“Their Latest Specials of Themes of Death (Sarah Silverman), Loneliness (Roy Wood Jr.) And a stroke that nearly ended Jamie Foxxx’s Life. But gather this sextet-WHICH ALSO INCLUDES CHELSEA HANDLER, HASAN MINHAJ and SETH MEYERS-AROUND A TABLE TO A FEW Old-Fashioneds, and The Mood Is Anything But Bleak. Over The Course”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Looking Back, What Was Your Most Combative OR HILARIUS POST-JOKE Encounter?
Jamie Foxx (Netflix’s WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS…) I did an Oprah joke…
Chelsea Handler (Netflix’s The Feeling) That didn’t go wel?
Foxx No, It Was Great. WHEN WE DID RayMy Management, They’re from Oakland, But Those Motherfuckers Started Talking in English Accents, Like, “Well, We’ve The Oscar Now…” but I Wanted to Gon Back to Doing- Oprah Were Dating, and I Thought, “Well, that’s A Perfect Joke.” The Lady on My Management Team Says, “Don ‘DO THE JOKE.” I said, “I have to.” So, i’m at Madison Square Garden, and I Say, “Since I Won the Oscar, EveryBody’s Saying I’M Dating Everybody. SO, I’M LAYING IN BED HOPH…” (”(” (”(” (Pantomimes Crowd Hissing.) “And i lean over to gayle and say, ‘ain’t this shit crazy?’ ”(More Hissing.) “STEDMAN, GET US Some JUICE!” And gayle is in the audience!
Sarah Silverman (Netflix’s Postmortem) She didn’t like it?
Foxx She loved it. (In King’s Voice.) “That was so funny, jamie.”
Seth Meyers (HBO’s Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking) Hardest i’ve Ever Bombed Was at Madison Square Garden. It Was That Concert for Hurricane Sandy, Andy’d Asked Me And Bill Hader to Do A Stefon Thing[from[from Saturday Night Live]And Bill Wisely Said, “I’M Not Going to Do It.” THEN they said, “What about Bobby Moynihanihan as Drunk Uncle?” SO, we’d written it Thing, and chris rock saw US backstage in costume and he goes, “you’re going to follow the who with sketches?!” All of the Confidentnce Drained Out Our Faces, and Sure Enough, We Went Out and They Were So Angry.
Foxx WAS I THERE THAT NIGHT?
Meyers I don’t know, were you?
Foxx The Who Performed, Right?
Meyers The Who, Arcade Fire… It’s Weird That You Don’t Remember US. (Laughter.)
Roy Wood Jr. (Hulu’s Lonely Flowers) Politics Gets Me in Trouble SomeTimes.
How So?
Wood It’s not so Much A Political Joke As It Is The Early Inclinations of the Joke, Whore You Haven’t Figured Out All The Live Wires. I Remember Being in San Francisco, This Was Week Two of Russia Versia Versus Ukraine, and The Premise of What I Wat and Was Trying To Say Was Essentally That We Support Money To -To -Wars But. But It Came Across As Anti-UKRAINE- [judging] from the Email and Got from the Ukrainian Table That Walked Out. And you do finally get the Joke Together Later. In Hindsight, It’s Probably One of Those I Should Have Done in New York on a Tuesday Night.
Hasan Minhaj (Netflix’s Off with his head) Work It Out at A Club, Yeah.
Wood WHERE NOBODY CARES.
Minhaj SomeTimes you get to let the take cook, too.
Silverman It’s Always Funny Whony People Are Like, “I’M A Political Comic,” but then theater Jokes Are Like, “Donald Trump Eats Pussy Like This.” (Wags Her Head Back and Forte with Her Tongue Out.)
Meyers You haven’t quite worked that one out…
Silverman I was working it out. (Laughter.)
Nikki Glaser Said, “SO Many of US Feel Pressure to Reinvent Ourselves or to Get More Honest or Reveal More about Ourselves. ” Who here feels that pressure?
