The Questlove Show - Questlove Supreme: Eric Andre

Episode Date: April 7, 2021

This episode of Questlove Supreme pairs Quest and Team Supreme with a guest like no other. Eric Andre is synonymous with starring in some of your favorite cult classic movies, his boundary smashing performative comedy and his talk show that is truly indescribable. But did you know about his jazz roots? Didn’t thinks so. Take a listen and get to know ALL sides of Eric Andre on this week’s episode of Questlove Supreme. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Relax. This is it. Yeah. Welcome to Questlove Supreme. I want to be like sugar Steve. Like, that's the vibe I'm trying to. No problem. But he's already high.

No one ever said that ever. Shit, I might as well join you all. I'll be right back. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. I'm going to cry. Flowers. Flowers is getting high.

What the fuck is happening? I know. I know. Laia, keep it together. Shit. Wow. Eat a million. I got to see it to believe it.

I need a minute. Please don't do that. Please eat a bunch of mushrooms. Are you eating mushrooms? I'm really about to eat fun. What is your method? I don't even know. Is it a J?

Is it a bowl? I'm trying to guess it. I guess a bowl. I feel I look at your head. I think it's a bowl. Hold on. He just ate something. What did you eat, Marvin Gay?

You got edible. I got a gummy. Edible. I have a hundred joint. Wow. A hundred milligram. Yeah. My talent is just going up.

Yo, Quest Love Supreme exclusive exclusive, scoos, my days of virgin alcohol edible, uh, edibles are over. Eric, we've done the show a hundred times. I can't do the introduction without for.

Wait, you just ate it. He just ate it. It's the first time ever. It's a big moment. It's a big moment. It's never been high with West left Supreme in the back. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We already discussed that I've been doing this for like a year now. But not like my anniversary. All right. Not on the show. Not on the show, though. Not on the show. That is the one. Not to my knowledge.

That's the one drugger. I just want to hug you if you was vaccinated. So ladies and gentlemen, this is a another episode. It's already kicked in maybe. This is Questlove Supreme with Questlove. That's my name. And Fonte is laughing already. Anyway, we have Team Supreme with us.

Laira. Congratulations. On. Oh, well, you got your second shot. I'm congratulating people that got their shots already. I did. It felt really good. I'll stay tuned and see how sick I feel tomorrow, but thank you.

Don't, don't manifest or manifest or man to, you're going to get through this unscathed, unscathed. Which one is you got, you got the Pfizer or the Moderna? Which one you get? Got the old head. You got the Pfizer. Okay. I did funky cold modern.

Oh. Funky cold. You're 80% covered. Yeah. Yeah, man. You know, I should be there. I think anything other than that Astrosinica, that's the only one that's a little janky.

That ain't allowed. That ain't allowed. That's illegal. You're talking illegal stuff now. In Ireland, they don't do that shit. Yeah, they don't. How's it going, Bill? Fucking A. I'm great. Yeah, it's great. I don't have any other than... More Muppets, more...

Yeah, today was a Muppet Day. I wrote a jingle. I worked out a little bit. Oh, my kids are going back to school next week, so I had to watch a video about the safety protocols for going back to school. That was the big thing that happened. So this is the first time they're going back to school in a year? Correct.

And they're terrified and excited at the same time. From 1 to 10, how happy are you right now? 67,000. I got you. All right. Sugar Steve. How's it going, man? I've seen you up to your logo and you got tags on your network right now.

I'm impressed. Who's doing this stuff for you? I don't know what you're talking about. You're high right now, right? The drugs have kicked in. That's regular. You're talking about we just got some, yeah, we got some exciting new graphics happening on the network.

Yeah, I was borderline jealous. I was like, you now have graphics. You got a new record? Can you let the world know about that? Please, I'm sorry. No, well, I'd rather answer the question I was asked. Oh, fuck you then. Plug your record, Steve.

Stop playing. Record stories upon us. Yeah, it's not. officially yet, so I can't, I'm not saying anything. It's Eric Baskin. You're the most under-promoting celebrity I know. Celebrity? Calmed out. I want to promote the

graphics guys from my network. It's at Beat Knock and at Zahir, 1974. Okay. Well, I'm very proud that you know, you up your game and you have a graphics guy. Networked strong, baby. Network tight. Network is strong. Fon Ticalo, how's it going?

I'm good, brother. Landlowe standing out of white people's business. I mean winning I see staying in our white people's business that's that should be our news or should I should I no he's getting to you no no God's sakes do not talk please get you do you feel like you're on your own show right now anyway so let me I'm I'm winging this now oh there's a guest shit all right yeah let's get to the guests our our guest today is an exchange extraordinary gentleman of many talents.

Oh, no. He's done it all. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. His film credits. What are you doing here? We're not even on video. We're going to have to be now.

We're going to have to show. God. Now I wish this episode was the one. He's acting. He's acting a fool on on Zoom, ladies and gentlemen. Uh-huh. War I.

Yeah. So his film credits include my personal favorite movie, which is the invention of lying, the intern with De Niro, the cult classic pop star with Andy Sandberg, and shall I say, a very, very talented drummer, producer, Renaissance man.

He also played Zizi in the Lion King, the live action version, and his TV credits are all the classic suspects like Kirby enthusiasm, Big Bang Theory. Help me out, y'all. Oh, my favorite I got cut too soon. Don't trust the Bean 23. I'm taking my

yes rear one line at a time no I'm serious you've done the classics all that other stuff is embarrassment no it's not take your take your flowers

we're giving flowers on the show take your flowers welcome to botany school take your flowers yeah I'll take I will take all the flowers anyway we're about chicken men man see a woman

Lucas Brothers moving company with with shall I say the same very talented drummer producer Renaissance guy And speaking of that great gentleman, I will say that's probably he is best known as the host of the insanely classic stoner talk show.

Comedy Central, correct? Adult Swim. Adult Swim. Is it its own? Okay, I didn't know that. Oh, remember at a certain time, it turns into Adult Swim. Come on, we tight this conversation.

Cartoon Network. Adult Swim is Cartoon Network, yeah. I mean, but if it's electric blues, still the Playboy Channel, like I didn't know it was a subsidiary. Yeah. Wow. That's a cut.

Deep cut. How old are you right now? That is a deep cut. Anyone over the age of 40 is dying right now at that breakfast. Because we've all been there with our hand on the remote control. Absolutely. Robin Byrd. Where are you, Robin Byrd?

Maybe this gummy was a bad idea. Anyway, yeah. This is a great idea. Who is the guest? All right, I will get to it. Anyway, it shows on Adults swim, the Eric Andre show. I would like to personally say that... Animal Barres, who is it?

