Gary Owen

No.

That's brutal.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

That's somebody else's joke.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

You know what I mean?

That's my goal. That's my goal for 2019. 16 years.

I needed the flow.

I've been there. Can I ask a question sort of based on that? You were in Daddy Daycare. What was it like meeting Eddie Murphy for that movie? That's like one of my weirdly favorite movies from childhood. Yeah. So I wanted to ask.

Yeah.

Thanks for having me. I'm in Seattle right now. You're in Seattle? Yeah, I'm in Seattle. I'm in Tuscaloosa tomorrow, and then I'm in Dania this weekend.

I ain't gonna lie. It's a lot. I do. I do a podcast with another comedian called Nate Jack. His name is Nate Jackson. And I come out here once a month and we do I come out here for three days and we record for the whole month. So that's what I'm doing in Seattle right now.

No, stand-ups, it's so immediate. Whereas when you're doing the movies, you're not getting the reaction until nine months later when it comes out. So whenever you're doing a movie, you're almost looking at the grips and the camera guys to give you the okay. Because the actors aren't going to do it during the scene.

So you're looking for the guy holding the boom mic to give you a little chuckle sometimes.

Build your build your stand up fan base.

I always tell people the hardest part about my job is the travel. The stand-up's the easy part at this point. Now I'm kind of like almost in my Yoda years. Like, I got it. I can work with any crowd. But, yeah, like you said, the flying and the travel is the grind. But, you know, I am staying at decent hotels. I'm not flying Spirit. So it's not that bad.

I'm talking about comfort.

uh no one of the editors called me and um i guess i guess i don't know how i got that title but it was because my first tv appearance was was on bet and then almost every movie i've done had a black lead actor so i became like i became black people's guy as far as white people goes

Yo, we pitched it to all the networks. BET bought it. We went to everybody. But BET bought the show. So I'm like, yeah, I would have went on Telemundo if I spoke Spanish.

because whatever they ride with me over 25 years of comedy like for is it a it's a happy accident that you ended up being popular to black america well you know i was in the navy and i was in san diego and i was listening to the radio station called z90 it was a hip-hop station and they said we're looking for the funniest black comedian in san diego so i entered and I won it.

And so once I won it, that got me auditioned for Comic View and then that got me on BET. So when you're early in your career, you're just trying to get on TV and you don't choose your audience, they choose you. So I just kinda, my first couple breaks was on black entertainment television. So I just kinda ran with it.

Oh yeah, but it was San Diego. It's not like it was Brooklyn.

It was cool. We didn't break the curse. When we got the show, we said, don't do reality TV. Everybody gets divorced. Yeah, we didn't break that curse because we got divorced a couple of years later.

That's what everybody says if you go to social media. They're like, yo, if you do reality TV, everybody ends up broken up or divorced eventually. And yeah, we kept that streak going.

Well, let me tell you something. Those producers are good. They're like, because my ex-wife, she was like, oh, they're not coming in our bedroom. They're not recording in our bedroom. Day one, they was like, we got to be in the bedroom. And they were in the bedroom. It's like, how'd this happen? That was like her big thing when we pitched the show. Like, they're not going to be in our bedroom.

That's going to be our sanctuary, our private area. But somehow they got in there.

I mean, everybody's asking comedians about bitties. That's the big one right now. And you just do what with that? I can't say it on your show. Sure you can.

Oh, my bad. Yeah, my biggest thing is like it's nice to know that his penis is like a Tootsie Roll because so far black guys have all had just huge dicks. So it's nice to know we're on the other side of it a little bit. There's balance.

Everyone's mind went to Diddy, right, when Dan brought up the question. We're like, okay, you're asking him about Diddy.

uh it's crazy how this comedy special came about because i was recording my last one broken family and you know when you do comedy shows you'll you'll do a couple episodes and edit them together and we record that friday and i said are we good we get that in the can they go yeah i go i think i got another hour so then we recorded this one on saturday so this one was more like just

spur of the moment, kind of winging it a little bit. So it came out kind of dope. I was actually kind of excited because comedians, when you get a special, you work so hard for that hour. This one just came about. So.

It was easier. Yeah, it was kind of dope. It's almost like a freestyle rap a little bit.

Well, you do your hour, and you're cutting and pasting the whole time for the year, getting ready. But this one was like, all the stuff we were cutting, I go, ah, some of that stuff's still funny. So it's just like, oh, we still got so much left over. Let's piece it together. Not just, has to make sense, because you got callbacks and things like that.

So it was kind of a, just recording it, it felt like, oh man, this is coming together nicely without any pre-production or planning.

What's the saddest place you've performed, though? You've got to have something.

I think in the beginning, there used to have a funny bone at Evansville, Indiana. And, like, nobody laughed the whole weekend. They didn't laugh at the whole weekend.

comedian it was awful it was like they just but they didn't boo and they didn't they just sat there it's indifferent first i really get booed like it was four shows of just guys in john deere hats with their arms on their must have been a rough week for evansville i don't know let me tell you something the only reaction i got all weekend was by saturday the late show i just went hey guys

This is all we got. We haven't got a laugh all weekend. Layer the cable guy is not walking through those doors. And this dude stood up. He's like, whoa, whoa. Those are big shoes to fill, buddy. Like, you guys are alive. You are alive.

Appreciate you guys.