Mike Epps - "The Upshaws"

took my crowd it was cricket. But this time I mentioned it like, the audience went nuts. So we were man, yeah, starting to Yeah, that's really cool. So why do you think, why do you think it's happening? Why do you think that's happening? You know what Wand does Sometimes when you put a little hot sauce on that fish or that chicken, you know, it gets season. You gotta put a little season on it. You know what I think, me and you coming together, we both had two different types of audience.

You know, you do a more classier style of comedy. You know, I do more of a barn grill, you know. But but but I really think that you know sometimes when when you come together and you both have two different audiences, you know it, I'm introduced to your audience and you introduced to my audience. So everybody's like because because even from our audience, they're like, man, I never would have thought to see you and Wanda together, you know.

So it's just one of the things. And it worked, like Peanut Butter and Jeller, you know, like, uh so it's about working together. You know, you work with you know myself, Can Field, Yes, Gabriel Dennis Hicks running the show. That's a lot of women. I noticed that you touring with h Yeah, I mean that's that's good. Yeah, so I getting the best of both worlds. Okay, but let me but when you're out on the road with the brothers, are you talking about us? That's what I need to know.

Did somebody tell you that what earthquakes? Earthquakes? Well you know, well you know what these are. And those guys are friends of yours too, you know, earthquakes from d C. So you know, I think it's a whole different rhythm when I'm with the ladies. I mean, the comedy is like this, its popping, you know. The guys we all smoking cigars, everybody moving slow looking around, you know. So so you know the women, they got a little bit more snap today to the time. And you know, but

I love working with you guys. You Kim, working with Kim Fields and working with wander Man. It's I mean, you know, I can't go wrong, you know what I mean? I got him. Fields is a legend and the acting world we know her from back in the days and Wan Day. Come on, man, she's a legend and the comedy guy. Please, you know you killed the game. So um.

You were recently in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi, and I thought this was beautiful man, because you know, they're still facing that getting clean water prices and while you were down there before your show, you were out in the streets passing out water to the residents down Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty coolly okay. So so why why is that important for you to get to get involved like that?

You know what? I think that you know, when the world is going through something and us as comics, we go to these cities year after year making money in these cities. So I think when you know, when some of these cities going crisis, Man, we haven't been to these cities. Some of these cities feel like they are hometowns because we've been going to them for so many years. So Jackson is one of the places that I've always did comedy. And they got beautiful people down there. Man,

they resilient. I said, Man, I got a show coming down there. I know they got the water crisis. I gotta give back some kind of ways. You know, I'm always making money in their town. So I say, hey, let's buy for a bunch of water. Shout out to my man Hunting Street. Sam. Hunt the Street Sam Production was the promoters who thought about doing this, and they put it together. Man, we started passing out water. Some of the old women that was coming through their getting

the water. I've seen one old ladies. She came through that three times. She put the masks off. I know you've been over there. Came through it three times at the water David. So, so you kind of a new show on the HDTV where you and your wife are renovating homes back in your hometown. What's it's called, What's what's your name of it? It's called by the Block, right. I always getting mixed up and it's coming out this summer. It's called blacks buying the block back. No, they didn't

call that. Wait, I didn't get in trouble. I'm gonna make you wear the T shirt. Yeah, okay, so it's I think, yeah, by the block back. Yeah. And and what it was us I went back to my hometown. I've been buying houses in my hometown for about Indianapolis. Yeah, shout out to my hometown in Indianapolis, Indiana. And I've been buying homes in that city for about twenty five years.

And you know, when when I was young, my me and my mom and my brothers, that says that we got kicked out of a lot of houses, you know, just getting evicted and stuff like tearing the houses. Uh. And I told my mother, I said, when I get famous, Mom, if I ever get famous, I'm gonna go buy all them houses we got kicked out of. So I went back about all them houses that we're building them, me and my wife, I want to, you know, shout out, shout out to my beautiful wife, kyra Fs, who who's

really uh in charge of everything. She got with a builder and they put these houses together. Man. And I mean these houses are beautiful. They used to be five dollars when I was a kid in them houses. If I thought that out of bought the whole neighborhood up, you know. So we built the houses back up and hopefully we can get some make them affordable for some families, making affordable homes. That's great. Yeah, it's beautiful, man. So I'm trying to you know, I'm trying to stay out

of jail. You know what I mean. You're gonna stand out of jail. You're doing such good work, you know, especially your hometown and all. Have you ever thought about maybe getting into politics, maybe running for office. Oh no, you don't want me in there. You know what, if I got into some politics, man, you know, I would definitely want to be on the end of helping children. If I could be a politician to make the world

better for kids, I want for politics. Other than that, I don't want to help no grown folks, even if you don't want to you doing it office. I got a slogan for you, Mike. He's got Flips money and he'll got your kicks. Send my work. I want to thank you. Bither Fight Show Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show wherever you get your podcast. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes

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