Chelsea Handler ('The Feeling'), Hasan Minhaj ('Off With His Head'), Jamie Foxx ('What Had Happened Was...'), Roy Wood Jr. ('Lonely Flowers'), Sarah Silverman ('PostMortem') and Seth Meyers ('Dad Man Walking') join THR in Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter.
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00:00When I first moved to LA, I did two shifts at a sushi restaurant.
00:03Do you remember? It was on Sunset. There was a karaoke place.
00:05Yeah.
00:06The beginning of my shift at six, somebody's like,
00:08Jamie Foxx is doing karaoke.
00:10And then at the end of my shift at 11, I went up.
00:12You were still on stage.
00:13Yeah.
00:13Like five hours of karaoke.
00:15Every Tuesday.
00:16Why?
00:17Because it was the thing to do.
00:22Being funny is hard work, but this group makes it look easy.
00:26We're having an unfiltered conversation
00:28with six of the most fearless performers in comedy.
00:31Get to know the people behind the punchlines.
00:35Jamie Foxx.
00:38Chelsea Handler.
00:41Seth Meyers.
00:44Hasan Minhaj.
00:46Sarah Silverman.
00:49Roy Wood Jr.
00:52They're all on the record, but just a little off script
00:56with The Hollywood Reporter.
00:58Hi, and welcome to Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
01:00stand-up roundtable.
01:02I'm Lacey Rose.
01:03Let's get started.
01:04So we're going to jump in with a question
01:05for whoever wants to take this one.
01:08When was the first time you remember realizing you were funny?
01:11My dad was one of those dads that taught his toddler swear words.
01:16And then I yelled them out at the grocery store
01:18and I saw all these grownups laughing despite themselves.
01:23And it made my arms itch with glee.
01:26And I chased that the rest of my life.
01:30That's a T-shirt.
01:32It made my arms itch with glee.
01:32I think it usually starts with cursing early
01:34and getting attention for it, especially if you're a girl.
01:38Yeah.
01:38We're doing something bad out of school
01:40and people going, yeah, look at her.
01:42And you're like, OK, I can run with this.
01:44For me, it was little league baseball.
01:46Huh?
01:46Fourth grade, fifth grade.
01:47I rode the bench.
01:49So you ride the bench.
01:51Your job is to insult the other team.
01:53Throw them off their, you know, throw them off their, you know, medals.
01:56You were particularly good at that.
01:57Yeah, so we would just crack on the other team.
01:59And if you got the umpire to laugh or the other parents to laugh,
02:02like that was like, it's like doing an open mic set.
02:04Making fun of teachers was big.
02:06Elementary school, making fun of teachers.
02:08Yeah.
02:09You got some zingers.
02:10Yeah, that was me third grade.
02:13But I was an intellect.
02:14So my father was a teacher.
02:18My grandmother was a teacher.
02:19So I was smart.
02:21I'm just always talking shit.
02:23And so Ms. Reeves, and I'm in Texas.
02:27Son, you're not going to be staying in this class if you keep running your mouth.
02:30And so my grandmother brokered a deal with my third grade teacher.
02:37Let me tell jokes at the end of class every Friday.
02:41Wow.
02:41So they gave me like five or ten minutes.
02:43And then I would take the jokes off of Johnny Carson.
02:46You feel me?
02:47And I do it because the kids, the only reason I watch Johnny Carson
02:49is because we were poor, but the only television was in my room.
02:53So my grandparents would stay up and watch Johnny Carson.
02:55So I took them jokes, tell them to the kids.
02:57They thought I was amazing.
02:59You feel me?
02:59So that's how I...
03:00I love it.
03:01I figured it out.
03:01It's a good grandma too.
03:02Did you do impressions?
03:03Yeah, I was doing a Jimmy Carter singing, You Light Up My Life.
03:10As a third grader?
03:11Third grader.
03:12By the time I got to sixth grade, everybody from the city was, you know, coming.
03:17And then by the time I was, you know, ninth grade, and then it was Ronald Reagan.
03:21Well, well, it's a matter of, you know, a kid doing...
03:24The only black kid doing Ronald Reagan.
03:26Lacey, did you know that we're sitting down with the only comedian
03:29that has all the Infinity Stones?
03:30I did not know that either.
03:32Jamie Foxx.
03:33I got on a United flight just to meet all five Infinity Stones.
03:36Right here.
03:37You run the Combine.
03:37Your whole special was like five tools.
03:40Yes, bro.
03:40That was, yeah.
03:41Yes.
03:41You came out in leather, chains, sermon.
03:45Piano.
03:47You saw the trailer for Jamie Foxx's, but you're like, oh, son of a...
03:53Only a handful of comics can do this.
03:55Lights out.
03:57Come on, this is civil rights, this?
03:59Yeah, that motherfucker just got to come out.
04:00That only happens every three decades.
04:02It was comedy.
04:03It was a performance.
04:04It was a sermon.
04:05Like, it was all...
04:06Once you see a piano on stage, you're like, oh, I ain't got no piano joke.
04:10All right.
04:11I suspect there have been people along the way that didn't always appreciate your humor.
04:16Looking back, what was the most combative or hilarious post-joke encounter you have had?
04:20Post-joke?
04:21Post-joke.
04:22Maybe it was a subject.
04:23I feel like there's got to be a Trump one for you, Seth.
04:27Sure, but they don't feel that special.
04:30You know, I don't feel like I'm particularly alone and haven't crossed the line with what
04:34he considers good taste.
04:37Plus, you're a Trump supporter now, so there's that.
04:39You know, I came around.
04:42We're all Trump supporters now.
04:43He's actually really nice.
04:46You guys just have a meal.
04:49I did an Oprah joke.
04:51So there was this rumor that me and Oprah was dating each other.
04:53I said, oh, that's a perfect joke.
04:55My management team said, don't do the joke.
04:57I said, I have to.
04:58So I'm in Master Square Garden.
05:01Everybody's out there.
05:01And I said, yeah, man.
05:03Everybody, since I won the Oscar, everybody's saying I'm dating everybody.
05:06And I can hear him, you know, sort of saying that.
05:09So I'm laying in bed with Oprah.
05:12I lean over to Gayle and say, ain't this shit crazy?
05:15Stedman, get us some juice.
05:18Gayle doesn't know this.
05:20Oh, no.
05:22She loved it.
05:23Hi, Jamie.
05:24That was so funny, Jamie.
05:26Hardest I ever bombed was at Madison Square Garden.
05:29Madison Square.
05:29It's Guardian, right?
05:32Madison Square Garden.
05:33It was that concert for Sandy, Hurricane Sandy.
05:37And they had asked me and Bill Hader to do a Stefan.
05:42And Bill wisely said, I'm not going to do it.
05:45And then they said, what about Bobby Moynihan, his drunk uncle?
05:48And so we written this thing to go out.
05:50And Chris Rock saw us backstage in costume.
05:52And he goes, you're going to do sketches?
05:56He goes, you're going to follow The Who with sketches?
06:00And we just, all our confidence drained out of our face.
06:03And sure enough, we just went out.
06:04And they were so angry.
06:06Was I there that night?
06:07Well, I don't know.
06:08Were you there?
06:08The Who performed, right?
06:09The Who, Arcade Fire.
