It's little scary, but it's, you know--
it smells good.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit.
Yeah!
REGINA HALL: Oh!
Yeah!
Yo, come onto our show.
OK, now I feel safe.
Hey.
Hi, guys.
What's good?
Hi.
Yo!
Yo, it's your boy, Desus Nice.
That's right.
I'm The Kid Mero, and we are the Bodega Boys, in the Jam Room,
live. You know what I'm saying?
That's right.
Tonight, we are here with legendary thespian--
Thespian.
You're a graduate of Fordham. REGINA HALL: I am.
- BX all day. - Ah, ah, ah.
- The Bronx campus? - Rosehill?
- Rosehill. - OK.
Ah shit! Go Rams.
Mhm.
Do you have any Fordham road experiences,
or did you just stay inside the gate?
No.
Always had Fordham road experiences.
DESUS NICE: Yeah. - Yeah.
MERO: You was at Rainbow, you was Bobigny.
You know what?
We used to have--
I remember gypsy cabs.
DESUS NICE: Yeah.
MERO: Yes.
We used to go to clubs in the city, and--
I'm so sorry to everyone.
But we used to didn't-- we didn't have any money,
and you didn't--
I didn't feel like catching the D train at night,
so we used to run out of the gypsy cabs into the campus.
DESUS NICE: We're from the Bronx.
Oh yeah. That's what you do.
You tell the guard, somebody's chasing me!
[LAUGHTER]
I lived on-campus, though.
I never lived off-campus.
But I-- we used to go to Little Italy and get our little food.
Get a little--
First time I had a little White Castle
was when I was there. MERO: Aw.
Wow.
That's an iconic White Castle right there.
- Yeah. - It's an iconic White Castle.
What's the first place you go to when you hit New York?
You know what I used to love?
And I haven't been there, but do you know La Caridad?
Yeah.
I used to love La Caridad, because I loved their-- what--
It's like the--
Weren't they like Cuban, Jamaican or something?
Dominican, yeah.
It's close, close.
What? What was it?
MERO: Dominician, Puerto Rican. DESUS NICE: Dominican.
- Oh, they were Dominican? - Yeah.
I loved their food.
What's popping up in-- what is culinary popping in LA?
Besides tacos?
Well, LA has great Mexi--
[CHUCKLING]
Skrrrt!
[LAUGHTER]
Do you have a favorite taco spot you recommend?
Because every time we go to LA, people tell
us a one specific taco spot.
REGINA HALL: What do they say?
MERO: They judge us, based on our tacos.
They always say something-- they be like,
you got to got this one spot on, like, Tuesday morning--
- Where do we go? - Truck on--
What was the name of it?
It was called, like, Pink Taco or something?
Pink Taco.
We didn't even go there, we just drove past it.
Oh, Pink Taco.
We drove past it, and everyone was like, oh--
ew, you're going to Pink--
oh, you're fake.
I've never been to Pink Taco.
You know what?
There's a stand, I can't of the name of it, in Studio
City that has great tacos.
But you know what?
Sometimes the trucks, the food trucks
have, like, the best tacos.
The best, yeah.
MERO: OK.
I've had some great tacos from the food trucks.
MERO: OK.
- Sushi is good. - Sushi is good.
Shout to Kastuya, you know what I'm saying?
Is that how you say it, "cat-soo-yuh"?
Yeah, "cat-soo-yuh."
Katsuya, you know what I'm saying?
Shout them out, you know what I'm saying?
LA Mero, you know what I'm saying?
REGINA HALL: There's some good stuff.
It's not Jamaican or Dominican, though.
Right, it's other stuff.
Your movie "Shaft"--
Yeah. MERO: Yeah.
A classic.
DESUS NICE: Classic, you know what I'm saying?
More Shaft than you can handle.
That's what they say.
DESUS NICE: More Shaft than you can handle.
Well, it's on the poster.
Because it's three generations of "Shaft."
- Mhm. - OK.
And you play Shaft Jr.'s mother?
Yeah.
I play Shaft's baby mama.
DESUS NICE: Shaft's-- oh, OK.
Baby mama? - Baby mama.
DESUS NICE: Gotcha.
What was, like, the first--
Regina's first dream?
You know?
I saw she's-- oh, a Playboy Playmate, because I was little.
I was, like, six.
They were rollerskating around a pool.
Glitter. - Word?
REGINA HALL: Just imagine being six,
and you think that's what a Playmate does.
MERO: [LAUGHS]
I didn't know what a Playmate was at six.
Well, they had some special on, and it was, like, regular,
and it was showing Hugh Hefner and the mansion.
DESUS NICE: Oh, OK. MERO: Right.
And I was like, oh, that's what
I want to do when I grow up.
I want to roller skate around a pool.
MERO: Oh, that's chill. Yeah.
DESUS NICE: You didn't know, like--
Well, for a little girl-- well, I
didn't know they took pictures. - Right.
[LAUGHS] Yeah.
See, she didn't know there was nudity involved.
But those pictures are tasteful, in retrospect.
