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Bill Bellamy Tells Story Of Diddy Taking His Girl, Thoughts on BBLs & New Special | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 27, 2022
Bill Bellamy stopped by Sway In The Morning to promote his new special "I Want My Life Back" and told some hilarious stories of coming up as a comedian in the 90's and early 00's.
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should have picked me
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we still be together
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i had to shout you out come on
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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now i ain't even got to do it now yo
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yo you know what that feels like
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sometimes man i know i'll just be
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vulnerable for a moment bill bellamy
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okay if you allow me um and i know i
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know this ain't how to be a player like
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to be too vulnerable and let's just
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calculate it right
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something you could gain from it i'm not
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doing this for gain
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you did that naturally organically you
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threw our name in there absolutely you
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know because you're the place to be it's
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like you know
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you are a part of the culture so strong
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it's like all i got to do is say sway
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and they know what it is that's
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you know that's like amex you know you
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got to have a black card
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boom damn earn that yeah but bill
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they don't always say that so don't you
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let me give an example for if you we
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have these discussions about when people
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say in terms of comedians obviously
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there's the eddie murphy's absolutely
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the richard pryors you know the the
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the bohemians of it you're right
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but do you hear a lot of people mention
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your name they don't they they don't
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they don't list me like i i think i
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honestly i think i'm in the top 20. i
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think i'm in the top 20 of our greatest
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all time so all the time but i really
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i'm in the top 20. okay because the
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reason why i say that is because in my
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career which is almost 30 years
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i have done wait stop you all right he
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said 30 years somebody didn't hear that
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that is amazing someone just celebrated
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30th birthday today all right i have
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i have jokes that are timeless yes like
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if you go back and you look at jokes
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that i did in 91 94 98 2000. i got jokes
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that's so strong in the game
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that they are like uh like songs
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no they like songs like like it's crazy
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how people come up to me and be
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repeating my own joke to me that i
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haven't done in like eight nine years
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ten twelve years but it hit it hit
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different like that for them so i i i
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feel like it's all coming together
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though you know a lot of times you know
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god will preserve you you know your
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seeds will get planted and then when
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they blossom
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the time is flawless flawless ain't
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nothing in the way
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ain't nothing in the way
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it just come out the ground come on baby
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that's where i'm at right now and i feel
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like you know um
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in my career you know you just never
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know what when's the big big big i feel
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like i've had a bunch of big boom that
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was good boom that was good love jones
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was huge
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you know what i'm saying i'm still
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teaching cats how to get these girls
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but uh but the thing about it is you
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know i'm grown now and then like i feel
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like i'm so comfortable in my in my skin
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so i can be as you know reckless or you
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know tell the truth like i've never told
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before like crazy sexy dirty to me my
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last special was the one that i turned
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the corner on i saw that cause i used to
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be kind of safe with it like i ain't
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gonna say that they go good man you
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don't want to hurt no feelings
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now i'm like i'm telling the truth but i
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ain't trying to hurt you i'm just
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telling the truth because it's the i'm
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speaking for the culture like i like to
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write jokes that i know that cats in the
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barbershop go yo man real talk i would
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have did the same thing
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yeah yeah yeah i remember doing the
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quarantine you used to get in your car
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and tell all of these reminisce stories
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these stories right and it would be
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about real people you know i feel like i
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asked you this before but you would tell
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these stories so in detail in depth
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that stories that people who were stars
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of the story never told right nobody
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ever got at you nobody because it's the
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truth
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like i never forget
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told the story about the night that uh
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diddy diddy took my date yeah it was
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hilarious because i had forgot about it
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and the reason i remembered it so
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vividly because i was i was watching
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something from mtv and it was the night
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that snoop and tupac came to bryant park
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and i was like yo
