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[Chris] Uh, that's good.

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No, no, no, I wasn't…

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That's fine.

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I just… The… the monitors.
I'm used to seeing the…

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the whatever, but you know.

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-I do this shadow thing, see.
-[Kevin] It's fucking great.

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[Chris] I saw, uh, David--

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One of those things I got mad at
that I didn't think of.

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Hey, man.

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-I got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.
-It's pretty fucking genius.

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[Chris] Hey, man. Steal it.
It's all yours.

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I can't. I can't now.

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It's a bla… It looks like I stole it now.

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-It's a clear--
-It's cheap. Don't cost nothin'!

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[laughs] It's a…
It's a clear steal. It's a…

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[Chris] You got trucks. You got that shit.

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All you got… All you got is this.

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-I got the fucking…
-[both laugh]

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I'm spending all this fucking money,
and all I need is a light!

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Been lying to me
all this goddamn time. Shit!

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["Daytona 500"
by Ghostface Killah playing]

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♪ Say peace to cats
Who rock mack knowledge, knowledgists ♪

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♪ Street astrologists, light up the mic
God, knowledge this ♪

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♪ Fly joints that carried your points
Corolla Motorola holder ♪

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♪ Play it God, he pack over the shoulder ♪

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♪ Chrome tanks, player like Yanks
Check the franchise ♪

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♪ Front on my guys
My enterprise splash many lives ♪

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♪ Repel all fakes like reflectors ♪

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♪ He had sugar in his ear
In his last crack career ♪

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♪ We can can him, manhandle him ♪

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♪ If you wanna run in his crib, oh
Get ditto, skate like a limo ♪

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[Kevin] How'd the conversation go?

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-[Chris] I think you called me?
-[Kevin] Yeah. I called you.

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The conversation, of course,
started with just me saying, "Chris,

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what are you doing?
You are gearing up to go out."

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I think we both…
We knew we were both gearing up.

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We were both gearing up,

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and I'm smart enough

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to always check to see what Kevin's doing
before I go on tour.

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-My schedule.
-'Cause I'm not getting stomped by Kevin.

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-It's just not happening.
-[laughs]

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So I give him that respect.

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I go… You know, Jay-Z doesn't drop a re…

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He checks with Drake
before he drops a record.

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-Yes, yes, he's been around longer, but…
-[Kevin laughs]

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He's just a realist, so I'm like,
"Okay, I'm gearing to go out."

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"What's Kevin doing?"

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I said,
"Why don't we do something together?"

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-Yes.
-"What do you think about doing New York?"

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"Like, destroying New York?"

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["Spicy" by Nas playing]

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♪ Pricy ♪

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♪ Hit it, boy ♪

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♪ Boss shit ♪

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♪ Your lordship ♪

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♪ Niggas talkin' yachts
And some more shit ♪

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♪ I used to run the block
Now I'm corporate ♪

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♪ Hoppin' out, you know it's Son
When the doors lift ♪

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♪ Whole squad hide the burners ♪

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♪ Mets hats in the sky
Like Bobby Shmurda… ♪

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This is a story
about two separate journeys

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that go on two different paths

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but somehow align

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and end up at the same intersection
at the top.

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♪ Stackin' it upward ♪

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♪ G's stay icy, 'cause shit get spicy ♪

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♪ She on demon time
I get her a timepiece ♪

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♪ Patek, niggas not lit, not like me ♪

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♪ Can't get nothin' by me
My mind is 2090 ♪

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♪ Que lo que, everybody pricy ♪

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♪ Yeah ♪

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[Chris] This is my favorite building
in the world.

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-[Kevin] Hands down.
-I seen Prince here. I seen Beasties here.

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I seen Eddie Murphy here.

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Damn, you saw Eddie here?

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I seen Eddie here,
like, four nights in a row.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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The names that have
graced that stage comedically,

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um, are very far, few and in between.

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You know, that have sold out the Garden.

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It's a stamp
of "I've made it, I've arrived."

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Like, that's… It's a big deal, man.

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You know, the New York shows
that we're about to do…

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This week in New York is an event.

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[woman] I can't recall

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um, two other, like,
great headliners together like that.

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The only thing I can compare it with
is, like, Bruce Springsteen

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and Paul McCartney being onstage together.

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[Kevin] We wanna say,
within our culture specifically,

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it's something that we need to remove,
because we have this idea

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that there can only be one.

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When people get caught up
on that idea that there can only be one,

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well, shit gets weird,
because this competitive thing happens

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and, "I can't like or support,"
or, "You ain't…" "This is…"

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It's… It's weird.

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[Wanda Sykes] Chris is…
He's pretty quiet, you know.

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He's in his thoughts and…

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Kevin? No.

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[man] Hey, brother.

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I think Kevin is more affable, more fun,
uh, more whimsical.

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Chris is more biting, more acerbic.

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Dude, how the fuck am I supposed
to get out of here if there's…

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Do you understand
I could walk down there very easily

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and no one would look at me?

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But if there's a camera crew behind me,
someone will follow me all the way home

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and kill me.

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Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

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[Dave Becky] Their energies
just work together.

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No one was trying to upstage each other.

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[Kevin laughs]

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Everyone says you can't co-headline.
They could co-headline.

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Chris, what's up, baby?

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-[man] C Rock.
-Hey, what's up? What's up? Ha ha!

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What's this? Where's my name?

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Uh, your name, right,
uh, right there, man.

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"Big Rock. Little Hart."

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[man] Ooh, that's catchy.

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I was just at your lawyer Trina's.
Even she said you should open up for me.

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-What? Did she really?
-Yes, she did.

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Chris, I'm too big
to open up for you right now.

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Come on. You ain't too big for nothin'.

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[laughter]

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Maybe ten years ago,
that made sense, Chris,

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but now you're the third biggest Chris
and the second biggest Rock.

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I love Tony.

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-[man] Damn!
-Somebody's been writing!

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You should use them jokes
when you open for me on tour.

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[laughter]

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[solemn music playing]

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Congratulations.

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-[Kevin] Thank you.
-[waiter] It's a watermelon salad.

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Why you bring the Black man
a watermelon salad? [chuckles]

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That's like… That's just the hackiest joke
in the world,

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but… but I couldn't leave it there.

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It's good.

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-I couldn't leave the…
-The watermelon joke had to happen.

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I couldn't just leave it there.

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I think, for sure,
us knowing where we are,

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us knowing what we are,

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and us knowing what…
what this moment represents for us…

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When you think Kings of Comedy,
you know, you're looking at…

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The reason why I say
Kings of Comedy was so strong,

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in my opinion, it changed the definition

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of what a comedy show was.

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Every one of 'em…

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top of their game.

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[Kevin] When you think
about The Kings of Comedy,

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you gotta think
about how and why that was done.

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It was, "We're gonna put on… We're gonna…
We're gonna show that we can do this

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and that we can all align ourselves

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in a way where there's no competition."

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I think what Chris and I wanted to do

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was do our version of that.

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[Cedric the Entertainer] We were probably
the number-two highest-grossing live…

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[D.L.] That's the first time I heard
of Pollstar. And it was a white act.

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Money or… Who was it?

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[Cedric] Yeah, something like Eddie Money.

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Some white act I never heard of.

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Highest-grossing live touring acts
and it didn't get no press.

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[D.L.] Right.

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So this was strictly our community
supporting this, showing up.

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So any time you can go to Chicago
and sell out two United Centers

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and… and then be forced to come back--

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-[D.L.] Do it two more times.
-Two more.

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Like, within weeks,
'cause the audience was like, "Nah."

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-Like, "We need this. Come on right back."
-[D.L.] Right.

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[audience cheering]

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Everybody was collaborative.

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If I had a joke that didn't work for me
and I saw you doing it that night,

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I would give it to you,
you would give it to me.

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It was this thing
where we were working together,

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and I think that unity…
Like, what's that old African proverb?

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"If you wanna go fast, go alone.
If you wanna go far, go together."

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And I think we embodied that principle,

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where we just knew that
what we were doing, um, was so synergistic

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and would be beneficial to all of us,

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and even to our audience
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It just felt like
we were doing something important.

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What's the reason me and Chris
are doing what we're doing?

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Why am I doing this with Chris?

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Because you want to pretend
like you're not arrogant.

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[laughter]

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Stop being a dickhead.

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[Na'im] You wanna pretend
like you're not arrogant

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and… and show love
to the people that came before you.

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It's really about giving a true visual

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of people that are really successful,
that have won, winning together.

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I now truly understand
what The Kings of Comedy was. Right?

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Me and Chris talked about that shit for
an hour and some change the other night.

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The Kings of Comedy
really redefined touring.

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They really… They really…

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They… they made it an event,

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and they made it such a spectacle

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to which people felt the demand
for stand-up comedy in large venues.

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But the event of stand-up comedy,
Kings of Comedy did this,

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and that's only because
they decided to go together.

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And they could've kept doing it,
but their egos fucked it up.

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[man] Their friendship is real.

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When Kev was coming up,
he was in close proximity to my brother.

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So Kev never wasted an opportunity
to pick my brother's brain.

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Every time they sat next to each other,
it was, "Hey, how do you…"

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You see that clip of Kobe and Michael
running down the court?

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Mike's leaning over, holding his shorts.

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Kobe walks over
and is whispering in his ear.

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They asked Kobe, "What were you asking?"

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He said, "I was asking him how does he do
that turnaround jump so fast?"

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Mike's like, "You've gotta
put your foot outside their foot

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so when you spin, they're still stuck."

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The intricacies of it.

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Kev never wastes the opportunity
to get those little intricacies.

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He never wasted it.

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So then he adds that
to that insane work ethic,

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and he's Kobe.

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I'm excited about this week,

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not just because of the arena factor.

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I'm just excited
to hang out with you. That's it.

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-I'm just… Camaraderie.
-[Kevin] That's it.

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The thing, uh, when you are a stand-up,

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it's… it's a lonely gig.

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-[Kevin] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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[Chris] You're not...
You know, I'm friends with lots of...

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-Like, the Chili Peppers are my friends.
-[Kevin] Okay.

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[Chris] There's four of 'em!
You know what I mean?

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Four have a great show,
four have a bad show.

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They share that thing.

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When you're a stand-up, even though
you might have people with you,

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you have crew and everything,

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you are out there by yourself,

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and… yeah, it's… it's…

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The evening is you, up or down.

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Where this is like,
"Oh, okay. I get to work with Kev."

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♪ Wait, wake up, blessed up ♪

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-♪ Uh ♪
-♪ Hopped out, dripped up ♪

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-♪ Uh ♪
-♪ Paid dues, time's up ♪

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♪ Body bag zipped up
Rap God… ♪

238
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Tonight's the first night,

239
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and I get to get some rest,
and rightfully so,

240
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because tomorrow's day one. Jones Beach.

241
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♪ This the life
See, this the life I chose ♪

242
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♪ 505 we slept inside the cold ♪

243
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♪ Had to learn to cook without the stove ♪

244
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♪ Only thing that kept us hot was flows ♪

245
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♪ On my day was A1 honor roll… ♪

246
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[Kevin] Jones Beach, day one, Rock, Hart.
Get to touch the stage with my guy.

247
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♪ My only goal is I'mma die a GOAT
'Cause this the fucking life ♪

248
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♪ They offer pussy and power
They offer Gucci and fame ♪

249
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♪ They think I'm new to this money
They think I'm new to this game ♪

250
00:12:35,379 --> 00:12:39,216
♪ They wanna see us in whips
They wanna see us in chains ♪

251
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♪ Legacy, legacy, legacy ♪

252
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♪ They tryna ruin the name ♪

253
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♪ They offer pussy and power
They offer Gucci and fame ♪

254
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♪ Legacy, legacy, legacy ♪

255
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♪ Make 'em remember the name ♪

256
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[audience cheering]

257
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Yo!

258
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Uh, before I even start…

259
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Before I even start,

260
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let me… let me just say one thing.

261
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I'm okay.

262
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[laughter]

263
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[woman] Being in New York,
it's one of those make-or-break places.

264
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This is his hottest audience too.

265
00:13:10,748 --> 00:13:13,209
This is where he first got the most love
when he started.

266
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I started when I was, like, 18, 19.

267
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I had some advantages.

268
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I'm from New York,
so I didn't have to travel

269
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from another city to come to New York.

270
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You know what I mean?
So I just took a train from Brooklyn.

271
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But once I got good,
things moved really fast.

272
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Chris was compared, years ago,
to the young Eddie Murphy.

273
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I am from Roosevelt, Long Island.

274
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I grew up in an all Black neighborhood.
I did.

275
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Did you grow up
in an all Black neighborhood?

276
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A predominantly white neighborhood?

277
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See, 'cause, like, we've pretty much
taken over New York, the Blacks.

278
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Think about it.

279
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The whites are going,
"Hey, that's not funny!"

280
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[laughter]

281
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And he was kind of spotted

282
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at the same club
where Eddie Murphy was spotted

283
00:14:05,386 --> 00:14:06,303
and then managed.

284
00:14:06,387 --> 00:14:10,391
Coming up next to the stage
is a young performer, 21 years old.

285
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He's from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

286
00:14:12,434 --> 00:14:15,312
The Nat Turner of comedy, Mr. Chris Rock!

287
00:14:17,064 --> 00:14:17,898
So what's up?

288
00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:19,859
[audience shouting]

289
00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:25,447
[Jerry Seinfeld] This was a fully-formed
comedic energy that he found.

290
00:14:25,531 --> 00:14:27,950
It was in him. It's always been in him.

291
00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:31,787
You know, finding that person
inside of you that's the real you,

292
00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,456
that connects with people
that don't know you…

293
00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:36,584
So I was in South Africa the other day.

294
00:14:36,667 --> 00:14:38,210
[laughter]

295
00:14:38,294 --> 00:14:39,503
Or was it Boston?

296
00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:43,757
…and they instantly know you
from that joke.

297
00:14:43,841 --> 00:14:46,051
They go, "Oh, I get who this guy is."

298
00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:50,097
"This guy's funny.
This guy's got his own take,

299
00:14:50,180 --> 00:14:53,267
his own attitude, his own angle."

300
00:14:53,350 --> 00:14:55,019
Nobody else can find it for you.

301
00:14:56,312 --> 00:14:58,522
I love the opening scene
of There Will Be Blood.

302
00:14:58,606 --> 00:15:01,775
It's when Daniel Day-Lewis
is in that mine,

303
00:15:01,859 --> 00:15:04,111
and he's just hitting that rock.

304
00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:11,660
And then spitting on the stone
and rubbing.

305
00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:14,330
"Is there anything there?
Is there any gold there?"

306
00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:19,043
That, to me, is the greatest
visual metaphor for being a comedian

307
00:15:19,126 --> 00:15:20,336
that I've ever seen.

308
00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:24,965
Some people are just fuckin' funnier
than other people.

309
00:15:25,049 --> 00:15:26,508
When I was coming up,

310
00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:29,219
Roseanne Barr was funnier.

311
00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:32,723
Sam Kinison was funnier.

312
00:15:34,016 --> 00:15:36,060
Damon Wayans was funnier.

313
00:15:36,143 --> 00:15:38,729
Dennis Miller was absolutely…

314
00:15:38,812 --> 00:15:42,775
Jerry Seinfeld, absolutely funnier

315
00:15:42,858 --> 00:15:44,652
than the other comedians.

