Eating While Broke - Godfrey the Comedian

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – Eating While Broke feat. Godfrey the Comedian

Podcast: The Breakfast Club (Black Effect Podcast Network & iHeartPodcasts)
Episode: Eating While Broke – Godfrey the Comedian
Host: Colleen Witt
Guest: Godfrey (Comedian)
Release Date: January 31, 2026

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Overview

This episode of "Eating While Broke" features acclaimed comedian Godfrey in an engaging conversation about his journey, cultural roots, struggles, and resilience in the entertainment industry. Set in the show's signature format—where guests prepare and discuss an affordable "broke" meal—the conversation touches on Godfrey's Nigerian heritage, his early days in Chicago, navigating the comedy world, and the importance of authenticity in both career and cuisine.

Throughout the episode, Godfrey brings humor, candor, and deep insight, peppered with memorable stories, relatable struggles, and his unique comedic flair.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introducing Godfrey and the "Broke" Meal

[02:33 - 04:06]

• Dish Prepared: A classic affordable meal featuring black beans, chicken, rice, and plantains—a staple in both Nigerian and Caribbean households.
• Cost of the Dish: "$12, and you make a bunch of it, and you can save it for a couple days... at least four to six servings for twelve bucks." – Colleen Witt [04:07]
• Health & Cultural Relevance: Godfrey discusses how such meals, often termed “poor man’s food,” are hearty, nutritious, and have deep roots in various immigrant communities.
• Cooking Method & Oils: Godfrey prefers "olive oil, avocado, or grapeseed" for cooking and explains his method of quick-frying and adding water for moisture and texture.

2. Godfrey’s Cultural and Culinary Upbringing

[06:18 - 09:16]

• Nigerian Origins: Grew up eating traditional Nigerian food (fufu, egusi, okra soup, jollof rice).
• On Nigerian Food’s Complexity: "Nigerian food, it takes a lot. There's a lot of ingredients. My mother would cook all day... Me and my brother never got to go to the kitchen and cook because my father's like, a man doesn't come in the kitchen. Women do." – Godfrey [08:07]
• Sense of Food Community: Growing up in Chicago, Godfrey’s neighborhood was a melting pot of immigrant cultures, exposing him to diverse cuisines and friendships with Vietnamese, Cambodian, Filipino, Ethiopian, and more.

3. Early Adulthood, Struggle Meals, and Comedy Beginnings

[11:45 - 16:17]

• Independence: At 22, after booking a McDonald's commercial, Godfrey moved into his own studio in Chicago.
• On Surviving: "Rice and beans, vegetables... I want to feel healthy." [13:29]
• College Years: Ramen noodles as a staple struggle meal. He shares the universal experience of "doctoring up" ramen and the realities of campus food.
• Comedy Inspiration: Inspired during college by watching Tommy Davidson perform. Godfrey credits his militancy and involvement in Black student organizations with shaping his comedic voice—mixing humor and activism.

4. The Comedy Hustle and Industry Lessons

[18:45 - 21:42]

• Team Comedy to Going Solo: Early on, performed as part of a duo but, after advice from Steve Harvey (“Cut his ass”), chose the solo route to pursue his passion fully.
• Parental Expectations: "They were like, I thought you were going to do psychiatry medical school... I go, I'm falling back on this [comedy].” – Godfrey [21:32]
• On Psychology & Comedy: Godfrey holds a psychology degree and observes, “Just doing comedy is so psychological... There's nostalgia, there's pain, there's relation, there's all kinds of shit.” [21:43]

5. Navigating Comedy Scenes: New York vs. LA

[27:14 - 28:33]

• Reps and Diversity: Godfrey credits New York for making him a sharper comic due to its diversity and tough crowds.
• Competitive Edge: “New York is—I’m sorry—we dusted off [LA].” – Godfrey [28:03]
• International Audiences: Highlights the constant presence of global audiences in NY and their appreciation for authenticity and honesty in comedy.

6. The Realities of Performing: Hecklers, Authenticity, and Pushing Boundaries

[28:45 - 34:53]

• On Hecklers: Godfrey shares stories of hostile (mostly white, often women) audience members and his no-nonsense approach to keeping control of the room.
• Comedy Style: Prefers edge and authenticity over crowd work. “I love edge. I like to push the envelope.” [31:27]
• On Not Pleasing Everyone: “I'm not worried about a girl not liking me because I'm doing what the fuck I want. I'm a man... If you can't separate that from jokes... Then fuck you.” [34:09]

7. Journey to New York: Friendship, Struggle, and Milestones

[39:15 - 48:39]

• NY Arrival: Moved to NYC in a U-Haul with high school friend Bernadette.
• First Roommate Story: Lived with Viola Davis (then at Juilliard); faced microaggressions from another roommate. Viola intervened and supported Godfrey, cementing lifelong respect.
• Industry Memories: Years later, Viola warmly greets him as “roomie,” illustrating how genuine connections in the business can persist.

8. On Being Pro-Black and Staying True

[55:21 - 58:47]

• Pro-Black vs. Anti-White: Godfrey discusses pride in his heritage and being “pro-black” as a source of strength, not division: “Pro black don't mean anti white, brother. Pro white means anti black.” [55:21]
• Cultural Influence: “You copy us every step... Everything the lexicon changes because of us.” [55:50]
• Safe Blackness in Hollywood: Talks about the preference for "safe" Black actors and the challenge of speaking out.

9. Breakthroughs, Social Media & The Evolution of Comedy

[64:30 - 68:58]

• Turning Points: Booking the 7Up spokesperson role and spots on MTV were key milestones.
• No Side Jobs in NY: Supported himself through comedy alone.
• Parental Acceptance: Parents came to appreciate his career when they saw his success reflected on TV.
• Strategic Career Advice: Purposefully developed his act before showcasing impersonations, following his manager’s advice.

10. Dominating Social Media and Collaboration

[70:11 - 72:37]

• Social Media Success: Shouts out to King Bach, Renny, D-Storm, and others for embracing collaborative, viral humor.
• New Relevance: Embraced the new platforms, recognizing that “now we got this thing called a phone. And social media has changed the game.” [68:58]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Surviving on a Budget:
  “$12, and you make a bunch of it, and you can save it for a couple days, you make a pot of stuff... that's it.” — Godfrey [04:06]

• On Cooking Nigerian Food:
  “Nigerian food, it takes a lot... My mother would cook all day... There’s a thing called puff puff... It takes a day.” — Godfrey [08:07]

• Advice from Steve Harvey:
  “[Steve said:] Are you tired of splitting that shit? Cut his ass.” — Godfrey [19:38]

• Comedy & Authenticity:
  “If you gonna come in my show and then open your mouth because you don't like something, you're gonna get smoked. I'm gonna dust you off real quick.” — Godfrey [26:36]

• On Identity and Cultural Struggles:
  “Pro black don't mean anti white, brother. Pro white means anti black.” — Godfrey [55:21]

• On Social Media:
  “Now we got this thing called a phone. And social media has changed the game. Ain't nobody fucking with tv, really.” — Godfrey [68:58]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Description | |----------------|----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 02:33-06:15 | Introduction & Broke Meal | Selecting and cooking the affordable meal | | 06:18-09:16 | Nigerian food, culinary upbringing | Discusses heritage, Nigerian food, and immigrant culture | | 11:45-16:17 | Early independence & start in comedy | Moving out, ‘struggle meals,’ and comedic inspiration | | 18:45-21:42 | Going solo, industry advice | Leaving comedy duo, parental expectations, psychology | | 27:14-28:33 | NY vs. LA Comedy | Discussing reps, crowd diversity, and competitive edge | | 28:45-34:53 | Comedy style, hecklers, authenticity | Handling hecklers, pushing boundaries | | 39:15-48:39 | Moving to NY, Viola Davis roommate story | Life milestone, industry and racial reality | | 55:21-58:47 | Pro-black identity, safe Blackness | Cultural dynamics, industry critique | | 64:30-68:58 | Breakthroughs, family support, career strategy| Big breaks, advice on pacing your act | | 70:11-72:37 | Social media & collaboration | Viral sketches, relevance, cross-generational comedy | | 83:19-85:55 | Comedy specials | Overview of Godfrey’s specials, crowd-funding | | 92:41-97:53 | Advice for aspiring comics | Career reflection, standup vs. sketch |

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Final Thoughts & Advice

On Perseverance & Authenticity:

“Just love it. Don't just take up space. Get the fuck off the stage if you're just taking up space. Have some humility about the fucking craft.” — Godfrey [97:23]

On Building Skills:
“Practice your craft. Hone your craft. Really work your craft. It's a real craft. Because even me at my level, I still see the difficulty in it.” [96:42]

On Career Longevity:
“The money... But it’s a love. That’s where you see the love [in comedy].” [97:06]

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Conclusion

This episode is a masterclass in realness—as Godfrey lays out the grind of comedy, the value of authenticity, cultural pride, and the ways food connects us to our roots. Both hilarious and inspiring, it’s a window into the soul of an artist who’s “eating while broke”—not just in the kitchen, but on the long, winding journey to comedic greatness.

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Keep up with Godfrey:

• Instagram: @godfreycomic
• TikTok: @godfrey.funny
• Website: godfreylive.com
• Upcoming Special: Taped live at the Apollo – release date TBA

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Transcript

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[Colleen Witt]

Hey guys. Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a very special guest. I pitched him, locked him in myself and comedian Godfrey's in the.

[Godfrey]

What's up?

[Colleen Witt]

How are you?

[Godfrey]

Good. I'm good, man. Very good.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm really excited to have you. I thought for a second I wasn't gonna get you.

[Godfrey]

Oh, really?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Because it went. I was texting, and it went silent, and then it said, notification silenced.

[Godfrey]

I don't know if. Occasional silence. Don't even know.

[TurboTax/Public Investing Narrator]

It's.

[Godfrey]

I did that. My stuff hits my pocket. I go, oh, you did this to. I don't know. Why is my phone unanswering? It's.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, but it made my day to see yo. And I said, oh, my God.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah. I was like, yo. And I got off the plane. I came straight here from the airport.

[Colleen Witt]

Really?

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Okay. Makes me feel better. It's me. And you're gonna cook a good dish. What are you gonna have me eating today?

[Godfrey]

Real simple. Poor man's poor woman's food. Black beans, chicken, rice, plantains. Yeah, that's always. That's poor people's food, man. But being Nigerian, that's come on a go to. You be a Jamaican. Go to. Rice, beans. We know all that. Rice and peas. Rice and peas.

[Colleen Witt]

And it's the full meal.

[Godfrey]

And it's healthy.

[Colleen Witt]

It's healthy.

[Godfrey]

That's why Jamaican.

[Colleen Witt]

The only thing you're missing is some kind of vegetable.

[Godfrey]

Oh, green beans would have been cool. Like, green beans or peas or broccoli. I would have had simple. You could boil them.

[Colleen Witt]

But our producer back there, Jared, was asking, he was like, how much does a meal like this cost? And I was like, honestly, this is. The great thing about this dish is, is just for anyone curious out there, this dish runs $10.

[Godfrey]

Just about.

[Colleen Witt]

Or like, $12.

[Godfrey]

$12. And depending on the type of chicken you get, if it's quality chicken, you try to get that.

[Colleen Witt]

But if you're broke and you're struggling.

[Godfrey]

$12, and you make a bunch of it, and you can save it for a couple days, you make a pot of stuff. Then, like, we would do it in my house. My parents do it in my house. You make a pot of stuff, put it in the refrigerator, take some out to reheat it. Boom, that's it.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. And it's twelve dollars. And I'd say it's at least four to six servings for twelve bucks. So if you're out there and you're trying to figure out what to. Black beans, chicken, plantains.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then your combination. Every once in a while, you get a little burger from Wendy's or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Every once in a while, you get those little cheap little combos. You gotta. You gotta combine a Little shim. Little survival tool right there. Get a little outside food.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Eat it. You know what I'm saying? Whatever you gotta do, man.

[Colleen Witt]

So what are you seasoning your chicken with?

[Godfrey]

Oh, man, I just use basic, like, salt, garlic.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You got.

[Godfrey]

Well, you got garlic salt. That's good.

[Shopify Narrator]

Salt season.

[Colleen Witt]

Are you gonna put oil in that pot? And God told us that you are only olive oil, right?

[Godfrey]

Yes, I tried the olive oil, avocado.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. We have both.

[Godfrey]

Or grape seed.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, I. We just discovered grape seed on this show recently.

[Godfrey]

Oh, really?

[Colleen Witt]

Yes, man.

[Godfrey]

I've been.

[Colleen Witt]

I thought it had some hidden heat element. The. The guest.

[Godfrey]

As far as heat heating, I know olive oil, not bad, but avocados is, like, the best. But I'll use those three.

[Colleen Witt]

Now, if you're crying, if you're frying.

[Godfrey]

Coconut oil, olive oil, avocado. But coconut and grapeseed, those are the ones for, like, frying and stuff. That's what I do.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, you do. You fry in those?

