 All right, here we go, man. What's happening, man? It's your boy, Louis Bell. It's the Cali kickback. You understand me? As y'all can see, I got a motherfucking legend in the building. You understand me? It's an honor for him to be here. You feel me? He trying to act all like he don't know what's going on, man. But we're going to introduce him right, man. You understand me? You didn't see them on all type of you just seen them on Netflix with Snoop Dogg. Come on, stop playing. You didn't see them on life. You didn't see them. What? You didn't see them on what's what Fat Tuesdays. Documentary Amazon. Yes, sir. Come on, stop playing. Let's give a big round of applause to God Tour in the building, man. God Tour. All right, we're here to clap for the back. OK, after that. We got Keisha E in the building, too. Detroit in the building. No, give me that same energy. OK, hold on, hold on, give her a hug, too, yes. We got Keisha E all the way from the deep. That's got to be your slogan. Keisha E from the deep. Yes, yes. Here with some real peas. Yeah, I'm talking about how you feeling, Keisha? I'm here. I'm good. How you feeling? I'm good. Words have power. I'm fantastic. There you go. You're hiding it well because you look great. So you got to feel great. That's how you know people going through something when they get a black person. I'm here. I'm here. I woke up this morning like, oh, shit. What's going on? That doesn't happen. Your name sounded like you got broke your heart. Keisha. Who didn't left you? Becky, why I got to be that? What audition did you book? Did Keisha go make your name sound toxic? I mean, no, I think it was long. It was already long. It already had. Community making Keisha feel that name toxic for you. It already had. Heavy black go-to name is Keisha or, it was a sequela or shemiko or whatever. And I'm a different kind of Keisha. OK. You know what I mean? You a different. Somebody tell me I should be the poster girl for Keisha. I should be the new. And what is that different type of Keisha then? Since you said that. Well, just not the stereotype. Because people literally, when you say your name is Keisha, they have this stereotype of you. Like you a wick baby or something. Yeah, and I'm like, I come from a two-parent household. I have a master's degree. I've been in 23 countries. I will travel. I ain't got no baby daddies. Keisha's ain't been out the country. Not all the things that people think. They've been in the county, but not out the country. Keisha's only goes to Atlanta and Texas. The farthest they've been. Miami. Miami. Yeah, they go to Miami. I think Keisha's go to Miami now. Yeah, yeah. In Vegas. Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Guy. I've never met a guy. Really? Well, it's good. Your name is Guy. It's Guy doing hockey season. I go Guy, Guy. That's your real name, though. Guy's my real name. Yeah, man. Guy Torey. Yeah, named after my dad. So it's on my birth certificate, on my driver's license, on my taxes. We got that in county. All the real niggas' names after they're daddy. Yeah. I don't trust these niggas got these new names. You know, my brother's older. He didn't get named after my dad. So maybe that's where I'll be coming. That happens to my little brother, too. My big brother, my little brother. What? He skipped a couple sons? Yeah, my little brother is a junior, not my big brother. Got it. Oh, for real? Yeah. Because my mama didn't want to name. My dad didn't name Bernard. She's like, I'm not naming my kid Bernard. Man, after a dog. So she was like, I'm not. Same Bernard. It's just an older name. It is an older-ass name. So then when they had my little brother, they didn't check the sex, right? But my mama felt in her spirit it was a girl. You know how they say your belly high as a girl if it's going to be a boy, whatever? Yeah, I heard about that. And so she thought it was a girl. So she promised, like, all right, we can name it after you. Just thinking she being slick. And it was a boy. And it was like, all right, you got to keep your word. And nod. So now you've got a Bernard born in 1990. Woo! I got an old-ass name. Lewis? Yeah, that's an old-ass name. That's like a civil rights name. That's like a more common. That's a civil rights name right there. It ain't no. It ain't no. It ain't a lot of Lewises. No. L-E-W-I-S? But they trigger all type of old-nick-a-names out there. Old-nick-a-names. That's when you join a bunch of old-nick-a-names out in the new cities. Old N-N's. This one? St. Louis. I just left St. Louis. The Lou ST-L-3-1-4 St. Louis Moe, really? My fam, like, my dad's out of family. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's why his name is Bernard. I just left out there, man. I did not know y'all was famous for Chinese food. Man, we got the best ghetto fried rice. Yo, I'm telling you. Ghetto fried rice. I mean, well, the street name in St. Louis that they call it is actually kind of racist. Yeah, they say, I'm saying this. No, they call it the Chinaman, which is derogatory. No, that's derogatory. Shit, we call them Chinaman. Yeah, but that's derogatory. That's like them calling us niggas. They do call us niggas. But they, we love everybody. So I call it ghetto fried rice, because I don't disrespect the Asian community like that. Yeah, you know that counselor. It's a story where this dude was trying to find the right, you know, Chinese food place, ghetto fried rice. And he called up and said, yo, is this the Chinaman? And the dude in the line says, is this the niggaman? But he had every right to do that, because, you know, so yeah, same as saying, A-Rab, which is derogatory, too. Yeah, it's Arab. You know, A-Rab is derogatory. You can't really say that. I'm only saying it for presentation. Because we be calling each other all of that. We talked about that last time. We call A-Rab is derogatory. No, we aren't really in there by calling niggas. Well, for those of you out there who didn't know, those two names are derogatory. I'll let you know, I'll put you on notice. That's crazy, I did not know that. Yeah, man. Did you start comedy in St. Louis? No, I didn't. I mean, not professionally. I mean, I was an asshole, of course. But no, I moved out here and I didn't know what I was moving out here for to do. I was going to finish my marketing degree. And then I was inspired by Def Comedy Jam, of course. Seeing my brother on Showtime at the Apollo and then seeing him on Def Comedy Jam and all those first seasons of Def Jam. And I moved to L.A. I was going to finish my marketing degree and then ended up doing comedy. Comedy chose me. I didn't choose it. That's what you kind of just say, right? Well, she says she stumbled upon. I fell into my lap. That's the caption I was going to post today on my picture, actually. That's funny. Comedy shows me. It was a dare. Somebody dared me to do Amateur Night. But it was your destiny. It was assigned to you before you even knew, before you were even here. So that's why I laugh when you said, oh, it stumbled on me or it stumbled on comedy. You didn't stumble. That was your destiny. What did you think you would have been if you wasn't a comedian? Well, my parents wanted me to be as an engineer with this degree that they paid for. Yeah, I probably would still just be working in my field. And that's engineering. What kind? Civil. Computer engineering. I came out here for acting, though. I was like, I'm gonna move out here for acting. And then I got dared to do Amateur Night. And I was like, all right, I'll do it, whatever. Fearless. Because I feel like if you dare me, it's like a challenge. If you dare me to do something where I won't get pregnant or die, it's like, why not? I was going to go there, too. I was going to say, you can get in trouble with a dare. Yeah. Like, why not? So I was like, all right. Yeah, that's the easiest way to, uh, yeah. You know, my big bro... Manipulate a female. My big bro... I dare you to give me some heat. Not that