Danielle Brooks & Ms. Pat Give Us The Cut Up We Need
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Danielle Brooks shares a deeply personal and inspiring journey from her childhood in Greenville, South Carolina, to her rise as a celebrated actress. Raised in a poor household, she learned early resilience through resourcefulness and humor, forming strong bonds with women who supported her growth. Her path to success began with a $20,000 bequest from her godmother, a Delta Sigma Beta member, which enabled her to attend Juilliard. Despite years of unpaid work, low-paying roles, and emotional doubt, Danielle maintained faith and perseverance. Her breakthrough role in *Orange is Not a Crime*, where she was just 23, marked a turning point, transforming her from a struggling performer into a household name. She credits her success not just to talent, but to the support of women in her life and her own unwavering belief in her abilities. The story underscores themes of resilience, self-worth, and community, as Danielle reflects on how her journey exemplifies the power of perseverance and authenticity. Her experience in the entertainment industry, including navigating industry challenges and maintaining personal values, reinforces the idea that success is deeply personal and shaped by individual experiences. Through her honesty and vulnerability, Danielle offers a powerful message of empowerment to young people—especially Black women—demonstrating that dreams are possible with patience, faith, and a commitment to self-growth. The narrative also highlights her commitment to independence, creativity, and personal values, such as living with her husband in separate bedrooms for comfort and mutual respect, and her pride in owning her career and creative vision. Ultimately, Danielle’s story is one of transformation, resilience, and self-empowerment, showing that true success comes not from external validation, but from inner conviction and the courage to stay true to oneself.
♪ Girl, you did that! ♪ - I was the musty key. - Well, I was the musty, your aunt's thing. - Oh, oh, so get my stuff and get out of, and get out of where? - Stop, stop! - I wrote that one more and all I did was bring up everything back. - See you! - See you! - Hey girl, you did it! - You just getting emotional right now? - Yeah. - You got me really over here, Bob. - Mama comedian, first of all. - So you never gonna control me. - This was happening to you, my friend! - I'm ready to play a game! (cheering) - You ready, Ms. Peck? - I'm ready. - You ready? - Yeah, we'll make you think I can read out loud. - Drop that, B-D-Jay! - Well, you wanna read it, listen, woo-woo! - What is up, neighbors? Okay, so our second tour stop was Atlanta, and some hometown heroes, Danielle Brooks and Ms. Peck, showed up and showed out. Y'all, we were at church and at the club at the very same time. It was wild, so please, please, enjoy, and let us know in the comments where we should head next. (upbeat music) - Oh! - What's y'all doing? How are y'all doing? I don't know that's right. - Peck said we just got here, but I'm getting mad at her. - Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! (cheering) - Peck, Peck, Peck, Peck! Now y'all know y'all can't boot us in that church. (audience laughing) Talking about, woo-woo-woo! (laughing) Y'all, we are in here! (audience cheering) Look at how good y'all look in this, woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo! (audience cheering) Okay, I'm ready to get this show started. (audience cheering) All right, now play the music. (upbeat music) (cheering) Y'all better be playing with me in a minute. Maybe a pop star, you hear me? Thank y'all so much for coming out and being a part of this house guest live. This is our second show, second time ever doing anything like this. So thank you so much. (audience cheering) Our guest this evening, she is a television actress, a film actress at the stage. She is decorated in all of those disciplines. She's a mama, a wife, a sister, and a daughter. Y'all give it up one time for Danielle, bro! (audience cheering) (audience cheering) Woo-hoo! (upbeat music) (audience cheering) (audience cheering) (audience cheering) (audience cheering) (laughing) (cheering) Give me that blood time. Hey, my swan boy's been at home. I hear y'all. I know, that's right. The others will be playing, don't they? I do not play honey. What does that feel like to be able to walk in any room and feel immediately? There's a kinship, a sisterhood, a connection. I love it, it is nothing like being a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. I feel so supported. I feel like, like, sky's the limit for me, and what I can accomplish. Because Delta women, they are like fierce. No games. No games, and guess what? My mother just beat me Delta. I saw. Yes. Give it up for mom. It's so weak, so weak. Because I'm so curious about how that happens. So she's saying, "Happy day." No! Mom, it's up to me. Put me on the line. I know, right? Put me on the line. Put me on the line. Put me on the line. I'm ready to cross the line. I'm ready to cross the sands. No, my mother has always wanted to be a Delta. And it's always been in my heart. And so, you know, just timing is all about timing. And what is for you will never miss you, and it didn't miss her, and it didn't miss me. So it's really, it's really special. There's something really cool though about the women of Delta in your life. It's not just like a thing you wanted to use. You saw it, but like actually made away for you. I don't know what it's got. I don't know, is that right? It did. So there was a woman. I'm from Greenville South Carolina. Yeah! Greenville! And I actually live here now. A lot of you don't know that. But Greenville South Carolina, and I went to a church, but I'm about to church. And there was a woman there, older lady named Miss Annie Edge. And when I was five, I said, "Will you be my godmother?" And she was like, "Well just ask your mom if it's okay." And I did. And so we were tight as thieves stuck at the hip, right? Right. And she knew that I loved to act. This is what I wanted to do with my life. And unfortunately, we lost her when I was 15 to cancer. But the beautiful thing about her was she was so generous to leave $20,000 in her will for me to go to college. Which I needed. Okay. Because Juliard ain't really cheap. Oh no, it ain't cheap, child. No. And we wasn't really cheap. And so the beautiful thing about that, I mean, it was the reason I could pay for my first semester at Juliard. But she was also a Delta. She was a member of Delta Sigma Beta. So I just have always, you know, been so, I've been, I was a Delta, a Delta team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, moved by the organization. And truly the women, you know, like individually that I've come in contact with have really shaped who I am. So. It's pretty incredible. I think about it all the time, especially with you, because you seem to like explode onto the scene. But there was so much training. Oh, honey. So much training. It's so much slower. Yeah, yeah. It's funny because people talk all the time, like with actors and I would say, you know, oh, it's been like it took me so long to get started. And to me, it felt that way because I started in high school. So yeah, I lived on campus. So I didn't get a normal like high school living, you know, I didn't get to go to like a regular prom and go to football games and I was studying. I was like living like a college student at 15. I wasn't living in my home. And so for me, right when I graduated, Julia, I had one year of struggle. Which I know still sounds like, girl, you had one year struggle. But struggle is struggle. And that one year struggle, don't feel like one year struggle. If you're an actor in this industry, like I've always said it's sort of like dog years, like how one year is like seven years. Yeah. So you have one know, it feels like seven knows. It feels like forever. Yeah, I'll be relating. I like this. Oh, yeah. It feels like seven years. It felt like forever. But I made it and I had a lot of our jobs to get, you know, across this way. What, like what? Tell me a giving example. Because also, I wanted to say this. I lived in Grangville, South Carolina. No, I didn't. Grangville. Because okay, so I'm moving from Indianapolis, Indiana. I moved down to, come on, Andy. Come on, Andy. Come on, Andy. Come on. Naptown. Go to sleep. I was way out of the house. So I moved from Indianapolis to Greenville, South Carolina. Okay. What you come to Grangville for? See? See how quick it changed? See, as soon as you say Greenville, to somebody from Grangville. They were like, Grangville. Grangville. Yeah, you do. Grangville. So I moved down there to work a part of a news agency. It was like one minute news. They were trying to change the game. These guys that left the H1, MTV, and CNN, formed this company. And I was one of the anchors for this newscast. Okay. And I remember I was going to buy a car because they gave me all this money up front. It was a tech startup first. And I was like, so how much I could pay? You could give me this. And then I also get paid again. Yeah, let me go get a car. I'm going to get a car. I ran to the out of dealership to get a car. And I'll never forget, I'm waiting for the man to come back out with the keys. And this other salesman walks by and he's like, yep. And I was like, oh snap, what's he? He was like, hey, where are you from? I was like, how you know I'm not from here? He said, I can tell. I said, what you mean? What you mean? You can tell. He said, yeah, where are you from? I said, oh, any necklace. He goes, oh, so you've heard of the Bible Belt. Oh. I said, just like that. Uh-huh. And I'm not playing. This is a salesman at the dealership with tight, tight Wranglers on. And a big belt buckle, he goes, what is here? It's a buckle. And I said, I said, hurry up and get the hell up on out of here. Let me hurry up and get the hell up on out of here. Oh my God. I'll never get grainful South Carolina. Oh my God. That sounds about right. So I was here for all of 32 days. Oh my God. And I lived there for about six months and then ran to New York as quickly as possible. I ran to New York as quickly as possible to my friends. So what was that? Because I would imagine that's also kind of a culture shock. Yes, but it was when I wanted. I was like, get me out of here. Because I grew up in Greenville where, respectfully, everybody's kind of doing the same thing. You know, you wake up, you go to work, you know, go to school, whatever it is, work nine to five. Saturday, you do whatever, sport, you chill, is in Sunday. Y'all know, you with me. So I say, yeah, you go to church and you get ready, you press your clothes for Monday work, right? And I saw that routine and I was like, I don't really like this. This is not calling me in the school that I was doing.
I was going to the arts high school. The diversity was really great. I mean, I was learning that other people walked differently in the world, and I was like, "Mm, okay." And so then I realized that all of the black girls, 'cause it was only 15 in my class. - 15 black girls. - No, no, 15 in my division, so drama. So I graduated in the class of '99, and it was only 15 in the drama. - Total students. - Students in the drama. - Now that shit bears crazy. - And I was the only black girl in that division. But all of the black girls that were in the drama division were getting into Julia. So I was like, "I don't know what this Julia already is, "but I'm looking into it, 'cause they let black girls in there." And let's thank God, I did. (laughs) - I did, so it was Tiana Pairs, Nicole Bihari. - I know, that's right. (laughs) - I don't look at, for the folks at home, I don't know if you could hear that, though. - We're all from the same high school, yeah, yeah. So that's what made me say at 17, let me try Julia. - Wow, that's amazing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And so then the year of struggle. - This is year of struggle, yes. - This is post Julia. I worked in the office first, I worked in international affairs, I worked in student affairs. - Because people I think would imagine, a black woman with a Julia hard degree, baby, the world is your oyster. - No, sir, it was not honey. I said, "You're gonna have to figure this out." And I had to figure it out. I was putting my $25 from being a typist for an elderly lady. - A typist? - Yes, I was a typist for this elderly lady. - Hold on, what was the year? - It was the year? - What year was this? - This was 2011. - You was a typist in 2011? - A typist? - She was old. - Don't let say like some '60s typists. - She was old, and she needed help typing notes for whatever need she had, and I would be typing in my form. - I'm glad it was you and I made it. - And I made it for my dog! - And that got me on the train that week. Thank you! And I was a dog walker. And I did not find a dog. - Which is, okay, you saw how my job is. Okay, so what y'all gotta know is, you know, you have some friends who are like animal people. - I'm not. - Got a heart for animals, but not a presence. - Who cares about your poops? All he does. That's why Ali signs back to gut health lineup, help support your family's regularity. From daily probiotics to fiber gummies, your kittles will love. Find it all on Ali.com. 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But yes, dog walker, I painted the walls of Juilliard for $14 an hour. - This is after you had a degree? - Yeah. - And so, how do you, how do you, as an individual, an artist, a bachelor degree holder, hold in your mind? - I now have a degree, and I'm painting the walls of my alma mater in the hopes of landing a role that will put me in the pursuit, or put me in a line with the pursuit of my dream. How do you hold those two things? 'Cause I would, do you, were you like? - I'll tell you, huh? - Okay. - You all right, honey? G-O-D-V-E? I just knew that God put it in my heart. He said, "I got a promise for you, "and it's gonna happen." So I need you to listen, wait, be patient, do the work, 'cause faith without works is dead. Have your survival drop in preparation, so that you can do, you know, your auditions during the day. I believed I had faith. It was gonna work out. - And so, were there ever people who sold seeds of like doubt, were there ever people who were, 'cause I would imagine there were, of course, people that supported. - It's the devil, (laughs) let me tell you, let me tell you, let me, let me tell you, let me tell you, y'all had to cross my leg, y'all. (laughs) - No, so there was one other girl in Juilliard, my sister, she is my ace boom. And she was in my same class, but we lived together outside once we graduated, we lived together and we would audition for the same stuff. And when I tell you, we would audition for like rent, and I would get to the final call bags, and somehow she would get it. Or we did signature theater, we would audition for a Catori Hall play, and I'd get a call bag, and she would get it. This is in my house, y'all. So I'm listening to her sing 525, I don't even look at what her name is. And you know what I was doing? I was on a Craig list, okay? I was on a Craig list, honey. (laughs) But I just knew what it was. - Oh no! - It was tough, it was tough. - 'Cause you also wanna be able to like, celebrate and support your friends. I said I have to, that's what I would want. That's the one thing I've tried to live my life, treat others the way you would wanna be treated. I know it's so simple, but it's so true. So I never, ever, ever had a jealous bone. I'm not saying it wasn't moments, I was like, why not me guy? But I had a teacher say, he was black teacher. (laughs) - That's probably getting rid of you, y'all. What are you saying? - You said, you said the purpose is to black teacher. - Yeah, 'cause you're black, it's like a plate of chicken. (laughs) - Yeah, 'cause if you were in the city with a black teacher, all of a sudden you were in grateful, so I can't remember, now listen here. - Right, right. - It's a plate of chicken, hold on. - I know, but this is actually Julia at teacher. He was trying to tell me he was like, she might have a thigh, right? She might have, this is not going right. This is not going right, this is not going right. - No, it's not perfect. - This is not going right. - Let me tell you how you know, 'cause as soon as you said thigh, somebody said. (laughs) - Why she gotta have a thigh? - Let me tie this together, Jesus. (laughs) But she might have a thigh, or whatever. She might have more chicken on her plate than you. But it don't mean that you don't have no chicken on your plate. You gotta count your own blessings, is what he was trying to tell me. - Right. - And that really landed with me. I had one little chicken drum. (laughs) But I got a chicken drum, okay? I got a degree, I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna be patient, it's gonna come, it's gonna come. And so I ended up finally getting my job, and that ended up being Orange is a new black. - Come on. (audience cheers) - Now, thank you. - Orange is a new black, exploded onto the scene, and as one of the like, I think very first original streaming programs that broke the industry. You were how old when you walked onto that set the first day? - I had just turned 23. I had gotten the job two days before, or two days after my 23rd birthday, yeah. Yeah, I was a baby, y'all. I ain't no nothin', so anything I wore back then. (laughs) Anything I said back then. - 'Cause we got some pictures. - Oh god. - Oh god, don't pull them up. (laughs) - No, okay. - No, we're gonna roll 'em in the episode. - Oh, good. - No, no, this kid, I'm just kidding. - Just make sure you do the dough up, though. - Yeah, cool, if you do before, but you also get that. - That doesn't need to be the glower. - Yes, start a glower. - But I think it's interesting because 23, to be a part of this incoherent show. - It might have even been in '22, I can't remember. Yeah, I was young. - Huge show. I talked to Uzoa Dubba, who played crazy. - Yes, yes, yes, yes, love that. - On the show. And she told me early on in the process, I think the show's actually even still on, how unprepared everyone kind of was for what would come next, but also for the view or the perspective of the industry on those actors from that perspective. - Oh, yeah. - And that it seemed like we were like, they're gonna be in everything. And how difficult it was actually to get work outside of the show. - It was challenging because we didn't know what we didn't know. And I think at the time, like, my first episode, I hardly got paid, I got scale, but then they made me a series regular and I only got paid like $5,000 in episode. That first season. - We, yes, and I know, I didn't say that the whole way now. - Yeah, it was 32 seasons that the show now. - We didn't say that in seasons, okay. But there was, so think about it. This is what I've always said. We became famous in 13 hours because it was 13 episodes. - That first season, yeah. - It binge watched it. - Yes. - So in 13 hours, I was a normal girl living in Harlem one, six, seven, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight, eight,
to keep the Madison chillin' walkin' to the block to go to Melville's. Next thing you know, I'm famous. And I'm like, hold on now. You know, like people with both of us. - Would you mean take a picture. - Take a picture. And mind you, I don't have the coins to take no taxi, to look like the star that people see me as now. Like it was, it just hit like a ton of bricks. But the beautiful part was I wasn't alone. Like there was so many of us that were so new. So we would talk to each other and be like, yo, is this happening to you? Did this go through the-- - What is the promises? - Oh my God, what is the promises? What's the business manager? All the things. But that was also the best part too because there was people that had been doing it for a while on the show too. Like, came a grue or Natasha Lyon. So we were able to ask them questions. - Natasha Lyon got to be one of the oddest people I have ever seen. - I'll live for her. - I love her, I love her dad. - She can always go to the cookout. - Hello. - Always. - She go try the DJ. - I believe it. - She go try the DJ. - She's like, no, I don't know which side I'm supposed to plug this in on, but I think that this is probably gonna be the song you're gonna love. - Yes, with a cigarette in her mouth. - Yes. - Hit it. - Yes. - She said that the oddest people I've ever met in my entire life, but she's consistent. Like that's actually who she is. - She's a real one. That's somebody that I can call anytime of the day. And she's gonna have my back. She let me stay at her place. She'll give me advice on anything. That is a real one right there. - Do you remember what it was like for you after, right? So did roles flood your inbox for similar roles to orange the new black? Did you get, you know, so many young actors in particular, black actors talk about flood number one. - I didn't. - Party go or two. - I didn't have the third number one problem. Thank you, Lord. - I was, I was, I didn't have that before orange. So like, my whole goal in the beginning was to do theater. Like, I was big in that world. - Seriously. - I wanted to be a Broadway star. I did not really care about TV and film because growing up, only people's on TV was news anchors. So from where I was from. - Right. - So I didn't really see that as a past. Like I was the girl at 15 years old watching Tyler Perry plays, you know what I mean? And so inspired by seeing so many black people that look like me there in that state. So I was like killing it. - And killing it. So I was like Broadway, that's where I wanna go. So I was getting that. I was getting, you wanna play witch number three in Macbeth. Like that was sort of like the thing at the time. But once orange came along, I had gotten girls, like guest spots, girls, masters of nine. I was hitting on the guest spots, but when I was in orange too, I did color purple on Broadway. And that really, thank you. (audience applauding) - Thank you. I was so excited y'all, thank you. - Thank you, thank you, but that's what had gotten me over my, was like, stop, stop, stop, stop. - 'Cause I wanna know. - Okay, what do you wanna know? I don't have a drink, I need a drink. (audience laughing) Oh, it is my drink. - Look, 'cause look, I gotta go like this, 'cause Red Bull is fine. - Yes, yeah, let's go, let's go, let's go. (audience laughing) - Wish I had to eat the dinner. Wish I had the dinner. Was it good? - Okay. - Was the Red Bull, you had the Red Bull? Yeah. - You're a kid. - That cherry vanilla, you had the cherry vanilla, that's good, and. - Ah, so where were we? We were talking about, I think it was, the color purple, and I have heard - What you hear? - That Oprah Winfrey. - Uh-huh, what you hear about her? - Did not play about you. - Oh. (audience laughing) - She did not play about you. - Yes. - And that there was a moment that really sealed the deal for you with her. On Broadway, not so much, because I don't know, we didn't really connect as much during that time. Now, she was always really supportive of me playing, Sophia, without a doubt. But it wasn't, our relationship didn't really build until I did the movie. - What happened? - I think it just was, I don't know, it, I. - Well, she more hands on, she more part of it. - She more hands on, and I'm also, I've never been the type to be a latcher. Like, I'm not one, I never wanted anyone to feel like I wanted something from them. So I would just be timid and quiet. I never was like, Miss, oh, what's up for me? You're Sophia! - I was mad, I was mad, I was mad, I was mad. - I was mad, I was mad, I was mad, I was mad, I was mad. - Hey, girl, you're mad, I was mad. (laughing) - I was very much like this, but I also was like, in a growing phase of my life during that time, because even playing Sophia, I had a lot of imposter syndrome during that time, like not feeling like I was worthy of being in that space, and like, God, like, why me? Like, like, how realistic? - Really? - Yes, like. - You're getting emotional right now? - Yeah, but I'm gonna hold it together, yeah? - What makes you, what comes out? - Well, it's my story, and it's something that I really was a part of the old Danielle, you know what I mean? And I've healed from it now, so I think that's why I get a little emotional, 'cause I'm very proud of the Danielle that I am now. (audience applauding) - Well, you know that, like, we're all also proud of you. - Thank you. - And like, there's something about you that when we see you win, when we see you work, when we see you struggle, but you still hold your head up, that it's like, it's your us. - Thank you. - It feels like you are us, do you know what I mean? It feels like we are heavily invested. - I appreciate the investment. I do, I really think, I do. I appreciate everybody's energy in that way. I feel that energy, you know what I mean? And I want to make my people proud, you know what I mean? And so when you know that and you can feel it, it's just like, "Hey, thank you, God." And I think at the time when I was younger, I was like, "Why, me, God?" And now I'm like, "Why, not me, God?" (audience applauding and cheering) - If there's something, and we're gonna get to the game in a second, but if you could whisper something in that younger Danielle's ear, and I know that most people say, a lot of people first reaction is, I wouldn't say anything 'cause I wouldn't change anything. But I want to challenge you to think a little, a little bit about the one thing you wish you had heard, knowing who you are now, at one thing you wish you had heard, 'cause there's somebody right now who needs to hear that one little whisper. What would you have whispered in her ear in that first time you said, "Why, me, God?" - I think I would say, I'm gonna do it both ways. I'm gonna talk to 17 year old, talking to, I ain't gonna tell you how my age, me now. (laughing) And then my now to my 17. - Okay. - I think my now would say, believe it. She would look me dead in the eye and say, believe it. - With that much conviction. Believe it, everything. Everything that's coming your way, who you are, who you bout to be, believe it. It's you. You're chosen. You're special. You deserve. Believe it. I don't know what needs to hear that. To believe it. You're worthy. You are so worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. Now what I would say. - Hold on, shit. (audience laughing) - You didn't mess me up. (audience laughing) - They had to give me a towel or something. - It's true, y'all. It is so true. - Girl, you got me really over here, boss. - Well, come on baby, let's talk about it. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) - Because this was happening to you, my friends. They'll see what you've created. (audience cheering) - Okay, see. - You're showing people that like, you can do anything that you want to do. There is not just one path to this life. Like, you create the life that you want to create. You're doing that. Do you know how liberating that is for people? That's what you are. You're liberating people while you're liberating yourself. (audience cheering) That's fire. (audience cheering) (audience laughing) - Before he gets into me, mine. (laughs) - Okay, now what would the other person say? The other person, shit, now. (audience laughing) - This one ain't as heavy. This one ain't as heavy. 17 to myself. - Yeah. - Let's say. ♪ Girl, you did that ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ You did that ♪ (laughs)
- You bad, you bad, man, it's true. - I think that's what she would say. I am very, very like, I'm not, it's not that I'm fully shocked, but I am shocked. Because it's not only the ex-turn of stuff, it's not like all of the awards and getting to kick you with Oprah and like working with James Gunn and Johnson, all the things being in Minecraft, I don't, I am so grateful for all of the work, you know, all of those awards. But is the internal part that I'm proud of? - Yeah. - I'm proud of doing the work, going to therapy. - Right, I'm proud of like, like, I'm proud of being a fish mom. (audience cheers) - I am grateful for being a great wife, because people will try you. And they didn't want me now, I'm happy. - They all owe me, how old are the people's champ? - You know, I'm proud of that, of just like keeping everything in perspective and like not losing like the purity of who I am and like the good parts, like just like-- - Did they only got better? - They only got better, friends? - They got better. - They got better. And that's what I say down. - Down. - Down. - The industry is weird, you know. It is weird, like it will change you and shift you. - And require you to or tell you to get out. - Yeah, all this stuff. - Yeah, I y'all, this show, when we decided to take it on the road, was it supposed to just be like a, or I thought it was gonna just be like a-- - Yeah, let's kick it, we have some fun. - But every single show has been full of such a healing kind of energy, that I hope it shall feel this like in the room, these live shows are becoming so special. And especially in a time where gathering in this way will soon feel like it's about to become outlawed, that they're even more sacred. Thank you for sharing that, the way that you just shared. - Thank you for letting me share that one. Thank you. - You are loving so much. - Thank you, thank you for letting me show this side of myself. I don't think I always get to share in this way. So thank you for being, who you are. - Are you ready to play the game? - Yes. - Okay, so this game we're calling, "Read the Room." - Oh my gosh. (upbeat music) - Okay, so this game, exactly. - So the room, if y'all agree, you're gonna go blue. If that's a false, if you don't agree, that's gonna be red, okay? - True blue. - Red, now. - Okay. - Okay, okay, so Daniel, you go first. - That was real dramatic. - Real dramatic, it's really hard dramatic. - Using photos that are more than three years old on a dating app, it's cat fishing. - Do you agree, is that? - That is cat fishing. - Three years? - Yes. - Okay, hold on, three years is cat fishing. - Yes, man. - How much can you tell you three years? - This is true. So true if it's red. - So no, so true is blue. - True is blue, I say blue, who are you? (laughing) - Wait, wait, wait. - It's too busy, it's too busy. - Oh. (laughing) - See, I think if you got pictures that are older than three years, here's my thing with using old photos. If you're gonna surprise me, surprise me in a good direction, right? So if your photos are old, but you look fineer than that, but I was good with the picture. Show up better. - You can use the mode as a photo. - But the most people, sometimes. - That's not the case for most people. Most people doing that because they don't have a good picture right now. The last six months. Why not the last six months? Refresh, child, we all got iPhones. - But we would say Hawaii when I took my photos and I had a good backdrop, the ambiance. - Okay, okay. - You know what I'm saying? - I think what they should, I think what you gotta do nowadays, sometimes if it's older than three years, you gotta crop it. (audience laughs) - Yeah, that I mean. Yeah, that I mean. Okay, let me see your wings. If it's blue, if it's true. - They wouldn't eat most of them with me. It's all talking about. - Okay. - Blue. - Blue. Okay. If your partner upsets you in a dream, they owe you an apology in real life. - If they accept us. - If your partner upsets you in a dream. - Oh. - They owe you an apology in real life. Now, hear me out. Hear me out. I had a dream. Hear me out, I had a dream. Look, it's just some of us right now. They're like, "Yeah, you still owe me a polish." You still ain't said sorry. Okay, I remember, I had a dream. In the dream, my partner was talking to me so strong. I'm talking like, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. "I wish you my love, it won't get so shit. "Get so shit, get the fuck out. "I don't give a fuck." Like, in ways I've never talked to anybody, I was on the receiving end from my partner. And I woke up in the middle of it before I got to say my stuff back. (audience laughing) And I woke up hot, like unfinished business. And so the whole day I'm walking around, I can't wait to see that. (audience laughing) Oh, oh, so get my stuff and get out of, and get out of where? They probably like, "Hey, Allison, don't hate me. "You owe me an apology." - No. (audience laughing) - It was a dream, oh fuck us. (audience laughing) - No. - It was in my spirit. - No. - I felt like I'm no spirit. I ain't got nothing to do with that partner. No. - So that's enough? - Red of blue. - Red. - So y'all with me or no, not with me, okay. - Jay. - Jay! (audience laughing) - Okay, you can do one more. - They were not with you at all. - Not at all. (audience laughing) Okay, you take the next one. - Okay. (audience laughing) - Number three. - Ooh. - Quiet six. - Is bed six. (audience laughing) - Quiet six. Now I'm supposed to tell you how I feel about it, right? Is this your version of Quiet Six? No. (audience laughing) Now. (audience cheering) (laughing) - What is that? - No, now Quiet Six. Does that mean like mute, like nothing or is it like a little moan? - What's a Quiet Six? - It could be very sensual now. You could be in that group. Yours might be like this, it might be like this. (audience laughing) - Okay. So what's your definition of Quiet Six? Is it just more muted? - Were you silent or were you silenced? (audience laughing) - Don't try to eat, what's Quiet Six? Quiet me, like. - What's your definition? (audience laughing) - Okay, let's go with his version, then. (audience laughing) I think we all know the answer to that one. - Right? - Now I guess it's bad. - That's bad, say? - Yeah. - Okay, what's it, you said it's sensual. - I was saying, sometimes you can be so into it, where it's just like y'all connected and it ain't all about like, oh, my hair, oh, it ain't gotta be outta there. Like, that's nice too. But like, it could also be very intimate, where you're like into each other, you know? So, you know, I don't know what you'd be doing in here. - Hoda. - Hoda. (audience laughing) - Hoda, 'cause you're hoda, you just hoda, hoda, hoda. What'd you say? What'd you say, Hoda? What'd you say, you say? I don't know about it. No, I said, I guess so. It sounds good to me. - Sounds good to you. - That part, yeah. - Oh, that part. - We'll get to that part. - Anybody else? What's your name? - I have to be a little part of you. - What's your name? - What's your name? - That's right. - What's your name? - I have to be a little part of you sometimes. - She said, you might as well be quiet with the kids around. You said, hold up, hold up. - Absolutely not. (audience laughing) - Me and Mama, where was this talking? (audience laughing) Me and Mama was just talking, get back in your room. - No, I mean, I got it. - I've had a lot of time, I'm very quiet. - You see, I'm out of the house. - Okay, is that red or is that blue for y'all? Let's see the wings, wings up. - See a mix, that's a mix, that's a mix, that's a mix, man. - See a mix, that's a mix, man. - Right there, she got both, now you got both of them. (audience laughing) - Yeah, I want to hear some more opinions. - Look, right? - I didn't know what they think. - Well, you know what, you know what? I'm, we gonna come out there and get some, get some more answers. We're gonna go on an intermission right now. I think give it up one time. We're there, yo, brook. (audience cheering) What is up, neighbors? Okay, so I want to take this time to say thank you for all of your support, your likes, your comments, your shares. This has been an incredible ride with y'all, and I love that y'all rock with it so tough. I also wanted to take this time to ask you to check and make sure that you are subscribed to the show. We've got over 200,000 neighbors that are a part of this thing and the energy is real and I want you to be a part of it. It also makes sure that we are able
to do all that we have planned for house guests to bring it to you. So come on, be a part of that. You don't wanna miss it? Okay, now back to the episode. (laughing) (upbeat music) No, what are you doing? I got a file here, what's it going? (upbeat music) Oh no, oh, oh, you making me look like I ain't got no room. - Dude, the wings is working, okay? - Okay. - Who floating up here? - Floating. - This has been incredible. - Yes. - We're talking backstage about how you have a moment and you're like, I didn't know it was gonna be all this, but you were like, believe it. I was like, she's talking to me. (laughing) Oh, oh. - Uh-oh. - Look at that B. Look at that B. - Is that an old S? - I think it's an, it should go C. - I think it's another S. I think. - Let's go C. - Danielle, when I think about Atlanta. - Mm-hmm. - And I think about a woman in particular who really, she hit the scene and exploded. - Yes, she did, she really did. - She turned the comedy game upside down. - Yep, yep, she did, she did. - You might even say half of BET is hers. - Right now. - Yeah, it could be, definitely good. - She got one book out. - Yep, yep. - She got another book out. - Yep, she does, mm-hmm. - She got a cooking show. - Yep. - Y'all and can't even cook. - Nope. - Give her one time for Ms. Bell. (cheering and applause) - That's a lady. - That's a lady. - That's a lady. - Have a seat. - Give it up for Ms. Bell. - Feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it. - I don't know when Hollywood went into this liberty of its furniture. (laughing) - Every, whenever interview I do is always a small count. - I was like, hey, big people need them grandpa seats. (laughing) - It's a real kind of thing on the side. - What did you say? - I'm requiring it. - Hey, look, they got maternity popping out of shit. - I'm trying to get that mic straight. Let me get my girl straight. - It did. - Thank God I wore a bra because he needed to look at on my bra and use it on when I wore a bra. So I was like, thank God. (laughing) - And she had mine. - Our son, man, those are like, thank God. (laughing) - He's a rudiment going to do, he can't do anything. What am I doing with this? Did you better ask her? (laughing) - Don't go fishing, you better ask her. - It's so good to have you here. - Thank you. - And it's so good to have you back. (cheering) - It's so good to be here. - I also love you, blonde. You love being blonde. - Yeah. - I just picked some shit about the dresser. (laughing) - What's the collection looking like these days? - Do you know that? - No, I don't know, I don't know. My kid's name, so you know I'm not gonna keep up with no wings. (laughing) - No, I just grabbed something out the dress and put it on my head. I laid down to about 6'40, but I pre-watched my ass, so. (laughing) - I did it at about 5'30. - You said, you don't know nothing about all women do with it. - You have to pre-watch? - Yes, because you know, you get older and you get the cops and you'll be pissing by 6'30." (laughing) - You gotta make sure that little diaper slash panting loud, all right. (laughing) - That's why, when I was in the back of her, I was talking about silence and sex. When you get a certain age, you don't want nobody to talk and then you get out of the picture. (laughing) - And I got stuff to do like the dishes. (laughing) - Come on, you know, that's what you doing, baby, you like it. Don't ask me no fucking question. (laughing) - Did I get naked and laid out? - I ever did it, I'm gonna do this. (laughing) - It don't matter if I like it. (laughing) - Somebody gotta pay the car, no. (laughing) - Okay, so what I love is that when you got here, Danielle was like, I was just over at her house, we got cooking, is that what they're doing? - Yes, I went over there to cook with you. - Danielle made a lasagna, we, oh, can I go? (laughing) - We told that dangle. (laughing) - I don't want to mess with nobody, you two money. (laughing) - Let me correct that. - Wait, so you were, she was, you made a lasagna. - She came over to my house, yeah. - First of all, we both know the co-creator on this bad journey, Cooper, I was like, you think Danielle, well come over my house and cook, 'cause I met her a few times, but I didn't know, you know? - Look, I'm starting to yell. - She can't hear me now. - Yes, and she came over there and she cooked a lasagna. - It's a mac and cheese lasagna, it was fancy. - What is that? - Something I made up. (laughing) - She sure did. And so when you come, I have kids, 'cause I have a customer, all of my family who smoke crack tears. So, I tell you if you have to cook for a lot of people, 'cause they behind the camera, they're gonna get off the school bus. So she made this big old thing, and Danielle was like, wait a minute now, y'all gonna give me some, take part in it. - Oh no! (laughing) - I got a family too. (laughing) - Then we made a big thing. - Right. - Was it good? - Hell yeah. (laughing) - Yeah. - It was really good. - Okay, so now, Ms. Pat, you got to tell me, because again, exploded on the comedy scene, your shows do so well. Now celebrate with six seasons. - Six seasons from Ms. Pat's show. Pat. - Now you in court? - I have a court show in third season. - With your kids, having to decide court cases with the kids. - Well, I didn't know my kids was gonna be on that, right? So, my daughter is a lesbian, and she took her brother to the strip club, and they had been fighting over that money for about two years, and somebody dropped out, and the people in the back said, put them in, when they walked in, I was shocked. (laughing) - You know, both of y'all owe me money. (laughing) And I had just got my daughter teeth fixed, and she was supposed to pay me back, and she was like, you will, get my damn teeth back. (laughing) So, I threw it out. - You threw it out? - Yeah, they owe me money. - You said case dismissed. - Yes, I did. - So, you're winning in so many different areas. Also, your second book, I'm just curious to know what made you decide, you know, I can't cook. Famously, don't cook. - I don't cook. - And, I'm gonna do a cooking show. (laughing) - You know what, it's been in my heart, I wanna do it. I wanna do it. - Right. - I'm gonna invite people over, we don't-- - I can cook, I can cook cocaine. I didn't say I was selling it anymore. (laughing) I'm telling you what I was doing at. (laughing) Don't judge me. (laughing) - I'm not your lawyer, say you. (laughing) - Wait. - She's a hoe, my god. - No, they said, oh my god. - Oh my god. - She said, she said, it's just cocaine. (laughing) - What kind of cake is that? (laughing) - So, I mean, what made you decide, I'm gonna do a cooking show. - So, I built a house, 'cause I'm really a DIYer. So, I built a house, a really big house. - It's beautiful. - Thank you. - I just had it there. - I built it from Kickstarter. - There you see it. - You've seen it. - Yeah, I was, I was, I was, I was like, no. But I need to do service, make some cocaine and stuff. (laughing) - So, in the flickering wrist. - You know what I mean? - Brits. - So, in the flickering wrist. - You don't need to lick those, you know what I mean? - You know what I mean to do. - I mean, the show is called "Wisking It All" for nothing, you know what I mean? You know what I mean, for no reason. - Well, I built a house, I jailed a GC house myself, because I'm a DIYer. So, I saved a lot of money. I made some mistakes. And I said, you know what, I want to do things given at my house. And I couldn't cook. So, I started playing with people recipes. And I probably made them one white girl teaming me back around the chief by 45 times. (laughing) I was so, by the time they were Thanksgiving, I was sick of that shit. (laughing) I don't say, if you cook, one more thing's given to them, I'm gonna kill you. And so, people really like me trying to learn how to cook. And so, my thing is, I'm from the streets. I grew up in the West End. I don't know if anybody went to school with me. But, I'm always about making my own money. Even though I have the mispath show and the judge show, let's be understanding, that's the white people stuff. They own that stuff, that they mine. I don't owe any of that stuff. So, I'm always about creating stuff that I own. Hold on, wait, miss Pat, the show is your name on. So, the burning, making everybody else. It's the networks, they put up that money. They pay all of us, you know. I do get ports and all, and I make good money from the show. But, in the end, that is Fox show. That show started off on Fox. And that, you know, that's what it is. You don't own this stuff. Wow. And so, you said, I got to get some of my own money. Well, I always like to get my own money, because that's an end to everything. They're gonna end the mispath show. The judge show is going, so I'm always thinking about, how can I stay up on top of things? Where, if you take my mispath income, I'm a comedian, first of all. So, you never gonna control me. That's right. You tell me, I can't get on TV. Damn you, I'm gonna go, I didn't tell a joke. So, I'm all about owning my own stuff and doing my own thing. So, I just popped up and I said, hey, let's try this at my kitchen. And it's taking off, so. And I have so many other ideals that I just want to do on my own. You know, I like to do stuff away from the agents and the managers. You don't always need a percentage of my ideal. So, I mean, I grew up in the West here. I ain't getting nobody, no dope money. So, this is like the dope gain to me. It's all about what I can keep for me and my family. Because you'll be out there working like this.
