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Jamie Foxx

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“She said, that's you guys. He said, That's old people. She said, that's why we're turned off from religion sometimes. That's why we're turned off from all of these different things because old people argue about where you're from, what you do, what you look like. We don't give a shit. And so thank God for the youth. Thank God for that couple. Because what they're doing is they're showing the new world. And she said, Dad, if someone was doing something somewhere that was straight, gay, black, white, or brown, somewhere else, does it affect you at all? Does your air change?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the right path, man. Love who you want to love. Be where you want to be because we are evolving. Look at the steps that gay rights took in the past few years. That's huge when you're talking about people in the Bible belt and how they felt. So if you. If those things are now Like my daughter taught me when she was 13, she's 21 now. She was 13, and this was nine years ago, and we were talking about gay rights and things like that. And I asked her friends, I said, what do you think about it? She said, Dad, we don't think about it. I said, that's you guys.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kids today, I met the gym last night, 24 hour fitness. The kid is playing future white kid. Well, your ass is that when I kid, when I first moved into my neighborhood years ago and I felt like I made him, I'm in the white neighborhood now. I'm here. Oh, I'm so I've made it. And I hear NWA blasting. Look out there with these kids that was 16 years old. So times are changing, man. And you have to start giving people the benefit of the doubt that they'll get it right. And for all those people that were here back in the old days and that are now 50 and 60 and 70 years old, that's dying out. The way of thinking is dying out. You may be looking in a situation where you may have the first female president. It's the evolution of freedom. Think about how we treated women at one point. No voice, no rights, no nothing. I've heard people say I'd rather have a black person tell me something to do than a woman. But now we are.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We used to live in a world not too long ago where it was frowned upon, it was tough, it was this. What I would say to people like that, just live your life. Like, I live my life in places where at times there was definitely racial misunderstanding. But I would talk to that person. I would make sure that person understood who I was as a person. I'm not going to compromise who I am as far as a black man, but I'm also going to give you another version of it. Not the version that you necessarily see on television, the version that you see on the internet. I'm going to give you me. And most of the time, we are alike in so many different instances. So when he's saying moving to that non-diverse place, it's different, man. Look at, I hate to say this, but listen to the kids, bro. But when you talk about the”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll say this. I'll say this about America. Let's use America as an example. To me, America is the most incredible civilization that has ever been created. Hundreds of years from now, people will look on this place and marvel. There's the bitch in the complain where everybody bitches complains about every single thing. But the one thing about America that is incredible is the evolution of freedom. The change when I talk about slavery that happened was 300 years of it, look at the evolution. We come out of it, we have a black president. People... More welcoming now.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No one wants to see anybody come together or say that when I think about Quentin Tarantino, I spoke and said, I back you as a friend and keep speaking the truth and don't worry about the haters, meaning speak the truth from you, not whatever the comment was. But whatever you're saying in your truth, You say that because you ain't out there. You could be promoting your movie. You could be trying to make money. You actually trying to see how you could go. I know the way he thinks. I'm going to go talk to them if they are wrong and what they're saying. I'm going to tell them. But if they are right, he says, I'll be the one that can go to the cops and say that. And now, look at how it is. It's so great. Go ahead. Ask the question.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, before you go into that. Here's the problem. Back in the day, if there was a misquote, And you went to that entity and said, hey, you quoted me wrong. Oh, we'll release a statement saying that we misquoted you and it erases. The problem with today's world, once it's out there, you can't get it back. You cannot change. Because it's going to stay there. When I punch up your name, that's the first thing that's going to come up, or the second thing that's coming up, you can't get rid of it. And when you talk about the regurgitating or the organ. Just letting it die, you could let it die. But the problem is you have to at least once it starts give another hopefully that you can give another side of it that people may see a little bit. They don't want to see what's crazy about our society right now. No one wants to see anybody reconciled.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Quentin Tarantino is a cough hater. He hates all cops, and the all cops of murderers. And I was just like, here we go again, man. Here's a person who's willing And I'm going to speak like willing to put aside his white cushy Hollywoodness. He could live on his mountain? Never give a shit about anything. He came and said, man, I felt something. And now they painted so bad. And now you got the New York cop. So we got something for his. Now it's a beef. Now that's not what we're trying to do. But you can't do anything right now because the media story, if it's oscillacious, We don't want to report it. We have to You feel what I'm saying?