- I think we the best storytellers.
- I was fired
from being in a gang
(audience laughing)
- Black comedy is always gonna be based on the truth.
- Truth to power.
- This morning and every single morning I've woken up,
just what, black again, hope I make it.
(audience laughing)
- Oh, you only voted for Obama because he's black,
(beep) yeah.
- But, if we get rid of the Confederate Flag
(audience laughing)
how am I gon' know who the dangerous white people are?
(audience laughing)
(smooth music)
- To me being a black comedian in America
means that you got to stand up for something,
you got to say something.
- If I was a white woman, I would rob black dudes.
(audience laughing)
- Black guys get arrested just for not buying coffee.
(audience laughing)
- I like watching Trump rallies
'cause for the first time in my black life,
I could see white people be embarrassed
by other white people. (audience laughing)
- I was stopped by, by the cops in a cab.
- Like, oh really?
You're a comedian.
Tell me a joke.
(audience laughing)
- I was like, you just pulled over my cab?
(audience laughing)
(beep) that's the joke.
(audience laughing)
- It's not just a joke to them, it's real.
- How do you celebrate black history month, sir?
- They need the laugh.
Think about why the comedy club is important.
We found a place we can just laugh away the pain.
- My mother was a social worker,
my father was a drug dealer.
(audience laughing)
They had the same clients.
(audience laughing)
- I have to talk to my people
and say, yeah, this happened to me too.
- White people don't let this white guilt get you,
okay relax,
this shit is funny. (audience laughing)
- What better place to be able to tell your story
than on a stand-up stage
with freedom of speech
and letting it just go.