Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.
The building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby.
Welcome. How you feeling.
Everything is good, man, Everything is good. Yeah. Man. Why our comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah, I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I was read.
I was early, Bruce Bruce.
Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're on time, you're late. Damn. That's fact. So you got to be on time. But then the traffic here is a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in the lane up here. Nobody, the buses, police, nobody. They just drive like they want to.
And what's crazy, they got lane some of them got their own lanes in spite of right.
Yeah, Now, this is the.
First time Bruce Bruce has been on the show almost and I want to you know, when I when sometimes when when somebody comes to the first time, I want to stall from the beginning, right, Okay, Now I know your story because I've been studying you I've been following you. But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce get into comedy?
And I want you to explain your job before comedy.
Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go, I used to always be funny. So I hired this guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's an older guy, old guy, and he said he used to watch me in the kitchen when I first start, when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you need to go, you need to go on stage. And I ain't paying at this to He said, I gonna bring you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know,
back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian, but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said, always your time on this job and you need to go on stage. And know what I did, I quit because I had a family. I was young, man had three kids, and man I went and started working for Freedo, a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the whole time I'm selling potato chips and on the doc I'm just funny, acting crazy, so good old white dude. So you know
you need to stage. That's a year every morning, you know, study you fronny, I look comedians, frauds there or nothing, you know, and you gonna stay. And when I took that step, man, was I knew That's why I should have been in my whole entirelight. And what made me take that step? I was going through a divorce, you know what I'm saying, and my ex wife said you would never make it. I'm like, what why did you tell you that?
No?
So I just looked at it and say, I see you on TV. You know what I'm saying, And it's been gone there. I've been doing it now thirty five years.
And what made you?
What made you get married? If she wasn't supportive because you said, you know, we're young.
I was young, you know. You know I'm from Atlanta, Georgia and South you know, you get a girl pregnant, you know you got to marry all this crazy stuff. And I did the same thing. My oldest son is forty three, man, my baby boys forty. My daughter's thirty eight. Wow, you've been going wrong with I didn't pull out games till you know what I'm saying it pull out games.
I was just laying that. It was crazy, man. You know, I just didn't think just doing it, you know, And when you're young, you just do that until you get somebody old and say, hey, you need to watch yourself. You know what I'm saying. And that's what we need to start doing as older guys and let him know, man, this ain't no game. Who taught you how to cook? My uncle? Uncle? Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul, he about five feet tall by the ninety eight in
the waist. You hear me play look like egg better on?
You know what I'm saying.
He was my pocket or bad and he raised me and he taught me about you know, life. He taught me about how to treat women. He taught me about being on time, because you know he's he was a baker. He's delivered cakes here. We got to be there on that. But he was he would never ever drive on the highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight back rolls. But they ring your tail over on that highway, you know what I'm saying. And he was he was real superstitious.
I never did believe in that. You know, he see a black cat walk the street, but he gonna turn around. You know, you put your hat on the bed. Oh no, you can't do that, sweepings fleet. You gotta spit the brew. You know he was rated superstitious. Don't never let a woman touch your wallet. You know you ain't gonna never have no money. Man, ain't nobody believing in that woman buy shoes? Oh yeah, got your life? Watch it? You know, you know the time is at your life. Oh he
was real superstitition. But other than that, man, he was a great, great guy. Man. You remember the first dish that you learned to cook? Oh yeah, man, stay, was I can steak? Make a joke of cry white supposed to be clapping? Oh yeah, my white supposed to be clapping. Black people be hollering, yay, how you get the capitol for the barbecues? But well, I started down with Joall, I'm gonna tell you how my mother. It's just me and mother. I'm the only child my mother ever had.
And we was struggling, and it was living in the hood, and it was in an area called Bluff it was. And man, let me tell you man, she needed some help. So I went and applied for this job. This guy knew worked at the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and I told him I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you know what I'm saying. So I was working, man, I was clean up. So I had been there about three months and this old white guy named EdWay. I said, let me ask you something. He was the man. He said,
I don't know you really. He said, you work good and everything. He said, with you not seventeen, I said no, I said, I'm fourteen. He said, why are you working? I said, well, I got to help my mom. He said, I tell you what. It's gonna be our a little secret. You know. He kept me because I was a good worker. Everything he told me to do, I did it. And I just kind of followed in and started watching this guy's cooking and I knew how to cook him. My
uncle had been showing me. I do everything. Next time I know, man, I was running the pit. Man. I was cooking barbecue and everything at like sixteen years old. Oh so you didn't own it. No, Oh, no, I was working there man.
Now you also mentioned that you were an only child. Only child, your father left at the age of five.
Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air Force and he was a Madican Air Force and he was he flew choppers and airplanes and when he when he got out, he was an antety geologist.
Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed or I did?
I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for him for? You know, because they be mad. But my mother really ran him off, you know what I mean. She was just him off and she was off monster man. You know, did tell you that? No, I just like, man, this dude is cool. He was really cool, you know, But she's like, I don't want to know everything he
tried to do. She just knocked it down, like but she was listening to a girlfriend's That's why I tried to tell all these young girls, don't listen to no woman that ain't got no man. You don't say what I'm saying. If you got a woman, if you got a girlfriend, you got a husband. She not how true a husband, but a woman that don't have a man, she can't tell you nothing. But he I mean, he just he left and he never ever called us ever.
And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He did a non contested divorce because my mother just worked, come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I think I'm going to get a divorce, and when she went to do it, this said, you already divorced, noun contested. You put it in the newspaper for thirty days. You don't answer the ad, bam you divorce. He was already gone. He was gone. He was gone. And I got married three more time. And I found it when I was like forty years old.
So he knew who he was.