316
00:15:44,735 --> 00:15:47,571
My brother mastered the New York audience
by not trying to play

317
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to just one specific portion
of the New York audience.

318
00:15:52,076 --> 00:15:54,703
He's not a Black comic.
He didn't do just Black rooms.

319
00:15:55,287 --> 00:16:00,292
He's not a white comic. He didn't just do
the Upper West Side, the rooms there.

320
00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,504
He's a New York comic.
He speaks to everybody.

321
00:16:03,587 --> 00:16:05,923
[laughter]

322
00:16:06,006 --> 00:16:08,300
My father, man.
Everything is money to my father.

323
00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:11,345
You break something in my house,
you break that amount of money.

324
00:16:11,428 --> 00:16:14,348
If I broke this microphone,
my father, "Boy just broke $50."

325
00:16:14,431 --> 00:16:15,557
"$50!"

326
00:16:16,058 --> 00:16:18,560
I know I couldn't work
white audiences then.

327
00:16:18,644 --> 00:16:20,729
-I didn't know how to work…
-Right. Yeah.

328
00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:22,439
And I didn't… I knew how to work…

329
00:16:22,523 --> 00:16:25,567
I had one move,
and I thought he had one move.

330
00:16:25,651 --> 00:16:28,821
And he didn't. He could go left, right.
He could do it all. He could work…

331
00:16:28,904 --> 00:16:31,281
These audiences laugh
just as hard as the other ones.

332
00:16:31,365 --> 00:16:34,243
[Bill Burr] I think a big mistake
is blaming the crowd.

333
00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:37,037
A race could take over a crowd.

334
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:40,290
Like, the crowd, even though it was mixed,
it had a white vibe.

335
00:16:40,374 --> 00:16:41,625
Or it had, like, you know…

336
00:16:41,709 --> 00:16:45,504
Late night at, uh, the Comic Strip,
the late one, that one, that was Latino.

337
00:16:45,587 --> 00:16:47,881
That was Spanish Harlem
back when it was Spanish Harlem.

338
00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:49,842
It was Puerto Rican. It was that vibe.

339
00:16:49,925 --> 00:16:52,011
I'm probably the best comic
you'll see tonight.

340
00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:56,807
'Cause I'm Black, which means
I can say anything a white comic can say,

341
00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:59,435
plus a whole array of Black shit
they can't even touch.

342
00:16:59,935 --> 00:17:02,312
He was ambidextrous.
He could work anywhere.

343
00:17:02,396 --> 00:17:04,648
Like, if you can swim
in five feet of water,

344
00:17:04,732 --> 00:17:06,608
you can swim in a thousand feet of water,

345
00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:09,153
'cause the mechanism is all the same.

346
00:17:09,236 --> 00:17:11,280
His first TV appearance, Joan Rivers Show.

347
00:17:11,363 --> 00:17:14,033
Will you please welcome Chris Rock?

348
00:17:14,116 --> 00:17:16,118
[fanfare playing]

349
00:17:17,536 --> 00:17:19,455
[Chris] It wasn't just
The Joan Rivers Show..

350
00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:21,999
The very last Joan Rivers Show.

351
00:17:22,082 --> 00:17:23,792
Joan Rivers had just been canceled.

352
00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,253
Her husband had just shot himself
in the head.

353
00:17:26,336 --> 00:17:27,921
I went out there.

354
00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:30,924
I did, like, my first joke
or my second joke,

355
00:17:31,008 --> 00:17:34,553
and I wasn't doing well,
or at least wasn't doing well to me,

356
00:17:34,636 --> 00:17:37,014
so I switched the order

357
00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:41,310
and did my last line,
like, third or something,

358
00:17:41,393 --> 00:17:46,231
and it was just a cue to the band,
so I'm just, like, out there, like…

359
00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:48,400
It was, like, this thing…

360
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:51,779
And you came, and you gave,
and I told you, "What's up? Are you deaf?"

361
00:17:51,862 --> 00:17:53,864
[laughter and applause]

362
00:17:57,993 --> 00:17:59,244
[band playing]

363
00:17:59,328 --> 00:18:00,496
Thank you.

364
00:18:00,579 --> 00:18:02,581
[band continues to play upbeat music]

365
00:18:07,711 --> 00:18:08,712
[music stops]

366
00:18:10,714 --> 00:18:11,799
[man] That was great.

367
00:18:13,801 --> 00:18:14,968
[audience laughs]

368
00:18:15,052 --> 00:18:18,263
[Joan Rivers] Well, come on over, then.
Come on over!

369
00:18:18,347 --> 00:18:19,890
[audience cheering]

370
00:18:19,973 --> 00:18:21,141
[pensive music playing]

371
00:18:21,225 --> 00:18:23,852
[Chris] I was, like, a weird kid.
I had a Jheri curl.

372
00:18:24,353 --> 00:18:26,730
I mean, put it this way.
I had holes in my shoes.

373
00:18:26,814 --> 00:18:29,399
You know what I mean?
Like, I was, like, poor.

374
00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,236
It kinda was depressing to see,

375
00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:35,405
"Wow, he's on TV,
but he still sleeps in the room next door,

376
00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:37,783
so I guess
TV's not what we thought it was."

377
00:18:37,866 --> 00:18:40,828
We thought, "Where's the bag of money
that comes with being on TV?"

378
00:18:40,911 --> 00:18:43,163
"Where are the white girls?
Where's the car?"

379
00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:45,374
You know, "Let's get it.
What are we doing?"

380
00:18:45,457 --> 00:18:47,501
[pensive music playing]

381
00:18:47,584 --> 00:18:52,339
I was, like, this kid
that had a lot of promise and made…

382
00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:55,509
Like, it wasn't, like, a done deal
that I was gonna be anything.

383
00:18:55,592 --> 00:18:56,552
Yeah.

384
00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:58,720
But, uh, Eddie saw something in me that

385
00:19:00,472 --> 00:19:01,682
I didn't even know.

386
00:19:01,765 --> 00:19:04,226
You know, I wasn't even sure what it was.
You know what I mean?

387
00:19:04,309 --> 00:19:07,521
But he… he… Eddie saw it right away.

388
00:19:07,604 --> 00:19:10,899
Everything I've become,
Eddie Murphy told me I was gonna be

389
00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:12,276
the first day I met him.

390
00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:14,862
[chuckles] Like, straight up!

391
00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:19,032
[interviewer] And what happened?
Eddie Murphy saw you one night?

392
00:19:19,116 --> 00:19:21,660
One night. Just…
You know, I went to meet him.

393
00:19:22,494 --> 00:19:25,622
Uh, the guy at the club, the owner,
introduced me to him.

394
00:19:25,706 --> 00:19:27,207
He says to me, "When are you going up?"

395
00:19:27,291 --> 00:19:30,460
I was the last guy on the totem pole.
I wasn't even going up that night.

396
00:19:30,544 --> 00:19:33,463
I said, "I'm not up."
He said, "Put him on next."

397
00:19:33,547 --> 00:19:35,966
My brother's hanging out,
hoping that somebody doesn't show up

398
00:19:36,049 --> 00:19:38,093
so he can get on.
He's not even on the lineup.

399
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:40,929
Eddie comes with the entourage
and gloves with rings over the fingers,

400
00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:42,806
which is the weirdest shit I ever saw,

401
00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:45,309
and my brother begs the manager
to put him up that night

402
00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:47,311
because he wants Eddie to see his set.

403
00:19:47,394 --> 00:19:51,982
Well, I had a good set, did real well.
Knees shaking, real scared.

404
00:19:52,065 --> 00:19:54,234
And Eddie sees him,
sees this young, Black kid

405
00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:56,403
that was on the same stage
that he started,

406
00:19:56,486 --> 00:19:58,572
and now Eddie has questions.
"What are you doing?"

407
00:19:58,655 --> 00:20:01,742
"Who are you working with? Are you
working on anything? Are you going out?"

408
00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:05,120
My brother says, "Not much.
Just working, trying to get on."

409
00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:07,873
And Eddie says, "I might have
a role for you in a movie."

410
00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:10,834
He was prepping Beverly Hills Cop II.

411
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:13,587
[woman] No. What happened is
he comes running in the house

412
00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:15,714
about two o'clock that morning,
ran upstairs,

413
00:20:15,797 --> 00:20:17,758
and woke me up,
"Ma, I'm going to California."

414
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:18,842
I said, "No, you're not."

415
00:20:19,343 --> 00:20:22,054
He said, "I'm going to California."
I got very upset.

416
00:20:22,137 --> 00:20:25,807
I said, "You can't go. Eddie Murphy
might be on drugs or something."

417
00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:29,978
"You can't go with people you don't know,"
and, "You don't have enough money."

418
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:31,188
And I really fussed.

419
00:20:31,813 --> 00:20:35,484
He was grabbing clothes,
running down to the laundry room, washing,

420
00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:37,486
about two and three o'clock
in the morning.

421
00:20:37,569 --> 00:20:41,323
That was Sunday or Monday.
Monday, you were supposed to leave.

422
00:20:41,406 --> 00:20:44,159
And I just put my foot down.
I said, "You're not going."

423
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,328
And I got dressed,
and I went to the dentist,

424
00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:48,789
'cause I just assumed that he wouldn't go.

425
00:20:49,289 --> 00:20:52,834
His father got up,
took him out, met Eddie,

426
00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:55,212
put him on a plane, and sent him to LA.

427
00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:58,924
I get $10 for cars. I get $20 for limos.

428
00:20:59,007 --> 00:21:00,759
What the hell is this?

429
00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:02,344
My truck.

430
00:21:02,427 --> 00:21:05,138
[Kevin] Your Eddie story is you for me.

431
00:21:05,222 --> 00:21:06,848
The first… The first real…

432
00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:09,893
The first real comedic star

433
00:21:10,686 --> 00:21:13,939
that I had a conversation with
that was a star

434
00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:16,149
was Chris Rock that--

435
00:21:16,233 --> 00:21:17,734
-Really?!
-Think about it.

436
00:21:17,818 --> 00:21:20,737
At the Cellar. Shout out
to all of our people that we know.

437
00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:24,199
-Right, right.
-Patrice, Vos, Norton.

438
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:27,577
Robinson, Burr, Colin Quinn.

439
00:21:27,661 --> 00:21:29,079
It's weird how funny…

440
00:21:29,162 --> 00:21:32,582
Every guy you just said is a killer!

441
00:21:32,666 --> 00:21:35,002
They're some of the best comedians
to ever touch the stage.

442
00:21:35,085 --> 00:21:39,339
So when you popped your head
into the Comedy Cellar,

443
00:21:39,423 --> 00:21:41,425
when it happened, that was the big…

444
00:21:42,592 --> 00:21:44,094
[Chris laughs]

445
00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:48,515
The government
don't give a fuck about you, man.

446
00:21:48,598 --> 00:21:51,643
The reason coke and weed
are illegal in America

447
00:21:51,727 --> 00:21:53,353
ain't 'cause they bad for you.

448
00:21:53,437 --> 00:21:55,814
The reason coke and weed
are illegal in America

449
00:21:55,897 --> 00:21:58,692
is 'cause the best coke and weed
ain't made in America.

450
00:21:58,775 --> 00:21:59,818
[audience cheering]

451
00:21:59,901 --> 00:22:02,112
That was a big fuckin' deal,
and for a while,

452
00:22:02,779 --> 00:22:05,198
fly on the wall, I'm the guy in the back,

453
00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:08,660
and I'm watching the conversations
and, you know, just listening,

454
00:22:08,744 --> 00:22:12,914
and eventually, it got to the point
where, "Hey, man," I can introduce myself.

455
00:22:12,998 --> 00:22:16,168
And, you know, you weren't a dick.
"How you doing, man?" Keith Robinson--

456
00:22:16,251 --> 00:22:20,839
You know what's funny though?
The attitude you have no one has anymore.

457
00:22:20,922 --> 00:22:23,091
-[Kevin] -Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
-[laughs]

458
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:27,137
Like, I used to go up to Rodney… I'd be
so humbly going up to Rodney Dangerfield

459
00:22:27,220 --> 00:22:29,639
or humbly going up to… "How are you?"

460
00:22:30,265 --> 00:22:33,310
These motherfuckers be like,
"You don't know me, nigga?"

461
00:22:33,810 --> 00:22:35,270
[Kevin] "Don't know me from my page?"

462
00:22:36,063 --> 00:22:38,857
-"You don't know me from Instagram?"
-[Kevin] Yeah, "From IG?"

463
00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:40,317
-"You don't see all my--"
-"Nigga?"

464
00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:46,365
"We should do a tour together."
I'm like, "Who are you, motherfucker?!"

465
00:22:46,948 --> 00:22:48,116
[Kevin] I watched it.

466
00:22:48,909 --> 00:22:50,786
I watched that motherfucker like a hawk.

467
00:22:51,703 --> 00:22:53,663
I talked to him. I asked him questions.

468
00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:56,416
Chris answered my questions.

469
00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,086
He embraced me as a young comic,

470
00:22:59,169 --> 00:23:01,880
and, for that, I will forever be grateful.

471
00:23:02,422 --> 00:23:05,342
And, as I got better,
he made me aware of it.

472
00:23:05,425 --> 00:23:11,223
I think… I think it's a fuckin'
slap in the face if you are a comic

473
00:23:11,306 --> 00:23:16,812
and you do have the opportunity
to watch a legend be a legend,

474
00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:19,731
or you watch and you see
what makes the legend the legend.

475
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:22,818
Wait, was I famous
and you, like, had a regular job?

476
00:23:22,901 --> 00:23:26,029
I was at City Sports.
I was at City Sports.

477
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:28,281
-I was working at City Sports.
-That is amazing.

478
00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:33,787
Bigger & Blacker came at a time
where I was working as a shoe salesman.

479
00:23:33,870 --> 00:23:39,418
Your comedic rise, um, it was in my…

480
00:23:39,501 --> 00:23:41,336
You're talking about me as a young adult.

481
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,589
You're talking about me 18, 19.

482
00:23:52,013 --> 00:23:54,307
The option to do stand-up
was brought up to me

483
00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:56,852
by the people around me
that thought I was funny.

484
00:23:57,894 --> 00:24:01,398
I was shocked when they brought it up.
It was like, "You should try comedy,"

485
00:24:01,481 --> 00:24:02,691
and I was like, "Where?"

486
00:24:04,151 --> 00:24:06,027
They gave me all this information.

487
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:08,697
Went to the amateur nights,
watched comedy after work.

488
00:24:09,197 --> 00:24:11,783
Like, "Kev, you should do it."
They told me it was on a Thursday.

489
00:24:12,742 --> 00:24:15,078
Told 'em I would.
I said, "Give me a week. I'mma sign up."

490
00:24:19,416 --> 00:24:23,545
Without any type
of stand-up-comedy experience, knowledge,

491
00:24:23,628 --> 00:24:28,091
I knew enough to know it should be
one joke, then a joke, then a joke.

492
00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:30,969
It should be an opener,
some stuff in the middle,

493
00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:32,762
and then what am I gonna get off on?

494
00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:34,806
-[camera clicks]
-[Kevin] Like, I had the beats.

495
00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:41,313
Over the course of five, six days.
I wrote up these jokes,

496
00:24:41,396 --> 00:24:43,064
and on amateur night, I was hype.

497
00:24:43,815 --> 00:24:44,691
I was hype.

