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Nov 4, 2022
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yo oh they're back yes they are bad
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they're bad I remember back in 2000s
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early 2000s when the proud family first
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hit the scene I remember that
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I remember so much with my brother right
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here had a chance to be a part of making
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history again and again and again that's
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the season two trailer of The Proud
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Family uh we got the one and only Oscar
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proud with us right now you better
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understand me you better understand me
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but his career
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um has been amazing last time we saw
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each other we sat down and had a
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powerful conversation at a bookstore yes
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we did about a book he wrote right yes
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and um ah [ __ ] we got into another
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dimension that day I think I scared the
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people next door you did Tommy Davis in
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his backyard
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thank you thank you yo thanks for having
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me I've been watching yeah I've been
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listening okay yeah I can't any comments
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I can't you know what I can't I can't
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y'all just roll so hard
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on everybody not in a negative way yeah
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not a negative way and plus this to me
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is like
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this is like the last Bastion of like
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uh uh the hip-hop vertebrae man like
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your comment the the artists that come
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in here you always stick to the
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traditional through line of what hip-hop
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is about yeah because that through line
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has changed you know well let's say the
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subject matter that gets heard the most
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yes is drink a lot
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smoke a lot
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have you a gun
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kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill
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kill kill and I'm a hoe and I don't care
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yeah and and uh I'm a [ __ ] I don't care
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okay and um and um now add the beat
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throw that beat up Taurus throw that
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beat up you know what I'm saying no no
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no no no no no no no no no no no no okay
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okay because the thing I'm saying is
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like like the freestyle people that come
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on here I'm like oh my God yeah like you
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you you you stick to the the basics of
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what this is about the fundamentals
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right yeah this is taking thoughts into
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words Yes Man yes period I remember
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daylight Soul had a little break in
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there in there in the in their in their
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album one of their big uh so easy they
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had that joint and um they do these
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little interludes in between and they
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ask this country white guy you know what
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do you think about rap music and Hip-Hop
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he said I just you know it's not really
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music to me he's like
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sounds to me like a bunch of [ __ ] just
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talking um
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you know wow yeah that's how they would
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see it yeah right yeah but it ain't yeah
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of course it's not it's so much more
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it's it's Alchemy but it ain't it's so
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much more than just that it's history
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poetry documentation it's spiritual it's
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all that it's the sign of the times yeah
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so when you say that so those subject
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matters that have tended to come to the
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Forefront you got to ask yourself why
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exactly right why is this being
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perpetuated so heavily now right in our
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conversation who's at the helm of all of
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that yeah right well you know I don't
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know how many radio stations I own yeah
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so you know so you don't own any yeah
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you feel okay all right so it's all of
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those different things so what we what
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we try to do is no different from Comedy
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that's what I'm saying
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yeah it's just certain but that the
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comedy that being a little different you
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don't know well comedy that
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it would be different in comedy if they
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said you can only do that on this you
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see what I'm saying comedy is universal
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so once it comes out it comes out yeah
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you know what I mean but it has to
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Comedy just has to do with with with
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with who's communicating it and what
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their principles are you see what I'm
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saying so a comic could not be exposed
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to not be exposed to gay transgender uh
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uh uh Latinos blacks
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doesn't have exposure to that it has no
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contact with it then they're going to
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speak
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you know what their opinion is of that
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and this that and the other thing right
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a comic that's been exposed to all that
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and has their roots in what what uh uh I
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say I say has their roots in in Humane
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principles right then they're gonna come
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off like that you see what I'm saying
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and that's where the where the fun began
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or or like the last two years this
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cancer culture thing because some Comics
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were I'll give you an example give me an
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example I'll give an example so Tommy
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Davidson is here by the way yeah yeah
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Rhonda's about to ask you a question
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she's been loading up with this okay all
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right just to bring it back down okay my
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my wife came to me and she was like you
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know you you you know you see what
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they're doing now you know what I mean
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you need to get some Edge on your comedy
