Now we have some MVPs of the team,
Coco world, you know, her
as the cohost of Conan O'Brien needs a friend Sonoma Ceci.
And is here, you know him
from Black-ish you know him from this very funny
special on Netflix called cold-hearted, which I personally
I wanted that name, but you know, he got it
before me and he's got a new, special slash non special out.
I want to talk to him about please.
Welcome Sonoma SSKC and Deon Cole.
Thank you both for being here.
What's up family.
How's everybody.
We're good.
Donna, what is that behind you?
No, I don't know.
Okay, so I'm at, I'm at the Largo where I'm backstage.
Cause we're shooting today.
And then I looked over and there's a random
like military uniform here for no reason.
I don't even know what this is.
What side is that for?
What does that represent?
The what?
What kind of military?
What does that is
that when Americans, ally,
I don't even know
Role-play outfit.
I put it on, put it on a lot of trouble.
Just random military outfit behind her
Could be for any side
Size, probably about this
the perfect size
fits like a glove.
And it's not yours That
you feel powerful.
Yes. I feel like I can do anything without any
repercussions. Boxing
As hell was like a Steve Harvey suit in the military.
I remember I wrote a bid for cone
in about Steve Harvey suits and that didn't
Yeah, I might be giving away.
Oh, snap.
Would it take
for you to join any sort of military organizations?
I don't think I could ever join the military.
I don't know.
Can you guys
I, no, I wouldn't because I did a TV show where
I played a soldier and then I always get cast
as a soldier who dies immediately.
It's like coward, soldier, number one, we were like
I don't think we can do this.
And I die when like the first part of the show
when the credits are still rolling
of like who's in the show.
I died at that part.
I'm black.
I know every black person dies during the credits
of horror movies die.
When like the, every horror movie
the credits go up and they go what's that
During the song
during the song where they introduce everyone.
No, it's about me and my cone in bed
the desk moving back and forth.
Yeah. Look at you.
Look at the setup.
You guys are not familiar.
Dr. Cole has been deejaying disco mornings.
You bought all this equipment a couple of years ago.
And then just in the lockdown, you started
Bought it four years ago and never had time to play
with it and just had it sitting up.
And then when this pandemic hit, I was like
let me see if I can play this.
And next thing you know, I start
at DJ sending me records to break and all of that.
So it's been going great.
It's I'm good.
It's been fun.
Something to do.
Keep your mind saying you live alone
and you don't have no woman or no pets.
He's the DJ that cries like right
before the bass drops, he fully cries.
You took to live through the music.
When I first started people's bossing up laughing, man
it was like, don't quit your day job.
Like, cause I was so horrible with it
but I figured, you know what?
If I learn how to do this in front of these people's faces.
They going to feel some kind of way
because you should be doing something
with your pandemic time.
You should be learning a new language, writing the script
doing something you love to do.
And while you're laughing at me, I'm going to
I'm going to get better.
And that's exactly what happened.
Do you ever do requests?
I know DJs absolutely hate that.
Nah, I won't do no requests.
No, not at all.
Coming up to the booth, grabbing on your equipment.
Yeah. I'm like, why are you going to come in here
and ask to request something you just heard in the car?
Like you should have it on your playlist already.
Come in here and want to hear it too.
Like you love it.
That much.
You play a
Full episode of the Joe Rogan podcast.
I've started talking about nootropics.
That's how I get.
Yeah.
And you also have your record behind you deliver
try to work your standup into some disco just on the B side.
Yeah, one day I did it one day I played a track
and I played, I played my, my, my comedy on the track
but then I took it off.
Cause I play every Sunday at like 11:00 AM
and a lot of older people
and it just didn't go good with disco Sunday fellowship.
And I was gone.
You see that being out, sticking the mouth, pushing them.
I was like, yeah, that ain't
that ain't that ain't the Lord.
This guy be, I don't know this guy.
I need a backslide
as our Deon Cole, Saturday night, backslid backslid.
So Sona has picked up kind of a quarantine skill.
You picked up archery.
If you kept up with that, my husband wanted to
buy a gun and I was like, please don't buy a gun.
And so he's like, okay, I'm going to buy a bow and arrow.
