- Don't be so caught up in how authentic it is,
is it a good product?
The same way Chappelle and Neal Brennan came up
with what they came up with.
Is Chappelle's shit any less authentic
because him and Neal Brennan both did it together?
No, it's brilliant.
Key and Peele, for what they did, it's brilliant.
They aint stealing from nobody.
These are their ideas.
Give them boys the credit they deserve
'cause they came up with these ideas authentically.
- That's the beautiful thing
about all the new hats coming out.
There's different points of view
that a light wasn't shined on, you know, early in the game.
So yeah, comedy, black comedy
is in an exquisite spot right now.
- I was listening to an interview that Larry Wilmore did
and they were talking about how he initially started out
as a stand-up but he couldn't break in
because everyone then was kind of like
the Def Comedy Jam, ComicView style.
If I'd try to come out 10, 15 years ago
with this same style,
it would be incredibly difficult for me.
I was standing in front of this restaurant
and I was waiting for my friend.
And this woman was like, "Excuse me, mama.
Sorry to interrupt you, but can I take a picture of you?"
And she's all like, "I love your hair
and I wanna show my hairdresser like exactly what I want
my hair to look like."
Which was like really nice, but kind of weird,
'cause she was a white woman.
Very straight her. (groaning) (audience laughing)
And I was like, "(groaning) Are you racist? (laughing)
Or am I racist?
Who's racist?"
You know, but I took a picture.
Eh. (laughing) (audience laughing)
Hot girl summer, right?
You know, I tried.
I really did try.
But then later when I told my friend that story,
she was like, "No, that's a porn thing.
That's a known porn thing.
They're gonna Photoshop your image into some weird porn.
And I was like, "Wow."
(audience laughing)
How bad is the porn industry doing?
You know, like really?
Like what porn entrepreneur's like,
"Get off there out to Queens.
You find a tiny black woman, bad posture,
hair like Sideshow Bob and let's get on that."
Yuck. (laughing)
I just felt like if anyone knows me,
they know any realistic depiction of me
in a pornographic film is just like.
(clears throat) One second.
(clears throat)
(laughing)
The microphone was a dick.
Did you get the AC/DC?
But now I think a lot of the black comics
like Hannibal Buress have sort of changed what it means
to be a black comic.
- I was at a party last summer
and one of my friends gave me half a pill of ecstasy.
I took it. It was smooth.
I was enjoying myself.
I don't know what it was about this particular batch
but it made me okay with pissing myself.
Like, the whole thing. (audience laughing)
And I was in line for the bathroom,
I had all intentions on going the right way,
my heart was pure, but then all the liquid
fell out of my body.
The whole batch fell out of my body
and I think under normal circumstances,
if I pissed myself, I woulda said,
"Dammit, I just pissed myself.
It's time to get out of here."
But there was something about the X, I said
"You know what, I pissed myself, but guess what.
I'm about to dance this
shit dry." (dramatic music)
Yeah, it's very exciting.
Some of my jokes have music cues, it's fun.
(audience laughing)
I wanna do that punch line again.
Dance that shit dry. (dramatic music)
That is very exciting.
Y'all should try comedy. This is one of the benefits of it.
Danced that shit...
No, no, no, no, no, no. (dramatic music)
(audience laughing)
I see a woman, she looks very confused about the situation.
Don't worry, you're just watching a man
living out his dream in that joke.
In that joke... (audience cheering)
- I don't know where you draw the line of what's real
and what's not real,
but I think the only way you can answer that, is again,
like I said, just speaking your truth
and what's true to you.
- If you can be authentic,
that's the thing that keeps you alive.
And it shows that you have a soul.
It shows you have a spirit.
It shows that you are connected
and that people will break bread with them.
People won't break bread with you
if they don't think you're authentic,
if they think you're trying to be another person.
- I think when it comes to comedy,
there's a standard that black people hold to each other
that's not realistic because at the end of the day,
it's like, "Are you funny?
Do you make me laugh? Are you funny?"
- If you're authentic, people will take notice
whether they like you or they hate you.
That's who you are and people have to respect that.
(upbeat music)