- How was your pandemic?
- All sex
- All sex?
- This is What a Joke with Tom Papa.
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- on Netflix is a Joke Radio.
- When was your special on Netflix?
- What was that?
Too long ago?
- *LAUGHS*
- Twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen.
- So you're ready to drop something else.
- Every year.
I'm always sitting on all this material
and I get so bored with, after I've done it.
I had all the clubs.
I go, I'm coming back to Kansas.
I can't do the set
from last year when comedians, realistically
we get so much pressure.
I always have to write
and I've always had it because of the ADD I have.
So it's hard for me to concentrate on a set
let alone go re watch my set if I'm working on it.
So like right now, I'll probably the thing I'm working on.
Now I can shoot in September, but
if I get one little curve ball or one distraction
it's like, or something else happens, I'm like, oh
this won't fit that special.
I think every year that the comics who really like love it
I think we can always, you know, put out material
but it's so many people putting out material.
So he would put so many in so many streaming networks
that you just want to make the proper decision.
So I almost was deciding
of going old school back to the DVD, shoot one, sell it.
And only my shows underground platinum thing.
- I love that idea.
- And I said, you know, or, or in some kind
of form and let it become an underground mix tape
because we don't really have those.
I started comedy.
I was 19.
So I have footage from every, almost all my shows.
- Oh wow
- I just never put together.
When I die, I'm gonna have all of these Tupac tapes
But I want to be in more (beep)
People want to say why you ain't in more (beep)
You should be.
I know!
I audition for stuff.
I go to auditions I know I should get
I read the, the, the breakdown
Chicago hood (beep)
Oh I'm going in for this (beep)
Ain't it crazy?
I got an audition to be a Chicago hood (beep)
When I'm a Chicago hood (beep).
They should just give me the part
I should just bring in the people I murdered
Here they go.
So I go in and I audition for white people
to play the hood (beep)
Do you hear what I just said?
I auditioned for white people to be
All right do the lines.
All right.
I got this.
Oh (beep)
I got this (beep) all day.
Hold up, hold up
Lay on the ground (beep) it aint a game!
Hmm
I wasn't scared were you're scared?
I wasn't afraid.
Could you do it again.
More angry, more hood.
Just get in it.
Get me hot because I want to feel like I'm going to die.
I'm just a regular white guy.
I'm going to die.
Show me
- You've got to start releasing clips
because people love the standup clips online.
- Yeah. I just, I've been slow to TikTok and everything
and slow to just giving a lot to the world when I feel
like I'm so intimate with my standup.
So I get there and you get there
and this is what you get rather
than just putting it out there.
But if you don't realistically
you know the old school, hey, I saw you at a festival.
Let's give you a TV deal.
shit is dead.
So it's time now you got to create your own TV
shows is consistent with what you guys do
- Yeah, for sure.
We've had so many people on here that just took it
upon themselves and just released something on YouTube.
And it explodes.
You know, there's just a lot of people get to see it.
- I like how the world's going though
because right now it's like everybody was sensitive
about everything and everything's super sensitive.
And now the new is going against the grain is against
since against insensitive people.
Now it's like insensitive motherfuckers
but then it's going to turn back around.
And in the insensitive people are going to have a march
like us, the insensitive people of America
- oh man
- we are being hated
and there are hate crimes against insensitive people
The good thing is now they've given us so much material just
to pretty much throw away.
That's inclusive of like me.
I'm a big death guy.
Since my first special.
It was just, I cannot do a special without
somebody dying or talking about it.
I was hurting and family members have passed, but I always
I'm always able to flip it into like that.
So I think that's the little politically incorrect thing.
I think that's the depth of it.
I'll take like, oh man, wait, my cousin just died.
Does he mean this?
Instead cause the person that died can't come sue you
- That's true.
- All dead people just all dead
- But that kind of stuff lasts.
That's what's really great about that kind of material.
It's like, if you were to like just chase stuff
that's happening in the moment.
That's one thing.
But that stuff you can listen
to it five years from now and it's still relevant.
- I've been going up saying, let me get this 10 minutes
of COVID shit out of the way.
- Right
- If I don't talk about it, you got to think I'm weird.
If I do, you know, like, did he not know what was going
on? And
- Acting like everything has been normal
- By what? Eight feet apart?
I can't even touch anybody.
