but he's eddie murphy. i know you enjoyed everybody on the set. e or accidentally walk into his trailer? >> i said exhibit had braids. >> jimmy: exhibit, by the way was in the "x files" movie with you. >> that's completely random true. kenya barris, the brilliant writer/director of this movie, he just came up with this riff. >> jimmy: oh, that was unrelated? >> yeah. i play arnold. he is a podiatrist who has a thing for exhibit. and every time i open my mouth in front of black people, i start to talk about exhibit. so the weird thing was, i co-starred with exhibit in the first or second "x files" movie. kenya had no idea of that. so after i did the first riff on set, because i believe it was improved by kenya for me, i googled a picture of me and exhibit from the "x files" movie, and he was oh my god. >> jimmy: does exhibit know that you talk about him? >> i suppose he does now. >> jimmy: i yeah, i hope so. you also sing and play piano in the movie. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and that is a very funny scene. was that improvised as well? >> in a way it was.

i think about eddie murphy who's trying his i don't know if any of you have ever looked at or read his early comedy, but think about what that's rooted on. and it's different black people black comedians, black people creating black comedy for black people is a different experience than black people appearing in largely white structures. and being something to be laughed at. so i want you guys to consider how that works on television we've got roseanne married with vcr's become a thing in the 1980s mtv believe it or not at one point in time music television began with music like that's video killed the radio star think it was 1986 or somewhere around there i was a high school student and we all know you are looking at me with expressions like for real, the very first song that ever played on mtv. and i don't know it because of a trivial pursuit card was video killed. the radio star? i can't tell you who did that song, but i know that that was the song. and michael jackson's thriller think about michael jackson in the 1980s. this is how black people are represented in art becomes become