He knew exactly what I was. He knew exactly what I looked like. No, my son looked like him, though, my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny how to dip over, you know what I'm saying. But I met with him and we talked and we stayed in touch, and he ended up passing away about seventeen years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, did you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you ever have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah, she said, you know I was wrong. She said I
didn't care about I had other boyfriend. You know, my mama food around see parents don't tell you. They try to tell you the right thing, but they'll do the wrong thing in front of you. You know what I'm saying. Those old dudes she used to go with named Dave, but you know, had platform shoes with taps on. You remember platform.
He had taps on platform shoes. He come up the steps, clock oclock, how your mama doing, And then he'll tell me, hey, come in, let me give you a few dog on down and get your cocola, you know something like that. I know what you're finna do. Finna get some tail, you know what I'm saying. So he gets you, gets your tato tips. I run right out of the house. You know, I know what he's finna do. I don't want no food, you know what I'm saying. But he was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me
very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's just crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing. I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He dogged my mama. Man, he was he was married. She didn't even know he's married. She's over there, he's over there every day, every day. Eating. Yeah. Yeah, God is a good guard, you know. Yeah, card is
a good girl and woman. Tell you what happened. When I was in high school, four of us used to hang together and we saw him in his truck and my brother say, man, that call you. You're my my boyfriend with your mom. I said no, I said, that's my mother boyfriend. That's not my mom. It was another lady. So I got out the car, looked at him and said, hey, you know I see you right He said, oh, hey, how you doing? Play it? Come to my mom house. I told my mother see him with another woman. He
looked me dead at minde. He said that was not he did not see me. And my mother believed it. For the reason she believed it because I didn't like him, so she just kind of figured I made up a story about him, and she let it go. But it took her girlfriend or hers to see him. Say I saw that dude with another woman, you know what I'm saying. And they took her to tell me she dated him like sixteen years. Man. And I want to tell you,
my mother, I don't want to get married. I don't want to get Okay, you don't want to get married, but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude. When she found out, she was like, she was toe up. Yeah, I heard her. You grew up in the bluff.
Hold how close the reality was was snow on the bluff the movie?
Oh my god, it was real close. That was the heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother told me, if you touch it, o kid. So I was most scared of my mother than the guys in the street, you know what I'm saying. So I never touched it. I watched him do it. I watched him shoot up every time. I can't do that, bro, Now, I can't do that. My mother is great. My mother is a rastler. I'm telling you. She had been on WWE. I know what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man. So you
know that's why. And that movie was really really serious. But you know it was so funny in the hood, being in the hood, because you know, the crackheads come. I said, hey, man, dude had bought a video camera. You know, he was fibbing people and everything. Crackhas said, Man, I got a camera like that, he said, bigger, but it's got a two on it. I said, what are you talking about? He done stole the camera off the Channel two news truck. The dude was getting ready to
do some news in the area. He just walked off with the ca So we saw the white guy panicking walking around. I said, you're looking for your camera and he said yeah. I said, I know it is. I said, you're gonna have to give some money to get it back. He said, I get anything. He's all. He's how much you think hundred twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow? And the dude brought it back to him just walked off with it.
I got a camera like that has a number two on it, Yes, so two on it.
They had Channel two on it, right Man, these dudes in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit. Walk down the street with the dresser. Dude make way about one thirty. He said, I got the mirror, the two nights stands in the bed y'all needed. Were like what somebody? Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying. The dude told me said, man, I got I got a I got a typewriter like that. The only thing mine difference, it's got a TV on it. He didn't realize he
had a desktop computer. He's I got a tight writer, but he got a TV on it, like tight with TV. I know back then, brothers had to press you to try to get in the street though. Oh yeah, man, they you know they talk about your you're scared, you're punk all this curb. Hey man, I'm gonna have to be a punk because my mom didn't play My mom, my aunt, the neighbors. They didn't play Man anything. Oh my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything.
He was about six y five, black, real black, with royal blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need to call your granddad? No. She would get him on the phone. He'll say, hey, do I need to come up there? All I do was here his voice. I ain't no, sir, she's living. Get another phone call and see what happened That joker didn't play Man six ' five, black, one skeleton, nothing, roy your blue eyes, and you look at him, you'll drop your head like a runaway slave. You know what
I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But when I got older, I realized he was really cool. He was a cool dude, but he just believed a child staying in the child place. That's right.
And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far as comedy because he was the funny man.
He was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody got help me with this line. Everybody he did, I tell him, Yeah, he told you. Everybody didn't help me with this line. But he was one of the best bakers in the world. He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day, and they used to call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Junior, and he went by the sweetbread Man because he was the baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man, and he
talked about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I was really raised on the same street. The street was Chestnut Street. They changed to James Street Broadley. I was on four fifteen. She was on like seven eighty five or something like that, just right up the street, like two blocks. So you know, no, no, I I was a little kid, but she lived at on her first husband. You know what I'm saying. But Gladys is a girl. Man.
Wow, were you able to translate your funny to actually make a career of it. But somebody like Uncle Paul, who was funny, couldn't.
Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared to go and say he was scared. See see black people back in it, they had the skill to do everything, but they were scared to do it. They had so much fear. So like young kids, not they'll do it. They I don't care, I'll do it. So I just took it and ran with him. Uncle was one of the best bakers in the world. He wouldn't get bakers from France and Italy, you know, from England, and he
beat him all out, you know what I mean. Then he went to he had a cheesecake that he made. It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world. And they tricked him out of it and didn't have sense enough to get a lawyer and everything, and gave him like ten thousand dollars day clapping. He was all happy with yeah, when he could have got one hundred million, you know what I'm saying, But just didn't have a sense and the knowledge to do that at the time.
Oh, you know, I wanted to know as a child was Bruce Bruce Big as a child.
No, man was a little bit. They was calling me little Bruce Man. I didn't I didn't get fat till I got man. I don't know why I got married. Oh my god, I wouldn't eat it. Man. I was just a little bit of dude, just run around, just messing with everybody. I was a little bit of kid man. But when I got married, I got fat. You know, that's what happened to us as black man. We get complacent that we get complacent with jobs. We get a job and let's just say jeral motives, we make a
little money. Oh man, that's a good job. I don't care nothing about no good job. It's about getting out there getting it, because it's more than that than getting a good job.
