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00:00:00 (dramatic music)

00:00:02, (dramatic music) (people chattering)

00:00:10 (people chattering)

00:00:13 - Uh, that's good.

00:00:29 - You have the phone on?

00:00:30 - No, no, no, I wasn't, that's fine.

00:00:34 I just, the monitors, I'm used to seeing the whatever,

00:00:38 but you know, I do the shadow thing.

00:00:41 - It's fucking great.

00:00:42 - I saw it being--

00:00:44 - One of those things I got mad at that I didn't think of.

00:00:46 - Hey man, I still got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

00:00:50 - It's pretty fucking genius.

00:00:51 - Hey, steal it, it's all yours.

00:00:53 - I can't, I can't now.

00:00:55 It's a blatant, it looks like I stole it now.

00:00:57 It's a clear-- - It's a steal,

00:00:58 don't cost nothing.

00:01:00 - It's a clear steal.

00:01:01 - You got trucks, you got that shit,

00:01:05 you got that shit. - All you got is this.

00:01:06 - All I got is the fucking.

00:01:08 - I'm over here spending all this fucking money

00:01:10 and all I need is a light.

00:01:12 - He's been lying to me all this goddamn time.

00:01:15 - Shit.

00:01:15 (upbeat music)

00:01:35 ♪ State beats the cats who rock Mac knowledge ♪

00:01:37 ♪ Knowledge is street astrologist ♪

00:01:38 ♪ Light up the mic, guard knives ♪

00:01:40 ♪ This block joins the character points ♪

00:01:41 ♪ Corolla, motor, roller, hold up ♪

00:01:43 ♪ Playing God, he pack over the shoulder ♪

00:01:45 ♪ Chrome tanks, play it like Yanks ♪

00:01:46 ♪ Check the franchise ♪

00:01:47 ♪ Front on my guys, my enterprise ♪

00:01:49 ♪ Last many lives, the color fakes like reflectors ♪

00:01:52 ♪ He has sugar in his ear in his last crack career ♪

00:01:54 ♪ We can can him, manhandle him if you want him ♪

00:01:57 ♪ Running his curve, get ditto, skate like a limo ♪

00:02:01 - How did the conversation go?

00:02:02 - How did the conversation go?

00:02:03 I think you called me.

00:02:05 - Yeah, I called you.

00:02:07 The conversation of course started with just me saying,

00:02:09 "Chris, what are you doing?

00:02:11 "You are gearing up to go out."

00:02:13 I think we both, we knew that we were both gearing up.

00:02:15 - We're both gearing up and I'm smart enough

00:02:18 to always check to see what Kevin's doing

00:02:22 before I go on tour.

00:02:24 'Cause I'm not getting stomped by Kevin,

00:02:26 it's just not happening.

00:02:28 So I give him that respect.

00:02:30 I go, you know, Jay-Z does a dropper,

00:02:32 he checks with Drake before he drops a record.

00:02:35 Yes, he's been around longer, but he's just realist.

00:02:39 So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go out.

00:02:41 What's Kevin doing?

00:02:43 - I said, why don't we do something together?

00:02:46 What do you think about doing New York?

00:02:48 Like destroying New York.

00:02:49 (upbeat music)

00:02:51 Pricey.

00:03:00 ♪ Horseshit, your lordship ♪

00:03:03 ♪ Niggas talking yachts and some more shit ♪

00:03:06 ♪ I used to run the block, now I'm corporate ♪

00:03:08 ♪ Hopping out, you know it's sun when the doors lift ♪

00:03:12 ♪ Whole squad hide the burners ♪

00:03:14 ♪ Mets hat in the sky like Bobby Smurda ♪

00:03:16 - This is a story about two separate journeys

00:03:21 that go on two different paths,

00:03:23 but somehow align and end up at the same intersection

00:03:30 and the same time.

00:03:31 ♪ Stack it up with cheese, stay icy ♪

00:03:33 ♪ 'Cause shit gets spicy ♪

00:03:35 ♪ She on demon time, I get her a timepiece ♪

00:03:37 ♪ Panic, niggas not lit, not like me ♪

00:03:40 ♪ Can't get nothing by me, my mind in 2090 ♪

00:03:43 ♪ K-L-O-K-A by Pricey ♪

00:03:46 - Yeah!

00:03:47 - This is my favorite building in the world.

00:03:49 - Hands down.

00:03:50 - I seen Prince here, I seen the Beasties here,

00:03:53 I seen Eddie Murphy here.

00:03:54 - Dang, we saw Eddie here?

00:03:56 - I seen Eddie here like four nights in a row.

00:03:59 (dramatic music)

00:04:01 - The names that have graced that stage comedically

00:04:06 are very far few and in between.

00:04:09 You know, that have sold out the garden.

00:04:12 It's a stamp of, I've made it, I've arrived.

00:04:21 Like, it's a big deal, man.

00:04:23 You know, the New York shows that we're about to do,

00:04:27 this week in New York is an event.

00:04:29 - I can't recall two other, like,

00:04:38 great headliners together like that.

00:04:41 The only thing I can pair it with is like,

00:04:42 Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney

00:04:45 being on stage together.

00:04:46 - I'm gonna say within our culture specifically,

00:04:50 it's something that we need to remove

00:04:52 because we had this idea that there can only be one.

00:04:56 And when people get caught up on that idea

00:04:57 that there can only be one, well, shit gets weird

00:04:59 because this competitive thing happens

00:05:01 and I can't like or support or you ain't.

00:05:04 This is, it's weird.

00:05:06 - Chris is, he's pretty quiet, you know.

00:05:08 He's in his thoughts and Kevin, no.

00:05:12 - I think Kevin is more affable, more fun, more whimsical.

00:05:18 Chris is more biting, more asserting.

00:05:21 - Dude, how the fuck am I supposed to get out of here

00:05:24 if there's a, do you understand I could walk down there

00:05:27 very easily and no one will look at me?

00:05:29 But if there's a camera put behind me,

00:05:31 someone will follow me all the way home and kill me.

00:05:36 Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

00:05:38 - Their energies just work together.

00:05:45 No one was trying to upstage each other.

00:05:47 Everyone says you can't co-headline.

00:05:51 They could co-headline.

00:05:53 - Chris, what's up, baby?

00:05:54 - C-Rod!

00:05:55 (cheering)

00:05:57 - What's this, what's my name?

00:06:01 - Your name right there, man, Big Rock, Lil' Hot.

00:06:05 - Ooh, that's catchy.

00:06:06 - I was just at your lawyer, Trina's.

00:06:08 Even she said you should open up for me.

00:06:10 - What?

00:06:11 Did she really?

00:06:12 - Yes, she did.

00:06:14 - Chris, I'm too big to open up for you right now.

00:06:15 - Aw, come on, man, you ain't too big for nothing.

00:06:17 (laughing)

00:06:19 - Yeah, well, maybe 10 years ago that made sense, Chris.

00:06:21 But right now, actually, you're the third biggest Chris

00:06:23 and you're the second biggest Rock.

00:06:24 I love Tony.

00:06:25 (laughing)

00:06:26 - Damn.

00:06:27 - Somebody's been writing.

00:06:28 - You should use some of them jokes

00:06:29 when you open up for me on tour.

00:06:30 (laughing)

00:06:32 - Thank you.

00:06:46 - You said watermelon salad.

00:06:47 - That's not happening.

00:06:48 - Why you bring the black man a watermelon salad?

00:06:50 - It's ready to drink.

00:06:51 - That's like the,

00:06:53 that's just the hackiest joke in the world.

00:06:55 But I couldn't leave it there.

00:06:57 - It's good.

00:06:58 - I couldn't leave--

00:06:59 - Thank you.

00:07:00 - The watermelon joke had to happen.

00:07:02 - I couldn't just leave it there.

00:07:04 - I think for sure, us knowing where we are,

00:07:06 us knowing what we are,

00:07:08 and us knowing what this moment represents for us.

00:07:13 When you think Kings of Comedy, you know,

00:07:15 you're looking at,

00:07:16 the reason why I say Kings of Comedy was so strong,

00:07:19 in my opinion, it changed the definition

00:07:22 of what a comedy show was.

00:07:26 - Every one of them.

00:07:27 Top of the game.

00:07:31 - When you think about the Kings of Comedy,

00:07:34 you gotta think about how and why that was done.

00:07:36 It was, we're gonna put on,

00:07:37 we're gonna show that we can do this,

00:07:42 and that we can all align ourselves

00:07:44 in a way to where there's no competition.

00:07:47 I think what Chris and I wanted to do

00:07:49 was do our version of that.

00:07:53 - We were probably number two highest grossing live--

00:07:58 - 'Cause that's the first time I ever heard a poll star.

00:08:01 And it was a white act that we never,

00:08:03 Money, who was it?

00:08:04 - Yeah, something like Eddie Money or somebody.

00:08:06 - Something white act, I never heard of.

00:08:08 - Highest grossing live touring acts,

00:08:10 and it get no press.

00:08:13 So this was strictly our community supporting us,

00:08:17 and we were doing it.

00:08:18 - So the time, anytime you can go to Chicago

00:08:21 and sell out two United Centers,

00:08:24 and then be forced to come back.

00:08:27 - And do it two more times.

00:08:28 - Two more, and like within weeks,

00:08:30 'cause the audience was like, no.

00:08:32 Like we need this, come on right back.

00:08:34 - Everybody was collaborative,

00:08:38 and if I had a joke that didn't work for me,

00:08:40 and I saw you doing it that night,

00:08:41 I would give it to you,

00:08:42 and you would give it to me,

00:08:43 and Bernie, it was this thing,

00:08:44 but we were working together.

00:08:46 And I think that unity,

00:08:47 like what's that old African proverb?

00:08:49 If you wanna go fast, go alone,

00:08:51 if you wanna go far, go together.

00:08:52 And I think we embodied that principle,

00:08:54 where we just knew that what we were doing

00:08:58 was so synergistic and would be beneficial to all of us,

00:09:01 and even to our audience on a larger scale.

00:09:04 It just felt like we were doing something important.

00:09:06 - What's the reason why me and Chris

00:09:07 are doing what we're doing?

00:09:09 Why am I doing this with Chris?

00:09:11 - Because you want to pretend like you're not arrogant.

00:09:16 (laughing)

00:09:18 - Stop being a dickhead.

00:09:20 - You wanna pretend like you're not arrogant,

00:09:23 and show love to the people that came before you.

00:09:26 - It's really about giving a true visual

00:09:30 of people that are really successful,

00:09:35 that have won, winning together.

00:09:38 I now truly understand what the kings of comedy is.

00:09:41 Me and Chris talked about that shit

00:09:44 for an hour and some change the other night.

00:09:46 The kings of comedy really redefined touring.

00:09:50 They made it an event,

00:09:54 and they made it such a spectacle

00:09:57 to which people felt the demand

00:09:59 for stand-up comedy on large venues.

00:10:02 But the event of stand-up comedy,

00:10:04 kings of comedy did that,

00:10:06 and that's only because they decided to go together.

00:10:09 And they could've kept doing it,

00:10:10 but their egos fucked it up.

00:10:13 (crowd chattering)

00:10:15 Their friendship is a real friendship.

00:10:16 When Kev was coming up,

00:10:18 he was in close proximity to my brother.

00:10:20 So Kev never wasted an opportunity

00:10:24 to pick my brother's brain.

00:10:26 Every time they sat next to each other,

00:10:28 it was, "Hey, how do you?"

