THE BIG PODCAST - NEW BIG Interview With Godfrey Feat. His Celebrity Impersonations, Being Rejected From SNL, Career Lessons As A Comedian
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Big Boys Neighborhood on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Big Boys Neighborhood, Ladies and Gentlemen. He is here.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We got our good friend godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey man, when did you lock in on your Denzel?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Dean Edwards started the Denzel thing first because he was
the one that was like, okay, all right, right, all right,
all right, that I go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He does do that. So then I started doing my version.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
There are a whole bunch of guys, so I was like, so, yeah, yeah,
so what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, everybody in here?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
You know, hey, dude, that's something like I said, I
couldn't have that because I mess around too much already.
Oh yeah, if God gave me another layer, I wouldn't
use my power for good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And then you can practice.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
There's certain voices you go, I can't really get them,
but I'll practice getting them. You start to get little
nuances like Trump. When I started doing try, I just
start watching Trump and I was like, this is show good.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
This is a really good show.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
People love this show. Big Boy is one of my
favorite shows. It's one of my favorite brid shows. It's
one of my favorite shows. You are the best people.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Say bad things about you. They don't like you, but
I like you so much. They don't like you, big boy.
You're a very you're very you're a very small boy.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now you're very big. At one time you're very big.
And Obama, oh boy, what a piece of crap, isn't he.
The Blacks love me so much, way more than Obama.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And Obama's like, I just just he's a fool, He's
an idiot.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The guy just keeps talking.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
There goes Obama, There he goes again.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's so mad that he lost. He's mad that he
lost to me. I have the card. This is like,
you know, I have drove for you have skip? You skip,
you have skip, you have skipped. This is who I'm new.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Marohoo, shout out to the latinos. I'm sorry for what
I did, but I'm new Marono number on and don't
you forget that watch your mouth with.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Me and then Elon must like you have to.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
So I came on Big Boys show and uh I mean, yeah,
you know I did. I came up a big boy
show and uh yeah, my technology is gonna be I
don't really have to be on a show like this.
I have a robot that looks just like you. A
big boy.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I really think he comes in his pants when he's
talking about his technology, He's like.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you I've hit
a lot of robots. I've technology that that's gonna be
coming out. I mean, yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be,
it's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I just think, Uh, you really have to look at
society and what we're doing forlogy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're gonna just trying to help society. What about you?
Having baby number fourteen? Is Nick Cannon thought he could
beat there. He thinks he's a cow and Godfree, thank
you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You can find the entire interview with Godfriss right there
at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching
any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe button
once again, Godfree, thank you for coming into the neighborhood,
Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is big Boy on Demand, Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood. Do
you ever feel like you should be way you're big,
but yeah, for it's talent of today's something.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I was rejected by SNL three times. Yeah, three times, son.
So my first audition I got a standing ovation. And
so when did you first try for SNL Saturday Night
Live ninety nine? Okay, so the first time ninety nine
and then you go back and you feel probably the
second time like okay, I gave him this.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Time it was like this. You go in, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'm from Chicago, so you're coming in New York City
and you're like, wow, you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Even only been doing comedy made two.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Three years and then your management is like and by
the way, I got to give a shout out to T. K.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Kirklan because he's the one that got me my management.
He saw me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I used to work with him in Chicago as a
as a beginner comedian, and he's say, I want to you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Need to come to New York, man and try out
New York see.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I said, oh word, okay, And then I came out there,
got my management and the first my first roommate was
Viola Davis. Damn out. Yeah, in the Upper West Side
of New York. Hey man, that Julliard at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Do you feel and when you look back at it now,
those are like big names. I mean everybody right now,
everybody's finding their way too though.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah but we don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, we're you know what's great social media And
a lot of us from our era was when social
media came out, I was like, man, I ain't doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's corny. And then I was like you know what.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, my old manager always you say, don't against the wind, right.