498
00:24:49,738 --> 00:24:51,948
My name is Keith Robinson.

499
00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:54,534
I'm from Philadelphia.

500
00:24:54,618 --> 00:24:56,203
South Philly.

501
00:24:57,913 --> 00:25:00,415
People love pets
more than they like human beings.

502
00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:02,959
Remember they tried
to make pit bulls friendly.

503
00:25:03,043 --> 00:25:05,879
"Oh, pit bulls are friendly!"
Pit bulls have never been friendly.

504
00:25:06,379 --> 00:25:08,798
You never seen a commercial
with a pit bull catching a Frisbee,

505
00:25:08,882 --> 00:25:10,342
taking it back to a little boy.

506
00:25:11,968 --> 00:25:13,637
Any dog that walk like this…

507
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,722
[laughter]

508
00:25:20,268 --> 00:25:21,686
In, like, '98,

509
00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:24,523
I would go to The Laff House

510
00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:28,068
and see what young comics
are doing their thing.

511
00:25:29,152 --> 00:25:32,948
So I seen a guy named Kevin Hart.

512
00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:36,952
But he called himself, at that time,

513
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,372
Lil' Kev the Bastard.

514
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:48,213
[chuckles] Little Kev the Bastard.
Lil'. Lil' Kev the Bastard.

515
00:25:48,296 --> 00:25:51,508
I'm like, "What? Lil' Kev the Bastard?
What are you, a wrestler?"

516
00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:55,720
A very funny man,
let's give it up for Lil' Kev! Lil' Kev!

517
00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:57,806
[cheering]

518
00:25:57,889 --> 00:25:59,891
[hip-hop music playing]

519
00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:04,729
-Cut it off, cut it off! Cut it off!
-[music stops]

520
00:26:04,813 --> 00:26:06,231
[laughter]

521
00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:11,111
That is my song right there.
I'm gonna get hype, ready to do my thing.

522
00:26:11,194 --> 00:26:13,655
Put it on so I can get hype,
so I can feel myself.

523
00:26:13,738 --> 00:26:15,740
Have a great time.
See, that's how you gotta…

524
00:26:15,824 --> 00:26:16,825
[music playing]

525
00:26:16,908 --> 00:26:19,160
Cut it off, cut it off!
That's it. That's all I need.

526
00:26:19,911 --> 00:26:21,204
That's all I need.

527
00:26:21,288 --> 00:26:23,123
"First of all," I said, "Number one,

528
00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:26,376
get rid of Lil' Kev the Bastard."

529
00:26:27,294 --> 00:26:28,420
"I don't want that."

530
00:26:29,129 --> 00:26:30,380
"What's your full name?"

531
00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:33,550
"Kevin Hart," in a little squeaky voice.

532
00:26:33,633 --> 00:26:34,718
"Kevin Hart."

533
00:26:34,801 --> 00:26:37,387
He almost said, "Sir." [laughs]

534
00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:39,139
"I want you to come to New York."

535
00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:45,520
And the first place Kevin Hart came to
was The Comic Strip,

536
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:48,815
and that was the start of Kev in New York.

537
00:26:50,442 --> 00:26:54,362
The New York comedy scene
is what actually made me a comic.

538
00:26:54,446 --> 00:26:57,240
Right? Or, uh, a comedian.

539
00:26:57,782 --> 00:27:00,076
Um, I was a guy doing stand-up, right?

540
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,164
I was performing,
but I wasn't necessarily a comedian.

541
00:27:04,247 --> 00:27:06,082
New York is what shaped and molded me

542
00:27:06,166 --> 00:27:09,586
into the clear-cut definition
of what that is.

543
00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:13,590
New York, what I… what I think
it gave me was speed.

544
00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:18,637
New York has a… definitely has
a faster pace than other cities,

545
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,680
any other city in America.

546
00:27:21,264 --> 00:27:22,807
[Dave Chappelle] There were many nights,

547
00:27:22,891 --> 00:27:26,394
where I would play as many as 13, 14 shows
in a single night.

548
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:28,688
Twenty-minute sets, but still, 14 of 'em.

549
00:27:28,772 --> 00:27:33,401
So if I came up with a new joke idea
the second show,

550
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,779
I could do it 11 more times
in a single night.

551
00:27:35,862 --> 00:27:41,826
So our process of refinement in New York
was quicker than, say, a comic in LA.

552
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:44,204
A comic in LA would say,
"Hey, I saw you on Letterman."

553
00:27:44,287 --> 00:27:45,538
New York comic would be working.

554
00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:48,541
[suspenseful upbeat music playing]

555
00:27:50,377 --> 00:27:53,588
[Kevin] When you're a comic, the energy
that you get from New York City

556
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:54,631
is like nothing else.

557
00:27:54,714 --> 00:27:57,300
You're at comedy clubs
until 3:00 in the morning.

558
00:27:57,842 --> 00:28:01,388
3:00, 4:00 in the morning,
you're hanging out, standing outside,

559
00:28:01,471 --> 00:28:03,306
eating pizza, talking to other comics,

560
00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:06,976
and you're thinking about being funny,
talking about being funny,

561
00:28:07,060 --> 00:28:08,728
with funny people.

562
00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:11,147
I know the crew I came up with,

563
00:28:11,231 --> 00:28:15,151
Sandler and Colin Quinn and Jerry,

564
00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:16,903
you know, made me tough.

565
00:28:16,986 --> 00:28:18,238
And your New York crew is…

566
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:23,201
My God, Burr and Patrice and Louis.

567
00:28:23,284 --> 00:28:25,328
I mean… brutal. Like…

568
00:28:25,412 --> 00:28:26,913
-Brutal.
-Your New York crew.

569
00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:29,457
And I swear, man,
I'm not no asshole. I… I… I…

570
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:31,084
[laughter]

571
00:28:31,167 --> 00:28:33,253
I… I started crying, you know.

572
00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:35,255
You know, I cried 'cause I… 'cause I…

573
00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:36,840
'cause I couldn't give a fuck.

574
00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:38,133
[laughter]

575
00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:40,885
Patrice O'Neal fed off of your discomfort.

576
00:28:41,594 --> 00:28:46,141
So you looking a certain way
or making a face

577
00:28:46,850 --> 00:28:50,645
at the audacity of the nerve
for him to say the things that he said,

578
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:54,691
it fueled his comedic genius.

579
00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:59,195
I remember when fuckin' Patrice
threw a phone book at me

580
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:00,405
as I'm performing.

581
00:29:00,488 --> 00:29:04,033
Out the corner of my eye,
I see something in the fuckin' air.

582
00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:05,702
What?

583
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:07,704
It's a phone book.

584
00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:12,041
Dude, what the fuck?!

585
00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:16,337
He said, "You're better off
if you read that to the audience."

586
00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:24,512
"Read the phone book to the audience."

587
00:29:25,054 --> 00:29:27,056
That was 100% out of love.

588
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:30,477
It was 100%…
It was us saying, "You're one of us."

589
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,022
That we know,
despite where your mumbling act is at,

590
00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:36,858
that you're gonna be one of us,
and we like you.

591
00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:40,528
-You guys threw phone books at me--
-[Bill] I never did that.

592
00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:42,322
Patrice did it. You were there.

593
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:44,616
Well, he's dead,
so fuckin' talk to him about it.

594
00:29:44,699 --> 00:29:46,367
All right, well, I can't, obviously.

595
00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:50,205
This, by the way…
RIP, Patrice, that's Bill.

596
00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:51,122
That's not me.

597
00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:52,624
-What, him? Fuck him!
-Okay.

598
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,043
I've been doing a benefit for him
for ten years.

599
00:29:55,126 --> 00:29:57,378
He wouldn't have done
fuckin' ten minutes for me.

600
00:29:57,879 --> 00:29:58,963
You know he wouldn't!

601
00:29:59,589 --> 00:30:02,675
"Is it all the way New York? I'm not
driving through the fuckin' tunnel."

602
00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:03,718
I still love him.

603
00:30:05,011 --> 00:30:07,388
[laughs] See? You know.

604
00:30:07,472 --> 00:30:10,517
There you go. There's some comedy.
It's 'cause it's true.

605
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,893
"Hey, stupid."

606
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:14,562
That's what Keith would call me, "stupid."

607
00:30:15,271 --> 00:30:17,190
"You work on your set, stupid?"

608
00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:20,401
"Fix those last jokes.
Your ending stinks."

609
00:30:21,611 --> 00:30:23,154
"They don't know who you are."

610
00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:25,323
"Talk about who you are, stupid."

611
00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,827
It was always advice.
It was always information.

612
00:30:29,869 --> 00:30:30,787
They were always right.

613
00:30:30,870 --> 00:30:33,164
With Keith, you know, that's a…

614
00:30:33,957 --> 00:30:35,041
That's a Jedi.

615
00:30:35,708 --> 00:30:37,001
Keith is an oracle.

616
00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:39,963
He's one of those individuals
that you go through in comedy

617
00:30:40,046 --> 00:30:41,548
and so many people have heard of.

618
00:30:41,631 --> 00:30:43,049
Ah, shit.

619
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:46,636
It took me about an hour and a half
to get down here.

620
00:30:46,719 --> 00:30:47,720
[laughter]

621
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:50,390
Nah, man,
you see they built that just for me.

622
00:30:51,057 --> 00:30:54,435
Well, I had a second…
Just had a second stroke.

623
00:30:55,812 --> 00:30:57,689
No, not just now, motherfuckers.

624
00:30:57,772 --> 00:30:58,940
[laughter]

625
00:31:00,191 --> 00:31:05,113
Keith would drive from Philadelphia
to New York and back

626
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:07,782
every night.

627
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:11,703
Why? Because he was taking care
of his mother in Philadelphia.

628
00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:13,872
He was her caregiver.

629
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:16,666
And then still brought Kevin Hart
up from Philadelphia,

630
00:31:16,749 --> 00:31:20,378
mentored him, taught him the game,
took him around.

631
00:31:20,461 --> 00:31:23,715
So I told Kev, my first thing to Kev,

632
00:31:23,798 --> 00:31:25,550
"Get yourself a tape."

633
00:31:27,176 --> 00:31:28,553
"I wanna see a tape."

634
00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:30,889
"With material on it."

635
00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:35,101
Dave Attell, who's still a client,
who's, like, the New York comedian…

636
00:31:35,184 --> 00:31:37,353
Drinking and driving,
a lot of people say it's wrong,

637
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,230
and I call these people the cops.

638
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:40,231
But you know what?

639
00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:41,149
[laughter]

640
00:31:41,232 --> 00:31:44,277
Sometimes you got no choice.
Those kids gotta get to school.

641
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,570
Am I right?

642
00:31:45,653 --> 00:31:50,825
And must've been in '99 or 2000,
maybe 2000,

643
00:31:52,076 --> 00:31:54,704
Dave Attell called me
and told me about this kid Kevin Hart.

644
00:31:54,787 --> 00:31:56,831
I'm like,
"You never tell me about anyone."

645
00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:59,000
There's a tape of him at Caroline's.

646
00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:01,461
Like a homemade,
from-the-back-of-the-room tape.

647
00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:05,048
I remember putting it in and a couple
of assistants and us watching it.

648
00:32:05,131 --> 00:32:07,383
He was making himself vulnerable,

649
00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:11,429
and I hadn't seen
a lot of comedians doing that.

650
00:32:11,512 --> 00:32:13,932
Just to get something off my chest
before I even start.

651
00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:16,976
Everything I say up here tonight
is a joke, okay?

652
00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:18,353
It is nothing else.

653
00:32:18,436 --> 00:32:20,897
I don't want nobody
taking none of this too serious.

654
00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:23,399
I don't need nobody coming up to me
after the show,

655
00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:26,110
talking about, "Who's the funny one now?"

656
00:32:26,194 --> 00:32:27,028
All that.

657
00:32:27,862 --> 00:32:31,532
He was just hilarious.
He was, like, 22 years old.

658
00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,202
Look, did I know
this was gonna happen? No.

659
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:36,287
["Helicopter" by Bloc Party playing]

660
00:32:42,752 --> 00:32:44,963
[Rosalie] This is a homecoming for Chris.

661
00:32:45,046 --> 00:32:46,255
You know, it's hot.

662
00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:48,716
["Helicopter" continues]

663
00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:54,305
[Tony] I told my agent
when I saw they were in New York,

664
00:32:54,389 --> 00:32:56,224
"Don't book anything that weekend."

665
00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:59,143
I buy my ticket. I get my Airbnb.

666
00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:01,062
I'm coming home.
I haven't been home in a while.

667
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:02,981
♪ Empty ♪

668
00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:05,692
♪ Running on… ♪

669
00:33:06,442 --> 00:33:08,861
I was looking forward
to coming home and eating pizza

670
00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:11,614
and running around,
seeing Puerto Rican girls, all that.

671
00:33:11,698 --> 00:33:14,659
But I have to be at these shows.

672
00:33:14,742 --> 00:33:16,369
♪ He'll die a liar ♪

673
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:19,455
♪ Some things will never be different ♪

674
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,297
My dad worked at the New York Daily News.

675
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:30,133
The hub of the New York Daily News

676
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:32,510
is the same ground
that the Barclays Center sits on.

677
00:33:32,593 --> 00:33:34,595
[somber music playing]

678
00:33:39,225 --> 00:33:41,728
When the New York Daily News
moved to New Jersey,

679
00:33:42,228 --> 00:33:45,023
they tore that facility down
and built the Barclays.

680
00:33:46,983 --> 00:33:49,694
That's why it was so important.
This was the ground Dad worked on.

681
00:33:49,777 --> 00:33:51,029
[somber music continues]

682
00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:57,201
[Chris] In 1988, my father died,

683
00:33:58,369 --> 00:34:03,458
and, you know, a year and a half later,
we lost our house.

684
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:05,501
Like, shit happens.

685
00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:08,921
So, you know, like…

686
00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:10,882
It's like, "Huh? What?"

687
00:34:12,425 --> 00:34:17,096
You know what I mean? In '89, it was like,
"Oh, there's a pink sticker on our house."

688
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:21,059
And my brother goes here…
Like, the family separates.

689
00:34:21,142 --> 00:34:24,562
And, you know,
we're still reeling from that shit.

690
00:34:28,357 --> 00:34:31,444
We act like my father died suddenly.

691
00:34:32,153 --> 00:34:35,281
No. If you look at the statistics,
he died right on time.

692
00:34:38,868 --> 00:34:44,082
Until recently, you know,
the average Black man dies in his fifties.

693
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:47,668
So, if you're the oldest, you're always…

694
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:54,133
Your whole life is… You're being groomed
for your parents' death.

695
00:34:57,303 --> 00:34:59,597
Your whole life.
That's why they're so hard on you.

696
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,559
'Cause Black men,
especially poor Black men,

697
00:35:03,643 --> 00:35:06,354
die in their fifties.

698
00:35:08,564 --> 00:35:10,983
Chris was the oldest sibling
at the house at the time,

699
00:35:11,067 --> 00:35:13,486
so a lot of responsibilities
had to fall on him.

700
00:35:13,569 --> 00:35:16,781
He had to help out with,
uh, you know, light, gas, mortgage.

701
00:35:16,864 --> 00:35:21,577
So he had to assume responsibilities
I don't think he anticipated, you know?

