1 00:00:00,701 --> 00:00:02,302 [cheers and applause] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:02,369 --> 00:00:06,707 - Patrice O'Neal! 4 00:00:06,773 --> 00:00:08,942 [somber music] 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:11,011 - Patrice was the guy. 7 00:00:11,078 --> 00:00:12,813 You know, he was a comic's comic 8 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,883 which is, I think, the dopest thing that you can be. 9 00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:17,184 When the comedians love you, 10 00:00:17,251 --> 00:00:19,019 it's just a different nod of approval. 11 00:00:19,086 --> 00:00:22,656 - I don't mind a little racism. 12 00:00:22,723 --> 00:00:24,224 I don't mind a little bit of it. 13 00:00:24,291 --> 00:00:25,859 I'm afraid of going to hell for being, like, 14 00:00:25,926 --> 00:00:27,861 a devout wrong shit. 15 00:00:27,928 --> 00:00:31,098 Let's discuss harassment. 16 00:00:31,164 --> 00:00:32,666 - It's not the subject. 17 00:00:32,733 --> 00:00:34,868 Nobody owns a subject, it's what you say about it. 18 00:00:34,935 --> 00:00:37,137 And what he had to say about everything he spoke about 19 00:00:37,204 --> 00:00:39,940 was absolutely only his. 20 00:00:40,007 --> 00:00:41,808 - Think about what cheating is. 21 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:44,578 Cheating is a guy going out trying to make himself happy 22 00:00:44,645 --> 00:00:47,648 without knowing it 'cause he doesn't want to make you upset. 23 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:50,450 So really, it's for you. 24 00:00:50,517 --> 00:00:53,520 - He was just always better than us, 25 00:00:53,587 --> 00:00:56,490 so whatever we were struggling with, he was beyond it. 26 00:00:56,557 --> 00:01:00,394 - One of the funniest, realest comics of all time. 27 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:02,462 - He's one of the greatest comedians to ever live. 28 00:01:02,529 --> 00:01:04,865 He's a first-round Hall of Famer. 29 00:01:04,932 --> 00:01:06,099 - He wasn't the most 30 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:08,468 well-known comedian in America 31 00:01:08,535 --> 00:01:10,938 because there's no justice. 32 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:13,507 There's no justice. 33 00:01:13,574 --> 00:01:15,108 - I mean, I know this documentary 34 00:01:15,175 --> 00:01:17,211 is supposed to be, like, "Patrice O'Neal! 35 00:01:17,277 --> 00:01:21,281 "Oh, my God! One of the best! The greats!" 36 00:01:21,348 --> 00:01:22,349 [blows raspberry] 37 00:01:22,416 --> 00:01:23,550 - Jackass! - Shut up! 38 00:01:23,617 --> 00:01:25,152 - What are you trying to win? 39 00:01:25,219 --> 00:01:27,588 - Patrice took it too far all the time. 40 00:01:27,654 --> 00:01:29,389 All the time, he took it too far. 41 00:01:29,456 --> 00:01:31,358 but that was part of his charm. 42 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:32,526 - Oh, my God, I'm finished. 43 00:01:32,593 --> 00:01:33,927 See that white woman there? I'm done. 44 00:01:33,994 --> 00:01:35,128 My career is over. 45 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:36,196 She's looking like she writes letters 46 00:01:36,263 --> 00:01:37,364 to the governor and shit. 47 00:01:37,431 --> 00:01:39,499 - Patrice was a genius 48 00:01:39,566 --> 00:01:42,769 who constantly shot himself in the foot. 49 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:44,571 - This crowd stinks. 50 00:01:44,638 --> 00:01:47,007 I don't really see myself as an entertainer. 51 00:01:47,107 --> 00:01:50,110 Like, I realized I don't really like entertaining people. 52 00:01:50,177 --> 00:01:54,481 - He said, "Be the truth at all costs." 53 00:01:54,548 --> 00:01:56,817 - I thought that I would have a white slave by-- 54 00:01:56,884 --> 00:01:59,786 I thought-- [laughter] 55 00:01:59,853 --> 00:02:02,122 Big old fat white girl going to warm my bed up. 56 00:02:02,189 --> 00:02:05,325 Get upstairs, Susie! 57 00:02:05,392 --> 00:02:07,327 - Yeah, he used to say this thing about, 58 00:02:07,394 --> 00:02:09,763 you know, killing is easy. 59 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:12,799 Once you learn how to kill as a comedian, killing is easy, 60 00:02:12,866 --> 00:02:14,434 and everybody in the room is laughing. 61 00:02:14,501 --> 00:02:15,969 But that's not what he wanted. 62 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:17,971 He wanted the truth. 63 00:02:18,071 --> 00:02:19,106 - Hey, look, I gotta go, man. 64 00:02:19,173 --> 00:02:20,073 Y'all take care of yourselves. 65 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:21,808 Thank you very much. 66 00:02:21,875 --> 00:02:23,810 Thank you. Thanks, y'all. 67 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:27,147 ♪ ♪ 68 00:02:29,850 --> 00:02:34,321 [laughter] 69 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:36,190 - Just relax. - Yeah, just be you. 70 00:02:36,256 --> 00:02:37,357 - I couldn't be any more relaxed. 71 00:02:37,424 --> 00:02:39,092 - Well, this is what you do. Go like this. 72 00:02:39,126 --> 00:02:41,662 Breathe. [both inhale, exhale] 73 00:02:41,728 --> 00:02:43,263 - There you go. [laughter] 74 00:02:43,330 --> 00:02:45,098 - Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of casting directors 75 00:02:45,132 --> 00:02:46,600 watching this, you know? - Yeah. 76 00:02:46,667 --> 00:02:47,734 - It's gonna be your big break. 77 00:02:47,801 --> 00:02:49,102 - You're gonna get a special out of this. 78 00:02:49,102 --> 00:02:49,970 - Yeah. - Who's that fella? 79 00:02:50,103 --> 00:02:51,772 That fella with the hat. 80 00:02:51,839 --> 00:02:55,108 - You got fucking crow eyes. Look at you. 81 00:02:55,142 --> 00:02:56,577 - It's crow's feet, you dumb fuck. 82 00:02:56,643 --> 00:02:58,178 - I know, but yours are in the eye! 83 00:02:58,245 --> 00:03:00,948 - Crow's eyes. [laughter] 84 00:03:04,751 --> 00:03:06,820 - He would act like he hated it, but he would love it. 85 00:03:06,887 --> 00:03:08,488 - But then he'd complain it took so long. 86 00:03:08,555 --> 00:03:09,923 He would be annoyed that it wasn't made 87 00:03:10,057 --> 00:03:11,658 literally the first year. - There's a lot of people 88 00:03:11,725 --> 00:03:13,260 that weren't that sad when Patrice died. 89 00:03:13,327 --> 00:03:15,796 - Yeah, and there was a lot of tears and a lot of balloons. 90 00:03:15,863 --> 00:03:18,632 [laughter] 91 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:22,970 [funky music] 92 00:03:23,070 --> 00:03:25,639 - I was born during when Black people named their children-- 93 00:03:25,706 --> 00:03:27,941 they had to name them after somebody important Black, 94 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:29,343 so there was a lot of Marcuses, 95 00:03:29,409 --> 00:03:30,644 a lot of Malcolms, you know. 96 00:03:30,711 --> 00:03:32,613 My middle name is Malcolm. 97 00:03:32,679 --> 00:03:37,184 - During that time, you know, we were all finding ourselves, 98 00:03:37,251 --> 00:03:39,686 learning about our African roots, 99 00:03:39,753 --> 00:03:44,591 and my cousin wanted to name him Lumumba. 100 00:03:44,658 --> 00:03:47,661 - After Patrice Lumumba, the first Congo president. 101 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:49,162 And my mother said, "No, I'd like him 102 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:53,667 to have some sort of life, so I'll make a deal with you 103 00:03:53,734 --> 00:03:56,270 that I'ma name him Patrice instead of Lumumba." 104 00:03:56,336 --> 00:03:57,404 Because it's better for somebody to go, 105 00:03:57,471 --> 00:03:59,006 "Is that a girl's name?" than to go, 106 00:03:59,106 --> 00:04:02,209 "What the hell 107 00:04:02,276 --> 00:04:07,581 is a Lumumba?" [laughter] 108 00:04:07,648 --> 00:04:12,352 - In the formative years, he was very inquisitive, 109 00:04:12,419 --> 00:04:14,655 very inquisitive. 110 00:04:14,721 --> 00:04:17,791 He always asked a lot of questions. 111 00:04:17,858 --> 00:04:20,727 Of course, he was very talkative, 112 00:04:20,794 --> 00:04:24,064 so he was frequently in trouble that way. 113 00:04:24,131 --> 00:04:25,766 [laughs] 114 00:04:27,167 --> 00:04:29,336 - You're from Roxbury, Massachusetts. 115 00:04:29,403 --> 00:04:30,971 - Yeah. - Now most Americans 116 00:04:31,071 --> 00:04:33,607 have no idea how racist Boston is. 117 00:04:33,674 --> 00:04:34,875 - A lot of things I learned about racism 118 00:04:34,942 --> 00:04:36,376 that you don't learn unless you live 119 00:04:36,443 --> 00:04:37,778 in a place like Boston. 120 00:04:37,845 --> 00:04:39,613 It was a summer camp. I think I was 10, 121 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,181 and this kid called me a nigger. 122 00:04:41,248 --> 00:04:43,450 This little white kid called me a nigger and ran. 123 00:04:43,517 --> 00:04:45,085 And I chased him, and he ran to where 124 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:47,621 there was adults, and I grabbed him, 125 00:04:47,688 --> 00:04:49,223 and when I put my hands on him, 126 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:50,457 I got thrown out of camp. 127 00:04:50,524 --> 00:04:52,159 I'm like, "He called me a nigger." 128 00:04:52,226 --> 00:04:54,528 It's like, "Yeah, nigger." 129 00:04:54,595 --> 00:04:56,530 So I learned a lesson 130 00:04:56,597 --> 00:05:00,534 that you have the skin color of the enemy. 131 00:05:00,601 --> 00:05:03,704 - I had to talk to him about a lot of things. 132 00:05:03,770 --> 00:05:07,374 You know, he only had me to come to. 133 00:05:07,441 --> 00:05:12,179 I had to be Mom and Dad, which most single parents do. 134 00:05:12,246 --> 00:05:15,082 And so, you have to let them know 135 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:18,585 that as a Black male child, people are always 136 00:05:18,652 --> 00:05:23,056 gonna judge you by what you look like. 137 00:05:23,056 --> 00:05:24,958 ♪ ♪ 138 00:05:25,058 --> 00:05:27,528 - He was a good brother, a good older brother, 139 00:05:27,594 --> 00:05:29,496 taught me a lot of stuff. 140 00:05:29,563 --> 00:05:32,766 I remember we would go to the rec center every day, 141 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:35,202 and he would go play basketball with his friends, 142 00:05:35,269 --> 00:05:36,637 and I would just sit there, 143 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:38,172 and I'd have my little book and have to read my book, 144 00:05:38,238 --> 00:05:41,708 and then I would have to talk about my book. 145 00:05:41,775 --> 00:05:44,077 He would say, "Well, what was the book about?" 146 00:05:44,111 --> 00:05:45,546 "I don't think you read that right. 147 00:05:45,612 --> 00:05:47,447 You need to read it again." 148 00:05:47,514 --> 00:05:49,483 Like, well, that's what it was, and he's like, 149 00:05:49,550 --> 00:05:50,784 "No, that's not what it's about," 150 00:05:50,851 --> 00:05:52,252 and he would tell me what it was about, 151 00:05:52,319 --> 00:05:54,087 and I'm like, "Well, I didn't get that from it." 152 00:05:54,154 --> 00:05:55,088 "Well, read it again!" 153 00:06:00,661 --> 00:06:02,529 - This is where it all began. 154 00:06:02,596 --> 00:06:04,398 This is the home of Patrice O'Neal, 155 00:06:04,464 --> 00:06:06,567 you know, better known to us as Bruiser. 156 00:06:06,633 --> 00:06:08,936 I guess you guys knew him as Patrice O'Neal. 157 00:06:09,036 --> 00:06:11,638 We used to call him Bruiser. - Bruiser. 158 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:13,874 - You know, wasn't just a nickname 159 00:06:13,941 --> 00:06:15,709 because that's kind of what you give guys 160 00:06:15,776 --> 00:06:20,414 when they're 6-6, 350, 360, you know what I mean? 161 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:21,882 You give 'em big guy names, you know? 162 00:06:21,949 --> 00:06:24,718 You give 'em big rough and tough names so, you know? 163 00:06:24,785 --> 00:06:26,253 - This was the spot. 164 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,522 His house pretty much became the meeting spot. 165 00:06:28,589 --> 00:06:29,590 - Yeah! - Story after story, 166 00:06:29,656 --> 00:06:30,924 telling joke after joke. 167 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:34,094 - You know, comedy kinda was his thing, you know? 168 00:06:34,161 --> 00:06:35,796 Bruiser, big as he is, you know, 169 00:06:35,863 --> 00:06:39,166 dude wasn't the sexiest dude, you know what I mean, 170 00:06:39,233 --> 00:06:40,434 but he had the gift of gab. 171 00:06:40,501 --> 00:06:42,069 He had a mouthpiece. - That's it. 172 00:06:42,102 --> 00:06:44,271 - I've been fat all my life, so funny used to-- 173 00:06:44,338 --> 00:06:46,573 it was a defense mechanism all the time. 174 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,242 You walk in the room, and I used to go, 175 00:06:48,308 --> 00:06:50,577 "I'ma get a motherfucker before he get me," 176 00:06:50,644 --> 00:06:53,747 and I liked pretty girls, and I found out 177 00:06:53,814 --> 00:06:58,118 that I can laugh my way into some pretty pussy. 178 00:06:58,185 --> 00:07:00,521 - I remember times where we're wondering, like, 179 00:07:00,587 --> 00:07:02,022 how to break ice, how to, like, 180 00:07:02,089 --> 00:07:04,024 you know, approach, you know, females and stuff. 181 00:07:04,057 --> 00:07:05,826 - Females and stuff, yeah. - Bruiser would kinda, like, 182 00:07:05,893 --> 00:07:07,160 slice through all of that, 183 00:07:07,227 --> 00:07:09,029 like, "Hey, yeah, it's whatever," you know? 184 00:07:09,029 --> 00:07:11,331 - You know? If he said hello to you, better say hello back, 185 00:07:11,398 --> 00:07:12,799 'cause if you don't say hello, 186 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:14,868 and try to get fancy with it-- - At least. 187 00:07:14,935 --> 00:07:16,603 - Oh, he'd jump all over you. - At least, at least. 188 00:07:16,670 --> 00:07:17,871 - And he'd break it down. - And he wasn't the typical 189 00:07:17,938 --> 00:07:19,206 "Fuck you, bitch." - Mm-mm. 190 00:07:19,273 --> 00:07:20,774 - You know, it wasn't your typical--it wasn't that. 191 00:07:20,841 --> 00:07:22,476 - He had to get personal. He'd get completely personal. 192 00:07:22,543 --> 00:07:24,044 - It was like, I'm gonna look at your shoes, 193 00:07:24,044 --> 00:07:25,179 what you're wearing. - Whatever you look like, 194 00:07:25,245 --> 00:07:26,280 your friends. - Your walking--right. 195 00:07:26,346 --> 00:07:27,614 - Like, "I know why you're here. 196 00:07:27,681 --> 00:07:29,283 Why are y'all here with her?" - Your hairdo. 197 00:07:29,349 --> 00:07:30,918 You know what I mean? - "She driving," you know? 198 00:07:31,051 --> 00:07:32,819 - Hey, she's making your whole team look bad! 199 00:07:32,886 --> 00:07:34,488 You know what I mean? - "Y'all should leave her." 200 00:07:34,555 --> 00:07:36,123 Exactly. - Just roaster, roaster. 201 00:07:36,190 --> 00:07:38,225 - [laughs] - Yeah. 202 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:40,460 ♪ ♪ 203 00:07:40,527 --> 00:07:42,896 - He was always funny. 204 00:07:42,963 --> 00:07:45,165 He must have woke up in the morning funny 205 00:07:45,232 --> 00:07:47,201 because he came off the bus, 206 00:07:47,267 --> 00:07:49,803 and he never shut up, and he was always talking. 207 00:07:49,870 --> 00:07:51,972 And he was always surrounded by people, 208 00:07:52,072 --> 00:07:54,107 and they were always laughing. 209 00:07:54,174 --> 00:07:57,611 I had an open-door policy in my office. 210 00:07:57,678 --> 00:08:00,080 Not a lot of the students for obvious reasons 211 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:02,149 would just come in and say hello. 212 00:08:02,216 --> 00:08:04,785 Well, he did. He'd pop his head in. 213 00:08:04,852 --> 00:08:06,353 "Hey, Mr. P. What's going on?" 214 00:08:06,420 --> 00:08:09,389 Sit down, and he'd just talk 215 00:08:09,456 --> 00:08:12,492 about anything he wanted to talk about. 216 00:08:12,559 --> 00:08:14,027 But after he would leave, 217 00:08:14,061 --> 00:08:16,330 you thought about some of the things he said. 218 00:08:16,396 --> 00:08:18,265 He was talking about issues, 219 00:08:18,332 --> 00:08:20,934 but he had a different slant on those issues. 220 00:08:21,034 --> 00:08:23,504 - Even if it was something as simple as 221 00:08:23,570 --> 00:08:25,305 the basketball court, for instance. 222 00:08:25,372 --> 00:08:27,040 Bruiser would point out, 223 00:08:27,074 --> 00:08:29,209 "Notice how when you go to the white side of town, 224 00:08:29,276 --> 00:08:31,378 "you see the lines on the basketball court. 225 00:08:31,445 --> 00:08:34,047 "You see the foul line, you see the out-of-bound lines. 226 00:08:34,081 --> 00:08:36,116 "When you go to the hood, you don't see any lines. 227 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:38,619 "You just see a basketball goal down here, 228 00:08:38,685 --> 00:08:39,953 "a basketball goal down there. 229 00:08:40,053 --> 00:08:41,822 Oftentimes, they don't have nets on 'em." 230 00:08:41,889 --> 00:08:43,223 You know what I mean? 231 00:08:43,290 --> 00:08:45,459 So he kinda was, you know, aware of those things, 232 00:08:45,526 --> 00:08:47,528 you know what I mean, and noticed the, 233 00:08:47,594 --> 00:08:51,598 you know, unbalanced nature, you know, of that whole aspect. 234 00:08:51,665 --> 00:08:52,833 - He was thinking on a whole different level 235 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:54,134 than we were thinking, you know? 236 00:08:54,201 --> 00:08:55,736 - Very much so. - Very much so. 237 00:08:55,802 --> 00:08:58,071 ♪ ♪ 238 00:08:58,071 --> 00:09:00,207 - I don't think I was lucky as a comic 239 00:09:00,274 --> 00:09:03,110 in terms of the time I started. 240 00:09:03,177 --> 00:09:06,413 I think that I was ready to be a comic. 241 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,415 I wanted to be one since I was maybe 16, 242 00:09:08,482 --> 00:09:10,284 but when I was 22, I started, 243 00:09:10,350 --> 00:09:12,853 and I think that was the perfect time. 244 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,621 - And of course, you know, Patrice's story 245 00:09:14,688 --> 00:09:16,490 of how he started, you know. 246 00:09:16,557 --> 00:09:19,826 - The legend was--I wasn't here when this story happened. 247 00:09:19,893 --> 00:09:22,896 It was '92 at a club called Estelle's. 248 00:09:23,030 --> 00:09:26,700 - I do remember going to Estelle's. 249 00:09:26,767 --> 00:09:28,802 - We were all in the audience, 250 00:09:28,869 --> 00:09:32,039 and there was a guy doing comedy. 251 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:33,140 [laughs] 252 00:09:33,207 --> 00:09:35,042 I guess we can't say names, but-- 253 00:09:35,075 --> 00:09:36,176 - You can. 254 00:09:36,243 --> 00:09:38,045 When did you first meet Patrice O'Neal? 255 00:09:38,111 --> 00:09:41,048 - Him and his family came in to watch a show, 256 00:09:41,114 --> 00:09:45,786 and I was on stage, and he tried to heckle me. 257 00:09:45,853 --> 00:09:48,755 - The story has it that Patrice was heckling him 258 00:09:48,822 --> 00:09:50,457 the whole set, and-- [both laugh] 259 00:09:50,524 --> 00:09:53,927 - Because of course, he had his own opinions then 260 00:09:54,061 --> 00:09:56,096 about what was good and bad. 261 00:09:56,163 --> 00:09:58,532 - I asked him if he had voted, and he's like, 262 00:09:58,599 --> 00:09:59,900 "No, I don't vote." I said, "Yeah, 263 00:10:00,067 --> 00:10:01,201 that's 'cause your fat ass can't fit in the booth." 