I ain't like that question, by the way, what you mean I don't like the question? Do you ask me what with Bruce?
Bruce little as a child was a big child. I want what you wanted to He thought I was just couldn't clap my hands, could clap his hand, and y'all clap my hand. But no, I was a little kid, a little cute joker man, and I'm messing with everybody, and you know, we we seem to lose focus. And that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy. But now I'm back at man, I'm sixty two years old.
Man, Wow, is that is that where the comedy came from?
Because when Bruce Bruce does a show and somebody's in the audience says something, or somebody's wearing something outfit, Bruce Bruce has no problem at attacking. This is that where that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these kids.
You know when I was, when I was younger, I was real scary. You know, most kids wn't admit that. I was real scared to do anything. So people just talking about me, talking about him back. That's how I learned it. I used to talk about this girl. Man, this girl, man, she had a pontail in the pail body that long look with a rubber band around it. I want behind, I said, girl, how did they do that? Do it? I said, make the oxtail right there? I said, I said, you can stand on your head. Your hair
stell won't touch the floor. Man, this girl. So I'm gonna beat you. Man. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, what man, I broke out running you know. I didn't know she was a track star. Man. This girl caught me and beat the brakes off me. Man, I didn't care because I was raised not to hit women, so I didn't get she beat me up. She laid me on the ground and throw my homes you knowed to throw your homes. I she said, what's up now? I said, your hair still shot? So then she said, you're gonna
beat my boyfriend. So I had to beat her boyfriend walk her to school every day. That's when I realized I had something now, you know. I joned her out and talked about the bed. But she did like me, and my uncle told me, said that, man, that girl like you. That's why she she wants you to be a boy friend. She like you. I didn't realize that, but I thought she hated my guts, But she really didn't. Man, she actually laughed about it. Then she grew up and
be drop dead gorgeous. You know she did y'all? Still Oh no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do it no more. Man, I ain't got it. But that's laughter, though, you know you can make it. Say if you can make a girl laugh, and man, you make him laugh, I got him. Most women they just want to laugh. You make them laugh. A lot of guys when they see women, when they see good looking women, fine women, nice body, instantly, most guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh,
she ain't gonna holler me she will. You ever see a real, fine pretty girl with an ugly dude. You know what happened because he said something to it. He walked in to hey, how you doing. You look good? She's like, you're for real, Yeah, I'm for real, And he would have You're like, how did this ugly? Because I know I got some ugly partners? Oh my god, I got some dudes. Cold your eyes when you look at the fool, you have to wipe you out. My god, bro,
what happened? You know what I'm saying. But they got the baddest women you ever want to see. But everybody got to understand though it's really nothing to it. Just talk to him, that's all they want.
What's the most difficult city Because you're on the road, what five days a week, four days a week, every you know, every week.
What's the toughest city for you? And why if there is one.
I'm gonna be honest, I never had a tough city. Man. I've had some tough crowds. When the comedy clubs hold these people hostage, you know, like let's just say, first show is at seven, second show is supposed to start at ten. They let the first show run over. These people are coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting.
So that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you got to really go to work to make them laugh, you know, or go and or say something like this, say y'all have been at working they want to be there. They're like, yeah, I said, that's why I feel now, you know what I'm saying. So when you break the ice with them, you got them. Once you get them, you got them. But you got to run the clubs on time. And it's hard dealing with us as black people. It's hard to deal with a lot of black people, man.
But the white clubs they be on it byam, damn, damn because they realize the money they can make in the short length of time. Why is that with us, man? I mean, I don't know, it's hard to doing business with us. I had one dude at a club, man. It was in November and it was cold, when he had people outside, I say, man, people are standing outside.
The show's supposed to start an hour ago. He looked at me and he said, I don't give up what they do on I said, I'm like what, so, matter of fact, I don't even do his club anymore because you don't have respect for the people. But we're the one working hard for it to make him laugh, because it's hard to get black people to laugh, you knowply when they're mad, they better be funny. It better be funny, especially when they're mad. You know, white people laughing anything. Oh,
he's hilarious. He's great. You can be terrible. You know you're good. You're gonna be great because white people have a different way of saying no, Like when you auditioned for a show, like how do you like him? Well, he's a good looking guy. He has great hair. That's a no. See, people don't realize that when they want you, they want you to get you checks the sign. But when they breed hard. You know, I was looking at him and smart guy, smart guy. But no, I's like,
we do it. I said no, And that's what we all got to realize.
You know, you think about when it come to doing business with black people and white people, because I love doing business with with with my people, right, But I don't think we often look at it as a business like it should be a personal transaction.
Right. It's always because people people call my manager and be like me and Bruce go back fifteen. I don't even know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I met him at the gas station and up you don't know me, Bro, Maybe I come across like you do know me, but you don't know me. They'll call and be like, we discussed the deal and he said he would do it for this. That's not true because
I don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they always think it's like a partner thing when it should just be business. Yeah.
Do you remember your best show and you remember your worst show?
Yeah? Man, I can remember a lot of them, but they people don't know it. I know it. I can remember my first I mean, I come out saint temp a guy. I didn't like this show. Well, people thought it was great, but I'd be like, I didn't like that show.
What was your what was your worst show? Because they said, you don't write things down, it's just off.
It come out a couple. One time, I was in Houston, Texas, and uh they I was doing this show and I was joning everybody out and this dude came up and jooned me, and he was funny, but he said go up there, you know, even go up there and jone. He said, I like a pickle jaw, you know. And I started like, damn, that's funny. Bro. I said, I'm gonna keep that, you know. He sent me like a pickle jaw. I was like, oh my god, that's funny. But the crowd loved it because I took it so well.
