Killin It
Comedians London Brown, Justin Hires, & BT Kingsley converse with top people in entertainment and culture that are killing it in their life and career.
Killin It
TIFFANY HADDISH
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Actress/Comedian, Tiffany Haddish, discuss challenges of being famous, Girls Trip audition, becoming a Sports Illustrated cover model, sleeping in her car, realizing her value, and more.
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What's the biggest adjustment you've had to make since becoming famous?
SPEAKER_02Can't be the hoe I would like to be.
SPEAKER_01Like this fame make you like keep your legs closed. Like, unless you could with talking about it, but I I talk about it. I wanna do it. But it's not can't trust these people. Can't trust none of these.
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SPEAKER_01I feel like we all grew up together. Yeah. Looking around like we grown.
SPEAKER_03It's family. It's the families. It's the family lamb.
SPEAKER_01Are all of y'all married now?
SPEAKER_03No. I belong to the streets.
SPEAKER_01No, no, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. Just in there.
SPEAKER_05That's why you married to yourself.
SPEAKER_01That part. Damn right. Let me put my ring on. We in an open relationship, so I'll move my ring. Come on, son, man. I'll take it off sometime. I'll be like, I don't have time for this. We don't, we don't appreciate this. Whew!
SPEAKER_05Hey man, welcome to another episode of Killin It with your host, Justin Hyas. London Brown. V2 Kingsley. And man, we got a we got an incredible episode today, man. We've been trying to make this thing happen. She got a busy schedule. She finally pulled up. Man, I gotta say her credits. Because like I said, everybody don't got it. Everybody got no credits. Everybody don't got no credits. She got some credits. We got some credits. Let me take a nap. Take your time. I got a snugg for you. Girls Trip, Night School, Keanu, Haunted Mansion, the TV series, the after party, Bad Trip, Last OG, Nobody's Food, The Carmichael Show, Comedy Special. She ready in Black Mitzvah, SNL host, and now Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model. The one and only Tiffany Haddon.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, fellas. Good meeting.
SPEAKER_05Thank you guys. Now we go way back. I mean, once you from LA, so I'm sure you know London for a while.
SPEAKER_04We've done some hole in the wall spray.
SPEAKER_05And then we done did a bunch of pilots that never aired. Um CBS Diversity Showcase. We all three did it together. Yeah. CBS. Yeah, yeah. CBS Diversity. It was me, Tiffany, you, Hassan. Yep, Hasim Malay. Fortune Themster. So we go way, way, way, way back. You know what I'm saying? But this is what I noticed. I don't think it's too controversial. This is what I noticed. You got a different team, right? Than who you used to have, right?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. But I've, you know, I've changed teams a few times. So wait, so I'm a businesswoman.
SPEAKER_05That's what I was about to say. So I was so I just switched teams too. I just got with new management and all that type of stuff, new agents. Tell, I want you to talk about the importance of having a good team around you.
SPEAKER_01It is, I think, well, it it's I think the second most important thing in this business. Maybe the third, the third most important thing. But your team is so important. They need to be able to listen to you, uh, comprehend what your dream is, what your goal is, and then know how to execute and delegate and bring things to the table and whatnot. Um, I feel like if your team isn't motivated, they should be your biggest fans. I think. Or at least pretend, at least act as good as I act.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be honest. At least act like it. One of my last representation, this never hit the like button on my post. I said, well, how you manage it me and you don't hit the like. You don't like nothing I put I'm on TV. You get a commission. Yeah, you don't like nothing. You better like the trailer, at least. You better like so I'm letting you know.
SPEAKER_01Something you they I feel like they need to like have some sort of appreciation, right? Like, uh, because they're they're basically your protectors and your salesmen and all that. And if they can't, if you can't sell, it's hard to sell you don't like, right? Or you don't know how it works. If you don't know how it works, it's really hard to sell it.
SPEAKER_05And what you mean by that is selling you as the product, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that my talents, my talents, my gifts. If you don't know what I can, what I'm capable of, it's gonna be a little difficult for you, I think. So uh I try to go with people when I when I move, when I make my moves, I'm looking for how much of a fan are they? Do they want to make money? Because I want to make money too. Right. Right? But um, are they willing to put in as much at least at least 45% of the amount of work that I'm willing to put in. I'm gonna put in 110. If you can put in 45% of that, I'm gonna be okay. Yeah. But as soon as I start seeing you, if if it feels like you're being lazy, you're not showing up, you're not like like any job, then I have to let you go. You're not a fan no more. You don't appreciate this no more.
SPEAKER_05And I say this before you, I mean I'm done after this. Well, I'm gonna say this. When it comes to your representation, I used to want them to put in 45%. Then I realized, well, I only paid them 10%. And usually that's the amount of effort I see them in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but if you're getting paid $7 million, 45, you know, 10% of $7 million.
SPEAKER_05That's a lot of money.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_05I feel you.
SPEAKER_01I get paid $12. I get paid minimum wage.
SPEAKER_05If anybody don't know what scale is, that's that's what I'm saying. I mean it changes, it changes as the level changes.
SPEAKER_04Um go ahead. No, you know, I I feel the same way as far as to what you're saying because I think a lot of times people that are inspiring to get into entertainment art, I think a lot of people feel like the goal is to find an agent and a manager, and then you just work. But I'm like, find an agent and manager is like, find a good nail tech or a good barber. You gotta find one that works for you. That's good for you. Like a size that works for you. Um When did you what are some of the things that you look for or that you were looking for to let you know, okay, these kind of people, they are really invested in the Tiffany brand.
SPEAKER_01Uh, I'm looking for I'm looking for do they know who I am? Did they do their research? Right? Um, and like are they willing like listening is one thing, actions is another. So I'm paying attention to actions, right? Like I I do that in my dating life, friendships, everything. Like, so because people will tell you, they'll blow smoke up your ass. They can make you feel good with their words. That what are you doing? Like, acts of service, what are you doing? Like, what are you actively doing? And if you're actively doing nothing, at least, at least actively do the 10% you're gonna get. Like, what are you actually doing? What can you do for me? Like, I won't sign with nobody unless they brought something, like I'm seeing them actively doing things. Um, yeah, that's how that's how I move.
SPEAKER_04How did you uh what was your conversation to to remove the people? How what is that like?
SPEAKER_01Uh that was painful because I be loving people. Like I I really love like if if you working for me, I'm gonna probably love you, not be like in love with you. I don't even know if I'm capable of that, but I love and care for everybody that's improper.
SPEAKER_05You not capable of it. You know what I'm talking about. Let's unpack them up.