264 00:10:01,268 --> 00:10:03,403 You know, and that's how it started. 265 00:10:03,470 --> 00:10:06,340 - Here comes Bruiser, like, just a shit-talking dude, 266 00:10:06,406 --> 00:10:08,108 life of the party, you know what I mean, 267 00:10:08,175 --> 00:10:10,177 not really doing anything on a professional level. 268 00:10:10,244 --> 00:10:14,081 Here comes a dude who kinda just steps right into it. 269 00:10:14,147 --> 00:10:16,183 - And the guy said, "Well, if you think 270 00:10:16,250 --> 00:10:17,484 "that you can do better, 271 00:10:17,551 --> 00:10:19,453 why don't you come up here and do better?" 272 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:20,687 - After the show, he came to me. 273 00:10:20,754 --> 00:10:21,889 He was like, "Yo, I was just trying to, 274 00:10:21,955 --> 00:10:23,557 you know, help you out, you know?" 275 00:10:23,624 --> 00:10:25,259 I was like, "You're not helping." 276 00:10:25,325 --> 00:10:27,160 He said, "Well, I always thought about 277 00:10:27,227 --> 00:10:28,595 I should be up there." I was like, 278 00:10:28,662 --> 00:10:30,430 "Well, if you really wanna get up there--" 279 00:10:30,497 --> 00:10:31,665 and I gave him some names 280 00:10:31,732 --> 00:10:33,834 and phone numbers of places to call 281 00:10:33,901 --> 00:10:35,469 where you can go try out your stuff. 282 00:10:35,536 --> 00:10:38,472 - I guess he got inspired by that, 283 00:10:38,539 --> 00:10:40,541 and that's how Patrice 284 00:10:40,607 --> 00:10:42,509 basically got into doing stand-up. 285 00:10:42,576 --> 00:10:45,479 - Please welcome our favorite Patrice O'Neal! 286 00:10:45,546 --> 00:10:48,182 - So ultimately, I always love him 287 00:10:48,248 --> 00:10:51,118 because he finally got me to stop procrastinating-- 288 00:10:51,185 --> 00:10:52,853 - Right, right. - And actually do something. 289 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,856 - People told me, like, years later, you know. 290 00:10:55,923 --> 00:10:57,591 He's like, "You know, Patrice gives you credit for 291 00:10:57,658 --> 00:10:58,625 for getting him started in comedy," 292 00:10:58,692 --> 00:10:59,893 and I'm like, "Really?" 293 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,862 Damn, I could have been using that. [laughs] 294 00:11:03,263 --> 00:11:05,232 ♪ ♪ 295 00:11:05,299 --> 00:11:08,969 - I got into this business 'cause I was a funny person, 296 00:11:09,069 --> 00:11:11,572 and this was the natural, you know, 297 00:11:11,638 --> 00:11:14,875 progression to a funny person can actually make money. 298 00:11:14,942 --> 00:11:17,344 You know, if there was no such thing as comedy, 299 00:11:17,411 --> 00:11:18,712 I'd just be a funny guy 300 00:11:18,779 --> 00:11:20,547 working at the supermarket or whatever. 301 00:11:20,614 --> 00:11:22,983 - Thank you. Thank you. 302 00:11:23,083 --> 00:11:26,553 - When we first met, I just started doing comedy. 303 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:30,490 I started in '92, and I think he started sometime in '93, 304 00:11:30,557 --> 00:11:32,459 and I was at the Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 305 00:11:32,526 --> 00:11:34,161 and he was a door guy there. 306 00:11:34,228 --> 00:11:35,929 I don't remember that he was particularly funny 307 00:11:35,996 --> 00:11:38,265 when I first talked to him. 308 00:11:38,332 --> 00:11:40,100 I just knew that he was, like, interesting. 309 00:11:40,167 --> 00:11:41,602 Like, "Oh, who's this guy?" 310 00:11:41,668 --> 00:11:43,971 - I saw him once as a door guy. 311 00:11:44,104 --> 00:11:46,139 And the next time I saw him, 312 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:48,242 I believe we were at Stitches. 313 00:11:48,308 --> 00:11:50,377 - And this was, like, a place that new comics wanted to go. 314 00:11:50,444 --> 00:11:51,979 We wanted to go and, like, try to get, 315 00:11:52,112 --> 00:11:53,447 you know, 5 or 7 minutes, 316 00:11:53,514 --> 00:11:56,917 and I remember my first, very first impression of him 317 00:11:56,984 --> 00:11:58,719 is he kinda turned to look at me to be like, 318 00:11:58,785 --> 00:12:00,954 "Is this where we can hang?" 319 00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:03,490 And I was like, "Yeah, yeah, step right over here," 320 00:12:03,557 --> 00:12:06,293 and he stepped over, and he was kind of whispering, 321 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,862 and he was like, "Oh, damn, my first night in here. 322 00:12:08,929 --> 00:12:10,697 Oh, how do they do it here?" And, like, 323 00:12:10,764 --> 00:12:13,066 we kind of just immediately were going back and forth. 324 00:12:13,133 --> 00:12:14,434 I said, "Oh, so you're here to perform?" 325 00:12:14,501 --> 00:12:15,736 "I hope so," 326 00:12:15,802 --> 00:12:19,306 and he put his hand out, and it was Bruiser. 327 00:12:19,373 --> 00:12:20,641 - What's up, guys? What's going on? 328 00:12:20,707 --> 00:12:21,808 How you doing, Bill? - What a show. 329 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:22,876 I will tell you. - Yeah. Hey, Patrice. 330 00:12:22,943 --> 00:12:24,244 What's happening? - Fuck you! 331 00:12:24,311 --> 00:12:25,646 - Okay. 332 00:12:25,712 --> 00:12:28,315 I'm going up on stage next, make these people laugh. 333 00:12:28,382 --> 00:12:30,317 I'm gonna bring the camera right up with me. 334 00:12:30,384 --> 00:12:31,451 I'm doing a documentary. 335 00:12:31,518 --> 00:12:33,253 It's called "The Decline of Comedy," 336 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,955 and I'm looking at the beginning. 337 00:12:35,088 --> 00:12:36,123 - And the end. - [laughs] 338 00:12:36,190 --> 00:12:37,758 - It was fun being together. 339 00:12:37,824 --> 00:12:39,993 As soon as you saw Patrice or Billy or Dane 340 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:42,362 or any of those guys, that was the fun part of it 341 00:12:42,429 --> 00:12:43,497 'cause we were in the car 342 00:12:43,564 --> 00:12:45,165 just fucking making each other laugh. 343 00:12:45,232 --> 00:12:47,968 - [laughing] 344 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:50,370 - That laugh, that was my favorite thing, 345 00:12:50,437 --> 00:12:52,439 and so those late nights after, 346 00:12:52,506 --> 00:12:53,740 it was kind of like, 347 00:12:53,807 --> 00:12:55,275 "Let's unwrap what we did in comedy," 348 00:12:55,342 --> 00:12:57,544 but, oh, man, if you could get Patrice on a roll, 349 00:12:57,611 --> 00:13:00,280 you kind of felt like you had two great shows-- 350 00:13:00,347 --> 00:13:02,115 you know what I mean, you had the show, and then, 351 00:13:02,182 --> 00:13:04,818 man, I made Patrice laugh, like, the real Patrice laugh. 352 00:13:04,885 --> 00:13:06,587 That was like a gift. 353 00:13:06,653 --> 00:13:08,922 - We would hang out until, like, 2:00 in the morning. 354 00:13:09,056 --> 00:13:10,324 Then I would drive Patrice home, 355 00:13:10,390 --> 00:13:12,125 and I'd talk to him for another hour in the car. 356 00:13:12,192 --> 00:13:14,795 - I remember when Patrice-- 357 00:13:14,862 --> 00:13:17,064 he would teach me shit. 358 00:13:17,097 --> 00:13:19,766 I mean, he taught me stuff about, 359 00:13:19,833 --> 00:13:21,335 like, Black hookers. 360 00:13:21,401 --> 00:13:24,538 [engine starts] [indistinct chatter] 361 00:13:24,605 --> 00:13:27,307 We were just sitting in my car one night. 362 00:13:27,374 --> 00:13:29,510 This older Black hooker came by. 363 00:13:29,576 --> 00:13:30,844 He's like, "You know, Black hookers don't go 364 00:13:30,911 --> 00:13:32,079 with Black dudes, right?" 365 00:13:32,079 --> 00:13:33,780 I was like, "Shut the fuck up." 366 00:13:33,847 --> 00:13:36,149 He's like, "They don't. They only go with white dudes. 367 00:13:36,216 --> 00:13:37,851 They like white dudes." 368 00:13:37,918 --> 00:13:39,987 I'm like, "You're lying." 369 00:13:40,087 --> 00:13:41,288 He's like, "I'm telling you, man." 370 00:13:41,355 --> 00:13:43,223 He goes, "White dudes don't negotiate. 371 00:13:43,290 --> 00:13:45,092 You just tell them how much it costs, 372 00:13:45,125 --> 00:13:46,527 and they'll fucking pay you. 373 00:13:46,593 --> 00:13:48,095 Black dudes are going to, you know, be like, 374 00:13:48,161 --> 00:13:50,764 'Oh, I'll give you 10.'" 375 00:13:50,831 --> 00:13:53,133 And I was like, "Bullshit." Then he called her over. 376 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,501 He was like, "Yo, come here for a second." 377 00:13:54,568 --> 00:13:55,536 I remember she came over. He was like, 378 00:13:55,602 --> 00:13:56,637 "Yo, you go with Black dudes?" 379 00:13:56,703 --> 00:13:58,338 She's like, "Fuck that." 380 00:13:58,405 --> 00:13:59,740 [laughs] 381 00:13:59,806 --> 00:14:01,775 I was like, "What?" 382 00:14:01,842 --> 00:14:05,279 - I don't mind a little racism. 383 00:14:05,345 --> 00:14:07,047 I don't mind a little bit of it. 384 00:14:07,047 --> 00:14:08,549 That's what makes America, America, man. 385 00:14:08,615 --> 00:14:10,450 I don't mind a little bit. It's just I don't-- 386 00:14:10,517 --> 00:14:13,921 These fanatics, fanatical racists, man, that say, 387 00:14:14,054 --> 00:14:16,590 "Ah, we should have never ended slavery, 388 00:14:16,657 --> 00:14:21,228 should have kept 'em slaves, should have never freed 'em!" 389 00:14:21,295 --> 00:14:22,829 Come on. Okay. I don't care 390 00:14:22,896 --> 00:14:25,432 what your degree in racism is, right. 391 00:14:25,499 --> 00:14:26,700 Think about this. 392 00:14:26,767 --> 00:14:29,903 Racism or slavery in 1994? 393 00:14:29,970 --> 00:14:31,305 What the fuck is that gonna be? 394 00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:33,974 [imitating whip] 395 00:14:34,074 --> 00:14:36,310 "Fax this, nigga." [laughter] 396 00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:38,212 - I remember watching him and just thinking, 397 00:14:38,278 --> 00:14:42,115 "Well, I'm not gonna be the best comedian in Boston. 398 00:14:42,182 --> 00:14:45,085 This guy is the best I've ever seen." 399 00:14:45,118 --> 00:14:48,488 And the joke I remember, I mean, 400 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:51,158 I remember most of the set, but one joke he told, 401 00:14:51,225 --> 00:14:53,727 he opened up by saying, "I hate fat people." 402 00:14:53,794 --> 00:14:55,095 [applause] 403 00:14:55,128 --> 00:14:58,232 - Like, you know, fat strangers, 404 00:14:58,298 --> 00:14:59,867 they speak to me in the middle of street 405 00:14:59,933 --> 00:15:02,169 like we got some sort of, 406 00:15:02,236 --> 00:15:05,272 you know, bond or something. 407 00:15:05,339 --> 00:15:08,442 Like, you know, "Hey," you know, "Hey, I eat too." 408 00:15:08,509 --> 00:15:11,912 I don't know you! [laughter] 409 00:15:13,046 --> 00:15:17,684 - Every fat guy did fat jokes back then, and they would kill, 410 00:15:17,751 --> 00:15:20,220 and you made a great living being the fat guy, 411 00:15:20,287 --> 00:15:21,622 and then he went up there, and he says, 412 00:15:21,688 --> 00:15:24,057 "I hate fat people." 413 00:15:24,124 --> 00:15:26,527 - Get extra happy like, "You know, hey, 414 00:15:26,593 --> 00:15:29,730 big man, represent, man, represent." 415 00:15:29,796 --> 00:15:31,331 Ah, yeah, all right. 416 00:15:31,398 --> 00:15:36,136 Represent what, you know, you know, fat people? 417 00:15:36,203 --> 00:15:38,405 When I become the leader of fat people, 418 00:15:38,472 --> 00:15:41,208 I don't want to lead fat people nowhere. 419 00:15:41,275 --> 00:15:43,210 What are we gonna to do, march? 420 00:15:43,277 --> 00:15:45,679 The 1,000,000-pound march. 421 00:15:45,746 --> 00:15:50,951 We're gonna walk-- [cheers and applause] 422 00:15:51,084 --> 00:15:53,520 You know, like I'm Malcolm XXL 423 00:15:53,587 --> 00:15:56,190 or something like, you know? [laughter] 424 00:15:56,256 --> 00:15:57,758 Hey, thank you very much. 425 00:15:57,824 --> 00:16:00,060 Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. 426 00:16:00,127 --> 00:16:02,029 - I remember seeing him maybe six or nine months 427 00:16:02,029 --> 00:16:04,598 after the Malcolm XXL jokes, 428 00:16:04,665 --> 00:16:06,867 and he was doing something completely different. 429 00:16:06,934 --> 00:16:09,937 He was doing longform, and he was telling stories, 430 00:16:10,037 --> 00:16:13,307 And I remember saying, "He can go onto this new thing, 431 00:16:13,373 --> 00:16:16,610 but he should still do the Malcolm XXL because it kills." 432 00:16:16,677 --> 00:16:20,414 And somebody said, "Gary, he doesn't wanna be 433 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,649 "the guy telling the Malcolm XXL jokes. 434 00:16:22,716 --> 00:16:24,284 He wants to be Pryor," 435 00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:27,454 And I thought, "Oh, then he probably will be." 436 00:16:27,521 --> 00:16:29,122 [laughter] 437 00:16:29,189 --> 00:16:31,525 - People are full of shit, man, really. 438 00:16:31,592 --> 00:16:32,893 Just be honest. That's all I'm asking. 439 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,729 Like, I was on a train, and the train stopped. 440 00:16:35,796 --> 00:16:37,397 It was during, like, rush hour, 441 00:16:37,464 --> 00:16:39,266 and no one knew why the train stopped 442 00:16:39,333 --> 00:16:42,769 till the conductor said, "Folks, uhh-- 443 00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:45,606 "there may be a half-hour delay in service. 444 00:16:45,672 --> 00:16:48,909 A woman just was struck and killed by the train." 445 00:16:48,976 --> 00:16:52,679 Everybody went-- "[gasps] My God." 446 00:16:57,451 --> 00:17:00,621 [laughter] 447 00:17:00,687 --> 00:17:03,624 [applause] 448 00:17:06,226 --> 00:17:09,897 [mouthing] 449 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:11,632 And I'm sitting there-- why don't you just be honest 450 00:17:11,698 --> 00:17:12,866 and do what you wanna do and go, 451 00:17:12,933 --> 00:17:14,101 "Oh, my God, this dead bitch 452 00:17:14,168 --> 00:17:16,470 is holding up my dinner!" 453 00:17:16,537 --> 00:17:19,773 [laughter] 454 00:17:20,607 --> 00:17:23,410 Damn, how long does it take to move a face off the tracks? 455 00:17:23,477 --> 00:17:27,347 A half hour? [laughter] 456 00:17:27,414 --> 00:17:29,416 - I remember one time, he goes, 457 00:17:29,483 --> 00:17:32,085 "You gotta be the fucking truth. 458 00:17:32,152 --> 00:17:34,555 "Be the truth up there, man. Be the truth. 459 00:17:34,621 --> 00:17:36,924 "Stop trying to be what you think that they want you to be 460 00:17:37,057 --> 00:17:39,526 "or what you did last week that-- 461 00:17:39,593 --> 00:17:42,362 "Be the fucking truth. Be the truth right now, 462 00:17:42,429 --> 00:17:44,698 how you feel right now." 463 00:17:44,765 --> 00:17:47,634 And that was his secret sauce. That was the trick. 464 00:17:47,701 --> 00:17:50,470 If he was whimsical, he was whimsical on stage. 465 00:17:50,537 --> 00:17:54,908 If he was feeling frustrated and annoyed, 466 00:17:54,975 --> 00:17:56,677 he'd bring that to the stage. 467 00:17:56,743 --> 00:17:58,445 - Can't remember the exact material, 468 00:17:58,512 --> 00:18:00,581 but I just remember falling over laughing 469 00:18:00,647 --> 00:18:02,783 and thinking he was so provocative 470 00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:04,618 but in a way that made you love him. 471 00:18:04,685 --> 00:18:06,486 - What people talked about, and they talked about him, 472 00:18:06,553 --> 00:18:07,721 it wasn't just that he was good. 473 00:18:07,788 --> 00:18:09,556 It was like, "This guy's different. 474 00:18:09,623 --> 00:18:13,293 This guy is sort of insanely different, and he's good." 475 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:15,128 You know, we always like to break young talent. 476 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:16,830 We've done it with every show, 477 00:18:16,897 --> 00:18:19,233 but this guy, I read about in "The Globe," 478 00:18:19,299 --> 00:18:20,367 and I heard about him from 479 00:18:20,434 --> 00:18:21,735 some of the other comics in town. 480 00:18:21,802 --> 00:18:23,403 Very funny guy. We're happy to have him here, 481 00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:25,806 Mr. Patrice O'Neal, ladies and gentlemen, yes. 482 00:18:25,873 --> 00:18:28,809 [light rock music] 483 00:18:28,876 --> 00:18:32,813 ♪ ♪ 484 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,884 - Hey. Yeah! 485 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:41,388 Fuckin' A. 486 00:18:41,455 --> 00:18:45,125 Whole lot of white people, whole lot. 487 00:18:45,192 --> 00:18:48,595 Plenty. 488 00:18:48,662 --> 00:18:51,465 Make me feel uncomfortable. That's all right. 489 00:18:51,532 --> 00:18:52,533 You know what's good about having 490 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:53,634 a lot of white people like this? 491 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:55,869 I can see my mother. [laughter] 492 00:18:55,936 --> 00:18:58,772 - [laughs, claps] - Which, by the way, was true. 493 00:18:58,839 --> 00:19:01,041 When you looked, she was literally the only Black person 494 00:19:01,108 --> 00:19:03,177 in this sea of 15,000 people. 495 00:19:03,243 --> 00:19:05,112 - They knew I was in the audience 496 00:19:05,179 --> 00:19:09,316 because Boston, you know, is-- [laughs] 497 00:19:09,383 --> 00:19:11,018 Boston is Boston. 498 00:19:11,084 --> 00:19:13,654 - As far as, like, what was the racial dynamic of 499 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,290 Boston stand-up when we came in, it was non-existent. 500 00:19:16,356 --> 00:19:17,691 It was just all white guys 501 00:19:17,758 --> 00:19:20,794 and, like, maybe a half dozen female comics. 502 00:19:20,861 --> 00:19:23,630 - He was doing material that crowds in Boston 503 00:19:23,697 --> 00:19:25,732 weren't really accustomed to seeing. 504 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:31,071 - Part of his charm was this big looming presence 505 00:19:31,138 --> 00:19:33,841 and as a Black man, big Black man just coming on stage 506 00:19:33,907 --> 00:19:37,077 and immediately talking about race. 507 00:19:37,144 --> 00:19:39,780 - When I was growing up, I had a racist camp counselor. 508 00:19:39,847 --> 00:19:42,549 [laughter] 509 00:19:42,616 --> 00:19:45,285 [exhales] 510 00:19:45,352 --> 00:19:47,254 He was cool. I thought he was racist-- 511 00:19:47,321 --> 00:19:50,791 I was, like, one of those city kids that's sent to a camp. 512 00:19:50,858 --> 00:19:52,459 You know, it was all suburban kids and stuff 513 00:19:52,526 --> 00:19:54,661 and get that different exposure or whatever. 