[Godfrey]

But I don't deep fry. It's like a saute. Now I do a thing where it's fry a little bit, boil. It's like, I'll pour water to combine it, and it works.

[Colleen Witt]

Really?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, man. I got. When you do it over and over, you start finding ways. This is a little better. I don't want to fry it too hard. Like, in between, I'll throw some water. Oil and water don't mix, but, yeah, you can put a top over.

[Colleen Witt]

So it is popping. It is popping.

[Godfrey]

It works.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, but it pops when you add the. Add the.

[Godfrey]

A little bit. A little bit.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Shopify Narrator]

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[Colleen Witt]

Good to know.

[Godfrey]

Wait, what is this one? Let me make sure I get to turn this on. Turn that.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, yeah, that's the one.

[Godfrey]

All right, all right, all right, all right.

[Colleen Witt]

So is this a childhood dish?

[Godfrey]

Chop? Childhood?

[Colleen Witt]

I'm saying, like, is this something that your parents made growing up?

[Godfrey]

My parents made Nigerians, so we had fufu, we had dari, we had eba, we had all. We had. Nigerian food was the major thing.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

We had jollof rice, moimoi chin. Just all my mother could burn. All Nigerian, West African. But then we had American food, like spaghetti and regular stuff. But Nigerian food was the main thing.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

Egusi, okra soup, pepper soup. It was all that. Yeah. Okra. Yeah, it's great. So it's slimy, but it's amazing. Yeah. Yeah, that's a very. But now Nigerian food is popular now.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And people know about okra. Egusi is my favorite. What's Egusi Egusi is like a mixture of spinach and melon seeds. It's like a soup, but it's my favorite. Woo, man.

[Colleen Witt]

Really? I gotta try it.

[Godfrey]

They have a place out here, Adduka over there, not too far from the airport. Aduka's Nigerian cuisine fan.

[Colleen Witt]

Wait, how do you say it again? I'm gonna try that.

[Godfrey]

I think it's a Duka's Nigerian cuisine. It's. She. Her stuff is fantastic.

[Colleen Witt]

But what's the name of the soup again?

[Godfrey]

Egusi. E G U S I E. Gosi. And you all know, gel off because you have Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal. They're all battling who has the best jel off rice. I eat all of them. Senegal got the. But I think Senegal is the original. I think Senegalese food is unreal.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

It's tibujin, Tibu yap. They got fish and this lamb, tibujen, tibuyap. And their jellof rice is fire.

[Colleen Witt]

Like, really?

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah. Ghanaian food is fire.

[Colleen Witt]

You're making me hungry.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, yeah, it's good stuff. That's.

[State Farm Narrator]

And then.

[Colleen Witt]

And we couldn't get you to cook none of that for us. Okay, shout out to Godfrey again, though.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

What do you say?

[Godfrey]

What do you say?

[Colleen Witt]

I said, you couldn't cook any of this for us today.

[Godfrey]

You know what? Nigerian food, it takes a lot. There's a lot of ingredients. My mother would cook all day and not. And the problem is, like, I never. Me and my brother never got to go to the kitchen and cook because my father's like, a man doesn't come in the kitchen. Women do. It's very chauvinistic.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, okay.

[Godfrey]

And then when I got on. Went on my own, my father was like, you know how to make stuff? I go, you didn't let us in the kitchen. How am I supposed to know how to make Nigerian food? And it's a process. Yeah, it's a process, man. Some stuff. There's a thing called puff. Puff, right? Like fried dough. Almost like Japanese with.

[Colleen Witt]

I think I've seen it on there.

[Godfrey]

Puff. Puff is Nigerian, like Zeppelin. Italians have something similar. That's why we're all so related. Whenever you see cuisine pop up, you go, wow, they eat that too, right? Puff up. But it takes a day. It's like a dough, a yeast. You got to put it in a refrigerator and wait a whole 24 hours. So my mother would do all kinds of.

[Colleen Witt]

I've seen it online, like, where they, like, roll it in the soup or whatever.

[Godfrey]

Oh, that's. That's okay, that would be Ebaya.

[Colleen Witt]

Have you tried that? Is it good?

[Godfrey]

Yeah. All that food is. That's what I came up with.

[Colleen Witt]

Really? I'm just wondering about that texture.

[Godfrey]

I grew up on that.

[Colleen Witt]

It's so good.

[Godfrey]

Hell, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

I need to go to a Nigerian restaurant with you.

[State Farm Narrator]

Ooh.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, you should. No word.

[Colleen Witt]

I feel like it would be fun.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. It's good stuff, man. I love all that stuff. And being Nigerian first generation, just always eating foreign food was just always normal to me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Growing up in Chicago, we. I lived in an area where everybody was immigrants. Even though Chicago is the most segregated city in the country, still, all my friends were, like, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Filipino, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Polish, Russian, Yugoslavia. When it was Yugoslavia, Haitian Jew, Jewish, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian Jew. So everybody was foreign. Everybody had.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow.

[Godfrey]

That's all we ate.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow. I'm gonna.

[Godfrey]

My next door neighbor in Cambodia.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

So I was eating food from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. So these are my friends. Fresh off the boat.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then you had American food. Hot dogs, hamburger. But we had our.

[Colleen Witt]

Now did. When you ate the American food, did it even come close to comparing?

[Godfrey]

It was good. We liked it too. It was just two different types of taste.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

We loved hot dogs. Me and my brother, we ate hot dogs. And Amber, we loved all that. But then we loved our food too.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Okay.

[Godfrey]

We would throw down on our stews and our oxtails and our fish and our. Yeah, man. And tripe. And the tripe and the. It's like Jamaican food. You're Jamaican?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Yep.

[Godfrey]

I love Caribbean flavor.

[Colleen Witt]

I like tripe.

[Godfrey]

I'm an oxtail. What? No, you can't oxtail. Jerk chicken. Jerk.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow. But I'm also a snob because I don't think everyone makes it good.

[Godfrey]

Of course not. My mother was so good. And we were very snobby about other Nigerian cooking. We were like, it's not as good as my mom's. Little bit too much.

[Colleen Witt]

And I was just about to ask you, do you think it's because it's our mom's condition? Like, we were, if I stink, I feel like my mom's Jamaican is so good that every restaurant I go to, I'm like, eh, no.

[Godfrey]

I have a friend whose mom couldn't cook for shit, and she her was trash. My mom was dope. Because we would taste other people and go, nah, man. And people would come over our house. They knew my mom was making stuff like, hell, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. That's how I am with one of my homegirls. Her aunt cooks like that. And anytime is a holiday. Oh, you already know I'm pulling up. Save me a plate. But you got to get there fast because that food run out.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah. Whoa, this is popping.

[Colleen Witt]

The second it's done, it's gone.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

But take me back to what was going on in the era of beans, rice, and chicken. Beans, rice, what you're making us today.

[Godfrey]

Whatever. Oh, when I was coming up.

[Colleen Witt]

Yes. Take me back to. So when were you making this dish to survive?

[Godfrey]

Oh, man, when I was doing comedy, man. When you live on your own.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

When I started living on my own in Chicago when I. After college, I was, like, getting into comedy and stuff. And then I got. I got up, I booked a commercial, like a McDonald's commercial. And then I got all this money. I was like, I can move out now. My father's good. You can find your own spot. And then I. You know, and of course, they supplied me with silverware and pots and pans and anything you need. You.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then I started. Okay. What do I think? I know I can make. I don't know how to make Nigerian food.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I'll just go get it from my mother and bring it to the crib.

[Colleen Witt]

Smart. How far did you move from them?

[Godfrey]

Oh, man, about 20 minutes away.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, okay.

[Godfrey]

Okay.

[Colleen Witt]

Good, Good.

[Godfrey]

That was my. I had a little. I had a little studio.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But it was nice to be on my own.

[Colleen Witt]

And how old are you at this time?

[Godfrey]

I'm like 22 or something.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

And my. My father was like, it's good that you live on your own. That's good. Because you mother wants you to stay forever.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And because moms always want to let their kids. And my father said, I'm telling you, when you live on your own, you're going to see the difference.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

And he was like. I was like. He was right. He goes, you're going to want to be able to come in and go in as you want.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You don't want your mother wake. Where are you? And this.

[State Farm Narrator]

All this.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. So it was smart.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

So Pops was right.

[Godfrey]

Pops was. He ain't never been wrong. He was never wrong. My father was never wrong. Even though it pissed you off, when you're telling you, like, what? And then you're like, damn, he was right. Yeah. And he says, I lived the life, too. I was a kid, too. What are you talking about? I'm not lying. I'm not gonna lie to you. You know what I'm saying? I don't know.

[Colleen Witt]

So you're in your apartment and you're cooking this chicken. Rice and beans.

[Godfrey]

Rice and beans, vegetables. Because I want to feel healthy.

[Colleen Witt]

And were you calling your mom back, hey, mom, how do I do this?

[Godfrey]

Not really, because I was getting it, and then you start. Some women you bring over, they know how to do. They go, nah, you do this, that, that. I'm like, cool, yeah, handle that.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, you. Oh, you. You didn't.

[Godfrey]

I'm like, yeah. Started the heat. Now you just take care of the rest of that. You know what I mean? And then beans. I'll take kidney beans, black beans. What's the other? Pinto beans. That's always easy. That's filling. You just get the starches and the.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then I knew how to do the plantains.

[Colleen Witt]

When I first asked you, it was looking rough. You were like, ramen, some chicken.

[Godfrey]

But ramen I remember having in college, because I didn't know what period you meant. Broke. Broke in. Career wise. But yeah, college was ramen. Damn. We. And it was funny because ramen had three flavors, but it was all tastes the same.

[Colleen Witt]

Beef, chicken, beef.

[Godfrey]

It was disgusting, that little pack.

[Colleen Witt]

Do you want to know something I learned on eating while broke? There's different ramens.

[Godfrey]

What do you mean? There's the company we had. That was the ramen. That was the bullshit. Ramen top ramen.

[Colleen Witt]

That's the bullshit. But they got the Thai ramen, this Japanese.

[Shopify Narrator]

They got different ones.

[Colleen Witt]

And let me tell you something.

[Shopify Narrator]

The other ones, way better.

[Colleen Witt]

Way better. You're just like, whoa.

[Godfrey]

But we did. We weren't exposed to that. Yeah. We just had, wait, that's 10 ramens for a dollar.

[Colleen Witt]

None of that Y. Yep. And you doctor it up your own way.

[Godfrey]

Doctor it up. You're like, yo, put some beans in there right there. Sprinkle some of this.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then the worst aftertaste. It was the worst aftertaste. You think so Disgusting. It was disgusting. But that got us through. We survived with that. And then in college, I went away for college, so we would go to a cafe. There was a cafe we would all hang out in.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Like, different world.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

How they. We had something like that. It's called the orange. And so we come there, and my buddies worked at the cafe. So they'd be like, yo, my shift is at this time. So, yo, you got. If you. All you do is spend, like $5. But I'm gonna give you more than that. Oh, hell, make sure you get my stuff, and then we'll meet at the dorm later. So we was. We was Trying to beat the system. I like getting burgers, mad juices.

[Colleen Witt]

I like that.

[Godfrey]

Waters, sodas, you know, extra fries, extra. So it was a combination of ramen at the crib, that nasty ass cafeteria food, because we survived off of that. The cafeteria food was trash. You're like at a big university like this, and we would make our Rice Krispies, our own little homemade Rice Krispies joints. You just get the marshmallows, put it in the microwave, and we all just eat it out. The boy. It's amazing how you survived.

[Colleen Witt]

At least now did you know when you were in college that you wanted to pursue comedy?

[Godfrey]

Third year Tommy Davidson came to my college and we showed he. We showed him around campus and all that. And when he performed, I was thinking about, dude. I was like, I think I want to do that. I think that's what I want to do. And the girl I was dating at the time, she was like, yeah, you should do it. You always holding court in the cafeteria. You're funny as hell. And not funny because. Just funny because my friends were funny too. It was because I was very militant in college. Yeah, I was very pro black, very African American studies. We started a group, to the chagrin of the president of the university, Stan Ikenberry, that racist bastard. We started a group where we wanted to learn about pre slavery and post slavery. We wanted to learn about us. And we started a book club on our own. And we were able to bring in speakers, Native American speakers and Latin speakers, historians, Africans, to teach us stuff. And so I became that dude, like militant. Like school days. Like it was, yeah, militancy, We. And then we're. And then at the time, you're listening to hip hop, KRS1, public enemy. You listen to Brand Newbie, you listen to. You listen to conscious rap. Queen Latifah was a conscious rapper. Yeah, we listen. So we was militant. So I could. I was able to be funny talking about racism, talking about, oh, yeah, I was dope with it. I would talk like that. Imagine Malcolm X as a comedian. Like if he was just. You know how sometimes they could be really funny. But I'm. Yeah, I was like that. I wasn't as like serious, but I was like silly with it. But I was talking about real shit.

[Colleen Witt]

And that's why she was like, this.