- This is what I think part of the problem is they're
hiring police in placing them in the wrong place.
This is not your area.
That's why shit is happening.
You can't be a policeman in the hood.
If you don't know nothing about the hood, it's only fair.
Do a little research.
No son, you can't pull me over.
If you will know Migos, (beep)
Pull a (beep) over.
what are you pulling me over for
Step on the God don't make a sound.
Don't lay on the ground.
We shouldn't be scared of the police.
Shouldn't be scared.
Shouldn't be afraid of police.
You know what I do now when I get pulled over
by the police,
call the police, I'm like, hello?
Yeah, there's a strange man outside my window.
He has a gun.
He's the one who wanted me to step out of the car.
Oh, what'd you say don't step out?
Hey, y'all said don't step out
- You're so good at hosting.
Are you going to be doing more hosting gigs?
Is that a goal?
- I want to.
I'm hoping for hip hop school where we got picked up?
It'd probably squares, which was a miracle.
It was picked up for the fourth season.
Then the pandemic hit
I can't lie, man.
I was still happy because I had a payer play.
But, and when they canceled it
I'm sitting where all this money was coming.
Like I need to host something.
This doesn't feel right.
God Lord, I need to host something.
You know this isn't right.
As we spend this money on spas,
I love hosts.
I love game shows since this might've a man.
I love it.
I've been creating shows actually where
my partner is Lowe
I don't know if you know, Craig Michael Lowe.
He's a great writer who was on his way to comic Australian.
But I just, I found him when we did joking off.
So we did like three seats.
I found them there and he's been working
with me on a lot of taking my ideas
and basically Chris rock and Ali Laroi in them
like putting them in a format where people who get it.
And we created two game shows
since I've been in here for so long.
I'm literally sitting there going why I know everything.
I mean the legal legalities, everything.
Why not create a game show.
And I created a couple
of them and I just pitched to everyone
including Netflix with Jesse Collins entertainment
which is the producers of hip hop squares
and the super bowl.
And they did a Oscars this year and they did the Grammys.
So I paired with those guys on a couple
of pitches so I can have my own shows rather than waiting
because although I know
that I've worked hard to be good at hosting, you know
implementing us at the improv on Mondays
into the dynamics of really having a host.
I still felt like, you know, I got sat down.
I got benched when this happened.
And I love seeing people creating all these
different platforms like via social media and everything.
That's just never been me to sit in, in my own room.
I, you know, sometimes hate my own company.
So it's like you try to produce and be like, you know
I ended up firing myself
- I don't want to watch this guy
- Who is this guy? let me talk to us in the back.
But I do want to create another platform
because when I did mind of a man and had a platform
for three comics to talk stuff inclusive of a game show
even on hip hop squares, it includes nine.
People may be sometimes four out
of the nine are comics who I could bounce off of.
So I want to create more game shows where we allow comedy
like the comics unleashed with a game show attached to them.
That's been the creative process I've been on lately.
- They do that in, in the UK a lot.
There's like all these great panel shows and they get
and it's really just this, like you said
let's set up for comedians to be funny.
- We watch people do our jobs kind of a lot
of times like the Voice, any
of those panel shows where like, yeah know, there's a comic
in the back having a, oh, here's a joke for you.
It's like, no, that guy needs to be in that seat.
And so that's what I want to do more
of us need to be in those seats where
because if we won the Voice, Fortune come on, man.
We were like, yo, we don't know.
I like your outfit.
You can't say, you know
- I know the, the comics are always the one
that bring the personality and fun.
A lot of these things.
So
- Yeah. Yeah.
So that's definitely
that's what hosting is always a passion.
Everyone's waiting on Steve Harvey to say
you want a host Family Feud for me.
- Exactly.
- That's ultimately the dream job for me.
Like I'm good on Family Feud.
If I host Family Feud.
I'm good.
Like I can chill.
Like I don't need to be a movie guy anymore.
Although I love the movies.
I love the films.
I have another drama coming out.
I love those because I get the, you know
I'm light-skinned I get to be tough.
- Not too scary.
- Like on snowfall, I get to like I get to be the murderer
but people are like, wait a minute.
- That's funny.
- But I think hosting is hosting is going to be the end.
All be all for me.
- Thank you so much.
- I appreciate it
I appreciate it guys.
Much love and keep comedy alive.
- That's right
- Brothers and sisters
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