-Everyone, please welcome Lil Rel Howery!
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-Yeah, you can sit down.
You made it, yes.
You made it. You're here.
-You sure? -No, I'm sure.
Yes, you made it! You made it!
He made it! [ Sighs ]
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-Can I take the blindfold off?
-You can take your blindfold off.
You made it. You're here. You're safe.
Lil Rel Howery, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh! Looking good, buddy.
Welcome back to the show. Thank you for doing that.
-First of all, let me -- let me just throw
this disclaimer out here. Because it feel people --
people don't know the difference between a movie and real life.
If y'all can, please -- I'm going to look at the camera.
Stop with these "bird box" challenges.
-Yes.
-Don't drive with a blindfold. -No.
-Don't walk with a blindfold.
Don't wake the kids up and put a blindfold on them.
[ Laughter ]
All right? It's just a movie. -It's just a movie.
Enjoy the movie. Don't imitate it.
Yeah. Congrats on that.
I know you from "Get Out" obviously...
-Yeah. -...and your TV show.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.
-But also, I know you are one of my favorite stand-up comedians.
I don't know if a lot of people know you.
Because they watch these movies. -Yeah.
-They know you as an actor.
But you're a fantastic comedian.
-That's what I started in. You know what I mean?
Stand-up is what -- you know, is the ground.
-But I should say you're doing --
Are you working on a new tour now?
-Yeah, I'm touring right now.
This is why I was in New York City.
I did Carolines this past weekend.
-Ah, I love Carolines. -And it was great.
And yeah, I go to Nashville --
I'm going to Sundance before that.
Because I have another film that I did.
-Look at you, man. -So --
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah, thanks. Thank you.
-So you got Nashville January 31st.
-Yeah. -San Francisco February 8th,
Orlando. If you want info, go to your Instagram.
-Just go to my social media. Yeah,
but people ain't got no websites no more.
-No. [ Laughter ]
Yeah, just go to Instagram. What are you -- I follow you.
Comedian at -- -@ComedianLilRel.
-@ComedianLilRel on Instagram. -Yeah.
-Follow that. -Hey, that's my --
I got a cool page. -When you do "Bird Box,"
do you go -- do you understand how big the whole thing was?
I mean it's a giant phenomenon. -I knew it was good.
-Yeah, yeah.
-But I hope my next character know karate or something.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, you want to be the dude
to kick open the door. -Yeah, I want to do something
like -- I want to have a sword. -A Samurai sword?
-Just something. I keep doing regular person stuff.
They're like, "he a hero." -Yeah, okay. Okay.
You want to do that. -I mean "Get Out," all I did
was pick up my friend in the car.
-Yeah, but still. [ Laughter ]
That was -- it's still good. -I basically was an Uber driver.
[ Laughter ]
-We've got a lot of people watching the show.
Put some type of illegal weapon in his hand, please,
in the next movie, please?
Just for Lil Rel's sake.
I heard you did your own stunts in "Bird Box."
-Yeah, I did a stunt.
[ Laughter ]
-That counts. -But you know what's funny?
I wasn't supposed to. It was -- It was crazy.
It was a dude dressed just like me.
And I didn't put two and two --
I don't know why I didn't put two and two together.
-Yeah, it could have been just --
you're just standing there, focused.
-And he was supposed to do it. I'm like, "I guess this guy --
I don't know why he's here. He's not taking my job."
Maybe that's what I felt like. He's trying to take my job.
[ Laughter ]
And I end up doing the, you know, my big scene where,
you know, I'm out of there.
I fully ran and tackled that dude myself.
And I hurt my elbow and everything.
I wasn't supposed to do that. -Oh, my gosh.
-And nobody said nothing. That's the weird thing.
They didn't say, "stop" or "Rel, maybe you shouldn't do this."
-Yeah. It's not like you're going to do it better
than the stunt guy. -Hey, we got it.
Give it up for Rel. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yeah, you're bleeding.
"Why did I do that? Why would I do that?"
-I thought I was Tom Cruise for 10 minutes.
-Oh, you can't be Tom cruise.
There's only one Tom cruise, man.
-I don't know, man. There's something cool
about doing your own stunts. -Really?
-Yeah. -All right. Well,
I'm getting ready for the next one.
Is the Sundance one an action one?
-No, I didn't -- I mean if the stunt was me typing
on the computer. That's it.
[ Laughter ]
-That doesn't count as a stunt at all.