swayne brady i'm scared out of my wits at him problem my man dove and i don't know that was his forte but he will fit. first and killed it you know wayne from the improv comedy shows line isn't anyway host of the game show let's make a deal also created we're going to talk about it today hosts a new comedy competition serious sets and straight into me as a comic called wayne brady's comedy kill it sound beat why you t.v. folks and the 1st season wraps up well right around back on june 15th when brady way now i. am so great and let me just get out of the way 1st and fanboy and you i'm such a fan and it looked up to you for a long time and i got to tell you you're you're one of those cats where it's like you and my buddy greg proops and a handful of other people that that in your funny you are some of the examples that i use let's help people when when they say oh you you must have been

a class clown because you're funny is no the class clown in my schools were always the idiots it's the people that then. that can control the way that a joke is shaped and can tell a story in use their minds in their words those are the people that i've always looked up to when you were definitely one of those. wow how flattering that thank you when i means a lot to me geez. you know what i always did dig the action of crafting and stuff like that i remember seinfeld i said to jerry once years ago i said what. you know what are you doing the most and he loved the syllable county he loved getting the words right and he used to say that being a comedian is like sitting by a fosset and when the drip comes at you catch it before it goes down the drain most people let it go down the drain and then yeah analyze that always took my breath away his and that's exactly it very so that's very nice you tell me about this competition no i have

a theory that. you can perfect. certain parts of the craft but there are some guys are just pulled the sword from the stone as far as been brilliantly funny tell me what you're running into this comedy competition wayne brady's comedy i kill innately funny people that you're helping polish or what are you getting well it's 6 teenagers and we came up with the idea my a partner mandy night because my own route to comedy was very securitas and weird because i never considered myself a funny person and comedy was not on my radar i started off the musical theater and doing shakespeare and doing you know like stuff that in my mind my plan was i was going to broadway and i want to follow the footsteps of cats like sidney poitier and and i want to see my craft and do all that stuff and and then along the way i wanted to do music of a singer as well so i met someone this lady clear who who is now is

a really well know screenwriter and she invited me to an improv class that she and her husband taught and it opened my eyes because when i learned what the basics of improv were and she broke it down and then sketch comedy i realized that it was just the same things that i'd been doing in my bedroom by myself for years trying to to write and trying to come up with characters and do all these things and i was able to take the acting the singing and dancing all of that shot shiny stuff and laid on top of the improv and they worked with me and they taught me these are the beats to make some something funny this is where you hold this is how you read an audience and talking about jerry and the syllables even in doing an improv bit there's a difference that if someone throws some something at you that if you use too many words you over explained and you lose their attention if you use too few they like you you don't know what you're talking about if you can say the amount just just

the right. amount of things in a pause here and a look there and you learn which words are funny you learn but body language that's funny that was my boot camp so the argument is can you teach someone to be funny and i said well i never thought i was naturally funny so i wanted to teach the scene to around the same age that i was when i started acting so i want to to get kids who some of them can sing some some of them can act a little bit some some of it can dance and they all have good personalities can i teach them the art of being funny my way and that's what we try to and i have to tell you the experiment was a success you had kids who really didn't know anything about funny who had no desire and by the end of it i had him on stage at 2nd city actually making people laugh doing improv and doing sketch because i was able to do the regular skills they came up with to say hey so if you're

a good singer i'm going to teach you to write a song on the spot and this is how you break down the meter your punch line goes here you always make sure to paint this high picture trust me on this boom and then that kid could could do it i said if you can dance a little bit teach you how to make a funny character using your physicality trust me on this and at the end of the 1010 weeks we had kids who were doing things that they never thought they would have done and it kind of proves my experiment and now i want to try it on on adults i started off with teenagers because they were the most open because when we become a little older we want to learn we are no longer vessels we think that that that we got on. our young and it was probably one of the best experiences of my life being a mentor to these kids. when you must have been so jazz so many 18 year old kids right now are so lost and they all want to be famous but it seems like they see

a lot of famous people haven't done any of the heavy lifting to teach them a saleable skill get them up in front of a live audience they musta been a must win over the moon my friend that is it exactly in fact there was one young man on the show by the name of t.j. such a funny kid i told him i said if things go right for you you're going to be a star but the problem that i had with t.j. doing the show was he teaches grown up in this culture where in the instagram and in the facebook culture where people call themselves comedians using the air air quotes and oh almost a funny sketch and really it just boils down to them either taking ideas that are recycled or just horrible things with no taste so his whole thing what he loves kevin hart is like kevin hart is it so every time that i called upon t.j. to do something it would be a variation of some kevin hart bit that i've done and i completely get it because

