 But I talked to myself that's how I that's my creative process I walk around and talk to myself and get it in my mind and then that's how I deliver it So as I was outside Panicking walking around pacing creating a new set to go do Nick came in and probably just thought I was some crazy Nick outside talking to myself But when I went up and did my set I killed and when I came off He said amen that you just you just outside making that shit up I was like, yeah, he said man, I'm around some of the best in the game They can't do what you just did keep working Yeah, we gonna Man like you you've been on everything from Wildin out, you know BET you on TV a lot now How was it when you first seen yourself on TV and just coming into that whole realm man? It was I was nervous because while and out you might not see yourself Cory Holcomb salute to the og Cory man Cory Holcomb was The veteran when I was a rookie and he was somebody, you know They do these things called workshops when we do Wildin out where they bring you in like a week before we shoot And they workshopped the games because we always coming up with new games and getting people familiar And the first day of workshops Cory Holcomb walked in and it was just like I was like, oh shit. That's Cory because I'm a fan, you know, and I was a fan But now like he's a peer. I'm in the same space I'm like man, I got to go with him. Yeah, like this the person this my gauge I got to make him laugh and I went in a mental wild style and I lost I can't even remember what it's what he said to me, but it was hilarious But afterwards he pulled me to the side and gave me the best advice Especially in the space of Wildin out that I've ever gotten. He said man. Hey man, I can tell you got something I can tell you special find you something to do in this motherfucker Well, she gonna be one of them niggas they see at the beginning clapping and they will never see you again So that first episode like we my first season we came in season five It's only four people left from that season my original season that's still on the show myself Carlos Emanuel and conceded it's only four of us when you say Carlos man Carlos be always I asked him last time about Nick Cannon How much of y'all learn from him? I know I get a good answer from you, but he shut me down in here What's one thing that Nick Cannon? Have advised you on this sticks out. What make you think Nick be giving me Because it's a friend if it's a friend Because you and this nigga done did so much together We Was totally different, but what did you from that show and Nick Cannon? Just what some jewels that he done gave you that you can you know grow to live by or say man I can do something with this see you a messy ass I Love each other man. They just got the same type of personality and a lot of ways and I think that's what causes But for me, you know, I met Nick prior to getting on the show, okay My homegirl Dolly was his assistant, you know, I mean at the time and he was doing a show called the fresh faces of comedy Okay, and um my myself and my god be that who I was speaking about She invited us and he invited us up to do this fresh faces a comedy show So this was like two years before while and I came back It's like 2010 and I went up and I went it was a Gotham comedy club And this was my first time I'd only been doing comedy for two years and I was you know Wasn't really doing it. I was just doing it whenever I could do it and so this was the biggest show that I had ever done up into that point and When I went in the comedy club to do who own the club was like, yeah, you can't talk about this You can't say the n-word you can't we gonna see if you're really funny now at that time That's what I thought I would need it to do so my creative process is a little different I don't write stuff down like I'll jot down ideas in my notes, but I talked to myself That's how I that's my creative process I walk around and talk to myself and get it in my mind and then that's how I deliver it So as I was outside Panicking walking around pacing creating a new set to go do Nick came in and probably just thought I was some crazy Nick outside talking to myself But when I went up and did my set I killed and when I came off He said amen that you just you just outside making that shit up I was like, yeah, he said man, I'm around some of the best in the game They can't do what you just did keep working. So the very next day He invited me out to come to six flags with him. Now mind you at this time I'm just a flower on the wall for real I'm nobody in the sense of you know who I'm with especially because Nick That's the thing about Nick Nick the men famous since the 90s damn near so I'm just watching I'm observing, you know, I mean and at this point. This was the highest level of fame I had ever been that close to so I'm just observing what it looks like to be at that level of fame and Just watching how he moved. I remember we go to get on the roller coaster and people was going crazy They hanging over the rails the lady on the little thing that you announced that the roller coaster taking off Don't hang over the rails, please and I'm just looking like man Could I live like this is this the way that I want my life to be because if I become successful This is what it'll look like and at that point I was like, yeah, I can I can deal with it So just watching him operating is in his element It's one of the biggest Jews that I've gotten seeing how he conducted himself in a space that I had no Familiarity with I didn't know anything about this type of lifestyle. I knew I'd seen it from the outside But this was the closest that I had been to it But seeing how he conducted himself in that space gave me one of the biggest Jews of how to conduct myself at this Time where we've gotten to the point where it can be pandemonium when I show up somewhere Is it the same like like now? I know you guys have grown over the years It do you guys still have a relationship now where y'all make talk or go somewhere together or is it just not me? You know, we're busy, you know I'm saying so but if it's if we ever in the same place or if I ever reached out Yeah, you know, I mean he'd pick up the phone and holler at me, you know And if he don't pick up the phone he had called me back and that's and that's what all of us You know I'm saying everybody that's what all of us and that's why I commend him because he doesn't have to do That the thing that I give Nick the most credit for of all the things that he has done for Everybody is the fact that most people who are in his position Put you on but then they put you on to stand back and watch what you see what you do with it They don't stand beside you and let you utilize the fame that he's built to build yours That's something that Nick did like from the time that we got on that show Do that dance do that dance Kevin Hart came to the show dressed in church His life has always been a linchpin for what the show is about no matter what stage He's in there now everybody tell me how many kids he got back in the day It was Mariah when he started wearing the turbines. It was that whatever it was He allowed us to build our fame off of what he had going on to now when we show up people are talking about Chico bean in the same way that they talk about Nick Cannon I couldn't wait to get here to talk about your braids or you know, I couldn't wait to get here to see you and Carlos go old school So I understand that we were nobodies when we came he was already who he was So for him not to just say while and out Nick Cannon presents and then just present us and let us figure it out and stand beside us the entire time That's something that you don't see most people When they were gonna close the show when they did stop the show they kind of stopped everything and you guys were To the point how did y'all come back together when it was time to start back up again? I mean, it's a family environment You know, I mean, it's like it's comedy camp for us You know, it's like we get to go to camp because only three weeks out of the year You know, I mean if we do this it have as many times we do it you go in for three weeks And after that you go back to doing whatever you was doing out of the whole year out of the whole year Yeah, it's only I mean if we shoot twice, it'll be six weeks But that's only time that we see each other in close proximity like that So it was easy to come we were excited To be back, you know doing and then it was during the pandemic So we were really like, you know excited about being able to see how we can make this thing working in environment That nobody was familiar and it was right after my mother passed away So it was you know, just a different environment completely. But you know, we we Built that together, you know, I'm saying and Nick always gives us credit For what we've done Publicly especially he always gives us credit for the work that we've put in to make the show what it is You know I'm saying and um, you know a lot of the politics don't come from him You know a lot of that if it was him then the show wouldn't never got stopped It's a lot of corporate shit that goes on that a lot of people don't see that behind the scenes and a lot of people That three weeks that's they whole year. So they're gonna do everything that they can to be as Profound as possible in their job, which can include making yours difficult Just to make sure that they keep theirs when they come back. You know, I mean if we come back So I just think that a lot of the you know, the shit that you see In front of the camera is because of the family element because without that We wouldn't be able to make that magic happen like we had if we didn't love it the way that we do that makes sense