00:10:30 You ever see that clip of Kobe and Mike

00:10:32 are running down the court,

00:10:33 and Mike's leaning over, holding his shorts,

00:10:35 and Kobe walks over and is whispering in his ear?

00:10:37 And they asked Kobe, "What were you asking him?"

00:10:39 And he said, "I was asking him,

00:10:40 "how does he do that turnaround jumper so fast?

00:10:42 "Like, what is it about the jump?"

00:10:43 And Mike's like, "You gotta put your foot

00:10:44 "outside their foot, so when you spin,

00:10:46 "they're still stuck."

00:10:48 Just the intricacies of it.

00:10:50 Kev never wasted the opportunity

00:10:52 to get those little intricacies.

00:10:54 He never wasted it.

00:10:55 So then he adds that to that insane work ethic,

00:10:59 and he's Kobe.

00:11:00 - I'm excited about this week,

00:11:11 not just because of the arena factor.

00:11:13 - I'm just excited to hang out with you.

00:11:14 - That's it.

00:11:15 - I'm just camaraderie.

00:11:18 The thing, when you are a standup,

00:11:21 it's a lonely gig.

00:11:25 You're not, you know, I'm friends with lots of,

00:11:30 like, the chili peppers are my friends.

00:11:32 It's four of 'em.

00:11:35 - Yeah.

00:11:35 - You know what I mean?

00:11:36 Four have a great show,

00:11:38 four have a bad show.

00:11:39 It's like they share that thing.

00:11:40 Standup, even though you might have people with you,

00:11:43 you have crew and everything,

00:11:45 you are out there by yourself,

00:11:47 and yeah, it's just,

00:11:51 the evening is you, up or down.

00:11:53 Where this is like, oh, okay, I get to work with Kev.

00:11:56 ♪ Wake, wake up, blessed up ♪

00:11:58 ♪ Unh, hopped out, tripped up ♪

00:12:00 ♪ Unh, paid dues, time's up ♪

00:12:02 ♪ Unh, body bag zipped up ♪

00:12:04 ♪ Unh, rap God prayed up ♪

00:12:05 - Tonight's the first night

00:12:07 that I get to get some rest,

00:12:08 and rightfully so, because tomorrow's day one.

00:12:10 Jones Beach.

00:12:11 ♪ This the life, see, this the life I chose ♪

00:12:13 ♪ Pop a fire, was left inside the cold ♪

00:12:14 ♪ Had to learn to cook without the stove ♪

00:12:16 ♪ Only thing that kept was how it flows ♪

00:12:18 ♪ All my day was A1 on the road ♪

00:12:20 - Jones Beach, day one, rock hard.

00:12:23 Get to touch the stage with my guy.

00:12:25 ♪ My only goal is I'ma die a ghost ♪

00:12:27 ♪ 'Cause this the fuck you like that I done chose ♪

00:12:28 ♪ They all for pussy and power ♪

00:12:30 ♪ They all for Gucci and fame ♪

00:12:32 ♪ They think I'm new to this money ♪

00:12:34 ♪ They think I'm new to this game ♪

00:12:35 ♪ They wanna see us in whips ♪

00:12:37 ♪ They wanna see us in chains ♪

00:12:39 ♪ Legacy, legacy, legacy ♪

00:12:41 ♪ They tryna ruin the name ♪

00:12:43 ♪ They all for pussy and power ♪

00:12:44 ♪ They all for Gucci and fame ♪

00:12:46 ♪ Legacy, legacy, legacy ♪

00:12:48 ♪ Make 'em remember the name ♪

00:12:52 - Yo, um, before I even start,

00:12:56 before I even start,

00:13:00 let me just say one thing.

00:13:03 I'm okay.

00:13:04 - Being in New York,

00:13:07 the Love's Maker break place,

00:13:09 this is his hottest audience too.

00:13:11 Maybe this is where he first got the most love

00:13:12 when he started.

00:13:13 - I started when I was like 18, 19.

00:13:16 I had some advantages.

00:13:20 I'm from New York,

00:13:21 so I didn't have to travel

00:13:23 from another city to come to New York.

00:13:26 You know what I mean?

00:13:27 So I just took a train from Brooklyn.

00:13:30 Once I got good,

00:13:33 things moved really fast.

00:13:37 - This was compared years ago

00:13:38 to the young Eddie Murphy.

00:13:41 - I am from Roosevelt, Long Island.

00:13:43 I grew up in an all black neighborhood.

00:13:45 I did.

00:13:46 Did you grow up in an all black neighborhood?

00:13:48 Grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood?

00:13:49 See, 'cause like,

00:13:51 we pretty much taken over New York, the blacks.

00:13:53 Think about it.

00:13:54 The whites are going,

00:13:56 "Hey, that's not funny."

00:13:58 - And he was kind of spotted

00:14:02 at the same club where Eddie Murphy

00:14:04 was spotted and then managed.

00:14:06 - Coming up next on the stage,

00:14:07 ladies and gentlemen,

00:14:08 is a young performer,

00:14:09 21 years old.

00:14:10 He's from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

00:14:12 The Nat Turner of comedy,

00:14:14 Mr. Chris Rock.

00:14:15 - What's up?

00:14:18 This was a fully formed comedic energy

00:14:24 that he found.

00:14:25 It was in him.

00:14:26 It's always been in him.

00:14:28 You know, finding that person inside of you

00:14:30 that's the real you,

00:14:32 that connects with people that don't know you.

00:14:35 - I was in South Africa the other day.

00:14:38 Or was it Boston?

00:14:40 - And they instantly know you

00:14:42 from that joke.

00:14:44 They go, "Oh, I get who this guy is."

00:14:47 This guy's funny.

00:14:48 This guy's got his own take,

00:14:50 his own attitude,

00:14:52 his own angle.

00:14:53 Nobody else can find it for you.

00:14:56 I love the opening scene of "There Will Be Blood."

00:14:59 It's when Daniel Day-Lewis is in that mine

00:15:02 and he's just hitting that rock.

00:15:04 And then spitting on the stone and rubbing.

00:15:12 Is there anything there?

00:15:13 Is there any gold there?

00:15:15 That to me is the greatest visual metaphor

00:15:18 for being a comedian that I've ever seen.

00:15:21 - Some people are just fucking funnier than other people.

00:15:25 When I was coming up,

00:15:27 Roseanne Barr was funnier.

00:15:30 Sam Kenison was funnier.

00:15:32 Damon Wayans was funnier.

00:15:36 Dennis Mellor was absolutely,

00:15:39 Jerry Seinfeld, absolutely funnier

00:15:42 than the other comedians.

00:15:44 - My brother mastered the New York audience

00:15:46 by not trying to play to just one specific portion

00:15:50 of the New York audience.

00:15:52 He's not a black comic.

00:15:53 He didn't do just black rooms.

00:15:55 He's not a white comic.

00:15:56 He didn't just do the Upper West Side,

00:15:59 the black rooms there.

00:16:01 He's a New York comic.

00:16:02 He speaks to everybody.

00:16:04 - My father, man.

00:16:07 Everything is money to my father.

00:16:08 You break something in my house,

00:16:09 you break that amount of money.

00:16:11 If I broke this microphone,

00:16:12 my father, "Boy, you just broke $50.

00:16:15 "$50."

00:16:15 - I know I couldn't work white audiences then.

00:16:19 I didn't know how to work.

00:16:20 I didn't know how to.

00:16:20 - Right, yeah.

00:16:21 - And I didn't,

00:16:22 I knew how to work.

00:16:23 I had one move.

00:16:24 And I thought he had one move.

00:16:26 And he didn't.

00:16:27 He could go left, right.

00:16:28 He could do it all.

00:16:28 These audiences laugh just as hard

00:16:30 as those other ones.

00:16:31 - I think a big mistake

00:16:33 is blaming the crowd.

00:16:34 A race could take over a crowd.

00:16:37 Like the crowd,

00:16:38 even though it was mixed,

00:16:39 it had a white vibe.

00:16:40 Or it had like,

00:16:41 you know,

00:16:42 late night at the comic strip.

00:16:44 The late one,

00:16:44 that one.

00:16:45 That was Latino.

00:16:46 That was Spanish Harlem.

00:16:47 Back when it was Spanish Harlem.

00:16:48 It was Puerto Rican.

00:16:49 It was that vibe.

00:16:50 - I'm probably the best comic

00:16:51 you'll see tonight.

00:16:51 'Cause I'm black.

00:16:54 Which means I can say anything a white comic could say.

00:16:56 Plus a whole array of black shit

00:16:58 they can't even touch.

00:17:00 - He was ambidextrous.

00:17:01 He could work anywhere.

00:17:02 Like if you could swim

00:17:03 in five feet of water,

00:17:05 you could swim in a thousand feet of water.

00:17:06 'Cause the mechanism

00:17:08 is all the same.

00:17:09 - His first TV appearance,

00:17:10 Joan Rivers Show.

00:17:11 - Will you please welcome

00:17:12 Chris Rock.

00:17:13 (audience applauds)

00:17:16 - It wasn't just the Joan Rivers Show.

00:17:19 The very last Joan Rivers Show.

00:17:22 Joan Rivers had just been canceled.

00:17:24 Her husband had just shot himself in the head.

00:17:26 I went out there.

00:17:28 I did like my first joke

00:17:29 or my second joke.

00:17:31 And I wasn't doing well.

00:17:32 Or at least wasn't doing well to me.

00:17:34 So I switched the order

00:17:38 and did my last line

00:17:39 like third or something.

00:17:41 And it was just a cue to the band.

00:17:44 So I'm just like out there.

00:17:45 Like it was like this thing.

00:17:48 - And you came and you gave

00:17:50 and I told you what's up you deaf?

00:17:52 (audience laughs)

00:17:54 (audience applauds)

00:17:57 (upbeat music)

00:18:01 - Well, come on over then.

00:18:17 Come on over.

00:18:18 (audience applauds)

00:18:21 - I was like a weird kid.

00:18:22 I had a Jerry curl.

00:18:24 I mean, put it this way.

00:18:25 I had holes in my shoes.

00:18:27 You know what I mean?

00:18:27 Like I was like poor.

00:18:29 - It kind of was depressing to see,

00:18:33 wow, he's on TV,

00:18:34 but he still sleeps in the room next door.

00:18:35 So I guess this TV is not what we thought it was.

00:18:37 We thought where's the bag of money

00:18:39 that comes with being on TV?

00:18:41 Where are the white girls?

00:18:42 Where's the car?

00:18:43 You know, let's get it.

00:18:44 What are we doing?

00:18:45 - I was like this kid that had a lot of promise

00:18:51 and made like nobody,

00:18:53 it wasn't like a done deal that I was gonna be anything.

00:18:56 But Eddie saw something in me that I didn't even know.

00:19:01 I wasn't even sure what it was.

00:19:03 You know what I mean?

00:19:04 But Eddie saw it right away.

00:19:06 Eddie saw it right away.

00:19:08 Everything I've become, Eddie Murphy told me

00:19:09 I was gonna be the first day I met him.

00:19:12 Straight up.

00:19:14 - What happened?

00:19:17 Eddie Murphy saw you one night?

00:19:19 - One night.

00:19:20 I went to meet him.

00:19:22 The guy at the club, the owner, introduced me to him.

00:19:25 And he says to me, "When are you going up?"

00:19:27 And I was like the last guy that told him.

00:19:29 I wasn't even going up that night.

00:19:30 And I said, "I'm not up."

00:19:31 He said, "Put him on next."