06:10It was a, it's weird that you didn't remember us.
06:15Sounds like it's for the best.
06:18Politics gets me in trouble sometimes.
06:21But it's not so much a political joke as it is the early inclinations of the joke,
06:26where you haven't figured out all the live wires.
06:30I remember in San Francisco, this was, I don't know, week two of Russia-Ukraine.
06:36And the premise of what I was trying to say was essentially that we spend money
06:43to support other wars, but not wars in black neighborhoods, was what I was trying to say.
06:50But it came across from the email I got from the Ukrainian table that walked out
06:57was essentially, you don't care about us and our country.
07:00And I'm never watching Daily Show ever again.
07:03And they should, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
07:05And you finally get the joke together later on.
07:08But it just, it sucks because with political stuff, you've got to find the edge.
07:13And it's in hindsight, it's probably one of them jokes I should have done in New York
07:16on a Tuesday night, where nobody cares.
07:19So the Ukrainians were mad at you?
07:21Yeah, Ukrainian, there was a table of Ukrainians, and it was awkward.
07:24It was a table of Ukrainians?
07:25Yeah.
07:27No, this is, I'm at Cox.
07:30Oh, oh, okay, copy.
07:32And I do a joke that basically came across as anti-Ukraine.
07:35I was, I'm not anti-Ukraine.
07:36I'm just like, y'all got money for what y'all want to have money for.
07:39And that's all I was trying to say.
07:40That ain't me hating on the invasion and you fighting back or whatever.
07:44But I didn't have enough jokes to support that part.
07:47And sometimes you got to let the take cook.
07:48Yeah.
07:49Let that take cook.
07:51Yeah, you're just like, oh, sweetie, you were just set up.
07:53It could have been almost anyone.
07:55I just needed it to juxtapose the punchline.
07:57The joke works without saying Ukraine, but because that was what was hot, I was trying
08:00to lean into current events because they're both the big, shouldn't have done that.
08:05I thought it was funny.
08:06Like some people are like, I'm political.
08:07I'm a political comic or whatever.
08:09But then their jokes are like, Donald Trump eats pussy like this.
08:12You know, like, no.
08:15Wait, how do you?
08:18This is, you hadn't quite worked that one out.
08:20I hadn't.
08:21I was working it out.
08:22I was working it out.
08:23I go, well, I should say something.
08:25Nikki Glaser recently said, so many of us feel pressure to reinvent ourselves or to
08:32get more honest or reveal more about ourselves.
08:35Who here actually feels that pressure?
08:37I have a full length bush right now.
08:42He's like me.
08:44I like you.
08:44Floor length?
08:45I like you and your bush.
08:46It's not floor length.
08:48I don't think I could grow it floor length.
08:49It's, we don't know yet.
08:51Dare to dream.
08:51I don't know.
08:52Chelsea saw me once at a bath, in my bathtub.
08:56And then you came over and I was in my bathtub.
08:58And it was the first time I think anyone ever saw my vagina from that angle, including myself.
09:05Right.
09:06And it was so insightful.
09:07Remember what, what did it, what happened?
09:09You go, you shave it and then you end there?
09:12Yeah.
09:12And I was like, I, I don't know.
09:15Can you take a picture?
09:16I need to see it.
09:16Seeing it through someone else's eyes must be fascinating.
09:22The fact that y'all talking about your pussy is amazing.
09:25I don't know for me, but comedy is very personal.
09:27I'm airing my personal grievances, my personal, my dirty laundry,
09:31all of the things that are embarrassing, all of the things that are celebratory.
09:35Like for me, it is very personal.
09:38So it's natural to be personal.
09:39Is that pressure coming from the audience?
09:41Is it coming from the industry?
09:42Is it coming from your, like yourself?
09:44I think it's your choice as a creative, right?
09:46It's like, what kind of comedy are you doing?
09:48Is your comedy personal or are you telling jokes?
09:50Are you telling personal stories?
09:52Are you telling jokes?
09:53I think for each of us, it's probably a little bit different.
09:56For me, it's always been about my personal life, my family, my friends,
10:00what's happened to me, my experiences.
10:02But like, if like, if we just say like y'all's two specials,
10:06you'll say some wild shit that like, if just your recent special,
10:09you'll say some shit that for me is like,
10:12can you give me a minute to digest that you were in a closet
10:15having a lesbian playing around as a teenager in Martha's Vineyard?
10:21Like, you will say something wild and speed past it
10:23where you will sit in it and give the audience an opportunity to like,
10:26absorb the trauma of it.
10:30Because like, that's what I struggle with.
10:31I don't talk about myself on stage, like yet.
10:34But you've talked about wanting to.
10:36I mean, that's something that you like, maybe next, the next one.
10:40But we're like musicians in that way.
10:41We have a relationship with our audience.
10:43And so the expectation is different.
10:45Like when someone sees Jamie or Seth.
10:46Oh, when I saw Jamie's the amount I wished I'd almost died.
10:51That's what's fucked up.
10:52I had a stroke.
10:54I didn't have any jokes.
10:56Because I had a special for a deal for a long time,
10:58but I didn't have nothing to talk about.
11:00What was I going to talk about?
11:00I'm rich.
11:01I was behind my gates.
11:02I didn't, I remember running to Eddie Murphy.
11:05I saw Eddie Murphy at his house and he says,
11:07he was going to try to go, go do stand up.
11:10Remember that?
11:11And I go to his house and everybody went.
11:13Yeah.
11:14He said, he's trying to do jokes.
11:16I said, you can't.
11:17This ain't funny.
11:18Like the house, this is your house is too nice.
11:22And you got whatever that scent is.
11:23He had a scent that, you know, the shit that pumps through the oils.
11:28Like a hotel?
11:29Yeah.
11:29I said, what does that smell?
11:30He said, you don't like it?
11:31What is that?
11:31And he said, it's pomegranate sass.
11:33I said, the fact that you know that shit lets me know that you ain't funny, bro.
11:37Like you can't, it was too perfect.
11:39So that was me.
11:40I was living in that.
11:41So I didn't have nothing to talk about.
11:43And then the stroke happened and I was like, oh, this, this is, this is a platform,
11:49which I don't want to have another stroke in order to have another hour.
11:51Well.
11:52But.
11:52But you will if you have to.
11:54Yeah, if I have to.
11:55I also feel like.
11:56Now I play the stroke card.
11:57The rote card.
11:58I also feel like comedians have to go in right now because there's so much more
12:03of a glut of opinions out there.
12:05So my opinion of the world has to be different from what everybody else would,
12:10a podcast mic and a social media account and an IG Live camera has to say about the
12:15worldly thing.
12:17What can you shoot, edit and air in that two to three month window that hasn't been said
12:23about the thing that we're all seeing versus me talking about myself or just going, you
12:28know what, I only want to talk about loneliness or I want to talk about being a father like
12:32that to me is more interesting.
12:36So it almost forces you to go somewhere.
12:38So you feel like you've got something that's worthwhile to say that's like of meaning.
12:42It's so true.
12:43It's like your hot take on something in the world.
12:47It's still valid.
12:48But while you're honing it over months to shoot a special, 1,800 people have like recorded
12:53something in their car with their seatbelt on.