702
00:35:21,661 --> 00:35:23,663
[somber music continues]

703
00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:30,294
He was the oldest. He was the kid
that my dad poured everything into,

704
00:35:30,378 --> 00:35:34,924
and he had to be a man the next day,
and it was like a switch.

705
00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:37,510
What's your father's job in life?

706
00:35:37,593 --> 00:35:40,555
It's to interrupt you
when you're getting ready to do something.

707
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:44,809
You know, you can sit in your house
all day doing nothing.

708
00:35:45,476 --> 00:35:48,479
The second you got something to do,
that's when your father, "Hey."

709
00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:49,689
"These dishes, huh?"

710
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:53,276
What about those other nine hours
I was laying down?

711
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:57,613
He would be at the comedy club,
and he would have spots,

712
00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,074
or what he might do is, uh,

713
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:02,451
if he didn't have anything else
booked for the night,

714
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:05,496
he might go in the car and take a nap
or go and get something to eat.

715
00:36:06,706 --> 00:36:08,332
During the time my dad passed,

716
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:12,962
I think the way he… he grieved with it
was more so he just kept working.

717
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:14,297
We were coming to clubs

718
00:36:14,881 --> 00:36:18,009
and the guys we thought
were names that we saw on TV,

719
00:36:18,509 --> 00:36:20,553
they're going up
and my brother's behind 'em.

720
00:36:20,636 --> 00:36:24,182
Famous people walk in, and they go up,
and my brother goes up right behind 'em.

721
00:36:24,682 --> 00:36:27,435
And the famous person knows my brother.
It's like, "This is big."

722
00:36:29,312 --> 00:36:32,523
Chris was ready to do,
you know, bigger stages.

723
00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:36,277
And then Chris went
to Saturday Night Live.

724
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:39,238
Here's what happened.

725
00:36:40,156 --> 00:36:43,034
In Living Color
was the biggest thing on television.

726
00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:49,290
Saturday Night Live had not had
a Black cast member for nine years.

727
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,963
So… 'Cause, uh, Damon Wayans
had been fired, like, nine years earlier.

728
00:36:56,672 --> 00:36:59,258
So… And he was barely on the show,

729
00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:00,885
so they kinda…

730
00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:01,802
In the…

731
00:37:02,762 --> 00:37:07,308
In the public's eye, Saturday Night Live
hadn't had a Black cast member

732
00:37:08,184 --> 00:37:09,727
since Eddie Murphy, really.

733
00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:18,027
I got on Saturday Night Live
kinda through… through affirmative action.

734
00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:21,822
Do I get on SNL
if there's no In Living Color?

735
00:37:22,698 --> 00:37:23,574
Probably not.

736
00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:26,619
[man] The Dark Side with Nat X.

737
00:37:26,702 --> 00:37:28,704
[applause]

738
00:37:30,873 --> 00:37:32,208
Peace, brothers and sisters.

739
00:37:32,291 --> 00:37:35,002
I'm Nat X, and welcome to The Dark Side,

740
00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:38,047
the only 15-minute show on TV.

741
00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:39,966
Why only 15 minutes?

742
00:37:40,049 --> 00:37:42,093
'Cause if the man gave me any more,

743
00:37:42,176 --> 00:37:44,053
he would consider that welfare.

744
00:37:44,136 --> 00:37:45,805
I didn't go to college.

745
00:37:46,722 --> 00:37:48,599
I barely went to high school.

746
00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:54,230
So SNL was the first school
I actually embraced

747
00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:56,565
and actually learned,

748
00:37:56,649 --> 00:37:59,777
and I had great professors.

749
00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:02,613
You know, Conan O'Brien
was a writer on the show

750
00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:04,657
when I was on the show.

751
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:08,869
Bob Odenkirk,
the great Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul,

752
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:13,416
was a writer on the show
who really took his time with me.

753
00:38:13,499 --> 00:38:15,376
I had an office with me,

754
00:38:15,459 --> 00:38:19,839
Adam Sandler, Chris Farley,
and David Spade,

755
00:38:19,922 --> 00:38:21,299
shared an office.

756
00:38:21,382 --> 00:38:24,010
You know, Mike Myers
was, like, around the corner.

757
00:38:26,262 --> 00:38:29,640
You know, it was like
I was in the X-Men school of comedy.

758
00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:32,852
We had only watched SNL for Eddie Murphy.

759
00:38:32,935 --> 00:38:35,563
Who's the Black guy
that's on there now? My brother.

760
00:38:38,482 --> 00:38:41,152
Saturday Night Live
is not about stand-up comedy.

761
00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:43,612
Doing sketch comedy or improv or acting

762
00:38:43,696 --> 00:38:46,365
is the opposite
of learning to become a comedian.

763
00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:51,078
Learning to become a comedian
is learning to be you.

764
00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:54,040
I would love to see Batman fight crime

765
00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:55,166
in my neighborhood.

766
00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:56,292
[laughter]

767
00:38:56,375 --> 00:38:57,376
Yeah.

768
00:38:57,918 --> 00:38:59,045
He'd be like, "Robin."

769
00:39:00,212 --> 00:39:01,255
"Yes, Batman."

770
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:06,802
"Didn't we park the car right here, man?
I swear it was here a minute ago."

771
00:39:06,886 --> 00:39:09,388
I opened for Chris Rock
when I was in high school.

772
00:39:09,472 --> 00:39:10,723
First time I met him.

773
00:39:10,806 --> 00:39:13,476
He was playing in DC all that week,
and I'd follow him around,

774
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:16,520
'cause, in those days,
it was rare to see a Black headliner.

775
00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:20,483
He was hot as a pistol
'cause he'd just done, uh, New Jack City.

776
00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,068
Bam! Ps-ew! I'm out.

777
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:24,820
You want to do this correct or not, man?
17, man!

778
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,615
Yo, let me see the money. Whassup?

779
00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:29,617
The greenroom at the Comedy Connection

780
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:34,205
was the first time I can remember he and I
speaking to one another at length.

781
00:39:34,288 --> 00:39:37,708
He was talking me through the decision
of whether I should go to college.

782
00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:39,293
[interviewer] How did that work out?

783
00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:43,130
Well, I ended up not going to college.
I did the right thing.

784
00:39:43,672 --> 00:39:47,176
Sometimes it feels
like nobody gives a damn,

785
00:39:47,259 --> 00:39:50,930
nobody wants to give you any advice,
and nobody is trying to help you,

786
00:39:51,013 --> 00:39:54,141
but I know of Chris Rock
helping out a few people, okay?

787
00:39:54,225 --> 00:39:57,853
And doing some momentous,
like, big things.

788
00:39:57,937 --> 00:40:02,400
Like, okay, so Chris Rock looked out
for Wanda Sykes, put her on, right?

789
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,819
And you see what's happened
with her career. Huge.

790
00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,279
Now, if I spend $400 for a gun,

791
00:40:08,030 --> 00:40:10,616
I'm shooting somebody,
you know what I'm talking about?

792
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,245
Flesh wound, pinky finger,
somebody's getting shot.

793
00:40:14,870 --> 00:40:18,249
I refuse to let a $400 gun go to waste.

794
00:40:18,332 --> 00:40:21,127
Avon lady, ding-dong, boom!

795
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:23,337
[laughter and applause]

796
00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,966
If you are confident in your craft,

797
00:40:27,049 --> 00:40:30,261
when you see someone else
who has potential,

798
00:40:30,344 --> 00:40:32,805
you want them to be…
You want them to be better.

799
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:43,232
I have asked my brother
for five favors my entire life.

800
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,527
He said no to all five favors,

801
00:40:47,361 --> 00:40:49,947
and I swore to the heavens above

802
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:53,576
that I would never ask him
for another favor as long as I live.

803
00:40:53,659 --> 00:40:56,036
And for 20 years, I didn't.

804
00:40:57,246 --> 00:40:58,747
So I come home this weekend,

805
00:40:59,915 --> 00:41:01,792
I go to the greenroom after the show.

806
00:41:02,376 --> 00:41:04,670
It's a big to-do,
and I'm just standing in the corner.

807
00:41:05,504 --> 00:41:08,674
And I literally say to myself
in that moment,

808
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:12,470
"I know you said you would never do it,
but if you don't say anything right now,

809
00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:17,183
this is the opportunity of a lifetime
that you're gonna regret not speaking up."

810
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:20,144
"He's probably gonna say no
'cause that's what he does,

811
00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:23,105
but at least you put it out there
in front of all these people."

812
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,526
"So how are we doing this Monday?"

813
00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:29,612
"'Cause it's the Barclays."

814
00:41:29,695 --> 00:41:31,447
"Hey, Mommy lives across the street."

815
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,282
"What we doing Monday?"

816
00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:35,242
Everybody's…

817
00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:38,829
Chrissy's on the couch.
We call Chris Chrissy.

818
00:41:38,913 --> 00:41:42,124
Chris… Chrissy's sitting on the couch.
He says, "We'll figure it out."

819
00:41:42,625 --> 00:41:45,836
And I say, "All right, everybody,
you heard it." "We'll figure it out."

820
00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:47,963
"I'm out." I leave.

821
00:41:50,049 --> 00:41:54,553
Sunday, I go to bed, I say my prayers,
put it in the Most High's hands.

822
00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:57,139
If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.
I'm still gonna support.

823
00:41:57,223 --> 00:41:58,974
It's the Barclays, Brooklyn, home.

824
00:41:59,058 --> 00:42:02,228
And I'm in the car
on my way to the Barclays,

825
00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:05,606
and I get to the foot
of the Manhattan Bridge,

826
00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,943
about to come over the Manhattan Bridge
into Brooklyn,

827
00:42:09,026 --> 00:42:13,280
and my phone goes off, and I look,
and it says, "You're on the show tonight."

828
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:17,618
And I fuckin' lose my mind.

829
00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:21,413
[announcer] Brooklyn, give it up for my
man, Tony Rock, y'all. Let me hear it!

830
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:23,290
Brooklyn, what up?

831
00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:27,461
Y'all thought y'all wasn't gonna see me?!

832
00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:30,089
I'm from here!

833
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:35,719
I told my brother, "I wish you would do
a show in Brooklyn and not put me on."

834
00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:39,139
"I'll come onstage
and slap the shit outta you again."

835
00:42:41,016 --> 00:42:44,353
[Chris] Tony's always been
better at everything. [laughs]

836
00:42:44,436 --> 00:42:46,272
Growing up, honestly… People…

837
00:42:46,355 --> 00:42:48,857
I don't say that
just to be, like, placating.

838
00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:49,942
Tony's…

839
00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:53,279
He's taller, and he's handsome,

840
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:55,823
and he's a great athlete,
and he can fight,

841
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:57,950
and he can play basketball.

842
00:42:58,033 --> 00:43:00,119
He's just, like, this cool guy.

843
00:43:00,786 --> 00:43:03,622
It was great, just 'cause my mom was there

844
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:06,625
to watch Tony, to watch all of us.

845
00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:12,298
And, I don't know, it just felt
like the whole family was together.

846
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,968
For one night,
the Rock boys were in the building,

847
00:43:16,051 --> 00:43:17,219
It was a beautiful thing.

848
00:43:17,303 --> 00:43:19,805
["Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…)"
by Jay-Z playing]

849
00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:27,605
[Kevin] Chris, come back up here.
Get your ass back on this stage, man.

850
00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:32,234
Make some fucking noise
for my brother, man!

851
00:43:32,318 --> 00:43:34,320
[cheering]

852
00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,489
I'mma ask you again.

853
00:43:37,573 --> 00:43:40,409
Make some fuckin' noise for my brother.

854
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,162
[cheering and applause]

855
00:43:44,496 --> 00:43:45,414
[Kevin] Hey.

856
00:43:46,498 --> 00:43:49,501
Chris Rock is not just a friend.
He's not just a brother.

857
00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:50,711
This is my mentor.

858
00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:55,299
This is the reason
why I stand where I stand today.

859
00:43:55,382 --> 00:43:57,384
[cheering and applause]

860
00:43:58,427 --> 00:44:02,514
It's so important to me to make sure my
brother understands the impact he's had,

861
00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:06,602
not on my comedy, but on the whole
fuckin' entire world of comedy.

862
00:44:06,685 --> 00:44:09,521
Coming to Brooklyn,
I felt would be the best place

863
00:44:09,605 --> 00:44:14,109
to show this nigga in real time
what the fuck he means to stand-up comedy.

864
00:44:15,444 --> 00:44:17,071
-I love you.
-I love you, brother.

865
00:44:17,154 --> 00:44:18,072
[Kevin] I mean it.

866
00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:20,366
I mean it.

867
00:44:20,449 --> 00:44:22,284
Talk to your people, man.

868
00:44:22,368 --> 00:44:23,952
Brooklyn!

869
00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:26,664
Bed-Stuy! Rock break!

870
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:28,916
♪ The Roc boys in the building tonight ♪

871
00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:31,418
♪ Oh, what a feeling, I'm feeling life ♪

872
00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:33,671
♪ You don't even
Gotta bring your paper out ♪

873
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:36,215
♪ We the dope boys of the year
Drinks is on the house ♪

874
00:44:36,298 --> 00:44:39,051
-♪ We in the house ♪
-♪ The Roc boys in the building tonight ♪

875
00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:41,595
♪ Look at how I'm chilling
I'm killing this ice ♪

876
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:44,223
♪ You don't even
Gotta bring your purses out… ♪

877
00:44:44,306 --> 00:44:46,809
You know, seeing Chris's mom backstage
was so dope.

878
00:44:48,769 --> 00:44:52,439
Honestly, it's like… It's probably
one of the few times where I'm jealous.

879
00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:53,691
[music fades]

880
00:44:56,318 --> 00:44:59,613
The biggest reward to your parents
is just seeing their child

881
00:45:01,281 --> 00:45:02,408
figure it out.

882
00:45:04,827 --> 00:45:07,287
I wish my mom
could've seen me figure it out,

883
00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:10,541
but the idea of my mom being backstage
would've been dope as fuck.

884
00:45:16,588 --> 00:45:19,550
[man] A thousand percent,
my brother get his drive from my mom.

885
00:45:19,633 --> 00:45:20,509
Thousand percent.

886
00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:25,055
Our household growing up, Mom…
Mom basically did everything.

887
00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:27,474
My dad's in and out of prison, you know.

888
00:45:28,016 --> 00:45:30,936
My mom, she said,
"Hey, you gonna do it, do your best."

889
00:45:31,019 --> 00:45:32,187
That was my mom.

890
00:45:32,688 --> 00:45:35,315
"If you're gonna do it…"
"Let me do this shit right the first time

891
00:45:35,399 --> 00:45:38,402
because this lady ain't gonna let me sleep
until I get this done."

892
00:45:38,485 --> 00:45:40,738
She was a beast, an absolute beast.

893
00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:44,533
[Tiffany] Single Black moms have to be

894
00:45:44,616 --> 00:45:46,827
some of the strongest people
on this planet.

895
00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:49,121
It is not easy to raise a child,

896
00:45:49,204 --> 00:45:51,999
and it's definitely not easy
to do it by yourself.

897
00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:54,835
I don't care what color you are,
it's hard, period.

898
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,672
But there's… It's a little bit harder
for a Black woman.

899
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:01,175
I know a lot of Black women
are tired of hearing this.

900
00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:04,052
"Be strong.
You gotta be strong. You're so strong."

901
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:06,180
No. Sometimes I need to be held.