You gotta be able to acclimate yourself to the way Annie. Yeah,
And I thought about that and I said, let me
get on this social media. So I started about seven
years ago. I got connected with King Batch. Yeah it's
(05:18):
me and him, Safari, another dude named Pop Vasquez, a
whole bunch of us just shooting videos. And that's when
my one video I did about the noisy neighbor. This
was the video that went super viral. I'm seeing, I'm looking,
it's at two million.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm like, what done? And from there I was like, okay, yep,
now I know.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
And so I just went crazy and it brought me
back into a different level. Now, like everywhere I didn't
know the reach, the reach was so big. I'm in
another country.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like I watch your the videos every day.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But you know what's crazy about that, too, Godfree, is
we appear or we feel like we see you all
the time. Like you don't have to wait for specials. Now,
you don't have to wait for a TV show. You
don't have to wait for a stand up because everything
is right there and it's direct to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And remember they're more phones than people.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
The average person has at least two phones, right, and
then you and even in the gym, you watch, watch
the gym in between everybody said, everyone's like this, everyone's
looking at something.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So imagine being on that. Yeah, man, time before your
TV show comes out.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
People don't seen eight thousand you know videos of you, Godfree,
Thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You can find the entire interview with Godfree. It's right
there a big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're
watching any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe
button once again, Godfree, thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
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Speaker 2 (06:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We got our good friend godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Had you've ever said anything to you or been in
here's the blessing. Though. When I got fired from Seriously Except,
I started.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Doing my podcast and one day I imitated Steve Harvey
and it went super viral.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And I remember Apon Crockett, h Jay Farrow. They called
me and said, you can do Steve Harvey. Man, I
go and those other kings. Yeah, I said, you don't
do Steve Harvey. I thought everybody did Steve Harvey. Yeah,
you know how I started doing him. One time I
was on I was on the road.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I was like, man, I'm gonna watch some family few,
you know, just to watch Steve because Steve is so
great at it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And so I was noticing. I said there's something he
keeps doing.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
He's like, uh, I don't know what y'all done did,
but yeah, yeah, So I'm in my room going, yeah,
whoa that whole thing?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And I just started imitating. I said, I think I
got him. So I was like, I'm from Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I don't know about y'all, but if you already played
the few, we got the Anderson family, got the Jackson Family.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Let's go. Can you hear that? Godfrey? Like, when do
you know you nailed it?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
When when I was three four, I could I could
do voices, but I didn't think I was gonna be
a comedian.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're just doing voices cartoons, you know, we all did cartoons.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah, and we didn't have like a thousand channels and
streaming services like we entertained our city buzz.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Aunt, what's up done?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
We don't always want to switch up, but I was
always doing that. Until you start doing comedy. You go oh,
because you know in college I was a pre med
psych major.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm Nigerian. Man, Come on, man, you know us? Yeah,
go to that weeks.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, So you want to be a comedian. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
My father's like, wait ten minutes. We want to be
a comedian for what you were telling jokes? Is that
what you got doing? I remember my father when he
found out I was to do it. I didn't tell
my I didn't tell my family. I was going to
open MIC's in Chicago on my own until my sister
caught me one day at the show.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At the show, She's like, what are you doing here?
You know, Sister's like what are you doing here? I
was like, what you mean, what I'm doing here? What
you're doing here? She's like, you're doing comedy. I'm telling
she told me she really went home in tones.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
My father's like, so, why why you're not going to
because I was thinking about being a psychiatrist medical school.
It's like, well, I thought you were going to medical
school and be a come psychiatrist. Why what is this joking?
But then when he saw me doing like getting things,
He's like, oh okay. And then when I did a
(09:37):
Comedy Central stint when Comedy Central was actually really good,
I talked about my father my set, but it was awesome,
and my father got all these calls and he says,
you know, I like that what you're doing now everybody
knows why.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's the same.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That's the same when he suans because he SU's working
his dad into his into his comedy.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
My father was like, I like this this is bet Godfree,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You can find the entire interview with Godfree. It's right
there at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're
watching any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe
button once again.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Godfrey. Thank you for coming into the neighborhood, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is big Boy on Demand, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Do you remember when you bombed Let's see and you
know unfortunate? But I haven't. I don't really don't happen
to herd with me? Hey, su As, you remember your bomb?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I remember one at the Peppermint Lounge, which Bob Sumner
swears that I never did.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I never got you know, I never got deaf Jam,
never never got jam. You never been on deaf comedy.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Folks don't pick me. Black folks don't pick me. Nobody
likes me. You just stay down. You never did the
original or the comeback of audition for death Jam.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So many times I did, and they never liked me.