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i was there that night and i remember
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how tense it was in new york i'm sure
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you was there that night i was there
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that night
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it was crazy yo it was so tense yeah you
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were just like let me be behind
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something because they started shooting
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like it was because it was it was
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it was west way over here it was east
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way over and it was like new york new
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york and then it was west coast you know
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it was tight and i'm you know i'm in the
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middle and i'm walking with my little my
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little my little model date i had a
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little right right a little shorty in a
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player
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of met at a party a couple weeks before
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she was kind of stunned i was like yo
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this is shorty i could think i could
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show up on a red carpet that's why you
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can't always judge a a car by the way
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look on the lot right you got to dry
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that okay
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test it you gotta test that you know you
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gotta make sure the wipers is moving
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right so i get in this party with this
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chick and we having a good time you know
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and all of a sudden like puff came
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around the corner with like 12 dudes you
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know what i'm saying he was like yeah
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i i remember you and i was like i know
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you know me yeah and he was like nah i
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ain't talking i'm talking to her and i
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was like oh my god
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i was like i looked at how i was like
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what did you do
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well puff remember and papa was like yo
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yo be careful you know what blah blah
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blah i can't do it the way i did on my
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own thing but he was like yo she she she
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get cash raw
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oh
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rob yeah she get cats robbed like daisy
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you know that stick up girls you know
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right cardi b mentioned that she used to
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do that they used to be a hustler you
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know you know they go to the hotel room
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dude come and pop out oh my god oh my
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god
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you know so
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one supposedly at that time she had got
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one of puffs dudes robbed for his money
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and all this other stuff oh wow and i i
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was i was with her and i was like look i
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don't really go out with robbers
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you told my preference yeah i was like i
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don't know if i want to stay here
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because i don't want to get robbed and i
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got some money on me and i want to keep
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it
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so end up happening they get into it and
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i just kind of like segwayed off from it
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went to the bar had a good time left her
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over there i haven't seen her to this
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day and she know who she is and puff
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knows she is i know puff no you got to
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tell me off mike
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right
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at least show a photo
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a flashback phone right the robber okay
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so the the new specials i want my life
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back yeah yeah the theme of i want my
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life back was
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um it's basically coming out of that
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colvin and sort of all the things that
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we are not doing anymore in the normalcy
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that i feel like we all want back again
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the fun of going to the club popping
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bottles living your life to the fullest
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you know those two years made us realize
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like yo we we didn't appreciate it all
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uh-huh you know what i mean and if we
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can get a chance now when you say i want
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my life back everybody say hell yeah
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yeah think about what i'm thinking just
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think about like when you couldn't go in
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just indoor dining
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couldn't get paper towels remember that
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kids wasn't going to school
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that was crazy like in my lifetime i
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never seen nothing like it so when i was
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thinking of a title for a comedy special
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that i wanted to lift people up was yeah
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let's the theme of getting your life
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back on track getting back to your dream
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getting back on your hustle you know
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that's the vibe of it let me ask you
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this bill bellamy bill bellamy is here
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man i love talking with bill and let me
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tell you something
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i've witnessed it for my own eyes many
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times
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okay you get one billabella me when you
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when you see him on this show or you see
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him in interviews or you see him hosting
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in place of wendy when she was out by
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the way oh yeah you were doing an
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awesome job hosting wendy williams show
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be sleeping on me man
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did you see it you refer people say like
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when i hosted wendy like you know you
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know i could host shows this is what you
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could have did it too you could when
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you're a host you just know how to do it
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people are like you were amazing as a
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host on wendy did you do you want to do
