(audience cheering)
- Are you ready?
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This season, these comics are veterans,
they are professionals at tickling the soul,
and I wanna give them the kind of shine that they deserve.
Welcome to "They Ready: Season Two."
Godfrey, ladies and gentlemen! (audience cheers)
- I love performing, I love creating.
I'm Nigerian, okay, but people question me.
Every time I'm on stage I'm like,
"Yeah, that's why I'm here."
They want us to be like, "Hello, everybody.
I am happy to be here." (audience laughing)
- [Tiffany] Erin Jackson! (audience cheers)
- You have to be a different kind of woman to do comedy.
A girl I went to school with just started doing porn.
I wouldn't change a thing, I'm here.
Which is not a thing I thought
you could start doing in your 40s,
but go 'head, girl, if they're hiring.
(audience laughs)
- [Tiffany] Tony Woods! (audience cheers)
- All my life people said I was funny.
What's the first thing you think about with a kangaroo?
Is its pouch.
- Every great comedian that I know
always pays homage to you.
- Imagine the best thing
about your outfit is your pouch, right?
But your arms are too short.
You say, "Hey, man, get my keys out."
(audience laughs)
- [Tiffany] Kimberly Clark,
ladies and gentlemen! (audience cheers)
- There's so many great comedians out there
that never, ever get any shine.
I'm looking for comfortable shoes
that won't make me look like a biblical character.
It's really difficult. (audience laughs)
When Tiffany called me, I was like, "Wow."
You got birth control shoes.
(audience laughs)
- [Tiffany] Barbara Carlyle! (audience cheers)
- Been doing comedy for 44 years.
I forgot I was married one day.
Rolled over and said,
"Do you know you need to get up and go home?"
(audience laughs)
Life, for me, ain't been no crystal stair.
A lot of good looking people in the house tonight.
- [Audience] Woo!
- A lot of ugly motherfuckers in here too.
(audience laughs)
- [Tiffany] Dean Edwards! (audience cheers)
- I'm big on manifestation.
I made a recording where I said,
"I'm shooting a special in 2020."
I didn't go see "Black Panther"
initially when it first came out y'all.
And here we are,
we've just breathed it into existence.
All these Black people in this movie,
I couldn't get no audition
for none of the roles in this movie?
Goddamn. (audience laughs)
- It's gon' be off the chain.
- L.A., what's up?
- Tiffany Haddish rocks!
- Kinda dumb, ain't you?
- I got you.
- This gon' be funny.
- Thank you so much.
- Are you ready?
(audience cheering)
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This season, I purposely made sure everybody was Black,
because I'm Black.
Was that too much? I'm sorry.
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