514 00:19:54,728 --> 00:19:55,963 It was cool. 515 00:19:56,063 --> 00:20:00,334 The problem was at night, I couldn't sleep because 516 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,469 he was singing lullabies to the kids 517 00:20:02,536 --> 00:20:05,572 and crickets-- [imitates crickets] 518 00:20:05,639 --> 00:20:09,943 and leaves blowing in the wind, and one night, I just said-- 519 00:20:10,010 --> 00:20:12,045 I wasn't-- I just said, "Excuse me, sir. 520 00:20:12,112 --> 00:20:13,547 "Sir, I can't sleep. 521 00:20:13,614 --> 00:20:16,283 "Please, help me. I can't get any rest, man. 522 00:20:16,350 --> 00:20:18,619 "These sounds, these--I can't-- 523 00:20:18,685 --> 00:20:20,254 "Please, please help me get some rest. 524 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,189 "Can you do something? These sounds-- 525 00:20:22,256 --> 00:20:23,757 I can't sleep. Please," 526 00:20:23,824 --> 00:20:25,959 And he said, "Sure, little fella. 527 00:20:26,026 --> 00:20:28,095 "No problem 'cause we're all family here. 528 00:20:28,161 --> 00:20:29,363 [imitating police siren] 529 00:20:29,429 --> 00:20:33,166 [Indistinct] 530 00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:34,835 Freeze! Get against the wall! 531 00:20:34,902 --> 00:20:36,937 Get on the fuckin' wall! 532 00:20:37,004 --> 00:20:39,940 [laughter] 533 00:20:43,377 --> 00:20:46,380 You sleepy yet, son?" 534 00:20:46,446 --> 00:20:49,383 - Where Bruiser gets most of his racial animus 535 00:20:49,449 --> 00:20:50,817 is because of what happened 536 00:20:50,884 --> 00:20:52,986 with that whole Charles Stuart thing. 537 00:20:53,053 --> 00:20:55,389 - Police, Boston, record emergency, 510. 538 00:20:55,455 --> 00:20:57,391 - My wife has been shot. I've been shot. 539 00:20:57,457 --> 00:21:00,794 - Charles Stuart told the dispatcher from his car phone 540 00:21:00,861 --> 00:21:04,264 that he and his pregnant wife Carol had just been abducted, 541 00:21:04,331 --> 00:21:05,832 robbed, and shot. 542 00:21:05,899 --> 00:21:08,202 He said they were shot by a Black man. 543 00:21:08,268 --> 00:21:11,905 - This man killed his wife, his pregnant wife, 544 00:21:11,972 --> 00:21:16,376 and he was able to say a Black man did it, 545 00:21:16,443 --> 00:21:18,912 and the police department in Boston 546 00:21:18,979 --> 00:21:24,718 tore up the communities looking for this phantom. 547 00:21:24,785 --> 00:21:26,086 - The night it went down, 548 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,688 we were coming from Northeastern gym, 549 00:21:27,754 --> 00:21:29,623 so as we were walking home, 550 00:21:29,690 --> 00:21:31,959 that whole thing had just popped off, I guess, 551 00:21:32,092 --> 00:21:34,728 and the police were in their lockdown state, 552 00:21:34,795 --> 00:21:36,129 and we got jammed up behind that. 553 00:21:36,196 --> 00:21:39,099 [siren chirps, radio chatter] 554 00:21:40,734 --> 00:21:44,538 Bruiser and I both were held at gunpoint. 555 00:21:44,605 --> 00:21:49,142 - The police were actually pulling down their jeans 556 00:21:49,209 --> 00:21:52,212 and checking them in the middle of the street. 557 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:53,580 - The way we were treated 558 00:21:53,647 --> 00:21:55,949 and the way we were handled in that moment, 559 00:21:56,016 --> 00:21:58,852 I think, had a visceral effect on him. 560 00:21:58,919 --> 00:22:02,723 - White women make me nervous. I'm horrified at white women. 561 00:22:02,789 --> 00:22:04,591 Not now, 'cause there's witnesses, 562 00:22:04,658 --> 00:22:07,194 but I'm talking about-- [laughter] 563 00:22:07,261 --> 00:22:10,130 I'm talking about at night, you know what I mean? 564 00:22:10,197 --> 00:22:11,331 You walk somewhere, 565 00:22:11,398 --> 00:22:12,766 and a white woman is coming towards me, 566 00:22:12,833 --> 00:22:14,368 and she's looking at me, and she's maybe a little like, 567 00:22:14,434 --> 00:22:16,103 "Oh, my God, Jesus, he's a big guy. 568 00:22:16,170 --> 00:22:17,571 I'm scared," 569 00:22:17,638 --> 00:22:19,840 and I'm kind of in the same mode in my mind like, 570 00:22:19,907 --> 00:22:21,074 "Oh, Jesus Christ, 571 00:22:21,108 --> 00:22:24,711 I hope nothing happens to her around me. 572 00:22:24,778 --> 00:22:28,081 If she gets killed, let her get killed away from me. 573 00:22:28,081 --> 00:22:30,417 I don't want to get blamed," like, I'm always prepared, too. 574 00:22:30,484 --> 00:22:31,818 I always have an alibi. 575 00:22:31,885 --> 00:22:35,689 Like, I keep my receipts all day long. 576 00:22:35,756 --> 00:22:37,291 I just have a pocket full of receipts, 577 00:22:37,357 --> 00:22:40,093 just a trail of where I've been just in case a cop is like, 578 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,096 "Where was you at 6:00?" I'm like, "Ohh, uh-- 579 00:22:43,163 --> 00:22:45,766 "I was buying a CD." 580 00:22:45,832 --> 00:22:47,668 And I make sure when I bought that CD, 581 00:22:47,734 --> 00:22:48,836 people in the store remember me. 582 00:22:48,902 --> 00:22:51,471 I'm as loud and obnoxious as possible, 583 00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:54,908 "And I'm buying this goddamn CD!" 584 00:22:54,975 --> 00:22:56,476 - I remember driving home one night, 585 00:22:56,543 --> 00:22:58,111 and he was trying to have me-- like, he was trying to guess 586 00:22:58,111 --> 00:23:00,414 which comics he thinks regularly say the N word. 587 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,083 [laughter] 588 00:23:03,150 --> 00:23:06,320 And he was doing it in this funny way, 589 00:23:06,386 --> 00:23:07,554 and I was just throwing out names 590 00:23:07,621 --> 00:23:09,656 because it kind of became like a game. 591 00:23:09,723 --> 00:23:10,958 He said, "Oh, that motherfucker, you can tell 592 00:23:11,058 --> 00:23:13,627 "by his fuckin' shoes and his tight-ass jeans. 593 00:23:13,694 --> 00:23:15,095 "He probably wakes up, that's part of his yawn 594 00:23:15,162 --> 00:23:16,530 or something like that," and it's just-- 595 00:23:16,597 --> 00:23:18,198 He had me dying laughing, 596 00:23:18,265 --> 00:23:20,467 and it was one of those things where I think 597 00:23:20,534 --> 00:23:23,403 I was really young where I was just kind of, 598 00:23:23,470 --> 00:23:24,905 like, going, "Oh, wow, this is cool. 599 00:23:24,972 --> 00:23:28,976 This sounds like, you know, those Richard Pryor albums 600 00:23:29,076 --> 00:23:31,578 that I heard when I was growing up." 601 00:23:31,645 --> 00:23:37,551 You know, I didn't understand, like the-- 602 00:23:37,618 --> 00:23:39,453 like, the pain that was causing him. 603 00:23:56,537 --> 00:23:58,839 - The first time we all drove down, me, 604 00:23:58,906 --> 00:24:02,142 Dane, Billy, Patrice, 605 00:24:02,209 --> 00:24:04,945 we all came down together in this one truck, 606 00:24:05,045 --> 00:24:08,415 I think Dane's girlfriend's fucking big SUV 607 00:24:08,482 --> 00:24:11,585 or whatever the fuck it was. 608 00:24:11,652 --> 00:24:12,753 I remember we all went down, 609 00:24:12,819 --> 00:24:15,255 and we all just went to the Cellar. 610 00:24:15,322 --> 00:24:18,458 Just kinda stood there and-- 611 00:24:18,525 --> 00:24:19,760 Okay, then we all went up 612 00:24:19,826 --> 00:24:21,795 to the Strip and just stood there. 613 00:24:21,862 --> 00:24:23,797 None of us were in. 614 00:24:23,864 --> 00:24:25,165 Went to the Boston Comedy Club 615 00:24:25,232 --> 00:24:29,069 and kind of just hung out there for a little bit, 616 00:24:29,069 --> 00:24:30,237 and then we went to a peep show. 617 00:24:35,275 --> 00:24:38,078 - He was coming back and forth a lot. 618 00:24:38,111 --> 00:24:40,147 Then I say, "You just move to New York. 619 00:24:40,214 --> 00:24:43,250 If you want to come through, I have room for you," 620 00:24:43,317 --> 00:24:45,786 so he said, "All right," 621 00:24:45,853 --> 00:24:49,823 and then he ended up moving in, in my kitchen. 622 00:24:49,890 --> 00:24:53,327 That was his little thing, pull the curtain up. 623 00:24:53,393 --> 00:24:56,463 It was just bad. [laughs] 624 00:24:56,530 --> 00:24:59,633 - I mean, I started in Boston, but I made my bones, I think, 625 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:01,235 you know, I grew up 626 00:25:01,301 --> 00:25:05,072 in the Boston Comedy Club in New York, probably. 627 00:25:05,138 --> 00:25:07,941 They gave me more time. They gave me more space. 628 00:25:08,041 --> 00:25:13,313 You know, I was able to kinda really work out 629 00:25:13,380 --> 00:25:14,681 what's on your mind 630 00:25:14,748 --> 00:25:19,052 without, you know, endangering your career. 631 00:25:19,086 --> 00:25:21,922 - Boston Comedy Club was real hot at that time. 632 00:25:22,055 --> 00:25:24,057 Everybody there was killing-- 633 00:25:24,057 --> 00:25:27,394 Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell, Jay Mohr. 634 00:25:27,461 --> 00:25:30,063 Louie CK was coming through, 635 00:25:30,097 --> 00:25:32,533 and I see a look in Patrice's eyes 636 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:34,434 'cause I said, "Yo, you wanna go on?" 637 00:25:34,501 --> 00:25:38,805 He said, "Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm not ready." 638 00:25:38,872 --> 00:25:40,174 I think that's the last time 639 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,443 I've ever seen Patrice be humble. [laughs] 640 00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:47,581 - When he came to New York, he wasn't one of these guys 641 00:25:47,648 --> 00:25:50,083 that had that dirty word, potential. 642 00:25:50,150 --> 00:25:53,921 It's a dirty, dirty word. It means you're not there, bro. 643 00:25:53,987 --> 00:25:56,256 If we walked in a room, I remember I was thinking, 644 00:25:56,323 --> 00:25:58,158 "Okay, here he is. 645 00:25:58,225 --> 00:26:00,093 There's only one wolf. It ain't me anymore." 646 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,029 - I remember the first time I watched him 647 00:26:02,095 --> 00:26:06,934 do a set in that club, and it was just, you know, 648 00:26:07,034 --> 00:26:08,402 kind of when you see somebody and you're like, 649 00:26:08,468 --> 00:26:10,871 "Oh, my God, this is amazing. I can't believe 650 00:26:10,938 --> 00:26:13,207 this is somebody I haven't seen before." 651 00:26:13,273 --> 00:26:15,742 He was doing material about being a Black man 652 00:26:15,809 --> 00:26:18,579 and, you know, if a-- 653 00:26:18,645 --> 00:26:22,683 Like, he would never litter. That was it. 654 00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:24,051 - Like, I don't litter. 655 00:26:24,084 --> 00:26:26,553 I don't throw garbage in the street 656 00:26:26,620 --> 00:26:28,388 not 'cause I care about the Earth, 657 00:26:28,455 --> 00:26:30,958 but I'm afraid that I'm gonna be walking through the park 658 00:26:31,058 --> 00:26:32,092 drinking a soda or something, and I'm done, 659 00:26:32,159 --> 00:26:33,393 I just throw it over my shoulder. 660 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:36,163 It'll fly over a bush and roll down a hill 661 00:26:36,230 --> 00:26:37,664 and land on some dead white woman's head 662 00:26:37,731 --> 00:26:39,266 with my fingerprints on the fucking can. 663 00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:41,935 [laughter] 664 00:26:44,571 --> 00:26:46,139 Now I'm the Pepsi-Cola Rapist 665 00:26:46,206 --> 00:26:48,909 'cause I'm fuckin'-- 'cause I'm lazy. 666 00:26:48,976 --> 00:26:50,878 - I've never seen him with a piece of paper. 667 00:26:50,944 --> 00:26:53,247 I never see him wrote a joke down. 668 00:26:53,313 --> 00:26:56,917 I never heard him go, "Yo, do you think this is funny?" 669 00:26:56,984 --> 00:27:00,621 He would do everything in the form of philosophy. 670 00:27:00,687 --> 00:27:05,359 He would just be like, "Yo, Bobby, you see this chick? 671 00:27:05,425 --> 00:27:08,295 She was, you know, fuckin' a dog." 672 00:27:08,362 --> 00:27:11,064 I'd be like, "What?" He would be like, "Yeah!" 673 00:27:11,131 --> 00:27:13,333 And all of a sudden, he'd be talking about it like, 674 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,370 "Yeah, but if you came in-- 675 00:27:16,436 --> 00:27:17,638 "I know, but one second. 676 00:27:17,704 --> 00:27:19,573 "If you came in-- just hear me out. 677 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,043 "If you came in 678 00:27:23,076 --> 00:27:25,846 "and for one second you got a little heartbeat 679 00:27:25,913 --> 00:27:28,949 in your dick, does that make you fuck--" 680 00:27:29,049 --> 00:27:31,318 Then he'd go on stage that night 681 00:27:31,385 --> 00:27:33,420 and bring all these conversations 682 00:27:33,487 --> 00:27:35,222 he had about this subject. 683 00:27:35,289 --> 00:27:37,724 Whatever the fuck it was, he would bring it up on stage 684 00:27:37,791 --> 00:27:39,059 and kinda do that on stage. 685 00:27:39,059 --> 00:27:41,094 You can kind of hear that in his comedy. 686 00:27:41,161 --> 00:27:45,098 - I'm a dictator, a commentator. 687 00:27:45,165 --> 00:27:46,667 I'm so absorbed when I'm up there. 688 00:27:46,733 --> 00:27:48,268 I don't have--it's really-- 689 00:27:48,335 --> 00:27:51,705 it's like, you are doing what I want you to do. 690 00:27:51,772 --> 00:27:53,907 Like, even when people come in the audience and they get mad, 691 00:27:53,974 --> 00:27:55,442 I'm like, "Do you want me to-- what you want me do? 692 00:27:55,509 --> 00:27:58,679 "Did you want me to, like, send you an e-mail early 693 00:27:58,745 --> 00:28:02,082 to let you know what I wanna talk about?" 694 00:28:02,149 --> 00:28:03,750 I always see how fast I can piss off a crowd 695 00:28:03,817 --> 00:28:05,419 and see if I can bring them back. 696 00:28:05,485 --> 00:28:07,521 It may not happen because there's not a lot of y'all, 697 00:28:07,588 --> 00:28:09,356 and it's not good. 698 00:28:09,423 --> 00:28:11,024 - Yeah, you know, well, 699 00:28:11,091 --> 00:28:12,693 let's just continue to talk to you then. 700 00:28:12,759 --> 00:28:14,294 [laughter] 701 00:28:14,361 --> 00:28:16,096 - I'm not a big fan of making people laugh 702 00:28:16,163 --> 00:28:17,564 every five fuckin' seconds. 703 00:28:17,631 --> 00:28:18,866 Like, I'm not even-- 704 00:28:18,932 --> 00:28:21,235 I don't even see myself as an entertainer. 705 00:28:21,301 --> 00:28:24,338 Like, I realize I don't really like entertaining people. 706 00:28:24,404 --> 00:28:29,676 Like, I realize I'm not gonna try to do everything I can 707 00:28:29,743 --> 00:28:30,911 so you can have a good time. 708 00:28:31,044 --> 00:28:33,080 Like, I think a juggler is an entertainer 709 00:28:33,146 --> 00:28:34,915 'cause he just does what he does, 710 00:28:35,048 --> 00:28:36,583 you know, a magician, 711 00:28:36,650 --> 00:28:40,921 but, like, I don't think a good comedian entertains anybody. 712 00:28:41,054 --> 00:28:43,724 Look at that serious face over there. 713 00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:45,792 - Not you, this fucking lady with the-- 714 00:28:45,859 --> 00:28:49,263 Oh, what--oh, you got really mad. Go ahead. 715 00:28:49,329 --> 00:28:50,797 Like, you know, 716 00:28:50,864 --> 00:28:51,965 you know, sometimes I like 717 00:28:52,065 --> 00:28:53,300 running people out my show. 718 00:28:53,367 --> 00:28:54,968 Get out. Go. 719 00:28:55,068 --> 00:28:58,939 All right, bitch. Here. [laughter] 720 00:28:59,072 --> 00:29:01,508 She leaves, then you give it to her outside. 721 00:29:01,575 --> 00:29:03,877 [laughter] 722 00:29:04,011 --> 00:29:07,047 [cheers and applause] 723 00:29:08,415 --> 00:29:11,385 I hope you go someplace and have a lot of fun! 724 00:29:11,451 --> 00:29:14,188 - Stand-up is really about dissecting humanness, 725 00:29:14,254 --> 00:29:16,490 you know, the flaws of being human. 726 00:29:16,557 --> 00:29:18,392 And as I watched Patrice, 727 00:29:18,458 --> 00:29:24,164 it was a very honest take on sort of this destructive 728 00:29:24,231 --> 00:29:27,034 human being that's on stage, 729 00:29:27,067 --> 00:29:29,903 and for me, that was interesting to watch. 730 00:29:32,506 --> 00:29:34,041 - I met Patrice at a college gig, 731 00:29:34,107 --> 00:29:36,076 and he was such an asshole. 732 00:29:36,143 --> 00:29:39,146 I don't remember when I started liking Patrice or why. 733 00:29:39,213 --> 00:29:41,582 [laughter] 734 00:29:41,648 --> 00:29:44,117 - When did I first meet Patrice? I don't even know. 735 00:29:44,184 --> 00:29:46,453 All's I know is all of a sudden, we're good friends. 736 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,121 [laughter] 737 00:29:48,188 --> 00:29:50,958 - Patrice, Keith, Nort and myself 738 00:29:51,058 --> 00:29:53,894 would just hang outside Boston Comedy Club 739 00:29:53,961 --> 00:29:58,098 till 3:00 in the morning just trashing each other, 740 00:29:58,165 --> 00:30:00,868 and people would stick their head out the window, 741 00:30:00,934 --> 00:30:02,069 yell, "Shut up!" 742 00:30:02,135 --> 00:30:04,271 You know, people are trying to sleep. 743 00:30:04,338 --> 00:30:08,008 - End of '99, 2000 is when I started going to New York, 744 00:30:08,075 --> 00:30:11,111 and I was introduced to Patrice O'Neal. 745 00:30:11,178 --> 00:30:13,614 Patrice was the name that you needed to know, 746 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:18,886 so I was very kind, and in return, I got, 747 00:30:18,952 --> 00:30:22,456 "Who's this dummy? Ugh." 748 00:30:22,523 --> 00:30:26,927 That's what I remember, "Ugh." [laughs] 749 00:30:26,994 --> 00:30:29,496 - [laughs] Nothin'! You gotta go. 750 00:30:29,563 --> 00:30:30,864 - I have things to do. 751 00:30:30,931 --> 00:30:35,269 - Patrice O'Neal at that time was an asshole. 752 00:30:35,335 --> 00:30:37,504 I'm pretty sure there's some people that are lying 753 00:30:37,571 --> 00:30:38,906 on this documentary 754 00:30:38,972 --> 00:30:41,141 to talk about how sweet he was 755 00:30:41,208 --> 00:30:43,810 'cause in death, you say good things about people. 756 00:30:43,877 --> 00:30:46,847 But in the vein of Patrice O'Neal, 757 00:30:46,914 --> 00:30:48,148 I'll keep it honest. 758 00:30:48,215 --> 00:30:51,251 He was a fucking asshole. 759 00:30:51,318 --> 00:30:54,221 But he was a funny asshole. 760 00:30:54,288 --> 00:30:55,923 He was a likable asshole, 761 00:30:55,989 --> 00:30:59,359 and he had the honest voice. 762 00:30:59,426 --> 00:31:02,729 - My favorite memories besides my kids being born 763 00:31:02,796 --> 00:31:06,099 and my ex-wife leaving me 764 00:31:06,166 --> 00:31:10,604 were hanging out with our crew. 765 00:31:10,671 --> 00:31:12,306 - Just hanging out in the Comedy Cellar. 766 00:31:12,372 --> 00:31:14,842 They used to have a table in the back. 767 00:31:14,908 --> 00:31:17,878 - It was like Patrice, Bobby, 768 00:31:17,945 --> 00:31:22,115 Kev, Colin, Billy, Norton, Keith. 769 00:31:22,182 --> 00:31:27,154 - What was good about being in with that crew 770 00:31:27,221 --> 00:31:30,357 is that we let nobody get away with nothing. 771 00:31:30,424 --> 00:31:32,426 - We used to fuck with each other bad. 772 00:31:32,492 --> 00:31:34,361 Me and Norton and them, we used to have Hack Court, 773 00:31:34,428 --> 00:31:36,096 where we would-- - Oh, is that great! 774 00:31:36,163 --> 00:31:37,431 - Oh, Hack Court, yeah. 775 00:31:37,497 --> 00:31:39,666 - We would put your bit up on trial. 776 00:31:39,733 --> 00:31:41,235 Like, you go-- - Oh, that's so cruel. 