I tell you, they never liked me, these people.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
And I'm one of the funniest guys ever, but they
what did you say?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
They dissed me so badly. But everybody around you.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Corey did deaf Jam, Dion did deaf Jab, My Boy,
Kenny House d d Ray did deaf Jam. All the Chicago.
He was picking everybody but me. That's all facts. I
didn't get on even when I was in a comedy team.
They picked a different comedy duo, which was fine, and
I auditioned and asked Bill Bellamy, woos my dude, I did.
(11:33):
I did Peppermint Lounge in East Origet, New Jersey, driving
with my little Jewish manager David. I did that rough
room and I did well. I never did death Jet.
I never did death Jeb. But Bob was so hard.
What Bob Summer said on the art of dialogue, You
know the art of dialogue.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And I never did peppermin Lounge. This is a lie.
I'm not lying here. We're too grown to be lying.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I did because I remember doing Peppermint Lounge because anytime
I got a date I would I would doodo in
my pants for like months because I had to go
to the Peppermint Lounge and I remember doing it with
a couple of cars.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
And for those that don't know who Bob something is,
Bob was like the guy that got everybody into He
was the guy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That went out and got talent.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, man, and listen, I'm not knocking Bob, but lie
and say I didn't do.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What do you think it was? I don't know what
it was. Man, Listen, I can be honest here. Yeah.
I got a lot of haters in this business. Man.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm being in one hundred because I know because I've
been told, and you know how you've been told and
you stay in silence. I don't, I go, that's cool.
I never did anything to this cat. I don't know
why he's he's saying this stuff behind my back. I
never did anything to him. I mind my business. I'm
a loner. Nobody can say I did anything bad to
them other than maybe I went on stage and stayed
on too long.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, but that's what comics do. But I've never done.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
They always say my boy Dante Nero always says he's
his co host to my podcast. He always says, when
you're righteous, there's nothing you can you can there's nothing
he can do.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It hard to watch Deaf Comedy Jam. Yeah, when you
see your friends. Yeah, because it was the big it was.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It was launching Pa my god, def Comedy Jam was
like the mecca.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
HBO was number one, It had the highest rating and we.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Saw everybody man, we saw Bernie mac d mldrick, Chris Tucker, Martin.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Martin Lawrence, everybody with everybody, and I never got a chance. Godfree,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood. Man.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You can find the entire interview with Godfris right there
Big Boy TV our YouTube channel. As you're watching any
of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe button once again, Godfrey,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Big Boys, neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This is Big Boy on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Big Boys, neighborhood ladies and gentlemen. He is here.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood. Can
you break down why we as black and brown people
should carry Starbucks coffee cups. I was coming from an
audition and I had Starbucks because I'm big, shy latte
due and these dudes are three buffers in there, and they.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Was like, yo, man, what's good man? We love your comedy.
I said, dude, I got an idea. I said, Okay,
I'm gonna do this thing. If you guys are going
to be part of it, I want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I'm doing this thing about black, black and latinos should
hold a Starbucks cup so cops won't look at you
as dangerous, like if you hold a basketball.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It looks dangerous. Don't hold no liquor looks dangerous. You know,
either a yoga.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Matoa man, yeah, yoga man holder. And then so so
I had these three different looking black dudes hold the
Starbucks cup.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I go, you'll look how safe he looks? Now sip
I said, when a brother's poking his Oh I'm sorry, officer,
was I speeding?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So after that that went viral, man, and it keeps
and sometimes we repost. It goes viral again and again,
and I would get people sending meucks.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I got mine.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, cops ain't bothering me yet, hey man, because I
didn't catch it, probably on the first round. I just
recently saw it again. It's been reposted about two three.
