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You made it weird, you made

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it weird, you made it weird,

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oh yeah You made

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yes you did You made it

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weird, you made it weird, with

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Pete Holmes What's

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is incredible. He's a comedian, he's an

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Means Death. But even if you're

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He is incredible, very, very,

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very interesting story, and I'm glad

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in the meantime, enjoy the incredible

1:01

Samba Schut. I'm so glad you're here.

1:03

Let's enjoy together. Get into it. We

1:06

brought Ethiopian honey wine. At least show

1:08

it off. Sit

1:11

and show us the bottle. Show

1:13

us your gift that won't be enjoyed.

1:15

I'll go back in my fridge. Now

1:20

let me see. It's

1:22

a meat. You

1:25

know, you

1:27

tell me Ethiopian honey wine, but I believe that this is where we

1:30

get the term honeymoon. Because honey liquor was given to the

1:32

bride and groom on their

1:35

wedding night. I

1:39

believe so. So you

1:41

gave me a bottle of wine that I won't

1:44

use or enjoy, and I gave you a piece

1:46

of knowledge that you won't use or enjoy. What

1:48

a beautiful exchange. I can go back home

1:50

and tell it to my wife. Let's enjoy this honey wine. And

1:53

I can tell my wife, and Samba gave us some wine. You know, Val

1:55

might have a bottle of wine. Enjoy

2:00

it. Does she drink drinks? Then I'm

2:02

gonna got a problem No,

2:06

then I'll give it to her she would love it.

2:08

Yeah, so yes, I'm sorry that your wedding night is

2:11

already past I'm sorry. You can't

2:13

enjoy it. But no my pleasure

2:20

I'm a married man sucker been married for

2:23

One of those mother married men a suck it

2:25

I Got

2:28

married in 2015 eight

2:30

years ago in a park in Beverly Hills. We

2:32

didn't have money to have a big ceremony Oh,

2:35

so, you know that park we squatted in the park

2:38

and you're not allowed to have chairs So

2:40

we found a way around the rules. We

2:42

why you did it like a quinceanera We

2:44

know we bought pillows from Ikea Like

2:47

there was only like 30 guests like all my wife family

2:49

because my family's all like sure around the world They were

2:51

faced by the way, no disrespect to concern you're a game

2:54

They know how to party yeah, what I'm saying

2:57

is you figured out what we figured we did

2:59

the map absolutely We bought like 30 pillows

3:01

from Ikea put them on the floor

3:03

pillows allowed pillows are allowed Return

3:06

the pillows once the wedding was over take

3:08

that. Yep And it

3:10

was the park where George Michael got

3:12

busted in the bathroom Wow,

3:16

yeah, so it was a nice memorable Yeah,

3:19

that park is in Beverly

3:21

Hills Right across the Beverly

3:23

Hills hotel. No, I think George Michael did

3:25

his wackadoo's over It was Beverly Hills a

3:27

nice bathroom nice park nice bathroom. I don't

3:30

blame him. I mean sometimes

3:32

you see a great bathroom Yeah, fine. How do you

3:34

make fun of this? You can't you know, I mean,

3:36

you know, that's the way it's gone. Did he? I

3:40

didn't know George Michael died. Oh my god, when did he

3:42

die? last Christmas I

3:45

gave I

3:53

Was right there Very

3:57

good. Thank you. I

3:59

didn't know we passed away yeah come

4:04

on morning right now

4:06

oh wow nobody's

4:08

waking him up before he goes

4:11

over the one I got to

4:13

the flea it's the same guy

4:15

I don't know if that's

4:21

okay yeah good to see

4:23

you good you got married in

4:25

the same park Michael George Michael

4:27

not Michael Jackson George Michael Jackson

4:29

George Michael Jackson got busted in

4:32

the bathroom they busted well well

4:34

maybe he did but what was he what

4:37

was he arrested for sex sex or

4:39

blow-dropping or blow-jawing in the public

4:42

that's not allowed in public in California even

4:46

here surprisingly so this

4:50

is America I know California too

4:52

yeah I just found that out I was

4:55

talking to somebody see your dad now yeah

4:57

yes and my my daughter and I were

5:00

in the park not that park a

5:02

different park and her Leela's friend

5:04

Nico brought a baseball and a bat

5:06

little foam bat and they

5:08

played and and you know I'm that

5:11

dad I love it again everybody we

5:13

got fielders going it was awesome I

5:15

got to feel athletic and yeah slow

5:17

low pitching slow low kids are

5:19

getting hits it was amazing yeah and

5:22

then after about 40 minutes and I in my

5:24

opinion we were really just finding our groove Leela

5:26

got two great hits by the way Nico who's

5:28

bad it was every time it was at bat

5:30

he's whacking it all the way into the playground

5:32

okay it's awesome these are like five-year-old kids yeah

5:35

it's pretty fun nice then at

5:37

some point Nico goes I don't want to

5:39

play anymore but he doesn't go

5:41

you guys you

5:44

seem to be having a fun time

5:46

kids don't do that no kids don't go

5:48

like clearly no you're having fun yeah

5:51

I know it's my bat but what am I gonna do

5:53

with it no just put it over there I'm gonna ruin

5:55

it for you I'm gonna ruin it for you you keep

5:57

playing yeah and he he took

5:59

it and everybody was just including me, we were just

6:01

kind of like, well, that's, you know, that's his

6:03

choice. And I was like,

6:06

it's funny how quickly that starts from

6:08

that very, in my

6:10

opinion, western capitalist

6:12

kind of idea, my

6:14

bat ownership, being nine tenths of

6:17

the law, and possession,

6:19

right? Nine tenths. It's mine. Right.

6:21

I think from that, it's not that far down

6:24

from that agreed upon

6:26

belief to if you're in my house, I can

6:28

shoot you. Right. I think it's the same thing.

6:30

Yeah. It's like my bat, my ball, I can

6:32

leave. Yeah. My house, my driveway, I can shoot

6:35

you. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. And what brought

6:37

that to mind was, even in

6:39

California, we have, and it's called the castle law.

6:41

Get out of here. Which is like king of

6:43

the castle. Someone's in your house, you can shoot

6:45

them. Really? Yeah. And I, somebody

6:47

was like, yeah, it's a big California

6:49

that I was like, for some reason, no

6:51

disrespect New York. I thought there was like

6:54

a New York thing, like, Oh, get the

6:56

fuck out of my property. But New York's

6:58

like, Hey, man, get the fuck out of

7:00

here, man. Let's fucking blow your head off,

7:02

man. I will. I won't serve

7:04

a game, man. It's Jeff Bridges. It's called, that's

7:06

Jeff Bridges. All right. Not bad. It's not good

7:08

when you have to tell me. Hey,

7:12

man. I'm not, I'm just, it was a concept.

7:14

I'm not from here. That's my excuse for things

7:16

I don't understand. Ethiopia. Grew up there. I didn't

7:18

know George Michael was dead. So. No, that's not what we've

7:20

explained. Can I claim you from Ethiopia? You can. Just

7:23

be like, sorry, guys. Just be like, it's my nine tenths

7:25

position. Now I know where you're from. Take

7:27

it. I don't know. It's called the castle law. That's such a weird

7:29

law. You can tell just some

7:32

like rock hard senators. Like they had a

7:34

reaction. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, let's be royal.

7:36

Let's be royal. Anyway, so you are from,

7:38

from Ethiopia? No, no. Grew up, grew

7:44

up in Ethiopia. Okay. From, from, from,

7:46

from Mauritania, which is no

7:48

one knows where it is. Don't blame them. Sahara

7:51

desert. Katie and I were just talking about Mauritania and

7:53

we didn't even know how to say it. No. Well,

7:55

now I'm just acting. Do you notice how quickly I

7:57

rolled with it? Yeah. They like Katie and I were

8:00

We were just in

8:02

Mauritania researching it. People,

8:05

really powerful and they

8:07

speak... Bar-l-y.

8:09

Yeah. French. French

8:12

and their local languages which is Poular

8:15

and the Arabic variation which is Hasanya.

8:17

But the French took over the desert.

8:19

Hasanya. Delicious. It's

8:21

a mazania. Mmm. Certain

8:23

languages sound more delicious than others. They

8:27

do. They do. English?

8:29

French food is not good. No, it's

8:31

like flavorless. Portuguese. Urdu.

8:34

Urdu. Urdu. Very good.

8:36

Swahili. Yeah. Mexicano.

8:39

It's so good. I

8:41

said it a little too stereotypical but I just

8:44

meant like Mexicano. Right, right, right, right. I came

8:46

out like speedy Gonzales and I didn't mean that.

8:48

That's the flavor in your mouth. I didn't mean

8:50

that. That was the flavor. That was the flavor

8:52

in your mouth. Mauritania. Mauritania. It sounds

8:55

like decent food. Yeah. I

8:58

mean it's by the sea so it's a lot

9:01

of fish. Oh, okay. It's a huge desert, just

9:03

Sahara Desert, just sand everywhere. Even the roads, like

9:05

we have paved roads but the sidewalks are just

9:07

sand. Sandwalks. Sandwalks.

9:11

You got sandwalks? We got sandwalks in Mauritania. So

9:13

that's where I was born. Mother's from there. We

9:15

were on the sidewalk. Should I be able to trace

9:18

our step? People can

9:20

follow you home in Mauritania

9:22

if you walk on the sidewalk.

9:25

You'll know if a horse was near.

9:27

Mauritania. Mauritania. Was there a snake or

9:29

was that a stick? You don't know.

9:31

No, you don't know. There's going to be trails

9:33

in the sand. So the

9:35

Chinese came over there and really developed it.

9:37

So now China is taking over Africa because

9:40

they're making great deals for the resources and

9:42

so in exchange they're giving infrastructure. So

9:45

a lot of African countries that are very poor now

9:47

have five lane highways but

9:50

no cars to fill them up. And

9:53

that's Mauritania. It's like wide ass roads. Big

9:56

lanes. No one respects because

9:58

why? Dingo,

10:00

you know, I had a four-way intersection.

10:02

No one is there Cell

10:08

phone stuff like the battery stuff is it like

10:10

that they have a lot of the ids cell

10:12

phone deals stuff now So

10:15

yeah, I still have family members who do not

10:17

have internet, which is really interesting

10:19

in this day and age but Yeah,

10:21

no a lot of cell phones now like but becoming

10:23

very modern Whereas the country

10:26

of this Chinese. Yeah Wow influence.

10:28

Yeah, it's not just global happenings

10:30

that I'm ignorant to Katie I'll tell you I

10:32

don't know what's happening here. I don't

10:34

feel like you're talking to Typical

10:37

American doesn't know about the Chinese

10:40

Structure and most of Africa due to

10:42

resources, but that's really interesting.

10:44

Yeah, but the people aren't coming up

10:47

with the infrastructure And

10:49

they believe you have to be the more

10:51

thing in the ambassador Like but I mean

10:53

you're saying like there aren't people like using

10:55

this stuff But what is the whole economy

10:57

not kind of doing better economy or the

10:59

people? Not for the people

11:01

the people in power have the money

11:04

and it's not filtering down to You

11:07

know the rest of the people which is a shame. Yeah,

11:09

and that's a unfortunately a lot of the story in It's

11:12

like in Zimbabwe. You see that in different developing countries

11:15

It's like the money goes to the people who make

11:17

the deals and it doesn't filter down to the population

11:19

Right, which is kind of like America in a

11:21

way. I was just gonna say yeah,

11:24

but didn't get used to you One

11:27

help me I don't know because America certainly

11:29

has a lot of that but not not

11:32

full corruption that seems like full corruption Right, don't we

11:34

still kind of now? We're just you guys talking. You

11:37

don't have to be the represent That

11:40

explains the egg first, but it seems

11:42

like it seems like we're you know

11:45

There has to be some fairness to like

11:47

capitalism. I remember Bono Here's a

11:49

quote for you Bono was like I'm not anti-capitalism.

11:52

He's like, I wish Africa because he has such

11:54

a heart for Africa had more Capitalism. Hmm. What

11:56

do you it looks like you had a take

11:58

on that? Well, I have

12:00

a take on Bono. I have a take on Bono. Did

12:03

you get... are you gonna get divorced in the

12:05

park where he wrote water? That's

12:08

where I break up. That's where it ends. That's where it ends.

