YOU'RE BOTH HERE NOW.
YOU GREW UP NEAR EACH OTHER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
>> OH, DID WE.
James: I PLACE I HAVEN'T BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO VISIT.
BRIAN, HAVE YOU BEEN WHERE KEN IS FROM?
>> I HAVE BEEN TO WHERE HE'S FROM QUITE A BIT.
>> GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA.
>> I'M FROM FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.
>> James: HOW FAR.
>> AN HOUR, HOUR AND A HALF.
>> THERE IS A GREAT COLLEGE THERE.
THEY HAVE AN AMAZING HOMECOMING.
I WOULD GO EVERY YEAR WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE.
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE ALUMNI FROM THAT SCHOOL.
I WOULD GO AND PARTY MY ASS OFF.
IT'S HISTORICALLY A BLACK COLLEGE.
THEY CALL IT THE GREATEST HOMECOMING ON EARTH.
IT LITERALLY IS THE GREATEST HOMECOMING ON EARTH.
I HAVE NEVER BLACKED OUT MORE IN ONE PLACE IN MY LIFE.
IT'S THE CAMPUS, KIDS GOING CRAZY IN GREENSBORO, NORTH
CAROLINA.
YOU GET LIT AT THIS THING.
YOU GET LIT.
THAT'S WHAT I WOULD DO.
>> James: I CAN ONLY IMAGINE.
KEN, YOU MUST OF BEEN AT THE CENTER OF THE PARTY.
>> NO, IT'S FINE.
James: YOU LOVE A GOOD PARTY.
>> NO, NO.
I STUDY.
JUST, YOU KNOW TRUSTING GETTING LIT ACADEMICALLY.
YOU KNOW.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> James: THAT'S RIGHT.
>> MY DAD IS A RETIRED ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT A&T.
ANT.
HE TAUGHT THERE FOR 30 YEARS.
HE MADE ME TAKE A CLASS OF HIS.
I HAD TO TAKE HIS ECONOMIC CLASS WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE TO SHOW
HOW DR. JONES DID IT, YOU KNOW -P.
>> RIGHT, RIGHT.
>> LITERALLY HE WOULD WORK.
I GOT ALL OF MY COMEDY FROM MY DAD.
HE WOULD WORK THE CLASS LIKE IT WAS BET COMIC VIEW.
NO JOKE, IT WAS LIKE LATE 90s WHEN THE "NUTTY PROFESSOR" CAME
OUT.
HE WOULD WORK THE CROWD LIKE HE WAS CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER AND
DO ROLL CALL.
HE MADE ONE STUDENT STAND UP, A HEAVY SET AFRICAN-AMERICAN GUY.
MY DAD NO JOKE, HERCULES, HERCULES, HERCULES.
[LAUGHING] >> THEN HE GOT FIRED.
[LAUGHING] >> NO TENURE FOR THAT.
>> NO TENURE FOR HERCULES.
>> I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR ASIAN FATHER AT THIS BLACK-ASS
SCHOOL.
>> HE WOULD GO TO THE PARTIES.
>> I THINK I MAY OF PARTIED WITH YOUR DAD.
>> YOU MAY HAVE.
HE LEFT ME AT HOME ALONE TO STUDY.
>> James: PARTYING IS SUCH A PART OF YOUR DNA, BRIAN.
DIDN'T YOU INJURY YOURSELF DANCING?
>> IT WASN'T RECENTLY THIS TIME.
James: WHAT HAPPENED.
>> I HAVE TO TAKE THESE OFF THIS.
IS EMBARRASSING.
>> James: WHAT HAPPENED.
>> IT WAS MY FIRST DAY AT GRAD SCHOOL AT YALE.
THE DAY BEFORE ORIENTATION.
YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO PARTY.
LIKE I WAS LIKE SO MANY -- I MADE IT INTO YALE.
LET'S PARTY AND DO THIS THING.
I DON'T WANT TO SAY THE SONG I WAS DANCING TOO AT THE TIME.
EITHER WAY I DIPPED SOMEONE WHEN WE WERE DANCING.
THERE WERE BRICKS THERE.
MY FOOT WAS LODGED BETWEEN THE BRICKS AND MY KNEE POPPED OUT OF
PLACE.
BECAUSE I'M A G I POP IT DID BACK IN AND DANCED.
I DIDN'T REALIZE FOR TWO WEEKS MY KNOW WAS BROKEN.
THERE WERE PARTIES TO GO TO.
IT WASN'T THE COOLEST SCHOOL.
IT WAS THE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY.
IT WASN'T LIKE LAW SCHOOL OR MED SCHOOL.
>> James: YOUR KNEE POPS OUT.
>> YA, KEEP THE PARTY GOING, MAN!
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> OH.
James: KEN, YOU MAY OF NOT OF PARTIED THEN.
YOU LIKE TO PARTY NOW.
HERE YOU ARE WITH A PHOTO OF MY OLD ROOMMATE.
>> ROOMMATE?
James: YA, WE LIVED TOGETHER.
NOW HE KNOWS HOW TO PARTY.
HE MAY GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH YOU, BRIAN.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, KEN.
WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH YOU AND DOMINIQUE COOPER?
>> WE WERE IN LONDON.
I MET THROUGH A MUTUAL FRIEND.
WE BECAME QUITE CLOSE.
>> VERY CLOSE.
>> YA, YOUR NAME WAS BROUGHT UP A COUPLE OF TIMES.
YA, IT WAS FUN.
WE HAD A GOOD TIME.
WHATEVER WE SAID ABOUT YOU REMAINS BETWEEN US.
>> James: IT DOESN'T SOUND GOOD.
>> YOU KNOW.
James: WELL -- 'CAUSE --
>> YA -- James: I WAS JUST SAYING.
>> YA, YOU KNOW -- James: BECAUSE WE --
>> I KNOW -- [LAUGHING]
>> James: NO -- >> THERE ARE THINGS --
James: NO, I DON'T.
>> IT'S FINE.
ALL WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE.
DUDE, I WAS TEXTING DOM RIGHT BEFORE.
HE SAID "TELL HIM I SAID HELLO."
>> James: WOW THE IMPRESSION SUN CANNING.
>> I'M A MAN OF TWO VOICES.