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Yvonne Orji Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: She is a Nigerian American actress, comedian, and writer. Her
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Speaker 1: projects includes starring as Molly on HBO's critical acclaimed comedy
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Speaker 1: series Insecure. Her first one hour stand up comedy special
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Speaker 1: for HBO, Mama Made It. It is also available on
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Speaker 1: HBO Now, HBO Go, HBO on Demand, HBO every or
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Speaker 1: anything has HBO on it. She's on it Okay. She
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Speaker 1: is co hosting her podcast and the upcoming faith based book.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to her about this coming out
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Speaker 1: in One Bamboo Zoo by Jesus Hi. God tricked me
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Speaker 1: into the life of my dreams. Please work on the
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Speaker 1: money making conversations, my girl, Yvonne or Gy, what's going on? Well?
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Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, now one watching the special,
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Speaker 1: I'm going I see a rock star. I see Beyonce,
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Speaker 1: I see Kelly Roland coming out there, just bouncing on
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Speaker 1: the stage. Now, I'm telling you something. I'm a former
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Speaker 1: stand up comic. I don't want to claim it because
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Speaker 1: I've been on stage in many years, but you came
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Speaker 1: out lit, You came out and brought the heat at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of your stand up. Is that how all
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Speaker 1: your sets or you just made it special for that
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Speaker 1: for the HBO special. Oh no, that's I'm high. I
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Speaker 1: told I told h I said, I'm gonna give you
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Speaker 1: part documentary, part music video, part comedy special. They were
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Speaker 1: like what. I was like, this rock with me on this,
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Speaker 1: rock with me on this And that's why I really,
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Speaker 1: you know, really wanted Chris Robinson to direct my special
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Speaker 1: because he you know, Chris Robinson, He's done any music
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Speaker 1: video do you think of that was bombed Chris robinsons
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Speaker 1: while behind it and some ways people for want and
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Speaker 1: so I was like, and he's also a hometown he
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Speaker 1: wrote um um and so uh he goes from d
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Speaker 1: NBA stage when I was like, what home down he
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Speaker 1: goes from the d m V um But yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: on my shows, the hype like I I'm one of
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Speaker 1: those times that come off with a lot of energy
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Speaker 1: and a lot of the off time like offer it
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Speaker 1: because I think they just texts the phone. I feel
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Speaker 1: like if I feel like if the audience was having
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Speaker 1: a good time, I mean they're gonna have a good
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Speaker 1: time with the jokes. Blade you get them like we
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Speaker 1: could guard down, Like I want to be happy up
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Speaker 1: here and I want you to be happy over there.
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Speaker 1: So if we all on the same thing at the
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Speaker 1: let's rock, I think that, Yeah, you do that okay
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Speaker 1: because I'm will tell you this because I'll see the
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Speaker 1: character and insecure your lawyer. You you know, you really
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Speaker 1: don't show that type of energy on this on this
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Speaker 1: series that you become famous for. And so when you
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Speaker 1: came out on the stage like that and you know
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Speaker 1: you're looking find it you was tall, statue was have
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Speaker 1: right and everything he was rocking and and everything is
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Speaker 1: running from side to side of the stage. That was
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Speaker 1: a positive play on my energy sitting at the house.
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Speaker 1: So I know it. I know it played big in
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Speaker 1: that theater, Howard Theater in d C. Oh solutely absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I mean the camera pans to the audience and they
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Speaker 1: were like I had I had the artist mid Low,
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Speaker 1: So that that was an original track, creative specifically for
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Speaker 1: the trailer and the artist mid Low. She did her
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Speaker 1: sting on that on on that track, and so it
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Speaker 1: was like to be able to give back the time
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Speaker 1: and the space for it to breed, for it to
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Speaker 1: be like, oh Mama, we made it, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and just everyone not knowing what to look back and
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Speaker 1: it's like okamanthas, okay, what we do? You know. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't just like an entrance song. It was like, no,
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Speaker 1: we're making an entrance. You made an interest. You made
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Speaker 1: a not Leagos, Nigeria. You know, we cut, we do
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Speaker 1: interplay on the inserted in the whole process. And fell
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Speaker 1: in love with your mom. I know she's taken care of.
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Speaker 1: I know what. She's still there. You know because when
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Speaker 1: you when you brought the groceries in, I would tell
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Speaker 1: you something. When you brought the cinema raising bagels, I
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Speaker 1: believe in then the cinema bread, I would that's my
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Speaker 1: girl right there. See, that's how I eat. I reached.