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daytime did you do daytime television i
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don't know i you know i see it's
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i'm i know i have so many things i love
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to do if it was the right show i would
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do it like i want to do a show that i
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know the culture would really gravitate
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to i don't want to just be on tv to be
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on tv i want to do something that's
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impactful like okay i want to have a
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show i'm going to speak it i'm going to
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speak it into fruition let's do it i
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want a show that's so pivotal and so
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important that everyone's into it and
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everyone watches it it's hard to do that
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kind of show on daytime because you got
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to be so safe yeah you got to be safe
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there's a lot of moms
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yeah
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and you know grandmas and grandmas and
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they watch tv and you're going to be
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nice
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let me ask you this man
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comics you know have been you know
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targets lately yo we've been yo that's
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why i'm back in the gym
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you gotta be your old bodyguard yo i saw
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dave the other day he was like man this
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is insane
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did you ask him about it yo
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man this is bro
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you know dude you know see dave dave is
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like uh
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you know he he's he's a big big move
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right now he's a movement you know he's
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he's saying things he's keeping it old
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school what i like you know what i'm
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saying he's protecting freedom of speech
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we should be able to talk about what we
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that's what comedians are supposed to do
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you know what i mean like we're not out
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here trying to hurt nobody we really
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trying to make y'all laugh and think a
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little bit and still get the message
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you can do a lot of good stuff through
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comedy and get your message without
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being preachy you feel me okay make it
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funny they'll be in the car like yo
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that's deep as hell you know but dave
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you know hit a couple nerves you know
10:21
what i'm saying i guess and you know
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cats is diving now so you know i keep my
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hands up i do my whole show like
10:27
bobbing and weaving baby
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you never know cass is trying to tackle
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two yeah you saw that
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it was a whack tackle i used to play it
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was a little too low he went he went on
10:38
the wrong side yeah david dave got a
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little size to him now he's been in the
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gym so you can't really knock him down
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you got to jump off a building to knock
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down that and they've got some arms i'm
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talking about the dave back in the day
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on the show he would have knocked down
10:51
dave right now
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substantial yep
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you wanted to comment yeah i don't know
10:56
if you saw the story the guy was a
10:57
rapper and he did it for cloud he
10:58
admitted that he did it because it would
11:00
bring notoriety to his rap career so
11:02
now you got to worry about not only
11:04
getting attacked but people doing [ __ ]
11:05
because they want to get that viral
11:06
moment they want to have a vibe that
11:08
tick tock moment tracy was talking about
11:10
today with labels what's that also said
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he was bisexual and he felt i thought so
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yeah yeah because of the comments dave
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made about the lgbtq community exactly
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right um yeah that's he might have said
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look the dude might not he might not be
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all there so i'm not sure how i was
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playing really
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but you were saying i mean i think it's
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the same thing with comedians though
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probably now with having to have these
11:30
viral moments so tracy um bill was
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talking this morning how labels an
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artist accused the label of saying how
11:37
they will not release her new music
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unless she creates aussie a um viral
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moment on tick tock they basically shelf
11:45
in her [ __ ]
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so i'm wondering if comedians
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we're wondering yeah is it like that for
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comedians too
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i found a lot of new comedians on social
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media or if you can categor categorize
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them as comedians you know they were
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they are comedians in a sense you know
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they they do skits and stuff like that
12:03
and you never know which one of those
12:04
tick tocks or like i never knew my
12:06
stories would take off like that my
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stories you know went viral a couple of
12:10
those you know stories that i'm just
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sitting in the car i did it because when
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i was working on my book i was
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reflecting on my life and i just started
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remembering stories so minds have
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happened kind of naturally i'm not going
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to go on trying to find the right tick
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tock i'm just not doing it yeah it's too
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hard like i got to think of stuff
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organically like i'm i'm not going to do
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something just so people can like me
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like i feel like that's thirsty you know
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what i mean i'm always super thirsty
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like come on man people got to love you
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for what it is you can't be out here you
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can't be a gimmick gimmicks go away yeah
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you know what i mean you you could be
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hot for two seconds and then and then
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now what's next so you're gonna do that
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little that thing every day you gonna
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dance on tick-tock every day you gonna
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be re-run or whatever it is from what's
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happening you know okay i saw that you
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know
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because then once they once
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okay no disrespect but i'm saying like a
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situation like that yeah or you know or
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if you become you know jj and you have
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to say dynamite for the rest of your
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life that that joint can't tight on you
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because you might want to say tnt but
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you can't you have to say diamond mine
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get out of option you got a
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voice let me ask you this though bill
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listen i know that
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i feel like as i've seen comedians
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become more attacked in recent years
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they all have a very tight conglomerate
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in terms of like defending each other
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which i love i love that you guys have
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that um but i'm also wondering have you
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ever seen a joke and just felt offended
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on behalf of like other people or is it
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always subjective no no there's certain
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jokes that's off topic or it's just the
13:45
timing is off like i never forget the
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one time that i felt so bad
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oh my god
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star in new york do you remember star
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from starbucks yeah starbucks
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legendary legendary whatever star
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said something that was so crazy
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and it was about aaliyah yeah on the
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radio and i will never forget how that
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made me feel and i was just like why
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would he say that i was just like
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there's there's no there was no room
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there no there was no time for when that
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would be appropriate like why would you
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say that like that was the only time i
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could think in my mind where i cringed
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when he said that i was like that's not
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good you know and we as comedians we do
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have to know where the line is we have
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to play it too yeah because that's what
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we do you know what i mean like i do
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jokes that i know is like right on the
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line so i figure out a way to say it
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where i'm not banging you in the head
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but i still hit you but it's like a jab
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you know what i mean yeah but you know
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it's like everyone got all of these
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different methods so it's interesting to
14:52
me like you can say out loud and have a
14:54
lot of people agree like you took it too
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far but when there's another group of
14:57
people that feel offended about a
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different joke
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but the comedian and his friends don't
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think it went too far then those people
15:04
get shamed for their opinions well this
15:06
is a new this is a new part of comedy
15:09
that i think is is that we're gonna have
15:10
to rebel against like we can't let
15:14
this cancel culture or or these
15:16
sensitive people all of a sudden make us
15:18
all water down everything because that's
15:21
not real life like i feel like each
15:23
comic should be a snapshot of his
15:26
experience and his comedy should come
15:27
like that and i don't think you should
15:29
have to be like like sway should not
15:31
have to be another show he should be
15:33
able to be swayed all day like no oh god
15:36
sweet you can't do that topic why not
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because people are talking about it and
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it's real now i'm gonna do it in the
15:44
right way you're gonna do it in your way
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yeah but you gotta hit that what what we
15:47
talking about it's no different with
15:49
comedy it's like with my comedy special
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i try to hit everything from you know
15:53
raising my kids to you know will and
15:56
jada's situation or whoever that's
15:58
topical like i did a joke about uh you
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know dr dre going through um divorce his
16:03
divorce like that that affected me
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because i was just like yo cause i'm
16:07
gonna have to split my beats by dre
16:09
headphones if they don't get this you
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know what
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i kicked about about 20 minutes you
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kicked him out already
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get in there man yeah bill i'm curious
16:20
man like there's i feel like society
16:23
there's so many issues in politics and
16:25
social issues social contract it's
16:26
happening so fast without accident
16:28
information so much i think there was a
16:29
time in comedy where you could have long
16:32
periods of time to talk about certain
16:34
topics absolutely but now we're in that
16:35
24-hour news cycle where we move on so
16:37
how are you approaching comedy now in
16:39
the sense of the cadence and the
16:41
interval of your material so it's still
16:43
fresh but keeping up with how much
16:45
accident you got to read a lot like i
16:47
read all the time like you got gotta
16:49
stay up like it's work like people just
16:51
think you know you can just think of
16:52
funny stuff you gotta you gotta think of
16:54
it you gotta experience it and you gotta
16:56
receive the information so like i read
16:58
all the time i got like every
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news article this that any other i'm
17:02
trying to figure out stuff and angles
17:04
like i did i did something the other day
17:06
that was hilarious and i was doing it
17:08
because i was thinking out loud because
17:09
girls are getting these what they call
17:10
them bbl's
17:11
brilliant butt lifts yeah
17:19
they look brilliant from an airplane but
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i'm saying like
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like i'm saying to these ladies if you
17:24
gonna get your booty done do your legs
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like
17:28
why are you just doing your booty and
17:30
your legs look like drumstick like your
17:32
legs don't match your booty most girls
17:34
who got a real booty quads go with the
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booty
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you built the house up but you got a
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girl
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they look like foghorn leg hole
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i'll say i'm a rooster boss
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they call them ants
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yeah they look like ants bro you know
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what i'm talking about i see them in the
17:52
airport you know they're always on
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spirit right
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you all they all they all on spirit when
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you walk and they got the hair they got
18:02
their little pink thing on their head
18:03
with the plastic and they just look like
18:05
they got their little bag and one wheel
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is broke and they are
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yo we got bill bellamy here he i want my
18:13
life back it's the special coming out on