new, wow. Like a dare. Look, always got to go through it. Then pull your dick out. Pull out. Oh, she did it, y'all. That's hella funny. You stupid. You talk about your... But you can't get pregnant, you know, that way, so... That's a bang and no sense. Yeah, I'm just saying, if you drink the babies, you know, you're still pregnant. They lose men off of shit like that. Yeah. Off of what? Off of dares and shit like that. One good time can fuck up your whole relationship. What do you mean, like, you in a relationship and another dude dares you to something? A female can be in a relationship and then they get caught up in a dare or something, and then it's like, all right. No, I ain't no, come on. I dare you to find another nigga now. This shit over, bitch. Right, right. That's just ridiculous. Not a ridiculous dare. I'm in a relationship with a dude and another dude dared me to do something. I'm like, oh, I gotta do it, because he dared me? Yeah. No. She don't strike me as that type. Nah, she dumb, but I'm saying people do that though. Right. You don't think people do that? Every time I come on this podcast I tell you, I don't know nothing about that life, okay? I see what you're saying. You're a grown ass, man. That's why I brought you here when God here is here grown ass man. I'm on some ignorant shit. God, tell me about how did you get on motherfucking life? On the movie life? The movie life, man? Audition. Audition. For real? Yeah, audition, man. Audition for the movie life, man. I'll never forget it, too. That was, at the same time I was on a sitcom called Good News, UPN Networking. I went on an audition, man. It was all my friends auditioned, too. Miguel Nunez, Bear McAteleferro, Gold Mouth Rest in Peace, but Anthony Anderson, I mean, it was just people that I knew, you know? And Martin was already part of the cast, of course. You know, and I started as a PA on a Martin show, wrote an episode of the Martin show, and did a lot of work for the Martin show. That was my buddy, but it was just fun. It was fun. I had to audition. And you had an agent, or you was just like, because you had your night, that a lot of people was like, hitting you with opportunities because you was hosting your night. Well, I had an agent before I had the night, right? I had an agent already. I mean, things happened for me pretty fast. I ain't gonna lie. And it wasn't because my brother is because he taught me a lot of the ropes, but I still had to go in and audition myself. It's like me and Tony Rock talks about this, like, oh, your brother, but they didn't go in the room for us to audition. They ain't on stage every night telling these jokes. So it helped because it helped with having inside knowledge and how to behave and conduct yourself, but no, man, I had an agent and a manager and I had a team. Yeah, yeah. For the people that's tuning into this episode, they don't know who God Tourie brother is. It's just Joe Tourie. Joe Tourie. Hear me out. Chicago from the Port of Justice, as most of you remember. Everybody got to put it in the justice T-shirt over. Wherever I go around the country, I got a Port of Justice T-shirt on. That is Joe Tourie, not God Tourie. So if you're gonna inbox me and say, hey, great job, do it the joke. And sometimes I forward. Yeah, people still get us mixed up. I feel like, shit, I don't know. I don't want to say nothing ignorant, but at one point, because you know I'm young, so I didn't know y'all was even related. Sometimes. I knew you from who you was and I know. Sometimes I wish we were, you know. There are times I didn't think the same thing. Is this a gift in the curse with having a brother that's in the same field as you? Yeah, it is a gift in the curse. And it's a curse because the expectation level. Like he made it first. That was big shoes to feel. That's why when I first started, I didn't go by God Tourie. I went by the World Famous Guy T. I dropped my last name, didn't tell anybody we were brothers. Cause one, I knew it was big shoes to feel. Number three, I didn't want any favors because I'm Joe's brother. Let me earn my share. Let me earn my stage time. Let me earn, you know, what I'm going to get rather than, but it's a blessing too, because I mean, for the first four years I lived in LA, I mean, I didn't have to pay rent. It's rent free. That's cool. Yeah. I mean, that's a big burden left off anybody in LA. I came out here with $900 in my pocket and a hooptie. So, but I was hustling. I was in them comic clubs every single night, two times a night sometimes, grinding, hustling, you know, that's why after two years of doing, you know, standing up, I did Def Comedy Jam, which is crazy. Cause Def Jam was in New York at the time. And that's when it was, you had to be funny. Yeah. Damn, that's, you know, it's crazy. So I be hearing these stories with the OGs about like, how fast they got on Def Comedy Jam. Some people was like slower, but it's a lot of, I've been hearing a lot of stories about like, people like, yeah, I was doing comedy for three, four years and I ended up being on Def Jam. That's equivalent to the comedians blowing up off the internet and being famous. Well, yes or no. I mean, those comics who did that were in the clubs too grinding like I was. You know what I mean? Every night when you live in cities like Chicago, living cities like LA, living cities like New York and DC, there's a plethora of comedy clubs. So you can get on stage every night. If you want to just go to different places. There may not be a lot of comedy clubs, but there are rooms that have a night. So if you're true to it, then you're gonna be in those clubs every night grinding. And that's, I did it. I was, forget all this Hollywood, you know, parties and all this other bullshit. I saw how fake that scene was. So I was in comedy clubs every night just grinding, trying to, you know, get out my brother's shadow. Tupac, you saw he's cutting my shows. Yo man, create your own lane, create your own identity. Get out your brother's shadow, blah, blah, blah. He was always an early supporter. So you feel like it's a difference. It's a difference with this generation of comedy where it's at now versus back then it was still people putting in more work stand up wise. Cause to be honest, I kind of feel like I don't even want to say how you feel about the comedy scene right now. I don't feel like it was how it was back in the day with people being physically in comedy clubs. But things change and times change. That was different from when I did it from, you know, my OGs. So, you know, now, you know, with social media, I mean, I applaud how generation, the millennials and Gen Y and Gen Z are creative with their sketches. That's not easy to do. That shit ain't. You know, so, but to do the stand up part, you gotta get those reps in. If you don't get those reps in, why not have the best of both worlds? Why not have a great social media presence? But also, you know, couple that with being on stage, getting the grind in and make all the money. You know, cause some of these shows, people are showing up for this social as Bob Sumner calls them, social medians. As people are showing up and a lot of, not all of them, but a lot of them don't have the stage time. And after 15 minutes, then they're out and they gotta do 45 to an hour. So it's like, I just want this younger generation to get on stage and put the reps in. And you don't think getting the reps is when you doing your own shows and you performing and you figuring it out on the go. Yeah, I mean, that's the way you do it. But, and she's with this generation, what's your take on that? Eh, my, yeah. I don't, I'm not a, I guess I am of this generation, but I feel like I'm not, I started comedy late though is what I feel like. Right. How long have you been doing comedy? I think it's been six years now. Oh yeah, you and this generation. You and this generation. I've been doing comedy for ten years. But I feel like I'm not of your