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Jan 26, 2024
🚨 Subscribe NOW for the most explosive content! 🚨 Earthquake Spills! Dive inside Chappelle's 50th & Comedy's Raw Truth 🎤 only on Sway’s Universe! In this jaw-dropping video, comedy titan Earthquake takes us behind the scenes of Dave Chappelle's legendary 50th birthday bash, giving us an exclusive peek into the world of comedy like never before. From addressing the Katt Williams controversy with precision and humor to revealing untold stories about Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, and Donnell Rawlings, this is one video you CAN'T afford to miss. #EarthquakeComedy #DaveChappelle #ComedyLegends
Expect to laugh, think, and maybe even cry as Earthquake delivers jokes, wisdom, and insights with the mastery that has kept his career shining bright like a diamond. But that's not all - he also gives a rare glimpse into the raw truths of the comedy world, sharing anecdotes from his storied career and his takes on the current state of comedy. With mentions of iconic comedy platforms like Def Comedy Jam, BET Comic View, and Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud, this video is a goldmine for comedy enthusiasts.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Earthquake Comedy Beginnings
2:32 - Early Comedy Career Insights
6:14 - First Comedy Show Fail
15:33 - Earthquake Addresses Katt Williams
18:18 - Crafting a Comedy Career Strategy
21:37 - Donnell Rawlings Feature
23:40 - Remembering Bernie Mac
25:20 - Spotlight on Sommore
28:00 - Comedy Writing vs Improvisation
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Pony ass yo ladies and gentlemen give me
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a round of applause
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torch give me a round of
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applause there are not
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many and I said it earlier you could
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count on one hand when somebody is able
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to perfect their craft so masterfully
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that it transcends
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Generations it goes beyond
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decades the understanding in the
0:30
observation of the world and of the
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society to be able to interpolate it in
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your own words and make people laugh and
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make them cry to make them think to
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inform him is a gift it's divine
0:42
intervention this man has been putting
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it down for so many years I watched him
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I'm from the bay I remember when he ran
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through the
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bay yeah come on yeah I remember that I
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was on K tell them come on earthquake we
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go back back like slavery you better oh
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wait hold up hold up hold up hold up
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brother hold up brother I don't know if
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we want to go back that far quick no no
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no don't go back that when we was
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getting that's right we ran out together
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earthquake hell with hell her we leaving
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without her we left before she had the
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Underground Railroad Dam we were in yeah
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we go that far back let me tell you
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ladies and gentlemen from um death
1:30
Comedy Jam to BET Comic I'm going way
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back to laa paloa um to Shaq Shaq did
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his uh his Allstar platform um to TV
1:41
shows to the neighborhood with with with
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with my good friend Cedric the
1:45
Entertainer all the different things
1:47
that this man has done in his career and
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his career is still shining bright like
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a diamond I want to welcome him he's
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going to be performing even on right
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here at SiriusXM yes Quakes house yes
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Kevin Hart's laugh out loud this is my
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coworker ladies and gentlemen this is my
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coworker I want you to give a set in
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Ovation to give it up for
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earthquake look at God look at God look
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at God look at
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God come on got come
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on man we ain't got flowers but we got
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some U red snapper in the back we can
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give you I smelled it I smell we do that
