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Christina Anthony, Writer, Comedian, and Actress on the hit ABC series, “Mixed-ish” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: one of those people. Her name is Christina Anthony. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we already talked a little bit. She's based in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: She's from Chicago, way of East St. Louis. So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that because I was traveling to stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedians. So I've been in St. Louis, I've been
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and I've definitely been in Los Angeles. She's
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  Speaker 1: a most talented actress, writer, vocalist, and comedian. She's originally
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  Speaker 1: from the Chicago comedy scene and is best known as
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  Speaker 1: an alarm or the featured Second City, which we all
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  Speaker 1: know I never went there. It's a talent. I know
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  Speaker 1: that because I never had an improvisational skill. That's something
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  Speaker 1: I could not do. I would tell anybody I cannot act,
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  Speaker 1: but I can tell you a good joke. She's three
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  Speaker 1: times an award nominated Sketch Revenue ske Sketch performer and
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  Speaker 1: performed thousands of shows for Chicago autiences. Currently, Christina is
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  Speaker 1: a series regular on the ABC's Mixes, a Black spin off.
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  Speaker 1: Christina currently starts at Unt Denise on ABC's series returning
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  Speaker 1: for a second season on Tuesday, January twenty six. What
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  Speaker 1: you call regular check, regular check, regular check of this year.
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversation. She looks like
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  Speaker 1: a diva than me, she said. She does stand up,
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  Speaker 1: but she got that Deeva looked out. Pat y'all, please
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  Speaker 1: work with Christina Anthony. Hey, Sean, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You know you know you say a multi talented actress, writer, vocalists.
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  Speaker 1: We can stopped right there right now. You look like
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  Speaker 1: you're about the bus out with a good old I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, you know what. That's really how I got
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  Speaker 1: my start was doing musicals in uh in Chicago. I
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  Speaker 1: really got to start there. I wouldn't say I love
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  Speaker 1: to do musical theater, and I've worked off Broadway in
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  Speaker 1: New York, But where I really found my groove was
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  Speaker 1: like that funny part in the musical, and I would remember,
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  Speaker 1: I would go to auditions or I would be in
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  Speaker 1: a show and they're like, look, we need to work
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  Speaker 1: on this. This dancing, for sure, you need to practice.
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  Speaker 1: But in the singing, everybody can get better at that.
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  Speaker 1: But the comedy, they're like, you have this down, and
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  Speaker 1: but the dancing, But the dancing though they said you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't dance. The dancing a black person couldn't dance. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we could, we we could, we could do. We could
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Now, well it's it's different kinds of dancing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you and Chicago. You know were they dance
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago. We know that. Come on, step, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, come on now, And you're telling me in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago you couldn't step. I can step. But when you
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  Speaker 1: go to Broadway for the Lion King, they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see you do some old lounge dancing in your
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  Speaker 1: church shoes. They want to see some real dancing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: not formally chained, but I got it together. So I've
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  Speaker 1: done some dancing off Broadway. But comedy is my sweet spot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what comes naturally. We know, you know
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  Speaker 1: my history. I left IBM to pursue a career stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedian. Their def jam BT, all all the comedy shows,
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  Speaker 1: UH Road on comedy, sitcom So I cut my teeth
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  Speaker 1: at comedy. Comedy is why the basis of my success,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so what what? What's that? Natural? Always your people?
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  Speaker 1: Comedy is like making a sharp left or right turn
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  Speaker 1: when you're from the Pacific point of view, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where laugh comes from. So, so are you a comedy
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  Speaker 1: actress or comedian? You know what I would say, I
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  Speaker 1: started off as a comedy actress and then eventually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, earned my stripes and have done the
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  Speaker 1: rounds in the stand up world. So yeah, I consider
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  Speaker 1: myself a comic now. Um. And then interesting enough, like
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  Speaker 1: when I was in when I came to l A
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  Speaker 1: up in l A ten years now, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: started hitting the stand up scene and people have been
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  Speaker 1: so warm and so welcoming. I mean, they hates you
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  Speaker 1: at first, but once you're in, you in, and I
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  Speaker 1: think there I started to just focus on my stand
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  Speaker 1: up and it was I was really surprised to end
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  Speaker 1: up on Mixed Dish as an access um and as
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  Speaker 1: an improviser. You know, it's just it's just you never know.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why you just kind of keep just saying
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  Speaker 1: yes to the next thing and keep honing those skills
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know where the next opportunity is coming.