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Even high end black guys don't go stand with the black folks that's trying to be heard when it comes to like, especially Hollywood, because, you know, people in Hollywood are so scared. Oh, they won't see my movie. They won't go see my song. If I stand up for anything of substance, they're so fucking scared. So when I saw this dude do that, I was like, wow, that's great. But then the misinterpretation of his words where he says, I'm standing here with the murdered Quentin Tarantino speaks that way. He speaks that. If you've read any of his movies or saw any of his movies, he speaks in those terms. He says, I stand with the murdered. When I see someone being murdered, I call it what it is. It's a murder. That's a murderer that killed this person. However the story got spun was that”
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“Who is a purist? When it comes to his opinions and his emotions, even if you could go, I could go to Quentin Tarantino and say something, man. I think, you know, as a black person and so on, so and so, hey, well, stop doing that. Stop hanging it just on black. Hang it on things that are substance first and then let it be. I mean, so I've heard this guy speak when there's no cameras. I said, wow, you know what? You make a lot of sense. So Quentin Tarantino sees the Black Lives Matter campaign, sees the individual stories, 40 different people of individual stories where a police officer had killed the person who was unarmed. It touched him. The reason I thought that was impactful because you seldom see the white superstar go and stand. With the black folk who just trying to be heard.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dynamite. Because we can't get it, we can't get anybody responsible on the media side to say, let's stop interviewing people and putting labels on them. Let's interview this man and this woman, but don't say that the Democrat, don't say that they're Republican. Don't say that they're a cop. Just have them talk. Because when you see, when you're watching TV and you see something that you agree with, you agree with them only and you can't hear the other person. That's the first thing. Two, Like when I look at Quentin Tarantino, to demonize this guy”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's like whatever you believe in, if it was a Jewish person, if it was a gay person, you cannot sit and not be bothered by that. At the same time, that cop, when he sees the other side of it, when they're saying all of you guys ain't shit, which that's not what's really being said Most of the time, it's with the individual cop. Now the cop sees the story. In his mind, I will fuck. Well, it's a problem now. So now imagine that cop who's watching the story, driving on the street, that young black kid who's watching the story, walking on the street. What happens?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Another side of the police officer because right now social media or immediate period the stories that are the most salacious where it's the black cop being the black guy being killed by a cop, it's hard to erase those images. I'm a black man. When I see that, I have to react to that because I'm like, wow, that troubles me. But then I have to sit down and think, okay, let me not think of the worst thing to say, but let me think because I know how media tries to make things or heighten it. How do I bring People together in spite of the headline. Because what people don't understand is that when you keep showing the images of the black guy being killed by the cop, that does something to you.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But in today's world of how do we bridge that gap? I've gone to Quantico in Virginia, saw what a police officer sees, I've talked to police officers, how can we bridge the gap? I've suggested that you go get a white police officer who you think might not like black folk. You know what I'm saying? Get that person to go into the hood and throw a picnic for a kid that's eight, nine, ten years old who's African American so that he can see another.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Police officers are on the whole are great folk. I know them. Shit, I know a gang of police officers. But the one or two that have been caught on social media makes it look paint the picture that it's all of now granted we've known for a long time that blacks and police officers have always had a divide we've done music we've done movies about it we've done books about it it just is the way it is now my take on it is because I call it residue it's slave residue meaning that slavery for 300 years you saw a person of color a certain way for 300 years you've always saw him as a slave or the criminal or what something that you didn't value so therefore coming out of that of course there's going to be a divide when it comes to police and when it comes to blacks and when it comes that's always been that way so take that off the table right”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At the checkout counter. Yeah, it's the headline. If I say Jennifer Anderson, you automatically, because nowadays we don't control our own narrative to where it's like they talked about this thing with Quentin Tarantino, which I thought was sad because usually when you see a story about Black Lives Matter or anything black, it's usually the same black folks with the Kufi who's trying to be heard. And they're absolutely right. They're absolutely, it's so much wrong going in Black world. There's black on black crime. Then there's the divide that is because of social media that is going on between the police officers and black folk.