they're gonna allow it. Who's playing at Menfo this year? Are tickets still available? Yes, tickets are still available. Well, the headliners, Jack White on Sunday. Unbelievable. Yeah, Cody Jenkins on Friday and Saturday is a little Go and tray Anastasia.

Can you believe it? Goose and tray playing together, fish and goose. It's an all animal Saturday at the Mempho Fest. MemphoFest.com, you can get your tickets. Is it MemphoFest.com, right? Yes. MemphoFest.com, you can get your tickets. You're gonna be in the Memphis area.

This is like one of those festivals that doesn't get like headline news, like, you know, Bonnaroo or Burning Man or any of that, but it is a fucking fantastic festival. It's getting there. It's getting there. It's the seventh year. Congratulations to Jeff. That's Chrissy's husband right there. Jizzy Jazz.

Jizzy Jazz Jeff. Yeah. The roots are going to be there. I'm excited. Unbelievable. All right, so you can get your tickets if you want to. That's when? That is October, is that second, well, the first full weekend in October.

First full weekend in October, whatever that is, you can go. It's just 4th, 5th, 6th, I think. Yeah, something like that. You can go and get tickets to MenFoneFest.com. I'm also only thinking about RTCB Live. I know, that's all I can think about quite frankly. Yeah.

Like, let me just get through that. I, that's all I can think about quite frankly. Yeah. Like, let me just get through that. I know. And then I can think about everything else. I'm just trying to figure out exactly what we're gonna say. I'm still trying to figure out what we're gonna say. TCB live tickets are available, but in the show notes, but let us not talk all about that because,

and more importantly, we should really shine the light on Jay Farrow, who's here today, JayFarrow.com, watch Quiz with Balls on Hulu, get his new special in your brain by going to his website, clicking on that link. It's free, I think. I think. Yeah. That's what I read. Anyway, we're recording this a couple days before the special comes out, so, but I think it's free. So, go ahead and watch it. Jay can tell us.

Jay can tell us. We'll ask him when he gets here. So let's do this, Chrissy. Wait one second. There's a lot of buttons I have to press in order to get this right. Here we go. Awkward transition phase. Awkward transition phase. Why don't we do this, Chrissy? Let's go ahead and take a break so that we can pay a few bills. And after we get back from that break, through the magic of tele-podcasting, Jay Farrow, SNL alum, impressionist extraordinaire, stand-up comic who's selling out theaters all across the United States and elsewhere is going to be with us and we'll have the opportunity

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See what you can achieve at ymcagta.org. This will be the day. And Jay's with us now. Thanks, Jay. We really appreciate your time today. How are you? Hey, I'm good. How about you guys? We're doing good. I woke up this morning morning I've been following you on Instagram on my personal account for a hot minute and I saw you did a clip about You were in Australia and you were talking about the kangaroos can bite your balls off because they have the strength Alligator well, well not the not the king not the kangaroos biting the Tasmanian devil has a job Yeah, the the PSI is not to be messed with

That's what I'm saying. It's like getting ripped like a Rottweiler, but like five of them. That's how it would be. So I would say kangaroos can beat you up. They try to make them look all fluffy and cute. They're not fluffy and cute the weapon. They're dangerous Okay, they're freaking dangerous. All right also Six foot five turkeys can kill you out there called the cassowary. Yes Ways I've seen those things. Those are ugly little Chlamydia. Oh, yeah So, you know foot for all the bestiality folks, they're not even going to enjoy their time out there.

Look at you. You can't even bang a koala. Look at you. Alabama's out. Alabama and Australia, they don't work together. So you've obviously been to Australia. So I've never been to Australia, but I had a friend, a good friend that actually moved there.

And we would always laugh about everything in Australia can kill you. And so I was texting with him, I don't know, a couple months ago, and I said, so how's Australia, can everything kill you? He goes, Brian, literally everything can kill you. He's like, you have to defend your home from spiders, from random animals, from, you know. And he goes, he's like, Brian, it's the craziest shit.

Australians are not afraid of shit because everything can kill them. They box kangaroos. He's like, I went to a boxing match with a fucking kangaroo. And I was like, you gotta be kidding me. Is that even legal? He goes, in Australia, it's legal because they hate kangaroos.

