
Comedian Yamaneika Saunders comes into the studio like a hurricane as she tries to say kind words about Zac Amico. When she calms down, she kisses Bobby and tells Jay she would have sex with him. Yamaneika has a new special on YouTube that the guys can't say the title of. She addresses both her departure from SiriusXM and her past problem with Doug Stanhope. Before her time is up, she thoroughly critiques Bobby's lack of style although she is wearing a onesie. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf
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Tim Allen
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Kat Dennings
Dad, I'm broke and I need a place to stay until I figure out what the rest of my life looks like.
Big J Okerson
So a couple of days when his.
Tim Allen
Daughter moves back in.
Big J Okerson
The last time you walked out that door, you looked back at me and gave me a double bird.
Kat Dennings
I was 18. The double bird was how I ended all our conversations.
Tim Allen
The wheels come off.
Kat Dennings
Can we try to talk to each other like rational adults?
Big J Okerson
Have you watched the news lately? That's not a thing anymore.
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Yamanika Saunders
And now the bonfire with Big J.
Big J Okerson
Okerson and Robert Kelly. We're back, everybody. One of my favorite songs. Thank you, Jay. Thank you, Jay. I knew I had it. Thank you very much. Thank you, Paco Raquel. Thank you very much.
Robert Kelly
Gloves off clap.
Big J Okerson
Gloves off clap.
Robert Kelly
Woo. Ripped them off to clap for you right there. That was fantastic radioing, my friend.
Big J Okerson
I learned from the best.
Robert Kelly
All right, we're back. Let's go.
Yamanika Saunders
Great.
Robert Kelly
That was good.
Big J Okerson
We're back, baby. This guy. This guy's documentary was great, too. You see that?
Robert Kelly
Is there a documentary?
Big J Okerson
It was a little documentary on him they did when he.
Robert Kelly
I know he's dead.
Big J Okerson
Dream transitioned into a female.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And then God killed him.
Big J Okerson
God. God does take them early. God does take them early. If you want to make. If you want to live your life to the fullest, he will take you early.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
She's an angel.
Robert Kelly
Now, taking off your penis takes, I think about 70 years off your life.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, 70 years off your life.
Robert Kelly
Yamanika. Oh, that's Jacob.
Big J Okerson
No, that's Jacob.
Robert Kelly
I know. Yamanika is on her way.
Big J Okerson
Is she coming? Is she here?
Robert Kelly
She's gonna be here.
Big J Okerson
Christine.
Robert Kelly
She said 6:15, so probably just in time to the show to be over. Almost.
Big J Okerson
No, she's got a new special out.
Robert Kelly
She has a new special out shot.
Big J Okerson
At the Pussycat Lounge, where I play every Tuesday night. And it's called White N. I.
Robert Kelly
What's it called?
Big J Okerson
N Star. Gga.
Robert Kelly
That's not.
Big J Okerson
I don't know what that means. Black Lou. I don't know what this means. I don't know what it means.
Yamanika Saunders
Someone.
Big J Okerson
I don't know.
Robert Kelly
I thought you might know what it meant there for a second when DJ Lou didn't turn your microphone on.
Big J Okerson
I mean.
Robert Kelly
See, that microphone was on there for a second. Whoa.
Big J Okerson
What's going on? Let's wait for her to come in.
Robert Kelly
What you intro or when she comes in.
Big J Okerson
Okay, well, why don't you. Do you know what? You are good at it.
Robert Kelly
I'm great. But you're getting better.
Big J Okerson
I know, but I don't want work.
Robert Kelly
And by the way, you might have to do the intro five, six times, Bobby. Who knows?
Big J Okerson
Who cares?
Robert Kelly
It doesn't even matter.
Big J Okerson
She'll have the patience for that.
Robert Kelly
But as long as. As long as you get the name of the special out there.
Big J Okerson
I can't.
Robert Kelly
What do you mean, you can't?
Big J Okerson
I. It's. It's white.
Yamanika Saunders
Oh.
Robert Kelly
It's contextual. It's fine.
Big J Okerson
I can't.
Robert Kelly
No, it's totally fine.
Big J Okerson
I don't know.
Robert Kelly
I talked like, four black people on the way here.
Big J Okerson
You did?
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And they were like, it's fine if it's in that kind of context.
Big J Okerson
It's called white and ga. Which I believe is French for white. Scrambled eggs.
Robert Kelly
Mm.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
No, no, no. I think.
Big J Okerson
Why?
Yamanika Saunders
Last time you've been to church, my nigga.
Big J Okerson
Hang on. Ready? Help me out here, Joe. DJ Lou, it's called white.
Robert Kelly
He can't time it like that.
Big J Okerson
White nigga.
Robert Kelly
Not only can he not, I would suggest that we not have a drop. That's just the N word in different ways. I mean, I'd see a purpose for it. I see where it would have come into a comedic play a lot, but it's just. It's not on the board. What if a serious hits? One comes in here and starts whacking the wrong button? They're off the air.
Big J Okerson
It's. Yeah, it's shot at the Pussycat Lounge. It looks great. Pussycat. I mean, really. Pussycat Lounge looks great on film.
Robert Kelly
I know. I've seen it 77,000 times.
Big J Okerson
How?
Robert Kelly
Because everyone does a special there now.
Big J Okerson
No, the Pussycat Lounge.
Robert Kelly
Oh, the Pussy Upstairs.
Big J Okerson
You're talking the Village Underground.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
And the first person to ever do a special at the Village Underground. Do you know you?
Robert Kelly
Not the last.
Big J Okerson
Not the last.
Robert Kelly
Not the last. By far it looks good.
Big J Okerson
I mean, the. There's a far. I mean, I. The only thing is I would. I would have. I like the comedy seller in the window is kind of sexy. I would have shut the TV off. You know what I mean?
Robert Kelly
What tv?
Big J Okerson
The. That's a tv. The comedy seller sign.
Yamanika Saunders
It is.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, it's a tv. It's just a tv.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, that's.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Yamanika Saunders
I thought it was glass.
Big J Okerson
No, they used to make them. They used to. The original one I think is still down the room. And they made another original one for Vegas and the Village Underground. But then they just. The TV looks exactly the same while you're up there.