12:56And that immediacy is what's like where it's at kind of now, not in the format that we
13:02do, but on social media, which is how people consume entertainment.
13:08But I also think that's why it can be beneficial to be telling personal stories all the time
13:13because there is no hot take on that.
13:15Those are your stories.
13:16You know, you're talking about your experience as a father, but like no one's going to take
13:20that away from you and no one's going to have a take on your story but you.
13:24So there is a benefit to having, you know, you personalize your comedy.
13:28And like you're, I think you're, Sarah, you tell jokes, right?
13:32You set up premises and you tell jokes.
13:34I don't find your comedy particularly personal.
13:38It's personal.
13:38It's like you have a personal style, right?
13:41But you're not revealing so much of yourself as, as say you are in your comedy.
13:47And I think that's a different, that's a different style.
13:50I'll say this last special is completely about my parents dying and like everything in it
13:54is true.
13:56Okay.
13:56No, you're right.
13:57It wasn't real.
13:57Did it feel different?
13:58At the time of this taping, Sarah's special has not been released.
14:00Let's just put that out there.
14:02So I have not seen it at all.
14:03But there's a moment in the middle of it where you stop and you, you pivot and you quickly
14:07tell a, I think it's a masturbation joke.
14:10And because I think you say you're like, oh yeah, right, right.
14:14Oh, it is, this is getting so sad.
14:17Especially when you think it's, you know, like.
14:19What was the masturbation?
14:20I'm just asking.
14:21What was the masturbation joke?
14:21Well, I talk about burying my parents and that I am not religious, but I, you know,
14:28I realized that grief has a lot of DNA as religion.
14:32We're trying to find meaning and, and something that we, that we don't necessarily have a
14:37handle on.
14:39And, um, but that I believe in science and I know that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
14:46I wrote that.
14:47And, um, and then I say, but so I do feel like, no, they're not in their casket, but
14:52they're out there.
14:53And I feel like our loved ones are watching over us.
14:56Maybe not all the time, but at least when we're masturbating.
15:00And then I go, I don't know why I said that.
15:01And then I go, I think I needed to think that in order to come.
15:09And then I took a beat.
15:11Presumably you do that because other, I mean, it's, it's this sort of release.
15:18Yes.
15:18Release.
15:19Yeah.
15:20It's funny.
15:20Like reinvention, I think is, I would imagine for myself would be a giant mistake.
15:25Whereas refining is I think what?
15:28I think you should consider reinvention.
15:30And you're alone with that?
15:31Or do a lot of people say behind my back?
15:33Good friends.
15:34Okay.
15:35But ultimately that's what I think my goal is, is like to just get better.
15:39Because I think if you completely are a different persona on stage, because again,
15:42like based on that story, like you might be talking about personal stuff, but that's
15:45still a Sarah Silverman joke.
15:48Right.
15:49Which is more like refining.
15:51I just enjoy it because like, I also enjoy consuming that type of standup because I'm
15:57learning more and new things and more interesting things.
16:01I'm not anti-topical humor, but my, my palette has changed.
16:05And Hassan went through something extremely unique in terms of character assassination.
16:11So what are the jokes that come from that?
16:16At what point do you see the comedy potential in what can be, whether it's, it's your
16:20situation or your situation and is it, is it, are you seeing it or somebody else saying
16:24like, wait a second, there's comedy here?
16:27Yeah.
16:27I mean, I had to go through a comedy audit, which is its own thing, you know, by TurboTax,
16:34which is its own thing.
16:35And make sure you file everybody and bring your receipts.
16:37But Indians, we like receipts.
16:39But, but also like the, there's a critique aspect to it that's also very new, but that,
16:44but that comes with what we do now.
16:46Like the, the art form is ubiquitous and on the internet.
16:50And it used to be something that you could do in the West Village and now everybody around
16:53the world can see.
16:54And so you just got to be aware of that.
16:56That's part of it.
16:56I mean, I am interested in hearing when you, when you were having that, because people
17:01were coming at him for not being truthful about the storytelling he was, uh, uh, you
17:07know, in his special.
17:08But when did you see the humor and the comedy in that?
17:13Yeah, I think, I mean, one of the first jokes that came to me is I called a buddy of mine
17:18because you always have, you also have to call that buddy.
17:20And I was like, how, how Rob, how bad is it?
17:22And he was like, the article is bad, but the photos are good.
17:28And I was like, that's fucking hilarious.
17:30It's good.
17:30That's objectively hilarious, you know?
17:32And it's also like, it is very funny to fail so bad that you bring back Jon Stewart.
17:37Like that's objectively funny.
17:39It'd be like you dying and bringing back the ghost of Johnny Carson.
17:43Like that's pretty awesome.
17:45Right.
17:45To be honest, a lot of people are probably really happy at how it turned out.
17:48So it's like.
17:49Can I also say from the, from the Daily Show side, like when that came out and they were
17:54like, yeah, Hassan's not going to be the host.
17:56And then we're like trying to talk, like nobody would say why.
17:59Like nobody would give any details because we're like trying to, oh, well, if it's not
18:03going to be Hassan, who's it going to be?
18:04Should I stay?
18:05I don't know.
18:05Well, what happened to Hassan?
18:07Oh, well, there's, um, we're just, we're just going to reopen the search.
18:11Like nobody could even like even put into words what it was you were being accused of.
18:16You did not do anything.
18:16But it's, but, but this is like, this is like the NBA.
18:18You get traded, you get traded and you go through the portal and, you know, sign and
18:22trade and it happens.
18:23I think what they tell you.
18:25Oh, bro.
18:26This is, that's the, that's the showbiz call.
18:28You've had the showbiz call.
18:30No, I haven't.
18:30What's the showbiz call?
18:31The showbiz call.
18:32We are such fans of you.
18:34Yeah, you get the showbiz call.
18:35I never got that call.
18:36You get the showbiz call.
18:37You have an Oscar and a Grammy, I'm sorry.
18:40It's a very, it's a very loving rejection.
18:42It's the showbiz call.
18:43I think everything is fodder for comedy.
18:45Okay.
18:45Like, like everything in your life, good or bad, painful, it's, it's fodder.
18:49Yeah.
18:50I mean, you must have immediately thought, you must have seen the comedy and it immediately,
18:54right?
18:55I was doing so many jokes in the hospital.
18:58They were like.
18:58Yeah.
18:59Because I kept asking the doctor, I don't want to be stroke man, stroke man.
19:02Yeah, that's me.
19:02And my sister would be like, please.
19:05That's the only way I could get through it.
19:06I'm a, I'm a, I'm a comic.
19:08So it was like, even when the, I was heavily sedated.
19:13They gave me Oxycontin, Dilatin and Morphine at the same time for my pain.
19:17So I was kind of.
19:19They gave you that Sackler special.
19:20Yeah, they gave, you know, they, they, they gave it, this is for your pain.
19:23And this is so you don't remember it.
19:25So they men in black me.
19:27So the motherfucker turned in the wheel, yo, take this here and you won't remember.
19:31Anyway, so I'm fucked up.
19:34And then this is not funny.
19:38I snuck my phone cause I didn't know what the outside world was saying.
19:41And so I snuck my phone to see what people were saying.
19:44I'm just been in this hospital and I couldn't get my mind around that.
