Gary Owen
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Podcast Appearances
And there was like 15 episodes, like literally like 40 comics they were choosing from.
Then they stopped making it a contest the year I hosted, and they opened it up.
That's when they opened up to like 500 comics.
And then you got a little more diverse.
But in the beginning, it was a contest.
People forget that.
Comic View was a contest.
And they did that because Dev Jam was just like comedians.
When BET wanted to do comedy, they said, well, we can't do Dev Jam.
We got to switch it up a little bit.
So we'll make ours a contest.
So then when Dev Jam went away and I became the host of Comic View, then they went back to just being a comedy show again.
It wasn't a contest anymore.
I think I'm the first and only white on-air personality they've ever had on any show.
And then I had the reality show too on BET.
They rerun everything on BET now.
I think I saw Homeboys in Outer Space.
Well, it came up in mediation.
We never actually went to court when we got the divorce.
We ended up settling, but she brought it up in mediation.