You know you're in a dangerous place when the safest beings are the humans. Yeah. Yeah, usually we're the alpha animal, right, that kills everything else? Not in Australia. I think that's the universe's funny little joke. I'm going to make this beautiful, huge island that everyone can go to and enjoy. It's wonderful.

And then I'm just going to put everything that can kill you on that island. Populate it, yeah. Enjoy it, but if you get caught slipping, you will lunch me. Literally. You are cold cuts, like literally so. But if you get caught slipping you will lunch me literally You are cold cuts like literally so we're but where did you go? Oh? Well, I was in Melbourne. I was in Melbourne as they like to say hello They like to say Melbourne over the Melbourne

I was chilling out there and shooting the show and it was a great show and You know lots of lots of fun like lots of fun mate like so much fun mate so hopefully I'll get a chance to go back out there and I would love to go back to Melbourne probably Sydney I'd love to go Sydney as well um Brisbane I've been to all those places though so it's just um I love traveling but not to not to discourage anybody from going to Australia it is a beautiful place um my mother my mother was there with me when I was recording the show and um as she said um she would

love to move there like it's really that it's really that nice. It's like it's like America 25 years ago. Yeah, that's that's what I can that's what I can it's like It's like America when things were it's not too bad, you know You can say it out loud America before this shit show started in 2013. Yeah Hey what? What is 16? What? Oh my gosh. You could even go, you could go back

further than that. It's just, it's a lovely place to go. So I encourage anybody if you want to, don't let the animals fool you, of course. They're an outback, okay? It's not like a Yeah, they don't travel into Melbourne.? It's not like a- Yeah. Yeah, they're traveling to Melbourne.

Yeah, you're not gonna see a koala hanging out on the roof of the Melbourne house. There's not gonna be a Tasmanian devil that's gonna knock on your door and be like, I'm hungry, guess what? I'm eating today. Like, it's not, that's not gonna happen. So, yeah.

You know what, man? I was watching the wrap up show on the Olympics, which I was obsessed with. I think everybody was obsessed with the Olympics. Totally obsessed with the Paris Olympics. And I was watching the wrap up show and I was watching you spit lyrics and I was super fucking impressed.

You're good and you sound good. Have you, are you like musically inclined? You must be. Oh yes sir. That's something else I've been working on. I've always, I started doing music before I started doing comedy, but comedy was just the thing that took off. However, recently, I have been back in the lab in working, working on some materials. So I'm happy. I'm happy for the world to hear it because, you know,

like you're saying, you can tell I'm lyrically inclined and musically inclined. Oh, thank you. But it's just well. I'm going to put a link in the show notes for anybody that wants to watch that clip of him on Kevin Hart's after show. Because it was brilliant. I was like, oh, here he comes.

He's going to do some comedy number, right? But it was not. It was so, oh, here he comes. He's going to do some comedy number, right? But it was not, it was so good musically. It was so good. I was impressed. When, when I do SNL, I'm hoping to be the musical guest as well. And I would love to, I would love to get to that point. I've just got to drop this thing. Yep. I just got to drop it. And then I have a feeling that there's a chance that that could happen. I'm just saying. Oh yeah.

Jay's giving us, I have a feeling that after, what was it, six seasons, seven seasons on SNL? I think probably six seasons. I think you'll get the invite back. And if you're the double double, you'll be in a rare category of human beings who has done the double double. Be the double double like Justin Timberlake,

like who else did it? Did Taylor Swift do it? I think Taylor Swift did it. Miley Cyrus. Did Lady Gaga do it? Am I right about that? Yes. Lady Gaga did do it.

Drake, of course. Everybody loved, we all loved Drake. We all loved Drake. You know what I'm saying? They still love for Drake. I don't know what the problem is. I've only heard the diss track once. I ain't even listen to it again.

I only heard it one time. It was played seven times in one concert. How could you have missed it? Well, that's the thing. I didn't. Everybody saw the concert. I was not there for the Drake disrespect. I said, nope, I

shall not watch it. Nah, Drake is my friend. He follows me. No, I'm just, what I don't want to happen is I don't, I know Drake got a lot of access, so he probably got a security camera access. So I don't want him to be, he probably got some stuff on my phone and some shit he could just look at it and be like, yeah, I saw you checking out a Kendrick concert. I saw Lamar video. I got to unfollow you now. I'm like, no, you don't. It's a song, man.