SPEAKER_01What do you mean it's only only half of us have ever been married in this? Only one of us has stayed married. And only three of us are happy.
SPEAKER_06I'm talking I love my wife.
SPEAKER_04I'm talking about time for you to let those team members go, what was that conversation? Was it an email? Was it a how does that happen?
SPEAKER_01Um I've done it, I've done it face to face before. Like it had a conversation, let them know that I really care about them, but I just feel like that I could I could be better served in other places. So um I'm not discontinuing our friendship, our human connection, but I'm discontinuing our business connection. Um it's it's I mean, man, I'm one time I let this publicist go out. I really hate the way I did it. I wish I would have did it a different way. I did it in an email and said, you know, I'm terminating the this this this business situation for now until, you know, further notice. I wish I would have used different words or not even sent the email. I could have called them. I had these are like they were like my friends. I could have just called them and told them.
SPEAKER_05Um you did it the Michael Jackson way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was do it the Michael Jackson. I had the business manager's teaching. Yeah, I did, I did it. That was not good. I didn't like the way I did that. And then um, but then other times I've done it, you know, just like, hey, this I don't think this is working out. This ain't this ain't moving the way I think it should be moving. So we're gonna just discontinue.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so uh I want to go back because um you are an icon. And a lot of things are hair, move that hair.
SPEAKER_01Open up my neck on my main arteries.
SPEAKER_03The um the the entity of you is is so it is such a a comet that we see kind of shoot through the industry. Now, mind you, been talented, been hilarious, been amazing this whole time. I have a theory that there was a couple of things that happen all at the same time in a very short span, and I think things get left out. Uh obviously Girls Trip happens, and it's this amazing ride. Cool. Um But also, that initial Breakfast Club interview and seeing how human you are, and the book, and the special being all in this this very unique space, and not for nothing. I believe Lass OG is slightly before that. So it's like it's uh it's not just girls' trip. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01And before that it was uh uh Tyler Perry's uh series, it's Loving You Is Wrong, and right after that, the Carmichael show. Yes like I have been working, I was on my name is Earl at Sunny Philadelphia.
SPEAKER_03I I've been working, Keanu. Oh, oh, oh, we're gonna get into Keanu. Oh, we we're gonna circle back.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I have been working for a long time.
SPEAKER_03I started in 1900, not 1900. How how impactful do you feel like that time frame was as far as the the intensity of Girl Strip and that interview with how human you are and you know, and the book coming out revealing so much all at the same time?
SPEAKER_01Um, you know, it was at Breakfast Club interview, and I did an interview with Neil Brennan. I did some on his podcast. So it was like going, but like people say, oh, you had that big crossover, you a crossover. But like I didn't limit myself to where I wanted to be. I'm like, I always make sure I do something black, I always make sure I do something white. Yeah. I always make sure I do something above that and where the Hispanics, the Asians, wherever. Like I I did a lot, but I plotted it out. I planned it. Like I literally visualized, like, okay, uh, when I did Keanu after Keanu, and I was like, I saw that movie, I said, I got a lot of potential to do some some good things. I need to start like planning. Like, okay, I'm gonna start writing this book. And I had been kind of started the book when I did Arsenio Hall back in 2014. And I wanted to drop a book then, but I was like, oh, I haven't lived life enough yet. I'm not successful enough yet. So didn't do it. Then cut to 2017. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna drop the book on my around my birthday. I want my special to come out around like maybe a month or two before that. And then um, and then uh and Girls Trip came out that summer. So I thought, like, oh, it'll be a great, a great lead up. And then I got uh SNL. So, and that was just after my birthday. So I'm like, cool, this is gonna be boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm gonna be like bam in everybody's face. And then I'll like draw back a little bit, and then, but it just seemed like it was like bam! Yeah. I'm like, oh, this is like a super saiyan.
SPEAKER_00Bring it back, bring it back, not it back. I want to go on the beach.
SPEAKER_01Like, yeah, it's a long fucking wave that I rolled for a minute, and then the wave crashed out, and now I'm back up on the wave again.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the the Keanu thing is so interesting to me. I remember sitting in that movie, because uh anybody that knows you and have seen you on stage and seen you killing knows that you can do both. I could be crystal, I could be good with kids, I could be clean, I could be any of these different things, but also hard-rated R is something very necessary for comedy. And the and the talk in the city was, oh yeah, Tiff said this great film. All right, cool. Yeah, you know, stars to the cars. All right, cool, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's it's rated R. Wait a wait, wait a minute. Y'all let Tiff get a hard rated R, it was like, this is this is donezo, you guys. Y'all, y'all don't even let comics really do this. I don't even know if you make this world. This is gonna be extremely epic. But in watching Keanu, watching the turn of that character from who she is to the reveal, spoil Keanu for everybody. It was a spoiler alert.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it came out like 11 years ago.
SPEAKER_03When you saw it on film, you felt like, oh no, this was this was great performance, and I I know that I killed this.
SPEAKER_01When I saw it, I remember the first time they let us view it outside, and I was like, I need all of that for my reel. This is gonna be great for my demo reel. Like, remember we had the demo reel? And I was like, this is gonna be so good, right in the middle. I'm gonna take this scene, this scene, and show the reveal of the case. Like, this is gonna be perfect for my reel. And then it came out in theaters, and and I remember Chris Spencer saying, Nigga, you out of here. It's a rap. You gone. And I was like, I don't know what he's talking about. I went to go see it in the theaters where people was watching it. I'm sitting in the back of the theater and I'm listening to the audience laugh. I'm listening to what the, you know, I went to Magic Johnson theaters at the time. I'm listening to how they responded to it. And and you know, the audience never lies. And so after that, I was like, okay, I gotta start plotting because something's coming. I I got I gotta get this right. And then like maybe uh what a month or two months later, then I had to audition for Girls Trip. And then within four days of that audition, of the final audition, boom, I'm on set.
SPEAKER_05Talk about that audition process for girls trip.
SPEAKER_01Man. So I auditioned like four times. Uh it was uh first, but first they didn't want to see me at all because I did Keanu and the crew from that movie was working on Girls Trip, and they read the script. So they sent me uh the script and said, Man, this was you last summer when you was out here with us. You need to be doing this movie. This is you, this is you. So I read it, and like eight different crew members sent it to me. So that's a lot. And first of all, and kudos to me. Eight different crew members got my email and they like me enough to share information. It was a good time. Yeah, I know I'm gonna have fun and a story to tell. Yeah. So they send me this. I read the script. I'm like, yo, this is me. I call my agent and I say, yo, can you give me an audition for this movie? And he goes, Oh yeah, yeah, we looked into that. They they only want names. And I'm like, okay, well, I've had a name since 1979. It's Tiffany Motherfucking had it. Get me up in there. You ready? Tiffany Motherfucker, get me in there. I got a name. And he's like, Yeah, Tiffany, they want big names. They want big names. I'm like, just get me any kind of audition with this casting director. So they get me a pre-read, right? So I'm reading with the assistant. Wow. Okay, the casting director's assistant, who could have been just an intern for all I know. I don't know. Then um, they call me back. I I did a good job with them. They call me back. Then I'm reading with the, I guess the casting director of the assistant, and now they put me on tape, right? Then I come back again, and now I'm doing for the casting director and some of the producers, right? Then I come back again, and now I'm doing for the director, and we're doing it on Skype. And at that point, I was only used to like Skyping, like some like sexy shit for my my husband.
SPEAKER_04Come on, buddy. Come on, talk about it.
SPEAKER_01So there I was uncomfortable. Well I was like, if I start unbuttoning something or whatever, the way your lighting is over there, wherever you are, the way that light is hitting you is like how you see him when I'm there. I might say, uh, I don't know. And uh She's hired. No, he didn't hire me right away. Not till like, I guess like the next day, or like the next day, and then they hired me. He said the reason the thing that made him decide to hire me was because well, I took the instructions well, but also because every time he watched my audition tape, it made him laugh from the first one with the intern. I mean the second one with the the second intern assistant, whoever that was. But yeah.
SPEAKER_05The same thing you just said when you did, when I saw the trailer for Girls Trip and I saw that it was rated R, I knew you was out of here. Because I used to always tell people she's the female. Before you blew up, I used to tell people, I was like, this is a girl named Tiffany Addish. I said she's the like the female Martin Lawrence. And what I meant by that, I was like, yo, she's raw, and she's she's uh she does act outs, like, yo, I was like, she's like the female Martin Lawrence. She's super lovable, yeah. Yeah, and so I knew all it was gonna take was that rate, that the right-rated R film for you to be able to get off. And so when I saw the trail, I said, it's a rap.
SPEAKER_03I I got on on that note, all right, boom. Uh you get the role, I did the audition, I did the process, I'm on set now. At what point in time does the either the decision or the understanding coming that I am I'm killing it and they letting me go? Or is it just a choice, like, nah, fuck it. I'm just I'm just letting it go. Because, you know, as actors and performers, sometimes we'll decide to pull back. What do they want, what do they not want, and then sometimes you just make the decision, nah, I'm finna go ahead and kill this shit.
SPEAKER_01Well, luckily I was working with Malcolm Lee and I got to have like conversation with him beforehand, right? So, and he's like, okay, so I know you're good at improv. I hear you do good at this, good at that. We're gonna have some rehearsals. We'll see how we're doing the rehearsal. So when we had the rehearsals, which was so great because I got to really know the girls and they got to know me. And they I think they all like, oh, she our little sister. This girl is a little mentally trash. She's special. So I had an opportunity to play and and got an opportunity to give uh Malcolm a chance to know how to like, I wouldn't say discipline, but how to reprimand and be like, no, we're not doing that. Bring that down, that down. Okay. Because I would just, and you know, like when we would rehearse for the schedules and all that stuff. Just try anything. We just practicing right now. So then he knew how far I would go, right? And the whole time, I'm telling you every single take, I would be like, he said, first we'll do it the studio way. Got it. And then we can play your way. Because I would be up late at night writing, oh, this'll be good, this'll be a good punch, this will be a good punch, and then I run over to him as soon as I get there. And like, I don't even got my whole wig on or nothing. I'm like, hey, Malcolm, what you think about this? I'd rather he'd be like, Tiffany, one for the studio, then one you can play. But every time, Queen Latif would be like, fuck that studio shit. Do that shit. Do that shit. Y'all watch you, do your shit, do your shit, Tiffany. Do your shit. Beautiful. I'm like, dang, if we went to school together, we would be expelled like a mud.
SPEAKER_03What up, y'all? Thank you for uh watching, man. Listen, we appreciate you, but I need you to go ahead and hit that little subscribe. Don't ask, hit the little subscribe button. Thank you. That didn't take but so long. Look at you. Harmless.
SPEAKER_01I'll just start doing my shit. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04What's what small decisions you feel you've made that have been impactful in a big way?
SPEAKER_01Uh small decisions that I have made that have been impactful in a big way. Uh, here's a decision. Uh no, that's uh I don't know.
SPEAKER_05Say it. Unless it's gonna get you canceled.
SPEAKER_01When I'm hungry, instead of like immediately like, let me see what I'm finna eat, I'll drink water. And then wait 20 minutes. And if I'm still hungry, then I need to see what I need to eat.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That's good.
SPEAKER_01And on the flip, on the And that changed my, I'm now I'm gonna cut Risports Illustrated.
SPEAKER_05Come on, somebody, come on, sister. Well, I mean, since you mentioned it, what was your diet and exercise routine to get as in shape as you are? You know, cover model.
SPEAKER_01And I'm still not in all the shape I want to be in. Okay. I'm finna like level. You're about to be like, damn, tell him what the fuck are you doing out here? Uh okay, so literally when I'm hungry, when I think I'm hungry or I want a snack, I want something, drink water, then wait 20 minutes, then I'll eat a meal, an actual meal, then just drink water in between. Uh, but uh, and I will eat whatever I want to eat. I eat whatever I want to, whatever I want to, especially since I stopped drinking alcohol. So when I'm like, dang, I would like a drink, I'll eat a Jolly Rancher or a ginger, drink some ginger beer, or uh eat just eat a fucking piece of cake or some ice cream because it's the same as drinking the alcohol, except I'm gonna remember everything. I'm not gonna wake up next to nobody ugly. Uh when I'm around my house, I wear my weighted vests. I wear a 20-pound weighted vest around the house when I like walking around cleaning, washing dishes, mopping the floors, I wear my weighted vest. Every time I use the bathroom, I do 25 squats. Um I'm not allowed to wipe my ass till I do 25 squats.
SPEAKER_05Oh, wow. So you just got you just got steak ass for 25 squats. And then you get it in. So you're gonna get it.
SPEAKER_01But remember, I'm rich. I have a bidet. So I didn't know the squats and then I get the power.
SPEAKER_05I got a water holes and I put a thumb over it. That's how I clean my ass.
SPEAKER_01And then I live, like I lift weights, heavy weights, like once a week, and I do like minimal weightlifting throughout the week in like a pure bar class.
SPEAKER_03So, okay, uh, you know where I'm going. I don't know where you're going. Oh, no, I know where you're going. Because she done mentioned rich.
SPEAKER_05I know where you're going.
SPEAKER_03No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_05I not even got there yet.
SPEAKER_01But even before I was rich, Rich, I had a bidet. I got it off a group on for $200. So yeah, you just plug it in the wall and then hook it up to the little tube in the back of the toilet, put it on, put the toilet seat thing in it.
SPEAKER_05Twitter's bug. Like I used to tell, like I tell people, I used to be rich, and then they cancel McGuyra. Now I'm just a nigga that pays. I'm able to pay my bills on auto pay. That's just rich. That's rich. That's just stuff. That's rich. It's on auto pay. It's all auto pay. It's all auto pay. It's all auto pay.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Yeah, you ain't worried. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_03Bills, baby. On pay. You are hilarious. Thank you. I love starting there. I love that part first. Make it clear. Oh, I know where he's going. Yeah, Tiffany Haddish is hilarious.
SPEAKER_01You hilarious too. Thank you. We've done many shows together.
SPEAKER_05It's a compliment. It's a compliment. Um I hope it is. Oh, you know, you know. We're gonna see.
SPEAKER_03We're gonna see. I say that you are the antithesis of a new generation of comics. Before you, nobody got to the heights and the levels that you have reached looking like you. You are also gorgeous. I need you to uh talk about embracing that and being a beautiful, hilarious, hilarious, beautiful woman in this business, and uh and you on the front of the you on the front covers for that's not what the that's not what the business be doing. That's not normally how they identify funny, and that that's not that was not the mode. You broke it, let me tell it. I argue with your mama, I said what I said.
SPEAKER_01Talking about it's it's female comedians in Playboy.
SPEAKER_03Who?
SPEAKER_05And where can I find this issue?
SPEAKER_01And and and Dusty Handler, Lunel.
SPEAKER_05She a play. Oh wow, come on, stop. Okay. She's a hustler, that's right. That's right. This is what he said on many episodes. Every female comedian before you was ugly as shit. That's what I forget. He always said on this show before Tiffany, they was all washed in trash. And that's why it's true. That's not true. I know that. He don't say that, but okay. So what's the question? Why about it? No, no, no.
SPEAKER_03No, it's it's it is a there is a changing of the now. There's a lot of beautiful women in the business. There should be. As there should be. Some more is beautiful. So there's there's beautiful women doing very well in the business and not hiding from it, not on stage in the ball cap and just Yeah, like we used to. What changed? Outside of just you.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, I'll tell you, remember the hop? Remember we used to do the hop and like with? So I was doing a hop one night, I was there with sexy Marlo, and Marlo's always like, You always dressing like a nigga, like pretty you pretty girl, dress like a pretty girl, be pretty. And I'm like, I ain't doing none of that. Like, whatever. I want people to hear my jokes. I want people to get there. I want to be able to move freely or whatever. And then Scruncho was saying the same thing. Scruncho was there, he was saying the same thing, like, yeah, use your femininity like you a nice person. You're not a good thing. You're a nice person. Shout out to Scroncho. And then um, this lady came up and she said she used to be a publicist. And she goes, you know, I think you would go a lot further in your career if you would literally lean into your femininity. You're a pretty girl. You got a flat stomach, show your stomach. You have a pretty face, put some makeup on it. Stop wearing hats all the time. Like get your hair done. You don't gotta walk around here in big old clothes, wear clothes that actually fit you and put on some damn heels. Like you're a pretty girl.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'm like, but at that point, I had already been doing comedy like 10 years, and it was on some like, you need to be like these men. If you want to be respected, you need to be like, like, because they don't like you. Well, you know how y'all do.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I'm not saying that you guys are particularly.
SPEAKER_05I know some of the good ones.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, you guys are some of the good ones.
SPEAKER_05But uh at least in the comedy world.
SPEAKER_01That because the world is vicious. So it's like, oh, so then it was this little battle that I was having with myself all the time of, okay, I get really pretty if a guy asks me out on a date. Why would I get really pretty for these comedy shows? They're not gonna listen to my jokes, they're not gonna listen to me. And then I saw an interview with uh Patty LaBelle, and she said, I try to make sure I always look good when I do a show. Because those people pay big money to come and have a good time with me, and they get dressed up and paying for babysitters so I'm gonna try to be make sure I'm looking good. And I'm like, okay, I love Patty LaBelle. I'm gonna try to do what Patty LaBelle does. So I tried it for a while, and you know, you dip and dive. Like some days you have your days, some days we like looking like, God damn, what the fuck you doing? But I I know there was a period of time after after that conversation where I was wearing the same outfit like every Thursday, every Tuesday. Like Joe Quay always makes fun of me about that. Like, he's like, damn, you wear the same thing. Like you got a uniform for the stage. I'm like, well, yes, this is my performance outfit. Like, so I was homeless. So what what am I, you know? This is what I have. Otherwise, I gotta go to storage. And next week, you know, next month it'll be a whole another set of clothes for the whole week. But yeah.
SPEAKER_05I want to know what's the biggest adjustment you've had to make since becoming famous?
SPEAKER_02Can't be the hoe I would like to be.
SPEAKER_01Like, this fame shit make you like keep your legs closed. Like, unless you cool with niggas talking about it, but I like I'm just, you know, I talk about sex. I want to do it. But it's not can't trust these people, can't trust none of these motherfuckers.
SPEAKER_05But don't I guess I would think the the the level of men you messing with have something to lose too, right? Or are you fucking with gardeners? Okay. As long as it's dick big. You like the medium, that's right, that's right. I don't like it. Shout out to all the medium dicks. You know what I'm saying? We're at you.
SPEAKER_00Let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_05My perfect fit, goddammit. Call me Goldilocks dick. It ain't too big, it ain't too small. Yeah, that's right. That's what I'm on.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna be able to go to work the next day. Yeah. Uh more later that night.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna be the Diddy Escort dick, niggas. Fuck y'all, okay? Don't nobody run on that tearing up that torso. Don't nobody get on that.
SPEAKER_01See the thing on Instagram, the dude that's in, I think he's in Ecuador or something like that. That he has an extra, like his penis just never stopped growing. Oh, would it be? And it goes pat, it goes to his ankle. And he has to put socks around it. He got like bandos on it. He does not fit in his pants. He holds it like this. Like I thought it, I thought it was AI at first. But it's not a lot. Why that's on Instagram where they blur it out? That's the long thing. No, because he got socks and shit all over it. He got like this, he got it, like his.