Robert Kelly
So this is the Moroccan lounge.
Big J Okerson
That's the Moroccan Lounge. 80 seater little balcony up top. It's one of my favorite rooms in the city.
Robert Kelly
I used to run karaoke in there every Monday night.
Big J Okerson
I know. I remember that.
Robert Kelly
Every Monday night, buddy.
Big J Okerson
That lounge was. I remember going in there. It was fucking great at the end of the night.
Robert Kelly
I know, but it was better before when we used to just go to it as fans was better. Just finger chicks upstairs.
Big J Okerson
And that finger and balcony.
Robert Kelly
The finger balcony, finger balcony rule.
Big J Okerson
It was so dirty.
Robert Kelly
And the days are over.
Big J Okerson
It was so dark.
Robert Kelly
Oh, well, you already knew you were sitting on Arty Fuqua's cum somewhere up there. So you might as well just start. Just accept it, dude. It's like when I was. When I was Defaygo Explosion at the Insane Clown Posse festival. After a while you're just like, I'm covered in soda, dude.
Big J Okerson
It is what it is.
Robert Kelly
I guess I got Arty's. Come on me. Whatever. I'm trying to make out with this portly chick from Illinois or wherever it was.
Big J Okerson
Artie or Sherrod or Godfrey's jizz up there on a pillow. Yeah, that was a great time. Because they used to stay open after the shows. So we do these shows until like what, two?
Robert Kelly
And then you find the straggling chicks.
Big J Okerson
Find the weak one with a limp. Yes. A hair, lip or a dead tooth.
Robert Kelly
You really didn't even have to much after all. Artie Fuqua was the best. Just going like everyone that seemed attractive. Get over there. The problem with Artie is he drew no lines. He's also like, come on, girls. Bring your boyfriends and their friends.
Big J Okerson
You know what's crazy?
Robert Kelly
Cause I didn't overthink. I already just worried about one girl and then everybody else is there with like entertaining girls with their boyfriends.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, Will had a member, Will. He would have a harem around him all the time.
Robert Kelly
I know, but his wiener never left his pants.
Big J Okerson
Never ever hooked up with any of them.
Robert Kelly
I know.
Big J Okerson
Crazy.
Robert Kelly
That's what Patrice used to say. He would come home and see like two fat ass naked black chicks like cornrowing Will's hair. And then he would just hug them and they'd go home after they cornrowed his hair.
Big J Okerson
Fucking weirdest thing ever.
Robert Kelly
He's like, why are they naked? It didn't matter. He's like, why aren't you fucking them? He's like, oh, they're my fwends.
Yamanika Saunders
My friends.
Robert Kelly
Oh, those are my friends. Why you, why you? I remember why you get upset? My naked friends.
Big J Okerson
Aldo, Benny lived with them, you know? Aldo, Benny, Stan, he lived with Patrice and Will for a while. And I remember I went over there in the morning one day, me and Patrice would go and see him and he would go into Al's room every morning and tap on the door and open it up. He'd be like, come in and you need to open up because. Yo, Al, seriously man, you should quit the business. And I would laugh and he'd be like, I know you think I'm kidding. I do this every morning. But you're not going to make it. You don't got it. All right, I'll be back tomorrow.
Yamanika Saunders
And he just do that every morning.
Robert Kelly
Al. Al, you Dane cook. I will say you guys had a handsome crew. You had a good laying out pussy crew there in the early days. Did I don't know what everybody looked like at that time exactly. Maybe it wasn't like, you know, Dane may have found his look.
Big J Okerson
Dane found his look through time.
Robert Kelly
But Al Delbenny, I, I remember being like a decent looking guy. Always a good looking guy. And then. But he looks like he's aged almost handsomer.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, he's a good looking guy.
Robert Kelly
He looks better now.
Big J Okerson
The only thing that was wrong with Al and Dane fixed his teeth. Yeah, he had shredded wheat teeth.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
You know, and, and Dane hooked him up. He had beautiful teeth. And Al, Al, out of all of us, he. The chicks liked him for some reason aging good, but he liked weird chicks, man. He liked hippie smelly chicks.
Robert Kelly
He married for a minute.
Big J Okerson
He's married now.
Robert Kelly
I think by the time I met him he may have already been married.
Big J Okerson
He said it moved back to Australia. He's kind of a thing in Australia, which I'm happy for him.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I don't remember Al Delbenia too much.
Big J Okerson
Oh, hey, there she is.
Robert Kelly
No, he's sending you the Wrong way.
Big J Okerson
No, over this way.
Yamanika Saunders
Well, you know, I'm up. I'm.
Big J Okerson
Come over here next to me, baby. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited.
Robert Kelly
You've been excited for this intro for a while.
Big J Okerson
I've been excited for a while. I am.
Robert Kelly
And you said to me earlier you've been looking for an excuse to get this off your chest.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah, Bobby, good intro. Promotion. Plugs, please. Why is it so difficult for you? You introduced her special 75 times before she walked in the door, Bobby.
Yamanika Saunders
Am I that mesmerizing?
Big J Okerson
You are. You guys, right now, everybody loves her. I love her. Jay loves her. And you love her. We got it here in the studio on the bonfire.
Robert Kelly
No, no, no, no, no. You gotta check out her new special, Bobby. Do it right.
Big J Okerson
Her new special, White People Are Different.
Yamanika Saunders
And if you watch it, there is another title, so you ain't gotta go inward. Heavy.
Big J Okerson
What's the other title?
Yamanika Saunders
You have to watch it. That's the thing. If white people are nervous about saying it, I give you a thing to say. But you have to watch the special I watched. If you say, I watched it.
Robert Kelly
Oh, so you can just sell it with however you want them.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, but don't say that. Don't say it because he doesn't know. I want them to know it. He does know it.
Big J Okerson
It's.
Yamanika Saunders
No, he hit. No, no, no, no. He hit me. He hit me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big J Okerson
No, I smacked her in the face.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah. You know, Bobby, wearing progressives, you know what I'm saying? You got to send blind immediately. You got to send them the you want them to see. Ain't no Google typing and shit for a blind nigga. Not at all. Let me say this before we get started. It was on my spirit. I wanna say something to.