And then there's the other one that goes viral all
the time. When I used to do vlat TV, I
used to do lat Yeah, shout out to lad and
I I did the one about Dominicans denying their blackness.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
I know black, I know black, I know black by
not black. The shame look and they be the same,
No they don't somebody road pass you in the car.
What they gonna yell at? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I was And when I lived in the Bronx for
six years. I've been in New York for twenty three.
So I was, I'll be in the Bronx, I'll be
in this bodega. You go to the bodega and and
it dude looked just like me, just same Sammy Sosa
before Sammy Solzer turned lights Yet Yeah, why Sammy Sosa
acting like he likes getting out.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Like, hey, man, we know what you look like. Your
knuckles are brown? When did he do That's a whole
different subject. But what the brother do? And he looked ridiculous,
he looks.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You know, you ask like, man, there's nobody around you
to say, man, stop.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, because here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Even if somebody talks about whatever your complexion is doing that,
it does you a disservice because even people say, we
was just joking, bro, just because people may it's colorism.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Stay be yourself. Mann. He gave in to it though, Bro,
he his knuckles are brown. He forgot.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yeah, you forgot take all like this.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Come on, Godfrey, thank you for coming into the neighborhood. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You can find the entire interview with Godfres right there
at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching
any of our four YouTube channels. Hit that subscribe button
once again.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Godfrey, thank you for coming into the neighborhood, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I ain't even this neighborhood. Adies. You're find a big
Boy from Big Boys Neighborhood on iHeart Radio.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
We have the most fun on your radio, George Lopez,
bro Sir, I think we should make cocaine for elderly people,
not as strong, just to get you out of the house,
you know, going after you over the next to go,
and then you're out there and you know, you go
ahead communing and you're outside.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What do you want to do now week? Like it's
a lower dose, a lower dose, like you're early. I
may I already went to the market already. Imagine the
senior living homes. Oh my god man, the other patients
painted at the hospital. Thank you for listening. It is
(17:33):
you found a big Boy Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
You can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
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This is Big Boys Neighborhood on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Big Boys Neighborhood, Ladies and Gentlemen. He is here.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
We got our good friend godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey man, when did you lock in on your Denzel?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Dean Edwards started the Denzel thing first because he was
the one that was like, okay, all right, right, all right,
all right, that I go.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
He does do that. So then I started doing my version.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
There are a whole bunch of guys, so I was like, so, yeah, yeah,
so what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
All right, everybody in here?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
You know, hey, dude, that's something like I said, I
couldn't have that because I mess around too much already.
Oh yeah, if God gave me another layer, I wouldn't
use my power for good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And then you can practice.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
There's certain voices you go, I can't really get them,
but I'll practice getting them. You start to get little
nuances like Trump. When I started doing try, I just
start watching Trump and I was like, this is show good.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
This is a really good show.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
People love this show. Big Boy is one of my
favorite shows. It's one of my favorite brid shows. It's
one of my favorite shows. You are the best people.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Say bad things about you. They don't like you, but
I like you so much. They don't like you, big boy.
You're a very you're very you're a very small boy.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now you're very big. At one time you're very big.
And Obama, oh boy, what a piece of crap, isn't he.
The Blacks love me so much, way more than Obama.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And Obama's like, I just just he's a fool, He's
an idiot.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The guy just keeps talking.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
There goes Obama, There he goes again.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
He's so mad that he lost. He's mad that he
lost to me. I have the card. This is like,
you know, I have drove for you have skip? You skip,
you have skip, you have skipped. This is who I'm new.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Marohoo, shout out to the latinos. I'm sorry for what
I did, but I'm new Marono number on and don't
you forget that watch your mouth with.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Me and then Elon must like you have to.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
So I came on Big Boys show and uh I mean, yeah,
you know I did. I came up a big boy
show and uh yeah, my technology is gonna be I
don't really have to be on a show like this.
I have a robot that looks just like you. A
big boy.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I really think he comes in his pants when he's
talking about his technology, He's like.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you I've hit
a lot of robots. I've technology that that's gonna be
coming out. I mean, yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna be,
it's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
I just think, Uh, you really have to look at
society and what we're doing forlogy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
We're gonna just trying to help society. What about you?