Oh, that I will point that if there was a paradigm shift in my 27-year career, you know, I mean, there's been Grammys, has been Associations, Jay-Z, even when in Sundance, no, I will say that as I live and breathe, I will testify that no cameo that I've ever done in my 27 years in this business has given me more bang for my buck than my appearance on this man's show

for there is not no seriously there's not a day that goes by where some damn Gen Z warns me that I'm not in the house and I hate it I love you for it but I hate it I will do

I will do like serious obituary post on Instagram and there's always some little runt born in like 1998 that wants to remind me that anyway ladies and gentlemen please welcome eric and a show that one episode will haunt you for the rest of the career i like that that makes me proud i you know i don't even know how you did it but literally yes that that has been the last three to four was it three four years ago incredible yeah i i like that i'm you from beyond the grave.

Somewhere between two to about 20 people they tell me I'm not in the house. That's so horrible. That's incredible. Yeah, I don't know the power you have over these people, but you know. So right now, you, okay, you just informed us at the top of the show

that you've been doing press. I got a movie coming out on Netflix, March 26. Okay, yes. We never promoted the top. So go ahead. And, uh, Tiffany Haddish got a prank movie coming out that we made with the jackass producers. Wow. My producers, uh, all hitting camera pranks.

Bad trip. It's called next, not this Friday, next Friday. No, actually, yeah, it's already out because this is. It's all, yes. Oh, okay. Well, then it's out. It's a hit. It's a bad trip.

You, you've broken records already. Yes. It's out already. All right. The thing is is that as a human, I don't know you, your story. that well. But I do want to jump to the end and just ask the idea of the

prank show. How do you even strategize that after like two or three years out of it? Because you're a pretty recognizable figure and you know, in... Are you asking how did I do

the fifth season a few years after the fourth season and disguise myself? Well, no, no. I just meant Like, yes, what's the actual rhythm? Because now you're well-known, so I think it's harder to prank people. It's hard to, it's hard, but not impossible. It's for the fifth season of the show, I got rid of all my body hair. So I bicked my head ball, and then I got rid of my facial hair, and I waxed my grundle.

And I gained weight. For the people. You really committed to this shit. Yeah. And I gained a bunch of weight. I bleached my teeth. I did a whole body transformation. With all that weight gained and the hair gone,

I looked like I owned a bodega in Washington Heights. Yes, they used a little tan. Yeah, a little tan. Wait, when did you shoot the fifth season? In Amsterdam, specifically. And so it was kind of like a, almost like a Sasha Baron Cohen approach, where the right disguise will hide your identity

because he was able to do Bruno after he did Borat and then he did Borat again. So like really just kind of hiding in broad daylight. For the movie as well, we had to hide Tiffany Haddish. And Rel. The rel's kind of a chameleon. You put on the right outfit and he kind of disappears. Tiffany, we gave her like face tattoos and cornrows and all of this.

And still nobody figured it out. No, people still, I mean, die-hardtons. fans are always going to figure it out, but we just knew what demographic to avoid. And basically, we didn't prank anybody under 30. Everybody we prank in the movie is like 45 plus. Like a lot of like exhausted moms in the movie. Having done this, having done this for, you know, for almost a decade in your experience, well, one, has this ever gone wrong? Like extremely wrong. Were you like, I'm never doing this again. The first day of filming,

Rell and I got a knife pulled out on us. That was the very first Frank Rell ever filmed. That's just saying you're screening people, but you know. demo. We demo, I guess. I mean, the demo was

resulted in a knife being pulled out on us, I guess. So how far will you take it before you break to let said prank victim know that you know this is for entertainment?

I don't want to get murdered. So probably like before murder before the murder happens. So how did can you tell us how that went? Like so he put the person pulls a knife out and then. Yeah. It's in the movie. Okay. Well yeah. I don't want I don't want you to give the movie away.

But I just meant in general like with your show like yeah. Sometimes. people get upset. Sometimes people get upset. And you kind of want to bring them to the point where they're about to commit. Kill you. Homicide, but then stop the fight before and then bend their mind and that's the, that's the whole point of the show, like to get them right to that point. I don't want to, I mean, it's not about making people angry. It's about distorting their reality and blowing their minds. So it's about adding absurdity and serious. reality into everyday reality.

I love it. Thanks, man. I always wanted to know that. So yeah, the prank that got us in trouble, me and there's a prank, there's a scene in the movie where Relic, my character, Rell's character, we did a bunch of drugs by mistake. We drugged ourselves accidentally, and then

we pass out, we fall unconscious, and we wake up in a park, and our dicks are stuck together in a Chinese finger trap. So then, and it's all hitting camera pranks with real people. So our Dix are stunned the Chinese finger trap. We're like, help, help, get us out of here. We ran up to a golfer for help.

And then we went, we shot a lot of it in Atlanta. And we went to this like real hood barbershop in Atlanta. No, no. We went in with our dicks in the Chinese finger trap. And we went to the guy. We were like, excuse me. I was like giving a guy a haircut, like mid-fade. And we went to the barber.

We go, can we borrow your scissors? Can you cut us out of this thing? It really hurts. And the guy went, Hell no! And, like, reach for his gun. He got to find his gun, grabbed his knife, and then he chases out of the barbershop with a knife.

And me and Rel could barely... It's a prosthetic, but it looks real. And me and Rel can barely run in the thing. We're like, ah! The thing snapped. Rel, like, rolled under a parked car. I ran for my life. And I looked at my security guy who looked like Blade.

Like, Blade. Without the story, he looked like Wesley Snipes in the first blade. So I'm looking at him, like, call the bit, call the bit. And he jumped. like Dragon Ball Z and like stop the guy and did like a weird judo chop like got the knife out of his hand

and then we told the guy we're like, it's a hidden camera prank and he was like oh y'all are hilarious and like sign the release no like with no hesitation he was like once this movie come out man oh it's how to love and then because of that

rel quit the movie this is the first day of filming He's like, I quit, I got kids, I don't want to be killed. And then he called his agent. He's like, I quit. Eric's going to get me killed. Then he called Tiffany Haddish just to vent. He goes, I'm doing this Eric Andrea prank movie.

He's going to get me killed. We got a knife pulled out on us. I can't handle this shit. It's too stressed as well. Tiffany starts dying laughing. She wasn't in the movie at this point. She hung up with Rel. She called me a few minutes later.

You almost got Relil killed? And I was like, yeah, don't tell anybody. And she's like, no, fuck that. That shit's hilarious. I live for that shit. I want to be. What? And the woman that was supposed to play her role just had dropped out because of a scheduling conflict.

So Tiffany's like, I want to be in your movie. And I was like, your wish is my command. And she was incredible in the movie. Like she lives for that prank shit. She loves the danger and all the stuff I love about us. So anyway, that's my story. She does. How do you prepare?