And so he bought
like this massive bow and arrow and all the equipment
like the risk card and the thing that you put
on your back to like pull out arrows, what is it called?
A Quill quiver.
I forgot Quill quiver, quiver.
And so sometimes like we just go into our backyard
and we just shoot bows and arrows that this bag.
Wow, just enough.
Terrible things were happening last year that I
remember when, when you, when you were
you told me about this, I
my first thought was not like, Whoa, that's whimsical.
It was like, that's actually smart.
It's actually fun.
It sounds fun as hell.
But if you're using it to protect you all, you will be shot.
Just know, just know that, know
that they will shoot you the time it takes
for him to put his gloves on and grab his arrows
Lick the arrow and line it up.
Cause I know he licked his arrow
lick the arrow and line it up.
Why is tack making the arrows?
Because that you got this dissenters, the away
to do it.
You gotta lick the arrow.
You lick your arrow, you do all of this and then you gotta
then you gotta like Amy, you gotta get the AME.
He will be
Well, why is he signing up to leave DNA at the scene?
That's just, that's just sick arrows stuff.
You do, man.
Arrow stuff is cool.
Arrow stuff.
There are, there are better ways to protect yourself
from like a home invasion.
Robert was standing there like this, like
In your dressing room
What did he say?
We missed a solid joke.
He said, I left that rash cream in your dressing.
That's great.
Tell us about the rash.
There is no rash.
He's just being an.
You know, Matt's a pretty sharp guy.
He wouldn't just make something up beyond you did something
I would never do where you put out essentially
a non special, special pretty recently on Netflix
his YouTube channel.
I think it's on where you're working out material for tour
for not even a special where you're like
I have a half idea to even
before you go on, you do these small
Shows that if, if anyone even listen
to a voice memo of mine, I think I would die.
And you put this out, eats so funny.
It's hostile.
You're yelling at audience members.
It's incredible.
What, besides just like having nothing to do.
What was the incentive behind putting that out?
I'm thinking like, yeah, all that material
that I was working on
for my special that I chose not to use, it's still funny.
And I was like, man
I wonder I should put something together.
So I put together all this footage
of stuff that I was doing, that I was working on, that
that I did not choose from
for my tour or my up and coming special.
And I was like, man, I should just put it together
and show the people, just the whole process of, of
of how we come up with material
and how it doesn't work and how we insecure with it.
And just these nights of everything and glorified
everything ain't in front of 3000, 5,000 people every night.
This is 40 people, me trying to work this
out and show people this process, you know, as well
as give them something, you know, that they can laugh
at and have during these pandemic times or whatever.
So I put it together and Netflix solid and they was like
like, like, yeah, we can definitely do this.
And I was like, yeah
we should definitely put it on the YouTube channel.
Like just keep it wrong, give it to the people.
And they was like, yeah, let's do it.
And we put it out.
And I think I'm like up to
I've spent probably about since October
November. Yeah, we almost
I said it a million, which is crazy.
I, I watched it maybe a couple
of times it was the first thing that made me really
miss performing lie because that's what it is.
You watch a special, someone has a bunch
of purple lights behind them and a leather shirt.
They never wear that.
Doesn't make me miss it.
That's like, Oh, I feel like his agents are backstage.
But when you're in the lab, you're yelling at people.
This woman's eye catfish.
That was the first thing that made me miss performing live.
And it was, and it was genuine, you know
it was a genuine, it was a genuine take.
All those with genuine takes.
And I was like preparing for my tour
that I was going to go out on in April.
And then when COVID hit, it just stopped all that.
And I just was like, you know?
But so the trip out thing is, people love it
and I'm glad they love it and they'd be gravitating to it.
But they didn't, they still haven't seen what I kept.
So I would love.
So if, if they're loving that
I can't wait for them to see what I kept, you know
out of all those nights.
Yeah.
Because also you're doing well.
You're the first person I've seen do well in am I wrong?
Is this performed in the improv lab?
The lab
Yes. Okay.
So if anyone's not familiar, the improv is like
I've got a divorce and mom's house is the main room.
It's incredible.
There's the food.
And then the lab dad's house, mostly a bar.
There's not a lot of people.
It's sketchy.
People have nothing better to do.
It's hostile for no reason.
