 Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart talks about his life. I say, well, shoot, if you talk about his life. Man, I got a whole bunch of stories I can talk about. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. But it wasn't until I saw Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart talks about his life. I say, well, shoot, if you talk about his life. Man, I got a whole bunch of stories I can talk about. But how could I put them into their comic? Feel. Feel. And then that's what I've been doing. I left Germany. Yeah, we talked while you was in Germany. I let it go. See, my thing was I had started letting loose. I wasn't letting loose. I wasn't loose. I was too trying to be nice guy. Trying to be structured. Trying to be this. I say, I got a little loose. When I let loose, them jokes is coming. Kevin Hart is a different animal when it comes down to being himself and talking about his family too. And doing his thing. And you see his whole layout. And in the way his comedy came, he had some downfalls before his peak. And that helps too, right? Because nobody didn't expect him to be the Kevin Hart he is today. When I talked to Phaser on Love, he was like, you talking about Blackfoot? He was just a dude that was around. I asked you about Kevin Hart. Did you ever think from where he started? Because you seen him from the jump. And now that he would be able to make that conversion. I don't think Kevin was going to be shit. Because you remember how it was when you first started. I used to tease Kevin. I got my little brother. And I love him. He's the same Kevin. I was like, Kevin. I told you how we met. No, you didn't. I didn't say how we met. No. I did a show, a movie called Blue Crush. Okay. With a big producer named Brian Grazer. He was like, man, Phaser, you need a TV show. I said, oh, damn. I would love a TV show. This is Hollywood. We sitting on the beach. He said, you know, we're going to do a TV show with you. I said, no shit. When we get back to LA, call me. I'm like, okay. I smoke a cigar. I'm like, whatever, motherfucker. But it's Brian Grazer. He's so cool. Did I tell you to call me? I said, oh, I said, you were serious. Yeah, mother. He's come to my office. Next week. I go to his office. You know, coming office. The producer. I can't believe I forgot his name. He's running the studio right now. Really good guy. Damn it. So I go to his office. I'm sitting in the office and this little black dude come in and say, hey, what's up, man? Hey, what's up? You want a coke or something? I said, yeah, yeah, I'll give you a coke. Brings out coke. Can't believe it. Brings coke. Then he sits down. I'm thinking he's an office worker or something. Right. Brought you a coke. Right? Then other people come in. And Brian comes, hey, you met Kevin. I'm like, yeah. The coke boy. Did you say that? Yeah. See, you guys look at him. He's a little different Kevin. He's a little black, Kevin a little black feet. So I'm like, yeah. Kevin Hard work hard. And he learned from Dane Cook for highest marketing his concern. And he took a chance on himself for getting into clubs. You know, I read the story. I got his books. I mean, I read all about Chris Rock book, Burning Man's book, Sid's book, deal. I mean, I buy books and I read, I support them. They don't know I'm supporting them, but I support them. They know now. I don't, I support them. I don't say, I don't say very much. They all, a lot of comedians put me down and some say, but I don't say much, man. I ain't got nothing, I ain't got nothing to prove to nobody. It was a bad cause shuck a duck. I mean, disappointment or excitement. So you go, if you go talk to me on the bad side, you got me talking on the good side. You got me. Let me ask you about the Apollo I was going a while ago just to get back to, did you what, I know Jamie Foxx used to be around that every night. Did you ever run into Jamie? No, I saw Jamie at the comedy store, but I didn't, you know, I don't, you know, just passing by. Passing by. Yeah. But the reason I say that, cause at that Apollo, it was, I mean, did you go on as a act or did you get booed or was it? No, I didn't get booed. You didn't go on. I went on as an act, as a special comedian. As a special comedian. Yeah. Okay, there you go. Steve Harvey got me on as a special comedian. So when you came out, how was the energy and how many times did you even do the Apollo? I did the Apollo one time. Okay. It was good. I mean, I was just myself. I just, I was just myself and it did, I did good. I mean, I did, the tapers on my Facebook page is on my YouTube channel. But how was it? How was it when you come out there, what made New York and that whole situation different than what you'd ever faced? A lot of the time, we're afraid of New York because we think, you know, cause the hard people things of that nature. Now I was kind of concerned about it being in New York because it's shuck of duck. I said, oh man, they're going to think I'm country and all that kind of thing. I'm bound to do them just as country as we are. Some of the people come from Mississippi and Alabama. You know, so they up in New York. So they really enjoyed, you know, what I did. I mean, they had, they had good. And matter of fact, when I left the Apollo that night I performed, Tina Graham was there. She said, well, they got a club, they got a club over across from the Apollo called the Perkins Club or something like that. We were just in New York when I called you. We was over there by there. It was a Perkins Club. And so they had a comedy night that night. And I just came off this high of being at the Apollo. And there was some gangsters in there. And they were saying, this gangster put up, I got a hundred dollars, somebody can make me laugh because ain't nobody made them laugh all night. Hundred dollars. Put it up. I walked out there with the hundred dollars in my pocket. Oh man, that's good stuff. So you wasn't playing no games with them. Because I had the joy of comedy. It wasn't just having fun with it. I wasn't in the competition with people. I just like to have fun and tell my jokes. And I learned the way of phrasing the jokes from the comedy class. Okay. Now you're trying to bring black experience into it. Because I wasn't a comedian that goes too sexual or too talking about white people and this and all that. I wasn't that type of a comedian. So at that era, Def Jam was an era of bam, in your face type of a comedy. What no intellectual type of a comedy. It wasn't comedy you got to think. If you got to think about the comedy in the black clubs, they ain't don't want to hear that. You was on BET Comic View. I did Comic View. What was that like dealing with BET and dealing with that whole setup that they had arranged for that programming? That was really good. I mean, matter of fact, like I said, I got the comedians from Dallas to get on Comic View. But how was it? Did they just filmed it here and broadcasted it? Or did they have to go somewhere? How was it? Well, they filmed the one that they filmed all the people here when I gave the straws. So they showed little clips on the Vukure type of thing. Then they started the contest. DL was getting ready to leave. I think DL was getting ready to sue them. They had a problem with DL or DL had a problem with them. And so they was getting ready to DL's to go. So in order for them to come up with a host, they did the contest. And so Cedric became the new host of Comic View. And then so I just got into the contest just for exposure of Chuck and Doug. You always on that stage? Yeah, I was just gonna, I just wanted to get the exposure. I didn't want to win nothing. Because I knew what my material was. I couldn't go late. I was just getting that name out. I was just getting the name out. That's all it was.