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Speaker 1: I I love cinnamon toasts with the little raisins in it,
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Speaker 1: and I love the cinemaon episode. So when you when
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Speaker 1: you brought that in, me and her were on the
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Speaker 1: same page. We could eat breakfast together every day of
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Speaker 1: the week. And I said, but it was just a
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Speaker 1: really really natural atmosphere. Did you created you just want
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Speaker 1: to show people where you came from and I also
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Speaker 1: going back and showing everybody, you know, you really did
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Speaker 1: make it, even oh, I'll create that. I'm in. I'm
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Speaker 1: in the prophet of continuing to make it. I made
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Speaker 1: it this far, but there is there's far more to go.
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Speaker 1: How about that? But I think that's funny because that
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Speaker 1: was one of those things that I can even right.
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Speaker 1: You can't even right. I'm giving all these things and
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Speaker 1: she still hung up on one thing that I did
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Speaker 1: not deliver. And I'm like, luck, But you know the
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Speaker 1: thing about when I said you made it? You know,
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Speaker 1: I come from the hood. You know, six sisters, two brothers,
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Speaker 1: father was a truck driver, mom graduated from high school
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Speaker 1: and uh and everywhere you know, you have gold. So
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Speaker 1: I could tell you from your from watching your career,
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Speaker 1: watching the special, your goal or in it, and you
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Speaker 1: also are blessed by the opportunities that have been received
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Speaker 1: by you, and so you at each point. I feel
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Speaker 1: that when you said, when I said you've made it,
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Speaker 1: this is like winning the super Bowl, you want to
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Speaker 1: win another super Bowl, you know, but You're gonna tell
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Speaker 1: everybody I wanted this super Bowl. And I felt that
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Speaker 1: that's what they're special. When I was watching it, watching
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Speaker 1: you return home and legos was it was it was.
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Speaker 1: It was a testament to saying, look you can do it.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing it, okay, and I'm gonna come here and
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Speaker 1: show you. HBO is gonna follow me. I'm bringing my
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Speaker 1: boy Chris with me. He gonna direct me, and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna throw down at Howard Theater and I'm gonna show
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Speaker 1: you where I came from, to show you that I
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Speaker 1: came from over here. My family is still living. They
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Speaker 1: get to share your brother, get to share in your love,
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Speaker 1: and get to tell less story. That's what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: when I say you made it, because believe me, I
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Speaker 1: know your journey to greatness. It's still it's still at
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Speaker 1: the top of the iceberg. Okay. I appreciate that, man,
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Speaker 1: I'm like you. I appreciate you lessing me in seeking
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Speaker 1: good life over my life now obviously but obviously, well,
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Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that we know.
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Speaker 1: The thing about it is that as as a female
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Speaker 1: stand up comedian, you know, I know as a stand
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Speaker 1: up it's tough for African American stand up. Before death
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Speaker 1: Comedy Jam came along, I was doing jokes, you know,
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Speaker 1: Jared Fine Fair Dnnis Leary, Sam Kenniston and all that.
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Speaker 1: Then Death Comedy Jam came out and it opened a
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Speaker 1: whole new world for black comedy to come to the mainstream,
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Speaker 1: start feeling the venue, start feeling the comedy clubs. And
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Speaker 1: then being a female comedian, you know, there's a different
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Speaker 1: path to that. Talk about your life as a female
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Speaker 1: stand up coming up. I know you opened for Chris Rock,
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Speaker 1: but there's a journey and a path that you have
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Speaker 1: to deal with being a female stand up, and especially
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Speaker 1: being a black female stand up. Can you talk about
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Speaker 1: that we talk about the path. No, no, I'm just
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Speaker 1: talking about the path you take as a stand up.
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Speaker 1: But of course being a black female stand up, that's
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Speaker 1: a different journey too because of the fact that it's
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Speaker 1: a male dominated industry. For sure. I mean, and I think,
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Speaker 1: I think, I think the fact that God made me
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Speaker 1: night hearing, which is you you got to have like
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Speaker 1: a thick a thick skin, boy, you got to do that.
