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Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Just hilarious. Good morning. It's Monday. That's. That's right now. We will be back tomorrow. So we're playing the best donkeys, the best interviews, you guys, which is the best callers, and some of the best moments the Breakfast Club has had in the last couple of months. So sit back, relax, enjoy, and have fun. Keep it locked. Red is going to be running the boards. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray. Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlemagne. Envy. What up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. We lie. Hello? Who's this? Hey, good morning. This is James Call from North Carolina. James from North Carolina. Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, I wanted to ask y'all, did y'all check out that Jamie Fox special on Netflix yet? No, not yet. Yeah, I meant to watch it last night, but I fell asleep. I'm gonna watch it this week. Oh, man, it's awesome. It's awesome. Yo, he takes you on a journey. Yo. It's more than just a stand up gosh comedy show. He. He gives some. So a performance, like a singing, and he takes you to church. He. He. You gonna cry a little something. I mean, it's. It's off the chain. I keep hearing. I can't wait. Everybody keeps saying that he already got nominated for a Golden Globe, so. Yeah, I can't wait to see it. Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's good. Oh, yeah. And Charlamagne. I want to ask you now that 20th Century Foxes with Disney. Do you think we might get that, that, that DC versus Marvel clash? I don't know. I need Marvel to get their act together before that. I'm not even. To be honest with you, I'm not even interested in that right now because Marvel has been sucking so bad. Oh, well, they might pick it up. I mean, Deadpool and Wolverine was great, but before that, what. What have we gotten good from Marvel? Last thing I remember was the Avengers Endgame thing. Exactly. God damn. Yes. I like the. I like penguin on dc, though. I like DC villain stuff. I never used to like dc, but I like. I like when they be in their villain back. Oh, yeah, yeah. They. They be rocking that. Yeah. The first Joker. Thank you. Two Harley Quinn movies. The Penguin series. Fantastic. Hello? Who's this? Hey, what's up, man? This is Jeremiah. What's up, Jeremiah? Get it off your chest, brother. Hey, man, look, me and my wife, we were virgins before we got married, okay? And I just want to get off my chest that there are a lot of men out here practicing abstinence, celibacy, you know, and men just not out here just being hoes. Like, the expectation of this world is. Can I ask you a question, brother? I'm not mad at you because this is the segment of the show, but why did you wake up this morning with this on your chest? Now he feels good. Maybe it feels good. He waited until marriage. Well, I honestly been doing ministry since 2017. Oh, you're a ministry, you know. Yeah. So, you know, this is like an everyday thing. Like, so if I have a different conversation with somebody, you know, I mean, somebody like. Oh, well, I never heard that before, but it's, you know, it's a lot of men that really need encouragement and women as well. So how was it? Was it worth the wait when you finally had sex? Yes, sir. It absolutely worked. Ministry went out the window. Yes, sir. All right, well, have a good one, Jeremiah. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right, brother. Hello. Who's this year? What's going on? Hey, what's up, Trav? Chilling, chilling. Lauren or Jazz? Which one? There. Both of us here. But I'm here right now. What's up? Oh, Jessica, you got a problem? You be. You be trying to disappear when I call up now? No, I don't. No, I don't. What's going on? My mom, Shar. What's going on? My mind. Peace, sis. What's happening? I'm doing good. How you doing? Listen, real quick. I just want to talk about if I get in a new relationship, right? This ain't got nothing to do with nothing. When I get in a new relationship, my old man can't come beating up my new man, y'all. My old can't beat up my new y'all. Is that what happened? That's all I gotta say. He said. He said I mean, that. That's what happened to somebody. You should hope you got the kind of butt people fight over. What you mean if people ain't fighting over your butt, your butt trash. But listen, my old. My old man can't be beating up my new man now. I can't be. Now I can't be. I can't be with the new man now. I gotta protect now. Yeah, but you ain't with the new man because he can fight. You with him because he can fornicate. I mean, I don't know. I need my new fight, too. I need him to be able to, like, not get punched out. I gotta feel you. You messy Trav. I ain't say nothing but. All right, y'all. Goodbye. Hello? Who's this? Hey, Emmy. Yes, sir. Oh, damn. Okay, hold on. Let me take you off speaker. I didn't think you was gonna answer that fast. Oh, hey. How you doing, bro? I'm good, brother. How you feeling? I'm cool, I'm cool. I appreciate y'all big fan, but can. Can I talk to you for a second? Go ahead, go ahead. I gotta. I want you to reach out to Swizz and Tim Bob versus for me. I got a great idea for it, and I just need you to hear me out. And if you like the idea, you give them my info and have them hit me up. And then I tell them what I told you. They can hear you. You're talking to 8 million people right now, I'm sure. Yeah, you say it right now, they can listen to you. God damn. All right, nobody steal my idea. Versus needs to be just like the NFL or NBA, where it's like a league and they need to divide it up into, like, Eastern Conference, Western Conference, et cetera. And then we go get all of the biggest artists from each city. Like New York. Get like a 50 cent, and he'll get all of the up and coming artists that want to. But it's going to be like a battle league, you know what I mean? And then we separated. Not just with artists, but athletes as well. So rappers, singers, dancers, boxers, and basketball players, one on one, we find the best in each city and then have them compete. Just like the NFL and NBA stuff. Do you know what I mean? That's how it needs to be. And then we monetize with ticket sales, have a platform where people subscribe to see the content, et cetera. That's how we're going to make our money. But that's what Versus needs to be. It don't need to Just be what they doing now. It needs to be, like, live battles, people showing up with brand new songs and seeing who the best is. You feel me? I like that. Yeah. I like the idea. I don't know if I like that for verses, though. I mean, the thing we love about verses is the nostalgia. The thing we love about verses is because they do give flowers to, you know, the OGs and the veterans. Right. Like, that's what we like about verses. Yeah, we could do both, though. Ain't no reason we can't have them both. Yeah. Because it's still a versus. Yeah, I get what you're saying. I do like that. That's what I'm saying. We. Yeah, like, if y'all. Like I said, just if you could put me on hold so I can give you my phone number and then you pass it on to them so I can explain that to them. Yeah, man, Y'all be the real. They heard you, bro. I keep on freaking. My fault. I appreciate y'all. Yeah, you're talking to 8 million people, bro. How they gonna hit me up, though? Like, how can Swiss and Tim reach out to me, though? Oh, we already stole the ideas. It don't even matter. Hey, y. I'm just messing with you. Hold on. I'm gonna have Eddie the producer get your email in case they want to reach out, Bro. Wait. Okay, you know what? All right. I mean, at least we got the email. They might want to reach out. Twisting Tim. Ain't no suckers like that. They might want to say, you know what? We did get that idea from him. Or maybe they thought about that idea already. Now it's gonna seem a little crazy. You always say that when you want to steal somebody. Idea. We've been. We've been at that. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Call us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk the way that you talk I hate the way that you dress Everything with me is blessed. Call up next. 800-585-1051. Not just me. I'm with the culture feeling. Hello. Who's this? This Randy. Randy from Virginia. Randy from 757. What's up, Randy? What's up with y'all? Good morning, Breakfast Club. Good morning, Charlamagne. Good morning, Jess. Good morning. Good morning. I'm so excited. I listen to y'all every morning. Well, thank you. We appreciate You. Well, what I wanted to get off my chest today was it's nothing bad. Nothing bad at all. Just. I want people to be mindful of the fact that it is flu season, the fact that it is the season for people to spread illnesses and infections. I'm a nurse here in Virginia, and I see a lot of preventable situations in our hospitals that could be prevented by people just washing their hands, keeping their kids home when they're sick, just being mindful of the climate and what's going on. People, take care of yourself so we can take care of each other. That's all I wanted to say. Well, Randy, Jess is the flu police up here. She's the cold police. If you have. You already know if you have a flu if your hands are dirty. Nah, she ain't even the flu in cold police. She just sneezing. Cough police. Like, people don't be having allergies and cold and Covid, they are symptoms. So, yes, absolutely. You got a brand new baby. You can't be playing out here at all. She quarantining right now with the baby, period. Yes. Smart, smart. Now, Randy, let me ask you a question. In your personal opinion. I'm just asking your personal opinion. What is your thoughts on the flu shots? Because some people say take it, some people say don't. What's your personal opinion? Just curious. Okay. It just totally depends on. A lot of times, people don't believe in the flu shots because of religious preference, so I will not touch that at all. Because if that's your religious preference, I totally understand. However, for preventative measures, the flu shot is effective. So as a nurse, I do advocate for the flu shot. Absolutely. 100%. Thank you, Randy. Thank you. Y'all have a good morning. You too, babe. Hello? Who's this? My name is Kim, calling from Detroit. What up, doe? What's going on, man? So what I want to get off my chest is I drive trucks, and my first time in New York was yesterday. Okay. Why is this so dirty, Man? That's a great question. Highways, trash everywhere. It's disgusting. With all that money we spend in taxes, and they now they want to charge us. They already charging us for tolls, but want to charge us for when we get in the city. What's that city thing called? More. We got congestion pricing. Congestion pricing. I'm with you, bro. We should look like Dubai with all the money that we spend in New York. Oh, man, the dirtiest city I've been to so far, man. Now New York is definitely dirty, and you ain't get to. You ain't get to the city. So you on the outer boroughs. You in Queens, in the Bronx, right? Yeah, y. I drove through pretty much through New York. I'm in Baltimore now, but. Yeah. It's disgusting. Yeah. So it's. It's insane. It seems like they don't pick up no trash off the highways. It's just. It's. It's nasty. I'm not gonna lie. New York just been surviving off reputation for a long time. I'll be honest with you. Like, it's not a fly city. It's. Chicago looks better than New York. Charlotte looks better than New York. Dallas looks better than New York. Baltimore look better than New York. I don't know about all that. All right, Chill out. You asked the brother on the phone. He literally in Baltimore right now. We wilding just a little bit. All right, whatever. I don't know about that. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. I still love my city as dirty as it is. Call us up right now if you need to. Venice, the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Greased up like a first day of school. Black candy. And she's back. Ms. Pat is here, ladies and gentlemen. She don't even know introduction. She just came in. Finally, Ms. Patty said good morning to season four of the Ms. Pat show on BET Plus. Welcome back, Ms. Pat. Thank you. Ms. Pat. Keeping the lights on at BET. You hear me? I don't know why y'all keep lying on me. Tyler, Paris over there. I'm just over there sweeping the floor. Oh, yeah, I forget. Tyler over there. Well, Tyler and Ms. Patrick. Well, I say may pass sweeping the flow, but I'm glad to be season four. I'm glad. Absolutely. How you feeling? I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. I'm just doing tv and I'm doing a tour. I'm starting my second theater tour called Hot and Flashy. Why is it flashy? What's the why is it hot? Because I'm grown. Ask a question, Ms. Pat. Why is it hot and flashy? Cause I'm hot and flashy. Why is you greased up like a condom, about to go with your hand, walking up here looking like a Walking, walking. You look like a dildo. Why you looking like that? Oh, my God. Yeah, you see Grease up like a used dildo, too, huh? Are you? I don't do dildos. But keep talking. I don't need nothing Fake by eyelashes and a wig. What makes the show so successful, Ms. Pat? Cause it's truthful. People can relate to it. You know, it's the first time somebody like me ever been on TV to say what real people were thinking. You know, we seen all the moms before who played mama, who did great jobs. But you always say, that ain't my mom. That ain't how my aunt talked to me. And I think when they put my big crazy black behind on tv, I was able to. I gave the people a voice that never had a voice on TV before. So that's all. And then people come up and tell me all the time the things that we dig into, you know, we dig into child molestation, abortion, the convicted felon, everything that real people go through in life or know somebody who went through in life. So I think that's why people love the show. But it's a comedy. It is. Don't you laugh. Well, you probably don't watch it. Yeah. Cuz I ain't gonna sit here and tell y'all read your book, so don't lie to me. I read your book too, though. I ain't read your. I read my own book one time cuz they paid me. Them people dog my behind. Oh, you read slow. I was getting paid hourly, so I was not in. Take all the time I needed to read. Hey, them does and A's and your words, Ms. Patty. I don't care. I was getting paid by the hour at that time. That was the most I ever got paid by the hour. So you thought I was gonna read that thing fast? I didn't even rehearse, and usually I rehearsed to make sure I pronounced the words right. I said, would you pay me an hour? Oh, they're gonna be a long week. Yeah. So the fact that you visit all of those traumas on your show, has it ever been anything like that's been very emotional for you to film? Everything is very emotional dealing with Jordan E. Cooper. The first season, we was gonna do an episode about my mama boyfriend touching us and my mama just turning away, like, because, you know, predators come in and they groom the family. You know, they come in, they. They see what type of needs you got and what we needed. We needed a father figure. We need somebody to help us grocery rent. And that predator came in and he did what he wanted to do with my sister and me. And when I got. When we told our mom, she just looked the other way. So, Jordan, we wrote a whole episode in the first season, and this is my first time ever being on tv. I'm like, I don't think I'm ready to visit that. So we visited the second season, which broke me all the way down. Cause I was already dealing with a lot of trauma from my kid's father, who I was 12, he was 22, married, shot me. So we was telling all those stories. Then you want me to tell the child molestation story on top of it? I was like, we gotta back some of this up before I have to go to counseling. So we took that out. We did it in the second season, which was great. Jordan said there's a healing that happens this season. What do you mean by that? He said, there's a healing that is that quote. There's a healing that's going on in front of the lens. It was. I dealt with my mom because my mom used to say really bad things to me. You know, I'm lighter skinned, my sister's darker skin. But to me, my sister always been way more cuter than I was. My sister had long curly hair. She was just beautiful. She on crack now, but Jesus Christ, that crack took her ass out. She was beautiful, had a long, nice head. I won that pretty battle. Jesus. So my mama used to say ugly things to me because I. I had acne really bad. And she would always talk about how ugly my skin was. And I'm 52 and I still can hear my mom and my. My mind saying bad things to me. So I think that's one of the reasons why I work in life is because the things that my mama said to me. So we did a whole episode where my mom come back as a ghost and she. And she. What she put on me, she want me to put on my kids because her mom put on her. So there in. In the episode, you see me break a generation of curse. And at the end I broke down and I remember fighting and I said, jordan, don't push me down. And at the end I just broke down crying. And I just remember saying, I hate this. Damn. All of that came back up. All of it. Because, you know, I never went to counseling and I've been through some stuff. So to deal with what I've been through, you know. And I told somebody this the other day. I said, my sister dealt with what we went through doing drugs and alcohol. I dealt by just shutting the door on it. Well, if you shut that door on it one day, that door gonna open back up. Yeah. And all what you had behind that door is going to eventually flow out. So when I got the Ms. Pat show and started telling Joy my life, he just Keep bringing all of this stuff out. But it is a healing because it's stuff I never talked about. Oh, I really dealt with. So I think I heal along with the audience. You think it was other ways that you, like, you coped. Like, I know you said your sister did drugs. Did you do anything else? Like, yeah, I ate. Look at me. Chick fil A. He was waiting on me to say I was fat every time I come in. Listen to me. I'm not. There's no way I'm gonna come in here next time fat. And next time fat. When you come to my schedule, I'm gonna be fat. No, it's not. That is not true. Yeah, I. I tried on Zippy. It gave me gallstone. When did you find it? Feel it comfortable where you could talk stories? Because some of these stories, you'd be like, damn. Yeah. You don't know if you want to laugh with you or you just want to cry and just be sad the whole episode. You know, I do it like my comedy. I'm just an open book. I'm not ashamed of nothing I taught. I've been through. You know, I was on stage last week. I mean, the other night, I was like, oh, yeah. I had crabs, Gunner, and fleas. Everybody, like, what? And so I was talking about the whole thing about young girls shaving their vagina. Well, I'm 52. Your mama and me, we didn't shave our vagina unless we had crabs or gonorrhea. No, that's true. How you know if I was born in 1978, the first pornos I saw had bush. Yes, the Playboy magazine had bush. They only shaved them if they had crabs. But now everybody just walk around with a bird vagina. So I don't get it. So just a bald head. It look like a bird. Mine look like a beak. If I. I haven't seen it because I got a flap in the front. Yo, when I put a mirror down there and it don't fog up, it look like a little bird. I don't do that. All right, we got more with Ms. Pat when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking in with Ms. Pat. The Ms. Pat Show, Season 4 is out right now. Charlemagne, is it true that you never wanted to be famous because your mom used to always tell you that you wasn't gonna be? Yeah, it was. Fame was something. And I don't consider Myself famous now, I consider myself with a lot of jobs because, you know, it's just. It's the way my mama beat me down. She always said I wasn't good enough. She always said I wasn't. So in my head, I never saw myself like other people. And. And my husband told me, he said, that's why you don't want to do a lot of things. Because I was scared to get out there. I wanted to make the money, but I didn't want to be up front. And then when I got this TV show, it really put me out there, and it. I didn't even know. I was shy. Like, if you want to take a picture with me, I do it. But then I'd be like, why? I used to always ask myself, why? And people would come up to me and be like, oh, Miss Pay you so great. You telling my story. And I'm like, no, I'm telling my story. So if fame is something I had to get used to, like, I don't go to the black Walmarts because they won't leave me alone. So I try to go way out in the white neighborhood. Cause white people, they treat fame. What's up, Miss Pat? Black people. Oh, shaking on you. Pulling on your wig. Get your hands on me. Ain't nobody. You think I ain't shakable. I ain't gonna keep taking. I ain't gonna take too many of these little. Take one of my boobs out and drop them on your head and break your damn neck. What's wrong with it, man? Oh, man. Yell it to me all morning. That's what. I'm glad when you come up here. Listen, you and. Just got my bag. I love it. How is it at bet? I love bet. I do. I really do. I'm being honest. I. You know what? And let me just say that this is our best season ever. I don't know why we. Why it took four season to really get in for black people and other people to really get on it. This is our most watched season ever. Wow. Congrats. We kick nothing but ass. But you dug it out a lot, though, yourself, though. Like, you have have done what you had to do. Like, most of the time where I see you or I run into you or if I see you on the red carpet or even if you hit me in a dm, this is not because BET said it. You do it. Yeah. When you see me doing certain things, a lot of it is time is me out of my pocket. I don't. I didn't Wait to bet. Get me on late night, hired me a PR person. Late Night didn't even want me. Same thing with you guys. First time I asked to come over here, the note back was she ain't famous enough. Who is she? Who said that? Shut your ass up. You said that. And then I run into him at a Lee Daniel party. And Lee Daniel introduced us. Diddy party. Diddy. Yeah, he been to a diddy party. Never been to no Diddy party ever in my life. Why is everybody denying Diddy parties Did it. The new year is here and you want to stay locked in on whatever you're into. Amazon prime is a cheat code. See, a lot of people think Amazon prime is just about getting those packages delivered faster than you can say I forgot to order that. 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That don't mean you got taken in a room. That don't mean somebody touched you. That just means you was at a dirty party. I mean everybody act like if you go to a diddy party you had to do something to diddy to be at the party. I never went. I don't know. But you probably did go. But don't deny me. I've never been to a diddy party. You never got invited. So you look like you went don't invite me. No way. The way we over there grease didn't know I'm a town ass and not tell. Yeah, I think you will listen my ass nail then Wendy William you. Oh my good. That is not funny. I am a. What did you have to do to keep that windy weed? I've heard a few things to pick to have them plastic the titties. Pick the hell since you want to keep digging that what you got to do to keep that cuz that what? That's what popped char in the world. That's right. That is true. So you know I mean one a diddy party. But tell us what you did over there. You had to take one for the team. Tell your wife this going to get us off medicated. Get us off medicate. Look at him laughing. He know I'm telling the truth. Then all of a sudden she let you go. She let you go. And envy say you no more plastic to pick you the reason why she got dementia. Man. Cut it down. You had to forget. She had to forget that too. What is it? Man, that is funny as. What if did him start claiming dementia? Yo, what. What if Diddy start claiming dementia? He batt. That might be the way. But Nobody ever said Ms. Pat wasn't famous to come up here. Nobody said yes. You did. Yes. Because I asked. I asked. The answer was no. I mean I saw you at that Lee Daniel thing. Yeah. And Lee Daniel introduced you like yeah, come on the show. And I'm like. And I. My, my, my thing was. Cause y'all didn't know me. Y'all wasn't really for me. And I said I'm gonna walk. I read Rabbit. You read Rabbit. After we sent it to you. After you let me know. So I had. All I had was a Book. I really didn't have no show or anything. And I said, you ain't gonna never forget me. Because I was mad, because I tried several times to get on here. I'm glad I'm on here now. But the publicist will lie and say that it'll publish if they do reach out. I had no publicist at the time. I couldn't afford. Now. I wonder who they was talking to. I don't know who it is. Back then, nobody said that, though. But we love you, Ms. Pat. I love you, and you know, we support you for anything that you do. We support you. We appreciate you. I do love you, Ms. Pat. I with you. Heavy. You know what he do? He. He will text back. He used to then text back. I would. I thank y'all. I thank y'all. That is gonna be. That headline gonna be so funny. Ms. Pat accuses Wendy Williams of what? Oh, man. Lord, take that back. Don't put that out there voluntarily. He wanted it. Yeah, that was his first radio job. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. No, I did. I worked in South Carolina. Yeah, that don't count. Nobody listen. I did four stations. I was on four stations in South Carolina. Boy, please. The Rats in New York was more famous. You had to do what you had to do. And Bigfoot was your favorite. I ain't never had to do none of that. Oh, my God, that woman is sick. Ms. Pat, I know of you. She erased her own memory. Y'all gonna get me in trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, call the Ms. Pat show on BET plus and again, Ms. Pat, we love you. Thank you. Well, it's the breakfast club is Ms. Pat, ladies and gentlemen. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Chancellor Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're asking 800-585-1051. We want all our ladies to call, and we're asking, what's the biggest lie you told a man? Let me tell you something, man. Being a. A brother and a niece, you know, to hear these women and the lies that they be telling. Taylor came in here just now, just told another lie for no reason. She said what you should have told him is you're the only man I'm talking to. That's a good one, too, though. You see what I'm saying? Why you blowing tail up? You know, Taylor just used that lie and. What you mean being a brother and a niece? What? Huh? You said being a brother and a niece. Oh, I meant to say being a brother and an uncle. Taylor, Taylor, tell him the lie you told about the orgasms. Don't act like you wasn't in there. Y'all thought I wasn't listening. I ain't never do this, though. You just be like, oh, my God, you made me three times. Why would you lie like that? Yeah, I ain't never tell a lie. Lied to me like that, too, in that day. Oh, my God. Early on in our relationship. You ever heard this story, Jess? No, I never did. Go ahead, NBC. You like to repeat this? Go ahead, Unc. Tell them the story again. 25 years. She ain't. Wasn't. No damn. 25. Oh, my God. 25 years. In the beginning of our relationship, I could not make my wife orgasm through penetration. Just through the mouth. Oh, my God. And she would lie and say she was having an orgasm. How long? Wasn't that long. You said it was a decade. It was close to. It was. It was a long time. But I was her first, so we would see each other's first. So we didn't know what we were doing. We explored each other's body. So I didn't know. And one day in an argument, she told me. What is the point of women lying about that? Cause how can I get better and give you what you need if you don't tell me? Well, you know, a lot of times the woman just likes to make the guy, you know, please feel good. And we like to please the guy. Honestly, we be so scared to hurt y'all feelings because y'all like bitches. So a lot of times, you know. No, it's true. It really do not. Like, a man's feelings is hurt way more. I mean, way quicker than a woman's. Yeah. You know, it's just that we. We show it more. But y'all, that could hurt y'all, like, you know, And I know that hurt envy when his wife said that in an argument. It did. It's like, damn, yo. So you've been faking it all this time? You know what I mean? It did, but it made the relationship strong because now. Now you can figure out what. Exactly what she likes, what she doesn't like, and whatever. Because I, you know, like I said, I learned sex watching porn. You just going bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And you realize. And that's what you think is how it is. So. Yeah. Especially depending on what kind of porn he was watching. Kind of porn. Was you watching her feelings? Her feelings? She did. She didn't want to hurt his feelings. And that's mostly what it is. But I've never lied about that. Because I needs mine. That's what I'm saying. Hello? Who's this? This is Sharita. Good morning, Sharita. What's the biggest lie you told? Sharita? Good morning, liar. I'm a Scorpio. Of course I lied. Absolutely. So I lied to my parents. I met a guy on the chat line with my cousins and my friends. And then I lied to my parents and told him I met him at, like, an honors program and that I really liked him and he was a nice guy. I was 15. I told him I was 17. And I told my parents, my cousins, my aunts, all my friends, everybody. Like, we gotta stick with the story. Cause I love him. Now, how old was this man? He was 43. Turning 19. You know, you could have got that man locked up. That's a charge. 19. I told my parents. Told you. I told my parents. But did he know you was 15? I mean, he found out when my little niece that was six told on me. Now, come on now. You could have got this man locked up. Got this man locked up being 19. All right, but like I said, I understand that, but I covered my bases. I went to my parents, I explained the situation. And your parents laughing. Jane Ish Neva, she said she told her aunts, everybody. Look, I. You know, that's. I told everybody I had a whole family meeting. Like, I love him and I gotta tell him myself. And my parents was like, all right, we trust you. And they met him and they met his parents. And eventually he found out. And, you know, I mean, he was a little mad, but it was kind of after the fact, so. Because he was already in love with your little ass. This is not normal. No, that's not normal. Not the fact that her and her. And what happened with the guy. Where's he at now? Oh, she's off the line. Cassie, what are you saying? How you pronounce your name? Cassie. Hey, Cassie. Hey, girl. Now, what's the biggest lie you told somebody? Okay, the biggest lie for first. Hey, y'all. Good morning. All right, my biggest lie back in the day. I don't know if y'all remember, like, the loot, the Raven. It was like a phone call type thing. You could call it. It was like a dating thing, but it was like over the phone. So I probably was like 15 years old. I'm lying. And I told this boy that I was in Sierra music video. I was one of her backup dancers. So promise, mind you, I'm 15. I'm a short, little fat Little church girl. I'm telling him I'm a little backup dancing Sierra video, and I know how to do the microphone pole trick. I could dance on a pole. And he went with it. He telling all his friends about it. He went with it. So you told him you was a little big backup dancer? Yeah, I was a big backup dancer. Big back backup dancer. Oh, my gosh. He was in love with me. I was a big back backup dancer, and he went with it. And we was talking for, like, a good two years. I'm telling him I'm on the road. I'm doing different video shoots. I'm like, you gotta zoom in. I'm on the left. I'm on the left, Boy. Women. How old was the man? He probably was about 19, 20 at the time. We still friends to this day. But him, you know. But him what? Him what, he Knew you were 15? No, he didn't know none of that at the time. Y'all gonna get these men locked up, man. All right, all right. What size. What size you is now? Oh, boy. Oh, why you let him know all of that? I'm working on it. Is the back. Is the back big or not the back, slim down the back slim. Okay, so it's a medium. She's unbigging. She's unbigging her back. You know, when you young, you just go through that Aqua Stitch. But I'm grown now. Okay, that's what's up, girl. Thank you, mama. Hello? Who's this? I don't want to say. Oh, boy. All right, what happened? What's the biggest lie? So I lied to last time I had sex. Say it again. I lied about the last time I had sex. You lied about the last time you had sex? Okay, what did you tell them and what was the last time? So I was pursuing this new guy, but I was still messing with my ex. And so when it came time to, like, move to the next step, you know, I was like, oh, you know, I can save it myself. I haven't had sex in, like, a year. But in reality, I was still messing with my exact. So, you know, I felt bad. But, yeah, that's what I lied about. That's the biggest lie. That's the biggest lie. Yeah, actually, you're a great person. She puts me to shame. Let me ask you a question. You hung up on him. Stop hanging up on people so fast. Too slow. What you just raised. Hey. Hello. Who's this? Hey, this Monique from Jersey. Hey, Monique. Hey, Monique. What's up? What's the biggest lie? You done told. Typical. But when I was younger, they said I was pregnant so I could get abortion money. First of all, I don't like how you just say that. Like, that's just a nonchalant lie like every woman says once in a while. Okay, she was pregnant. She was pregnant with some abortion money. Yes. That is the lie. Who you talking about? Yeah, the other one. The other way around is worse. When you're really pregnant, you tell you got an abortion. That's horrible, because that's a new life. But when you're not pregnant, I'm pregnant. Just throw me 500. Thank you. Oh, we lost that, like, you know what I'm saying? That was a lie. Growing up in the urban community, why not just ask me for the money you already giving me? Poom poom. You're giving me an abortion. Most dudes gonna be like, they gonna come up with that money regardless. If you just ask somebody for 500, they'll be like, nah, b. Nah. Abortion is motivation money for a. Believe me. No, no, no, no. How many times did you do it, Monique? I just did it once, and it's because he was cheating. So I knew he was gonna break up anyway, so I decided to get some money as a part of it. Hold on. You said you knew he was doing what? She knew he was cheating. Oh, got you, got you, got you. Well, look, I was with you before at one time, but you different now, right? Oh, definitely. I'm way older now, girl. Yeah, some more power to you, because I was right on that same road with you when the hell abortion started calling 500. They've been 500 for the last, what, five, five, six years? Yeah, definitely. And then each one is different. You get, you know, you got the pill one, you got the vacuum, and then it's like another. It's three different types of them. Really? Absolutely. Not that I've had them all, but I know because I dropped off a couple bitches that hit the clinic before. My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends. What's the moral of the story? Women be lying. Don't lie. Don't lie. You know, I don't know. I can't even say don't lie. Cause everybody lie when they young. Just grow up and then look back and be like, sorry. Right, that's it. All right. That's it. This is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lauren LaRosa is filling in, and we got a special guest in the building. We about to mess up so many people heads, cuz, they going to be in their car. Like, am I listening to the right station? We got the brother Ricky Smiley here. Welcome, brother man. Thank you for having me, man. How you feeling, man? I'm feeling good, man. It's a dream to be here. Stop it, bro. I lay in the bed and I sit here and I just scroll and watch