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man like well
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you know what's interesting um
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earthquake I came first of all welcome
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to the show yeah it's a pleasure and an
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honor to be here we talked I said I'm
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not coming in New York again without
2:42
coming by here you didn't say that I
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said that I got to do it and tell them
2:46
where we were you remember where we were
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no I forgot was okay okay because that's
2:50
because you on the road you getting
2:51
money this was at Dave Chappelle's 50th
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birthday party at Time Square we were on
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the stage at Time Square backstage Time
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Square square Gard Madison Square said
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Time Square Madison Square Garden your
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billboard my billboard earthquake I got
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a billboard at Time Square I get
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confused look at who your who your agent
3:13
Heather godam it he I need to talk to
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you all right no problem earthquake I
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got you I'm no put the new person right
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here don't do that [ __ ] fight him when I
3:23
leave no they need to see it they need
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to see I don't do [ __ ] the corner get
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right in your face get out of
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here in your face your face I don't
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believe behind your back yeah I'm going
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believe right there you ever been fired
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from anything uh no I quit before they
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get rid of me
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that that quit yo I quit before you f me
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no I got a problem with rejection you
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really you quit uh many times I quit the
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military I quit um when I used to work
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at this place called Goos it was like
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Kentucky Fried Chicken Sandwich the Gino
4:03
giant sandwich I remember that my dad
4:05
used to order that yes yeah the hero and
4:07
all that quit before
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that what made you quit though like you
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you've been uh I was a terrible employee
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you know what I'm saying I was making
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more money than the
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colonel I sell one bucket for the
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colonel and sell one for me oh
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okay you were a thief no no something
4:30
else I wasn't a thief I just was made
4:32
myself a honorary partner yo but but how
4:35
do you quit the service the military
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they you either get kicked out no you
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don't get kicked out I was in the stop
4:41
loss program because the war broke out
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and I said it's time to get on out of
4:45
here cuz they fighting for real and I
4:47
said I don't mind practicing for war
4:49
figh for real yeah you practice but when
4:52
they start actually fighting I said hey
4:54
man I could have stayed at home and get
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shot at no I left here to get here to
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get somewhere else no that's it I ain't
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no real Soldier I got to tell y'all the
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truth I just join to get out my MMA
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house let me go on get up out of here
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let me get on up out of here let me get
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on out of here y'all fighting for real
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you don't want me on the front line
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I'mma shoot everybody that's around me
5:16
people behind me in front of me
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everything cuz I'm scared right but
5:20
people don't admit that I would be
5:22
scared too he man you ain't telling me
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run up on no Hill what's up
5:27
there you go first my yeah cuz see after
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the war is over all y'all going to do is
5:33
make a peace treaty and then help them
5:34
build back up and I'm dead with a flag
5:37
with my family I don't think so and at
5:39
that particular time they was fighting
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over oil I said why should I fight over