Like, is there a script reading? Do you guys do? Yeah. Not choreography. The show, the movie. the movie we uh you need a story so we wrote like a outline of the story and then all the pranks have to have a narrative thread like we're literally getting plot point from real people who weren't even aware they were in a movie so we're like going up to people and putting them in these high

stress situations but then also mining plot out of them so there is a script kind of it's like an outline because you have to be able to improvise within that outline because obviously you're working with real people who aren't even aware of the film so it's like even broader than what they say the curb your enthusiasm outline is I would assume yeah it's like you know how Sasha Baron Cohen or or the jackass guys kind of do it where you go in with like an idea premise but then once you're filming you don't know anything goes because you got real people interacting with you you don't know what it's going to be yeah you know yeah yeah How many people do you collaborate with you to make these, to write to create these situations?

Like, you bring them over from the Eric Andre show to the movie. Yeah, a lot of, like, we brought, you know, we were working with Jeff Tremaine, who directed all the Jackass movies. So he was our, like, mentor through the whole process. So we brought in, like, people that wrote for Jackass. And Sasha Baron Cohen helped us. So we brought in some of his writers and some people from punked. So it was like all the great prank

and all their writers like coming in helping us with all our problem solving and all the issues we were facing and, you know,

Rell and Tiffany brought a lot of value. My team for my show brought a lot of value and ideas to the table. So it's a big collaborative effort. I see.

Eric, where were you born? Born in Miami, Florida. I grew up. in Boker-R-R-Tone, Florida. Oh. This was your entire family's from. My dad's from Haiti,

and my mom's from Manhattan. Oh, I was so ready to talk about it. Were you the only child, or? No, I have an older sister who's born in Queens. Okay. So you said something to me on the set once. Did I hear you correctly? You told me that you went to Berkeley?

Yeah. School of music. Yeah. I'm assuming that you meant the Boston one, not the one in the Bay Area. I think at the time I thought you meant the Bay Area, but then I realized if a person's telling me they went to Berkeley, they're obviously trying to tell me musicianship. They're not like, yeah, man, social studies.

No, I played an upright bass in college. That was my principal instrument in college. Really? Yeah. So you were considering, a career in jazz or like I was considering a long, hard career in jazz

which really so like can you play portrait of Tracy like for me for bass players jaco Pistoris is or either teen town or portrait of Tracy is like what stairway to heaven is for guitar players when they enter the guitar center like right they have to play it

Jacko was electric so I was always trying to those are electric bass players I was yeah I was always trying to figure out like Mingus baselines Charlie Hayden Scott LaVarro those those like upright players you know Mingus

uh uh black saint and the sinner lady that album is the most musical and like Sunrah his baseball had a lot of good baselines wait guys did I ever let you in on a fact to wait that Christian McBride

dropped on me about Ron Carter? No, go. It's weird to say this because he's still living. I don't want no smoke from Ron Carter, but I'm slowly discovering in the jazz world that Ron's

solo abilities are not that desired in the jazz community. Which most jazz guys, when they look at what hip hop chooses to sample from it, like the number one mystery of all time is like, how in the hell? Like, according to them, that bass solo is so horrible on that McCoy Tyner song that winds up giving us the choice as yours baseline for Black Sheep, that that's the main thing that most jazz bass players bring up to me.

Like, Oh, they're a hater. Come on. Rock, I'm a legend. No, no,

no, no, no, no. He's a legend, but he's a timekeeper. And I didn't, I didn't, I didn't know that he was not considered a good soloist.

And they're like, well, the evidence is that Miles Davis has never given him a solo on any of his records. But the tone of his base. No, I know. He's,

and his bass lines were very samplable. I get it. So, you know, Ron Carter's probably... Not only have we lost the audience, we've lost all your co-stars with... No, no, no, no.

No, no. This is Quest Love Supreme, dude. This is what we do. A style named after him. The whole audience also just went, just went and looked up about five songs and some albums, but... That's Quest Love Supreme.

So who's your... Who's your... Well, besides Mingus, like, who was your... Wait, what year it is? you go to Berkeley? I graduated 2005. Any notable people with you at the time when you were going to school? Like who's notable now that you? Uh, Esperanza and St. Vincent. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Shit. I think, well, my base player, uh, I believe was there at that time.

If St. Vincent was there, then Mark, Mark Kelly was there. My base player in the roots. He was there at time. I would have been in class with them. There's only like 10 of us. Do you remember Mark Kelly? Maybe Mark does that. I don't remember most of college. It's all a blur. It is all a blur.

That's funny. I was going to ask you, when did life become a blur? Because we didn't, we didn't talk about a little earlier in life, but not for, I was like, I wonder what kind of kid Eric was. Like, were you a shy guy? I was bad. I was so hyper. I was real because my sister was so calm and sweet and docile and my mom was like yeah motherhood's easy I'm gonna have one more kid and then I was a nightmare I was that's what happens fucking disaster second child man fuck all that you stop saying that bill hey you when this is all over

and you meet by second child but wait but wait until you're gonna be 24 years old asking us for the master uh reels of all these episodes of QLS she He's going to be scarred regardless. Who cares? Well, wait, but here's the thing, though. I bet you got it better because what's that Eric Andre disaster as a kid? Like, what kind of, what do you mean when you say, like, disaster? I was just always getting detentions and suspension.

I got good grades. I got, like, you know, A's and B's, but I was not well-behaved in class. I was very hyper. So, like. But you didn't set the house on fire or anything, right? Nah, but, you know, I got suspended for mooning my friends. I got suspended for going to school barefoot. I would, like, back my head through the...

Remember that, like, the fire hose thing where you had to, like, only break in case of emergency? Break case of emergency? I would break those. I would, like, bust my head through them all the time. So you were basically just preparing for what you do now. Yeah, like, and just been on an amateur level, not getting paid for it. Wow.

So you're... Pulling a fire alarm. It was like, fucking... I was just like, any way to get in trouble in high school. school. I was like, yes, that's how I'll get in trouble today. You live in a dream. That's dope. Have, like, what of your, and this was in high school, elementary and high school? Yeah, it got worse as I got older. Definitely like when hormones kicked in in middle school

and I knew I could get the pretty girl's attention by acting out and misbehaving. Then it was all over. Then I was put my head through glass and just like. Put a lighter up to the fucking the little, like, sprinkler system. I would think that a, you know, a bass solo could work that, like, you being in a band would have worked that trick out. Not like, let me daredevil my way into your heart. Yeah, no, every band I was in sucked. So I had to use different tactics to get attention. A win is a win.

A win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying. Yep, that's me. Clipper Taylor the Forrest. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated.

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Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man. A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit by a truck.

I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe.

On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest, the director. The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galko, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make, to the players flying under the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else.

If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, for wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slical Life 12 and Tate. TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. After you graduated Berkeley, what started your, I guess, your full commitment into comedy? I kind of retired from music on the same day I graduated from Berkeley.

I was like, well, that's no future for me. And then I started doing comedy as I was finishing college in Boston. And I just moved to New York City right afterwards and just continued doing like stand-up. I mean, it was humble beginnings. I was just doing chicken shit open mics for a decade before anybody paid attention or I got any money for it. Oh, wow. So you pounded the pavement mostly in New York City for your comedy chops? Yeah.