777 00:31:41,301 --> 00:31:44,238 - "I think that this bit sucks that you do." 778 00:31:44,304 --> 00:31:46,673 - What was so funny about him being such a dick to people 779 00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:47,941 and breaking their balls 780 00:31:48,008 --> 00:31:49,576 just because no matter what he said, 781 00:31:49,643 --> 00:31:51,445 everybody knew that he was better than them. 782 00:31:51,512 --> 00:31:53,113 [laughs] 783 00:31:53,146 --> 00:31:55,449 - It made us tough. 784 00:31:55,516 --> 00:31:57,751 And it made us more comfortable. 785 00:31:57,818 --> 00:31:59,553 There was nothing that you could say to any of us 786 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:00,621 that would bother us. 787 00:32:00,687 --> 00:32:02,256 ♪ ♪ 788 00:32:02,322 --> 00:32:05,959 I remember one of my spots at the Boston Comedy Club. 789 00:32:06,059 --> 00:32:10,497 I'm excited. I got a spot! 790 00:32:10,564 --> 00:32:14,101 It's, like, four people in the crowd, maybe five. 791 00:32:14,168 --> 00:32:16,937 Nobody's laughing. 792 00:32:17,070 --> 00:32:20,908 Back of the room, I hear, "Ugh." 793 00:32:20,974 --> 00:32:22,609 At this point, I'm sweating. 794 00:32:22,676 --> 00:32:25,179 I'm just nervous. 795 00:32:25,245 --> 00:32:29,383 And then out of nowhere, "Boom!" 796 00:32:29,449 --> 00:32:31,385 - Patrice and I, from the back of the room, 797 00:32:31,451 --> 00:32:36,390 are heaving fuckin' phone books at Kevin Hart. 798 00:32:36,456 --> 00:32:41,528 - And Patrice said, "Call anybody in there 799 00:32:41,595 --> 00:32:45,098 "and ask them if you made the right decision. 800 00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:47,734 This ain't for you, man! Ugh." 801 00:32:47,801 --> 00:32:50,404 Ugh, and they all walked out the door one by one. 802 00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:52,606 "Boo, boo." 803 00:32:52,673 --> 00:32:55,342 [laughter] 804 00:32:55,409 --> 00:32:58,445 - We would sit there, and comics would walk in, 805 00:32:58,512 --> 00:33:01,248 see all of us and look and just make a U-turn and say, 806 00:33:01,315 --> 00:33:03,217 "Fuck it. I'm not going back there," 807 00:33:03,283 --> 00:33:05,185 'cause they knew they were gonna get fucking beaten down. 808 00:33:05,252 --> 00:33:08,422 - I used to do that. - You used to walk away? 809 00:33:08,488 --> 00:33:10,057 - I used to come down, and I would have, like, 810 00:33:10,123 --> 00:33:13,060 I would have five insults ready 811 00:33:13,126 --> 00:33:14,595 for everybody just to get you off me 812 00:33:14,661 --> 00:33:17,431 so I could come down and see what time I was going on. 813 00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:20,901 - Patrice beat down Eddie Ifft so bad 814 00:33:20,968 --> 00:33:22,169 no one else could say anything. 815 00:33:22,236 --> 00:33:23,370 He'd call him Eddie Ugh. 816 00:33:23,437 --> 00:33:26,073 He'd beat him down for 45 minutes. 817 00:33:26,106 --> 00:33:27,374 - One of the funniest lines he ever had, 818 00:33:27,441 --> 00:33:29,076 Eddie was going back and forth, 819 00:33:29,076 --> 00:33:31,211 and Eddie is like, "I do a lot of colleges," 820 00:33:31,278 --> 00:33:33,881 and Patrice said, "Yeah, you do PU 'cause you stink." 821 00:33:33,947 --> 00:33:36,083 [laughter] 822 00:33:36,116 --> 00:33:40,320 - PU. 823 00:33:40,387 --> 00:33:41,522 - You're lying. You did good, man. 824 00:33:41,588 --> 00:33:43,323 - He's, like, speechless right now. 825 00:33:43,390 --> 00:33:45,659 - Fucking zero convention. Come on. Let's go. 826 00:33:45,726 --> 00:33:48,128 - A zero convention. - Why with the phony act? 827 00:33:48,195 --> 00:33:49,830 [laughter] 828 00:33:49,897 --> 00:33:51,331 [overlapping chatter] 829 00:33:51,398 --> 00:33:53,400 - This here is a zero convention! 830 00:33:53,467 --> 00:33:55,669 [laughter] 831 00:33:55,736 --> 00:33:58,906 - There was no elitism in Patrice, 832 00:33:58,972 --> 00:34:00,340 but I think there's just-- 833 00:34:00,407 --> 00:34:03,310 You have to be a certain type of person 834 00:34:03,377 --> 00:34:07,247 wired in a similar way to Patrice to handle him. 835 00:34:07,314 --> 00:34:10,717 - Being funny, you gotta take chances, 836 00:34:10,784 --> 00:34:14,121 and sometime a chance you take may hurt somebody's feelings, 837 00:34:14,188 --> 00:34:16,957 and you go, "Oh, I went too far," 838 00:34:17,057 --> 00:34:18,592 but you want that laugh, too. 839 00:34:18,659 --> 00:34:20,160 - Really? - He had a big heart, 840 00:34:20,227 --> 00:34:21,595 but he didn't show it. 841 00:34:21,662 --> 00:34:23,797 He had armor around it, but if you got to know him 842 00:34:23,864 --> 00:34:26,967 and he liked you, he would do a lot for you. 843 00:34:27,067 --> 00:34:30,604 - He was loud, and he's 6-7, 844 00:34:30,671 --> 00:34:33,574 so that's automatically intimidating. 845 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,710 So when you got into just a discussion with him sometimes, 846 00:34:36,777 --> 00:34:40,581 some people thought this was a serious argument, 847 00:34:40,647 --> 00:34:42,716 But it's not. 848 00:34:42,783 --> 00:34:44,685 - This comedy thing, a lot of it's a mask. 849 00:34:44,751 --> 00:34:46,420 You know, we're all assholes together 850 00:34:46,486 --> 00:34:47,754 and assholes to people. 851 00:34:47,821 --> 00:34:50,457 But deep down, he was a good person. 852 00:34:51,959 --> 00:34:57,598 ♪ ♪ 853 00:34:57,664 --> 00:35:00,567 - I remember one time he was on the phone. 854 00:35:00,634 --> 00:35:04,571 He was in his car. He was driving, and he said, 855 00:35:04,638 --> 00:35:08,609 "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I ate her pussy out. 856 00:35:08,675 --> 00:35:11,545 "That's what I thought. I always eat the pussy out. 857 00:35:11,612 --> 00:35:13,447 "Yeah, well, then if she don't want to suck my dick, 858 00:35:13,514 --> 00:35:15,649 "I don't care. I'm still gonna eat her pussy out. 859 00:35:15,716 --> 00:35:18,051 Right. All right. I'll talk to you later," 860 00:35:18,085 --> 00:35:19,386 And I go, "Yo, who was that?" 861 00:35:19,453 --> 00:35:21,522 He goes, "That was my mom." 862 00:35:23,257 --> 00:35:26,860 - Everything, he talked about everything because he lived 863 00:35:26,927 --> 00:35:29,963 in the truth about who he was. 864 00:35:30,063 --> 00:35:31,398 - I remember the first time I got my asshole licked. 865 00:35:31,465 --> 00:35:35,202 I cried like a--I was like-- 866 00:35:35,269 --> 00:35:39,339 I made a sound like this. I went--[moans] 867 00:35:39,406 --> 00:35:44,077 I was mad at her and loving her at the same time. 868 00:35:44,077 --> 00:35:46,413 - He tells one story 869 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:52,553 about his first pornography book 870 00:35:52,619 --> 00:35:55,489 which happened to be my book, 871 00:35:55,556 --> 00:35:57,824 "Our Bodies, Ourselves," 872 00:35:57,891 --> 00:36:00,561 and he read that book back to back, 873 00:36:00,627 --> 00:36:04,631 and then he would talk about things out of that book. 874 00:36:04,698 --> 00:36:08,468 "Oh, my favorite is this, and my favorite is that," 875 00:36:08,535 --> 00:36:12,906 and it taught him about women. 876 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,741 - I remember when I started poking, first touch a pussy. 877 00:36:14,808 --> 00:36:16,376 Like, I remember I hit the little ball 878 00:36:16,443 --> 00:36:18,045 in the back of the-- I didn't know what it was. 879 00:36:18,045 --> 00:36:19,112 You remember the little-- 880 00:36:19,179 --> 00:36:20,681 remember you first hit the ball? 881 00:36:20,747 --> 00:36:22,049 I thought it was her kidneys. I was like, "What--is that? 882 00:36:22,082 --> 00:36:24,251 "What the fuck is that? Is that your liver? 883 00:36:24,318 --> 00:36:25,752 I just touched a ball in your pussy." 884 00:36:25,819 --> 00:36:29,690 And I'm just poking, getting carpal tunnel syndrome 885 00:36:29,756 --> 00:36:33,427 and shit just-- 886 00:36:33,493 --> 00:36:35,195 That's not my steez no more. Mine's is this. 887 00:36:35,262 --> 00:36:36,430 Mine's is what I guess they call it 888 00:36:36,496 --> 00:36:39,233 the come here, the change. 889 00:36:39,299 --> 00:36:41,702 They call it reach for the change. 890 00:36:41,768 --> 00:36:44,271 [laughter] 891 00:36:44,338 --> 00:36:45,873 Just slide it in, and you just--[imitating] 892 00:36:45,939 --> 00:36:47,975 And you can just hear-- [imitating] 893 00:36:48,075 --> 00:36:50,911 - I remember watching Patrice's set one day 894 00:36:50,978 --> 00:36:52,479 and grabbing my chest, 895 00:36:52,546 --> 00:36:55,148 and that's something you do when you get old. 896 00:36:55,215 --> 00:37:00,354 That's a old woman or old man trait when you're, "Oh, God." 897 00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:03,190 - Man, I love stinkin'-ass bitches, man. 898 00:37:03,257 --> 00:37:04,558 Like, spitters and too-- 899 00:37:04,625 --> 00:37:07,027 Yeah, I like girls that spit, gag--[retches] 900 00:37:07,027 --> 00:37:08,729 [laughter] 901 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:11,098 But my dick ain't that big, so if a girl gag on my dick-- 902 00:37:11,164 --> 00:37:15,502 [retches] I'll be like, "For real?" 903 00:37:15,569 --> 00:37:16,937 - He was funny about sex. 904 00:37:17,037 --> 00:37:20,674 He tried to get my wife into swinging. It's like-- 905 00:37:20,741 --> 00:37:23,911 - You ever been a mistress? Be honest. 906 00:37:24,044 --> 00:37:25,279 You ever been a side girl? 907 00:37:25,345 --> 00:37:27,347 You ever mess with a guy that had a girlfriend? 908 00:37:27,414 --> 00:37:29,249 - No. - Never? You never did? 909 00:37:29,316 --> 00:37:32,286 There's girls out there that sleep with women's men, right, 910 00:37:32,352 --> 00:37:34,254 and they feel bad. 911 00:37:34,321 --> 00:37:36,590 What about them? I want to love her too. 912 00:37:36,657 --> 00:37:38,392 I don't want to just fucking go over to her house 913 00:37:38,458 --> 00:37:39,526 at 2:00 in the morning 914 00:37:39,593 --> 00:37:41,061 and fucking drink her orange juice. 915 00:37:41,094 --> 00:37:45,632 [laughter] 916 00:37:45,699 --> 00:37:47,134 Talk to her for 30 seconds 917 00:37:47,201 --> 00:37:49,303 and get the fuck out there to go home to my real woman. 918 00:37:49,369 --> 00:37:52,206 I wanna bring you there, introduce you to my girl. 919 00:37:52,272 --> 00:37:55,475 Maybe y'all will get along. 920 00:37:55,542 --> 00:37:58,512 - There's no big secret about Patrice. 921 00:37:58,579 --> 00:37:59,880 That's an ongoing question. 922 00:38:00,013 --> 00:38:03,684 Was he different on stage or on TV versus at home? 923 00:38:03,750 --> 00:38:05,519 No. [laughs] 924 00:38:05,586 --> 00:38:10,724 He was that all the time. 925 00:38:10,791 --> 00:38:12,826 - I get mad at my girl 'cause I look at myself naked, 926 00:38:12,893 --> 00:38:15,229 and I go, "I would never fuck me." 927 00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:18,432 [laughter] 928 00:38:19,833 --> 00:38:21,034 Then I start looking at her like, 929 00:38:21,101 --> 00:38:23,470 What's this bitch up to? 930 00:38:23,537 --> 00:38:27,307 She just love me. 931 00:38:27,374 --> 00:38:30,043 I don't deserve her fucking love. 932 00:38:30,043 --> 00:38:33,113 Goddamn. 933 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:36,617 - When we first met, I don't think he liked me very much, 934 00:38:36,683 --> 00:38:39,319 but there was something about him that I liked 935 00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:43,156 because he just had that presence. 936 00:38:43,223 --> 00:38:48,629 You know, he was confident. He was charming, but, yeah, 937 00:38:48,695 --> 00:38:52,666 it was a slow process of us getting to the point 938 00:38:52,733 --> 00:38:57,638 where we were in a relationship. 939 00:38:57,704 --> 00:39:01,008 We didn't have sex for, like, the first year. 940 00:39:03,477 --> 00:39:05,212 - Oh, he didn't have sex for a year? 941 00:39:05,279 --> 00:39:06,346 That's a good question. 942 00:39:06,413 --> 00:39:08,515 I know I wasn't having sex. 943 00:39:08,582 --> 00:39:10,117 He probably was. 944 00:39:10,184 --> 00:39:11,919 - Listen, how long have y'all been together? 945 00:39:12,019 --> 00:39:13,620 - Almost two years. - Almost two years. 946 00:39:13,687 --> 00:39:15,055 You sure? All right. 947 00:39:15,122 --> 00:39:17,157 'Cause my girl has been with me for eight years. 948 00:39:17,224 --> 00:39:19,660 I've been with her for three. 949 00:39:19,726 --> 00:39:22,763 - That was our life, you know. Our life was material. 950 00:39:22,829 --> 00:39:26,700 Our life was on stage. 951 00:39:26,767 --> 00:39:28,268 - Let me ask you a question. Here's a question. 952 00:39:28,335 --> 00:39:30,571 Here's a question. Serious question. 953 00:39:30,637 --> 00:39:35,542 Okay, ladies, if you didn't have a vagina, 954 00:39:35,609 --> 00:39:37,444 like, say there was a terrible train accident, 955 00:39:37,511 --> 00:39:39,513 right, and the doctor was like, 956 00:39:39,580 --> 00:39:43,150 "We have to remove your pussy right away, 957 00:39:43,217 --> 00:39:46,320 or you're gonna die." 958 00:39:46,386 --> 00:39:49,656 How would you keep your man past-- 959 00:39:49,723 --> 00:39:52,526 you get a two-month guilty, 960 00:39:52,593 --> 00:39:54,061 "I can't leave the bitch right away 961 00:39:54,061 --> 00:39:55,462 'cause she just lost her pussy in a train accident"? 962 00:39:55,529 --> 00:39:58,665 [laughter] 963 00:39:59,766 --> 00:40:02,002 Can't just walk right out on her. 964 00:40:05,205 --> 00:40:07,407 How would you keep your man 965 00:40:07,474 --> 00:40:10,077 past that if you didn't have a vagina? 966 00:40:10,143 --> 00:40:12,246 [audience shouting] 967 00:40:12,312 --> 00:40:15,048 Suck his dick, okay, mouth. 968 00:40:15,115 --> 00:40:18,452 [audience shouting] 969 00:40:18,519 --> 00:40:21,021 Asshole, okay, great. 970 00:40:21,088 --> 00:40:22,389 You see what I'm saying? 971 00:40:22,456 --> 00:40:23,690 Now I've been getting pussy beamed 972 00:40:23,757 --> 00:40:24,858 the whole show, right, 973 00:40:24,925 --> 00:40:26,627 but I give women an opportunity to say, 974 00:40:26,693 --> 00:40:28,695 "I'm going to make myself worth," 975 00:40:28,762 --> 00:40:32,199 but you just classified yourself as a series of holes, 976 00:40:32,266 --> 00:40:37,638 but, you know, I'm-- [cheers and applause] 977 00:40:37,704 --> 00:40:39,006 I'm supposed to treat you special, 978 00:40:39,072 --> 00:40:41,074 but you're just a bunch of holes to yourself. 979 00:40:41,141 --> 00:40:43,644 [laughter] 980 00:40:43,710 --> 00:40:45,612 No one said learn how to play Xbox, 981 00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:48,782 learn how to play pool, tell better stories, 982 00:40:48,849 --> 00:40:51,084 get another bitch that got a pussy to come on in. 983 00:40:51,151 --> 00:40:53,320 [laughter] 984 00:40:53,387 --> 00:40:55,222 - When you listened to him, you really felt like 985 00:40:55,289 --> 00:40:56,790 you were taking the red pill. 986 00:40:56,857 --> 00:41:00,494 "Oh, I can see now," you know, "This is how it really is." 987 00:41:00,561 --> 00:41:02,196 Is that the right one, the red pill? 988 00:41:02,262 --> 00:41:03,864 I never know if it's the red or the blue. 989 00:41:05,265 --> 00:41:08,068 [rock music] 990 00:41:08,068 --> 00:41:11,071 ♪ ♪ 991 00:41:11,071 --> 00:41:12,472 - Welcome to "Tough Crowd," folks. 992 00:41:12,539 --> 00:41:13,941 - The vision of "Tough Crowd" 993 00:41:14,074 --> 00:41:15,275 was a combination of the Comedy Cellar table 994 00:41:15,342 --> 00:41:18,612 and the fact that it was the beginning of people 995 00:41:18,679 --> 00:41:20,180 being offended and political correctness. 996 00:41:20,247 --> 00:41:21,915 Yet, I'd walk to the bathroom at the Comedy Cellar, 997 00:41:21,982 --> 00:41:23,116 you have to use the bathroom, 998 00:41:23,183 --> 00:41:24,751 and there would be people on stage 999 00:41:24,818 --> 00:41:27,187 saying all these things that were supposedly offensive 1000 00:41:27,254 --> 00:41:31,124 to a very multinational, multiracial crowd, 1001 00:41:31,191 --> 00:41:32,693 and everyone's laughing, so I was like, 1002 00:41:32,759 --> 00:41:34,928 "Wait, this should be at least shown." 1003 00:41:34,995 --> 00:41:37,297 You know, so that was the vision to me. 1004 00:41:37,364 --> 00:41:38,632 - The hell did you just say? 1005 00:41:38,699 --> 00:41:40,100 I don't even know what you just said. 1006 00:41:40,167 --> 00:41:42,169 [laughter] 1007 00:41:42,236 --> 00:41:43,570 First of all, here's the reason-- 1008 00:41:43,637 --> 00:41:44,905 This is what white people don't understand. 1009 00:41:44,972 --> 00:41:47,341 White people have been stealing stuff for years. 1010 00:41:47,407 --> 00:41:48,976 You took Jesus. 1011 00:41:49,109 --> 00:41:50,711 You took rock and roll, tried to claim it's yours, 1012 00:41:50,777 --> 00:41:53,447 and I'm saying you as the same color, not Irish. 1013 00:41:53,514 --> 00:41:56,116 White people would be slaves if they could just to steal it. 1014 00:41:56,149 --> 00:41:58,185 [laughter] 1015 00:41:58,252 --> 00:42:02,789 - You got a whole thing developed 'cause of a dynamic 1016 00:42:02,856 --> 00:42:05,425 that was started by Patrice O'Neal. 1017 00:42:05,492 --> 00:42:07,427 - "Tough Crowd," he would stand up. 1018 00:42:07,494 --> 00:42:09,129 - Oh! - Shut your mouth, stupid. 1019 00:42:09,196 --> 00:42:11,632 - Oh, my God! That's the [BLEEP]. 1020 00:42:11,698 --> 00:42:14,201 Look! Listen! Shut up! 1021 00:42:14,268 --> 00:42:16,170 You're 14, drinking coffee! 1022 00:42:16,236 --> 00:42:18,572 - I remember the first couple episodes, we were all going, 1023 00:42:18,639 --> 00:42:20,073 "He's hogging the Goddamn camera." 1024 00:42:20,107 --> 00:42:21,808 - John didn't even believe a word he's saying, 1025 00:42:21,875 --> 00:42:23,944 just wrote it, and he was stuck by it. 1026 00:42:24,077 --> 00:42:26,613 Goddammit! - I think he and Colin, too, 1027 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,949 wanted--they wanted an honest discussion, 1028 00:42:29,082 --> 00:42:31,451 but you're gonna be working with comics that don't know, 1029 00:42:31,518 --> 00:42:33,887 that just learned about the Iraq War last night 1030 00:42:33,954 --> 00:42:35,489 while they were doing their homework 1031 00:42:35,556 --> 00:42:36,924 after they got the list of topics. 1032 00:42:36,990 --> 00:42:39,826 - Shut the [BLEEP]-- Shut up, Laurie! 1033 00:42:39,893 --> 00:42:42,663 - He had an instant opinion. 1034 00:42:42,729 --> 00:42:45,499 Great comics have instant opinions. 1035 00:42:45,566 --> 00:42:47,434 Ask 'em something. They'll tell you, 1036 00:42:47,501 --> 00:42:49,536 and it's probably not what you thought it was gonna be. 1037 00:42:49,603 --> 00:42:51,104 - I love Bush. 1038 00:42:51,104 --> 00:42:52,573 - You're not condemning him for that, are you? 1039 00:42:52,639 --> 00:42:54,541 - Look, if we die, everybody else dies. 1040 00:42:54,608 --> 00:42:57,344 That's why I like George W., GW, 'cause if we die... 1041 00:42:57,411 --> 00:42:58,879 - Jesus Christ, shut up! Shut up! 1042 00:42:58,946 --> 00:43:00,247 - Everybody else dies. - He's right. 1043 00:43:00,314 --> 00:43:01,849 If we die, everybody else dies. - Christ! 