Chapter 1: What humorous observations does Donnell Rawlings make about Montreal?
It's a lot of white chicks here in Montreal. OJ Simpson would have a field day out here because he had jungle fever. Jungle fever is interracial dating. I had jungle fever before. I had it for two years. I don't know where I caught it. I'm sure it was Starbucks. It had to be Starbucks. I used to go to Starbucks every morning.
I used to hide behind a plastic plant just waiting for them to come in with them Lemon Lulu yoga pants. and them UGG boots, and I used to wait for them to call a coffee order. They'd be like, double frappuccino for Amber? I'm like, oh. I had jungle fever so bad, I used to go hunting for white chicks. I used to go to the farmer's market every Sunday.
Six o'clock in the morning, I had the farmer's market outfit on. I had a baseball cap, I kept squeezing the brim, make it look like a hoodie and a blowfish hat. I had a Bruce Springsteen t-shirt, cut-off shorts. I had flip-flops, Pilate ball under one arm. I had a yoga mat on the other arm.
Chapter 2: How did Donnell Rawlings transition from military to comedy?
I had a recycle bag made out of a recycle bag that was just recycled. with a whole bunch of kale and gluten-free stuff. White chicks love kale and gluten-free. A year ago, I didn't even know what gluten-free meant. This dude said gluten-free. I was like, how long was he locked up, dog?
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You know, Jamaican guys, like, they sound very wise because of that accent. I just got to admit it. They could say anything, and it would sound like wisdom. I went to Jamaica once, and there was a guy that was talking to me, and I couldn't tell you half of the stuff that he was saying, but I felt it was profound because of the way he was saying it. Yes.
I was like, whatever you're saying, that is pretty wise.
That's so funny because I used to have a bit about that. I was like, a Jamaican would be like, if one man put one burger on one bun with one piece of cheese, what do you have? You have a fucking cheeseburger, man. That's awesome.
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Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial Tuesday with Donnell Rawlings.
I mean, a generational comic, a guy who only comes around once in a generation.
He's got his body of work.
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Chapter 3: What experiences did Donnell share about his time on The Chappelle Show?
Actor, heckler, former Air Force police sergeant, comics, stand-up comedy, all the things, The Chappelle Show, The Wire.
The Wire, yep.
The Corner, which I never heard about until Chrissy started talking about, but we'll talk to him about that if we get into it. And Stand Up Comic. He's currently out there on the road. He's got a brand new special. Link's in the show notes. Donnell has been on The Chappelle Show. I'm rich, bitch! Yep. That's his tagline. You all know it. Ashy Larry. Ashy Larry. Ashy Larry. He was actually Larry.
He was all the things. I mean, the guy is like, quite frankly, I'm I'm a little I got goosebumps that even Donnell even agreed to come on the commercial break. Clearly, this is a mistake and we better do it quickly before he changes his mind. And we'll talk to Donnell about all of those things. Can't wait. I actually saw Donnell was with.
Joe List, Rory Scoville, Mark Normand, and that guy who plays Dr. Phil worse than I do. I play Dr. Phil much better than he does. Adam Ray. Adam Ray Comedy. Yep, Adam Ray Comedy on Instagram if you want to follow him. He's become Dr. Phil. He's had Dr. Phil on the Dr. Phil show. Has he?
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Chapter 4: How did Donnell's upbringing influence his comedy career?
Yes, he has. That's funny.
He plays Dr. Phil. He has a you know, he puts on a bald cap and mustache and he does a really good Dr. Phil impression. And he's become this character and he's selling out theaters being Dr. Phil, essentially the comic Dr. Phil, obviously. But he had Dr. Phil on the Dr. Phil show. Lots of other famous people have showed up. He is like an offshoot of Kill Tony.
Want to ask Donnell about Kill Tony because there was a dust up online at some point about Kill Tony. We'll ask him about that. and what exactly the drama is there. We're not a drama show, but we should ask him, Chrissy. Yeah, we should scratch the itch. We should scratch the surface. We'll scratch the surface. We'll get into clickbait real quick, and then we'll dive out.
We'll go in, and then we'll get out. Yeah, real quick. But Don L. Rawlings can be found online. He's got a huge body of work, as Chrissy said, on YouTube, on Netflix, on Hulu, on all these different places, because he's been in so many different shows, most notably The Chappelle Show. But not too far below that, The Wire, which is one of the greatest television shows.
I mean, on any critics list you look at at all, The Wire is either, if not number one, definitely in the top five.
Rightfully so. So good. Rightfully so.
Such a good show.
Yeah, if you haven't seen The Wire, you are 10 years too late to catch on to it when it was hot. But go watch it because, as Chrissy said, any –
I actually watched it after it was already done.
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Chapter 5: What challenges does Donnell face as a touring comedian with a young child?
And he became such a good heckler that they said, you should be on stage, dude. If you're going to heckle all the other comedians, why don't you try it yourself? And he did.
And it took off.
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Mr. Rawlings here with us now. Donnell, thanks so much for being here today. Really appreciate it. You are a former military guy, right? Yes.
Air Force? Yeah.
So I have a question that's timely and topical.
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Chapter 6: How does Donnell describe his relationship with his son and parenting approach?
Okay. You are in Los Angeles right now. We're just talking about this. We have friends that are out there and our agents out there and- They're largely noticing nothing because I think this this kind of drama that's going on with the National Guard and the Marines is all happening in just a few pockets of Los Angeles. They're not obviously not everybody's down in those pockets.
