Do you still like, is it in a way that, trying to phrase this, right? So with you, when you started, did you always know you wanted to be a comedian? No.

No, I actually had a

couple of talents.

So a comedian, and the funny part is I respect art so much that when I see somebody great at it, I never think I can do it.

So what made me try it is that I never

dreamed before.

I come from a small town where it's like, you know.

And then when he does it on a bigger stage, y'all say, no, not good enough.

I heard.

They got about four and a half minutes of the set.

And they were like, Ryan, what are you going to do? I was like, well, I got to find a way.

Take four minutes out of something of an hour and make it make sense and make it look like I wanted it to be four to five minutes.

when in fact it's one chunk out of an entire hour.

I always build for the hour, but you always got to make content for people with short attention spans or for the platform that they're having.

So right now I'm just looking to get my special done so people can see the hour, the journey I want to take them on for the hour.

I think that made

Tell us a little bit about some of the projects you've got coming on and what people can expect when they come out to see you.

Oh, man.

Listen, man, I've just been trying to work as much as possible, man.

I have a TV show.

called Black Comedy in America that we did.

I mean, interviewed everybody.

Dave Chappelle's on it.

that must be why I like it.

I mean, I probably would have done the same if I'd been given that option.

Yep.

That was good.

Oh, actually I do have a little bit of personal dark crystal news that I was going to mention.

Um, there's, there's a, that I know of, there's two dark crystal video games that I played.

Um, there's one that's like in, like a really old text adventure game that's really hilarious.

If you guys ever played a King's Quest, if you're familiar with that series, or Quest for Glory, or Space Quest, or it was point and click adventure.

yeah but yeah i mean but that is the thing it just feels like they had to bring them but they didn't really do much at all with them

You, you feel like they didn't watch it?

I, that's, it, that's how it felt.

It's like you ain't even watch it.

Or, it, or I don't know, man, it just didn't...

That's when it didn't sit well with me.

People think that I have like this problem with rejection.

I don't give a fuck if y'all didn't accept it, but I didn't like the chain of events.

Mm.

[laughs]

But yeah, nah, man, it, it just looked like somebody...

Like, at this point, it, I don't care about if you locked women up or had them in your basement or whatever.

You're already somebody who, you should have learned from the Aaliyah situation, and then when you beat that other case that they had you on camera, if there was any time to go, "I gotta stop doing this," it was then.

But he just, you're putting yourself in these positions to do this.

This is nothing but the chickens coming home to roost, man.

And you just gotta take it on the chin.

[laughs]

Yeah.

It's a huge deal.

So I looked at Houston.

I was like, all right, Houston.

is is a even though it's a large city a lot of like a lot of people are paying attention to if you come in yeah so i uh i i went to go uh i talked to this like cd level comedy club it was like yo like how much to rent it out for a day they were like three hundred dollars it took me weeks to get the three hundred dollars to be able to rent it a friend yeah a friend rented a car and everything, and I drove 17 hours.

Did you do well? It sold out or what? And it sold out.

It sold out in three days.

What happened? So the issue I had, I was in St.

[laughing]

...

Uh, nah, for real, and I know some people are like, "There's no way a four-year-old knows," and, and I agree with you.

I, I don't think four-year-olds know, but that's not what the fuck I said.

I didn't say he knew he was gay.

I said we knew that nigga was gay.

[audience laughing] Tired of people acting like these kids don't exist.

Yep.

Hell yeah.

Nah, he wore booty shorts to a funeral, nigga.

It was crazy.

[audience laughing] Nah, it wasn't disrespectful.

He wore a tie.

The nigga clean.

[audience laughing] [laughs] He came out to me before he came out to anyone in my family.

Yo.

I called you!

I called J...

It took, man, it took me 10 minutes to realize she was asking me to do it, but she put me on the road with her, and we did-- I did, like, 10, 12 cities with her.

So now I'm getting all the reps, right? And then I'm like, "But I've gotta rock in front of a music audience.

I don't know how to rock in front of a music audience." Call Roy Wood Jr.

He was like, "This is how you do that." So this idea [chuckles] that the, that people don't help each other, what? I had help every step of the way.

When it came time, a comedian walked it into Netflix.

Mm-hmm.

I love Wanda.

Yeah, I was watching it, and she was in the middle of a joke.

I said, "Oh, my God.

She not gonna say it.

She gonna say it.

Oh, my God, I didn't think of this.

I didn't think of this.

Mm

Mm-hmm.

And, um, my issue wasn't...

I, I think people are getting, uh, misconstruing the type of person I am.

I'm a comedy snob, just like Schultz is.

That's why I know me and him would get along forever.I just want the best products to be out.

[notification sound] The reason...

And then when he was like, "What, like, a special, a special, a special?" Well, if you watch it, you'll understand that my material is special.

Just to get the exposure