[Godfrey]

Is definitely because I remember my friend, she, the girl I dated, her name was. She was a rebound chick from my other girl that was on campus. But she was like. She wrote one day, she wrote down everything on our yellow legal pad. I was just Talking. And she goes, I wrote down most of the shit that you were so funny. I wrote it down. We woke up, I said, what the hell is all this? This all shit you said yesterday, you keep saying about you want to be a comedian and on club. Shay. Shay. I brought her name. Her name was Toya Dixon.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow.

[Godfrey]

And I brought her name up and her, she was like, yo, everybody's calling me saying, you brought my name up on club because you. It's the truth.

[Shopify Narrator]

Wow.

[Godfrey]

You wrote that thing. And I said, all right. When I get back to Chicago, I went to University of Illinois.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

So when I get back to Chicago, I'm going to go for open mics. And that's how that shit started.

[Colleen Witt]

Now, did you take the material that she had written down?

[Godfrey]

And like, I don't even remember what it was.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But I said, I'm going to start doing comedy.

[Colleen Witt]

And.

[Godfrey]

And I started in a comedy team with another guy for a year. And then from there I did. I wasn't really digging that because he wasn't as passionate as I was.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. And I was going to say, what's a comedy team?

[Godfrey]

Comedy team. You doing sketches. Like, you're okay. Yeah, I was right.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, this is. This is. But this was before Sketches was a thing.

[Godfrey]

No, sketches have been around before.

[Colleen Witt]

But I'm saying you were doing it stand, but you were doing it in stage.

[Godfrey]

On stage. We do. We'd have our sketches like, oh, okay. And it was cool, man. And we had little costumes and dumb shit like that.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

And then after that, I was like this. I was disgruntled about it because he wasn't as passionate as I was. You have to be in sync.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I remember talking to Steve Harvey at this club in Chicago called All Jokes Aside. And I was in the hallway kind of pissed, and Steve was like asking me questions like, why, what's up? I was like, yo, I'm tired of. Stu is not as passionate. I am. He seems like. And he goes, how much you getting paid for it? I said, we're getting like 100 bucks.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And he goes, are you tired of. Are you tired of splitting that shit? I remember he goes, cut his ass. And he just walked away. That Steve Harvey said, cut his ass. I remember that shit.

[Colleen Witt]

And then he was doing comedy at the time too.

[Godfrey]

Steve was? Yeah, Steve was a headliner. Steve's been doing comedy for a long ass time. Steve was like a big dog. Like as far as the comedy scene, not super famous, but he was a big dog. Me, I was just starting I wasn't even doing solo yet, so he told me, cut him. You should. You say you got the skills, man.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And so that's when I started doing the solo. Wow.

[Colleen Witt]

Now did you have to meditate on it for a minute or did you just.

[Godfrey]

No. The next week I was already. Because I was already writing on the side. In case this goes. No good goes left. I'm going to start doing stuff on my own.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Got it.

[Godfrey]

So I started doing open mics by myself.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Now, did you ever have a moment within that window of. I don't know if this is for me. Did you ever bomb or.

[Godfrey]

As soon as I hit, I was like, ah, I'm doing this. I don't care if no bombing comes with it.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

But I know what I want to do. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

You knew it.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing this.

[Colleen Witt]

Once you got a taste.

[Godfrey]

I was like, oh, yeah. Cuz I'm. I'm like, how? I need. I want to be able to talk now.

[Colleen Witt]

How do your parents perceive this at the time? Yeah. I'm really curious.

[Godfrey]

They were like, I thought you were going to do psychiatry medical school. You're a pre med psych major.

[Colleen Witt]

I thought you could pre med psych to comic. Oh, my goodness.

[Godfrey]

I don't think it's not a big stretch because a lot of comedians were astrophysicists, lawyers, doctors. A lot of people were like, real professional.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I had another buddy, he's passed. But Greg Giraldo was a fantastic comedian. His son does comedy in New York now. Greg Giraldo Jr. But he was a. He was a Harvard lawyer. Wow. And then he got into comedy. So there's film majors, there's a lot of people have degrees in comedy, but.

[Colleen Witt]

From a parental perspective. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

My five parents were like, nah, make sure you have something to fall back on. I go, I'm falling back on this.

[Colleen Witt]

I love that. Okay.

[Godfrey]

But my father. That's cool. But make sure you finish your studies.

[Colleen Witt]

And did you finish?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, psychology degree. And then I'm. I think I've learned more about psychology living in New York than any. You don't need to go to any psych ward or anything. You just live in New York. That is a big psych ward. And just doing comedy is so psychological. There's so many psychological things in comedy. On why people laugh. I even had a book about Freud and jokes in the subconscious, which is a little weird of a read. But there's reasons why people laugh. There's nostalgia, there's pain, there's relation, there's all kinds of shit.

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[Colleen Witt]

I used to always. I used to always think it was just like if someone could relate. My favorite comics are the comics that I can relate to. So I always say my my toxic comics. Like your Bill Burr. I call them Bill Burr Sebastian. Like anyone that has the toxic childhood. I'm like those are my favorites, you know.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. If you can relate to them, it's great.

[Colleen Witt]

So I just assumed it was relatability.

[Godfrey]

Relate you. First of all you're going to be who you are.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

If someone doesn't get you, they don't get you. You can't just as people we don't get along with everybody. Yeah, some people we click with some people, some people we just don't. That's the same thing with comedy. It's like some people ain't gonna with you cuz you say things they don't like. All right, bye. But that's the thing about comedy. Go find someone else. Yeah, check the schedule. There's a whole bunch of other comedians. Yeah, but if you gonna come in my show and then open your mouth because you don't like something, you're gonna get smoked. I'm gonna dust you off real quick. My thing is, you don't have to laugh. You just sit there and go, you don't have to. I don't give up if you don't laugh. Wow.

[Colleen Witt]

How long did it take for you to get to that point?

[Godfrey]

About when I got to. I was in New York, in Chicago, two, three years. Then I moved to New York. That's when I think, yeah, five, six years in. When you go, New York has a different attitude because it's like you're around really dope. Because I was around Chappelle Seinfeld, Ray Romano and Bill. Me and Bill came up. Bill Burr. Me, Bill. When Bill had hair, red hair. That's how long I've known Bill. He had red hair. Cause me, Bill, it was Robert Kelly, Keith Robinson. It was a lot of us there, just a big group of us. Tracy Morgan, we can keep going. Jimmy Fowler, it was everywhere.

[Colleen Witt]

I think New York comics, when I go to la, not talking smack about la, but New York and LA are uncomparable. Yeah, New York is landslide.

[Godfrey]

New York is. I'm sorry, we dusted off.

[Colleen Witt]

I think it's because you guys get.

[Godfrey]

More reps. Of course it is.

[Colleen Witt]

And I think way more. I think that it also helps that New York treats comics better than LA does.

[Godfrey]

I think that. I think it's the international thing too, because in every. Almost every show there's. We're from Scotland, we're from Ireland, we're from the Netherlands, we're from Sweden, we're from Norway, we're from Germany, where I had yesterday, the other day. Italic. We're from Italy.

[State Farm Narrator]

We.

[Godfrey]

Oh, my God. You have to come to it. It's always international. Canada, Australia, it's. It never fail. And it's always like that. You get foreigners all the time and they like honesty.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

The uk, they go, man. But it's the American ones that be bitching. It's always. And it's mainly white women. They're always fucking up comedy. They fuck comedy up. And this is me not categorizing all but white comics, Latin comics, women comic. I go, whenever we have a complaint, I said, who was she white? Yep. It was a white girl. White girl tears. White girls interrupting. It's usually 90% of the time it's a white woman bitching about what you're saying, complaining about.

[Colleen Witt]

Do you think that's a part of the privilege? I was going to say, yes, the privilege.

[Godfrey]

Bullshit. Because I had a white girl wanting to fight me the other day. She. I go, she was like, motherfucker, I go, I don't hit women, so get out of my face. I get a girl to come fuck you up, they'll knock you the fuck out. But I don't hit women. Yeah, my father didn't hit my mother. My father didn't even raise his voice to my mother. I don't hit women. I never understand the concept of dudes hitting women. Now don't get me wrong, I want to smack shit out you, but I'm not going to do it. She heckled me and said, wow, you just move on. I go, no, bitch, you don't tell me to move on. You shut the up and listen. That's how this goes, you know? I remember.

[Colleen Witt]

But don't they kick him out too.

[Godfrey]

Sometimes when you really got it? Because the bouncers there, he can't wait to yoke people up. Yeah, yeah, Big giant African, French African dude. He be like, he'd be like, you have to go, is you. It's talking too much if you don't listen. And her boyfriend is there letting her talk. Cuz it's like whipped ass dudes. I go, yo, tell your girl, like, if I'm with a chick, she's not going to. She don't have class yelling shit out. She doesn't have to like. You don't have to like us. Yeah, it's okay. I watch.

[Colleen Witt]

But it's a show. You're supposed to be quiet.

[Godfrey]

I watch shows. I may not like them, but I'm not going to go. I'm not going to say nothing. Yeah, but. And then, and it's like, I always get a lot of women hecklers all the time. Always. Women always yelling at me. They just say stuff. And I go, yo, I get it. My fate is tighter than your boyfriends. I understand. I get it. You're upset. I know you like me. Cause you're interrupting me. It's too much. Stop. You know what I mean? My fade is tight. My sneakers is way doper than his. I get it. Yeah, I'm in decent shape. I get it.

[Colleen Witt]

You're in great shape, by the way.

[Godfrey]

But when you talk to me, and then when I burn you, now you're victim now. Now you're victim. But you see, first of all, I don't fuck with the audience. I'm not a crowd dude. I have shit to say. And if something naturally happens, I'll address it. But I have no interest in whether you're dating or fuck. I don't give a fuck. I got shit to say. I have material I. If they had a fence and the crowd was 50ft away, I have material. I don't need to go. Yo, what's.

[Colleen Witt]

You don't need to do crowd work.

[Godfrey]

None of that shit. That's just my style.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And. Yeah, so I'm. And I'm not. And my. As a comedian, I love edge. I love the edge. I like to push the envelope. I like my Klan jokes. What would it be like to be a member of the Klan? You know, I tried to join.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They didn't let me.

[Godfrey]

And I said, good, I'm testing you.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Because if you were to let me in, I'd be like, you slipping, dog.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, you slipping. You're supposed to be about that white supremacy. How you gonna let me in this bitch? Fuck wrong with you?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You know what I mean? Diversity and shit. How you gonna be a clan member and not stick with your shit? I love going there because. To see white people go, the Klan. Cause I'll say, klu Klux Klan. I go. People go, wait a minute.

[Colleen Witt]

Aw.

[Godfrey]

I go, what do you mean, aww?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

What's so different about a Klan member calling us niggers and say, you niggers get out of neighborhood than you being upset at a black neighbor or being passive aggressive to a black neighbor? What's the difference? Yeah, you still. You're the same. You're doing the same thing. It's like, instead of pouring acid in your face in India, like, some of them. Some people in some parts of India, they pour acid in women's faces. Foods that get rejected.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And that's like going, that's terrible. All we do is we punch our women in the face in America. That's. No, it's still abuse.

[Colleen Witt]

It's still abuse.

[Godfrey]

It's still abuse. So I like to talk about those things.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I like to talk about spirituality and people going on retreats. I go, that's your problem. You're always retreating.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You always. Who the fuck can't go into the mountains and meditate? That ain't shit. Now, when you practice your spirituality. How about when a dude in New York on the train bumps you by accident, do you automatically call them a spic or a nigger or a chick or whatever? Or do you go, that's all right. He didn't mean it. That's when you practice your spirituality. When you can. In front of people, not in the woods. You paid. Ayahuasca. You have some shaman in the wood. No, fuck that. What do you do in New York on the Subway. When a motherfucker is screaming at you, how do you handle it? So I like to address all those. The idiot. What is it? The idiot shit that goes on with.

[Colleen Witt]

Human beings and the women are still triggered. You don't forget to turn it on.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah.

[Shopify Narrator]

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[Godfrey]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Colleen Witt]

I gotta help him. Oh, I didn't turn off cosign you're cooking.

[Godfrey]

But.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You said women get triggered by me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, you said they get triggered. Except you.

[Godfrey]

They get triggered. Like it could be on it.

[Colleen Witt]

Let's see how you cut this plantain. Sorry.

[Godfrey]

It can be on anything. You know, it can be on anything. Women get triggered by. Because I'm not doing my comedy for women to be. I just want you to be a fan of comedy. Yeah, I'm not trying. There's some comics that appease women.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Because you're saying. I go, I just. I'm just being funny. I don't. I have jokes that are clean, jokes that are. But I don't. I'm not worried about a girl not liking me because I'm doing what the fuck I want. I'm a man.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, you.

[Godfrey]

That means you ain't for me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I like. I. Women fuck with me because I'm a fucking dude.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I'm. If you can't separate that from jokes to my. Me as a laugh, then fuck you.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Out of here. Because I've had situations where after a show, group girls, they didn't like what I said. And then the dude that's next to me, the comments to me, they liked what he said. So they'll be like, we liked you. I go, that's nice. Bye. Yeah, I don't. I like when I'm not like, sometimes it's okay.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

That's why I'm doing the right thing. Because I knew not everybody's going this way.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And if you don't like me, I'm like, what am I in grade school? I can't come play with you in the sandbox? Fuck out of here. This is comedy. This is freedom.

