- The new generation came up in the Bringer era.
They would have bookers say like,
"Yeah, you can perform at this club.
Just bring 10 to 12 people,
you do five minutes, and we tape it."
And then we would have this notion, like,
"Word. Yeah imma be at the club, I'm gonna get past here."
At a bringer show, after a while
you start to learn what the difference
between fans and fucking family.
It's two different things.
Fans pay tickets to see you.
Family just came out to support you.
And that's how it was, I would feel like I was King.
I was killing it like, "Hell yeah, man
I killed Caroline's.
I could go do the seller now. What's up!"
And I think I did the sell at open mic, bombed.
And it's good to get broken down by bombing cause that helps
you figure out like this is real man.
No, you're not the next thing. You need to be an artist.
- You're performing with acts that are all
at different trajectories in their career.
Some guys on the way up, some guys on the way down.
Like one week you're performing and opening
for Tommy Davidson.
And the next week you opening for somebody who should have
been Tommy Davidson.
So I grew up in comedy with constant reminders
of what the pros and cons are,
the choices that I would make.
From women, to drugs, to how you treat the staff,
you know all of that stuff.
- Let me tell you how bad I wanted to do comedy.
We drove
from Kansas City.
All they're going to pay us is $50.
Kansas City to Oklahoma.
Shit that's a drive.
We're talking two, two and a half.
You know it's a drive.
So, you know, we got the music blasting, talked shit
in the car, that's back when I smoked cigarettes,
smoked cigarettes.
So
we get to the club.
It is a hit, they got chicken wire over the stage.
UNB went on first. They booed his ass off.
They throwing fucking bottles at the chicken wire.
So I'm backstage, I need this $50 though.
So shit.
I come out.
You hear the N-word, all that shit.
I said, oh really? Yeah you mother fuckers.
I ain't scared of you red neck sons of bitches.
And I started doing this character, red neck.
I said, "Last name, neck, first, name red.
My name is red neck, god damn right boy."
All them mother fuckers started howling then,
but they wasn't catching it
I was clowning they're mother fucking asses.
So anyway, when I got done hicking with the hicks.
I remember they was bringing the money
and I'm out in the back.
I said, "You, get the car ahead mother fucking started.
I'm gonna get the mother fucking $100 and we're getting
the fuck up out of this bitch."
And we got the $100 and we seen some rocks
coming off the back tires.
- Michelle Obama got a book out. She on tour.
Yeah. I tried to get a ticket to the Michelle Obama,
she's like 210 dollars.
210 dollars?
I love Michelle Obama, but for 210 dollars
she better eat me out at that fucking concert.
You know what I mean like.
You better make America great again and start with me bitch.
- You know I was the last, I think, the last of the Mohicans
from like that whole eighties revival of comedy.
And when people like, you worked to get
on stage and you work to be at a club.
Finally, like, okay now I'm ready to present this,
you know, set, have somebody see it.
Now people are like five seconds in the game.
I don't know. I ain't made it yet.
Well N-word, you just started!
But I get it because there's so many TV outlets now.
Like when I, you know when I was a kid how many channels
they had? Two? Three?
Now you can pop in.
You can watch all the time.
And so there's so many outlets
for comics that people are like, well, I see this comic
and this is their trajectory on how you know
they move and I should be moving the same thing.
People now are like watching a lot of formats and templates
of how people are making it and trying to do the same thing
and then expecting the same results.
That's why I hate when people try to shortcut themselves.
The only way you're going to be able to get comfortable
in front of an audience is to be
in front of a bunch of audiences.
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