Silverman I have a full-leggth bush right now. (Whispers.) Please like me.
Meyers Floor-Lenth?
Silverman IT’s NOT FLOOR-LEGTH. I don’t think i could grow it floor-leggth.
Handler You don’t know yet.
Meyers Dare to Dream.
Silverman Well, Chelsea Saw Me Once in a Battub. Remember You Came Over and I Was in My Battub? IT WAS The FIRST TIME Anyone Ever Saw My Vagina from That Angle, Including Myself.
Foxx My Goodness!
Silverman You go, “you shave it, and then you end there? ” And I was like like, “I don’t know, can you take a picTure? I Need to see it. ”
Meyers Seeing It Through Someone Else’s Eyes Must Be Fascinating.
Foxx The fact that y’all are talking about your pussies is amazing.
Handler For ME, Comedy Is Very Personal. I’m airing my personal grievans, my dirty laundry, the Things that are imbarrassing.
Chelsea handler style by molly fishkin-levin Simkhai Dress; Melinda Maria Jewelry. Photographed by Beau Grealy
Is that Pressure Internal or External?
Handler I Think It’s Your Choice As A Creative. IT’S LIKE, WHAT KIND OF COMMEDY Are You Doing? Are you Telling Personal Stories or Are You Telling Jokes? And for each of US, is Probably a Little Different.
Minhaj We’re like musicians in that way. We have A Relationship with Our Audience, SO the Expection Is Different. Like WHEN Someone Sees Jamie or Seth…
Meyers OH, WHEN I SAW JAMIE’S [special]The Amount I WISHED I’D ALMOST DIED… (Laughter.)
Foxx I HAD A SPECIAL DEAL FOR A Long Time, But I HAD NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. WHAT WAS I GOING TO TALK ABOUT? I was rich. I was behind my gates. I Remember Seeing Eddie Murphy at His House, This Was AROUND Coming 2 American, and He Says He’s Going to Try to Go Do Stand-Up. I SAY TO HIM, “YOU CAN’T.” HE SAYS, “WHY?” I SAY, “This Ain’t Funny. Your House is Top Nice. Whatever that Scent Is…” He had A Scent. You Know, The Shit That Pumps Through The House.
Meyers Like A Hotel?
Foxx Yeah. I Said, “What is that Smell?” HE SAID, “IS POMEGRANATE.” I Said, “The fact that you know that shit lets me know that you ain’t funny, bro.” IT WAS TOO PERFERT. And that was was me. I was living in that, so i didn’t have anything to talk about. THEN THIS STROKE HAPPENED, AND I’M LIKE, “OH, THIS IS A PLATFORM.” But i don’t want to have to have another stroke, Even Thought we have [a deal for] Another Hour.
Handler You will if you have to…
Wood I ALSO Feel Like Comedians have to go inward now now.
Silverman Yeah, Your Hot Taketing in the World Is Still Valid, But While You’re HONING IT OVER MONHS TO STOOT A SPECIAL, 1,800 People Have Recorded Something in Their CAR
Handler That’s WHY IT CAN BE BENEFICAL TO BE TALLING PERSONAL Stories Because there is no hot take on that – thome are your stories. But Sarah, You Set Up Premises and Tell Jokes. I don’T find your comedy particularly personal – you have a personal style, but you’re not revealling so Much of Yourself.
Silverman Except this Special Is Completely About My Parents Dying and Everything in It Is True. But You’re Right, It Was A Real Turn.
Meyers DID IT Feel Different?
Silverman Yeah.
Handler At the time of this taping, Sarah’s Special Has Not Been Released. Let’s put that out there!