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But what do you think? But what do you think? Something about a kid who can't get it together. When I say Chris Brown, what do you think?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or crafted where, like, if you do a joke, it's not about doing a joker anymore. Jamie Fox slams Caitlin Jenner. Jamie Fox trousses like, nah, I'm a comedian. But everything is something that they control. And it's tough because When I say Justin Bieber, what do you think? What's the first thing that comes to mind?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like me knowing her, I was like, you're not like that at all. She says, I can't. There's nothing I can do. Everybody thinks so. And they took something like they went through emails and through a personal emails and all of a sudden whatever it was. But it was just like, you're not like that at all. So when I was on the phone talking with her, she was like, they're saying this, ah, don't worry about it. You're cool. You're not like that. I don't give a fuck. But I hadn't, I'm bowling. I'm like, I don't even need to read it. What could they possibly say? And when I look, it was a national story. I went, what the fuck? She lost her job. And so, like, even you'll do something where you think that it's... Either you're making fun or you're having fun, but they'll take whatever it is that you say. And make it what they wanted to say.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were talking about how nowadays is that you don't get a chance to control your own narrative. Like we were talking about is there's two different people. Some people think that the tech world and social media and things on the internet is taking us to a great place. And then there's people who think that it's a horrible place. I had, I spoke with a young lady who had been burned bad, bad by the press, bad to where she lost her job. And what was interesting about her job was that what they were scolding her about was.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were there for a trial basis. But when I did that character, it was like playing football and I was the punt returner and I was the rookie and I ran it all the way back the first day. So nobody really knew who I was, but they knew that this character was slamming. And so they sort of gave me like my strikes because these guys were juggernauts. I watched Keenan. I said, Keenan, these jokes ain't funny. The writers wrote. He says, get on your feet. Everybody get up. Let's do this. So he was like, there's never a joke that's not funny. You just got to work and find it. So he taught us the formula of finding the jokes. And he was right every single time. And so, like I said, to be there watching Jim Carrey, like create pet detective on set. He's writing pet detective as a worry. So what set you write on? Hey, man, just saw, you know, working on some stuff. Just got some stuff I'm working on. So what is that? It's a little thing called pet detective.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I remember seeing Jim Carrey and Kena fly girls on their feet. I said, oh man, this is great. And that's how I got on the show. During that show, I did this character called Where I said, all the good looking ladies clap your hands. Now, all the ugly ladies, let me see you make some noise. It was quiet. I said, Ain't that a business? And all the ugly ladies out there, hey, for real, though, he ain't talking about me. So we did this character Keenan was like, I want you to do that character on the show because I think that's where you really flourish. And when we did that character, that's when everything sort of changed because I was trying to find my bearings on the show because we got on the show.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Amy, just go up and do your ads. Man, just stop worrying about Don't worry about the characters. Just do your egg. Your Marlin. Marlin, come here. Tell Jamie. Just do your ad. I was like, oh, really? Just do my act. Do my act like I do in the hood? Yeah, do you act like you're doing in the hood? I sell straight. Cool. So I go up. They don't play the music. I'm waiting on that one. I'm like, yo, you got my music to do over I said, well, I suppose I have some music. And I said, if this shit goes wrong, you will actually see me working across the street at the gas station. And I went into a character. Man, I was in there with Keenan and all of them dog. And it just isn't. So I did this little character. And I went into my act. And I got a state of motivation that night.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Uptown, you know what I'm saying? It's like everything's clean and shit. You know, ain't no weed in the air or nothing, you know what I'm saying? Ain't nobody snuck no drinks in and it's an audition thing So I'm watching the guys, you know God bless them They just hadn't never done stand up before so I had my cassette tape and I knew what I was coming up to I'm coming up to heavy decent effect with more bounce to the ounce So I get a dude my tape He's like what's this? That's my tape You know, I go to music. You know, up there they didn't go on with music. They just went over hand clap. I said, no, man, I gotta, I gotta come in with heavy decent effect with more bounce to the pumps. I need the crowd going. So, okay, sure. So he's standing there with the tape. And then Sean Wayne gave me a great tip. He walked up. He said, yo.”
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“Kill me. I said, Oh, damn. Well, can I just go up last? Yes Because we've already started. So go ahead. Now, this was interesting for me because I was in White World. I was like on the mainstream. I did all my jokes in the hood at that time. You know what I'm saying? I was the hood guy. So I was like, oh shit, you know.”