12:11

You and your wife are fighting like, should I... I'm

12:13

gonna drive by that park. You

12:15

wanna... Where's this end? George

12:18

Michael or Bono? No, there's that

12:20

Bono joke, you know, where he's on a concert and he's like, every

12:23

five... you know, he's clapping, he's like... He's

12:26

getting the audience to clap. He's

12:28

like, every time I clap, one

12:30

child dies of malaria in

12:32

Africa. And then one guy

12:35

goes, then stop clapping, you asshole. You

12:37

know, that Bono joke. That's

12:39

the Bono joke. So, no,

12:42

Bono's done great for Africa. Just like Bob... Well,

12:46

I guess... go ahead, what were

12:48

you saying? No, Bob Geldof, Bono,

12:50

those are the icons who started like

12:52

movements in Africa, kind of like developing

12:54

work in Africa. Yeah. I don't know,

12:57

there's capitalism in Africa for sure. There's some African

12:59

countries that are way more developed than others. I'm

13:02

just saying Mauritania is slowly getting there. But when

13:04

you go there, you do feel like you time

13:06

traveled. And went to another time.

13:08

An earlier time. Or

13:11

like a Star Wars. No, I mean,

13:13

you do feel like you're on another planet because of the desert.

13:16

And people still dress in the... So

13:18

that could be the future on Tatooine. Right,

13:21

right. Yeah, I know. Dune, Dune III.

13:24

Either a Dune future or an America

13:26

past. Yeah, no, it's like Dune future,

13:28

but America... It's

13:30

the in-between. Is America

13:33

past, Dune future, Mauritania?

13:35

That's my travel agent. Or

13:37

like a travel agent. Like, what is it?

13:41

No, that's the remarketing. Not ancient,

13:43

it's Dune future. Dune

13:45

future. This is after like some sort of blackout

13:47

they keep, like a solar flare that wiped all

13:49

the data. Right, right. This is the

13:51

future. This is the future. But backwards. Come

13:54

taste the future of tomorrow, today.

13:56

But It's kind of a bad

13:58

one. Goofy. yeah

14:00

but it is the matter with your your

14:02

own experience it there's Coke. three. Second,

14:05

or and and I go arrange the

14:08

well listen to my that or it's

14:10

as I read was our lifetimes, murray,

14:12

Dictators and alphabetically the like. No more

14:14

Red. Death or

14:17

Joins because it would do it. seems like

14:19

something on Coke Subito a Cb I work

14:21

in his as were given the presence of

14:23

you doing you're amazing at it. Now are

14:25

Wales and you are and. Odds

14:28

are that any just found out about of the some. Beautiful

14:30

Nord V foods you choose. To

14:36

there was one that as the wasn't supposed

14:38

to was nice that the heist as though

14:40

these are under the was an absolute myself

14:42

I witnessed and landed in more dense. Years.

14:48

Now are plenty of them know

14:50

you can now? Ah, that's that's.

14:52

fine as anyone. To die for

14:55

the cinema dad. He

14:58

gives you i'm trying to voices and that

15:00

leads to laughs and elite still asleep at

15:02

the time. Legacy leads to lapses to you.

15:04

Grew up in Mauritania, Born born in Ontario,

15:06

didn't mind off in i'll be Over Yet

15:08

Are you okay? Order: Mauritania. Grow.

15:11

d The objects and why the

15:13

moves. My father was from Holland

15:15

and my mom in Mauritania. As

15:17

they. Married he's a Muslim see

15:19

the Muslim? yes at he's a duck to

15:21

read the Dutch Christian and my picturing him

15:24

right? Yes, He. Does looks like a

15:26

Lego man. he is what he's quite

15:28

easy as is outweighed the his was

15:30

face grub. A village where is like

15:32

everyone has the same family name you

15:35

know basically like white noise like you

15:37

know it's I smith's that basically and

15:39

that everyone names on. Because. The

15:41

cycle of your my father's John so

15:43

you're going me john deere than me.and

15:46

you're going low though he added windmill

15:48

powered it's a some good news I

15:50

know you pay with assess the sound

15:52

of music future ah went to do

15:55

and future. as

15:59

an hour ago But there's iPhone. Yeah, so

16:01

it's a sound of music. It's a sound of

16:03

music future The

16:06

coke cans are green So

16:08

no, he was raised in

16:10

this beautiful Empty Dutch

16:13

village. That's just very traditional Had

16:16

a relationship with a girl She broke up with him

16:18

and he's like I'm getting the fuck out of here

16:20

and he went to volunteer in Africa you he had

16:22

a Time to leave Holland

16:24

breakup. Yeah time to leave Holland, but

16:26

I want to see this woman. I know The

16:29

woman that if she breaks up with you you're like sent you

16:32

to Africa I'm

16:36

going to Mauritania if I can't be with

16:38

her beautiful That's

16:40

that's how beautiful she was basically.

16:43

Yeah, I'm going to the Going

16:49

to the Sahara Desert because you left me is like

16:52

wow, yeah That's like

16:55

yeah, no one would believe it.

16:57

No like she's that beautiful You know disrespect

16:59

up more ten years more about I picture

17:01

Holland is like a utopia. I don't know

17:03

why There's like candy and no one's overweight

17:06

Whatever. Everyone's on a bicycle. Yeah, he was

17:09

on a bicycle. There's high for the mayor

17:11

is like you get a tax break Yeah,

17:13

yeah, schools are free. There's no homelessness. Yeah,

17:15

there's nothing happening. Gotcha. And he was like

17:17

fuck you This

17:20

is not for me I'm

17:23

going to where there's nothing. Why did he

17:25

pick Mauritania? There was a program there

17:27

that was looking for a can see he was in the

17:29

cant and he was like I want to go

17:31

to Africa first He went to like Ivory Coast and he loved

17:33

Africa and he's like I want to go to a country now

17:35

to move to actually Work there do social work move

17:38

to Mauritania met my mom She

17:40

was a volunteer at that organization Oh,

17:42

well, they fell in love and

17:45

they had me I my sister and then

17:47

me and then my dad was

17:49

offered a job in Ethiopia because that was when the

17:51

famine was happening in 85 and

17:53

that's where you know We are the

17:55

world and yes that stuff had a

17:58

heyday of cruel starvation jokes in America

18:00

Yeah, we're hot. I yeah what a

18:02

horrible thing. No, I mean, you

18:04

know, you're so far away from it,

18:06

right? That's very compassionate. But

18:08

I remember I mean in

18:11

the 80s just being like what? Well,

18:13

you know the thing I've been is your food because they're

18:15

starving kids in Ethiopia. Well, we had that Yeah, and

18:18

then you had ten thousand just mean mean.

18:20

Yeah. No, I grew up with those too.

18:22

Yeah No, it's like,

18:24

you know, it's like what is this? I

18:28

Knew yoke in jumping off the cliff like I grew

18:30

up with those like yoke. Yeah. Yeah. So those are

18:32

the jokes Did

18:35

take me back to 1985 Like

18:42

Bubble of laughter just come it wasn't laughing

18:45

Joy that there's a Nintendo entertainment

18:47

system nearby. It's like I'm sitting

18:49

crisscross applesauce, right which we didn't call that not at

18:52

the time Right.

18:56

Oh, I think that was like I

18:58

went to a very progressive school, right very

19:00

and it was still in the end So

19:02

anyway, so yeah, there's a program they fall

19:04

in love. She worked at the she's an

19:06

accountant volunteer No, she was just a volunteer

19:08

helping with the women programs like helping teaching

19:10

women up to so and teaching them skills

19:12

basically and stuff like that She was volunteer.

19:15

Was she from Ethiopia? She's more Italian. She

19:17

yeah Cuz we're in where

19:19

we're more ten you go and then we go

19:21

to eat you're given forget. Yeah every mistake I

19:23

know my story is complicated. It is. Yeah, I

19:25

can't handle my own. I really

19:27

can't go. You're my So

19:32

it's so hard to explain it because of all the

19:35

steps that yeah and places that we don't know I

19:37

feel like I'm watching Game of Thrones The

19:41

kingdom And I

19:44

deal in the finance After

19:49

leaving the land of sweet oat

19:53

Hot shadow, I went to more than

19:55

you the desert where there's sandy sidewalks

19:58

and then I moved to Ethiopia to to help

20:00

with the salmon. Wow. Yeah,

20:02

so that's where we were, we

20:05

went from Sahara Desert to famine. And I

20:08

mean, it was really fortunate growing up that

20:10

way as a kid, because then you see

20:12

poverty. You know what poverty is. And

20:15

you go, okay, I do not want to

20:17

be that. Yeah. But also I

20:19

do not want to witness that. I want to

20:21

change that if I can. And so we were

20:23

raised very much with that mentality, like enjoy your

20:26

privilege and use it

20:28

for the best. To help. To

20:30

help others. That's really beautiful. I'm

20:33

half white, but I've never

20:35

experienced white privilege. The

20:38

only time I experienced white privilege was when there was

20:40

a civil war in Ethiopia and we were evacuated first.

20:43

And I left my friends there and I was like, oh, this is

20:45

what white privilege is. That's an extreme

20:47

white privilege. I had to leave. They

20:50

let the white families leave first. Well, the foreigners

20:52

were like, we're getting the vacare. And they were

20:55

like, okay. And then they're like, go, go, go,

20:57

go. Last plane, go, go, go. And

20:59

my friends are like, bye, Samba. I was like, see

21:02

you in a few months, maybe. I told you he

21:04

was white. I know. You traitor. We

21:06

thought you were Indian. So

21:09

yeah. Wait, so what happened? You

21:11

were evacuated because of a what

21:13

war? A civil war. Civil war.

21:15

Tribal war, like every trail,

21:18

the country area trail north of Ethiopia wanted to have

21:21

Ethiopia. Oh, leave, leave Ethiopia. And

21:23

so the army met and boom,

21:25

civil war. Like on the border,

21:27

classic. Yeah, they would actually come to the capital

21:29

city. The war came to the city. There was

21:31

like bullets falling from ceilings and stuff like that.

21:33

You're just walking around. And like bullets, when people

21:36

fire a gun in the air, a

21:38

bullet falls somewhere. Yeah, it's like ringing a bell

21:40

and angels and wings. But it's very much worse.

21:43

Just losing an arm while you're

21:45

getting crisscross applesauce playing Nintendo. Yeah, when

21:47

it falls through a roof and like,

21:49

boom, yeah, in your arm. I

21:52

can't. I've always, not

21:56

to, I don't know. Such a

21:58

heavy thing we're talking about. I'm sorry. You're brought down

22:00

the mood. No, no, no. What I'm saying

22:02

is I'm trying to check before I wreck is

22:04

I'm fascinated that that's always been a question of

22:07

mine is when you're shooting in the air, how

22:09

safe can that be? It can't be safe. If

22:11

it's real bullets, it will fall somewhere. It'll

22:13

kill or maim someone. Yeah, or hurt somebody.

22:17

Yeah, exactly.

22:19

That's why when

22:22

people celebrate by going, right,

22:25

still, don't be around

22:27

them. Don't do that. Don't

22:29

do that, guys. Don't do that. Shoot on the

22:31

ground, maybe. Yeah. Just

22:33

not in the air. Or blanks. Maybe,

22:35

but then you don't get that. You

22:38

don't get what? That direction. That

22:40

knowledge. Of firing. I like that. I

22:42

think you're trying to stick up for

22:44

them. Literally. Do you just know nothing's coming

22:46

out? No. You just know.

22:48

So how did that manifest to you?

22:50

How old are you when you were

22:52

evacuated? Oh, I was in third

22:55

grade in the English system, which is fourth grade in

22:57

America. Okay. So

23:00

old enough to know... 91, eight years old. Exactly

23:02

old enough to kind of know what's going on.

23:04

And do you have a memory of going like, oh, there's a

23:06

war happening? Yeah, so we were at school. It was a school

23:08

day. And then it was like... Even worse. War

23:11

and... No, no. But it was the

23:13

best day as a kid because you're at

23:15

school and it's noon and all of a sudden the parents are like,

23:17

we got to go. And everyone's

23:19

like, yeah, no more school. No one's worried

23:22

about what's happening. And I was like, oh,

23:24

yeah. Just your reality. Yeah, no school. Yay.

23:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. War.

23:29

Yay. Why we're flying somewhere? Yay.

23:32

Here's your suitcase. Let's go. Yay.

23:35

This is the last plane out. Okay. Bye.

23:38

Hey, where are we off to? Kenya to evacuate. Why?

23:41

What's happening? War. Dad's

23:43

thing behind. The Yugo. And... Dad

23:46

stayed behind? Dad stayed behind for a couple of months. Yeah. Because

23:49

he had to work and help, whatever. So yeah, it was a weird day. It

23:51

was a weird day of leaving school and

23:53

being on a plane to run away

23:55

while your friends are crying. And you know, your

23:57

Ethiopian friends are like... What

24:00

about us? And you're like, I'm sorry. I'll

24:02

be back with candies from Holland

24:04

when I come back exotic students

24:06

will mock my friend home And

24:10

did your were your friends okay when you

24:12

came back? They were okay. Luckily some

24:15

friends I never saw again because

24:17

they were Eritrean and so they were

24:19

kind of kicked out of the

24:22

country So there's some friends I never saw again after

24:24

that What yeah? Which

24:27

is weird. Yeah happening right now. Just

24:29

the terrible white privilege. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

24:31

Yeah it is Yeah, so for sure.