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Speaker 1: And then you're in a rough We even say good morning, rough,
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Speaker 1: good morning, Why are you jealous? Why do you why
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Speaker 1: are you gonna? Says so we we kind of have
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Speaker 1: that stuff demeanor, and then you know, I grew up
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Speaker 1: with three older brothers. Dad for god that I was
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Speaker 1: a girl, like they said that absolutely, So I think
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Speaker 1: that was all preparation. You know. Sometimes you think it
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Speaker 1: like why am I in this family? But then it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I had to be in the family,
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Speaker 1: you know, to learn these things because y'all was gonna
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Speaker 1: open up the door for me to be in this
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Speaker 1: profession that you know is male dominated. But I come
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Speaker 1: from the heavily patriarchical society, so this this is no
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Speaker 1: biggie you know. I know when I started people, I
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Speaker 1: would you know, I I fashion was always big for me.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, even though I'm gonna be on stage,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a look amazing because I would always say
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Speaker 1: my jokes bomb or my outfit's gonna be bombed, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, like because they're gonna like something
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Speaker 1: about me. And so I always made sure to like
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Speaker 1: look presentable, um in that way. And I remember going
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Speaker 1: to comedy clubs and they would be like, oh you
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Speaker 1: are you were to do? Are you here the thing?
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Speaker 1: And I'd be like at the comedy club and you know,
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Speaker 1: it was just like, well, what do you here to do?
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Speaker 1: Like you because almost like you're too cute, you're too pretty,
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Speaker 1: could be funny. And I was like, well, y'all about
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Speaker 1: to get you jokes, then I'm sorry to disappoint you, brother,
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Speaker 1: and you know, and it was kind of like, wait,
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Speaker 1: so for a black female comic, you can either be
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Speaker 1: overweight and funny and you know because we know because
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Speaker 1: we know what that looks like. Or you know, you
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Speaker 1: can be you know, like hor than funny but like intelligence,
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Speaker 1: flim pretty fashionable and you got jokes we don't know.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I don't I don't subscribe
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Speaker 1: Dot ai. You know, I'm not gonna tell people the jokes.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell people your routine. I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: people this. You came out on the stage lit if
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Speaker 1: you do not miss the opening, because she's on fire
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Speaker 1: on the opening and she carries that fire into her humor.
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Speaker 1: You know, like a lot of comments to do that.
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Speaker 1: They come out and stay with a lot of energy
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Speaker 1: and in the show kind of like every five minutes
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Speaker 1: gets less and less funny. That is not happening here, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. They come out there
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Speaker 1: and be jumping around and be clapping in everything, and
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Speaker 1: crowd be tired. They tidy worked the crowd out. They
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Speaker 1: be tired, and you come out there. And the thing
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Speaker 1: about it is me, as a former stand up I
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Speaker 1: always look at people that go if they do material
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Speaker 1: that go You know, I never thought of that. I
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Speaker 1: would never have thought of that joke. You do a
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Speaker 1: lot of that. You're coming. You're very observational, You're very
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Speaker 1: socially gifted and understanding how you can just always tell
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Speaker 1: people about jokes. You know, every good joke is a
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Speaker 1: hard right or hard left. You know, it throws you
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Speaker 1: for a curve, and you you do a very good
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Speaker 1: job of that and honing that skill. And so when
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Speaker 1: you when you talk about your stand up, efore what
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Speaker 1: journey you're trying to tell people when your own stage?
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Speaker 1: Are you trying to relate to any it to the women?
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Speaker 1: Are you trying to make a statement to the guys?
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Speaker 1: Are you just trying to be funny? Well, I appreciate that,
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Speaker 1: you know. I think I think humor for me in
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Speaker 1: my life. I think there's a place and entertainment to
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Speaker 1: uh for humor and education, right, I think you know,
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Speaker 1: or or to entertain and to educate, I should say,
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Speaker 1: um and content. And you know, I know it's like
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Speaker 1: you don't know a little comedy show again a lecture,
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Speaker 1: but it's like, no, comedy is the way where you
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Speaker 1: learn the most you know in such a digestible form. Right,
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Speaker 1: every every comedian is teaching you something. You're teaching you
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Speaker 1: about them. They're teaching you about the way they see
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Speaker 1: the world. They're teaching you about like aw, you a
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Speaker 1: problem with to the world. But you didn't know and
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Speaker 1: so um you know through my jokes and through my humor,
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Speaker 1: I didn't. Uh. I know that my crowd is heavily female, right,
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Speaker 1: I know I have the young female population who are
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Speaker 1: like they hight you know what I'm saying. Somebody or
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Speaker 1: was Junior uh he I love him so much. He
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Speaker 1: came to my show in New York and he was like,
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Speaker 1: first of all, you got a crowd that lays out
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Speaker 1: their clothes the night before so they get ready. You're
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Speaker 1: He's like, you you kind of a crowd that they
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Speaker 1: lay out there closely, like we called theron organ show.
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Speaker 1: We got look fraid. I was like when God blessed it.
