Our first, our guest ex guest
is a performer of many talents.
He's one of the premier
names in comedy, television,
movies and now jazz music.
Yes, Tommy Davidson.
Yep is hot off, a new single called
I Know featuring world renowned
saxophonist Richard Elliott. Now this
came just after a tour and we're
hearing it right now actually with
multi Grammy winner Dave Cobb. James.
Tommy Davidson is back home in DC
celebrating his birthday tonight,
birthdays later this week we're
celebrating tonight at City Winery.
With saxophonist and Marcus Mitchell.
Tommy welcome back and happy early birthday.
Thank you. I am home. Thank you.
Good to be home. My birthday
comment I will be 59.
Pretty much. But I'm.
I'm just yeah, I'm glad to be here.
I'm glad to be here, glad to be from here.
Yeah, this is the city was really,
really good to me when I was coming up.
All the local people pick me up, you know,
I would do TV and stuff before TV.
I would do local TV.
Some of the Gogo bands pick
me up with your albums.
This was way back when I first started.
This city has always been
supportive of my whole. Career.
And so years and years later,
I come back as I think a full adult.
Not close. Are we ever? Yeah. No,
no, we're never. Never.
No. I was just watching
yesterday taking it to DC,
you're very first comment, right.
And it was very DC focused
and you can feel the love.
Me too. Wow.
So we can go back and all that.
But let me tell you something.
Now is now and now is good.
Yeah. I mean, come on,
what we've been through
with the pandemic and just
feel good to be back on stage in
front of live people and performing
and just hearing the laughs alive.
Yeah. I actually started
in April of the after pandemic,
so I started right away.
A lot of the comedy clubs were going
to close because of the pandemic.
So they were like,
we only got 50 people a night.
We only got 20 people a
night, but if you came.
It would help us.
Yeah, of course.
So there's fiberglass everywhere
and plastic everywhere.
And people got masks and stuff all.
I hear that that the pandemic.
I hear that COVID actually
came from the masks.
Yeah, they they were made
in in the lab in Wuhan.
Now you're just reading. Conspiracy
theories going on here.
The last time we talked,
I was talking about proud family.
Yeah. Just season 2, I think,
was just premiering. How's it going?
It's going. Super duper. Look at this.
We're back. Yeah. This is after 25
years. That's so cool. 20 years, we're
back, right. OK. My childhood.
Yes. And you guys grew up.
Yeah, I grew up.
You know, you guys grew up,
like my daughters have watched it.
Then at 34 and 28 now.
Yeah, they're doing their thing.
Yeah. Young adults.
And now a whole another
generation is getting it,
you know? So.
I couldn't be luckier.
Since since when does a
job stop and then 20 years
later they call you and go,
hey we're gonna hire you again.
Yeah, exactly. I'm like, ohh,
is that right? I'm there.
You know show got some Emmy nomination.
Yeah. We got three.
We got Emmy nominations.
Yeah. Right. Yeah. We're we're
we're still kind of going here.
We laugh about we're not much
different in age but our
generations are so different.
So proud family was yours.
Living single was my generation.
That was definitely us.
So am I right that we we went far and
wide with that thing and it's still
going. Right about a great she's still going.
You're Sammy Davis, junior impressions.
Ohh. Don't force me.
I know where's where's the camera.
Right there. I'm sorry I I got my high end
so I can't see anything but I I just like
to say happy birthday to Tommy
Davidson and and and and welcome
back to DC and I mean that hold on
a second I'm going to apologize.
Did it find a new life on YouTube
when you say it's still going
or where it's all found it,
it's found in life
in all of us. You know, we,
we went from that to all
the things we're doing.
Jennifer Lopez, the wonderful
thing she's been able to do,
Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey,
very little known actor then
very little known actor.
That wasn't James Carey on the show. He wants
to be James Carey now.
You know Jimmy James Jimmy
Stewart was is his favorite so
Jimmy Stewart changed his name
is James at some point OHS.
So he wanted to do that
but we're all doing well.
We're we're just out there doing things
and you know was able to switch to
music you know all these different
things I've been able to do Arthur book.
I switched to music now.
Smooth jazz is my choice.
Did you ever love Jack?
I mean, always love jazz.
I always love jazz.
An incredible song.
Tommy, thank you.
Just like he has such a good group.
Thank you. Thank you. I was.
I was, I was, you know,
raised here on AM radio. Umm.
So I don't know if you guys remember,
but we all listen to the
same music. Back then,
there was no hip hop, so yeah.
And welcome to rock concert.
You know, tonight we got Funkadelic
and we've got, who, Fleetwood Mac.
You know, we, we, we all party
together now. It's a whole different thing.
You know, the kids can just hear it
on their phone. Yeah. Radio right.
But I found a place where I could
do something that I love to do.
I did it since I was a little kid,
and now I'm doing it on the highest level,
just like just like TV and movies.
And I've been real lucky.
I don't know if she's still out there,
but Miss Coleman, Miss Coleman,
my math teacher in 3rd grade school,
and Rosemary Hills Elementary in
Silver Spring, and she was determined.
To make sure that I learned how to multiply,
I still have it,
but she was determined and she heard her.
Her house was actually down the street from
the school and I was having all this trouble.
So she just said come to my
house anytime after school.
You know and and just let's go over it and
go over it and go over it and go over it.
Like to say hi to her and Miss Sandberg
over at Bethesda, Chevy Chase.
She's my ceramics teacher.
So almost got into college doing ceramics.
Wow, she came.
I got a great story I'll make it fast.
She came to a show of mine in Jacksonville,
FL probably about.
10 years ago.
I hadn't seen her since high school.
They say Miss Sandberg's here.
