- Honestly, most importantly, I'm grateful to you.
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Every single one of you.
I'm so grateful.
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I remember when we started the show,
we couldn't get enough people to fill an audience.
- [Audience] Aw!
- And I always think it's good.
That's how comedy is, funny enough.
I remember all my shows, people didn't,
there weren't tickets there.
There were empty seats.
And then I look at this now,
I don't take it for granted ever.
Every seat that has ever been filled
to watch something that I'm doing, I always appreciate it,
'cause I know the empty seat that sits behind it.
So thank you.
Thank you to the people who watch,
the people who share the clips.
You know, everyone who's had an opinion.
Everyone who's been kind enough and gracious enough too.
Even if it's a critique, doesn't even have to be praise.
But some people who watch, I don't like it when you do this,
but I watch.
I wanna say, I appreciate those people.
Even the people who hate watched, we still got the ratings.
Thank you. (audience laughing)
I'm eternally grateful to you.
And this is random for some,
but special shout out to black women.
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You know, I have been.
I've often been credited with having these grand ideas,
where people are like, oh, Trevor, you're so smart.
And then I'm like, who do you think teaches me?
You know?
Who do you think has shaped me, nourished me, informed me?
From my mom, my grandma, my aunt.
All these black women in my life.
But then in America as well, I always tell people,
if you truly want to learn about America,
talk to black women.
Yeah, 'cause unlike everybody else,
black women can't afford to (beep) around and find out.
- [Audience Member] Amen, say it.
- Black people understand how hard it is when things go bad,
especially in America.
But any place where black people exist, whether it's Brazil,
whether it's South Africa, wherever it is.
When things go bad,
black people know that it gets worse for them.
But black women in particular,
they know what shit is, genuinely.
People always be shocked.
They be like, why do black women turn out
the way they do in America?
Why do they vote the way?
Yeah, because they know what happens
if things do not go the way it should.
They can not afford to (beep) around and find out.
And to black women who have taught me, all of them.
I mean, the scholars online, the authors, everybody.
The Roxane Gay's, the Tressie McMillan Cottom's.
I'll remember the names.
The Zoe Samudzi's.
Brilliant, brilliant women.
Have taken the time to inform me, to educate me,
to argue with me.
You know, the Tarana Burke's, who laughed with me
talking about everything from sexual assaults
to just what life is like.
Yeah, man, I'll tell you now, do yourself a favor.
You truly want to know what to do or how to do it,
or maybe the best way, or the most equitable way,
talk to black women.
They're a lot of the reason that I'm here.
And so I'm grateful to them.
And I'm grateful to every single one of you.
This has been an honor.
Thank you.
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We'll be right back after this.
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