Big J Okerson
Are you wearing Christmas pajamas?
Yamanika Saunders
It's one degree outside, and it's only one degree to me because my vagina is hot.
Big J Okerson
Okay.
Yamanika Saunders
Thank you. You see, when you get. When black people walk in here, turn the fucking lights on.
Big J Okerson
We have to or we won't see you on the video.
Yamanika Saunders
Well, nigga, I barely saw you, and I don't really want them to like that. I'm going through it.
Big J Okerson
What are you going through?
Yamanika Saunders
Just it.
Big J Okerson
But what's it?
Yamanika Saunders
Don't let me.
Robert Kelly
Bobby. You know what it is.
Big J Okerson
All right, go ahead, baby. Do your thing.
Yamanika Saunders
I want to say a special thing. It was. I was like, should I not say it? Should I say it? Should I text this person? Should I not text this person what I'm about To say to somebody, it's. I don't want. This is not no controversy. This ain't me trying to be. No. I want to send some special love out to Zach amico, because he was. He's been on my spirit. Right. And when I saw Zach. I'm not kidding you.
Big J Okerson
I didn't. I laughed. I laughed. Did you get high?
Yamanika Saunders
No. No. Don't do that to me. What he. Zach. No, no, no, no.
Big J Okerson
I don't know what the fuck.
Yamanika Saunders
I've known Zach for a long time. He's a great kid. Sweet kid. Beautiful person.
Big J Okerson
Yes.
Yamanika Saunders
I mean, a fucking beautiful person inside. Let's not entertain him with this largeness that's happening, because it. To me, it's like, are we feeding into the. The man is brilliant. Zach. I didn't know how to call you. This is not. No disrespect from. I'm a big. I've been humongous. You understand? Yeah.
Big J Okerson
You're in a room full of fat people.
Yamanika Saunders
Right? Sure. But what. He was on my spirit for whatever reason, because I don't know what's laying into that. I don't know what. What that energy is, and if it's some type of sadness or feeling unworthy. I just want Zach to know that I think he's such a worthy comic, and I think he's so much beyond whatever appearance that may be popping.
Big J Okerson
I've talked to Zach, and I. I had. I told him, call me, I'll hook you up. My doctor. You. My. I talked to my doctor who did my surgery. I'm like, dude, get this surgery. This will give you the head start you need just to lose some of this weight.
Yamanika Saunders
It's deeper than that. Bobby. Because we. Not even.
Big J Okerson
He's fatter than Bobby. What.
Yamanika Saunders
What I'm saying is, I met Zach. This kid was a young kid. I can't. He's almost like he ain't age. But, you know, fat keep you young. That's why I look 12.
Big J Okerson
It keeps your skin stretched out so you don't see the wrinkles.
Yamanika Saunders
Who the fuck are you, Dr. Seuss? Nobody asked you. I'm just trying to fucking run that. No, no. You're fucking my shit up.
Big J Okerson
What's your shit?
Yamanika Saunders
When the Lord told me to say this, he didn't include you in the conversation.
Big J Okerson
Wait a minute. First of all, your Lord is my Lord. We have the same God.
Yamanika Saunders
Here we go. Black Jesus. Yeah, yeah. Bobby Jesus also got a Jheri curl now, so. On my spirit, right? What the fuck are you talking about? I said Do I hit Zach up? I haven't talked to Zach through phone or text in a long time, so I don't even know if the number's still accurate. So I didn't want that to be disingenuous, but I was fighting, like, do I come on here and say this shit? And, like, now I'm making it all out and everybody and this and this and that, and it's like. Are you trying to embarrass him? No, I'm telling you, like, whatever spirit he going through right now, I've been in it, and I just have. I just wanted to publicly say, zach, you are worthy. Regardless. Regardless. You don't have to pinpoint nothing. You have so much to say, baby. Let's work on getting some of this weight down, please.
Big J Okerson
Okay. He doesn't listen to the show, so you should call him and say this to him, not say it to us, because we. He's on Moderna. I got surgery. You lost weight?
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, I've been eating the skins of little white babies.
Robert Kelly
Nice.
Big J Okerson
It does work.
Robert Kelly
Delicious.
Yamanika Saunders
It tie your stomach right up. Little white babies.
Big J Okerson
That's the main ingredient in Ozempic, by the way. I don't. People know that.
Robert Kelly
Just for the sake of equilibrium, Zach, I want you to know that no one will love you as much as food tastes delicious. Just in equilibrium.
Big J Okerson
In equilibrium, you need balance.
Robert Kelly
You need balance.
Big J Okerson
You need balance.
Robert Kelly
It can't be all positive loud.
Yamanika Saunders
Because he's such a funny dude.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, he's funny.
Yamanika Saunders
Such a.
Big J Okerson
Like, you should call him.
Yamanika Saunders
I will, but I felt like I wanted to public, you know what I'm saying? Like, say that publicly.
Big J Okerson
Shame him into losing weight.
Yamanika Saunders
It's not about losing weight, baby.
Big J Okerson
He's got to lose weight.
Yamanika Saunders
Well, he's sure we all got this.
Robert Kelly
I thought it was 100% about losing weight.
Big J Okerson
No, it's 100%.
Yamanika Saunders
No, no, no, no, it's not. No, no, no, no, no, no. Losing weight. How do we get to losing weight?
Robert Kelly
A needle in my stomach.
Big J Okerson
I got my stomach shrunk.
Robert Kelly
And then Bobby had the doctors take something out.
Big J Okerson
Most of it out. I think I remember science.
Robert Kelly
How do we lose weight?
Yamanika Saunders
First of all, I have a little baby stomach shout out to my baby, Doug Stanhope. Now we item. You know what I'm saying, right? Me and Doug and bingo, right? We out here doing our thing. But what I will say is, I don't want to replace that enemy, right, that I had with Doug with somebody else. So it's not. Not challenging. What I'm saying is, for Us to get to the place where we need to lose weight. It's not just the weight.
Big J Okerson
Take a sip of water.
Yamanika Saunders
I know. My mouth is dry as shit.
Big J Okerson
It's fucking making me thirsty.
Robert Kelly
You talk.
Big J Okerson
Holy. God damn it.