00:19:33 - My brother's hanging out,

00:19:34 hoping that somebody doesn't show up so he can get on.

00:19:36 He's not even on the lineup.

00:19:38 Eddie comes in with the entourage and the gloves

00:19:40 with the rings over the fingers,

00:19:41 which is the weirdest shit I ever saw in my life.

00:19:42 And my brother begs the manager to put him up that night

00:19:45 because Eddie's here.

00:19:46 He wants Eddie to see his set.

00:19:47 - Put me on.

00:19:48 I had a good set.

00:19:49 It did real well.

00:19:50 I was knee-deep in real skin.

00:19:52 - And Eddie sees him.

00:19:53 He sees a young black kid that was on the same stage

00:19:55 that he started.

00:19:56 And now Eddie has questions.

00:19:58 What are you doing?

00:19:59 Who are you working with?

00:19:59 Are you working on anything?

00:20:00 Are you going out?

00:20:02 My brother says, "Not much.

00:20:03 Just working, trying to get on."

00:20:05 And Eddie says, "I might have a role for you in a movie."

00:20:08 He was prepping "Beverly Hills Cop 2."

00:20:11 - No, what happened is he comes running in the house

00:20:13 about two o'clock in the morning.

00:20:15 Ran upstairs and woke me up.

00:20:16 "Ma, I'm going to California."

00:20:17 I said, "No, you're not."

00:20:19 He said, "Yeah, I'm going to California.

00:20:20 I'm going to California."

00:20:21 And I got very upset.

00:20:22 And I said, "Well, you can't go with those people

00:20:23 'cause Eddie Murphy might be on drugs or something."

00:20:26 I said, "You can't go with people you don't even know

00:20:28 and you don't have enough money and blah, blah, blah."

00:20:30 And I really fussed.

00:20:31 He was grabbing clothes, running down in the laundry room,

00:20:34 washing about two or three o'clock in the morning.

00:20:37 And that was Sunday or Monday.

00:20:39 Monday, you were supposed to leave.

00:20:41 And I just put my foot down.

00:20:43 I said, "Well, you're not going."

00:20:44 And I got dressed and I went to the dentist

00:20:46 'cause I just assumed that he wouldn't go.

00:20:49 His father got up, took him out, met Eddie,

00:20:53 put him on a plane and sent him to LA.

00:20:55 - I get $10 for cars.

00:20:57 I get $20 for limos.

00:20:59 What the hell is this?

00:21:01 - My truck.

00:21:02 - Your Eddie story is you for me.

00:21:05 The first real comedic star

00:21:10 that I had a conversation with that was a star

00:21:14 was Chris Rock that like,

00:21:17 think about it, at the cellar,

00:21:19 shout out to all of our people that we know.

00:21:21 Patrice, Voss, Norton, Robinson, Burr, Colin Quinn.

00:21:26 - Weird.

00:21:28 It's weird how funny every guy you just said is a killer.

00:21:33 - They're some of the best comedians

00:21:34 to ever touch stage.

00:21:35 So when you popped your head into the comedy cellar,

00:21:39 when it happened, that was the big...

00:21:42 (laughing)

00:21:44 - The government don't give a fuck about you, man.

00:21:48 The reason Coke and weed are illegal in America

00:21:51 ain't 'cause they bad for you.

00:21:53 The reason Coke and weed are illegal in America

00:21:55 is 'cause the best Coke and weed ain't made in America.

00:21:58 (cheering)

00:22:00 - That was the big fucking deal.

00:22:01 And for a while, fly on the wall.

00:22:03 I'm the guy in the back and I'm watching the conversations

00:22:07 and just listening.

00:22:08 And eventually it got to the point where,

00:22:11 hey man, I can introduce myself.

00:22:13 And you know, you weren't a dick.

00:22:14 How you doing, man?

00:22:15 Cool, Keith Robins for the day.

00:22:17 The attitude you have, no one has anymore.

00:22:21 (laughing)

00:22:23 Like I used to go up to Rodney.

00:22:24 I'd be so humbly going up to Rodney Dagerfield

00:22:27 or humbly going up to Rob.

00:22:29 I'd be like, this motherfucker's be like,

00:22:32 nigga, you don't know me, nigga?

00:22:34 - You don't know me from my page?

00:22:36 You don't know me from my--

00:22:37 - You don't know me from Instagram?

00:22:38 - Yeah, from IG.

00:22:39 You don't see on my--

00:22:39 - Nigga!

00:22:40 (laughing)

00:22:43 - We should do a tour together.

00:22:44 I'm like, who are you, motherfucker?

00:22:47 I watched it.

00:22:48 I watched that motherfucker like a hawk.

00:22:51 I talked to him, I asked him questions.

00:22:54 Chris answered my questions.

00:22:56 He embraced me as a young comic

00:22:59 and for that I will forever be grateful.

00:23:02 And as I got better, he made me aware of it.

00:23:05 I think it's a fucking slap in the face

00:23:09 if you are a comic and you do have the opportunity

00:23:12 to watch a legend be a legend.

00:23:17 Or you watch and you see what makes the legend the legend.

00:23:20 - Wait, was I famous and you had a regular job?

00:23:23 - I was at City Sports.

00:23:25 I was at City Sports.

00:23:26 I was working at City Sports.

00:23:27 - That is amazing.

00:23:28 - Bigger and Blacker came at a time

00:23:30 where I was working as a shoe salesman.

00:23:34 Your comedic rise, it was in my,

00:23:39 I mean, you're talking about me as a young adult.

00:23:42 You're talking about me 18, 19.

00:23:44 (upbeat music)

00:23:47 The option to do standup was brought up to me

00:23:54 by the people around me that thought I was funny.

00:23:56 I was shocked when they brought it up.

00:23:59 It was like, you know, you should try comedy.

00:24:01 And I was like, where?

00:24:02 They gave me all this information.

00:24:06 Went to the amateur nights, watched comedy at the work.

00:24:09 They're like, "Kevin, you should do it."

00:24:10 And they told me it was on a Thursday.

00:24:12 Told him I would.

00:24:13 Give me a week, I'm gonna sign up.

00:24:15 Without any type of standup comedy experience, knowledge,

00:24:23 I knew enough to know it should be one joke,

00:24:26 then a joke, then a joke.

00:24:28 It should be a opener, some stuff in the middle,

00:24:31 and then what am I gonna get off on?

00:24:32 Like, I had the beats.

00:24:34 Over the course of five, six days,

00:24:40 I wrote up these jokes,

00:24:41 and on amateur night, I was hype.

00:24:44 I was hype.

00:24:44 - My name is Keef Robinson.

00:24:52 I'm from Philadelphia, South Philly.

00:24:56 People love pets more than they like human beings.

00:25:01 Remember the pit bulls?

00:25:02 He tried to make pit bulls friendly.

00:25:03 Oh, pit bulls are friendly.

00:25:04 Pit bulls have never been friendly.

00:25:06 You never seen a commercial with a pit bull

00:25:07 catching a Frisbee, taking it back to the little boy.

00:25:12 Any dog that walk me.

00:25:13 - In like '98, I would go to the Laugh House

00:25:25 and see what young comics are doing their thing.

00:25:28 So I seen a guy named Kevin Hart,

00:25:33 but he called himself at that time,

00:25:37 Little Kev the Bastard.

00:25:40 (laughing)

00:25:42 Little Kev the Bastard, Lil, Lil Kev the Bastard.

00:25:48 - I'm like, what the hell, Lil Kev the Bastard?

00:25:50 What are you, a wrestler?

00:25:51 - Very funny, now, let's give it up for Lil Kev, Lil Kev!

00:25:56 (upbeat music)

00:25:59 Get out of the way, get out, get out, get out!

00:26:04 (laughing)

00:26:07 I don't know nothing about that.

00:26:08 That is my song right there.

00:26:09 I'm gonna get hype, I'm gonna do my thing.

00:26:11 Put it on real quick, so I can get hype,

00:26:12 so I can feel myself, one quick time.

00:26:14 See, this how you do it.

00:26:16 - Cut it out, cut it out, that's it, that's all I need.

00:26:18 (laughing)

00:26:21 - First of all, I said, number one,

00:26:24 get rid of Lil Kev the Bastard.

00:26:26 I don't want that.

00:26:29 What's your full name?

00:26:30 Kevin Hart, Lil Squeaky Voice.

00:26:33 Kevin Hart, he almost said, sir,

00:26:37 I want you to come to New York.

00:26:39 And the first place Kevin Hart came to

00:26:43 was a comic strip, and that was the start of Kev in New York.

00:26:48 - The New York comedy scene is what actually made me a comic,

00:26:54 right, or a comedian.

00:26:58 I was a guy doing standup, right, I was performing,

00:27:01 but I wasn't necessarily a comedian.

00:27:04 New York is what shaped and molded me

00:27:06 into the clear-cut definition of what that is.

00:27:09 - New York, what I think it gave me was speed.

00:27:13 New York has a, definitely has a faster pace

00:27:17 than other cities, any other city in America.

00:27:21 - There were nights, many nights,

00:27:22 where I would play as many as 13, 14 shows

00:27:25 in a single night, 20-minute sets, but still, 14 of 'em.

00:27:28 So if I came up with a new joke idea, the second show,

00:27:33 I could do it 11 more times in a single night.

00:27:35 So our process of refinement in New York

00:27:39 was quicker than, say, a comic in LA.

00:27:42 A comic in LA would say, "Hey, man, I saw you on Letterman.

00:27:44 "New York comic be working."

00:27:45 - When you're a comic, the energy that you get

00:27:53 from New York City is like nothing else.

00:27:54 You're at comedy clubs until three in the morning,

00:27:58 three, four in the morning, or you're hanging out,

00:27:59 or you're standing outside, eating pizza,

00:28:02 talking to other comics, and you're thinking

00:28:04 about being funny, talking about being funny

00:28:07 with funny people.

00:28:08 - I know the crew I came up with,

00:28:11 Sandler and Colin Quinn and Jerry,

00:28:15 you know, made me tough, and your New York crew

00:28:18 is my God, and Burr and Patrice and Louis.

00:28:23 I mean, brutal, like your New York crew.

00:28:27 - And I swear, man, I'm not no asshole.

00:28:29 (audience laughing)

00:28:31 I started crying, you know?

00:28:33 I cried 'cause I couldn't give a fuck.

00:28:36 (audience laughing)

00:28:38 - Patrice O'Neal fed off of your discomfort.

00:28:41 So you looking a certain way or making a face

00:28:46 at the audacity of the nerve for him to say the things

00:28:49 that he said, it fueled his comedic genius.

00:28:54 - I remember when fucking Patrice threw a phone book at me.

00:28:59 As I'm performing, I'm just out the corner of my eye,

00:29:01 I see something in the fucking air.

00:29:04 It's a phone book.

00:29:07 - What the fuck?

00:29:12 - He said, "You're better off if you read that

00:29:15 "to the audience."

00:29:16 Read the phone book to the audience.

00:29:25 - No, it was 100% out of love.

00:29:27 It was 100%, it was us saying, "You're one of us."

00:29:30 That we know, despite where your mumbling act is at,

00:29:34 that you're gonna be one of us and we like you.

00:29:37 - You guys threw phone books at me?

00:29:39 - I never did that.

00:29:40 - Patrice did it, you were there.

00:29:42 - Okay, well he's dead, so fucking talk to him about it.

00:29:44 - All right, well I can't, obviously, this is by the way,

00:29:48 RIP Patrice, that's Bill, that's not me.

