Me, they do the

budget, and then like, okay, we'll squeeze Guy in somewhere.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

So when you're part of the budget, then that means, like say he, I don't know how much he makes, maybe it's $20 million a movie.

I know Denzel and those guys make $20 million a movie.

So you've got to start at $20 million.

Then everything else.

Like that one

Oh.

I mean, I have material that I, uh, that I, I haven't done on TV that is gonna be part of my special, and then new material that I'm writing now that I'll be testing out for the first time here this weekend.

So when they come to the show at the Funny Bone, they'll hear some of the material before it even goes to the special.

Okay

... where we bounce each other ideas, their jokes off of me, my jokes off of them, see what, you know, trim the fat like shoe leather and get down to the nitty-gritty.

And then you take it on stage and record it.

Then you go back and you look at it and see what worked, what didn't work, what facial expression worked with that joke, it didn't, didn't work this time 'cause you didn't do it the last time.

So it's, it's, uh, it's a wr- process.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't think my dad ever really realized what my mom sacrificed to do that.

Even when they separated, even when she took us away from him to protect us, because he had PTSD.

He, he, he, you know it, I'm glad he got help for it, but, um, women put a lot of stuff on hold, and I don't think men give women the credit they deserve.

Or even s- if you, you're married to a woman and, and she's, and she's career housewife or career woman and raising the kids, when you retire, then you should say, "You know what? Go do what you wanna do.

I support you."

Mm-hmm.

And so I wanna get ...

So what went into the logic of I need to start a room?

You know what's funny? It all starts off as a kid, to be honest.

And I didn't realize this until I was doing an interview for the documentary.

This white reporter asked me, who told you to start Fat Tuesdays? And I got offended.

And I was like, nobody.

And then what popped in my head was my dad.

growing up always saying, be proactive.

soda, it's going to rock

Hart.

Yeah, so let's talk about this.

I heard the interview with the Floyd family, and my heart still goes out to that family for what happened and what they had to endure and still enduring.

And they haven't watched the roast yet.

I wanted to see if they did.

But, you know, a roast is this.

A roast is just what it is.

She can be no joke because there wasn't no jokes to give.

avenue was shut off then.

Once the riots happened, people saw what was going on in the hood.

They quit coming down there.

So by the time I got to L.A. from St. Louis in 1992, I saw the lack of industry presence in the comedy act theater.

And I'm like, I got to change this.

This is a lot of talented brothers and sisters, you know, not getting seen.

I already had an agent and manager at the time.

Yeah.