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  Speaker 1: But don't ever, you know, just completely throw something away.
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  Speaker 1: So acting, you know, now I have to focus on
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  Speaker 1: that because I'm giving other people's words. It's not my jokes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing someone else's, but you're still have beending into
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  Speaker 1: your personality because you know, as a sitcom writer, I
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  Speaker 1: know that what I've written I expected to be funny.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I expected that right there that I've written
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  Speaker 1: certain lized that when you get to that point, some
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  Speaker 1: humors should come out of there. But a talented actress
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  Speaker 1: or an actor, because sometimes find humor. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: a humor. Are humor that wow, that's funny? Are you
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  Speaker 1: just are natural on your feet? Or just especially those
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  Speaker 1: table reads, because those table reads are like you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you walk away saying make an adjustment to the script.
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  Speaker 1: So a table read can be a nightmare for a
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  Speaker 1: writer or could be a blessing for a writer based
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  Speaker 1: upon how it's done and just playing everybody's table. What
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  Speaker 1: happens is you write the script and then all the
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  Speaker 1: actors and actresses sit around the table along with this
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  Speaker 1: that could producer, and they read every line in the
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  Speaker 1: script to the end of the script. Unless you go
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  Speaker 1: through that, you know, you make notes where that didn't work,
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  Speaker 1: or that or that storyline direction is not making any sense,
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  Speaker 1: or sometimes you might you might increase an actor and
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  Speaker 1: actress's role based on how that reaction was in the script,
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  Speaker 1: you go, wow, I didn't see that. We should build
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  Speaker 1: that up. More So, when you're doing these table reads
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  Speaker 1: and like you said, you're doing somebody else's words. You're
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  Speaker 1: not as a stand up, You're just doing the words
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  Speaker 1: that you created. And you put your bins on that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you what you take when you first get
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  Speaker 1: the script or sitcom script in this case, nixious, what
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  Speaker 1: are you looking for in your scripts? Um? I think
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  Speaker 1: that that, Um, you bring up a great point. It
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  Speaker 1: is somebody else's words. So the first thing I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to do is read the whole thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: have to say, if we're starting out and acting, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what it is, if it's you know, plays or
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  Speaker 1: you're doing on camera, you want to do TV film,
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  Speaker 1: try to get your hands on the whole piece of
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  Speaker 1: the script, the whole body of work. You don't ever
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  Speaker 1: want to just read your part. So that's the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I do is make sure I read the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing so understand what everybody is going through in the episode.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'll go back and circle around to to
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  Speaker 1: my to my scenes and then those scenes really Um,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, yes, kind of bending it towards your personality,
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  Speaker 1: making the words my own. Um, you know, the writers
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  Speaker 1: are writers are amazing. I'm mixed dish. They come from
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  Speaker 1: so many different great shows. But um, there is a
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  Speaker 1: time sometimes I will improvise and maybe throw something in myself,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't do that during the table read. During
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  Speaker 1: the table read, like you said, it's the time for
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  Speaker 1: the network, is there, the producers all, um, the different
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  Speaker 1: departments that we're listening, So you want to do it
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  Speaker 1: word for word and then um, yeah, once I've done that,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, try to think about each scene.