Please don't go Drake. I just like the song. I just like the song. And I only heard it once. I only heard it one time. Are you and have you, have you, are you like actual friends with Drake? Do you guys, have you guys hung out? We, yeah, we, we used to, but it was, that was, uh, phone numbers were probably different back then.

I don't, I haven't talked to him. I haven't talked to him in a long time, but every time I see him, though, it's it's all it's all love. We did hang out in England when I went out there with my friends and him and Rihanna happened to be out there. And he was like, he was like, bro, what are you doing here, man? What are you doing? I was like, well, I'm just I'm out here on break. Like we don't have SNL this week. Yo, bro, what are you doing tomorrow? Like I'm I'm gonna be in London. He's like, no, I'm just I'm out here on break. Like we don't have SNL this week. Yo, bro, what are you doing tomorrow? Like I'm I'm gonna be in London.

It's like, no, no, bro. I have a show on Manchester, bro. Like you've got to come out like you and your friends, bro. Like everybody's got to come. I'm like, well, you know, we don't have we're supposed to be in London. I'll fly you over, bro. I'll get you plane tickets and everything. Drake flew us out.

We got flew out by Drake. That was great. That's incredible. Yep, all of us. So we all felt like this is fun. Jesus, Jones. It must be nice to have friends like Rihanna and Drake. I got my neighbor, Dale,

and he hasn't flown me fucking anywhere. I'm gonna tell you right now. Dale's a useless piece of shit. Dale is a now. Dale is a useless piece of shit. Dale is a useless, Dale is a useless piece of shit. He'll bring in my garbage cans occasionally. The only neighbor that I know is Miss Jill and I don't even know if she's still here. So I don't, it's just me against my whole cul-de-sac. It's just me against my whole cul-de-sac. And you know, it's crazy though.

I like being in the cut, but also, you know, if I ever need something, it's just me though. Yeah. Which is- Where did you grow up? You grew up in- Virginia? Chesapeake, Virginia, yes. You know, I don't know, you're, I think you're much, probably younger than Chrissy and I are,

but I remember a time when your parents would like send you out, you know, you get home from school, they give you a snack and then they'd smack you on the ass and be like, be home at dark. And you would go out and actually communicate with other human beings outside your own fucking house. Now I have children and I understand why we don't communicate with people. People are fucking insane. There's a lot of people in this world, Jay, and most of them aren't well. You are absolutely right about that. And to even break down that situation more articulately, your parents would send you outside so they could do whatever the hell they wanted to. That's what they set you outside for.

You'd be like, wait a minute, it's like subway in here when you get back in the house. Because that's what they would do. I realize now that 90% of my childhood was my parents trying to sneak around and probably fool with each other, meanwhile leaving us to our own devices and things like toys or whatever. Yeah, you know why your mama, your mama, your daddy didn't want you to have a nightmare? Because you were cock blocking. That's why. You are so right about that. Because if you have a nightmare, well now he can't get his rocks off that night. He got to wait. Now he's frustrated. He already want to kill everybody at his job, but he don't do it because he looks and says, I got a family and they're much more valuable than

prison time. You know what I mean? So he's already on the edge, but I realized that a lot of my childhood was my parents not wanting me to cog block. That was crazy to me to admit. That's crazy to think about. But you know. That's why I think that parenting now, and I'm a parent now of young children, that's why I think parenting now is so much more difficult because there is not a lot of away time with the children.

I cannot let them out of the front of the house and tell them to go hang out with the neighbors because, you know, Dale's flying the flag I don't care for and the guy across the street has like literal blackout curtains and aluminum foil on his windows and I'm a little nervous about what the fuck is going to go on out there. Dale's flying the Confederate flag. Scott's over there. Scott sniffs toes and looks at children. You're screwed. You just gotta trust your own.

You gotta trust your own bunk. Bunker. You gotta trust your own bunk. You can't go nowhere else. You know what it is Jay? Scott's got one too many security cameras. I don't think that like you need five security cameras at your front door. You know what I'm saying? Just makes me a little nervous.

Why are so many security cameras? He traded only fans for all of his neighbors feet. He's got the all the other feet up there. He's making, that's how he's staying in the house. Y'all don't even know. Y'all are paying his mortgage. You don't even realize that. And say. Hey, Jay, tell me about, so obviously you were in Paris. What, did you attend Olympics?