1044 00:43:01,915 --> 00:43:04,518 - My memories of Patrice on "Tough Crowd" is, like, 1045 00:43:04,585 --> 00:43:05,752 that first of all, 1046 00:43:05,819 --> 00:43:07,154 half the comedians wanted to kill him, 1047 00:43:07,221 --> 00:43:09,256 and they wanted to kill me 'cause I indulged him. 1048 00:43:09,323 --> 00:43:13,360 He was, like, I let him get away with murder on that show. 1049 00:43:13,427 --> 00:43:15,696 - Many of you hate me because some of your favorite comics 1050 00:43:15,762 --> 00:43:17,064 come on the show, 1051 00:43:17,130 --> 00:43:18,866 and they can't get a word in edgewise. 1052 00:43:18,932 --> 00:43:21,068 Trust me. They ain't got nothing to say. 1053 00:43:21,134 --> 00:43:25,239 - But it's because it was so compelling and interesting 1054 00:43:25,305 --> 00:43:28,075 to watch somebody working that I was like, 1055 00:43:28,075 --> 00:43:30,244 "All right. Let him finish. I want to see where this goes." 1056 00:43:30,310 --> 00:43:33,914 - If Black people had one face to call the leader of race, 1057 00:43:33,981 --> 00:43:36,416 like, of slavery, like, 'cause it's too broad. 1058 00:43:36,483 --> 00:43:38,085 We just hate too many of you. 1059 00:43:38,085 --> 00:43:40,354 If y'all, if you just made, like, 1060 00:43:40,420 --> 00:43:43,924 one dude with a funny mustache and a big bike, like, 1061 00:43:43,991 --> 00:43:45,359 "He was the dude that made slavery!" 1062 00:43:45,425 --> 00:43:47,194 We'll be like, "All right. We hate him," 1063 00:43:47,261 --> 00:43:48,462 and then we can move on! 1064 00:43:48,529 --> 00:43:49,696 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1065 00:43:49,763 --> 00:43:50,898 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1066 00:43:50,964 --> 00:43:52,132 - That's very smart. 1067 00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:53,700 - "Tough Crowd" was my thing, man. 1068 00:43:53,767 --> 00:43:55,636 I loved it with all my heart. I haven't done anything 1069 00:43:55,702 --> 00:43:58,305 since that I love as much as I love "Tough Crowd." 1070 00:43:58,372 --> 00:44:00,107 [laughs] 1071 00:44:00,174 --> 00:44:03,110 What is was is, like, for me, I would love 1072 00:44:03,177 --> 00:44:06,313 to tell my point of view no matter what it is 1073 00:44:06,380 --> 00:44:08,949 and just really talk shit and tell my opinion. 1074 00:44:09,049 --> 00:44:11,351 I'm going to strap one of your jokes to myself 1075 00:44:11,418 --> 00:44:13,654 and run through Palestine. 1076 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,857 - He changed the dynamic of the room, 1077 00:44:16,924 --> 00:44:18,792 but I honestly think it has something to do 1078 00:44:18,859 --> 00:44:21,061 with being an original thinker, 1079 00:44:21,128 --> 00:44:23,130 and it's so rare 1080 00:44:23,197 --> 00:44:28,268 that people are really attracted to it. 1081 00:44:28,335 --> 00:44:30,804 - Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Patrice O'Neal. 1082 00:44:30,871 --> 00:44:32,973 [cheers and applause] 1083 00:44:33,073 --> 00:44:35,375 - We'd hustle to, you know, open up any opportunity, 1084 00:44:35,442 --> 00:44:36,677 any door we could, 1085 00:44:36,743 --> 00:44:38,078 and at that time, he walked through, 1086 00:44:38,078 --> 00:44:39,646 and he pretty much walked through any door 1087 00:44:39,713 --> 00:44:41,748 that, you know, presented itself. 1088 00:44:41,815 --> 00:44:43,717 So, acting-- - Seven years, man, 1089 00:44:43,784 --> 00:44:45,519 that shit ain't no joke. 1090 00:44:45,586 --> 00:44:46,887 - Damn - Oh, damn. 1091 00:44:46,954 --> 00:44:48,789 - Little ass teeth, he's got dolphin teeth. 1092 00:44:48,856 --> 00:44:50,157 [laughter] 1093 00:44:50,224 --> 00:44:52,626 - We had him on two animated shows-- 1094 00:44:52,693 --> 00:44:54,094 - [BLEEP] you, bitch. 1095 00:44:54,161 --> 00:44:55,629 - And "Arrested Development." 1096 00:44:55,696 --> 00:44:57,097 - Bananas, where banana is our business. 1097 00:44:57,164 --> 00:44:59,299 May I interest you in a banana this day? 1098 00:44:59,366 --> 00:45:00,901 - T-Bone, what are you doing here? 1099 00:45:01,034 --> 00:45:03,337 - Oh, your dad gave me this job. 1100 00:45:03,403 --> 00:45:06,039 - He had a lot of fans in the business early on, 1101 00:45:06,073 --> 00:45:07,808 people who really wanted to champion him. 1102 00:45:07,875 --> 00:45:10,043 - I'm Patrice O'Neal, and I'm your host of VH1 1103 00:45:10,077 --> 00:45:12,212 and ifilm.com's "Web Junk 20." 1104 00:45:12,279 --> 00:45:14,047 - And in "The Office," that was the case. 1105 00:45:14,047 --> 00:45:16,083 - Damnit, Michael. Pay attention, man. 1106 00:45:16,149 --> 00:45:17,918 - But from my understanding of it 1107 00:45:18,051 --> 00:45:20,053 was that he was just exhausting on set. 1108 00:45:20,087 --> 00:45:21,655 You know, that was it. 1109 00:45:21,722 --> 00:45:24,725 He'd just give everybody shit. 1110 00:45:24,791 --> 00:45:30,764 - His thing was he didn't like lesser... 1111 00:45:30,831 --> 00:45:34,101 talent telling him what to do. 1112 00:45:34,168 --> 00:45:36,336 You know what I mean? [laughs] 1113 00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:38,205 We were sitting in between takes one time, 1114 00:45:38,272 --> 00:45:40,474 and he just expressed to me that just certain people 1115 00:45:40,541 --> 00:45:43,310 he just didn't like, like, telling him, 1116 00:45:43,377 --> 00:45:46,480 "And this is, uh-- 1117 00:45:46,547 --> 00:45:48,182 This is how it's done. Uh--" 1118 00:45:48,248 --> 00:45:50,117 That didn't sit well with him. 1119 00:45:50,184 --> 00:45:52,853 - You know, folks, when friends see other friends messing up, 1120 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,087 you don't talk behind their back. 1121 00:45:54,154 --> 00:45:55,689 You pull an intervention. 1122 00:45:55,756 --> 00:45:57,357 Patrice O'Neal needs my help. 1123 00:45:57,424 --> 00:46:00,027 He goes out to Hollywood recently--this is all true, 1124 00:46:00,093 --> 00:46:02,095 doesn't get the fame and money he deserves. 1125 00:46:02,162 --> 00:46:05,032 Why? He's got what they call an attitude problem. 1126 00:46:05,032 --> 00:46:07,301 Let's take you back to L.A. three weeks ago 1127 00:46:07,367 --> 00:46:09,036 and reenact Patrice on the set of some TV show 1128 00:46:09,102 --> 00:46:10,337 he's doing a guest spot on. 1129 00:46:10,404 --> 00:46:12,039 First, you get there early in the morning. 1130 00:46:12,039 --> 00:46:14,208 First person you meet is the young production assistant, 1131 00:46:14,274 --> 00:46:16,310 an enthusiastic innocent, usually. 1132 00:46:16,376 --> 00:46:17,744 - Are you excited? 1133 00:46:17,811 --> 00:46:20,047 - [giggles] It's six in the morning. 1134 00:46:20,047 --> 00:46:22,850 What are you--I don't-- No, I'm not excited. 1135 00:46:22,916 --> 00:46:25,085 All I'm doing is three lines on this stupid show. 1136 00:46:25,152 --> 00:46:27,187 What are you doing? You're just the call-sheet girl. 1137 00:46:27,254 --> 00:46:29,289 - Well, I just-- - Well, you just what? 1138 00:46:29,356 --> 00:46:30,657 You're meaningless. Your life-- 1139 00:46:30,724 --> 00:46:32,426 You're a phony. Beat it. 1140 00:46:32,492 --> 00:46:34,428 - Oh, my God. 1141 00:46:34,494 --> 00:46:36,864 - What? 1142 00:46:36,930 --> 00:46:39,066 I'm just trying to help her, Colin. 1143 00:46:39,099 --> 00:46:41,101 - [laughs] He really believes he's trying to help her, 1144 00:46:41,168 --> 00:46:42,503 and you people are saying, oh, we made up the dialogue. 1145 00:46:42,569 --> 00:46:43,837 - She was being a phony. 1146 00:46:43,904 --> 00:46:45,339 - That was a nice version of what he said to her. 1147 00:46:45,405 --> 00:46:47,975 - It was six in the morning. - Patrice's flaw was-- 1148 00:46:48,075 --> 00:46:50,310 he didn't want to succumb to what he felt 1149 00:46:50,377 --> 00:46:52,212 was the bullshit of the business. 1150 00:46:52,279 --> 00:46:54,147 - Okay, let's say the show's star showed up. 1151 00:46:54,214 --> 00:46:55,516 - Oh. - Hey, man. How's it goin'? 1152 00:46:55,582 --> 00:46:57,584 - Hey, man. Hey, everything's cool, 1153 00:46:57,651 --> 00:46:59,453 but that script, that sucks, man. 1154 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,589 - Some of those things were the baby steps 1155 00:47:02,656 --> 00:47:04,291 that should've been taken 1156 00:47:04,358 --> 00:47:07,294 to ignite the next levels of his career. 1157 00:47:08,028 --> 00:47:09,129 I just don't think that he ever gave 1158 00:47:09,196 --> 00:47:10,931 that side of it a true chance. 1159 00:47:11,031 --> 00:47:12,633 - He went after everybody. 1160 00:47:12,699 --> 00:47:15,836 He went after people in the business who could hurt him. 1161 00:47:15,903 --> 00:47:18,572 He went after directors and producers. 1162 00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:20,507 You know, I was on the set of "Furry Vengeance" with him, 1163 00:47:20,574 --> 00:47:22,109 and I wanted to choke him. 1164 00:47:22,176 --> 00:47:23,377 You know, it was me and him. 1165 00:47:23,443 --> 00:47:25,445 We're doing this dumb film together. 1166 00:47:25,512 --> 00:47:26,680 Then we're sitting there, and the director 1167 00:47:26,747 --> 00:47:27,748 is telling us something. 1168 00:47:27,814 --> 00:47:29,883 - Real quick, wait. After the jump-- 1169 00:47:29,950 --> 00:47:32,252 - And Patrice is making it known 1170 00:47:32,319 --> 00:47:34,488 that he was disgusted. 1171 00:47:34,555 --> 00:47:37,324 And I'm like, "What the fuck is he doing? 1172 00:47:37,391 --> 00:47:38,859 He's gonna get fired," and I'm saying to him, 1173 00:47:38,926 --> 00:47:40,561 "What are you doing?" 1174 00:47:40,627 --> 00:47:41,695 He didn't give a shit. 1175 00:47:41,762 --> 00:47:42,896 He was letting the director know. 1176 00:47:42,963 --> 00:47:44,097 "Ugh!" 1177 00:47:44,164 --> 00:47:45,566 He just couldn't-- 1178 00:47:45,632 --> 00:47:47,367 Patrice lived his life 1179 00:47:47,434 --> 00:47:49,870 as if he thought a movie of his life 1180 00:47:49,937 --> 00:47:51,705 would be shown to his friends after, 1181 00:47:51,772 --> 00:47:55,075 and he'd get called out if he didn't talk shit 1182 00:47:55,142 --> 00:47:56,076 when he was supposed to. 1183 00:47:56,109 --> 00:47:57,277 ♪ ♪ 1184 00:47:57,344 --> 00:47:59,079 - Hey, my name is Patrice O'Neal, 1185 00:47:59,112 --> 00:48:01,148 and I've been fighting with crackers my whole life, 1186 00:48:01,215 --> 00:48:03,250 and it's gotten me no place. 1187 00:48:03,317 --> 00:48:05,519 I just wish I'd have took some time to understand them 1188 00:48:05,586 --> 00:48:06,720 a little bit more. 1189 00:48:06,787 --> 00:48:09,056 I wonder what my life would've been. 1190 00:48:09,122 --> 00:48:11,291 - Perfect. - Hey, let's get it. 1191 00:48:11,358 --> 00:48:14,027 - He had an opportunity with Comedy Central to do a pilot... 1192 00:48:14,061 --> 00:48:15,562 - Now pay attention. 1193 00:48:15,629 --> 00:48:18,899 - Which turned out to be a disaster. He just-- 1194 00:48:19,032 --> 00:48:20,501 He believed in his idea so much, 1195 00:48:20,567 --> 00:48:23,136 and he just saw it all falling apart. 1196 00:48:23,203 --> 00:48:25,105 - One, two? - I liked one thing. 1197 00:48:25,172 --> 00:48:27,074 - I wrote a few pilots for him, 1198 00:48:27,140 --> 00:48:31,278 and he kinda made me a partner. 1199 00:48:31,345 --> 00:48:33,814 Network execs were so put off by him, and, like, 1200 00:48:33,881 --> 00:48:35,549 sitting in meetings with him that you think 1201 00:48:35,616 --> 00:48:38,118 would be going so well, like, oh, slam dunk, 1202 00:48:38,185 --> 00:48:39,686 we're totally getting this pilot, 1203 00:48:39,753 --> 00:48:42,289 and then he would just... 1204 00:48:42,356 --> 00:48:44,558 be extra him all of the sudden, and we just-- 1205 00:48:44,625 --> 00:48:47,694 Oh, you could just see the deals and see, like, 1206 00:48:47,761 --> 00:48:49,263 the possibilities 1207 00:48:49,329 --> 00:48:51,532 just completely disappear because of it. 1208 00:48:51,598 --> 00:48:53,867 - Sure, do you know what you're gonna say? 1209 00:48:53,934 --> 00:48:54,868 - Nope. 1210 00:48:54,935 --> 00:48:56,670 - As a Black guy 1211 00:48:56,737 --> 00:48:58,605 coming to a business like this, 1212 00:48:58,672 --> 00:49:01,275 when you meet with folks, mostly white, 1213 00:49:01,341 --> 00:49:03,477 that don't know you, you don't know them, 1214 00:49:03,544 --> 00:49:09,016 so how do you come across to someone that's not familiar? 1215 00:49:09,016 --> 00:49:10,684 The frustration is the adjustments 1216 00:49:10,751 --> 00:49:12,719 that you feel as though you gotta make 1217 00:49:12,786 --> 00:49:15,122 and adjustments that you actually got to make, 1218 00:49:15,189 --> 00:49:17,524 it's a mind-fuck, 1219 00:49:17,591 --> 00:49:21,695 And then it's a long journey to yourself again. 1220 00:49:21,762 --> 00:49:24,031 - Come over here. I wanna show you something: The future. 1221 00:49:24,064 --> 00:49:26,900 [organ music] 1222 00:49:27,034 --> 00:49:29,503 - That man had real talent, man. 1223 00:49:29,570 --> 00:49:31,238 - He was my idol coming up, man. 1224 00:49:31,305 --> 00:49:33,240 - Shut up, stupid. - You see, Patrice? 1225 00:49:33,307 --> 00:49:36,043 Your friends can't believe you died. They're very sad. 1226 00:49:36,043 --> 00:49:39,246 You died of poverty because nobody wanted to do a show 1227 00:49:39,313 --> 00:49:42,482 with a 300-pound angry you-know-what. 1228 00:49:42,549 --> 00:49:45,485 - What is it that you're trying to do here? What are you-- 1229 00:49:45,552 --> 00:49:47,521 - That's a good question. - Yeah. 1230 00:49:47,588 --> 00:49:50,557 - I'm not impressed with making it. 1231 00:49:50,624 --> 00:49:52,860 Like, I don't-- But at the same time, Ron, 1232 00:49:52,926 --> 00:49:54,361 I don't wanna be no martyr, either. 1233 00:49:54,428 --> 00:49:56,663 I hate when people--when people--I'd rather some people 1234 00:49:56,730 --> 00:49:59,066 come up to me and be like, "You suck," other than going, 1235 00:49:59,132 --> 00:50:00,634 "You're the best comic I ever seen," 1236 00:50:00,701 --> 00:50:02,836 and then I dig in my pockets, I go, "Really?" 1237 00:50:02,903 --> 00:50:06,406 - Yeah. - That's my struggle is-- 1238 00:50:06,473 --> 00:50:08,141 All right, I'm just gonna do it for the money. 1239 00:50:08,208 --> 00:50:09,877 'Cause my mother--everybody 1240 00:50:09,943 --> 00:50:11,612 wants me to do it for the money. 1241 00:50:11,678 --> 00:50:13,647 See, a lot of things in this game is weird 1242 00:50:13,714 --> 00:50:16,016 is they try to give you golden handcuffs all the time, 1243 00:50:16,083 --> 00:50:20,254 and golden handcuffs is when, like, if you're out of control, 1244 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,524 somebody just gives you something to control you, 1245 00:50:23,590 --> 00:50:26,627 so if you've got nothing, they give you five Gs, 1246 00:50:26,693 --> 00:50:28,161 give you something, make you scared 1247 00:50:28,228 --> 00:50:30,330 of losing five Gs, and then they start-- 1248 00:50:30,397 --> 00:50:32,900 That's how they beat you into being a slave. 1249 00:50:32,966 --> 00:50:34,835 It's like, "Hey, man. We're gonna give you this, 1250 00:50:34,902 --> 00:50:37,604 but you're gonna have to spin in a circle 1251 00:50:37,671 --> 00:50:39,406 and do this on top of your head and spin it." 1252 00:50:39,473 --> 00:50:42,776 Nah, nope, Nah, I ain't gonna do it. 1253 00:50:42,843 --> 00:50:46,980 - Patrice had a very clear idea of the kinds of material 1254 00:50:47,047 --> 00:50:48,882 he wasn't interested in, 1255 00:50:48,949 --> 00:50:50,250 but he was also torn. 1256 00:50:50,317 --> 00:50:54,321 He was torn between wanting to have attention 1257 00:50:54,388 --> 00:50:56,390 and wanting to have success 1258 00:50:56,456 --> 00:51:00,694 and not caring about having attention or having success. 1259 00:51:00,761 --> 00:51:02,129 - You know, it's-- 1260 00:51:02,196 --> 00:51:03,730 I mean, it's difficult to tell the truth, 1261 00:51:03,797 --> 00:51:05,699 but you gotta start telling the truth 'cause it kills you. 1262 00:51:05,766 --> 00:51:10,237 It takes something out of you when you are phony. 1263 00:51:10,304 --> 00:51:11,872 You know, I'd rather die than be phony, really, 1264 00:51:11,939 --> 00:51:14,808 'cause it kills me, and I'm-- there's nothing worse. 1265 00:51:14,875 --> 00:51:17,544 Like, I'm depressed, but I'm not suicidal. 1266 00:51:17,611 --> 00:51:19,346 Do you know how, like, horrible existence 1267 00:51:19,413 --> 00:51:20,948 that is, is being wanting to killing yourself, 1268 00:51:21,081 --> 00:51:22,816 but you just can't, you won't killing yourself? 1269 00:51:22,883 --> 00:51:25,719 Do you understand what that is, so I have to figure out a way 1270 00:51:25,786 --> 00:51:29,289 to make myself happy, and that's not to lie. 1271 00:51:29,356 --> 00:51:32,159 - You know, comedy is an interesting phenomenon in that, 1272 00:51:32,226 --> 00:51:35,095 really, to do the best work in the art form, 1273 00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:38,198 you really have to not give a shit about what anybody thinks. 1274 00:51:38,265 --> 00:51:39,566 But you're in show business, 1275 00:51:39,633 --> 00:51:42,002 and what people think is your bread and butter. 1276 00:51:42,102 --> 00:51:46,206 - So say that again. I'm sorry. - I know my history. 1277 00:51:46,273 --> 00:51:49,109 I know my propensity, 1278 00:51:49,142 --> 00:51:52,012 what I am inclined to do 1279 00:51:52,112 --> 00:51:54,681 or inclined to be, so I'm, like 1280 00:51:54,748 --> 00:51:59,319 if I can't present myself a certain way 1281 00:51:59,386 --> 00:52:04,057 'cause I know my inclinations to be who I am 1282 00:52:04,057 --> 00:52:05,392 would destroy that anyway. 1283 00:52:05,459 --> 00:52:07,394 Like "Web Junk." I used to do "Web Junk." 1284 00:52:07,461 --> 00:52:08,662 You know, I was the "Web Junk" guy. 1285 00:52:08,729 --> 00:52:10,063 Hey, everybody. You know. 1286 00:52:10,063 --> 00:52:11,665 I probably could've been a celebrity 1287 00:52:11,732 --> 00:52:14,334 if I just hung in there and stayed doing "Web Junk," 1288 00:52:14,401 --> 00:52:18,472 But then I woulda had 18-year-old girls at my show, 1289 00:52:18,539 --> 00:52:21,775 at my live show, going, 1290 00:52:21,842 --> 00:52:24,244 "This is not funny. 1291 00:52:24,311 --> 00:52:27,147 This is not the 'Web Junk' guy." 1292 00:52:27,214 --> 00:52:30,617 I think this is weird. I don't know." 1293 00:52:30,684 --> 00:52:34,788 He's talking about fucking fingers in girls' butts," 1294 00:52:34,855 --> 00:52:37,958 and it just sounds stupid. I don't want--" 1295 00:52:38,091 --> 00:52:43,830 - His ultimate mission was to be himself and be honest. 1296 00:52:43,897 --> 00:52:45,732 That's the thing that rang out from him. 1297 00:52:45,799 --> 00:52:47,201 That's the thing-- 1298 00:52:47,267 --> 00:52:49,336 That's the force that he couldn't turn off, 1299 00:52:49,403 --> 00:52:50,704 and that directed him, and then that-- 1300 00:52:50,771 --> 00:52:54,007 Sometimes, that path and that force, 1301 00:52:54,107 --> 00:52:57,110 which was stronger than his desire to make it, 1302 00:52:57,144 --> 00:53:00,647 would clash and hinder 1303 00:53:00,714 --> 00:53:04,518 the one to make it in comedy and be in show business. 