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yo man round of applause for that that's
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the number one sitcom series
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i don't even know if i'm using the right
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format language
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on netflix
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and rightfully so tracy g because a lot
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of a lot of citizens that sway in the
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morning turn all those mics on
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are in this show
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kim fields is in this show
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our girl she's been here before
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jeremel simon is in this show
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journey christine is in this show
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gabrielle dennis is in this show yes
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diamond lions is in this show come on
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kalish braggins is in the show kali
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kylie spraggans is in this show
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one of the most
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prolific
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comedic talents
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in history mike epps is on this show
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and one of the most brilliant
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accomplished
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lovable
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intelligent
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i laugh when i see her i say this all
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the time
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i can't even think of how many
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nominations she got prime time and
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nominations she got tracy g maybe 14 15.
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innumerable
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14 she got one
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she won the american comedy award for
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funniest female standard comics she's
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done that glad recognized her too tracy
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g let it be known
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the comedy central
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communi award for funniest tv actress
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they recognized her too
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if she's hosting the show it's a
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must-see
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they put her name on the bill i'm
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watching it
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i don't care what it is
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it could be a backpack drive
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[Applause]
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somehow she's gonna make it interesting
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but i will talk about
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the amazing job you were doing at the
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oscars that's a fact
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i haven't seen you since
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so i wanted to tell you
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[Laughter]
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you are
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and i want to welcome you back to this
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show
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the one and only wander psych citizens
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thank y'all thank you so much welcome
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back
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[ __ ] i gotta do this now man our
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pleasure oh man come on i love you you
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know it's mutual man i love you man love
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you too so congratulations with the
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upshaw season two is available now i've
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watched it it's hilarious
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thank you number one series on netflix
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comedy series
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um it's powerful when i watch you and
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kim fields
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in a scene oh my god i i get to play
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with jordan
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she's jordan she's jordan kim phillips
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is jordan kim feels is all parts jordan
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when it comes to the acting the tv the
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comedy she she's just legendary
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legendary just no wrong no wrong
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so i in the way your scenes go i just i
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just imagine just a lot of improv yes
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i just i mean
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it's so natural it seemed like that line
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they didn't write that line did that we
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have an amazing room of writers you know
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and come on we got
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the regina hicks
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you know at the helm come on i mean
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she's she's
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iconic when it comes to doing this job
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so
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um but our team are yeah we got a great
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staff of writers so a lot of it is most
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of it is on the page but of course you
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know you got you got mike epps yeah
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that's so so mike mike he throws them
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out there yeah yeah i remember you
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talking about that when you came up here
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do your kids watch you
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um they they do watch it yeah now
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they're 13 now so they yeah they watch
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they don't care
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they don't care they don't talk about
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this
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unless i'm talking about them or
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something you know let me tell you
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let me tell you something my daughter's
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about to be 24 23 right i know right one
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day hit me with the wow [ __ ]
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no no it was like wow
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yeah that was envious i'm like wow you
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did it you did it i got through what
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you're about to go through yes right
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because it started around 12 or 13.