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  Speaker 1: They tell you the next day, here's the scene we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be working on, and then you start working on
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  Speaker 1: that scene and thinking about the things that you want,
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  Speaker 1: what my character wants to achieve. But really also just
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  Speaker 1: even though I have the words, they're acting as if
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this for the first time, and I think
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  Speaker 1: for improvisers and stand ups that can come. Hopefully it
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  Speaker 1: comes naturally to you because you learn how to do
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  Speaker 1: stand up. The key to stand up is working a
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  Speaker 1: joke over and over again, sometimes for years on the road,
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  Speaker 1: but always making it seem fresh to the audience. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what I try to do personally. When I
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  Speaker 1: approached the script is even though I've read this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten twenty times, even though we've done the scene ten
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  Speaker 1: twenty times, I want to make sure it always sounds fresh,
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  Speaker 1: because when the audience is that, they don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing it over and over, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: really funny. I remember when I first went on stage
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  Speaker 1: as a stand up I remember the first time I
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  Speaker 1: did stand up. I gotta stand in ovation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And it was like one third in the morning. I
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  Speaker 1: was still working at IBM full time, and so I
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  Speaker 1: ran off stage. And so the next time I went
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  Speaker 1: on stage, I had a totally different set. And the
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  Speaker 1: next time I went on stage had a totally different
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  Speaker 1: set that I think I wasn't getting. I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the response that I gotten the first time. And then
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  Speaker 1: this comic walks up to me and said, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: why do you keep changing material every week? I said,
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  Speaker 1: don't you supposed to do that? He said no, He said, dude, dude,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you did the first time, you're supposed to still
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  Speaker 1: be doing that. And then adding to the funny parts
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  Speaker 1: of that set. That's how you get to five minutes
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes fifteen minutes, so he said, I said, but
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  Speaker 1: he said, dude, it's a different audience every time you
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  Speaker 1: go on stage. Food. Oh okay, So what she's saying
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  Speaker 1: is basically, you have to do that. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get that to get to that forty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes, unless you do a comedy special, then you
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  Speaker 1: have to do the material or no old new array
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  Speaker 1: of jokes. But your goal is to be funny five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and you may be doing the
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  Speaker 1: same joke maybe two or three years to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: That might be your killer ending or your killer opening,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, you know, you know, you've been on
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  Speaker 1: you've been out in the comedy clothes because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the shows a lot of times they'd be
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  Speaker 1: paying those tabs, and people be more concerned about paying
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  Speaker 1: the tabs than listen to your jokes on stage. So
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  Speaker 1: you really have to have your killer moments to being
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  Speaker 1: a whole their attention in the end. So, as a
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  Speaker 1: stand up, what has been the most frustrating part of
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  Speaker 1: being a stand up and then the blessing of being
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  Speaker 1: a stand up? Um, well, I will say that was
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  Speaker 1: that what you talked about is a big lesson I
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  Speaker 1: had to learn as an improviser. You know, when I
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  Speaker 1: would work at the Second City, people were paid to
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  Speaker 1: come see us, get a suggestion from them, and do
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  Speaker 1: a completely made up scene and make it look as
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  Speaker 1: if it had been rehearsed. And we could do something
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  Speaker 1: new every single night, every single set. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I transition the stand up, I had to learn, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, how to keep working the same joke over
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  Speaker 1: and over again and adding to it. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: lifelong lesson. I will say, though, one time at the
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  Speaker 1: Second City, I can remember when the check drop, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, when the tabs come called check job. The
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  Speaker 1: checks were being dropped, and this group of ladies, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were out having a great time and they just
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  Speaker 1: I guess they wanted to split this bill and it
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  Speaker 1: was too complicated trying to figure out who had what
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  Speaker 1: and then how much tip because they were on a
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  Speaker 1: trip and they didn't know they were in a big city.
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  Speaker 1: When you come to a big city, they got to
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  Speaker 1: be so loud. I stopped the show, bent over, went
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  Speaker 1: to the table, grabbed the check and split up the
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  Speaker 1: bill for them and said, why don't you a fift
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  Speaker 1: if each of you putting thirty two dollars. That's a
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  Speaker 1: nice tip back to what I was saying. The audience laughed,
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  Speaker 1: but I was so frustrated, right right, right, But you
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  Speaker 1: had to do that because, like I said, she's absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that were destroyed stand ups, and you
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  Speaker 1: would know this, Miss Anthony, is drunks. And somehow drunk
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  Speaker 1: women were the worst because somehow when a woman got
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  Speaker 1: dropping public, that means that everything was off. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't care about nothing. They would be the worst people.
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  Speaker 1: That woman at a comedy club was the worst because
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell them nothing once they do, once they've
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that they're drunk in public, you can't shut them down.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get them out, keep your hands. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care if you white or black. I'm talking about no map.