19:47I had a stroke.
19:47I'm in fucking perfect shape.
19:50The clone shit threw me.
19:52Yes.
19:52When they said I was a clone that made me flip in the hospital.
19:55That's it.
19:56These motherfuckers is trying to clone me.
19:58I didn't have a stroke.
19:59So I'm sitting in my, I'm sitting in the hospital bed like these bitches.
20:03And then I saw me walk into my room, but I'm white.
20:06So I see the white, white me, but he had a Caesar too.
20:09Just like all that white me.
20:11And I'm like, and I'm trying to get their attention and no one's saying anything.
20:15And I'm like, that's it.
20:16They trying to clone me.
20:17This motherfucker is all the thing.
20:18And so the next morning I was out of my bed.
20:21I was standing there like, uh, uh, Chris Pratt and Jurassic Park.
20:25I was like, what the fuck?
20:27And Dave was like, what's up?
20:29I said, what's up, Fox?
20:30I said, I know what's up.
20:31You're trying to clone me, motherfucker.
20:32I saw the white clone.
20:34And I know why you're trying to clone me and make me white.
20:37Cause I'll sell better overseas.
20:39And honestly, so, so, so they had to call like my psychiatrist.
20:48I had a psychiatrist on board.
20:50I'm sitting in this motherfucker.
20:51You read your conspiracy theory.
20:52I'm thinking I'm a clone.
20:53Yes.
20:53And when the, when the psychiatrist says, are you all right?
20:56And I says, am I all right?
20:57Or am I all white?
21:00I saw what happened yesterday.
21:03I saw a motherfucker.
21:04You trying to get the white motherfucking Jamie Foxx and it ain't going to happen.
21:08So he just calmly goes, I think we're going to lower your dosage.
21:13And after that, they just cloned you as black guys.
21:17I see everything as funny.
21:18I just think, I think we're, we're over-seriousing comedy.
21:22What, what's, what would you do if you didn't have it?
21:24Well the standard comedians are held to, as opposed to the standards politicians are held to.
21:29Yeah, these motherfuckers always think it's our fault.
21:31Like it's always the comedian.
21:33I got, that was, that was going to be the title of one of my specials, kill the comedian.
21:37Cause it's just like, you know.
21:38It's also like, you're the only ones going after Trump.
21:40You're the only ones going after Trump.
21:42It's like the pressure to constantly talk about Trump.
21:44It's like, we're also comedians.
21:46You're also supposed to give people, provide people with a reprieve
21:49from thinking about Donald Trump for a minute, for an hour,
21:52for what, however long your show is, you know, you want to provide that.
21:56That's why I like also doing standup too, because I'm so tired of it.
21:59It's like, I've been there, done that.
22:01Everyone knows how I feel.
22:02I can't just keep banging this drop.
22:03You weren't using your platform enough to speak about the issue.
22:09But like, how do you like, okay, it should all be jokes.
22:11Everything's funny.
22:13But we dealing with audiences, bro, where they want to come and be emotional and feel.
22:17Fuck them, run them over.
22:19Run them over.
22:20Fucking tell that shit.
22:21But ain't the job to get the people to laugh?
22:22It's the last shit I did, I talked about,
22:24I didn't know I had gray hairs on my nuts.
22:27And I did 30 minutes on this.
22:29No, I didn't know.
22:30I didn't know because I shave and I dye everything, but I never, and I cut all it.
22:34I've never thought to look under there, you know,
22:36and then I'm dating this younger girl and we're talking shit.
22:38Don't touch me.
22:39I don't, I can't, I can't relate.
22:42All right.
22:42What's an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy?
22:45It may be, it may be exactly what you're saying.
22:47Just be funny.
22:48Fuck it.
22:49Like, I don't, I don't know.
22:51I know sometimes the chatter gets to you.
22:53Yeah.
22:54And that's why when I was trying to do my routine, I couldn't let anybody come watch it.
23:00Because they would say something and then I would, oh, and it would make me gun shy.
23:05So like, I would just, you know, try to stay in this sort of thing of,
23:09I'm just going to say whatever comes to mind.
23:11But the minute someone, it's, it's Adam, it's Adam and it's the Adam and Eve of it.
23:18When Adam said, I'm naked.
23:20Who told you you were naked?
23:21Does that make sense?
23:22Yeah.
23:23Yeah.
23:23So it's like, I just want to, I want to stay funny, which is hard because everybody just
23:28thinks it's, I don't know.
23:30I don't know what they think.
23:30I think it's, they think it's literal.
23:32Does that make sense?
23:32Correct.
23:33They think everything that we're saying is literal.
23:34Like when I said I wasn't dating white girls anymore, I didn't really mean that.
23:38Anyone else?
23:39Chelsea really put me in my place and I was so grateful.
23:42This is a big admission, by the way, on the record, bro.
23:47And they see me with my white girl.
23:49Oh, hello, we're right here together.
23:51Hello, everybody.
23:52Please pick us up.
23:53I married, I married a brown woman.
23:54So I kept, I kept it.
23:56One hundred percent.
23:57You know, love is love, but I did my part.
23:59That's not nice.
24:00I did my part.
24:01What is an unpopular opinion you guys hold about comedy?
24:05I don't like punchlines.
24:07I just like the setups.
24:10I think, look, I'll say this.
24:12I think the art form is bigger than ever.
24:14So when people critique it, I'm like, there's, there's more comedians doing theaters and arenas
24:20than ever.
24:20Yeah.
24:21So it's like, it's like watching the NBA contracts.
24:23The NBA contracts are bigger than ever.
24:25Yep.
24:26And the critique of it is louder than ever.
24:28So NBA contracts are bigger than ever.
24:30Stephen A. Smith is louder than ever.
24:31Yep.
24:32But both.
24:33First of all, be clear.
24:35Yeah, but you know, take the good with the bad.
24:37It's two worlds.
24:38Yeah.
24:38It's this world.
24:39And then it's the real world.
24:41There's the commentary.
24:43There's the 281 comments that we think is the whole world.
24:48And then there's Joe Coy selling out.
24:50Arenas.
24:51Fucking arenas.
24:52There's, there's, we're canceled here, but yet you're doing the stadium.
24:56So I don't know.
24:58I don't know how to, I don't know how it, I don't know how it plays.
25:01I don't even know how this plays because we're discussing something that is, what's the particular,
25:07you know, it's, it's, it's the serious, most serious look at comedy, but it's motherfuckers
25:11out there working nine to five, paying tickets to come see you do your thing.
25:16And you know, that's the other side of it.
25:18And it's a medium that's been pretty unscathed by cancel culture.
25:22Even though people have been canceled, they haven't been canceled.
25:24Just like he was saying.
25:26It's kind of a medium where you can get away with what you really want to say.
25:30There is no other, I mean, other than writing or authorship, you get to say whatever you
25:35want to say and however you want to say it.
25:38And it's up to you whether, I mean, it's up to your audience, whether or not they're coming
25:41for it.
25:41So it's, you're not being directed by another person.
25:44And there's a, it's such a sham of like, yeah, we can't even say what we want anymore.
25:49Yes, you can.
25:50If you're a dangerous comedian, you see yourself as edgy.
25:54The thing that makes you dangerous or edgy is that there are consequences.