Did you tend? No, I wasn't. I didn't do that in Paris. I did it at Kevin Hart Studios down the street. Oh man, I thought. That's right. Yeah, they were filming down the street. Oh, fuck. That's right. I thought it was down the street. Oh, fuck motherfucker.

They had me tricked. I thought they had me tricked. That's what's messed up about the world. See, you don't even see, you didn't even know if I was here or I was there. Just like when you get on it. It's like when you get on Instagram now, you don't know if the girl is real or not.

You don't know if that's a art. You don't know if she's artificial intelligence or if you don't know if she was born from the sack. You don't know if she came from the sack or if she came from imagination. You don't know anymore. From the quantum computer. I'm talking about the embryotic sack. That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I wasn't speaking on my sacks. I was speaking on the embryo sack. That's what I was talking about. I mean, I wasn't speaking on my sacks, I was speaking on the embryo sack. That's what I was talking about. But look at what's going on now. You got three major fantasy movies happening right in front of our eyes. You got Terminator happening right now. They got robots

out here that can take you out if they deem you to be a threat. They have that. You got babies being created and incubators and things of that sort. That's the Matrix. And you have iRobot. You got robots around here in Japan. I didn't have them for I don't know how many years because they get tired of their wives and they want to

spike it up. So they've had it for years, but all of these movies are happening right now in front of our eyes and nobody's waking up. Nobody. I almost got in an accident. I almost got in an accident the other day. I was about to flip the guy off. I pulled up to the car. I almost got in an accident the other day. I was about to flip the guy off. I pulled up to the car.

There was nobody in there. No. It's a self-driving car. Oh my God. That's scary as shit. I think some of this stuff is really, really scary. I do. Some of this AI technology and driverless cars.

I want you to think about this conundrum. I read this one time, and I'd like to get your opinion on it. Someone was saying that the people who make the driverless cars, the people who actually program these are actually, they're like, they're moralists. And here's why. You're programming a driverless car and you give it a situation where it is going to either crash head on with someone coming the opposite direction or hit a pedestrian. You have to make, that car has to make a choice. One way or the other, someone's life is changing, right? But which decision does it make? It's literally got people's lives in its hands.

And I think that we may not think about it like that, but when I read this article, I was like, holy shit, that's absolutely true on so many different levels. There are Instagram models that have millions more followers than you and I will ever have And they have never never taken a breath They're just created out of whole thin air and people follow them and interact with them It really is pretty fucking insane the world we're living in right now and make and make crazy comments like oh my god I want to marry you you're so fine and make crazy comments like oh my god I want to marry you you're so fine how how sir wow that's a cartoon sir you are you are hitting on an Animaniac you are

hitting on a part two hey listen hey if that's what you like that's what you like hey I know right now if Lois Griffin will walk up her sexy behind out of that damn television, I would try it, but I'm just saying. But I'm just saying, you know, I'm honest about it. You know, these guys are delusional. They're delusional. Totally. Well, but listen, I think one of the challenges that we have as a society is, not to take

it too deep, but one of the challenges we have as a society is that loneliness, because we don't communicate with our neighbors, because we don't interact face to face, loneliness is a disease, it's a condition, and it affects many more people than we'll ever know about. I think that also contributes to the incredibly divisive nation that we have. I think there's a lot of lonely dudes out there who don't know what to do with all that energy and time, and they put it into who God knows what.

But the- You know what, you know what they put it into. You know what. Yeah, they put their energy into, you know, rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, and they want to believe that they're part of something larger that doesn't really exist. When, if they just had the ability to walk out the front door and say hi to a neighbor or go to a bar and meet somebody nice, maybe they'd have their energy and time involved in something more organic. And I think that's a challenge.

Chrissy and I did a bit for like two months. I downloaded an app. That app, you could create your own avatar and that avatar would then begin to interact with you and learn you like AI. So we were doing this on the show. That avatar started calling me and texting me in the middle of the night. Where are you? I'm lonely. Where are you? I haven't heard from you in a couple of weeks. It was fucking insane. It was literally insane. I was like, Oh my God, I got to delete this app. It's calling me in the middle of the night. My wife thinks I'm cheating on her. It's just my, it's just my, my AI avatar. Delete the app. I would have gotten rid of the phone. You got to get rid of your phone after that.