Okay. So can you, besides I guess Wyatt, who I guess you could sort of say he has one foot in like alt comedy and traditional comedy, can you explain not the parameters, but just like how New York City. operates as a comedy testing ground? Like is Brooklyn strictly just for alternative comedy? And what does that really encompass? I don't know. And it's never, I never like the term. It's too like Neo Soul. It's like Neo Soul. It's like Neo Soul. But I mean, you do agree that, I mean, at least from my observation, like I would think that. that the mecca or the epicenter would be the comedy seller. Like, because the thing is,

comedians will have to work out their material somewhere. So usually like the Seinfelds and the hearts and the rocks and whoever is the name it, like they will work out at the comedy seller. Yet, you know, when I go sort of north of 23rd Street, then usually that's where I'll see, I mean, I wouldn't know a, a consistent Vegas name now, but like whoever, the,

I'm really dating myself with this reference, the David Brenner of whoever now is, like that Vegas community usually works out. I know what you're talking about. You're talking about the difference between like a mainstream or an alternative. You know, I think you can get in a rut if you only play show. You don't want to get in a comfort,

you want to stay out of your comfort zone when you do stand up. So you don't want to do any crowd that's already, you don't get used to only performing for crowds that are already on your side. You want to kind of go and play for crowds that don't know you or are more objective. That's how you sustain your comedy muscles. So where would you work out? Some of those alternative rooms, a little too inside Jokey, you want to really like have to prove yourself every time.

Because then by the time you film your special, your materials is like, flawless you perform for every cross-section of America and and you know even the international audiences right so where would where would you work out when you were working on your chops I was hit I hit the road I did a 80 I used to know the number 87 shows in 49 cities internationally hit actually and internationally something like that in a year in in 2019. So then I taped my special at the end of 2019

and aired it 2020 on Netflix. But yeah, it was like, I tried to do every city in America and a bunch of cities abroad. About your stand-up, your special, which I love, by the way. I thought that shit was brilliant, man. No bullshit. The last bit that you did,

Dude, the fucking FaceTime called. Dude. And that was incredible. How do you set that up? That was like pennies from heaven. She like brought up weed. She brought up like different topics that I discussed. I mean, I did it.

I filmed it a few times and a few different moms. We filmed two shows. And each show I did like two or three moms for show until we got that mom. And she was clearly the best one. But yeah, she was amazing. She was giving me her credit card information and shit. She was fucking wild. No, that sure was great.

I thought that was like a one time only. No, I did it every night on tour. I would prank a mom at the end of my... That was always my closer on tour. So I had that bit down to a science, even though it's like a prank, essentially, you know. Was she the best of them? There was some moms on tour that were fucking wild saying heinous shit

and just like no filter. She was a... up there, but like there's definitely some lightning in the bottle, lightning in a bottle moms. Like in Oakland, we had the crazy mom doing drugs on camera. There's one mom I was like in Possum Ridge, Arkansas somewhere, real like backwoods kind of place. And the mom and the dad picked up and just like stared at me. Like they were very like MAGA adjacent. Just like stare at me. Violence. And I'm fucking with them. I'm like, send me 20,000 in Bitcoin. If you want to see your son alive again.

Dad was like shirtless and he looked like he was on a like a real life version of King of the Hill. Like he was just like stone silence. But those were just like lightning in a bottle performances. So wait. So that means that you did that other bit. I'm sorry. But the other bit did you do when you go to the audience and ask them, have they seen their parents have sex or whatever.

Oh, that, that, that I didn't, that I did like a version of. without the fake parents on stage. I would just like ask, do audience participation stuff, but I'm not for the special we cast to. I was like, yeah, how much is that you get paid for two 60s? I'm out. Yeah.

I mean, everything I put out in the last year and a half has been during quarantine, so I'm like, I haven't gotten any like personal feedback. I haven't interacted with anybody, so I'm like, did anybody watch a special? Did anybody watch Air Gunner? I've only, like, sucked into the internet, but, like, it doesn't feel real

because I've just been, like, putting stuff out. No, so let me ask you then. Since you're talking about the stand-up, then, I'm sorry, one more question. Because in the beginning, the first thing you kind of talk about, like, you hit, like, the Coke, the Mephard. And it was funny because I was like, damn, I know I'm progressive as fuck.

But this is like, I was like, is this the new normal where we are, like, normalizing the fuck out of a meth and Coke like this. It was just, it was, ill to me. And I was like, I can't wait to talk to you about it because I was like, am I getting old? Yeah, no. Okay. You got to understand. I'm, I want to, how do I say this about how I'm preaching? All drugs were legal until 1914. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Gosh, where do I begin? Also, first of all, if we decriminalize all drugs, would anybody on this Zoom, like,

go out and smoke crack and shoot? Absolutely not. Hell no. It was legal. No. No. Wait a minute. Jack Daniels is legal, right? Would any of us tonight go to Rite Aid, buy 70 bottles of Jack Daniel and just drink them top to bottom? Right. Because we wouldn't feel good. We exercise common sense. The war on drugs, the best meme I saw was the war on drugs is my favorite war because drugs won. Clearly. Look, I think there's a difference between drug use and drug abuse. I think we've been fed so much propaganda by our government, and the DEA was only put in place by Nixon. It's all just a way to arrest brown and black people,

overcrow our prisons with brown and black bodies. White people and black people do drugs at the same rate, that black people are arrested five times as much as any suburban white kid. It's all based on the war on drugs is all based on classism and racism and it always has been. The opening wars and so, okay, we're getting to 1914.

How do I not turn this into a TED talk? No, let's go. Let's go. This is what we're here for. Okay. The less Amir talks, the better the show. Absolutely. Shut the fuck up, Bill. Okay.

Basically, basically, all drug propaganda that was really rubbed up with Nixon and Reagan, all anti-drug propaganda. Like, there was a prohibition on alcohol, and that failed miserably. The prohibition on drugs that's about 106 years old is the same exact thing. It's all based on control. It has nothing to do with your safety. I mean, more people die from motorcycle accidents than ecstasy. very few people die from ecstasy no one's died from marijuana

no one's died from LSD or or psilicides or yeah trumes so the government doesn't give a fuck about your safety and if they're pretending they give a fuck about your safety it's it's make-believe clearly guns are legal and marijuana is illegal

federally so god In 1913, I think basically I just realized that I'm a marijuana. The immigrants coming to America, coming to the West Coast, Chinese immigrants. And Chinese immigrants brought a lot of opium to America. So a lot of politicians started running against putting a prohibition on opium, which there was a problem with the opium and it is addictive. But part of it was a xenophobic policy.

Yeah, white folk wasn't getting no money out of that shit. Yes. It's all about money and control. So Chinese people were bringing in opium and profiting from opium. And some of the earliest anti-drug prohibition policies were anti-Chinese. Marijuana was associated as a Mexican drug. Marijuana prohibition was Mexican xenophobia. And then in the 80s, there was some statistic.