00:29:51 - What him, fuck him.

00:29:52 - Okay.

00:29:53 - I've been doing a benefit for him for 10 years,

00:29:55 he would've done fucking 10 minutes for me.

00:29:58 You know he wouldn't.

00:29:59 Is it all the way in New York, man, I'm not driving

00:30:01 through the fucking tunnel.

00:30:02 I still love him.

00:30:03 See, you know, there you go, there's some comedy

00:30:09 right there, it's 'cause it's true.

00:30:11 - Hey stupid, that's what Kiefer called me, stupid.

00:30:14 You work on your set, stupid, fix those last jokes,

00:30:18 your ending stinks.

00:30:20 They don't know who you are.

00:30:23 Talk about who you are, stupid.

00:30:26 It's always advice, it was always information.

00:30:29 They were always right.

00:30:31 - With Kiefer, you know, that's a Jedi.

00:30:35 Kiefer's an oracle, he's one of those individuals

00:30:38 that you go through in comedy,

00:30:40 that so many people have heard of.

00:30:42 - Ah, shit, it took me about an hour and a half

00:30:45 to get down there.

00:30:46 Nah man, you see, they built that just for me.

00:30:50 I just had a second stroke.

00:30:54 No, not just now, motherfucker.

00:30:58 (audience laughing)

00:31:00 - Keith would drive from Philadelphia to New York

00:31:04 and back every night.

00:31:08 Why?

00:31:08 Because he was taking care of his mother in Philadelphia.

00:31:11 He was her caregiver.

00:31:14 And it still brought Kevin Hart up from Philadelphia

00:31:16 and mentored him, taught him the game, took him around.

00:31:20 - So I told Kev, my first thing to Kev,

00:31:23 get yourself a tape.

00:31:27 I wanted to see a tape with material on it.

00:31:31 - David Tell, who's still a client,

00:31:33 who was like the New York comedian.

00:31:35 - Drinking and driving, a lot of people say it's wrong

00:31:37 and I call these people the cops.

00:31:39 But you know what?

00:31:40 (audience laughing)

00:31:41 Sometimes you got no choice.

00:31:42 Those kids gotta get to school, am I right?

00:31:46 - And must have been in '99 or 2000, maybe 2000,

00:31:50 David Tell called me and told me about this kid, Kevin Hart.

00:31:54 And I'm like, you never tell me about anyone.

00:31:56 There's a tape of him at Caroline's,

00:31:59 like a homemade from the back of the room tape.

00:32:01 I remember putting it in and a couple assistants

00:32:04 and us watching it.

00:32:05 He was making himself vulnerable

00:32:08 and I hadn't seen a lot of comedians doing that.

00:32:11 - Just to get something off my chest before I even start.

00:32:14 Everything I say here tonight is a joke, okay?

00:32:17 It is nothing else.

00:32:18 I don't want nobody taking none of this stuff too serious.

00:32:21 I don't need nobody coming up to me after the show

00:32:23 talking about who's the funny one now.

00:32:26 (audience laughing)

00:32:28 - He was just hilarious.

00:32:29 He was like 22 years old.

00:32:31 Look, did I know this was gonna happen?

00:32:33 No.

00:32:34 (upbeat music)

00:32:37 - You know, this is a homecoming for Chris.

00:32:45 You know, it's hot.

00:32:46 - Told my agent when I saw that I was off

00:32:53 and they were in New York,

00:32:54 "Don't book anything that weekend."

00:32:56 I buy my ticket, I get my Airbnb, I'm coming home.

00:33:00 I haven't been home in a while either.

00:33:02 ♪ Empty ♪

00:33:04 ♪ Running on ♪

00:33:06 - I was looking forward to coming home

00:33:08 and eating pizza and running around

00:33:09 and seeing Puerto Rican girls and all that stuff.

00:33:12 But I have to be at these shows.

00:33:15 ♪ Don't do it ♪

00:33:17 ♪ Some things will never be taken ♪

00:33:21 (upbeat music)

00:33:23 - My dad worked at the New York Daily News.

00:33:28 The hub of the New York Daily News

00:33:30 is the same ground that the Barclays Center

00:33:32 sits on right now.

00:33:32 When the New York Daily News moved to New Jersey,

00:33:42 they tore that facility down and built the Barclays.

00:33:45 That's why it was so important

00:33:48 because this was the ground that dad worked on.

00:33:51 (somber music)

00:33:53 - In 1988, my father died.

00:33:57 And a year and a half later, we lost the house.

00:34:03 Like shit happens.

00:34:05 So, it's like, "What?"

00:34:10 You know what I mean?

00:34:13 Like in '89, it was like,

00:34:14 "Oh, there's a pink sticker on our house."

00:34:17 And my brother goes here, like the family separates

00:34:21 and we still reel in from that shit.

00:34:24 We act like my father died suddenly.

00:34:32 No, if you look at the statistics, he died right on time.

00:34:35 Until recently, the average black man dies in his 50s.

00:34:45 So, if you're the oldest, you're always,

00:34:47 your whole life is you're being groomed

00:34:52 for your parents' death.

00:34:54 Like your whole life.

00:34:58 That's why they're so hard on you

00:34:59 'cause black men, especially poor black men,

00:35:03 die in their 50s.

00:35:06 - Chris was the oldest sibling at the house at the time.

00:35:11 So, a lot of responsibilities had to fall on him

00:35:13 and to help out with, you know, light gas, mortgage.

00:35:17 So, he had to assume responsibilities

00:35:19 I don't think that he anticipated, you know?

00:35:21 - He was the oldest.

00:35:26 He was the kid that my dad poured everything into.

00:35:30 And he had to be a man the next day.

00:35:32 And it was like a switch.

00:35:35 - What's your father's job in life?

00:35:37 Is to interrupt you when you're getting ready

00:35:39 to do something.

00:35:40 You know, you can sit in your house all day

00:35:43 doing nothing.

00:35:45 The second you got something to do,

00:35:47 that's when you fall.

00:35:48 Hey, do these dishes, you know?

00:35:50 What about those other nine hours I was laying down?

00:35:54 - He would be at the comedy club and he would have spots.

00:35:57 Or what he might do is,

00:35:59 if he didn't have anything else booked for the night,

00:36:02 he might go in the car and take a nap

00:36:04 or go get something to eat.

00:36:05 I think during the time my dad passed,

00:36:08 I think the way he grieved with it

00:36:11 was more so he just kept working.

00:36:13 - We would come into clubs

00:36:15 and the guys we thought were names that we saw on TV,

00:36:18 they're going up and my brother's going up right behind him.

00:36:20 And then famous people walk in and they go up

00:36:22 and my brother goes up right behind him.

00:36:24 And the famous person knows my brother.

00:36:26 It's like, this is big.

00:36:27 - Chris was ready to do, you know, bigger stages.

00:36:32 And then Chris went to Saturday Night Live.

00:36:36 - Here's what happened.

00:36:40 Living color was the biggest thing on television.

00:36:43 Saturday Night Live had not had a black cast member

00:36:47 for nine years.

00:36:49 So, 'cause Damon Wayans had been fired

00:36:54 like nine years earlier.

00:36:56 So, and he was barely on the show.

00:36:59 So they kinda, in the public's eye,

00:37:04 Saturday Night Live hadn't had a black cast member

00:37:08 since Eddie Murphy, really.

00:37:11 I got on Saturday Night Live

00:37:12 kinda through affirmative action.

00:37:17 Do I get on SNL if there's no living color?

00:37:20 Probably not.

00:37:22 - The Dark Side with Nat X.

00:37:25 (audience cheering)

00:37:28 - Peace, brothers and sisters.

00:37:31 I'm Nat X and welcome to The Dark Side.

00:37:34 The only 15 minute show on TV.

00:37:37 Why only 15 minutes?

00:37:39 'Cause if the man gave me any more,

00:37:41 he would consider that well-fit.

00:37:43 I didn't go to college.

00:37:44 I barely went to high school.

00:37:47 So SNL was the first school I actually embraced

00:37:52 and actually learned and I had great professors.

00:37:58 You know, Conan O'Brien was a writer on the show

00:38:02 when I was on the show.

00:38:03 Bob Odenkirk, the great Bob Odenkirk,

00:38:06 better call Sal.

00:38:08 Was a writer on the show

00:38:09 who really took his time with me.

00:38:12 I had an office with me, Adam Sandler,

00:38:16 Chris Farley and David Spade shared an office.

00:38:20 Mike Myers was like around the corner.

00:38:23 You know, it was like I was in the X-Men school of comedy.

00:38:28 - We had only watched SNL for Eddie Murphy.

00:38:31 And who's the black guy that's on there now?

00:38:33 My brother.

00:38:34 - Saturday Night Live is not about standup comedy.

00:38:37 Doing sketch comedy or improv or acting

00:38:40 is the opposite of learning to become a comedian.

00:38:42 Learning to become a comedian is learning to be you.

00:38:47 - I would love to see Batman fight crime

00:38:50 in my neighborhood.

00:38:51 (audience laughing)

00:38:53 Yeah.

00:38:54 He'd be like, "Robin, yes, Batman."

00:38:57 Then we'd park the car right here

00:39:01 and we'd go to the movies.

00:39:03 Then we'd park the car right here, man.

00:39:05 (audience laughing)

00:39:07 - I opened for Chris Rock when I was in high school.

00:39:09 First time I met him.

00:39:11 He was playing in DC all that week

00:39:12 and I'd follow him around

00:39:13 'cause in those days it was rare to see a black headliner.

00:39:17 He was hot as a pistol

00:39:18 'cause he had just done New Jack City.

00:39:20 Bam, pshew, I'm out.

00:39:22 You wanna do this, come back tonight, man.

00:39:23 It's a certain team, man.

00:39:25 Yo, let me see the money.

00:39:26 Let me see the money.

00:39:27 What's up, what's up, what's up?

00:39:28 The Green Room at the Comedy Connection

00:39:29 was the first time I can remember

00:39:31 he and I speaking to one another at length

00:39:34 and he was talking me through the decision

00:39:36 whether I should go to college or not.

00:39:38 - How did that work out for you?

00:39:39 - Well, I ended up not going to college.

00:39:42 I did the right thing.

00:39:44 - Sometimes it feels like nobody gives a damn

00:39:47 and nobody wants to give you any advice

00:39:49 and nobody is trying to help you.

00:39:51 But I know of Chris Rock helping out a few people, okay,

00:39:54 and doing some momentous, like big things.

00:39:57 Like, okay, so Chris Rock looked out for Wanda Sykes,

00:40:01 put her on, right,

00:40:02 and you see what's happened with her career, huge.

00:40:05 - Now, if I spend $400 for a gun,

00:40:08 I'm shooting somebody, you know what I'm talking about?

00:40:11 Flesh wound, pinky finger, somebody's getting shot.

00:40:15 I refuse to let a $400 gun go to waste.

00:40:18 Avon lady, ding dong, boom.

00:40:20 (audience laughing)

00:40:24 - If you are confident in your craft,

00:40:27 when you see someone else who has potential,

00:40:30 you want them to be better.

00:40:33 - I have asked my brother for five favors my entire life.

00:40:42 He said no to all five favors.

00:40:47 And I swore to the heavens above

00:40:50 that I would never ask him for another favor

00:40:52 as long as I live.

00:40:54 And for 20 years, I didn't.

00:40:55 So I come home this weekend.

00:41:00 I go to the green room after the show.

00:41:02 It's a big to-do, and I'm just standing in the corner.