5:42
oil I don't even have a car well was
5:44
this Desert Storm you know
5:46
what I don't care if Iraq took all AG go
5:49
oh that ain't got nothing to me me you
5:51
better send sooko over there Exon that's
5:54
who got that's who should be over there
5:57
fighting over there for that damn old
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[ __ ] not a Niger on the bus you don't
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have a vest engine let me know when they
6:03
come to Southeast DC then I'll put my
6:05
hands up other than that man I'm back
6:08
with the women and children there you
6:10
go earthquake is in the building
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performing tonight at Sony Hall 46th
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Street are you from the DC area
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Southeast baby so here's what I love
6:21
I've been telling sway there's something
6:23
in the in the water in that area as they
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say down there because Donell Rollins is
6:28
from there I love
6:30
watched host earthquake host something
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with Donell y'all ripped it in nework
6:35
New Jersey Jersey is funny style they
6:37
shut it down they they ripped it
6:39
earthquake hosted they ripped it um
6:42
Monique is from that area Dave Chappelle
6:44
is from that area Tomy Davidson Martin
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lawrens there is something in the in the
6:49
water down there man uh
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survival you
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know Survival Man is is DC is the
6:58
realest like I said we are up in your
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face we hate bamers you know what I mean
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be true a a bammer is a person that is
7:06
not authentic tell the truth okay so we
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got B
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weed yeah they just bamers we don't we
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don't we we don't we don't harbit
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fugitives so you be straight with it I
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don't you this is how it is tell me how
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it is we even talk it out man duke it
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out but whatever it is we G do the best
7:24
thing and it's in your face and you know
7:28
we deal with the we live in the biggest
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goddamn powerful city in the world which
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is the capital of the United States so
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we see commer at a whole different level
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you see other people see pimps and see
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drug dealers do well [ __ ] on us we going
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on to uh school trip to the treasury
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Department and the [ __ ] see
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just sheets of hundreds just being made
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and then they put you back on the bus
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and take you to the
7:54
project what a contract that's like
7:56
showing you a meal and not sharing it
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with you you just see sheets sh sh sh
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and then one sheet ain't print right
8:03
they tear it up right in your face then
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they say all get back on the bus you
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like God damn so it's the biggest have
8:08
to have knots we're constantly reminded
8:10
of where it is so are there some um when
8:13
lunell came here she's talk with shout
8:15
out to lenel Queen of Comedy that's my
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girl that's my sister business sway went
8:21
back and forth about places people got
8:23
started in the Bay Area is it was there
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a place in that DMV area where people
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got started like the Tommy day since
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yourself Donell are there um known
8:32
comedy clubs down there I don't know cuz
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I didn't start I went straight in the
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military uh and just in there and then
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when I got out the military I just
8:39
started triy comedy and see and nothing
8:42
better came along this was no Epiphany
8:45
for me you know I just made the best
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decision that day stepped on stage and
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no better decision came and it's been
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that ever since but I was I knew I was
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going to be successful in something I
8:56
never in my wildest dreamed that it
8:57
would be a comedian ever everever when
9:00
did you start believing it could be
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comedy um when I did Steve Harvey's club
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and um I forgot which one of his um
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parents had passed and um he was on the