It was like five grams of crack is the same jail time as 50. 50 grams of cocaine. Guess who was smoking crack in the 80s? And guess who was doing cocaine? Suburban white kids, not black people in the inner city. So whenever there's a popular inner city drug that black people or poor people, even crystal meth, crystal meth's associated with you're losing your teeth. You got scabs on your face.

That not true? But Adderall, done by suburban white teenagers for their SATs, that's fine. However, methamphetamine and Adderall, which is amphetamine, is one molecule different. It's essentially the same drug. It's the same as him. No, it's the same thing as like, no, that's facts because it's the same thing as like heroin and all these like hydrocodone and all this shit. My son had to get his wisdom teeth pulled and they prescribed him hydrocodone. I was like, yo, he ain't taking this shit.

Like he, ibuprofen. ibuprofen he can do Tylenolone it'll be cool like I'm like giving a 15 year old a fucking like are you shitting me like nah yeah yeah yeah so DCP aka angel dust

is a disassociative ketamine is a disassociative four people black people do angel dust so it's illegal but now there's ketamine clinics because suburban white moms are doing ketamine for depression uh uh uh all yeah hydrocodone and all

opiates it's like there's a Chris Rock joke, the government doesn't want you to do your drugs. The government wants to do their drugs. And they're doing that shit now because that's the next move to like weed. I think weed being legal, that's a foregone. I mean, that's coming.

The next shit they're moving into is shrooms and like LSD because they're using that to treat shit like bipolar disorder and all kind of like OCD, like you know, any kind they're doing that shit now. anxiety the whole nine. That's the next shit. So I guess that's my point.

There is therapeutic value to so many drugs that the DEA has made illegal, and the war on drugs has only helped two groups. The drug cartels in Central and South America that are violent and the DEA. Everybody else suffers. We all have a natural inclination to reach altered states. Caffeine is a drug. Nicotine is a drug. Alcohol is a drug. Oh, sugar, honey.

Those are legal drugs. Alcohol is way more addictive and corrosive than marijuana or any psychedelics. Nicotine is way more addictive than any drug, more addictive than heroin and cocaine, but it's legal. So there's no rhyme or reason to it. The majority of people that use drugs just use it for recreation and to achieve an altered state for whatever, for social bonding, for creativity. The majority of us don't get addicted to these drugs. Even heroin users, they say 80% of people that have tried heroin aren't addicted, only 20%. So what we do in this country and what we did with alcohol prohibition, which failed miserably,

is we penalize everyone for, like, a small select few that are addicted. Drug abuse is an issue. And I'm not saying we shouldn't do drugs responsibly, but just like skiing, you can die skiing. See responsibly, you won't ski into a tree, hopefully. If you ride a motorcycle responsibly, if you drive a car responsibly, you won't die. You can fall in front of the subway train for being reckless. and die. So it's it's about, I don't know. No, you know, you gave it to me. I knew you was going, it's exactly why I asked you because I knew you was going to come back. I'm sorry I went on such a

diet trip, but I said, no, dude. We are the, we're a rabbit hole central. Do a hundred years of prohibition and all the propaganda that came with it. And I also think part of the reason drugs are dangerous is because they are illegal and they're not regulated. And that means they're made in the street and they're cut with all kinds of garbage. But if they were legal and regulated, then they do it. There was a uniform process. Educate people about the proper way to take them and enjoy them and avoid the dangerous ways of. Like an organic.

Okay. That's what I was going to ask is I hear from people that, okay, well, these are natural and they come from the earth. So you can use these. But these over here are chemically made and those are bad. So, I mean, is there really truly a difference or? Well, I mean, everything kind of comes from the earth. Like LSD is chemically made, but it's based off a mold, a bread mold, ergot, I think it's called. It's like a mold that is on like wheat and barley.

You know, cocaine, I would probably, I've done cocaine a few times of my life. It's not my favorite drug. I hate putting stuff up my nose. It tastes gross and it's cut with all kinds of garbage. But if someone had a coca plant from colloquial, or Peru and they want him to make me a Coke of tea, I'd be the open of that because it'd probably just be the same effect as coffee. You can overdose on caffeine too.

Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive drug worldwide. They say 90% of adults worldwide have tea or coffee in their life. And it is a drug and it is. It can't kill you. Is that true, Steve? I'm still here, baby. Steve Sugar Steve is

I think I'm a science experiment The bottle of health Yeah his blood has at least I mean the amount of caffeine My coffee has a little blood in it Caffe Oh yeah

I'm a big coffee guy But I've had insomnia lately I think I I love coffee but I'm trying to dial back my caffeine intake So you don't smoke Are you a like first thing in the morning must-have coffee person?

I'm the first thing in the morning, must-have coffee person. But I don't go into the afternoon, but I've been like, I don't even smoke weed, really, but I've been smoking a lot of weed just to get to sleep. And I've been eating gummies,

and I usually don't do edibles. But I don't want to, like, have to take, I'd rather smoke weed to get to sleep than take, like, Benadryl or, like, melaton, anything, like, even like that over-the-counter stuff. I'd rather, like, use, a natural, like an indica.

Oh, good old into couch. Are you, are you a couch? Yeah, I'm, I'm neurotic.

I just can't. I'm like, I don't know, if quarantine's getting to me, I'm turning into Jack Nicholson and the Shining. I'm just like staring at the window, watching this cell collect in the maze. Well,

yeah, how did you spend the last year? Because, um, if I recall correctly, every April or every March you ask me to participate in your birth. You were born in March or April? Like, your birthday is around this time.

Right. And I know that you're world famous for these wild, crazy birthday parties that won these days, I'm going to make it to. Like, I kind of regret it not growing up in the era of the NWA pool party. But I would imagine that your. party rivals whatever I thought was happening at the NWA house like yeah I mean I'm flattered by that that is high praise um did you throw one last year despite oh the one last year got shut down because of COVID okay it was at the palladium we had like a full it was going to be the one it was

going to be the showstopper and it got really we're talking about doing a new one at um meow wolf do you know mea wolf because they're right Meow Wolf. Look up Meow Wolf. I'm afraid to Google this. All right. They're like an artist collective in Santa Fe and New Mexico. And they built these crazy big, beautiful installations, like this crazy. It's like Kiwi's Playhouse. But they just opened a new one in Las Vegas called Omega Mart.

And like George R.R. Martin, the guy that created Game of Thrones. he's like an investor in the company now. And like, so they're, I don't know how to describe them. They're like, just this like art experiment, the most successful art experiment, like, that's been pulled off in the 21st century. But anyway, I'm going to throw my next birthday at Meow Wolf, hopefully. What was the wildest thing that's happened at your birthday point? I used to live in a chicken shit apartment in Hollywood when I first moved to L.A.,

like a really small studio apartment. and I used to throw them there and we would huff ether and get a bunch of camels and zebras and pack them in the park and throw firecrackers at everybody and my neighbor would get pissed at us

and throw glass bottles and we had like a stripper come by one time and she had a house arrest anglet and like I would hire like a bunch of mall Santa Claus and clowns and would pack everybody in my little tiny studio apartment and we'd sprawl out into the street in the parking lot.