Robert Kelly
Your ashy mouth.
Big J Okerson
I love you so much. But I was. I was. I kept licking my lips. Fucking put them on your hands, too. Shit.
Yamanika Saunders
You know what it was? I felt it, right? I felt it. And then I was like, nah. Because they already think I'm on crack, right? So I didn't want to address it. I'm not on crack. And whoever put that picture of my wing arms up there, that was you, Doug, show up in a full suit to fight. It's like, you gotta be able to stretch these arms, you know?
Robert Kelly
I've always said it's so funny the way he dresses when. When that whole thing happened when you and Doug got into it on here so many years ago now. But it was funny when. And people like the Doug Stanhope sycophants were coming for, and they were being, like, so shitty. And they're like. And they were almost like, why couldn't she just, like, keep it funny? Why did she have to get. And I was like. She said to him before he walked out, she goes, I'm gonna sit here and let you talk shit to me wearing that fucking Mr. Furley suit. And it made me loud. I was like, that was really fun. I thought she was keeping it very funny.
Yamanika Saunders
He was at episode 40, season three of Three's Company, right?
Big J Okerson
Yamanika. Yamanique is funny. Is loud and angry. You think she's mad at you, but she's not.
Yamanika Saunders
I'm not.
Robert Kelly
It wasn't quite as angry as it came over.
Yamanika Saunders
It's not anger. No, it is my. I'm gonna meet your energy of stupidity with the volume that it needs, right? So when somebody says some wild shit, right, how they trying to play you gaslight you, and then you like, oh, you must think I'm fucking idiot, right? Because what you say to yourself like, oh, this person is definitely being condescending or fucking idiot. So let me match your stupidity, right, with the same stupidity that you think I have. And at the same time, I'm about to cook your ass.
Robert Kelly
Well, what's funny was when she get. When she came in.
Big J Okerson
Bobby, you're giving such a serious speech in a onesie. This is fucking me up.
Yamanika Saunders
Wait, it is one degree outside.
Robert Kelly
It was two people.
Yamanika Saunders
Thank you.
Robert Kelly
Two people who weren't on the same vibe at all when they came in the room. Because when she came in, what Doug said was funny. He just didn't. They don't know each other at all. So the first thing when Yamanika walks in her room, she comes in. I don't think she even knew Doug was gonna be there that day. He was kind of a surprise guest for us. So when she walks in and Bingo was sitting in the corner, and Doug just goes with Black Lou, he goes. He goes, oh, no. Two black people in the room. He goes, bingo's about to freak out. And y'all want to get to know if he was being honest. Cause Bingo, by the. Bingo's sitting here like she always looks like terror. No.
Yamanika Saunders
Didn't they say Bingo had just come out of something a couple days ago? So it's like, yeah, I ain't trying to stress no white bitch out. That just came out of something. You know what I mean? I'll get the fuck up out of here before I go to jail, right? This big mat nigga came in here. Bingo just said, hello, Bingo. You know, he gonna come in here looking like a B5. And that's what you need, you know what I'm saying? So at the end of the day, that' that's what it was. But we also need to be able to fucking grow, right? The same people that couldn't stand me or how the fuck I got down then don't give a fuck or can't stand me now. Those are the same niggas that keep talking about some interaction between Patrisse and I almost 20 something fucking years ago. And Patrisse is my brother.
Big J Okerson
What'd you ever do with Treece?
Yamanika Saunders
When I was a podcast, but it's not where we came from. From the podcast is fucking Patrisse became a real great mentor to me, you understand? And friend and brother. And you still talking about some shit from when we first. So niggas don't grow. They stay where the fuck they are. I don't have to stay where I'm at with fucking Doug. It's not because at first I'm like, what do I look like, a black woman coming here, getting ready to kiss some white, whatever, Dance with some white.
Robert Kelly
There it is special, by the way.
Yamanika Saunders
Right, Right. There it is, Right? Okay. Y'all were trying to dance. He had a special called White.
Big J Okerson
There you go. Give it up for YouTube right now.
Yamanika Saunders
On YouTube right now, Y special Yamanika special. On YouTube right now. White subscribe.
Robert Kelly
Subscribe. Like, comment.
Big J Okerson
Get the algorithm. Get it going.
Yamanika Saunders
Especially if you're a white. Donate to my cash app. It's Yamanika. Go find a black friend to tell you how to spell it now. Welcome to Nada Yada Island.
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Kat Dennings
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Big J Okerson
So a couple of days when his.
Tim Allen
Daughter moves back in.
Big J Okerson
The last time you walked out that door, you look back at me and gave me a double bird.
Kat Dennings
I was 18. The double bird was how I ended all our conversations.
Tim Allen
The wheels come off.
Kat Dennings
Can we try to talk to each other like rational adults?
Big J Okerson
Have you watched the news lately? That's not a thing anymore.
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Yamanika Saunders
What I'm saying is we don't have to stay there. Were there reservations in me meeting Doug in that regard?
Big J Okerson
As a black woman, why do you keep touching me? To shut me up. It's my show off. All right, I will speak, too. I love you, baby. Look, me and you have had fights. We've had fights.
Yamanika Saunders
Epic one, bro.
Big J Okerson
We had some fights.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
It's like first day of therapy for a couple.
Yamanika Saunders
Because it's like.
Big J Okerson
But y. Let me tell you something. Yama, she has this side of her that is just sweet. Like, we've gone screaming, yelling at each other, and then all of a sudden, we look at each other and we both get it. And we. I mean, sweetest person in the world. You know what I mean? Where it's like. I'm like, literally just mouthing I'm sorry. And I'm sorry, too. And then that's it. It's over quick.
Yamanika Saunders
No, because that's what fucking friendship is. I moved to New York.
Robert Kelly
Did you guys get terminal news or something together?
Big J Okerson
We didn't. Jj. We didn't keep the baby. She decided to kill it. Thank God.
Robert Kelly
No, no, no.
Yamanika Saunders
First of all, all this sweetness got my lips dragging.
Big J Okerson
The name of her special has a different meaning, if you know what I'm saying.
Yamanika Saunders
Here's. Here's the. Here's the thing. And I don't know where y'all standing to get with Godfrey, right? But I was on his show yesterday. He was giving me the rundown and teasing me. And the same when I come here.
