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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Yes. We've both hosted Kimmel and you've done it a lot. How many times have you done it? I think I have the record for most appearances on Jimmy Kimmel. If I haven't passed Adam Carolla yet, I am a close second to him. God, I feel like I got to be up there too.
No, there's a lot. Like every summer when Jimmy takes off, I host for a week. But what's crazy, he used to have co-hosts on his show with him back in the day. That's right. So you would come on and co-host with him. I was the last co-host that he had. Mike Tyson was before me. Uh-huh. And then I came on and then I would come sit in for him.
And then whenever he needed a bit or something, he always would call me and I call my mom. So it would be me and my mom on there.
Those are cool. And I get to do them with my mom. So that's cool. But I would probably say Kimmel because I've always wanted my own talk show. So I enjoy it from top to bottom. It's like me directing when I was directing on Black-ish. It was like, okay, I don't know how to direct, but my crew is not going to let me fail my very first episode. Right.
So, you know, this is a safe place for me to do it. It's a great place. So Kimmel is home for me. He's a great talk show host, but he's a fucking great friend. Oh, my God.
He's the best boy on planet Earth. Best thing I would say is Kimmel. And right after that, hosting the Emmys. You loved it.
Like when I used to be nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Every year I go and I think, ah, shit, this is the year. And I was like, ah. And then one year I was like, oh, this is it. Oh, no, I showed my ass in this. This was it. And I get there. I didn't look at who the other nominees were. So I was just like, I don't give a fuck who's nominated.
I get there and I look at my category and I was like, Denzel Washington. Oopsie.
And the winner is, for best lead actor in the movie, Denzel Whitehall.
Like he called me up one day, Thanksgiving. He was like, yo, Ant, you got any aluminum foil?
I was like, I'm in Qatar right now. But yo, I can give you the code to my back door. Cool. So I was like, yo, I'll give you the code to my back door, man. It's in the drawer right next to you. He said, nah, that's all right, man.
I owe him a sweet potato pie, by the way. He always calls me about the sweet potato pie because he knows I bake.
The brand Jordan would ask me to come do their corporate things for their athletes that wear brand Jordan. Like he would do a corporate retreat with just his elite athletes who wear his stuff. Oh, so fun. And I would be there as the host. As a world record holder. Yeah. I would just be there as a host and having fun. And all we would do was play golf and he would have competitions.
He would set us up in different groups. They could be eight or nine groups with 10 athletes per group. And it was like, yo, I want you guys to create a new shoe and tell us what you think it is. And whatever group wins, we'll get a pair of Jordans from Jordan one, all the way up to whatever year we're at that, at that time, every single pair,
want oh my god see I wore these just for you yeah there you go I got those too so my team fucking lost but at that time it was like 30 pair of J's that you could get in your colorway that's 15,000 bucks or 30,000 bucks worth of shoes yeah so we've become cool but what really made us cool they opened the Cove Hotel in the Bahamas at Atlantis yeah so this was 20 years ago 17 years ago something like that so they had a big grand opening
And MJ is sitting there. We're in a restaurant. Stevie Wonder's birthday. All kinds of celebrities there because it's a huge opening. We're in Bobby Flay's restaurant. And so I walk over to MJ. I was like, oh, shit, there's MJ. And I've never met him before. I was like, I got to talk to him. So I'm talking to my ex-wife. I'm like, hey, babe, I'm going to go talk to MJ. So I'll go see MJ.
And I say, hey, MJ. Hey, man, just want to say it's a pleasure to meet you. And I was like, I hear you're a domino player. and I brought your dominoes with me. I have this red pair of aluminum Jumpman dominoes that I got at NBA All-Star in Vegas from a brand Jordan party. And he looked at me, he said, did I give you those motherfuckers? I said, no, you didn't.
And he was like, how did you get them? I said, well, I consider myself to be the MJ of bones, but that's beside the point. I'd like to play with you. And he turns to my ex-wife and says, Okay, look here, ma'am. I suggest you go to the bank and take out as much money as you can. Because once I whip his ass, he won't have enough money to take care of you and your children. You're smart.
You ensnared him in competition. Yeah, and she's like, I'm not going to let him play you for money. But this is what he'd do. And he was like, meet me at the cabana tomorrow at noon.
I was like, all right. This is crazy. So I'm swimming in the ocean with Patrick Ewing.
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