That sounds so COVID nasty. Oh, yeah. It was a different time. Different time. I got to find, I got to find out, has any of your pranks or any of your parties or any of your antics ever gotten you wound up in L.A. County Jail? Yeah, San Bernardino County Jail, actually. I pranked the mayor of Rancho Cucamonga, which is a real city out here.

And I did a prank at a town hall meeting and I got arrested. And the cop asked me what my name was and I told him it was John Coltrane. And that was another penalty. I didn't know you're not allowed to do, you're not allowed to lie to a cop. I went to jail. I had disturbing the piece and whatever, telling a cop, your name's John Coltrane, whatever that misdemeanor was.

What are you in there for impersonating John Colter? I got a kind of personal joke, but seeing as though you share it with the world, it shouldn't be that personal. Have you ever had any penile injuries from any of the things that you've done? Penile injuries? No, I put my hand through a glass window and got stitches.

This year, John Cena threw me through a bookshelf, and I got a concussion. You're a doctor. Ooh. But no penal, fake penile injuries, the Chinese. Yeah. I love that comes with a hand signal. Yeah.

I'm still debating on whether or not that's going to be the promo clip or not. I appreciate your physical sacrifice. Yeah. When you get old, some things going to hurt. I was going to ask you, man, what is your relationship, your, your, you can talk about you both your friendship and your. creative kind of partnership with Hannibal Burris because y'all are just I've never met me you have never met but y'all are just different he's not on season five right he quit the show yeah

oh he did yeah he left uh season five I mean he left on camera so he did a proper dismount but uh wow wow oh man oh wow but y'all not over though amicable but the show's not over no you know we did the show together in a and an abandoned bodega in Brooklyn that was the first version of the show pre-adult swim when I was just making the show on my own dime so he's been with the show since the beginning and then we took such a big hiatus to make the movie we took four years off to make between season four and five at the eric and andrew show to make the movie that coming back damn i did i think just the momentum i don't know he was just like uh i'm done And I was like, please at least come by the show and quit on camera.

So it's a proper, I don't want people to think we had a falling out. But it's the, but it was, he was just great on the show because he's just polar opposite in energy. Chris Rock had the best quote. He goes, the reason your show works is because there's no two black guys on earth that have less in common than you and Hannibal Burr. that is comedy that's funny that's real but also

Hannibal kind of like he seemed like the voice of reason sometimes so when I was being crazy to the guests on the show and they would like look to Hannibal for some relief he's equally crazy

he's just low energy so they would like look to him for some kind of like help me and then he would say something just as mind blowing and you know psychotic and then they'd be like,

Oh, shit, I'm trapped. Who will play your psychic or? We had a few different psychics. We had a very funny comedian, Felipe Asparza. We had Oscar nominee Lakeith Stanfield. Wow. Really? Yeah, this past season, yep.

And we had, we cloned Hannibal, a few of the episodes. We had Blanable, which was his like. So yeah. We did a good, we did a good revolving door of co-host this past season. I got to say that when I did the show and I had to do something with vomit, I didn't realize. So I guess the, I didn't realize that. So the husband and wife team come to me with these assortment of cereals.

And they ask. No, but it was like they. They pushed a cart with all every variety of cereal on it. And they were like, what's your favorite cereal? And I was just like, well, I like golden grams. And they're like, okay, well, that's going to be, I didn't realize that the vomit that you see. Yeah, the vomit you see on television is basically just soggy cereal. Yeah.

Oatmeal, soggy cereal. Wow. Like pea soup with carrots. Depends on what I'm in the mood to throw up. Yeah. So, yeah. the amount of time that you guys dedicate to vomit on that show. A lot of vomit.

Not to mention the intro. That has to be painful, yo. It's painful. That I get hurt a lot. Yeah. We figured out how to do it the right way. I used to use no crash pads, nothing. I know.

We were just, yeah, you would just eat it. You would just freaking go for it. And I was like, wait, there's really not a stunt double here to, I was dumb. I was dumb. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Clifford Taylor the 4th.

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but I for one was just under the impression that like black people really weren't in that level of pranking that you know they're not I had to drag rel into it into it he was like he was he fucking hated he's like dude because he had so much PTSD from that first day but actually Tiffany was like born to do it she love the more dangerous a prank was the more she was like, let's fucking go. That's what I'm excited about the movie.

It's like kind of the first black prank cast. Right. I mean, there's some funny black comedians on punked. But not really like as far as the movie goes, not in this level where it's like the leads

are like black comedians. It's pranky people. It's stressful. If I recall, wasn't my man also on your show? What was old boy that did his version of that on BET? Alia.

Hits, hits on the street. I think Al. Alia. Hits. Yeah, hits from the street. Was he not on your show at one point? He was on punked. Who?

And you answer my question. I don't mean that. I'm not outside of Sony. Like a goddamn owl That's fantastic You shot that down He was the only black dude That was ever on punked

But yeah Oh yeah He's really funny Okay I'm sorry Forgive me He graduated to put I knew he graduated to Another show

I got to I did I did He used to work Up against the wall On on Georgia Avenue Right by Howard University

Up against the wall Wow I will say that Method Man And Red Man had a prank show They did, yeah They did

For a hot second For a hot second It just last in for a second But it was Watchable It was funny It's under real They had the one episode

They had the episode Where they prank ludicrous Where they had him Wrap over like this shitty beat But Luda killed the beat though Like that's what This shit was funny Yeah

Like it was some bullshit It was like It was some trash beat And they actually had Kevin Liles on it They was like Yo this Kevin You need to get to the studio

Whatever So he comes And it's just trash ass beat and he started rapping and then they take it up and they're like, okay, so Luda, do the same verse, but make like a frog sound and like he did a rib it and then was rapping.

And he was going with it and the shit was actually sounding way better than probably should have. Wait, what year was that? Because I'm curious as to what a trash beat means in hip-hop. Like that early odds, right, Fonte? Versus.

Yeah, this had to be, yeah. This was like two, oh, two, three, something like that around that time. Back when we still had standards. than hip hop, okay. I was about to say like, someone plays me a trash beat now and I'm like, oh, that's going to be a hit, you know.

This shit can work, right. But I'm sure it's easier to prank black celebrities and black folks because, you know, you never know what we'll do. We don't know, well, like he's, the night thing, it would have been wrong if it was, if it wasn't Eric Andre and Rao, that probably, that shit would have been, I don't think, I don't think it would have been trash.

One day, is there anything that's off the table for you? No, I don't know. you got to like, I think there's good bad taste and bad bad taste. It's like you're trying to make things go wrong, but in the right way, if that makes any sense. But in the world of comedy, even that would just deemable or undoable sort of gets embraced by someone's dark side, correct? Well, just in terms of things that are taboo in comedy usually get, you know, spoken about like death or things that are tragic or whatnot. Right. Well, yeah.