generation, like age wise, I'm not of your generation, but comedy wise, I started late. But I always started on stage, so I don't, and that's the thing that I've been like, ah, I gotta do social media, I gotta do, and I hate it. I don't, I want to be on, I'm a stand-up comedian. I see, I love that, own it. I want to be on stage, that's where, like you said, get my reps in, that's where I'm gonna get better, that's where I'm gonna get stronger. And so, I don't have much on that, on that end. And what I mean by other generation, I don't mean that you're doing what they're doing, but you're in that, you're in that group of comedians. Gotcha, gotcha, okay. And so that's what I mean, I don't mean that you're worried about TikTok and worried about IG and all that. What I'm saying is this is your class of comedians rather than getting on stage or not. But you choose the authentic, the authentic stand-up route, getting on stage, grinding it out, writing your jokes out. Yeah, that's how you do it. Cause I also don't, like I want any opportunity that I get, I want to be able to kill. So like you saying, and it's no shade to that. And you can do both, you know what I mean? If that's what you're doing. Absolutely. But I don't want to get, I don't want a headline because I have a certain number of followers that I can't fulfill that role, you know? So, and social media, I get it. I understand the importance of it. I understand how people are getting opportunity from it. I just haven't really got on that train yet. So I'm kind of like, but... Keep the main thing, the main thing, which is the stand-up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I get it, but... Hey, Fresno, get your tickets right now, pull up on me. November 11th, I'm in the city. Don't miss out. I'm telling you, I'm bringing Sunny Boat. I'm bringing Sunny Boat to Fresno too. He ain't gonna perform, but we're gonna have a little meet and greet to everything. Louis Belt is performing live and I'm gonna do a little meet and greet with Sunny Boat. So y'all get your tickets right now. Don't miss out November 11th. Fresno, California. Yes, Law. Yeah, it was crazy. I realized like, it's just, it's a lot of shit that's happening now. It's just a modern day, shit that's been going on. It's just a modern day version of the same shit over and over again. That's all people like the Death Comedy Jam shit. It was just like, it was a whole bunch of, it was a new wave of comedians. You feel me? And some hit early, some hit late. It was both. It was a new wave of comedians, but also it was old school. Like your Bernie Max, your Cedric, my brother Joe. They've been doing comedy for years. Steve Harvey, Eddie Griffin. They've been doing comedy for years and Death Comedy Jam was Moses to a lot of brothers of the Promised Land. It was a new platform because it was basically like we weren't really getting invited to the white clubs. You know what I'm saying? If we did, we had to dumb down our act and we were told what we can and could not say. Death Jam came through and was like, look, I'm sure what's sold Death Jam and HBO from Stan Layton and Bob Sumner and Russell Simmons was like, this is raw uncut comedy from the hood. Put the kids to bed. One of the greatest ads I loved was used to be in the magazine advertising. Death Jam had a white piece of bread, right? This plain white piece of bread and it said, Death Comedy Jam, anything but. And that's simple, anything but. And that's what it was. And it was us and because a lot of cable television wasn't in black households, it was white people watching and Jewish people watching, other ethnicities watching us. So that was their introduction to us. From just being raw uncut, uncensored, straight in your mouth, straight notation. That's why it came on late night on a Friday night for years because it was our authentic self. We didn't have to go and water down our act and talk about what we did. We could talk about that nigga shit we wanted to talk about. That was like your Instagram version of this. It was, it was a nigganat. Yeah, it was a nigganat. It was a nigganat. Why do comedians be beefing? I be seeing so many comedians beef and I ain't gonna lie, this kind of my first time really like being like having like, not words with comedians, but like on a sense like, like what I'm saying when I was talking, not words, but like in a sense of like, like, Brad, why are you doing that? Like why are you taking jokes and shit like that? I used to, like, cause I come from like a hip hop culture. Like I never was like, I love the comedy I always watch, but I didn't come up around comedians. I came up around Hella Rappers. So it's like when I seen comedians like beef in a sense about jokes, I think it was the corniest shit ever. It's not though, cause I mean, you gotta realize man, you know, bits aren't easy to come by sometimes. And sometimes it takes you a while to get that bit perfect. You bomb doing that bit, you probably homeless doing that bit, you probably, you know, and I'm late getting bumped trying to do that bit, you crafting that bit, you molding that bit into what it is, you put a lot of time, effort and love into that bit and that's your bit. And you done done all this motherfucking work to that bit and someone comes along and didn't do shit and take your bit, they didn't been through nothing and they just took your bit and it's like with women, you know, when you date a guy and he's broke, he's struggling, he's trying to get his, you know, his life going on, his business started, he's trying to get his career started, get his college degree or his lawyer degree. And then once he gets it and you struggled it with him and held him up, he go get a white girl. He's probably with the white bitch. He's probably with the white girl. And she's like, that's why y'all snap. That's why we snap as comedians. I mean, even if he cheats on you, period, you know, because you put in all that work, I was there for you. And like with us, it's like that joke was personal to us and we molded it and we, you know, we did all this and you just go come and take it when it's ready. You didn't put in no work. Nah man, now I don't have it to cut you. That I understand. I feel like I see a lot of comedians beefing over, I don't know if it's ego, if it's like somebody got the opportunity or somebody, you know, that kind of a thing and it's like. With all people who, comedians, we're very competitive. And long gone are the days where we used to support each other. Some of us still do, but some of us don't now. And it's like, Fat Tuesdays was created because I wanted to share in the success I was starting to have. Fat Tuesdays was a common night. For those who don't know, I started because there were representation from Hollywood in the hood, right? So I said, I'm gonna bring the hood to Hollywood because I was already eating, I already an Asian manager. But I saw so many other talented brothers and sisters not doing, you know, not getting a look. See, let me create a night in Hollywood so I can showcase all of us. And it was, I believe that's why God made it successful was because I was selfless with it. It wasn't about me. It was about all of us. We can all, it's enough money in this damn town for all of us. And this is before it was streaming networks. Now there's so many platforms for all of us to eat. We should be even more helpful to each other. But back then it was this only CBS, ABC, NBC and what, and Fox, UPN and one around. He had what, Showtime and maybe HBO, that was it. Really, but for us TV. And so we were still kind of like supporting each other. But now it's so many outlets, so many platforms and so many people looking for content. You ain't got to be jealous. You can root for the next man or next woman and get yours too, cause you plant those seeds in like Fat Tuesdays planted seeds, Fat Tuesdays planted, you know, Cat Williams came up through Fat Tuesdays. Nick Cannon came through