[Colleen Witt]

You got 100% New York attitude, by the way.

[Godfrey]

But yeah, I've been in New York for 20 some years now.

[Colleen Witt]

What prompted the move to New York?

[Godfrey]

Reps. And just a better quality of. I wanted to be a damn good comedian. I would say comedy is going to keep me in the game. And to me, stand up comedy is like a magical power to me. It's magic to make people laugh. You don't even fucking know. Just come in a room and have them rolling. That is a level of emotion. It's a level. It's like when I make a baby laugh, to me, it's the greatest shit in the world. To make an infant laugh. Infants, babies are always looking to laugh. They always want to be. To make a baby laugh, to me, is just a level of. It's the best shit in the world. A baby's laugh. It's. You would look at pets. When dogs get around babies, they do the thing.

[Colleen Witt]

They do stuff.

[Godfrey]

The cats do crazy shit. That's a whole nother spiritual level to me. To make a baby laugh. And the pets know.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

They do silly shit. And the baby's like cracking up. The dog's running around in a circle. Even the dog knows.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And you as a human being, you mad. Fuck you, dawg. For real.

[Colleen Witt]

So just to backtrack just a little bit, you said that early on you had booked a McDonald's commercial.

[Godfrey]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Now, this is before you decided that you were gonna pursue.

[Godfrey]

No, I was in comedy.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, you were.

[Godfrey]

Because the agent I had saw me at a comedy show. Okay. Hey, man, you're really talented. You can do voice stuff and just that. You got it. You should come to my. It was a phoenix talent, some shit. It was a black agency, and that was the first time I was auditioning for commercials. See how I slice it? My mom would do it like.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, that's how you do it.

[Shopify Narrator (Alternate)]

Oh.

[Colleen Witt]

So I definitely butchered your slices. Got it.

[Godfrey]

There's. Sometimes they cut. Now I like it like when my mother would do it like this.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

Like that. Like flat.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Godfrey]

Even though these are green ones, this would be like the tostones. Like with the latinos, it would be. When it's green, it's tostone. And when it's sweet, it's maduro.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Platano.

[Colleen Witt]

That's how my mom would do it too.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. With the Haitians, it's banan. We call it dodo or plantain. The Caribbeans call it plantain. Don't cut yourself if you're in. No, I'm good. And then if you're in Amsterdam, the Suriname Surina. Suriname. Surinamese people look like me and you, but they speak Dutch. It's a Dutch colony. Suriname is a Dutch colony. So the Dutch people came and fucked everybody in this. It's right. It's by South America. And the surinamese people are living in Holland, Okay. Because they slavery and just rape, pillaging. So everybody came out real cool looking. And so the surinamese, they speak Dutch. They're the Black people of. Of Holland. And so I went to a Surinamese restaurant. Cause I was performing in Amsterdam. No, in Holland in 2018. But I did Dutch comedy for 10 years. So I was like. So we went to a Surinamese restaurant and the food was banging. And then I see a big ass banana come out. I go, so y' all eat it too, huh? And I said, what's it called? Bacabana.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, okay.

[Godfrey]

James said, all of us are all connected with the banana. That's why when like, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans be like, I know black. I know black. I'm like, yeah, you are.

[Colleen Witt]

Why are we eating?

[Godfrey]

Why are we eating fried bananas? Yeah, I know black, papa. I know black. I'm Dominican. Yeah. Why do you have this in your dish? Why do Nigerians eat this and Ghanaians eat this? Why are Trinidadians and Jamaicans eating this? Stupid.

[Colleen Witt]

We're all connected.

[Godfrey]

Maduro, Patano, Tostone. Dodo. We call it dodo. Like that.

[Colleen Witt]

Do you actually say this and stuff to them?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, I said, look it, the big banana, buddy. Asians don't eat this unless they're Chinese Jamaicans. No, the Chinese Jamaicans eat it because the China Chinese have been there since the 60s and yeah, they've been in Jamaica since the 60s. Now they're in Nigeria. Now Chinese are in jail. When I was in Nigeria last year, they're there, you know, they're fixing the infrastructure in Nigeria. All they're gonna be Chinese Jamaicans. There's Chinese. They're gonna be Chinese, Chinese, Nigerians.

[Colleen Witt]

Hey, then. Then Chinese Jamaicans next.

[Godfrey]

And there's gonna be China Jamaicans, and they're gonna be Niger.

[Colleen Witt]

And you're not burning the chicken. You positive?

[Godfrey]

I don't think so.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, my gosh. You about to burn your hand.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah, this is great.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

Cool.

[Colleen Witt]

You want to turn it off? All right, cool. One dish down, two dish down. He has bread, beans, and rice is already there, right? Yep. The only thing we're waiting on is the plantains.

[Godfrey]

All right, cool, cool, cool. Huh?

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, so we're in your story.

[Godfrey]

Yes.

[Colleen Witt]

You get the advice. You break up with your partner.

[Godfrey]

My partner? What are you talking about? You're my partner. I'm solo. Then I moved to New York after about two years. Moved to New York driving a U haul truck 20 hours, 20 something hours in a U Haul truck. Pack all my. And with my friend Bernadette, who was in the movie Love Jones. If you ever saw Love Jones. You ever seen Love Jones? Love Jones with Lorenz Tate, who's also from Chicago?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Lorenz and his brothers Lamar were all Chicago people. And I. My friend Bernadette, who was in Love Jones, who I went to high school with, she drove with me. She's going, hey. I said, I'm going to New York. I'm driving. She goes, you know what? I'll come with you. She came with me. She's now a director. She does a lot of really great shit. And so we drove all the way to New York City. And if you know who Wood Harris is.

[Colleen Witt]

Yep.

[Godfrey]

Wood Harris is from Chicago.

[Colleen Witt]

For some strange reason, I've had a crush on him since I was like, 10.

[Godfrey]

That's amazing.

[Colleen Witt]

Is that weird? Since I was a little girl, he was like an adult. It's a weird thing, right?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, it's like. It is what it is.

[Colleen Witt]

This is weird, though, because it's like a sick confession.

[Godfrey]

As a little kid, he's a Chicago guy, and we used to go to Poetry Slab in Chicago. And I remember when he got accepted to Tisch, nyu. And I remember the street we were on, Kinsey street, downtown Chicago. He's outside. He goes, yo, God, man, check it out. I got accepted to Tish, man. Yeah, man, I just got accepted. I said, damn, that's cool. I said, you know what? I'm moving to New York next year. I plan on doing that. He goes, yeah, man, I'm leaving a few months, man. So I see you over there, Bomb. He's over there. So I. Long story short, I'm driving 20 hours. I get to New York City, bam. I'm on 6th Avenue.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Godfrey]

6Th Ave. And 3rd Ave. Where we perform in the Village. And it's the daytime, so we tired. And I see Wood Harris walking right in front of my truck, going to class. This is a year later, okay? And I honk my horn, and Wood, I go, yo. He goes, what the fuck? I go, yo, I'm here, bro. I'm here. He's going to class. Shit. And so we keep driving because I'm supposed to. My managers at the time, I got managers, they're telling me, guiding me, where I should go. They go, we got you a place.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, that was. That was going to be my next question. Like, how are you? Where are you living?

[Godfrey]

I'm living at 100th in West End because my friend, this guy, TK Kirkland, who's a comic, who's going to be on Club Shay Shay in A Couple. Tea to the motherfucking K in July. You'll see him, he got me, my manager because I used to open up for him in Chicago. And he said, you need to come to New York. I got some good managers. If anybody knows who Anthony Michael hall is from Breakfast Club, the original Breakfast Club, the movie. Okay, yeah, the little blonde kid.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

His pops was my manager. His dad, Tom Chestaro, David Klingman. They had John Leguizamo, Sandra Bullock, they had Mike Apps. A whole bunch of people. And I was. I was another added addition.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow.

[Godfrey]

That was like.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, and that's fresh when you first get into New York.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, I have managers. So then they take me to this apartment complex. It was four. It's a four bedroom place. It was all theater people. They say, you're going to meet somebody, they're going to meet you at the door Hundredth in West End. So it's almost. It's like nighttime, 8, 9 o', clock, whatever. We get to the place and Viola Davis opens the door.

[Colleen Witt]

That's.

[Godfrey]

She's at Juilliard. She's at Juilliard at the time. And she goes, hey, you're Godfrey. I go, yes, I'm Viola Davis. My name is Viola. I'm at Juilliard right now doing a play called Seven Guitars, blah, blah. I said, oh, cool. All right. My friend is. My friend Bernadette. So he's okay, I'll show you to your room and stuff and show me to my room. And then we're unpacking our shit, right? So this dude, I guess he's. He's an actor, too. White guy comes out and I'm thinking, he must be the other roommate. So he's asking me like, hi, you're the new. I say, yeah, from Chicago. So he comes at me like, so what are you going to be doing when you're here? Are you going to be like, having women? He was just being real crazy with me. I said, and I look at Bernadette, is he talking to me?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I said, that's none of your fucking business. How about that? You know, I'm already militant as fuck because in Chicago, I used to go see Minister Farrakhan live. When I was 18, I would go to Savior's Day. So I'm down with this FOI and the Nation of Islam. I'm not enjoying them. But I go see Farrakhan live.

[Colleen Witt]

I can only imagine what that guy was thinking when you said that.

[Godfrey]

So I was like, who the fuck are you talking to? I say, you. You can't say hi to me. None of that. I said, oh, I'm not in the mood for that white dude shit right now racism is like, when is it? When does it end? Is it all the time? I was like, yeah. I said, yeah, man. I said, man, get the fuck out of my face, man. I just told him. I said, yo, get the fuck out of my face. So he goes, I just want to go, my man, I'm telling you, I don't. I'm not in the mood for this. I don't know who the fuck you talk to that. But I will get in. I will hit you in your jaw. I'm just going to punch you right in the mouth. Get the fuck out of here. And Viola broke us up. Viola broke us up and then pulled me to the room. She closed it. I can't make this shit up.

[Colleen Witt]

She closed the door. What's she doing?

[Godfrey]

She closed the door. She goes, you know what it is, right? Viola's always been pro black. That's what I love about her. She's always been that way. She goes, you know what it is, right? I said, yeah, man. She goes, you come in. He was. It was me, his girlfriend and him. So he was the white dude of the room. And he goes, and here you come. Handsome black dude come in there. And now he's being threatened. I go, I know that white dude. Shit that threatening bullshit. And he wanted to have everybody. That's what they want. They want the black girls and all that. They're the dudes that be like, why is he with. Why are you with him? Yeah, they actually asked people, why are you with us?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Want me to give you a list? I said, the reason why they with you is because of systematic shit. That's why they with you. You ain't got no game. You ain't got no game. Anytime I see one of us go with you, it's because you ain't got no game or they're mad at us. You ain't got no game. It's all trauma, bro. I. I was telling them that you.

[Colleen Witt]

Said, or they're mad at us.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. When black women. Yeah, they're mad at us most of the time. 95% of the time, I'm telling you.

[Colleen Witt]

I'll give you that.

[Godfrey]

I know it.

[Colleen Witt]

I'll give you.

[Godfrey]

Because I know ones that have admitted it. Yeah, I know it.

[Colleen Witt]

Is they fed up. That's the first thing they say when they get mad. They be like, that's it.

[Godfrey]

I'm gonna go to the oppressor. That's what I'm going to go do. And then he opens up. Then he opens up and says, calls you a Nigger, now you stuck. Because it happened to Halle Berry, who I love to death. Happened to her. Her husband called it the N word. What? Now she was stuck. Now she paying this motherfucker 18,000amonth, you talking about. So I'm just saying. And Halle's with Van Hunt now, which is dope as fuck. I love it. But I'm saying, though. I'm not saying. Listen, I'm not saying you can't love a person cause of who they are, but a lot of times it's agenda. Nobody talks about that part. Yeah, nobody goes there. They just. Oh, no. It's like, why can't love be?

[Colleen Witt]

Like.

[Godfrey]

Say, yeah, that's a nice Hallmark card, but keep it 100. Because I know people in relationships that have come to me and told me and said, mom, boy, call me a nigga. I said, yeah, of course he did. What you think? Of course he called you that. And now you stuck. Now he called you that because that's how he sees you. He's not seeing you. Your humanity. If he never used that, that means he really loves you. But yeah, you pissed him off. That's the true test. That's the true test. Now you come to me telling me he said that to you, I go, what are you gonna do? I know this shit. When Trump was running in 2020, you know how many people flipped? They were like, I can't believe my girlfriend. She's my brother. Let me tell you love white women. And now she flipping on you. Now she talking that Trump shit. What you think was gonna happen? That dynamic is there. That's why you got to make sure you ask them questions, man. Because a lot of times it's fetishy bullshit. And they'll play the role just so they can. So they can be horizontal with you. But nobody wants to talk about that.