all y'all videos. I've been a fan for years. I want to say something before we get started with the conversation, man. I saw Ricky a couple weeks ago. I saw him in New Orleans. Yeah. At the inspired NOLA event. And I went up to him and I said something that I'm going to say now. I want to, I want to publicly apologize. I was just about to ask that to Ricky Smiley because several years ago, I gave Ricky Smiley donkey of the day because a radio executive asked me to. Yeah, and you didn't deserve that, brother. Thank you. So I told, when I saw you, I, I told you that, you know, and I wanted to say that again publicly because I feel like if you, if you do something to somebody publicly that you don't agree with, you should publicly apologize for it. So I want to, I want to say that to everybody, all our listeners. I want, I want them to hear me say that you didn't deserve that. Now I want to apologize to you again. I, I, I appreciate that, man. The, the, the, the first time when, when you walked up on me, man, your energy, man, the love and the respect, it, it takes a, you know, a big person. I, I knew that it was all part of the game because we have a mutual. One of your employees is one of my mentees. Who? Big Mac. Max started us as an intern. Oh, yeah, he started us as an intern. And yeah, got to where he is. Well, I put him on stage. I'm the first one to put him on stage. That's dope. We'll talk about that. Because I put a lot of them on stage. He gave a lot of comics their star heart. But I really appreciate that, man. And, and don't feel no kind of way about it. I didn't take it personally, but, you know, it takes a special kind of person to, to apologize and stuff like that. I thought nothing of it because if I thought anything bad, I wouldn't even be here. All right. You know what I'm saying? But I love you. I appreciate you, man. I think you're doing a fabulous job. I met you at the White House Yep. We see each other on the road every once in a while. I see you on the road as well. It's a pleasure meeting you. That's nice to meet you. That's right. Well, you got a new book out right now. Yes, sir. Sideshow. Yes, sir. Now, talk about what, what's, what's. What's side show about? You know the song everybody Parents, Let the side show begin. That's right. Hurry. Hurts about a sad clown. Right. My job as a professional comedian is to go on stage and make people laugh. And I lost my son about a year and a half ago. It's been hard because the bills don't stop coming. I'm still a performer. Right. I still have to go on stage and I had to, to dig deep and get in some real deep therapy to get myself together so I can continue as a performer. Because if I worked at, you know, Amazon lifting boxes or delivering packages, that's one thing. But when your job is to make people laugh, when you're crying on the inside with the trauma that I experienced, that's what the song Sideshow Talk about. See the man with a broken heart, you can see that he is sad. It hurts so bad. See the girl who collect broken hearts as souvenirs. It's all about a clown in a circus performing, but dealing with stuff. Stuff on the inside. I've watched you grieve out loud online. And the only reason I don't, I. I don't like that. It has nothing to do with how you feel. Yeah, I know how people react. Yeah. And when you're already dealing with something, when you're already dealing with trauma and then you give it to people online, then they come at you. How does that, how do you deal with that? Oh, no, it didn't bother me, Charlemagne. My job was I had to help other people because the reason I was open with it is a lot of mothers out there that lost their 18 year old, 17 year old, 16 year old, 15. My son was 32. I had a couple that had lost their 2 year old. Right. And these are. That's some of the things that I talk about in the book. It gives you glimmers of hope and glimmers of inspiration even during our traumatic times. So my son was 32. Well, this couple sitting out here crying at my book sign, their son was only 2. Wow. And I could have lost my son at 2, but God allowed me to have 32 years. So you get a little gratitude from that. And it's crazy that you can get gratitude from Something like that, you know, and you start looking at. It's a helpful to. The book, is a helpful tool for people that's going through the grief process. Because a lot of people out there and my book sign has been packed with people that have lost their kids. How do you still believe, right? You talk about losing your father at the age of six, right? And then you lose your son. How do you just not say, you know what? There is no higher power. How do you still remain focused and still have believe and still have hope and still have all of that with going through the pain that you've gone through? Know I grew up in Birmingham, man, so, you know, I got that old Southern Christian background. I went to Sunday school every Sunday. So I just have some. Some strong beliefs in a close relationship with God because it was nothing and nobody to lean on. I was in an apartment in Dallas, Texas, by myself, you know, when I found out that my son passed. And I had an hour and a half. I had an hour to make it to the airport, and I'm packing a bag and on the phone with my other kids, letting them know what happened W. Trying to get myself together and prepare myself to lead because my family needed me. As you know, it didn't really hit me until a year later, Right. But at that time, my son has a mother and a wonderful stepfather. So I had to protect them. I had to protect my mother, who was really close to my son, because my mother, you know, recovering addict. My mother had 35 years clean, had to protect her because they had a real special relationship because she could identify with his struggle. Then I had to protect my other kids. I had two kids in college getting ready to graduate college. You know, my daughter that got shot, she was a senior in college getting ready to graduate Baylor. And then I had my son graduating Alabama State, and then my oldest daughter. So just trying to get them and being calm, say, hey, here's what happened. Brandon didn't make it. I need you to meet me at the house immediately. Me just real calm. I need you to text me, let me know that you're on your way. Text me when you just all of that. I had to be calm. I had to be cool. I had to get in the car. My uncles who was crying. I had to turn the radio on the R B station. I had to turn on Frankie, Beverly and Maze go from the airport to house. I'm comforting them because it reminded them of my dad's death. So I'm just a child, man, that sat on the front row and watched my grandparents go through what they went through. And through my grandfather, I learned how to handle this situation because that's how my grandfather handled. Handled it as well. Losing somebody, especially someone so close your son, can. It changes you. Did you ever, at first, when you were trying to get to that, like, I mean, I guess I get through it. I don't know if you ever get through it. Were you. Are. Were you afraid that when you got back on stage that first time that, like, you just. It wouldn't be the same? Like your ability to kind of push through and make people laugh wouldn't be the same? No. You know, one thing about funny, it don't change. That's right. Yeah. When you find something to laugh at, especially in the trauma. Yeah. When your ass hit that stage, man, them jokes come. Them jokes, like when you get somebody on the front row laughing. My first show was in Cleveland at the Horace Casino. And I cried from the hotel all the way to the venue, all the way backstage. Blew my nose, did like that. Made sure my nose was clean and walked on stage and got them jokes and cried after I got off stage and, you know, I was gone. But I've been in therapy. I was getting therapy twice a week, so I was prepared to go on stage again. My son died on a Sunday. That Wednesday I was back on the radio. They said, take as much time as you need. Well, either you lay in the bed and think about all of that, or you get your ass up and go do your morning show, go do your radio show. Because all the mothers in Chicago and in Columbia and in Charleston and in Atlanta, all over the country, their kids died. Too much is given, much is required. You can't cancel the show. God put you in this position and put you in a leadership position. You have to leave. And I still went to the Salvation army like I do on a regular basis. I fed the homeless with my son clothes in the car to go to the funeral home. That was a dark Wednesday. I'll never forget it. You have to do it, all of this stuff. And I don't want you to ever forget this. All of this stuff. Envy is a test. It's a test. Our pastor's been teaching us that for years. God is watching you through your struggles, through your trials and tribulations, and looking at you, seeing how you're going to handle this. Are you going to make it about you? Are you going to use this situation to help other people? But I was still smart enough to go ahead and get the help that I needed. In the process because I had to get therapy because this trauma is a bad car accident. All right, we got more with Ricky Smiley when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's deejay Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne. Tha guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking in with Ricky Smiley. Charlamagne. How has it been like, you know? Cause when you write these books, you put a lot of, you know, you put your most vulnerable, deepest thoughts into these books, and you gotta go out here and do this. Yep. You got to have these conversations. Yeah. How. How's that been for you? I've gotten used to it. Okay. You know, once. You know how it is, once you do one interview, you do another interview. You keep doing interviews. You just get accustomed to talking about it, and then you develop some really good talking points. That's going to help other people. Because what people been telling me is the feedback that I've been getting is, hey, bro, it's been helping me out. You know how many people walk up to me and said that they lost a loved one and they can't talk about it? And just because they hear you on the radio every morning now, they're coming out to your book sign. I have people walking up crying. Almost 90 of the people that come out about the book have suffered a loss and can't talk about it and do not go to therapy. So I've been promoting therapy because when you roll your ankle, you don't pull out a Bible. You go to the doctor. To the doctor. That's right. Absolutely. The muscle, the brain is a muscle just like your ankle. Why is it that we black folks as a stigma, that we won't go get help? That don't mean that you're crazy. You have to get somebody and talk to somebody that's going to help you process those feelings and emotions. Because you can go into depression, start affecting other organs in the body. Some people don't make it from their loss. They die. You know, so a lot of times, people. You know, we've been taught as kids, you keep home business in the house. Right. You never really talk about. About what happens inside your house. Like you said, that winds up killing you. Absolutely. That depression, that anxiety, all those facts, all those feelings. Every time you cry in me, do you know that's like popping the cap off of a pressure cooker you're releasing? Yeah, I cried this morning. Yeah, man. I sat on. I sat on the side of my hotel bed. I was Having some anxiety, I called a good friend of mine. She answered the phone. When I heard her voice, I just started crying, bro. I just let it out. I just cried. I just needed to just cry. Crying, it was. I felt it building up yesterday, and I just started crying. In the changing of the season, you know, that. That affects you, you know, do you ever think about just giving away, just stopping, you know, like, I don't want to do this anymore. Was that ever a month? No, man, We. We got to save people, man. Listen, some have to die so others can live. You understand? You know, no cross, no