25:58You don't want any consequences.
25:59That makes it unfair to you.
26:01Like you can say anything you want.
26:04It's a free country.
26:05Yeah.
26:05So it's like when you say like an unpopular opinion, to me, it's like, well, what's something
26:10about comedy you don't like?
26:11Well, whatever.
26:11It's something I don't like.
26:12It's something that worked for somebody else.
26:14Sure.
26:15So it's just, it may not be your joke bucket that you do or your style, be it talking about
26:21people or doing reaction videos or you do crowd work, whatever.
26:25It's all what the streets have chosen and decided that they like.
26:29It's a market.
26:29Yeah.
26:30So it's hard for me to like, I like the question, but it's hard for me to just go,
26:34I don't like that.
26:35I get it.
26:36It's probably because I can't do it.
26:37I'm not good at crowd work.
26:38So yeah, I hate on it.
26:41Wait, Jamie, I'm going to ask you a question.
26:43Yeah.
26:43This is real.
26:44This is going to make every comic lose their minds.
26:46Is it true?
26:47Chris Spencer told me this story.
26:49Yeah.
26:50To do this special, you didn't go to a club.
26:53You practiced it in your living room.
26:54In my living room.
26:56128, every single day in front of Chris Spencer and some other guy.
26:59128.
27:00128.
27:01What's PM?
27:02128 PM.
27:03I would come down and we built a little stage and I said, here's the set.
27:08Now we did like six hours to eight hours worth of material, but we dialed in the set,
27:13but we didn't get a chance to take it out on the road.
27:16How are you going to test that shit?
27:17Yeah, right.
27:18How are you going to test it?
27:19That's what I'm saying.
27:19So what people don't know is, is that it wasn't a tour.
27:26It was Atlanta.
27:27Yes.
27:28And two and a half shows.
27:29I said, do a show on Thursday because I had an English director and I had never worked with him
27:37and I was trying to explain to him, we got to land on the moon and he was very, well,
27:40Jamie, I want to make sure when we go into the eyes and we make sure that we go here,
27:44I'm going to make sure that your face, you know, I've seen your early work,
27:46but I want to make sure that this, this, and that, and this, and that.
27:49And he hasn't seen any footage from the living room?
27:52No.
27:52Roy, you understand, he did a cold reading.
27:54Your director for your special should know the material before he does.
27:58But we didn't have that kind of thing.
28:00So we saw some of it, but he was more, you know, this and that.
28:02And so then it was, I've never had an English or a white person
28:09tell me what black comedy is.
28:11So I had to do this.
28:13I said, well, you know, it's going to be black people.
28:14Of course there'll be blacks, but I want to make sure that when we go,
28:17and we go and we peer inside, I said, remember, it's going to be black people.
28:20I get that.
28:21I get that.
28:21But the thing is, I said, okay, it's going to be some.
28:23Oh God, why would you say that?
28:25I said, because that's, that's what we're going.
28:27We're going to Atlanta.
28:28It's going to be some.
28:29And I saw it through him.
28:30I said, don't let that throw you because you're going to need to feel that when we go.
28:35Cause we don't know what we're going to need.
28:37And I said, this is how it's going to go.
28:40Thursday night, it's going to be crazy.
28:42Cause the Thursday night ain't cool enough for Friday night tickets.
28:47So they're going to be a little rowdy.
28:49Am I right?
28:51Friday, all plus ones.
28:53The motherfuckers was like, going to be like this.
28:56And then Saturday at 12 noon, we go to see that Jamie Foxx shit.
29:02Right.
29:03And he's like, well, I said, that's how it was going to play out.
29:05And so then we go down to Atlanta and we asked Atlanta to just hold us down.
29:11Did you ever hear him on a cell phone talking to his agent being like,
29:14I feel as though I've been mischievous.
29:18No, you know what?
29:19It looks great.
29:21Hamish is the same guy that shot, uh, the Superbowl with, with Usher.
29:28And he was great because what he did, he allowed me to talk that shit.
29:33Cause most people would have been like, Hey man, I don't want to deal with that.
29:36I said, let me, he let me talk my shit.
29:38He let me have, he let me have what I needed.
29:42And then he says, okay, now I just need to make sure that this thing looks this
29:48and that cause we didn't have, he was great in other words,
29:51because my whole team was like, yo man, we got this shit.
29:54You feel me?
29:55Yeah.
29:55And so now, now I'm going back out, but I'm going to test my shit.
30:00Are there places you guys think that audiences won't go with you
30:03or you're nervous about whether they will go with you?
30:06I mean, I'm on my way to Europe to do a European tour,
30:09to apologize on behalf of our country, you know, and I hope, I hope they're with me.
30:14I hope they accept my apology and understand that all Americans
30:18aren't supportive of what's happening in our country.
30:21So that's, but I think as a comic and you guys tell me if you disagree,
30:25but we're all pretty known entities.
30:28So when your audience comes, they're coming for it.
30:31They want it and they know what they're coming for.
30:33It's not like, you know, we're starting out.
30:35So you have an advantage.
30:37But I wonder like someone like you, Seth,
30:39who is out on television every night as, as one thing,
30:43do people come to your standup shows sort of expecting more of that?
30:47And how do you then walk that?
30:48They might very well.
30:49I definitely have a fear that people buy tickets for me sometimes
30:53with the expectation that it will be a show about politics.
30:56And I don't necessarily want to go do that because again,
30:59I get to scratch that bitch all week long.
31:01And so hopefully the show is funny enough that
31:03if they have that expectation, they're not let down.
31:06But I do in the back of my head, don't, I also, you know,
31:09I've done a couple of specials where there hasn't been a lot of politics.
31:11So it's hopeful that the more I do that, the less people think that.
31:15But I, I, I worry a little bit.
31:17Do you, do you read your Ticketmaster reviews?
31:20No.
31:21Do you?
31:22No, don't do that.
31:23You do?
31:23Don't do it.
31:24What's the worst one you've read?
31:25Only for joke critiquing though.
31:28Oh, interesting.
31:29I don't care about anything else.
31:30Do you feel like you're getting good?
31:31No, but that's not because they'll, they'll start critiquing the parking.
31:34No.
31:34They'll be like the parking at the Chicago theater was horrendous.
31:37Then we walked in $12 for beer.
31:39Really?
31:39It's like, come on.
31:40Last Comic-Standard made us live tweet in 2010.
31:43And you see all the worst shit about you in real time for eight straight weeks.
31:47So I'm like, internet hate doesn't bother me.
31:49But the idea of people going, oh, I thought he would have been more political.
31:53I'm like, well, no, that's, that's the CNN thing.
31:56That's not what I do now.
31:58And so that part, I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
32:01So then some shows, I'll front load.
32:05I'll change the bad in order of the bits, front load.
32:08All right, if I got 10 minutes on politics, I'll do that.
32:10Get it out the way.
32:11Give you what you thought you wanted.
32:13The late, great John Witherspoon.
32:16And you know this.
32:17God bless.
32:18John Witherspoon, because he knew his audience loved his movie appearances or whatever,
32:24his first five to eight minutes is just material about movies he's been in.
32:29Bang, bang, bang.
32:30You got to coordinate.