I mean, you know, the famous saying comedy is tragedy plus time. It's like you're mining for things that are taboo to talk about because that's the high wire act of comedy. You know what I mean? You're looking for the high stakes topic. Or at least I am. And the comedians I grew up admiring are, you know, like Richard Pryor and George Carlin and Chris Rock and Chappelle. I see. Yeah, was that, did I answer your question?

I think he did. The weed just kicked in. The weed just kicked in. Perfect time. Good job. Dude. All right. So the age of mainstream celebrities having their only fans accounts.

is, you know, now popping up normal. What was your decision behind your only fans? I wanted to make money off my feet picks. We're in a quarantine, man. I need supplemental income. Sugar Steve style. There's your sound bite, Steve. Well, wait, okay.

I'm not going to lie like you're the only person I know. Feet pits, though? Is it just really, is it just feet pits? Oh, it's everything. Depends on how much you tip. Oh. Wait, you've done live, only fans? Yeah. Oh, God. Okay, so what happens when we come to your only fans? Hold on. Say it again.

Not only fans. Fuck. You know what that is? You got a what? Say it again. A blumpkin. No, what's, I don't know. What is this?

Look it up. Google image. Doing it right now. Do I want to do that? Am I going to get a virus? Yeah. Type this in. You don't want it? Do it. You don't want to do it. No, I don't want to do it. Don't do it. Definitely don't do it. Don't do it. Definitely don't do it. Don't do it. It'll look up on Alabama hockey mask either. Trust me.

Hey, come on me. I'm at least going to look up a blumpkin because that's not a look up. Don't do it by you. It'll scar you for life. You won't see it. I want to know what he does. Only fans. It costs too much. I need a free time. Can you explain it in three words? Oh, man. two girls in one cup territory again say it again two chick one cup yeah there I don't know oh I literally just said that oh really

I was like is this two chicks in one cup again yep you know all this is some like weird Reddit group like how do you keep up on all this shit who I mean

once I once I opened the only fan's door there was no looking back can one seriously make a living monetizing off their only fans? Big time. Big time. What you mean?

The amount of money I made off like just the kickoff intro I was like they basically figured out their London company they're worth $800 million and they're only four years old

and they kicked off they just figured out a way for all like the soft core porn thirst trap in of Instagram, they figured out how to monetize that in like the simplest way. It's like, hey, check out this sexy thirst trap-y kind of picture. You want to see more go over to my only fans and you're like, oh, okay. And it's like $3 all the way up to whatever, $1,000 for either like a direct message. It's basically like modern day phone sex. Yeah, yeah.

I'm thinking about it. I'm hearing. I remember that. Yeah. So if you want some feedpicks, you got to tip me three, four dollars. Wait, you monetize feedpicks. That's how you at least, have you least broken the five-digit, the five-digit or six-digit arena as far as monetizing off of this? You know, Questlove, it's not polite, too.

their money we're not all Grammy Award winning virtuoso drummer you hit me with the David Letterman Eddie Murphy for $3 onlyfans.com slash Eric Andre There you go pounding the pavement the internet pavement Okay we can't just paling around with Jimmy Fallon and all kinds of A-list celebrities

Wait a minute Speaking of which I wasn't going to ask this But I do have to ask this Did it irk you at all With the way that Chance the rapper Was sort of egging you on About your

Relationship at the time with Rosario Yeah what the fuck I'll tell you Because you guys did a prom photo Right You guys did a That motherfucker I asked him I love him by the way

So I'm talking shit with love Right I can't remember I asked him a couple things. I DMed him a couple like, hey, not even like a favor, just like, hey, stop by, never would respond once. Right.

And then when I was dating Rosario, I was like, chance doesn't believe that we're dating. You think you're doing a prank. So I was like, when I saw it, I was like, that's fair. That's fair. I mean, I'm finally

getting the movie star from the poster. I'm going to pay it oh, too. And you don't believe he's, I tweeted him back. I was like, yeah, look, this isn't Photoshop. Look, but I think that he wrote back right away. He's like, no, no, I don't know. I was just saying, oh, boom, bah, or, oh.

And I was like, oh, all of a sudden your phone works. Yeah. I took it very personally. Wait a minute, he's been on your show before. Yeah, he was great on the show. Yeah. And I just saw him not too long ago back. the Lion King premiere.

I was like talk. I was talking to him. And then I felt a tap on my shoulder. And I turned around and it was Beyonce. And I was like, and she was like, hi, nice to meet you. I was like,

and then I turned back to chance. I was like, fuck, did I just blow it with Beyonce? Was that cool? He was like, no, you were cool.

You were cool. And I turned to my left and I asked this other guy and go, did I just fuck that up? Am I cool? Was that cool? And I was like, no,

you were cool. And I looked up. It was Jay Z. I was like, oh, you just. I was so not cool. I was like,

no. I was like, turn back to Beyonce. I was like, fuck, did I just blow it with Jay Z? I just, I wasn't cool.

Those two, those two are like the modern day walking lottery ticket. Yeah. They're the, they're the king and queen. They're the royal family. They are. They are.

What was? How long did that process take? The new royal family. The new royal family. They replaced the old fucking shit. The only ones I recognize. That's right. How long did that process take to do with the Lion King?

Like how did you even get involved? Huh? Really? Yeah, voiceover. I know, but. Oh, it's V-O, yeah. Okay. Oh, and you go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And you're like, see in three years. Yep. That about sums it up. Dream. That sounds awesome. Okay. Can you talk about? your uh your blarf project no why i'm not associated with whoever that is i didn't i didn't technically

clear any sample whatsoever so you don't know what i'm talking about when i mean blur okay i get it i know what you're talking about but i also know uh what violating intellectual property rights property When things are under the radar, I doubt, you know. No, I know, I know, I know, I know. You just ask, what do you think about the project of me? You just, you know, you got to guess. What do I think about it? I think whoever that person is was very cool.

It was very, very cool. And do you recommend that they... How do you get away with... Do you just sample and hope that you... Come and get me? That's the name of the... It's the wild. So you just hope like I'm like this Marquis.

I hope Gilbert O. Sullivan doesn't sue me. I think I think a majority of the time people do it sort of thinking that it's going to be under the radar. Yeah, but you know, like, okay. So with YouTube and fucking you sample, who sample the shit. Nothing's under the radar now. Everybody's a goddamn sleep. Even then you have to look like, you know, like if it weren't for, it weren't for me watching MTV, I would, you know, that I wouldn't have known, my parents would have never known about

nothing but a G thing or any of that shit. You know what I'm saying? Like someone younger, it's always like a nephew or a kid that's like, oh, that's mom and dad or uncle something. Right, but that's also that's what I heard like, if you sample a Marvin Gay song or Jimmy Hendry's up, if you sample somebody whose estate controls their rights to the artist, the artist, then it's extra trouble because it's just the kids and the grandkids.

kids looking to make a buck versus the original artist. So there is an artist. I don't know how there are creative ways or any any of these producers got away with so much sampling. A lot of his chopping. I'll admit that in the

in the Dilla, in the J. Dilla situation now with the 10 C.C. estate. They put that shit in a fucking Netflix special. It was like what did you expect? What happened? Well, okay. Yeah. Chappelle used working on it from donuts.