902
00:46:09,808 --> 00:46:11,560
It's not easy to be strong.

903
00:46:12,436 --> 00:46:16,607
And I think people think like, you know,
just 'cause you Black, you got it. Like…

904
00:46:18,484 --> 00:46:21,236
Saturday and Sunday. June 13th.

905
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,738
This is Nancy Hart,

906
00:46:22,821 --> 00:46:26,366
and we're taping this
for Rob and Kev Hart.

907
00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,118
Gonna be a Happy Father's Day.

908
00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:31,330
So my mom ends up… She got ovarian cancer.

909
00:46:31,413 --> 00:46:36,043
Lady's crazy. She don't tell us shit.
She's been going to the doctor for a year,

910
00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:39,046
and it's metastasized to a point where
there's nothing they can do about it.

911
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:42,299
So by the time I find out,
I'm like, "Nothing we can do."

912
00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:45,302
So I go to the doctor,
I find out everything

913
00:46:45,385 --> 00:46:47,513
because I can't trust her
to tell me the truth,

914
00:46:47,596 --> 00:46:51,600
and I'm like, "So, any chance?"
Like, "No. It's a wrap."

915
00:46:51,683 --> 00:46:54,978
My mom would get mad, her blood pressure
would rise, and she would just pass out.

916
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:58,941
You could tell she was gonna pass out
'cause her sentences stop making sense.

917
00:46:59,024 --> 00:47:00,108
She would just be yelling.

918
00:47:00,609 --> 00:47:06,365
"Uh, Kevin, uh, take your foot,
uh, off the boy,

919
00:47:06,448 --> 00:47:10,494
and, uh, put it in the pizza box
before I smack…"

920
00:47:10,577 --> 00:47:11,995
[mumbles]

921
00:47:12,079 --> 00:47:12,913
[laughter]

922
00:47:12,996 --> 00:47:14,373
[Robert] When he was doing New York

923
00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:18,043
and I seen his transition
from New York to LA,

924
00:47:18,126 --> 00:47:21,088
it became, uh, "What's gonna break him?"

925
00:47:21,171 --> 00:47:22,089
My mom knew.

926
00:47:24,007 --> 00:47:26,635
She's like, "Don't tell him,"
'cause at the time,

927
00:47:26,718 --> 00:47:30,514
he was about to go to Australia
to film Fool's Gold,

928
00:47:30,597 --> 00:47:32,766
and so things was just starting to bubble.

929
00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:37,563
And so my mom was like,
"Listen. Promise me. Do not tell him."

930
00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:38,480
I'm like, "Okay."

931
00:47:38,564 --> 00:47:41,483
"When it's close to the end,
that's when you let him know I'm dying."

932
00:47:41,567 --> 00:47:44,111
I'm like… "All right."

933
00:47:45,863 --> 00:47:48,699
[Kevin] I, of course,
was extremely close with my mom.

934
00:47:48,782 --> 00:47:53,620
So I think that there was information that
they were trying to keep away from me,

935
00:47:53,704 --> 00:47:55,914
but some things were obvious, right?

936
00:47:55,998 --> 00:48:00,294
Like, it was becoming obvious
that my mom's condition was

937
00:48:00,377 --> 00:48:02,337
much worse than what was being presented.

938
00:48:02,421 --> 00:48:03,297
I said, "Listen."

939
00:48:03,922 --> 00:48:06,925
"Doctor's done told me this stuff.
She probably got about two weeks."

940
00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:08,844
"I can tell by the way her veins is."

941
00:48:09,344 --> 00:48:11,638
"You need to get home now
if you wanna see Mom again

942
00:48:11,722 --> 00:48:15,225
because, you know, there might not be
no other time to say goodbye."

943
00:48:15,309 --> 00:48:17,227
He's like, "Wait, she's…"
I'm like, "Yeah."

944
00:48:17,311 --> 00:48:19,897
"You know, this is it,
and I mean, like, she's gone."

945
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:23,942
He comes home and I'm explaining
everything, and he's like, "Damn!"

946
00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:25,777
And he's… As I'm telling him this,

947
00:48:25,861 --> 00:48:30,574
he's telling me how Fool's Gold
has opened up all these other doors,

948
00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:33,368
and all these other things.
I was just like, "That's crazy."

949
00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:35,913
Like, on her way out, she could see

950
00:48:35,996 --> 00:48:39,166
how, you know, this was something
he needed to do.

951
00:48:39,249 --> 00:48:43,462
"Be focused, do your best, not be
all centered on what's happening with me."

952
00:48:43,545 --> 00:48:46,048
And she was right. Dead right.

953
00:48:46,548 --> 00:48:48,550
[gentle music playing]

954
00:48:49,676 --> 00:48:50,928
[Kevin] You know, my mom…

955
00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:53,513
My mom is definitely, uh…

956
00:48:54,890 --> 00:48:58,936
She is responsible
for giving me the ability

957
00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:06,193
to… to… to understand
the benefit of hard work,

958
00:49:06,276 --> 00:49:07,527
to understand

959
00:49:09,279 --> 00:49:13,492
what saying you're going to do something
and actually doing it truly means.

960
00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:17,412
You know, that work ethic
is all attached to my mom.

961
00:49:22,417 --> 00:49:24,962
I remember when my sitcom got picked up,
The Big House…

962
00:49:25,045 --> 00:49:27,047
[upbeat theme music playing]

963
00:49:27,673 --> 00:49:29,549
♪ Home, sweet home ♪

964
00:49:30,550 --> 00:49:32,511
♪ Home, sweet home ♪

965
00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:35,222
♪ Yeah ♪

966
00:49:35,305 --> 00:49:36,306
And the upfronts…

967
00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:39,726
The upfronts is where they basically
announce all the network's new shows.

968
00:49:39,810 --> 00:49:41,478
It was happening in New York.

969
00:49:41,561 --> 00:49:45,023
They flew me out.
I'm hype. I fly the rest of the cast out.

970
00:49:45,107 --> 00:49:48,235
This is big. My life is about to change.
"Oh my God."

971
00:49:48,944 --> 00:49:50,112
"Here it comes."

972
00:49:50,195 --> 00:49:51,530
"Success. Here we go."

973
00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:55,158
Things were happening for me
as a comedian. I was gaining some steam.

974
00:49:55,242 --> 00:49:58,954
And, uh, when we go
to, like, the upfront event,

975
00:49:59,454 --> 00:50:02,332
right before it's time for me to go out,
put a hand on my chest,

976
00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:05,711
"Sorry, Mr. Hart. The network
is not gonna pick up your show."

977
00:50:08,463 --> 00:50:09,631
That fast, it was over.

978
00:50:14,052 --> 00:50:16,221
Your life can't possibly be worse
than mine. Look at me.

979
00:50:16,304 --> 00:50:18,473
I'm all smiles. You wanna know why?

980
00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:21,018
Because your antidepressants are working?

981
00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:24,646
No. It's because there's always
a glimmer of hope, you know?

982
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:26,023
You've just gotta find it.

983
00:50:26,606 --> 00:50:28,984
I went back to the hotel, changed.
I went out that night.

984
00:50:29,067 --> 00:50:32,946
I went to all the parties. You'd have
thought that my show got picked up.

985
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:35,532
Everybody kept rubbing my back.

986
00:50:35,615 --> 00:50:36,575
[exhales]

987
00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:38,785
Taking deep breaths in my face.

988
00:50:39,870 --> 00:50:41,788
[groans]

989
00:50:42,497 --> 00:50:43,707
"I heard what happened."

990
00:50:45,333 --> 00:50:46,668
[sighs]

991
00:50:49,296 --> 00:50:50,297
Life.

992
00:50:50,964 --> 00:50:53,550
[Dave Becky] He left
with stronger relationships

993
00:50:53,633 --> 00:50:56,678
with all the networks and all the studios
'cause they were at these parties.

994
00:50:57,179 --> 00:50:58,472
It's fuckin' crazy.

995
00:51:02,100 --> 00:51:03,685
[Chris] I have a saying, Kevin.

996
00:51:04,186 --> 00:51:06,646
-[Kevin] What is that?
-Always eat before a meeting.

997
00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:10,233
-[Kevin] Why?
-Because hungry people say dumb shit.

998
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:12,319
[both laugh]

999
00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:18,116
So, you know, even before a lunch meeting,
a meeting where you're supposed to eat,

1000
00:51:18,658 --> 00:51:19,659
eat something!

1001
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,454
-Eat a piece of bread.
-[Chris] Eat a piece of bread!

1002
00:51:22,537 --> 00:51:25,082
To stop you from saying some dumb shit.

1003
00:51:25,165 --> 00:51:29,169
"I ain't gonna do the deal
'cause you motherfuckers don't--"

1004
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:31,671
[Chris] "Fuck you and NBC!"

1005
00:51:31,755 --> 00:51:33,757
"I don't need no network anyway!"

1006
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:38,303
"I'll show this shit…
I'll sell this TV show out of my trunk!"

1007
00:51:38,386 --> 00:51:39,846
[Kevin laughs]

1008
00:51:40,430 --> 00:51:42,557
"You think I give a fuck
about y'all? Huh?"

1009
00:51:42,641 --> 00:51:45,560
-"Think I give a fuck about this studio?"
-"Fuck you! You fucking crackers!"

1010
00:51:45,644 --> 00:51:46,645
Then leave.

1011
00:51:48,313 --> 00:51:51,233
"I didn't mean
to call the head of NBC a cracker."

1012
00:51:51,316 --> 00:51:53,443
-"I was just hungry!"
-"I was hungry."

1013
00:51:53,527 --> 00:51:55,821
"I ain't eat all day. If I'd have ate…"

1014
00:51:55,904 --> 00:51:58,615
I wouldn't have called
the head of NBC a cracker.

1015
00:51:59,825 --> 00:52:02,160
But I hadn't eaten. So now…

1016
00:52:02,244 --> 00:52:04,621
if you learn nothing today…

1017
00:52:04,704 --> 00:52:07,082
-[Kevin] Uh…
-Okay, let me get that veal chop.

1018
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:09,584
-[Tony] What happened to my brother…
-Medium.

1019
00:52:09,668 --> 00:52:12,921
[Tony] The backstory people don't know,
he can't get his skits on.

1020
00:52:13,463 --> 00:52:16,133
He would write funny shit,
pitch it to the brothers,

1021
00:52:16,216 --> 00:52:18,552
we would say,
"Man, that's going. That gotta go."

1022
00:52:19,052 --> 00:52:20,637
Saturday night, "They cut my skit."

1023
00:52:21,638 --> 00:52:23,140
Rehearsal, "They cut my skit."

1024
00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:28,603
So he kinda was trying
to find his bearings on SNL.

1025
00:52:28,687 --> 00:52:31,481
He never turned out to be the Eddie Murphy
we thought he was gonna be.

1026
00:52:32,524 --> 00:52:36,444
[Wanda] It was significant that…
that Chris landed SNL,

1027
00:52:36,528 --> 00:52:41,825
but the way they used him,
or I should say didn't use him,

1028
00:52:42,325 --> 00:52:46,913
it was pretty, um, hard to watch.

1029
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:50,167
So then he gets offered In Living Color.

1030
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:54,629
The Wayans had left.
They wanted to keep the show afloat.

1031
00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:56,089
"Let's get Chris Rock."

1032
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,342
His agent and his management
told him not to do it. He did it.

1033
00:52:59,926 --> 00:53:05,348
So In Living Color is this hot, hot, hot,
like, white-hot show.

1034
00:53:05,432 --> 00:53:07,684
♪ Uh, your bad self ♪

1035
00:53:07,767 --> 00:53:09,686
♪ Uh, your bad self ♪

1036
00:53:09,769 --> 00:53:12,063
♪ Help us break this down
From off the shelf ♪

1037
00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:18,278
That's where the culture was going.
A lot of times, I would leave SNL,

1038
00:53:18,361 --> 00:53:22,032
and instead of going to the wrap party
at the end,

1039
00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:23,450
I would go to Latin Quarter

1040
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:27,120
and hang out with Kid 'n Play
and Queen Latifah

1041
00:53:27,204 --> 00:53:29,247
and, you know, and that crew

1042
00:53:29,331 --> 00:53:31,291
and Eric B., and, you know,

1043
00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:34,336
and Jam Master Jay and, you know.

1044
00:53:34,419 --> 00:53:36,379
Those were kind of my peers also.

1045
00:53:36,463 --> 00:53:40,050
They were, you know… I was hanging around
with some Black people. [chuckles]

1046
00:53:40,133 --> 00:53:42,761
But not just some Black people,
some creative Black people.

1047
00:53:42,844 --> 00:53:47,641
So that… I knew
the culture was going that way,

1048
00:53:47,724 --> 00:53:49,476
and I wanted to be…

1049
00:53:50,143 --> 00:53:52,229
I just wanted to be
where the shit was hot.

1050
00:53:52,312 --> 00:53:55,232
How much for… How much for some ice cream?

1051
00:53:55,315 --> 00:53:58,985
Some ice cream? You really want ice cream?
I find ice cream for you.

1052
00:53:59,069 --> 00:54:01,071
How about I put a .44 slug in your head?

1053
00:54:01,154 --> 00:54:01,988
[laughter]

1054
00:54:02,989 --> 00:54:05,200
Why don't you make that
a .22 and a flesh wound?

1055
00:54:05,283 --> 00:54:06,993
Get out of here! Get out of here!

1056
00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:10,956
I think he did one episode,
maybe two. Maybe two.

1057
00:54:12,290 --> 00:54:13,458
In Living Color's done.

1058
00:54:14,542 --> 00:54:17,587
Management leaves, agency leaves.

1059
00:54:17,671 --> 00:54:19,256
He's literally out of the business.

1060
00:54:19,339 --> 00:54:23,260
In a weird way, my career was kinda over
in a sense.

1061
00:54:23,343 --> 00:54:24,803
I got no TV show,

1062
00:54:25,762 --> 00:54:27,305
and I'm just a comedian.

1063
00:54:27,389 --> 00:54:29,349
You know, I didn't know at the time,

1064
00:54:30,058 --> 00:54:33,687
it's more… it's more powerful
than all of that shit.

1065
00:54:34,437 --> 00:54:35,647
[laughs]

1066
00:54:38,733 --> 00:54:41,903
I remember him hanging around the clubs
and coming back to it,

1067
00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:48,702
and really going, "Okay, let me find out
what I have that's special."

1068
00:54:48,785 --> 00:54:52,872
The way he approached his career,
uh, post Saturday Night Live

1069
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:56,251
was like watching a Rocky movie
in real life.

1070
00:54:56,334 --> 00:54:59,921
At this time, he wasn't the killer comic
that we know him as today.

1071
00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:01,965
He was just trying
to find his way on stage.

1072
00:55:02,048 --> 00:55:05,051
Our dad's gone, so that's a motivation.

1073
00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:07,053
…all the time. If Mick Jagger drove a cab…

1074
00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:09,264
Got all these siblings,
that's a motivation.

1075
00:55:09,347 --> 00:55:11,516
Mom's like, "You're the oldest,
the man of the house."

1076
00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:13,393
So back to the wall, fuck it.

1077
00:55:13,893 --> 00:55:14,811
Go to the pen.

1078
00:55:14,894 --> 00:55:16,479
[audience applauding]

1079
00:55:16,563 --> 00:55:18,315
And that's when Big Ass Jokes comes.

