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People's Party with Talib Kweli

David Cross Discusses His Latest Comedy Special and the Cultural and Comedic Impact of Both “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show”

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The legendary comedian and actor joins Talib Kweli at the Blue Note Jazz Club for a hilarious chat about his latest comedy special “I’m From The Future,” and his current tour (“Appearances”). The pair also discusses the huge cultural and comedic impact of “Arrested Development” and “Mr. Show,” and what it was like to work with big personalities like Will Arnett and Bob Odenkirk. Cross also discusses his work directing and appearing in music videos, and shares some of his most potent comedy influences.

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.

0:03.8

You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented

0:08.0

co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our

0:12.8

episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,

0:18.5

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Shout out to Bigger and Blackerer.

0:23.8

All right, so in this special, you have this joke that I'm conflicted by. And I'll tell you

0:28.2

what I'm conflicted by. It's about a dawn spears, a book by dawn spears. Oh my goodness.

0:33.6

All right. It's search of good pussy. Yeah. And you read from this book in this voice. Yeah.

0:40.0

There could be a black voice. But that's not why I'm conflicted. It is a black voice.

0:44.3

Okay, so it's a black voice. Yeah. But that's not why I'm conflicted. I make fun of my producer,

0:48.0

Steve, because sometimes he writes notes and like black notes is like it's like I'm not supposed to,

0:52.9

you think just how I'm supposed to say this. But this one conflicted about this. Okay.

0:58.6

Okay, because I have a bookstore in Kewroo books and it's very well as a pillar of the black community.

1:03.9

And I purchased it in Brooklyn, New York and now it's a website. And I sell all these

1:07.5

multicultural books and books with history of people color. It's online now. It's on my website.

1:13.1

But back in the days, I used to sell this book to people. Okay. I don't see the conflicting

1:20.9

point because I'm because I should be mad at the joke, but I can't because I sold the book.

1:26.6

And he was selling it in the same voice. I was doing the voice.

1:32.9

Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't even know where I discovered that book. But it's I still have it.

1:39.6

It's pretty awesome. And it's life lessons for how to get good pussy. It's called a search of

1:44.0

good pussy. And then what's the tagline? The subline? It's the subtitle something like a player's

1:50.3

handbook. Yeah. So it also isn't doesn't he he's like in a tuxedo? Yeah, with a cat with a cat.

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