24:34

Oh, are you men your wife? Well,

24:36

I just meant my wife. No my

24:38

white privilege Yeah, cuz I'm 50% white.

24:40

Yeah, I can never check that on

24:42

a box when I fill out those

24:44

immigration forms, right? They're

24:47

not gonna believe me when it's

24:49

AI you can Do

24:54

not profit all right What

24:56

would visual stimuli lies all the

24:58

time masks Just

25:02

give me some of your blood. All right. Hello. Yeah, 50% white

25:04

whitey. Welcome whitey There

25:09

is a cracker barrel Customized

25:12

I believe there's a target everybody loves target. Yeah

25:16

This is every I my privileges. Obviously, you know,

25:18

I just bought my daughter a book called if

25:20

the world were a hundred people She's five and

25:24

we are what if the

25:26

world was a hundred people Wow, it's a book

25:28

about statistics Okay, cuz I'm just listen

25:30

to this the sentence is just oozing with privilege

25:32

and I want to note it I'm noting it

25:34

and acknowledging it. I'm trying to

25:37

teach my daughter a Little

25:39

bit about what the fuck is going on

25:41

and the statistics in the book are it's

25:43

a heavy read for me Like

25:48

she's just stuck I don't even know if she knows

25:50

that it's a Teaching

25:52

lesson right but it's like eight

25:54

people would have black hair and

25:56

like what it's like one person

25:58

would have blonde hair 100%?

26:00

Yeah, it's a way

26:02

of saying it.

26:04

They don't do this, but like half a person would

26:07

have red hair. Also,

26:09

when you see how many Muslims there are, when you

26:12

see how few, it's just fascinating. And then also when

26:14

you get to the part where it's like, I'm

26:17

going to get this wrong, but it's something

26:19

like six people have clean water, four people

26:21

don't. Even

26:26

this conversation, this is the lived version

26:28

of me being read that book. I

26:31

feel like a five-year-old. I'm sitting in

26:33

town, so this is what's happening. But

26:35

there aren't fun pictures to help me.

26:37

I'm just thinking of you crying and

26:39

your friends. Just your imagination going crazy

26:42

about what went down. Yes, and completely

26:45

incapable of picturing any of the landscapes.

26:47

Dune future. Dune future. But Ethiopia

26:50

is not dune future. Ethiopia is

26:52

green dune. Dune green, like if

26:55

dune was green. I've been to Uganda,

26:57

which is natural. And

27:00

I've been to Kenya, but I've never seen

27:02

this similar place. Kenya is similar to Ethiopia

27:04

nature-wise. There's some green, but California is very

27:06

Ethiopia. Nature. To

27:10

bring it to you, so it's not just a

27:12

history level. You brought in the experts

27:14

today. I know, but I am doing

27:16

that white guy thing like, tell me

27:18

of your troubles while I have Campbell's

27:20

soup or whatever. Just fucking idiot.

27:23

Around that age, psychologically speaking, seven, a lot

27:25

of kids when they're seven, their parents get

27:27

divorced. Some bad thing happens. The veil is

27:29

torn. And in a fucked

27:35

up way- That defines their personality

27:37

for the rest of their lives. What I was

27:39

going to say is sort

27:42

of fucked up, almost like around seven is

27:44

sort of perfect to develop

27:46

an artist. If you're going to shake

27:48

the cage at a certain age, too

27:50

young, doesn't compute. I don't

27:53

know if there's too, I can't really follow that

27:55

through with too old or anything, but I know

27:57

seven is just young enough, so as vulnerable as

27:59

possible. but just old enough to understand

28:01

that. So how did it affect you

28:03

and how did that lead to comedy?

28:06

Uh, so yes, no, there's different types

28:08

of comedians. Obviously, most of the comedians

28:10

I know come from a divorced home

28:13

or a difficult home and

28:15

they use comedy. The comedy was what helped

28:18

them kind of cope with it. Yeah. And

28:21

so you see that a lot. What I love about

28:23

you is that your comedy is very positive. And

28:25

that's why I really like your stuff because you're

28:28

a very positive comedian. I

28:31

think how it affected me is in

28:34

a positive way because I experienced

28:37

what it is to not have

28:40

privilege, to not have, you

28:42

know, how I want to

28:44

say this. This is

28:46

what my parents taught me is like, use

28:49

your privilege for good. So

28:51

I knew that whatever I do in my life

28:53

has to help others. Yeah. And

28:55

then your dad was like, I'm not even joking.

28:58

He's like, and I'll show you that I will

29:00

be staying here. Yeah. Yeah.

29:03

Right. For a couple of months. Yeah. For

29:06

a couple of months. Well, bullets fall through the ceiling and stuff. Right. So

29:09

he was a real hero. Basically, I mean, he had to

29:11

stay back behind. So yeah. So I think when I came

29:13

back, uh, you know, eight years old, life

29:15

continued as normal, as you would say,

29:17

but comedy only happened. Like I

29:20

never, like we didn't have standup comedy in Ethiopia. I

29:22

never grew up with standup comedy. I think the first

29:24

standup comedy show I saw was

29:26

a VHS tape, uh,

29:29

from Bill Cosby. That was like Bill Cosby himself.

29:31

Of course. You know, we got that.

29:33

And then scandal noted. Yeah. You

29:35

know, obviously. I understand criminal bad, bad thing.

29:37

Yeah. Bad thing. Bad person.

29:40

Right. And that special, I also

29:42

saw that and was like, what?

29:44

It seemed like my dad. Yeah.

29:47

It was like dad talking about being a dad and the

29:49

kids and all that kind of stuff. Right. So

29:53

that's what I grew up with. Yeah. Like

29:55

when I was like 15, I saw that tape and I

29:57

was like, what is this art form? What is this? He's

30:01

sitting down, he's talking and people are laughing. But

30:03

I think where my comedy really came from

30:05

is being bullied.

30:08

I can't handle this. Open

30:11

that honey wine. Come

30:15

on. I mean, it's like,

30:17

but again, I see it as

30:19

a blessing because I'm half black, half white.

30:21

I went to an English school that was

30:23

international, kids from all over the world. But

30:26

I'll always be outsider because I didn't belong with the

30:28

Africans, because I'm not fully dark

30:30

or African. Was there kind of racism that way? I

30:32

mean, it was kind of like, we'd play soccer at

30:34

lunchtime and it'd be like foreigners against

30:36

locals, you know? Which means you're just a

30:39

ref. Which is perfect because that's black and

30:41

white stripes. Basically,

30:43

oh my god. Oh no. You're gonna

30:45

have that. What am I gonna use it? Yeah, go for

30:47

it. I do this guy! You see me next time

30:50

doing stand-up. What then is like June future? I got orange cans that

30:52

go. Why are you talking about this? Which

30:54

is perfect. I know. Everyone's like,

30:56

boo. What is being home doing? I can do anyone's

30:58

act. That's the ultimate white brogue. Oh my god. Go

31:01

on. No. So

31:03

you didn't get to play? I mean, I played, I, I, I, you'd have to choose

31:05

a side. You'd have to decide. I'm not gonna play. I'm

31:07

not gonna play. I'm not gonna play. I'm

31:09

not gonna play. I'm not gonna play. I'm not

31:11

gonna play. I'm not gonna play. I'm not gonna

31:14

play. I'm not gonna play. No. So

31:16

you didn't get to play? I mean, I played, I, I,

31:18

I, you'd have to choose a side. You'd have to, you'd

31:20

have to like negotiate. Just like, oh, where, where are we

31:22

short handed? Yeah. Yeah. I

31:25

don't like that. I'm riffing, but I really

31:27

don't like that. I don't want this. So

31:29

no, I got bullied just because I was

31:31

an outsider, you know, like there

31:33

was this guy, we made

31:36

a man's years later and he's passed away now.

31:38

God rest his soul. Basically,

31:41

it was funny because as a younger kid

31:43

in like fifth, sixth, seventh grade, I hired

31:46

him to be my bodyguard at

31:49

school. Just like, I don't know why

31:51

I'd pay him 50 cents a month and he'd

31:53

just protect me or, you know, work

31:56

for me. What? Yeah.

31:58

This is like a Richie Ritchie. No, no, no,

32:00

no, no, no, no. So I hired

32:02

one of the tough boys. Yeah, so I don't

32:04

know why, it was just like a thing. It

32:06

came from fear. You were in trouble. Right. And

32:08

there was a big kid. Yeah. And

32:11

you gave him 50 cents a month to help

32:13

you, not escort you around. No, no, no, no.

32:15

Just be like, hey man, these kids are kind

32:17

of acting up. Were you getting jumped

32:19

and stuff? No, but just like, you know,

32:21

kids would, you know, have kids

32:23

bully, like, oh, yeah, make fun of you,

32:26

whatever. Right. And

32:28

then he ended up being my bully, my

32:30

bodyguard. So

32:33

I don't think I paid him enough. It

32:36

just cuts back to me and I'm gone. Like, you

32:38

keep going for the rest of the episodes, like, I

32:40

can't handle it. You can't handle this. You were giving

32:42

him 50 cents a month and then he turned on

32:44

you. Yeah, he turned on me. Your

32:47

bodyguard. My bodyguard turned on me. And started

32:49

being like, these guys are right. These guys

32:51

are an asshole. He's hearing

32:53

all this math. He's like, actually with them.

32:57

He just slowly moves over to their side.

33:00

And you keep the 50. Yeah,

33:02

never paid me back. I hate this.

33:05

No, he bullied me. And so what is

33:07

this? Do you remember the first time? Because

33:11

there's got to be the first betrayal. There was,

33:13

there was. They wanted me

33:15

to kiss this Indian boy, who was

33:18

a friend of mine. And they're like, you, you kiss him. I

33:21

can't handle the 90s. I'm so scared for my

33:23

son. For any school, high school,

33:25

it's just mean. It's going to be better. It's going

33:28

to be better. Is it? It

33:30

is. I guarantee. I don't know.

33:32

Your son, when he's in high school, we're talking in

33:34

15 years. Yeah. Or 13

33:36

years. Right. It's going

33:38

to be better. I don't know. There's going to

33:41

be a drone assigned to every child. Just like,

33:43

again, 50 cents a month. He's just going to

33:45

be in the bathtub with an Apple Vision Pro

33:47

on. Just walking around. Nobody's here.

33:49

Would you like to open the bully app? And

33:52

it's like, no, force quit. He'll be fine. He's

33:54

going to be better. There's

33:56

no way. I don't know what it was. High

33:58

school is just mean. It's just. where you

34:00

learn skills to defend yourself and

34:02

all that kind of stuff. Both of us

34:04

were figuring out how to be razzle dazzle

34:07

enough to have this stop happening. So yes,

34:09

I'm with you. So get bullied. How

34:11

do I... They wanted you to kick the Indian boy. I'm like,

34:13

no, I'm not going to do this. Because

34:16

I was the first kid in school to have an earring and a

34:18

ponytail. Right ear? Right.

34:21

Left ear. Left ear, right ear was the... Right ear was the

34:23

gay... In the 90s, there was an ear that was the gay

34:25

ear. Yeah. I

34:28

couldn't even remember. I had the straight ear. I did. And

34:31

only because in Mauritania, the first born son left

34:34

ear, second born son right

34:36

ear. So my younger brother had it hard in the 90s

34:38

because he had a piercing in the right ear. I

34:41

got one of them. Look at the shock on my face. I know.

34:44

But this is just... I am

34:46

so sorry to anyone who might

34:48

be listening to this. This is

34:50

just a shocked, upbeat home episode.

34:52

I didn't know how firmly I

34:54

believed that people in the 90s

34:56

need to honor, to avoid bullying,

34:58

the right ear, left ear bullshit

35:01

rule. But your brother had

35:03

another right ear, left ear

35:05

tradition that superseded the homophobic

35:07

90s tradition. Right. And

35:10

there he was. And there he was with a piercing in his

35:12

right ear and kids would... Could he have not gotten a piercing?

35:15

Yeah. But if he wanted one. But it's

35:17

traditional and it was like, you know, I'm going to honor my

35:19

culture. I choose zero. Are you

35:21

hearing that? I go honor culture. Yeah, honor culture.