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stage and this was when he had a a a
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show I mean a club in Dallas Texas and
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everybody there Dion everything Steve
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it's 475 people that's when he was up
9:23
here hosting Showtime at the parland I
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mean he's fish greet hot and he was up
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there
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and of course he was emotional telling
9:31
to his crowd how he lost his parent and
9:34
everything and then he was crying and
9:37
then he gave me the mic next to go on
9:39
you know what I mean you had to follow
9:42
that God damn and I came up there so all
9:45
right Y is Mama something else gone can
9:48
we get to these jokes oh oh my goodness
9:52
my God no not hard like that in a joking
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way I can't say I didn't say it like
9:57
that no it's not evil okay but you had
9:59
to find
10:01
the to get it on on it and to be able to
10:04
follow that and get the people to make
10:06
that transition from that for somebody
10:08
that they love cared about who it is and
10:11
made them break it and make it funny let
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me know that I had a gift in doing this
10:15
cuz that's the hardest thing in the
10:16
world I mean to do something like that
10:19
and once I sit there like okay cuz Man
10:22
Steve used to rip that joint up boy and
10:25
then boom and get that mic to you and if
10:28
you can't ride that wave you know black
10:30
people they boo you real quick you get
10:33
off that stage if they if they slide two
10:36
times in their seat you on death row
10:38
that's it yeah they slly two times two
10:40
times do that mean yeah they getting
10:42
bored they looking around and taking
10:44
consensus you this [ __ ] ain't
10:45
funny to you too e that what I'm saying
10:48
they ey each other and then the next
10:50
thing you know me me me me boo boo man
10:53
it ain't nothing like getting booed I
10:55
got booed once oh that's a horrible
10:58
thing was your worst booing I never been
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booed oh come on man you never been
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booed
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no no
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no
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wow that a round of
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appli damn the 30 been disappointed when
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you got off the stage though a lot of
11:18
times cuz I don't set my standard to
11:20
nobody else but myself and this thing we
11:23
do comedy is subjective what's funny to
11:25
you might not be funny to me ex so you
11:27
know in a uh a joke is just like
11:30
shooting a jumper you can have a follow
11:32
through and everything but if it ain't
11:33
perfect it's going to come off and you
11:35
never get a second chance on the joke
11:37
you know what I mean so that's why I
11:39
don't do long jokes and take a long time
11:41
to get to the punchline because if that
11:42
[ __ ] don't work it's a possibility of
11:45
being booed that's why got you are a
11:48
quick shooter I'm a quick shooter my
11:50
content is quick I'm always on another
11:52
subject I don't longate for a long time
11:55
so that brings down the
11:57
possibility of being in booed and then
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I'm very insecure with quietness you
12:03
know what I'm saying so when we just did
12:04
that quiet right there after you said
12:06
you wasn't booed that made you nervous
12:08
no I'm just not used to
12:10
it you know what I mean but that's why
12:12
my name is earthquake I mean the reason
12:14
I came with earthquake I didn't know
12:15
this is what I wanted to do and in case
12:17
that [ __ ] didn't work I didn't want to
12:18
[ __ ] up my good
12:21
name so you called yourself earthquake
12:23
so the [ __ ] didn't work out mother like
12:25
man that [ __ ] a earthquake you
12:27
your brother down in the line trying to
12:29
be funny name earthquake I like I don't
12:31
know that
12:32
[ __ ] my name
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Nathaniel
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nael I love it
12:37
[Applause]
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understand so if the [ __ ] didn't work
12:42
out I ain't G to [ __ ] up my good name so
12:44
the [ __ ] just kept on PING so I said go
12:46
on and ride with it but it wasn't no it
12:49
wasn't no strategic [ __ ] like [ __ ] it
12:51
let's try it and I got out the military
12:53
and mother G me $500 for 10 minutes wow
12:56
was no reason for me to go get no
12:58
goddamn job and it just keep on kept on
13:01
going I opened up my own club CU they
13:03
wouldn't let me perform at their clubs
13:05
yep and then when I did that just made
13:08
me stronger because I had to perform for
13:10
all the people because the black
13:12
comedians wouldn't come perform in my
13:13
club because the comedy act Theater
13:16
which was the biggest black Club at that
13:18
particular time had W in LA in Atlanta
13:20
say if you work in his Club you will not
13:22
B to work with in your who says that um
13:26
they was the John no the owner of the
13:28
club
13:29
The Williams Brothers they they one of
13:31
them was Gary Williams and was the rest
13:32
of them and that's just it's still
13:34
marketing today certain big clubs I'll
13:37
tell you right now you working at one
13:40
club and we got 17 clubs make your
13:43
choice which one you want to work in you
13:44
want to work for the 17 us or you want