you know i used to do richard pryor routines and and mr cosby stuff because that's that's what you heard but then expand and get to know yourself he didn't want to break out of that bubble and i told him i was frank with message especially as a young black man it's important for you to understand all the things that you can do so that you don't walk on stage in his go to immediately was one character character thing that he did that sin bad and i jumped on him he's like i'm hot sauce. i got that sucks i got that sucks and i was like i went dude do you do what what what do you do right now and sinbad asked me said does your uncle really talk like that no sir do you know someone that actually have their personal life no sir. his whole thing had been built because of an image that he felt that he had to have because he was black and he felt he had to do this and live up to whatever this thing was and what came out of that and he was the real kid and he

took chief he wrote the stand of set which was. out of this world about being being the being a kid that was taken out of private school and dumped into this public school he had to prove himself daily to the other black kids and to prove his his blackness and what it meant to him inside he shared his story and all of a sudden the kid was on fire so moments like that made me really realize that this is something that i want to do for the rest of my life and some for when i see that it's on you know what are so many platforms that tell me about the why you t.v. and also think. actually that's that's an. awesome coupling that when you're going to say the actor tell me about b.y.u. in your production partner. well my production partner mandy we we've been we met when she was 19 and i was 23 and we've been together ever since 1st as a as boyfriend girlfriend him and then we got married and then we got divorced but

throughout the whole time we've been best friends and we've always created together so we didn't let the divorce stop our friendship and our love in fact if anything we're we're even closer now than when we were married just in the sense of we have each other's backs there's i trust her with with my life and and she gave me a beautiful daughter and and she gives me some of my best ideas so i would say that i'm definitely the the they winner in the whole deal we partnered with a company called intuitive and entertainment and we took it to be where you t.v. because we knew this was a family show so we didn't want to um we pitch a couple places and the note was always the same they wanted to sensational piece of a reality show which is cool i mean that's what we all watch watched them reality t.v. sometimes but i didn't want anything sensational to get in the way of this message and in the way of the creative process because the show is pretty much the 1st time

that anyone has tried to peel back. the mystery in the magic of what improv and sketch sketch can really be you know you've seen stand up done unlike last comic standing in other shows that shows you if the the they comic journey that way and especially with kids that only want all that drama so be why u.t.v. got it they're a family network they were an amazing partner in this and they were also an amazing partner because of the diversity that we went in we went in knowing that we wanted to cast this as a diverse show so we wanted representatives from we want to black kids wanted white kids we wanted kids of any kid who was good of any race sadly representation always isn't there on a lot of other shows that are town talent base and we felt this was the one especially if it's going to follow my journey. it damn well better have someone who kind of looks like me so that then it because that isn't always the case

so so i have to give b.y.u. t.v. props some on just saying do do what you will and give it to us and it's it was an amazing journey and the kids are great and they were a great partner and they you can watch them on the app they got the streaming app on apple t.v. it's a b. y. you t.v. you can go to to be where you t.v. got ward 2 to watch online but i would definitely say go download the app to stream and besides my show which i think is great and especially right now with everything that's going around the world they've got a ton of family oriented shows so if you want to take a break from h.b.o. and from from the stuff that you know we we we call grown folks shows and you want to watch it as a family bua you t.v. is a great. and sun sweet and you know well that the hallmark channel those g.'s people

are looking for someplace where they can just go and unplug help and not talk about their made that or this and the no generals like the people running drones right now because they want a set number and date and just unlike with the year end and i mean i think i'm guilty of this you know especially being in comedy we some sometimes that our initial thoughts because you go in for the funniest things can sometimes be the most negative version or the most are you sarcastic version so so when i hear of b.y.u. t.v. or hallmark of these things you go. it must be you know pollyanna and saccharin but we have have to remember that yeah for every one that loves a good car the car crashes and and some boobies there's a good person and as a family that they want their kids to be able to sit down and watch t.v. with them and and i've got more sensitive to that as a been

a father so i completely get it all right i'm going to talk with more with lane after the break we've got i haven't even gotten to let's make a deal and we'll talk once again i want to get the shell out though the show is a new comedy competition it's called wayne brady's comedy kill it's on be why you t.v. and you've got to keep an eye out for because the 1st season wraps on june 15th sounds like a cool idea you want to get a taste of it here so you can clock right in for the 2nd season next year all right more with wayne brady right after this and dennis miller plus one. ah no team no crowd. no shots no.

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folks welcome back to dennis miller plus one sorry lunch to cheer there. but doing it from hong lines at his place down in l.a. and wayne and you know what i always think about drew and i i simply i wish i could get that young guy cuz i like game shows i always think it must be so nice to be able to riff but there's a baseline of standing here where he show up or you have to do is be convivial it's people to a large degree show them well and watch them as they have the finest day of their life and in many ways so i always think geez i'd like to get a game show at your kill and i mean i think you've won

a timex for tommy lee the experience and let's make a deal let's make a deal has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my career and i have to admit i didn't think it was going to be that i when i started doing it for stuff i turned it down a couple times when when c.b.s. 1st 1st approached me and the executive producer at the time mike richards. i said no because in my mind i had a very specific picture of the worst version of a game show host now game show host can be cool but i remember growing up and loving but i'm like richard dawson and i love. to see them and you know so and i like all of the panel but then at a certain point people sort of think of a game show host like the guy in the the bad fitting jacket with a lot of mike and all right jimmy tell them what they want and that is not who i want to be as like this is not my thing i'm an actor i'm going to do this sitcom

pilot that i was doing and i'm like i'm out but then they said monte hall would love to meet with you and i still was going to say no but it's like this is pretty cool i get to go and meet monte hollies to watch him with my grandmother every day after school i'm going to go mean monte hall and by the time he finished talking to me and told me the good that the show does for people in being able to. to give and he said we don't want you to make let's make a deal my show i'm not funny like you are not you you make this show whatever you want and getting that was a pat on the back and i've always been a big one for challenges and i thought how can i make this cool can i make this funny and the 1st season or 2 we had our growing pains and i honestly didn't know i felt that i was being made made fun of by other comics and this was the by black

comics and saying are you doing this cheesy game show you this you that you blah blah blah but then at some point we had a turn where i found my groove and the producers all came together and especially one guy in the particular guy named chris a hern who we got it we said if we're going to make this show and if folks aren't going to watch then let's just do whatever the show is that we wore. look what's going out on our shields like yeah like just go out and just do whatever and then we started getting attention because i was finally meet just like i gave that kid c.j. advice i finally started being me i wasn't playing a game show host would show up and i said hey so i will give you the money there is no script but here's how we're going to get to the game i'm going to do an improv we're going to do a sketch i'm going to run outside of the studio we became super unpredictable and that's what people started responding to and it taught me me a lesson it taught me to be thankful for for my blessings it taught me to to to

really like people more because contrary to what some people well a lot of people think. especially when i had a talk show back in the day i'm not. i was never someone who really enjoyed the company of other people which is part of my childhood i'm a very very solitary person so i'm not a person that goes out of my way to make friends or shake hands because. a raise raised that way wasn't in me i'm a very very introverted person so in getting to do the show daily and having people stand next to me that i get to change their lives that brightened my whole thing it completely opened me up in a different way that i hadn't been open before and so now going into our 12th season then i'm loving the show i get to make some tapir and i get to make myself happy and i have the stability that most people in show business can't say that

they have so it's a win win win congrats on the win last year and you must think it's not your place you are so good tell me about that experience that it was talking about amassing a fuck sorry but here i think you all doubt that but. it was great man i was the reason i did it was because i can't afford to take control of my own narrative when it came to so that part i thought i feel that when people watch me if they know who i am it's like beyond the story of the elephant in the blind men that everyone's got a different opinion in terms of well no she's of this or even she's of that or he's of this and they grab a different part of the elephant and they think the thing well with me they just don't there are some people that they don't know and i'm a grammy nominated singer that's been on broadway for years and that i've done that and that's a part of my arsenal even though they've seen me on whose line they don't think

about it just like they didn't think of jamie foxx as an incredible musician and singer and pianist when he was doing wanda on in living color because you only know the thing that's in front of you so this was my thing to say i'm going to do the show i put on this then mask and my aim is to go up there until it and then when the mask comes off when it moves people will then grass what it is that i'm doing and i have to say that the result was exactly the best the optimal the optimal and that the fact that i won in one end and it was great. killer pipes and as a matter of fact when i illinois i hear the saying i think you must a kicked ass as billy flat i think at one point looked great part will wasn't wasn't fun chicago must have been a vast chicago was my broadway debut i did that about i think god like me maybe 1011 years ago and that that's the thing that i've been working for my whole life