Right, yes. DESUS NICE: Yeah.
Back in the day, they were classy.
Back in the-- yeah.
Then they got a little graphic.
Becuase they were better than, like, "Penthouse"--
"Black Tail."
Yeah.
Oh, black-- oh, we know what you were reading.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
You know what?
You just gave it away. - I mean--
You all should start a magazine, "Jamaican Tail."
- "Jamaican Tail." - "Jamaican Tail."
[LAUGHS]
It's just, like, people working out, and, like--
No. It's, like--
Because Jamaicans have a of jobs,
so it's just, like, people in--
REGINA HALL: No, it's--
Shorty in a Home Depot apron, like--
It's them that work in the Home Depot apron.
And then at night, the--
Just spread--
- Or lift the apron up? - Yeah.
The black tail. - OK.
Or we could do a pop-up book, where you just lift up the--
"Jamaican Tail." So if we make it--
Yeah!
You lift up the-- now, that's--
MERO: You see?
DESUS NICE: OK.
Don't steal that.
So you've got to get half of that, I guess, since--
That was Regina's idea.
I mean, we'll share it. Because, you know--
But OK, he's not Jamaican, though.
REGINA HALL: I had you on the jobs part.
He's not Jamaican.
REGINA HALL: You're not Jamaican?
I'm Dominican.
Oh, well, we've got two.
Jamaican and "Dominican Tail."
MERO: "Ja-minican Tail."
- I think "Dominican Tail--" - Ja-minican!
- "Ja-minican Tail." - "Ja-minican Tail."
- Wow. - Yeah, see?
[COUGH]
Where you guys have some Jamaicans, some Dominicans.
Some girls who are half-Jamaican or Dominicans.
Maybe someone who's sleeping with a Jamaican or a Dominican.
Yeah.
OK.
Wow.
I see the synergy.
Lifting the skirt.
Look at this adult entertainment
R&D section right here.
I know!
We've got some good ideas here.
Transforming the world.
DESUS: One-- one cooch at a time.
One word at a-- yeah, one--
that's how it happens, actually. [LAUGHING]
Yeah.
While we have you here, we have to talk about your iconic role.
"Scary Movie," Brenda from "Scary Movie."
Brenda Meeks.
Woof.
Was that-- was that a major, like, check for you?
Like, was that like, yo, I'm--
I'm on now.
Or what-- like, what was the--
the breakthrough role for Regina--
REGINA HALL: Right.
MERO: --you know what I'm saying?
I don't think I ever had one breakthrough role.
I think I just kept having roles.
It just-- they led to more work.
But I never had, like, a--
there's some people who have roles,
and those roles, like, totally change their career.
MERO: Mm-hmm.
I didn't have that kind of role.
Right.
REGINA HALL: I mean, not-- you know what I mean?
Like, it just was a--
You just out here working, getting work.
- I just was working. - OK.
Yeah.
But I never had one that was, like, oh, my goodness.
But that helped with comedy, you know?
I loved-- I was just excited because I used to love--
I mean, I still do, but I was such
a fan of "In Living Color."
And so I loved the Wayans, you know what I mean?
So for me, just to work with Keenen
was going to be exciting.
Like, I was like, oh, Keenen's going to direct.
So that was a big-- it was big for me.
But then you do a role like that,
and then they think you can't do drama.
Then people think you're a comedian.
And then they think you only do broad comedy,
so then you have to do something completely different,
so you don't get stuck there.
So it's-- and then we did four--
I did four "Scary Movies," so then your time in between,
you have to keep doing something different.
So I think it's just always that balancing act.
But I loved "Scary Movie."
Oh, yeah.
The hood loved it, too.
Everyone was like, oh, shit, Brenda's coming back?
Yo, yo, that was lit!
Oh, yeah.
Also, I had to make sure they didn't
get her confused with Regina King, who is also Brenda.
REGINA HALL: Yes.
How often do people get you guys confused?
You know what?
Apparently it happens to-- because I
thought it happened to me.
But apparently it happens to her just as much.
It happens a lot.
Not physically, but, like, I don't--
I mean, when I tell you that they can't--
I was literally on the red carpet
for the Indie Spirit Awards.
Regina was right before me, and--
MERO: Why would they do that?
They got-- he got mixed up there.
He said, are you excited for the Oscars tomorrow?
And I said, absolutely.
And, um, he said, are you-- you know, you're nominated.
How do you feel?
I was like, like I'm not nominated.
[LAUGHING]
That's how I feel.
For "Hidden Fences."
Uh, yeah.
[LAUGHING]
That's the one where you and Denzel did a--
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Yeah, no that was-- that was great.
Denzel was amazing.
Um, Russell, too.
But, um, yeah, they get-- they get confused.
So, it's, um--
DESUS: Oh, man.
But I love Regina King, so it doesn't matter.
Your fellow Showtimian-- what's the-- what's the name
of our gang? - Show-- uh--
What we came up with Don Cheadle.
Showtime-- - Showtime gang?
Showtime gang.
Oh.
