Anthony Anderson
speaker
200 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Anthony Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I would love it. Let's call Lionel Richie right now. Ask him what his best song is. Okay. If he picks up. He never picks up. But he always responds to a text message. Lionel, please pick up. We need you. Oh, it's the third ring. He's not picking up.
Hey Lionel, it's Anthony Anderson. I'm here with Dax Shepard and Monica. I'm doing a podcast and I was hoping that you would pick up the phone because we're here talking about you. You met Dax on a plane with his wife, Kristen, and you walked up and said, hi, I'm Lionel Richie. Dax said, Very memorable. He knows what your favorite song was. And it was, this is your life.
Is this is your life really your favorite song or is that what you just told him? And secondly, I was telling him that word on the street is that you have a replica room of when you wrote your greatest hits when you were younger at Tuskegee and all of that. And I told him how we were starting this conversation and I asked that question and then we got distracted. So you never answered it.
So please call me back and answer it. And I promise to put you on the air. And invite our friend in to dinner. And the dinner that you promised me and my ex-wife, me and my ex-girlfriend, and me and my ex-ex-girlfriend. That's three relationships that I've gone through still waiting on dinner, Lionel. Call me back. Bye. Oh, if he calls back in the middle of this. Oh, make sure your ringer's on.
I'm going to send him a text that says, call me. I tell him I've been in a bad accident.
Not to mention any names. If you saw the doc, you really know how horrible some of them sounded. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
I've known Stevie for years. Okay. Okay. I've hung out with Stevie. We've partied together, just in concerts. What if you said play darts together? No, no. This is a little thing that we would always do every time we saw each other. Stevie would be talking to you, and the next thing you know, he'd grab you and slit your throat. Like, how did he know where my throat was? You know what I'm saying?
So he'd take his finger like he had a blade and slit your throat, and he's like, I got you, motherfucker. I was like, okay. That's cool. You're in close proximity. You're talking to somebody. You get their height. You've been around them a while. That's cool.
That's something.
So we are at a jazz festival that I believe Stevie is producing in Trinidad. So we get there. Let me back up just because, hold on, let me see if that's Lionel. Oh, that's my mama. She can wait. Doris, give us two. This is another flex. Stevie says, hey, man, why don't you come over here to this jazz festival I'm doing? I'm like, OK, cool. Meet me at the airport. So we get at the airport.
It's Stevie, Natalie Cole. Oh, Jennifer. Whitney Houston. Oh, my God. Johnny Gill, myself, Gabrielle Union, Derek Luke, a couple of other people. So we're taking off and Stevie says, oh, don't forget, we got to stop in Atlanta and pick up Chris. Like, all right. So we stop in Atlanta. We pick up Chris Tucker. What year is this? This is 15, 20 years ago. Oh, okay.
And so we land in Trinidad, Tobago. This will date it. When did the police get back together as a band for that last tour after not being a band for like 20 some odd years or whatever? Whatever year that was. Okay. I think they've tried it a few times and I think it never works. This was that last big tour that they had. And this was their first show coming together.
So it was just a regular jazz festival with all these other performers.
Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole, Johnny Gill, all these people performed. And then the night, we all went in the audience to watch the police. Come on. With Stewart Copeland playing drums.
The police. But before that, all these other people were performing. Johnny Gill is on stage performing. Chris Tucker and I get on stage and we become his background dancers. And the crowd is packed because they're here to see that on top of the police. So you can just imagine how big this crowd was.
Dougie Fresh grabs the mic. He gets the crowd in the frenzy and all this before somebody else gets on stage. I ended up on stage right. Stage left us over here. And it's a musical stage with huge bands. So just imagine how large the stage is and all the equipment that's on stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm the furthest away from stage left on stage right.
And Stevie Wonder, I see out of the corner of my eye, starts walking on stage because Stevie Wonder wants to be a part of what's going on on stage. I was like, oh shit, Stevie's about to get down. This motherfucker. walks from stage left through instruments, through chords, through cables, through foot pedals, through everything, walks to me. Now, 150 feet.
Looks me in my eye and says, Anthony, get me to a piano.
Doug E. Fresh is beatboxing. Chris Tucker is dancing. Johnny Gill is singing. There's a party going on stage. They're fucking stagehands and grips. Stevie walks through the maze of everything and walks directly to me and looks me dead in my eyes this close. Well, he's wearing sunglasses though now.
And says, Anthony, get me to a piano. Oh, my God. This is a compelling. And I was like, Steve, you just walked past the fucking piano, but okay. And I walk him to the piano, that center stage that he walked and didn't even touch, walked around. Okay, Monica.
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