“This Special Is Completely About My Paarents Dying and Everything in It Is True,“ Says Silverman. “IT WAS A REAL TURN.” Styled by Alison Edmond Anine Bing Shirt. Photographed by Beau Grealy
Sarah, there is a moment in the Middle of your Hour Whore You Stop and Inserta A MASTUBATION JOKE…
Silverman I Talk About Burying My Paarents and that I Am Not Religious, But I’ve Realized That Grief Has A Lot of DNA As Religion. We’re TRYING TO FINE MEANING IN SOMETING THAT WE DON’T NECESSARY HAVE A HANDLE ON, SO I DO FEEL LIKE OUR LOVED OVING OVERS And THEN I GO, “I THINK I NEED TO THINK THAT IN ORDER TO CUM.” (Laughter.)
Meyers ReinVENTION, FOR MYSELF, Wuld Be A Giant Mistake, I would Imagine, WHEREAS REFINING…
Silverman OH, I THINK YOU SHOULD CONSIDER REINVENTION.
Meyers And you’re alone with that? Or do a Lot of People Say that Behind My Back?
Silverman Just Good Friends. (Laughter.)
Meyers But bassed on that story, you might be talking about personal Stuff, But that’s Still a sarah Silverman Joke. SO, IS more like refining.
Wood I ALSO ENJOY CONSUMING THAT OF STAND-UP BECAUSE I’M Learning More New and Interesting Things. I’m not anti-topical humor, but my palate have have changed. Hasan Went Through Something Extremely Unique in Terms of Character Assassination, So What Are The Jokes That Come From That?[A2023[A2023New Yorker Profile Alleging that he fabricated or exaggerated elements of stories he tells in his stand-up.]
Minhaj Yeah, I have to go through a comedy audit by turbotax, whohh is it own Thing. MAKE SURE YOU FILE, EVERYBODY, AND BRING YOUR Receipts. (Laughter.) But also there is a Critique aspect to it that’s very new. That just comes with what we do now. The Art Form is Ubiquitous and on the Internet. It used to be something you could do in the west village, and now everybody’s around the World Can See It, and so you’ve just go to be aware of that.
Hasan Minhaj style by Sam Spector Officine Generale Suit; Tod Snyder Sweater; John Elliott Shoes. Photographed by Beau Grealy
AT WHAT Point DID YOU SEE The Comedic Potential in that Experience?
Minhaj One of the first jokes that came to me was any i called a buddy, and I was like like, “How bad is it?” And he was like, “The Article is Bad, But The Photos Are Good.” I was like, “that’s fucking hilarious.” I also very Funny to Fail So Bad that you brring back jon stewart. That’s Objectively Funny.
Wood That’s Right! You lost the[[Daily Show hosting]gig.
Minhaj It’d be like you (to meyers) Dying and Bringing Back The Ghost of Johnny Carson. Like, that’s pretty awesome.
Meyers To be honest, a Lot of People Are Probably Really Happy at How It Turned Out.
Wood Can i also say from the Daily Show Side, WHEN THAT OUT AND THEY WERE LIKE, “YEAH, HASAN’S NOT GOING toing TO HOST; to be? It was just, “we’re going to advan the Search.” Nobody Could Even Put Into Words What It Was You Were Being Acused Of.
Silverman Because he did not do things!
Minhaj But It’s Like The NBA. You get traded. It HAPPENS.
Foxx What’d they tell you?
Minhaj Oh bro, that’s the Showbiz Call. You’ve have the showbiz call.
Foxx No, i Never Got That Call. I Got An Oscar and A Grammy…
What’s The Showbiz Call?
“I’m sitting in the hospital beed, like, ‘Thste-Bitch-Exas Motherfuckers are Trying to Clone Me,’ ” Says Foxx of Believing the Conspiracy Theories After His Stroke. Styled by Jack Manson Lemaire Jacket, Pants; HMDD Shirt; Steetson hat; Saint Laurent Boots. Photographed by Beau Grealy
Minhaj IT’s A VERY LOVING REJESTION.