like a dog and then they just sitting in the office in the AC. Well, I'm at 10% of it. So I'm like, I'm gonna create my own stuff. - I heard that. I love how you said sitting in the office in the AC. - Tell 'em all somebody. She ain't like it. - You gotta read your contract, but in the end, you gotta check GPT. They can reach your contract. (laughing) - I think I don't even know how to work check GPT. (laughing) - So I'm all about making my own stuff. What's next? What's this next? - When did you know you were fun with? Like when was the first instance? Was it onstage? Was it in your living room? - No, it was at home. - What did you first know? - So I went to school here at Washington High and I went to the school called English and New Elementary. And I was the musty kid. And so we grew up with Tussy, musty. So my mom was musty, your aunt's thing. - No, no, no, no. - That's why she's at a pre-wash. - No, that's why she's a pre-wash. - She's now, she's learned wisdom, wisdom. - I was, I was, I wasn't, confused as to what it was. - Oh. - I was just surprised that she said it with me. (laughing) - I share a little bit of everything. - No, I love it, I love it. - So I was five of us and we grew up on, we was very poor. And so my mom, I went by that random white jaw Tussy. And she was saying, you take one swipe and you put it up under the arm that you're gonna move the most. (laughing) - Ain't no way. - Ain't no way. - Ain't no way. - And so to keep people off me because I was so poor, I learned how to, we say, join in that, yeah. So that was the only way I can keep it and then I thought out of time. But I, I just learned to join. My brain became so quick, I couldn't, I couldn't read hardly, but I could get your ass up off me. - Ain't no way. - That's right. - Is that right? - Yeah, so all I did was when people came, all you poor, like we would come and have to come home, everything's giving, they would give all the poor kids, the things giving box. And then you do that shit today, I kill you. (laughing) 'Cause my mama was an alcoholic and she was lazy, but all five of us got the things giving box. So now I'm walking down the street with her damn frozen turkey on my shoulder, like a cocket boot. (laughing) I'm throwing down my side, and she's like, you can lose a can, 'cause I'ma kill you, nigga. (laughing) So I just, we got picked on all the times 'cause we was always the one that got the things given in the Christmas box. And so it was joning on kids, that your jokes were good. - Well, and then later on in life, I was just, I just became, I'm blunt. They say I'm blunt. Like, I feel like, why hold it in? Say what you gotta say. If you say what you gotta say, it's gonna relieve that fucking vein that's about to pop in your head and about thinking about what you wanna say. (laughing) I just learned to say what, I don't care. How I come out, if you know, I just said, and people thought I was funny, but I would be that serious and they'd be like, (laughing) - Do you remember the first room you killed, like the first room, like the first, if people talk about, especially with comedies, like the first five. - Yeah. - The first time they delivered five minutes of their own material to an audience, it's pretty memorable for most comedies. Do you remember what your first room you killed? - I did a place here called the pub. It's no more, and I just went, I took my girlfriend and I said, this don't work out when you're never tell nobody. I'm gonna sneak up in. So I snuck up there and I did like five minutes, and they laughed, and I remember going home, getting in the bed with my husband. I said, I'm a comedian. He said, look, go to Walmart tomorrow and don't steal. (laughing) 'Cause I worked at Walmart and all I did was ring up everything backwards. (laughing) - If I didn't get you, you didn't get gushed. (laughing) - Ringing up stakes like bananas. - We didn't steal food because we all had food stamps. So that was useless. We stole food stuff. (laughing) You know, toilet paper washing powder. Kids closed. - Right, right. - You know, everybody was crazy. (laughing) - You can choose no more arms. I get it, I get it, I get it. - Then I went from stealing to forging checks, and I was really good at that. (laughing) (laughing) - But he had to take a sip on that when he said, "Law. - No, no, no." - I was an OG. That was back when you had the right incursive. These lazy ass people now. (laughing) When I look at young people still in this upset me because they runnin' lululemon and grab all them people good stuff. When I stole it with dignity. (laughing) How do you steal with dignity? - You steal with dignity. - You walk in there with a stolen credit card or a check and you pay for your stuff and you get your receipt. (laughing) - And you get your receipt. You don't just walk in and grab stuff. - So yeah. - That is so ghetto. (laughing) - What the hell is that? - What the hell is that? - No, what I love also about your story is that you know to me, you've always kept it real. But you also have been married for 32 years. (cheering) - The part of particular that I love about your relationship with your husband and I think it's probably a key to the success of your marriage is y'all have separate bedrooms. - Oh yeah, yeah. (laughing) - You ain't there, you ain't there, you ain't there, you ain't there. - So I don't know, let me y'all like, ah. - Let me tell you why. (laughing) - What that mean? - So we got wings out there. - And they should ain't like, they're like, "True is blue, right?" - It worked for me for one, I've been married for over 32 years. I'm going through the little ponds. So when you start to heat up and you start to wake up at two and three o'clock and more and this man trying to sleep and then he farting because he can't hold his gas and I can't hold my naps. So I'm like, it's just best if we separate. - But how long you been doing that now? - About two years. - Oh okay, okay. - Yeah, I mean it's a beautiful thing. And when I want to get busy, I jump in the shower, run over there, and then run my naked ass back to my room. (laughing) - I'm not mad at that now, ain't no. - When you sleep in the bed with a man, the average woman have to take a bath every night. - I don't have to do that. If I want to smell myself, it's just