And you pulled off essentially a special
in the worst room in LA, arguably the worst room.
See, the thing about LA is when it comes to comedians
that's why everybody thinks they funny
because everybody here is so polite.
And so giving that mother be feeling like yo, they
the funniest in the world
but you gotta take that to Memphis.
They will murder your in Memphis.
They will throw at you.
That shouldn't even be at the comedy shows the though.
So you rice
I have a wedding later.
So I was like, man, let me get, let me do the lab.
And the people at the improv is so cool, man.
And so I was like, they was like, yeah
you want to work out in the main room?
I was like, nah, nah, I am, I am.
And my, and my manager, I mean, my agent Andrew was like
yo yeah, you, you should, you should do the lab.
And we was like, fine.
So we got up and I did.
And I was like, I remember those first few nights.
I was like, this is not the move.
And then I started going, great.
It's not the mood because everywhere else
you really ain't going to be able to get the real people
gonna laugh just to be, just to be generous.
And that, that doesn't help you.
Like in LA, a lot of LA, not LA people were people
in LA that the know that you're not helping when you're
when you're being polite.
Because what you're doing is you setting comics
of failure when they leave LA
Because it's all performers in LA, in New York.
So everyone, if it doesn't go over up, people
like I'm just so happy.
He's expressing himself off day in my class.
I was very vulnerable in my act.
I just appreciate his vulnerability.
And then you go to Phoenix with someone that lost their job
they hate their wife.
They're addicted to Percocet.
The spaghetti is always too wet
and people are like, Oh, sad life.
Now
It's a world of difference, man.
It's really different.
So I was like, I want to have one of the hardest rooms
because I figured like this, if they'd give me a hard time
in this room, this would be the equivalent
to me doing okay.
I mean, so I was like, yeah, I'm, I'm going to do it.
And it's, and it shows.
And especially when, when you, when you look at it
like when people, w w when people look at it, you, you see
this is, this, isn't your normal LA sec audience.
You know, this is, this is like me, like soul wrenching
like riding home with no radio, you know, a bad second
Go home.
Oh, I know that where you're like, you piece of
you don't even deserve music.
Oh, you hear his turn signals.
You hear the light changed.
How am I hearing light?
That's
The other thing that you kept in your special?
I was so happy about is you were like
why did I wear this sweater?
Because I'm a joke.
Doesn't go over.
Well
That shirt.
And again, especially if it's new, you get home.
And you're like, just stupid.
Why would they put
Why was it like
Blame your set on everything?
Why did I eat meal before I went?
I'm going to eat oatmeal, oatmeal.
That's full man.
To DJ on Sundays.
Milling cuts every Sunday, Deon Cole plan
the cuts and eat oatmeal.
Every Sunday, 11:00 AM just go oatmeal
Geriatric.
Oh God.
What's happening with the mask on with the mask.
It's a myriad of reasons.
How are you guys doing what you doing, buddy?
Well, you know, just going over my notes, whatever.
Just grinding it out.
Just trying to grind it out.
Say nice coat.
Nice. Jeez.
Yeah. That's what I'll do in it.
A biplane here from the Truman era.
Ooh. And a big old phone pouch in here.
And it's creeping me out.
Like, God, I gotta run.
I gotta get my makeup on.
I'll see you guys later.
Love you, man.
Love you.
Don't tell anybody
about the ventriloquist dummy
we're ahead of you.
Oh my God.
That was horrifying.
I'm sorry.
I was upset about how much I look like that dummy.
Like
It looks like the dummy.
I would work out my therapy.
You need to yell at you.
Yo Sona, what room are you in?
There's a military outfit in a ventriloquist dummy.
That's
Got, gotta make it on the show.
Yeah. Look at that room.
Weightlifting.
Largo's known for its body building
1981.
That's sad because that means someone peaked in 81.
And they're still keeping that around.
I don't even know whose it is.
I remember one of my mom's boyfriends had bodybuilding tapes
and he was really proud of them.
And we didn't have to watch bodybuilding tapes
which are just a guy just going like
There's no action.
So you're just watching a man's nude torso.
So now you've been doing well
at the beginning of the year, doing Sona fixes your life.
A lot of things have changed in San.
You might be bringing it back.