13:46
to come in that market in one a lot of
13:48
comedians have to bow down to it but if
13:50
you big enough you be like no
13:52
[ __ ] I'm going work this one and
13:54
what you going to do and they need your
13:55
business so they'll let you work the
13:56
other 16 but they always hold you back
13:58
like that who who are some of the
13:59
comedians that came in your club that
14:02
came through your Club everybody I mean
14:04
started uh Chris Tucker Steve hary Dave
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Chappelle that's where we met at when I
14:08
booked about Chris Rock every name
14:11
comedian that's at has worked in my club
14:13
from um Mike EPS we started together on
14:16
here me and Mike was tight uh and we are
14:19
tight uh s every comedian you know has
14:22
worked in my club it was the it was the
14:24
Premier Club in Atlanta that people came
14:26
down that we had a great time it was
14:29
call it uptown we was dealing there big
14:31
just big that that's how the Dave
14:34
Chappelle Chappelle's home team yes
14:38
that's where the Genesis of this
14:40
relationship began was at your Club yes
14:42
when we first met there I you know we
14:44
was paying him money that we never paid
14:46
no other club I mean no other acting I
14:48
said I got to see who this [ __ ]
14:50
is you know what yeah shout out to Dave
14:55
so I went to pick him up and like he
14:57
said in my special next special I did I
14:59
came to pick him up smoked a coup of
15:02
blunts and um I told him I'm waiting for
15:05
him to see you and my staff was there
15:07
two of the people that I open my club of
15:09
25 years them two young ladies been
15:11
working with me where they at right over
15:13
there what's her name names uh that's
15:15
star Letha we call her
15:17
star she uh star handles all my social
15:20
media make sure I don't post the wrong
15:21
[ __ ] okay and uh that's my Publishers
15:24
over there Ava Medina what up aa aa
15:26
Medina shout out to yall okay I met them
15:29
uh hiring them as waitresses at my club
15:31
and been together ever since that's
15:33
what's up uh earthquake is here he's
15:35
performing tonight at Sony Hall in New
15:37
York City on West 46 Street uhu make
15:39
sure you you you check that out uh I I
15:42
love hearing these stories because
15:44
working in radio you know working on KL
15:47
and working on the beat and doing all
15:48
this stuff for three decades I've had
15:51
almost everybody on our shows you know
15:54
and the one thing I I always um admired
15:57
it seemed like in comedy each one got to
15:59
bring one you know right you know what I
16:02
mean like in order for you to be
16:03
successful he got to be successful she
16:05
got to be successful and it seemed like
16:07
it was a lot of synergy in comedy but
16:09
there OB obviously it's the flip side
16:12
where it ain't Synergy in comedy and we
16:13
we just recently heard um the the Cat
16:16
Williams interview uh and your name was
16:18
mentioned what what what is your your T
16:20
he mentioned you being illiterate at one
16:22
point what is your response to that none
16:24
okay I don't I mean what's there to say
16:26
it's not true I thought we was cool and
16:29
if he felt that you know we could have
16:30
handled that manto man so I don't I
16:33
don't I don't get into that with that
16:35
you know what I mean whatever reason he
16:37
felt that he needed to mention my name
16:39
in a fraudulent way and for whatever
16:42
reason so be it I don't I don't answer
16:46
[ __ ] like that first of all if you
16:48
answer it it's going to continue on
16:50
social media is just a fire and I refuse
16:53
to Put Another Log in it when it has
16:55
something to do with my name on it
16:57
personally speaking
16:59
you know where the jokes at I'm a
17:01
comedian see that's what I do I'm in the
17:03
joke telling business and so uh you know
17:06
you need to be funny and tell the jokes
17:09
and let it stand on that that's all we
17:10
got in common it's the jokes it's the
17:12
jokes right it's the jokes that ain't
17:14
something you a joke about though well
17:16
to to each his own I don't know joke
17:18
about it or say it but just because he
17:20
say it don't make it true I mean I know
17:23
we are any man can be authenticated but
17:26
the words come out of his mouth makes it
17:28
so true it kills me with this [ __ ] that
17:31
certain people say something and a money
17:33
you you have to address it because of
17:36
what who is he to I have to address
17:38
anything that he says I refuse to
17:40
participate in that you know what I mean
17:42
CU see I don't me personally I don't uh
17:48
play fight you know what I mean it's
17:51
either as on as it ain't you know what I
17:53
mean it's just that simple and so the
17:55
rest of that [ __ ] you can hold and great
17:57
philosopher 50 sent said if you ain't
17:59
ready to kill a [ __ ] then avoid
18:00
confrontation at all at all risk a great
18:04
philosopher right there that deserves
18:06
said that [ __ ] you better be listening
18:08
to that great philosopher said if you
18:10
ain't willing to kill a [ __ ] can
18:12
avoid the confrontation at all cost yo
18:15
and that's what I do that's what you do
18:16
earthquake is here listen man
18:19
congratulations three decades and in the
18:22
way you've curated your career I wonder
18:25
I've done things in my career where I'm
18:29
I've intentionally not put myself in
18:32
scenarios and environments that I
18:34
thought would compromise who I am or
18:37
even be misinterpreted so there's jobs I
18:39
don't take okay okay there's
18:41
opportunities I passed on okay probably
18:43
would have put some m in my pocket but I
18:45
couldn't do it how have you
18:48
strategically crafted your career is it
18:50
just pay for play or have you purposely
18:53
directed it a certain way could to get
18:55
to where you are I mean I'm I'm so
18:58