1304 00:53:04,585 --> 00:53:06,420 - I remember when he got the Showtime thing. 1305 00:53:06,486 --> 00:53:08,088 He was staying at my house. 1306 00:53:08,155 --> 00:53:10,057 He was screaming, got into a big fight 1307 00:53:10,123 --> 00:53:11,592 with the production, the director. 1308 00:53:11,658 --> 00:53:15,495 I remember he cried 'cause he was like, 1309 00:53:15,562 --> 00:53:18,632 he's like, "Why can't I just be me? 1310 00:53:18,699 --> 00:53:21,735 Why do I have to fucking fold for these people?" 1311 00:53:21,802 --> 00:53:24,471 - In comedy, he always knew what he fucking wanted. 1312 00:53:24,538 --> 00:53:26,607 He said no to so many people 1313 00:53:26,673 --> 00:53:28,442 'cause he just didn't want to do it. 1314 00:53:28,509 --> 00:53:32,112 I mean, he told fuckin' Puffy no, Spike Lee no. 1315 00:53:32,179 --> 00:53:34,581 He told fucking major players, 1316 00:53:34,648 --> 00:53:35,949 "No, that's not what I"-- - He made mistakes. 1317 00:53:36,083 --> 00:53:38,452 - Yeah, but some of that-- - He made mistakes. 1318 00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:43,190 - Some of that was fear-- fear of failing, and, like, 1319 00:53:43,257 --> 00:53:45,292 when you're actually up to bat, 1320 00:53:45,359 --> 00:53:47,261 and now it's your turn, then you do it, 1321 00:53:47,327 --> 00:53:48,862 and it's right there, and you're saying, 1322 00:53:48,929 --> 00:53:52,566 "Hey, you're the guy," and now you got to perform, 1323 00:53:52,633 --> 00:53:54,835 and I think a lot of it was, like, 1324 00:53:54,902 --> 00:53:57,004 "Am I going to be really good at this?" 1325 00:53:57,104 --> 00:53:59,806 - Yeah. 1326 00:53:59,873 --> 00:54:02,409 - The thing is with that, you know, 1327 00:54:02,476 --> 00:54:08,048 I don't wanna set myself up for a fall from grace, 1328 00:54:08,081 --> 00:54:10,918 meaning that you get caught being who you are, 1329 00:54:11,051 --> 00:54:14,087 like Pee-wee Herman jerking off in public. 1330 00:54:14,154 --> 00:54:15,556 That's what he is, 1331 00:54:15,622 --> 00:54:18,425 but he was being a kids' superstar, and it's like this: 1332 00:54:18,492 --> 00:54:20,327 When I do my shit I want to make sure, like-- 1333 00:54:20,394 --> 00:54:22,829 "Web Junk" would've been my Pee-wee Herman 1334 00:54:22,896 --> 00:54:25,632 'cause I have the propensity to jerk off in public, 1335 00:54:25,699 --> 00:54:27,434 so I gotta find out who the fuck 1336 00:54:27,501 --> 00:54:30,137 is gonna ride with me as who I am. 1337 00:54:30,204 --> 00:54:31,905 - Mm-hmm. 1338 00:54:33,841 --> 00:54:35,075 - Rich Vos is in the studio. 1339 00:54:35,142 --> 00:54:36,410 Vos, what's up, man? 1340 00:54:36,476 --> 00:54:38,512 - He looks like, like, a proud papa-- 1341 00:54:38,579 --> 00:54:40,080 - I'm not a proud poppa. 1342 00:54:40,147 --> 00:54:42,883 - 'Cause he's introducing Patrice to Ant and I 1343 00:54:42,950 --> 00:54:44,318 and our listeners. 1344 00:54:44,384 --> 00:54:46,153 Patrice is a really funny guy. 1345 00:54:46,220 --> 00:54:47,454 Is he funnier than you? 1346 00:54:47,521 --> 00:54:49,690 - Yes. [laughter] 1347 00:54:49,756 --> 00:54:51,158 - "O and A" was a hugely popular 1348 00:54:51,225 --> 00:54:53,627 radio show in the shock-jock genre. 1349 00:54:53,694 --> 00:54:56,196 It was a place for a lot of comics 1350 00:54:56,263 --> 00:54:57,798 to showcase their talents. 1351 00:54:57,865 --> 00:55:00,200 - I like when Vos is plowing 1352 00:55:00,267 --> 00:55:02,202 through the same old crap, and you're-- 1353 00:55:02,269 --> 00:55:04,104 - "The same old crap." - It's awful, isn't it? 1354 00:55:04,171 --> 00:55:05,639 And he won't write. 1355 00:55:05,706 --> 00:55:07,207 Lenny Bruce got more new jokes. 1356 00:55:07,274 --> 00:55:08,675 [laughter] 1357 00:55:08,742 --> 00:55:12,913 - It was just like doing "Tough Crowd," 1358 00:55:13,046 --> 00:55:14,414 hanging at the Cellar. 1359 00:55:14,481 --> 00:55:16,950 It's just us hanging out, and now we're on radio. 1360 00:55:17,050 --> 00:55:20,721 - He fell in love. Norton got dumped by a prostitute. 1361 00:55:20,787 --> 00:55:23,223 - Patrice was the most honest person I ever met in my life. 1362 00:55:23,290 --> 00:55:26,493 He knew where the gray areas were in topics, 1363 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,062 and he explored that all the time. 1364 00:55:29,096 --> 00:55:30,864 Patrice has a very interesting way-- 1365 00:55:30,931 --> 00:55:32,132 - Holy shit. 1366 00:55:32,199 --> 00:55:33,967 - To look at women. - I told my girl 1367 00:55:34,067 --> 00:55:36,069 she's the fourth most important thing in my life. 1368 00:55:36,103 --> 00:55:37,905 - Fourth. - I look at, like, the whole 1369 00:55:37,971 --> 00:55:41,175 kinda radio era and all that stuff was like-- 1370 00:55:41,241 --> 00:55:43,677 It was like a show. 1371 00:55:43,744 --> 00:55:46,113 - And I'ma tell you what the three ahead of her was. 1372 00:55:46,180 --> 00:55:48,749 - I'll guess. - It was me, my career... 1373 00:55:48,815 --> 00:55:50,984 - Family? - My mother, and then her. 1374 00:55:51,084 --> 00:55:52,953 - Jesus. [laughs] 1375 00:55:53,086 --> 00:55:55,189 - Then she goes, "I consider you to be the person 1376 00:55:55,255 --> 00:55:56,890 "I'm gonna grow old with, 1377 00:55:56,957 --> 00:56:00,027 so I kinda put you ahead of, like, my mother or whatever." 1378 00:56:00,027 --> 00:56:03,797 And I go, "Oh, wow, well, thanks, but you're fourth." 1379 00:56:03,864 --> 00:56:06,099 [laughter] 1380 00:56:06,166 --> 00:56:07,467 - And he was great at it. 1381 00:56:07,534 --> 00:56:09,503 I just didn't want to see him become a crony. 1382 00:56:09,570 --> 00:56:11,071 Like, you're the angry Black dude 1383 00:56:11,138 --> 00:56:13,040 who's gonna come in, and you're hugely opinionated, 1384 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,610 and I just knew he was more than that. 1385 00:56:16,677 --> 00:56:17,911 - All right. Let's get back to the phones. 1386 00:56:18,045 --> 00:56:19,880 Let's go to John in Utah. John? 1387 00:56:19,947 --> 00:56:21,782 - Patrice saved my marriage. 1388 00:56:21,849 --> 00:56:24,318 I was the doting husband, and it was all about her, 1389 00:56:24,384 --> 00:56:26,620 so I started going, "Well, what would Patrice do?" 1390 00:56:26,687 --> 00:56:29,356 - What would Patrice do? - It was bad at first, 1391 00:56:29,423 --> 00:56:30,824 but it's turned her around, 1392 00:56:30,891 --> 00:56:33,060 and we're happier than we could possibly-- 1393 00:56:33,060 --> 00:56:34,962 - Did you hear what he said? We're happy. 1394 00:56:35,062 --> 00:56:38,699 A happy man is a happy relationship. 1395 00:56:38,765 --> 00:56:40,300 A happy woman is a miserable man. 1396 00:56:40,367 --> 00:56:42,870 - You've got to do a relationship-advice show 1397 00:56:42,936 --> 00:56:44,438 for this channel. - Oh, my God. 1398 00:56:44,505 --> 00:56:47,407 - A lot of people are calling you the Black Dr. Phil. 1399 00:56:47,474 --> 00:56:49,843 - Black Dr.-- [laughter] 1400 00:56:52,446 --> 00:56:56,149 - What about women that settle with these piece of shit men? 1401 00:56:56,216 --> 00:56:57,951 - Low self-esteem. - Low self-esteem. 1402 00:56:58,085 --> 00:56:59,786 That's where a lot of this anger comes from Patrice 1403 00:56:59,853 --> 00:57:01,088 'cause he has low self-esteem, too, 1404 00:57:01,154 --> 00:57:02,556 and he's covering that with his anger. 1405 00:57:02,623 --> 00:57:03,824 - The thing is, I don't agree with that 1406 00:57:03,891 --> 00:57:05,325 that's low self-esteem for a woman 1407 00:57:05,392 --> 00:57:06,560 to be with a guy who's an asshole. 1408 00:57:06,627 --> 00:57:08,128 - It's settling. 1409 00:57:08,195 --> 00:57:11,665 - That's their innate nature to wanna be with a guy 1410 00:57:11,732 --> 00:57:14,168 that they feel is better than them. 1411 00:57:14,234 --> 00:57:16,270 - I would never, ever date a guy that's like that, ever. 1412 00:57:16,336 --> 00:57:18,372 - That's why you don't have love in your life. 1413 00:57:18,438 --> 00:57:19,640 - Not true. 1414 00:57:19,706 --> 00:57:21,341 - People think I'm a woman-hater. 1415 00:57:21,408 --> 00:57:24,945 I'm not a woman-hater. I'm a woman-helper. 1416 00:57:25,045 --> 00:57:27,614 I like to help women. I like to give them advice, 1417 00:57:27,681 --> 00:57:31,185 and as men, we are so afraid of losing sex 1418 00:57:31,251 --> 00:57:35,856 that men cancel out their-- you have to say, 1419 00:57:35,923 --> 00:57:38,525 "Look, sweetie. This is how it is." 1420 00:57:40,127 --> 00:57:44,464 - It was red--I mean, I didn't listen to it a lot 1421 00:57:44,531 --> 00:57:46,533 'cause it just didn't make sense to me 1422 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,369 'cause I know this idiot, but he was through this-- 1423 00:57:49,436 --> 00:57:53,574 I think he read that book, the "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," 1424 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,209 Iceberg Slim or some shit, 1425 00:57:55,275 --> 00:57:58,212 and he adopted a philosophy and shit. 1426 00:57:58,278 --> 00:58:01,548 - There was a lot of dynamics, like the dynamics 1427 00:58:01,615 --> 00:58:03,217 of happy life, happy wife 1428 00:58:03,283 --> 00:58:09,122 and guys kind of emasculating themselves because of this. 1429 00:58:09,189 --> 00:58:12,192 That was kind of the movement, to emasculate yourself, 1430 00:58:12,259 --> 00:58:16,830 and he was-- he felt like it was unfair. 1431 00:58:16,897 --> 00:58:19,766 - I'm a complete misogynist to my fuckin'-- 1432 00:58:19,833 --> 00:58:21,935 through my gut, I am a misogynist. 1433 00:58:22,035 --> 00:58:24,137 I just believe in that. I just think, men, 1434 00:58:24,204 --> 00:58:26,306 we're just--we're better. 1435 00:58:26,373 --> 00:58:29,510 [laughter] 1436 00:58:34,248 --> 00:58:36,583 And I'm not saying it like no rah-rah shit. 1437 00:58:36,650 --> 00:58:40,254 We're just better. 1438 00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,257 [laughter] 1439 00:58:46,326 --> 00:58:49,863 - The style of what he was doing was not to make you feel 1440 00:58:49,930 --> 00:58:52,633 necessarily better as a person or a human being. 1441 00:58:52,699 --> 00:58:53,934 It was supposed to get out 1442 00:58:54,067 --> 00:58:57,271 all of the ugliness of relationships, 1443 00:58:57,337 --> 00:59:02,042 of the dynamics between female and male and get it out there. 1444 00:59:02,109 --> 00:59:06,146 Not a lot of people have patience for that now. 1445 00:59:06,213 --> 00:59:07,748 - I love making motherfuckers feel uncomfortable 1446 00:59:07,814 --> 00:59:09,783 because we don't need to feel like this, dude. 1447 00:59:09,850 --> 00:59:11,685 We need to make them feel uncomfortable. Be honest. 1448 00:59:11,752 --> 00:59:13,086 That's how the relationship work. 1449 00:59:13,153 --> 00:59:14,655 I fucking make my girl feel-- She hate me. 1450 00:59:14,721 --> 00:59:16,223 You can't even have a relationship 1451 00:59:16,290 --> 00:59:17,824 if your girl don't hate you. 1452 00:59:17,891 --> 00:59:20,827 If your girl don't hate you, your relationship is in danger. 1453 00:59:20,894 --> 00:59:22,729 She has to hate your fuckin' guts. 1454 00:59:22,796 --> 00:59:25,465 She has to hate that she love you so much. 1455 00:59:25,532 --> 00:59:29,903 - It was like he had this one model 1456 00:59:30,037 --> 00:59:32,773 of what men and women together are like, 1457 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,442 and then he just kept beating that same drum. 1458 00:59:35,509 --> 00:59:36,810 It's, like, ugh. 1459 00:59:36,877 --> 00:59:39,079 - I love looking at women when they go--[growls] 1460 00:59:39,146 --> 00:59:43,517 This is how we fucking feel. We don't like you because 1461 00:59:43,584 --> 00:59:48,055 of the way you're not laughing at me is why we don't like you, 1462 00:59:48,055 --> 00:59:49,857 'cause you don't laugh at nothin'. 1463 00:59:49,923 --> 00:59:53,126 Nothing's funny to you, nothin', and you're not funny, 1464 00:59:53,193 --> 00:59:55,829 and then nothing funny is funny. 1465 00:59:55,896 --> 00:59:58,632 - Female fans would come up 1466 00:59:58,699 --> 01:00:00,434 to me after shows and stuff like, 1467 01:00:00,501 --> 01:00:05,939 "What the fuck? How do you deal with this every day?" 1468 01:00:06,006 --> 01:00:08,475 - What the fuck is wrong with y'all? 1469 01:00:08,542 --> 01:00:12,279 And you're always trying to fucking push your girl-ness 1470 01:00:12,346 --> 01:00:14,147 into our world. 1471 01:00:14,214 --> 01:00:16,016 I'm not your friend. 1472 01:00:16,083 --> 01:00:18,685 - And I would be like, "What am I dealing with? 1473 01:00:18,752 --> 01:00:23,056 What is so wrong with what I'm dealing with?" 1474 01:00:23,123 --> 01:00:25,058 I have a man that loves me, that takes care of me, 1475 01:00:25,125 --> 01:00:27,361 that doesn't lie to me, that doesn't cheat on me. 1476 01:00:27,427 --> 01:00:29,029 - Sometimes, you know, I get that pussy feeling 1477 01:00:29,096 --> 01:00:30,497 when I talk shit to me girl. 1478 01:00:30,564 --> 01:00:33,267 I tell her the truth and all that, and she gets sad, 1479 01:00:33,333 --> 01:00:37,104 but I gotta stay on her 'cause she's abusive. 1480 01:00:37,171 --> 01:00:39,406 - I just took it as, this is just how he is. 1481 01:00:39,473 --> 01:00:42,009 This is just how he talks, and I'm from that place 1482 01:00:42,075 --> 01:00:45,646 where that's how men talk, 1483 01:00:45,712 --> 01:00:48,749 not all of them, but a lot of them, so-- 1484 01:00:48,815 --> 01:00:51,752 [laughter] 1485 01:00:53,387 --> 01:00:54,555 - Here's how crazy girls are. 1486 01:00:54,621 --> 01:00:55,923 I got my girl cursing me the fuck out 1487 01:00:55,989 --> 01:00:58,192 'cause she saw some girl's boots in my closet. 1488 01:00:58,258 --> 01:00:59,860 It was some girl I used to date. 1489 01:00:59,927 --> 01:01:02,863 Her boots was in the closet, and it was raining out. 1490 01:01:02,930 --> 01:01:05,165 She had these new shoes on, so I said, "Hey, listen. 1491 01:01:05,232 --> 01:01:07,334 "I had another girlfriend, you wear those boots. 1492 01:01:07,401 --> 01:01:10,070 They're rain boots." She went crazy. 1493 01:01:10,137 --> 01:01:11,839 What the fuck? What're you gon' to do? 1494 01:01:11,905 --> 01:01:13,440 Have--what're you gon'-- What're you gon' do? 1495 01:01:13,507 --> 01:01:15,142 What, she's going to come back and get the boots? 1496 01:01:15,209 --> 01:01:17,144 She was going off on me, and then I was like, 1497 01:01:17,211 --> 01:01:21,114 "Wait a minute. You got a kid that ain't mine." 1498 01:01:21,181 --> 01:01:23,350 [laughter] 1499 01:01:23,417 --> 01:01:25,586 Those boots don't ask you to help with homework. 1500 01:01:25,652 --> 01:01:29,556 Bitch, I don't-- [laughter] 1501 01:01:29,623 --> 01:01:31,158 Those boots don't have nightmares 1502 01:01:31,225 --> 01:01:35,596 and I gotta talk the motherfuckers through shit. 1503 01:01:35,662 --> 01:01:38,765 How dare you? 1504 01:01:38,832 --> 01:01:41,702 - He was the first and only other person 1505 01:01:41,768 --> 01:01:45,138 besides my father that my mom had ever introduced me to. 1506 01:01:45,205 --> 01:01:48,008 - And she's like, "You know, hey, Aymil." 1507 01:01:48,108 --> 01:01:49,476 Her kid's name is Aymil. 1508 01:01:49,543 --> 01:01:53,647 "Aymil, this is Mr. P. Mr. P"-- 1509 01:01:53,714 --> 01:01:55,282 Aymil is like, "Hi, Mr. P." 1510 01:01:55,349 --> 01:01:57,384 I'm like, "Hey." You know, in my head, I'm like, 1511 01:01:57,451 --> 01:02:00,787 "Hey, what's up, other guy fucked your mother?" 1512 01:02:00,854 --> 01:02:03,924 You know? [laughter] 1513 01:02:05,559 --> 01:02:10,197 - Patrice was around for basically the majority 1514 01:02:10,264 --> 01:02:14,268 of my life--adolescence and middle school life. 1515 01:02:14,334 --> 01:02:17,738 He, you know, raised me through all of that. 1516 01:02:17,804 --> 01:02:19,573 - This is how I'm being, and she just keeps, 1517 01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:23,076 "Mr. P, hey! Hey!" [laughter] 1518 01:02:24,778 --> 01:02:27,281 "I'm hungry, Mr. P." Here's some food. 1519 01:02:27,347 --> 01:02:29,983 "That was good. I love you, Mr. P." 1520 01:02:30,083 --> 01:02:32,686 You should. [laughter] 1521 01:02:32,753 --> 01:02:35,088 I'm feeding someone else's kid. You should be fucking 1522 01:02:35,155 --> 01:02:38,158 very happy I'm doing your daddy's work. 1523 01:02:38,225 --> 01:02:41,295 - People may not agree with the way he did things all the time, 1524 01:02:41,361 --> 01:02:43,096 but, you know, Patrice making a joke 1525 01:02:43,130 --> 01:02:45,832 out of everything really did help me 1526 01:02:45,899 --> 01:02:47,935 because he just showed me 1527 01:02:48,001 --> 01:02:51,471 that a lot of things that I overreacted about 1528 01:02:51,538 --> 01:02:54,775 were not really that serious, you know? 1529 01:02:54,842 --> 01:02:58,178 - "I love you, Mr. P." I'm like, uhh. 1530 01:02:58,245 --> 01:03:01,215 [grumbling] 1531 01:03:01,281 --> 01:03:03,884 "You should." 1532 01:03:03,951 --> 01:03:05,853 And she laughs like, "Ha-ha, you're funny," 1533 01:03:05,919 --> 01:03:09,223 and I'm like, "Fucking motherfucker." 1534 01:03:09,289 --> 01:03:11,124 Now I love the kid. I love somebody else's 1535 01:03:11,191 --> 01:03:14,261 fuckin' kid like it's my kid. 1536 01:03:14,328 --> 01:03:19,366 - He wanted to be a good dad, and he figured it out, 1537 01:03:19,433 --> 01:03:24,071 but we didn't feel like we needed 1538 01:03:24,137 --> 01:03:28,976 to have kids of our own to be a family, 1539 01:03:29,076 --> 01:03:33,847 and I remember, I peed on a stick, and 1540 01:03:33,914 --> 01:03:38,385 I was like, "Yeah, we're pregnant," 1541 01:03:38,452 --> 01:03:40,687 [light music] 1542 01:03:40,754 --> 01:03:46,360 And we sat down, and he said, "Listen. You're a woman. 1543 01:03:46,426 --> 01:03:49,997 I'm not going to tell you what to do with your body. 1544 01:03:50,097 --> 01:03:54,101 But I want to be honest and tell you 1545 01:03:54,101 --> 01:03:57,905 I don't feel comfortable 1546 01:03:57,971 --> 01:04:05,045 leaving you here with a baby." 1547 01:04:07,247 --> 01:04:12,119 He was like, "I'm not gonna live a long life, 1548 01:04:12,186 --> 01:04:15,923 and I can't leave you like that." 1549 01:04:16,056 --> 01:04:20,794 So we didn't have the baby. 1550 01:04:20,861 --> 01:04:25,332 A couple weeks go by, and I remember I was cleaning, 1551 01:04:25,399 --> 01:04:28,235 and I picked up a bunch of change, 1552 01:04:28,302 --> 01:04:31,071 and I go to put it in the drawer, 1553 01:04:31,104 --> 01:04:36,143 and I saw the stick, the pregnancy stick, 1554 01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:37,578 and he was laying on the bed, 1555 01:04:37,644 --> 01:04:39,613 you know, watching TV with the remote control. 1556 01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:41,849 And I turned around, I was like, 1557 01:04:41,915 --> 01:04:44,785 "You kept this?" 1558 01:04:44,852 --> 01:04:46,353 And he didn't even look up at me. 1559 01:04:46,420 --> 01:04:48,322 He just kept, you know, flipping channels. 1560 01:04:48,388 --> 01:04:50,557 He was like, "Put that back in the drawer." 