I can have the questions got more serious.
No, no, no, no.
I don't.
I even, if there is a serious question, I'm not
equipped to answer it.
I'm not like a licensed therapist.
And most of the advice that I give is terrible.
So I think that, you know, I think that it's just
we're going to keep it lighthearted and fun.
It'll come back eventually.
It's really fun to do it
Where you're like, I can't without naming names
that you were like, I can't answer this.
I've answered all of them.
Yeah. None of them are like you, a lot of them are like
what do I like, what should I cook for Thanksgiving?
Or, Hey, can I eat old butter?
Like, you know, those are the questions
That people
That's what I said.
And also I'm, I'm in the house where I'm like
I don't even pay attention to the best buy or sell by dates.
I go by smell.
So if something smells weird, I won't eat it.
But if it's like two weeks
past the expiration date and it's fine
Dan, how do you feel about that?
Because like the best before cell bites all over the place
it's kind of like asking somebody
to LA their age where it's just like
let's just say I'm best before June.
Like you, can't no way to tell the dates on anything.
Are you guys strict with dates?
I'm not garbage growing.
Yeah. And if something annually there
it's like an almond milk.
And it says February 21st and you see, and it smells fine.
You won't even eat.
You won't drink it.
I'm throwing that away because I've done it before.
And I was like, hell yeah, whatever.
And I got sick one time.
And after that I was like, okay, I'm good.
It's like, once you get sick, you been, you been good.
So, you know
you're going to keep eating all those expire things.
What about medicine?
Do you do the same thing with medicine?
Oh yeah.
Better cough syrup.
Rova tests and gets better
After the day you have to separate a little bit
starts to curdle.
Ooh, what's this, my parents are very old school.
My mom did not give us like medicine.
She just was like, just tough it out and beat it.
Old school.
That's like the 16 hundreds he did
out and do some bloodletting.
So we would just suffer and then we'd get over it.
So I don't even
I don't even know what medicine I have in my house.
Like, I don't think I have any, I don't have cold syrup.
This is the only medicine.
A lot of family.
They have like syrup and Pepto-Bismol and duct tape.
That's that's, that's all they fix anything.
That's wrong
With the duct tape for my stomach hurts.
While a little piece of duct tape, all those toxins out.
It's like those viewers strips, dip it in holes.
The toxins I might have to take off soon.
Cause we're going to have to do this interview.
I'm so sorry.
No, no.
We're going to wrap up soon.
We got, we got a bunch of stuff here.
It's been great.
Okay, good.
This is also the internet where no, one's like
can the show be longer?
No one.
I wish this was people's many open tabs right now.
We have like horns, some cracks, those perks.
They're not going to buy some screenplay.
They're not going to finish.
And then we're over here talking
about archery and lick and arrows.
Maybe Sona fixes your life is going to come back
in the near future.
I think so.
So send her some real heavy questions, hard hitting stuff.
I'll I'll fix anything.
And then Dion has the special
out slash non special it's on the Netflix.
YouTube. It comes up right away.
Just go to YouTube, go to YouTube and typing and working it
out, working it out on YouTube.
Bam. You'll see it.
It's right there.
And they checked me out every Sunday, I guess down, I guess
down every Sunday at on he had DJN on Instagram live
and I produced a movie that I'll probably
have to come back and talk about all that
Just real quickly.
What's a movie real quickly.
No, it's it's it's it's called his.
I'm fine.
Thanks for asking.
And you can go to the Instagram page and just like the page.
And then once we get the movie, it's already shot
it's done and everything.
But once we finish out in with it
then I'll let everybody know, but just call it.
I'm fine.
Thanks for asking.
It's a good movie.
Me and my partner, Kelly, Kelly, and yeah, we, we
we excited about it.
We got some other projects too
so I definitely will be back to talk to you
while. Yeah
Absolutely. So go check that
out and follow that page right now.
Support the movie, you know, trying to do your own thing.
Deon Cole on Instagram.
Yes. Thank you all so much.
This has been great, Moses.
Thanks. You're talking
to me first person to talk to you today.
This is great
Man. So I want to thank
You so much for being here.
Have a great show today.
I'm sure you're going to be in it.
This is a lot of fun.
We'll see you guys soon.