1080
00:55:18,398 --> 00:55:22,027
Black people, we don't even have…
We don't even have salad dressing.

1081
00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:25,238
We don't have sal…
Everybody got salad dressing.

1082
00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:28,074
No Black salad dressing.
You know what Black salad dressing is?

1083
00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:28,992
Hot sauce!

1084
00:55:29,743 --> 00:55:31,745
[laughter and applause]

1085
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:39,586
Dude, Big Ass Jokes,
he fucking murders. Murders.

1086
00:55:39,669 --> 00:55:42,088
The second he says good night,
the whole crowd… [imitates roar]

1087
00:55:42,672 --> 00:55:43,882
I was like, "Wow."

1088
00:55:44,466 --> 00:55:49,179
[Chris] I… I started really admiring
the professional comedians.

1089
00:55:49,262 --> 00:55:52,432
I was like, "I wanna be
a professional comedian."

1090
00:55:52,515 --> 00:55:55,226
There was something about,
like, if you made it as a comedian,

1091
00:55:55,727 --> 00:55:58,063
you immediately made a name for yourself.

1092
00:55:58,146 --> 00:56:01,900
You weren't like, "Oh, this is the guy
that plays whoever on this sitcom."

1093
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:04,027
It was like, "You're Chris Rock."

1094
00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:06,112
[crowd cheering]

1095
00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:12,452
The most valuable thing
you have as a comic

1096
00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:15,163
is your reputation as a live performer.

1097
00:56:15,246 --> 00:56:16,498
[Kevin] Mm. Mm-hmm.

1098
00:56:16,581 --> 00:56:21,461
If you have the reputation
of throwing the fuck down,

1099
00:56:22,295 --> 00:56:25,048
you can have a flop movie,
you can have a flop TV show,

1100
00:56:25,131 --> 00:56:26,841
you can do whatever, nobody cares.

1101
00:56:26,925 --> 00:56:29,886
If… Peop… You could go years
without a hit,

1102
00:56:30,470 --> 00:56:33,765
but if people know you throw down,
you will sell out every time.

1103
00:56:33,848 --> 00:56:35,392
-Okay?
-That's, uh… That's big.

1104
00:56:35,475 --> 00:56:37,268
-It's real, and it's big.
-[Chris] It's real.

1105
00:56:37,352 --> 00:56:39,646
Bruce Springsteen ain't have a hit record
in 30 years.

1106
00:56:39,729 --> 00:56:41,356
Sells out every fuckin' show he does.

1107
00:56:41,439 --> 00:56:43,358
And them fuckin' tickets go fast.

1108
00:56:43,441 --> 00:56:46,111
When that motherfucker dropped
Bring the Pain,

1109
00:56:46,194 --> 00:56:48,238
everyone had to shut the fuck up.

1110
00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:51,116
Shit, I was watching on HBO,
had this special on.

1111
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:52,826
The jail special.

1112
00:56:52,909 --> 00:56:53,868
Couple of months ago.

1113
00:56:53,952 --> 00:56:56,121
Normally,
when you see a special about jail,

1114
00:56:56,204 --> 00:56:59,290
it's on regular TV,
and there's a lot of shit they don't show.

1115
00:56:59,374 --> 00:57:03,211
Oh, not the HBO jail special.
Oh, they showed it all.

1116
00:57:03,294 --> 00:57:07,340
They was interviewing a brother. They
said, "Sir, when a new inmate comes in

1117
00:57:07,424 --> 00:57:09,384
and he wants some drugs,
how do you initiate it?"

1118
00:57:09,467 --> 00:57:14,097
The guy goes, "Well, the first thing I do
is make 'em toss my salad."

1119
00:57:15,181 --> 00:57:18,143
He was the first guy
I ever heard write jokes like a song,

1120
00:57:18,226 --> 00:57:19,853
with hooks and everything.

1121
00:57:19,936 --> 00:57:22,147
"I ain't saying he did it,
but I understand."

1122
00:57:22,230 --> 00:57:26,609
When that shit hit the streets, I'd hear
people saying his bars on the streets

1123
00:57:26,693 --> 00:57:27,861
like he was Drake.

1124
00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,155
[man] Bring the Pain, Chris Rock.

1125
00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:32,407
[applause]

1126
00:57:33,158 --> 00:57:34,701
[Chris] Thank you. Wow!

1127
00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:38,997
I… I just wanna thank,
uh, anybody who voted for me

1128
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,417
that, uh, recognizes, uh, stand-up comedy
as a real art.

1129
00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:46,087
[Dave Chappelle] Chris reestablished
a standard of excellence

1130
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:48,173
that was missing in comedy.

1131
00:57:48,965 --> 00:57:51,134
Bring the Pain changed my life

1132
00:57:51,926 --> 00:57:53,136
really fast.

1133
00:57:53,219 --> 00:57:55,805
It's hard to even quantify.

1134
00:57:59,809 --> 00:58:03,855
I believe that Grown Little Man
and Shaq's All Star,

1135
00:58:03,938 --> 00:58:06,232
I feel like that came out
in the same year.

1136
00:58:06,733 --> 00:58:10,945
So you have Comedy Central
put up his hour, Kevin.

1137
00:58:11,029 --> 00:58:12,614
His hour, it was amazing.

1138
00:58:12,697 --> 00:58:14,616
-Yeah! Stop!
-[audience cheers]

1139
00:58:15,116 --> 00:58:16,493
Stop!

1140
00:58:17,702 --> 00:58:19,204
Stop!

1141
00:58:19,287 --> 00:58:23,208
Shaq's thing was
an urban-audience Showtime,

1142
00:58:23,291 --> 00:58:24,542
and he killed it.

1143
00:58:24,626 --> 00:58:28,087
Hey, look, first of all, only time
I ate your ass was on your birthday.

1144
00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:30,048
No. No. No, no!

1145
00:58:30,131 --> 00:58:33,426
[Chris] You know, art… art is subjective.

1146
00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:35,512
Comedy is subjective.

1147
00:58:36,221 --> 00:58:39,015
Killing on stage is not subjective.

1148
00:58:39,724 --> 00:58:42,727
[Tiffany] I remember when Kevin
was doing the Irresponsible tour.

1149
00:58:42,810 --> 00:58:48,274
That tour was the highest-grossing tour
in the history of stand-up comedy tours.

1150
00:58:48,358 --> 00:58:50,318
That we know about, legally.

1151
00:58:50,401 --> 00:58:53,905
[Kevin] I'm at Madison Square Garden
where history is always made.

1152
00:58:54,405 --> 00:58:58,451
There are 19,000 people
in attendance tonight.

1153
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:01,162
♪ Step up, step, step up, step up ♪

1154
00:59:01,246 --> 00:59:03,039
♪ Step, step, step, step, step up ♪

1155
00:59:03,122 --> 00:59:05,375
♪ Step, step, step up
Step, step, step up ♪

1156
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:06,334
♪ Step, step ♪

1157
00:59:07,418 --> 00:59:09,629
♪ Once you step in the arena, cheater ♪

1158
00:59:09,712 --> 00:59:13,383
♪ You're gonna be amazed when you gaze
At the armor on this leader ♪

1159
00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:15,969
♪ Fully clad and glad to fight a cause
I won't pause ♪

1160
00:59:16,052 --> 00:59:18,096
♪ Fear is a joke, slowpoke
I'm like claws… ♪

1161
00:59:18,179 --> 00:59:22,350
Man, you know, um, there's nothing better
than seeing a plan come together.

1162
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:29,232
So what started off as an idea and words
quickly becomes, like, real.

1163
00:59:29,315 --> 00:59:30,692
♪ As I'm pulling out my lance ♪

1164
00:59:30,775 --> 00:59:33,069
♪ To kill you and advance
To the winner's throne ♪

1165
00:59:33,152 --> 00:59:35,488
♪ 'Cause I own you
Once you step in the arena ♪

1166
00:59:37,448 --> 00:59:39,450
♪ My… my… my… my arena ♪

1167
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:42,412
-All these New York dates, Eddie did that.
-[Kevin] Mm-hmm.

1168
00:59:42,954 --> 00:59:46,583
Eddie played the Garden
for, like, whatever, five nights,

1169
00:59:46,666 --> 00:59:49,669
and then played
the whatever the Jersey Meadowlands was.

1170
00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:52,922
Then went out to the Nassau Coliseum,
and like…

1171
00:59:53,715 --> 00:59:56,926
Were you… Were you just a…
Were you just a fan in the stands…

1172
00:59:57,010 --> 00:59:59,304
-[Chris] No, I was--
-…with Eddie, or were you backstage?

1173
00:59:59,387 --> 01:00:00,930
-I was backstage.
-[Kevin] Wow.

1174
01:00:01,014 --> 01:00:04,517
I was like… I was like…
I was like the kid in Bronx Tale.

1175
01:00:04,601 --> 01:00:05,435
[Kevin] Wow.

1176
01:00:05,518 --> 01:00:09,272
Like, I got to hang around with gangsters.
I wasn't a gangster yet.

1177
01:00:10,064 --> 01:00:12,275
-But I got to be around the gangsters.
-Keenen.

1178
01:00:12,358 --> 01:00:13,985
-Keenen, Robert.
-Eddie, Charlie.

1179
01:00:14,068 --> 01:00:16,404
-Oh.
-You know what I mean? Charlie.

1180
01:00:17,447 --> 01:00:19,073
Like, I was there. Rick James.

1181
01:00:19,657 --> 01:00:21,868
Call my wife.
She called me twice. Here we go.

1182
01:00:21,951 --> 01:00:23,411
-Your wife?
-Here we go.

1183
01:00:23,494 --> 01:00:24,996
-You know?
-Which wife, Kevin?

1184
01:00:25,913 --> 01:00:27,582
-No. I have one wife.
-[Chris] Current?

1185
01:00:27,665 --> 01:00:30,001
Don't listen to that, okay? Cut that out.

1186
01:00:30,585 --> 01:00:33,296
Hey, beautiful. How are you?

1187
01:00:33,379 --> 01:00:35,506
I'm fine. How you doing?

1188
01:00:35,590 --> 01:00:37,842
I'm okay.
Thanks for taking care of this guy.

1189
01:00:37,925 --> 01:00:40,762
He ate some watermelon,
called everybody crackers. We're done.

1190
01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:42,347
-We're finished.
-[Eniko] What you say?

1191
01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:45,141
He ate watermelon, called
all the white people crackers. We're done.

1192
01:00:45,725 --> 01:00:46,768
It's over for us.

1193
01:00:47,352 --> 01:00:49,062
We're both in the middle of our tours.

1194
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:52,065
Right? Chris is doing his tour.
I'm doing my tour.

1195
01:00:52,148 --> 01:00:55,026
It's not about outdoing the other.
That's not what it's about.

1196
01:00:55,109 --> 01:00:59,530
It's a show that we can…
we can all coexist together.

1197
01:01:00,114 --> 01:01:01,658
Um, you wanna go to Cellar?

1198
01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:05,703
You wanna, depending on who's there,
we hang out or we just go up? Your call.

1199
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:07,497
-We gotta go up.
-Yeah, we can go up.

1200
01:01:07,580 --> 01:01:09,123
-[Chris] Yeah, yeah.
-[Kevin] Okay.

1201
01:01:09,207 --> 01:01:11,668
[intriguing music playing]

1202
01:01:16,005 --> 01:01:18,966
[Kevin] The most exciting thing
about comedy in New York, it's all night.

1203
01:01:20,426 --> 01:01:24,222
You know, you're truly a… a vampire
looking for laughter.

1204
01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:28,351
There's truly nothing
like New York comedy.

1205
01:01:29,102 --> 01:01:31,145
From the amount of comedy clubs,

1206
01:01:31,771 --> 01:01:33,272
from the energy of the city

1207
01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:36,567
to the melting pot of people.

1208
01:01:36,651 --> 01:01:39,946
I mean, some of everything is in New York.

1209
01:01:40,029 --> 01:01:42,573
It's as universal as you can possibly get.

1210
01:01:43,574 --> 01:01:47,704
-Told me ten fucking… You said 10:15.
-Nigga.

1211
01:01:47,787 --> 01:01:51,040
[Kevin] 10:15.
This nigga's dead. You're dead.

1212
01:01:51,624 --> 01:01:54,043
Estee and Manny. Rest in peace, Manny.

1213
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:57,547
Manny, uh, and Estee ran the Comedy Cellar

1214
01:01:57,630 --> 01:02:02,343
and, you know, that place,
I'm telling you, it was like Cheers.

1215
01:02:02,427 --> 01:02:06,889
It was where everybody came,
every comic came.

1216
01:02:07,473 --> 01:02:10,101
There was just a high level of camaraderie

1217
01:02:10,601 --> 01:02:14,147
that was built at the back tables
at the Comedy Cellar.

1218
01:02:14,230 --> 01:02:15,690
And before I was a comedian,

1219
01:02:15,773 --> 01:02:17,984
I remember hanging out
at those back tables.

1220
01:02:18,943 --> 01:02:20,111
[Estee] I meet the comic,

1221
01:02:21,571 --> 01:02:23,406
I watch them do the set.

1222
01:02:25,074 --> 01:02:27,160
I still like to laugh,

1223
01:02:27,660 --> 01:02:29,662
so if I laugh, it's a good thing.

1224
01:02:30,413 --> 01:02:32,415
But then, beyond that,

1225
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:34,667
I talk…

1226
01:02:35,168 --> 01:02:36,544
Let's say I talk to somebody,

1227
01:02:36,627 --> 01:02:41,507
and I find out
that there's this whole story behind.

1228
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:44,886
What motivates that person,

1229
01:02:44,969 --> 01:02:47,388
what they do, what they are about.

1230
01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:51,809
And I find that the comedians,
especially comedians,

1231
01:02:52,685 --> 01:02:56,939
um, have the most incredible
background stories.

1232
01:02:57,023 --> 01:02:59,025
[man] Y'all ready for more show?
Come on, man.

1233
01:02:59,108 --> 01:03:01,194
[audience cheering]

1234
01:03:01,277 --> 01:03:04,614
We got a… We got a young comic
who just started comedy

1235
01:03:04,697 --> 01:03:06,491
and he just wanted
to do a little five minutes.

1236
01:03:06,574 --> 01:03:09,577
We like to give these young comics
some love, man.

1237
01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:11,496
Y'all ready
to give this young comic some love?

1238
01:03:11,579 --> 01:03:12,789
[cheering]

1239
01:03:12,872 --> 01:03:16,542
Make some noise for Kevin Hart, everybody.
Kevin Hart.

1240
01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:19,045
[cheering]

1241
01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:23,382
The question is,
when he first said Kevin Hart,

1242
01:03:23,466 --> 01:03:25,384
who the fuck
did y'all think he was talking about?

1243
01:03:25,468 --> 01:03:26,344
[laughter]

1244
01:03:27,220 --> 01:03:28,930
Okay. Yeah, all right.

1245
01:03:29,013 --> 01:03:30,223
Y'all thought there was two?

1246
01:03:30,807 --> 01:03:33,017
Jesus! Uh…

1247
01:03:34,227 --> 01:03:36,938
Thank you.
That was a little fucked up, right? Like…

1248
01:03:37,021 --> 01:03:38,272
They hesitated…

1249
01:03:40,233 --> 01:03:42,443
I ask myself all the time,
"Why am I not crazy?

