>> James: THAT WAS A CLIP FROM SHOW TIME AT THE APOLLO WHICH
PREMIER THIS THURSDAY ON FOX, COULD BE GRATES ON THE SHOW.
ARE YOU HAPPY IT'S COME BACK?
>> YEAH, MAN.
YEARS AGO I WAS TELLING THEM THAT SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO
SHOULD BE ON PRIME TIME TRK CAME ON 1, 2:00 IN THE MORNING.
I SAID YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS A PRIME TIME SHOW.
NO, YOU KNOW, SHOWS LIKE THAT DON'T WORK.
AND THEN HERE COMES AMERICAN IDOL AND THE VOICE AND ALL OF
THAT AND I TOLD THEM AND THEY JUST THOUGHT IT WAS TOO BAR
BARIC AT THE TIME CUZ THE AUDIENCE IS THE JUDGE.
THE JUDGE ON THE APOLLO IS THE AUDIENCE T HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE JUDGES, THE THREE JUDGES, THEY DON'T CARE.
THE AUDIENCE LETS YOU KNOW WHETHER YOU STAY OR GO, AND
PERIOD.
AND THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN-- .
>> James: THEY ARE-- ARE THEY AS TOUGH ON KIDS WHEN THEY
PERFORM AS THE ADULTS.
>> YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST STARTED AT THE APOLLO WE
INTRODUCED THIS THING CALLED KID'S APOLLO.
AND I TOLD THEM WE CANNOT BOO THE KIDS, CUZ KIDS CRY.
WHEN-- YOU CAN'T BOO KIDS BUT THE APPALLO AUDIENCE THEY DON'T
REALLY GIVE A DAMN WHO YOU ARE.
SO THIS LITTLE GIRL CAME, I CAN'T SAY WHAT COUNTRY SHE WAS
FROM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO, LIKE, TOO MANY POLITICALLY
CORRECT.
SHE WAS, LET'S JUST SAY OUT OF TOWN.
SHE HAD ON A GOWN.
AND SHE WAS OUT THERE SINGING.
AND SHE COULDN'T SING.
SHE JUST COULDN'T SING, BLESS HER HEART, CUTE AS SHE WANTED TO
BE.
BUT OH MY GOTD, SHE COULDN'T SING.
BUT THE APOLLO, THEY DON'T CARE!
THEY WERE BOOING SO HARD THE LITTLE GIRL'S GOWN WAS IN THE
WIND.
THE BOOING WAS MAKING HER GOWN BLOW, AND SHE RAN OFF THE STAGE
CRYING.
AND SO KENNY LATTERMORE THE SINGER WAS BACK THERE AND HE
CONSOLED HER AND I WAS TELLING THE AUDIENCE, LOOK, MAN, YOU
CAN'T BOO KIDS.
SO KENNY CALLED ME TO THE SIDE.
HER PARENTS ARE ON THE SIDE, THEY BOOED MY DAUGHTER, MI GOING
OUT AND I AM GOING TO TELL THEM, THEY WILL NEVER BOO MY DAUGHTER
AGAIN.
I SAID SIR, DON'T TAKE YOUR ASS OUT THERE.
THIS ABILITY GOING TO WORK OUT FOR YOU AT ALL.
SO I CONVINCED HIM NOT TO.
SO I TOLD THE AUDIENCE, I SAID BRING HER BACK OUT AND JUST GIVE
HER ANOTHER CHANCE.
>> YEAH.
>> AND SO THE GIRL CAME OUT.
MY GOD SHE WAS HORRIBLE.
AGAIN.
BUT THEY DIDN'T BOO.
THEY DIDN'T BOO.
AND SO SHE WALKED OFF AND AS SOON AS SHE WALKED OFF, I SAID
THANK YOU Y'ALL VERY MUCH AND THE DUDE YELLED OUT SOME [BLEEP]
STEVE!
AND JOHNNY, YOU HAVE BEEN PERFORMING SIDGES YOU WERE A
KID.
DID YOU EVER FACE A LOSS TILL AUDIENCE.
>> HECKLERS AND WHATNOT?
NO, IN FACT, I'VE-- MORE SO I'VE BEEN THE AGGRESSOR WHILE ON
STAGE BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH A RESPECT FOR THE THEATER AND SO
WHEN SOMEONE DOESN'T IT DOESN'T GET PASSED ME.
THERE WAS ONE, IT WAS AN OPENING NIGHT OF A VERY DRAMATIC PLAY I
WAS DOING IN CHICAGO AND OPENING NIGHT, FULL HOUSE AND IT'S KIND
OF, YOU KNOW, A SEA OF TUXEDOS AND DIAMONDS AND WHATNOT.
AND ABOUT 20 MINUTES INTO VERY SERIOUS PLAY, I AM SITTING THERE
TALKING TO ANOTHER ACTOR.
I JUST HEAR SOME-- JUST-- AND I'M LIKE REALLY, MAN?
LIKE I KNOW A LOT OF GUYS GET DRAGGED TO THE THEATER.
THEY DON'T NECESSARILY-- LIKE HAVE A COFFEE BEFORE HAND OR
SOMETHING.
AND I LOOK OVER AND THIS GUY HE IS IN THE FRONT ROW AND HE'S GOT
BOTH OF HIS FEET UP ON THE LIP OF THE STAGE AND HIS PROGRAM
LAID THERE AND HE JUST SPLAID OUT.
HE'S OUT.
AND I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MONOLOGUE AND WITHOUT BREAKING
DIALOGUE OR ANYTHING, I HAD TO GET UP AND WALK OVER TO THE
CORNER OF THE STAGE AND KICK HIS-- OFF AND HIS PROGRAM WHICH
WENT FLYING.
AND CAME BACK AND WE CONTINUED THE SHOW.
BUT I COULDN'T-- I MEAN PEOPLE PAID MONEY.
>> THE WORST.
>> I WASN'T AS OFFENDED AS I WAS I WANTED TO SAVE THE OTHER
PEOPLE.
>> James: IT'S THE WORST.
>> YEAH.
AND HE STOPPED SNORING.
>> James: I WAS DOING A PLAY ONCE AND I WAS, WE WERE ABOUT
TEN MINUTES IN AND SOMEONE'S PHONE WENT OFF, RIGHT.
AND IT WAS RING, THIS LADY, NEW YORK, SHE PICKED UP THE PHONE
AND SHE ANSWERED IT, FROM THE THIRD ROW SHE WENT LIKE, THIS
SHE WENT I'M WATCHING A PLAY.
I'M WATCHING A PLAY.
ME-AH.