Big J Okerson
What was he teasing about?
Yamanika Saunders
No, just like. Like, at the end of the day, it. Do the shit do look like, oh, is this serious? But it's like, no, we fucking breaking bread a lot of times, running into each other in different cities. Like, whether we want to be. We're beyond colleagues, right?
Big J Okerson
You gotta sit down. Because you look like a Teletubby standing up. You've gotta sit down. I can't listen to you. Seriously.
Yamanika Saunders
Because I was getting grounded in my shit.
Big J Okerson
Get grounded. Fuck it.
Yamanika Saunders
Can you, like, turn the other way then?
Big J Okerson
Yep, I got. Okay.
Yamanika Saunders
Thank you. Yeah. And don't even hear it. No. Put the mic.
Big J Okerson
Okay.
Yamanika Saunders
All right. Okay. I'm 46.
Big J Okerson
What?
Yamanika Saunders
When. When I moved here, right? I was 20 years old, right? 26 years I've been here doing standup just here. Even though I started when I was 16. Here. Here, people watch me be like some. Like, who the fuck is a girl? Like some geek, whatever. Da, da. I'm also in a climate where it's like, not the shit on the guys, but it's not a friendly atmosphere for women, especially young girls. Right. And I'm trying to navigate all that shit and then also become an adult. Right? Because I don't know how to be an adult. Yeah. So I'm learning a lot of shit.
Big J Okerson
It's safest shit for all women. Sorry, Bob.
Robert Kelly
You better mouth I'm sorry and French kisser again.
Yamanika Saunders
No. Why. Why would you do.
Big J Okerson
I'm sorry.
Yamanika Saunders
Okay. Thank you so much.
Robert Kelly
What happened in those woods? What happened in those woods?
Big J Okerson
I wish.
Yamanika Saunders
So in. In. In. In. Watching me. Watching me grow from literally a boy to a man. I grew from a boy to a man.
Robert Kelly
Are you transitioning?
Yamanika Saunders
Wait, why would one white Put another white on his face.
Robert Kelly
Available right now on YouTube, everybody, new.
Yamanika Saunders
Oreo cookie called double stuffed cracker. You know? Who was that? Who the was that? I couldn't even see it, Bobby. Over your large ass face. You ain't got the face for that. Go get a baby or something. I don't know who the that was. Was that you, Jay?
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Yamanika Saunders
Was it? He look horrible with your face on. Don't ever let that. You got one of him?
Robert Kelly
No, not yet, but he.
Yamanika Saunders
Bobby.
Robert Kelly
Bobby also puts it on all Willie. You know, he doesn't get straightened out where it's supposed to be. So halfway.
Yamanika Saunders
Right. But then he just said something a moment ago about old being safe. Right? Yeah, they old, too. Yes, Right?
Big J Okerson
Together. Yeah. They're safe around us. Yeah.
Yamanika Saunders
I hate when you go with it and see the thing about. I wasn't no nigga. You did what you did. Now we can't even fight. All right. You got it. Take the floor. It's your show.
Big J Okerson
I fucking love you so much. God damn it.
Yamanika Saunders
My fucking onesie. You know how hard it is to find a big bitch onesie? Yeah, I had to get two twosies and put them together to get a foursies.
Robert Kelly
Oh, that was a bonding moment of me and Yamanik in. In Montreal. So great. We were going to Montreal. And I just know, like, we're trying to find. Trying to find clothes anywhere. And you're a bigger person. And. And when she told me she came over, she goes, I'm getting. You remember this? She goes, I'm getting ready to go buy some clothes at. Come on.
Yamanika Saunders
No shit. Something with. In French, it meant extraordinary. Humongous bitch. That's what it meant in French. In French. Humongous.
Robert Kelly
All right, listen.
Yamanika Saunders
They hated fat people so much, they didn't even give us another name. They just said it's additional clothes.
Big J Okerson
Skinny is doing.
Yamanika Saunders
Double it up for this big over here in the corner. No, call that Skinny La Minus, but.
Robert Kelly
Y'All want to go walk in this place? Just the dejected feeling look that was. They changed. DXL has changed their thing. So it was just dxl, the names and football. When it would have, like, the. When I was young, it was called the Casual Male, Big and tall.
Big J Okerson
Yep.
Robert Kelly
And I was on the big side of the building, not the tall side.
Yamanika Saunders
Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah. For the. For the big girls, it was called Buns.
Big J Okerson
What's the big girl store now?
Robert Kelly
Torrid.
Big J Okerson
Torrid.
Yamanika Saunders
They got. Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Lane Bryant, obviously. And Torrid.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, Lane Bryant. But Lane Bryant is for the big bitch that got, you know, dreams and a career.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Lane Bryant's for Sherri Shepherd.
Yamanika Saunders
Don't say that.
Big J Okerson
That.
Yamanika Saunders
You know, Sherry, my girl. I won't be. Don't mention no black people. I know. While I'm on the show.
Robert Kelly
It's more. It's morning talk show.
Big J Okerson
Vince.
Robert Kelly
Lane Bryant, I want you to run.
Yamanika Saunders
Through all the, you know, in the business. Come on, keep them flying.
Robert Kelly
Lane Bryant is absolutely closed for a black morning show. Tacos Comics.
Yamanika Saunders
Male comics.
Big J Okerson
You know. I know black comics.
Yamanika Saunders
Name me more than three that you just knew now.
Big J Okerson
Arty, Fuqua, Wilson, Vince.
Robert Kelly
Now, why don't you get to the circuit, though?
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, get to the circuit, nigga. You're staying in a.
Robert Kelly
She's not even gonna. She's not gonna ask me because she knows. She knows I be knowing these motherfuckers, so she don't ask me these questions.
Yamanika Saunders
Listen, let me tell you something about. Jay's so black. If Jay wasn't with Christine and she in the fucking way, I'd have been fuck this nigga. And I heard his dick was mid, and I would still fuck him. You understand what I'm saying? Jay got that fucking swag, bro. I'm telling you right now. And if you don't ask. Say that around black people, that I said that. Cause they be wishy washy wishy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is what I'm talking about Jay's got red Timbs on right now. Can you lift your legs up in your huskies in your target and your target one X's. Okay.
