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No I.D. was created as a different outlet to give flowers to the guests as well has give out jewels to the listeners. No I.D. is a thought provoking and in-depth podcast that offers multiple perspectives. on subjects ranging from sex to controversial topics to race to lifestyle covering all cultural conversations and building a platform to educate but encourage viewers to engage. No I.D. is candid unscripted with the Host/Creator/Comedian Jerome Davis.
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Buddy Lewis Shares Comedy Gems
Ever wondered what it’s like to mix stand-up comedy with a mean golf swing? Legendary comedian Buddy Lewis joins us, bringing his signature humor and a treasure trove of stories from his days on "Martin" to the quirky charm of interviewing him in his mom's living room. From hilarious behind-the-scenes moments with Martin Lawrence to the pride of his Howard University roots, Buddy's anecdotes are sure to keep you laughing. We also have a good chuckle about his claim to fame as one of the top comic golfers, underlining his dominance specifically in the comedy community.
We shift gears and tackle the humorous misunderstandings in technology with a personal story involving a cordless phone debacle that highlights the generational tech gap. Our chat then takes a flavorful turn as we discuss the joys and risks of dining at hood spots, where the food is as authentic as the neighborhood is sketchy. Shared laughs and relatable stories about everyday experiences keep the conversation lively and engaging.
Finally, we dive into the evolution of comedy promotion, reminiscing about the days of flyers and radio spots and comparing them to today's need for a robust social media presence. Buddy shares delightful memories from his time on "House Party 4" and his quirky collections, adding depth and nostalgia to our discussion. Wrapping up with mutual appreciation and humorous anecdotes, this episode promises a hearty mix of fun, nostalgia, and invaluable insights into the comedy world.
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ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to a brand new episode of the no id podcast. Here I have a comedian icon, writer, producer, actor uh, you seen him in most recently? Uh, I was outlaw. Johnny black um, if you are a all black subscriber the millennials uh, he's been on one of the most popular and long-lasting shows. That's in syndication. It's on Tubi now. Deaf Comedy Jam, the great Buddy Lewis how you doing today, bro?
Speaker 2:You miss Howard grad. There's a whole bunch of accolades you didn't get to.
Speaker 1:Howard University grad.
Speaker 2:Gary Indiana Grew up in Gary Indiana man. Gary Indiana man. I got credits Martin. I'm an aggravated man on Martin. I got credits bruh. Amen, we know you.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Hollywood producer. I'm trying to let these fans know who's on this podcast right now.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they do forget. Y'all forgot. This is the man that actually got Martin his ass whooped, with Tommy Hearns Coming up to him and saying, hey.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. Why can't we be friends? This is the episode and I remember my line. That was the first time, that was my first job in television and I still remember my line hey man, I've never seen anyone get beat down like that in a charity event.
Speaker 1:He's the one that got Martin's ass whooped in the show.
Speaker 2:Hey man, this is all good and he's an advocate. I'm wearing my own wardrobe too.
Speaker 1:Those are my clothes. You going to wardrobe?
Speaker 2:Nah, man, I know what it's to say, nah, I'm good, I got something for this.
Speaker 1:I got an arm. I took my shit to the cleaners. Baby, I'm good, this is a serious express.
Speaker 2:Okay, you don't know nothing about this. I got the perfect coat jacket for this thing. Thank you, miss Wardrobe Person.
Speaker 1:You should do it. What's your size? My size, motherfucker, I can go out there and get it.
Speaker 2:We'll need that extra $22 for a wardrobe reimbursement. I'm going to need that. Damn, you're an avid golfer. Uh, ever and and and. Uh, I'm still up at the. I'm still up there at the top, but there are a few people that are caught up. So you know they, they want to. You know there's the top, but there are a few people that are caught up. There's still some debate, but the reality is I'm still one of the greatest comic golfers on the planet. What I mean by that is and don't get it confused some people they want to.
Speaker 2:You can't beat Tiger Woods. Nobody said anything about no damn Tiger Woods. I said all the comics that play, all of the comics. You're a comedian. If that's your job comedy I've either beat your ass playing or I can beat your ass playing. I ain't saying nothing about football players and tennis players and former golfers who are on tour. I didn't say nothing about that. I said comics. That's the specific lane. I'm in Rome, so don't have your little friends. You know the golf pro at your local club calling me telling you can't beat me. I didn't say I could beat you. You ain't no comic.
Speaker 1:One. We in two different tax brackets. We go to Topgolf. We go to Topgolf, we try and impress the women that we with, and then we call it a night. That's it. We don't have a golf club. The only clubs we go to is the comedy club and Sam's club. That's it, brother, I ain't got nothing.
Speaker 2:The club and Sam's club, that's it brother, I ain't got nothing.
Speaker 1:Know your level, I know my level. You want to do baseball with me? I got you, I can strike you out.
Speaker 2:I don't talk trash. I just talk trash in my lane dog. I know my level.
Speaker 1:Hey, man, I ain't recorded, but he was roasting my ass earlier.
Speaker 2:Can I do what you did, though? The room gets on and he's like that's exactly what he did. He said I studied you. I was like, wait a minute. This is a little no-diddy-ish, If you ask me, the way you I used to study you, buddy.
Speaker 2:Buddy, I studied you. I was like, wait a minute, it sounds a little stalkery. Take the mic down out your mouth when you're wrong. Hey, I studied you and you were leaning back into you. Know, it kind of looked weird when you I studied you. I like wrong. Hey, man, come on, dog, you need to finish that dog.