00:41:05 And I literally say to myself, in that moment,

00:41:08 I know you said you would never do it,

00:41:10 but if you don't say anything right now,

00:41:13 this is the opportunity of a lifetime

00:41:14 that you're gonna regret not speaking up.

00:41:17 He's probably gonna say no, 'cause that's what he does,

00:41:20 but at least you put it out there

00:41:21 in front of all these people.

00:41:23 So how we doing this Monday?

00:41:27 'Cause it's the Barclays.

00:41:30 Hey, mommy lives across the street.

00:41:32 What we doing Monday?

00:41:33 Everybody's, and Chrissy's sitting on the couch.

00:41:37 We call Chris Chrissy, by the way.

00:41:39 Chris, Chrissy's sitting on the couch.

00:41:40 He says, "We'll figure it out."

00:41:42 And I say, "All right, everybody, you heard it.

00:41:44 "We'll figure it out.

00:41:45 "I'm out. I leave."

00:41:48 Sunday, I go to bed.

00:41:52 I say my prayers.

00:41:53 I put it in the most highest hands.

00:41:54 If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

00:41:56 But I'm still gonna be there in support,

00:41:57 'cause it's the Barclays.

00:41:57 It's Brooklyn. It's home.

00:41:59 And I'm in the car on my way to the Barclays,

00:42:03 and I get to the foot of the Manhattan Bridge,

00:42:05 about to come over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn.

00:42:09 And my phone goes off, and I look,

00:42:11 and it says, "You're on the show tonight."

00:42:13 And I fucking lose my mind.

00:42:17 Brooklyn, give it up for my man, Tony Rock, y'all.

00:42:20 Hey, man!

00:42:21 Brooklyn, what up?

00:42:23 (audience cheering)

00:42:25 Y'all thought y'all wasn't gonna see me?

00:42:28 I'm from here!

00:42:29 I told my brother, "I wish the fuck you would do it

00:42:33 "so in Brooklyn not put me on that shit."

00:42:35 I'll come up on stage and slap the shit out of you again!

00:42:39 - Tony's always been better at everything.

00:42:43 Growing up, honestly.

00:42:46 I don't say that just to be like placating.

00:42:49 Tony's, he's taller, and he's handsome,

00:42:53 and he's a great athlete, and he can fight,

00:42:56 and he can play basketball.

00:42:58 He's just like this cool guy.

00:43:00 It was great just 'cause my mom was there

00:43:04 to watch Tony, to watch all of us.

00:43:06 And I don't know, it just felt like

00:43:09 the whole family was together.

00:43:13 For one night, the Rock Boys were in the building,

00:43:16 and it was a beautiful thing.

00:43:17 (upbeat music)

00:43:20 - Chris, come back up here.

00:43:25 Get your ass back on the stage, man.

00:43:28 (audience cheering)

00:43:30 Make some fucking noise for my brother, man.

00:43:32 (audience cheering)

00:43:36 I'mma ask you again.

00:43:37 Make some fucking noise for my brother!

00:43:40 (audience cheering)

00:43:43 Hey, Chris Rock is not just a friend.

00:43:48 He's not just a brother.

00:43:49 This is my mentor.

00:43:50 This is the reason why I stand where I stand today.

00:43:55 (audience cheering)

00:43:58 It's so important to me to make sure my brother

00:44:00 understands the impact that he's had,

00:44:02 not on my comedy ring,

00:44:03 but the whole fucking entire world of comedy.

00:44:06 And coming to Brooklyn, I felt would be the best place

00:44:09 to show this nigga in real time

00:44:11 what the fuck he needs to stand on comedy.

00:44:14 I love you.

00:44:16 - I love you, brother.

00:44:17 - I mean it.

00:44:18 I mean it.

00:44:20 Talk to your people, man.

00:44:21 I'mma pour this shit.

00:44:22 - Nah, nah, just Brooklyn!

00:44:24 - Let's go!

00:44:25 Rock break!

00:44:26 ♪ The rock boys in the building tonight ♪

00:44:29 ♪ Oh, what a feeling I'm feeling like ♪

00:44:31 ♪ You don't even gotta bring your paper out ♪

00:44:33 ♪ We the dope boys of the year ♪

00:44:35 ♪ Drinks is on the house ♪

00:44:36 ♪ The rock boys in the building tonight ♪

00:44:39 ♪ Look at how I'm chilling, I'm killing this thing ♪

00:44:41 ♪ You don't even gotta bring your purses out ♪

00:44:44 You know, seeing Chris's mom backstage was so dope.

00:44:47 Honestly, it's like it's,

00:44:50 it's probably one of the few times where I'm jealous.

00:44:52 (car honking)

00:44:55 The biggest reward to your parents

00:44:58 is just seeing their child figure it out.

00:45:02 I wish my mom could've seen me figure it out.

00:45:07 But the idea of my mom being backstage

00:45:09 would've been dope as fuck.

00:45:10 - A thousand percent, my brother get his drive from my mom.

00:45:19 A thousand percent.

00:45:21 Our household growing up, mom,

00:45:23 mom basically did everything.

00:45:25 My dad's in and out of prison, you know?

00:45:28 One of the things about my mom, she say,

00:45:29 "Hey, you gonna do it, do your best."

00:45:31 That was my mom.

00:45:32 If you're gonna do it,

00:45:34 let me just do this shit right the first time

00:45:35 because this lady ain't gonna let me go to sleep

00:45:37 until I get this done.

00:45:38 She was a beast, an absolute beast.

00:45:40 - Single black moms have to be

00:45:44 some of the strongest people on this planet.

00:45:47 It is not easy to raise a child

00:45:49 and it's definitely not easy to do it by yourself.

00:45:52 I don't care what color you are, it's hard, period.

00:45:55 But it's a little bit harder for a black woman.

00:45:59 And I know it's a lot of black women

00:46:00 that's tired of hearing this, like,

00:46:01 "Be strong, you gotta be strong.

00:46:02 You're so strong, you're so strong."

00:46:04 Sometimes I need to be held.

00:46:06 It's not easy to be strong.

00:46:11 And I think people think like,

00:46:14 you know, just 'cause you black, you got it.

00:46:18 - Saturday and Sunday, June the 13th.

00:46:21 This is Nancy Clark and we're taking this

00:46:24 for Robert Kidd's heart.

00:46:26 Who's gonna be a happy father's day to him.

00:46:28 - So my mom ends up, she got ovarian cancer.

00:46:31 Little lady is crazy, she don't tell her shit.

00:46:33 She's been going to the doctor for a year

00:46:36 and it done metastasized to a point

00:46:37 where there's nothing they can do about it, right?

00:46:39 So by the time I find out, I'm like, nothing we can do.

00:46:42 So I go to the doctor, I find out everything

00:46:45 because I can't trust her to tell me the truth, you know?

00:46:47 And I'm like, so any chance, like, no, it's a wrap.

00:46:51 - So my mom would get mad, her blood pressure rise

00:46:53 and she would just pass out.

00:46:55 You can always tell when she was gonna pass out

00:46:57 'cause her sentences would stop making sense.

00:46:58 You know, she would just be yelling, you know.

00:47:01 "Kevin, take your foot off the boy

00:47:06 and put it in the pizza box before I smack."

00:47:10 (audience laughing)

00:47:13 - When he was doing New York

00:47:14 and I seen his transition from New York to LA,

00:47:18 it became a what's gonna break him.

00:47:21 My mom knew.

00:47:22 She's like, don't tell him 'cause at the time

00:47:26 he was about to go to Australia to film "Fool's Gold."

00:47:31 And so things was just starting to bubble.

00:47:33 And so my mom was like, "Listen, promise me,

00:47:36 do not tell him."

00:47:37 I'm like, okay.

00:47:38 When it's close to the end, that's when you let him know

00:47:40 that I'm actually dying.

00:47:41 I'm like, all right.

00:47:45 I, of course, was extremely close with my mom.

00:47:48 So I think that there was information

00:47:50 that they were trying to keep away from me,

00:47:53 but some things were obvious, right?

00:47:56 Like it was becoming obvious that my mom's condition

00:47:59 was much worse than what was being presented.

00:48:02 - I said, "Listen, doctors have told me this stuff.

00:48:05 I can tell she probably got about two weeks.

00:48:07 I can tell by the way her veins is.

00:48:09 You need to get home now if you wanna see mom again

00:48:11 because might not be no other time to say goodbye."

00:48:15 He's like, "Wait, she's not."

00:48:16 I'm like, "Yeah, this is it."

00:48:18 You know what I mean?

00:48:19 Like she's gone.

00:48:20 So he comes home and I'm explaining everything to him.

00:48:22 He's like, "Damn."

00:48:24 And as I'm telling him this, he's telling me

00:48:26 how "Fool's Gold" has literally opened up

00:48:29 all of these other doors and how all these other things.

00:48:32 I was just like, that's crazy.

00:48:33 Like on her way out, she could see how this was something

00:48:38 he needed to do.

00:48:39 Be focused, do your best, not be all centered

00:48:42 on what's happening with me.

00:48:43 And she was right, did right.

00:48:46 - You know, my mom is definitely,

00:48:53 she's responsible for giving me the ability

00:48:58 to understand the benefit of hard work,

00:49:06 to understand what saying you're going to do something

00:49:11 and actually doing it truly means.

00:49:13 You know, that work ethic is all attached to my mom.

00:49:17 I remember when my sitcom got picked up, "The Big House."

00:49:35 And "The Upfronts," "The Upfronts" is where they basically

00:49:37 announced all the network's new shows.

00:49:40 It was happening in New York.

00:49:41 They flew me out.

00:49:43 I'm hyped, I fly the rest of the cast out.

00:49:45 This is big, my life is about to change.

00:49:47 Oh my God, here it comes.

00:49:50 Success, here we go.

00:49:52 Things were happening for me as a comedian.

00:49:53 I was gaining some steam.

00:49:55 And when we go to like the upfront event,

00:49:59 right before it's time for me to go out,

00:50:01 put a hand on my chest.

00:50:03 Sorry, Mr. Hart, the network has made a decision.

00:50:04 They're not going to pick your show.

00:50:06 That fast it was over.

00:50:10 Well, your life can't possibly be worse than mine.

00:50:15 Look at me, I'm all smiles.

00:50:17 You want to know why?

00:50:18 Because your antidepressants are working.

00:50:21 No, it's because there's always a glimmer of hope.

00:50:24 You know, you just got to find it.

00:50:26 I went back to the hotel, changed.

00:50:28 I went out that night.

00:50:29 I went to all the parties.

00:50:31 You would have thought that my show got picked up.

00:50:33 Everybody kept coming running to my back.

00:50:36 Taking deep breaths in my face.

00:50:38 I heard what happened.

00:50:43 Life.

00:50:51 He left with stronger relationships

00:50:53 with all the networks and all the studios

00:50:55 'cause they were all at these parties.

00:50:57 It's fucking crazy.

00:51:02 I have a saying, Kevin.

00:51:04 What is that?

00:51:05 Always eat before a meeting.

00:51:07 Why?

00:51:08 Because hungry people say dumb shit.

00:51:10 Yes.

00:51:11 So I, you know, even before a lunch meeting,

00:51:16 even before a meeting where you're supposed to eat,

00:51:18 eat something.

00:51:20 Eat a piece of bread.

00:51:21 Eat a piece of bread.

00:51:22 To stop you from saying some dumb shit.

00:51:25 I ain't gonna take, I ain't gonna do the deal.

00:51:27 'Cause you motherfuckers don't.