35:23

In the 90s, can't bullying you. I'm out of

35:25

here. I'm out of here. No culture. I

35:29

choose no culture. By the way, that was my play. Yeah. I'm

35:32

nothing. I'm nothing. Just

35:34

nothing. Right. Whiteboard.

35:36

Right. Go on. So,

35:39

no. Oh, they wanted you to kiss. Kiss this

35:41

boy. I'm like, no, I don't want to. And then

35:43

I looked to my bodyguard. Hey, man, you're going

35:45

to help me out here. And he's like, no,

35:47

go, go. Go ahead and kiss him. And that moment,

35:49

Pete is like, you know, like

35:51

slow motion pan to your face. Yes. While

35:54

we zoom out on the background. Yes. It

36:00

goes all dot? Yes. Yes! The

36:03

betrayal! The betrayal, the deception, the

36:05

pain that comes with it, the

36:08

anger that I wasted two

36:10

whole dollars on this

36:13

kid. And for what? Now

36:15

I'm out here smooching Indian

36:17

boys in cash while you

36:19

all watch? Yeah. Did you

36:21

do it? I had to. Buddy,

36:23

the fucking nineties! I know!

36:25

The fucking nineties! And then they walked away

36:28

and then I was like... And were they

36:30

satisfied? They were! No! They

36:32

weren't... They don't know what they want. They don't know what

36:34

they want. No. They don't know

36:36

what they need. They saw it and they were like,

36:38

oh actually I don't know about this. And then they

36:41

left. Go listen to Slipknot and you fuck. Bullied

36:45

continued, bullying continued and now he's part of it and

36:47

he's instigating it and all this kind of stuff. Now

36:49

he's totally swapsides. Yeah. And

36:52

so the guy, the artist in me

36:54

bubbled up because basically I was like, okay my only mode of

36:56

defending myself, as you know, in the nineties. Was to diss somebody.

37:01

And when you diss somebody, you humiliate them in front of

37:03

everyone else and you're basically the guy no one wants to

37:05

mess with. Right? I can't. You're

37:08

bringing me all the feelings. Every feeling

37:11

of the nineties. And I'm dead inside.

37:14

You're like, you're getting a plan

37:16

together to diss. To diss. You're

37:18

gonna do this? This is a

37:20

mess. And you gotta pick the right time. You

37:22

gotta pick the right time because it's gotta be an audience. Did you

37:24

write it or line? In bed at night. In

37:27

bed at night. Like I wouldn't sleep and I'd just be like, okay

37:29

I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this. You're

37:31

killing me. Building, building, building. Which is what we

37:33

do now with our acts. He's

37:35

just in bed going. We're just bullying

37:37

bad crowds now. I gotta diss a

37:40

bad crowd. Aww. Or

37:42

diss a bad situation. But

37:44

so. Preparing. Preparing. Not

37:46

having your artillery wrist. Stack your

37:48

ammo. Yeah, exactly. Until

37:51

the day came. And the

37:53

moment came. And we were in class. And

37:55

I had an audience. What is this?

37:58

Moonlight? What is this? I can't

38:00

handle this! I'm sorry, the moment came! This is

38:02

what led me to be a comedian, Pete! This

38:05

is the reason for my success. Yes. So it

38:07

has a happy ending. Yes. Alright? Yes. Day

38:09

came. Face off. This

38:12

is it. Before class, after class.

38:14

During class. During class! Does it

38:16

feature? Is it a teacher? Like,

38:18

ahhhhh! You

38:22

deserve it! You deserve it! During

38:26

class. Uhhh, basically, I was like, okay,

38:28

this is it. Cause he was trying to bully me again. And there

38:30

was an audience, there was people watching it. And I'm like, no. I'm

38:33

gonna do it now. Boom. Started some... He

38:35

was chubby. Fat. So it was all the

38:37

fat jokes. You know, like... Yeah. Oh, you know... But

38:39

you wrote your own material? Uhh, yeah. I

38:42

mean, good for you. I mean... In the 80s, in

38:44

the 90s, you could just go to like a classy

38:46

bookstore. And they'd have books, just leather

38:49

bound books called... Ways to take

38:51

down fattings. Like, it was not...

38:53

Nobody had a problem with that. You didn't have

38:56

to work with it. The president of the United

38:58

States could just do... Make a... Make a... What

39:00

was known as a fat joke. Nobody's body shaming.

39:02

Everybody's beautiful. Keep going. Right. No. So basically, we

39:04

didn't have those resources in Ethiopia. So I had

39:06

to come up with my own material. Right? Okay.

39:08

So boom. Had to do it. Brought

39:10

him down. Everyone's laughing. I don't remember. Something.

39:12

You know, it was just like, you know...

39:15

It was stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, your belly

39:17

button's like a dark board. Yeah, I don't know. It's like,

39:19

didn't make sense. Right? But we're 11 years old and... You

39:22

still said something. I see. Yeah. Yeah.

39:24

And... Everyone went, ahh. Yeah,

39:26

everyone, oh, ahh, ahh. And he's like humiliated

39:29

and stuff. And after that day, I

39:32

didn't get bullied again. But I discovered that

39:34

comedy was my weapon. And

39:37

that's what was the foundation for. I

39:39

have the power to make people laugh. And

39:42

I have an audience that listens. And that

39:44

gives me power to share something. And

39:47

I didn't know what stand-up comedy was. I watched

39:49

Bill Cosby himself. I was like, this is an art form

39:51

of some kind. And then Eddie Murphy, Rock, came

39:54

into my life. And then I was like, okay, this

39:56

is something I might want to do. Where in

39:58

he makes fun of Bill Cosby. Yeah, exactly.

40:00

Isn't that the one where you have a coke and a smile

40:02

and shut the fuck up? Yeah. Who

40:04

knew? So, that was my journey

40:07

to comedy. As dark and as depressing as

40:09

that was. No, you're absolutely right. It wasn't

40:11

depressing. It seems like you... I mean,

40:13

it was hard. It's just

40:15

hard remembering how raw we all were. Right.

40:18

And like, I was just talking to another parent where

40:21

we were talking about like, you know, it's

40:23

spring break and what are you going to do with your kids?

40:25

And somebody was like, well, there was a swim camp, but

40:28

like, I had to work and I wasn't going to just

40:30

drop my kid at a camp that I had never like

40:33

watched or like observed or like that they

40:35

don't know anybody. And I was like, boy,

40:38

this is why I think your son is going

40:40

to be just fine. It just keeps getting

40:42

better. Now parents in the 90s, nobody was like,

40:44

I'm not going to send my son to a

40:47

camp. I haven't observed. Right. And

40:49

I'm not talking about the whole day, but like you want to watch and

40:51

get a sense of the vibe. Right. Is

40:53

everything okay? I was dropped street level. I was, you

40:56

know what I mean? It was at the street

40:58

I was driving. Like

41:00

the car was pulling away before my door.

41:03

It totally was like, make sure you're okay. And

41:07

now I'm just in some, sometimes I'm at the wrong

41:09

place. Turns out it was a

41:11

computer camp. Like that's a different camp. Here's

41:14

a bill. Here's a bill. Here

41:16

you go. Your son was amazing.

41:19

Okay. So how long after your

41:21

snaps battle, did

41:23

you find your first, because I read on

41:25

the internet that you played a

41:27

Steven Spielberg video game and that, tell me the

41:29

story. Twelfth

41:31

birthday, I get a Christmas gift from my dad. We

41:33

had a PC that we shared with the family and

41:36

one of those Microsoft gateway things that take forever to

41:38

start up. And the internet that

41:40

goes, how well could you

41:43

do that sound? Here's

41:45

what's crazy. You would know it if it was wrong,

41:48

but you couldn't do it. You can't

41:50

do it. That's off. It definitely

41:52

starts. There's

42:00

definitely a low high. Jigoon jigoon. They got

42:02

the jigoon jigoon in it? Jigoon jigoon. That's

42:05

my rap name. Jigoon jigoon.

42:07

Jigoon jigoon. What's up HTML?

42:11

Go on. So my

42:13

dad gets me this video game called

42:15

Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair. Because

42:17

he saw a little razzle dazzle in it? No, because

42:19

he saw that I was doing, like, we had a

42:21

video camera and I would start making like little stop

42:23

motion animation things with toys and stuff and he's like,

42:26

this guy is gonna be an artist. Your

42:29

fucking hero, your sensitive

42:31

hearted, Dutch chocolate loving

42:33

dad that just couldn't

42:35

stop supporting Ethiopia and

42:38

his family. And

42:40

seeing you. I too was

42:42

making with a camcorder stop motion

42:45

stuff. Oh yeah, that was a

42:47

huge change in my life. That was fun. It was just like

42:49

you moved the toy a little bit. On off.

42:51

Yes. And if it was an old enough one it would

42:53

be a razzle dazzle. You'd have

42:55

to listen for when it's recording then off. Right,

42:57

right, right. Because it's not actually starting. It's not

42:59

like an iPhone that starts. It would be like,

43:01

it would rewind a little bit. And

43:07

then it would rewind. And then it would.

43:09

So yeah, so he saw that

43:11

I was interested in that kind of stuff and so he

43:13

got me the video game which no one in America knows

43:15

about. No, I don't know about it. As so many people

43:17

here, like, do you know Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair? No one's

43:19

ever heard about it. So I don't know

43:21

if Steven Spielberg was exporting it to like, I

43:23

don't know, African like third world

43:25

countries or whatever. It

43:27

was his bond move. Every time

43:30

I clap a DP is established

43:32

in Africa. Director's board in Africa.

43:36

And it was an amazing video game. It was

43:38

basically a box of eight CDs that you put

43:40

in the game, like in the computer one at

43:42

a time, where you get to

43:44

direct a film on the Universal Studios

43:47

lot, alright. A variety

43:49

article appears saying, Samba,

43:51

you put your name in and it

43:53

creates an article. Pete Holmes hired to

43:56

direct a film starring Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer

43:58

Aniston and Penn and Teller. those

44:00

magicians. Those were the actors

44:02

that you would use in your film. Wait,

44:04

they were in it? They were in it.

44:06

Tarantino was in it as an actor. You

44:09

had Quentin Tarantino. What the fuck, what? Jennifer

44:11

Aniston, Quentin Tarantino, Penn and Teller. So, you're

44:13

basically a director, right? You hired Quentin Tarantino

44:15

as your main lead. The famous actor. Right.

44:18

And he's in jail, okay? The story is always

44:20

like, he's in jail, he's a prisoner, Jennifer Aniston

44:22

is his girlfriend trying to get him out of

44:25

jail, and Penn and Teller are the bad guys. And

44:27

then you basically have those actors, and so the first

44:29

step is writing the script. So, you go to the

44:32

writer's office and you write a story. Okay, what do

44:34

you want it to be? Do you want it to

44:36

be mystery? Do you want it to be drama? Do

44:38

you want it to be comedy? And then you write

44:40

a script with the writers and you have a script.

44:42

Wait, the writers help you? Yes. What is this? Chat

44:45

GPT? I don't know what is this. This is 1995,

44:47

all right? And it's like amazing technology. That's why I'm

44:50

like surprised no one's heard about this game.

44:52

You write the script, you start

44:54

shooting the movie on the Universal Studios lot,

44:56

and you start. You choose. Start with a master,

44:58

close. Do you want a wide? Do you want

45:00

a two shot? What happens? And then you

45:03

click it and then you see a video

45:05

of Quentin Tarantino acting with Jennifer Aniston, and

45:08

then they do their thing. They say the lines from

45:11

the script you wrote with the writers.

45:13

No, shut up. No, this is like, I just,

45:16

please check out the

45:18

YouTube videos of this game. Please check

45:20

it out. So it's like a voice.

45:22

It's like talking moose. Hello, I want

45:24

to like, is that? They actually do

45:26

your lines like, babe, I'm so

45:28

sorry. Then, you know, whatever it is that you wrote

45:30

with the writer, you know, I'm sure it was premeditated.

45:32

Whatever you write with a writer was already like, oh,

45:35

you were making choices. I guess I get like, it's

45:37

a comedy, but I want this scene to I want

45:39

an escape. And then when you're writing the dialogue, you're

45:42

choosing, do you want them to say, hi, how are

45:44

you? Right? Yeah, pre pre. Okay. So you couldn't just

45:46

say, hey, Samba is amazing.

45:48

Yeah, you can't have broken, you know, so you but

45:50

you chose what was set? Yes, you chose always said

45:52

you shoot the thing. You choose

45:54

what props, whatever and all that kind of stuff. Then you

45:57

go to the editing room, you edit your movie with this

45:59

editor, Michael Kahn. that Steven Spielberg always works

46:01

with, he's done every Spielberg movie, and you edit

46:03

it, you choose your master shots, your close-ups, your

46:05

two shots, you edit the movie, then you go

46:08

every line there's a master, a single, and a

46:10

two shot. Yes! Yes!