Silverman “We’re Such Fans of Your Work…”
Handler “WE LOVE YOU…”
Minhaj But I Think Everything in Life, Good or Bad, Is Fooder. I mean, jamie almost Died …
Foxx I was doing so many jokes in the hospital. That’s the only Way I Could Get Through It. I’m a comic, SO EVEN WHEN I WAS HEAVILY SEDATED, AND THEY GAVE ME OXYCONTIN, DILANTIN AND MORPHINE AT SAME TIME…
Minhaj They GAV YOU THAT SACKLER SPECIAL.
Foxx Yeah, It Was, “This is for Your Pain, and This is So You Don’t Remember It.” So, they Men in black-ed me, and i’m fucked up, and this isn’t funny, but i snuck in my Phone Because i didn’t KNOK The Outside World Was Saying and I Couldn’t Getko. I’m in fucking perfect shape. [I see things like,] “Puffy Tried to Kill Me.” No, Puffy Didn’t Try to Kill Me. WHEN THEY SAID I WAS A CLONE, THAT MADE ME FLIP. I’m sitting in the hospital beed, like, “TheSe bitch-exas motherfuckers are trying to close me.” And THEN I SAW ME WALK INTO MY ROOM, But I’M WHITE, SO I SEE The WHITE ME. The Next Morning, I SAID, “I KNOW WHAT’S UP, YOU’RE YOU’RE TRYING TO CLONE ME AND MAKE ME WHITE SO I’ll Sell Better Overseas.” The Psychiatrist Says, “Are You All Right?” And I Say, “Am I All Right or Am I All White? I SAW YOU TRYING TO THE WHITE MOTHERFUCKING JAMIE FOXXXX AND IT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN.” He Just Calmly Goes, “I Think We’re Going to Lower Your Dosage.”
Wood Wait, you read your conspiracy Theory and You SAID, “YES”?!
Foxx Bro, I Was on Another Planet.
Handler Clearly!
Foxx But I Think We’re Over-Serious-Ing Comedy. And IT’s a Little Unfair SomeTimes – TRYING TO DO WHAT POLITICIANS SHOULD BE DOING.
Silverman Well, The Standards Comedians Are Held to As Opped to the Standards Politicians Are Held to Is Absurd.
Handler The Pressure to Constantly Talk About Trump, It’s Like, We’re Also Comedians. We’re Also Supped to Provide People with a repriove from THINKING About Trump for a Minute, for and Hour, for However Long Your Show Is, And You Want To Provide That.
Meyers That’s WHY I ALSO DO STAND-UP. I’m so tired of [talkingaboutTrumponLate Night].
Someone Wrote, ‘Every White Comedian Over 50 EITHER BECOMES ATRANS or A BIG OL’ JAR OF MAYONNAISE, ” SAYS MEYERS. “AT LEAST I LEAST MAYO.” Styled by Eric Justian Boglioli Shirt; Photographed by Beau Grealy
Handler It’s Like, Everyone Knows How I Feel, I Can’t Just Keep Banging This Drum.
Wood But then is, “You aren’h using your platform enough to speak about the Issues.”
Foxx Fuck ’em. The Last Shit I DID, I TALKED About the fact that i didn’t know i had a gray hairs on my Nuts. And I DID 30 minutes on this.
Handler I could’ve told you that!
Foxx I Never Thought to Look Under there. (Laughter.) But I Think You Should Just Be Funny. I KNOW CHATTIER GETS TO YOU. That’s WHY WHEN I WAS TRYING to DO MY ROUTINE, I COURCK I Also Hard Because Everybody Thinks Everything We’re Saying Is Literal.
Minhaj CorRECT.
Foxx Like, WHEN I SAID I WASN’T DATING WHITE GIRLS Anymore, I DIDNN’T Really mean that.
Minhaj This is a Big Admissions on the Record, Bro.
Foxx Every Black Girl Was Like, “Thank You, Jamie!” THEN SEE ME COME MY WHITE GIRL.