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“It was like fucking T Rex and fucking, you know what I'm saying? And the way I got on the show was crazy too because it went from the auditioning process. It was 100 comedians down to 50 down to 25 down to 10 down to 5. I was part of the five, but I was losing. I wasn't doing well within the improv of it because I just wasn't catching the right shit. And then Keenan says something incredible. He says, well, I dig this, but I want to see y'all on stage doing stand-up because I want to have stand-up comedians. I was like, oh, shit, that's my shit. That's my shit. And the other four people didn't do stand-up. It was only one other girl that did stand up. God bless her, Yvette Wilson. But the other three didn't do stand-up. So I was like, oh, man. So that night, everybody's going to the laugh actor, which was just starting. Because at that time, the comedy store was dominating. Laugh Actor was just, and they begged, can we please have the audition and the laugh actor?”
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“But he was very disciplined in how we make jokes. You were not allowed to come in and be half-assed. He pulled you to the side and said, as a black comedian, you cannot be half-assed. You're either great or you don't exist. And he says, don't take the racial part of that any kind of way. That's just the way it is because he wrote for Eddie Murphy. He was around the greatest. He says, I'm around the greatest all the time. So that's what we gonna do. So when you see Damon Wans come in and I just got hired, like they had already been doing the show for like a year or two years. So when I saw Damon walk in and Jim walk in, it was like, it was like fucking Jurassic Park.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At that time, Keenan Ivory Wayne, he put it all together. And he was able to grab all of these incredibly talented people. And make them get along. and figure out how to squeeze all of this talent into twenty-two minutes of programming. Because it was only a 30 minute show, so it's 22 minutes.”
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“And it's not a lot of that anymore. It's not a lot of dangerous comedians. And I think that's where we sort of go like, you know, where's that danger? Like when you see Amy Schumer, you see, like, I saw her in the room. Talking about catching a dick in front of Robert De Niro, like we're at the American Film Awards, whatever like that. And she's just, I mean, Hardcore dance, which is what Sir Silverman started out as, you know. But Amy looks like she's rounded the corner and is now, you know, really making it, you know, making it dope for herself.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just hilarious, man. And there's so many, man. So many. Not a lot of new comedians now that are actually, it's funny, right? That are actually dangerous now. We don't have dangerous comedians. The dangerous comedian that we have right now is Amy Schumer. She's dangerous. In what way? Like, she'll say it. It'll be hot button. You know what I mean?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just, you know, he's an underground guy. Who else? There was a lot. I mean, a lot of people, earthquake, amazing earthquake is amazing. What's my other dude's name, Tony Roberts? Amazing. Tony Roberts, man, I've never laughed. He says, oh man, I had to dig out some of his jokes. But he talks about it's very physical, but he talks about being on the plane and the plane is going down. And he says he was on a plane and he thought the plane was going down. So he says, so I wanted to fuck everybody before, you know, I wanted to fuck before. He says, oh, while the plane's going down, he's fucking everybody. You know, he fucked the nun. He was fucking everybody. And then the plane leveled off. Oh, I'm sorry, y'all.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because until you tell the motherfucking K that's what type of motherfucker I am. Don't play me, play lotto. You got a better chance. And he made himself a character on stage that was just, you know, you guys are too young to know this joke, but bugle boy jeans. Bugle Boy Jr. used to have a commercial where a girl would pull up in a car and say, excuse me, are those bugle boys, she would say this to a guy, like he's walking on the street with his jeans. He says, excuse me. Are those bugle boy jeans you're wearing? Why, yes, they are. She get in the car. TK had a joke, man. It was so funny. He said, man, man, let that motherfucker be a motherfucking black girl in the motherfucking car. And scares me. All those bugle boys you're wearing? Yeah. Get in the car, motherfucker. I mean, people would just go, the dude has so many like levels”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I wouldn't say underrated, but I think there were just like warriors that never got that shine. There was a guy named TK Kirkland, who was a warrior. But he never got the shine. And TK had a colorful past, you know. And he'll let you know. He said, you know, he was a crazy motherfucker. But TK had jokes like, and Wanda's current the frog always say, hi ho, hi ho. Is he a pimp? And why? And why do fat people wear leather pants? Do they think that shit is cute? And why do people in wheelchairs tie their motherfucking shoes? Do they think they're going to trip? Oh man, it was just. He was just amazing. And his delivery, you know what I'm saying? He says.”