SPEAKER_04I'm not from Ecuador.
SPEAKER_05I'm from No, you know what?
SPEAKER_04Shut up, listen, listen, Linda, listen. No, you know what? What's what's dope about um about all this going on? Because I mean, people again, the reason we have this show, man, because everyone sees people killing it. Before you were quote unquote killing it, what kept you going and said, hey, I I at some point I know I got this vision. I I know because most people that are in this field, you don't just wake up one day and decide, I'm gonna do entertainment. Somewhere, there's always kind of been some sort of seed planted. What was the thing that kept you going when you were homeless or when you was out the car? When you before the conversations happened, what kept you going?
SPEAKER_01Um, okay, so I was in foster care and I was getting moved around, and you know, uh my grandma finally got custody of us. And I will never forget, uh, I wanted to die. I felt like the world was like, I was like the world's punching bag. Like just I'm just here to be get beat up on, hurt, like just everybody's punching bag. And I wanted to die. And my grandma said, I I told my grandma, I was gonna kill myself that night. She said, You're not allowed to kill yourself. You're not like the the state of California is paying me a lot of money to make sure you don't die. You're not allowed to die. When they stop paying me, jump off the bridge. But until then, you have to stay alive. Yeah. That's and that's that's what it's gonna be. And she said it, you know, a little more aggressive than that. But it in my brain, that computed to I have value, right? Like the state of California is paying my grandma to make sure I don't die. They must know something that I don't know. They must know I'm destined for greatness. They're spending, they're they're investing money in me every month. And and and when I sat back and think about like, dang, every house that I've been in, like every place that they sent me to, those people made money because I am valuable. There's something good about me, and I gotta like figure out how to use that. And at that point, I was in drama and I was thriving in that, like in in like gifted student dramatic arts, going to Cal State LA before I even graduated from high school, taking these classes and stuff, and winning these festivals. I was dominating in the festivals, and that felt good. Like, so then and then I get into the Laugh Factory comedy camp, and like every time I'm on stage, I feel more safe than I feel anywhere else in the world. Like it it is to me, it's no better feeling than being on stage. Even when I'm bombing, I feel good, like I'm safe, you know? Like so that fueled it, that fueled it. Like, even in and then I had a job, I was doing customer service working at Alaska Airlines. In Air New Zealand. Hello, welcome to Air New Zealand. Where are you headed to today? You're going to wherever you want. Anyways, that that was cool, but it all while I was doing it, I just knew there's something bigger for me to do on this planet because the state of California don't invest in nothing.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01Like it's something far, it's something big I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna have to pay them back when I get my taxes. I feel like I've paid y'all back now.
SPEAKER_00Get up my back.
SPEAKER_01I paid y'all back. But um, yeah, that's I think that's what kept me going. It's just the thought in the back of my head is that I'm valuable. There's some value to me. California's paid money for me to be alive. My, you know, people are were employed to make sure that I live. So there's something good about me. And while I have my ups and downs about how I felt about what I want to do or who I am and all these things, and I've been in some toxic relationships, and me and have my mind kind of twisted on what I I'm supposed to be. Um I needed all those different like little episodes of life, little things to happen so that I could that so that I can act, you know? I done felt all the feelings. I done been through all the like all the shit. And uh but all the good stuff too. And I really appreciate the good stuff. And then I try to make good stuff for other people because I know how good it feels to come out of nothing and to get to be given just a little morsel of something, and I know how to turn it. And if I could teach other people how to turn that little mustard seed into a fucking full blown bush, a tree, that's what I would love to do.
SPEAKER_03That's uh giving the the light on other people is a beautiful way for me to transition into this. Uh I I I like to liken it to what happened with uh with 50. Boom, the first album comes out, everybody's on it, it's this great thing, and the labels want the next album. They want the next 50 cent albums. He said, No, no, no, no. We're doing a G Un album, so everybody else is part. In the height of everything being on fire for you, you made sure to do They Ready. Um, when I'm pretty sure that definitely we want another Tiffany special. And you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What goes into that decision making? Not only that, I uh I don't want to quote this wrong. I will cut this out if necessary. In my brain, your share ready is different because I want to say you gave either producer and or writer credits. But it I know the credits were different. I remember that specific. I just don't remember what they was. Um what goes into that decision making to to elevate those other voices?
SPEAKER_01Um I at that point I'd already been struggling for like 20 years, damn near. Right? Like, and and I would I have relationships and friendships with these other comics that are doing big things, and I see them giving opportunities, but not to us. Not to the people they come up with, not to the people they see all the time, not to the people that's been there for them. They give it to the strange white girl that nobody ever seen before. Who is this person? You know, uh, but they didn't like I don't know. I just feel like I want to look out for those who looked out for me. I wanna take it like I think of like the mother hen uh story, like who's gonna help me cut the wheat? Who's gonna help me plant the seeds? Who's gonna help me this? Like the people that were helping me along the way. The people that I got to grow with and create with and learn from. And now, okay, I made it to this point. I might have, I might have surpassed, I I know I surpassed a gang of motherfuckers. But that don't mean I can't turn around and go, okay, guys, this come on, come on, get it. This is the way in. Yeah, this is the way we're gonna do this. I see white men, I study this comedy since I was freaking 16, 15 years old. I've been studying it. I see how these white men make their friends, they come up with, and then they keep them with them all along the way. All the kings in this business have the same, pretty much the same crew around them for 30 years, 20 years. Then they lift each other up. When one falls, okay, you on point top, you can lift me up. We lift each other up. Um, and I love that. And I and that's what I want around me. That's like that's what the type of people I want to deal with. The ones if we can keep each other up. Like, um, it's very hard in the black community because it's uh it's only it could be one. No, there can be a thousand there's thousands of streaming networks, all these platforms, all these channels. There's that we we all can work. Yeah, but ego gets involved. So like I think I know I have an ego. I think my ego is some days it's big, most days it's pretty small, because I know this this shit is all temporary, bro. Yeah. So like if I can create a way to put food on people's tables, look out for the people that looked out for me, look out for the people that are coming from where I come from, that going through the things that I went through, and if I can open up some pathways to make it easier, what they call it, like trailblazing, like fucking burn down the fucking bushes so we can all get through, that's what I want to do.
SPEAKER_03On that note, this is a great uh transition. What makes doing things like this important? Uh you are at uh we are doing great. Uh, but you could say no to anything you want to say no to. Why was this important for you to come on a show rockin' with your boys that you know forever in a different format?