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and it's serious and so at the time when
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she was growing up right and i don't
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know this is your interview but i'm
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going to meet
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when she was growing up i started
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working at mtv right at in 2000 she was
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born in 98. part of me doing that was i
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needed a job
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right and
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right because i wanted to make sure i
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provided a life for her
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that um that i didn't have
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so i'm working extra hard those first 10
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i did 20 with them um first five 10 15
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years i'm interviewing the president i'm
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doing all these different things and i'm
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believing my daughter is impressed by
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this
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never watched any of them
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nothing
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nothing though
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but she ran it back though no like when
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i bring stuff up like she now she she
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started appreciating around 201
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so
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that's when it's gonna happen for you
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damn i got a long ways to go you got a
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little
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yeah she gets it now but i'm not doing
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it like i was doing it yeah i ain't
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hustling like i was hustling like i had
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them when i was doing like the uh
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animated stuff okay oh you haven't just
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stuff i had them because their their
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friends were into it but
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now they're like yeah
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they don't give a damn how did you
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explain to them like who wanda sykes is
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because they just know you as mom when
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did it click for them that you are the
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one of sykes um
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they're friends
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you know if their friends ask about me
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or something then you know then they
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they're they then they'll ask me so
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uh are you on a
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a so-and-so show you know they'll bring
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it up and i said one of your little
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friends ask you huh cause they they did
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other than that they don't care they
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don't care they don't care wow do you
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care that they don't care right
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it hurts a little bit it's right yeah
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we're going
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damn you know i'm out here doing stuff
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mm-hmm okay let me bring you in on this
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conversation and we'll we'll and then
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we'll talk more about the series and
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stuff yeah i'm sorry i didn't mean to
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bring up your kids that's i have that
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same
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don't y'all think i got covered or some
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[ __ ]
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it's happening this might be our first
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hot flash right yes
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this is the first oh boy oh with the fan
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perfect
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oh you ready yeah
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is that what you do you bring the fans
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that's right
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everybody else got t-shirts and swag i
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got fans that's what i'm doing okay
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[Music]
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yo you should that's a good merch idea
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yeah that's a merch idea right big facts
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yeah wanda fan okay
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so you married you're married right so
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tracy start talking about martha stewart
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who did a recent podcast interview okay
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all right and yeah martha and the clock
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hasn't if you said this she's part of
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the fiery conversation she was joking
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but she said that she can't wait for
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some of her friends to pass so she could
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date their husbands damn
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and how it's been really tough to date
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and the people she finds herself
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fantasizing about or attracted to are
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already taken by her girls
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wow and i feel like that fantasy comes
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across a lot more minds
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than we would like to think i also feel
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like there are some arrangements let's
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say before a spouse passes away
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particularly when it comes to men this
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might also be off a tradition where they
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may want someone really close to them to
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take care of their widow huh
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my take is what yeah let me hear what's
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your take hell nah
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i'm not gonna
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well number one when i meet people and
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they'll have their significant other if
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it's a woman