46:13

You make a movie, and then you go

46:15

to the sound department to add your sound

46:17

effects, and then you add your music score,

46:19

and then you have your premiere, and then

46:21

you have your film, and then you have

46:23

your head carpet, and then the curtain opens,

46:25

and then you play your movie in front

46:27

of an audience, and it does the whole

46:29

movie from start to finish with your dialogue,

46:31

your sound effects, your music, your cues, and

46:33

then you get a review and variety. And

46:37

stuff happens while you're filming, like earthquakes,

46:39

that halt production, or you go over budget, or

46:41

you go over time, and you don't make it,

46:44

and all this kind of stuff. It was like

46:46

an amazing video game! I'm so surprised no one

46:48

has ever heard about it here in America. Again!

46:51

Steven Spielberg's director's chair! Look at my

46:53

face! I know! I'm the

46:55

joy version of the hearing thing! I'm

46:57

as affected by what you're telling me! This is

47:00

what got me into making one of...come to Hollywood!

47:02

Did it have incredibly long load times? I'm

47:05

assuming you could hear the computer churning. You

47:07

could, I mean, eight CDs, and so it

47:09

was like, gah gah gah gah gah gah

47:11

gah gah gah, and then finally it was

47:13

like, okay, it's loaded. Why was it Tarantino?

47:16

I don't know! Steven Spielberg was, I don't

47:18

know, hiring Tarantino as an actor in the

47:20

90s? Was he? I mean, he's in

47:22

Dustyldawn, he acts, he's in Pulp Fiction. He was

47:24

really good! Him and Jennifer Aniston. Were

47:26

they easy to direct? Did they take

47:28

notes? I didn't give them notes! I

47:31

believe anything about this game. Could you

47:33

say, like, more intense today? No, you

47:35

could choose an emotion. You

47:38

could choose, like, yeah, I want it more dramatic,

47:40

or I want it funnier, and they would be

47:42

more goofy, or they'd be more serious. And

47:45

so you could do that. And then the movie has to

47:47

be just a mishmash. It

47:49

makes sense. No, it makes sense. It's like, there's

47:51

a story, and there's everything! And

47:54

you make a 15 minute movie sometimes.

47:57

And then, yeah, then you get hired again by the

47:59

studio. to make an even longer movie and

48:01

an even longer movie. And it just keeps going

48:03

forever. So that's what got me into acting

48:06

and directing. Steve Gilligan. You should have just

48:08

stayed with the game. Sounds like everything you

48:10

need was in this game. It was incredible.

48:13

And then they mail you a check. I

48:15

know. I know, seriously. So

48:17

the first time we were there, were the

48:19

reviews ever bad? Yeah. Variety would say like

48:21

Samba would be, yeah, of course. No. Yes.

48:24

That would be like Samba is shoot movie,

48:26

terrible, does not do well in the play.

48:28

Overproductions, producers are angry that he went over

48:30

budget and all this stuff. It's not your

48:33

fault because there's earthquakes and they have to

48:35

rebuild the set and after the earthquake and all that

48:37

kind of stuff. Or that

48:39

one of the actors is, I don't know, in their dressing

48:42

room and not wanting to come out. I don't know.

48:44

Basically, sorry, your life is

48:46

the movie Gran Torino. Except

48:48

instead of playing Gran Torino and then becoming

48:50

a race car driver, you were pretending to

48:52

be a director and then you became a

48:54

director. And the first time I

48:56

stepped on the Universal Studios lot, I was like, this is

48:59

wild. I've been here before as a

49:01

12-year-old kid in Ethiopia. I know my way

49:03

around. I know this building. Where's Crafty? I

49:06

know where's Crafty. Wow. Yeah. So it was

49:09

beautiful. That came full circle. I

49:11

know Penn a little bit. I wonder if I could ask

49:13

him if he has any memory of doing it. Right. That's

49:16

because I really want to know everything. Penn and Teller, they

49:18

were the bad guys in it. They were the bad guys.

49:20

Yeah, the magicians. And they make things disappear in it. Which

49:24

isn't impressive in a video

49:26

game. You know, whenever you see magic, Tom

49:29

Cruise is always doing magic. And Mission Impossible is

49:31

like, is the key here? And

49:33

everyone's like, yeah, but we can only see it from the

49:35

angle that you know. No, don't cut it. That's

49:37

right. It always makes me laugh. The bottle's down here.

49:40

He drops the key. And you know they drop the

49:42

audio of the key. Ding, ding, ding, ding. And

49:44

I'd love to just see the dailies. Or he's like, or is

49:47

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So your Dad changes your life forever,

54:09

your eight years old. When the Seven,

54:11

Twelve Twelve twelve as idea you as

54:13

the eight will do just that. This

54:16

bullying building up to Eleven Twelve Twelve,

54:18

get all the skills to direct. And

54:20

then when did you come to. Or

54:23

next experience of comedy. So when I

54:25

moved to Holland to go to college

54:27

I was eighteen. move to Holland. Went

54:29

to this in an international university. When

54:32

you left for Holland, did your dad

54:34

silhouetted by window without turning around? Go

54:36

if you see. Her smith. Don't

54:39

tell me. And.

54:42

Them thunder crashes and realize I was

54:44

So far as if you know of

54:46

who I believe the name you will

54:48

not say if. They're

54:52

all named Jennifer. Bit of us is in friend

54:55

all excited by this A C Good how and

54:57

go to Holland? I'm in this college

54:59

I want to act, I want to become an actor.

55:01

That was I to ask permission to my mom you

55:03

know to the mediocre are in Africa way like. Being

55:06

an actor is like not a profession. You can say I'm going

55:08

to be an actor. You have to be like a pilot or

55:10

lawyer or doctor. But at the talk

55:12

my mom like i really want to act

55:14

okay is that okay with you yes but

55:16

get some degree in something else says okay

55:19

minute learn theater but also did teach theater

55:21

some have teachers degrees, anything goes bad. Here's

55:23

my impression of your mom when you said

55:26

I'm going to be your mom fixate your

55:28

line of yes mom I am going to

55:30

study acting and but as a backup yeah

55:32

I'm going to get a degree in teaching

55:35

acting or cameras am on my some from

55:37

gonna be an actor but don't worry I'm

55:39

going to get a degree. As

55:41

and. It.

55:50

Pays really well mom an email as

55:53

business is always. A.

55:58

Mess. Now.

56:01

An excellent. There was a

56:03

d moment of silence there was for

56:05

those the audio recently he he's it

56:07

is a big smile to zero very

56:09

slowly race but see could not have

56:11

been thrilled not and computer science was

56:13

I know like pilot yard aluminium at

56:16

as right You're right I thought Smith

56:18

Zola how do these actors are these

56:20

losers are you will teach men will

56:22

make more of those roses of other

56:24

employed idiot will be under my command

56:26

such as he's like I met and

56:28

sit there and exactly you are amazing

56:31

I've done with three. A Biology What

56:33

Happened. Yet. So.

56:35

I So I'm in college, I'm starting

56:37

acting as an open mind and wanna

56:40

do a monologue as an actor. So

56:42

I write my own monologue. Funny Mandala.

56:45

Turns. Out the only have a micron of

56:47

state rep Mike do. My mom loves. It.

56:49

Stand Up Comedy. Low.

56:51

And it was like how many been doing stand up comedy for

56:53

I'm the. Oldest. Is is this

56:56

was a monologue i'm an actor and that

56:58

another sustained com the i'm really. And.

57:00

That's how it started. Chocolate in

57:02

my feet above sea Physicists? Yes.

57:05

Yes, He

57:07

leads to a buddy by auxiliary

57:09

Mississippi state. Yeah, basically I stumbled

57:12

into fan of comedy clubs by.

57:14

when he says it's. Yeah.

57:17

What's. This. Us and up

57:19

there the microphone i'm an actor doing a

57:21

monologue was the monologue you yeah I mean

57:23

taking jobs like time by your like talking

57:26

about how guy word like know like how

57:28

guys who don't know is always a new

57:30

no no no numbers you know what? Like

57:32

how guys hit on girls like the nerdy

57:34

guy isn't that cool guys and then like

57:36

doing that as a my monologue turned out

57:38

to be stand up comedies and then I

57:40

became the stand up comedian on campus and

57:42

every time they had an open mike I

57:44

do a monologue with my microphone and become

57:46

than comedians. Oh that's how it started by.

57:49

Accident. You. Know the quote

57:51

Houdini? You know? Who didn't You

57:53

know the Houdini? Dany. He goes

57:55

as a magician, as an actor

57:57

pretending to be amused, magicians and.

58:00

You were an actor Pretend media can mean

58:02

rent exact. I mean it is gathered type

58:04

of. Rain some

58:06

as I say that on says i'm like it's

58:08

my job to be in this movie. Yeah the

58:10

mood This is Greg Greg you don't always know

58:12

feel like doing you know but you become He

58:15

played the right and then sometimes and playing the

58:17

part. You. Become the but rent. The.

58:19

As I'm sure every I can't speak to

58:21

other like really deep good trained actors become

58:23

and search feeling what their character for them

58:26

so that's really cool. So yeah that's what

58:28

has how it started. and then I started

58:30

doing those open mics every three months or

58:32

whatever and then I had a type of

58:34

material they sent to this agency and they

58:37

wanted to see me perform but the once

58:39

he perform in Dutch this was all in

58:41

English by the way. Setting: This is my

58:43

first language and the beslan and the best

58:45

language emphasise the best. It's so delicious. Bad

58:48

food yes but languages Delicious Food. Terrible.

58:50

You know it's not great.

58:52

Language. But it is everywhere. Know you have.

58:55

You have all the words you need. We.

58:57

Have ah we are all the words in a yep. And

58:59

you can go anywhere. Rent their try and

59:01

build trying they're trying. They'll try to understand.

59:03

Yeah, I remember being. Feeling. That

59:06

way obviously out our you gotta analyze

59:08

and all that night. So there's a

59:10

by the bridge. see I see there's

59:12

a yikes reason for all taken t.

59:16

V. A wide

59:18

you have Jesus and be why do you have

59:20

tea and sandwiches. Y t Jesus. Y

59:24

L M T as he didn't have

59:26

that. What am I going It is

59:28

this a lot of the other. Are

59:30

you gonna want to see what Jesus

59:32

said What happened to be home? This

59:35

is his career from zip zip. After

59:37

the spotted outward bound by the samba

59:39

he had a break he he i

59:41

thought she was his advice and yoga

59:43

or I'm sorry I forgot Mauritania retain

59:45

June past and future sounds a little

59:47

too much like avatar on obtained Really?

59:49

Yeah the Me voters. And think retained

59:52

it. Yeah, it's weekend. I'll talk to

59:54

the president better know him or African

59:56

may be obtainable on obtain unobtainable. Oh

59:58

that's as the worst. You know a

1:00:00

killer guy. So yeah I you kept doing the

1:00:03

open mike every couple the Michael Knight but they

1:00:05

wanted and that sunday this organization that this company

1:00:07

that the my tape to their like they hired

1:00:09

and comedy it was still kind of new in

1:00:11

Holland Stanhope only start in the nineties and Holland.

1:00:15

Before that the add another art form called

1:00:17

hub are rare which is like a man

1:00:19

goes on stage tell the story a cabaret

1:00:21

yeah and that as music or whatever and

1:00:23

things done right. I'm at a weird time

1:00:25

lay I mean either as a as a

1:00:27

people comedian rates were always mixed with some

1:00:29

big guy. On a piano right? Those what

1:00:31

the either? Then there's gotta be a lady that

1:00:33

yes that he would. what are you fucking

1:00:35

com He started out like a newborn dear

1:00:37

reader and everyone with a what the voters that

1:00:40

what is it when there's a big i

1:00:42

have a piano, yes there's smoking and zira

1:00:44

and there's ladies and like are I got nominated

1:00:46

as the oh yes, this goal isn't to

1:00:48

us and of you adult those people in

1:00:50

twenty twenty four right It'll just be the guy

1:00:52

that comes out while you're setting up the rare

1:00:54

threaten the a third be like that. I

1:00:56

don't want the same reason. men, piano hours

1:00:58

and only an hour. That is

1:01:01

what has stands right now. It's actually the

1:01:03

guy you've been gone for hundred years of

1:01:05

as are one one of the and try

1:01:07

to draw a crowd. food, piano and magnitude

1:01:09

said in and get ladies. Maybe some plate

1:01:11

in New Orleans? Maybe maybe the I think

1:01:13

that Norland is still a piano at least

1:01:16

a. Sex.

1:01:19

Act on tank that ah

1:01:21

sentences for a tank and.