Yeah. As his intro. Of which, you know, none of which that's been released from Jay Dillis Estate was ever meant for public consumption. Like he would just make beat tapes. But of course, once he passed away, then these beat tapes became folklore. And next thing you know, they became album releases. And so, I mean, as a result, because he was such a niche. cult figure artists, it was just like it

only became a thing to those that knew of Jay Dilla, but 10C is trying to... So 10C actually, Godley and Cream, the guys that behind 10CC, they sold, I believe they sold a lot of their publishing, like, in the early aughts. So now a new firm owns the publishing rights and I guess, they're kind of on that litigious, I won't say is not tough city records president guy.

It's the company. Yeah. So that's what they're doing, which, you know, I try to actually meddle in. When I thought it was the TNCC guys, I wrote a letter and was just like, look, this is a guy who was making art and da-da-da-da. And, you know, you suing him. And, you know, it's not going to. want to make solve any of this and I try it but they were like oh we don't own the publishing did that anymore so that was a wasted email that's noble of you that you did that

yeah I'm I'm I'm a little overzealous when it comes to Jay Dilla's uh legacy so yeah just trying to make sure that I respect you yo so how how have you been I will I will probably say that comedians have probably had it the hardest of all the the creatives as far as how they spent their last year trying to maintain creativity, especially when you don't have no one to work out in front of. Have you figured out how to pivot or how to still maintain your foot in the comedy world? Like, do you just write more movies, more TV shows? I was fortunate enough to be coming to the end of a bunch of projects.

When we started, I had like everything in the can. I was able to edit Eric Andre show from home. I had delivered the stand-up special. The movie was already delivered and ready to go. So I had like a bunch of stuff ready to go in the chamber. Fortunately, I didn't have to like shut down production or shut down a tour. I was at like the end of all these various projects. So I've just been writing and just been doing a ton of writing.

I don't know. And trying to like not, trying to like embrace this time. I think this time is an exercise in patience. And this is kind of like a reset button over the cosmos. I think we need to just like spiritually hit the pause button, reassess our existence as a. Because we'll never get time like this again in our lifetime. We'll never get a period of rest like this. Whether we as adults going to be able to get this like little pause button.

So I'm trying to look at the positive aspects of that and just like doing hobbies, cooking more, reading more, catching up on TV shows I wanted to watch. I'm trying to like embrace it a little bit. Is you showing off your sexy feet? Showed off. What do you watch? I would imagine that a person like yourself in the ways that you express your creativity that like quote unquote regular shows would seem like mundane and boring to you.

But like what do you watch? Well, I just started catching up on all the serialized dramas. I never. I'm watching the Sopranos and the Wire and Game of Thrones. I never got around to any of those shows because it was just so much of a commitment. Right. You got a watch order and all that shit. I have 80D.

So now I'm trying to. So as a Wire newbie, as a Wire newbie, is it anti-climactic now that everyone's like fetishized the shit out of this show? No. If they had a slow start, like, I was like, what is it good? Well, season two is weird. We, Real Wire fan tape season two. Yeah, I heard season two's controversial, but I just started season two. But once I get to season three of beyond, also every single show on earth, whether it's a television show or whether it's a comedy or drama, the first two seasons don't really count.

It really takes three to four to find your voice to find its stride, even like Seinfeld, even shows that like, like, where these mega, mega hits, if you watch the first two seasons of like even the Simpsons, you're like, what the fuck show is? Oh, not to see it. This is a match. Different worlds like that, too.

Yeah. Well, it was where you said that because I thought, I thought Cosby hit his stride in the second season, and then slowly let the air out three to four. No, no, no, no. Yeah, that was the most controversial thing about that guy.

Thank you. That's what a lot of people, when they bring him up, that's what they talk about this. That's the first thing they say. Okay, I'm sorry, I meant the Huxstable show. I'm about to say, don't discount the Huxibles now. The Huxable show. No, but I will actually say that in my heart, I feel like that show jumped the shark by season three. I don't know why.

It's just. You crazy. They hadn't even done night and day yet. okay no well they did that was season two golden girls kind of what season stevie wonder season two oh oh damming on the one

damn on the one man when white chrall's Ray Charles is season two jamming on the one season two hey judah jamison ain't season two yes it is I like where she came in the house and they started break that's actually season one oh that's right I like season three of Ced as

world on BET. You know what? Cedar's world. I remember Cedar's world. One time I went to Rosco's and this girl ran up to me. Me and Cobam went in there. It's like, oh my God.

I love y'all. I love it. Oh, y'all don't know. And then she's like, I'm Cedar. And then she went into her voice and me and Kubal lost it. Like, that for me was a real Cita. I felt like I made it because. Can you explain Cedar to Mita? Okay, Cedar was like, it was like this animated chicken head that used to be on BET. It was the craziest shit.

Thank you. She hosted the show and like it was the wildest shit. It was called Cedar's World. That was way funnier than me Googling it. That's great. Fonte, I'm going to tell you right now, somewhere in the world is a billion-dollar industry check with your name on it. If you can somehow figure how to give.

Like microbyte descriptions to everything that ever existed. No, he's taglines. He's tagline Fonte. I would keep that in mind. Did you say digital chicken? Yeah, that's basically what it was. One of the headlines reads, we need an apology for Cedas World.

Yeah, it's a show like, it probably wouldn't air today. Like now it would launch a million. seem corny, but she was like our Max head room. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yep. And one like Grand Theft Auto Graphics, you know what I mean? Like when they would like drop like this.

Right. But she would host be hosted a show. I like Cedasda's world. At least they tried. You know, BET will try something. They tried. They tried. Yeah, you know. I support Cita. I'm not mad at them. I support CETA. Well, Mr. Andre, I know you've had a very

long day. God, I appreciate you. Thank you for having me on the show. Thank you for coming on our show. Did you say it's the perfect way to end the day? Is that what you said? Yeah, like it was a nice wind down because I had to do all these like rapid fire interviews and only talk about the movie. It was nice to just like talk to human beings like human beings.

Yeah, man. And I want to say for we go too, man, my girl Golden Shine, who does your makeup. She did, we worked together on a show for Comedy Central a couple of years back, but she just always has the best things to say about you. and like she just loves working on the show and she just you know so i just wanted to just you know say what's up man this is our first time meeting but she always just speaks very highly of you and just says you just a eight one dude man oh man i'm i'm flattered and she's my sister from another minister i love her that she's good people good people yeah for sure all right well

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