[Colleen Witt]

No, no. It's all facts. So Viola pulls you into the.

[Godfrey]

She goes, you know what it is? And boom. And from there, I was cool. I stayed there because I had to call my managers at the time. Called them. I said, dave, Tom, I'm about to smack the shit out this dude.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, my goodness.

[Godfrey]

And then little old Jewish guy's like, don't do it. God. Listen, don't do it. Do anything. We're coming over there, all right? And I said, no, man. And Tom is Italian. And. And I said, dave, man. Dave was, when I tell you, the nicest human being, one of the nice. They're all. They passed away, though. But Dave, little Jewish guy, one of the smartest men I've ever met in my fucking life. He knew about the Nigerian Civil War. He knew everything. He was the kindest man I've ever. Literally never said anything crazy out of his mouth. Was never, like, racially none of side shit. He was very honest.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

He never whispered when he said the word black.

[Colleen Witt]

I like that.

[Godfrey]

He was just very honest and just love. He was just a good dude, man. Seriously, a good guy, man. And he cared about people and. And yeah, man.

[Colleen Witt]

So they talked you off the ledge?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, man. Because five minutes in, you're. Yeah, you're really coming at me.

[Shopify Narrator (Alternate)]

And he.

[Colleen Witt]

And this is a house that you all got to live in.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. And he stayed away after that night. I was like, you gotta be funny.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm almost imagining this is like a house, like the real world, something like that.

[Godfrey]

But we were gone. Like, I was.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Everybody was doing their own thing.

[Godfrey]

I was headed to Montreal comedy for that next two days, I was gone and Viola was gone. She was doing plays. And when I read her book. When I read her book, which is, by the way, fabulous. She wrote it over Covid, her autobiography. There's a part where she's living in New York in a certain. Doing this certain play. And I was there at the time, and I'm reading. I go. I was around.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then I see Viol, like three, four years ago, I saw Viola at the 92Y. There's a YMCA where they have a stage. They have, like, interviews with celebrities. So I went and paid my money. My friend told me Viola's gonna be at the thing because she's an EGOT now. She has all the different awards. I said, I'm gonna go, yeah, I'm gonna try and meet her, see if she remembers me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

This is years later. And so I go. And then all the security dudes know me. They like, yo, man, what's good, man? Yo, if you wanna meet her, man. Yo, I got you. I was like, yeah, I want to meet her.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Soon as I walk in, she goes, what's up, roomie? Soon as I walk in, her and.

[Colleen Witt]

Her husband, she goes, now I'm just confused. Why did you think she wouldn't remember?

[Godfrey]

I don't know, man. I know motherfuckers that do a tampon commercial and act like they don't know me.

[Colleen Witt]

Hold on. This is complete. Let me tell you.

[Godfrey]

Oh, you gotta get a napkin.

[Colleen Witt]

No, I'm just gonna try and. Oh, use the napkins under the forks.

[Godfrey]

Oh, come on.

[Colleen Witt]

We're.

[Godfrey]

Cause if you got a paper towel.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, just for now, we're gonna make shift it.

[Godfrey]

Okay. Makeshift it.

[Colleen Witt]

Makeshift it right here.

[Godfrey]

Okay. Yeah, just do that.

[Colleen Witt]

There.

[Godfrey]

Lay it out so I can. It absorbs the oil.

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[Colleen Witt]

Eventually gonna have to eat with me.

[Godfrey]

Okay, I know. I just want to put the line like that.

[Colleen Witt]

There you go right there.

[Godfrey]

So what are you going to say?

[Colleen Witt]

So you didn't think first you it's just interesting because when you talk about roomies and stuff. It's like such a unique. It's like a kindred sister brotherhood. Right.

[Godfrey]

Our business, this business is full of phonies. And people, when they do. When they get a little bit like they say they do a little better than you, all of a sudden they don't know you.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Godfrey]

All of a sudden they're not calling you anymore. And you've been through the trenches with people and I didn't even know Viola like that. I didn't stay that long there.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

I was there a good half a year. I was there for a little bit.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

And it's not like we hung out and ate together. No, we were roommates.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And the fact that when I walked in, she goes, what's up, roomie? And we started laughing. I got photos with it, man. It's amazing. I'll show you after.

[Colleen Witt]

I love that.

[Godfrey]

I goes, do you remember that fight we had? She goes, ah, hell yeah, I remember that. I broke it up. She goes, I ended up fighting that motherfucker too.

[Colleen Witt]

No way. That's funny.

[Godfrey]

Cause he was like his girlfriend, the girl he was dating at the. There were four. She was an alcoholic. I think she had passed away. It was just a lot of real raggedy shit. So I was just running into a. He was having problems with his chick. He was taking it out on. It was just. I didn't know, but I was just like, who's this guy talking to? I'm like, fuck are you? Yeah, so I was like one of those dudes. And I was like, militant too. I'm like. And I'm still like that, but I'm not even. My white friends go, I unders now. I said pro black don't mean anti white, brother. Pro white means anti black.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I said, I'm not anti white, bro. I'm just proud of what I am. I'm proud of what the fuck I look like. I'm proud of our shit because we're dope. You know how I know? Cause you copy us. You copy us every step. You can't live without black people. Every TikTok is copying us. You either pop locking, you're DJing, you're fucking dancing. Everything the lexicon changes because of us. Oh, that was lit. That's us. Yeah, that was this. That was dope. That's us. Your handshakes as us.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

We bring you in and go, whoa, what up, man? What's good, man? You do the same shit as we do. You copy us, and then you get mad when we Ask you where the origin is? The origin is us. Now you go, why does it got to be about. What do you mean, what does it got to be about? It is about that because you don't see us as human beings. You see us as some fucking amusement park. We're like a Nigaville to you. And we get on a ride because we're like a ride to you. I'm being like fun to you. Hey, but then when we ask for humanity now. Oh, no, now you guys just wanna. So you just want product from us and we can't receive humanity. We're asking for humanity. You're making billions off of black culture. You wanna talk about basketball, football, you wanna talk about all that shit? We're the ones changing the culture, not you 100%.

[Colleen Witt]

So do you think by any chance that you being, quote, unquote, pro black? The reputation of militant. Sorry about these mics. It's the way we design the table.

[Godfrey]

It's not being pro black.

[Colleen Witt]

What do you think at times that that has hindered you?

[Godfrey]

I guess so, but I just think me being black has hindered me because Beans and rice. I think being black has hindered me because there's just racist. Because there's black people. I think there's. They choose. We're like action figures. They choose what they want to be play with.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, I was going to say that. To me, there's such thing as the quote, unquote, safe black.

[Godfrey]

There's a safe black. One day I did a whole thing where I watched a whole, like a couple hours of safe black people on tv. There was a thing, Safe Negro Day. It was my Safe Negro day.

[Colleen Witt]

Is that a thing for real?

[Godfrey]

No, I was. I just. For myself, I said, I want to watch these black people that work all the time. I want to see what the difference was. I go, wow, man.

[Colleen Witt]

Chicken.

[Godfrey]

These guys are fucking safe. God damn. Whoo. Like Denzel, I relate to Fishburne, I relate to Samuel Jackson. I relate to. Because they talk their shit.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I relate to them because they balance it out. They'll say stuff, but in a certain way. But I don't fuck with the people that just never say anything about anything.

[Colleen Witt]

But have you seen it on the behind the scenes? It hinder you, I don't think.

[Godfrey]

No. Because I don't go around doing that.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Hook it up.

[Godfrey]

I don't go around doing that every. You're asking me a question and I'm just. But I don't go around. I don't treat people wrong. I'm very nice to people. I'm very. Because I love myself.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

When you have knowledge of self, when you love yourself, you treat people. You emanate the same thing. Hurt people. Hurt people, man. I don't treat people. My friends that are white, I treat them. I care about them. I've had my friends drunk, white. One of my best buddies, Chad, white, dude drank a lot. All kinds of shit. Got him out of all his stupor, man. I got him to exercise. Boom, boom. Because I care about him, man. I don't care. But the problem is the people who cause the oppression get mad. When you're just trying to find a little dignity in yourself, they find it as a threat. That's weird.

[Colleen Witt]

I think just the mere acknowledgement of it, because my twin goes through it. Let's judge your food. Let's judge it.

[Godfrey]

Okay.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Rice and beans.

[Godfrey]

Rice and beans. Let's see.

[Colleen Witt]

Did you flavor the beans at all?

[Godfrey]

I put garlic and salt on it. Not bad. It's good, right?

[Shopify Narrator]

Fastest.

[Godfrey]

I like.

[Colleen Witt]

Good job.

[Godfrey]

Not bad.

[Colleen Witt]

Not bad for brokenness.

[Godfrey]

I know, broke.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, now let's test your wings.

[Godfrey]

Broke cuisine. Crunchy and good. That's right. I didn't go crazy with the seasoning.

[Colleen Witt]

But it did not go crazy with the seasoning.

[Godfrey]

I like it crunchy.

[Colleen Witt]

Impressed with the crunch, though.

[Godfrey]

I love the crunchy.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, but I don't know how you did it. You did a really good job. How'd you do that? Do you like the soft inside? That's the boiling.

[Godfrey]

All right. That's good. That's how mushroom it is, man.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm impressed with the crust.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, I love the crunch.

[Colleen Witt]

How would you do that? High heat. Tell me. There's some. There's some listener out there, like, just tell her. I know it was olive oil, but how did you get the crunch? Is it the COVID Yeah, it's just.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, the COVID You leave it there for longer than you expect. You watch it.

[Colleen Witt]

Great crust.

[Godfrey]

Good. You dip it in a sauce, boy.

[Colleen Witt]

Woo. I'm not gonna lie. The crust is thoroughly impressive. Cause I've never had a crust. I've never been able to do that.

[Godfrey]

Yep.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Good job.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

Thank you.

[Godfrey]

Thank you. And it's something you could eat now.

[Colleen Witt]

You don't eat like this now?

[Godfrey]

Sometimes. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

I'll eat like that. Hell yeah. Bryce and beef, they never going out of style. See it? That's a good combination too.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, yeah.

[Godfrey]

Just in general, this is like.

[Colleen Witt]

Just so you know, this is a great lunch. Did you have lunch yet?

[Godfrey]

Nope.

[Colleen Witt]

Right off the plane. In the kitchen.

[Godfrey]

In the kitchen, sweating.

[Colleen Witt]

Now when you see all these people that you were. Grew up, basically were in the trenches with.

[Godfrey]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Some of them hit the moon. How does that. How do you deal with knowing that these people were your running mates? And some of them have surpassed. Some of them may not have.

[Godfrey]

I'm happy for a lot of people, especially when they've worked hard. There's some people that go, how. But you could just be friends with the right person. It's all kinds of factors.

[Colleen Witt]

So you. But you do have that moment of. Cause I deal with that sometimes.

[Godfrey]

Like how I'm like, shit. How you get that? Yeah, that's normal.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But there's healthy competition, there's inspiration. But then there's people that get to a level and they're pieces of shit towards the people that came up. And I go, oh, fuck you.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I don't play that shit.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I get anywhere. I don't even let it get to me like that. Cause it's okay.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

That's great.

[Godfrey]

But this is transient. It comes up and goes up and down.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I always wanted to be able. If I in a position, I want to bring my friends with me, man. Get that guy or that girl, she's been working. I want that. But a lot of people will pull the ladder up and not want anybody to come up, which is insane to me. Cause you got up there through the help of others.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. You come off that way. When I first met you, of course, everyone knows who you are. You walk in a room, we know who you are. But the fact that you're so approachable and. Oh, yeah, sure, here's my number. Let's set it up.

[Godfrey]

Da da da.

[Colleen Witt]

I just want everyone out there to know that. Okay. Without cameras, without anything completely who you say you are.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

It's just easier. I'm gonna be two people. It's hard not being yourself. You gonna be another motherfucker.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

That's like corny. And I've seen it. Like, unless something tragic happens to you. And then all of a sudden you found your humanity. Like, why is that what it took? It took a brick to hit you in the head from a building. Like, I almost died. But now it's time.

[Colleen Witt]

It's so funny. Cause I met someone that did that. They like went through, I don't know, cancer scare or something.

[Godfrey]

And then they were like.

[Colleen Witt]

Then everywhere they went, they had the preach of Jesus. Who's this? Before?