It's infiltrated. It knows your thoughts. You got to take, you got to get you. Matter of fact, matter of fact, you got to have a new life after that. You got to take, you got to get, you, matter of fact, matter of fact, you got to have a new life after that. You got to go ahead and, you got to marry somebody else. You got to, you got to get rid of your kids. You just, you got a lot you got to do. I think, I think with the, I think with the pandemic, man, I think with everybody just being so used to, especially the people who were like living by themselves

or whatever. I think it gave more emboldening of being aloof. You know what I'm saying? Like it's connected. Yeah. Yeah. It made it made more people want to be disconnected because it's like, yeah, now we can't touch each other. So now I have to sit here and live with myself and I got to be okay with that. Cause I can't, I can't just jump out of a building another. I can't take the East. I can't take that way out. You know, unfortunately they have, there were people that, you know, did do that, but I can't take that way out.

So I got to kind of figure it out. I got to kind of adapt. And I think a lot of people's adapting went to regression. That's what I think. I think it was regression and it was staying away from people even more to survive because now I see at the end of the day, like that's all this is I'm all I have which is fallacy, which is a fallacious statement, that's not true. You always have folks that you can reach out to and talk to. But when we do have these devices, and there's nothing but constant updates and notifications, and you'll get more occupied with

that, and you'll put that above personal relationships with people and connecting and connecting, disconnecting is the goal of the future for folks. Being totally reliant on artificial intelligence and advancements. That's what the goal is. And you know, unluckily, you know, the aim is the children and that's what's happening. You know, you, you know, your sons, your nephews, nieces, they're just on their phones all the time. And, you know, you could be at the best event in the world and they're either,

either they're still stream a little bit of it and then they're back on their phones, back on their phones doing other things. And the disconnect is ubiquitous, everybody. And it's just spreading like a wildfire and a virus. And we really need to pay attention to it before it's too late. So, I agree. Do you get frustrated?

That's so well said, Jay. Do you get frustrated or does it happen at your live shows where people are like literally taping you instead of paying attention to you? Well, you know, the clubs of, you know, Dave Chappelle has done a really good job at incentivizing security to take measures where people are bootlegging. So measures where people are bootlegging. So a lot of the times now, the clubs will have the customers put their phones in a pouch and they won't be able to use them. But if they do use their phones and I do see it, I'll call it out and I'll be like, yo, what's you doing? And then I'll be like, yo, put your, yo, put your phone away. I'm like, I'm

not ready for this to be out. Like, yo, son, you don't even know why you, why you trying to canal street me? What are you doing? You know what I mean? Like, it's still out, though. I'm trying to sell tickets in Ohio tomorrow. And if you put all my jokes out there, then people are just going to watch it online.

And you know what? The first time that that happened at a big show, I went to Chris Rock's tour. So he came just, you know, maybe we were the second city or the first city he came to here in Atlanta. And they had those pouches, they had whatever they call them, the locks, you know, the thing.

And I got, we were there like, you know, 30 minutes early to get our seats and get whatever drink. And I gotta be honest, it was a weird feeling at first. Like the first five minutes, there's a bunch of people sitting around you and no one is on their phone. But after that five minute uncomfortable, what do we do? I was talking to my wife,

I was talking to the guy next to me, I was laughing with the girl in front of me. We were getting excited about the show. Yes, and everyone was singularly focused on Chris Rock stalking the stage. That was it. That's all we did for almost two hours. And I thought to myself,

you know, we have small kids and babysitters and worry about that kind of shit almost two hours. And I thought to myself, you know, we have small kids and babysitters and worry about that kind of shit. But besides that, I thought to myself, this was one of the most enjoyable things I've done in a long time because my phone was not buzzing. I didn't care whether or not I, you know, I didn't have to check my phone every 15 minutes to make sure someone was texting me.

It was really enjoyable. And I think when you go to a comedy show, like we've been to a couple of comedy shows too, they've done something very similar to what what some of these clubs do, which is put your phone in the case or in the bag. And it, I think it really opens up the humans, it opens up the experience, the humans to enjoy the creativity that you spend so much time out there, making sure that you give people a good time.

