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Gary Owen SWEATS talking Shannon Sharpe Allegations, Living with LA’s Most Dangerous Gangster & More
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
YERRR – the guys linked up with comedian Gary Owen for a no-holds-barred convo on comedy, culture, and catching heat. Gary has wild stories from being on the road as Black America's favorite White comedian, to navigating divorce in the public eye and reacting to his viral clip about it. He talks about living with a notorious LA Gangster, being a stand up comedian while still in the US Military and working some of the OG greats like Eddie Murphy, Eminem and Floyd Mayweather. All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE. 00:00 Owen not Owens 1:30 Shedeur Sanders + Football talk 4:39 Diversity in Gary’s crowd 8:51 Not into YTs + Being the first 11:28 Brilliant idiots clip shown in court 20:31 Divorce Papers Serving Game + Cheating on the road 37:33 Shannon Sharpe has no supporters 46:30 Mayweather walking in mid show 58:10 Early days + wild tour stories 1:03:56 Gatekeepers & Quincy Jones 1:06:04 Horror Gigs, Underrated Killers + Headlining 1:10:48 Popping on tv + Honorable discharge 1:18:32 Drug dealer roommate, LA experience + Kobe Bryant 1:36:03 Freak Offs 1:39:52 “It was just a misunderstanding” 1:46:56 Being accepted in LA culture 1:53:34 Early touring, Jo Koy + Hardest follow 1:59:43 The culture, Black rooms + Latest special no race jokes 2:06:51 Sweating like crazy 2:08:23 Meeting Eddie Murphy on “Daddy Daycare” 2:14:16 How does Shannon Sharpe come back from this? 2:17:58 Ye’s new music + Meeting Kanye & Eminem early 2:22:50 Who was Kendrick talking about? 1st Celeb meeting 2:24:54 Kids being excited to meet + OJ is CHARMING 2:27:50 Evolving with your audience + Controversy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What allegations does Shannon Sharpe face?
Let me see, 97? So 28? 28 years into your career. Wow. Harlem.
White people found you. They did.
You started posts on YouTube, Instagram. White people find you. The gays find you. Now, how does the black community feel about this? They've held you down for 28 years. I've got enough equity in the community. Then it's fine. They're good. So they don't feel like the white people are taking the thing that they started?
No, no, no, no, no. Well, got to buy their tickets sooner. Why do you buy the vamps?
I know why. That should happen to me, too.
Because, you know, for years, my audience was only black, right? People knew me from Geico, and they knew me from Brilliant Idiots. And so I do clubs around the country and like the owners would say, which I'm sure they said to you initially, they were like, you look the way you look and your audience does. Like, what exactly is going on? They didn't understand it.
And and it was funny, like once once I did Rogan and like white people started finding out about me, then white people buy tickets in November for a show. And you're in line early on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would you're you. MSG would have been sweating bullets. I heard a rumor and I don't know if that's true, but maybe DL can, uh, DL Hughley can confirm it one day, but when he got the Hughleys, yeah, it really crossed him over in the mainstream. And I,
The rumor was. That's why he got the neck tattoos. He was like, I got to keep these white people away from me.
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Chapter 2: How did Gary Owen handle his divorce?
The rumor was he would tell the comedy clubs, this show don't sell in advance because they were all white people buying so far in advance. He goes like the late show Saturday. We're not putting that on sale yet. That was the rumor I heard.
That's cool. That's awesome. Yo, Gary, here's a good question, right? Both of us have done Uncle Shannon's podcast. Yeah. This is really why we wanted you to be on here. Outside of your special being, now you're having this prolific career, being one of the most successful touring comedians in American history. You've been doing this shit 28 years. Yeah. Okay? A lot of people don't realize that.
People have little bumps and blips, but 28 years is not a game. You go on Shan's podcast. Almost immediately afterwards, some little white girl sues him for a horrible thing.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You know that.
That's completely out of my wheelhouse. You're trying to bring her back.
I've said it numerous times. I ain't had white pussy since white pussy had me.
No way.
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Chapter 3: What was Gary Owen's experience with Mayweather?
It was bad. No, no, no, no, no. It must have been bad if you never went back. No, she was a white girl that only liked black dudes. And she kind of picked up on that. And we both said, we're just going to try.
She tried to introduce you to what happens. We both made a consensus decision. You know what? Bucket list, check. It's like a gay and lesbian hooking up to see. Just to try. I didn't realize that didn't sound good.
So, wow, you never, and you never got... Were you just never into white girls, or were they not into you, or what was it?