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i don't do a lot of eye contact right
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i'm like hey how you doing and i'm very
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respectful
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i shake hands and i give him the
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attention i'm not ignoring the woman
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but i'm just not playing in that gray
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area
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whatsoever right that's my take on that
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we also got into a conversation about
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would you select one of your friends
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after you pass you know to uh
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you know be with your person to carry on
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i said hell nah i'm not setting him up
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exactly for that what are your thoughts
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on him
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no
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you got to get back out in the streets
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and find some fresh meat you ain't gonna
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be
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no you ain't gonna be
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hanging out with friends and other
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couples and like mm-hmm soon as sheryl
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dropped dead that's mine right there i'm
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on that you can't do that you can't do
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that that's crazy right now now uh we
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you you lusting after my after my
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partner that's my point once you say you
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know once i pass it's on you yeah every
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time that friend come over
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they sizing up your wife exactly they
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prepare it yeah
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yeah you can't even you need a food that
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woman who brought you the fan got to
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taste your food exactly exactly
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you need a food taster
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no we ain't we ain't playing that don't
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go on no cruise with martha y'all i'll
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tell you that right now why all my all
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monsters girlfriends don't y'all don't
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go no cruise
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i just wanted to ask this question
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because um you're one of my favorite
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comedians when it comes to political
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comedy you know like george carlin
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people like that who have just found a
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way to make people laugh and talk about
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really serious issues that are happening
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in our country but also make you think
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about it
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we're at a point now where the joke is
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politics
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truly so how do
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how do you as a comedian find a way to
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address these new issues
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even though they're really not funny to
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laugh at because like [ __ ] is really
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getting bad yeah but still find a way to
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bring people to to to discuss it without
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being like a it's either my side or your
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side right like role versus way yeah
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it's really hard it's really hard now
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because like you said the
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when reality
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has become so ridiculous you know it's
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like it's like doing a parody of a
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parody you know like if if
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if i told you the stuff that's happening
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now
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you know if i if i said this stuff like
10:58
10 years ago people be
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crying laughs like get out of here that
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that didn't happen and i was like no no
11:03
this this [ __ ] is real yeah yeah so it
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it does make it hard um you know but but
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we have to do it because comedy is a way
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to get people to at least start talking
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and at least you know at least at least
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some empathy where they can at least you
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know see
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see somebody else's point of view but
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yeah it's it's
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it's hard out here man cause people get
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mad yeah man i mean you know you use
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people just nuts out here now with this
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mm-hmm which i saw what i saw
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the guy tackled dave right there
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on stage that was very bold yeah very
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bold yeah yeah
11:39
he might have disagreed with what he
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said but that's what comedians you know
11:43
right that's what comedians do they
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right they trigger thoughts right yeah
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you might not always agree with what
11:48
wanda sykes has to say but you can't
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tackle her old things hold up on me
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though yeah what you're gonna do you
11:53
sound like you you carrying don't run up
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on me
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i'll bust you in the head with a fan
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that guy was also using it
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he was also using that as a viral moment
12:03
because he was like an aspiring rapper
12:04
so he ran out there to try to get some
12:06
publicity yeah but it's like you you're
12:07
ruining my show for your whack-ass
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career right yeah right
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i didn't know that enough of him
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he ain't gonna trigger that career here