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“Just, I mean, a technician, Amy Schumer, watching her on just a Saturday night live when she's, you know, working her shit out, a young whoopey Goldberg at the Met. There's so many people that you can watch and see how to tap into your own skill set. But just get inspired by it all.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when I did that joke on stage, people would just, you know, would die. So it's observational, then it's personal. And then some of the comedians are great politically. I'm not necessarily a political guy. My thing was the impersonation of the politician, like Bill Clinton. You know, I did not have sex with that woman. You know, it was, you know, things like that, but there's so many different ways and so many different guys out there that you look at and go, ooh, like when I would look at a young Chris Rock, the way he was a technician, just me. Oh, you look at Jay Leno. Or you look at even Arsenial Hall when he would work out. Or you see Eddie working out a joke. You know, or watching George Lopez, who knows how to tap into the bass and just really bring you into his world and stuff. So it's some guys at Sarah Silverman.”
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“And then, like, I would use her towels. Like, you know, you know, old Southern women had a towel used and it was a nice towel. So I used a nice tile Know you ain't used my towels, you gonna put the A's on the towels. You don't use everybody's tiles, anybody use the towel like that got to have A's. I said, Granny Think that's how, you know, so it was opposite. Now, this is what she was actually saying.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then it was personal like you do your observation first, and then it was personal. My grandmother, who was, you know, we lived together, you know, and when she first heard on television what AIDS was, being old, she didn't know what it exactly meant. She just knew it was bad, but she thought that since she's always on me anyway, that I'm going to catch AIDS. But it was for the wrong reasons. Like, she would say, boy, you go. It's six in the morning. You going to wake up, shit. Half the day done gone. I said, granny, what you mean is it's six. Shit, I'm not sleeping. Anybody sleep that long got to have AIDS? I don't think that's a no. I saw it on TV. You sleeping too long. You got A. That's a grin. I don't think that's how they exactly.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was observation. And like, you know, I do jokes with them. You know, it's just sort of like observation. Know early on, it was the black and white thing. Black folks do it this way, white folks do it, which was the way we were doing comedy in the late 80s and 90s. The average white man's heart has to do with the heart. The average white man's heart beats like this. While the average black man start beats like this. Ladies, that's why you have a choice. Would you rather make love to somebody like this? Would you rather make love to someone like this? I mean, that was the jokes, you know, at the time. So it was observational.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I sat down and said, and I went, I can't do that. I lost that. So I left, went to another club that night bombed. So finally I went over to Okinawa where the troops were and started doing stand up over there for the troops to sort of get back. It was my rocky moment. Like, you know, I started running up the steps, chasing chickens and shit. Trying to get back. And for a stand-up comedian, that's the one thing you can never let go. You can never stop being a certain goofiness to you. And so, and like when you talk about fear or when you talk about bombing, it's different when you've done it for a long time. And when you do bomb, you just got to get right back up and you got to acknowledge it. Okay, I stunk, nigga. Because they're going to let you know. Like today's world, you can't do nothing in today's world without somebody letting you know, oh, nigga, you fucked that up.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I lost it and I walked offstage and all of a sudden I walk off stage. I give it up for Jamie Fox and I'm thinking they're going crazy. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm standing outside the club and I hear the crowd going crazy. I'm like, what the fuck are they doing? I just went on stage. What the fuck are they laughing at? And I opened the door and there was a kid skinny, a little tank top on, barely fit. His name was Chris Tucker. He was smashing. He was no one has been that funny within 15 minutes. I've never seen, and I watch them all, I've never seen a stand up where people were laughing so hard, like I said, he's going to kill somebody. When he says last night, how was you? Oh, I killed. It's gonna be true. Somebody's gonna have a fucking heart attack.”
