Tommy Davidson Opens Up: Pain, Comedy, and the Fight to Belong
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Jeder Läufer kennt diesen Moment, wenn es einfach klickt. Wenn deine Beine einfach mitgehen, der Schmerz nachlässt, die Zweifel weg sind und du nur noch das Runners High spürst. Das ist der Grund, warum du so früh aufstehst. Warum dich ein bisschen Regen nicht auffällt. Warum Laufen zum Ritual wird. Also laufe und fühle das Runners High.
Wir reistenen weit wie Clans und es war wir, die in den nächsten Clan reisen mussten, die schon dort lebten. Und sie sagten, was ist denn da los? Du hast keinen von diesen? Aber der Handel hat sich verändert. Jemand sagte eines Tages, nein, der Handel ist dieser Rock. Du kannst mir fünf dieser großen Lagen geben und du kannst mir drei dieser Kälber geben. Und sie sagen, raus von hier. Nimm den Rock. Wie passiert das? Racing for resources, racing for power and we have abandoned being mankind. Now we know the only time we change when we are at the precipice of our survival.
Bis zum nächsten Mal.
What's up, everybody? Welcome back. I'm your host, Sean French. Today I have with me a legend, a comedic legend, an amazing individual who's had an amazing career, someone that I've been following and watching ever since I was a young boy. In fact, I used to sneak out of my room on Sunday evenings because his show was on after my bedtime. You may have heard of it in Living Color. Absolutely epic show was raised on it. Hysterically funny. This man is still going. In fact, bet just green lit varney hill a spin-off of martin starring our own author of living in color tommy davidson what's up baby you got it you got it all right that was you got it all right dude i mean it's like you know it's kind of like it's my job right yeah it is it is it is i look for that i look for that but no man i truly i'm so excited yeah Thank you. I'm excited, man.
It's, you know, like I told you off air, I've, you know, been, and I just told the whole audience of the world that I've, you know, been a fan of you for a lot of years. And so, you know, when Val talked to me about you, I was like, oh, this is a no-brainer. I love it. And you've had such a great career, man. And, you know, from what I can already tell and from what I've heard, you're an amazing person too.
Ah, thank you. Thank you. It's been a life's work. You know, it's been a life's work. Yeah, man. For sure, dude.
For sure. So, you have an interesting story, right? And you've been pretty public about it, right? Your childhood. If you don't mind, can you give the audience that may be a lot younger, that didn't get to watch all those years of amazing things of you, just a peek behind the curtain of who you are and how you've become, where you're at right now.
I didn't know my life was any different than anybody else's, you know, until I was five, you know. When I turned five, Ich fand heraus, dass ich blau war und meine Familie weiß war. Aber ich habe nie Menschen als blau und weiß angeschaut. Das war mein Bruder, meine Schwester, meine Großmutter, mein Onkel. Das war meine Familie. Weißt du, was ich meine? Und ich habe Jahre und Jahre und Jahre später herausgefunden, dass ich in einem Trash in Greenville, Mississippi, 1966 verabschiedet war. And my mom and my then dad were students at Colorado. I think it was Deion Sanders, Colorado. She found me random. They were there. They heard Kennedy's speech. John F. Kennedy had a speech during all the racial unrest in our country that was just crazy back then. It was totally different. Wir wurden gehasst, besiegt, getötet, alle Art und Weise. Alle, die hierhergekommen sind, waren übrigens von den USA. Sie gehen nach Hause und arbeiten an einem Projekt.
Sie kommen ein Jahr später oder so durch und suchen eine junge Frau, die mit ihnen gearbeitet hat, um Kinder zu immunisieren und in Greenville, Mississippi, zu wählen. Sie sagt, sie ist weg. Sie ist weg. Sie hat ihre Kinder genommen. Aber ich denke, sie hat ihr Baby in diesem Haus verlassen. Hier. Und so ging meine Mutter da rüber, sie war nass. Sie ging in das Haus.
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