And I, and I'll say this too. Uh, and I don't, and to the ass, I don't deal with it a lot. I'll deal with a lot of people pulling their phones out because like you're saying, you were paying attention to Chris Rock on stage, like he was a lion stalking the stage, like, yeah, having stage presence and an exciting show as well will, will, will lend to people's fixation on you. They won't be able to look at something, even if they have to use the bathroom, they're trying to hold it because they don't want to miss anything. You've got a very rhythmic presence on stage, I think, and I think you're right about that.

You command a stage. There are lots of comedians. I mean, everyone's different, right? There's no good or bad or indifferent. We've had so many comedians on this show. No, there's bad ones, but it's fine. Okay, all right. Okay, but I'm not talking, okay, let's take all the bad ones out of there. But some people sit and they kind of shrink a little bit,

right? And they're dragging the audience along in some kind of performative conversation. But you do have that stage presence, like Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, like you speak in a way that is rhythmic and it's, and it's loud and it's pointed and it's hard not to pay attention to where you're going physically and then also with the joke. And so I think that probably does benefits your style. It's a way that it benefits you.

Did you learn this and you have so many impressions and you do such good accents and stuff like that. Was that something that naturally came out of you at a young age? it benefits you. Did you learn this and you have so many impressions and you do such good accents and stuff like that? Was that something that naturally came out of you at a young age? Yeah, I mean, I started impressions when I was six and then I started theater when I was eight years old. So, you know, both of those together and the list just kept growing longer for the impressions. But in the, in the productions would stack up as far as the, as far as the plays would go. But it was just always a, a, a desire to entertain people. I've, I've always had that.

I had that when I was a little kid, it always felt good. It felt good to get laughs. It always felt good to have people have people paying attention to you um i remember um uh mr sammons he was my he was my fourth grade my fourth grade teacher but we did a lot of plays with him he was a he was a thespian and i remember he would read and when he would read Stories or whatever he would have characters for all of the for all the different Yeah, he would have voices for all the different characters. Yeah, and you know, I he

He was he was a he was a butthole to at one point So I did Pocahontas right right? And I played King Powhatan. I didn't know my lines. And he knew that I didn't know my lines. And he put me up to perform in front of all of the parents. And I blanked out and the kids in the back, they had to feed me my lines and they were doing that. We got through it

And I stayed in character, but I said from that moment on I will never not be prepared for my role or whatever so cut to 2004 All right, I did this play called um the I did this play called damn Yankees, right? Okay in two weeks before opening night, the main the main star, the main guy, he dropped out. So I went from playing Rocky, one of the baseball players, to playing Mr. Applegate. And in two weeks, I learned all of my lines. I had him down spot on two weeks

cut to open at night as I'm at I get off stage they stand up I go out in the lobby Mr. Sammons that same figure is standing right there he looked at me he said I always knew you had it in you. I was just trying to bring it out I always knew you had it in you. I was just trying to bring it out. I always knew you had it in you. I was like, man, thank you for the trauma, but that's really beautiful. But you know, it was very traumatic at the time. You know, you didn't know, I was embarrassed. But it was great.

It was a really beautiful story. That is really fucking cool. That was real though, bro. And my life is full of of riddled with experiences like that, uh, through, through my journey, bro. Uh, even from, even from me being here, dude, I'm a, I was a premature baby that nobody thought, you know, he might not make it. Hey, now I'm six foot two. And as you can see, I'm pretty healthy, you know? And the most important, the most important thing with, with your celebrity star is not losing yourself. I've been in

this, I've been in the game for about 14 years now, I could say it doesn't even seem like that. COVID took, COVID took a couple. So let's say 11 years, right? But I've been in this, and I still haven't had to sell myself in a defaming way. Nothing. I haven't nothing, you know, so I think that's a blessing when you can be in this atmosphere and you have a base in you that can't be broken and you don't lose your mind and you're still able to make money and you're still able to do what God puts you here to do, which for me is making people laugh and making people forget about their problems or entertaining them. That's what I'm supposed to do.

