Look at everybody all screened up.
Thanks for being here man.
Glad to be here.
We've known each other for a long time.
You had me on the House of Lies--
Yes
--which was great.
But I have to come clean.
I do.
I owe you an apology.
Come with it.
I do, because you text me, at the top of the year I guess.
And you told me that you just got married.
And I was like, oh, damn.
The pandemic done got to Don and Bridget.
I was like, what the hell happened, man?
I think I just texted something back like, hey, if you're
happy, I'm happy for you.
Yeah, because--
I was like--
I was like, damn.
What does that mean, Wanda?
Yeah, I was like, Cheadle went Hollywood.
Because I didn't know you-- that you guys weren't married.
Yeah, I mean, that's understandable
given that we'd been together 28 years before we got married.
Yeah, I hold you blameless.
OK, thank you.
I felt so bad about that.
But I do have a little beef with you
because I lost to you on Lip Sync Battle, which
I thought was rigged.
That sounds like your problem.
Look, I think I told you that night,
I think you should have won.
But it's hard when Mase comes on.
I know, yeah.
The judges kind of were like, well, we go there.
I was flying at the end of it.
Yeah, you went all out.
Went all out.
Yeah.
And you know what?
They suckered us into doing it, because they told me
that you challenged me.
Then they told you--
That you challenged me.
I know.
But then when I showed up, I don't
know if they have a clip of it, but when I showed up
and I went for the ceremonial handshake
you were pretty rude about it.
Yeah, yeah, I--
I mean--
I kind of wronged you.
What's all that about?
That was like, man it's on-- it's a Sunday,
and we here doing this.
We were supposed to remember words that--
I know, yeah, yeah.
Tough act.
So I don't know what this about you,
but you've done some stand up.
I'll qualify that and say that when I was in high school,
and you've probably performed there.
In Denver, Colorado there's open night-- open mic night.
And me and my friend were driving
by, knuckleheads in high school, seniors.
We were like, I think we could do that.
So we literally went home and came up
with some act, really quick, where we would
dissect the humor of Nancy.
I don't know if you guys remember.
You guys are all too young, but the Nancy comic strip,
how incredibly unfunny it is.
Very unfunny.
The most unfunny.
So we would dissect the humor of Nancy
and show why it was really, really funny.
And we did all this other stuff.
And we slammed it together and we went there that night
and we killed.
Oh.
And we were like, oh, this isn't hard.
So we did it again came back the next weekend, killed it,
crushed it.
And we weren't even old enough to be in the club at that time.
Was 17 years old.
And the manager came and said, you guys are pretty good.
How about I give you--
I want you to come back next weekend, do your same stuff.
I'm going to give you the spot.
I invited my parents and friends and stuff.
You already know this is headed.
It didn't go so well the next [INAUDIBLE]..
That was my last time doing stand up.
There's nothing that feels--
there's nothing that compares to dying on stage.
No.
Yes.
You couldn't sleep.
There's nowhere to hide.
Nowhere, yeah.
It was so bad--
And in front of your parents.
That's what I'm saying.
It was so bad that they didn't talk about it on the way home.
When your parents you're talking about other things
like, in school tomorrow you guys will have--
and when's your game?
When's your next game?
Yeah, it went bad.
It went bad.
That's bad.
Ooh, boy.
Yeah.
I know I did --
it was pretty much the same thing.
The first two times killed.
Then I invited my parents.
[INAUDIBLE] But I went back.
I had to get that out my system.
So yeah, you have more nerve than I do.
The theme to me was don't ever invite your parents
to anything.
Anything.
So when you weren't trying to be funny,
you were trying to be a mime I understand.
Again, let me qualify the statement--
What the hell was that?
We had-- we did mime in high school.
We did a mime show in high school in my theater class.
Our teacher was very--
Oh, Don.
Oh, like you all didn't do mime.
Now you're gone act like you all ain't do mime?
You know everybody in here did mime.
No one.
Stop it, tWitch.
And you don't tell people.
You don't tell people you did mime.
I wasn't going to tell people.
This is your researchers digging up stuff on me
and putting it on screen to embarrass me.
But I killed in that one.
That was great.
I was a fly in that one, and I was the best fly.
Oh, such a--
I was so good.
--earnest mime too.
You were like--
Oh, my God.
That's--
You could tell I was on my way.
Yeah.
Man, I'm going to have to go home watch Devil in a Blue
Dress and all your great work to get this image out of my head.
I understand.
I'm going to have to do the same thing.
All right.
More with Don after this.
All right, we're back with my buddy, Don Cheadle.
Black Monday, tell everybody what it's about.
It's ever shifting and changing.
I mean, it was initially about a group of traders
on Wall Street, sort of a group that was put together
that probably wouldn't exist that did
the trade that was so toxic that it brought down Wall Street.
There-- we were the Black Monday crash.
We were responsible for that.
And in successive seasons, especially
now because of that and we've lost our ability to be traders,
now in this season which aired in May,
we are actually starting to get into the music business,
and try to figure out how to exploit that business.
So they're always hustlers.
They're always trying to figure out
how to do something on the low.
And that's us.
It's very funny.
Thank you.
You all should check it out if you haven't checked it out.
And you have a new movie coming out, No Sudden Move.
Yes, yes.
And you filmed this during the pandemic?
We did.
We filmed this in Detroit during the pandemic, Steven Soderbergh
film.
And it was really interesting because we
had the same epidemiology team that Steven used on Contagion.
So in some ways, I trusted them.
And in other ways, I was like, you guys
are like this was a documentary and you probably
started this whole thing.
So it was interesting to work in that.
We were kind of the first movie back.
But we got through it.
And I think the movie really, really good.
So I'm glad everybody got through it safe.
OK, cool.
We got to check that out.
For sure.
Definitely, definitely.
And OK, I got to ask you one thing before you go.
I see Anthony Anderson keeps challenge you
to the Big Willy Challenge.
There you go.
I mean, he did that.
No one told him to do that.
He just did that--
Just on his own.
I mean, this whole thing started really
with Chris Spencer and Will Smith going back and forth,
and then Will famously did his picture.
There's Chris.
There you you.
So there you go.
There's Will.
So I don't know why he keeps tagging
me other than during the pandemic
when this whole thing started.
I started doing push ups and sit ups and planks and texting.
I'm on this text chain with DL Hughley and Anthony Anderson
and Cedric the Entertainer and George Lopez and Chris.
And it was just kind of to stay accountable to each other
so we didn't get the COVID-19 pounds during the pandemic.
But I don't know why I'm in the Big Willy challenge.
I mean, obviously I--
Exactly, exactly.
I'm [INAUDIBLE].
I mean, you win.
It's-
I won.
It's easy.
I won the challenge, and--
Exactly.
-- I didn't have to take off my pants and shirt.
Well, Black Monday is on Show Time now,
and we'll be right back.
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