1250
01:03:42,527 --> 01:03:43,694
I feel like I'm supposed to.

1251
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,197
I feel like I'm supposed to be crazy.

1252
01:03:46,781 --> 01:03:50,368
All the shit that I've been through.
On paper, I'm supposed to be crazy.

1253
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,537
Who knows? Maybe it's coming.

1254
01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:55,039
Maybe I got a hot batch of crazy
waiting on me.

1255
01:03:55,540 --> 01:03:56,499
[laughter]

1256
01:03:56,582 --> 01:03:58,751
'Cause you don't see it coming.
It just happens.

1257
01:03:59,460 --> 01:04:01,045
Nobody plans for crazy.

1258
01:04:01,796 --> 01:04:03,047
It just fuckin' happens.

1259
01:04:03,798 --> 01:04:05,883
Look at Will Smith.
He didn't plan that shit.

1260
01:04:05,967 --> 01:04:07,176
[laughter]

1261
01:04:07,260 --> 01:04:08,302
It just happened.

1262
01:04:09,053 --> 01:04:10,888
It just fuckin' happened.

1263
01:04:10,972 --> 01:04:12,849
[cheering]

1264
01:04:14,141 --> 01:04:16,978
"Keep my wife's name out of your…"
He didn't plan that.

1265
01:04:17,061 --> 01:04:17,979
[laughter]

1266
01:04:18,062 --> 01:04:19,522
It's a fuckin' outburst.

1267
01:04:19,605 --> 01:04:21,440
[cheering, whooping]

1268
01:04:21,524 --> 01:04:25,319
You guys got a night full of comedy, man,
and it's not just about me.

1269
01:04:25,403 --> 01:04:28,406
It's about the other fuckin' amazing
comics that are on this stage,

1270
01:04:28,489 --> 01:04:31,158
and I love to support the energy here.

1271
01:04:31,242 --> 01:04:35,079
Hopefully I've amplified it
because, uh, the next versions of myself

1272
01:04:35,162 --> 01:04:37,582
and the next versions
of fuckin' comedy superstars,

1273
01:04:37,665 --> 01:04:39,584
they gotta come through here.
They have to.

1274
01:04:39,667 --> 01:04:42,628
So do me a favor.
Show them the same love you showed me.

1275
01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:44,714
[cheering]

1276
01:04:47,300 --> 01:04:49,385
All right. I'll see you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.

1277
01:04:49,468 --> 01:04:50,928
-All right, go.
-[Chris] Whoo!

1278
01:04:52,138 --> 01:04:54,473
[Kevin] Wait. What you doing?
How you getting home?

1279
01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:55,975
[Chris] What? What? What now?

1280
01:04:56,058 --> 01:04:58,185
-I'm going home.
-[Kevin] You gonna walk, right?

1281
01:04:58,269 --> 01:05:00,897
I'm… I'm… I got… I got a limo.

1282
01:05:00,980 --> 01:05:02,857
-I got a Bentley.
-[Kevin] Hey, Terry!

1283
01:05:03,399 --> 01:05:07,111
He wanna fuck up the week, let him walk!
Let him walk!

1284
01:05:09,614 --> 01:05:11,407
Come on, let's go. Stubborn.

1285
01:05:11,991 --> 01:05:13,618
He's the most stubborn person I know.

1286
01:05:13,701 --> 01:05:15,703
-♪ Now we ready ♪
-♪ Rolls-Royce pull up ♪

1287
01:05:15,786 --> 01:05:16,996
♪ Black boy hop out ♪

1288
01:05:17,079 --> 01:05:19,957
♪ Shout out to my mother
And my father didn't pull out ♪

1289
01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:22,668
♪ MSG sellout
Fuck these niggas yap 'bout ♪

1290
01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:25,463
♪ Whips on my whips
My ancestors got they backs out ♪

1291
01:05:25,546 --> 01:05:28,215
♪ Too far?
Five hundred stacks for the hood ♪

1292
01:05:28,299 --> 01:05:31,093
♪ Call me lumberjack
'Cause I wish a nigga would race ♪

1293
01:05:31,177 --> 01:05:33,846
♪ Do it like I?
This the "wish-a-nigga-could" face ♪

1294
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:35,890
♪ They ain't getting paper
Like they should, wait ♪

1295
01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:43,022
[Chris] Okay, I guess
we're good sound-wise.

1296
01:05:43,522 --> 01:05:47,568
It seems a little whatever,
but hey, it's Madison Square Garden.

1297
01:05:47,652 --> 01:05:49,695
-It's not…
-It sounds fucking great.

1298
01:05:50,988 --> 01:05:51,906
Look at my dumb ass.

1299
01:05:51,989 --> 01:05:53,574
[Chris] I've seen Kevin in here

1300
01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:55,910
three or four times now.

1301
01:05:55,993 --> 01:05:57,954
-[Kevin] Yeah.
-I saw him do the fire.

1302
01:05:58,037 --> 01:05:59,997
-That's the first time I was like…
-Let Me Explain.

1303
01:06:00,081 --> 01:06:01,666
"Let me see what this motherfucker got."

1304
01:06:02,166 --> 01:06:04,710
…my show, you're gonna see
a bunch of pointless fire.

1305
01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:07,296
You're laughing. I'm not playing.
I'm dead serious.

1306
01:06:07,797 --> 01:06:08,798
You think it's a game?

1307
01:06:11,008 --> 01:06:14,553
I saw the fire, I was like,
"Goddamn, this fuckin' fire."

1308
01:06:14,637 --> 01:06:17,431
-Get fire on these bitches.
-I was like, "God dammit."

1309
01:06:17,515 --> 01:06:19,642
New York's the mecca.
New York's, you know…

1310
01:06:20,142 --> 01:06:21,435
It doesn't get bigger.

1311
01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:27,149
New York… New York City is not only
a melting pot of anything and everyone,

1312
01:06:27,233 --> 01:06:30,319
it can truly define an entertainer

1313
01:06:30,403 --> 01:06:33,280
in ways that no other place can.

1314
01:06:33,364 --> 01:06:36,701
When it boils down
to you getting on the mic

1315
01:06:36,784 --> 01:06:38,995
in front of people, live people--

1316
01:06:39,078 --> 01:06:42,164
-Gotta have something to talk about.
-You gotta have some substance.

1317
01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:46,043
They need to know who Na'im is,
who's Spank, who's Joey,

1318
01:06:46,127 --> 01:06:47,378
when telling a joke.

1319
01:06:47,461 --> 01:06:50,756
You have to leave a piece of yourself
when you leave the stage.

1320
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:54,385
These are the nuances of comedy
and the business of comedy

1321
01:06:54,468 --> 01:06:57,304
and the nuance of telling… telling jokes.

1322
01:06:57,388 --> 01:06:58,973
But the work is the work.

1323
01:07:01,350 --> 01:07:03,728
[Kevin] What up, guys? How you doing?

1324
01:07:03,811 --> 01:07:05,354
-[Chris] Hey, man.
-How you doing, man?

1325
01:07:05,438 --> 01:07:08,566
I just came to stop in, check on you
before we start. What up, champ?

1326
01:07:08,649 --> 01:07:10,401
-What's up?
-[Kevin] Don't want much.

1327
01:07:10,484 --> 01:07:11,485
Y'all at it right now?

1328
01:07:11,569 --> 01:07:14,697
Chris, I'm so… I'm so, uh, blown away

1329
01:07:14,780 --> 01:07:18,743
by what I'm discovering
that is your process.

1330
01:07:18,826 --> 01:07:20,911
-My process.
-This is all your shit?

1331
01:07:20,995 --> 01:07:24,957
Well, this here would be,
uh, bullet points for tonight.

1332
01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:28,919
Every… every card represents a joke
or a reference

1333
01:07:29,003 --> 01:07:31,088
that I choose I don't wanna forget.

1334
01:07:31,172 --> 01:07:33,883
You know what I mean?
Like, you can remember all your jokes,

1335
01:07:33,966 --> 01:07:35,217
but some nights, I'm like,

1336
01:07:35,301 --> 01:07:39,180
"Eh, I'm not gonna close with this one.
I'm gonna close with that one."

1337
01:07:39,263 --> 01:07:42,016
You have it down to a science
where you can bullet-point the time.

1338
01:07:42,099 --> 01:07:45,519
You can, and by the way,
sometimes something happens in the news.

1339
01:07:45,603 --> 01:07:48,105
-You got jokes on the bench.
-I have jokes on the bench.

1340
01:07:48,189 --> 01:07:50,357
I'm going to tell you,
I'm not only impressed by that,

1341
01:07:50,441 --> 01:07:54,236
but I'm disappointed in myself,
because, uh, whatever I got got to fly.

1342
01:07:56,655 --> 01:07:59,742
[Kevin] By the time we get to the Garden,

1343
01:07:59,825 --> 01:08:01,577
it's gonna be a well-oiled machine.

1344
01:08:02,286 --> 01:08:03,621
Everything happens in rhythm.

1345
01:08:04,413 --> 01:08:06,749
Me and Chris said,
"Let's put this rhythm together."

1346
01:08:06,832 --> 01:08:08,793
We gotta make sure
that our rhythm is there.

1347
01:08:08,876 --> 01:08:13,506
There were no rehearsals.
There was no warm-up sets that happened

1348
01:08:13,589 --> 01:08:18,177
that we were able to figure it out
and see if this was going to work.

1349
01:08:18,260 --> 01:08:21,764
No. Chris had to show up with his hour.
I showed up with my hour.

1350
01:08:21,847 --> 01:08:24,892
["All the Critics Love U in New York"
by Prince playing]

1351
01:08:38,030 --> 01:08:39,824
♪ You can dance if you want to ♪

1352
01:08:41,158 --> 01:08:43,160
♪ All the critics love you in New York ♪

1353
01:08:44,829 --> 01:08:48,040
♪ You don't have to keep the beat
They'll still think it's neat ♪

1354
01:08:48,833 --> 01:08:49,917
♪ In New York ♪

1355
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:54,046
♪ All the critics love you in New York ♪

1356
01:08:56,215 --> 01:08:57,341
♪ New York ♪

1357
01:08:59,635 --> 01:09:00,678
♪ New York ♪

1358
01:09:02,638 --> 01:09:03,764
♪ New York ♪

1359
01:09:04,932 --> 01:09:06,684
-[Kevin] Look at you!
-[Jay-Z] Look at you!

1360
01:09:07,351 --> 01:09:08,602
-[man] What's up?
-What's up?

1361
01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:09,937
-Hi!
-[Jay-Z] Don't be like that.

1362
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:12,940
-No, no, no! Hey!
-[man] What's going on?

1363
01:09:13,023 --> 01:09:14,400
How you doing?

1364
01:09:15,526 --> 01:09:16,986
-Well!
-Well!

1365
01:09:17,069 --> 01:09:19,780
Well, you made it. I'm here. [chuckles]

1366
01:09:19,864 --> 01:09:22,324
-Yo, look at my guy. What's up?
-[Jay Brown] How are you?

1367
01:09:23,159 --> 01:09:25,035
Good to see you. Look at you!

1368
01:09:25,119 --> 01:09:27,037
Look at your boy. Look at your boy!

1369
01:09:27,121 --> 01:09:30,082
Listen to me. Feed you some…
Feed you some tidbits.

1370
01:09:30,166 --> 01:09:33,210
All right? Let y'all niggas know
what the fuck is happening tonight.

1371
01:09:34,003 --> 01:09:35,754
They don't know, but I got a goat here.

1372
01:09:35,838 --> 01:09:40,384
I fuckin' had the city allow me to get
a goat. I had to get the mayor to fuckin'…

1373
01:09:41,510 --> 01:09:44,972
Dave, Chris'll come out at the end.
Gonna think that the show's over.

1374
01:09:45,681 --> 01:09:48,559
Say, "I got a gift," 'cause I gotta
give Chris his flowers, man.

1375
01:09:48,642 --> 01:09:50,060
This is my guy, mentor.

1376
01:09:50,811 --> 01:09:52,104
"I got you a gift."

1377
01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:56,317
Tell the fuckin' guy to bring it,
and we get the goat onstage,

1378
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:58,110
and say, "a goat for a GOAT."

1379
01:09:58,194 --> 01:10:00,571
Me and Chappelle gonna take a step back,

1380
01:10:00,654 --> 01:10:02,323
and let our guy have his fuckin'…

1381
01:10:03,407 --> 01:10:05,034
[Jay-Z] Whoo!

1382
01:10:06,869 --> 01:10:08,996
-Let our fucking guy…
-That's beautiful.

1383
01:10:09,079 --> 01:10:11,123
-We're gonna let him…
-That's beautiful, man.

1384
01:10:11,207 --> 01:10:12,833
-Fuckin'…
-That's fuckin' beautiful.

1385
01:10:12,917 --> 01:10:15,794
All you've been through,
you're gonna get your fucking flowers.

1386
01:10:15,878 --> 01:10:18,505
-You're gonna get your flowers.
-I got chill bumps.

1387
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:20,799
-He has no idea.
-That's beautiful.

1388
01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:22,301
-He has no idea.
-Amazing.

1389
01:10:22,384 --> 01:10:25,971
He's just like, "All right, like,
Kev's been great. It's cool."

1390
01:10:26,055 --> 01:10:27,181
Has no idea.

1391
01:10:27,264 --> 01:10:29,058
When I call Chris a GOAT,

1392
01:10:29,725 --> 01:10:31,977
I'm calling him a GOAT
because of what he's achieved.

1393
01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:35,940
I'm calling him a GOAT
because of his ability to stay current,

1394
01:10:36,023 --> 01:10:39,151
to still be doing what he does
at a high level

1395
01:10:39,235 --> 01:10:40,945
and having a good time.

1396
01:10:41,028 --> 01:10:42,154
There's so many reasons.

1397
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:46,033
To overcome obstacles
and still be who you are,

1398
01:10:46,116 --> 01:10:48,244
to still have a sense of self.

1399
01:10:48,327 --> 01:10:52,581
Like, there's so many reasons
behind my… my definition of GOAT for him.

1400
01:10:52,665 --> 01:10:55,292
But it has nothing to do
with us calling Dave a GOAT.

1401
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:57,461
-We feel like Dave's a GOAT.
-Dave's a GOAT.

1402
01:10:57,544 --> 01:11:00,089
-Eddie's a GOAT.
-There's so many tiers.

1403
01:11:00,172 --> 01:11:02,591
Lots of champs. Sugar Ray's a champ.

1404
01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:04,927
-Ali's a champ. Mike Tyson's a champ.
-All champs.

1405
01:11:07,388 --> 01:11:09,390
So me and Chris doing the Garden,

1406
01:11:09,974 --> 01:11:13,560
and our hopes was that Dave shows up.

1407
01:11:13,644 --> 01:11:16,272
Even when we were, like,
making the order and all that,

1408
01:11:16,355 --> 01:11:20,943
we knew it was like, "Okay, let's save
some time in case Dave shows up."

1409
01:11:21,026 --> 01:11:22,194
[Kevin] We just waited.

1410
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:23,404
[both laugh]

1411
01:11:23,487 --> 01:11:26,115
[Kevin] We got closer to the time,
the week of, we got the call.

1412
01:11:26,198 --> 01:11:27,074
"I'm coming, man."

