- [Steve] Please welcome
the legendary Arsenio Hall!
(audience cheers) (upbeat music)
- [Arsenio] Yeah!
- It's John Adams, rebels.
- Oh
(audience cheers)
- Cleveland!
- John Adams. Thank you.
That´s in honor of you.
(audience cheers)
They don´t normally do that,
but that's in honor of you, man.
- Thank you!
That´s us!
- Boy.
- If anybody brought it
from Cleveland
and parked it here,
it's me and you!
- Yeah!
(audience cheers)
- Oh, boy.
- How have you been, man?
- I'm good, sir.
- You like this?
- I'm good
and this is nice.
And I like you at a desk.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Me too.
- Yes, yes.
- Me too.
- I like this.
This is more comfortable than my therapist's office.
(audience laughs)
- You had a lot to talk to America.
- Oh, sometimes you gotta go talk about it.
- Oh, man.
- Black folks go to a therapist.
(audience agrees)
But I know black people, black people,
black people don't like therapists.
We think the barbershop is enough.
- Yeah.
- But every now and then you got to sit
next to somebody at a desk.
- Yeah.
(audience laugh)
Hey, man.
We've known each other since college, man.
- Yeah.
- We don't know if people don't know.
Arsenio and I went to Kent State together.
(audience wows and claps)
Kent State.
- Yes.
- Yes. What's even crazier
is I cheated on his paper.
(audience surprised)
Yes.
- That's really good, man.
Hey man, you're touring now regularly.
First time in 20 years, man.
- Yeah.
- Well, what's that been like, man?
- Yeah.
Check me out.
It's, it's fun.
I'm trying to get you boy. out there.
You know, the hard part is when you get old.
That's why Bernie Sanders
couldn't be our president.
When you get old, you can't go.
No, cause you can't be president
if you go to bed at five.
Okay?
- Yeah.
(audience cheers)
- Right.
- And when you get old,
you don't wanna be out late.
And our club life, you have to go to this club
and that club, you do a 10 o'clock at the improve
and a 11 or 30 at, at the Comedy Factory and the tees.
You do a late set at tees,
but I'm old.
I wanna be home.
- Yeah
- You know? So that was the hardest part.
But, we are both trying to get
Eddie to do it again.
I think it's so cathartic.
It's made my life complete.
It's like the woman that I missed
and I have her back.
I'm so happy to be doing
stand up again.
We need it, man.
- Yeah, man.
- And it's what we do.
(audience cheers)
- Yeah.
- It is, it is therapeutic, man.
- Oh, like about a week ago,
I was gonna meet Eddie Murphy
for coffee, right?
And you don't know where this story is going,
but apparently, when he got to the coffee place
he had just seen you.
- Yeah.
- And he said you were exercising.
- Yeah, in the neighborhood.
- Right!
And he came down and we were sitting
drinking coffee and he's like
Steve, was up working out.
And I'm like,
yeah. That's wow.
Cause
(Steve laughs)
(audience claps)
- I was so happy,
but sad 'cause I don't workout
You know,
other than sex, I really don't get to workout
that much.
But,
Steve.
Steve, get up early in the morning
and workout with his clothes on.
- Yeah.
- And I really respect that.
(Steve laughs)
You know.
(Steve laughs)
He goes out,
you know.
- I saw Eddie that morning.
- Yeah.
- And I think it was the first morning
I had saw him 'cause we live in this same neighborhood,
but I'd never seen him, and
he was pulling out
and I ran up into him and I saw him.
They invited me and my wife up to the house.
We've been up to the house a couple times and..
- Yeah.
- Everything. He's a nice guy, man.
But I've known him for years.
- And don't ever go
to the house with the wife.
Don't go for coffee 'cause
you know he do, he pull
and you probably do this to people too.
He paid for the coffee and tipped
like a hundred dollars.
Yeah. So when I come back,
they don't even wanna see me.
(Steve and audience laugh)
- They don´t even want to see me.
- 'Cause, you know, Hey I do twenty dollars.
Twenty dollars is enough for two coffees.
But, now I come in
and when it's my turn to pay, they be like
(mad sounds)
- Yeah, yeah.
- They be mat at the coffee.
(audience laughs)
- And I'll say that you and Dave Chappelle.
You made a surprise appearance
to Chris Rock's standup show
in Cleveland.
- Home.
- Yeah. All went up to Cleveland, man.
- Yes.
- And you walked in and stunned.
How'd that work out, man?
- Steve, that was so much fun.
That's the night I realized that I, you know.
Our senior guy is groove back, man.
Oh, Rock was performing in Cleveland
and he called me.
He says:
why don't you come on Cleveland?
You know?
And
- Yeah, he always talked with all his teeth.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hey, come on up to Cleveland.
- And oh, so I, and then he called me
back later on and he said:
Chappelle's coming.
'Cause Chappelle lives in Ohio.
So we gave Cleveland
the night of a lifetime.
- Boy, that had to be crazy.
- Oh, man
- Oh.
(audience claps)
- Man!
Steve, the laughter was... in the roof caved in
and Dave will say anything.
He like you, he will say anything.
- Was Dave like me?
- Yeah.
Well, you know, you know Steve would go there,
come on now.
(audience agrees)
That's why you're sitting here.
'Cause you would go there.
(Steve laughs)
- You gave me, man, one of the great
memories of my life, man.
You took me to Richard Pryor's house.
- Yeah.
- And that was like,
one of the greatest moments for me, man.
(audience cheers)
- But you all, you know what though?
It was a great moment for him, but I don't know
if you know this.
I know, I know you all don't know this.
Richard asked me to bring you there.
- Well let me tell you something.
He took care of Richard Pryor.
He was there.
He sat with Richard Pryor
more than anybody.
(audience claps)
That picture there
was the first night I met Richard Pryor
at the ABC Comedy Awards.
When I got to hug him and we talked,
I went behind the bar. I cried for 20 minutes.
- Yeah?
- I was.
- I was there, that, I brought him there that night.
- Yeah.
- And I'll tell you something.
We were watching television, oh.
Steve Hightower.
The sitcom.
- Yeah.
(audience cheers)
Yes, and Richard Pryor is looking and he said:
he is in a standup, right?
And I said, yes.
He kind of looked like I used to look, don't you think?
And I say, I said yeah!
You know, Steve could play you.
And he said, is there a way you could
have him stop by?
I found Steve.
- Yeah.
- And Steve was there
before sundown sitting at Richard Pryor's bed.
- Yeah.
- And it was a great, great night for him.
- Yeah, man.
- And God bless you.
- No.
(audience cheers)
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