Lil Rel Howery
American comedian and actor
26
APPEARANCES
21
PODCASTS
Oct 22, 2026
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And they was like, why would she not want to wear the hair that's on the billboard? They're not going to recognize it.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
I was like, what? I mean, the stuff I used to say to the head of Fox was kind of wild.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Even with like, I guess we here now, but I remember with a pilot, we were still waiting for him to be picked up or whatever.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And they tried to get, so you see our main cast was black, okay? They called Gerard, because you know Gerard produced it with me.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And Back That Thing Up, when that was out and they did the booty contest, that was the...
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Percy BellUNKNOWN
He's a nasty
Mike DavisCORRESPONDENT
let me ask you, now that you're back, is there any place, any spot on the west side that you got to visit when you're back in town?
MikeHOST
Like 99 is when culture stopped.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And I think now we have to get back to now we have, I know it sound makes us feel old, but we have to tell those stories of the nineties and the eighties.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Like the, I'm about to shoot something after the festival, um, called church anniversary that I wrote and produced and I'm directing.
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MikeHOST
Mm-hmm
speaker_5UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Then I feel bad 'cause then my grandmother, she, you know, that's why I paid for it.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
It's her son, and she was sad about it, and she was crying, and she was hurt.
speaker_7UNKNOWN
[laughs]
AlfredasCORRESPONDENT
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
I remember the first hour I had, you know, uh, Kevin Hart had produced, and he was, we was arguing about this.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Like, "So Rel, you gotta do two shows." I'm like, "Nigga, I don't wanna do two shows.
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Alejandro GHOST
So when you got your sitcom, did you ask for Sinbad, or how did you end up opposite of him?
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
It's funny, 'cause we did look at a bunch of audi- like, it's so funny who auditioned to be my dad.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Like, I remember watching these tapes and seeing all my favorite TV dads audition for my show was kinda insane.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Um, but Sinbad, I remember me, Jerrod, Kevin, and Josh, who created the show together, and, um, we were just sitting in Jerrod's crib, and we was kinda thinking about the dads and watching tapes.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Yeah, it was like, "Oh, yeah, them..." But 'cause it's, b- that, that time, like Master P, Bone Thugs, that's everything everybody's listening to, and it's like you walking around, we had our book bags on and shit.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Like, I was a crazy, insane Wu-Tang fan, which is why by the time I got cool with these niggas, it's still blew my fucking mind.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
I hung out with Ghostface in the lobby at Chi... uh, All-Star Weekend was in Chicago that year.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
[laughs] When you think of today's guest, you think about one of the most consistent voices in comedy over the last decade.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
From the stand-up stage to the big screen, he's built a career off real-life stories, sharp timing, and the ability to make almost anything funny.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
He's that rare comedian who can steal scenes in movies, headline his own specials, and now step behind the camera as a director and executive producer.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Bringing that energy into a whole new lane with his latest project, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Lil Rel to the building.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Well, first of all, shout out to Sean and Josh, who I did the meal with on Hulu.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
They hit me up and was like, yo, have you been thinking about directing? I'm like, yeah.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
They're like, well, we have this idea for a movie, Hunter Heist, and we got Carl Reid writing it.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And are you down to direct it and be a part of this and help put it together and everything? I was like, dude, let's do it.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Man, I wanted something also too, like horror comedy is a fun space to be in.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Mm-hmm
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Um, I had wrote a sketch, and he was like, "You know, how you wanna shoot this?" And I'm like, "I don't know.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
I'm, you know, let's, let's figure this out together." And man, once we did that, that's when I was like, oh, oh, this could be my thing.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Mm, mm-hmm
PerfectionHOST
[laughs]
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
It's really fascinating to me because it be like sometimes women be acting like, "Uh, Carlos is this and this," but it's almost a flirty, like, not trusting him.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And, uh, I gotta con- I have to understand that everybody ain't gonna think like I think or feel how I feel or even understand the way that I feel.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
You know, losing my dad was, is, um... 'Cause my mom's gone now too, so it's this, it's this, like, season, series finale of a thing where you're like, damn, I'm grown grown, right? [laughs] And then it's like, no, but I was also raised a certain way.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
We talking about, like, two people who volunteered in, in their community, like, for real, for real.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
He was just supposed to go do a interview somewhere, I'm not gonna say where, but then he realized how much, um, they don't like me, and he had to change his mind about going there.
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Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
There's been situations that f- didn't go well with 50, and it might not be his fault, but things don't go well all the time.
Jesse ThornHOST
I mean, it doesn't encompass the whole idea, but if you want to just get the gist, it's a 15-year-old boy who says doctors and then becomes successful.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
I mean, unfortunately, it's not even, I would love to just put it on white privilege, but it's not.
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speaker_0UNKNOWN
right?
Lil RelGUEST
Richard, the only thing, I believe Richard was wrong, and this is something I had to work out when I was playing the character, was it's interesting watching this young brother from a privileged family.
Lil RelGUEST
I thought it was kind of cool that he was acting like a spoiled brat in a way, where he made everything about him.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
All of us are not going to be stars or doing everything in front of the camera.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Especially with everything happening now, it's like we need more people like Terrell and Phil and all those great...
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And, you know, that's so important to me is truly was learning the business of the business.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And she ended up, you, you don't notice, but like when we shot Vacation Friends you literally did something like my mom.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Wow, that's a great question because it's really more recently than any, you know, maybe in the last, I mean, it's a journey I started in the last five years, but really very aggressively in the last few years, like really taking, you know, even I was just being real and transparent.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
Like I remember watching movies like Get Out and it's exciting time and it's a big deal, but I didn't like the way I looked on screen.
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You know, some, it's interesting because like we met The first time we met, so the youngest girls were on a sitcom called Kenan.
Lil Rel HoweryGUEST
And so when everybody was doing a COVID test and we was all testing in the same studio and me and her had the same G wagons at the time and she was just fine in her white G wagon.
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