- I mean, there was the reason why he was the best
but if you want to ask somebody who was way less funnier
than him, I'll do my best.
- I wouldn't even know where to begin
to speak on behalf of Patrice.
And I feel like if I, if I did,
that's the last ghost you would ever want haunting you.
That would be like a category eight ghost.
- Patrice in 2020 would think about running for president.
- I think Patrice would love Trump.
As a comic you should.
- And Patrice gala says just what white people do.
- This would have been his year.
There's so many people to argue with.
- Yeah, no, I'm sure he would blame COVID on me.
He would tell me why it's me as a white dude
and then how he would be then blamed.
- He would make fun of interracial couples
and how much tension they have
and how it is that they have to live with each other
while hating each other.
- I would have loved to have heard Patrice's take
on the put-upon white woman.
- I do know one thing that as a white woman,
I should not be discussing
what a dead black man thinks of racial inequality.
Patrice would love carrots.
Patrice would eat it up.
- I do miss his unique perspective
right or wrong, on,
you know, news of the day stuff.
I wish we had that.
- Like that woman in the park
when the black guy was bird-watching
and she did the, I'm going to call the cops.
- If he was around now,
a lot of people wouldn't be getting away
with the old .
He would call them out on it
and not be afraid of the consequences.
- And he would just sit in that uncomfortableness,
smiling and laughing.
You would see like the guy in the suit
who's running the room, getting all uncomfortable.
What is he doing?
What is he? And then they'd start talking to me.
Cause I was his friend.
Like I could control him.
(laughs)
You're that black guys white friend
get up there and talk some sense into him.
They would come at me with this weird vibe like that.
It's just like, I'm friends with a guy.
I don't have a remote control bag.
- He didn't mind that not everybody was laughing.
And then it wasn't always leading up to necessarily
a punchline.
I think that he liked that it was inciting.
Right?
- Patrice, I know a lot of people will push back on this,
but Patrice, definitely,
during lockdown would've started a vegan baking show
from his kitchen.
Literally of all the things that Patrice spoke about,
coming out as vegan would have been
the most controversial thing that he had ever done.
- A lot of people don't know this about Patrice,
but he was really good at macrame.
He was big on knitting.
- I could see Patrice
knitting masks
and making fun of all of the women at home
that are knitting masks.
- I don't know what, but it would have been oddly feminine.
(laughs)
It would have been something
like baking.
- Maybe it's time I start baking.
I can see Patrice in an apron.
- He had a Rosey Grier aspect to it.
And I'm going to say his feminine side
'cause I know it would bug him.
He would've gotten into something
because he was
too smart
to just have his brain
be an idle.
- And it sucks that he passed away so young
because you hit your forties and like I'm 48.
I didn't start really getting smart about
how dumb I was in my thirties.
So it would be so wonderful to be able
to talk to him now about
all the knots that we could untie
and find out all those ways
that we are more like our moms and our dads.
Ah, these conversations are so hard.
He's always like a what if.
- And it hurts me to say all this nice about him, but I
I love him.
I love him. I love him. I love him.
And I'm really sad that he's not around.
- He was funny.
He was a good guy, you know,
never paid tolls and guests
but funny and a good guy.
- [Bonnie] He thought you were whipped.
- My wife just said, he thought I was whipped.
And for me to repeat what my wife said
he might be correct.
- If people see the documentary
and they think it's great,
good.
And if you see it, you hate it.
Good.
- I'll never come to terms with the fact that
he was taken from us.
This as young as he was because we needed him.
And a lot of people who didn't want to hear
what he had to say
needed to hear what he had to say.
And it's a, it's a real shame
that they,
that they want.