Fat Tuesdays. Kevin Hart came up through Fat Tuesdays. A lot of people, and look what they're doing now. They're doing their own productions, their own movie, Chris Spencer. And what they're doing is putting other comedians on. And I have worked for all of them, right? So the seeds I planted with Fat Tuesdays and those guys came up, they reached back. I've done Wallin' out, right? I've done Real Husband of Hollywood. Chris Spencer put me down on a whole bunch of stuff before. So they like, and that's what it should be about. So relationships, you feel like relationship is more, is the most important thing in this business? Absolutely, relationships period without selling your whole of your soul though. Your whole of your soul. Cause this town is the tip of the devil's dick, man. If you ain't careful, you ain't got your boundaries and you ain't got your morals and your scruples, then you know, you gonna sell your soul or your whole. And you gone, you just gotta stick with it and really just grind and trust that, you know, that God got you, he got you. And you ain't gotta do, you know, those who do it, hey, God bless you. But I rather get it the old fashioned way and straight earn it. Not that some people haven't earned it, but some have earned it and then they lost themselves. So if we get back to like supporting each other period, it's enough rooms in LA now to go up in. It's enough streaming networks to get your own show and stuff like that. So I just wish we always be more together than that. Yeah. And what's the, so it's very important for you to have a balance in this, in this shit. In life period, not just in this game, in life, balance diet. If you, if you, if you party hard, work hard, if you, if you drink a lot, do more self healing stuff and eat better, balanced budget. If you, if you, if you spend a lot, save just as much more. So life is balanced period. I feel like a lot of comedians don't realize that. I kind of feel like that's why comedians be so like depressed and shit, because it's like, in this field, it's not, that's not promoted. Like in a sense. You know what I'm saying? Like, and being a woman comic, I know that has to be even more challenging. Yeah, that's where I'm at now. And I, I've gotten like pushback from certain people, which I don't care, because I feel like I want a whole life. Like I want a full life. I want more than just, I can have all the comedy specials, all the shows. Right. I still want a family. I want a husband. I want kids. I want, you know, I still need time to myself. I like to take a vacation here and there. Like I feel like it's not worth it. That's the only thing that you have. And at the same time, I can say balance, you still got to work hard, but there's so many other things that I want. So that's kind of where I'm at now of like, I'm still hitting stages, but I also got personal goals that I might, cause I was even like, yo, I might have to get out of LA. And then what does that look like for my career? I don't know, but I feel like for my personal life, it might look a little bit better. You know what I mean? So like figuring that out. And I think that's tough because a lot of women, I had a conversation with a female comedian. It was their name, of course. And she started crying in the comedy club and was like, the biggest regret is I've been in LA for 20 years and like now it's too late for me to have kids. And I was just like, damn. And I started thinking about female comedians and Melanie Camacho told me this, we did a show together. She said, you got kids? I was like, no, she's like, go have some babies. She's right. She's like, I don't care what you gotta do. I was like, she's like, go back to Detroit. If you need help to that kid is two, three years old. Do all the clubs in Detroit. She's like, I'm doing a punchline in Detroit next week and then come back if you need to, but do not let that. And I read Viola Davis book and she talked about that too. You talked about what book? Viola Davis. And she talks about how she, I had read her book and Jennifer Lewis book back to back. And I was like, St. Louis, St. Louis, shout out to St. Louis, Jennifer Lewis. And that had me like, cause both of them talk about how they didn't have kids and they were like, I'm married to my career, my career, my career. And then they got to, made it. You know what I mean? Career damn good, damn well. And then it was like, I want kids and I was too late. But you're doing the flip side of that too is though? For any woman period, a lot of women have a lot of hopes and dreams and projects and they have kids and they put their careers on hold to raise those kids. And I don't think enough husbands, I don't think enough husbands take into account what his child's mom did put her career and life on hold to raise the kids. So there's two sides of that coin. You can be on the side of, man, I'm married to my career and I don't have time to raise the babies and I wish I would have done it. There's also times like, man, I stay home and raise these kids and now I've lost myself. I feel like you gotta do, for me, I look at it like, I can do both. Like I can have the kids and have the career. And now is it gonna be challenging? Yeah. But at the same time, I look at it like, both my parents retired, they can come out here and help, you know what I mean? You might have to, I don't want to net it. Your dad like, I didn't help you. Oh my God. I didn't know how I met my sister. My daddy is like, sis, what you doing? Like I don't care nothing about Netflix. When you get married, you know, he got to pay for the wedding, right? My dad is like, who won't, yes. My daddy like, I didn't have this wedding fund since she was five, okay? He didn't dip it in, bought a Harley. Like, I don't like you doing this. Dip it in and bought a Harley. That's a real old G. You better never get married before I buy this camera. I got the Harley, I'm gonna get the RV next if you don't get married. You know what? Yeah. But I bet you a lot of women, yeah, like artists go through that. Oh absolutely. You sink into WNBA. But it's not even an artist, it's a career woman. Yeah. Sometimes they go through that. I mean, sometimes you can get lost in, in your career and look up and like, oh man, I'm 40. But I feel like society tells you that you gotta have one or the other and I strongly wholeheartedly believe you can do both. You can do both. You can absolutely do both. Absolutely. That's crazy. Did you, did you do both? Do you have kids? Amen. I'm a grinder, man. And I keep my personal life personal. And I just grind. You're a real old G. Yeah, man. That's what old G is about, baby. I don't bring, that's what my mom says. I don't bring my personal life. Nobody know that little business. And until I bring to the stage, then it's public now. Other than that, yeah, I keep it, I keep it, I keep it. Like a real player, yeah. Take one to no one. No, for real. No, that's crazy though. Yeah, I feel like a lot of men go through that though. We don't speak on it though, for sure. Well, yeah, but not like the women. We got it a lot easier than the big homes in the home. Cause y'all don't have a time, I mean y'all. Cause we ain't gotta carry it. Yeah, y'all don't have to carry it. You gotta take the time off. And y'all don't have the time frame that we have. Although, y'all sperm do get bad. Like y'all can technically still have a baby, but y'all sperm and y'all get older and get bad. That's the reason a lot of women have miscarriages and they don't know it's cause the men's sperm is bad. I ain't ever heard of that. But no, it's true, it's bad. Cause like Abraham was all, oh he was 700. And he still was spitting his, wait, wait, wait. Well, I mean, back in, Sarah was a kid with a honey. Yeah, that's what I am. She was a honey having a kid. You can have a kid on pre-com. But yeah, y'all don't have the time frame. Y'all don't have to carry it. So you don't have to take no time off of