and then since then and i've been in hamilton and change the boots and done done a bunch of probably workshops it's definitely a piece that that makes me happy and it and and it kind of keeps me hold the the fact that i can go and go to broadway or do a musical theater piece and then turn around in the new improv on the road and tour and then go host a game show and then release a record and then go to carnegie hall or to symphony thing if exactly the career that i didn't know that i could ever wish for and that i'm glad that i was blessed with how did you eventually make it your way to hollywood and i don't know the very beginning when where did you say that you started out in florida yes so in a nutshell in a really fast net show a store offered orlando i started doing theater no end o. work that all the theme parks that were to disney world end and universal studios

eventually i got a job singing and dancing on a cruise ship and then i did a rock'n'roll tour with the the with the theme park show that took me to 6 flags in st louis then i moved to las vegas and i started singing and dancing at the m.g.m. grand and i worked for legends in concert and i drove up to l.a. every other day to audition for commercials and for t.v. shows and i joined an improv group that no i didn't join and we all moved moved out together from orlando called the house full of honkies and throughout. i don't we got got some place they came in sauce at the acme comedy theater and they invited us to audition for whose line and at the end of the day i was the one that got a got the job that changed my life in 1990. you know and if they could we arrived in l.a. one of the few guys arrived here and thought actually temperature wise the coolest place i've ever worked because if you work another parks in florida that is an

absolute blast furnace you blow out of there you go to vegas which is a double blast furnace you messed with thought you were going to nome alaska by the time you got to the valley but this is paradise baby who said this is sherman oaks i've had the president you get me north hollywood any the day over of the weather in florida because i love my florida folk but hell no. we're just going to wave ready and i just want to remind you folks you can go over to be why you t.v. and coming up the final june 15th you better get over there quick haslett he's got a new comedy competition 18 years old kids in that era and it's perfectly positioned at the place that he has it be why t.v. because i guarantee wayne if you go to some of the networks and you bring that j.t. kid and they're going to say and like that 1st character you were doing can you go back to that they're such they miss the point so pathetically on network you act

really talked about rather if i could so you how many things that are addition for a member of back to back in the day when you korean was around there was a show called called the homeboys in outer space and my buddy flex alley where i think you might know flicks a stand stand up flex. these are member testing for it and it was my 1st time testing for sitcom and i'm sitting in the waiting room and i'm looking at the script and i remember talking to the casting associate of one point and doing one of the lines and the casting so she did so she had that that's great but can you like you know can you. and did this thing. you know you know like oh my boy because it is called home boys and home boy and what oh you know i don't know if this is my cup of tea and

and i was so happy that flex got it because he's such a funny actor and i thought you talked to him him about it later and it's that thing of some sometimes in this business when when when there is one carrot and 10 rabbits you all want that same character and and that's why why the fact that we can have diversity in these t.v. shows and representation is a big deal because we're so used to having a culture where where if you're the only black dude or only black woman in the show then there's no other job for all these other people so so it all starts with a culture that embraces those stereotypes and says well if you don't fit into that stereotype or if you can't do that character then we don't watch and that's right fought for against my entire career so i'm glad that we're actually making some some strides in that and that i can be a part of that i know about you way but some of the best at actor i've done a few things are more chaotic but i people say we're just learn to act and i said i

don't do it that often but i did act in rooms with shoots band where they were say the stupidest i've ever heard in my life and i had to lock a grin on ice so yeah yeah let me consume me think about that now and you'd leave the room you got your believe that these are the people hiring me. those are the people in charge the. maids are really running the prison some sometimes. you really do need to learn learn your acting chops my my go to move when when when i'm in a meeting and i'm hearing just some ridiculous shit is as i'm like boom boom boom boom. maybe i'm thinking but what i'm doing is i'm is i'm keeping my mouth shut because i know that if are actually saying. probably end up cursing them out so so you definitely have we're so could you put your thespian

skills to it so that says always indicate your kilt that 30 years i guess and happy cat. friendly with your ex you've got a baby you've got a you've been dog life it's good bye friend thank you wayne and as i said folks june 15th the final episode on b.y.u. t.v. of wayne brady's comedy. and i can't wait to see it. thank you way for your time as dennis miller plus one. some control for a middle. of the night most some are very hardworking people who want to get ahead that have either have some some health issues or have some other trick about luck the whole time joel moon told me he's paying for a place to live and missing just

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