[Godfrey]

Yeah. And I'm not perfect. Don't get me wrong. Someone approached me crazy I go, fuck you talking to? I'm normal.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm like, you're a typical New Yorker in my book.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. I'm like, yo, why are you talking to me like that? Why are you talking disrespectfully? I don't come in disrespectful. I don't. I'm very nice to people because my parents taught me that. You be nice to people, but you don't let anybody push you over either.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You stand your ground. I balance it out. Yo, you talk to me crazy, but. Well, you back.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Now all of a sudden, I'm the asshole.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

They'll go, yo, that guy Godfrey was asshole. But you didn't tell your part of the story. You forgot. You left that out. You were a piece of shit. And I answered you back, what do you want me to do? You know what I mean? So I. But I. But most of the time, everything is good, man. Keep my environment. I like to work like I just did my Grace of God did my Comedy Central, my comedy special. Take it Comedy special at the Apollo Theater. I just had really wonderful people. Rachel Frazier, Amanda Diaz, Kimberly. Got just a whole crew of women that just got it done. I shot it last Thursday. I shot it on June 12th. I shot two shows sold out. And we shot it. And I cannot. I'm looking so forward. It was so great. Because I've been seven years overdudos. Shoot my next special. Because some of these networks have ignored a lot of comedians for some reason, because you notice they always pick the same old people.

[Colleen Witt]

Well, I was going to say they're the way. They're selecting some of these comics. Some of them are like.

[Godfrey]

I just go, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm like, but backtrack just a little bit because there's a question. You let it there. What was that point in your career where you were like, okay, this is. I'm picking up a pace or I'm a ride.

[Godfrey]

Well, When I book 7Up after Orlando Jones, he was the spokesperson for 7Up. It was the second guy after him, I was like, okay, shit. I got. I'm a spokesperson for an American product. I always wanted that. You got the progressive lady. You got Jake from State Farm.

[Colleen Witt]

I just said, and the checks are consistent.

[Godfrey]

I was like, this is all right. I'm doing stuff on MTV. Cause 7up is sponsoring MTV. I'm doing spring break. I was like, hell, yeah. I was in the culture, the pop culture. Like, I'm on MTV with crazy Carson Daly.

[State Farm Narrator]

What the.

[Colleen Witt]

And that's when you were like, I.

[Godfrey]

Said, I didn't think, oh, this is it. I just thought, this is a stepping stone. This is great. I didn't think it's gonna last forever. This is.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

But this guy named Rod Asa, who was running mtv, I'll never forget him. He looked out for me. He said, I love you are talented. I want you part of mtv. I'm looking for that guy. He was so good to me. He got me on two seasons. I hosted spring break. Then I did stuff, talking head stuff on MTV. I loved the 80s. I loved it. And it just merged and I was in the mix. I wasn't getting paid a gang of loop, but I was just happy to be in the culture.

[Colleen Witt]

But you were. And you were.

[Godfrey]

But at this point and doing comedy.

[Colleen Witt]

And there's no side jobs. Cause I haven't heard any. But the whole New York journey. I haven't heard any side jobs.

[Godfrey]

No, I never had one. I had jobs in Chicago out of college. I was at the grocery store with me, my brother and my sister were all grocery store kids. My sister did the register when she was in college. My brother did inventory. He stayed in grocery business for 20 years. I did produce. I worked in produce, inventory, bagging groceries since I was 15. I worked at furniture stores in college, when I was playing football and everything, they got us summer jobs. I was doing construction shit. I was doing telemarketing. I did jobs, man. I had jobs. But in New York, I never had a job again now. But you busted my ass and did gigs and slept on couches. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, that's what you did.

[Godfrey]

My manager's couch.

[Colleen Witt]

Did you. Did you save before coming, though?

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

Not really.

[Godfrey]

I had gigs, though.

[Colleen Witt]

And to go back with your parents. To go back to the conversations with your parents, are you calling bluff? Are you lying? Are you like, oh, everything's great?

[Godfrey]

No, I said, I'm making it. And they were like, yeah. I mean, I don't have all the money in the world, but I'm on a couch. But I'm getting gigs.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Doing the urban circuit. I was getting money, cash in my pocket.

[Colleen Witt]

And were they in. Sorry. Were they in support of it?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, it was a survival thing. Are you. Are you surviving?

[Colleen Witt]

Okay?

[Godfrey]

And then when they see I was getting things here and there.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. They start seeing you on tv.

[Godfrey]

Oh, man. When I was talking about my dad on tv, that was one of my most famous jokes. Like, everybody was calling my father. My father was like, I like this comedy thing. This is really good. Cause he loved Eddie. Eddie Murphy's very rich I go, he's a comedian. I said, dad, Cosby's not Dr. Huxtable. Bill Cosby's a comedian. Yeah, Jerry Seinfeld's a comedian. They're comedians. He was like, oh, this is good. Because I was surviving. He said, yeah, if you were, like, in psychiatry, no one would know you. This is good. He loved that shit.

[Colleen Witt]

Now, did your parents. Did anyone catch on early on of your impersonations and all that?

[Godfrey]

Not. Yeah, I used to do Muhammad Ali when I was little. Nobody really thought about it. I didn't really do impersonations a lot until later on in my career because my manager told me, the guy, the little Jewish guy, David Clingman, he told me, don't do your impersonations right away. Make sure you build your material, and then when you bring in your impersonations, it'll add to the arsenal. He was right. He was right on point. He said, don't do it too much, cause you'll look corny.

[Colleen Witt]

But they knew about it. Everyone thought about it.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah. Cause I could do accents that I can hear languages quickly. I can just spit it back at you. And I was good at mimicking people. So I was like, okay, I'll save it. So then when I got. I don't even have to do impersonation. Some guys have to do an impersonation. I don't even.

[Colleen Witt]

So you built up your talent in this other area because they already knew you were strong in this other area.

[Godfrey]

And during COVID is where everybody was like, yeah, I didn't know you could do Autumn voice. I said, I was never on a TV show. SNL rejected me. I didn't get on mad tv, none of it. So all the sketch shows never picked me for. So it was what it was. But, yeah, so I said, now we got this thing called a phone. And social media has changed the game. Ain't nobody fucking with tv. Really?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. No one knows that yet.

[Godfrey]

There are more phones than people. And I was watching Dame Dash on Alive during COVID and his friend is. You know how you have the box? And his friend's talking, was like, yo, so what you gonna do, man? During COVID he said, man, what you think I'm gonna do, man? We gotta create, man. Fuck that, man. Everybody is sitting at home doing nothing. He's. If you're an artist and you ain't creating, you stupid. And I said, okay, got it. And I just said, let me turn this phone on, start doing Steve. Hey, I'm gonna tell you this right now. Steve Harvey Top five answers on the board.

[Shopify Narrator]

Here's the question. Question.

[Colleen Witt]

I was on it, and they just went Trump.

[Godfrey]

I was like, this is a very good show. It's so great. Can you believe it? We're here cooking because I'm broke. I've never been broke. So she's broke, but I'm not broke. But it's a good show. I'm very proud to be about this show. A lot of people that are broke because of my presidency. I'm all about money.

[Colleen Witt]

That's it.

[Godfrey]

Great. So I.

[Colleen Witt]

You got to do one J, though. Jay Z.

[Godfrey]

Everyone does Jay Z.

[Colleen Witt]

No, but I love.

[Godfrey]

It's crazy. Yo, yo, it's over, yo.

[State Farm Narrator]

It's over.

[Godfrey]

Cause I'm eating while I'm broke. Cause I ain't no joke. Oh, shit. Yo, Making the chicken. Oh, the shit is finger licking. Got the platinum rice, everything nice. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

So you did that and that. Now you're killing social media, too. How does that make you feel, though, to be able to dominate, to just literally pick up on a platform and annihilate?

[Godfrey]

And I want to give a shout out to King Batch, Renny D Storm and his crew.

[Colleen Witt]

Thanks. Tom's a good friend of mine, by the way.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah. All the social media people that I did sketches with, that went viral as shit. Thank you for letting me into your world, showing me how you guys can share and everybody can win. Yeah, that's not my era. My era was everybody hog up everything. Insecurity and all that. I'm just keeping it 100. But they were like, yo, this is what we do. Get in a sketch. Get in with us. They're all eating now.

[Colleen Witt]

How did you meet that group?

[Godfrey]

Through Renny, who looks like me, and he's a Haitian kid out of Queens. We started doing Stepfather, Father, Son, and that went viral. And then I said, hey, man, I want to link up with King Batch. He called. Batch came to New York. We did a sketch. Safaree was there. We was in the hotel room. Hotel Knickerbocker. Batch goes, yo, I'm in New York. I said, yo, I'm coming over there. So the most. One of the most famous sketches I did with them was the noisy neighbor joint where I come in, I go, yo, could you keep it down? I come back, yo, who's showering, man? Turn the shower down. And then I come in again. I go, yo, who's doodling? Yo, your doodles is mad loud, man. They splashing, man. Yo, let the doodles hit the side of the bowl, man. I'm Trying to sleep, man, your doodles is mad heavy, Yo. When I did that sketch, I made it up 10 minutes, we shot it, bong, bong, bong. The next day. This is one thing about New York. When. When city workers stop you, that's when you know you doing well.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

They don't give a fuck about nobody.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

These niggas in a garbage truck like, yo, my man, your doodles is mad loud, baby. And I was like, what? And I didn't think about it. I was like, nigga, you don't know. Your shit's firing on Facebook, son. We crying right now.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And then bus drivers like, you want to write. Yo, you, doodles is mad loud, baby. And that's when I knew. God damn, I'm reaching everybody. This is international, too. And when I was doing another sketch with King Bach and his crew, we were in Times Square. There were people from all over the world going, king Bach, I watch all of your stuff.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I knew. I said, oh, this is it. So King Bach is a good. Is one of my little bros. King Bach is my little bro. Renny's my little bro. So I fuck with them. They really, really guided me.

[Colleen Witt]

They definitely have.

[Godfrey]

They guided me very well. They guided me to the utmost. I always thank them for that, too. And it's my. It's a new point of relevance now.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

It's like.

[Colleen Witt]

That's what I'm saying. Like, for you to dominate on the stage, you to dominate and get in.

[Godfrey]

Social media and podcasting and. Yeah, man. Joe Rogan changed the game. Joe Button's changing the game. Charlamagne's changing the game. Yeah. Andrew. A lot of these guys changing the game.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And Bill Burr with his pocket. It's just. It's. And Mark Marin.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I did Marin's twice. I did his podcast twice.

[Colleen Witt]

I love Mark Marin. He's sweet.

[Godfrey]

And I know Mark. I started out knowing Mark. When I first got to New York, I was always on the same lineup as Mark Marin.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

With all his sarcasm.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I started out with Marc Maron. I shot a pilot with Marc Maron. Yeah, man.

[Colleen Witt]

His interviews on this show is one of my favorites. He was very vulnerable.

[Godfrey]

Like, very vulnerable. He's. He's been through some stuff.

[Colleen Witt]

He. Oh, he was. He's been through stuff. But to take the time and really opened up, it was.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, he's one of my favorites.

[Colleen Witt]

Even though his fans are brutal.

[Godfrey]

They're brutal, but Mark's brutal. Very critical, very smart, intellectual.

[Colleen Witt]

They was not holding back. They was like.

[Godfrey]

They were Going off on them, they're.

[Colleen Witt]

Going off more on me.

[Godfrey]

Why?

[Colleen Witt]

I don't know. People find a reason to complain sometimes.

[Godfrey]

Welcome.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[State Farm Narrator]

You know what I mean?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, that's. Yeah. So I've been through just being at Bernie Mac's club. I started at Bernie Mac's Club, also as soloist. I was on. I lived on the north side of Chicago, you know, the different sides of Chicago side, South side, North. I was on the north side. And I would go to Bernie Mac's club. Bernie Mac had open mike on Mondays, a variety show. And I would go there with my boy Evan Lionel, who actually changed Bernie Mac's life. He's the real reason why Bernie became who he was because of Evan Lionel, my big brother. So it was me, Dion, Cole, all of us, D Ray, all of us would go to Cotton Club. That's how I met Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer and all. Bernie Mac, Bernie.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I knew Bernie, man.

[Godfrey]

Knew Bernie. Knew him. You know what I'm saying? So before he got. When he was Def Jam. I ain't afraid of you. That. That was when I was around. Yeah, man.

[Colleen Witt]

So you've had an incredible journey.

[State Farm Narrator]

Yeah, man.

[Godfrey]

Crazy Sinbad. I knew Sinbad. Too bad what happened to Sinbad.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. I like to see him. I like that. He was in the Straw movie recently.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. And that's good.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Did you see Straw, by the way?

[Godfrey]

No, I didn't see it. You liked it?

[Colleen Witt]

I loved it. And I'm not. I'm gonna watch it. I have so much for Tyler Perry. But the way that was. I knew this look when I saw the promos. They rarely earmark a date mentally for anything television. But I was like, June 6, June 6, June 6. Taraji's great. But the writing on it. When I said I didn't see the ending coming, I said, oh, I gotta watch it.

[Godfrey]

Because I did a Tyler Perry film last year with Tika Sumter. It's called Sisters in Italy. It's coming out at some point. Netflix, whatever. It's a rom com.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

So I played boyfriend. That dumpster. I'm dark skinned. I'm the villain.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Shout out to Tyler.

[Colleen Witt]

He's great.

[Godfrey]

He was fantastic. He was treating me great.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I asked everybody. I was on his studio, that massive studio. I asked everybody, what's it like working? They were like, he's amazing.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Like, I've heard stories. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I heard he's great. It's fun. We had fun. We had fun.