I didn't go off, you know exactly. It was really funny when he said it. And I ended up seeing him like ten years lad. He said, you remember game on stage? Man? I saw you, so you look a pickle jo I said, that was you. I said, let me take a picture with you. You know what I'm saying. But the cool but the best show I ever did, it was years and years and years ago, is when Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie Mack was super hot.
And it's a It's a part of Georgia called Macon, Georgia, and it's about a hour from Atlanta and Bernie was performing, had ten five thousand seater and the feature didn't show up, and the guy said, hey, man, my feature in the show. Can you come down opening up for Bernie Mac. I said, yes, you know I had been in the he ain't there about five years? Yes, And I drove down as quick as I could, and I was on stage, and I can remember Bernie Mack had his arm folded looking at me.
He said, who's that dude? Right there? They said as Bruce was. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice in my whole entire life. May cern't and then I worked with in Columbia, South Carolina on time. That's it. But Bernie was a bad dude man, And people don't realize when he did I'm not scared of you on death chair. He made that up right then because everybody was coming up. They was having a car a hard
time here in New York. Damn jam. They was getting it to him, you know, New York. You know they don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man, I ain't scattering them, mom, and he went up and did him. And Capri went together on it and he ripped it. Man, Bernie was a bad?
Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with?
No, man, I know some funny comedians now, like Tony Robbers is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know who? Tony Robber? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me he's the date of girl. Her breath was so bad it smelled like a horses hiccups. So who think of that? Who think of a horse's hic You know what I'm saying. He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Epps is one of the dude I trained back in the day. Mike used to be on the road me. Mike moved from Indiana to Atlanta and I used to take him on
the road with me. And then he moved to New York and he called me when they said, man, they want me to audition for Fridays, And I said, what you waiting on? I said, look for somebody like you? And he called me a week later. I got the part. I said, you're on your way day they that's my man.
You said something earlier when you talked about the pickle joh joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah, so comedians do cover jokes, Yeah.
I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told him that. But no, you like I sent, comedians just take bits and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you do that and I see it, I know exactly where you got it from. I've been in this business so long. I know exactly what you got. I know who said and how they said and when you said it. No, I don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because I saw Bernie.
It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernie Mack and he was saying, don't say your joke around or are you a new comedian us?
And see a lot of comedians now the veterans will look at the new jacks and take that stuff. And then it looked like the new jack stole it from them. But that's not cool. That's not cool to do.
Now we've seen Kat Williams pulled out his chop a couple of months ago.
He was fired at everybody. What was your thoughts?
Because you know a lot of that stuff was inside that became outside.
Well, I think Cat just told how he felt man and what's been going on in his life for real, and he just got fed up with it. You know when people when people dog you out, Let's just say this. I used to tell people. I had a club at Atlanta. It's called Club five five nine, and I used to tell my securities. I said, listen, when you have an altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you. You don't be forgot about them. So if you throw them at the club, throw them on their head and
they'd be like, I'm not gonna forget that. They won't forget you. But you forgot who that was. And you had to go store with your woman shopping, you run up all you remember me. You're like, no, you have to be careful. So Kat just went through some things, stuff that he never forgot that was done to him, and he's coming back retaliating, and he just told it like it was.
I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different things you could take from that conversation. But the thing I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt like it put black comedy in a in a new life. Yeah, like people started paying attention.
To the old gez, like you said, Tony Robbers, like they I don't know.
I just felt like it just shine earthquake and shine the light on the on the people who've been doing it.
And people got to understand something about Kat Williams. Cat Williams is not a dummy. He is very smart. He's very smart. I don't know if y'all remember when he had altercation in Atlanta with one of the smith phone V one O three if you ever noticed it, he never lost his composure. He stood there and drunk his coffee and he was killing her the whole time. And he's just cool like that. He's very smart. He's a smart guy.
Now, we always talk about the role at L played in rap. What role did it play in comedy?
Oh, I don't know. When you like rap me you said rap? You know, I thought you was finna say with with outcasts and you know I did videos. They liked my little homies. I'm like they og They called me O G and with too short, made the song shake that Monkey with with a little jung gun and then uh no, it's too short, and then Little John came back with the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's just love. Everybody show love in Atlanta. Everybody show love.
Like when I did the movie I had awhile with Outcasts. It was gave to me. You know, it wasn't a movie I had to audition for. And then I did the movie Who's Your Caddy with Big Boys, a role that was gave to me because they just have that kind of love for me. You know what I mean. We're all cool and I stay in my lane. Man, I don't get out. I don't do crazy.
You talk about something about but before we go, how did you feel about all these artists mentioned you and their songs.
I love it. I love it.
Well, you have a surprise that you hear before when you heard let Bruce Bruce hit it?
That. God, I just hate when dude said it. You know what I'm saying, like we let Bruce bro you shouldn't be saying that. Then your girl should say it, but not not me, not you.
Brother said that on the text this morning because our producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already his we were on the way.
Yeah, and so he goes, well, entertain them. Then let Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. I forgive you. That's what he said. I forgive you.
That's inside stuff.
Man. I just I just thought it was stupid. You know, I felt he felt we cool.
So he just told me and our producer told him that was he was going to hs that breath.
Why did you do that? Why did you? Yeah?
And Biggie. Biggie mentioned you and hitting the time.
Yeah, the first time you heard what happened?
What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Florid. I never forget this, and I wanted to meet him so bad because I was a man and Biggie you know, and man. He came in and I was on stage clown and I was joning people. I mean, I has to do it. I said that shirt sil because it's I said, is it's silky? You behind it too much? You know something like that. He walked in, he said, just do this because if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he didn't really smile that much, you know what I'm saying.