1413
01:11:27,157 --> 01:11:29,868
["Fallin Up"
by Dr. Dre, Thurz & Cocoa Sarai playing]

1414
01:11:29,952 --> 01:11:32,538
[Chris] The camaraderie
between me, Kevin and Dave,

1415
01:11:32,621 --> 01:11:36,834
we mutually respect each other,
which is a beautiful thing.

1416
01:11:36,917 --> 01:11:40,379
Uh, we have
three totally different styles.

1417
01:11:40,462 --> 01:11:42,589
Nobody feels threatened by the other.

1418
01:11:43,674 --> 01:11:46,927
Let's understand
what the fuck is about to happen.

1419
01:11:47,469 --> 01:11:50,055
Am I the only one all souped up
on Mountain Dew?!

1420
01:11:50,139 --> 01:11:52,766
-[Chris laughs]
-I'm all souped up, man!

1421
01:11:53,267 --> 01:11:55,686
I'm about to jump on you
like a spider monkey!

1422
01:11:55,769 --> 01:11:58,731
♪ Yeah, what goes up
Eventually comes down ♪

1423
01:11:58,814 --> 01:12:01,859
♪ Let the dollars levitate
as the world goes round from the ground ♪

1424
01:12:01,942 --> 01:12:04,445
-♪ Keep fallin' up ♪
-♪ Fallin' up ♪

1425
01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:06,947
-♪ Keep fallin' up ♪
-♪ Fallin' up ♪

1426
01:12:07,031 --> 01:12:08,782
♪ As I fall up on this ceiling so hot ♪

1427
01:12:08,866 --> 01:12:10,576
♪ Can't feel it
Unless I put my hand on it ♪

1428
01:12:10,659 --> 01:12:11,910
♪ Like the killer did my money ♪

1429
01:12:11,994 --> 01:12:14,496
-♪ Keep fallin' up ♪
-♪ Fallin' up ♪

1430
01:12:14,580 --> 01:12:16,373
-♪ Keep fallin' up ♪
-♪ Fallin'… ♪

1431
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:18,792
[Chris] We wanted
to do the whole thing with Dave.

1432
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:23,714
And, you know, Dave's… Dave's Dave.

1433
01:12:24,465 --> 01:12:27,134
Who… Who knows
what Dave had to do that week, right?

1434
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:29,261
[Kevin] Dave is a real rock star.

1435
01:12:30,220 --> 01:12:32,348
Dave marches to the beat
of his own drummer.

1436
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:38,354
Dave, uh, does what he wants
when he wants.

1437
01:12:38,437 --> 01:12:41,774
And only Dave
can navigate the way that Dave does.

1438
01:12:41,857 --> 01:12:44,068
Without getting into the process,

1439
01:12:44,151 --> 01:12:47,154
here's the… the ultimate deciding factor,

1440
01:12:47,738 --> 01:12:49,823
is that they asked me to.

1441
01:12:49,907 --> 01:12:52,117
And once I understood
this was important to them,

1442
01:12:52,618 --> 01:12:54,995
I got on a plane,
and I got my act together,

1443
01:12:55,079 --> 01:12:56,830
and I met 'em with what I had.

1444
01:12:56,914 --> 01:13:00,459
Whatever I had, I would've showed up,
'cause those are my dudes.

1445
01:13:00,542 --> 01:13:01,794
Dave, real quick.

1446
01:13:02,795 --> 01:13:06,215
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you
for bringing me and my brothers together

1447
01:13:06,298 --> 01:13:09,885
for the first time
in this particular space

1448
01:13:09,968 --> 01:13:11,845
with something of this magnitude.

1449
01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:15,265
I ask that you bless us all
with the ability to make people laugh,

1450
01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:18,560
and more importantly,
have fun, love, support.

1451
01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:23,190
This is history, and we thank you
for allowing us the opportunity to do so.

1452
01:13:23,273 --> 01:13:24,608
In your name we pray. Amen.

1453
01:13:24,691 --> 01:13:25,651
-Amen.
-Let's go.

1454
01:13:25,734 --> 01:13:27,945
-Let's get it, man. Let's get it.
-[woman] Kill it, y'all.

1455
01:13:28,445 --> 01:13:29,905
Let's get it, guys.

1456
01:13:32,449 --> 01:13:35,077
We realized we have an opportunity
to make the most of a moment.

1457
01:13:35,869 --> 01:13:38,622
A moment that'll live forever.

1458
01:13:38,705 --> 01:13:41,333
♪ This is what you get… ♪

1459
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,585
[crowd cheering]

1460
01:13:44,545 --> 01:13:47,297
♪ This is what you get ♪

1461
01:13:50,801 --> 01:13:54,054
♪ This is what you get ♪

1462
01:13:54,138 --> 01:13:57,349
♪ When you mess with us ♪

1463
01:14:03,105 --> 01:14:07,234
♪ Karma police ♪

1464
01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:09,486
♪ I've given all I can… ♪

1465
01:14:09,570 --> 01:14:10,863
Good to see everybody.

1466
01:14:10,946 --> 01:14:13,657
Dave came out.
He had his moment. People went crazy.

1467
01:14:19,538 --> 01:14:21,748
But then did you see
Chris's walk-up after that?

1468
01:14:21,832 --> 01:14:23,709
♪ Yeah, yo, yo ♪

1469
01:14:23,792 --> 01:14:27,087
♪ One, two, y'all, you know I rock ya
Step in the rounds… ♪

1470
01:14:27,171 --> 01:14:31,216
Like, he had so much confidence,
so much ego when he came out.

1471
01:14:31,300 --> 01:14:34,970
It was like, "Yo, I don't care
what just happened. I am who I am."

1472
01:14:35,888 --> 01:14:37,431
Same shit when Kev came on.

1473
01:14:37,514 --> 01:14:39,808
"That was cute, what they did,
but I'm still Kevin Hart."

1474
01:14:40,392 --> 01:14:41,643
My little dummy,

1475
01:14:42,269 --> 01:14:47,566
at Madison Square,
following Chappelle, Chris…

1476
01:14:48,567 --> 01:14:49,735
Unbelievable.

1477
01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:51,820
[hip-hop music playing]

1478
01:14:54,031 --> 01:14:55,491
[Keith] Kev closing the show,

1479
01:14:55,991 --> 01:14:57,534
like, "Oh my goodness."

1480
01:14:57,618 --> 01:14:59,328
I was worried about him at first.

1481
01:14:59,953 --> 01:15:02,581
I'm like, "Come on, little dummy,
you'd better be good.

1482
01:15:02,664 --> 01:15:05,042
Kev like, "Bop!"

1483
01:15:05,751 --> 01:15:08,795
And looked like Reggie Jackson
out on the ballpark.

1484
01:15:11,131 --> 01:15:14,092
Madison fuckin' Square Garden!

1485
01:15:17,971 --> 01:15:20,641
Chris, bring your ass out here, man.

1486
01:15:21,225 --> 01:15:23,602
Get your ass out here, baby!

1487
01:15:23,685 --> 01:15:24,853
[crowd cheering]

1488
01:15:25,604 --> 01:15:27,231
Get your ass out here!

1489
01:15:28,106 --> 01:15:30,734
Yes, sir! Yes, sir!

1490
01:15:32,319 --> 01:15:33,153
Yes, sir!

1491
01:15:35,030 --> 01:15:36,949
Yes, sir, Dave!

1492
01:15:38,033 --> 01:15:39,284
Yes, sir!

1493
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:43,247
Hey.

1494
01:15:44,414 --> 01:15:46,208
Dave, I got a gift, though.

1495
01:15:46,291 --> 01:15:48,293
-I got a gift for Chris and--
-Oh, no, no, no.

1496
01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:50,504
No. I got it,
and I'm gonna give it to you now.

1497
01:15:50,587 --> 01:15:52,422
-It has to happen.
-I got watches.

1498
01:15:52,506 --> 01:15:55,634
No, no, I got a fuckin' gift.
You shut your mouth and take it.

1499
01:15:55,717 --> 01:15:58,428
-Bring it up here, guys. Bring it up here.
-[Dave] Wow.

1500
01:15:58,512 --> 01:15:59,680
[Kevin] Bring it up here.

1501
01:16:00,973 --> 01:16:01,890
Thank you.

1502
01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:03,725
-[Chris laughs]
-Put it down, please.

1503
01:16:03,809 --> 01:16:05,143
Wow.

1504
01:16:05,227 --> 01:16:06,311
[Kevin] Set her down.

1505
01:16:06,895 --> 01:16:07,938
Let's go.

1506
01:16:08,021 --> 01:16:10,148
I got you a fuckin' goat.

1507
01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:11,984
-[Dave] This goat has…
-[Kevin] You know why?

1508
01:16:12,067 --> 01:16:15,279
-[Dave] …been chauffeured.
-Fuck you and your joke gifts.

1509
01:16:15,362 --> 01:16:18,115
-This ain't a joke gift.
-I'm not Nick Cannon, motherfucker!

1510
01:16:18,198 --> 01:16:19,616
No. Fuck you.

1511
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:23,453
Nigga, this is a goat for a fucking GOAT.

1512
01:16:23,537 --> 01:16:25,706
Hold your goddamn goat.

1513
01:16:25,789 --> 01:16:27,040
Get in the middle.

1514
01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,502
You take your moment to realize
you're great and I love you.

1515
01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:31,795
-And without you--
-By the way…

1516
01:16:31,878 --> 01:16:32,963
…it don't happen.

1517
01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:36,049
…this is the worst night
of this goat's life.

1518
01:16:36,133 --> 01:16:38,302
-[laughter]
-[Dave] Yeah.

1519
01:16:38,385 --> 01:16:42,931
The goat is just happy he's not
in a Jamaican restaurant right now.

1520
01:16:43,849 --> 01:16:45,851
[laughter]

1521
01:16:47,561 --> 01:16:49,438
Come here. Come here.

1522
01:16:49,521 --> 01:16:51,648
-Juan.
-[yelps] The goat's shitting!

1523
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:52,858
[Chris yells]

1524
01:16:52,941 --> 01:16:54,401
The goat's shitting!

1525
01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:59,114
-[Kevin] The goat is shitting!
-[Dave] Kevin fed the goat Indian food.

1526
01:16:59,740 --> 01:17:01,033
[laughter]

1527
01:17:01,700 --> 01:17:04,661
-The goat…
-This goat's shit all over the stage.

1528
01:17:05,203 --> 01:17:07,581
Kevin, this was a terrible idea, nigga.

1529
01:17:08,165 --> 01:17:11,543
He told me he was gonna do this.
"I'm gonna bring Chris a real goat."

1530
01:17:11,627 --> 01:17:13,170
I said, "That's a great idea."

1531
01:17:15,380 --> 01:17:17,758
-Look at this thing.
-You keep your shitting goat.

1532
01:17:17,841 --> 01:17:18,967
Bring this goat.

1533
01:17:19,051 --> 01:17:20,927
If Chris didn't have on
fucking white boots--

1534
01:17:21,011 --> 01:17:24,348
First day of show business, huh?
Shitting on the stage, huh?

1535
01:17:25,474 --> 01:17:26,892
-What's up?
-[Kevin] Dave.

1536
01:17:26,975 --> 01:17:28,685
What are you gonna name this goat, Chris?

1537
01:17:28,769 --> 01:17:31,480
Come here. The name is Will Smith.
Come here, Dave.

1538
01:17:31,563 --> 01:17:33,607
[laughter]

1539
01:17:33,690 --> 01:17:36,777
What? What did I say? What?

1540
01:17:36,860 --> 01:17:39,404
When it's time to go
to the Hall of Fame, I'll go.

1541
01:17:39,488 --> 01:17:41,990
But right now, I'm still playing.
Right now, I'm…

1542
01:17:42,074 --> 01:17:48,830
You know, I got 25, I got eight rebounds,
and I had six assists last night.

1543
01:17:48,914 --> 01:17:52,250
You can't be in the Hall of Fame
and play at the same time.

1544
01:17:55,796 --> 01:17:57,047
I'm still playing.

1545
01:17:59,424 --> 01:18:00,634
I'm still good.

1546
01:18:02,177 --> 01:18:03,720
[Dave] Make some noise.

1547
01:18:03,804 --> 01:18:05,305
[jaunty music playing]

1548
01:18:05,389 --> 01:18:06,598
Chris Rock.

1549
01:18:06,682 --> 01:18:08,183
-Kevin Hart.
-[Kevin] We're out.

1550
01:18:08,266 --> 01:18:09,518
I'm Dave Chappelle.

1551
01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:11,269
Thank you very much,

1552
01:18:11,812 --> 01:18:12,729
and good night.

1553
01:18:12,813 --> 01:18:15,065
♪ Hey, microphone testing ♪

1554
01:18:15,816 --> 01:18:19,277
♪ Testing, you playin' politician
You Martin Sheen on The West Wing ♪

1555
01:18:19,361 --> 01:18:21,655
♪ Guessing the best thing
For me to do is spit it ♪

1556
01:18:21,738 --> 01:18:24,533
♪ This shit is never a gimmick
You listen more than a minute ♪

1557
01:18:24,616 --> 01:18:26,993
♪ I've been spittin flows
Since the kid was six years old ♪

1558
01:18:27,077 --> 01:18:29,746
♪ And if you listen close
I do this like some mismatched clothes ♪

1559
01:18:29,830 --> 01:18:32,541
♪ It's whatever, put it together
You never could be this clever ♪

1560
01:18:32,624 --> 01:18:35,335
♪ I'm rockin' the mic forever
You gonna stop me never ♪

1561
01:18:35,419 --> 01:18:38,213
♪ I'm cocky because I love it
You Rocky without the punches ♪

1562
01:18:38,296 --> 01:18:41,049
♪ Hockey without the ice
And boxes without the lunches ♪

1563
01:18:41,133 --> 01:18:44,219
♪ Flowin' like me, no one
And that got you mad, bitch ♪

1564
01:18:44,302 --> 01:18:46,972
♪ Saw your boys are nothin'
But just average ♪

1565
01:18:47,055 --> 01:18:49,599
♪ I ain't telling nobody
How they should live their life ♪

1566
01:18:49,683 --> 01:18:52,477
♪ I got my own shit to deal with
So that just isn't right ♪

1567
01:18:52,561 --> 01:18:54,855
♪ I'm just tryna leave the crib
Go out and live tonight ♪

1568
01:18:54,938 --> 01:18:57,524
♪ Shit, fuck that
I'm locked in the lab, workin' ♪

1569
01:18:57,607 --> 01:19:00,360
♪ Droppin' a track
Beats get bodied and bagged, certain ♪

1570
01:19:00,444 --> 01:19:03,321
♪ See the world
Through first, second and third person ♪

1571
01:19:03,405 --> 01:19:05,699
♪ Omniscient, listenin' so efficient ♪

1572
01:19:05,782 --> 01:19:08,535
♪ Trapped in my own goal line
Ready to go the distance ♪

1573
01:19:08,618 --> 01:19:11,705
♪ Consider it a privilege
That you get to witness ♪

1574
01:19:11,788 --> 01:19:14,916
♪ History in the makin'
You fuckin' bitches ♪

1575
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,668
♪ Just playin' with y'all ♪

1576
01:19:16,752 --> 01:19:19,588
♪ Still in line
Waitin' for my name to get called, yo ♪

1577
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,402
[funky music playing]

1578
01:21:56,453 --> 01:21:57,537
[music fades]