1:01:29

Send. Them the tape they want me to do

1:01:31

stand up in touch which is my fourth language like

1:01:33

I do not speak at whereas. Know I'm

1:01:35

sorry. That's not a practice to show that I do

1:01:37

not speak at well. That was respect. Him

1:01:40

I gave regular know my my you know

1:01:42

that that you know about English France. Ethiopian.

1:01:45

Dutch. And I do not speak

1:01:48

Dutch well. But here's the town's I have

1:01:50

to do well or I will not. Book.

1:01:52

This gig and work as a stand

1:01:54

up comedian so I had to memorize

1:01:56

these jokes line word by word, And

1:01:59

you know like if you are memorize hundred

1:02:01

percent you do not In a language that

1:02:03

you do not speak well you can't improvise

1:02:06

right? So if some your lap and and

1:02:08

you can't there's react to a go. I'm

1:02:10

eager to get that bad review from Variety.

1:02:12

It's over as the Of So you memorize.

1:02:16

You know you were saying. I didn't know what our

1:02:18

brains and I did know when I was saying. but

1:02:20

when someone in the audience. Responded.

1:02:23

Ah, The Dominion and Nine allows you

1:02:25

to not speak. You can't respond to

1:02:28

that because you're. With. Your script.

1:02:30

right? You can't you need one save

1:02:32

line is that This guy is. Yes

1:02:35

they've got is a video game that

1:02:37

that I just say that I like

1:02:39

I have. You guys are ready to

1:02:41

go back to discrepancies. Yeah, basically so

1:02:43

that was the risk. Ah and death

1:02:46

happened. Could not improvise. Does.

1:02:49

It was as like so high I think

1:02:51

I've spoken English or whatever this guy is.

1:02:54

Is is that I did not

1:02:56

die as a race. Fact:

1:03:00

That and and but they like my tape enough

1:03:02

or my audition enough that they hired me as

1:03:04

a comedian. From. Your first time

1:03:07

doing that stand up here and there was

1:03:09

a heckler and rice right? And. They

1:03:11

thought that my tape I send them was in English. And

1:03:13

like they're like but if you want to career in

1:03:16

Holland, you have to do it in touch. And so

1:03:18

they saw that I could handle myself on stage well.

1:03:20

But. This is why became a physical

1:03:22

comedian in Holland because I saw at

1:03:24

the language So physical comedy with what

1:03:27

save me. To. Not have to

1:03:29

do everything with nerds. What?

1:03:33

Is have a good local. every story as

1:03:35

it is. This a side of that suggests

1:03:37

that very outdated motivated stream or he would

1:03:40

that have been go on a stack and

1:03:42

it's like and there's an accordion. Very limited

1:03:44

to psych so of course physical comedy was

1:03:46

my way to a free dinner with the

1:03:49

if it isn't. Never had any other age.

1:03:52

Seven. Weeks

1:03:55

ago you have little them as a sad,

1:03:58

sad, It

1:04:00

it it and mechanic that the Central Florida.

1:04:03

And then you started making enough for room

1:04:05

and board i'm a rumor and a one bedroom

1:04:07

apartment by the theater as the Zebra hated

1:04:09

where were You as the Phantom of the

1:04:12

Upper Other Hand in college I was in

1:04:14

college the other thing on campus but it was

1:04:16

amazing that I got paid like this is

1:04:18

the first time I got paid of the

1:04:20

comedians fifty bucks or fifty euros and attempts to

1:04:22

do us fifteen minutes set like in Holland

1:04:24

know that sounds a lot of money for

1:04:26

me, like a Cs and didn't do well as

1:04:28

so basically a year of. Doing

1:04:30

Dutch comedy. And then.

1:04:33

I'm. So ambitious, Geico, I'm going to

1:04:35

take part in the biggest. Mask.

1:04:39

And all and called the life cover his. And

1:04:42

I'm gonna participate. and I'm gonna

1:04:44

win. And I went. Sees me. Why?

1:04:47

Krasinski? Zoom

1:04:49

in a separate slow the roof

1:04:52

as when we curb you Earth

1:04:54

as bomb bomb bomb. Remember that

1:04:56

tournaments and felicitous you decide. Yeah,

1:04:58

I'm nervous. Yeah you sign up

1:05:00

for that Like Cabaret Legged Cat

1:05:02

Lights, cover of has Divide biggest

1:05:04

national com a competition in Holland

1:05:07

and you got guys on pianos

1:05:09

that wasn't an atheist and saying

1:05:11

you gotta stand. Up Comedians and then

1:05:13

you have me the physical comedian who's

1:05:15

learning to speak better Dutch. The

1:05:17

wanna tell my story being have African f European?

1:05:20

whatever. This didn't just come about by accident.

1:05:22

Okay, I was in am. I

1:05:24

was in Africa I went back to home to

1:05:26

Africa for a little bit and I was like

1:05:28

okay what I wanted to in my life on

1:05:30

win this competition second launch my career second eventually

1:05:33

got America this is oil muggle are no other

1:05:35

the theme but honestly votes with my with my

1:05:37

fat so I need to meet Steven Spielberg's i

1:05:39

can tell her about Saddam in the south of

1:05:41

I couldn't do I asked him why yard Quentin

1:05:44

Tarantino back on my machine I think that means

1:05:46

that are doing business as. Assess.

1:05:49

Assess. Assess what I did. all

1:05:51

of the movie Is that about?

1:05:54

Know a guy who would have been thrown

1:05:56

dress be a threat? God. So. I

1:05:59

mean. I'm in Kenya, I'm volunteering doing some onto

1:06:01

your work in the village where there's no power, no

1:06:04

electricity, whatever. So I have a lot of time to

1:06:06

think of a lifetime do Museu Andrews and am I'm

1:06:08

like I'm gonna win the com a plan on my

1:06:10

five years of life. So just to be clear, guess

1:06:12

you're writing jokes by candlelight at this for absolutely in

1:06:14

my head by candlelight. But. No

1:06:17

joke. Yeah, Because. It's unlike

1:06:19

your yes and no no no it's not

1:06:21

that best but it was able well I

1:06:23

was in that knows no power. he left

1:06:25

no water while you're trading or yes to

1:06:28

get ready for the biggest threat Comedies has

1:06:30

her her it hit home and rent so

1:06:32

that you can get esteem budget idea about

1:06:34

and me William and Mary Murphy really sad

1:06:37

sad zebra Yes exactly yeah or idea what

1:06:39

is it is a planned visit. The plan

1:06:41

will how many get an American tail enough

1:06:43

or is now. A

1:06:46

Five On Five O Five Alive Alive on. Both

1:06:48

have club at all so yeah go

1:06:50

back to home and after my time

1:06:53

in his village and I'm like I'm

1:06:55

ready to go out isn't for the

1:06:57

competition. Hired as likely to eight comedians

1:06:59

and we compete. We go from the

1:07:01

first found to the quarterfinals and final

1:07:03

and I when the jury and the

1:07:05

audience and it was the first time

1:07:07

in history than ninety percent of the

1:07:09

audience and voted for the winner. And

1:07:12

the first time in history that

1:07:14

the jury had no criticisms of

1:07:16

the winner. And so I won.

1:07:18

And Stab Stab better than I

1:07:20

ever been out of the today.

1:07:22

Ah, launch my career that way.

1:07:25

To. Be the physical comedian holland that as I have

1:07:27

a couple shows com is comedy specials and to

1:07:29

move to America. Okay, Now

1:07:31

every question here is the best one. What

1:07:33

was your act like that you unless I

1:07:36

used a gem bay you know a drone

1:07:38

as as control methods and it's accept it

1:07:40

said goatskin drum and he can bang it

1:07:42

like a lot of hippies in Venice Beach

1:07:45

we i think I got a Gm drum

1:07:47

circles Cs so I use the base look

1:07:49

like a late like I was yeah like

1:07:52

the time have he says the hourglass yeah

1:07:54

the hourglass not a lady not only hourglass

1:07:56

nominate some ladies marino's i'm lazy to more

1:07:58

goals or accent sounded. The angular early

1:08:00

to say no one had ever known

1:08:03

as is if set up six months

1:08:05

assess as. For the School

1:08:07

of Weird his essays and as the tell people

1:08:09

what their body Led lighting is a. Arrive

1:08:12

at a dinner snare drum and

1:08:14

how it his the third side

1:08:17

or like noom. Gentleman

1:08:19

never used as a one does

1:08:21

the deepest secrets. To

1:08:25

discuss I thought he did it it

1:08:27

shows I didn't small that showed a

1:08:30

good cannot tunis go on so play

1:08:32

my damn base and ah I i

1:08:34

the symbolism a the symbol for me

1:08:36

because I at the gym be is

1:08:39

has to be the right temperature and

1:08:41

be too. Hot to cold and be

1:08:43

too much in the sun. too much in

1:08:45

the dark has to be right in the

1:08:48

middle and without a symbol for my story.

1:08:50

Can't beat em. Has African your pain. As

1:08:53

a. Half rich poor

1:08:56

for everyone's sake. and am. The

1:08:58

only way I can have harmony is

1:09:00

by embracing both and choosing the middle

1:09:02

to the cancers one over the other

1:09:05

Supply with that are Intel. Is this

1:09:07

a third job at. Golden

1:09:09

bother to. Avoid

1:09:12

even gonna. I must admit, I

1:09:14

mean, I slept. I'm better. I'm

1:09:16

at Zambello. Are

1:09:19

heavy objects that because. It's.

1:09:25

Not even out of your our decisions

1:09:27

street or fall down audience for you.

1:09:29

Did this act every time. every round,

1:09:31

every round say but out. add something

1:09:33

new and new. joke each round disc

1:09:35

with fresh for the judges because they'd

1:09:37

watch every round and so they watched

1:09:39

said like five time they watched of

1:09:41

five or forty four five times. Yeah

1:09:43

and then the last. And there's the

1:09:45

audience. yeah that votes as yet. when

1:09:47

they haven't they haven't seen it. Know.

1:09:50

You're slow leak in it out and the

1:09:52

little them more Yeah this is insane yeah

1:09:54

and I saved one of my best to

1:09:56

for last. Colossal convince has can make the

1:09:58

final. In. On the. Our over there lava

1:10:00

tracking where we want to college soccer him. And

1:10:03

thank god I mean to finalize I'm not have

1:10:05

had this joke oh my god if you had

1:10:08

met me at that time he be like and

1:10:10

I'm gonna say my last job for the final

1:10:12

I am a kid so the best it i

1:10:14

have spent the first so nothing is guaranteed by

1:10:16

Ivan I pad you know it's ever lox ignorance

1:10:19

is nothing like you can see audible he of

1:10:21

the bill com that i open access. Ah

1:10:25

on a year you save the best your

1:10:27

woes of as out. I do a song

1:10:29

at the end of my show with the

1:10:31

gym me. I get the audience to sing

1:10:33

together. And we all thing we'll see we'll see

1:10:35

and like repeat after me Heinonen and another one

1:10:37

of the first call response and we saying i'm

1:10:39

like thank you thank you. And.

1:10:41

With that song you all just said agreed

1:10:43

to adopt an Ethiopian child or whatever was

1:10:45

and then like a was like ah you

1:10:47

got us and than thou the joke so

1:10:49

saved it for last like a pig. You

1:10:52

have enough has opted in Ethiopia.

1:10:54

Yeah one guy who thinks instead

1:10:56

of i can see that happening

1:10:58

right now. Ah ha, I care

1:11:01

about your very ball. As for

1:11:03

the but I'm in a tight

1:11:05

spot. Doesn't.

1:11:08

Like that he doesn't understand That was a

1:11:10

single. It was a sing song yeah in.in

1:11:12

Dutch with or with a with my gym

1:11:15

a drum gyrus yeah and with jokes and

1:11:17

the punchline Indian and they loved it Standing

1:11:19

know. That. Does.

1:11:22

People do standing Owes misses the weeping

1:11:24

my desk cause I've ever performed in

1:11:27

Holland know? Okay let me prepare you

1:11:29

for his every performance and they will

1:11:31

not laugh out loud. Fully.

1:11:33

They're very We look at my ticket

1:11:36

if they're very reserved. People.

1:11:39

And so I've done bunch of shows like I

1:11:41

had three com a special in Holland I would

1:11:43

toward the latest when I did was whatever of

1:11:45

Five Six seven eight years ago. He.