He just always had that look like this nun should look. He smiled on the video when he was on the boat. When he was on the boat and he started smiling, he said, I wanna put you down for it. And when I heard it, I'm like, what what was that was? People were debating whether he yeah, did he say that. Yeah, it was like Bruce, Bruce, who do something to us? Talk goes through us, girls do us one of us screwls who meets Poppy and Puff. It was just love.
He showed me he was a cool guy man. And I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never saw him smile. He just always had this like heart look, like you know, he read fight. But he was really funny. It was fun to be around. So he told you he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay, that's how you know it was Yeah, but I heard him like what I thought? I heard you know what we did on the rate. I'm like and shorty show. They called me the comedian Church. He said, Man, Biggy just
said your name. And I'm like, I listened to it over and over. I just kept coming back. I just I just kept repeating it listen to And that was love. That was real love.
I guess you answered the question because when I said what role did atl play in comedy?
For you, like, what role did Atlanta play in the comedy? Oh my god, everything, I think that's it. Well you know who did it? Well? Who started it was Chris Tucker and Chris Tucker when he did Friday's first. Of all, he didn't do Friday's first. He did house party. Yeah, when he came to it, he's the same time, man, you're gonna give me the money? The same time it was. It was it immature, the group called immature. And he went to the door to get some money. I'm looking
for such and such. Man. He just had that one scene at the door, and then he did Fridays And Friday's took off way better than they thought it thought it would. It took off way better than they thought it would. And Chris, he's a good dude too. Man, he's a good guy. I used to be on the road with him. But he fired me though. Man, you know, he didn't fire me, but he fired me like I was on the road with him back in ninety four ninety five. And then he said, man, I'm gonna take off.
I'm gonna come off the road for about three months because did presidents get ready to come out, you know. And that's when I said, Okay, when he went back on the road, he just didn't bring me back here. So that's that's firing ass, you know what I'm saying. But then cool it's still my body. But he did come back in the policy. I say, hey, man, I didn't do that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like cool man, I'm good. I work, you know, I get down.
You said you was a salesperson for Freeo label. Oh yeah, they used to make you tell jokes when you know everybody on the dock, you know, I you know, we used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know, go from soa store deliberation. So we delivered. We were on the dock. I'm joning everybody. I didn't care who they was. And we had some good old boys. Y'all. Ain't got no good old boys. I'm trying.
Yeah, you know, I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all, Monk's going up.
I was, y'all okay, but you know we got the man. You're a comedian. We love it. You know, we got the boys. They'd be so impressed. So you're a commeldian. Yeah, we love that's their word. But we had it. But one thing about good O balls. When they like it, they like it. When they don't, they don't. And it ain't a black white thing. It could be a white white thing. They don't like it. They don't like you, you know so, But I don't seeing racism everywhere. Man,
it don't bother me. Remember your sales pitch, my sales pitch on the potato ye oh yeah, man. Let me tell you. I had a Walmart. They had just opened this Walmart, and in order to I wanted to dress up as chester Cheata, remember the chester Cheeta Tiger. In order to do this, you got to have you got to sell this huge display to get the carstume, the costume. You know what I'm saying. Because the company was charging different branches money to use cars. I was the biggest
chester To Cheetah they have ever seen that. Look, man, I was the fattest one guy. I said he must Cheetos. This bitch as big as a house. But I sold like I think it was if I'm not mistaking, like ten thousand dollars in Cheetos. That's why they sent the uniform too. Its And it was great. And it was a Walmart, and it was a guy managed to wal My name James Pike White, dude, the matter, he gets the lord he talked so you know, he said, when I tell you to do something, you be like what
what did you say? But he was cool. Everybody thought he was old red Nick, but he was really cool. He ran that store. But he let me bring ten dollars. I want Cheetos in that store? That was my man? Was your hey man? Just me being funny. I walk in and I say, man, I need to seals. I need to sell some chips. If not, I'm gonna start backstripping. And if if I start backstripping, the church mumb is really going to be hard on me about this. I said,
you don't want to see me naked. Trust me when I tell you that, you know what I'm say saying their bus I laughing got him in order. He wasn't really come on. If I was my stage name be stretch Marks.
You know what I'm saying.
You know what I'm saying, then you know. But if I was stripped with today, I go by heart Candy Hard. This is a good name.
As I didn't want to hand why heartcare.
It was like something behind it, like you know the church, old lady in the church with Hard Candy.
Church, that'd be living pound Cake. I'd be living living out of death.
Comedy Jam, Showtime, The Apollo and Comic View which one had the most impact on you.
Comicview Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start and come on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons. I mean, big up for him. Depth Jam was good. But when I did Comic View, see Comic View started out as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll remember that they used to go. They used to come out to your city and come to a club and
film you and then take it back. And d L was see the host, and he's like, look went all the way down to Atlanta at a club called the Comedy Act Theater and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce and then showed me and I did the coach co when they first started. But I never forget the year that I host. It was probably the best year for me that I have ever experienced in my life. They went from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers host and it was great for me. It was it
was good. I made some money. They gave me money for wardrobe. That's why I dressed in all them suits because I thought I was a pimp. You know what I'm saying. I thought I was a straight up pimp. How'd you get the gig. They called me. I mean I had been doing comedy like seven eight years and got I say call me one day, said I would you like the host comedy view. I said I would love that because I wanted to do it and I wanted to do it before then, and it just won
my time. But when my time came, it was perfect. It did well, it did very well.
It was that the moment that you know that that was your big break, like, oh, this is really going to happen.