32:31Like he would do the werewolf, the vampire in Brooklyn.
32:35He would do all of that.
32:37And then the next 53 minutes is just straight heat.
32:40So that's what the ticket like.
32:42And I only know because they don't say that on YouTube.
32:45They don't say that.
32:46And I never would be aware of that.
32:48And those are the only reviews I read.
32:49I don't go on YouTube and comment.
32:50Bob Saget, that shit.
32:53Bob Saget was the first name that came in my head.
32:55Because he's so dirty.
32:56His stand up is so dirty.
32:58But he was America's dad.
32:59This motherfucker.
33:00He had to just be ready to not be what people expected.
33:05Take it off the rails.
33:06Comedy bucket.
33:06This chicken motherfucker was Korean.
33:09I mean, they knew immediately, right?
33:11Yeah.
33:11And they loved that.
33:12I mean, it's like that really worked for him.
33:14Red Fox.
33:14But I just feel like when you're, oh my God.
33:17Sanford and Son, he's doing the Sanford and Son shit.
33:19And then he goes to do Vegas.
33:21He said, if you see me holding a white bitch, I'm holding it for the police.
33:24And it's all these beautiful, cute white families in the first 13 rows.
33:29And you don't leave.
33:29But yeah, you got to, you got to.
33:32I understand about the comments.
33:34I don't like to read the things because it fucks with your head a little bit, right?
33:40Be a woman.
33:41And I'm not trying to, but like women comics, like anything on Rotten Tomatoes,
33:45anything people can vote for, it's just zero, zero, zero, zero.
33:50Just so many people, so many, like I don't know who they are.
33:54Just very motivated.
33:55But I don't ever read anything about myself.
33:58I just don't.
33:59I can hear bad things about me if I want to.
34:01Sure.
34:02I don't need to go look for it, you know?
34:04And especially as a woman, maybe it's different than being a man.
34:06I wouldn't know I'm not a man yet.
34:08But like, I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear about it.
34:11I'm not interested in hearing all the negative opinions about me.
34:14I'm aware they're out there, but it's not really my, my, of an interest.
34:19I will say I saw one about me that made me laugh where someone said,
34:22and again, I'm very cognizant of being a white comedian over 50.
34:25And someone wrote, every white comedian over 50 either becomes
34:29anti-trans or a big old jar of mayonnaise.
34:33Because I will say, like, when I was 25, I was like, oh my god, guys,
34:38certain comedians reach an age where they just start telling jokes
34:41about their kids and their family.
34:42And you're like, yeah.
34:43And then all of a sudden you realize you're like, oh man, that's what I am.
34:46At least I, at least I leaned mayo.
34:48Well, it's like, you know how there, there was like a generation maybe
34:52after us that, that knew that it was hacky to talk about like airplanes
34:58and rental cars, but they didn't understand the reason why comics
35:01talk about that is because they're on the road in this line of life.
35:05They just were like at Largo or wherever, knowing that that's hacky.
35:09It's like, it's, it's hacky because that's our lives and that's what we
35:13write about it.
35:14And nothing's hacky on its face.
35:16Any topic is fair game.
35:17If you can be hilarious on any topic, I, the, my favorite joke is an airplane
35:23joke of Kevin Nealon's, but I feel like I tell more than him.
35:27He goes, I was not playing at all.
35:30I don't think the pilot was very experienced.
35:32You know, he got on, he was like, oh, thank you for flying with us.
35:37We'll be taking off in roughly five to 10.
35:39Oh, whoa, whoa, here we go.
35:41And he comes back on five minutes later.
35:44Oh, where is the, uh, oh, here it is.
35:50Presumably you do get feedback from, from other people, uh, in, in the
35:53industry itself.
35:54And that is stuff I would guess you, what you do listen to and you do, uh,
35:58take to heart.
35:59What, uh, is there a piece of, of whether it's a compliment or a critique
36:04from some other comic that you've, uh, that you've used?
36:08When you're riffing with comics, like we'll sometimes riff and be like,
36:10that's great.
36:11Oh, that's him and Ronnie Chang.
36:13Yeah.
36:13Daily show glory days.
36:14We'd be in the hall just bouncing premises for specials and stuff.
36:18They go, oh, that's funny.
36:19They'll go, oh, that's funny.
36:20Yeah.
36:20Right.
36:21Right.
36:21That's good.
36:22Yeah.
36:22And then you just start building from that.
36:25Cause what, when you're riffing with a comic that you respect, it's, you're
36:27really respecting their discernment.
36:29Totally.
36:30Of like, oh, you see something that there's really something, there's a lot
36:33of fodder here.
36:34But for you as a, you know, you came up as a head writer.
36:38Yeah.
36:38All you had to do was like, look at POV and perspective.
36:42So I bet your discernment of this, this is really great.
36:46This, this take totally works.
36:47I feel like with a lot of accuracy, I can just know it ahead of time how a
36:54joke's going to work.
36:54Like the ones I feel like I can't, maybe this will work, tend not to.
36:59And the ones that I feel like the writing's tight, do, you know, so I'm,
37:02I'm not surprised a ton on stage with how anything goes.
37:06I'm always surprised with specials.
37:07Cause like the last two specials I did, I shot two nights, one show each night.
37:13And both times, the first time was a shock.
37:16And the second time I kind of understood it.
37:19I was like, the first night you're just excited.
37:22You got it.
37:23And now you're like, now I'm free.
37:24And then the second night feels magical because you're not in your head and
37:29and so you go, oh, we'll just use the whole second night.
37:32And then the editor was like, I'm liking the first night.
37:34And I go, no, no, no, no.
37:35I had all these, like someone yelled out and I had an amazing,
37:39like totally in the moment thing.
37:42But it didn't look in the moment.
37:43It was in the moment and it was totally off the cuff, but it didn't look that way.
37:47And then the first night was better, but because it wasn't better for me,
37:52my experience of it wasn't better.
37:54I just assumed the one that felt magical was better.
37:58But when you look at it, maybe I was in my head.
38:01Maybe there was a inner monologue going on, but it's a better.
38:05Same thing happened to me.
38:06I think it's the precision of being in your head, right?
38:09Like that butterflies actually help you focus.
38:12A hundred percent felt both times.
38:14Yep.
38:14Where I'm like, it's the second one.
38:16It's a thing.
38:16And then it's no, it's the first one where you were spitting out in your head.
38:20It looks so good on you.
38:20Because your experience wasn't as fun as the second night where you felt free.
38:27I took some enhancements.
38:30Wait, what?
38:32I took some enhancements to go on stage because I thought since Richard Pryor did enhancements.
38:37What are enhancements?
38:39No, hey, Jamie, don't do that.
38:40Don't implicate yourself.
38:41I was going to do some enhancements.
38:42It's like a clone blocker.
38:43Like cocaine?
38:44Like a beta blocker?
38:46Some people call it cocaine.
38:48I don't call it that.
38:49And some people don't.
38:50Some people call it enhancements.
38:51I just want to be on the record.
38:52No one calls it enhancements.
38:55No one calls it enhancements.
38:57I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine.
39:01I just like how it smells, okay?
39:03Terrible.
39:05Whatever it was that I did, I thought, okay, this is going to get me over the hump.
39:08So I went on stage and I said, I killed that shit.