Robert Kelly
Bobby doesn't look as comfortable as mine, though.
Yamanika Saunders
But these shoes are fire, though. I'm not gonna lie. This he be hitting and missing all over his body, right? That's a hit. Miss, miss, miss, hit.
Robert Kelly
Are you saying Yamanika? Am I hearing what you're saying right? Do you think purple doesn't go well with navy and then black?
Big J Okerson
I did leave the house without. Dawn's checking first.
Yamanika Saunders
No. Fucking look at you got purple on. I'm in a onesie. We look like some fat show on PBS kids.
Robert Kelly
Your sneakers don't make sense coming from a black perspective. Your sneakers don't make sense.
Big J Okerson
You're a wrestler manager. Okay, okay. So listen, listen. We're all. We're all a little whipped up. What are you looking for? Pills.
Robert Kelly
Where's my pills?
Big J Okerson
Hopefully it's something that fucking chill you the fuck out. What? What? What are you looking for?
Yamanika Saunders
I'm trying to roll a blunt in the studio. I'm not gonna smoke it.
Big J Okerson
You can smoke it.
Yamanika Saunders
It's not.
Big J Okerson
No, you're talent. I'm pretty sure you can.
Robert Kelly
No, I think you totally can.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, I used to have a show.
Big J Okerson
Jay has a whole thing of it.
Yamanika Saunders
I used to have a show on Sirius not even a half a moon ago and. Cause, you know, people go many, many moons ago. I had a show four hours ago that got canceled and. No, no, no, no. I love serious.
Robert Kelly
It was on Kev. Kev's thing, right?
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, it was, but it wasn't. You know, I don't know if I'm allowed to speak. You can speak. I don't know. I have an idea. But when I'm saying there's no bad blood, there's no bad blood.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, but you can say whatever you want, dude. Jim McClure and Bobby says all the time, Jim McClure is his bitch. Bobby says that?
Yamanika Saunders
Is that what, non stop?
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And he's like our big boss. And Jim doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, he doesn't. Cause he's my bitch. He's his bitch ultimately, God damn it.
Yamanika Saunders
You gonna be wearing the ones that soon.
Robert Kelly
You get ready when you got to go away. La dish, you know. Damn, I love that. I know. I think I could buy a shirt in the mall now. I don't know. I'm still afraid to.
Yamanika Saunders
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Robert Kelly
I'm still Afraid to try because there's the worst. I spent my whole life going to malls being like, that's a cool shirt. What's the biggest size you have? And then putting it on in a dressing room and then people being like, why didn't you come out? And then you're like, there's no reason.
Big J Okerson
There's nothing like going into a dressing room with like 14 items and coming out with 14 items.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big J Okerson
None of these.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Hey, can you restock all of these, please? This was lofty thinking, having to ask for it.
Big J Okerson
Do you have anything bigger than xl? No, we don't.
Robert Kelly
Also, is there anything grosser than a website?
Yamanika Saunders
They say now.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, yeah, that's. That's the fat little.
Robert Kelly
I hate trying on clothes at a store because when I put my own clothes back on, it feels like I just been living like a piece of shit forever. I don't know why. My own clothes, when you put. You take like the new ones off, whether you're going to buy them or not.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
You put your back on, you're like, what is mine all loose and shitty? What's wrong with these?
Yamanika Saunders
Right, right, right, right, right.
Big J Okerson
Yeah. Cuz you.
Yamanika Saunders
When you.
Big J Okerson
You sweat your pants into shape.
Robert Kelly
You.
Big J Okerson
Sweat that belt loop to fit you right. That's why I hate when dawn washes. If she dries my. If she dries my hoodies. We're violent. Argument violent.
Robert Kelly
That's the problem with.
Big J Okerson
She's like, what do you want me to do? I want it the exact way I got it the day I bought it.
Robert Kelly
Gut life with the jeans top in the middle. Your jeans get bacon neck. You know what I mean? When they're going like this because it's been wet for too long.
Yamanika Saunders
Your hoodie to be tight.
Big J Okerson
I don't want my hoodie to be tight. I want it to be nice.
Robert Kelly
I don't try my hoodies on.
Yamanika Saunders
When you first put it on, you said, yeah, right.
Big J Okerson
Crisp, Crisp.
Yamanika Saunders
But how you gonna maintain that? Like, we gotta use some common sense here, Bobby.
Big J Okerson
You gotta put a face to the glass.
Yamanika Saunders
But how are you gonna clean it? So you're just gonna keep wearing it?
Big J Okerson
I don't clean it it.
Robert Kelly
Oh, that's crazy. You wash it, you hang it, and then you throw it in the dryer. After it's dry, you hang it.
Big J Okerson
You can't let it dry in the dryer. Yeah.
Yamanika Saunders
You know the steps.
Big J Okerson
He just said, dawn does that. I don't do that.
Yamanika Saunders
What I'm saying is, if you knew the steps, then you could do it.
Big J Okerson
I don't do it.
Yamanika Saunders
Why?
Big J Okerson
Because I don't do it.
Robert Kelly
He said earlier it's woman's work, which is up.
Big J Okerson
Yeah, Stop, stop, stop. I didn't say woman's work.
Robert Kelly
He said black or ethnic women's work.
Big J Okerson
Yes. Get it right, Bobby. Sorry. Go ahead, bitch.
Yamanika Saunders
You know all the steps.
Robert Kelly
Discuss.
Yamanika Saunders
You could do the steps.
Big J Okerson
You know what he's doing, right?
Yamanika Saunders
I know what he's doing. And guess what? I'm high enough that I'm ready to go Dominica. I'm ready to go there because he been trying to break us up since we got.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Monique, you know. Whoa, Vicky. Have you heard of white Woe? Vicky? She faked a Nigerian kidnapping.
Big J Okerson
Did you hear that? Where are you going? Sit up.
Yamanika Saunders
Sit back.
Big J Okerson
Let me do it real quick. I'm gonna do the. I'm gonna take a little onesie down.
Yamanika Saunders
Be careful.
Robert Kelly
I got chest three hours ago.
Big J Okerson
You have a bra on.