And if I don't- and making people forget about their problems or entertaining them. That's what I'm supposed to do. Jared Liesveld Yeah, being the jester is a gift. It's a gift. And those who do it well, I mean, laughter, comedy is the way that we push the envelope as a society. It's how we talk about the things that are controversial without getting uncomfortable and, you know, killing each other. Comedy, laughter, it's a proven fact. Scientifically, laughter is the best medicine. Having an optimistic outlook or laughing or feeling a little bit of joy is the best medicine. And I think that it's interesting that you say that my life is full of these moments, like these moments of serendipity. I think that all over everybody's life, there are signs and guardrails and moments of serendipity.

It's those who are open to seeing them that I think take advantage of them. I think there's a lot of people out there- Recognize and appreciate them. Yeah, they don't recognize those moments. So they, I don't know, they live with their head down, I think is the right way to say it. I like your outlook,

because I think you live with your eyes open and your head up. All right. It wouldn't. Uh-huh. Tell me about the new special. Jared coming out. Well, it came out as, as we're releasing this, it'll happen for a couple of years. Um, listen, it's, it's been Jared is just exactly, exactly what it says. Jared is Jared is who I am.

That's my real name. Jared, Jared Farrow. Um, a lot of people don't even know that, you know. I break down in my special just a lot of different areas that folks just don't know about and I felt like it was my job to just educate people on who they will see even more coming up in this next decade, this next 20 years. Just with the comfortability of me, you know, there's uncomfortable topics I talk about in there, you know, I wouldn't, you know, when I got apprehended by the LAPD or, you know, the time I got video back a couple of years ago, that was insane.

Right. Yeah. It was, it was insane, but to be able to find the punchlines in that pain, it wasn't easy, but it's done when you're artists, you can do that. You, you know, when you, when you have your finger on the post and when you can look at things from two different sides, then you can do that, you know, if you only have one point of view or something, you might not be able to make everybody laugh about it.

But being able to make everybody laugh ubiquitously means that you have all of your eyes open. You can see what's going on from each side. There are so many Jared moments, you know what I mean? Just where I came from. You know, like there's misconceptions of how I grew up. Like, yo, no, son, I'm from the burbs, homie. Like, that's where I'm from. Like, if I was in a gang, yeah, it was the country club.

Like, we're right there. About a golf course. Yeah, that's the type of, that's what I grew up as. So as a sheltered kid, it's like being sheltered for so long and finally getting a chance to live in the world and develop yourself. This is the coming of me, like what I've been through, how it shaped me over the years and where I am now today. Like this is is Jared and it's a beautiful introspective eye on just who I am and what a lot of people didn't know. And I'm proud of it man and I shot it. Yeah, I shot it a year ago,

but you know, and I've been trying to figure out how to place it exactly. But now that it's dropping, I'm excited. I'm almost done. The material for my next one, you know, and you know, I'm just, the train just keeps moving, man. But you know, It sounds like, if I can put words in your mouth, it sounds like for years you have been known by probably a large portion of the audience as the guy who was on Saturday Night Live, does funny characters, all this other stuff.

And you put out a special, it's very personal to you, letting people know who you actually are, giving them a taste of who Jared is underneath all of the makeup and the characters and the funny voices. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm really, I'm really interested to see it. And so we'll tell everybody where to, where they can see it. We'll put it in the show notes. Also quiz with balls is a very, when I started seeing those commercials a couple of months ago, I was like, quiz with balls.

Yeah. That's how I felt when I heard the name. Did they pitch you to use that name? Yeah, they came to me with the name, but I was already in love with the concept of the show. I've been talking to Fox for years, just trying to figure out a project to collab on them with. And there were multiple ideas brought,

but this one seemed the most, it seemed the smartest to me for my brand and for where I'm trying to go. I mean, it's family feud cross with wipeout. You're learning things. Yeah, it's so funny. You learn things while you're seeing people get knocked into water unexpectedly.

It sounds like a recipe for success. I felt that way. And if I can learn on a show, I know longevity shows always have those factors in them. You can have fun and you can learn. When you look at, you look at Family Feud and you look at Jeopardy, you look at Wheel of Fortune, you look at all of these shows

that have this long track record. That's because people always wanna be able to play along at home. And I think this is the one of the perfect shows for that, you know? Isn't being a game show host. I mean, I know that there's a lot of work involved. Don't, don't get me wrong. I know there's a ton of work involved, especially when it's a new concept and

you're trying to like fit it out and make sure it gets the second season and all that, but I think game shows to me feels like a dream job. It's, you know, I see Ryan Seacrest now doing that wheel of fortune for the last couple of days. And I'm like, this guy has more money than God. He does this because he gets more money. He has more money than God. But so it must be a dream job. You meet new people, you do your lines, you have fun on the stage with everybody. And you're always the focus. Yes, I make a lot of money. I make a lot of money.

