 how did you get your first break well my my first word was it started a pretty so you know the story i'm gonna for the people that don't know i was a dancer on soul train if you to me to our soul train dancers how you name Leslie hi Leslie yeah we on boss talk one-on-one one-on-one yeah we gonna talk one more thing i wanted to ask you before um how did you get into comedy and how old were you so comedy was even like can y'all tell you know all my friends that are around i was just always the silly funny dude not trying to be not saying hey guys you know i want to be a comedian no i was i guess i just had the person i was the dude that already always had everybody laughing even though i was pop-locking and dancing and and being in dance groups and doing all that i was i was in the party world i was just always the dude that had everybody laughing cut to high school i ended up winning class clown best sense of humor it wasn't like in september i'm like vote for me in july best sense humor funny guy no it just happened that way so obviously you know those years you know i'm looking up to two people and two people only that's eddie murphy and richard prior don't get me wrong i loved hip hop hip hop was new but i was looking up to those two comedians not saying i want to be like them not knowing one day i'd be friends with eddie murphy my idol it's just it just happened how did you get your first break well my my first word was started i'm pretty sure you know that's the story i'm gonna for the people that don't know i was a dancer on soul train if you didn't meet two of our soul train dancers how you name leslie hey leslie i remember 15 to 20 years old i would do it yes get into it come on man i was just a local hood celebrity and you gotta think about it those years let's just take 85 to 90 come on man no matter who you were whether you were michael jackson prince luther vanderos or new edition whoever you were and you were black you had to go on soul train soul train has been brought to you in part by johnson products company bet your last money it's all gonna be a stone gas honey i'm done corny yes and as always in parting we wish you love the peace and right that's before mtv that's before me tv it didn't get no bigger than soul train so you gotta think about it i'm a hood celebrity because i'm going down the line every week no credits i didn't know i was just having fun as a kid but i was that dude that even though i was just dancing i was around all these stars i learned on my own the whole networking shit here i am 17 18 years old with a phone book full of stars oh it's one of your uh i'm one of your big fans and i just put your initials up here glad it's not no kidding i love that because i i didn't know any better how i was that dude when you know tony tony tony l l koo j luther ranger's come and they see me dance they say oh you to do it on soul train man like that's me let's get a picture what's your phone number i can call luther ranger's right now i can really go hang out with l l koo j and i didn't realize i say that to say when i started doing stand-up in 1991 right like a lot of the stars out there they knew me as the dancing dude so let's just take rest in peace uh easy easy take people like run dmc hammer when they started seeing me on the the deaf comedy jams and the comic views excuse me all the comedy shows they're like that's the little dancing nigga like you do stand up now you get what i'm saying i already had these relationships i'm the dude that before i even got into hollywood i was kind of like already in hollywood yeah we on boss talk one-on-one one-on-one here we go on