Having baby number fourteen? Is Nick Cannon thought he could
beat there. He thinks he's a cow and Godfree, thank
you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You can find the entire interview with Godfriss right there
at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching
any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe button
once again, Godfree, thank you for coming into the neighborhood,
Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
This is big Boy on Demand, Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood. Do
you ever feel like you should be way you're big,
but yeah, for it's talent of today's something.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I was rejected by SNL three times. Yeah, three times, son.
So my first audition I got a standing ovation. And
so when did you first try for SNL Saturday Night
Live ninety nine? Okay, so the first time ninety nine
and then you go back and you feel probably the
second time like okay, I gave him this.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Time it was like this. You go in, I'm coming.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I'm from Chicago, so you're coming in New York City
and you're like, wow, you don't.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Even only been doing comedy made two.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Three years and then your management is like and by
the way, I got to give a shout out to T. K.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Kirklan because he's the one that got me my management.
He saw me.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I used to work with him in Chicago as a
as a beginner comedian, and he's say, I want to you.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Need to come to New York, man and try out
New York see.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I said, oh word, okay, And then I came out there,
got my management and the first my first roommate was
Viola Davis. Damn out. Yeah, in the Upper West Side
of New York. Hey man, that Julliard at the time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Do you feel and when you look back at it now,
those are like big names. I mean everybody right now,
everybody's finding their way too though.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah but we don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, we're you know what's great social media And
a lot of us from our era was when social
media came out, I was like, man, I ain't doing that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's corny. And then I was like you know what.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, my old manager always you say, don't against the wind, right.
You gotta be able to acclimate yourself to the way Annie. Yeah,
And I thought about that and I said, let me
get on this social media. So I started about seven
years ago. I got connected with King Batch. Yeah it's
(05:18):
me and him, Safari, another dude named Pop Vasquez, a
whole bunch of us just shooting videos. And that's when
my one video I did about the noisy neighbor. This
was the video that went super viral. I'm seeing, I'm looking,
it's at two million.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm like, what done? And from there I was like, okay, yep,
now I know.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
And so I just went crazy and it brought me
back into a different level. Now, like everywhere I didn't
know the reach, the reach was so big. I'm in
another country.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Like I watch your the videos every day.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
But you know what's crazy about that, too, Godfree, is
we appear or we feel like we see you all
the time. Like you don't have to wait for specials. Now,
you don't have to wait for a TV show. You
don't have to wait for a stand up because everything
is right there and it's direct to the consumer.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And remember they're more phones than people.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
The average person has at least two phones, right, and
then you and even in the gym, you watch, watch
the gym in between everybody said, everyone's like this, everyone's
looking at something.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So imagine being on that. Yeah, man, time before your
TV show comes out.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
People don't seen eight thousand you know videos of you, Godfree,
Thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You can find the entire interview with Godfree. It's right
there a big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're
watching any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe
button once again, Godfree, thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Big Boys Neighborhood on Demand. For more, subscribe to our
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Speaker 2 (06:54):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We got our good friend godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Had you've ever said anything to you or been in
here's the blessing. Though. When I got fired from Seriously Except,
I started.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Doing my podcast and one day I imitated Steve Harvey
and it went super viral.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And I remember Apon Crockett, h Jay Farrow. They called
me and said, you can do Steve Harvey. Man, I
go and those other kings. Yeah, I said, you don't
do Steve Harvey. I thought everybody did Steve Harvey. Yeah,
you know how I started doing him. One time I
was on I was on the road.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I was like, man, I'm gonna watch some family few,
you know, just to watch Steve because Steve is so
great at it.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And so I was noticing. I said there's something he
keeps doing.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
He's like, uh, I don't know what y'all done did,
but yeah, yeah, So I'm in my room going, yeah,
whoa that whole thing?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And I just started imitating. I said, I think I
got him. So I was like, I'm from Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I don't know about y'all, but if you already played
the few, we got the Anderson family, got the Jackson Family.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Let's go. Can you hear that? Godfrey? Like, when do
you know you nailed it?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
When when I was three four, I could I could
do voices, but I didn't think I was gonna be
a comedian.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're just doing voices cartoons, you know, we all did cartoons.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Yeah, and we didn't have like a thousand channels and
streaming services like we entertained our city buzz.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Aunt, what's up done?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
We don't always want to switch up, but I was
always doing that. Until you start doing comedy. You go oh,
because you know in college I was a pre med
psych major.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm Nigerian. Man, Come on, man, you know us? Yeah,
go to that weeks.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, So you want to be a comedian. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
My father's like, wait ten minutes. We want to be
a comedian for what you were telling jokes? Is that
what you got doing? I remember my father when he
found out I was to do it. I didn't tell
my I didn't tell my family. I was going to
open MIC's in Chicago on my own until my sister
caught me one day at the show.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
At the show, She's like, what are you doing here?