[Colleen Witt]

And the pay is good too, man.

[Godfrey]

He paid me nice. I was like, when am I. When do I need to show up? I was. It was fun. It's a comedy. Yeah, I did what? I did my comedy. He. And he was like, you know how I work. You know how I work. I go, yeah. Because he goes, how does it work? Oh, fast. We're moving on, dude.

[Colleen Witt]

They told me they shot straw in seven days. I said, seven days.

[Godfrey]

They said, yo, he be like this. Thank you.

[Shopify Narrator]

All right.

[Colleen Witt]

For real.

[Godfrey]

Because. But the beautiful thing is with comedy, I can do that shit in my sleep. So he would be like. Cause the first scene was we're going to a funeral. And Tika, I'm in the car with Tika and I'm like, she's like a real straight laced. And her sister's emotional. She's not. And I'm her boyfriend. I go, so we're going to this funeral and Tyler's driving the car and directing us and the cameras. You're going to feel. So you're not gonna cry. You're not crying or nothing. Your mother. Because Whoopi Goldberg is in it. Your mother. You're not gonna nothing. She goes, what do you mean, cry? I said nothing.

[State Farm Narrator]

Just try.

[Godfrey]

Just go squeeze your. Like, try. Just squeeze. I'm trying to tell her how to cry. I'm like, do it. She's like, I'm like this. You gotta be like. And Tyler's. Oh, keep going. So we're.

[Colleen Witt]

While he's driving the car.

[Godfrey]

Oh, yeah, there you go. Keep going. Now do that now. Now stop that. Do that. He's driving and directing at the same time. We do it. It was fun.

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[Godfrey]

Yep.

[State Farm Narrator (Alternate)]

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[Colleen Witt]

No pressure under that type of.

[Shopify Narrator]

I didn't.

[Godfrey]

It's one of those things where you just. You're here.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, Got it. Action.

[Godfrey]

Fuck you gonna do? Even sometimes the fear is there. You've been doing it long enough, you go, bam. And he was so. Just chill, man. He was just like a. Yo, ready?

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right.

[Godfrey]

You know how I do this. He was funny. Shit.

[Colleen Witt]

That's.

[Godfrey]

And I'm like, this dude's cool as shit. And then the scene I do where I'm breaking up with her, there's a funeral scene that's funny as hell. And I think it's. He works fast and he paid me, treated me well. Gift baskets. We're all. Everybody was chilling.

[Colleen Witt]

I.

[Godfrey]

Hey.

[Colleen Witt]

He was like, sign me up for the next one.

[Godfrey]

And I said, hey, man, hope to work with you again. He goes, oh, no, you will. That was fantastic. I said, thank you, man. You know.

[State Farm Narrator]

Hey, man.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, it was cool, man. You paid me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, Yeah. I heard a amazing story, and I.

[Godfrey]

Was doing what I love to do, comedy. I was having fun. It wasn't no weird shit. It was just me being a quirky ass boyfriend. He even said it was funny.

[Shopify Narrator]

Is.

[Godfrey]

They go, hey, man, we're going to have to take out the line in your head. We don't want you to look too cool. You look too cool. You got to be a little bit quirky. They're like, you look too.

[Colleen Witt]

Did you do it? You did?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, they just did a little make.

[Colleen Witt]

And then I like the line.

[Godfrey]

They say, you look too fly. I go, why can't we. You look too fly. I go, okay. So I was like, it's like, I have to break up with you. I just can't. This is. I just can't. I can't go, yeah, that was one of those. She goes, you breaking up with me?

[TurboTax/Public Investing Narrator]

I was like, yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

But you know what? Now that you do the role, I could see why the line had to be moved. I got it the second you say.

[Godfrey]

I said, all right.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, that's nothing. That's nothing.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, man. That's like. I said, I just. Like, when I'm talking about my militants, I'm not doing anything to rule. I want to. Who doesn't want to put food on the table?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Who doesn't want to pay to rent? I want to be successful, but be successful being treated Like a human being. I want to. Why can't I like myself?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Why is it a threat to you that I like myself?

[Colleen Witt]

That's weird.

[Godfrey]

You're a savage. Why can't a woman be like, I don't want to be over sexualized. Why can't I make it without you touching me?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

What's wrong with that? Now you're mad because you don't want her to. She don't want to take over her pants in front of people.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

That's insane to me. That's insanity to me.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Why can't you have a sex scene where we know they had sex, close the door and then we go to the next scene. Why does it got to be they're kissing, little normal little shit. But why does it got to be why?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, I don't understand. I 100% agree with that.

[Godfrey]

I'm just saying I don't understand. I'm like, yo, I watch Born Hell because I. But I know what it's for. But why? You know, I'm just, you know why? If a woman's asking for humanity, what is wrong with that? Why are you upset that she don't want you to treat her like shit? I just, huh.

[Colleen Witt]

You shouldn't be. But let's talk specials.

[Godfrey]

Yes.

[Colleen Witt]

Let's get into the. The lane of specials.

[Godfrey]

Yes.

[Colleen Witt]

First special to the specials.

[Godfrey]

Now, my first special was. I did a half hour special. I did. It started off with Comedy Central Premium Blend. That was a really good series where you do seven to 10 minutes. And Tommy Davidson was my host, which is. I saw him in college.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Then he. And I didn't know he was going to be my host. And when he saw him, he goes, yo, do you. I was on your college camp. I said, yeah, I was doing comedy. He said he was so supportive. So then there was that. Then I did a half hour special. Comedy Central was treating me really well. And then there was a lady producer that was really liked me and got me in. That was great. And then I did my first hour special was Comedy Central. It was called Black by accident. That was 2012. Then it was 2017. I did one called regular Black because that's what they called me when my friends found out I was Nigerian. It's like, we thought you was regular black.

[Colleen Witt]

So I did that sounds like such a thing. Black people would say, I thought you.

[Godfrey]

Was like regular black.

[Colleen Witt]

You don't like.

[Godfrey]

You like nigger, right? Like Nigeria. It's only one G in that.

[Colleen Witt]

But.

[Godfrey]

And it's soft. So, yeah, that and then I just shot my, like, my Third1 finally, seven years later, which was a long wait, but I did Tiffany Haddish's They Ready second season. She got me in on the little Netflix thing. Shout out to my little sister, Tiffany Haddish. And I just shot at the Apollo through donations through Will I Am. Will I am is one of the major donators that gave me money. Who was a big fan from Black Eyed Pea. Shaq is the one that kicked me, called me and said, it's time for you to do the show, man. It's been waiting too long. Wait, you need to do your special right. Shaq kicked me off my butt and said, you got to start.

[TurboTax/Public Investing Narrator]

Do.

[Godfrey]

Go and do it also.

[Colleen Witt]

So how did you end up raising the money to do it?

[Godfrey]

I raised the money from fans. Like another fan.

[Colleen Witt]

Like, you were just open about it.

[Godfrey]

I just said, hey, man. And my fans said, why don't you start a GoFundMe? They told me. So I raised them a 50 grand.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow.

[Godfrey]

And from there, they said, we going to send you money, all right? I don't ask people for shit. Then through my. My cash app from just doing stuff online from that, I have friends. They were, will I am. Big donation. I was like, what? He don't even remember giving me the money. That's how much money he has. He go, I did you need more? No, I'm good. Damn, I am rich.

[Colleen Witt]

So now that you tape it, what's the next part?

[Godfrey]

And I had another guy, Rodrigo, big time. He's a capital ventures Capital paid me a boatload of money and we got it done. And I chose the Apollo and did two shows and it was fantastic.

[Colleen Witt]

I saw it online.

[Godfrey]

Court was. And all of the cheering was real. It wasn't fake.

[Colleen Witt]

I love that.

[Godfrey]

And the jokes were hitting. It was awesome. It was the standing ovation. Everything was just not forced. It was. And they were. And I felt how happy they were for me. That's what I felt. They were like, it's about fucking time.

[Colleen Witt]

I like that.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, man, it felt good.

[Colleen Witt]

So where do people watch it?

[Godfrey]

I don't know yet. Now we gotta edit it down and prepare it. So the good thing is I got it and I will definitely be letting. I'll be on outlets.

[Colleen Witt]

But now, do you at least know a timeline?

[Godfrey]

I would say I don't know. I don't. I really don't. I will definitely be announcing it, though, because I don't want to say something.

[Colleen Witt]

But it'll probably be within.

[State Farm Narrator]

Man, you ain't getting no.

[Colleen Witt]

Special.

[Godfrey]

You lying in muffins, dog. I was like. You were.

[Colleen Witt]

I saw that you were taping it. Yeah. But now. But I'm guessing that it would be within the next six months.

[Godfrey]

I would think so.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, cool, Cool. So this episode will drop. We're going to try and drop it alongside. So the promo's heavy.

[Godfrey]

That's great.

[Shopify Narrator]

Cool.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Well. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

And what can people expect when checking out the smile? What's the name of it? Have you come up with the name of it?

[Godfrey]

No. That's what's crazy.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, my goodness. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I can't. I know what it's all about. Lie. We've been lied to. It's all about being lied to. And about capitalism. And we lied to make money. It's all money and lies.

[Shopify Narrator]

It's called.

[Godfrey]

That's what this theme is. That I stopped believing in a lot of shit.

[Colleen Witt]

And it's an hour.

[Godfrey]

I said the first show was hour 10, the second was hour 40. So I don't know.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[TurboTax/Public Investing Narrator]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

It depends what you call.

[Godfrey]

Maybe I'll do part one. But. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. I like that. And then just while we're talking about this stuff, how do you feel about the state of some of these specials on Netflix?

[Godfrey]

I think a lot of them are trash.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Because. Not because it's a hater thing, but as a critique. A lot of people are on there that are not ready. You can see it. They're not prepared for that.

[Colleen Witt]

But I do think that.

[Godfrey]

Not like the Chappelles who know what they're doing. Bill Burr knows what he's doing.

[Colleen Witt]

But those are real comics that have.

[Godfrey]

Been like, yeah, the George Wallace. They all know what they're doing. Lunel. All. Earthquake. They know what they're doing. They have the time, they have the hours.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

They have the stage time. But there's a lot that I go, what am I watching?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

This is insane.

[Colleen Witt]

I've had some where I can't even make it past.

[Godfrey]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

But I will say this. There's one in particular that really stands out. Not going to say the person's name. It was so bad that I. When I say, was forcing myself and still couldn't make it till minute 30. And then. But the hype around them because of the world we live in was, like, still hyped. I was very confused. But I think that the more Netflix does these wax specials, the less I'm me personally.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm not clicking on it anymore.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

Even when I hear. Especially if I hear the buzz online and I've Done it again. And I. Another comic not saying names, who is really huge right now. People love them. And I'm just like, no. And that's why I'm like, maybe it's me, but I just don't see it.

[Godfrey]

Yeah.

[Colleen Witt]

You know, but I think it's also tv. Sorry to cut you off when you.

[Godfrey]

Have a machine behind you.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

They can get anybody to believe. I forgot what the name is called. It's not called sophistry. There's a name where you can talk and where you can and make it believable. If you keep talking about something enough, they go, I believe it's a name for it.

[Shopify Narrator]

Damn.

[Godfrey]

There's a name now what it's called. I don't know if it's sophistry or.

[Colleen Witt]

It'S just if they have a show or some pickup on social media, automatically.

[Godfrey]

You have something behind you. You can get anybody. You can sell. What do you say? You can sell water. You could sell what? Water to a fish?

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

You do it the right way. Yeah. But I go and I watch and I go, as a purist, as a comedic purist and people that I know that deserve. I go, what? What is. What the fuck are we watching? Yeah, what are we watching?

[Colleen Witt]

That's me.

[Godfrey]

I know it's numbers. I get that. Of course I know it's the numbers. Yeah. It's a business. But you put up somebody that's whack. Why don't you put up somebody that's funny? Because people will go, oh, did you see this? Because comedy, I believe, has to be done properly for people to want to see it. That's what I think. I don't know.

[Colleen Witt]

I think personally that the real comics are gonna have to start staying away from Netflix. And I'm gonna say, why?

[Godfrey]

Why?

[Colleen Witt]

Because I feel like Netflix. Companies like Netflix are starting to produce really whack specials. And it's almost gonna become. Unless you like. I know now, unless I know that comic, I'm not trying them out because I'm not gonna try them out first on Netflix. Only because Netflix has delivered so many bad specials. And this is a non comic saying, like a regular person saying, I've seen too Many out of 10, 10 specials of two of them are decent. Decent.

[Godfrey]

You're giving Ted.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. And then there's some comics that, for whatever reason, are, to me, better in person than they are on specials.

[Godfrey]

But here's another thing. I give people a little bit of a pass when it comes to specials. I give people a little bit of a Pass. Because the anxiety when you're trying to shoot one is. And I'm glad that because people like. The buildup to my special was. It's just a lot of stress, but because people are so much more excited than you are. They're like, yo, man, we come in. My sister flew in, my brother flew in, my cousins flew in.

[Colleen Witt]

And people are getting dressed in a nine.