But how what's your take on if you were in the military and being deployed into the U.S. cities? Do you I'm thinking about like from a soldier's point of view, is it just orders?
Let me let me let me for really quick. I was in the military, but I wasn't patriotic, okay? That's my question. There you go. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'll just put it, I'll be honest. Black folks and white folks go in the military for two different reasons. You ask a white guy why he joined the military? To protect my country and its honor. God damn! Black guy, uh, GI Bill college.
I was on the basketball team. They told me I was going to be a general in three weeks and I was going to have my own private jet. When people come up to me, they're like, thank you. Thank you for protecting me and keeping me safe. I got to be honest to everybody's listens. I did my time. If you would have expected me future comedian, uh,
To protect you or keep you safe, you better off committing suicide because if I get shot, everybody around me is getting shot. I'm just telling you. Yeah.
Yeah, fair enough. I feel for the soldiers, man, because, you know. I got to imagine a lot of them are in the same mindset that you are. I am here for a J.O.B. to get a college education to, you know, feed my family, whatever it is. I am not here for all the drama.
And, you know, it's a great sacrifice that you make because essentially you say, hey, if we go to war, I'm going to put myself in front of a bullet.
But I'm going to add to that. This is why I know I wouldn't have been able to save any lives. When I was in the military, I was stationed in Kunsan, Korea, right?
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Chapter 7: What insights does Donnell provide on the importance of consistency in content creation?
And we had nuclear weapons on that building. So we have what they call exercise. Exercise is when you practice if the base is going to come under attack, how you protect the base and everything. So it's like a simulated war. And this is why I know I wouldn't have been able to help anybody because every time we did an exercise, I died within the first few minutes.
of the war i was dead and the reason why i died because when you get when they shoot you they get your stuff go off so you gotta you gotta lay on the field and then they gotta simulate what would the uh uh response team do so they gotta come and take you off the field but when they take you off the field you know what they take you they take you to the basketball gymnasium
So, needless to say, in all these war efforts, all the black guys were in the gym talking about money. Yeah, yeah. And those white dudes had their face painted up like, be quiet. They're going to know where we are.
Local, local.
We was in there like, we was like, I got next. Who got next? Yeah. I mean, you might want to talk to somebody else. I do respect what the military did for me as far as a transition from not exactly knowing what I want to do in my life. But I got to be honest, I'm not going to lie to anybody. I wasn't like, God bless America. You know, I was like, God bless this job. Right. Fair enough.
Yeah. Fair enough. You've been doing this a long time. I saw a real a couple of days ago. I was looking at your Instagram and I saw a real. Where two dudes just start smashing each other in the fucking, in the front row or like in the second row of, you're at the improv.
Why is the good shit what's going on? This is why you're full of shit, okay? It's because out of all the videos, I got videos of my son and you just as guilty as anybody could have done it. I got some stuff like this. Oh my God, he's such a great dad. And guess what you asked me? What happened at your fucking show? They're going crazy, bro.
It's crazy, yeah. Well, hey, I'll get you your son, too, because I like what you have to say about being a parent.
Well, I will say this. It was interesting because I was at Arlington Improv, and I don't want to throw any shade on the club. It just was one of those nights.
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Chapter 8: What future projects and shows does Donnell have planned?
I don't know how often it happens there. But I was starting off my show. I'm usually like a firecracker right out the gate. Bam, bam, bam. Yeah. But for some reason, I hadn't connected with the audience yet, right? So I kind of felt the room. It felt somewhat uneasy. Mm-hmm. and I saw a couple of people get up and I was getting ready to start roasting them.
I'm like this, all right, you can't get my stuff together. And next thing you know, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. It went crazy. And I've seen some interesting stuff. But, you know, even with that said, it was an opportunity. I could have been like, guess who gets off work early today? Yeah, guess who's going home right now. I'm like, you know, Chuck's going to be the same.
Then I kind of felt sorry because a situation like that for the club, because... It's an opportunity for the audience just to leave without paying their tabs. I've had some similar situation like that where I was at a club and they had a blackout and I had to do 45 minutes in the dark with no microphone or anything.
I told people to put their lights on their phone just so they could illuminate the room just so the club had an opportunity to make money. So I did that part. But the first thing I did when it happened, I was like, what the hell is going on? And I'm thinking, what can you do? What do we need right now? And then I kind of drew from one of my favorite songs, Bill Withers.
I started saying, some times in our lives, we all have pain. And the funny thing about it was, a group of women just jumped behind me on stage. I saw that, yeah. And I wanted to tell them, you do know that I'm not patriotic, right? Yeah, yeah, right. That's a good segue. You do know I'm the last person to protect you. I'm like, yo, you're going to die or at least go to the basketball gym with me.
It was like... And then I had a decision. I was like, do I quit? But... I manned through it, and I did another 45 minutes after it was over. Of course, some of the people left the show, but I was surprised that half of the audience still stayed, and I got to finish my show.
It wasn't exactly the show that I thought in my brain, but at the same time, the interesting thing about comedy is the comedians that can adjust comedy. You know what I mean? Improvise and just keep it going. And that's what I did.
Yeah.
One thing I was so happy for, we were in Texas. And Texas is definitely a gun carrying state. And that was one thing that I was really nervous about because it was chaotic. And then there was a moment of silence. And then all I kept on was just bracing myself to hear pop, pop, pop. Yeah. That never happened. I got 600,000 likes, so I won. I know.
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