self-centered it's not going to work
19:01
anyway unless you let me be me okay I'm
19:03
not going to be able to pull it off you
19:05
know what I mean I'm not an actor I'm a
19:08
movie star so you must allow me to have
19:10
the content that I have to for it to to
19:13
work so for me to play another
19:16
[ __ ] is not going to work you
19:18
know what I mean I I walk in with my
19:20
content first thing if you give me
19:22
something to read I'm not going to say
19:25
it that way I'm going to say it the way
19:28
that Quake will say it cuz that's the
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reason why you paid me you get what I'm
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saying well you know the [ __ ] is
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[ __ ] you interested already before
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you got this absolutely and how did we
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make all our money live reads live reads
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damn earthquake I had live I had nice
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salaries too thank you if you wasn't
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syndicated you had to make your money
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off you get what I'm
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saying I was the number one in WBLS for
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goddamn years yeah one market how you
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think they afforded me traffic came over
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there with promotion off of live that
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you sitting there all in bab production
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how many [ __ ] we got today you
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got at& you got Papa John You Got The
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Whole Nine all of them my live [ __ ]
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reads on the thing off the endorsement
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so it's ludicrous to say it plus on top
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of that [ __ ] I was in the ninth grade
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in the upper bound program that was
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where they came and took smart
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[ __ ] and took them down to take
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them down to time to colleges to start
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to put them in college early I went down
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and unfortunately I a had no career
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counselor they took me on orientation
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and they put me in a room where they had
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freshly [ __ ] Donuts I never had a
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fresh dut in my life I always had the
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powder
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ones the ones in the plastic the plastic
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I never had a donkin donut I picked that
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[ __ ] up and ated as a fat dude I
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was like godamn these [ __ ] are
20:57
outstanding had you touch these and they
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like they had freshly squeezed orange
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juice too I'm like I was used to having
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that orange juice in the tube would you
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put the water in the syrup in it yeah
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[ __ ] this was freshly I was like they
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like come on we need to see the colge I
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said no I'm laying right here by this
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donut [ __ ] you mean all of these we can
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eat ain't nobody going to pick them
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[ __ ] I ate them all ate them all [ __ ]
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and went back to the hood talking about
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man them hosted Donuts we getting robbed
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[ __ ] it's some [ __ ] out there
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so fresh everything I did it y
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earthquake is here citizens man listen
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oh my gosh I can sit here and talk with
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this D all day hey wait wait hold on I
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got Doney on the line man Doney this is
21:39
an interesting call he's from Buffalo
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doy go ahead what you want to say to
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earthquake hey Dy what's up Doney what
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up what up what up family what up sway
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what up how it been what up what up fam
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how you doing Happy New Year to you
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brother man man saying to you bro bro