A little bit of both. A little bit of both. It was like, even when I was in the Navy, we go out, I was staying in San Diego, and we go out to Pacific Beach. It's all beach bars, white people. There'd be one black girl, and at the end of the night, my boys would be like, how does this happen every night? I'd just be in the corner. I don't know why. I don't know. Just they like me. I like them.
So we just went with it.
And have you been like the first white guy for a lot? Oh, so many.
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Chapter 4: How does Gary Owen feel about living in LA?
If I hear this shit one more time. Oh, so the myth ain't true.
Let's go, Gary.
Okay, what myth? As a white delegate. Thank you so much. Now, knowing you're the first white guy, knowing you're the first white guy, do you ever, are you ever like, let me just do some wild shit and then just blame it on being white? Do you ever do that?
No, I'm actually, I'm probably a little more apprehensive. I'm not really a talker. Oh. It makes me uncomfortable when Because Gary is not the best name in the bedroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gino. Are you beating this pussy up, Gary? I don't believe you. There's certain names, like Rodney sounds like he can put some shit down. Rodney, boy.
Chapter 5: What are Gary Owen's early stand-up experiences?
Yeah.
If you grew up with a Rodney, at some point you will get this phone call as an adult, Iggy, hear what happened to Rodney?
It falls apart.
It falls apart at 17, 18. Rodney's a beast. He was a beast of a fullback.
But do you feel pressure as the great white hope? You're representing all of us, bro. If you're in someone's first time with a white guy.
There's probably a lot of black girls that fucked another white dude after you because you represented us well. So there's a lot of white dudes that got black pussy that might have never gotten it because of you.
You're welcome. you're welcome yep and then after that they probably never did it again so they went two times yeah yeah it's probably happened yeah but you don't care no it's funny like there's a couple once you go away you give it one more night there's a couple what's crazy a couple exes from my past and then was this while you were married
Can you bring up that clip? No, no, no. We've got to bring up this clip.
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Chapter 6: How does Gary Owen navigate his diverse audience?
This was one of the greatest clips in internet history. This was one of the greatest clips in internet history. You need to get this clip up. It's brilliant. I'm starting to sweat. You've got to start from the beginning, beginning, though. That's the thing. You've got to put the volume all the way up. If we repost it everywhere, it has 5 million views every time. You might be a black comic.
I didn't know you could pull this up. I thought there was copyrights and that was yours.
Okay, let's go. This is while Gary is happily married. I'm going to get you back to cheating, bro, this year.
That's my goal. That's my goal for 2019. 16 years.
How long have you been faithful?
Don't laugh. Don't laugh. You can't laugh. Laughing is incriminating. Get Gary a towel. Somebody get Gary a paper towel. Get him a shirt. Get him something.
I didn't know you guys were going to show that.
Let's get some AC on in here.
That came up in court, bro.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Gary Owen face as a comedian?
No, it didn't. This is your fault. No, it didn't.
You ruined his marriage. Gary, we settled, but it came up in court.
Gary's been coming on brilliant idiots throughout the entire destruction of his marriage. It probably started in that moment where you couldn't swallow coffee while trying to pretend to be faithful.
I was like, why is this coming to me?
Here's the funniest shit.
How big was the ice cube in your throat? You don't appreciate this being a sports fan. Randomly, I press follow to follow Max Crosby, the DN for the Raiders, right?
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Chapter 8: How does Gary Owen view the current comedy scene?
Yeah.
Also, he sends me a voice memo on IG like, brah, you're a legend, man. I'm thinking about to do one of my specials. Dude, the funniest shit ever is when they ask you if you was faithful. Yeah. You started choking, bro. That was legendary. I'm like this.
Of all the shit I've done, Max, that's what you know me for? 20 years in the comedy game. The films.
That's what the motherfucker knows me for. I mean, he was dying. Like, oh, my God, bro. That's the funniest shit. I feel like Marlon Wayans. Marlon sweats on every podcast. Wait, how did your lawyer defend the clip? No, no, no. It wasn't. My ex, she said, she goes, I just saw a video. I've never seen it before. I guess when everything came out, people started sending her shit.
They said, you should have known. I was like this. So then she brought it up. Okay. So you went, you had this.
You should have known. No, that was crazy. You were crazy for that. Like, why didn't you just swallow? What was happening? What was happening?
I need to play-by-play that.
I was just going to say, yeah. Yeah.
I was just going to say, yeah, and I just came out wrong. Yeah.
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