- I live with a millennial.
Pray for me. (laughter)
My brother is 15 years younger than me.
He moved in with me.
Everyday I wish I dropped him.
(laughter)
Every day he makes me feel like I'm a bad person right?
He's always checking me about things
that I didn't know were now out of Vogue.
The other day he walks into the living room.
He has on a peach t-shirt he goes,
Chloe what do you think about this shirt?
Is it too feminine?
I'm like, no, it's a regular peach t-shirt.
He goes trick question, gender's fluid.
Get out of my house.
Social media is the automobile
when everybody was still riding carriages.
It's a thing that you don't want to need
but then it becomes so crucial
to your survival that you have to adapt.
It's frustrating, it's frustrating because as a comic
you're out every night, like literally out every night
busting your ass humping through these cities.
I've done so many shit gigs at bars in the middle,
in fucking West Virginia.
And you're truly busting your ass,
trying to develop a skill so that you can be called a comic.
Alright, and you finally earned that title where it's like
you consider yourself a comedian, your peers see you,
they consider you a comedian.
And then you have these people who create funny sketches
about, you know, oh,
here's this nigga's dick print in sweatpants.
It's sweatpants season or some shit like that which is,
it's cute.
So it really watered down the craft,
but they want to be called comedians as well.
And it's just like well who am I
to knock somebody else's hustle?
- For me now there's two things about the millennials
and the new Instagram.
355,000 Instagram likes by people
who will never pay a ticket to come and see you
do not a comedian take I don't feel.
the millennials has come through now,
they got entourages of 10 or 15 people.
They want to get paid.
They don't put no respect on your name.
They treat us like your washed the fuck up.
I'm the new shit.
What we know that they don't know is that 30 years from now
you ain't gonna be able to sell out no motherfucking room
30 years from now.
And 30 years from now we'll still be able to do it.
- To me it feels like it stems from bitterness
where they just see like a young kid with 500K followers
and they would get mad at what the IG comics did.
I never did because they are hustling.
They, they doing what they do.
God bless him, man.
Like if you just being true to yourself and it's genuine
people will gravitate towards you.
- Of course I'm going to, I'm going to pick up my crew.
I wrote with a really funny crew of comedians.
I think we're all very talented.
That would be Monroe Martin, Pedea Robinson,
Yamanaka Sanders.
You know, we're taking a page out of like the
an Adam Sandler handbook or Spike Lee.
It's like we're going to do projects
and work together and promote each other
and share each other's content
and really do what we need to do
which is have a strong core of us so that
if one person blows up, you're going to already have people
that you can move into the project.
- You know, it's like family.
You wish the best for them sometimes.
There's some times you feel like people are hacky.
Sometimes you feel like people are joke thieves.
It's very collaborative.
And then at the same time, it's very lonely too.
It's really about what you, how you go about it.
You know?
- You know, you look at Kenan Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend,
and those guys, Eddie, those guys,
they did create a lot of stuff.
They sat down with each other in trailers
and different places working on scripts.
And I think the collaborative effort went away too
because everybody wanted to be a rockstar.
They all wanted to be Martin.
Have they own show like Martin, it's my show.
You have your show, but you wasn't collabing,
people wasn't collabing together.
I remember Issa said some, Issa Rae,
she said people always love to try to network up,
instead of networking with the people
that's right next to them,
or working with the people that are right next to them.
And you get more done that way.
Instead of trying to chase this person that,
that's looked at as this,
oh this is the person that can change my life
because they did all this other stuff instead of just like
so what if we, can we become those people?
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