You know, Sister's like what are you doing here? I
was like, what you mean, what I'm doing here? What
you're doing here? She's like, you're doing comedy. I'm telling
she told me she really went home in tones.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
My father's like, so, why why you're not going to
because I was thinking about being a psychiatrist medical school.
It's like, well, I thought you were going to medical
school and be a come psychiatrist. Why what is this joking?
But then when he saw me doing like getting things,
He's like, oh okay. And then when I did a
(09:37):
Comedy Central stint when Comedy Central was actually really good,
I talked about my father my set, but it was awesome,
and my father got all these calls and he says,
you know, I like that what you're doing now everybody
knows why.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's the same.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
That's the same when he suans because he SU's working
his dad into his into his comedy.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
My father was like, I like this this is bet Godfree,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You can find the entire interview with Godfree. It's right
there at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're
watching any of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe
button once again.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Godfrey. Thank you for coming into the neighborhood, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
This is big Boy on Demand, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, he is here.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Do you remember when you bombed Let's see and you
know unfortunate? But I haven't. I don't really don't happen
to herd with me? Hey, su As, you remember your bomb?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I remember one at the Peppermint Lounge, which Bob Sumner
swears that I never did.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, I never got you know, I never got deaf Jam,
never never got jam. You never been on deaf comedy.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Folks don't pick me. Black folks don't pick me. Nobody
likes me. You just stay down. You never did the
original or the comeback of audition for death Jam.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So many times I did, and they never liked me.
I tell you, they never liked me, these people.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
And I'm one of the funniest guys ever, but they
what did you say?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
They dissed me so badly. But everybody around you.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Corey did deaf Jam, Dion did deaf Jab, My Boy,
Kenny House d d Ray did deaf Jam. All the Chicago.
He was picking everybody but me. That's all facts. I
didn't get on even when I was in a comedy team.
They picked a different comedy duo, which was fine, and
I auditioned and asked Bill Bellamy, woos my dude, I did.
(11:33):
I did Peppermint Lounge in East Origet, New Jersey, driving
with my little Jewish manager David. I did that rough
room and I did well. I never did death Jet.
I never did death Jeb. But Bob was so hard.
What Bob Summer said on the art of dialogue, You
know the art of dialogue.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And I never did peppermin Lounge. This is a lie.
I'm not lying here. We're too grown to be lying.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I did because I remember doing Peppermint Lounge because anytime
I got a date I would I would doodo in
my pants for like months because I had to go
to the Peppermint Lounge and I remember doing it with
a couple of cars.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
And for those that don't know who Bob something is,
Bob was like the guy that got everybody into He
was the guy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That went out and got talent.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, man, and listen, I'm not knocking Bob, but lie
and say I didn't do.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What do you think it was? I don't know what
it was. Man, Listen, I can be honest here. Yeah.
I got a lot of haters in this business. Man.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'm being in one hundred because I know because I've
been told, and you know how you've been told and
you stay in silence. I don't, I go, that's cool.