Speaker 1:For all the people I had to put my nose in. No, did it. If you knew what I was? Hey, I was setting my alarm. I still got to setting my alarm. I was making sure that that thing is set. I still got clock in at the job. I gotta get up. I'm gracious to be in this interview. I'm at a point where I had to take a nap before this interview we're in different time zones, though, right.
Speaker 2:Right when exactly are you Chesapeake? Where are you? I know you're in your mama's basement, but I mean state I'm in her living room.
Speaker 1:One Excuse me, you can still see the karaoke. Oh shit Of knickknacks from all around the world. Nah, these knickknacks from the day. This is Debra Davis, right here, okay, we still get it.
Speaker 2:You got the Nick. Okay, we still getting. I see you. Hey, listen dog, hey man. You know what? No, disrespect man, your mama, her knickknacks are beautiful. I just want to let you know. I let her know I don't want you to think I'm throwing out shade on all of you.
Speaker 1:This is the room where you can't even sit in.
Speaker 2:This is the one with the furniture.
Speaker 1:I would like take the computer around and show it, man, but no.
Speaker 2:Hey, listen, don't handle people because you know, like you said, you study, there might be some people studying. You come up in your mama's house and take her knickknacks. You don't want nobody in there. Knickknack robbing.
Speaker 1:There's that front room where you know it's just for display. You can't sit in it. You can't, you better not even look at it. Plastic on the furniture? It ain't plastic. There's no plastic.
Speaker 2:We did. You got the plastic one on the floor.
Speaker 1:We got rid of that I think that's the dumbest concept.
Speaker 2:I think that's the dumbest concept. Listen, hold on. You got the fork and the spoon on the wall like this Nah, nah, nah.
Speaker 1:We got the counter on the table.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, martin Luther King. Malcolm X picture.
Speaker 1:No, velvet at all. That's in the office upstairs.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's in the office upstairs. Okay, I got you All good y'all.
Speaker 2:So, comedian writer, producer, and you worked, and with a lot of names, a lot of names I have been fortunate man to have worked with a lot of, a lot of uh, very, very, uh talented people over my, over the, you know, years that I've been out in in la and Hollywood. It's it's been uh, quite a um. I have quite a collection of friends and and, uh, coworkers, shall you say, associates that I've, that I've worked with, um, some very famous people and some that that ain't but very talented nonetheless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I've. Hey, I tried to see some of my clips on Instagram. I was like let's see if you respond back to them things.
Speaker 2:Oh man, listen, Listen man. You highfalutin, highfinagle technical Negroes be sending me stuff in websites that I can't even get on my phone. Y'all are newfangled, y'all have this. Have you got the new Looptidoo app? I'm like, no, I don't have Looptie Doo. Dog, I don't do Looptie Doo. Oh man, listen man, everybody's on Looptie Doo now. Hey man, I'm basic, all right, I got Facebook, I got Instagram. I might have some TikTok presence. You can't be offering up these new websites, man. You got to get Marzoplastic. I'm like Marzoplastic, what is that? I'm like I'm out of you know, but why? Yeah man, it broadcasts all the way to Mars. I'm like what's up with Mars? Negro, I need this.
Speaker 1:Well, y'all out there. Buddy still got a flip phone out there he still got a jitterbug.
Speaker 2:Hold on, hold on not going to disrespect me. This app, I'm going to use technology, I'm just going to have your shit.
Speaker 1:Buddy got a jitterbug.
Speaker 2:The big numbers, Nah dog, I ain't like this. What the hell is that? Buddy got a T183.
Speaker 1:He got a text instrument calculator for a phone.
Speaker 2:He's trying to fool y'all with the Apple case. Hold on, dawg, let me get you. Hold on, wait a minute, hell. No, no, don't be laughing at me. I got technology negro. This is Apple. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:Whatever?
Speaker 2:See, I don't talk about you newfangled technical Negro who's got all kinds of phones and stuff and you know dangling out your ear and you know, yeah, man, hold on, Wait a minute, Let me put on my glassy old phones.
Speaker 1:I have phones all in the land and the watch and the the look I noticed your buddy still had a default background when the phone came out the box but I can't hey that's it bro.
Speaker 2:I got what I got. If you can't reach me on this, maybe you're not supposed to be in touch with me. Maybe there's a reason why I got old technology so you new Negroes won't be bothering me. That's why your grandparents had them old ass phones that rang with them. It's because they didn't. Hey man, listen, busy signal man. I wish they would go back to a busy signal. You can't even hang up on nobody anymore. Nope, remember, you used to be able to hang up on people. You don't hang up on somebody now they all go. Hey man, your phone disconnected Me and my girl was hanging up on your. Now they all go. Hey man, your phone disconnected Me and my girl, I was hanging up on your ass.
Speaker 1:I think we was like my grandparents were like the first black family with a cordless house phone. That was a while back. That was like early 90s.
Speaker 2:Cordless phone With the big antenna on it.
Speaker 1:I don't know, with the big antenna we had the small antenna.
Speaker 2:But he would take that joint. Yeah he would take that joint to the grocery store that was a cell phone. I don't think it went like that You're getting about 100 yards away from your house.
Speaker 1:It ain't going to work oh shit.
Speaker 2:My aunt thought her phone was mobile. She was carrying it to the toilet. It's not going to work out here. My aunt really did that. She had a cordless phone that she thought would work. I'm like it's not going to. I had to try to explain it to her. She didn't get it. She's like no, they told me that was mobile. I'm like around your house. You can't take this to the, to the mall road tripping with your cordless phone then they start roasting you.
Speaker 1:They get mad, they get mad. We gotta, we gotta use it anywhere they lied to me you get on my uh cell phone. We took his cell phone. He called us from the house phone say yo y'all seen my phone.