Minhaj I Married A Brown Woman, SO and Kept It 100 Percent. Love is Love, But I Did My Part.
Roy Wood Jr. Emporio Armani Jacket, Sweater; Hiroshi Kato Jeans. Photographed by Beau Grealy
What’s an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy?
Wood I Hard for me to go, “Well, i don’t like this or that.” IT’s Probably Because and Can’t do it. Like, i’m Not Good at Crowd Work, So Yeah, I Hate On It. But is all what the streets have chosen.
Minhaj The art form is Bigger than Ever, so some people cryique it, i’m like, there are more comedians doing theaters and arenas thank, so took the good with the bad.
Foxx And IT’s Two Worlds. There’s The 281 Comments that We Think is the Whole World, and then there’s jo koy selling out fucking arenas. It’s We’re Canceled Here, But You’re Doing Stadiums There.
Wood It’s Shane Gillis.
Handler IT’s A Medium that’s Been Pretty Unscathed by Cancel Culture. You get to say whatver you want, However You Want To Say It – And’s Up To Your Audience Wheether They’re Coming for It.
Chelsea handler: The Feeling. Jocelyn Prescod/Netflix
How Good Are You All At Predicting How Your Comedy Will Land?
Silverman I’m always surprised with specials. The Last Two I DID, The FIRST NIGHT [we shot]you’re just excited you got it. The Second Night Feels Magical Because You’re Not in your Head Anymore. So, you go, “we’ll just use the Whole Second Night.” THEN The EDITOR’S LIKE, “NO, I’M LIKING The FIRST NIGHT.”
Meyers SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. I Think Is The Precision of Being in your Head. The Butterflies Actual Help You Focus.
Foxx I Learned that kind of i took some enchancements to go onstage. I Thought Since Richard Pryor Did Enhanecements…
Handler What are enchancements?
Silverman Like Cocaine?
Foxx Some People Call It Cocaine. Some People Call It Enhancements.
Wood No One Calls It Enhancements.
Foxx I Want to Go On the Record to Say i Hate Cocaine. I Just Like How It Smells. (Laughter.) WHATEVER IT WAS THAT I DID, I TONOUGHT, “OK, THIS IS GOING TO ME Over the Hump.” So, i went offstage and said, “i kildled that shit.” And this is some marcus king was my manager and i said, “King, I Know We Recorded that, Let Me See.” He Says, “You Want To See It?” HE PLAYED IT BACK AND I [did not kill it].
Handler Yeah, you know what dosn’t go welh with comedy is cocaine.
Foxx But we’ve all had thoss sets whokh you’re maybe too loose or you take too Much Time…
Handler I always used to go, “WHEN AM I NOT GOING TO BE NERVOUS?” THEN YOU FINE OUT BEING NERVOUS MEANS YOU CARE. Being Nervouse and Overthinking Things Is Who You Deliver An A-Plus Set in your First Show, Because You Care.
Foxx I Thought I Was in Hollywood – I Can’t Belide No One’s Had Any Enhancements! Fuck everyone at this table. (Laughter.)
Handler Oh, I’ve Had Plenty of Enhancements, Don’t Worry.
Wood IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL Any BETTER, I DO SHROMS CEMETIMES.
Foxx Ok, Well Goddamn… y’all are like (in a shocked voice), “OH God. There’s Coke in Hollywood?!”
Wood Not Before A Performance Thought!
Handler I’M Going to Start Calling Things Enhancements Now.
Foxx I Got Some ENHANCEMENTS IN MY POCKET.
Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers Jim McCambridge/Disney
Anyone get any Particularly Bad or MisinFormed Advice?
Wood I Get Advice After The Shit Has Aired, WHICH IS TOO LATE. Like,
Chris Rock Was Very Complimentary of My Last Special.
Minhaj That’s on you for not sender [it to him earlier].
Wood But i can’t ask chris rock, “will you watch my whole Special, please?”