00:51:29 Fuck you and NBC.

00:51:32 I don't need no network anyway.

00:51:33 I'll show this shit.

00:51:35 I'll sell this TV show out of my trunk.

00:51:38 You think I give a fuck about y'all?

00:51:42 You think I give a fuck about this studio?

00:51:43 Fuck you.

00:51:44 You're fucking crackers.

00:51:45 Leave.

00:51:46 I didn't mean to call the head of NBC a cracker.

00:51:51 I was hungry.

00:51:52 I was just hungry.

00:51:52 I was hungry.

00:51:53 I eat all day.

00:51:55 If I'd ate, I would never have said that.

00:51:56 I wouldn't have called the head of NBC a cracker.

00:51:58 But I hadn't eaten.

00:52:01 So now, if you learn nothing today.

00:52:04 Let me get that veal chop.

00:52:07 What happened to my brother?

00:52:08 Medium.

00:52:09 The backstory people don't know,

00:52:11 he can't get his skits on.

00:52:13 He would write funny, funny shit,

00:52:15 pitch it to the brothers.

00:52:16 We would say, man, that's going.

00:52:17 That gotta go.

00:52:19 Saturday night, they cut my skit.

00:52:20 Rehearsal, they cut my skit.

00:52:23 So he kinda was trying to find his bearings on SNL.

00:52:29 He never turned out to be the Eddie Murphy

00:52:30 we thought he was gonna be.

00:52:32 It was significant that Chris landed SNL,

00:52:36 but the way they used him,

00:52:39 or I should say didn't use him,

00:52:42 it was pretty hard to watch.

00:52:47 So then he gets offered in "Live in Color."

00:52:50 The Wayans had left.

00:52:53 They wanted to keep the show afloat.

00:52:54 Let's get Chris Rock.

00:52:55 His agent told him not to do it.

00:52:57 His management told him not to do it.

00:52:58 He did it.

00:52:59 So "Live in Color" is this hot, hot, hot,

00:53:03 like white hot show.

00:53:05 (upbeat music)

00:53:07 That's where the culture was going.

00:53:16 A lot of times I would leave SNL,

00:53:18 and instead of going to the rap party at the end,

00:53:21 I would go to Latin Quarter

00:53:24 and hang out with Kid N Play and Queen Latifah,

00:53:27 and that crew, and Eric B, and Jam Master Jay.

00:53:32 Those were kind of my peers also.

00:53:36 They were just hanging around some black people,

00:53:40 but not just some black people,

00:53:41 some creative black people.

00:53:43 So I knew the culture was going that way,

00:53:47 and I wanted to be,

00:53:49 I just wanted to be where the shit was hot.

00:53:52 - Hey, how about for some ice cream?

00:53:55 - Some ice cream?

00:53:56 You really want ice cream?

00:53:57 You want me to find you ice cream?

00:53:58 I find ice cream for you.

00:53:59 How about I put a 44 slug in your head?

00:54:01 (audience laughing)

00:54:03 - Why don't you make that a 22 in a flesh wound?

00:54:05 - Oh, I'm kicked out.

00:54:05 Get out of here.

00:54:07 - I think he did one episode, maybe two, maybe two.

00:54:11 "Live in Color" is done.

00:54:13 Management leaves, agency leaves.

00:54:17 He's literally out of the business.

00:54:19 - In a weird way, my career was kind of over,

00:54:22 in a sense.

00:54:23 I got no TV show,

00:54:25 and I'm just a comedian.

00:54:27 I didn't know at the time,

00:54:30 it's more powerful than all of that shit.

00:54:33 - I remember him hanging around the clubs

00:54:40 and coming back to it,

00:54:42 and really going,

00:54:44 okay, let me find out what I have that's special.

00:54:49 - The way he approached his career,

00:54:52 post "Saturday Night Live" was like watching a Rocky movie.

00:54:55 - I remember him being a little bit of a fan of the show,

00:54:58 but he was a fan of the show.

00:54:59 He was a fan of the show,

00:55:00 and he was a fan of the show.

00:55:02 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:03 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:05 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:07 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:08 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:10 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:11 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:12 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:14 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:15 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:17 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:18 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:19 - I remember him being a fan of the show,

00:55:21 but he was a fan of the show.

00:55:23 - We don't have salad, everybody got salad dressing.

00:55:25 No black salad dressing.

00:55:26 You know what black salad dressing is?

00:55:28 Hot sauce.

00:55:29 (audience laughing)

00:55:32 - Dude, big ass jokes.

00:55:35 He fucking murders.

00:55:39 Murders.

00:55:40 Second he says goodnight, the whole crowd.

00:55:41 (imitates gun firing)

00:55:42 - I was like, wow.

00:55:44 I started really admiring the professional comedians.

00:55:49 I was like, I wanna be a professional comedian.

00:55:52 - There was something about like,

00:55:53 if you made it as a comedian,

00:55:55 like you immediately made it as a name for yourself.

00:55:58 You weren't like, oh, this is the guy that plays,

00:55:59 you know, whoever on this sitcom.

00:56:02 It was like, you're Chris Rock.

00:56:04 (audience applauding)

00:56:07 - The most valuable thing you have as a comic

00:56:12 is your reputation as a live performer.

00:56:16 If you have the reputation of throwing the fuck down,

00:56:21 you can have a flop movie, you can have a flop TV show,

00:56:25 you can do whatever, nobody cares.

00:56:27 If people, you could go years without a hit.

00:56:30 But if people know you throw down,

00:56:32 you will sell out every time.

00:56:34 - That's big.

00:56:35 It's real, it's real.

00:56:37 - Bruce Springsteen ain't have a hit record in 30 years.

00:56:39 - Sells out every fucking show he does.

00:56:41 - And them fucking tickets go fast.

00:56:43 - When that motherfucker drop, bring the pain.

00:56:46 Everyone had to shut the fuck up.

00:56:48 - See, I was watching that HBO had this special on,

00:56:51 the jail special, a couple of months ago.

00:56:53 Now, normally when you see a special about jail,

00:56:56 it's on regular TV and there's a lot of shit

00:56:58 they don't show.

00:56:59 Oh, not the HBO jail special.

00:57:02 Oh, they showed it all.

00:57:03 They was interviewing a brother in there,

00:57:04 they said, now, sir, when a new inmate comes in

00:57:07 and he wants some drugs, how do you initiate him?

00:57:09 The guy goes, well, the first thing I do

00:57:12 is make him toss my salad.

00:57:15 - He's the first guy I ever heard write jokes

00:57:17 like a song with hooks and everything.

00:57:20 I ain't saying he did it, but I understand.

00:57:22 And when that shit hit the streets,

00:57:23 you hear people, I'd hear people saying his bars

00:57:26 on the streets like he was Drake.

00:57:28 - Bring the pain, Chris Rock.

00:57:30 (audience applauding)

00:57:33 - Thank you.

00:57:34 Wow.

00:57:35 I just wanna thank anybody who voted for me

00:57:39 that recognizes standup comedy as a real art.

00:57:42 - Chris reestablished a standard of excellence

00:57:46 that was missing in comedy.

00:57:48 - Bring the pain changed my life really fast.

00:57:53 It's hard to even quantify.

00:57:55 - I believe that "Grown Little Man" and "Shaq's All Star,"

00:58:04 I feel like that came out in the same year.

00:58:07 So you have Comedy Central put up his hour,

00:58:10 Kevin, his hour, it was amazing.

00:58:12 - Yay, stop.

00:58:13 Stop.

00:58:16 Stop.

00:58:19 - Shaq's thing was an urban audience showtime

00:58:23 and he killed it.

00:58:24 - Hey, look, first of all,

00:58:25 only time I ate your ass was on your birthday.

00:58:28 No, no, no, no.

00:58:30 - You know, art is subjective.

00:58:34 Comedy is subjective.

00:58:36 Killing on stage is not subjective.

00:58:39 - I remember when Kevin was doing the "Irresponsible" tour.

00:58:42 That tour was the highest grossing tour

00:58:45 in the history of standup comedy tours

00:58:48 that we know about legally.

00:58:50 - I'm at Madison Square Garden

00:58:52 where history is always made.

00:58:54 But there are 19,000 people in attendance tonight.

00:58:58 (upbeat music)

00:59:07 ♪ Once you step in the arena, cheetah ♪

00:59:10 ♪ You're gonna be amazed when you gaze ♪

00:59:12 ♪ At the armor on this leader ♪

00:59:13 ♪ Fully clad and glad to fight a cause ♪

00:59:15 ♪ I won't pause, there is a joke, slowpoke ♪

00:59:17 ♪ I'm like Claus that'll-- ♪

00:59:18 - Man, you know, there's nothing better

00:59:21 than seeing a plan come together.

00:59:23 So what started off as an idea in words

00:59:26 quickly becomes like real.

00:59:29 ♪ As I'm pulling out my lance ♪

00:59:30 ♪ To kill you in advance ♪

00:59:32 ♪ Through the winner's throne ♪

00:59:33 ♪ 'Cause I own you once you step in the arena ♪

00:59:35 (upbeat music)

00:59:38 - With all these New York dates, Eddie did that.

00:59:42 Eddie played the garden for like whatever, five nights,

00:59:46 and then played the whatever the Jersey Meadowlands was,

00:59:49 and went out to the Nassau Coliseum and like--

00:59:53 - Were you just a fan in the stands?

00:59:57 - No, I was like--

00:59:57 - With Eddie, or were you backstage?

00:59:59 - I was backstage.

01:00:00 - Wow.

01:00:01 - I was like the kid in "Bronx Tale."

01:00:05 - Wow.

01:00:05 - You know what I mean?

01:00:06 Like I got to hang around the gangsters.

01:00:07 I wasn't a gangster yet, but I got to be around the gangsters.

01:00:11 - Kenan, Eddie, Charlie.

01:00:12 - Kenan, Robert.

01:00:14 - Oh.

01:00:15 - You know what I mean?

01:00:15 Charlie.

01:00:16 Like I was there, Rick James.

01:00:19 - Call me wife, you can call me twice, here we go.

01:00:22 - Your wife?

01:00:23 - Here we go, you know?

01:00:24 - Which wife, Kevin?

01:00:25 - Okay, no, I have one wife.

01:00:27 - Current?

01:00:28 - Don't listen to that, okay?

01:00:29 Cut that out.

01:00:30 - Hey, beautiful, how are you?

01:00:33 - I'm fine, how you doing?

01:00:35 - I'm okay, thanks for taking care of this guy.

01:00:38 - He ate some watermelon, called everybody crackers.

01:00:40 We're done, we're finished.

01:00:41 - What'd you say?

01:00:42 - He ate watermelon, called all the white people crackers.

01:00:44 We're done, it's over for us.

01:00:47 - We're both in the middle of our tours, right?

01:00:50 Chris is doing his tour, I'm doing my tour.

01:00:52 And it's not about outdoing the other.

01:00:53 That's not what it's about.

01:00:55 It's a show that we can all coexist together.

01:00:59 - You wanna go to a cellar?

01:01:01 - Let's go to a cellar.

01:01:02 - Do you wanna, depending on who's there,

01:01:03 we hang out or we just go up?

01:01:04 It's your call.

01:01:06 - You know, we gotta go up.

01:01:07 - Yeah, we can go up.

01:01:07 - Yeah, yeah.

01:01:08 - Okay, all right.

01:01:09 (upbeat music)

01:01:12 Most exciting thing about comedy in New York,

01:01:17 it's all night.