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june 14th b is in atlanta b go ahead
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what up baby
18:21
bit you there hey what's up what's up
18:23
man what you want to say y'all go for it
18:26
hey
18:53
miss you no i i appreciate that but i
18:56
ain't really going no
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you've been gone i feel like you you i
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feel like you've been in on the planet
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with no wifi
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[Applause]
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i got a lot going on um i'll be honest
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with you i appreciate the love you know
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it it takes a it takes 25 years of hard
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work for people to be like okay
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all right and i feel like you know this
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is it right here this is this is those
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moments where i see like all the flowers
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are coming in you know i got my book
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dropping uh in the fall uh-huh my memoir
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i have um
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back to the strip movie with kevin hart
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wesley schneids tiffany haddish jb
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smoove gary owen faison love
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i mean it's like it's a wave right now
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i'm riding a wave uh my podcast is
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launching uh top billing i mean it's
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like it's god is good bro i'm giving all
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praise to god oh man and it ain't never
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too late man you got to you got to stay
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faithful in the game
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man bill bill bellamy is with us frankie
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frankie
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breaking a pa hey what's going on going
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on what up man frankie what's good baby
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frankie
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oh man my kids are gonna be mad i listen
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to yous every morning driving into
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school and i wait till i tell them i got
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through
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oh man
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man you want to talk with bill
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yeah bill how about man
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i remember watching uh uh how to be a
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player when i'm i was born in 86 so i
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was probably what 10 should have been
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watching it okay no no you should have
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been watching you had to get that
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you got to get that free game
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you'll be in the playground talking a
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little shorties by the sandbox i got you
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it
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it set me up for middle school in high
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school and everything though so i know
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how to do it right
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where are we going with this frankie go
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ahead man
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my question is but um
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how are you navigating from uh doing
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comedy the way it was back then to the
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way it is now like you said like the
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cancer culture and everything is making
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it real crazy
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you got to be clever with it though you
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know what i'm saying it's like um
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i i'm old school and and the thought
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process is being honest to who you are
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right and i think it's like a record you
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know it's like when a verse like you
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hear a verse on
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on a on a track yeah and it's just the
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right verse you and you go oh
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that's how comedy got to feel again like
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you got to hear somebody say something
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you'd be like yo
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i wish i could have said that yo he
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write about that you need that kind of
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energy in the in in the game right now
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because everybody walking around
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tiptoeing yeah you know saying everybody
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like oh my god oh my god oh my god like
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yo we got to stay true to who we are and
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that's what i'm trying to do with my
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comedy is just just be authentically
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bill bellamy like why am i going to
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switch lanes and be all over here and
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try to appease just go just to go with
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what you know you think it could be
21:56
another show like death comedy jim
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yes it could come it's it everything
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goes in the cycle you know you never
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thought that those bright-ass cost
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colors would come back
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look let me have the bee got on oh man
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come on
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that is
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no no that peach is fly like we was
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rocking that
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was we not yeah the 90s 90s we was
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wearing all these beautiful colors and
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then we told them and she got and she
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got cute little poo oh of course yeah
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i don't cross labels no you keep it down
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i cross everything whatever go to the
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call
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you're willing right now you got nike's
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on the bottom no i got i got puma adidas
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and nike i support all three
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i support audrey that's the supreme dad
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outfit right there am i did i just come
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from carpool yeah yes you did hey bill
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man i want to thank you for coming
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through and getting up this early man
22:46
man you only for the come on sway stop
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playing you've always shown love but the
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fact that you mentioned us in your
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comedy special man that mean a lot
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yo he got admission he got emotional i
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thought he was about to do a tyree what
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oh man that's our brother man give it up
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for bill bellamy i love y'all man thank
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you
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