Tyler Perry
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187 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Tyler Perry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Exactly. What does that do for that person? What does this do for your spirit? You as a person? And how do you pay it forward? That's what I always say. What can I do? Nothing. Pay it forward. Yeah. Find someone that's in a shittier spot than you are.
We went from 2000 seat theaters to arenas and couldn't meet the demand. So I thought, OK, there's a hunger for this kind of storytelling. So let me move into television. Got it. It was just a bigger arena. It was a bigger arena and I didn't have to be everywhere at once. I could be on a screen in 2000 locations.
And that's when I really began to understand this lack of representation for black people in storytelling and especially my kind of storytelling for black people, because. There were lots of shows that were directed at black people, but they weren't told from the point of view of a black person who had experienced it.
So that's why I think shows and movies are still going to number one is because I'm telling it from a point of view that we really get no matter what critics say, no matter what anybody says.
I don't like metal music. Metal is not my thing. I can't relate to it, but I don't criticize it and I don't judge it because it's not for me. It's not directed to me. It's not something that I can say, I like this music. So this music's crap. No, that's just not for me. And it's the same way when I think about the work that I do. It is specific in nature and it speaks to a specific audience.
And to have a critic come along and say, well, you have zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Like, fuck your tomatoes. Yeah. When I was first starting out, I had two critics in my show at the Kodak Theater sit on the same row. I watched them make notes throughout the show, too. They reviewed the exact same show. They saw the exact same thing. I read both reviews. It's the last time I read reviews.
And one guy thought it was amazing. The other guy thought it was the worst thing he'd ever seen. So I thought, hmm, this is opinions. This is what people think. And it doesn't really matter as long as I'm clear about the intention of what I'm doing.
Completely true. Also to layer that is the understanding of what it's taken for me to be able to be in this business and to have this many hits and this much success. and have to fight tooth and nail to get a budget that's anywhere near a Sandler movie. Despite all the success. Despite all of it.
To this day. It's wild. With Paramount, I have these shows on BT that do huge numbers for my audience. But the budgets are far lower than any of the other shows that are on some of the other parts of comparable audiences for sure. And then it's like, oh, no, no. We have a formula for you, which is basically you are black. This is your box.
Here's where you stay, because your audience is going to do this much for us in returns. And that has been since I've been in the business. So I have found a way to navigate through that, to take what I've been given to make sure the actors and actresses are paid well. And at the same time, figure out how do I make this work and grow a business? It's been challenging. Yeah.
Because I would like to have one opportunity to have an even playing field. Just one where it said, OK, here's your track record.
Yes, I did. Because I was talking to my agent and said, I want to do a sitcom. And they're like, oh, well, just do one. I was like, no, no, no. I feel like I need to do 10. They're like... Tyler, nobody does 10. That's not how this works. I said, no, no, no. I want to do 10. They're like, OK. So I went to Atlanta, filmed the first 10. They were awful. OK.
And I put them in the can and nobody wanted them in Hollywood. Then the UPN and WB merged. I think they became the CW. And at the time, there were about 10 or 12 black shows on the air. Those shows all went away. So all the affiliates, this is during the world of syndication, were pissed. So they were calling around Hollywood. What do you have? What do you have?
Well, I got this guy, Tyler Perry's got 10 episodes. And they're like, Tyler, you got those 10? They want them. Like, OK. So they put them on and all these different affiliates. The ratings were higher than what was there before. Blew their minds.
Yeah, exactly. They don't have the programming to put things in or after the primetime hours, they wouldn't have the show to put in. So when they put this show in, it got these crazy numbers and they all just went crazy. And they're like, oh, Tyler, this is so great. We got a call from this network. They want to order 10 more. Another one said, oh, we want 20. I was like, no, I want 100.
I want 90 episodes. Everybody's like,
Yeah. And they told me it's not going to happen. Nobody's going to do that. I was like, well, I'm not doing it because I knew a hundred minutes indication.
So I wanted somebody to commit to a hundred episodes. And that was Turner TBS. Have you watched that doc by chance? No. Ted Turner on Max. You want to turn that back on, don't you?
I'm with you. Turn it off. Okay.
That seems right. Or just turn it on.
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