SPEAKER_01Because I know and have experience. If I call any one of you for anything, y'all will show up for me. And and won't be like how much money I'm getting, whatever. It's like because I feel like we all grew up together. I care about you guys.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I like genuinely care about you guys. I genuinely want you to be successful. So I'm gonna show up for you. If if I didn't give a fuck about you, if I didn't care about you, if I didn't think that we had some sort of camaraderie that I've grown because I know you, I feel like I I've grown because I know you guys. We've all had serious conversations, share tips, punch up each other's jokes, all that shit. And I've been to Tiffany's house. Yeah, you have been in my house.
SPEAKER_06That's spaghetti was good.
SPEAKER_03I've been on tour with Tiffany and Cena get multiple standing. I we did the diverse joke.
SPEAKER_05That's right. We did fail uh pilots. I wanted to talk about on the same note, how do you go about sustaining a career? I always hear about it's hard to get there, but it's harder to stay at the top. So, what's some of the challenges or what's some of the techniques or pieces of advice that you've taken or adhered to to help sustain your career?
SPEAKER_01Uh, I'm not worried about being on the top. I'm just concerned about am I doing what I enjoy? Right? I'm not concerned about being on top. I'm not concerned about being the most famous or most popular or the most whatever. I just want to make sure I got enough money where I can eat and and I'm creating enough projects or doing enough projects that the people that I like you guys, like the people that I care about get to eat too.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I just, I don't know. I think I'm a I'm an empress or queen. I don't know. In my in my spirits. Okay. But I mean, there's these different countries that are asking if they can make me a queen, give me some land, give me region, whatever. And you know, I'm cool with it. But uh, and if I do get this queenship, then yeah, then I'm an empress, because then that's when you own you know, lands across anyways, it doesn't matter. I just want to make sure I look out, you know, that I like I'm I I think we're all ecosystems, right? We are like when they say, oh Tiffany, you're an industry plant. You damn right. I was a little seed in the dirt, growing my roots. You couldn't see me. You didn't know what I was doing, you didn't know how I was growing. We was all growing in the dirt, like we was all around in the mud, right?
SPEAKER_05And then I see no shows that you used to host? Yeah. Oh my goodness. All that favorite shows.
SPEAKER_01All that shit. And then, you know, you grow, got the stems, got the leaves. Hey, now I'm bearing fruit, and I want to make sure everybody gets to eat. And there'll be times when I don't have no fruit and I'm gonna need somebody to feed me.
SPEAKER_04So who's someone you felt uh what's a like I guess I'm asking, what's a someone, uh memory of someone who looked out for you in a way that's still, you can still feel the impact of that moment of them looking out for you.
SPEAKER_01It's so many people. It's so many people. Um Bob Sagitt is the first one that popped into my head. Bob Sagan looked out for me a lot, and like um helped, I think he really poured into me to help make me fearless. You know, and um and then like one of my acting teachers, all my drama teachers, they all taught me how to really handle my emotions and how to um and how to not be afraid to just be myself. Uh, because I used to be scared of that.
SPEAKER_03So what uh please speak to the training because you are an amazing actress. How how uh there's a lot of training. Yeah. It's a lot of training.
SPEAKER_02A hell of a lot of training.
SPEAKER_03Is there anything specific that you identify or places that you were for a long time that that help uh shape the skill set?
SPEAKER_01I think being married helped shape the skill set.
SPEAKER_03In what way?
SPEAKER_01That was intense training. Patience and uh yeah, no, um, I think so drama all through junior high and high school, but then also I I started making money babysitting, and like, and I was also like uh sous chef for this catering company. So I make my little monies and I would uh pay for like commercial acting classes I would go to on the like on the weekends or where they catch the bus and just go to these classes. We'll be all these adults, and I'm like the only one in there, like freaking 15 years old, 16 years old taking this like commercial acting class. And I couldn't even get a commercial job because um but the courts had to sign the paperwork for me to be able to be in the thing. And my grandma's like, I'm not signing off on that. The courts gotta approve that. If you, you know, like I wanted to be in this music video and I couldn't be in a music video without the judge signing the paperwork. So then I'm like, well, I'll catch the bus and I'll go ask the judge myself to sign the paperwork. And that's exactly what the hell I did too. And um, yeah, I constantly was having them, that's how I got on the news, all kind of stuff. Um, and then and then uh after after the them the uh I guess emancipation, when I was emancipated from foster care, I got a job and I would go to I was going to Santa Monica Community College and El Camino Community College. I got accepted in the NYU, but I didn't know how I was gonna pay all that money every semester. Right. Like it was like 40,000 a semester. I'm like, I don't know how I'm gonna pay for that. Plus, I gotta pay for a roof over my head and all this. I can't do all that. So I went to the community both community colleges at the same damn time. And I was working a job and I was taking drama and then like vocal cloth vocal and like mathematics and stuff at the other schools. So I was like constantly, always trying to absorb, always trying to inform. I joined theater groups, community theater groups. I got and then um and then I I uh was dropped out of school and it was just working at the airlines, dealing with a nothing ass nigga. Then I was learning pretending how to be a hood rat type supportive chick. I was doing a lot of a lot of learning things uh in life, but then uh uh and then I had a breakdown, a nervous breakdown, and I was in like psychiatric therapy, and the therapist was like, What makes you happy? I had stopped doing comedy at that point. I was like 21, I was sick, it was bad. And um I said, make hearing people laugh makes me happy. That always makes me feel good to hear others laughing. Yeah, and then she's like, Why don't you just Do stand up as a hobby. And then, like, I did an open mic. And then uh a Vargas Mason saw me do this open mic and asked me to do a show. Vargas Mason said, Come do this show with me. And we did this show. I think it was at the Roosevelt or the Bonaventure or wherever it was. It was like a lesbian convention. He didn't tell me that part. So I had all these dick jokes I had wrote. Yeah, that didn't pan out so good. Uh I bombed, but but then I wondered, was it really a bomb? Was it really a bomb? Because they was yelling things at me. You a pretty girl. I got some dick for you. I did, you know what I'm saying? And I'm just like, I don't, I didn't know how to take it. And then I just I did my 15 minutes though. And I came off the stage and he gave me $50. And that's what he said. 15 minutes, $50. And I'm like, cool. And I did my 15 minutes and he handed me the $50. And I was like, are you sure about this? Because I don't know if they was laughing. He said, You earned it, that's yours. And I'm like, this is what I'll do for the rest of my life. And then I would just do comedy. I start dating this dope dealer, and he paid for all my acting classes for like two years. Okay. And um, yeah, then he went to jail. Then I had to start paying for my own shit.