[Godfrey]

So they're coming and hyped, and I gotta go. This is just a set I'm doing. This is the same set I've been doing, but I got decorations on a stage now. Now there's a. The thing behind me. Yeah, but it's the same I've been doing. So I had to take it like this is just another set. But it was a lot, though. It was. Yo. And I was doing Hot 97. I was doing all the radio shows.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

How do you feel like, oh, I'm good, man. I'm good. I was just, like, in my head.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, I love it.

[Godfrey]

Because you want. Because you want to make sure all the technical is right because you do the rehearsals. I gotta do rehearsal for these jokes I've been telling for the past. So you got to do to make sure the cameras are right. You got to make sure nothing goes wrong. Please. Nothing. And everything went pretty goddamn smooth. And it was on and popping.

[Colleen Witt]

I can't wait to see it.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, I'm proud of it, man. And my camera dudes. Oh, my photography. Oh, just. Everybody was just killing it, man.

[Colleen Witt]

I love that for you.

[Godfrey]

And Ralph Carter from Good Times, who played Michael. There was Good Times.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah, Barely Mike.

[Godfrey]

But there's Michael, little kid. He came by. He's a Brooklyn guy. He came backstage, and it was just so cool that he came back. I go, we grew up on you, man. You were a kid performer. You were in Raisin in the sun as a kid.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Like, they don't understand you're a fucking icon. Yeah, fuck what you heard. You are a supreme icon. And you came to see me, and he says, hey, can I stay for the second show?

[Shopify Narrator]

I go, what?

[Godfrey]

You know, whatever the fuck you want. Yeah, we having good times right now. But he went to high school. Knew. Went to grade school with Larry Fishburne.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, wow.

[Godfrey]

They're all both from Brooklyn. He went to fucking. He goes, I knew Larry before he started acting, and Larry acted at around 9, 10 years old.

[Colleen Witt]

Wow. Now, how long have you been. Your whole career as a comic now. How many years?

[Godfrey]

25.

[Colleen Witt]

25 years. What kind of advice would you give to people pursuing Comedy. And just because I say, why are you laughing? I didn't know if he was laughing. Crying.

[State Farm Narrator]

You are.

[Godfrey]

Just because what? Just because.

[Colleen Witt]

I was gonna say because you did dominate social too. A little bit too. But what advice would you give to people getting into this game? 25 years.

[Godfrey]

I say let me. And consistent.

[Colleen Witt]

And how long was your struggle period for that 25 struggle period? I always tell people it's easy 10. But for the law of averages.

[Godfrey]

How long was my struggle?

[Shopify Narrator]

What was.

[Godfrey]

Was straight struggle? I don't know. Cause I was. I having fun, man.

[Colleen Witt]

I'm talking about financial struggle. Financial, like where you were like still. Yo, I'm still trying to clear.

[Godfrey]

I think when I first got to New York. To New York.

[Colleen Witt]

That first six months living in the.

[Godfrey]

But I was on stage. But getting money. Yeah, but sleeping on couch.

[Colleen Witt]

Because you had to go through all the clubs in New York. You have to pass at every club and then they have that. Is it the chitlin circuit or whatever?

[Godfrey]

That and the Main Street. I did both.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

But what was great is like chilling circuit. Paid.

[Colleen Witt]

Pays well.

[Godfrey]

But then added to the mainstream because I could go both. It was like, oh, man, I got. Man, this is great. Per week in cash. About 15 or $2,000 in cash. God damn. What's going on? I was surviving, like. And most cities don't pay like that.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

So I was having money in my pocket, like stacks.

[Colleen Witt]

Is there any club in New York that was hard pass.

[Godfrey]

So it depends. It was comedy seller. But then I got in the comic strip. I got in. There was a lot. They were much more strict back then. But then they've been a little more. Because there's so many comedians now and a lot of clubs are opening. So they need. It's like they need content as a. And a lot of people are comics because of clips and shit. Yeah. But I tell them, man, if you're in this, I hope you love it, man. You better love this shit. Cause wait, what's the downside forgiving?

[Colleen Witt]

Do you think the traveling can be considered a downside?

[Godfrey]

Yeah, it can be tiring, but you got to get to places. People in Iowa like you.

[Colleen Witt]

No, I'm talking about for family and stuff like that. Does that ever get like hard family for me?

[Godfrey]

I don't have no kids or nothing. Yeah, I have no kids. It could be. But at this point, do you think.

[Colleen Witt]

That'S hindered the kid thing?

[Godfrey]

I think maybe.

[Colleen Witt]

Or unless you.

[Godfrey]

I had a girl that for like years that she didn't know. I'm Kids. So I didn't think about it.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, okay.

[Godfrey]

Okay. I don't. You have kids?

[Colleen Witt]

I have one.

[Godfrey]

Oh, okay.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. But I was just wondering if it hindered.

[Godfrey]

It's tough to even have one.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

It's not easy. I never. I just never had. Yeah, maybe my never had baby. Female pull out game was nasty. Like an inside fastball. Bought one.

[Colleen Witt]

Then next year I get a text like, oh, I got one.

[Godfrey]

If it happens, cool. I'm not. Neither here nor there.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

I'm trying to get that you money right now.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

I feel like I'm on that verge.

[Colleen Witt]

Like, okay, you are. Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I'm finding it. I go, I think there's a way to get to it. And I'm around. People go, no, we can get to it. Just strategize and we can get to it. And so if I get that, I'll be like, I wouldn't mind a kid or two.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But I don't know who with because cycles.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I think this school is disgusting.

[Colleen Witt]

I think it's hard. To me, it's who you have the kid with that matters the most.

[Godfrey]

Yes.

[Colleen Witt]

But go back all the way back before we close out. We. What advice would you give to someone coming up in this game after 25 years?

[Godfrey]

Love it.

[Colleen Witt]

Countless specials.

[Godfrey]

I'm saying love it.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, love it.

[Shopify Narrator]

Love.

[Godfrey]

Don't be up there taking up space because you think you're gonna get famous in a day. Because you see some media. Because a lot of mediocrity makes it. But comedy doesn't. Is unforgiving. If you ain't ready, it's gonna show. Cause comedy gives you results right away.

[Colleen Witt]

Have to work their way up.

[Godfrey]

Work at it. I'm saying, take it as serious.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Denzel. I love Denzel. Denzel said something to the lady. She goes, is there any advice you can give? Have you seen that? Where he goes, learn, shut up. Turn off your phone. Study. Go to class. You ever see him say that?

[Colleen Witt]

No, he just.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, Practice your craft. Hone your craft. Really work your craft. It's a real craft. Because even me at my level, I still see the difficulty in it. I still see if I don't get this right, I'm finished. They're going to fucking. They're not gonna laugh at this. So we. And for guys like Jerry Seinfeld, who still does comedy, a billionaire.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

That's how heavy the art is.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

The money.

[Colleen Witt]

But it's a love. That's where you see the love.

[Godfrey]

Because you go, oh, I'm gonna craft Another joke. I gotta get that. I gotta get that laughter. I want to see my genius again. It's like musicians play till they're. You're not gonna stop.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. Do it for the love.

[Godfrey]

We're gonna stop doing that.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I just tell people, just love it. Don't just take up space. Get the fuck off the stage. If you're just taking up space, have some humility about the fucking craft. All right? Just because you did two cool shows don't mean you equal to, like these vets over here.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Don't stick.

[Colleen Witt]

And for the same for the social. Because there's a lot of social media influencers that are stepping in.

[Godfrey]

There aren't. And also, you people on social media, sketch is not the same as stand up. You better. You're going to find out real quick. Just because you do funny sketches has nothing to do with standup.

[Colleen Witt]

Now that. Speaking of that just. And I meant to cut us short. We got it. We were over time. But Badge is now doing standup. Have you seen that?

[Godfrey]

Actually? Yeah, I've seen him. I've seen. I've worked with him. He's with Jo Koy.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

And so he's actually learning.

[Colleen Witt]

Oh, he's doing it with. He's on roll with him.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, on roll with him. And he's. He asked me questions all the time.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay, good.

[Godfrey]

So he's actually cares about it.

[Colleen Witt]

Okay.

[Godfrey]

But he's still amazed because he, you'll see me. I'll be on in New York. He goes, yo, what you doing? I said, I just got off stage. I'm about to go on another stage. Wait, how many you got tonight?

[Colleen Witt]

4.

[Godfrey]

All in one day. I go, yeah, so you get good at it. You got to do it all the time. He goes, damn.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

I go, yeah, you got to do the in betweens, man. You gotta. I gotta show tonight.

[Colleen Witt]

I remember Eagle. When Eagle first got into a band, he'd be out all night and then I'd come to town and he would. I'd be like, just wake me up and bring me a chopped cheese and a Snapple. He was so sweet. He would always bring me a chopped cheese and a Snapple. And I knew he would be out.

[Godfrey]

All night doing his sets. That's right. I've been on shows with him. It's true.

[Colleen Witt]

Worked his ass.

[Godfrey]

I got him on Wild N Out.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

Because I said, he's really funny, he's smart, he's quick. And then he did it. And my thing is, didn't mean he was going to get On. He had to prove himself.

[Colleen Witt]

He definitely had to prove himself.

[Godfrey]

And then Nick was like, your man God told us about you. And then I said, but I said, nick, Eagle, you gotta do it. You gotta do the work.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And he did it. And he got it.

[Colleen Witt]

Let me tell you something now. So I. There was.

[Godfrey]

There was a part where I was kick you off.

[Colleen Witt]

There was a part where Eagle was a little nervous.

[Shopify Narrator]

Yeah, I know.

[Colleen Witt]

He was like, just temperature check Niall. And I was like, no. And Niall had told me. He said he waited the whole camp for my phone call to come through just so he could reject it. He said. He just. He said, I knew you was gonna call and I didn't. And he was like, I was impressed that you didn't, but I wanted your brother to know that he did it on his own. And he said, so nobody. You can never be like, we a big sister or whoever is.

[Godfrey]

He did it because he called. He said, man, I'm going to. I think I'm going to go to go for Wild N Out. He's. Oh, you are? He said, yeah, man. I don't know. I.

[Colleen Witt]

It was his third time, third or fourth time, like, Nick hit.

[Godfrey]

And then I went. I said, nick, personally, I called him. I said, I got a guy in Eagle Wick. He's coming in. And then when he went into the room, Nick said, godfrey told me about you.

[Colleen Witt]

I love that.

[State Farm Narrator]

Yeah.

[Godfrey]

And I said. And he goes, we. I fuck with his opinion because I. Nick had begged me to come on Wild N Out.

[Colleen Witt]

Yeah. He was like, you had done a couple spots, though.

[Godfrey]

Yeah, I was on. I was at Nick's house in Jersey, and I was like. He was like. Because I was doing his Dr. Sebi documentary. And he goes, yo, man, so what's up, man? You gonna do Wild N Out or what, man? I was like, just because it's popular don't mean I need to do it.

[Colleen Witt]

Did he lock you in a room?

[Godfrey]

Get you. He's like, in his kitchen. Like, man, come on, man. Come on, man. I said, okay. How are you going to cater? I'm. I want you to do voices. We're going to cater for you to do what you do best. I said, all right. So I did three seasons.

[Colleen Witt]

I love it.

[Godfrey]

And I got a lot of great off of that. So, yeah, I did it. And then I ended up writing on his daytime talk show for seven months. That was cool. I never written for anything before, but, yeah, Nick has always looked out. Now he has a. He has a spade show playing.

[Colleen Witt]

I like that. Show.

[Godfrey]

Is it good?

[Colleen Witt]

I've been getting clips of it. Yeah. I just like the idea that he did something that creative. I like because he.

[Godfrey]

I know they called me for it, but I don't know how to play spades.

[Colleen Witt]

I don't know how to play spades.

[Shopify Narrator]

I was never.

[Godfrey]

I should have learned all my friends.

[Colleen Witt]

You should tell him that and just ask him if he'd be willing to switch it up for you. But you should totally do the show.

[Godfrey]

No, I'm going to, because I did. I did his council culture show too. I did that with Neo. So I did that one and then. Yeah. Because they sent me a thing to do it.

[Colleen Witt]

We overtime.

[Godfrey]

Yeah. What's you. Damn.

[Colleen Witt]

I know, I'm sorry. I know. And I said an hour. Thank y' all for tuning in. Now, how can everybody keep up with everybody, everything?

[Godfrey]

Godfrey, you can keep up with me on my Instagram is Godfrey comic. And my horrible TikTok is Godfrey. Funny because they shut down my other account like they always do and I had to start it all over. So have 8,000 wonderful followers.

[Colleen Witt]

Yes. And tune into the special that's coming out.

[Godfrey]

My special will be coming out. This is live at the Apollo. You'll be looking out for that. And yeah, my website is godfreylive.com. find out where I'm gonna be. Around the damn country in the world. Alrighty.

[Colleen Witt]

Alright, thanks for tuning in, y'. All. Peace out.

[State Farm Narrator]

Yes, peace.

[Colleen Witt]

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