Um, we've been working on hand signs and stuff.
Oh, hand signs?
What's it like, the, uh, "Black Monday" experience?
I love Don.
Because he said y'all be doing mad yayo on set.
We do.
DESUS: Yeah.
We don't use the real stuff though.
- Oh, OK. - Yeah, no, no.
Yeah, that explains those B12s.
I mean, I do.
DESUS: OK. - No.
No, I don't.
[LAUGHING]
Um, no.
You're like, [SNORTING] woo!
Let's get it!
[CLAPPING]
They're like, uh, Regina, this is the little more down--
Oh, yeah.
MERO: --dramatic scene.
But, you know, it was very popular in the '80s.
Are you a big fan of boxing?
I'm a huge fan of boxing?
Are you? - I like boxing.
Hey, you know, Showtime, you know what I'm saying?
We got boxing on smash now.
On deck, available 24/7, be sure to check in
on Saturday nights.
MERO: Ah, ah, ah.
I've had to watch boxing since I was little because, you know,
one TV, three brothers.
Mm-hmm.
- Only girl? - Yeah.
Oh, wow.
I'm the only boy.
- You are? - Yeah.
REGINA HALL: You're the baby?
Uh, no.
I am the second to last.
MERO: You're the baby? - Mm-hmm.
DESUS: Oh, wow.
So-- so please give me some advice,
besides I have three sons--
He has three boys and one girl.
- --and they're older. - You do?
And the baby is the-- is my daughter.
They're going to-- are they tough on her?
They treat her like she's one of them, so--
REGINA HALL: Yeah, that's how my brothers treated me.
You know what I mean? Like, you-- you can fight--
REGINA HALL: Yes.
People think that having brothers,
they are precious with you.
But they are not precious at all.
So you are like a boy.
Are you done? You going to have more?
MERO: I am done. I'm done.
REGINA HALL: Mm.
I don't-- I'm--
I'm scared about getting a vasectomy, because I
don't like to play with that.
Oh, then, you're not done.
That's nice, to have a big family.
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I always say--
You make a lot of boys.
Thank god you at least gave her a girl.
Yeah.
Because if it would have been four boys, I was like,
I don't know if this would have--
Shallow strokes.
MERO: Shallow strokes?
That's what they say makes a girl.
MERO: Really?
I don't know, but that's what I've heard.
Yeah, because the boys swim faster, but not long.
MERO: Oh.
Apparently male sperm, they shoot out fast.
You have any?
- No. - Mm-hmm.
I have a dog and cat.
REGINA HALL: You wanna?
Ah-- REGINA HALL: You don't know.
DESUS: Probably one day?
I don't know.
But I just felt a girl.
I just-- I can't-- I can't explain it.
MERO: The energy.
So you're telling me Juniper's going to be a girl.
MERO: You're all set.
- That's all it takes. - That's it.
Just hit-- just hit the shallow strokes,
and you're good. - That's how it works, right?
That's how you make a baby.
You come up with the name first, and everything else
falls into place, so--
[LAUGHING]
All right.
MERO: How was the TC-- - They were good.
MERO: Because we bumped into you--
I had-- yeah, outside.
Because it was funny, because it was like,
we-- we bumped into you, and we bumped into Don first.
And it was like, yo, chopping her up and down, whatever.
And he was like, yo, Regina's coming, like, hold on a second.
She's coming down the hall.
And then you came to me and was like,
oh, hey, how are y'all doing?
Oh, congratulations on y'all little show.
And I was just like--
I did not say that!
You did say that!
And we was like--
REGINA HALL: No, I didn't!
No!
I was like, yo!
I did not!
DESUS: I was like, OK.
I did not-- did I say "little"?
I did not say "little." DESUS: You did say "little."
You did say "your little show"-- and congratulations
on y'all little show.
Oh, I see y'all little chains right there.
Oh, oh, the--
I don't know-- but you know what?
I don't remember saying "little."
You said "little."
You definitely said "little." - I don't think I said "little."
You said "little"!
I've been telling people this story for months now.
Maybe-- could you have been a little high?
Maybe, maybe a little?
[MUMBLING]
Maybe a little bit?
You know what I'm saying?
Well, I was thinking, why do I know them?
DESUS: Mm-hmm.
And then I was trying to place it.
And then when Don was like, oh, they have their show.
And then it came.
I was like, oh, yes.
How was Don to work with, also?
Before we--
REGINA HALL: Oh, Don's incredible.
OK.
Like, watching him is like taking a--
like, a masterclass.
Work his little magic, and it be like, you won't even know it.
Did you say-- you did it, you see?
You said he worked his "little" magic.
You just did it.
[CLICKING TONGUE]
OK, listen.
I don't know--
[LAUGHING]
I don't know that I did that!
Did I do that?
[APPLAUSE]
DESUS: Give it up!
Regina Hall, yo!
Every bodega has a neon sign.
What would you like your bodega sign to say, Regina?
My bodega sign would say "Little Shallow Strokes."
[LAUGHING]
DESUS: Give it up for Regina!
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]