SPEAKER_05This may be a horrible question, but I'm gonna ask it because I wrote it down. Did you have any memorable night sleeping in your car? Yeah. Yeah. What's the most memorable night that you had?
SPEAKER_01Um when the police uh rolled up on me uh and I had just finished smoking some weed and I fell asleep in the car. And they rolled up on me and they told me to let the window down, and it was still kind of smoky.
SPEAKER_04And how old are you at this time?
SPEAKER_01Uh I was 24. Wow. Maybe 24. I think I was 24, maybe 25. And um uh they told me to get out the car and stuff, and they start questioning me and everything, and um, they was like, Do you have drugs? And I was like, I smoked all the weed. I don't have that's all I had was weed. I smoked all that.
SPEAKER_04Because weed was illegal back then, too.
SPEAKER_01It was very illegal back then. And so then they said they want to search the vehicle. I said, Well, you're gonna have to move the suitcase, and then that's the closet, basically. Y'all move all that. It's the dirty clothes, it's under the seat. All the dirty clothes is under the seat, and this, and he was like, Yeah, right. And so then I start cracking jokes with the other officer that's like got me detained, and he's going through there and he's like, damn, she these is panties, these is dirty panties. I was like, I don't know why you would show them my drawers like that. Like, yeah, I I had an accident. Like, put my shit away. And then he's like, We didn't, they didn't find no drugs or whatever, but they gave me um a ticket, and um, they were like, you need to go home. I said, I am at home. And he was like, What do you mean you are at home? I said, I am this is where I live. Like, I live, you just went all through my closet, through my dresser drawers.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like, and they was like, You too pretty to be living like this. Why are you living like this? And I said, This is just how I'm I'm living right now. And um, I was in Beverly Hills, and they gave me a ticket, and uh, and it ended up being disturbed the peace. But that's one of the nights I remember the most because I I I I was like, I gotta get my life together. I can't just be smoking weed in the car and then sleeping in the smoke. With dirty panties, with dirty panties under the seat. He pulled out my period drawers. Like, damn, this that's fucked up.
SPEAKER_03I'm going to the washroom tomorrow, nigga. Let me live.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, all the dirty clothes under the seat.
SPEAKER_05I want to say, I got a bottle of shout over there today. I'm gonna pick up the bottom. What about the shout, nigga? What about the shout, nigga?
SPEAKER_01I didn't have no shout. I bought out of my laundry detergent at the laundromat. Okay. Or at the little machine. Yeah, at the little machine came at the time, you know. We didn't have space. There's a Geo Metro. Okay. Remember the Geo Metro?
SPEAKER_05Geo Metro? Red.
SPEAKER_01Geo Metro? Little Red Geometro.
SPEAKER_05Um, y'all been asking how can y'all support killing it? Well, we got an answer for you. We got one. Cash app.
SPEAKER_04Boom.
SPEAKER_05We are independently produced right now. We're paying for this to give y'all a great show every week. Y'all be asking about a Patreon.
SPEAKER_03You don't even have to, this ain't even much about this. Just go put something in there right now. You should look at us like a collection plate at church. We digitally passing it to you right now.
SPEAKER_04And with your help.
SPEAKER_05And with your help. You can feed three three Negroes. I got a fly on my forehead right now.
SPEAKER_03It's right there on the screen. You see. Cash app, killing it pod. If you want to support. Uh I I want to identify one of the amazing performances that I saw you have that I don't know. I just I I don't know. I don't know if I feel like it comes up enough in the kitchen. It was it felt like it felt like Keanu, after the success, it was like the turn of this character and the layers and the depth and the and the period piece. It's like, um, was what what are what was it like going into that character and or some of your harder performances that you've had to pull off?
SPEAKER_01Um It was fun going into that character, but it was it so drama's probably the hardest thing for me, I feel like. It's super difficult because well, and a lot of people say drama's easy, but it's it's boring, and I got ADHD really bad. So uh, and I want to do things different and move different, but you know, it's like precise mode, key, you know, emotions, all this stuff, whatever. So um doing that movie The Kitchen was fun because I really enjoyed working with that director, but it was fun because it was Melissa McCarthy and I, who are both known for comedy, and we were bringing drama, and so it was kind of crazy because in between takes we would be laughing, and then it would get so serious, and it was like, does she fucking hate me? Why? Like it like again, and I'm like, oh, they said pictures up. Yeah, I hate this bitch too. Like it was so it felt weird and it's um and it felt like I got to be like this other side of myself that I like to be when I'm at home, uh usually alone. Yeah um I think this will cause this problems in my relationships because when I'm outside, I'm like talkative and like yeah, but I'm in the house, I'm like, I'm like that character. I'm quiet, I'm mysterious. I don't really talk unless somebody's talking to me. Like I don't I just it's like I'm charging up, but I'm I'm plotting. Like I'm thinking about what's gonna be for tomorrow with how I'm setting up the next thing. So, anyways, that was uh it was fun. The hardest project for me though was that uh movie uh card counter. I think it was really hard for me.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Let me ask you this. Um if you had to be a hero to your younger self, what would you what moment takes you back to Can you believe I was 21 right there? Black don't crack.
SPEAKER_01You see my purse on my show.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but yeah, if you had to be uh, like I said, a a a hero to your younger self, what moment takes you back to that? What would you how would you help her? Or what encouraging things would you say to her?
SPEAKER_01I would tell her that um her brain works different than everybody else's brain. Don't you not dumb, you're not stupid, and you don't need to fight anybody that tells you that. Because you really are smart. And the way your brain works, everybody's brain don't work like yours.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And that's okay. And that's okay.
SPEAKER_01Just cause you can't understand what those words are together, you know what the letters are, and you'll make them work your way.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And um, yeah, and I would tell her don't get married till 30. And I would tell her to stay, uh, stay up on her baby wipes, because you don't uh you're not gonna always have a shower. Damn, take your medication, nigga. I'm trying, nigga. And I would tell her, and I would tell her, um, I would tell her all these a lot of people gonna tell you that they love you, but they don't. They love how you make them feel.
SPEAKER_05Right, righteous, righteous. All right, we about to get out of here. Um, but before we get out of here, we got a game called Kill It or Let Live. All right. Okay. I'm gonna throw out a topic and you're gonna say whether you're not you mess with it, if you mess with it, you're gonna say let it live. If you're not messing with it, you're gonna say kill it. Okay. Alright? Kill it or let live. Your man says he's going on a guy's trip with his homeboys, but he's not taking a cell phone.