crown, bro. We have to go through what we have to go through, and we have to talk about. About it. And I'm just trying to break the generational curse of number one. Not talking about it. Not going. Getting therapy and getting help and to talk about drug addiction. I had a son and a nephew, age 32, and a niece. I had a niece, a son, a nephew. All died at age 32, within two years of each other. Can you talk a little bit about that? Like, just in real time when they were here dealing with the addiction and trying to help them through it and like. Like, also wanting them to get better. But addiction, understanding it, like, it kind of takes over where it's not. It's not even just them anymore. Like, it's kind of. It's a big beast. Yeah. The only thing I regret, I didn't have a good understanding of the illness because I had a. A niece and a nephew that was cool and calm and respectful, but it didn't affect my son that way. You know, my son would. Would go off about stuff, you know, and it. It damaged our relationship or whatever because I didn't understand. Like, hey, I'm your dad. You can't say that to me. You know, I'm driving around looking for you to fight you in the middle of the street. The street. You know, I raised you. I cooked food for you. You know what I'm saying? I wash your clothes. You slept in the bed with me when it's thunder, lightning. Don't say that to me. You know, so I just didn't have a clear understanding of that, but I did everything I could to. To save. To save his life. Would you do anything different as a dad during any of those times? And the reason I'm asking, you know, have six. So I like to. That's. That's a good question. I wasn't tough on him. He was the one that I caught. I was tough on my other kids. Like, I like the other kids was like, I was just really, really, really, really tough on them. And he was the one that I just kind of coddled and did everything for and took it well because that's my first born. I just wish that I was tougher. I know that sounds strange because it sound like I should say I should have been easier on him. I was easy on him. I should have been tougher on him. Like I was the other kids. In chapter 12 of your book, it's Let the Tears Fall, you said it. It took you a year to, for. For all of this to really, like, hit you. Yeah. What was that day like when you were like, I'm feeling it like that first time where, man, that one year anniversary. A few days before that one year anniversary, man, it hit me like he had just died. I had just got off the air. I was down in South Florida because I didn't want to be in the house. But that one year anniversary, I just wanted to go, get away. And, man, it hit me, man, and I was. I did some crying. I. I think it was a bad mistake for me to be there by myself, but I just kind of, kind of sat on the couch and just cried pretty much for a couple of days, like, like really crying. Because the only difference was I didn't have a casket and some flowers and some condolences. I had all of that to keep me distracted when it actually happened. I had to protect everybody. But that one year came in and it was like, it was terrible. What about the chapter when addiction chases the bloodline? Was that difficult to write because, you know, you got to go through your whole generational lineage with that. Was that a difficult chapter? Right? No, it wouldn't. It would just be being open and honest. My dad struggled. My mom struggled. I had wonderful grandparents. My granddad talked to me every day. Church, Sunday school, you know, hey, here's a trumpet. Play that. Here's some piano lessons. Let's go do that. I did trumpet, Little League football, did it all. My grandparents kept me busy with the discipline and instruction. Talked to me every day so I didn't have to. I didn't have those issues. And then he always talked about how my dad died. So don't do this. So I. I just stuck with it. And to this day, I don't drink or smoke. I always wonder how grief impacts people who lost their parents at a very, very, very young age. Does it hit you later in life, do you see somebody out with their parents and. And it hit you like, what is it? It did When I was, when I was a kid. But what hurt me about my dad's death was watching my grandparents cry like that on the front row. I'm in therapy for that. That, that comes up in therapy. That, that wipes me out. Wow. That wipes me out more than my son's death. Why? I'm a grandmama's baby. Like, you understand you from the South. Watching my grandparents cry like that on their front row, man, I, I, I can't get over it. Yeah. Even when my grandparents died, the only thing I, I could think about, their casket was in the same spot, my dad's casket. Well, the only thing I could think about was them crying on, on that front row. April 11, 1974, for. Wow. I will never forget it, man. It, it just, it tears my soul out of my body. I can deal with my son, but that's, that's what I struggle with more than anything. Wow. And that's why I didn't cry at my son's funeral, because my granddaughter was watching me, and I don't. You didn't want to traumatize her like that. Like that. Dang, boy. Yeah. Up here talking about this. We about to all start crying. I just want to hug. Well, let's talk about something else for a second. You put on a lot of comedians, Ricky and I think that coming from the south, right. I don't think people realize how big you are sometimes like this. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think they realize how, how much money you got, number one, but also how rich you are and just how big you are. And I think it's, it's a, it's almost a stigma with comedians from the South. Like, they don't get the respect that they deserve. I think I just do it for the love of the art. Charlemagne, Envy. I remember cussing D. Ray Davis out, snatching a drink out of his hand because he was too young to be drinking. Hey, give me that. You know, I had a little comedy club back in Birmingham. So I would like D. Ray, Corey Holcomb. Corey Holcomb was like, hey, man, I ain't never been outside of Chicago. I was like, okay, cool. Let's go on the road. You know, I would take those guys on the road. Corey Holcomb, D. Ray Davis. A lot of them, man, that, that Tyler, some of them have passed away. You know, I would just take them on the road and help them, because that's what Steve did for me, you know, nobody have to. Don't nobody have to fool you, you know what I'm saying? Some people can just ignore you. Steve was one of those guys man that was helping in training company I started started November 13, 1989. Wow. That's the first time I went on stage. I met Steve before he did Showtime at the Apollo. Steve's anointing man. Oh my God. I don't care what nobody you know. The new year is here and you want to stay locked in on whatever you're into. Amazon prime is a cheat code. 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I mean, because you talk a lot about people that you mentor and that you help, but like, who's somebody that you do that for that, like we might not know about, that might have started in your clubs or just unknown and now is like taking over comedy wise? Oh, man, Lil Duvall was somebody that I have a real good relationship with that I was doing some, you know, mentorship because, remember I was the host of company view in 2000. So you was a lot of people mentored just by being on that show. Right, right. That's what, that's what 85. They told me. I'm tripping. Like, like Carlos Miller was like, bro, I met you when I was 14 years old. You was in a hotel. I got excited. I'm hearing these stories and stuff, man. Not realizing the impact on Company because I'm on BET Monday through Saturday. Right. Like when Comic View really blew up, it was in Atlanta. And then I hosted again, Charlemagne 2004. And then the year after 2000, 2001, I had my own little TV show, the Way We Do It Us. First time, you know, and I was doing all these characters and all these voices and, and all this kind of stuff. So when comics needed help and needed mentorship, I would always, you know, hey, dress nice. Hey, stop cursing. Does that curse word make that joke funny or are you cursing just to be cursing? That's a real thing. Thing. I just had that conversation with a comic. I said, hey, man, you curse too much. The cursing is not making the joke funnier. But if the curse word is a part of the punchline, then use it. I said, because it's Like I give the onion example. Like it, like you eat an onion, it's nasty. But if you take it and chop it up and saute it and put some flour on it, you're still eating the onion but you can't taste it. That's right. It's just an analogy that I use with Cummings and I make them redo the joke and that's like damn, you did the same joke and got the same laugh. Got a bigger laugh. Cuz people are not offended right now. Now there was a rumor that in your contract it said that you had to wear a dress. Oh man, I don't pay that stuff. I didn't know. God damn. You should have put. You just bit into the onion. You ain't put no flour onion, you ain't saute or nothing. God damn. Hey, so, so, so, so I, I then I started doing comedy 89 man. You think there's a contract somewhere? I'm just messing with. I knew, I know that that didn't bother me. What bothered me was was people believed it. Oh yeah, they did. Because it's always been that thing about the wear the dress, to not wear the dress. The. It's comedy. Yeah, listen, it's comedy. I grew up watching Flip Wilson. Yeah, Flip Wilson is the greatest of all time. And right when you laughing at Flip Wilson, he turned around to do Geraldine. Me and my grand. I would sit there and watch that with my grandmother. My characters came, man. I was doing prank phone calls on the radio. I was doing Bernie's Just Jenkins and whoever would have thought a character that you do on the radio calling funeral homes and all this stuff turn into a character and somebody asked you to play the character in a movie. You know, it's funny that all that stuff is, is taboo now. He felt like he was clearing the record on Shay Shay because I think he. Or whether that he was supposed to play a role. You said Money Mike or something. Well, I did. When I went out there, I auditioned for that part and that's what I really auditioned for. I didn't audition for the Santa Claus. If I'm not mistaken, the Santa Claus role was supposed to be for what's his name he played in the First Friday, the comedian that passed away. Oh, AJ Johnson. AJ Johnson. I think AJ Johnson was supposed to play the sign and this is what, what I heard or whatever and they put me in that role because at that time I was on BET and stuff like that. But I did audition for. That's what I went out there and read for my Manager at the time came on the air, cleared that up. But Cube. Cube clarified it too. I see that you did. Did audition for Money Mike, but when they saw how you move, they thought you'd be better for Santa Claus. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't have no. Have no beep. I love everybody. If there is an opportunity to resolve the rap beef and stuff with rappers getting killed, I don't want comedy to ever come to that. You know, that's not what I do. That's not how I was raised. You know, we from the South. That's right. And we just don't. We don't. We don't do that. What do you love more? Stand up already? Radio. Oh, God damn. That's a good question. Radio don't give you butterflies. Radio is just sitting here, like right now. I'm comfortable. It's cool or whatever. Stand up gives you a little bit of anxiety because you got to perform, you got to go out there. People pay money to see you perform. But my stand up is. Has been great. I'm. I'm probably funnier than I've ever been. I got a special coming out. We in negotiation with Kevin Hart right now to release a comedy special for you. Oh, yeah. I haven't did Donna comedy special in like 12 years. Wow. But it's funny as hell. It looked good. It's gonna be funny. It's gonna be all over the place. Recently shot stuff. Yeah, just recently shot it. Okay. Yeah, I paid for it myself and I just went on stage and killed they ass. So I'm. I'm really excited about that. And what made you. I mean, Kevin Hart's Kevin Hart, but a lot of people go to Netflix too. Like, how did you decide where you were gonna. Who was gonna house it? Well, we're gonna, we're gonna see. We in negotiation now because I just did an interview with Kevin Hart and he asked me about. I was like, I just shot one. I said, you wanna, you wanna present it? Okay, so you started that. Yeah, yeah. He's a good friend of mine. I absolutely love him. Great dude. A great dude. Kevin Man, Jamie Foxx, all of them have been good to me my whole career. I didn't. I didn't know Eddie Murphy was a fan, that I met Eddie Murphy at his house or whatever. Went over there one day. I had a meeting with Tracy Edmonds. I think they were dating at the time. And she said, ed, play your prank phone call around. I'm like, you lying? Are you serious? And I ended up going over there and there was some comments over there and we had barbecue chicken, collard greens, cornbread, macaroni and cheese. It was like we had some real soul food. And that was my first time meeting Eddie Murphy. Man. That was, that was a pleasure. So that when you get to do stuff like that and I'm on tour with Martin Lawrence right now. So that's my big brother. So. So the funny thing is you talk like you not wanted you not one of them. Yeah. Conversation. I'm just, I'm just, just humble, man. I'm. I'm still like. I kind of still feel like I'm kind of like just still young and in the game because I feel young and in the game and I. I know I'm a little older and stuff and trying to coach younger comics and I just kind of sit back and not try to do too much. But I just try to make sure when I do do something that is special and that is awesome and that is funny. And my karaoke night sell out faster than my comedy shows. My co host has down syndrome. What? My co host Big Chris has Down syndrome and he is the funniest damn person. If you look at my. Huh. You can see. No, I was sitting here trying not to laugh. I was going to ask you like can we laugh stupid. You can see it on. Why do that, man? My goodness. Chris took me to the cemetery. I think he had a cousin to die. He took you to the cemetery? Yeah. Somebody had died and we was at the wrong grave. But I just let him, let him. I a want to tell him that we was at. At Paul Bell Bryant grave. So I had to get him back to the car, take him got. Got him something to eat and take him home. Ricky Smiley, ladies and gentlemen. Grief is grief, man. He got it out either way. Either way. Chris got side show is out right now. Oh my God. We appreciate you for joining us, brother. Don't be a stranger, man. You could come up anytime. You would tell. My goodness. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Ricky Smiley. That is me bring Big Chris up here cuz she is single and she. She's looking. You single? You surprised, right? Yeah. How old are you? 32. Damn. Not you. Sit back down. Put your number on my phone. Ricky Smiley smile and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. The Breakfast Club Donkey of the Day with Charlemagne, the guy. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all like this. No, Duval, y'all do it to yourself. Okay, Donkey of the day goes to a Florida man named Kanye Edraziz Medley. Okay? He is 20 years old and hails from Clearwater, Florida. What does your Uncle Charlotte always say about the great state of Florida? Florida. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. See this young man? Kanye was arrested for domestic battery, a misdemeanor, and booked into the county jail. Okay? According to police reports, he attacked his sister during a domestic clash. Now, you know we don't condone any violence against women, and attacking your sister is complete nonsense. If you can't have a healthy conversation with a sibling to work out your differences, then you probably can't have a healthy conversation with anyone. But this case is slightly different because Kanye didn't attack his sister with his hands. Nah. Kanye decided to treat his sister the way Scissors fans treated her in Australia, and he decided to just throw something at it. Now, Jess, if I told you this man was 20 years old. His name was Kanye, but it's spelled K, H, A, N, Y, E. He's black. And he decided to throw a food item at his sister, and the food item hit his sister sister in the back of the head, and that's why he got arrested. If I told you to guess what food item he threw, do you think you could do it? I'm give you multiple choice. Okay. Okay. Was it A, sushi, B, meatloaf, C, fried chicken, or D, tuna tartar? Oh, my God. Fried chicken. Why? Why. Why would you just assume it's fried chicken? Because if it's, like, fresh out the grease and they throw it, some of that hot grease gonna slide down her neck. That'd be the only way that I feel like you would be arrested. Okay? What? Red, if I did this to you, Red, if I give you these same choices. Red's Puerto Rican. I know. I said Red. He's black. He's 20 years old, okay? And he. He threw a food item in his system. If I gave you those same multiple choice questions, what would you guess? Jess already guessed. Fried chicken. Is it A sushi, B, meatloaf, Sea fried chicken, D tuna tartar? Car. Yeah, I'm going to go with a fresh fried chicken, too. All right. Now, don't be trying to gain no points now. We. Why, red? Why? Why can't come with it? Say it. I'm not saying. I'm not saying. You better not say it out of it. I'm staying out of. All I'm saying is not a stereotype if it's true. Okay? Not only do black people love fried chicken, everybody lives fried chicken. And historically, ironically, we love fried chicken because it was the only livestock slaves were allowed to keep. Chickens were. Chickens were the only livestock the enslaved were allowed to keep. And after emancipation, women known as waiter carriers would sell trays of fried chicken and biscuits to travelers at train stations. Okay? The only reason fried chicken became a negative stereotype was because in 1915, a man named D.W. griffith used a film called Birth of a Nation to show a bunch of black elected officials being unruly, drinking liquor, eating fried chicken with their bare feet kicked up on the desk, just acting like savages. And the whole point of that scene, the message to the audience, was to show the alleged dangers of letting black people vote. This is not a YouTube conspiracy. This is historical fact. Do your own Googles and you will see. Now, the reason Kanye is getting donkey today is because he told police that the motive for him using poultry as projectiles is because he said he had not eaten and did not want the piece of chicken the victim offered him, so he became upset. Now, let's do the math here, Jess. The man claimed to be hungry, said he had not eaten. So someone offers you food and you say you don't want the piece of food that they offered. Wouldn't that piss you off? Absolutely. He lucky he didn't get something thrown at him. He's ungrateful. He's unappreciative. He's unthankful. He's a thankless human. Beggars cannot be choosers. And I can't say that you was begging, but if you stick starving, one of the most incredible things a person can offer you is a piece of chicken. Now, here to elaborate on the goodness of fried chicken when you are hungry is the president of the Fat Lives Matter Committee, Big Mac. I want y'all to stop playing Wobble Wobble whenever Big Mac comes through. Mac, talk to me about the good. First off, good people, this is a sad day. As the president of the Fat Lives Matter Committee and a member of the Gut Gang and the Big Back Brigade, it hurts to see one of your. Your members that falling off track. Talk to me. This is just as bad as disrespecting the flag. You don't throw no fried chicken. Not even just as a fat person, as a black person. This breaks my heart. That's like saying, I don't need lotion. And you clearly ashy. It just don't make no sense. And then when somebody give you something, because you know how we get. We get the extra on our hands sometimes. Yeah, you need to share it. Break a little something. I took too much. There you go. You got the nerve to say no. And you. Ashy, Come on now. It's. It's just. It's. It's sad to see. And. And from the book of Lizzo, you know what they say is, don't bite the hand that feeds you if you hungry. And you asking for food, somebody giving you food. Now here's my thing about that. Looking at devil's advocate. Lizzo got a book. I. No, she does not. The devil's advocate side of it is, I asked for food. Uhhuh. You gave me chicken. Okay, growing up, the number one rule was don't eat the big piece of chicken. Chicken. Okay, now maybe it wasn't the big piece of chicken. Maybe it was a little thigh. No, no, no, no. You only get the big piece of chicken if you are the provider. That's why the daddy, you historically got the big piece. Clearly, he was the provider. He treated his sister like it was his girl. So clearly they got some things going on in that house. And you've seen the picture of him a little off. If he paid for the meat in the house, I totally understand. If he ain't pay for the poultry. No, you're gonna eat what I give. Listen, all Kanye's are a little bit off, so this is not far between. You know what, Mac? You ain't wrong when you're right. Please give Kanye medley the sweet sounds of the Hammer Tones. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Ye are. You know, we're not about to offer you no fried chicken. You know, in the Book of Corinthians, it says you be tripping if you throwing chicken. Chicken. Ain't nobody said he does not read the Bible at all. That might be in the book of Clarence. Even at the Last Supper, they were beefing and they ain't throwing no chicken, so. I know that's true. Come on now. That is true. That was donkey of the day today. The Breakfast Club. CJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Justice on maternity leave, so Lauren LaRosa is filling in and we Got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Damon Waynes Jr. Welcome. Thank you, boss. Thank you, man. Listen, I always want as a Wayans, right? Are you born into the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot, like everybody. The Illuminati. You definitely don't get haze. They definitely walk you right in. No, I don't know. Illuminati. Yeah. No, man. How you get there? Had to earn my spirit. What I'm saying, y'all like. Y'all been successful for so long. Oh, so success. You know that. Oh, yeah, yeah. Come on. It takes. It takes it. You know. Yeah. You kind of just walk in at this point. But, you know, I'm a conspiracy theorist, so. Yeah, I don't really. Illuminati? Yeah, I thought the conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theorists did like the whole Illuminati. Isn't that a conspiracy? What? The Illuminati. The Illuminati is a conspiracy. I don't attach myself to that. Oh, God damn it. Like, what the we talking about? I'm a conspiracy theorist. I'm like that. That's what y'all. You know, I. I'll be on. I'll be on YouTube. I'll be looking at the videos. So what is the conspiracies about the Wayans brothers, then? How. How have the Wayans family been so successful for so long? I don't know if there's a conspiracy. I think it's just family working together, you know, I feel like that's what we all should be doing. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like black people learn best by example. And so you have a bunch of examples and you just copy them. Did you study every member of your family? Like, did you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you watch everything your dad was in? Do you watch everything Marlon was in? Like, I'm talking about since she was a child, like, right. Study everything that they did. I mean, I. I watched the stuff that I like. There was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man. I don't remember. I don't remember the Limber Man. My dad. My uncle Ken did a movie with Steven Seagal. Glimmer Man. Is that what it's called? Yeah. I don't remember that one. Was that. No, no, no. I watched Blank Man. You was in it, cuz. I was in it. Yeah. You say Glimmer Man, I don't even know what he talking about. I'm looking down the Glimmer Man. It wasn't Glim I don't remember this one. I definitely don't remember Glimmer Man, 1996. I missed that one. Yeah, man. Yeah, people did. Yeah. I like the comedies, you know. I like. Don't be a Menace is one of my favorite Classic Love Major Pain. Classic was a movie with Jada Pinkett and Michael Keenan. Oh Lord, Dirty Shane. So I love the. Those look like my top classics. Yeah, yeah. And Black man cuz I was in it. So who the Everyday working class Williams. Everyday working. We got a bunch of working class ways, okay. We got a big ass family. So there's like a lot of people that are just as funny as everybody but they just don't feel like going through the Hollywood. But do they just work, do they work on the set or do they have like. We have some that work on the set. You know we got. I love it. Yeah, we got Uncle Sean's right. Aunt Kim, she's a showrunner. Yeah. How you know? Oh yeah, because I was gonna act like I knew this guy. He live here, you know my. I got. My daughter works on the set. She's a stand in for Essence Atkins character. Wow. And she'd be writing on the show too. She's great. Yeah, she's dope. Now we got to talk about the pressures of, of being a wans. I mean because is it pressure though? Pops, uncle, family, cousins, like. Yeah, is there any pressure? No, I don't feel like. I don't feel like there's pressure. I mean maybe in the beginning. In the beginning it was like I used to have a, an alias when I went on stage. Kyle Green. Really? Yeah. And no one guessed it. You look. Oh no, they don't look like your pops. Hey, you look like the Wayans family. No, like the middle of my punchline's back. You look just like your damn daddy. And so I had to change it just to Damon, you know. But really I was just trying to get my bearings, you know, I was trying to like get on stage and not be like, come to the stage Damon Wayans son. You know, so that's. Why have you never got something because you were Wayans. Like they was like, ah, you're part of the family now. Maybe I don't know. They don't, you know, that's all that behind the scenes stuff. But you know, they let you in, they'll let you in just because they want to see you, you know, like, oh, Damon Williams when I first started. So I got in some, some rooms and shout out to my family for making it easier for me. You know, a lot of people, they frown on the Nepo baby thing, but I think it's great. I think it's like. I don't see nothing with it. I don't either. I mean, I feel like it's a business. This is a business just like any other business. If it was, you know, car manufacturer and then you pass it down to his son, stuff like that, it's just. That's what it is. I think what y'all done is phenomenal. I was phenomenal. I was driving on the west side yesterday, and I saw the digital billboard for Papa's House. And they got a billboard out there, Y. And it was you and your pops. And I was just like, man, number one, the OG Damon Wayne's been getting it for a long, long, long time. That man's a killer. And there's nothing cooler than being able to do what you love to do with your son. Like, everybody, we love what Bron and Ronnie doing. Gotta give it up for y'all, too. Yeah, man. I mean, I'm. I'm happy, man. We've had a really good time so far. We shot, like, 11 already, and, you know, it finally came out, and I'm just hoping, you know, people keep watching and seeing because it gets funnier and funnier. You know, the. The pilot is a good. It sets the stage, sets the characters, but we had a lot of suits. You know, they were like, kind of, like, making sure that we did what they wanted us to do. And then as time went on, they've let us spread our wings, and now we get to just be ridiculous and funny and heartfelt and, you know, I love it. I love seeing my dad every damn day. Well, what is Papa's House about for people that don't know? Yeah. Yeah. So Papa's House is basically about a papa who's a popular morning radio dj. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. And he is a. He lives alone. He's happily divorced. He basically lives his dream of solitude until his son, who's like an immature, needy guy, moves in next door to him with his wife and his two kids and just kind of turns Papa's life upside down. And that's basically the long and short of it. We were toying with the idea of calling it Raising Damon because it's like, you know, you think it's him raising me, but then it. You kind of see that Papa needs some raising, too. You know, it's a lot of old school versus new school views. I think it's really cool. My goal for the show is to bring back black comedies. Had I known that that the 90s and the early 2000s were never gonna be again. There were so many options. We had Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Living Single Cosby Show. We had so many options on so many different channels. Peace to the planet Charlamagne tha God here. And I just want you to know if you're not on Amazon prime, you're seriously missing out. It's not just about the fast free delivery. 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Moishe. Come on now. So they had all these damn shows. Your pops, your pop show too. My wife and kids. My wife and wife and kids. I didn't want to say that cuz that was, that was fly to me. I love my wife and kids but like they had so we had so many shows and I feel like now what we have, we have Abbott, we have the neighborhood. Is there anything else? N. You know, there was a, there was a resurgence, but a lot of them Blackish and grownish. Oh yeah. Blackish was great. Grown. Yeah. Insecure, right? Atlanta. Insecure was great. I'm talking about like now like they don't ever. Yeah. Like the sitcoms, like network tv. I feel like it's, you know, it's far and few between and I just hope that, you know, maybe the show gets popular enough to be like, oh, let's bring more of those. You know what I mean? I, I love it because I feel like people need to see black people enjoying themselves. Black people making each other laugh. Black people making the world laugh. All right, we got more with Damon Wayans Jr. When we come back. The move, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Rosa filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Damon Wayne's junior. Lauren, how much of this show is just improv off the script? Because I know it's based on like you guys were really about to move next door to each other or something at one point. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of, it's improv, you know, but we, we have a script but we definitely do whatever we want because, you know, it's my dad's show and he'll just let people play. And so we having fun. You know, I'm. I like. I like to improvise, but, you know, there's certain characters that like to just do the script. And they're fine doing the script, but everybody's having fun. Are you good at taking notes? Are you. Are you and your dad good at taking notes? Me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I take notes. I mean, I take. I like constructive criticism. I mean, my dad, that's how he raised me. You know, this dude is the most brutal critic of all time. I did years ago, I did Def Comedy Jam, and I got a standing ovation. Like, I was nervous as hell. I got standing ovation. I do really well. I get off stage, he comes up to me, he goes, anything you did, son. And I go, I don't know, like eight, nine. He's like seven and a half. And he just walks off. No context, no nothing. No notes, no notes. You just gotta figure it out. Do better. How do you feel with your dad doing stand up? And, you know, he would talk about you guys and stuff, and of course he talks about you, you know, masturbating all through the house at that time. You can't wait to ask that question. So how did that work out for you? Lit up with that one. Yeah, boys got. Oh, geez. Louder. So how was that for you as a kid when your dad used to tell him stories? That one specifically was embarrassing. Cause I remember one time I was about to hook up with this girl, and she was like, wait a minute, are you the guy that does the thing with spaghetti? And I was just like, what? And then she plays me a clip of the freaking video of him just, you know, talking about me going, spaghetti again. I'll be right back. And, you know, I didn't get any that day, so, yeah, it messed me up. Did you not get any because she wanted you to do the spaghetti trick right then and there? And you like, no, I'm like, you can do this spaghetti trick. Yeah. No, she just. She just wanted to laugh him. She just laughed. It was very embarrassing. Damn. Yeah. Do you think you have an appreciation for history, being that you're surrounded by. By it? I mean, you're making your own, right? But you're always you. I mean, your whole life, I'm sure. Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Robert Townsend, these people were just there like. So do you have a. His appreciation for it? Because if it was me, I Couldn't shut up. I'd be asking a million questions. Yeah. All the time. My. My dad kind of instilled in me, not bothering famous people. Like, I. I see them, and I give them respect. But I'm also like, you know, you do your thing. I don't want to ask you the question that I know thousands of people ask you. Like, I see Eddie, and I just, like, I'm in awe, but I'm also not gonna, like, show him that I'm in awe, you know? So I don't really. I don't like bothering famous people. But we did used to have a lot of fun, you know, we. My dad said that, you know, when. When I was a kid, that Eddie used to invite him and his family on their little yacht parties. And my dad would have to go on there with his, you know, his wife and me as a kid. I was, like, 2 years old, maybe 3, and. And Eddie would be sitting there like, man, this is. This is nice, man. Like, looking at my family like, see, this is what I want. I want this. I'm gonna go and, like, he'd leave, and my dad would just be on the boat by himself with his family, and there'd be, like, a bunch of girls there and stuff like that, a bunch of celebrities, and it was really cool, you know? And I remember one time, well, my dad told me this. Emmanuel Lewis. You know Emmanuel Lewis? Yes, man. So Webster, he was, you know, Emanuel Lewis. Yes. So he was on the boat, right, One time, and. And he was, like, dressed fly. He had a suit on. On, had a watch. And he. A little dude. And I, as a baby, was confused because I'm like, you thought he was a big baby? I thought he was a big baby. I'm like, why he. How you know all them big words? Why? How you. Who gave you a watch? You know, I'm, like, following him around the whole. Oh, my God. The whole yacht, trying to, you know, see what's up with him. You know, Just like, who gave me them shoes? You know? Where your diaper at? How old was you? You remember I was, too. No, he just told me. My dad told me I was around, following him everywhere. He was like, come on, man, go. He was, like, trying to shoot me away, man. That is fun. Come on, man. It's nap time. So what is the. You guys always keep Essence Atkins booked? I know. She's in Papa's house. She plays Dr. Ivy Green. What's. What's the chemistry with her in the Wayans family? Like, can you talk a Bit about that and a decision to bring her on this show, right? Well, first of all, Essence Atkins keeps herself booked. Like, that woman is a phenomenal comedic actress. Phenomenal actress, period. But she's also like, really funny. And initially my dad didn't want her to be on the show because Uncle Marlon was like, yo, you gotta put it on. You know, she's really funny. I don't know what you're doing, you know, and my dad was like, kind of, you know, like, no, he was on. She was on your show. I don't want to have that on my show. Like, leave it alone. And then finally he, you know, he was like, come in and read. And she went in and like, from the moment she walked in the door, she was killing us. Like, just so funny. Like, before she even said a word