39:11And this is when Marcus King was my manager.
39:13And I said, King, I know we recorded that shit.
39:15Let me see that shit.
39:17He said, you want to see it?
39:18And he played it back.
39:20And I was...
39:23And he was like, he says, and this is a different version of it.
39:28He says, sometimes when you think you're killing, it's not, that's what it is.
39:33Because we've all had those sets where, oh, that shit was out.
39:37And then you look back at it, oh, we were a little maybe too loose.
39:41Or we were a little too, take too much time in between whatever you were trying to get to.
39:46When you're forced to be in an uncomfortable place, it's probably more interesting to look at.
39:52It's also something when you learn about being nervous before going on stage.
39:57I always used to go, well, when am I not going to be nervous?
39:59When am I not going to be nervous?
40:00When am I going to be free?
40:01And it's like nervous, then you find out being nervous means you care.
40:04So being nervous and being overthinking things is why you deliver an A plus set in your first show.
40:09You're present.
40:10Because you care and you're like, I've got A, B, C, and D and I'm going to deliver this.
40:14And then that's why it's a home run.
40:16Chris Rock was very complimentary of my last special.
40:19But he used to say, you got to do it like this and do it like that.
40:22Come on, man.
40:23But he was, he's a master also at editing as well.
40:29So he's telling me shit about like, all right, this joke, catch it, this angle, this punchline,
40:34catch at a wide shot, but this line, and I'm like, motherfucka, too late.
40:38We didn't shot the shit.
40:40For where I am in the comedy totem pole, especially in black comedy.
40:45Speak on it, brother.
40:46I'm imposing on the OGs.
40:49Like, I can call D.O. Hughley and I know I got one call a year with D.O. Hughley on a premise.
40:55I know I got one call, maybe with George Wallace, I got two calls a year.
41:00Whole world is crazy.
41:01I be thinking.
41:02Whole world is crazy.
41:04I tell you, LA and these streets, I tell you, I don't like that.
41:10I hate that.
41:11La Ciena, what kind of street is that?
41:13La Ciena.
41:14Yeah, no, I don't think I've gotten that yet, but it's just, you don't know what you're doing
41:23until you've done it.
41:25And like, that's the hardest part, I think, of putting any special together.
41:29And I also think getting so many opinions, not so many, isn't good for you either.
41:33Sure, not that you're getting too many, but it's not good to get so many opinions.
41:37You have to own what you're doing and understand what your thing is.
41:42What are you putting out there?
41:43And have confidence in your ability to capture an audience.
41:47My rule is almost like lunch.
41:49The right amount of people to, yo, what are we getting for lunch?
41:52It's four people.
41:53Eight.
41:54This is how you end up at Sweetgreen.
41:55This is how you end up at Sweetgreen all the time.
41:57Four is ideal.
41:59What part do you listen to yourself and not listen to the other people that are advising you?
42:04When you get old.
42:05Now that I got older, my hunches aren't great.
42:08How do you know that?
42:09I have to lean on...
42:10Yeah, how do you lose that?
42:11I don't know.
42:13It ain't good.
42:14But if you tell me where to go get it, I can go get it.
42:16You feel me?
42:17My execution is better.
42:18But isn't a piece of that also just you're surrounded by people who are saying,
42:21yes, you're great?
42:21I mean, you reach that point.
42:22I was around a lot of white people that were laughing at me and I thought,
42:25I was, well, these white people got it.
42:26Black folks tell you the truth.
42:27Black folks tell you a whole...
42:28It's a whole different world.
42:30We have to reenact 50 Cent and My Love Story.
42:32Man, that shit had me in the headlock for months, bro.
42:35I didn't know how to look at 50 because I had G-unit jeans.
42:39We all did.
42:40I had G-unit jeans, G-unit sneakers.
42:42And vitamin water.
42:43Vitamin, I had everything.
42:46I was fucking...
42:46You didn't drink Formula 50 vitamin water?
42:49Yes.
42:49It does sound familiar now that you say it.
42:51When I first moved to LA, I did two shifts at a sushi restaurant.
42:54Do you remember?
42:54It was on Sunset.
42:55There was a karaoke place.
42:57Yeah, every Tuesday.
42:58Yeah.
42:58That was us.
42:59At the beginning of my shift at six, somebody's like,
43:02Jamie Foxx is doing karaoke.
43:03And I went up and I was like, I just moved to LA.
43:06I was like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm seeing...
43:07And then at the end of my shift at 11, I went up.
43:09You were still on stage.
43:10Yeah.
43:11Like five hours of karaoke.
43:12Why?
43:13Every Tuesday.
43:14Why?
43:15Because it was the thing to do.
43:17I would shoot my show, the Jamie Foxx show, from six to nine.
43:20You had a job?
43:21I got to be done by nine.
43:23We got karaoke that starts at 9.45.
43:25You were there?
43:27I mean, I was...
43:28Did you get up on stage?
43:29No, I was working.
43:29Oh, you were.
43:30Oh, got it.
43:30Right.
43:31Serving sushi.
43:31Yeah.
43:32I had Whitney Houston there.
43:33It's 2000 and Whitney Houston is the female singer of the millennium.
43:40And me and Bobby doing Don't Be Cruel and shit.
43:42And then I got to...
43:42We had a sushi restaurant on a Tuesday.
43:45At Miyagi's.
43:46That's it.
43:46We're at Miyagi's.
43:47With him serving.
43:47Oh, I remember.
43:48So we're there one night and we partied.
43:50And then I said, I got to use the bathroom.
43:52And while I'm in the bathroom, I hear, now, Jamie, let me tell you something.
43:54I don't do this for nobody.
43:55I get a million dollars a singing song.
43:56It's Whitney Houston.
43:58But it's not camera phone days.
44:00I come out.
44:02I grabbed...
44:03It was a...
44:04Handycam?
44:05Yes.
44:05And Bobby had told, don't nobody film this.
44:07And I said, Bobby, let me get it.
44:09I filmed Whitney Houston.
44:10Whitney Houston goes up and she says,
44:13And I will always...
44:19No camera phone, but people called their answering machines.
44:23Oh, of course.
44:24Right?
44:24Yeah.
44:24So I film Whitney Houston singing whatever the name of that song is.
44:30I will always love you.
44:32I will always love you.
44:32Whatever it is.
44:34So I film it.
44:35So now, I got the tape.
44:39Go back to my crib in Van Alden.
44:41So as I'm sitting there, we having a little after party.
44:43Yeah.
44:43All of a sudden, I hear this.
44:45Somebody's at my door.
44:46How they at my door?
44:47They didn't ring the gate.
44:48They must've jumped the fence.
44:50It's Bobby Brown.
44:51I open the door and Bobby, yo, I got to take that tape.
44:54I said, Bobby, I don't have the tape.
44:56Well, I got to take something.
44:58I was like, what the fuck?
45:00So he comes in my house, goes in my closet, and he's taking clothes
45:03and matching outfits and shit.
45:06That's collateral.
45:06He had to take a million dollars.
45:07Whatever the fuck.
45:07He's matching.
45:08He had to take the enhancements and he had to take.
45:10And then he's matching the outfits and shit.
45:11I'm like, you can take the clothes.
45:12How can I say it?