1561 01:04:50,624 --> 01:04:55,462 I was like-- 1562 01:04:55,529 --> 01:04:58,232 And we never talked about it again. 1563 01:04:58,298 --> 01:04:59,666 - And that's another thing that's fucking me up, man. 1564 01:04:59,733 --> 01:05:04,404 I'm starting to think about death, 'cause I'm 38, 1565 01:05:04,471 --> 01:05:07,307 and that's young, relatively, but Black years, 1566 01:05:07,374 --> 01:05:11,778 you know, I'm-- [laughter] 1567 01:05:11,845 --> 01:05:14,548 I'm an 186-year-old white man. 1568 01:05:14,615 --> 01:05:18,485 [laughter] 1569 01:05:18,552 --> 01:05:19,953 My fucking girl's love is tremendous. 1570 01:05:20,053 --> 01:05:21,221 I'll tell you a story, and this is why 1571 01:05:21,288 --> 01:05:25,359 I try to try my best to stay alive now. 1572 01:05:25,425 --> 01:05:28,962 When we fuck, we're dirty. Me and my girl are really-- 1573 01:05:29,062 --> 01:05:32,466 Our filth level is on a-- 1574 01:05:32,533 --> 01:05:33,800 We go out there, 1575 01:05:33,867 --> 01:05:35,269 so after a good sex session, 1576 01:05:35,335 --> 01:05:36,970 right after, she goes, 1577 01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:38,906 "I think you better go to the hospital." 1578 01:05:38,972 --> 01:05:40,374 I go, "Why?" She was like, 1579 01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,476 "You know, your pee tastes like birthday cake." 1580 01:05:42,543 --> 01:05:45,312 [laughter] 1581 01:05:47,447 --> 01:05:50,250 That's love, nigga. Like, she didn't go, 1582 01:05:50,317 --> 01:05:53,187 "Ew, you nasty motherfucker, you peed in my mouth." 1583 01:05:53,253 --> 01:05:55,656 She just-- "Ooh, that-- 1584 01:05:55,722 --> 01:05:57,758 It's delicious, and it shouldn't be." 1585 01:05:57,824 --> 01:06:00,827 [laughter] 1586 01:06:00,894 --> 01:06:02,162 - I remember one time 1587 01:06:02,229 --> 01:06:04,665 when we did a gig at the Coconut Grove Improv, 1588 01:06:04,731 --> 01:06:09,403 and we were at the-- a wing place after, 1589 01:06:09,469 --> 01:06:11,538 where I'd go, and I'd get, like, a dozen wings, 1590 01:06:11,605 --> 01:06:14,074 and he'd get, like, two dozen wings 1591 01:06:14,141 --> 01:06:15,943 and then finish and be like, 1592 01:06:16,043 --> 01:06:18,579 "You want to get some more wings?" 1593 01:06:18,645 --> 01:06:20,547 And so, we were sitting there one night, 1594 01:06:20,614 --> 01:06:24,351 and he was like, "Oh, man, diabetes, eh, eh." 1595 01:06:24,418 --> 01:06:26,620 But in classic Patrice fashion, it was, like-- 1596 01:06:26,687 --> 01:06:28,589 It was that, then a joke and a tag, 1597 01:06:28,655 --> 01:06:31,258 and you're like, "Okay, where's--okay." 1598 01:06:31,325 --> 01:06:34,661 - I'm diabetic, and that's that--[exhales] 1599 01:06:34,728 --> 01:06:35,796 That's one of them diseases, like, 1600 01:06:35,863 --> 01:06:37,731 whatever, man, for real. 1601 01:06:37,798 --> 01:06:39,066 It's a fucked-up disease, 1602 01:06:39,132 --> 01:06:40,601 but it's like, you know, if you say, "Hey, man. 1603 01:06:40,667 --> 01:06:44,471 I got pancreatic cancer," everybody goes, "Oh, man." 1604 01:06:47,174 --> 01:06:48,408 You say diabetes, they go, 1605 01:06:48,475 --> 01:06:51,111 "Oh, really, can't eat cookies, fatty?" 1606 01:06:51,178 --> 01:06:55,649 [laughter] 1607 01:06:55,716 --> 01:07:00,254 "Yeah, your sugar is going up, huh?" 1608 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,589 - He would be talking and joking, 1609 01:07:02,656 --> 01:07:06,593 but the struggle with food was a struggle. 1610 01:07:06,660 --> 01:07:08,362 - And addiction is a motherfucker, man. 1611 01:07:08,428 --> 01:07:10,597 You addicted to something-- some people still smoke. 1612 01:07:10,664 --> 01:07:13,033 That's heavy 'cause if you smoke, you still-- 1613 01:07:13,033 --> 01:07:15,169 You know you're gonna get cancer. Like, you know it. 1614 01:07:15,235 --> 01:07:16,603 You can't even talk to yourself, like, 1615 01:07:16,670 --> 01:07:18,405 and convince yourself you won't get cancer. 1616 01:07:18,472 --> 01:07:22,342 You be like, "Shit," you know? 1617 01:07:22,409 --> 01:07:24,478 - Some people have addictions to alcohol, drugs. 1618 01:07:24,545 --> 01:07:29,516 His was food, and he was a great cook, so he loved food. 1619 01:07:29,583 --> 01:07:31,718 - Just angry, man, because they know they're killing themself. 1620 01:07:31,785 --> 01:07:33,287 It's weakness, 1621 01:07:33,353 --> 01:07:34,888 and I'm not saying that to judge anybody who smokes. 1622 01:07:34,955 --> 01:07:36,256 I'm saying I fucking saw 1623 01:07:36,323 --> 01:07:41,862 some white-chocolate-dipped Oreo cookies. 1624 01:07:41,929 --> 01:07:44,264 - But he was definitely trying to figure it out. 1625 01:07:44,331 --> 01:07:46,400 We were vegan for three years. 1626 01:07:48,135 --> 01:07:50,504 - So I started praying for help. 1627 01:07:50,571 --> 01:07:53,340 Like, I prayed to God for help to not eat cookies. 1628 01:07:53,407 --> 01:07:54,842 Like, I was praying to God. 1629 01:07:54,908 --> 01:07:57,578 Like, I didn't pray for a cure for nothing. 1630 01:07:57,644 --> 01:08:00,414 I didn't pray that the Haitian people get food, nothing. 1631 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,283 It was for me to not eat cookies. 1632 01:08:05,686 --> 01:08:09,423 - At one point in his career, he would sit down on stage, 1633 01:08:09,489 --> 01:08:11,225 and people thought he was doing that-- 1634 01:08:11,291 --> 01:08:12,593 He told me that people thought he was doing that 1635 01:08:12,659 --> 01:08:14,328 because that was, like, his style, 1636 01:08:14,394 --> 01:08:16,930 but at that point in time, he said he was depressed, 1637 01:08:17,030 --> 01:08:19,299 so he would just sit down. 1638 01:08:19,366 --> 01:08:22,536 - So I understand motherfuckers that can smoke 1639 01:08:22,603 --> 01:08:25,606 and be sucking in that poison and still do it 1640 01:08:25,672 --> 01:08:27,274 because you just got to tell yourself something. 1641 01:08:27,341 --> 01:08:29,443 Like, if I eat the cookie, I say to myself, 1642 01:08:29,510 --> 01:08:31,678 you know what? I don't need both my feet. 1643 01:08:31,745 --> 01:08:34,681 [laughter] 1644 01:08:37,518 --> 01:08:39,653 I ain't no ballerina. I'll just-- 1645 01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:41,288 Maybe God will take the left foot, 1646 01:08:41,355 --> 01:08:45,058 and I can still drive. 1647 01:08:45,125 --> 01:08:48,295 [laughs] 1648 01:08:48,362 --> 01:08:51,231 It's fucked up, being addicted. 1649 01:08:53,901 --> 01:08:55,335 - If I wasn't a funny person in this business, 1650 01:08:55,402 --> 01:09:00,374 I'd probably kill myself, being that the level of respect 1651 01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:03,310 that I might get as a comic in conjunction 1652 01:09:03,377 --> 01:09:04,845 with where I am in the business. 1653 01:09:04,912 --> 01:09:08,081 Only funny can keep me going. 1654 01:09:08,148 --> 01:09:11,485 I know there's times that if I wasn't a funny motherfucker 1655 01:09:11,552 --> 01:09:16,757 and just laughed at just how awful things were, 1656 01:09:16,823 --> 01:09:19,026 I'd killing myself. I know it. Now I'm not suicidal, 1657 01:09:19,092 --> 01:09:22,162 but you feel where a motherfucker that don't have 1658 01:09:22,229 --> 01:09:29,303 the fortitude of being funny would take themselves out. 1659 01:09:29,369 --> 01:09:31,171 - What have you been wanting to do lately? 1660 01:09:31,238 --> 01:09:32,573 - Me? - Yeah. 1661 01:09:32,639 --> 01:09:34,174 - Nothin'. - Nothing? 1662 01:09:34,241 --> 01:09:36,176 - I haven't been thinking about anything. 1663 01:09:36,243 --> 01:09:38,078 Like, I need a break, like, mentally. 1664 01:09:38,145 --> 01:09:39,112 - Yeah. 1665 01:09:39,179 --> 01:09:40,447 I went to this company, 1666 01:09:40,514 --> 01:09:41,748 and it was, like, the first company 1667 01:09:41,815 --> 01:09:43,717 that just wanted to produce web series, 1668 01:09:43,784 --> 01:09:45,452 and I was like, 1669 01:09:45,519 --> 01:09:48,255 "Patrice, I have carte blanche to, like, sign 1670 01:09:48,322 --> 01:09:49,656 and do whatever I want with people," 1671 01:09:49,723 --> 01:09:51,058 and he said, "I want to do this. 1672 01:09:51,091 --> 01:09:52,059 I want to do that. I want to do that." 1673 01:09:52,092 --> 01:09:53,527 I'm like, "We can do it." 1674 01:09:53,594 --> 01:09:55,062 - Hey, welcome to "The Patrice O'Neal Show," 1675 01:09:55,095 --> 01:09:58,198 brought to you exclusively by the Vudu network. 1676 01:09:58,265 --> 01:10:00,167 A bunch of white guys behind the scenes, 1677 01:10:00,234 --> 01:10:01,768 and I'm sure a Jew or two, 1678 01:10:01,835 --> 01:10:04,404 let me and my friends kind of have their studios 1679 01:10:04,471 --> 01:10:06,306 and produce our own TV show 1680 01:10:06,373 --> 01:10:08,175 and do whatever the fuck we want. 1681 01:10:08,242 --> 01:10:09,309 Not many people get to say that. 1682 01:10:09,376 --> 01:10:10,444 [glass shattering] 1683 01:10:10,511 --> 01:10:13,614 [laughs] You fucking buncha 1684 01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:17,818 trying-to-make-it motherfuckers. [laughs] 1685 01:10:17,885 --> 01:10:22,155 You can just feel the smell of desperation on all ends, 1686 01:10:22,222 --> 01:10:23,390 starting with me. 1687 01:10:23,457 --> 01:10:26,193 Maybe podcasts will do it. [laughter] 1688 01:10:26,260 --> 01:10:27,394 Maybe that'll be my career move. 1689 01:10:27,461 --> 01:10:30,197 It's podcasting, yeah. 1690 01:10:30,264 --> 01:10:31,832 - We didn't know what we were doing. 1691 01:10:31,899 --> 01:10:36,737 He just knew that this was an opportunity to be in control. 1692 01:10:36,803 --> 01:10:40,307 - I have my own weekly web series called patriceoneal.com, 1693 01:10:40,374 --> 01:10:42,276 unga bunga! 1694 01:10:42,342 --> 01:10:43,810 - We never had a bigger goal. 1695 01:10:43,877 --> 01:10:45,412 We were never like, "This is gonna to make us." 1696 01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:46,547 - I am Malcolm X. 1697 01:10:46,613 --> 01:10:49,016 Why? She hate noise! 1698 01:10:49,082 --> 01:10:51,752 - The whole reason we did the web series was just, 1699 01:10:51,818 --> 01:10:53,587 finally, like, he was given the opportunity 1700 01:10:53,654 --> 01:10:57,257 to, like, say and do and create things with the people 1701 01:10:57,324 --> 01:10:59,593 that he wanted to create things with. 1702 01:10:59,660 --> 01:11:01,428 - But I know a lot of stuff about show business, 1703 01:11:01,495 --> 01:11:02,930 it messed with him a lot. 1704 01:11:03,063 --> 01:11:04,231 This was his stuff. 1705 01:11:04,298 --> 01:11:06,533 And he was going to put it on the Internet 1706 01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,068 and see what happened. 1707 01:11:08,135 --> 01:11:11,605 No networks telling him what he can and can't do. 1708 01:11:11,672 --> 01:11:13,941 - He did that for free for nearly a year. 1709 01:11:14,074 --> 01:11:19,213 - [screaming, laughing] 1710 01:11:19,279 --> 01:11:21,949 - I feel like it was almost therapeutic for him, in a way. 1711 01:11:24,718 --> 01:11:27,154 - I think in this business, you've only got about four 1712 01:11:27,221 --> 01:11:30,090 or five times to get on the amusement ride. 1713 01:11:30,090 --> 01:11:33,527 I think I've been on the ride twice, 1714 01:11:33,594 --> 01:11:36,496 and the thing about the roller coaster is-- 1715 01:11:36,563 --> 01:11:38,098 It's interesting, it clicks up. 1716 01:11:38,098 --> 01:11:40,501 The click up is just great. You're like, 1717 01:11:40,567 --> 01:11:42,736 "I feel this click up. I feel it. I feel"-- 1718 01:11:42,803 --> 01:11:44,438 - People are excited. - Yeah, they see me. 1719 01:11:44,505 --> 01:11:46,807 They see I'm clicking up. They see I'm on the come-up. 1720 01:11:46,874 --> 01:11:50,244 They feeling good. It's feeling right. 1721 01:11:50,310 --> 01:11:54,948 Then you go, "Whee." And you hold your hands up, 1722 01:11:55,015 --> 01:11:57,117 and then all the money flies out your pocket, 1723 01:11:57,150 --> 01:12:00,921 and then everything is gone. 1724 01:12:01,054 --> 01:12:03,323 And then you--there's a long line to get back on, 1725 01:12:03,390 --> 01:12:05,225 and then you're in the back of the line going, 1726 01:12:05,292 --> 01:12:08,562 "This fucking ride ain't even that great," 1727 01:12:08,629 --> 01:12:11,598 And you're like, "I don't know-- 1728 01:12:11,665 --> 01:12:12,900 If I get on the ride again, dude, 1729 01:12:12,966 --> 01:12:14,301 I'm probably not going to get back on, 1730 01:12:14,368 --> 01:12:16,470 but I gotta stand in line, it's a long line," 1731 01:12:16,537 --> 01:12:20,541 and I'm, like, just waiting. 1732 01:12:24,077 --> 01:12:27,681 - I first met Patrice, and I remember he told me, 1733 01:12:27,748 --> 01:12:29,349 "It's not gonna be easy 1734 01:12:29,416 --> 01:12:31,151 "because a lot of people don't like me, 1735 01:12:31,218 --> 01:12:33,453 and I know I've pissed a lot of people off in the business." 1736 01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:34,988 He did have a moment of-- 1737 01:12:35,088 --> 01:12:36,823 where he was sort of self-reflective, and he said, 1738 01:12:36,890 --> 01:12:38,992 "You know, I've pissed off a lot of people." 1739 01:12:39,092 --> 01:12:41,595 - I think there was that moment of thawing out 1740 01:12:41,662 --> 01:12:43,330 that made him go, 1741 01:12:43,397 --> 01:12:46,400 "Ugh, I'm not that guy. 1742 01:12:46,466 --> 01:12:48,802 Like, I don't wanna hurt people." 1743 01:12:48,869 --> 01:12:51,872 You know, you look at him with his fucking dog, he was gentle. 1744 01:12:51,939 --> 01:12:55,008 Like, there was a gentleness to him, too. 1745 01:12:55,108 --> 01:12:57,678 - The biggest thing that I was focused on getting him 1746 01:12:57,744 --> 01:12:59,646 was a special because I think 1747 01:12:59,713 --> 01:13:01,682 the hour is the most important thing 1748 01:13:01,748 --> 01:13:04,051 in a stand-up comic's career. 1749 01:13:04,051 --> 01:13:06,687 The one thing I know was he was ready for it. 1750 01:13:06,753 --> 01:13:08,522 - He had all of this material 1751 01:13:08,589 --> 01:13:10,057 that he had been working on for years, 1752 01:13:10,057 --> 01:13:13,694 and he really--he was funny, but it was profound. 1753 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:17,764 It was thought-provoking. It was everything that he is. 1754 01:13:17,831 --> 01:13:21,068 - He was very excited about that. 1755 01:13:21,101 --> 01:13:27,941 This was like a, you know, the crossroads for his career. 1756 01:13:28,075 --> 01:13:29,743 - I got the chance to see "Elephant in the Room" 1757 01:13:29,810 --> 01:13:31,311 being filmed, you know, 1758 01:13:31,378 --> 01:13:33,714 just being part of the family that got to see it. 1759 01:13:33,780 --> 01:13:35,482 He was a little nervous. 1760 01:13:35,549 --> 01:13:36,817 You know, like, you're straight up like, 1761 01:13:36,884 --> 01:13:38,151 "Why are you worrying about us? We're fine. 1762 01:13:38,218 --> 01:13:39,353 "I'll get your mom there. Don't worry about it. 1763 01:13:39,419 --> 01:13:40,754 "You know, the car is coming. 1764 01:13:40,821 --> 01:13:42,389 We'll be dressed. We'll be there, man." 1765 01:13:42,456 --> 01:13:44,491 - He kept saying, "This could set me-- 1766 01:13:44,558 --> 01:13:45,959 "If this doesn't go we'll, 1767 01:13:46,093 --> 01:13:49,463 "this could set me back in comedy 1768 01:13:49,530 --> 01:13:51,765 and my career for, like, seven years." 1769 01:13:51,832 --> 01:13:54,601 He was like, "I don't have seven years left." 1770 01:13:54,668 --> 01:13:58,472 [upbeat music] 1771 01:13:58,539 --> 01:14:00,941 - I don't care who you are. You're generally nervous 1772 01:14:01,041 --> 01:14:02,442 before you're about to do an hour, 1773 01:14:02,509 --> 01:14:06,246 but in the case of Patrice, he was very loose. 1774 01:14:06,313 --> 01:14:07,414 He was having fun. 1775 01:14:07,481 --> 01:14:11,218 [cheers and applause] 1776 01:14:11,285 --> 01:14:13,253 - Thank you. 1777 01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,722 Thank you. Thank you. 1778 01:14:16,723 --> 01:14:19,593 Thank you. [laughs] 1779 01:14:19,660 --> 01:14:21,828 I'm thanking one, in particular, 1780 01:14:21,895 --> 01:14:24,965 pair of titties in the front row. 1781 01:14:25,065 --> 01:14:28,569 Thank you so much. Thank you, audience coordinator, 1782 01:14:28,635 --> 01:14:32,272 for putting those titties up in the front row. 1783 01:14:32,339 --> 01:14:36,143 God bless you. [laughs] 1784 01:14:36,210 --> 01:14:37,544 - He was revealing. 1785 01:14:37,611 --> 01:14:43,283 He was very forthright about who he was, 1786 01:14:43,350 --> 01:14:45,152 and he had a point of view about all of this stuff. 1787 01:14:45,219 --> 01:14:48,822 The race material in there in particular is so smart. 1788 01:14:48,889 --> 01:14:51,091 - Congratulations, my friend. Very good, yo. 1789 01:14:51,124 --> 01:14:53,994 Congratulations to you, my friend. 1790 01:14:54,094 --> 01:14:58,265 Look at that white woman you're with. God damn! 1791 01:14:58,332 --> 01:15:01,268 [laughter] 1792 01:15:09,176 --> 01:15:10,444 - You know how you can tell how pretty a white woman is, 1793 01:15:10,511 --> 01:15:11,812 the value? 1794 01:15:11,879 --> 01:15:14,081 You look at her, and then you wonder how long 1795 01:15:14,147 --> 01:15:16,283 they would look for her if she was missing. 1796 01:15:16,350 --> 01:15:19,286 [laughter] 1797 01:15:23,190 --> 01:15:24,958 I saw you look mad, sweetie. How long-- 1798 01:15:25,058 --> 01:15:26,793 If you was missing, how long do you think they would? 1799 01:15:26,860 --> 01:15:28,228 How long do you think they would? 1800 01:15:28,295 --> 01:15:30,063 Exactly. She don't even-- She went--[exhales] 1801 01:15:30,097 --> 01:15:33,066 [laughter] 1802 01:15:36,069 --> 01:15:37,938 You know the deal. I ain't said nothing wrong. 1803 01:15:38,071 --> 01:15:42,142 A white woman's life is valuable. 1804 01:15:42,209 --> 01:15:46,947 What's his name, Joran van der Sloot, right? 1805 01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:48,949 We found out he was a serial killer. 1806 01:15:49,082 --> 01:15:51,084 Man, he kills women. That's what he do. 1807 01:15:51,084 --> 01:15:53,253 He do it well, you know what I mean? 1808 01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:56,423 We know the girl that he, you know, supposedly had-- 1809 01:15:56,490 --> 01:15:58,258 What's the girl in Aruba? 1810 01:15:58,325 --> 01:16:00,761 Natalee Holloway, right? 1811 01:16:00,827 --> 01:16:02,930 But the one-- He just killed a girl in Peru. 1812 01:16:03,030 --> 01:16:06,133 What's her name? Exactly. 1813 01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:09,403 [laughter] 1814 01:16:10,103 --> 01:16:11,905 - He made everyone feel comfortable, and then 1815 01:16:12,039 --> 01:16:16,743 he got white people to admit that they were racist. 1816 01:16:16,810 --> 01:16:18,478 Like, he didn't even tell them, 1817 01:16:18,545 --> 01:16:20,614 "Oh, you don't know the name of the Peruvian woman." 1818 01:16:20,681 --> 01:16:23,784 He got them to tell him. 1819 01:16:23,851 --> 01:16:25,519 - She's mad as hell. Fuck that white bitch. 