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  Speaker 1: A drunk woman period and a comedy club is a
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  Speaker 1: natural disaster. To try to gain control of them, either
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  Speaker 1: gonna kick them out or you're just gonna kick about
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  Speaker 1: just one option that I would say. Drunk people period
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  Speaker 1: can be people who talk, Yes, people who talk as
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  Speaker 1: a struggle, but that that that also as the performer,
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  Speaker 1: that's an indication to you go back and work on
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  Speaker 1: this material, tighten up that joke, you know, don't you know?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you can be a girl. I would say I
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  Speaker 1: only did that one time where I like broke out
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  Speaker 1: and just was like, let me just talk to y'all
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  Speaker 1: for a second. Uh. But I will say like that
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  Speaker 1: that means you need to tighten something up. It's not funny.
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  Speaker 1: You need to move more quickly and then later go
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  Speaker 1: back home and work on that. You know, put that down.
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  Speaker 1: And also if somebody comes to you afterwards and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey, you know, can I can I make
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion? Can I give you something? You know, be
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  Speaker 1: open to that too, because other comics are watching you
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  Speaker 1: and it's so helpful. Um, you can't, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can't kind of be outside of yourself because in the
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  Speaker 1: moment you feel like, oh the crowd was ganging up
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  Speaker 1: your career is, like I said, you could act, I
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  Speaker 1: can't act, you know. I. I've had acting opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: perform in the acting capacity. But your ability to be
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  Speaker 1: uh improvisational comic you know I means that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you throw horror scene and she just pulls it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I always tell people when you're improving, especially
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  Speaker 1: acting the artist. I always say, if you can get
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  Speaker 1: you have to get the three lines. Get the three
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  Speaker 1: lines of conversation with somebody. The improv, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: you can deliver funny. We were with what techniques that
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  Speaker 1: you use Christina when you were doing your improv. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, and I still use them now because
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  Speaker 1: I see the writers on Mixed to use it. I
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  Speaker 1: still use it in my stand up when I'm writing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But um, the rule of three is invaluable, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so learning if you can learn that, um, it's pretty easy.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So when you're setting up a joke, you know you
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: want to if you're listing items, you know the first
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: thing fits in the category, the second day fits in
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the category, and then where you make the sharp turn
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and you make the third thing? What what the punches
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: are the joke? Um? And then in improv, we have
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: a rule of always learning to say yes. And so
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: somebody comes to you and says, man, did you see
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that man walking down the street with the blue hat?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: You don't stop the joke to say no, I didn't
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: see that. You say yeah, and he was walking to alligator.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: You know, you want to keep adding to the bit
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: when you're in and that's when you're telling jokes with
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: somebody else an ensemble, and it also works on mixtage.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: We try to do that too. You know, our our
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: family is hilarious, you know, uh Kenya Barris and Tracy
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Ellis for ourselves created this world and we're just trying
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to keep it going. It's a prequel and you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: take a Sumthing or Paul Gossler, uh Gary Cole. They're
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: all like really well known actors and comedians. And so
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: even if though the work is scripted, I'm still saying
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: yes to the bits, to the jokes that you have,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to keep them going. You know. Now,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: now when I look at your bio, I see stand
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: up but also see serious roles. You know, I'm assuming
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that why women killed that wasn't a comedy moment. Uh
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: eer the dilemma? So how will we able? Because but
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: then I see multi talented actress. You do put it
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: at the very tough front. But Joe says, of comedic
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: side on it, how did you translate a serious role
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: in a comedic role? Because I wanted my listeners to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: hear that, in my viewers to hear that about a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: person who says talented as you because you're willing to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: not limit yourself, and that's what you say. If an
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: opportunity that comes to you, Christina, You're going to present
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: yourself for that opportunity, correct, for sure? For sure? Yeah,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I think you know. Why Woman Kills a good example
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of UM. That's a show about women who murder their husbands.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Is very funny. If you haven't seen it, check it out.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Those sister of one of the women that UM. But
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I think even in that role, I still was being
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a comedian. But in a serious moment, like we think back,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: you can think back of like UM in black families,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: like when somebody passes away, even though it is a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: somber occasion and there it is a sad event and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it's a transition, there's still somebody that you know, Uncle
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Pete always ask somebody, can't you get a ride to
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the refest? Why don't you have a car? You know?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Or you know unleas it's always gonna your boyfriend to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a funeral? Why are you doing this? And you realize