Yamanika Saunders
Briar, do you have a bra?
Big J Okerson
Whoa. Oh, I thought she was pulling it.
Robert Kelly
Giving you the goods, dude.
Big J Okerson
God damn.
Robert Kelly
When I saw this topic, I was like, yeah, I'm gonna go have some thoughts about this.
Yamanika Saunders
This is crazy.
Robert Kelly
You know, she is, right?
Yamanika Saunders
Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
She was. You know, her first claim to fame was saying she was partially black, but she took it to 23 me. And then her super white parents were like, this is a lie. And then she's done Not Bad Girls Club. What is it now? Baddies that show. She's done that. And she's essentially just a back and forth fake religious or fake slutty piece of shit, it seems.
Yamanika Saunders
Listen, good for this young lady, right? Good. No, good for her. She found a way to realize her dreams of being a subpar, mediocre bitch at best.
Robert Kelly
Oh, yeah.
Yamanika Saunders
But somehow putting herself in an arena with bitches who like, talented, right? People should not be knowing her as much. I shouldn't even know who she is, right?
Robert Kelly
That.
Yamanika Saunders
No, no, no. I shouldn't know.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, sure.
Yamanika Saunders
But she's able to co op the black space, right? Because black people are always. We're always ready to just sell our shit, right? So niggas support her and make her relevant, right? White niggas, like, who the fuck is. You take her as a joke, right?
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Yamanika Saunders
Just like you take Kim Kardashian as a joke. But to Kim. But to niggas, Kim Kardashian is a queen.
Robert Kelly
I don't know if I take her as a joke at this point.
Big J Okerson
Okay, hang on, Jay, relax.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You cooler too, Christine. So now, wait, did you give me my Tapes. They're coming. Okay, okay. I'll take it back.
Big J Okerson
What?
Yamanika Saunders
I said, okay.
Big J Okerson
Christine took a nervous sip. They're coming, please.
Yamanika Saunders
Now, I'm gonna walk back with a sip to Christine just now. But what I'm saying is the girl is hustling and she's able to hustle. She's smart enough to understand the psyche of selling yourself to people who will value you because you put yourself as some type of a value.
Big J Okerson
You need a people. She found a people. Yes, you need a. I said that absolutely years ago. All you need is a people.
Yamanika Saunders
It's all a show. It's all a show. Of course her parents.
Big J Okerson
We need a people.
Yamanika Saunders
No, no, of course her parents are both white or lily white or whatever. The interpretation of the American dream is always two white niggas and two little white niggas in a house and a fence and half a white dog.
Big J Okerson
Especially on YouTube right now.
Robert Kelly
No gays, but no gays.
Big J Okerson
We need gays. We need more gays.
Yamanika Saunders
Whatever it is. She found a space.
Big J Okerson
You have gays.
Yamanika Saunders
In which she is able to make money. Where else would she be able to do this?
Big J Okerson
If you have gays that like you, you have a gay fan base.
Yamanika Saunders
Whoa, Vicky. Should I say whoa, Bobby? Whoa, Bobby, why are we doing such a hard transition? I don't mind answering that.
Big J Okerson
I'm sorry.
Yamanika Saunders
It seems like you're just trying to get away from the cause. That was so random.
Big J Okerson
I'm sorry. I just thought maybe. I didn't know if you had a gay fan base.
Yamanika Saunders
I. Well, I don't consider them to be a gay fan base. I consider them to be a part of the Yamily, which is my fan base.
Big J Okerson
What is it called?
Yamanika Saunders
The Yamily. And in that space you can be anything as long as you are part of wanting to be a part of love. Right? Maybe you feel disenfranchised in any regard. Disabled. You're, you know, culturally or whatever.
Robert Kelly
I accept no disabled. Let it be known here, if you're a big fan of big A, don't be disabled.
Big J Okerson
What I'm saying is there's no wheelchair accessibility to Jay show.
Yamanika Saunders
I've been. And see, that's not even bad in my world, right? Because it's sort of this handy joke, right? That we just. Handicapped joke. The wheelchairs.
Robert Kelly
You call them handys. Nice, I like that.
Yamanika Saunders
No, I said the handicapped joke.
Robert Kelly
We did.
Yamanika Saunders
Yeah, you said handy. Thought I was handy.
Big J Okerson
No, I don't think you're handy.
Yamanika Saunders
No, really.
Big J Okerson
Bobby wants take a hand. God damn it, Jay. That Was my joke that you swooped in.
Yamanika Saunders
What I'm saying is every. In my world, everybody can get it.
Big J Okerson
Get what?
Robert Kelly
You heard it here first. Yamini gas endorses Wo Vicky Y for W. Vicky, everybody.
Yamanika Saunders
Absolutely.
Robert Kelly
Girl.
Yamanika Saunders
Keep doing what you do. Keep scamming, girl. Scam? She is a scam.
Robert Kelly
Do you think now have a bad baby. Is she a scammer?
Big J Okerson
Who's that? That's Yamanika.
Yamanika Saunders
Oh, of course. My mother. My mother currently thinks I'm on drugs, so she gets.
Robert Kelly
I sense you around too many white people at once. Is that because.
Big J Okerson
Remember her mom wouldn't let her go camping with us?
Robert Kelly
I do. And she goes. And how much. How much it hurt us when she goes. My mom said, don't go out into the woods with those white people.
Yamanika Saunders
No, I said. My grandmother said that, and she had already passed. It was your grip, but I was saying that my mother.
Big J Okerson
Wait, stop, stop, stop.
Robert Kelly
No, no. You said you spoke on the phone. It was your mother and your mother.
Yamanika Saunders
Spirit of my grandmother on the phone. Why. Why you turn.
Big J Okerson
Why do you turn English? I spoke to the spirit of my grandmother. What the. What are you doing? What are you taking?
Robert Kelly
She doing the Madonna thing.
Big J Okerson
She went from really ghetto to, oh, ghetto, gh. And she's back.
Yamanika Saunders
Lost your mind? Ghetto. You are so toned. Death. It's like, wild.
Big J Okerson
I don't know what you're talking about. I have a pivot. No, no, no.
Yamanika Saunders
Let's, let's, let's. Okay, let's go back.