1:11:48

Was all about being positive. Okay I'm

1:11:50

toying around Holland I'm doing this joke

1:11:52

about it, this whole show about be

1:11:54

positive and Alesina not giving up. They

1:11:56

do not last for eighty minutes know

1:11:58

one single laugh and I'm they're like

1:12:00

I should stop the show I'm offending

1:12:02

people but the show is about not

1:12:05

giving up So I cannot stop performing

1:12:07

the show because it's about not giving

1:12:09

up so have to continue the shocks

1:12:11

of eighty minutes. I'm doing my show

1:12:13

basically monologue in not hearing in the

1:12:15

response I end this show life go

1:12:17

off. Standing

1:12:20

Ovation. And. I'm

1:12:22

confused and. I.

1:12:24

Go backstage and like what does happen within. Loved

1:12:26

it it was amazing. I go like you know

1:12:28

to the cafe after to meet some people from

1:12:30

the Odyssey. can store. The funniest thing ever seen in

1:12:32

my life. I why didn't you les?

1:12:35

Mis dutch crowd. We didn't want to

1:12:37

interrupt you. Farm.

1:12:41

Where I'm from For the last hit the

1:12:43

Ma'am it's been, it's been a famous and

1:12:45

that's the Dutch crowd. They respect the art

1:12:47

form so much. Veto one of the want

1:12:50

to listen to every single thing you say.

1:12:52

some lox. ah shut up shut up vs

1:12:54

that. My wife was in the audience and

1:12:57

see the American. it's easier to say it

1:12:59

old, allowed to laugh and she would get

1:13:01

glares from the Dutch crowds thick. You

1:13:03

know, Okay,

1:13:07

I hate it for comedy but I love

1:13:09

it for literally every rails threat so there's

1:13:11

just to prepare you for if ever you

1:13:14

go the are listening to you, they love

1:13:16

you and your the way the outweigh in

1:13:18

other ways as a culture very sound sensitive

1:13:20

can like this is a hotel. close your

1:13:22

door for universities for Isis, No running water

1:13:24

after eleven Pm. Here in New realize those

1:13:27

pipes go around the building right if you

1:13:29

rush achieve. I brush my right right. rabbits.

1:13:31

Nine and thirty Pm. Seven minutes hours. Now

1:13:33

seven minutes of your said no. So ah

1:13:35

yeah, they're very like the first. Time I move

1:13:37

to Holland. I was shocked

1:13:39

because I was raised in Africa where you retreat

1:13:42

strangers on the street the has going good are

1:13:44

you? Here are some I'm like when it comes

1:13:46

on or whatever it is it's am. I.

1:13:49

Was walking down the street in Holland. Man

1:13:51

was walking toward me ago. Good morning. And.

1:13:54

He looks at me. Chooses not to

1:13:56

respond and keeps walking. And. That's

1:13:58

the first time on the. People

1:14:00

don't ask. And

1:14:03

that's exactly like who has stolen

1:14:05

the Africa's largest is it from

1:14:08

Holland? Why?

1:14:10

so this is there. They can

1:14:12

be cold. They can be directly

1:14:14

can be cold, but it's from

1:14:16

a place of. Mood.

1:14:19

Coldness? Yeah. It's called most of the

1:14:21

year they are you afraid but it's also does like. I.

1:14:24

Don't know. I don't know what is this like? I don't know

1:14:26

you. Why would I say hi to you? Know.

1:14:28

Doesn't make sense Is it? You're

1:14:30

dangerous? Maybe this is right around

1:14:32

nine eleven? Don't.

1:14:34

Go up. somebody say someone whom and that the obtaining

1:14:36

I'd have a fellow. Of

1:14:39

like good morning and means like. And

1:14:41

walked on. Yeah, but Dutch people

1:14:43

are very direct and honest as

1:14:45

well so they will not hide

1:14:47

their true feelings from you. I

1:14:50

was on a bus. once in there was this

1:14:52

big African dude. I'm we're on the bus from.

1:14:55

Paris. To Save your Life was one

1:14:57

as big as being african dude and he's

1:14:59

being a wife beater and I'm sorry to

1:15:02

say he had terrible p o coming from

1:15:04

his armpits right and all of the bus

1:15:06

the rest of us we're seeing their like

1:15:08

we're just gonna take it for whatever the

1:15:10

eight hours. Ride that it

1:15:12

was just gonna take it. You're on the

1:15:15

be in a railroad C E S the

1:15:17

one that's guy on the bus. Walks.

1:15:20

Up to the guy goes. To

1:15:22

that was a bottle of the Odin. Scuse me. Could

1:15:24

you please use this because it doesn't smell very nice?

1:15:27

And. I prayed for him

1:15:29

so hard in that moment cause I'm

1:15:31

like you are a dead man your

1:15:34

heart because live baron you bears his

1:15:36

guys. The guy just glared at him.

1:15:39

And. The does go back to sleep but then the guy

1:15:41

did put down his are. Saved

1:15:45

us for the rest of the a

1:15:47

threat by being super honest, but I

1:15:49

was terrified for him in that moment.

1:15:51

Wow, yeah. I. Don't know if I

1:15:53

told the story before go and I were

1:15:55

to Ben agains from one fifty south Michigan

1:15:58

in Chicago there is a guy and i've

1:16:00

everybody felt terrible the situation but there was

1:16:02

an on our gates he the restaurant he

1:16:04

sat down a table and like literally everybody

1:16:07

who like last leg it was a real

1:16:09

bad smell situation and Gary this manager. Gary.

1:16:12

At the energy like a black preacher he

1:16:14

was He was so charismatic who's good looking

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eat dressed fantastic at his loved Gary we

1:16:19

all love get any was no nonsense and

1:16:21

where I gary we don't know do they

1:16:23

might this guy was in my section them

1:16:25

around on to do with as a guy

1:16:28

and it's a situation here. Goes

1:16:30

up to squat down like looked him

1:16:32

right in, I like I'll man to

1:16:34

man face to face her as he

1:16:36

says didn't like know he went into.

1:16:40

The. Zones the zones of us and whereas

1:16:42

issue within his own the greens have

1:16:44

club and he said sir i need

1:16:46

to ask you to leave and then

1:16:48

he said as he goes and why

1:16:50

is because you do not smell fresh

1:16:52

I thought that was it's i was

1:16:54

a care how long. Did.

1:16:56

It take you to come up with threat. Because.

1:16:59

You smell bad is like what most

1:17:01

monte don't say because you stink But

1:17:03

he goes you do not sell fresh

1:17:05

per se enough to don't smell fresh

1:17:07

read. Pay. Trade that's which is a

1:17:10

very his which is very a nice touch suis

1:17:12

area although it's outrageous be like if. You.

1:17:14

Stick please please leave the building is

1:17:17

it was bizarre as I've used as

1:17:19

you stink we cannot eat used to

1:17:21

build Ah yes very dial. Okay so

1:17:23

you were that after you on. The

1:17:26

competition is that he had three Dutch

1:17:28

stand up special Yes three the special

1:17:30

to around Holland to around the world

1:17:33

and ah by then they had enough

1:17:35

credits took us to apply for my

1:17:37

visa to move to America. To.

1:17:39

The I applied for this Whoa is

1:17:42

that timeline? Were you a superstar? I

1:17:44

was. I mean I was on the

1:17:46

Dutch version of the Daily Show as

1:17:49

a correspondent. I had a movie I

1:17:51

had Death or like I was the

1:17:53

up and coming physical African comedian who

1:17:56

is positive, upbeat, energetic and I'm. Entertaining.

1:17:59

So people. Loved my jokes, love

1:18:01

my shows, love my thing and so

1:18:03

the with a lot of success though

1:18:05

the our money. But. I

1:18:07

wanted to move to America out the goal the whole time.

1:18:10

I. Hear yes and was attempting to say

1:18:12

you're like hey, absolute I'm having like okay.

1:18:15

Look, I don't want to. Perpetuate. The

1:18:17

idea that only America famous is true

1:18:19

for him. But you.

1:18:21

Had a calling yeah like five or right

1:18:23

and my dvd so as at I had

1:18:26

to deliver in the had a dvd the

1:18:28

you need assigned. And.

1:18:31

You're. On the such daily show rent and

1:18:33

did that feel like i imagine if

1:18:35

I were was like so close. To.

1:18:37

What you really want as yet? There's. They

1:18:39

got it on foreign language to see he it

1:18:41

is that smell it on language out like struggling

1:18:44

to understand right? Yeah many do segments yeah and

1:18:46

you that must be getting pretty good at it.

1:18:48

was getting better and better and better for sure.

1:18:50

The shows were in Dutch, everything was in dust

1:18:52

Us to. Hear but

1:18:54

I wanted. I wanted to perform an English

1:18:57

cause I felt so restricted in dutch have

1:18:59

club had to memorize everything. Was.

1:19:01

That I got better at improv here and there.

1:19:03

but I had to memorize everything because I cannot

1:19:05

lose Your Improv limelight was the since it means

1:19:07

has a lot. Of

1:19:10

I was doing rec league I would

1:19:13

have to be like some the save

1:19:15

line rent. Did you have anything in

1:19:17

dad's that you knew at a say

1:19:19

says if you if there wasn't anything

1:19:21

to say no it was just the

1:19:23

views, the physical comedy you know and

1:19:25

just be like off before block or

1:19:27

whatever you know how though. So yeah.

1:19:29

It was very much memory but I felt

1:19:32

so restricted I was like I knew I

1:19:34

needed to move to America where I could

1:19:36

do it in English okay and also to

1:19:38

the bigger market where to have more positive

1:19:41

impact on you know this whole thing would

1:19:43

act as eight years old the movie this

1:19:45

is his last summer we were going to

1:19:47

hear your chances and dad been my favorite

1:19:49

movie. Previews: you remember your groove and include

1:19:52

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1:19:54

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1:19:56

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1:20:01

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1:23:34

outstanding and you feel that you make more

1:23:36

money than others in your field that celebrities

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endorse. You have to come up with recommendation

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letters by celebrity the right for you about

1:23:43

you, how great you are. A one million

1:23:45

you are Yep, to sound extra ordinary and

1:23:47

an immigration officer goes okay and then to

1:23:49

welcome to America like getting quotes for the

1:23:52

back of a book. beginner, the book, your

1:23:54

the book And some of these letters I've

1:23:56

had to write by myself because the. Others

1:23:58

did not feel com their dutch that I. Don't feel

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comfortable praising you and you might miss so you're

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out at you mind riding it says exactly like

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getting closer the vacuum yet this is a physical

1:24:07

that percent were disqualified if I say my vote

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is amazing though no yeah the I've known people

1:24:11

that wrote for was but that means that someone

1:24:13

that works for them road at they read at

1:24:16

rent a video kalpoe my name on any back

1:24:18

so I had to do a that was a

1:24:20

too busy that I'm that's why that's so and

1:24:22

and I understand that or some people don't feel

1:24:24

comfortable. Sir Robbie Williams is right soon as I

1:24:27

know for up by get a record letter a

1:24:29

couple days I. Always yeah Mr. Bean.

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infamous the been wrestling version Iron

1:24:33

or Gruden or Food or I

1:24:35

insisted trying have a ton of

1:24:38

air. Okay, So

1:24:41

you do know. A

1:24:45

guy who did it for you

1:24:47

who whose second at her the

1:24:49

Dutch Directors Daily Show's Producers Daily

1:24:51

Show Guys Network Executives That kinda

1:24:53

stuff. I had enough material to

1:24:55

qualify for this V that come

1:24:57

to America will find Nice Pete

1:24:59

after. I. Don't know how long

1:25:01

I cows in Holland for about ten years

1:25:03

of just trying to get this to come

1:25:05

to America. Some finally in America with his

1:25:08

visa ready, get my career started and I

1:25:10

signed out. That. Networks. Don't.

1:25:12

Take actors on the on visa. They.

1:25:15

Take actors on the green card

1:25:17

only. Burn.

1:25:20

Of the. And

1:25:22

this happened because I've. Researched.

1:25:24

I know you you wrote for the city so

1:25:26

called outsource the correct. Yep those wife My first

1:25:28

big race really. He got me Dell

1:25:30

that yeah I would consider that my first. The

1:25:32

okay so I nor is on Monday was on

1:25:35

it and Purvis seen on. Yeah yeah yeah. This

1:25:37

is my first big audition when I moved to

1:25:39

L A crowdsourced, outsourced, get the fuck? Yep. And

1:25:42

will probably you are in my office a

1:25:44

well I'd I was under on the Universal

1:25:46

Lot to backlog with Sandy Ginsburg the Casting

1:25:48

Director. Okay, this wasn't. The. Summer

1:25:50

we would have the actors were hanging

1:25:52

out in the writers studio. Ah

1:25:54

but them as been for success is on Radford.