I never did anything to this cat. I don't know
why he's he's saying this stuff behind my back. I
never did anything to him. I mind my business. I'm
a loner. Nobody can say I did anything bad to
them other than maybe I went on stage and stayed
on too long.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah, but that's what comics do. But I've never done.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
They always say my boy Dante Nero always says he's
his co host to my podcast. He always says, when
you're righteous, there's nothing you can you can there's nothing
he can do.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It hard to watch Deaf Comedy Jam. Yeah, when you
see your friends. Yeah, because it was the big it was.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
It was launching Pa my god, def Comedy Jam was
like the mecca.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
HBO was number one, It had the highest rating and we.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Saw everybody man, we saw Bernie mac d mldrick, Chris Tucker, Martin.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Martin Lawrence, everybody with everybody, and I never got a chance. Godfree,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood. Man.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You can find the entire interview with Godfris right there
Big Boy TV our YouTube channel. As you're watching any
of our four YouTube channels, hit that subscribe button once again, Godfrey,
thank you for coming into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Big Boys, neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
This is Big Boy on demand.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Big Boys, neighborhood ladies and gentlemen. He is here.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
We got our good friend Godfree in the neighborhood. Can
you break down why we as black and brown people
should carry Starbucks coffee cups. I was coming from an
audition and I had Starbucks because I'm big, shy latte
due and these dudes are three buffers in there, and they.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Was like, yo, man, what's good man? We love your comedy.
I said, dude, I got an idea. I said, Okay,
I'm gonna do this thing. If you guys are going
to be part of it, I want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I'm doing this thing about black, black and latinos should
hold a Starbucks cup so cops won't look at you
as dangerous, like if you hold a basketball.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It looks dangerous. Don't hold no liquor looks dangerous. You know,
either a yoga.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Matoa man, yeah, yoga man holder. And then so so
I had these three different looking black dudes hold the
Starbucks cup.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I go, you'll look how safe he looks? Now sip
I said, when a brother's poking his Oh I'm sorry, officer,
was I speeding?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So after that that went viral, man, and it keeps
and sometimes we repost. It goes viral again and again,
and I would get people sending meucks.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I got mine.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yeah, cops ain't bothering me yet, hey man, because I
didn't catch it, probably on the first round. I just
recently saw it again. It's been reposted about two three.
And then there's the other one that goes viral all
the time. When I used to do vlat TV, I
used to do lat Yeah, shout out to lad and
I I did the one about Dominicans denying their blackness.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
I know black, I know black, I know black by
not black. The shame look and they be the same,
No they don't somebody road pass you in the car.
What they gonna yell at? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I was And when I lived in the Bronx for
six years. I've been in New York for twenty three.
So I was, I'll be in the Bronx, I'll be
in this bodega. You go to the bodega and and
it dude looked just like me, just same Sammy Sosa
before Sammy Solzer turned lights Yet Yeah, why Sammy Sosa
acting like he likes getting out.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Like, hey, man, we know what you look like. Your
knuckles are brown? When did he do That's a whole
different subject. But what the brother do? And he looked ridiculous,
he looks.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You know, you ask like, man, there's nobody around you
to say, man, stop.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
No, because here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Even if somebody talks about whatever your complexion is doing that,
it does you a disservice because even people say, we
was just joking, bro, just because people may it's colorism.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Stay be yourself. Mann. He gave in to it though, Bro,
he his knuckles are brown. He forgot.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yeah, you forgot take all like this.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Come on, Godfrey, thank you for coming into the neighborhood. Man.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You can find the entire interview with Godfres right there
at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel. As you're watching
any of our four YouTube channels. Hit that subscribe button
once again.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Godfrey, thank you for coming into the neighborhood, Big Boy's neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I ain't even this neighborhood. Adies. You're find a big
Boy from Big Boys Neighborhood on iHeart Radio.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
We have the most fun on your radio, George Lopez,
bro Sir, I think we should make cocaine for elderly people,
not as strong, just to get you out of the house,
you know, going after you over the next to go,
and then you're out there and you know, you go
ahead communing and you're outside.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
What do you want to do now week? Like it's
a lower dose, a lower dose, like you're early. I
may I already went to the market already. Imagine the
senior living homes. Oh my god man, the other patients
painted at the hospital. Thank you for listening. It is
(17:33):
you found a big Boy Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
You can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Big Boy has left the building.
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