01:01:18 You know, you're truly a vampire looking for laughter.

01:01:24 There's truly nothing like New York comedy.

01:01:28 From the amount of comedy clubs,

01:01:31 from the energy of the city,

01:01:34 to the melting pot of people.

01:01:36 I mean, some of everything is in New York.

01:01:40 It's as universal as you can possibly get.

01:01:42 - You told me 10 fucking, you said 10, 15.

01:01:47 - Nigga.

01:01:48 - 10, 15.

01:01:49 This nigga's dead, you're dead.

01:01:51 - SD and Manny, rest in peace Manny.

01:01:54 Manny and SD ran a comedy cellar.

01:01:57 And you know, that place,

01:02:00 I'm telling you, it was like, cheers.

01:02:02 It was, it's where everybody came, every comic came.

01:02:07 It was just a high level of camaraderie

01:02:10 that was built at the back tables at the comedy cellar.

01:02:14 And before I was a comedian,

01:02:16 I remember hanging out at those back tables.

01:02:18 - I meet the comic, I watch them do the set.

01:02:23 I still like to laugh.

01:02:27 So if I laugh, it's a good thing.

01:02:30 But then beyond that, I talk,

01:02:35 let's say I talk to somebody

01:02:36 and I find out that there's this whole story behind

01:02:40 what motivates that person.

01:02:45 What they do, what they are about.

01:02:47 And I find that the comedians, especially comedians,

01:02:51 have the most incredible background stories.

01:02:57 - Y'all ready for more show?

01:02:58 Come on, man.

01:02:59 (audience cheering)

01:03:02 We got a young comic, he just started comedy,

01:03:04 and he just wanna do a little five minute.

01:03:06 So we like to give these young comics some love, man.

01:03:09 Y'all ready to give these young comics some love?

01:03:11 (audience cheering)

01:03:13 Make some noise for Kevin Hart, everybody.

01:03:16 (audience cheering)

01:03:19 - The question is, when he first said Kevin Hart,

01:03:23 who the fuck do y'all think he was talking about?

01:03:25 (audience laughing)

01:03:28 - Yeah, all right, y'all thought it was two?

01:03:31 Jesus.

01:03:32 Thank you, Will.

01:03:35 And I was a little fucked up, right?

01:03:36 Will, I thought, they hesitate.

01:03:38 You know, I ask myself all the time, man,

01:03:41 why am I not crazy?

01:03:42 I feel like I'm supposed to.

01:03:44 I feel like I'm supposed to be crazy.

01:03:46 All the shit that I've been through,

01:03:48 on paper, I'm supposed to be crazy.

01:03:51 Who knows, maybe it's coming.

01:03:53 Maybe I got a hot batch of crazy waiting on me.

01:03:55 'Cause you don't see it coming,

01:03:57 it just happens.

01:03:58 Nobody plans for crazy.

01:04:02 It just fucking happens.

01:04:04 Look at Will Smith, he didn't plan that shit.

01:04:05 (audience laughing)

01:04:07 It just happened.

01:04:08 It just fucking happened.

01:04:11 (audience cheering)

01:04:14 Keep my white man, I don't mind, I don't mind.

01:04:15 He didn't mind that.

01:04:17 (audience laughing)

01:04:18 It's the fucking outburst.

01:04:19 (audience cheering)

01:04:21 You guys got a night full of comedy, man.

01:04:23 And it's not just about me,

01:04:25 it's about the other fucking amazing comics

01:04:27 that are on this stage.

01:04:28 And I love to support the energy here.

01:04:31 Hopefully I've amplified it,

01:04:32 because the next versions of myself

01:04:35 and the next versions of fucking comedy superstars,

01:04:37 well they gotta come through here.

01:04:39 They have to.

01:04:40 So do me a favor, show them the same way.

01:04:42 (audience cheering)

01:04:45 - All right, I'll see you in a moment.

01:04:48 - Let's see if we can talk to him.

01:04:49 - I'll see you in a moment.

01:04:50 - All right, go.

01:04:51 - Woo!

01:04:51 - Make sure to do it again.

01:04:52 - Yeah, what you doing?

01:04:54 - I'm going home.

01:04:55 - What, what now?

01:04:56 - I'm going home, I'm going home.

01:04:57 - You're gonna walk, you're gonna walk, right?

01:04:58 - I'm, I'm, I got, I got a limo.

01:05:01 I got a Bentley.

01:05:02 - Terry.

01:05:03 - He don't wanna fuck up the week, let him walk.

01:05:05 Let him walk.

01:05:07 - Stubborn.

01:05:12 He's the most stubborn person I've met.

01:05:13 - Now we ready.

01:05:14 ♪ Rosewood pull up ♪

01:05:16 ♪ Blackboard hop out ♪

01:05:17 ♪ Shout out to my mother and my father ♪

01:05:19 ♪ They can pull out ♪

01:05:20 ♪ MSG sell out ♪

01:05:21 ♪ Fuck these niggas gap out ♪

01:05:23 ♪ Whips on whips ♪

01:05:23 ♪ My ancestors got their backs off ♪

01:05:25 ♪ Too far, 500 stacks for the hood ♪

01:05:28 ♪ Call me lumberjack ♪

01:05:29 ♪ 'Cause I'm wishing that the world ♪

01:05:30 ♪ Was doing like I just a wishing nigga could ♪

01:05:33 ♪ Face thing, get the paper like they should ♪

01:05:35 ♪ Wait ♪

01:05:37 - Okay, I guess we're good, sound wise.

01:05:44 It seems a little whatever, but hey,

01:05:46 it's Madison Square Garden.

01:05:48 It's not the--

01:05:49 - Sounds fucking great.

01:05:50 By the way, look at my dumb ass.

01:05:52 - I've seen Kevin in here three or four times now.

01:05:56 - Yeah.

01:05:57 - I saw him do the fire.

01:05:58 That's the first time I was like, okay.

01:05:59 - Let me explain.

01:06:00 - Let me see what this motherfucker got.

01:06:02 - Throughout my show,

01:06:03 you're gonna see a bunch of pointless fire.

01:06:05 They're laughing, I'm not playing, I'm dead serious.

01:06:07 You think it's a game?

01:06:09 (fire roaring)

01:06:11 - I saw the fire, I was like,

01:06:12 goddamn, this fucking fire.

01:06:14 - Get fire on me.

01:06:15 - I was like, goddammit.

01:06:17 - New York's the Mecca.

01:06:18 New York's, you know.

01:06:20 - It doesn't get bigger.

01:06:21 - New York City is not only a melting pot

01:06:25 of anything and everyone.

01:06:27 It can truly define an entertainer

01:06:30 in ways that no other place can.

01:06:33 - When it boils down to you getting on the mic

01:06:36 in front of people, live people.

01:06:39 - Gotta have something to talk about.

01:06:40 - You gotta have some substance.

01:06:42 They need to know who Naeem is, who's Spank,

01:06:45 who's Joey, when telling a joke.

01:06:47 You have to leave a piece of yourself.

01:06:49 When you leave the stage, these are the nuances

01:06:52 of comedy and the business of comedy

01:06:54 and the nuance of telling jokes.

01:06:57 But the work is the work.

01:06:59 (upbeat music)

01:07:01 - What up guys?

01:07:02 - Hey.

01:07:03 - How you doing?

01:07:04 - Hey man.

01:07:05 - How you doing man?

01:07:05 I just came to stop in, check on you before we start.

01:07:07 What up champ?

01:07:08 - What's up?

01:07:09 - I don't want much of nothing.

01:07:10 - How's it going?

01:07:11 - We doing, y'all at it right now?

01:07:12 - Chris, I'm so blown away by what I'm discovering.

01:07:17 That is your process.

01:07:18 - This is all your shit?

01:07:19 - Well this here would be bullet points for tonight.

01:07:23 For every card represents a joke

01:07:26 or a reference that I choose I don't wanna forget.

01:07:29 You know what I mean?

01:07:30 Like, you can remember all your jokes.

01:07:32 Some nights I'm like, "Eh, I'm not gonna close

01:07:36 "with this one, I'm gonna close with that one."

01:07:38 - You guys have it down to a size

01:07:39 where you can bullet point the time.

01:07:40 - You can bullet point the time.

01:07:41 And by the way, sometimes something happens in the news.

01:07:44 - You have jokes on the bench.

01:07:45 - I have jokes on the bench.

01:07:47 - I'm going to tell you a story.

01:07:48 I'm going to tell you I'm not only impressed by that,

01:07:50 but I'm disappointed in myself

01:07:52 because whatever I got, got to fly.

01:07:54 By the time we get to the garden,

01:08:00 it's gonna be a well-oiled machine.

01:08:02 Everything happens in rhythm.

01:08:04 Me and Chris said, "Let's figure out a way

01:08:05 "to put this rhythm together.

01:08:06 "We gotta make sure that our rhythm is there."

01:08:09 There were no rehearsals.

01:08:10 There was no warm-up sets that happened

01:08:13 that we were able to figure it out

01:08:15 and see if this was gonna work.

01:08:18 No, Chris had to show up with his hour.

01:08:20 I showed up with my hour.

01:08:21 (upbeat music)

01:08:24 ♪ You can dance if you want to ♪

01:08:41 ♪ All the critics love you in New York ♪

01:08:45 ♪ You don't have to keep the beat ♪

01:08:46 ♪ They'll still think it's neat in New York ♪

01:08:50 ♪ All the critics love you in New York ♪

01:08:55 ♪ New York ♪

01:08:59 ♪ New York ♪

01:09:03 ♪ New York ♪

01:09:05 - Look at you, look at you.

01:09:06 - Look at you, look at you.

01:09:06 - Woo!

01:09:07 - What's up?

01:09:08 - What's up, bro?

01:09:09 - Hey!

01:09:10 No, no, no.

01:09:11 Hey, hey!

01:09:12 - What's going on?

01:09:13 - How you doing?

01:09:14 - Look at this wild ass.

01:09:14 - Well, well, well.

01:09:16 - Well, you made it.

01:09:17 - Yeah.

01:09:18 - I'm here.

01:09:19 - Y'all, look at my guy.

01:09:20 What's up?

01:09:21 - How are you?

01:09:22 - Good to see you.

01:09:23 - Good to see you.

01:09:23 - Look at you.

01:09:24 - Look at you.

01:09:25 - Woo!

01:09:26 - Listen to me.

01:09:27 It be some tit bits, all right?

01:09:30 Let y'all niggas know what the fuck is happening tonight.

01:09:33 - They don't know it, I got a goat here.

01:09:35 So I fucking had the city allow me to get a goat.

01:09:38 Had to get the mayor fucking Dave, Chris,

01:09:41 come out at the end.

01:09:43 Gonna thank them, show's over.

01:09:45 Say I got a gift, 'cause I gotta give Chris his flowers, man.

01:09:48 This is my guy, mentor.

01:09:51 I got your gift.

01:09:52 Tell the fucking guy to bring it.

01:09:53 I'm gonna get a nigga and a goat.

01:09:55 I'm on stage, I'm gonna say a goat for a goat.

01:09:58 And me and Chappelle, we're gonna take a step back

01:10:00 and let our guy have his fucking goat.

01:10:02 (clapping)

01:10:03 - Woo!

01:10:04 - Damn!

01:10:05 (laughing)

01:10:06 - Look at the leather.

01:10:07 - That's sick.

01:10:07 - Look at the leather, my fucking guy.

01:10:08 - That's beautiful.

01:10:09 - Look at the leather.

