Hey, congratulations.
Your talk show, Steve on Watch, was just picked up by Facebook
for more episodes, and I know you love doing it
Yeah, man.
It's so cool because it really-- we talked about this
when I was on your show before.
It kind of-- it lets me just take
the best of worlds, what I really enjoy doing,
which is the human interest stories because I like talking
to regular people, and the Hey Steve, because regular people
are fascinating to me because I spent the majority of my life
being a regular person.
And just for me, when I had the talk show,
I was introducing people when were coming around a corner,
I didn't know who the hell they were.
Ladies and gentlemen, from The Walking Dead,
Harrison [INAUDIBLE] And the crowd would be going crazy.
I've never seen this guy before.
I have no idea who he is, never seen the Walking Dead.
And I was just--
I felt like a fish out of water.
But this show, man, it allows me to really get down
into what I really do with the Ask Steves and all of that.
It's a lot of fun.
Well, congratulations.
And also you're nominated for an Image Award
for hosting Celebrity Family Feud.
Congratulations on that as well.
Thank you.
So let's talk about Family Feud in Africa.
When you were here, I think you were either--
you had just finished shooting it
or you were just going to shoot it.
And now it's a huge hit.
Yeah.
It's really amazing because when I went to my partners
at Fremantle who owned Family Feud, I said,
I want to buy the international rights.
Of course, they're great partners so they said, yeah,
but everybody told me Steve don't go to Africa to make TV.
You can't make good TV in Africa.
I said, why not?
And I just thought it was a great idea.
So I took the show over there to two countries.
I took it to South Africa and Ghana.
And Family Feud is the number one show in Ghana
and the number one show in South Africa.
And it is funny and--
I have an accent over there, you think I got accent over here.
I bet.
But I'll tell you something though, Ellen,
the thing about for me that made being in Africa,
and this is just like a little serious part to it,
being in Africa for me as a 64-year-old, 63-year-old Black
man at that time, it was the first time in my life
where I woke up every morning and I was no longer a minority.
And that was the most unexpected incredible feeling
I've ever had.
Everybody should experience what it's
like to be in the majority.
I mean, not you, but I mean everybody else.
Well, let's just say Black people.
Black people should go somewhere and just see
what it's like to be in the majority
because you get used to it and it's like a refreshing thing.
I never knew how cool it was.
Yeah.
And when I saw White people, I would go, where are they going?
[LAUGHTER]
It was just amazing that they were there.
It was really, really cool experience.
Yeah.
Where are they going?
Well, that's fantastic.
I mean, I bet.
I bet that's amazing and should be an experience
that a lot of people will experience, I hope.
And why don't you want me to experience it?
Well, no-- I mean--
I'm kidding.
All right, we have to take a break--
No, no.
Really, I think you should go so you can
experience being a minority.
Really, it would help everything out
if everybody could be a minority for four months in a row.
Oh, I--
It would really help.
I agree.
I think you're right.
No, I totally agree.
I thought that you didn't want me to be part of the majority,
like surrounded by gay people.
I thought you didn't want like a whole bunch of, you know--
See right there, see right there,
I done told you this before.
I'm black, I got my own set of issues.
I'm with you.
[LAUGHTER]
We ought to all stick together and help each other get
through this thing.
Yeah.