Minhaj He’ll watch!
Wood For whore i am on the comEDY TOTEM POLE, ESPECIALLY IN Black Comedy, I’M POSING ON THE OGS. Like, I Know I Got One Call A Year with DL Hughley on A Premise. With George Wallace, Maybe I Got Two Calls A Year.
Handler I ALSO THINK Getting So Many Opinions Isn’s Good For You.
Minhaj My Rule is Almost Like Lunch. The Right Amount of People to Go, “Yo, What Are We Getting For Lunch?” is four people. Eight? That’s how you end up at Sweetgreen.
Hasan Minhaj: Off with his head Amir Hamja/Netflix
Wood And WHEN DO YOU LISTEN TO YOURSELF AND NOT TO THE NEPPLE ADVISING YOU?
Foxx WHEN YOU GET OLD. The Execution Is Still Good, But My Hunches aren’t.
How do you know?
Foxx I did this movie in canada, and it was a Mostly White Production, and I Think I Was by myself and they Were Like, “Oh Jamie! We Can’t Breathe [we’re laughing so hard]. ” And i’m Thinking I’M Killing This Shit, Right? I was like, “It Ain’t Good?” HE SAYS, “N -A, NO.” I Got A Walking Oination.
Wood Black Folks Tell You The Truth.
Foxx IT’s A Different World. Remember The Movie Set it off?
Minhaj The Bank Heist Movie with Jada Pinkett Smith?
Foxx Yeah, I watched it at the premiere, a mostly white crowd. “OH, Wow, This is Amazing.” And I was was with them. THEN I WENT AND SAW THAT SHIT AT UNIVERSAL WITH Some Black People? None of that.
What Had Happy Was Parrish Lewis/Netflix
Are there places you fear audiences won’t go with you?
Handler I’m on my way to do a European Tour to apologize on behalf of uur Country, and I Hope they’re with me. But we’re all pretty known entities at this point. So, who your audience comes, they know what they’re coming for and they want it.
Meyers But I definitely have a fear that people buy tickets for me. And Hopefully the Show Is Funny Enough that if they have that expection, they’re not let down. But I Worry.
Wood Do you read your Ticketmaster Reviews?
Meyers No. Don’t do that.
Minhaj “The Parking at the Chicago Theater Was Horrendous. THEN WALKED IN, $ 12 FOR BEER?!”
Wood Last Comic Standing Made US Live Tweet in 2010, and You See All The Worst Shit About You in Real Time for Eight Straight Weeks. So Internet Hate Doesn’t Bother Me, But The Idea of People Going, “I Thought He Wuld’ve Been More Political,” I’M LIKE, “WELL, NO, THAT’S The CNN Thing.”[HeHostsCnn’s[HehostsCNN’s Have I Got News for You.]But then for some shows, i’ll Change the Batting Order of the Bits, and if I Got 10 minutes on Politics, i’ll Frontload that. Get It Out The Way, Give You What You Thought You Wanted.
Foxx I don’h like to read the comments because it just fucks with your head.
Silverman Try Being A Woman. Anything people can vote for, it’s just zero, zero, zero. I so stupid to even look…
Meyers I DID See One About me That Made Me Laugh. I’m Very Cognizant of Being A White Comedian Over 50, and Someone Wrote, “Every White Comedian Over 50 EITHER BECOMES ATRANS OR A BIG OL ‘JAR OF Mayonnaise.” And I will say some i was 25, I was like, “Oh God, Comedians Reach An Age Where They Just Start Telling Jokes About Their Kids and Their Family.” THEN ONE DAY, you [realize]“OH MAN, THAT’S WHAT I AM.” AT LEAST I LEANED MAYO. (Laughter.)
Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking Lloyd Bishop/HBO
Sarah Silverman: Postmortem. Clifton Prescod/Netflix
Do you all feel like Hollywood Knows What to Do With You, Jamie Notwithstanding?