1:25:57

right? Us Radford Know this This: Yes, this was

1:25:59

like the backlit Know. The Back Lot of

1:26:01

Universe. Okay yeah you would know

1:26:03

premier video from my video game

1:26:05

I recognize it. He also requested

1:26:07

that area cause of he has

1:26:09

Radford really like a mellow that

1:26:11

could I please have? Ah you

1:26:13

know why Ab ab emanating an

1:26:15

extraordinary abilities. So according to John

1:26:17

Stewart is beyond just Duckworth. Got

1:26:21

a zoo and grow. They

1:26:23

had river recommendation with his

1:26:25

signature since. The.

1:26:29

Audition was ah and Indian

1:26:31

men. Who. Guess like a Woman

1:26:33

mclean drag with one of the episodes where

1:26:35

this Indian man is dressed as a woman

1:26:37

cost our role. And so I

1:26:39

wore drag. As an Indian

1:26:41

guy because I guess as an any guy a lot

1:26:43

before they actually realized as African. I

1:26:46

sought to the office in Drags. I

1:26:49

do the audition. The casting directors love me

1:26:51

one a book Me: Ask. Me: Do

1:26:53

you have a green card? A make

1:26:55

know I have the on fees I worked really

1:26:57

hard for. It is my paperwork that us that

1:27:00

I'm sorry. We only take actors on the green

1:27:02

card. We. Don't take on a

1:27:04

visa? Why? Isn't. Valid

1:27:06

visa because it's temporary only for three years

1:27:08

and god nor does get picked up again.

1:27:10

Whatever on the show that no guarantee you'll

1:27:13

be an American. About the only green card

1:27:15

though. So. They won't book you they

1:27:17

want but mean case the Indian guy

1:27:19

in women's clothing and I'm sang rated

1:27:21

as this goes back in receive them

1:27:23

for right and what? F Brett is

1:27:25

this guy rise in season four right?

1:27:28

And then the fans are like

1:27:30

the metal recast and there's nothing

1:27:32

here you can recast. Katie Holmes

1:27:34

and Batman Begins. Rest you can't

1:27:36

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1:27:38

Drag never movies and one literally

1:27:41

That is this. even. Economic character

1:27:43

names. yeah, bureaucratic bullshit. Ram fuckin'

1:27:45

live it. So you come here

1:27:47

after all this hard work. And.

1:27:50

For three years he can't book network

1:27:52

tv because networks don't take actors on

1:27:54

the oh and Visa only on the

1:27:56

green card. So for three years I

1:27:58

cannot book work on Tv. they depend

1:28:00

on here is and gather

1:28:02

enough. Evidence again to apply for

1:28:05

my Green Card for aliens of extraordinary

1:28:07

ability. Which. I finally to get and

1:28:09

now sign me up and audition for tv and I

1:28:11

was confused at the same thing is to get people

1:28:13

though had to get letters from like this. Celebrity.

1:28:16

Subsidies Methods Executive producer that in America

1:28:19

in America Sylvan album That Terry Rocio.

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1:28:23

of the Caribbean The Noise like he

1:28:25

wrote Schreck and Knows cause of that.

1:28:28

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1:28:30

asked him a Terry Human writing a

1:28:32

letter from He likes you write, it

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suffers I'm too busy writing Pairs of

1:28:37

the Caribbean sixteen year added else I'll

1:28:39

sign off. While and now his

1:28:41

bat massive like have a huge help and just

1:28:43

yet so again in those three years you have

1:28:45

to gather all this evidence stand out in your

1:28:47

field. as a comedian, as an actor, prove your

1:28:49

extraordinary. See couple of I for the green card

1:28:51

to stay in America permanently as an alien of

1:28:53

extraordinary. So yeah it

1:28:56

was an exhausting journey because you come to America

1:28:58

after this exhausting journey like finally my career

1:29:00

can start and know you're like two steps back.

1:29:02

You have to start again gathering all this evidence

1:29:04

that your extraordinary doing all these things so

1:29:06

I'm tired p As I just got my green

1:29:09

card like a couple years ago. I could.

1:29:11

Finally, if they're doing what I came here

1:29:13

to do, my Dvd box is still refer

1:29:15

to as Be Delivered The As and I've

1:29:17

I've been twenty years since that day where

1:29:19

I was like i'm coming to America wanna

1:29:21

do this thing and the now I can

1:29:23

step getting fixed. I.

1:29:25

Mean we have a choice only two ways

1:29:27

to look at it. I.

1:29:30

Think we know we've made our choices. We

1:29:32

could be like goddamn there's all the stuff

1:29:34

we could have been doing rent or he

1:29:36

gets be like and off we go. In

1:29:38

fact that it is a little for say

1:29:40

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1:29:42

to home and be like I had an

1:29:44

amazing life. They're like way around as I

1:29:46

know I'm here and he that signature years

1:29:48

the academic athletes design my Dvd sense that

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snyder the saw that read miss when recognition

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the left or right right soon have lived

1:29:54

on. To note on three, stuck

1:29:57

with it again when what was your

1:29:59

first big thing. Would. You green

1:30:01

card at I went when i was younger and

1:30:03

then it was just like a mini book nothing

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the he's visiting my to get of in are

1:30:07

likely other you could have you heard but you

1:30:09

have to become a citizen now that either I

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resist know like you guys. Are

1:30:14

we just didn't like out to start up

1:30:16

a network show called Sunny Side and B

1:30:18

C. Series. Regular. Had. Gone

1:30:21

from doing that groundwork, To. Getting

1:30:23

a pilot or addition. Alison. Jones amazing

1:30:25

cast and directly after he nor ah how

1:30:27

the huge fan of her work metre in

1:30:29

the office was lovely see basically root for

1:30:31

me come he had a general with her

1:30:33

nose an audition for this they were looking

1:30:35

for very specific can roll with the Malian

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cab driver and then I walked in and

1:30:40

say I did not grow up in Somalia.

1:30:42

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next door. Second to that. Delek

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yes and the chains attack and they're

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beta we are in I had a

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and for centuries there's not apply to

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Gainesville that's like show and everyone knows

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the my is right next the of

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the weird Southern ran this fanatic

1:31:16

as guards were. Chris Rock is

1:31:18

the zebra of my office Americans

1:31:20

is that I don't offer yoga.

1:31:22

replied by cartoons and have no

1:31:24

reason to go South Africa Madagascar

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guy with erratic and Morocco for

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the river Rock owner knows more

1:31:30

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1:31:32

exactly. That's why they keep him

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that thousand jobs and jones amazing

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via. Route how you put me in front

1:31:39

of my sure who the music on this and

1:31:41

he's done the offices on all these other things.

1:31:43

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1:31:45

series regular. they teens character to Ethiopian and

1:31:48

lobby or them the first Ethiopian factor as

1:31:50

a network American Tv. So as a series

1:31:52

regular. Well so that changed my life and

1:31:54

that basically was like oh I got a

1:31:57

green card I'm on a network show doing

1:31:59

this. The regular as go it with Kal

1:32:01

Penn if called sanitized for immigrants trying to get

1:32:03

their green card and become citizens in America those

1:32:06

like perfect the in.my and I'm glad because there

1:32:08

was part of you know coming up with to

1:32:10

me I remember coming was like and I don't

1:32:12

speak for Camille but I remember there being discussions

1:32:14

of like. The only rolls

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out there are like things like cab

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1:32:31

he was like an actual immigrant trying to

1:32:33

get his green. A very positive. A Very

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everything so is very familiar with me? Yes,

1:32:38

yes and I was perfect. Are that came

1:32:40

together on the Universal Studios lot. Memphis? Fuck

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cares. You never ran into Spielberg but that's

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where I was like I'm here I I

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kissing Jennifer Anniston at Penn and Teller. We're

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getting arrested massive bullies for of his Immediately

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give you a shot of Islam Said it

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up. the other guy doesn't ring

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of the family and. Assist

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going to be at a good mood.

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this during during full circle know. Ah

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yeah. okay then from Sunny Side when

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the didn't do really well after three

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episodes. Poll This pulled because

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up and sees episode three. And

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new one of our friend gets arrested was

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be deported. We got the ice office to

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get him out. We make fun of ice

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and are show was just before law and

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order. And. Dick.

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Wolf. Who's. A very powerful

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man has done incredible shows for and

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B C not. Like art.

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Show. Been before his show and so

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instead of. Rescheduling. us a thing

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and bc panic. The Like: We're going

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to put you on line on

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nbc.com which was anything made in

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a peacock. nbc.com suppliers episodes would

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air on this website. And.

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They pulled us after three episodes. We are shooting

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episode seven by them if we found out but

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they're like no will give you an ex reps.

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Those who get eleven episodes instead of tend to

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show that we have good will toward toward you

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which was nice. We got an extra episode but

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they were all on my noticing them anyway. So

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that was my first experience with Network Tv. Being.

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Pulled up to three. And. Kind of living

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like okay this is this is just the

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politics of how it works but said he

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was still gonna do the show. I'm still

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gonna finish this run eleven episode of said

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no to give it my all and open

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more opportunities and after that run it did

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you know I coveted right after and so

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many was down for a year to. Within

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a year later I get an audition

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again with Alan Jones for the Pirates

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show Our flag means Death and again

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a character that was from my region

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Mauritania. I made him more taking an

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and that went for to see interest

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and briefing he said have a all

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away from Mauritania Yes a stop to

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say that you know in Mauritania is

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no I did zip. Tie.

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Goes like if you say that I suppose

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you speak of Mauritania one more to. Earth.

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But. Yeah,

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well that's incredible. Yeah. Had that audition process

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go though the mailing. So basically I found

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out about our flag means death in the

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summertime. Ah I got the script

1:35:27

from a friend and she was like this is

1:35:29

perfectly Samba I found out as and don't have

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casting it I reach out to my team I'm

1:35:33

like please tiles and out loved audition for this

1:35:36

have left as he attacked or them and perfect

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for six months go by no news my taken

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again medical Samba all the roles have been cast

1:35:42

it's over. Where where

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I'm sad. Six. Months go

1:35:47

by. I'm living my life doing my thing.

1:35:49

whatever. Audition. Comes up on a Saturday.

1:35:51

Affect me This. One

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character either these, the cooking, the doctor

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and in these names roach. And so

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we need this By tomorrow I'm facing.

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scenes. On

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a Saturday. Do. Sunday. Quicker.

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Quicker. Ah besides have a

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plane ticket is able to this I think it

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was afraid that if is your name is is

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like even regret the game to during it does

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he gets thrown on like perfect is why I

1:36:18

wanted to do it. I do the audition create

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the character as myself can do proper with my

1:36:22

wife she realized may well as a series of

1:36:24

me to read every are dismayed to see a

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yep and so and so were in our little

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studio apartment and then I dress up as the

1:36:31

pirate and I'm making him my own. could they

1:36:33

don't give any character descriptions that he'd the cookies

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the metics is kinda like a scene everything's I

1:36:37

make him tough guy and I make him from.

1:36:39

Mauritania and was in my sleep I say

1:36:41

I'm choosing to make him from Martinez's back

1:36:43

then yet the Berber pirates and this is

1:36:45

make this a Berber cause he moved to

1:36:47

America there that are to the Caribbean of

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this him a slate in the slates this

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like at three minutes later underwear have to

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use a wide lens barrier balls sentences the

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authentic I said it was like two thousand

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jobs are like know I know I know

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I knew all the all I knew I

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was in good hands he was a it's

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a brave move of venice complement most people

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are cohen and scared rent your like I

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I'll tell you my name out first. But

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for as I tell you about this character

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and Mrs May Hide doesn't really go off

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Niro piracy, video Sega and a fan of

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dead before it a I can imagine a

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side note makes me feel like I'm prison

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depth or five and all fi scenes and

1:37:30

then five days later I book and boom

1:37:32

I'm part of the show for to to

1:37:34

amazing seasons and it's it's changed my life

1:37:36

is of doing other unfortunately no didn't got

1:37:39

get. Picked up by Mack for class because

1:37:41

get picked up know any as a for

1:37:43

third season because no money. They. Know

1:37:45

how many? It's an expensive show

1:37:47

to make. Were selling a New

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Zealand as got on pirate ship.

1:37:51

one of those screens screens the

1:37:53

a lot of actors writing ensemble.

1:37:55

yeah but amazing. following. The fans

1:37:57

are like amazing. We're we're grateful.

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Going into open many ordinary legions fan arts

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everything like the whole thing I can their

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experience in my life and so he has

1:38:06

been a good two years. The death on

1:38:08

the show was cancelled. With

1:38:10

the day my son was being born, How

1:38:15

do we feel about this? It was a very

1:38:17

weird day. My

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wife isn't labor were in the hospital people. I

1:38:22

get the text. Ah, we're not

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going for thirty one guys max and chose

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not to have a go forth. There's even

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