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“So I wasn't necessarily on the good looking shit, but I was on the, I've made the jokes. I went on stage and was doing rich jokes. Just got that Range Rover. Anybody else? It's crazy out here. You know, they're so finicky, right? Motherfuckers are looking at me like, what the fuck is you talking about? And then I was talking about, you know, square footage of the house, man. When they get a certain square feet, man, that shit is crazy maintaining, you know. Motherfuckers are like, motherfucker, if you don't get off the goddamn state, I'd lost it.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We just want to look good. Think about this. When Eddie Murphy started doing stand up, he was funny, but then he started doing the weather leather suits and it was a fly shit and the rings and they don't want to look good. Joe Piscoppo started working out. The muscles, you know what I'm saying? So as a standard committee, we got to be careful not to look too good because people start going, what the fuck are you doing? You ain't cute. We just want to laugh. You know what I'm saying? But when we started, you know, we started getting into our shit. That's when we looked because I did that. Like I got to, my thing was that after living color, the show called in Living Color that I did, I felt like I had.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now, it's the perfect time for Eddie Murphy to come out and do stand up because it's been so long, it's nostalgic, it was 30 years ago. So now you can catch a new, young, you can still excite the older, you know what I'm saying? So being a standard comedian is tough. And you've seen a lot of funny guys not be funny anymore. Why? Because you can't top what you did. You look at a Jim Carrey, you go like, okay, man, where you at? Where you at? You know what I'm saying? Don't give up the funny or you look at Chris. I always look at Chris Tuck and be like, motherfucker, where you at? Don't leave us because... Being a stand up comedian is an interesting thing. Most stand up comedians want to look good.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The hardest part for Chris Rock was after he had done something great in stand up. Because now you got to top that. The hardest part for Eddie Murphy because Eddie wants to come out and do stand up is how do I top that in your head? The hardest part is coming for Kevin Hart in the fact that you smash him. Now you gotta you gotta you know say you got to know how to you gotta know how to refresh because when you do something like like I would look at my stuff and go like I got to quit doing that because that shtick that I'm doing people will catch on and they're like okay motherfucker we already seen that so that that's the other thing you got to have great material and you got to have you got to know you got to know how to move because like”
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“When you take the loss, it's not like you're a lot funny. It's just like, okay, you just didn't put the shit together. So that's the other thing, too. When you do become funny, it's going to be harder now to make people laugh because you set the bar. Yeah, so watch this.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no. I think that's cheating. And I think you get bad habits. So I do a show in Irvine, California. First show I kill. They was just ready for me. I'm like, oh, man, everything worked. Second show. Because I didn't take time to dig out the jokes and so, but when you bomb, you go like, okay, all right, let's go. Let's check it out. So I got a team of my guys. I said, let's go. Okay, that didn't work. No, you got to put this in front of that. You got to put that behind this because that's going to kick this off. People didn't know what that was, so maybe you don't say that. So, you know, you have to, when you take the bomb, when you take the L, it's not like you're not funny.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I bombed the second time, it was way later in my career when I'm working out jokes. But I don't like to work out jokes and tell people I'm working out. I like to actually do a show, come and do the show. So we're in, I think it was Irving.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Takes that arc. It takes the same formula. I'm not for sure how he put it in his mind, but he's doing the same thing to where he's going to all of these places all over the world, implementing his comedy. And if they get it, he's gathering all that so that now when people see Kevin Hart, no matter where in the world, they're going to laugh. becoming a great comedian is also having that formula going on in your head because if you paint yourself into a corner like you're only the black comedian or you're only the hispanic comedian or whatever that is then it's hard for you to become universal i mean eddie was eddie murphy was great he had an opportunity to saturday night live to get it to everybody but uh uh it's definitely a formula to not bomb it”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or I would ask, y'all know who this is? And so I would tell the joke 15 minutes they understood it, I can go to any place in the world that's all white and they get it. Then I would go to my chocolate city, Chicago, DC, Florida, and do all of my political highbrow stuff and see what the black folks understood. Man, what the fuck are you talking about, dog? Now they understood 15 minutes. Now I got 15 to 30 minutes or 45 minutes that wherever I go, no matter what age, they'll understand no matter what gender, no matter what race, they'll understand this 45 minutes. So I had to learn how to use the formula in order for you to be funny. And then once you got your comedy license, once you've been seen by enough people. In the highest way, like in the like if you look at uh Like, if you look at an arc of a Kevin Hart, like Kevin Hart,”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“See what they understood, what they didn't understand. So if I go to these all white places, and if they understood 15 minutes, I logged at 15 minutes. I can go to any place where it's just all white.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT