-That is a great hat.
-Oh, thank you. Thank you.
-You always have good hats.
-That's my thing.
You know, I started out as a baby wearing hats.
I was -- [ Laughter ]
-Really? I didn't know that.
-I was born and the doctor smacked me and I put a hat on.
I was like, "Oh." -That was it, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-No, but, you know, I've got a little hat company.
-Yeah, you got your own line of hats?
-Yeah, own line. Who Ced. Who Ced.
-Oh, Who Ced. Yeah.
-Like, yeah, you play on the words.
-But C-E-D. I see, yeah. -Yeah, exactly.
-Who Ced.
-You can go online and buy 'em. Little, fun hats.
You know, if you got a head, I got a hat for it.
That's what I say. [ Laughter ]
-That's a good slogan. -It's a thing.
-You got a head, I've got a hat for it.
-Hey, if you got a head, I've got a hat for it.
I got one for you, man. -You do?
-Look at this.
I thought this was, like, a newsboy style.
Like, you know, different people have different heads.
Like, your head is a little large for --
[ Laughter ]
-For a human? -For -- Yeah.
Like, if I -- you know.
This is, like, newsboy style.
I think it's kind of your swag.
Oh! Oh! Oh! [ Cheers and applause ]
Oh! Oh! Oh! -I like it.
-Kind of my move.
Or I can go... -Oh! Oh! Oh!
[ Cheers and applause ]
No, he didn't! No!
No, you didn't!
No, you did do the flip back! No, you did do the flip back.
[ Laughter ]
-"No, you didn't." That's hilarious. I dig it.
Dude, you're doing everything, man.
-Yeah, man.
-You're doing stand-up still. -Yeah.
-You're doing movies.
Congrats, and we got to talk about the movie, too.
You're doing TV shows.
Congrats on the good news about that, as well.
-Yeah, man.
-I mean, what would you do
if you weren't Cedric the Entertainer?
What if you weren't entertaining?
Then what would you do?
-I don't know. I mean, the job I want to be?
-Yeah.
-I would probably want to be Pope.
[ Laughter ]
Don't you -- I think that's a good job, man.
[ Laughter ]
I mean, it's so relaxing as the Pope.
You can just wake up and just throw a sundress on, you know?
[ Laughter ] -Sundress.
-You know, he's got so many cool hats.
-Oh, yeah. You love hats! Yeah, he does have good hats.
-It was all the rage at the Met Gala this year, I mean.
-It was. Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-What would you do different,
if you'd do anything if you were the pope?
-Well, I don't know.
I would think I would have a problem with the Popemobile.
Like, I like the idea of being of glass.
But you know, you know, I'm kind of from the hood,
so I need it tinted. I need it tinted out.
[ Laughter ]
So it'll be all glass, but tinted, like dark tint.
-Tinted windows, yeah. Okay, good. That's perfect.
-But you would know it's me, though.
Because I have 21 Savage rolling like, you know, we --
I'm coming down the street.
I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
♪♪ Sins in my bank account ♪♪ -Here comes the pope, you guys.
I think the Pope -- the Popemobile is coming down.
♪♪ -Sins in my bank account ♪♪
-The pope is coming down the street.
-Yeah. 21 Vatican, Vatican.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Oh, my gosh.
You don't play the Pope quite in this film.
-Oh, yeah.
-"First Reformed," but, man, congrats on this one.
This is a great role and a great movie.
-Yeah. This opportunity is a more dramatic role.
-Yeah.
-You know, Paul Schrader, legendary director.
-I mean, he wrote "Taxi Driver."
-"Taxi Driver," "American Gigolo."
-"Raging Bull." -"Raging Bull."
-So how did he cast you in this?
-I don't know. He wanted Steve Harvey and --
[ Laughter ]
And I'm next on Steve's call sheet.
-Yeah, yeah. Exactly, yeah. Exactly.
-He's like, "Whatever you go -- I can't get Steve.
He's got 17 other jobs he's doing right now."
-Yeah, he's like, "I'm busy." Yeah, absolutely.
-"Yeah, I got to do the thing with the kids
and then I got the talk show."
-How would he know that you're --
I mean, but you don't use the name Cedric the Entertainer,
I noticed. -No.
-Well, you know, because it is a dramatic --
I mean, Ethan Hawke's in it. Amazing. Amanda Seyfried.
-Yes. -Amazing.
And it's, you know, it's a movie about --
you know, religion and how, you know, trying to save souls
you actually can lose your soul.
So Ethan's character is very dark.
He goes into some dark places as a minister.
And I play a mega minister like, you know,
like Joel Osteen or T.D. Jakes.
Like, I got a big church and he's under me.
And so I'm trying to help him.
And so I wanted, you know, as the Entertainer,
I didn't really want that to go across the screen
because if you see a church movie, me as a preacher
and you see Ced the Entertainer,
you like, "Ah, this getting ready to be funny!"
[ Laughter ]
"Ced's goin' to kill this!" [ Laughter ]
-No. No. No. -No, no.
-Yeah, you don't want to see it because it's not --
-That's not -- It's Paul Schrader.
This is straight. -No, yeah.
-It's, like, filmmaking.
-Well, congrats. That's great.
Because you can do that and then you do stuff like
"The Last O.G.," which, come on. Tracy Morgan. I mean, come on.
-Tracy's the best, man. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Tracy Morgan is the best.
I love him so much.
-Tracy's calling me, like, he's like, "Yo, Ced."
[ Laughter ]
"You got to do this with me, man!"
[ Laughter ]
"My auntie took all my baby's milk when I was a baby."
[ Laughter ]
You be like, "What?" -Like, "What is that?" Yeah.
-"When I was a baby, my auntie took all my milk."
[ Laughter ]
-That is unbelievably him. Oh, my God.
-Tracy, love, man. -And Tiffany Haddish.
-Oh, man.
-Couldn't be a cooler human right now.
-Nah, she's so hot right now.
-And she's hot right now, dude. Everybody's talking about her.
-Every time. Everybody's talking --
Whenever you talk about Tiffany,
people always want to know, "Did she tell you who bit Beyoncé?"
[ Laughter ]
-Did she? -And I was, like -- She did.
But I actually had figured it out, you know, beforehand.
Because I kind of solve things like that.
You know, I was like, "Well, somebody bit someone."
And then you go, like,
"Oh, who would be famous enough to be next to Beyoncé?"
Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson bit Beyoncé.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-That's who bit Beyoncé?
-It's so obvious, dawg. [ Laughter ]
-We're breaking news on "The Tonight Show"?
-Yes. And so then that made me write the stage play
"Who Bit Beyoncé?" -Wow, congratulations.