1820 01:16:25,586 --> 01:16:31,191 What about--Come on. Come on. Ain't nobody looking for you. 1821 01:16:31,258 --> 01:16:33,627 I might look for you, but the news ain't. 1822 01:16:33,694 --> 01:16:36,296 You-- 1823 01:16:36,363 --> 01:16:39,199 Let's just be honest. 1824 01:16:39,266 --> 01:16:44,738 Look, I'm at an age now where, [sighs] 1825 01:16:44,805 --> 01:16:46,073 Like, a lot of the things that-- 1826 01:16:46,139 --> 01:16:48,075 I look back on the past, right? Okay, I reflect. 1827 01:16:48,141 --> 01:16:50,277 You know, I'm 40, and I'm going to tell you, 1828 01:16:50,344 --> 01:16:51,812 if you're over 40 1829 01:16:51,879 --> 01:16:55,782 and you're trying to better yourself, just stop. 1830 01:16:55,849 --> 01:16:58,819 It's just--you're not going to better yourself, 1831 01:16:58,886 --> 01:17:00,787 and when I say you're not going to better yourself, 1832 01:17:00,854 --> 01:17:03,290 I mean better yourself, like, go back to 1833 01:17:03,357 --> 01:17:07,794 when you tried to capture the things you used to do 1834 01:17:07,861 --> 01:17:09,596 when you supposed to had did it, 1835 01:17:09,663 --> 01:17:11,832 but you didn't do it. You feel me? 1836 01:17:11,899 --> 01:17:15,235 Like, I can't type, but I didn't realize 1837 01:17:15,302 --> 01:17:20,507 how important typing was till right now. 1838 01:17:20,574 --> 01:17:23,544 I fucked up all my good typing years 1839 01:17:23,610 --> 01:17:28,182 calling people gay who was going to typing class. 1840 01:17:28,248 --> 01:17:31,118 It was just like 1841 01:17:31,185 --> 01:17:32,519 me and six other dudes, like, 1842 01:17:32,586 --> 01:17:34,688 "What you doing? Type-- You gonna be a secretary? 1843 01:17:34,755 --> 01:17:37,057 What the--" [laughter] 1844 01:17:37,057 --> 01:17:39,393 [laughs] 1845 01:17:39,459 --> 01:17:43,397 And now I can't type. 1846 01:17:43,463 --> 01:17:45,732 - He had reached that point with that special 1847 01:17:45,799 --> 01:17:48,702 and with the material he was working on and his performances 1848 01:17:48,769 --> 01:17:51,104 where he was just getting better. 1849 01:17:51,171 --> 01:17:54,741 Now he really had all the tools finely honed. 1850 01:17:54,808 --> 01:17:56,243 I thought he was just taking off. 1851 01:17:56,310 --> 01:18:01,048 - Let's discuss harassment for a second. 1852 01:18:03,650 --> 01:18:06,653 Why can't... 1853 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:09,690 I harass you? [laughter] 1854 01:18:13,393 --> 01:18:17,764 Sometimes, sometimes? 1855 01:18:20,100 --> 01:18:23,303 I can never harass you, never? 1856 01:18:23,370 --> 01:18:24,805 - I always say he was like Socrates. 1857 01:18:24,872 --> 01:18:26,673 You know, like, he had that Socratic thing 1858 01:18:26,740 --> 01:18:28,342 where he liked to ask questions 1859 01:18:28,408 --> 01:18:30,611 and then keep asking people different questions 1860 01:18:30,677 --> 01:18:34,181 and then work spontaneously, trying to provoke things, 1861 01:18:34,248 --> 01:18:35,916 trying to start things up, you know. 1862 01:18:36,049 --> 01:18:37,751 - I think you should be able to comment 1863 01:18:37,818 --> 01:18:41,655 on any part of the body that you see. 1864 01:18:41,722 --> 01:18:46,393 If you--I'm serious. 1865 01:18:46,460 --> 01:18:50,097 What's your name? What's your name? Jeanie. 1866 01:18:50,163 --> 01:18:54,168 Now, Jeanie, no disrespect, but if I work with you, 1867 01:18:54,234 --> 01:18:55,636 I should be able to walk in and go, 1868 01:18:55,702 --> 01:18:59,306 "Oh, Jeanie, beautiful titty meat you have there." 1869 01:18:59,373 --> 01:19:02,075 [laughter] 1870 01:19:02,142 --> 01:19:04,545 And-- 1871 01:19:04,611 --> 01:19:07,548 'Cause I see that, and I'm not being foul. 1872 01:19:07,614 --> 01:19:11,385 Just, you know, oh. 1873 01:19:11,451 --> 01:19:13,520 - He really had a lot of fun doing stand-up. 1874 01:19:13,587 --> 01:19:16,523 When I picture him on stage, I always picture him-- 1875 01:19:16,590 --> 01:19:21,028 the laugh he would do after a crowd would either totally 1876 01:19:21,061 --> 01:19:25,132 get what he just said or be like, "What the fuck?" 1877 01:19:25,199 --> 01:19:27,267 which I think a lot of times, he liked that better. 1878 01:19:27,334 --> 01:19:28,702 - Like, I think-- Look, I think 1879 01:19:28,769 --> 01:19:31,038 there should be a holiday, 1880 01:19:31,038 --> 01:19:35,242 for lack of a better word, Harassment Day, but not-- 1881 01:19:35,309 --> 01:19:38,378 That sounds whatever, but I mean, a day-- 1882 01:19:38,445 --> 01:19:45,219 I say the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, 1883 01:19:45,285 --> 01:19:47,521 and it's a beautiful day, flowers and everything. 1884 01:19:47,588 --> 01:19:50,557 You buy her flowers. You're just real cool. 1885 01:19:50,624 --> 01:19:53,827 You walk up. You're respectful. You say, "Hey, how are you?" 1886 01:19:53,894 --> 01:19:57,664 and you go, "Happy Harassment Day." 1887 01:19:57,731 --> 01:19:59,066 And you just--you, like, say, 1888 01:19:59,132 --> 01:20:02,169 "Listen, I was wondering all year 1889 01:20:02,236 --> 01:20:04,538 if you would suck my dick in the broom closet." 1890 01:20:04,605 --> 01:20:08,141 [laughter] 1891 01:20:08,208 --> 01:20:11,245 Hey, I got to go, man. Y'all take care of yourselves. 1892 01:20:11,311 --> 01:20:12,579 Thank you. Thank you very much. 1893 01:20:12,646 --> 01:20:15,549 [cheers and applause] 1894 01:20:16,917 --> 01:20:18,285 Thank you, guys. 1895 01:20:18,352 --> 01:20:19,820 - You know when a comic kills. He killed. 1896 01:20:19,887 --> 01:20:26,126 And he said something that I never expected him to say, 1897 01:20:26,193 --> 01:20:28,562 and we were in the hallway at the backstage, 1898 01:20:28,629 --> 01:20:30,297 at the Skirball. 1899 01:20:30,364 --> 01:20:33,066 He was still there, but he was, like, there was a car 1900 01:20:33,133 --> 01:20:34,568 waiting for him, and there was people, 1901 01:20:34,635 --> 01:20:36,837 and he was going to go, and I remember he was like, 1902 01:20:36,904 --> 01:20:38,839 "Jon, that was a good job, man," 1903 01:20:38,906 --> 01:20:45,579 And I--like, it was sincere. It wasn't--I was like, "Wow." 1904 01:20:45,646 --> 01:20:48,315 - I remember when he called me up, like, 1905 01:20:48,382 --> 01:20:50,617 "Keith, what is the barbershop saying?" 1906 01:20:50,684 --> 01:20:52,386 'Cause I'd always tell him, "If the barbershop 1907 01:20:52,452 --> 01:20:55,289 ain't talking, nobody gives a shit." 1908 01:20:55,355 --> 01:20:59,092 And the barbershop was talking, you know, like. 1909 01:20:59,159 --> 01:21:01,061 He had arrived to where he wanted to be at 1910 01:21:01,128 --> 01:21:03,297 in the "Elephant in the Room." 1911 01:21:03,363 --> 01:21:06,533 He knew that was gonna be the thing. 1912 01:21:09,369 --> 01:21:10,571 - I'm very happy with this special, 1913 01:21:10,637 --> 01:21:12,072 I'm very happy with the... - Well-- 1914 01:21:12,072 --> 01:21:13,340 - Fuckin' people that did it. 1915 01:21:13,407 --> 01:21:15,342 I'm excited, and I'm never like that. 1916 01:21:15,409 --> 01:21:18,478 I don't--I really want this thing to push. 1917 01:21:18,545 --> 01:21:19,713 - Are you willing to play the game 1918 01:21:19,780 --> 01:21:21,081 a little bit with these people? 1919 01:21:21,114 --> 01:21:22,850 - I want to, badly. I'm trying, 1920 01:21:22,916 --> 01:21:29,556 but I think fame might call in about six months to a year. 1921 01:21:29,623 --> 01:21:32,526 [somber music] 1922 01:21:32,593 --> 01:21:39,533 ♪ ♪ 1923 01:21:44,171 --> 01:21:46,340 - He was right there in the chair, 1924 01:21:46,406 --> 01:21:49,209 not saying anything, and, you know, 1925 01:21:49,276 --> 01:21:51,912 but for the first time in the 10 years I knew him, 1926 01:21:51,979 --> 01:21:56,950 I saw a tear come down his face, 1927 01:21:57,017 --> 01:21:59,253 and I just wiped it off, and I was like, 1928 01:21:59,319 --> 01:22:02,823 "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that." 1929 01:22:02,890 --> 01:22:08,061 - I got a phone call from Von, and I took the phone call, 1930 01:22:08,095 --> 01:22:13,500 and when she said he had a stroke, 1931 01:22:13,567 --> 01:22:16,703 I--I was numb. 1932 01:22:18,939 --> 01:22:24,178 - I just remember I wanted to get to him, but I couldn't. 1933 01:22:24,244 --> 01:22:25,546 I remember I just wanted to go to him. 1934 01:22:25,612 --> 01:22:28,515 - I think Jim Norton had called me and said, 1935 01:22:28,582 --> 01:22:30,450 "Look, we gotta meet and go to a hospital." 1936 01:22:30,517 --> 01:22:32,319 I'm like, "What?" 1937 01:22:32,386 --> 01:22:34,188 - It was terrible. You're just seeing him lying there just, 1938 01:22:34,254 --> 01:22:39,493 you know, this guy that was so, you know, so alive. 1939 01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:40,928 - And you're not-- 1940 01:22:40,994 --> 01:22:42,629 'cause you don't know enough, so you're thinking, 1941 01:22:42,696 --> 01:22:44,998 oh, he's gonna get out of this, yeah. 1942 01:22:45,098 --> 01:22:46,533 Okay, he had a stroke, 1943 01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,703 and he'll be fine in a couple days or whatever. 1944 01:22:49,770 --> 01:22:54,007 - I was in his room, and I went over to, 1945 01:22:54,107 --> 01:23:00,814 you know, kind of wake him up because he could open his eyes, 1946 01:23:00,881 --> 01:23:02,416 and he didn't wake up. 1947 01:23:02,482 --> 01:23:09,423 ♪ ♪ 1948 01:23:12,259 --> 01:23:14,161 - His mom was with him, 1949 01:23:14,228 --> 01:23:16,563 and when I walked into the room, 1950 01:23:16,630 --> 01:23:22,769 his body was there, but you knew he wasn't. 1951 01:23:22,836 --> 01:23:29,776 ♪ ♪ 1952 01:23:29,843 --> 01:23:32,412 - It sucked. 1953 01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,682 'Cause no one's gonna understand it. 1954 01:23:35,749 --> 01:23:39,086 'Cause it's mine. It's my thing I had with him. 1955 01:23:39,152 --> 01:23:43,891 You weren't there, driving in my two-seater Nissan 1956 01:23:43,957 --> 01:23:47,194 for hours, and you weren't taking a bus with him 1957 01:23:47,261 --> 01:23:50,230 and leaning on his shoulder and falling asleep 1958 01:23:50,297 --> 01:23:53,200 like he was my fuckin' father, you know, like a-- 1959 01:23:53,267 --> 01:23:59,173 I mean, all these times I had with him, you know, 1960 01:23:59,239 --> 01:24:02,743 and now they're just memories. 1961 01:24:15,923 --> 01:24:19,526 - We were all home, and-- 1962 01:24:19,593 --> 01:24:21,428 and my daughter came out of her room, 1963 01:24:21,495 --> 01:24:25,465 and she was like, "Mommy, I wanna speak at the funeral." 1964 01:24:26,834 --> 01:24:30,904 And she said, "Everybody is gonna be there, 1965 01:24:30,971 --> 01:24:35,509 talking about how funny he is and comedy," and she's like, 1966 01:24:35,576 --> 01:24:38,078 "They don't know what a good dad he is. 1967 01:24:38,078 --> 01:24:42,583 I got to tell them he's a great dad." 1968 01:24:44,151 --> 01:24:47,821 - Mr. P was truly a spectacular, 1969 01:24:47,888 --> 01:24:52,693 special, intelligent and helpful person. 1970 01:24:52,759 --> 01:24:57,764 He's been there for me and my mom every step of the way. 1971 01:24:57,831 --> 01:25:01,134 He truly was a blessing. 1972 01:25:01,201 --> 01:25:04,071 I don't think I would be the person I am today 1973 01:25:04,137 --> 01:25:06,940 without Patrice O'Neal. 1974 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:08,408 - Patrice was my best friend. 1975 01:25:08,475 --> 01:25:12,045 Like, he is a huge part of my confidence, 1976 01:25:12,112 --> 01:25:13,247 like, what I have today. 1977 01:25:13,313 --> 01:25:15,516 Like, I laugh at my big head 1978 01:25:15,582 --> 01:25:17,217 'cause Patrice told me I had a big head. 1979 01:25:17,284 --> 01:25:18,552 Like, that's the only reason 1980 01:25:18,619 --> 01:25:20,387 why I'm confident in my big head 1981 01:25:20,454 --> 01:25:22,589 is because of Patrice O'Neal. 1982 01:25:22,656 --> 01:25:24,725 - Put your glasses on, and don't worry about her. 1983 01:25:24,791 --> 01:25:28,629 - Patrice always told me, "You cannot give a crap 1984 01:25:28,695 --> 01:25:32,533 what anyone says about you. You have to love yourself," 1985 01:25:32,599 --> 01:25:36,236 and he's always gonna be close to me. 1986 01:25:36,303 --> 01:25:40,073 I have his fingerprint right here. 1987 01:25:40,073 --> 01:25:44,144 I still feel like losing Patrice is like a part of me 1988 01:25:44,211 --> 01:25:45,579 that I can never get back. 1989 01:25:47,114 --> 01:25:49,783 [cheers and applause] 1990 01:25:54,688 --> 01:25:58,559 - Oh, man, so how's everybody, good? 1991 01:25:58,625 --> 01:26:02,796 [cheers] 1992 01:26:02,863 --> 01:26:05,399 [laughs] 1993 01:26:05,465 --> 01:26:08,035 You ever feel evil for nothing? Like, you just go, "Wow." 1994 01:26:08,035 --> 01:26:10,671 Like, I even asked how you're doing, but it really-- 1995 01:26:10,737 --> 01:26:13,440 I really didn't-- 1996 01:26:15,943 --> 01:26:17,177 It was a lie. 1997 01:26:17,244 --> 01:26:19,179 Like, that question was a lie, you know? 1998 01:26:19,246 --> 01:26:20,581 It's hard to be honest, man. 1999 01:26:20,647 --> 01:26:22,916 Honesty is not the greatest thing to be. 2000 01:26:23,050 --> 01:26:26,253 It's not--it's just, no one wants to hear, eh-- 2001 01:26:26,320 --> 01:26:27,554 - He said this thing to me one time, 2002 01:26:27,621 --> 01:26:29,156 which I never forgot, 2003 01:26:29,223 --> 01:26:30,858 and then when you guys were talking about doing this, 2004 01:26:30,924 --> 01:26:32,826 I made sure that I wrote it down again. 2005 01:26:32,893 --> 01:26:35,629 He goes, "I ain't up there telling jokes. Fuck jokes. 2006 01:26:35,696 --> 01:26:37,831 "I'm up there explaining how I fuckin' feel, 2007 01:26:37,898 --> 01:26:41,668 and a lot of times, how I feel is fuckin' complicated." 2008 01:26:41,735 --> 01:26:44,505 And I thought that was just, like, 2009 01:26:44,571 --> 01:26:47,908 such a great explanation 2010 01:26:47,975 --> 01:26:52,746 of his approach, you know? 2011 01:26:52,813 --> 01:26:55,182 'Cause he was funny, and there were obviously jokes in there, 2012 01:26:55,249 --> 01:26:56,517 but that's not what he was doing. 2013 01:26:56,583 --> 01:26:58,252 - Like, I mean, I believe in God, 2014 01:26:58,318 --> 01:27:00,721 but, you know, I'm not deep into religion. 2015 01:27:00,787 --> 01:27:05,659 Like, I'm too afraid to not believe in God, you know? 2016 01:27:05,726 --> 01:27:10,531 Like, I'm not an atheist. I'm, like, before that, like-- 2017 01:27:13,867 --> 01:27:16,436 Like, I believe in God when I'm on planes. 2018 01:27:16,503 --> 01:27:18,438 Like, I really believe in God. 2019 01:27:18,505 --> 01:27:21,341 - His style was just like, "I'm gonna say 2020 01:27:21,408 --> 01:27:25,812 what I believe, and it's gonna be obnoxious 2021 01:27:25,879 --> 01:27:29,283 and maybe inappropriate and offensive 2022 01:27:29,349 --> 01:27:31,485 to a lot of people." 2023 01:27:31,552 --> 01:27:33,487 - When I get on planes, I look at some old lady 2024 01:27:33,554 --> 01:27:35,422 struggling with her bags, 2025 01:27:35,489 --> 01:27:37,057 having trouble putting it in overhead, and I'm like, 2026 01:27:37,124 --> 01:27:40,794 "Wait a minute, lady. Let me get that for you, ma'am. 2027 01:27:40,861 --> 01:27:42,563 "Let me put that heavy bag up there for you," 2028 01:27:42,629 --> 01:27:44,831 "'Cause, you know-- 2029 01:27:44,898 --> 01:27:47,334 "Look, God. 2030 01:27:47,401 --> 01:27:48,602 "Look what a great a guy I am, 2031 01:27:48,669 --> 01:27:50,571 "helping this woman with her bags. 2032 01:27:50,637 --> 01:27:52,105 "You ain't going to let the plane crash, 2033 01:27:52,172 --> 01:27:55,876 are you, Lord Jesus, 'cause I'm a good person." 2034 01:27:55,943 --> 01:27:59,346 - And then, I'm gonna explain my situation 2035 01:27:59,413 --> 01:28:01,014 in such a way that it's so funny 2036 01:28:01,014 --> 01:28:02,115 that even the people going, 2037 01:28:02,182 --> 01:28:03,851 "I don't like what you're saying. 2038 01:28:03,917 --> 01:28:05,018 I don't like you--" 2039 01:28:05,052 --> 01:28:06,453 - And then when the plane lands, 2040 01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:08,255 the lady's looking at me like, "You wanna get my bags?" 2041 01:28:08,322 --> 01:28:11,525 I'm like, "No, like, what--" 2042 01:28:11,592 --> 01:28:16,697 I kept the plane in the air, you selfish bitch. I-- 2043 01:28:16,763 --> 01:28:18,498 - I'm laughing because he just-- 2044 01:28:18,565 --> 01:28:20,901 He pulled it off. 2045 01:28:21,034 --> 01:28:24,104 Not everybody can do it or should do it. 2046 01:28:24,171 --> 01:28:25,706 He was the master at it. 2047 01:28:25,772 --> 01:28:27,341 - Hey, I got to go, man. Y'all take care, man. 2048 01:28:27,407 --> 01:28:28,642 Thank you very much. 2049 01:28:28,709 --> 01:28:31,712 [cheers and applause] 2050 01:28:35,048 --> 01:28:36,617 - Literally, I think about him every day. 2051 01:28:36,683 --> 01:28:38,785 I'll never not think about him. 2052 01:28:38,852 --> 01:28:41,822 I mean, he was too big a part of my life. 2053 01:28:41,889 --> 01:28:43,857 You wish he was around to see-- 2054 01:28:43,924 --> 01:28:46,593 Oh, would he have hated this Cosby thing. 2055 01:28:46,660 --> 01:28:48,662 Oh, fuck, Trump is the president. 2056 01:28:48,729 --> 01:28:51,932 Oh, my God, this movement, that movement. 2057 01:28:52,065 --> 01:28:56,370 You know, what would he say about this? 2058 01:28:56,436 --> 01:28:59,740 What would he think about this? 2059 01:28:59,806 --> 01:29:05,579 - He was just about to be one of the greats. 2060 01:29:05,646 --> 01:29:11,818 Not that he isn't, but he was about to be forever. 2061 01:29:11,885 --> 01:29:13,320 - And we'll always celebrate him. 2062 01:29:13,387 --> 01:29:15,856 We'll always speak on his behalf 2063 01:29:15,923 --> 01:29:19,726 when it comes to the greats and some of the best 2064 01:29:19,793 --> 01:29:22,029 and baddest to touch the microphone. 2065 01:29:22,062 --> 01:29:24,031 He's in that group. 2066 01:29:24,064 --> 01:29:28,335 He's in that group, whether you like it or not. 2067 01:29:28,402 --> 01:29:30,103 - Do you mind playing us out with that, Warren? 2068 01:29:30,170 --> 01:29:31,205 - Sure. 2069 01:29:31,271 --> 01:29:33,774 - ♪ Man, you know I've been ♪ 2070 01:29:33,841 --> 01:29:38,779 ♪ Enjoying things that kings and queens will never have ♪ 2071 01:29:42,583 --> 01:29:45,118 ♪ And good times, mm ♪ 2072 01:29:45,185 --> 01:29:49,223 - Great googly-moogly. - Great googly-moogly. 2073 01:29:49,289 --> 01:29:54,261 ♪ I have had my fun ♪ 2074 01:29:54,328 --> 01:29:59,700 ♪ If I never get well no more ♪ 2075 01:29:59,766 --> 01:30:05,439 ♪ Oh, my health is fading on me ♪ 2076 01:30:05,506 --> 01:30:09,910 ♪ Oh, yeah, I'm going down slow ♪ 2077 01:30:12,312 --> 01:30:17,784 ♪ Please write my mama ♪ 2078 01:30:17,851 --> 01:30:21,588 ♪ Tell her the shape I'm in ♪ 2079 01:30:26,860 --> 01:30:32,299 ♪ Tell her to pray for me ♪ 2080 01:30:32,366 --> 01:30:35,302 ♪ Forgive me for my sin ♪ 2081 01:30:35,369 --> 01:30:41,475 ♪ ♪ 2082 01:30:41,542 --> 01:30:42,943 - [laughs] 2083 01:30:43,010 --> 01:30:44,511 - Hey, man, that's all right, man. 2084 01:30:44,578 --> 01:30:45,913 Patrice, that's all right.