Speaker 2:Like yo, you're talking to us on it right now, big dog oh man, listen, I think I'm the only one left with a phone in the house and the only reason I got it seriously was to make sure this is my little house phone. I use this in case I can't find this. I be like God damn, where's my phone. Hold on shit. I'll find that, Mom, I'll find it.
Speaker 2:I will dial my own ass up. You don't hear me, though. I will dial myself up in a hot minute. If I can't find my phone, don't play with me.
Speaker 1:He's sweating already. Put you in the hot seat, huh.
Speaker 2:You hot, you sweating? Hey man, this is my. You know what. I don't know why the air in my and you know how. There's one room in the house where air don't really work. Work right. It's just weird. So I gotta add a. I don't have to change the temperature in here, but yeah yeah, is it still in? California, man, it's hot we, yeah, virginia.
Speaker 1:we've been going to the Triple Ditch, we've been in the hundreds the last couple of days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it got up to like 95 or something today. Yeah, at least it gets a little cooler at night. But y'all have some different stuff out there. What part of Virginia are you in Chesapeake? Oh, yeah, y'all you Tidewater, hampton, negroes, y'all got a whole different level of sweat and humidity. It's a whole nother thing you get four seasons in one week.
Speaker 1:Like it's crazy, man, I get it.
Speaker 2:No, man, my sister went to Hampton. I know I used to go down there and visit. You can have it, man, my sister went to Hampton. I know I used to go down there and visit. You can have it. You can have all your little tidewater and your catfish and all of that. You have every bit of it Now. The food excellent, the weather ah. Man, you can have it and I'll tell you y'all got the freshest dog-eye vegetables everywhere, anywhere. Y'all got the freshest dog-gone vegetables everywhere, anywhere. Y'all got good food in Virginia.
Speaker 1:I do know that Y'all got good food. Yeah, go to the hood spots. I guess you come here. I get you to come to the hood spots with me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, shoot man. I love the hood spots. Listen, if a dude don't come out the back with a dirty-ass apron on, I don't want to eat there. I need to see a dirty apron. I need to see the screen, though that's broke. I need to see the hard ass plastic plates that divided in threes. Y'all need to do certain. That's when I know the food's going to be excellent.
Speaker 1:We upgrade now. We got them trays now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, them trays, them styrofoam trays now, yeah, them trays, them plastic trays, like from the lunchroom. That's what we got. You know the food is going to be delicious, you know it. They throw it in a section. It's going to be a little square. You got mashed potatoes and string beans in here and rice and peas. You just throw it in a concession, in a plate. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's when the food's going to be delicious. Still got the forks and knives wrapped up in a napkin.
Speaker 1:The spork. We got the sporks, the spork.
Speaker 2:Sporks. Oh, you got the forks and napkins. We upgraded, y'all upgraded. Listen, hey, bro, I know what you're talking about. I know what you're talking about. You don't know about that good hood food. You don't know about that good hood food. Hood food is incredible, bro. You can get some hood food out in California.
Speaker 2:But you got to go way south, you got to get out of LA and you got to go like. You got to go down to, like South Central. I mean, you got to go. You got to go to Manchester, normandy, you got to go where, if you, if you don't hear gunfire going to your car, then you just wait a minute. That's when you know the food is going to be delicious. When you see some white people come down there for danger oh, that's, white folks only go to black restaurants for the danger. They're like oh, I heard about this incredible place in South Central LA, mama's Soul Food Kitchen. Oh, let's go. You see, like two white ladies who love danger, they love danger. That's when you know the food is good. They sip the lemonade and do this. You get like a sugar rush when you sip that lemonade and you.
Speaker 1:You got a spot that you got to haul your food in the order just to eat inside the restaurant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, them neighborhoods. Yeah, you, ducking, eat inside the restaurant. Them neighborhoods, you ducking, don't put me next to a window.
Speaker 1:Hell nah.
Speaker 2:You want to be in the back. You know that friendly fire might get you. You don't want to be around.
Speaker 1:no friendly fire, let me tell you how much of a punk I am. Every time I travel out of the state and I got a show out of the state I always book a hotel. They got a restaurant inside. I be scared as hell.
Speaker 2:Boy. That made me all bawdy for one time. That's a dog on chain. You know what, man? When I first started doing stand-up comedy, that used to be One of the staples.
Speaker 2:When you went to a club you would do the club because a lot of the clubs were one nighters that a drug dealer did, or you know you had a friend that had. You know they had a night at a, at a, at a spot you know it's really a bar, but they'd have a night and you could go in there and stay. But the thing was you would always go and do some promotions and stuff at the restaurants. They would take you to the best soul food spot in town or the restaurant was next door to a beauty shop or a barbershop and you'd do all the promotion and stuff. It was like a one-stop thing.
Speaker 2:You'd hit the barbershop and the soul food place and next thing you know there's a crowd in the place. You know because you went and did some local promoting. So yeah, man, I used to hit all. That's why I know like it's not that I'm just fat, I just even though that's true, you know, but when I was doing, when I first started doing stand-up in the early 90s that was one of the things that promoters would do. They would like you know. You would get to a city and they would from the plane, before you even got to your hotel room. They would take your ass around the city promoting in all of these places and inevitably you always went to a soul food spot a good food spot.
Speaker 2:So that was. That was part of the. That was part of like the the whole ritual when you came to a town. You know, you know, yeah, I got def jam comedy buddy lewis you know, don't make me feel Buddy Lewis and you be in there Eating Mama's soul food kitchen. Oh, you're the comedy dude. Yeah, I'm the comedy dude. Come on out to the show and Trixie Ritzies, it be some job, ass Like place With some raggedy ass name Flexi, flexi B's, flexi B's, flexi B's Bar and Grill. And you go in there and you do hood comedy man. They turn the music off but you always got to a soulful spot and the one black radio station. That was it. That's how we used to promote Before your little newfangled apps and shit on the phone.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be honest with you. I think the apps take away from a lot of shit sometimes. Man, I'm being straight up, honest with you. I had a promoter tell me one time. He's like, man, you're funny as hell, but you ain't got no followers. I'm like I thought 1500 was a lot, said. Nah, man, we need motherfuckers that got 20 000 and up. So he was like that's what you gotta do, you gotta get a viral clip. And I went up ahead with one of those guys that had over 20 000 followers and I ain't had no dead, like, no dead silence. He had a couple dead silence. He started fighting for his life in there.
Speaker 1:Literally that's what we say he was like when that crowd is there, you got to fight for your life, you got to fight to bring that energy back up and I was like, is that? The new thing that we're going to, because I don't know how it was back then, because I only been doing comedy five years.
Speaker 2:And two of those years in the lockdown. Oh yeah, man, that's that's. That's. That's a whole different audience right there. You, you're not just fighting for your life, you're trying to protect your asshole. I was like damn, you're trying to get something put on your books.
Speaker 1:No, COVID lockdown. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:COVID lockdown. Okay, I missed it. Okay, good, that's good. No, man, you know, I think there are some people back in the day, man, there was. No, you know, people don't realize, man, that. You know, the cell phone is only really like 20 years old. I mean, you know, in reality, the kind of phone service that we have is only about 25 years old. You know, 2000,. Between 1999, there were people that had them big ass. There was a big ass phone in your in a box, but I'm talking about a real cell phone that's like the size of a, you know, like a, like a, like a, a, a phone, a flip phones and all that. It's only about 20, only about 25 years old man you know really, you know, and service, you know so.
Speaker 2:So you had to do a different type of motion. These apps, and you know, I mean you know we're talking, we're going from off of the computer to being in your phone. That's a whole nother transition of promoting. That wasn't available in the early nineties. You know, when I started doing standup comedy, you had to do the old fashioned grind man. You had to go. You either had a radio station or you had um. You had to go and pass out flyers. You had to. You had to go and pass out flyers. You had to do real. Basically, it was hand-to-hand combat to promote.
Speaker 2:So we didn't have the luxury of doing a video and putting it on Instagram or doing a thing and putting it on. I mean, you've got to remember, man, only a couple of comics made their way on myspace and then it changed, like dane cook made his life on myspace. For people that don't know what it is. That was one of the first like social media apps, you know. And then there was there was, then there was um, facebook, and then there was uh, uh, you know there was divine, and then all those, you know people started doing those funds and all that stuff. And then instagram came along. It was you know. People started doing those signs and all that stuff. And then Instagram came along. It was you know.
Speaker 2:You guys could say at one time you could only put like 15 seconds of the video on. That was it. You couldn't even watch video on your phone, you know, it wasn't. There wasn't the capabilities to to digitize something on a phone was that was you know, that was that's new. Digitize something on a phone was that was you know, that was that's new, that's very new. And and you know, I think one of the first phones that had a phone on it was a next tail. You know, when you and you had to flip that phone up and put phone and you can only take about 10 seconds of video before you would shut down your whole phone. It would, it would crash your whole. Entire. Blueberry was the thing. So I mean blackberry, People had blackberries, but that wasn't nothing but a big-ass beaver.
Speaker 1:I had one, I remember.
Speaker 2:I mean, so it had a pen write on it. People was like, oh, this is so new. So the technology changed, man, and when the technology changed, so did the. The ability to promote and and and get people to buy into your whatever it is you were doing at a club there was. There was a different thing, and so technology has helped. But now people are relying on the technology and this is the sad thing that's happened. Now Clubs and venues don't promote themselves anymore.
Speaker 2:They don't promote, they expect the comic or the talent to bring their crowd with them, and that's a difference. I think that has also happened across. You know, like you probably never seen any. I mean, there used to be clubs that would promote the club, you know. I mean you know the laugh that when I first started, you know, the comedy at theater had a commercial running every week. So they promoted the club. So it didn't matter who was, who was coming, the club promoted itself. It was the. It was I'm going to the comedy club, I'm going to see, you know. And of course Robin Harris was famous, but at the time he wasn't. He was the draw a lot of times, but it was the club itself, and so that's changed. That I mean right now. That's why promoters are lazy and they're cheap.
Speaker 2:Most comedy clubs you've probably never seen an ad in your city for any of the comedy clubs unless they're promoting a particular branded comic. They don't have a standing running ad for the rest of the week, it's just when DL comes to town or when Ricky Smiley comes to town this week. Ricky Smiley at the pub they might, but back in the day that was different and so now that's why promoters and club owners and all that kind of stuff, they want the comic to do that work and it's really kind of unfair. It's really kind of unfair to unless you're a name brand, a branded comic, that's difficult when you're outside of your own city or you're in a new place to promote, because that's expensive.
Speaker 2:For me, other than Instagram or Facebook, if I don't have and really man, to really be promoted across the country in a place you have to have, I would say you probably need 200,000 or between 200,000 and 500,000 people to promote in a city, like you know. Let's say I'm from LA and I go to Detroit. I need half a million people because I need maybe out of that, you know, 250 or 500,000 people when I go to Detroit, I need 5,000 of those people to know I'm there, so that for that week where the club has 250 or 300 seats, I have a full night and clubs aren't doing that anymore, with that anymore. So they're leaving it and promoters, club owners, bookers, are putting that impetus and work on the comic, which isn't fair, or the act, and that's not just comics, that's music, that's whatever, because there are some clubs that still do music. I'm sure there's some clubs in Hampton that have jazz or R&B or rap or whatever. They have poetry or whatever, and it's weird They'll promote that before they'll promote comedy. So I think that's the big difference, you know, in comedy.
Speaker 2:As it relates to promoting your brand, you know, and so like $25,000 ain't't going, that's cool, that's good, that's more than I have on my thing right now because I got hacked, so I got to build my numbers back up. Man, I lost my 25,000. So I'm building my thing back up, but until you have about, I would say, 250,000 to 500,000 people you're going to, you're going to have, you have limitations. Let me say, promoting your brand outside of the city, that you're in promoting your brand outside of the city that you're in, so you know, and it just takes.
Speaker 2:it takes time to build that up.
Speaker 2:And and and, and there's nothing wrong with the slow build man you don't want. You don't want fake, you don't want the fakey fans. Because you hurt yourself when you start buying the fakey fans and people think, oh man, he's got a million people on this thing and you come in and you can't get 50 people to come to a show. That don't make no sense and a club owner will be like, okay, I ain't booking this fool, no more. Either you've said something that makes people hate you or your fans are fake. Your numbers are straight fake, homie, you got fakey fans. So I say, build your numbers up. You know, if you're a comic man, build your numbers up legitimately, man.
Speaker 2:And I'm so jealous of a lot of young comics man because they've learned how to use the Internet to their advantage. You know, taking advantage of how to you know edit on their phone and on the go and do it. Wish I had that in my repertoire. I think I wish I would have had it when I was a younger comic and then more versed. But but I tell all of the young comics man, keep, keep doing your, keep doing your, keep doing your thing with that. You know, just keep building your numbers and going in clubs letting them see you do a little crowd work and put that out on the internet. Man, just keep doing that and build your numbers up, because that's how casting directors, that's how everybody kind of looks at who's going to get a role in the movie, who's going to get a role in the show? What do their numbers look like?
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Speaker 2:I'm hey man, shoot man. I said go for it, that'll make you some money. I said go for it. I ain't man, I'm an old dude, I'm thinking about just putting my, you know, putting my great beard right in it, just just just doing. Hey, bitches, just just no, no face, just great, just like this hey hoes.
Speaker 2:How you doing Just pimp chatting with these yeah, pimp chatting fans only. Yeah, baby, and say crazy pimp shit to them Bitch, if you catch up, then you don't have to look around. Yeah, bitch, catch up, then you don't have to look around. Yeah, bitch, I like Zaddy dude, Zaddy Pimp, he just hey, matt, I'm sorry, is this like a Christian conservative podcast? I've been a little profane. I just want to make sure I didn't curse your mama's conservative Christian conservative knickknack, china cabinet or nothing. I didn't want you to be in there. No, no, no. The people all over the wall.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying? No, because of me.
Speaker 2:We do got an angel in this room, though I'm sure I know some, I know some christian, I know some christian stuff going on in there somewhere on one wall, somewhere there's a cross. There's some angels, there's something, there's two. There's some angels, there's something on one wall.
Speaker 1:There's two angel-like statues in here. Yeah, I'm sure, and I even throw it out here for everybody Porcelain dolls, them porcelain dolls, porcelain dolls, hey man.
Speaker 2:Hey, listen, my sister collected them. Hey man, I know, I know all about it. I'm from Gary, indiana, my mother's from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I know all about the little porcelain knickknacks and ceramics. I know all about it, dog. It's all kind of stuff they used to collect Shot glasses and salt and pepper shakers from all around the world. I know all about all that, all that knick-knack. I had an aunt that bought them plates off of the I mean every plate that was sold on TV. She had it. Yeah man, she collected plates.
Speaker 2:I had her collect dolls. You know the scary dolls in the room, the boys, the ones that move with you. Yeah, oh man, they had them doll eyes. That just you be like hey man, no, no, they were all dressed in, like you know, the antebellum soft ass clothing and you're like hey man, I don't dig this room, dog. No, I don't like the dog. We used to call it the dog room. I ain't going in the dog room.
Speaker 1:Now we got another Curio filled with the dogs. We got a dog, an Aunt Jemima dog. It looked like Aunt Jemima man. I hate that damn dog. But my aunt used to have clown heads and she my aunt used to have clown heads. She would crochet the legs on them like an octopus. There was toothbrush holders at that.
Speaker 2:Oh man, we had the creepy dolls, the plates, the shot glasses. One time I had an aunt that collected magnets on the refrigerator. She had like a thousand magnets From every place she had been and every time she came back Somebody would bring her a magnet. She'd stick it on her like this Okay, then he'd open the damn door of the refrigerator On damn magnets we just got the porcelain dolls, and that's it.
Speaker 1:Man, I can't do this shit, oh God, this is the funny story. This is the reason why I stopped drinking. I came in the house drunk one night and it was Christmas. You know those little robotic Santa Claus's that you be seeing at the store she would put them by the front of the door. So it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. I'm coming home, I'm drunk and I saw that thing moving. I swore I heard her say get upstairs. I stopped drinking after that.
Speaker 2:I said yup, this is it the little Santa thing, get upstairs, get upstairs get upstairs we had that weird little dance and it was you know.
Speaker 1:Santa's coming to town.
Speaker 2:Santa Claus, hmm hmm, that'll pretty much stop you from drinking. Terrifying ass.
Speaker 1:Santa.
Speaker 2:I know That'll pretty much stop you from drinking. A little terrifying as Santa.
Speaker 1:Six years. I ain't had a drink in six years. I'm like, I'm cool.
Speaker 2:I'm cool. Sometimes, man, you don't realize there's a blessing. There's a blessing in terror.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm cool, I ain't about to do this. You know how bad it is to go through the garage and be like middle of the night you're like I'm going through the garage and that damn thing is just I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2:I ain't mad at you, I'm not gonna do it. Yeah, I know I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1:I consider you two an icon in the game, to your credit. This is crazy. Now I'm going to keep it real with you. I watch House Party 4. And you definitely kept the energy up in the whole movie.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you, man, that was a fun experience working with. Well, thank you, man. That was a fun experience working with the group Immature man, they were really good dudes, man. They were young kids then, you know, and we had a lot of fun shooting that movie.
Speaker 2:Mari Morrow is what played my wife. She was a very talented sister. She had been in a lot of stuff prior to that movie. Uh, mario is, uh, what played my wife. She was, uh, a very talented sister. She had been in a lot of stuff prior to that movie. You know how to be a player, and she had done several movies. So it was just, it was just a fun. It was a fun experience with kim whitley and um, let's see who else was in there um, I'm trying to think of it was just a whole group of very, very talented people, man, and we had fun putting that movie together. So, yeah, house Party 4, that was the last one, and I guess you know every now and then, when you get to the last one, it's like, okay, we ain't doing no more of these, this is the last. Well, I think they did one more house party movie that came out this year, but it didn't have any. It was like a modern version of the old one.
Speaker 1:They did one with the guy that played in Everybody Hates Chris, the younger brother, Drew. I was feeling that House Party was dope. Like I said, you really kept the energy up because the scene when you was in the car with the taxi driver and y'all thought he was a mass murderer. Mass murderer, and y'all was running through the woods.
Speaker 2:And her mama slid down that hill. We had to film that like two or three times because I was laughing too hard. When she slid down that hill, dog, I was like, and the mother was right behind us, they had to time it like, okay, really bad, y'all like, and we filmed that right out. The director was Chris Stokes, man. So we were shooting everything like you know, rogue and you know, and with no permits and stuff. So, like man, we shot that scene late one night and his mama slid down that hill. That was like right next to his house Because we didn't have no room room, you know, it's not like we were in a, a forest or something, it was just like a, the backyard behind their house. Yeah, when she came down that hill, dog, that made me laugh. So, yeah, we, we had fun, man, we had fun shooting that movie.
Speaker 1:It was fun that was fun, I liked it, it was better, because I hated the third one, the third house party.
Speaker 2:The second one was cool, but the third one was like, and matter of fact, that was, uh, megan Good, I want to say one of her first movies correct and man, you know, megan Good, I want to say one of her first movies, correct Yep. And man, you know I tease everybody. I said I've been in some movies with some celebrities. Man Like this is my claim to fame.
Speaker 1:I was in.
Speaker 2:Beyonce's first movie. Yeah, see, people don't know that she was in a movie called Beverly Hood and her and Destiny's Child had one scene in the entire movie. But she was in a movie called beverly hood and her and destiny's child had one scene in the entire movie. But she was in it. I was in her first movie and it's so funny because I, we did the movie, we did the scene. Um, you know, it was like one of the last days of shooting and tina and her father came and this is when they had. This was like, as their song was blowing up, that first one I think it was Bills, won't you pay my bills. That was like that was blowing up on the radio. And so they came and they shot their scene Cut to 20 years later you know we're talking 2000 something Beyonce walks past me at an event and looks me in the eye and she's like I know you from somewhere and I went, just like this.
Speaker 2:I went, hey, beverly Hood, and she went and kept walking like I definitely don't want you to talk to me. It was too funny. I saw her and it was like I don't know if it was, it was like the backstage at, I want to say the BET Awards or something, and we passed each other in the hallway and she and I caught eyes and she's like I know you from somewhere and I said Beverly Hood. And she, it was too funny. I went. But yeah, man, I've been. Like I said, man, I've had some fun experiences. That's why I'm in the same. I can say, you know, not a lot of comedians can say that, but I have been in a movie with Beyonce and Megan Good.
Speaker 1:And you've been part of two of iconic, two iconic comedy shows Def Comedy Jam and Comedy View, and you was in. Def Comedy Jam and the joke about why do gangster rappers go and talk about shooting when they win an award. Yeah, say thank God, yeah.
Speaker 2:Busted. I want to thank the Lord my Lord saved, jesus Christ, for helping me write this whole busted motherfuckers with the AK. You remember that? That's too funny. I did that joke on them yeah.
Speaker 1:Who was it?
Speaker 2:Gangsta Ballads. That was the one that got me. I remember that song that came out. I hold my phone For your memory. I was like, really, why didn't you sing some of this? Don't do this dumb shit before you get there. Why are we singing at your funeral? I'm lonely, bro. You should have stopped him before then. Why didn't you sing to him? Why didn't you sing something to soften up his mood? He was too angry. You're singing ballads at his funeral. You should have sung him a lullaby and told him to quit doing this dumb shit.
Speaker 1:Get your ass off the street.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, dumb ass out this car, like Trey, let him out, let him out the car. Yeah, man, I had let's see Two, I mean two, def Jams.