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you find you know the funny moments even in the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: tragedy and your family. So I think so Whylo mckill
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: is a good example of that. It's about a serious
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: topic of domestic abuse and murder, but the sister is
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like I think I played sister this like girl, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: always knew that wasn't the man for you. You know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: it's like, why are you guys having at this point
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: we're trying to put a murder together, but there's always
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: like somebody like that. So I think finding those light moments,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you know, or people I can remember when my grandmother passed.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You know, people's problem. You're funny, you know what what I'm saying.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You're not even You're not even trying. You're just talking
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and I'm just laughing, and you just really just just
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: really just having the conversation with me. But it's such
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a relatable conversation. That's your blessing, you know. So yeah, yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Now you say you started in East St. Louis, How
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: did you make it up to Chicago. I grew up
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in East St. Louis and know the famous people from
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: me St. Louis are Miles Davis Jack, he joined a Kurtsey,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the Olympian and and me and you metain wanted from St. Louis,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: such as the entertainers from St. Louis. I think, which
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: is the fancy city on the other side of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Loverlle Crawford Loverlle Crawford from what I'm St. St. Louis
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is on the other side in Illinois. Yeah, and it's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you know, it's the cut, it's it's tough over that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It's tough over that, I know. Yeah. Yeah. So but
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I went to college and you and I in Champagne,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: which is a little bit outside of Chicago, ninety minutes.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And so afterwards, all my friends, I think my boyfriend
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: at the time, they went back after graduation, they went
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to Chicago. So I just moved there to follow your man.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: You followed your man to Chicago or you just my
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: man at the time said there you go. And if
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you go, I'm gonna say, don't follow a man places.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: But if you're gonna follow a man, do it after college,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, but be on your own right. And so
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I started my art career. So your your college degree
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: was what my college degree is actually in psychology. Okay,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: my college degree is mathematics, so neither you know nothing.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: My mind was sociology, but my degree was mathematics. And
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: so I went to work for IBM. So when you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: went from Champagne, got your degree, packed your bag, following
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: homeboard to Chicago. You got a job. What was your
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: first job? My first job. So my degree was in
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: social side I think with social psychology, child psychology. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: can't remember now, but it was a social work basically
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a social work type bachelor's. So I went to work.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I went I think I went to work for the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: university doing outreach like art programs, so I was still
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: art adjacent. And the reason I didn't go to college
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for a thing, which maybe some of your listeners are
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: like at that age and they're thinking about doing that, um,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was because my parents they went to segregated schools. They
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: came from Tennessee and they were like, you are you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I was second generation to go to college, but first
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: generation out of segregation. And they were like, you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: how'll go to school to be an actor. You're gonna
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: get a real job. There's just too much on the line.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But my father said, if you're really good, it's gonna
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: find you. And so I went to school for something else.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: But then after that, you know, I kind of became
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: a journeyman, right. I had to piece my our education together.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: So I started taking acting classes at night, and then
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I got into a play with other actors that had
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: been to acting school. So I would watch them and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: see what they would do, how would they learn their scripts?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: How would they break stuff down? You know even now
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: too when I go to comedy you know, not so
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: much right now during COVID, but when I would go
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to comedy shows, you know, I'm watching other people to
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: see what you do. And so much of um this
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: business you can't us. You don't You're not just what
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you want to be. But you need to study to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: become that. But you can study in a variety of ways.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: That's not college. Well many stand ups. No, you don't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: go absolutely. I you know, you learn on the road.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But you know I look at you and uh, you know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I you know, I went through and did my little
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: extra work on what they sent over, and you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you have so many different looks. That's on social media.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You know what I think is a blessing. You know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: because you you can't be pigeonholed. You know you can
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: character you know, fantastic and fantastic character actress. And because
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you know you can look homely, you can look beautiful.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I saw some homely photos. Now I would just look homely. Yea.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I put the homely and a beautiful photo together. A's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: just the same person. So I went, that's a that's
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a that's beyond acting, you know, to be able to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: pull that off. But the beauty of you know, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: just mind everybody. I'm talking to. Christina Anthony, I wanted