work. Y'all don't have, after you had a baby, six weeks you down bad. Y'all don't have none of that. I wish a nigga would come in here. I need maternity leave. They got, a lot of dudes get presented like for work or jobs. My friend, her husband got more time off work than her. See that's a sad point. Yeah. And I think y'all don't think about it as much. No we don't. So y'all really, especially because most men feel like, you know, protect their provider. So it's like, like he said grind, grind, grind. Cause I dated somebody and I was like, then what? Like I wholeheartedly support you. I think you're super talented. I think you, you know, your work ethic is, but then what? Then what do you, what are you going into that point? What you got? Yeah. Yeah, I'm being mindful of that now at this point in my life. I'm being mindful of, you know, I got a whole bunch of shit, but I ain't got too much. Well, you see a lot of, you see a lot of professional athletes that do that, you know. They say, you know, life ain't, you know, football, basketball, baseball ain't everything. You know, and they, and they retire, you know, and, but yeah, I mean, but you're not going to be the best at both. You're not going to be the greatest comedian, singer, coach, athlete and be a great dad, husband at the same time. You got to sacrifice one. You got to choose what you're going to sacrifice. If you're a great coach and a great athlete, a great comedian, great artist, you probably suck as a dad or just okay as a dad, me okay as a dad and a husband. If you're a great husband and a great dad, you're going to be just okay as whatever feels you in. You're not, you're not going to, you're not going to be great at both. In my humble opinion. I agree and that's why honestly I feel like, I've never wanted to be like this big star. Like I don't, I just don't have those goals because of what I know I have to sacrifice in order to be that. And I don't want to sacrifice, like family means a lot to me, you know what I mean? But if it's providing a life to be able to, for your family to have a better life, is it worth sacrificing? But are they having a better life if I'm not there? They're financially having a better life. Right, well that's what that was, but are they actually- I don't have money. I don't have money. I don't have money. So I feel like, you know, let me, I want to be good, don't get me wrong, but at the same time I'm okay with not being- But you should want to be great though. I'm okay with not being because of the sacrifice I have to make for that. No, I'm trying to be great. I'm working on being great. I'm working on being great. Because I can be a great mom, I can be a great wife, I can be a great daughter, sister, friend, you know what I mean? Like so the sacrifice is going to take for me to be a great female comedian. To say comedian, you ain't got to put the female on it. But I feel like it's a little different. You don't think it's a difference? It's a difference, but I'm saying- Not in comedians, but it's a little different. Being a great female comedian, I would have to probably sacrifice having kids all together. What's a female comedian? That's a superstar. Come on, some more. What do you mean, some more? Whoopie Goldberg. No, they're legends. They were legends. Wanda Sykes. Oh man, Adele Givens. Yeah. Lunele, Laura Hayes. They're legends. Come on man. No, they're legends. That's greatness. No, they're every, all of them are greats. I said superstar. They're superstars. Eddie Murphy is a superstar. Kevin Hart is a superstar. Well, they're also, well yeah, they came around the same time. But I think there's, I think they're superstars. I think they are. No, we can personally have our own opinion on how we can personally figure it out. But how the world views it. Yeah. Whoopie's an A-list? Whoopie's an A-list? Yeah. You know, every time around Lunele, every time around Lunele, no matter where we go, people recognize her all ages, ethnicities, genders, you know, and things like that. So, you know, but it's again, how fucked up the world is wired toward women. Yeah. It's just not, it's that wired to really appreciate and respect, you know, women on that level, especially on the career level, there's still a fucked up pay gap. You know what I mean? So, it's the way the world is wired, which is, you know, fucked up. S'mores got me specials. She got some of the best ones. Yeah. I just worked with her. That's bad weekend. She did Trina. She's still fine. I'm not saying there's a difference between like male or female comedian, but I'm saying to be, I think to be a great female comedian, you might have to sacrifice having kids all together. You might sacrifice a goat and some chickens, too. To be a great male comedian. You don't have to, Kevin Hurgat, for kids, you know what I'm saying? Now, yeah, he sacrifices time away from them, but him being a male versus being a female makes a difference. He'll have to carry the baby. He don't have to, you know what I mean? You don't have to sacrifice having kids all together, or depending on where your career pop. Cause I know there's even actresses that I talk to that's like, man, I want to have kids, but right now I'm kind of on. I hate. And then you look back and it's like, oh shit, my time gone. As a man, you could be like, I'm on right now. I can't. And then you could still go back. Tony Rock, these young girls, you know what I mean? Yeah. You and these young tenders. I feel you. What's happening? It's your boy, Lewis Bell. This episode is sponsored by How Rowling. Y'all go tap in. This motherfucking brand is owned by a black woman. Stop playing. Cannabis, we got all type of flowers and everything. You feel me? So y'all go get the merch. Merch is available right now to you, feel me? Go click the link in the description. Thank you. I love everybody. So it's, yeah, that's tough. So I think it just depends on what you want. I got a friend, we had this conversation. She was like, if I had to pick between career and like family career, period. Yeah, it depends on how you work. And that's her team. Yeah. Yeah, everybody ain't family people. That's tough. It's tough if you're a family person. I'm not really a family person, to be honest. So I think it depends on what you're like. You don't look like your brother, man. Yeah. I'm a family man. I don't. I love them, but I don't like them. See, I like my family. I keep it 100. I'm keeping it authentic, me and my authentic self. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Deal, that's some shit. That's some shit. Yeah, I think too, like, and I haven't even really gotten into the role life for real for real, right? Whoa, man, I know I love it. I done been out a bit, but not like on that level. And even that is like, sheesh, as a woman. As a female. As a woman. As you get older, it's like. As you get older, but also just what you have to deal with as a woman comedian period with shady promoters who's trying to, because they book you, they think they can fuck, you know, or they get a hotel key for you, give it to you, but they got the same hotel key. If you don't put that lock on your door at night, they trying to come in there and fuck. I can tell you a lot of stories that women comedians have told me over the years, or I've seen it happen. Or I remember this one, in my documentary, we have a, we have a whole segment on it that we had to cut short. There's some names being mentioned, we couldn't. But there's one female comedian who did the show and the promoter threw the money at her out the car. Because he was trying to, you know, renege on her payment. And she was like, yo motherfucker, yeah, he took the money, just threw it at her. I mean, they thought they can disrespect, you know, the women comedians, which is crazy. And like, that's why I admire big women. You think white women go through that too? Yeah, Brett Butler. If you read Frank and the Giants book, they do. But who was gangsta what they shit was Miles Mably. Miles Mably was about her business when it came to that. Right? But a lot of comedians, man, the female comedians, you know, some of them are about their business and they ain't walking around. Gangsta shit. Gangsta shit. Miles Mably was about her, she's about her business and about her business. Damn. That's how Ruth and Franklin was. Right. Right, so you have that, but male comedians and promoters try to take advantage of the women comedians, man. I've been very blessed to go out with some really dope, like L'Oreal, Ryan Davis. Right, respectful. Yeah, respectful guys. Yeah. Absolutely. None of that. Yeah, but I've had a woman on the road with me for a minute. I mean, it's pretty ricky to have with me for years. And oh, man, I'm snapping, but Vanessa Grattick has gone on the road with me. And Lashan, Iva Lashan has gone on the road with me. And I prefer women comedians one because I want you to be you. I mean, you don't have to give them no ass to open for me. Right? Number two is the fact that we're not gonna step on each other's stuff. And most women come to comedy shows anyway. So we get up there as men and talk all our shit and there's nobody representing the woman's point of view. So I like having a woman on stage, people think, oh man, you just can't follow me. I ain't got a problem following nobody. But the women don't get the opportunity as the guys do. If they do, the headline is trying to fuck. Or, and it's just a different point of view that I think should be heard from them because I'm headlining, I ain't tripping. So fly out to all the guys who do take women on the road and it's no quip pro quo. Yeah. I've got no shows like that here in LA. Like, oh, you ain't got no girl on the show. Yeah, I hate that. I hate when it's a whole sausage fish. Yeah, man. My brother taught me that though. When I was doing Fat Tuesdays, he's always said, make sure you always have at least one woman on the show. And you gotta have at least one. You want to have multiple sometimes, but unfortunately it's not at the level of show. There's not a lot of, and this is a sad part. A lot of women have stopped doing stand-up because of the pressure from men and promoters. And it's so, yes, I've talked to one man who was like, and who, from what I understand, I've never seen her do stand-up. Everybody was saying she was funny, but she got tired of guys trying to fuck. Just for stage time and all of that. You don't think that's in any field with women though? Yes, it is. But I mean, we're talking stand-up right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why it's not a lot of women stand-up. Some of them just get tired of it and give up. Yeah. You know? So it's tough, it's tough for y'all. Women running the rap game right now. I think they haven't been faced with that, huh? Women running the rap game right now. It's cold MCs out there. They running this shit. You know Big Sexy Red from where you from. You know about Big Sexy Red? You know about Big Sexy Red? Her nasty ass. Oh, gosh. Hey, that's a whole, that's a whole lot. Hey, keep doing your thing. And in my generation, you know I'm a queen Latifah, MC light, Roxette Sante, Monty Love. You know, that's my generation of female MCs, come on. Come on. Even Tina Marie. You connected to a lot of stuff outside of comedy cause I feel like that's how I, I didn't have to build a relationship with you. Like just knowing like Gary Payton, you know what I'm saying. You be moving outside of the comedy circle. I knew he was and he called me up. Hey man, hey man, hey my little homie Lewis, man, come on and do a spotlight. And gee, Gary Payton's my guy. We two goats, we are two goats. He's a goat, point guard, one of the greatest of all time and I'm a Capricorn. That's my goat status, I'm a Capricorn. Nah, you a motherfucking goat, man. That's crazy. You feel like people can blow up too fast and not be ready for the opportunity? Oh, it happens, it happens. I'm gonna name name, but it's happened. Some people, you gotta be self aware. Like she said something earlier is what I used to do. She's not gonna headline before she's ready. Cause you can ruin an opportunity for you. And you gotta know who you are and be honest with yourself. A lot of people are not just in comedy, but in the world just ain't honest with yourself. You gotta be self aware. If you ain't ready for that spot, don't take it. You know what I'm saying? Like some comedians, you know, wasn't ready. It took the headline in the spot and what they should have done was just host it and brought a bunch of funny people around them and learned their way cause it was new to stand up. And they should have been hosting, getting familiar with the stage, the more times you're on stage, the more reps you get in, the more comfortable you get. So some people try to take that headline title because it makes you, oh, I'm the headliner. Give it a shit. People don't worry about going up last, just on a regular show. Yeah, I don't mind it going up first. Some people like going up first. I'll take the bullets. All the topics are fresh. Shit, put me up first. I don't give a damn. But you a host though. So you, that don't faze you. A lot of comedians are scared of that cold crowd. Right, yeah. Yeah. Feed me to the wolves. Yeah. Feed me to them. Got a different type of nigga up there when it's cold. When it's cold. That headline, I hosted the Maxwell J. Scott tour back in 2010. And I was the one going up first. It was nobody coming on me for me as they walking in and taking their seats. And these white people promoting the show. So when the show said it started at seven, they had me on stage at 6.59. And they people still getting into it. And then we talked about Madden Square Garden and the Staples Center. We talked about big venues. So they walking in and taking it. But that was my job. It was fun. Is it harder to perform in front of big venues like thousands and thousands of people or smaller crowds? You know what's funny? I do well in smaller crowds. You know, I've had shows where the six people show up. Eight people show up. And it was the best show. I did shows where it was bad weather in town and they told everybody to stay in. But a few people came out. And I'm like, no, the show canceled. Promote like, I mean, or the club, I'm like, no, we're gonna do it. I say, you know, I've touched his mic, I gotta get paid. Yeah. And so it was like, you know, hurricanes or tornadoes or blizzards where they shut the city down and some people still trickered out and came and you got to give people a show. I don't give it eight to 8,000. You give them a fuck. You don't punch the motherfuckers who they are. You know what I'm saying? You give them the best show you can possibly give. And I've had sat down on the stool and had conversations and worked out new bits that I probably wouldn't have done if the place was full. In that setting, you got to be able to adjust and adapt. You know, some people go on stage, a small audience and be mean. Why you mean to people who came? Mm-hmm. Why you mean to them? They showed up. Be mean to all these other empty chairs out there. But you don't need to be mean anyway. It's just if it's bad weather and people don't want to come out, they don't want to come out. So it depends on who you are. There's different mediums and energy levels when you do certain shows. I've had comedians call me up who've been a gang for years who were playing arena for the first time. Or playing the theater for the first time. And they say, what do you do? It's different. When you're playing a comedy club, the laughs are immediate, because it's right there, intimate, right? When you're playing a theater, you got to change your timing a little bit. You got to, you can't go so fast because the laughs are going to take longer to come to the stage. If you think they're going to be as immediate as they are in a comedy club, it could throw your timing off because you think they're not laughing. Now you don't hurt you the next joke and step it on your laughs. So now they're cutting the laughs off. When you play an arena, then you really got to wait even more. More so than the theater. So it's like because the laughs are going to take a while, plus you're in an arena, the ceilings are higher. So the laughs are going to take a while for the laughs to go up, bounce off the ceiling, and come back. Comedy outside sucks. Comedy outside sucks because number one, sometimes it's daylight and comedy is the intimate thing. So you don't want people, people in the audience don't want to see, other people see what they're laughing at. But number two, those laughs escape and they don't come back down. They're not bouncing off of nothing. For young comedians out there, when you do a club, a theater, an arena and outside, you got to adjust your timing. Slow yourself down. With each bigger venue, you have to slow yourself down. Your timing has to change. Yeah. And it's crazy, you shared that on here because you told me that before. I don't even know if you remember, but I asked you about something like that. Like, hey, I'm finna perform here, it's big, it's theater. And yeah, you told me that same exact thing that it's going to take longer to laugh, so just be patient. And that shit really worked. That shit really worked, it's real. They laughing, it's just delayed reaction. It's got to get to you. And some people get rattled and think they bombing, throw the whole timing off, booty hold tighten up. And they were doing well, but they don't realize it. You don't feel like you did that in your career, earlier in your career though, in the sense of going out there too soon because I didn't heard the stories about you going on the road. You was the first host of Kings of Comedy. And the reason why you backed out of it or whatever happened. I left. You left because. I left, voluntarily. Yeah. Yeah. Because of the material? No, well two things. One, I left the tour, I announced it on Tavis Malley BET tonight. And they were all shocked when I said, yo, that tour grew me up because I was a comic. By the time I finished that tour, I wanted to become a comedian. And I say it all the time, a comic, dimitring a comic and a comedian. A comic says funny things, a comedian make things funny. And I saw Steve, Bernie and Cedric go on stage every night for shows and destroy. And I had jokes, but I didn't have an act. Big difference. So I left the tour to go hit the clubs. I wasn't doing the improv and funny bone circus that I would have today. And that's how you build your act. That's the gym. That's where you put in all those reps. And then that's where you take it on TV or a bigger venue. But the other thing is I booked a TV show. That was paying me 30 grand a week back then. Yeah. I was thinking that type of money. This is UPN. So imagine what another network would have been. But I did a TV show called The Strip that was on UPN where I played this Vegas detective. So that was like, okay, 30 grand a week? Yeah. Yeah, cause you've been in a lot of movies. I was watching Pearl Harbor. You was in that. I'm like, what the fuck God, to be doing in Pearl Harbor? A lot of movies. Random as fuck. But I was like, damn, this dope. It was Michael Bay, man. Michael Bay. It's funny because I did a Michael Bay commercial. He was directing these Mercedes Benz commercials. I went in for an audition and booked it. And it was no lines or anything, but I'm like, I'm gonna work with him one day. And I want to see how he directs. And it just so happened that that weekend, it shot the commercial like on a Thursday Friday. That Saturday I went to see a movie in Westwood and Michael Bay was seeing the same movie. He was like, hey, what's going on? I'm gonna go to whatever. And then when the audition came up for Pearl Harbor, he was like, oh, hey, okay, yeah, yeah, go ahead and be lying with me. Basically like, you got it, you're good, just boom. So it was cool. And he let me ad-lib and everything. And that's all off relationships. All relationships. I got to get better with that. Yeah. I think our generation need to get better with it. But you gotta be careful. No, I have to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm lucky. I guess I'm probably blessed that that hasn't happened to me. But I also think people, for people who know me or know of me, I feel like I carry myself in a certain way that a lot of people don't try that. Because I've had female comedians say like, what are you doing dudes? And I'm like, oh, niggas don't say that to me. Like, you know what I mean? I don't even, I don't even know my inch. Like I've had somebody like, oh, sometimes you got to flirt. And I'm like, no, because flirting lets you think it can be something more. I want to be very clear that that's not what it is. Absolutely. But niggas be flirting just as much as these girls. What do you mean? Oh, that's why they're getting the opportunity. It's just that you ain't got to flirt. They be trying to nigga fuck around, fuck around niggas, so if I'm be on the movie, I'm be on it, if you're not. But no, like genuine, like, yeah. That's what he said, your soul or your whole. That's what he said, your soul or your whole. Yeah, that goes for me, and women, and niggas. That's what he said, your soul or your whole. Oh, mama's niggas, sometimes you see me not in some shit because nigga, my whole soul is good, nigga. I like that, I'ma, I'ma put that in my pocket, man. That's why they come up with, hey, Lewis, how you doing? Starting to massage your shoulder. Hey, man. Hey, man. Hey, bro, hey, I had a massage already. Thank you. Yeah, it's important, yeah. Tacoma, I'm on the way, y'all been asking me for hell alone. I'm on the way, get your tickets right now. November 12th, I'm in the city. Get your tickets, I love everybody. I'll see y'all soon. Damn, no. What do you think, to circle back to, when you were saying like, in the comedy clubs, that's where you build your act, what is your like, rule of thumb, or what do you think in terms of like, how long should a person use the same material? Man, let me change that. My material, my kids, I'm gonna love them forever. And if I hadn't put it on TV, then I would still kind of use it, or maybe I may have put part of it on TV, but not the whole joke. So I'll do the whole joke against you, you can see the fool, like when I did the Snoop Dogg thing, right? The set idea was really a 15 minute bit, but it only gave me five minutes. They're like, five minutes, man, I'm a beast in this game. Five minutes, they'll be gonna pay you this. Oh, five minutes it is. I'll do it, four minutes, 30 seconds, I love it too. So some of that material I do in the longer form, because I hate to get rid of that whole bit as dope, because I only said five minutes of it. So it depends, it depends. My rule is sometimes, you know, once I put it on TV, then it's dead. But everybody's different. Some people say, oh, I don't need to tell them the same joke. Some jokes are timeless. Some jokes are audience's favorite. I got this one bit I close on, sometimes I quit doing it, trying to get out of my act. When I don't do it, people get mad. But it's kind of an improv bit, a audience participation type of thing so you never know what's gonna happen. And then some of the jokes, I just like doing. And if they still get in the hell of a response, why not? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I feel like, I don't know if you post like any of your jokes online. Cause that'd be the thing too, people want you to post bits every day. And then it's like, God damn, not y'all done got 45 minutes worth of it. But what you can do, because I'm learning to do this, what you can do is with that, is post the crowd play. Maybe if you do international with the crowd. Or do bits up front knowing when you're taping that you're gonna do a bit that you wouldn't even do anymore or something. But there's ways to do it without burning your material. Cause once you put on the internet, then you go to do your special. These streaming platforms or networks won't want that bit. And that bit could be a great glue to connect your whole act or it could be a signature bit. And now you gotta take that because it's had a million views already. And it kind of doesn't, you know, you gotta find a new way to make, you know, your set connect. So you just gotta be careful with that. But that's, everybody's different. You know, what worked for you, I mean that worked for him or me or, you know, Cedric or somebody else. So it's, it's just your interpretation. If they still laughing, shit, why not? Yeah, if they still laughing, why give up? Everybody do have, for me, like some favorites that I love. Yeah, I got favorites, I love to do. And I love seeing other comedians. I ain't gonna lie to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I be dropping my shit now cause nigga's gonna say my jokes. So I might as well just put it out there. Oh. But if it's something. That's saying all what I'm saying is that you, if you, if you building something, you building something and then somebody take your shit, this happens from, from the lowest level or the highest level. Yeah. I just seen it happen to some art peers. I had a white female comedian take one of my bits. I did it on Comedy Central two or three years prior to them taking it. And as he took my bit and did it on a show that I was doing, I was like, and I was just like, I already did the bit. It's already documented right after. Yeah. I am not gonna punch her in the mouth. And if it was a dude, you may get punched in the mouth. But you know, I don't hit women unless it's doggy style. Yeah. Yeah. That was funny. That was funny. I liked that one. It looked like I'm about to take that. Yeah, I'm gonna take that one too. I'm gonna take that for sure. I liked that one. Oh my God. I liked that. Yeah, now that's for sure. You gotta have them receipts for sure. Yeah. And then the people want to see it too. I feel like comedians get to see everybody jokes first and then if you keep withholding it from the people, it's like shit. Yeah. You show in the industry all your good shit and then. And that's two ways to look at that. The people don't even know what the fuck you saying. There are two ways to look at that. One, yes, you can do that. That's your favorite bit. But also, you can release it and it's more creativity coming from where it came from. Yeah. If this is what your gift is and you walk it in your purpose with your gift and you're creative, then it's like the writing process. The writing process when you're writing a joke doesn't start until you can't think of anything else. You write a bit, you dump everything in that you came about that bit. Everything. You can't think of nothing else. Throw all that shit away and that's when the creative process starts. Dang. That's when it really starts. So everything you came up with already, there's no fucking audience already beating you to the punchline even if they ain't heard the joke before. They see it coming. Yeah. And then once you brainstorm that shit out and get all of it out, then the creative process really starts is when you can't think of nothing else and that's when you gotta go on over time with your brain. And that's any type of creativity. Whether it's jokes, whether it's a script, whether it's a song, whether it's an invention, whatever. Just throw that shit away and that's when the creative process gets going. Damn. That's some game. That's some game. We're gonna have to end it on that. That was cold. Kisha, you got anything you wanna ask before we wrap this up? Cause this knowledge that you can't get to touch. I know. Look, I'm up here like, I should have put my phone on the corner. No. I'm remembering it all. No, I think we touched on. Yeah. You dropped from the game. I ain't gonna lie. People drop game on me. So it'd be wrong for me not to share it in the art that I love doing and wanna preserve comedy for the future. I love seeing the young, young guns coming up. I'm a fan of comedy. So why wouldn't it be a fan of you all? No matter what generation you in. I'm a fan of comedy. And you and this fraternity, sorority, then I got game to give you. I'm gonna give it to you. I ain't gonna hold on to it. Unless you want those comics who, oh gee, you deaf jabbering. Y'all ain't shit no more. Whatever, whatever. Then I'm not gonna go, Bible says don't get pearls of swine. So if you want the knowledge and wisdom, it's here. I'm gonna give it to you. But if you like this about it, I'm gonna, because I talk to the black comics on the road. When I'm doing a club city and the black comics come around and I see them doing something wrong or whatever, no offense, I don't talk to the white guys. Yeah, they shit. Because they get the opportunities that we don't get still to this day. So the young brothers, I talk to, and a lot of them I talk to them because a lot of them are hating themselves. Like they're doing shit and I see why the club isn't booking you. They wanna book you, but you doing some niggas shit or some disrespectful shit or some unprofessional shit and you think the club hating on you, no, it's you. Changed this, that, then that. And boom, boom, boom, boom. Quit thinking you all that and you gotta be able to play all crowds. You gotta play the game a little bit. You know what I'm saying? On my shows, a lot of my cities are a diverse audience. Can you play to a white audience? A conservative audience. Can you play to an Apollo type audience? Can you play to a professional audience? Meaning that business professionals and things like that, corporate gigs and stuff like that. So you gotta put yourself in any situation to be that fish out of water to make sure you grow. Like I put myself in a situation to fail so I can win. I set myself up to fail so I can win. So you gotta do that sometimes. Otherwise stay in your comfort zone, stay in your little punk ass city and be city famous. Because you bring your ass to LA, you bring your ass to New York, you bring your ass to Chicago, but you're big fish in a little pond, you're gonna get your feelings hurt. That's how I came. You're gonna get your feelings hurt. I was a nigga in the back. That came out here and niggas are gonna fuck about hanging out water. Check your ego at the motherfucking border. Yeah. Call ice. We gonna call ice on your ass and take you back across the border. If you brought your ego with you. So I'm telling you right now, if your young comic's out there, you're coming to LA, you better have thick skin. That's why we haze you. I've been on the road in these green rooms, hazing these little young comics. You know what guys mean. Now guys getting ready for LA. Cause you've been outside on the night that you co-host improv on Monday Rays at the improv and that sidewalk ain't no punk. We out there and you from out of town thinking you tough. We out there hazing you with jokes and you get sensitive and wanna fight. Now talk about how much money you make, you the motherfucking lost. You better get, you better start with the big dogs and you're on that sidewalk. Period. So you come to LA, we don't give a fuck who you are. It's where you at. Damn. That's some shit. Hey, God motherfucking tour in the building, man. I appreciate you coming to the OG, man. Thanks for everybody, man. I appreciate you having me. You're a legend, man. Off-tops, man. Keisha E. appreciate you coming. Good being on the show with you. Yeah, good seeing you. Smile, you understand me? Yeah, so make sure y'all tap in. This is another episode. Balance. You gotta kick back. Had them babies, but had them jokes too. Man, have both. Stronger out the better. Make a joke about the babies. Right. That's a whole, that's a whole, that's a whole, that's a set. Yeah. It's the Kelly kickback, man. Appreciate y'all. Thank y'all. Love everybody.