Speaker 1:Season four, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, six, it's five or six comic views. Let's see. I remember them by the hosts. I did DL. I did some more Jay Anthony Brown, brown, ricky Smiley, there was one more I did. I did like five appearances on comic book yeah, they just brought it back to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they did some with Kevin Hart brung it back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did some with Kevin Hart, yeah, recently and then I did Martin's.
Speaker 1:Martin Lawrence's First Amendment. Yeah, you were on the episode with one of my ghosts, dick Gregory yeah, man, that was the greatest.
Speaker 2:One of the greatest thrills of my life was meeting him and just sitting there talking to him. Man was incredible, bro. It was like a uh man sitting downstairs and he would talk and, you know, chat it up with you. Man, he was really, really, really a nice dude man. So I got to meet him and he um, he passed a few years after that but but I, I, that was one of my uh, great comedy experiences. And and somebody has pictures of us together. I haven't been able to find those backstage pictures. I think Doug Williams says he has some and my boy, carlton Davidson, might have some. But I'm going to try to find those pictures because there were a couple of pictures we all took together Me, you know, when they, especially all of the people who were on the show together. Me, you know, when they, especially all of the people who were on the show together it was me, dick Gregory, and I'm trying to remember the other young lady.
Speaker 1:Yeah, angus Black up there as well too, from Virginia, and I had the.
Speaker 2:I actually had the little flyer they had for the show. I had some in my room in here. Ah, here it is, see, see, got it. This is the First Amendment. Everybody that did it that season and her name was Nikki Nikki Carr, it was was Nicky Carr. It was Nicky Carr. Yep, me Dick Gregory and Nicky Carr. Yep, there's Dick Gregory right there on the back. He's on the back. Let me show you. Right there, see, it's Dick Gregory. Yep, the goat. Yep, can you see it? Yeah, I can see it, it's Dick Gregory.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the GOAT, yeah, can you see it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I can see it, I remember.
Speaker 1:Well, for y'all people out there that still watch, power Star still has Martin Lawrence First Amendment, so you can still go watch.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Go watch that but.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you, some stars did season, man, they had some. They had some great people in there, man, they had some great people. Ronnie jordan did it hope. Kier spates, who's now on, uh, the radio, that's uh with, uh with steve in the morning. Dion cole, uh, rob Stapleton, guy Torrey, you know, brooklyn Mike they had a whole bunch of guys on there, man. Dick Gregory, joe Clare, don DC Curry, gary Owen, ricky Smiley. Ricky Smiley did the show. He was actually on the show as a performer. So yeah, man, that was fun. Doug Williams was the host. Man, he's my frat brother, doug. He did good, he did a good job. So yeah, man, yeah, I've had my experiences, man. So you know, I've had, I've had fun over the years performing and doing my thing.
Speaker 1:So I think comedy is all about having fun. I look at comedy as like a gateway to open up more doors. Honestly, from what? I've been told, the only reason I started this podcast is because I had a bomb one night where the lady threw a chicken wing at me and I ain't had enough bass in my voice yeah, I didn't have enough bass in my voice to check her.
Speaker 2:Oh, what so? You threw a chicken wing at me bros.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got a plant. Lady threw chicken bone at me.
Speaker 2:Okay, I want to know what you said. What was the punchline that she went? Oh no, oh no, hell, no. Were you giving her grief or did you say something? Okay, I want to tell me the joke. I need to. I need to set up in the book.
Speaker 1:Man, let me. Let me say this it was a three week buildup Open mic at a bar, no stage. I was performing by the bar. First night I go up. I'm like, hey, how y'all doing, get to the jokes. Mother. First night I go up. I'm like, hey, how y'all doing, get to the jokes mother. She just started laying me. I'm like what did I do to her? I ignored it the first night, second night I go back there.
Speaker 2:Oh him again Third night. She was a bar regular. She like no man, she was you again, I, was like, damn, I was like, and this is Monday night comedy.
Speaker 1:I'm like, damn later what I do to you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, hold on, man. Let me just I'm sorry, I gotta ask Was she like the owner's wife or like the bartender's girlfriend? When was she at the bar every day?
Speaker 1:She was at. So I'm performing by the bar, so she was to my right at the bar every day. She was at back so I'm performing by the bar, so she was to my right of the bar so she was sitting at the bar. So the guy that ran the open mic, his brother, was there and she used to come with them because they was part of a church group that would do church plays, so she was throwing the chick. I don't know, it's this virginia. Most of our stuff is gonna have to be like. Majority of that stuff usually comes from church shows anyway, but yeah, she, she was, yeah, and I got up there.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I work as a loan officer by days, a depressing job. And I was like, yeah, you get. Like I said, all I do all day is prove people for mortgages, prove them from this how they get this interest rate. And I was like, damn, this sucks because I'm approving people for shit that I can't get approved for. Next thing, you know, I hear a kapoom. And I look and I'm like what is my shit why? And I look, I'm like what is my chicken why?
Speaker 2:she done flung a chicken wing at your dog.
Speaker 1:Hold on it was a drum.
Speaker 2:It was a drum you know, that was my next question. What is that flat on drum hold?
Speaker 1:on dog was my question.
Speaker 2:What's that flat on there? What's that Hold on?
Speaker 1:dog. She already ate it.
Speaker 2:It was just a bone Lemon pepper or mine. I don't know, I don't even know what did you have on your face the lemon pepper?
Speaker 1:That joint hit me. Boy, I was hot. I was like who threw the? No, no, no, the wind was hot. I was like who the fuck threw it? And I was like can't do nothing, couldn't fight back. So the next Monday I came back, I said shit.
Speaker 2:I'm like wing at you.