Big J Okerson
You said handies.
Yamanika Saunders
I didn't say handy. I said we was trying to get off the handicap. And then you started mumbling over me.
Big J Okerson
Jay's scared right now.
Yamanika Saunders
I drink it all the time that we have. Don't worry, okay? It's 11:59 and we haven't eaten yet. You understand?
Big J Okerson
Nope.
Yamanika Saunders
At midnight, if you give us even a bite of a cracker, we turn it into gremlins, right? So right now, we at 1159, me and Bobby, and depending on whether he eat anything after what I say, which will be after midnight, we bout to turn into gremlins in this.
Big J Okerson
What the fuck are you talking about?
Robert Kelly
You like? Well, Vicky.
Yamanika Saunders
So wait, you tried to act like I was talking about the handicap. You keep bringing that up. What part of me do you think would say handy?
Robert Kelly
No. If I do a show, though, where there's a ramp, I make them turn them into steps. I'm like. I'm not. You know how many ticket sales I lose trying to fill a whole row full of fucking wheelchairs and shit. 4.
Big J Okerson
It's terrible.
Robert Kelly
No, no. Pick him up. Yamanika. Do me a favor real quick. What do you think Bobby is? What would you call Bobby a white. What? What would you lay on this guy? What would you call Bobby if you just saw him on the street? Look at this. White. What.
Big J Okerson
What am I.
Robert Kelly
You all right?
Yamanika Saunders
Did you yourself.
Big J Okerson
What the just happened?
Robert Kelly
You didn't a onesie. Dude, that sucks. It's going right to your feet.
Big J Okerson
But she'd be warm the way her way home.
Yamanika Saunders
The moment we just all had was so hilarious. You said. I want you to know what you said since you trying to act like you know what the I said. You said, if there was a handicap ramp at my show, I would tell.
Robert Kelly
Them turn them into steps. No ramps in my shows. Stay out. Park it outside. Figure it out. Marine. Crawl up the steps.
Yamanika Saunders
How fucking hilarious. What you just. No, no, no.
Robert Kelly
Use your super strong arms to traverse the steps. We have to take a break. Can you call Bobby a white N word real quick Again?
Yamanika Saunders
Go watch my show. White Bobby.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. White Bobby. Available right now on Yamanika's YouTube page.
Yamanika Saunders
This on YouTube. Please go watch it. Watch it with everybody.
Robert Kelly
Comment, comment. Like, subscribe to the page. Do all the stuff. Share it, please. That's how you get in the. In the algorithm.
Yamanika Saunders
I love you guys. Everybody here. Thank you. Thank you, as always.
Robert Kelly
We'll be back. Well, you're gonna catch us live next week. We have our pre record coming up this week. Make sure you go to YouTube.com obert kelly comedy. Make sure you go buy tickets for his shows. Punch up dot live slash Robert Kelly. And of course, come see me this weekend, everybody. I'm in Arizona. I'm in Desert Ridge and Tempe.
Big J Okerson
Tempe Friday and Saturday night. Bigjcomedy.com we'll be right back.
Robert Kelly
We might be right back.
Big J Okerson
We might be, we might not. But we'll be back tomorrow.
Christine
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Big J Okerson
Hey, it's Big J Okerson and Robert Kelly. Hope you're loving the bonfire.
Robert Kelly
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Podcast Summary: The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly
Episode: Hits & Misses with Yamanika
Release Date: January 16, 2025
Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly kick off the episode with their signature banter, setting a relaxed and humorous tone for the evening. They welcome their guest, Yamanika Saunders, a fellow comedian and friend, to join them by the bonfire.
The hosts delve into a brief discussion about a documentary featuring Artie Fuqua, a comedian who transitioned genders before his untimely passing.
This segment touches on themes of life’s unpredictability and the personal transformations individuals undergo, all delivered with their characteristic blunt humor.
The primary focus shifts to promoting Yamanika's new comedy special. Amidst playful teasing about pronouncing the title correctly, Yamanika Saunders promotes her special titled "White People Are Different."
The hosts encourage listeners to check out her special on YouTube, incorporating calls to action such as subscribing, liking, and sharing to boost her visibility.
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around Yamanika’s personal struggles with weight and body image, intertwined with comedic relief.
This segment underscores the challenges of self-acceptance and the pressure to conform to societal standards, all while maintaining the show’s comedic essence.
The hosts and Yamanika share anecdotes about their friendships and relationships within the comedy circuit.
These stories provide listeners with an intimate look into the personal lives of comedians, blending humor with heartfelt moments.
A lighter topic emerges as the trio discusses their experiences with fashion, particularly focusing on the challenges faced by plus-sized individuals.
The discussion sheds light on body image issues and the often comical yet frustrating experiences encountered while navigating the fashion world as a plus-sized individual.
The conversation briefly touches on disability and accessibility, albeit through a comedic lens.
While the topic is addressed humorously, it opens a window into the broader conversation about inclusivity and the importance of accessibility in public venues.
Throughout the episode, insights into the world of comedy and performances are shared, emphasizing the dedication and resilience required in the industry.
These discussions provide aspiring comedians with valuable lessons on perseverance, self-expression, and the importance of community support.
As the episode winds down, the hosts and Yamanika engage in their trademark playful banter, wrapping up the conversation with final promotions and light-hearted jokes.
The episode concludes on a high note, leaving listeners entertained and informed about Yamanika’s latest endeavors.
Authenticity in Comedy: The episode underscores the importance of staying true to oneself while navigating the competitive landscape of stand-up comedy.
Support Systems: Strong friendships and mentorships play a crucial role in personal and professional growth within the comedy community.
Body Image and Inclusivity: The hosts address body image issues with humor, highlighting both the challenges and the need for greater inclusivity in fashion and public spaces.
Balancing Humor with Serious Topics: While maintaining a comedic tone, the conversation delves into deeper issues such as personal struggles, relationships, and societal expectations.
"Hits & Misses with Yamanika" offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and insightful discussions, embodied by the dynamic between Big Jay Oakerson, Robert Kelly, and Yamanika Saunders. The episode not only entertains but also provides listeners with relatable content and valuable perspectives on the world of comedy and beyond.
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