And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man. Then I did more shows than anybody. I did like four to five shows a day, so I was changing suits, changing suits, and I was working five days a week, so on the days and it was off Sunday Monday. So I was shooting commercials for them. And I did this one commercial. I like gators at alligator skin shoes. So I told his capture, I was, take me, man, I need to get me some gators. And he took me to a real creek where alligators walls. That was
the joke of it. And he dropped me off and I'm like, what wait, man, it's a real alligator. He was real alligator coming out of the water and it was really really funny. That was a scene that I wrote, but yeah, it was. It was fun. So I still wear Gator shoes. I'm old school man, you know, I'm like the old player Ciaga still wear suits with ten and shoes. I can't do it now. I can't do it, player, I can't do it. I never felt like Apollo was good for comedy, man, It's just I think what it
was with Apollo. Those people are that all day sitting. So the first two shows you're gonna get love. But like the third, fourth and fifth show, they wore out. They boo and everybody. They booed me the first time, and I didn't care. I just started talking about people. It was a dude in the front dresser like, I don't know what the hell was going on him. I said, bro, what is your problem? Ye had he was just like a woman and a man on one side. A woman on the side said break are you slow?
Time?
Yeah, and before the time, but it was it was a jew on them. They laughed. But then I went back and did it again, and then it went well, yeah, I did it with Mark Curry first and then back with Steve Harvey.
Is it too sensitive now for comedy?
Depending on what subj did you touch on? Because if you if you don't, like, let's just say gay people, you can't you can't touch on that. You can't say anything disrespectful. And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know. When I was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles, you know, so we'd be riding the Sweet Pickle. I'm like, well, we knew what it was. We were like, what the world you know? But the thing is, I mean I don't do any bashing of anything of sorts like that,
but I see them all the time. Like I remember one time I was doing the show at BT was in California and the makeup artist is two of them. They did makeup and hair and they was gay, gay dudes and anything. So you know, one dude walked in, Man, hold on no bags doing my makeup. They dude got really emotional, so sickness, so tart. I don't like to tell you start packing this stuff you and leave. So I walked in the room. I closed the door on them. He looked at me like what I say, Man, let
me tell you something. I said, if you're comfortable with who you are. I said, be that. I said, but if you walk out on this show, they're gonna blackball you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who may work for nobody. I said, jill out, dry your tears up and this, I said, do my makeup. You know what I'm saying. I said, but if you walk out, they're gonna do it. I say, nine time out of ten. At the end of the night, that same dude to be hollering at what if you would said that I
had run out of that. I had to run full speed, you know what I'm saying. But then after after the end of the night, he's like, he said, thank you, thank you so much what you did because he was commaded to go. He was emotion and everything, and the dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk to dude. I said, man, chill out and don't do that. You know they got feelings too, that's just who they are.
Why do you help so many comedians?
Comedians talk about that you helped someone so many comedians in their in.
Their career and their life.
What gives you the energy because a lot of people be like I ain't helping him because he might get bigger than me. But you you talked about so many communities.
Oh my god, yeah, but so many helped me. I never forget when I first when I was in the comedy act here in Atlanta, and John Witherspoon came to Atlanta and he looked at me and he say, you got it. He said, you really got it. He said, I like you. So he started telling me what to do and what not to do, and he helped me. He took me in from his wing. Rinaldo Ray did the same thing. He helped me in on BT when
he was my co host. People don't realize that Ronald Rae was a college professor before he started doing comedy. He was extremely smart and he would tell me sometimes, he said, turn your body to the right a little bit. When you tell that joke, it'll work better. And I'm like, how's that gonna work better? And it worked better. And then the last of the Mohicans who really told me say you won't have to find her and they will find you. His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend
Paul Mooney. He told me that Ridney Winterfield. Y'all remember, Rightney Winfield that my man took me and he said, a lot of these jokers don't like you just because you're funny. He says, keep being funny. You're gonna be alright yoused to call me do shows with him. You know, you know back in the day, man, somebody say, Man, we got to show paying three hundred dollars. I'm like, let's go. You know these new kids now, he say, man, I got a show for you. How much you're paying?
Hold it? Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by TV much less on TV. So what did you talking about how much they're paying. If I tell you about the show, I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that.
Something you think social media helped to hurt comedy, Oh, it helped it.
I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social media thirty five years ago. The only thing we had was going this city early through radio, try to do TV to get people in there. Social media is a platform that really helped a lot of young comedians. Now now veteran comedians like myself, they get pissed because all the new young comedians are coming up faster. I've been doing comedy for twenty five years. Thirty years and he ain't been
doing comed for three months. I tell him like this, you can't beat them showing them and then winning, so you might as well fall in the footstep they are winning.
But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why they're asking how much? Right, because they following them.
Yeah, but then the only thing about Charlamagne is when they do get booked, the only thing they got to say is what they did on social media. You got to bring out more than that, right, you know, you got that. That's seven minutes, you got, oh, it's five, But what about this other twenty minutes they need you to do. You can tell when a person is bombing because they start talking real positive. You know, we need to take care of these kids. Man. You know, hey man,
support these women. Man, hey man, these women need to support. They need to respect. They're bombing, like hell, they're trying to get positive.
That's a favorite part of the Commiss show.
It is I like, I like, you know what it is. I like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out of a hole. Oh my god, if you see me laughing really hard, it's probably because you up there thinking. Because I remember seeing you because I watch you guys all the time. I remember seeing you on Ridiculousness right and Chanelle West Coast. She made her so mad. You see you was coming and saying, I never seen you on anything. I never seen you rap with I rap stupid.
She got the commercial. I think it happened twice right now. It was the one that she was But do she wrap? Yeah? I think she did. Okay, okay, but I didn't know it. But I looked at you and I'm like, oh my god, she's pissed. She got pitted. She moved that hair back the commercial commercial and she came back. She was gonna come, yeah, we're back here to pissed her. I never seen your nothing. I never seen you my snoop, I never seen you two short, I never seen you. She was pissed. I
laughed so hard, A dad, that was so good. How do you feel about the rebooting rebooting comic View? I just I like it, but I think they're trying to do a new way. I think they should have rebooted and did it the old way. I think they should have had the host and introduced the show like we used to do back in the day. Because if you remember when that show was on. Everybody watched it from your mom, your mom, your dad, your dad, your grandma, and your granddad uncle. You know what. I saw you
on TV. They love it. So I think we need to go back to that platform. They doing a new thing now where you know they wanted all hip hop and all that. That's cool, but we need to go back to the old way. Now.