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Speaker 1: And then he was like, you got the gamely employed crowd.
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Speaker 1: You got the people who you know, they bought tickets early.
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Speaker 1: You know That's what I saw im, That's what I saw.
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Speaker 1: I saw. I saw a contractive crowd. I just throw
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Speaker 1: in a common the club called hip hop comm and
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Speaker 1: just stopped and I told everybody. When the good looking
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Speaker 1: women started showing up to my club, I knew I
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Speaker 1: was a hit, you know, because because that's you know,
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Speaker 1: spend two or three hours of day time someplace. That's
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Speaker 1: what I got. So I was, I was. It was
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Speaker 1: people for for the next ten, fifteen, twenty years. That's
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Speaker 1: gonna be a growing fan base. But I know, I
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Speaker 1: just gotta switch gears right quick and congratulate you because
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Speaker 1: we don't talk about the fact that we are talking
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Speaker 1: about your HBO special Mama I Made It, which premieres
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Speaker 1: on HBO June six, but being renewed on Insecure for
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Speaker 1: another season. Why the season is still going on? Talk
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Speaker 1: to me about that energy, talk about that love for
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Speaker 1: romantic this season. You know, we got your ball, you know,
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Speaker 1: can y'all got town to spend with each other, you know,
17:44
Speaker 1: but it's a very romantic season for you. This said
17:47
Speaker 1: this this year, so we gotta definitely carried it over
17:49
Speaker 1: to the next. Of course, I don't know what's happening
17:51
Speaker 1: and how that relationships kind of in and I'm not
17:53
Speaker 1: gonna tell anybody about the relationship. You just need to
17:56
Speaker 1: watch Insecure. I'm talking to Eon or look here the third,
18:00
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. We know this country is gonna be
18:01
Speaker 1: opened up. We know June six, you have a special
18:04
Speaker 1: on HBO that's gonna be on fire. I'm telling she's
18:07
Speaker 1: rocking the stage. She's lit the cross led, she brings
18:09
Speaker 1: the comedy for one entire hour. They have it to
18:11
Speaker 1: cuts in it that goes back to her hometown. You
18:13
Speaker 1: get to see a family, get to see the community
18:15
Speaker 1: gets here, how she grew up a little bit of
18:17
Speaker 1: her fan base and Legos Nigeria. My boy Chris Robinson,
18:20
Speaker 1: I do know him back in the back in two
18:23
Speaker 1: thousand we shot uh Fitch video together, so I know
18:26
Speaker 1: the talent that he brings to the table. You went
18:28
Speaker 1: back to Howard Theater and watching the DC to do it.
18:31
Speaker 1: Ivan your special girl, And I am not saying you've
18:34
Speaker 1: made it, but you had to tell your mama that
18:37
Speaker 1: you did make it when you take this HBO special.
18:39
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. Girl, Yes, yes I did so.
18:45
Speaker 1: I think she knows it. I think I just need
18:47
Speaker 1: to keep reminding her like, Mama, no, we made we did,
18:50
Speaker 1: mom used to be right. Well, you know it. It's
18:53
Speaker 1: a it's a tender moment in the end of a
18:56
Speaker 1: special where you know when you got emotional, all comedy aside,
19:00
Speaker 1: when you're the realization that you was able to call
19:02
Speaker 1: home and say that and that that was a point
19:05
Speaker 1: your moment for me because you know, we're on struggle
19:07
Speaker 1: and we we're trying to define our success sometimes based
19:10
Speaker 1: on what other people are doing. But but in that
19:12
Speaker 1: moment that you talk about it in in the individual,
19:15
Speaker 1: in the video, in the in the end of the
19:17
Speaker 1: one hour special about calling home, can you before we
19:19
Speaker 1: wrap up the show, can you just talk about that
19:20
Speaker 1: for a couple of seconds and and we're signed off
19:23
Speaker 1: and tell everybody watch your special. June six, I'm talking
19:25
Speaker 1: to Evonne Orgy to starve and secure the star of
19:28
Speaker 1: our HBO special, star of the podcast. She has to
19:30
Speaker 1: do book coming out there when she comes to our
19:32
Speaker 1: bamboosted by Jesus, how God tricked me into a life
19:35
Speaker 1: of my dreams that's coming out in one she'd be
19:37
Speaker 1: back on the show and talk about that. This show
19:39
Speaker 1: we just talked about how she was just tan the stage,
19:42
Speaker 1: put it on fire. But on that stage when you're
19:44
Speaker 1: putting on the fire the end of the special, you
19:45
Speaker 1: got emotional on me. Evonn talk to me about that.