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man I remember man going back to your
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Club back in the days man in Atlanta man
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off Peace Street man in that little
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Plaza man tell yo Steve was performing
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and everything I was sitting front row
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man tell them
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you yall was theread bro tell them
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didn't we have a line like we was hiring
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it was all way around the corner [ __ ]
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was all there tell them how hot it was
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man that thing that thing was popping
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man we had VIP I was [ __ ] with my man
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AP man we had VI we had the front row
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seat hey we so we were so close
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Steve start getting on the girl cuz he
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had on the black sunnies in the in the
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joint Steve like yo Ain't No Sunshine
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out there take them sunnies yo yo yo
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that joint was what year was that what
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year was thaty that was like
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95o
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like hey I was on I was on spring break
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and I you know what I mean I came up and
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I was chilling with my boys all right I
22:51
got that all right all right go ahead go
22:52
ahead what you say no I mean really uh I
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got out the middle out the military in '
22:58
91 opened up the club in
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93 93 93 and um and it was beautiful and
23:05
that's when Atlanta was popping it just
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came out and everything and the rap was
23:11
going Outcast playalistic yeah ludicrous
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was on the radio and everything
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ludicrous is
23:18
Shak shout out to Shak glad they let
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that go and um man it was beautiful and
23:23
it was popping it was the routine people
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go from there we come see my club then
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we'll go to Magic City and after Magic
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City we'll go to 112 and stay there till
23:33
like 700 in the morning and come out the
23:35
Sun be hitting us like vampires wow wow
23:38
so shout out to Donell Rollins too he's
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actually on a check in he said ask
23:42
earthquake about the car he had with a
23:44
removal steering wheel man [ __ ] that ly
23:47
[ __ ] with a removable steering wheel
23:49
yeah talking about I used to wear it
23:50
around like Flavor
23:52
FL man be lying like a [ __ ] he
23:55
be see you can't trust he literally just
23:58
text me he said yo ask him about the car
24:01
he had with the removable stero wheel
24:03
that's a lie talking about [ __ ] I ain't
24:05
have remember back in the day you had
24:07
the bar he said I ain't had a bar so I
24:09
had to remove the steering wheel and put
24:11
it on the club the club he said I put
24:13
the for the club so I took my steering
24:16
wheel off and wore it around my neck
24:18
like Flavor FL with the clock he's a
24:20
lying [ __ ] man
24:23
n past it to hold yo wait hey hey hey
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doy doy you a citizen
24:30
doy all that's it doy uh Bernie Mack yes
24:36
great did Bernie come through your Club
24:38
Bernie did my club and also Bernie gave
24:40
me some of the best advice in my career
24:43
also and it was when he was sick I was
24:46
shooting my first big break pallet and
24:49
he just looked me in the face and say uh
24:51
man do not be afraid to fail and I never
24:55
knew what that meant to later on and
24:58
what he was saying is trust your
25:00
instinct do it and if you fail you
25:02
didn't fail but trying to appease other
25:05
people and play this other thing you
25:07
already failed and I never knew what it
25:09
understood till I got late in my career
25:12
he said don't be afraid to fail and he
25:14
just said that to me earthquake is here
25:16
Bernie Mack salute to Bernie Mack is
25:17
there a a a woman in um comedian that
25:21
you're close to that that you learned
25:23
from or that you could speak about um
25:25
some more some more shout out to
25:28
shout out to the consistency in the
25:31
man's um dominated field she does it
25:35
with Grace Ellen and she's one of the
25:37
best um still consistent such as I am uh
25:41
year in year out um producing new comedy
25:45
content do come to work do her thing and
25:49
let the rest let her work speak for
25:51
herself and sexy than I'm always the
25:54
biggest cheerleader for our women I
25:56
think they the most beautiful thing God
25:57
has ever put on this Earth there you go
25:59
no I am a hey man hey black woman is God
26:03
I'm a 1ent of and I got to bring one
26:05
with me so what I say with her is she's
26:08