You're a huge car enthusist. I am in classic cause yeah, we got you into that. And how many cars do.
You have back in about twenty seven? I'm I collect Buicks, Buicks. I like Buick Buicks. Man, My granddaddy told him, say, look at young buy nothing but a Buick. You know, old Joe, he's have a road mester with three speed on the column. I thought he was a genius. When you change the gears on the column. He was a bad dude. You know. He put it down the first, then go to second. He looking at the talking, then he go to third. Get you a Buig, baby, you know.
So I always liked Buicks, and I like Skylart's Buick was a really good muscle car too. People don't realize it. I got like I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I got a seventy Rivera, I got a sixties Rivera. I got a sixty nine Rivera. I got a six eight Duce on the quarter. I got a six eight Skylart convertible. I got a six egg Scyllart Folk Speed got a sixty five sky Lot convertible.
So that's your addiction.
Yeah, and I like Ford truck. I love Ford Truck.
So you don't drink, you don't smoke.
I used to I let it go when my baby boy was born. He's forty. I stopped forty years ago. I used to get so drunk man envy. I used to get so drunk when I when I get home, I couldn't walk to the crawl. I used to knock in the bottom of the door and my axe say it go be me and the alcohol. One of us has got to go. And I showed it misser. I did mean. I missed the hell out of her. Who got a better collection? You and J lino oh J got the call. But you know my man MB got
some car I like I got. I've had everything for what ever made, from the Lincoln Blackwood truck to the duel Is to the saline truck. I got a saline truck, I got two lightnings, I got a rapture, I got a super snake truck. I don't have the Ford GT. You know, the one like a Ferrari. I had all that you a g yes, sir, really yeah, I did? You know why I sold it?
Because you couldn't fit it.
No I fit in. I'm gonna tell you why I sold it because when I did get in, it felt like four people sitting in there with me.
Michael tre had had it. Asked Michael Straan why he got rid it is? He said, cause I couldn't fit it.
No, I can fit in it. But it was tight. But when I sold it, it was it was on six When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two hundred miles on it, and I had it for seven years. So when I said, she ain't selling that, because if you sold that a triple quadrant, but it's like six hundred thousand for it now. But when I saw I bought it for two hundred thousand. I sold her for two hundred and fifty thousand, and a guy in England
bought it. It was canary yellow, black stripe, yamn and when I tell you it had the power, It had the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the one you wanted to hold on to. The No, I don't miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it. I wanted to know.
It sold like six seven hundred thousand.
Yeah, I sold it for two fifty back then, but I could have got five six hundre if I kempt it. Absolutely. How big of a deal is it now for a comedian to have a special? Does? Well? Let me you know, it's funny you said that, man, specials are good. I just got signed for Netflix special. And the reason, the reason I just took it, I won't gonna do I was gonna do it myself, like fim it make them buy you know what I'm saying. But they offered it to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it.
I think around August so at no, no, no, no, no, We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go someone, somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying. Atlanta, I'm just average man. You know they see me in But I go somewhere like Chicago or Texas. Oh my god, that's why I want to go. You know, in Atlanta, it's my city. I love it. I still live there. And uh I had a place in l A for like thirty years. And La just La.
You pay.
They make you pay for the weather, you know what I mean. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous. But it's how here in New York te it is.
You especially don't need one. It's not I mean, it don't validate you in no way shape before.
I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to. I want to do a tour myself. I'm always on somebody else's tour. Now I want to do it too. I got two guys that open up for me who is hilarious, and nobody know them, so I want to introduce them and bring them out and then they can start out doing their own thing. That's what it's all about. Man. There used to be a Kicks for comedians.
You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom like I don't.
Feel you need none of that no more. Some of the people who got them, they can't sell out, can't sell a ticket, you know what I'm saying. They can sell people in the garage, but they can't sell a ticket. You know, back in the day before Kings of Comedy, that's what you had to get. You know, you do real good, then they offer your sitcom, then you do your sitcom, then you go on tour. And Bernard Mack was like the only comedian that could sell out by hisself.
He was about, now, Kat Walliams could do it. Kevin Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is a good guy. But Cat can do it. Like when he did an interview that podcast went crazy. He just started selling everywhere, and well he got something to say, and I think he should said, I agree, they're doing a live Netflix special with Cat. But you know what, the Cat made everybody get on their toes though people like I thought, you're gonna say something about you. I never had any
conflict with Cat. We always been cool. He called me one time he said, man, I want you to go on the road with me, and I said this exact word. I said, I would do it. I said, but why do you need me on the road with you? So you got it, they're coming to see you. He said, well, it's a big crossover. You got a crowd. I got a crowd. But Cat is he's a smart dude. And he take care of his people. That's what I like about it, said, he take care of his people, and
that's what it's all about. Can't keep the money, man, You you just think he's gonna work people to death and not pay him. You got to pay these people. We got families, We got kids. You know, I got grand kids. I mean, you know, grandkids. That's who I work for. Now. They're cool.
You've been getting money for a long time, been in the game, thirty When did you start seeing the like that real real money that you know?
When I when I when when I when a joker was giving me a thousand dollars a show, I thought he was crazy because it was so easy to me one thousand dollars to be on stage for ten to fifteen minutes. Oh, this is where I need to be. Potato trip Trump got to go. I tell you how I quit my job. I took a leave of absence, and I told him. I told my super bowers. I say, man, I said, I'm going through divorce, man, And I say, I just need some time and get my head together.
Can I get a thirty day leave absent? He got it approved. When he got it approved, we was inventory in the truck. He said, man, you're coming back. I said, I want you look at me real good, and next time you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left. And what's crazy? You know? Back in the day we had beepers. Anybody beepers. Of course I left. I had my cousin and picked me up on a Friday. I said, man, take me by the back and I got twenty dollars in the bank. That's all I had in the bank.