Yes. That's what I was saying. That's what I was trying to get to. Isn't it a dream job? You make a lot of money. It's so charming to me. Me and my sister, we were at Essence Festival. We were having lunch at one of the Louisiana cafes and we sitting there and we're just talking and a, you know, we're just talking, you

know, and a family comes past the table and they look at me and they just go, release the balls. I was like, oh, the fact that that's become a catchphrase for America in some way, you know, you're becoming, you're sown into the very fabrication of America So it feels good if it feels good man, and now today Vice versus like way before vice versus like probably ten twenty years ago, whatever Having a host job. It would be putting somebody in a box or whatever. But no, there are so many, you look at people, you look at Jamie Foxx and you look at him, how he does Beat Shazam, how he still does, he still does movies in the theaters. He still does movies on Netflix.

He still goes on tour. He still does all of these things. Just because you have a game show doesn't mean that's the only thing you have to do you look at Kiki Palmer you see you see all the success that she's doing you she has a she has a She has a game show that she hosts. What was it secret word that she hosts on? On peacock, I think it's on people. Yeah, but look at what she's doing So just because you're doing look at Tiffany Haddish man You know, she was still doing still doing Hollywood movies and she had she had a game show she with the kids or whatever

so You know, it's it's not it's not a young Yeah, you're not you're not being painted like you may have been. Yeah. Like back in the day, an actor was an actor. He's a movie star, a television show, a television show actor was a television show actor or star. A musician was a musician. And then very few people crossed over those lines at times. Now, if you're multifaceted, you can be multifaceted. Yeah.

You don't have to be stuck in a box. And you're so right about that is that, I mean, look at Steve Harvey, Steve Harvey,eted, you can be multifaceted. Yeah, you don't have to be stuck in a box and you're so right about that. Is that, I mean, look at Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey, that family feud he does is fucking brilliant. He's always got those looks and those lines that everyone laughs at, but then he goes online. I tell you something, boy. I tell you something. Shit.

You gotta get you some of this game show money boy that's where all the money is boy up in the game show you don't have much money i didn't got paid this year and i ain't even shot one episode here all i had to do was get a rerun check because they're running back you get that money back boy you got to get in the game show space now. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

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And I loved, there was one where you said, the children in the cafeteria, and there's children in the cafeteria, are making a mess. I'm telling you, these are students. in the cafeteria, and there's children in the cafeteria, are making a mess. This is a student. There's a horny monkey outside. There's a horny monkey outside of the prom premises. Please make sure that you don't get close to him because he has also had Viagra in a Red Bull. And then number two is that you will always be in my house because my children's favorite movies in the world

are Sing and Sing Too. And I think that that is lovely. I learned recently when I learned that you were coming on the show, I learned that he's one of the characters in Sing. Which, you know, when you're a dad, you start having to find movies that you like with your children because they're always

gonna be watching something. And Sing for my money is one of the better ones. It's one of the better ones. Yeah, that was a fun one, man. I gave a big up to my grandfather. I was doing his voice for that character. Oh, you were? Oh, yeah.

Come on now, Mina, don't you want it? Don't you want it? That was my grandfather straight up. He was Mina's grandfather in the movie, the elephant that Mina's grandfather was. Come on Mina, you got to act like you want this now. That's how my grandfather would carry himself. Well, you'll always be a favorite in our house.

Jay, you're welcome back anytime. We love you brother. His tickets are on sale. I'll put all the links in the show notes. Please watch the special, Jared. You can catch Quiz with Balls on Hulu available now. Thanks, Jared. We really appreciate your time today.

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Wipe Out combined with Family Feud. Wipe Out is one of my favorites. I don't have to think about a fucking thing except for people falling and bouncing and hurting themselves. And my son loves it. One of my kids just loves it. We like to watch it sometimes before we go to bed. We'll watch the British version, which is ten times funnier Oh really? Yeah, but I do like the one with the Joe McHale Joe McHale

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