So I go, ohh, wow.
So I go back there and there she
is with her kids are grown.
And I say, she says, you Remember Me?
Of course.
She tried to get me into Parsons and
then SMU, wow, you know, doing ceramics.
I was kind of embarrassed because like,
I do pottery, you know?
But she, she loved me.
So she says to me, true story.
She says you saved my life, you know.
And I said, what are you talking about?
She said I had brain tumors.
And I had an extensive operations in my brain
and I was in a coma for like six months.
Wow.
And they didn't know if I was gonna come out.
And I heard your voice and I looked up.
On the TV in my room and you were on TV.
Oh, oh.
And I said Nah you didn't save me.
That was you coming back around.
I got a million and one stories like that.
Just yeah.
Just just you know a life well
lived and and and and people that
cared about us a lot back when
we supporters and mentors and it
was a good time to be a kid then
because peace was actually in style,
you know. This was in style. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Piece back pieces in style.
Living with different people was in style,
ecology was in style.
It was like save, save,
save the world, you know,
it was in style, you know.
So I think we're the surviving
surviving adults of that time
and we need to be for now.
You know, you
can keep pushing that.
We have a segment on the
show called Morning Mix.
It's kind of some hot topics.
Will you chime in with us this morning?
Alright, here's our morning
Kanye West first.
Alright, we got the potential
sale of the Washington commanders
by team owner Dan Snyder.
Now actor Matthew McConaughey is
reportedly looking into joining
or forming an investment group
to make a bid on this team,
according to our partners
at the Washington Post.
The post says McConaughey is linked
to the investment group that might
be formed by Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos and music mogul rapper Jay-Z.
Commander Zoner Dan Snyder hired
an investment bank to explore
all the options into selling
the team early last week.
So we know McConaughey is a huge
commanders fan and a big fan.
Yeah he loves OK because he grew up in
Texas but it was like a Cowboys in India.
OK.
So for him he just became
a Washington when they.
That's really something.
OK yeah.
So you know you're you grew up with
the with the Washington football team
here so they need a little bit of a
change. Well I mean you know why wait
for Matthew and and and Jay-Z and this
other guy just just say you want me
to buy it? Come on. Get it out.
OK. One person can buy it and
that could be me. Yeah. OK.
And. And and then we might win.
Yeah. It's like about $7 billion. Yeah.
Is that in your price range? OK, good
buyer. What are you talking
about? Are you kidding me?
That would be fun. Speaking of sports,
gosh, that would be fun. Celebrating.
There was actually a man who's now
facing charges after allegedly throwing
a beer can at Texas Senator Ted Cruz
and it happened during yesterday's
World Series Victory Parade.
Umm, this is for the Houston Astros.
Senator Cruz, who was riding in the
back of a truck during the parade,
went or was riding in the back of
the truck during the parade when
someone tossed a beer can at him.
Police arrested a 33 year old
man and the charges are pending.
Senator Cruz was not injured.
I heard that.
That wasn't the only case, right?
That people are throwing beer
on him the whole time throughout
the throughout the parade.
Route hand though.
Yeah, that's what happened to me.
Did it? You got on stage.
On stage. I was at a black tie affair.
Ohh, jeez. Yeah, it was for Charles Smith.
Defensive back for the Raiders and and
all these Michigan alumni were there
and I'm in the black tie and the whole 9
yards and I get start getting heckled.
I made it all about me just now, didn't I?
Yeah, but I got experience.
But I got experience.
And so all of a sudden, you know,
it, it felt like someone
took my picture. I hear this flat,
I like, I see this flash. Boom.
And. I keep doing my act and I'm,
I'm sorry, Charles Woodson and I'm.
I'm doing my acting. He's looking at me.
And going, you know, and I and I all of
a sudden I looked up and it was blood.
And then on my tucks his
blood all down the tuck. Gosh.
So whatever the can was was full,
wasn't open. Cut me here.
Jeez. And I just kept going.
I just kept going.
Wow. At a black tie event of all of it.
Probably cost a lot of money
to get into my friend Scotty Gorman.
My friend, my friend Scotty Gorman,
his mother, you know,
she she she comes to me.
She's Michigan woman. She
goes. I can't believe that
they did that. That is crazy.
Oh my God, I'm like, I'm alright.
She's like, no, you're not.
Ohh, alright, yeah, one more here.
If you haven't seen a toad,
keep your tongue in your mouth.
That is the main message on
the National Park Service.
They stress this in a
Facebook post last month.
While most people probably
don't want to lick a toad,
Park officials decided to
make this announcement,
perhaps as a precaution.
They say sornin desert toads have
glands that secrete a strong toxin that
could lead to serious health threats,
including death.
I'm confused what I just read.
I see his mic.
God, Tommy.
Well, all I know
is that Jeremiah was a bullfrog
and he was a friend of mine.
But you wouldn't like him.
No, I would not.
I know you know that, my friends.
No, I do not lick my friends.
Now where?
Where was the frog currently?
And for someone, for somewhere.
But that's where we talk about
where we are in society.
It's like the fact that you
actually have to put as disclaimer
out saying don't lick a toad.
Right, right. Which, I mean,
we are. I mean, all these women
are out there looking for the
Prince. So that is all I
can think of why they're
looking for the Prince.
So it's like, you know,
forget the bachelor,
find the frog. Oh my gosh,
this isn't the end of your
time here with Tommy.
If you want to go party with him,
right, for your birthday.
OK. So maybe, you know,
party with him, Marcus.
Michael, they'll be performing
tonight at City Winery.
It's happening at 7:30 PM on the main stage,
and you can always go to
the website for tickets.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you
for having me. You've
got a great show here. Thank you.
Thank you for having me.