Speaker 1:It's all wrong. That's comedy, man it is. And I came back the next Monday I said I'm gonna get her ass. And I saw her right there and she said this nigga here. I said, oh. So then I proceeded something I shouldn't even have done to roast. And I was like yo, your legs are like two rolled up sleeping bags. And I was like you got the spray paint from cisco and the thong song on your head. Let me tell you something. They cut the lights and the music off on me and was like, hey, you can't be doing that. I was like, okay, so I walked away and I took a month off. I was like should I even have rose there back? So somebody's like yeah, yeah, you should have. I was like but I came in there looking for a fight.
Speaker 1:I came in there for a fight that day like I was right. I was at home seeking violence. I'm like I'm gonna get her ass oh my gosh, I choose, I'm going to get her ass.
Speaker 2:I got so hot sometimes, man, you got to do so hot.
Speaker 2:I agree with you. You got to go in there armed and dangerous, you know. I mean somebody fling a chicken wing at you, dog, that's, that's ground for roasting, that's grounds you got to go for it. Rolled up sleeping bags. That's hysterical. Yep, you had to do that, dog. You got to get your comedy base in your voice. You had to do that, dog, you gotta get your comedy. You gotta get your comedy base in your voice. You can't do that. Can't let them do that. Run you off stage, man.
Speaker 2:You gotta get your base in your voice, you all. Good, that's what you gotta do. That's how you get your comedy base. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Have you seen her any place else before? Have you seen her again?
Speaker 1:she followed me on instagram and liked the post.
Speaker 2:Oh, man, that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I went to america's got talent back in february and she was like, oh click, and she dm me. I'm so proud of you. I was like strange bad fellow the wing thrower is not my friend the winged man when I was even.
Speaker 2:I didn't pick up with that. This is a strange bed fellow. The winged thrower is not my friend. Hey man, hey man. Comedy will make for some interesting fans. You'll get some interesting fans, dog. I'm not mad at you, hey man. She's a follower. She's a follower That'll move you towards your 250,000.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one more 249,999.
Speaker 2:Tell her fat ass to go get some of her chicken wing eating friends to all start following you. That's what you need.
Speaker 1:We cool now. Man, I won the battle, she won the man. I won the battle, she won the battle, but I won the war. So I'm just kidding. Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:We'll keep winning. That's what I said. Keep winning, dog. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:Appreciate it.
Speaker 2:You can't let them stop you. You got to get. Once you get thrown off that side, you got to get back in there.
Speaker 1:Get them right back in there. What's that? Before we go, I just I ain't, but I want the only fans. I do appreciate the interview.
Speaker 2:Oh, of course, man, and we can do it again. You call me back, man, we'll do it again.
Speaker 1:Say less. I can't wait. I promise I want to come If I got something to promote.
Speaker 2:I promise I'm going to come on and let the chicken wing throw. I'm a friend of yours, Bitch, you'll start following me. Maybe I ain't letting my papa. What's up, habanero?
Speaker 1:I think that shit was honey barbecue too. Now I think about it honey barbecue chili, hey Tywin praise the lord. I'm like damn, she roasted my ass, but I got you. I appreciate you, bro, for real, real talk. Thank you for having me, man.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you, bro, like for real real talk bro, man, thank you for having me, man, I appreciate you. Man, I just want to say man, keep doing your thing, man, and if you're ever in LA, please let me know you're coming and I will come out and uh support you. Man, as a matter of fact, guess what I'm gonna get you if you had how many uh fans you got on instagram I think like 1400 around there 1400, it's gonna be 1401. Man, I'm gonna follow you tonight my guy.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it bro.
Speaker 2:No problem, man, consider it done. Bro. Now I'm not gonna follow you for a long time. I'm gonna get on here and I got you, bro. Consider it done, son. There we go.
Speaker 1:We both one step closer to our 250,000. Make sure y'all follow. Make sure y'all follow me Comedian Rome all social media platforms. Click that link in that bio man Like, share, subscribe, support. Make sure you check out Buddy Lewis as well too. I forgot his social media handle, but we're going to put it on. It's the.
Speaker 2:Real Buddy Lewis Jokes on Instagram and Facebook. And also man, I have another episode coming out soon of the Upshaw, so please check that out. Coming up soon, season I think this is season five or season four or five with them. Yeah, I'm on the show. Please, when that episode comes out, please hit me up and let's come back and talk about it.
Speaker 1:Say less. Yeah, yeah, when are the millennials coming back?
Speaker 2:since we talked about coming back, man, you know I saw the producers the other day, man. As a matter of fact, I played golf with them about a month ago, man, and they're saying that you know there's still some chatter that it might come back, so we're hoping that they get the show up and going again. We'll see. It was fun. Those guys were really, really, really, really a lot of fun to work with that whole crew that's on All Black.
Speaker 1:See, your boy, rome, has to use somebody else's Netflix password because I can't answer.
Speaker 2:They didn't give me no special code. I gotta get on all black yeah, I've been struggling. I don't think I wanted this one yeah, keep getting these seven day trials with new emails for your life with them last 799. Come out, you're okay, ain't nothing worse than that 799 coming out and that's the one that's going to bounce that rich.
Speaker 1:That's the one to's going to bounce that rich, yet that's the one that make you cry, oh Lord.
Speaker 2:I got it out all at once. Yes, oh shit. No, man, but hit me back, ron man. Keep doing your thing, man, and I appreciate you having me on, man. I will definitely come back, man. This was fun.
Speaker 1:Amen, appreciate you, brother. You be safe out there.
Speaker 2:All right man Stay safe in them streets.
Speaker 1:Stay away from the chicken wings too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, stay away from chicken wing flings.