19:49
Speaker 1: I did. I did because it was it was a
19:51
Speaker 1: full circle moment. Man. When I moved to New York,
19:55
Speaker 1: and you know this as a comic, it was it
19:57
Speaker 1: was a whole bunch of bring the shows, but I
20:00
Speaker 1: didn't bring nobody here. I didn't bring nobody needs in
20:02
Speaker 1: New or by myself. And it was like, well, in
20:04
Speaker 1: order for you to get stage time, you need five
20:06
Speaker 1: friends saying full price and a to drink minimal. I'm like, bro,
20:10
Speaker 1: if I did have friends, I'm about to move all
20:11
Speaker 1: of them, trying to you know, work out the five
20:13
Speaker 1: and into material. So it was one of those like
20:17
Speaker 1: moments of like the rubber about to meet the roads.
20:19
Speaker 1: And because I'm not Durian and we're so entrepreneurial in
20:22
Speaker 1: our mindset, and because I'm a woman of faith, I'm
20:24
Speaker 1: just like all things are possible. Uh. And so there
20:28
Speaker 1: was an open mic that somebody was giving up. They
20:30
Speaker 1: were like moving out of town and they were just
20:32
Speaker 1: like we need somebody to big up with the room.
20:34
Speaker 1: And it was me and a whole rack of young
20:37
Speaker 1: male comics and nobody was jumping and after me, I
20:42
Speaker 1: was doing it. I didn't know nothing about running nobody's room,
20:44
Speaker 1: but I was like, no, I'll run the road because
20:47
Speaker 1: the way my mind thought was good. And if I
20:50
Speaker 1: can't get face timed anywhere else, I'm gonna get at
20:53
Speaker 1: least one day a week two hours on the stage
20:57
Speaker 1: was perfecting my and everyone that I'm running and they
21:00
Speaker 1: just look, I get to meet other comics. I'm in
21:02
Speaker 1: the community that I'm struggling to get into because they're
21:06
Speaker 1: gonna want to come to me to get a stop.
21:08
Speaker 1: So like I'm gonna read the book us Like it
21:10
Speaker 1: was just it just felt like this is what I'm
21:12
Speaker 1: gonna do. This just makes the most sense. And it
21:14
Speaker 1: was one of those opportunities that presented itself not as
21:17
Speaker 1: a lucrative opportunity by any means, because it cost me
21:20
Speaker 1: on that show. It cost you to buy an amplifier
21:22
Speaker 1: and a good mic and learn it like it was
21:24
Speaker 1: a real world and not just like a stop on
21:27
Speaker 1: another comment, you know, open mic in order to get
21:30
Speaker 1: to the next show. So you know, but what came
21:33
Speaker 1: from that was the name and I called it. My
21:35
Speaker 1: mom made it. Because at that moment, I was like, man,
21:38
Speaker 1: I wouldn't it be dope if, like, you know, a
21:41
Speaker 1: booker for any of these late night you know shows
21:45
Speaker 1: came by and they could see you and then they
21:47
Speaker 1: could put you on. I dream, I dreamt big, I
21:50
Speaker 1: still dream me. I'm like, wouldn't that be dope? If
21:52
Speaker 1: that's what this room was set up to do? And like,
21:55
Speaker 1: because who doesn't want to call home to sell their mom?
21:57
Speaker 1: Like mom made it? Uh? And so that was the hope.
22:00
Speaker 1: That was the anticipation behind the open night night. And
22:03
Speaker 1: when it came t to do the special, I was like, Yo,
22:06
Speaker 1: this is a full circle moment right now, Like I
22:08
Speaker 1: get I get that, have that dream of me trying
22:11
Speaker 1: to put other people on, so now me getting put on.
22:15
Speaker 1: And that's why that's that's why I love choked up
22:18
Speaker 1: at the end, you know, fire girl, I'm gonna let
22:20
Speaker 1: you go here. We're up against the Clark. I want
22:22
Speaker 1: to see the June six is HBO special. I'm talking
22:25
Speaker 1: to the fantastic, the tall, the funny, the beautiful from Lagos, Nigeria.
22:29
Speaker 1: She's entrepreneurial, she got multiple jobs, multiple skills. You've seen
22:32
Speaker 1: it on Night School. You see her every sun on
22:34
Speaker 1: Insecure be renewed, so she knows she has a job
22:36
Speaker 1: in the future. She knows she has a funny HBO special.
22:39
Speaker 1: So you have a lot of jobs in the fall.
22:41
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22:43
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