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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Sam Jay on the Film “You People,” Her Comedy Specials, and the Challenges of Being the First Black Lesbian Writer on SNL

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The hilarious and thoughtful comedian joins Talib Kweli at the Blue Note Jazz Club for an in-depth chat on her comedy career and life. Jay speaks on what she’s learned from working at the institution that is Saturday Night Live and takes us behind some of her most well-known sketches there, including “Black Jeopardy.” Jay also discusses her ingeniously-named HBO series, Pause, and her Netflix special 3 In The Morning. The conversation ends with some rich discussion around the Netflix original, You People, and Jay’s role in the film. This episode is a must-listen for hardcore SNL fans and people who love all-things comedy, plus anyone who loved the discourse around You People.

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO. You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine?

0:10.3

What up peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish, subscribe to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:22.1

Let's talk about pause for a second.

0:25.5

Yeah.

0:26.5

Now that's a wonderful title of a show for a gay person first of all.

0:32.3

Now I'm from New York. Let's talk about the origins of pause.

0:35.7

Let's do it. Let's do the official internet pause the dive where it starts from.

0:40.5

Now I feel like I had to start in the jails. I had to start in the jails because you know in jail culture you can't be gay.

0:48.5

If you're a dude, like you can't, you can't even eat popsicles and bananas and shit like that.

0:53.5

Right.

0:54.5

And the jail culture just like the sagging of the pants and certain other things we got from jail.

0:58.5

It comes into the street cultures because you start to have hustlers uptown saying pause.

1:04.5

When Dame Dash and then with kids, the people they was looking up to.

1:08.5

It was like, nah, pause. Pause. Anything that sounded remotely could be homosexual or whatever.

1:13.5

And there was a time when dipset was running New York. They was running the mix tapes.

1:17.5

They was running the radio.

1:18.5

And so all the DJs in the trostate area.

1:22.5

I remember or every single DJ in Y'all know who Y'all are all these New York trostate area DJs.

1:27.5

Y'all was on the radio. Pause. Pause. Pause. Pause. Like a good two, three years.

1:33.5

Kanye, that's why Kanye had to bar. We don't play pause in Chicago because he was living in New York at the time.

1:38.5

And it was pause, pause, pause.

1:40.5

Because I think they was following the lead of like what was going on in Harlem.

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