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the star as a nixus uh on the ABC series
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that follows Blackish. Uh. You know she plays on to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Denis on the ABC series. Uh, she's out of Chicago.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: You know the Second City, one of the famous Second City. Uh.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Uh what the John Belushi? Who all came out of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Second City? It's name some of the famous Saturday Live
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: alarms that came out of the Second City. Yeah, Belushi,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Tina Fey, um, many people. But John Canny came out
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of there. I don't think he was on us another thing,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but yeah, a lot of people have. And then a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: lot of people they didn't go out to S and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: L like Stephen Colbert came out of there. It's really
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: amazing that. Uh. So, before I let you go, because
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I feel that, you know, when I look at your
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: career and I look at your resume, I have to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: believe in myself speaking honestly, the star is only gonna
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get brighter for you. I I you know, COVID, the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: COVID sett us all back. But I think in my life,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I feel that it's only let you catch up with
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: your competition. You're coming back in January where the show
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that's on the air, and so it it focuses you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and tells you what your gifts are. And I think
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: your gifts is if I'm looking at you, I'm managing you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I say that it's unlimited. First of all, this is
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: me just looking at the person I've seen. I've been
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: blessed to be working with a lot of star talent,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and you're attractive. You you you are just naturally funny.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just start talking, Christina, and you're funny,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and that's very key, you know I And so I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: just know that you can do drama. You you I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: haven't heard you singing, but you know you you bold
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: enough tell me that you got the chops because you've
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: said Broadway several times during our interview. So obviously somebody
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: let you in the room and let you make some
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: noise and it made sense and it sounded like singing,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and everybody said she got the scale, and uh, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: what does the future hope for you? Besides me being
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so caught off guard by how talented as you are
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: because you never know what you interview somebody, because some
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: people can be uh, you know, just really good at
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: what they do. I think you can be good at
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: anything that you do. Yes, well, first of all, thank
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you so much for that. Um. Yeah, I consider myself
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a comedians comedian, so I aspire to to still just
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: be really good at what I'm doing, no matter what
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: level it's at. So if I'm teaching children after school
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: how to write jokes, which is something I love to do,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: or if I'm in a big film, that's great too. Um.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But as far as what's next, I love my job
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: is undanis on ABC's Mixed Dish. Um. But eventually, you know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: all things come to an end. So I was, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: can't wait to see, like what the next job is.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I'm also very interested in getting into um film and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: doing I love. I'm obsessed with action movies, Marvel movies. Um,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: what's your favorite action movie? Because I love action movies
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like you know, I love what What? What? What? What?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Acution movies this year caught your eye on on Netflix alone?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Do you watch Netflix? Yes? I do? Come on, come on,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: come on. That was a sleeperhead right when she walked
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: out there. We talked March show. Lease walked up to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. I'll get you a signal, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: she walked out that door and wipe all those men.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I said, that's my girl right there, that right there.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: That movie was so unexpected, right, I didn't know what
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to think of it. It was so amazing. Yes, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: love to try my hand in action. Of course. You know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: black panther holes such a special place in my heart.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I love that, so yeah, I would love that. I'm
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: also like, I sell in my eyes, I'm doing a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: comedy special, my brand of comedy. Um, and then I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: love to have my own sitcom. You know you kind
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of got up on your chair on that one. I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: going through, Okay, you know all. I know you probably
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: got super management around your twop of ages around you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But you know I always know the call with Shaw,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: you know I did that. You want to get it
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: from some people, but of course you're working with Kenya Barrass.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: You know you can't get any better than that. So
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can walk through the next door and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: pitch your ideas to those people over there. But again,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: got an idea, you open your mouth to anybody that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: we listen. I love you for that. Again, I want
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to thank you for coming on my show. You you
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: really really all you know. You've been introduced to me
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and I'm a fan. I'm gonna follow you and uh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I'm support you have anything that you're doing. I'm gonna
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: definitely a post you on my social media. You are
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the star of of Mixes as far as I'm concerned,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: because guess what, I've interviewed job, also interviewed Teaker, but
• 28:26
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• 28:30
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