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you know this person doing that I won't
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name him that person doing that you need
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to you need to get some Edge or Edge if
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you're edgy then you can and this that
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and the other thing I said have you seen
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any of my specials she said actually no
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your wife your wife yeah she said
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actually no you know so so that's
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actually good yeah we'll talk about it
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but but
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that's actually good
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um um so I gave her one of my specials
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and she said never mind
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she got what she was looking for yeah
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yeah Edge to me is Edge Edge to me is is
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is no longer longer the the purpose of
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Comedy because the purpose of Comedy to
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me is I tell a joke right well well Edge
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is this you tell the joke and everybody
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go oh whoa
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oh man
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oh
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the the not Edge you know the the the
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the just the just the the
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three-pointer to me is when you tell a
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joke and people go
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hug him Rhonda hug him
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[Laughter]
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there's a laugh there
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there's a there's a laugh bit you see
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them laughing yeah
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y'all used to me
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because it's genius and what Tommy says
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right yeah and we've had a lot of these
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kind of conversations can I allow Rhonda
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to ask a question yeah yeah please
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well so most everybody have been rolling
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with you since In Living Color I'm not
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Dominican coach yes oh yeah plenty of
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people I thought that was gonna be the
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first person oh no no so
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from all of the things you've done from
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acting to stand up what's the thing that
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you're most passionate about or most
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memorable for you
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probably you're talking entertainment or
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even not entertainment uh probably
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um In Living Color okay because In
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Living Color was the result of
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everything else going from nothing to
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something it was a domino effect it was
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your launch pad it was the launch pad
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because I got that when I got when I got
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to Hollywood I ain't know nothing about
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it I was taking the bus because my mom
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ain't let me bring my car you know so
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you know and it was I met all the people
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on the way and was at the comedy store
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and I've gone to about as far as you can
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go as a comedian right but within Living
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Color
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we now walked in the door
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and they said you got the part so now
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did you have an agent or how did you
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even get the opportunity I had an agent
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at the time that's part of the whole
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Quest okay gotcha finally and I'm doing
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that and but this is the big moment so I
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walk into the room of the people that
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made it because because it was like um
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no one knew who really got it right
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right because there's all these people
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that auditioned for the damn thing so so
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my audition was stand up because that's
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all I had you know I auditioned for
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stuff they said yeah nice to meet you
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and but stand up was my power you see
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what I'm saying so so I went in front of
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the the uh
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the audition with Keenan and all of them
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and they were looking at me and they
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said do a sketch and I didn't know what
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a sketch was right do some improv I
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didn't know what improv was although I
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did inside so they said like you're a
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Puerto Rican cab driver and you're lost
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in New York I I don't know where to
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thank you but if you just stay there
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stay there you know you know what I mean
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yes and I walked out the room and they
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were just looking at me like I don't
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know so I said I said I don't think I
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got that part but they had an audition
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with stand up uh-huh 30. everybody was
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here Martin John Leguizamo Jim Gary
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David Alegria I mean name it name it
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anybody that you know
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I was last
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I was last wow and I was like that's the
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spot I want that because I to me I was
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the Jordan of comedy and I was like give
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me the last shot right right so I so so
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I came on and
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you know when you go last you're the
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most rememberable right hey you so you
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had a plan going in yes give it to me
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right I know that's true yeah so when I
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walked in the room when finally
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everybody got it right I'm going oh okay
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this is gonna be a hit because I saw Jim
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Jim Carrey David Alan Greer I saw I
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didn't I didn't really know Takia but
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the key I knew her work because she was
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from improv she was from Second City I
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saw Kelly I was like Kelly's nice with
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it you know I saw Damon in them which
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you ain't got to talk about it you see
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what I'm saying so I was like so that
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was a moment that I had a chance to just
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grow as an artist so I would say that
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that is the moment as a person
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uh I think my biggest accomplishment of
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all of them is I just stayed uh Robert
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Davis's youngest son oh oh yeah wow
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