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exactly wanda you know how often times
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comedians will use their art as a form
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of therapy you know what i mean finding
12:23
the laughter and whatever challenges
12:24
that life brings and i'm wondering for
12:26
yourself was it ever difficult to go a
12:29
bit deeper and not use a joke to kind of
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deflect on something serious in your
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life did you ever find that challenging
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you know
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i guess it's just how i'm wired i i
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always have to find the the comedy the
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fun in it because uh that's that's how i
12:46
cope that's my that's my coping
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mechanism yeah you know so if i don't
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find
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something funny or something to laugh
12:53
then you know i'm
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just you know you can easily just spiral
12:58
you know into into all your your [ __ ]
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like i remember when i when i was
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diagnosed with with breast cancer and uh
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i was in line the grocery store and you
13:06
know it was like one of those uh you
13:08
know 12 items or less or whatever and i
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looked in i was like oh damn you know i
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had you know 13 i was in the ladies she
13:14
was all being picked to say you you have
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14 nights i said yeah one of them's
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cancer and she was like oh
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okay
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you know
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what the baby laughs you know
13:26
damn that was cruel
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maybe land
13:30
she packed up my [ __ ]
13:33
she packed that 14th item wow okay that
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makes one of them is cancer how do you
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respond to that
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you don't you just pack it up bro
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shut down the house uh randy's on the
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line from new york randy rise and sean
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we got one decides here 888
13:48
742-3345 randy you there what up randy
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yeah i'm here i'm here good morning the
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morning
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i love your show hey thank you brother i
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like you
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sing it to wanda sing it again
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in the morning
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i love your work i love your show wonder
14:12
i love the upshots i saw two seasons of
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evidence but i'm still watching it it is
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hilarious as a comedian with myself and
14:20
an actor and a filmmaker i love it you
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may i mean you remind me of the modern
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day version i hope you're taking a good
14:27
good compliment remind me of modern
14:35
how is it how was it how was it working
14:37
with mike f and the legendary were both
14:40
from legendary kim phil
14:42
i am having such a blast i'm telling you
14:45
mike he is
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so funny and such a good actor he really
14:49
is and um just so much you know just fun
14:52
he's a sweetheart really i i'm just like
14:55
really blessed to be working with both
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of them so you know it's it's always
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just you just feel so grateful when you
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get up and and can go to work and you
15:04
know you love what you're doing so um
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yeah we're we're having a blast over
15:08
there
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yeah
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yes when is the third season coming
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because i can't wait oh my goodness you
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guys are
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funny you're like a modern day jefferson
15:17
as well it is hilarious i love it thank
15:19
you so much um yeah we don't know when
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part two is gonna drop but yeah we have
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eight more episodes in the can so um
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yeah just stay tuned we just we don't
15:27
know the date when we're gonna release
15:28
something it'll happen randy man your
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great call bro um have a beautiful day
15:32
you're a citizen that's wait a minute
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okay wanda sykes is here we're talking
15:36
about the upshaw's
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uh season two wanda let me ask you this
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um uh i know people ask you about the
15:42
oscars the whole time
15:43
but uh
15:44
did they invite you to come back next
15:46
year
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uh not yet not not yet not yet but i'm
15:49
gonna wear head gear if i do
15:55
but if they did
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would you
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um i don't know man you know it was such
16:01
a special moment especially doing it
16:03
with um regina hall who is i just adore
16:07
and and amy schumer also funny a good
16:09
friend you know it was like the three of
16:11
us it was just um
16:13
it just it just made it fun and and also
16:16
sharing the the duties you know it just
16:18
made it such a just a easier and
16:21
collaborative effort um so i don't yeah
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i don't know if i if i would want to do
16:26
it again unless it was with those two
16:29
yes yeah you'll be more likely if it was
16:31
that right if it was like another
16:33
grouping uh
16:35
yeah even with those two i mean yeah and
16:37
i think the price got to go up
16:39
uh-huh to make up for what happened
16:43
sure you know they don't they don't
16:44
really pay you they don't really pay you
16:46
much for hosting yeah i actually end up
16:48
owing money because you guys end up
16:51
costing me money yeah cause like you
16:52
know stylist and wardrobe and all that
16:55
stuff yeah does it balance out though
16:58
the exposure mm-hmm i mean i guess so
17:00
yeah i mean you know i mean i'm not not
17:02
complaining at all it was it's an honor
17:04
doing it and it was uh and we had a good
17:06
time but um i you know i don't i don't
17:09
even know i mean that's not why you do
17:10
it anyway okay you know okay i didn't
17:12
realize so you don't make money it costs
17:13
you money
17:15
chris rock's uh concert tickets
17:17
skyrocketed after that absolutely
17:19
absolutely salute to chris rock huh
17:22
you know he benefited that way you and
17:24
him have been awesome friends
17:27
we've all starred in some movies
17:28
together
17:29
courtesy of chris rock
17:31
right how is he have you how what how is
17:34
he doing have you speak um i haven't
17:35
talked to him lately but uh you know i
17:38
saw him that night and then we um you
17:40
know we we text mostly back and forth
17:42
and all but yeah he's you know chris
17:45
chris is he's he's such a
17:47
amazing guy and uh you know he's back
