Anthony Anderson
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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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And it's fucked up that the animal has to be killed, euthanized and maimed and whatever because of what this asshole did. So sometimes when you see shit like that, you're just like, okay. This is all news to me. You're telling me you've been an ex-addict. I probably knew about that, but I didn't know you smoked crack. Sure, sure. You probably talked about it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because you said it so freely right now. Without any shame.
Yeah, how old were you when you started smoking crack? And what was that about? How long was the addiction to that?
You're going to snort crack?
Have you ever done SNL?
Neither have I. It's heartbreaking, right? It is, man. And now I'm getting so old. Now it's starting to sound like too much work for me. You look at the successes that we've had, you know, in our careers, and then you look at some of the talent that they have come there and host. And you're like, did I upset somebody? Right, right, right, right.
I've never questioned my ability because I know what I can do.
No, I got the same thing. And that's great. Yeah, they call for my availability, but then they never call back once we sent them the dates. I was like, what the fuck? I was available. I was in the middle of Black-ish. I mean, we're shooting my show. We get 24 episodes a year. We get the call. We're going to tell ABC, yo, we're shutting down for whatever. I'm about to go do SNL.
These motherfuckers never call back, man.
While I was doing my first stint on Law & Order. So from 2008 to 2010, they came to Jeremy's sister and I and wanted us to shoot a bit with Zach Galifianakis because he was hosting. So we went and did a Law & Order bit type thing.
Yeah, it aired. I was cool with that, but I was like, yo, you can call me to come be funny and do this shit. But I get what that was.
They're about to start shooting. Where's the 360 down Long Beach Boulevard? Come on, express bus.
Same mom, same dad. Grew up on a farm. An Irish twin. My Uncle Adel is 11 months older than my dad. My Uncle Adel came out to California. Being an Irish twin, he was tied to the hip. He came out to be where his older brother was. Yeah. And so that's what brought my dad out to California. Ended up working in the steel mill, Soule Steel. Where's that? In Watts. That's not still functional.
No, it's not still functioning. All the steel went over to Japan years ago. It was crazy. My dad, his company sent him to Japan. And my dad was like 6'4", 300 plus pounds, but he was 300 solid. So just imagine a big butt dude with a jerry curl. Wow. Oh my God.
My dad has pictures of him and all these Japanese women just surrounded him and he's holding up his hand and his lady's hand is like down here just to see the size.
And I know my daddy was over there fucking his ass off. And so he was there for a few weeks, man. I'm surprised he came back.
Again, my father did everything my uncle did. And my uncle started a clothing store in Watts and built it up to a few throughout Los Angeles. I'll never forget. Growing up as a kid, my uncle, he was doing well. And he would walk around with a briefcase and have $15,000 in it. So 50 years ago, 40 years ago, for a black dude to be doing that successful in business.
And this was just the receipts from his stores from that week. Wow. And he would come over to my dad's house and they would talk and, you know, just being in that. It was sit up there. My dad would count the money with him and wanted to do what his older brother did. So my father went downtown L.A. to the garment district. bought a box of Braxton jeans.
I'll never forget 36 pair of jeans and a box. He went to a swap meet on that Saturday, sold out, went back the next day or later on that day, took the profits from his one box and bought two boxes, sold out the next day. So the next week he took that profit and bought more stuff. And so that's how my father started at swap meets. And then on Corners,
And then he had this one particular corner in Watts in LA that he would go to and set up shop, you know, canopies and tents. It was like an open storefront.
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