01:10:10 - That's beautiful, man.

01:10:11 - Look at the fucking leather.

01:10:12 - That's fucking beautiful.

01:10:13 - All you been through, nigga, you gonna get your back.

01:10:15 - That's right, that's beautiful.

01:10:15 - You gonna get your flowers, you gonna stand up.

01:10:17 - Man, y'all got chill bars.

01:10:18 - You did well.

01:10:19 - That's beautiful, man.

01:10:20 - He has no idea.

01:10:21 - That's fucking amazing.

01:10:21 - He has no idea.

01:10:22 He's just like, all right, like,

01:10:24 have some of the greatest cool.

01:10:26 He has no idea.

01:10:27 - When I call Chris a goat,

01:10:29 I'm calling him a goat because of what he's achieved.

01:10:31 I'm calling him a goat because of his ability

01:10:34 to stay current, to still be doing what he does

01:10:38 at a high level, and having a good time.

01:10:41 There's so many reasons to overcome obstacles

01:10:44 and still be who you are, to still have a sense of self.

01:10:48 Like, there's so many reasons behind my definition

01:10:51 of goat for him, but that has nothing to do

01:10:53 with us calling Dave a goat.

01:10:55 We feel like Dave's a goat.

01:10:56 - Dave's a goat.

01:10:57 - Eddie's a goat.

01:10:58 - Eddie's a goat.

01:10:59 - We still, there's so many tiers.

01:11:00 - Lots of champs.

01:11:01 - Probably a goat.

01:11:02 - Sugar Ray's a champ, Ollie's a champ,

01:11:03 Mike Tyson's a champ.

01:11:04 - Y'all champs.

01:11:05 So, and me and Chris doing the garden,

01:11:10 and our hopes was that Dave shows up.

01:11:14 Even when we were like making the order

01:11:15 and all that stuff, we knew we were like,

01:11:17 okay, let's save some time in case Dave shows up.

01:11:21 We just waited.

01:11:22 We got closer to the town when we got the call.

01:11:26 I'm coming, man.

01:11:27 The camaraderie between me, Kevin, and Dave.

01:11:32 We neutrally respect each other,

01:11:35 which is a beautiful thing.

01:11:37 We have three totally different styles.

01:11:40 Nobody feels threatened by the other.

01:11:43 - Let's understand what the fuck is about to happen.

01:11:47 Am I the only one all souped up on my dude?

01:11:51 I'm all souped up, man.

01:11:52 I'm about to jump on you like a spider monkey.

01:11:55 ♪ Yeah, work goes up eventually comes down ♪

01:11:58 ♪ Let the dollars levitate ♪

01:11:59 ♪ As the world goes round from the ground ♪

01:12:01 ♪ Keep falling up, keep falling up ♪

01:12:06 ♪ I was falling from the ceiling so high ♪

01:12:08 ♪ Came for that less up on my head ♪

01:12:09 ♪ Don't have to kill it, let my money keep falling ♪

01:12:12 ♪ Keep falling up, keep falling up ♪

01:12:16 - 'Cause we wanted to do the whole thing with Dave.

01:12:19 You know, Dave's Dave.

01:12:23 Who knows what Dave had to do that week, right?

01:12:28 Dave is a real rock star.

01:12:29 Dave marches to the beat of his own drummer.

01:12:32 Dave does what he wants when he wants.

01:12:38 And only Dave can navigate the way that Dave does.

01:12:42 Without getting into the process,

01:12:44 here's the ultimate deciding fact,

01:12:47 is that they asked me to.

01:12:50 Once I understood this was important to them,

01:12:52 I got on a plane and I got my act together

01:12:55 and I met them with what I had.

01:12:57 Whatever I had, I would have showed up though,

01:12:58 'cause those are my dudes.

01:13:00 - Hey man, real quick.

01:13:01 - Dad, Heavenly Father,

01:13:03 I thank you for bringing me and my brothers together

01:13:06 for the first time in this particular space

01:13:10 with somebody of this magnitude.

01:13:12 I ask that you bless us all

01:13:14 with the ability to make people laugh

01:13:15 and more importantly, have fun, love, support.

01:13:19 This is history and we thank you for allowing us

01:13:21 the opportunity to do so.

01:13:23 In your name we pray, amen.

01:13:24 - Amen. - Amen.

01:13:25 - Let's go, let's get it.

01:13:26 - Give it to 'em. - Let's get it, guys.

01:13:28 Let's get it, guys.

01:13:29 We realize that we have an opportunity

01:13:33 to make the most of a moment.

01:13:36 A moment that'll live forever.

01:13:38 (audience cheering)

01:13:41 (upbeat music)

01:13:44 - Good to see you, buddy.

01:14:11 - Dave came out, he had his moment, people went crazy.

01:14:14 But then did you see Chris's walk up after that?

01:14:22 (upbeat music)

01:14:24 Like he had so much confidence, so much ego when he came out,

01:14:31 it was like, "I don't care what just happened.

01:14:33 "I am who I am."

01:14:34 Same shit with Cav came out.

01:14:37 Yeah, that was cute what they did,

01:14:38 but I'm still Kevin Hart.

01:14:40 My little dummy at Madison Square

01:14:43 following Chappelle, Chris, unbelievable.

01:14:48 ♪ Tell me that ♪

01:14:51 ♪ Tell me that, son ♪

01:14:53 ♪ Tell me that, bitch ♪

01:14:54 - Cav closed the show like, "Oh my goodness,

01:14:57 "I was worried about my purse."

01:15:00 Like, "Come on, little dummy, you better be good."

01:15:03 Cav like, "Pow!"

01:15:04 And looked like Reggie Jackson out in the ballpark.

01:15:08 (crowd cheering)

01:15:11 Madison fucking Square corner.

01:15:14 (crowd cheering)

01:15:17 Chris, make some noise out here, man.

01:15:21 You all need to make some noise out here, right?

01:15:25 Get your ass out here.

01:15:28 Yes, sir.

01:15:29 Yes, sir.

01:15:30 Yes, sir.

01:15:33 Yes, sir, man.

01:15:38 Yes, sir.

01:15:39 Hey.

01:15:43 - Dave, I got a gift, though.

01:15:46 I got a gift for Chris, and I just wanna-

01:15:47 - Oh, no, no, no.

01:15:48 - No, no, no, I got it, and I'm gonna give it to you now

01:15:50 'cause it has to happen.

01:15:51 - I got watches, man.

01:15:53 - No, no, I got a fucking gift.

01:15:54 You shut your mouth, you take it.

01:15:55 Bring it up there, guys.

01:15:57 Bring it up there. - Wow.

01:15:58 Bring it up there.

01:15:59 (crowd cheering)

01:16:01 - Thank you.

01:16:02 (Dave laughing)

01:16:02 Sit down, please.

01:16:04 - Wow.

01:16:05 - Sit down.

01:16:06 Let's go.

01:16:08 - I bought you a fucking goat.

01:16:10 - This goat is a big show business.

01:16:13 - And your joke is-

01:16:15 - This ain't a joke, Dave.

01:16:16 - I'm not even kidding, motherfucker.

01:16:18 - No, no, fuck you.

01:16:20 Nigga, this is a goat for a fucking goat.

01:16:23 Hold your goddamn goat, get in the middle.

01:16:27 You take your moment to realize you're great,

01:16:29 and I love you, and without you-

01:16:31 - By the way, this is the worst night of this goat's life.

01:16:37 - Yeah.

01:16:38 - The goat is just happy he's not

01:16:40 in a Jamaican restaurant right now.

01:16:42 - Okay.

01:16:43 (crowd laughing)

01:16:46 - Come here, bitch, come here.

01:16:49 Come here, come here.

01:16:50 - Ah, the goat's shit.

01:16:51 Ah, ah, the goat's shit.

01:16:53 - The goat is shitting.

01:16:56 The goat is shitting.

01:16:58 - Indian food.

01:16:59 (crowd laughing)

01:17:02 - The goat is-

01:17:02 - This goat shit all over the state.

01:17:05 - Champ, this was a terrible idea, nigga.

01:17:08 He's always gonna do this again.

01:17:10 He's gonna bring Chris a real goat.

01:17:11 I said, "That's a great idea."

01:17:13 Look at this.

01:17:16 - You keep your shitty goat, nigga.

01:17:18 - Bring his goat.

01:17:19 - Chris didn't have a little fucking white goat?

01:17:21 - First man in show business, huh?

01:17:22 Nigga, he's shitting on the stage, huh?

01:17:24 - What's up?

01:17:26 - Dave, come here.

01:17:27 - What are you gonna name this goat, Chris?

01:17:28 - Come here, the name is Will Smith.

01:17:30 Come here, man.

01:17:31 (crowd laughing)

01:17:33 - What?

01:17:35 What did I say?

01:17:36 What?

01:17:36 - When it's time to go to the Hall of Fame, I'll go.

01:17:39 But right now, I'm still playing.

01:17:41 Right now, I'm, you know, I got 25, I got eight rebounds,

01:17:46 and I had six assists last night.

01:17:48 You can't be in the Hall of Fame and play at the same time.

01:17:52 I'm still playing.

01:17:57 I'm still good.

01:18:00 - Make some noise.

01:18:03 (crowd cheering)

01:18:05 Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, and Dave Chappelle.

01:18:10 Thank you very much.

01:18:12 Have a good night.

01:18:12 ♪ Hey, microphone testing ♪

01:18:15 ♪ Testing, you playing politician ♪

01:18:17 ♪ You machine on the West Wing ♪

01:18:19 ♪ Guessing the best thing for me to do is spit it ♪

01:18:21 ♪ This shit is never a gimmick ♪

01:18:23 ♪ You listen more than a minute ♪

01:18:24 ♪ I've been spitting flows since a kid was six years old ♪

01:18:27 ♪ And if you listen close ♪

01:18:28 ♪ I do this like mismatched clothes ♪

01:18:29 ♪ It's whatever, put it together ♪

01:18:31 ♪ You never could be this clever ♪

01:18:32 ♪ I'm rocking the mic forever ♪

01:18:34 ♪ You gonna stop me, never ♪

01:18:35 ♪ I'm cocky because I love that you rock it ♪

01:18:37 ♪ Without the punches, hockey without the ice ♪

01:18:39 ♪ And boxes without the lunch ♪

01:18:40 ♪ Just blowing like me ♪

01:18:41 ♪ Knowing that got you mad, bitch ♪

01:18:44 ♪ Swore your boys are nothing but just ass, rich ♪

01:18:47 ♪ I ain't telling nobody how they should live they life ♪

01:18:49 ♪ I got my own shit to deal with ♪

01:18:51 ♪ So that just isn't right ♪

01:18:52 ♪ I'm just trying to leave the crib ♪

01:18:53 ♪ Go out and live the nice shit, fuck that ♪

01:18:56 ♪ I'm locked in the lab working ♪

01:18:57 ♪ Dropping the track beats ♪

01:18:58 ♪ Get body to bag certain ♪

01:19:00 ♪ See the world through first, second and third person ♪

01:19:03 ♪ Omniscient, listening so efficient ♪

01:19:05 ♪ Trapped in my own goal line ♪

01:19:07 ♪ Ready to go the distance ♪

01:19:08 ♪ Consider it a privilege that you get to witness ♪

01:19:11 ♪ History in the making, you fucking bitches ♪

01:19:15 ♪ Just playing with y'all ♪

01:19:16 ♪ Still in line waiting for my name to get called, yeah ♪

01:19:29 ♪ I want it ♪

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