Damon Wayans
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67 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Because he used to like stand, they had a totem pole and he would stand out there and tell jokes like every day. And someone came up to him and said, man, you're funny. You should do stand up comedy. Like right down the block from where we grew up. That's what he says he learned from college.
Yeah. And for me, my journey, I started out wanting to be a singer. Can you sing? No, when I was young. No, when I was young. That seems like an obvious.
I hate the way you sing. Now I can't. Because when I went through puberty, I told my mother, I said, Ma, could I take some lessons? She said, boy, I can't even feed you.
You don't get no lessons. Find something else to do. That's what she told me. Next. And so I started DJing. And that was my dream. I wanted to be a DJ. Craig was a DJ in college. I still act at turntables. Did you mix with him? Yeah. And with stems and all the stuff you can do now.
Craigie Craig.
My man. My man. Yeah. And so I went to... We used to throw parties up when I moved out of my house, my parents' house, at 16. I lived with my cousin up in Marble Hill, the projects. And we used to throw parties and all the girls would be out there. It was fun. And then when Keenan moved to California, he gave me his apartment. In Washington Heights. And I was like, okay, cool.
So I told my cousin, I'm moving. And he's like, all right, well, you got to do what you got to do. And I had all this equipment. I had like speakers the size of washing machines.
I made them myself. Like I went to downtown, bought tweeters and the subwoofers and all that. And my cousin, I came back to get my stuff. And it was all gone.
And I was like, yo, Reedy, you need to give my stuff back. He was actually 250 pounds at 14 years old. So I knew he could beat me, you know. Yeah. But I, you know, because I was like 125 pounds. And so I just had to take that on the chin and find something else to do. I told his mother, I said, Mom, he took my stuff. He just took your stuff. She said, you ain't expect to live here for free.
I was like, you were in on it? Yeah. What? He took all my stuff and he brought it up to a barbershop. I taught him how to cut hair. Took it to this barbershop and I was just like, what am I going to do? And then I found standup. So it's interesting how, where the journey will take you. I wouldn't have done standup if I was going to be, if I was really committed to being the DJ.
That's one. I think competition is good, you know, if it's... a healthy competition. Like we compete like comedically, right? So the joke is thrown on the table and then we all, you know, give our different takes on it. But whoever threw it on the table, that's their joke.
And I got to go get it.
Yeah, I got to go get it.
She's like, go get me a soda. Yeah. If Keenan, if Marlon walks in the room and, you know, if I walk in a room and there's no seats.
Marlon gets up.
Sean and Keenan will sit. Yeah. And Marlon will get up. You sit here. And my son will have to.
Yeah, I was scared to death of my father. Yeah. Scared. Like, he would pants my father. Like, my father would be talking, he'd just snatch his pants off. Oh, dad. And for me, that was like a suicide. That's why you're so crazy.
Like, I used to go and we used to, like, rob houses for stereo, for music equipment, DJ stuff.
No, but the stuff my cousin took was stuff that I bought. Oh, unlike the stuff. But listen, I went over with my friend. He's like, that's not the point. That's not the point.
I couldn't bring it home.
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