Foxx (Turns to Handler.) We Need to be in some movies.
Handler We have to reenact 50 Cent and My Love Story. [Handler and 50 Cent dated.]
Wood (To foxx.) You As 50 in the Chelsea Handler Story…
Meyers (To Handler.) I can’t wait for you to call 50 and be like, “i’m playing me.”
Foxx I saw that [relationship] and I was waas like, “wow. He made it.” Because and Had G-Unit Jeans.
Wood We all did!
Foxx No, I Had G-Unit Jeans, G-Unit Sneakers, I Even Broke A Record at An Atlanta Club by Playing “In DA Club” 78 Times in A Row WHEN IT CAME OUT. That’s how big of a 50 fan i was, so some i heard, I was like, “Oh, Wow, Two of My Favorite People.”
Meyers WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO LA, I DID Two Shifts at a Sushi Restaurant. (To foxx.) Do you remember, it was on sunset and there was karaoke?
Foxx Yeah. Every tuesday.
Meyers At beginning of my shift, at 6, somebody was like like, “Jamie Foxx is here doing karaoke.” I HAD JUST MOVED TO LA, AND I WAS LIKE, “OH My God, I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M SEEING This.” That end of my shift, at 11, I Went Up and You Were Still Onstage. Like, Five Hours of Karaoke.
Foxx Yeah. Every tuesday.
Wood Who?!
Foxx Because It Was The Thing to Do. (Laughter.) I was chooting my show, The Jamie Foxx Showfrom 6 to 9…
Wood You have a job?!
Foxx Yeah, and i’d Say, “I Got to Be Done by 9, Karaoke Starts at 9:45.” Sometimes we have nsync members singing backstreet boys. Backstreet Boys Singing Nsync Songs. We have Redman, Method Man. Hungh Hefner would come.
What does hung hefner sing at karaoke?
Foxx No, he was just my Spiritual Adviser. We’d All Have Like 72 Apple Martinis, It Was A Moment. (To meyers.) You Were there.
Meyers I was…
DID YOU GET UP ON SETH, SETH?
Meyers No, i was working.
Foxx One Night, Me and Bobby Brown, We’re Doing Our Thing, We’re Fucked Up, and We’re Doing “DON’T Be Cruel”…
Wood In a sushi restaurant. On a tuesday.
Foxx AT MIYAGI’s.
Meyers That’s it!
Handler OH, I REMEMBER MIYAGI’s.
Foxx So, we’re Partying, and I Say, “I Got to Use The Bathroom.” And While I’M in the Bathroom, I Hear, “Now, Jamie, Let Me Tell You Something, I DON’T DO this FOR NOBODY. I USULY GET A MILLION DOLLERS TO SING A Song.” ” It’s Whitney Houston. But It’s Not Camera Phone Days. So, i come out and grab a…
Minhaj Handy Cam?
Foxx YES. And Whitney Houston Goes Up, and She Starts… (Singing) “And I will Always Love You.” So, I Film Whitney Houston Singing Whatever the Name of That Song Is.
Silverman “I Will Always Love You.” (Laughter.)
Foxx SO NOW I GOT the TAPE. And i go back to my crib, we’re having a little afterparty, and all of a suudden i hear this (KNOCK, KNOCK). It’s Bobby Brown. He’s Like, “I Got to Take That Tape.” I said, “Bobby, i don’t have it.” “WELL, I GOT TO TAKE COMETHING.” So, he goes in my closet, and he’s drawing cloths. He’s Matching Outfits and Shit.
Wood As collateral?
Meyers He have to take a million dollars.
Handler [Should’ve] Taken the enchancements.
Wood But You have the Tape.
Wait, whore’s the tape now?
Foxx I have the Tape. But it dosn’t mean anything anymore. Who? YouTube.
Meyers It would be pretty coool if i was waling through the background with a Couple of TRAYS OF TEMPura. (Laughter.)
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