of the audition, she came in, killed it, killed it, left, and she was the first person up too. So everybody, like, she just sucked all the energy out the room and there was just like, no one was gonna do or top that. So, you know. So ESSENCE keeps herself booked. Like, she's just phenomenal. Now you also see the change of comedy, right? Because you've seen everything your family has done, right? From Blank man to Living Color. Do you think comedy can go back there without people getting insulted about getting offended, taking things personal? I mean, I don't think so. I mean, I feel like y'all do Blank man, too. The show kind of. We could do black Man. But is Blank man offensive, though? I feel like. I feel like Blank man was like, pretty chill. I don't remember. I have to go back and watch it again because what I. Because what. What we didn't think was offensive. Now when you back trying to be like, damn, oh yeah, that would piss everybody off. You know what I mean? True. But I miss those shows. I miss the Living Color shows and those shows that push the line and push the edge, you know, I blame Judd Apatow. I'm always down to blame the white man for something. So, I mean, this is a conspiracy theory, but I don't think he did it intentionally. But I feel like it started with Superbad. Like, Superbad came out classic, super funny. And then I feel like after that, it was just no more black stuff, no more black movies. Like, it was just like, you know, they were like, we got it from here. And then they did all their, you know, that it was like Jewish comedies, like starring Jewish people, Jewish young guys, which were really funny. Like, I love 40 year old version. I love Bridesmaids. I Love super bad. But I feel like it like just went that way. And then there was no more black comedies. Like they don't make them anymore. Have you noticed that? I wonder if it's because I think about what you're saying all the time because I love the tone of all those movies. You. I even put get them to the grand Reconnect. Yeah. I wonder if it's because they're willing to take more risk. Yeah, well, they have like there's a lot of things that they do in their comedy that I feel like some black people wouldn't necessarily. Don't they have the room. I disagree. I say, I'm, I'm saying the opportunity is not there. I'm sure you know, there's like a bunch of black comedies being written. They're just not being shot. They're not being given to black comedians. But I think he's asking, would like some of our big name black comedians, would they take those roles that are going to push those boundaries? Because it could offend boundary. I mean people are offended by everything nowadays. So it depends on who you talking about, what you're talking about. Well, it's a lot like back in the day when you look at it, living color and all of that stuff like that, they weren't afraid to pretend to be gay. They weren't afraid to. They wore dresses. Yeah. I'm not saying you got to wear the dress, but they weren't afraid to push the limits. Right. There's things that I feel like this black people wouldn't do now. You just get critiqued for everything. But I think if it's funny enough, they'll let you do it. Like we let Robert Downey Jr. Get away with blackface because it was funny. Right. And. But I don't think he could do that now. I don't feel like. I don't feel like anything is up. I don't even know if Superbag get away with being super bad now. Maybe super bad, but like 40 year old virgin, I'm not sure. Right. Like these not even nerds. Not even nerds, which is crazy. Nerds is rapido. Now when you. I haven't. I haven't. I haven't. You go back and look, they'd be like ass rapey. By the way, it's not even just comedy though. I think about back in the day, like why was Q in high school? The nurse and Juice, they didn't even give us an explanation. There was no reason for. I didn't even think about that. Why was. Why Was this nurse just high school? I bet you. I bet you there was like a storyline that they just didn't have time to explore. They probably had to cut it, you know? All right, we got more with Damon Wayans Jr. When we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Damon Wayans Jr. Lauren, are you guys gonna like. Because I don't. I feel like too. It's a lot of the, like, the networks know that people will be offended, so they try to stay away even if they want to try it, right? But in papa's house, like, you guys have Essence Atkins who's kind of coming in, and your dad is like the old school person who. He's like, aware of the boundaries, but he doesn't really care. And she's like, you're gonna have to care. Are y'all gonna kind of play around with that a little bit more and take those risks, or is the network, like, we can be cute with it, but like, know cuz your dad be willing to go all the way there. I love it. Oh, he goes there all the time. Didn't he get in trouble on your. On your show, like, years ago? I watched that last night. Remember that? I watched it last night. You have people d for things. You resurfacing things for no reason. Well, they put my picture during that whole controversy. I remember my picture. I do remember it was bastard everywhere. I was like, come on now. I was like, he didn't say it, but guess what? Got pay for the sins of his father. Jesus Christ. That was crazy. What we. What, y'all gonna push those boundaries on the show? Yes, we are. We. We have. And I think that, you know, once the suits, the CBS saw that we know what we're doing, they kind of like, let us play, you know what I mean? Like, and you'll see each episode gets funnier and funnier and funnier and, you know, and the characters are getting more and more well rounded. We deal with, like, real issues too, which is kind of weird to have, like, serious scenes and stuff like that, but we. We do that too, which just makes the comedy funnier. And I love what we're doing right now, man. It's. It's very unique, especially on cbs. Like, we're definitely making CBS uncomfortable with the choices we're making, which I think is great because we're pushing the envelope. It's like, we got. We. We're competing against streaming now. We're competing against network shows that go for it. So it's like, there's no time to really just play it safe. Are you ever afraid to work with your pops because, you know that he just, like, sabotaged his SNL situation and just walked purposely did things to get fired. Do you ever think that he might do that again? I. I don't. I think he's more patient now. I think he just wants to make a good show and spend time with his family doing it. Like, I feel like this is, like, what he likes doing, and so I don't think he's going to jeopardize that. You know, I mean, that, you know, maybe 10 years ago, maybe, but, like, now I feel like he's just, like, chill and. And just having fun. Like, we just be laughing the whole day. It's just. I love it. And when, you know, you talked about, you know, Sean writing on the show and, you know, your Aunt Kim being a showrunner, do y'all even look outside of the family? No, we have a lot of people that are from. Are outside of the family, too. Like, there's, like, 12, 13 writers on the show. You said they know you guys, though, right? Like, they're like. Yeah, we all know they family friends, like, the showrunner. We. He. The showrunner wrote Major Pain with my dad. He wrote On My Wife and Kids with my dad. So. Do strangers get a chance? Strangers get a chance, too? Yeah, we got some strangers in there. That sounds so crazy. We got some strangers, though, man. Y'all are doing it the way black people should do it. I agree. And I think that, you know, and. And we're not bringing in stragglers. Like, we're bringing in people that contribute to the project. They're not just being, like. They're not just there because they. Their name is Wayans. They're actually, like, contributing and being really good. Keenan Jr. Is in the writers room, which is. He's so damn funny. My brother Michael. The writers room. It's just. It's just great, man. This is the closest thing I've come to being on a show that I have control over. Like, I always kind of envy my family because, like, the first generation, because they got to come in as themselves. Like, this is who we are within living color. Like, this is who we are. Take it or leave it. This is funny to us. Like, I've been an actor for hire my entire career, so I've been Funny in spots, but you can only be as funny as they allow you to be. And so I love that this is kind of like the next best thing, you know, it's still my dad's baby, but I get to contribute a lot. And he's very collaborative, so. Yeah. When did you feel like you started to make your own name for yourself? People started saying, oh, that's. That's not Damon Wayne's son. That's actually Damon Wayne's. I feel like when I had the Happy Ending show and then I booked the New Girl show at the same time. Right. And so there was like a whole uproar about that, and I thought that was pretty cool because Happy Endings was my first. The first show I ever auditioned for. And then New Girl was the second show I ever auditioned for. So I felt like I was like, oh, I got. There's something. And. And then after that, I just felt like I can do my own thing. Are you gonna be part of the tour that they're doing? They're doing a tour? Yeah. They know about the comedy. Comedy tour? No, all them together. Don't be telling me nothing. I'm second generation. No, they barely told us. We just thought. I saw that clip. I think I saw that clip. You are so well composed. No, no, no. What I was going to say is I think it's something else. I don't think it's a tour. I think it's something. I can't say. But what I think it is. But if it is what I think it is, is is going to be fire. We know that. But like, it just has to be something to immortalize the wins. I think, like the ways need a 30 for 30 or something, like. You know what I'm saying? Like, that'll be dope. Like. But do they do that for. I. I never seen do that first. Yeah, I mean, that'll be dope, but no, it's going to be. It's a. Is it. It's either like. It's like something on TV or film, I think. What's it called? I don't know. I can't say. I think you might have said too much. As soon as it drop, he gonna be the host and we gonna be like, he was in here. Like, he. But I gave more than he did. But this is your time to shine. Just imagine what they did to you last time. You wasn't even here and they put your picture on things. You strong, man. You should just blow it up right now. No, I can't say because I Don't. I don't know if it's true because if I say something and it's wrong true, then I'm gonna look like idiot. I get it. So they be. They. They don't even tell me that much. I hear like whispers. My family's just gossiping ass family, man. Well, salute to you for continuing to carry the torch the right way. Thank you, man. And salute to y'all, man. Because like, I came here, I forgot how my how many years ago. At least over a decade. Yeah. Yeah. And then to see what you guys became is just phenomenal, man. Appreciate you, brother. Papa's House, Mondays, 8:30 on CBS. Make sure you check it out. You can stream it on Paramount plus as well. And we appreciate you for joining us, brother. Thank you, man. Damon Wayans Jr. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for a positive note. What we got positive note is simply this, man, be careful what you wish for others because it just might get to you. All right? To wish bad things for somebody else is actually like looking for something bad to happen to you. Because when you wish bad karma on somebody else, you bring bad karma on yourself. Okay? You are consuming and bringing in negative vibes into your life. Instead, be the person you wish they were. Be the person who brings only positive thoughts and good vibes into their own own life. Because being negative yourself will only bring negative into your life. Don't poison yourself hoping somebody else will die. All right, Breakfast Club, bitches, listen to me. 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