SPEAKER_01Let it live. Let it live. Let it live, because I'm gonna go take a trip too. Okay.
SPEAKER_05All right.
SPEAKER_03We taking trips.
SPEAKER_05All right, kill it or let live. You get to start in the remake of Who Frame Roger Rabbit. Oh, I know. See, I know you.
SPEAKER_06Okay, I see.
SPEAKER_05But in order for you to be able to start in the remake of Who Frame Roger Rabbit, you have to bomb on stage for 45 minutes every night for a year. Mm-hmm. It's comic. 45 minutes. I'll do it. I'll do it.
SPEAKER_01Do I still get paid? You still get paid. Yeah, even if I bomb, I still get paid. Still get paid. Yeah. Bombs away, bitch. Give me my Roger Rabbit.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna make my dream come true.
SPEAKER_05All right, this is my last one. Kill it or let live. You get to own your own chain of grocery stores that's packed with black-owned groceries from black farmers and all of that. All right. But in order for you to have this, you have to walk around with a coles on your lip for the rest of your life. What the hell is wrong with you? The black people. The black people. And you can't cover it up either. You gotta have that coles on. No makeup. Like I got this mole, my nigga.
SPEAKER_01Like the mole I had on my chin, all of my leaf. But you got black open, though. But it's an open cold sort.
SPEAKER_05And I'm talking, it's big. It's like, it's a chain. It's like Publix, it's like rouse is everywhere. All over the world. Tiffany's.
SPEAKER_03Tiffany's.
SPEAKER_01Tiffany's for black people.
SPEAKER_05Tiffany with the cold sort.
SPEAKER_01But this is not people not gonna buy my groceries.
SPEAKER_05They gonna buy it. It's popping. It's popping.
SPEAKER_01I just gotta have a cold sort. And I can't put no makeup on.
SPEAKER_05Hell no.
SPEAKER_01And it's open. It's an open cold sort. Like it's like juicy.
SPEAKER_05Juicy. It ain't when it's scanned over. It's when it's right. It's nice and plump. You know, it's good. It's a good one. This is a little bus.
SPEAKER_01But I got a lot of grocery stores.
SPEAKER_05You do the you do, it's Tiffany's everywhere. Someone you might you'd be a billionaire.
SPEAKER_01I hate that you're thinking about it. I know how bad she wants this grocery store change. That's all I'm saying. Because I know it's gonna do well for the community. I know it's gonna change lives. I know it's gonna do a good thing for everybody, but then I gotta walk around with a fucking hole in my lips.
SPEAKER_05Shit. It's for your people. It's for your people, you know.
SPEAKER_01But these people, would they do that shit for me? That's an absolute knock. That's an absolute knock. I do a lot for people here. I do a lot. I don't know. I guess. Do I get do I so you know these are just the questions, man?
SPEAKER_05Sorry, I didn't know this question was gonna take this long. I know y'all were trying to wrap up.
SPEAKER_01I hate this fucking question. I can't answer that question. I'm not answering that question. I'm gonna go with I don't want no cold sort. No, we good. I'll just do something else for the people. I'll do that. I just I did that for the people. I did that. We're not gonna have a grocery store. That's another guy.
SPEAKER_03Keep three. You cut five. It's a blind list. I'm listed off. This is uh LA staples. Just like things that are about LA. So I'm gonna name it. You keep it or kill it, but uh you don't know what's coming next. Uh West Coast hip hop.
SPEAKER_02Keep it.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Roscoe's. You only get to keep three.
SPEAKER_02It can it can go.
SPEAKER_03All right, killing Roscoe's. Uh the high cost of living. See, sometimes be some bullshit on there. See, we need to kill that. Okay. Hey, all right, kill it. Uh the Clippers. We can keep them. The Lakers.
SPEAKER_01We can keep them too. That's three.
SPEAKER_03That's three. And then so what was left is uh, so we kept West Coast hip hop, we killed Roscoe's, we killed High Cost of Living.
SPEAKER_01No, we killed Roscoe's.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we killed Roscoe's, we killed High Cost of Living. We kept the Clippers and the Lakers, so that means we killed the Dodgers, uh, Weather, and Street Tacos.
SPEAKER_00Oh, fuck that. Rewind.
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SPEAKER_01I just survived off of tacos. Street Taco L. We keeping street tacos because we need those after the comedy show. So we gotta kill the Clippers. Okay, bye bye. And then we gonna kill the Lakers too, because we need our weather, because we won't have the good music without the weather. So we got West Coast rap, weather, the good weather, and the street tacos tacos. That's LA. That's LA all day.
SPEAKER_03What is uh final question? Um, you are killing it a lot of different facets. You are a legend and we appreciate the hell out of you. What does it look like for you to be killing it specifically career-wise? What does it look like? What is it? Is it behind the camera? Obviously, you kill it in front of the camera, is it producing? What is what does that look like?
SPEAKER_01Uh to me, career-wise, killing it is yeah, creating jobs. Like, literally, I I say yes to projects that I know like people that I care about that I want to see thrive, get to work. Like every time I say yes to like a big movie, that's the you know, over 200 jobs created right there. So um that's what I look at. Uh, and that's what I see I'm gonna be doing. I'm gonna be making more movies, more TV shows. I sold a bunch of TV shows. That's gonna be a hundreds of jobs. Like, to me, that's killing it when people get to work because you said yes.
SPEAKER_05I'll be playing her, I'll be playing her brother or something. Yeah, you will.
SPEAKER_01Actually, you will. Literally, I got uh I pitched you to play like my twin brother.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yes. We're not fucking around out here. I just saw uh you have a new project too with uh Carlos. Yeah, we're out of here.
SPEAKER_05What projects you got coming out that we could talk that you could talk about?
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. So I have a movie coming out July 24th called Haunted Heights, starring uh Little Rail Howry, Carlos Miller, King Batch, and myself. It's really funny too. Uh definitely better than some of the other things I've been seeing lately. And um Yeah, and uh I don't know, you can on Hulu right now, it just came out the other day, but uh on Hulu you can watch me walk in a two-piece uh in a one-piece swimming suit on the uh Sports Illustrated swimsuit running uh runway modeling show. I don't know. Yeah, so did that on Hulu. And um I'm shooting my special in September, another movie coming out in October. And oh yeah, I'll be hosting Jimmy Kimmel the first week of July. No, yeah, the 4th of July week.
SPEAKER_05Nice.
SPEAKER_01I'll be hosting Jimmy Kimmel. Yes.
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