I went and got the twenty dollars out to give him for gas. And as soon as I gave them money, my beeple went on and I said, stop, man, let me used to pay for him and I called it was the club owner in the Comuni Act, Theaty in Atlanta. He said, man, what you doing tonight? I said, I'm working for you. I ain't look back. You do a lot of manifestation. Bruke ya. You will see me on TV. Yeah. He's telling man, you got to speak stuff. You know, when people don't realize you have to speak stuff into
your life. And when people be speaking the wrong stuff in their life, the wrong stuff is gonna come. Oh. I'm sick as a dog. Okay, we're gonna be sick as a doll, because're gonna be sick as a dog. I love her depth. She'd be dead about three months, so you can't. You know, you got to love her a life. Whatever you speak, the tongue is very powerful. You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying. So people hollering by church Ford, but they be telling the truth.
You know what I'm saying. You know you say you're gonna be rich, You're gonna be rich. Just just keep you got to believe it what you I'm saying. So I've always told Peo you'll see me on TV. I'm not gonna work this truck all my life. I'm not gonna be delivering chips all my life. I'm gonna be doing stuff I like to do. So what's your manifestation? Nine? What do you think? My key thing now is to make sure I make enough money and save enough money
to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone. I don't play. I don't go anywhere right now anytime soon. But you know, I just want to make sure they're straight when I leave, because that's where it's supposed to be. I know a guy now he's been married, white dude. He got married in nineteen sixty two. His mother and father gave him a house that he still live in. He never paid a house note because the house were paid for didn't and then the property he was on like sixty acres
with three lakes, so he living a life. They left him money. That's where it's supposed to be. You always leave your family and position where they don't have to suffer and be in a strain. That's why we need to get insurance. Oh my god, you see somebody to die. They do gofund me. Then the brother in law take all the money, he take everything but sixty dollars. They'd raised thirty thousand. They didn't give us sixty dollars. Man, you know they left more than sixty dollars. And that's
what we should be. We should always put ourselves in a position to live a good life. Also leave a good life for our family. I've got a couple more questions.
There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses to be funny, having the wear addressed to get to that next level.
What's your thoughts on that. Well, you know, I'm gonna be honest with you man, I did it. I did. It's funny you said that I did. I did a TV show that I take one time never came out. It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters, and we did this scene. I was a bounty hunter. I played a bounty hunter. I played a preacher called Reverend get Money. It was Reverend get Money. And I played a mother named Mother Marshall, which was crazy, but Mother Marshall was a real lady
in my church that I mimic. I copy it off for and I also played I did it in Indianapolis, and I did not feel comfortable in that dress, you know what I'm saying at all. And some people could do it, some people if it worked for you. Flip Wilson did it when he did Jeraldine. You know, because Flip Willson' show was a variety show, which I love because it wasn't a black show. It was a show for everybody, and that's what people got to understand. But if they want to dress up in a dress, do
you think you know? But that's not my thing. Yeah, but you know, Tyler Perry made it big. He's one of the best. But to me, I love Tyler Perry. But Joe is funny than Tyler peerr than my deal. When he plays Joe, Joe, it's funny. Joe had an oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing, and I say, thank you Jesus. You know what I'm saying. So when he plays Joe, Joe is the funniest dude. You know, that's just me. Yeah, I love my dear, but Joe, oh my god, Joe's fighting.
And see back then when we used to see people in the dresses or even see like when they used to do men on film on a living color, it was just funny.
I never thought nothing of it. Men on film was the thing they talked about, Moby Dick, Moby Dick that gets two snaps and the kids and around about yeah the twist. Yeah.
How would you define this point in your life professionally and personally?
Oh well, I want anybody to know, professionally and personally, this is me and this is how I do business. I don't act, I don't put on So if you see me on and off stage, this is Bruce Bruce, and I'm the same every day man. You know, I have problems just like everybody else I have. I get a cold like everybody, you know, everybody. Everybody think when you're in the entertainment things are just perfect noise and not and your family members and your friends are the worse.
The Bible speaks. If it ain't your family, watch your closest friend, they gonna get you. I got a cousin now, Oh, you're going through so much. I said, keep having some birthdays. You're gonna go through some more shit. You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect you to rescue them and fix them and not pay you back. Who thought of that one? I don't know. I don't know who thought of that one is. I don't know. They don't think. But if it was Flip, if I
owe them now, y'all know he owns some money. He ain't gave me my money yet. But when you owe me, I saw to be able to understand when you got it. Yeah, exactly, I'll be telling you. I told him, I ain't seeing a rich man with extra money. Dang. Never, Why do you have to say your name twice? I call my mommysed called me twice. My mama said, if I call you the third time, I'm gonna kid you. So my mother said, if I call you three times, you're gonna die today. And my mother was a little one about
one point forty. I mean, she was just but loving and knew how to make a way out of no way. Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you do get successful and you start making money, make sure you take care of mom. And one thing you got to realize it don't take much like you think it though people think like, well, I got to do it. Your mama don't want that much. She just want to make sure she's okay, she's comfortable and she got a little money. My mother last twenty years of her life.
I make sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing. But it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying. But then when your family members found out about it, they started trying to use you too. You know, my mom, I'm going through something. Well that's your mother, this one is mine. Books.
We appreciate you for joining us.
No, thank you, and you do it right now right Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna show tonight and you know next week I'm in town. But we got that. I'm in Tacoma, Washington. We got through that. I mean Raleigh. I'm booked every week. If I'm not booked every week, somebody gonna lose their job. Ain't nobody gonna be sitting at home drinking lemonade when I'm sitting at home. I need to go to work.
That's right. Yeah, well they you have it. It's Bruce Bruce.
We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected you as a as a comedy legend.
Man. Give you an icon, So salute you, Bruce, Thank you for coming. Respect.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.