45:13What's the word that you're using?
45:13Where are the enhancements?
45:14The enhancements.
45:15No, probably.
45:16But I'm not, I said, whatever, you can take whatever you want.
45:19Did you have the tape?
45:19Were you lying?
45:20I had the tape.
45:21So you're lying.
45:22You lied to Bobby Brown.
45:22I'm not going to give this tape away.
45:24Lied to Bobby Brown.
45:24Wait, where is the tape now?
45:25So I got the tape.
45:26Valued honesty above everything.
45:29So he takes all these clothes, takes off.
45:33And I said, cool.
45:33So I kept the tape.
45:3512 weeks later, I look on People Magazine or some shit and he's got my clothes on.
45:42And it says, Bobby Brown clothes by Prada.
45:44I'm like, no, that's clothes by Jamie Foxx.
45:47Wait, where's the tape?
45:48I had the tape, got the tape.
45:49Still, it'd be pretty cool if I was walking through the background with a couple of trays.
45:54Tempura.
45:55What's your go-to karaoke song?
45:57At the time, it was YMCA.
46:00At the time.
46:02And now?
46:03Poison, Belle Bib Devoe.
46:04Oh, wow.
46:05Wait, now I kind of-
46:06He's driving me.
46:07Everybody sings it.
46:09I kind of have to know.
46:10What's everyone else's?
46:10I don't.
46:11Return of the Mack is another great one.
46:13Yeah, that is a great one.
46:13To Rose's Outcast or That's What Friends Are For.
46:16Word.
46:17Beyond Warwick and Friends.
46:18What's the thing you always find funny, even if you probably shouldn't?
46:23People falling down.
46:25People falling down is great.
46:26Down, like long, like it's not one fall.
46:28It's a series of falls.
46:30The stairs.
46:31And a body of water.
46:32Memphis gas station shootings.
46:36Specific.
46:37Took mine.
46:38Once again, Jamie takes mine.
46:41Jamie Foxx at the roast of, was it Emmett?
46:45The Shaq roast, right?
46:46Emmett Smith.
46:47It was at Emmett, Smith.
46:48Shaq was there.
46:49And Doug Williams.
46:50Doug Williams, man.
46:50It's such a sad day.
46:52I have to watch it every six months.
46:53I do still love breaking.
46:55I do.
46:55I love laughing at breaking.
46:57Even though I know I'm not a professional.
46:59Yes, I do.
47:02I, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams was my first roast.
47:06How do you think that played?
47:07Not good.
47:08Them motherfuckers.
47:08Have you ever done a roast?
47:10I've done the Correspondence Center, which is a roast, but you're bombing, but later it works out.
47:15Nobody comes back at you.
47:16Nobody comes back at you.
47:17Yeah, you just bomb.
47:18That's a part of a roast that I have a real respect for, is that you are, by participating,
47:23you are admitting that you're fine with people coming after you.
47:25Yeah.
47:25No, I'm not, roasting's not my thing.
47:27I'm not really, I don't have many comedy bylaws, but I generally don't talk about people.
47:33I don't know.
47:33I talk about issues, but I try not to just single out.
47:37I feel like I do too much roasting as a real person.
47:40You know, to do it on stage would just be taking it to an unnecessary level.
47:43Your Pacino roast was great too.
47:45You gotta fight.
47:46You gotta claw.
47:47Like, you're great.
47:49Wait, I have to apologize to Chelsea.
47:51Please do.
47:522008, I think I came on your show.
47:55I think I came on Chelsea late.
47:57We all remember.
47:58Yes.
47:58We know where this is going.
47:59And I was very dismissive about celebrity news as a thing to make humor about.
48:05As a result, I was never booked again on Chelsea lately,
48:08because the producers clocked it, and it was like, don't bring that back.
48:13Having now worked on CNN for 20 episodes, and having guests who don't give a fuck about the
48:18topic that the fucking show is about, is hard, and I'm sorry.
48:24That's nice, but I probably had no idea about those conversations going on.
48:28I'm not saying it was you.
48:29It was one of your producers.
48:30But yes, I hear you, what you're saying.
48:32Absolutely.
48:32You have to respect the show you're on to a degree, right?
48:35Yeah.
48:36It's like coming on your show and not having nothing to talk about,
48:39and refusing to supply any stories.
48:41When people show up, they're like, what is this?
48:43You're like, not talking about it.
48:45I refuse to talk about it.
48:46What is this at 30 Rock is crazy.
48:48What is this place?
48:50What is this?
48:50What's the significance of this place?
48:52All right, we're gonna do the hardest possible pivot to take us out.
48:56The lightning round.
48:57We want the lightning round.
49:01What is the most used emoji on your phone?
49:04Prayer hands.
49:05I can't say, I don't think I can say.
49:07What is it?
49:08Black fist.
49:09Pirate's flag.
49:11What?
49:12Every time the Pittsburgh Pirates win a game, I text up, but it's the pirate flag.
49:16Got it, got it, yes.
49:17I was thinking, okay, yeah.
49:19Also the black fist.
49:20Yeah.
49:22You don't use emojis, do you?
49:23Yeah, all the time.
49:24What do you use?
49:25What are emojis?
49:27What is it?
49:28It's cocaine that comes in a little.
49:30It's an enhancement.
49:32It's a text enhancement.
49:33All right, one more.
49:34All right, so much of our media is served up to us.
49:37What does the algorithm think you like?
49:39I was just saying, I'm getting a lot of my,
49:42the algorithm's giving me old Sarah Silverman show clips.
49:45Oh, that's nice.
49:46That's fun.
49:47You mean like on your Instagram?
49:48Yeah.
49:49My algorithm thinks I am only interested in neck creams, and I'm not.
49:54Mine is home improvement and dark-skinned women with big booties.
50:00No, don't.
50:01Home improvement, the show, or home improvement, the activity?
50:04Painting and shit, and then it's just big-booty black women.
50:07That's what I'd be into.
50:08Mine is like John Morant highlights, but then ways to stretch your back after 40.
50:14Like lower back, chiropractor.
50:17You guys are so-
50:17I'm so glad I asked.
50:19This is great.
50:19You guys are so pure.
50:20It's amazing.
50:21And?
50:22Mine are obese animals, black women with large booties, and mostly, and politics.
50:30A lot of politics.
50:31Jamie, are you getting, do you get any?
50:32He's looking at his algorithm.
50:33Is he trying to find them right now?
50:34What's happening?
50:35He's distracted.
50:36By the way, they have the same algorithm.
50:37It's the same one?
50:40No, the FYP is.
50:43For you, Paige, for them.
50:44It's crazy.
50:45Oh, that one, that one, that one.
50:47Airdrop, airdrop that one, that one.
50:49You know, you can just connect your phones now, guys.
50:51Wait, what are we looking at?
50:52Mine has more like home improvement.
50:54They're looking at their discovery page.
50:55I know, I get it, but I want to know.
50:57Oh my gosh, okay.
50:59Pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy.
51:00Got it.
51:02Well, I'm so glad you all went on that journey with me.
51:04Thank you for taking us.
51:06Hey, by the way, cheers, everyone.
51:08We had champagne and we didn't cheers.
51:10Oh, no, we can't do that.
51:11Cheers.