I'm not.

even lying man I just be doing what I do and then this happens and then I go oh wow you know what I mean but and it's that moment in time a lot of times I don't even like be like knowing what I'm doing until I do it I like like When I first got on Black-ish or whatever, I never submitted myself for awards.

Like, I just didn't.

Like, I didn't know what to do.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, I just didn't know the process.

And I still deal with that to this day.

I just kind of, like, almost just exist in my world.

Again,

I'm

not even lying, man.

I just be doing what I do.

And then this happens.

And then I go, oh, wow.

You know what I mean? And it's that moment in time.

A lot of times I don't even be knowing what I'm doing until I do it.

Again,

The American Express high-yield savings account

earns...

I get me a little wine, watch me a little movie, be in my own little world.

Like, I can't fuck this bitch.

Pull my dick out.

She like, look at your little dick.

Trying to get a little pussy.

not.

The, it's, it's always been a nerd's world, man.

It's like nowadays, motherfuckers be looking up to motherfuckers that's lame and shit.

See, we, we live in a world now, and I just heard this recently too, and I, and this real shit, like, you ain't, you ain't lame.

You ain't...

It ain't no sense of being lame or, or, or ugly nowadays.

N- motherfuckers is just broke.

[laughs] That's how it is now.

[gentle music]

Well, I started with Common

...

Common was on, yeah, he was on Relativity.

So I remember Common coming out here, and we, and I came out here and shit.

And back then, dog, you was like, I don't know where we was at, dog, but you had about 79 niggas with you, dog.

Like, just, like, niggas everywhere.

And I kept thinking to myself like, "Do they, like, call each other and tell each other to meet up here, or like-

The, it's, it's always been a nerd's world, man.

I don't know I wasn't calling you

...

I didn't know you got a guy, so I'm going, "Hey, what's happening? What's popping?" That's it.

And also with your guy, let your guy know I like vintage pieces.

You know, like-

[laughs]

Like, them the women I mess with.

Everybody know this.

I was on my way to the party

...

I don't know you got a guy, so I'm going, "Hey, what's happening? What's popping?" That's it.

And also, with your guy, let your guy know I like vintage pieces.

You know, like-

[laughs]

Them the women I mess with.

Everybody know this.

actually, I'm saying they actually fired you and then you got it

back.

So my people talk to their people and they was like, yo, everybody relax, let's talk.

They was like, he know the lines, you know, everything.

y'all might as well just use him he's not like that they was like we'll give him one more chance and all this and i was like all right so now i'm now i got attitude because i'm like how dare you get mad at me for not being here and now you tell me i got one more chance so every day on set dog i would do my scene and i would sit down and not speak to nobody just chilling arms folded like not worried about nobody's nothing, you know what I mean? And then around that fifth episode, that's when I got that information, which is, you know, they don't care what you, how you feel, you know what I mean? You're doing your job.

That's all they want.

You do your job because that camera and the people watching this don't care.

an adam sandler friend he only put his friends

Like-

Yeah.

That's how, that's how I always did everything.

[laughs] But yeah, now...

But the, but the beauty about The Average Joe is that it don't fall on me like that.

You know, I got a wonderful cast.

Uh, uh, Malcolm Barrett, who's funny as hell, um, um, Michael Trucco, and Cynthia McKoy Williams.

We see pictures all the time, yeah.

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Yep.

Yeah, yeah.

He had a mouth full of gold.

Man, dripping.

[laughs] Gold grill, boy.

But that's how it is though, you know? Yeah.

But I mean, back then, that's how it was, so man, it was just great, um, with that cast of people, man.

It was, it was something else.

Me and Idris, we got into a big fi- uh, uh, we got into a fight on, on screen, but we got into like a real little like, a little altercation, shooting and shit.

What was that experience like working with Conan?

But you felt the way, that he didn't necessarily know who you are.

Yeah.

Well, well, it wasn't...

And that's, I think everybody twisted it and made it seem like I was trying to say he didn't know who I was, and I said over and over again, I was like, I, it wasn't even about me.

It was just about him having that platform to showcase these icons and let his generation know who these people are.

Mm.

But I would love to talk to that brother.

I remember I did, um, I did something with Marlon or Wayans, and Marlon said that he had talked to him, and, uh, he, he said, he was like, "Man, man, call the little brother a- and tell him, and tell him, like, you know, you, you, you cool or whatever." And, and I never got his number, whatever.

But you felt the way, that he didn't necessarily know who you are.

Yeah.

Well, well, it wasn't...

And that's, I think everybody twisted it and made it seem like I was trying to say he didn't know who I was, and I said over and over again, I was like, I...

It wasn't even about me.

It was just about him having that platform to showcase these icons and let his generation know who these people are.

Mm.

But I would love to talk to that brother.

the OGs, yeah, yeah.

... old one, the, the OGs.

Like, that would come on, man, and it just takes me right back to me and my mom on the bus going to church, co- uh, coming home, playing this.

Not really having no money, not having nothing and playing this all the time, man.

It'd be all over in the morning.

We used to listen to that all the time.

Anytime I hear Winans, I just, man, just remember that.

Uh-huh.

Stick with Morpheus.

Morpheus.

Morpheus.

It'd be, it'd be good.

It'd be [laughs] sick.

You, you, you had beef with Jay-Z too.

Yeah.

[laughs]

... uh, if you're treating this as therapy, that had to be some of the biggest you've done.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, I'm, it was very difficult for me to do that.

Um, it was, um, on the anniversary of her death I shot it, and didn't mean to but it turned out that way.

'Cause usually with stand-up, you'll, you'll tour, right? But you'll leave one city a- available where you could shoot a special at, and then you'll go there and shoot that special, so you won't tour there.

But I went to all these different places and all the venues were booked up.

Only place that was open was this place called Kings Theater in New York, in Brooklyn.

How am I gonna chase this? I like the feeling of this." Or you're just winning a bet?