that great and if I had to say anything
26:11
her she the consistency that she brings
26:13
because you know even when you ain't
26:15
motivated you got to stay consistent and
26:17
that's what I tell people earthquake is
26:19
here man I love this brother we we said
26:22
we were going to do it and we did it but
26:23
now this means you just got to keep
26:25
coming up here when you come to come to
26:27
um first time here in new New
26:31
York abely I told him I was coming I was
26:35
hurtful I said my man ain't letting me
26:37
up here he said I got you I said I'm
26:39
coming and that's the first time when
26:40
they told us that we was coming up here
26:42
I said you got to give me sway just find
26:45
him find his
26:47
brother find somebody
26:50
anybody we get his hot dog somebody
26:53
where we get his hat or
26:56
something
26:59
you figh a hat Giver yo you fighting a
27:02
hat Giver get his toilet paper CVS that
27:06
[ __ ] break it to him right in
27:08
there my brother my big brother Terry
27:10
Callaway was hit was like hey you got to
27:13
have earthquake on the show it was like
27:15
a
27:15
threat I was like I love earthquake it's
27:18
not a problem well somebody called me
27:20
from his
27:22
Camp you got to put the family members
27:24
on say he coming in trying to get a meal
27:27
hey man and after you eat that chicken I
27:29
need to holl at for something I got
27:32
something to holl at you got to holl at
27:33
you SL you know say you know this this
27:36
hella
27:37
important when a [ __ ] tell a
27:39
[ __ ] from the bay this
27:40
hell he said hey Jay call me back this
27:43
hella
27:44
important what earthquake earthquake man
27:48
I don't even know if you met my brother
27:50
it's like you know not at
27:51
all out everybody hey man that's that
27:54
military do the reconnaissance find out
27:58
who's good ass job Tracy going back to
28:01
when you just got out the military and
28:03
that's when comedy found you and you
28:05
were like I let's do this what was more
28:08
challenging for you figuring out how to
28:11
write or developing that sense of improv
28:14
well for me it just came natural you
28:16
know what I mean and and I'm blessed
28:19
with that like I don't physically write
28:21
I mentally write so I take a subject
28:25
matter and then elaborate on it you know
28:27
it's like the truth and then it become a
28:30
big
28:31
lie like in our community you know what
28:33
I mean kind like politics yeah yeah yeah
28:36
start with a little bit of Truth and
28:39
then you elaborate he fought one [ __ ]
28:41
by the time he get to you [ __ ] that
28:42
[ __ ] knocked out 19 people he stumped
28:45
another [ __ ] he took his wife
28:47
from him and everything so it it has a
28:50
kenel of truth and you just expand on it
28:52
you know and I see it like a movie in my
28:56
mind and then I just interpret what I
28:57
see through vocally that's how I do it
29:00
and I keep in and the way me from
29:03
keeping from anyone accusing me of
29:05
stealing any of their jokes I don't
29:07
watch other comedians at all no never
29:10
watch Dave I I watched Dave from afar I
29:13
get enough of it to know he is that and
29:16
then I stop because I have since I don't
29:18
physically write I make sure that I keep
29:21
my thought pth sterilized and cleansed
29:24
so I don't want to subconsciously come
29:26
up with something
29:27
and I heard it from somewhere else and
29:30
the way to keep myself from that
29:31
happening is I don't hear it from no
29:33
other comedian cuz subconsciously you
29:35
could do that you hear come that's funny
29:38
and then later on four or five months
29:39
ago you you riffing and it come up oh
29:42
that's great but you know you you don't
29:44
even realize you heard that from there
29:46
so I keep the information coming to me
29:48
you think that's what's happened a lot
29:49
cuz there been a lot of jokes stealing
29:51
it's steing it's some [ __ ]
29:54
stealing no I just tell you how I put
29:58
um mechanisms for myself to make sure
30:00
this doesn't happen to me you know CU if
30:03
you physically right then you can see
30:05
this is when you came up with it how you
30:07
do it but if you mentally do it and it
30:09
comes from the information from wherever
30:11
you get it you have to protect yourself
30:14
that so then do you have a method to
30:15
memory uh yeah um way I see it from the
30:19
um the original form and just elaborated
30:22
that's why it's different every night
30:24
because I take it from the the original
30:26
with the is and then just elaborate it
30:30
on as far as I want to go and then I
30:31
stop it right there and then start
30:33
another one earthquake I want to thank
30:35
you for coming by give this man a round
30:37
of applause the Jay-Z of Comedy he don't
30:39
write it down heav love it and when I
30:42
heard Jay-Z do that I said look at
30:44
God I'm a jiger man there you go I'm a
30:47
jiger man when he said that I said see
30:50
godamn it it's all right right it was
30:53
all right now listen to me man follow me
30:55
at the real earthquake and also from 4
30:57
to 6 come down to channel 96 and uh
31:00
check your brother out it is Quakes
31:02
house kick it in my house till you get
31:03
your house we bring comedians together
31:05
we're like The View with comedians
31:07
that's Monday through Friday Monday
31:08
through Friday 4 to 6 on channel 96 on
31:11
uh right here sxm Channel 96 laugh out
31:15
loud Kevin Hart station and we there and
31:17
we hold time brother I love you you my
31:20
man you my man man please stay healthy
31:23
man and keep doing God's work thank you
31:25
brother absolutely I need that
31:28
right there that's earthquake tonight at
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Sony Hall if you in New York City come
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laugh your ass
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