17:50
out in the road doing his thing he's
17:52
gonna do some big shows with with uh
17:54
kevin hart yeah
17:55
so he's yeah he's doing his thing chris
17:57
chris is always gonna be all right
17:59
absolutely he's a great comedian and he
18:01
could take a punch yeah
18:04
punch line i'm sorry punch lines punch
18:06
lines
18:07
you missed that one i missed that one
18:08
that was on purpose i mean i tried
18:11
i mean that that slap was ridiculous i
18:13
mean he hit him so hard even the dude
18:15
from coda heard it
18:17
[Laughter]
18:23
oh no
18:25
it was a
18:27
oh my gosh at this stage of your gay
18:29
water you still got stuff on
18:31
your bucket list or stuff on my bucket
18:34
list
18:35
um
18:36
not i mean not really i mean i i think
18:40
about maybe directing but i don't know i
18:43
don't know i i have too much fun in
18:44
front of the camera and writing
18:46
producing so i don't yeah i don't know
18:48
what was the most like excited item that
18:50
you was able to cross off
18:53
a major highlight oscars right um maybe
18:56
you know what i gotta say it was the
18:58
white house correspondence
19:00
[Music]
19:01
yeah it was the obamas
19:04
yeah yeah so i think i think that that
19:07
was really up there
19:08
yeah
19:09
and that's a
19:11
that's a fun crowd to perform in front
19:13
of boy yeah i was i used to go to the
19:15
chorus but i haven't been back
19:17
yeah yeah wow
19:20
i haven't been back
19:22
yeah uh
19:23
db you wanna uh close yeah just real
19:25
quick because i know we have a lot of
19:26
writers and uh people who wanna write
19:28
for tv and film so can you kind of give
19:30
some insight as to the process of you
19:33
know when you're unknown and you don't
19:34
have any clout yet in the business but
19:36
what what should be the starting point
19:38
for approaching someone's like i have an
19:39
idea i have a script written or you know
19:44
what do you call it a screenplay
19:45
something like that like how do you get
19:47
that into the right hands of someone so
19:48
that it can possibly get made but i mean
19:50
that's it um when you're you're a writer
19:53
you need a sample you need you know like
19:55
a treatment yeah or if how whatever you
19:58
want to do if you want to do a treatment
19:59
if you want to you know if you have the
20:01
whole script um
20:03
you know an idea but that's that's it
20:05
like if people walk up to me and go hey
20:07
man you know i i write how can i i was
20:09
like well let me see what you have you
20:11
know you got to show me something
20:13
because that that means you're writing
20:15
you know if you if you have a
20:17
a product so yeah it's um just i would
20:20
just say you're you want to write just
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keep writing and and uh send your
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scripts out you know
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one decision and also a lot of the net a
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lot of networks they have um uh like
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programs uh intern programs or they have
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programs where they're looking for
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writers because we're always gonna need
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writers you know so um yeah check check
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each network like i know ava duvernay
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has has a program um yeah just really
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send your senior stuff to those those
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people because they they do read them
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should you copyright it first so that
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you know you don't run into any issues
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later that might be smart yeah man that
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might be smart okay
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i think the the the guild the writer's
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guild you can even um send stuff to them
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and uh
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get it like listed or whatever so that
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way um to protect yourself too
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yeah thank you wanda for running this um
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lecture hall for us today
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that concludes my ted talk there you go
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okay wanda sykes big round of applause
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wanda it's great to see you
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always good to see y'all absolutely
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absolutely uh love you i love you as
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long as i got a platform you got a place
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to promote i appreciate you okay who
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cooks at your house me
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you the shelf yeah yeah i love the cup
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you can down yes i mean i got some lamb
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chops that are woof really yeah that's
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your thing lamb chops yeah you do fish i
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do everything oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah glasgow uh back and forth it's
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plotting window
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i might get the invite if i do i won't
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talk about it no pictures no posting
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none of that [ __ ] all right
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wanda i love you give it up for wonder
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sykes okay um listen we'll be back
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tomorrow ice tea is coming by tomorrow
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exactly no no no no no no okay no no it
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was next week
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somebody else coming back oh it's next
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week yes
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who's coming tomorrow
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surprise okay
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you'll know tomorrow but wanda's here
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today so make sure you uh watch the
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upshaw's on netflix check it out uh
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tracy g how can i reach you citizens
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love y'all hit me up on twitter
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g-i-t-s-t-r-a-c-y-g jump in my dms and
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let me know who you are all right wanda
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if they want to hit you on social media
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can they yes i am wanda sykes that's all
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on everything twitter ig i am
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wanderscience soon to be on tick tock um
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i'm at real sway across the board thank
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you for tuning in citizens stay on the
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right side of positivity today and
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everything can be accomplished and we'll
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check in with you tomorrow same time
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same channel and on that note we have
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nothing
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left to say
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