me. - Yeah. - There's something to that now. - But we had to do that. - The beds that are separate but they get together. - Oh no, we tried that too before the separation. - We fed, now you and your husband is not fed. (laughing) We just put snacks in the middle of the damn bed. (laughing) That did not help us at all. (laughing) - You know. - And people look at me like I'm crazy. I'll separate bed room. That does not mean I don't love my husband. - Right. - I love my husband. - Right. - But I do not want to sleep in that with him. And he don't want to sleep with me 'cause I wake up every day at three o'clock. And then my husband like, he'd like to be cold. I'd like to be hot. I have a heater on 365 days a year. - The heat? - The heat is on right now. (laughing) - It's not all right, isn't it? - Yeah, it's a pointin' going on. - That's what's over here like the heat too. - Yeah. - Tellin'. - Tellin'. - So you just gotta learn how to, you know. It's not sleeping in the same bed. I know people sleep in the same bed. It's still don't love each other. It's about your comfort and knowing how to respect each other. - That's right. - My husband, my husband watch old last TV. I like games to stuff. So we don't watch TV together. - Yeah. - You know, I don't want to watch no damn history in baseball games with Ben Ruehsono. (laughing) I want to see somebody do a drive-by. (laughing) But my husband grew up Christian. And, you know, he read the Bible. I don't do all that. (laughing) - It's it. So you can go to the room and I go to the room. We'll see each other when we hit. - And then when we want to be nasty, sometime I just face out. And you want me to pick my teardrop so you can see it? (laughing) - You know, I did a show. I did a show on Peacock. The thing I love about it is, and the reason I brought it up is because I feel like, you know, in relationships, couples, the people who are in the relationship have to be free enough, connected enough, in love enough to define that relationship for themselves. What is success in this relationship look like to us? - That's right. - Sometimes it's not the same thing that our parents grew up with. It's not the same thing that our neighbors or people at church or people that we work with experience. It's like, how am I my best self in this? And how are you going to show up your best self in this? And so I appreciate you sharing that. It's like, it's not easy. I did a show on Peacock called "Couple the Thrupple." Ooh! (groaning) If you know it, she said, "We saw that." (laughing) I love Atlanta. We saw that. (laughing) A couple of "Couple the Thrupple" on Peacock. And so with these couples came to Panama who wanted to date a third partner, trying to find a third. (laughing) - No, I'm too old to be sharing. It ain't enough to share when you overfit it. You don't know what you're going to do that night. (laughing) - If it worked, you want me to share it? (laughing) I don't think so, baby. So if you had it about over 50, they just wanted a free trail. (laughing) I could never do a threesome because, I mean, I just, first of all, I'm so comfortable with being naked in my hood. I was like, "What is that hanging off of you?" And what that belongs? He know where every piece of, what to pick up every piece of skin and it'll touch. If you get somebody to do it. (laughing) - You got a lot of. (laughing) We see you got a lot of explaining to do. - Oh my God. - Oh my God. [BLANK_AUDIO]
I'm doing that. The young girls, they like to go out and let these, the Asian people shake, they vagina. I don't do that. I shave my stuff to one half a day and one half next week. (audience laughing) You might get a high-low high-level down there. (audience laughing) I don't want nobody asking me no questions. (audience laughing) You know what I'm saying? I ain't doing that. Couple of thrupple over here. Yeah, I can't do that. I could just never share my mate either. I'm just not. Where you are now, they get this. You got to send me a reason for your role. I've never been that freaky. You got to be freaky. (audience laughing) That's bad. That's bad. (audience laughing) Good, I'm just a flounder. (audience laughing) I don't know, it looked like your weed's flapping. (audience laughing) Wait, could you, could you? Me? Me? Me? Me? Well, I made my choice. I'm a married woman now. So I'm locked in, you know, but if I was not married, I might, might. (audience laughing) How about you, my boy? Well, Danielle is 30. I'm not 30. She got the energy. (audience laughing) You're not going to ask nobody they 50 to do no three-set. (audience laughing) You better be going to go to correct. (audience laughing) I have to say, I love you so much. So I'll please, you lift one of my legs, my heart, my skip will be. (audience laughing) Do I get it, why Danielle could do it? She 30, she's, she's, she's the energy, too. Since the energy, I'm, have you not, too much? Yes, winning, winning. I'll be with you, Danielle. Go, Danielle, go. Well, I'm eating something. (audience laughing) Now look at the phone, like, girl, you better do it, girl. You got to do it. Y'all better be trying to get your head to work out with me. She won't do it. Can y'all see me and Miss Patton and Jim together? (audience cheering) Yes, do y'all want to see me and Miss Patton and Jim together? (audience laughing) Well, Miss Patton, that could be the new series. Let's go! That could be the new series. Miss Patton, I saw her on a stabmaster. Hell no. (audience laughing) All right, well, what about this? You got some energy for a game, you wanna play a game? I do. All right, let's play it again, y'all ready to play a game? (audience cheering) Okay, this one is called "Turtle Tables." (upbeat music) I got the hamper. So this is the game, we're gonna play, y'all are gonna be the red team. I'm gonna be the blue team. Okay. So you're gonna either vote red team on your wings or blue team. Okay. Maybe you should be a red team of blue team and a purple team. (laughing) Oh no. (laughing) Are you in play on the wall, bro? No, y'all gonna play on the wall. We are 30 years apart. Right. Okay, you read that one. We'll make you think I can read that loud. (audience laughing) What's the most iconic movie line of all time? I'm King Kong. You got nothing on me. What you think? I know what it is. Let's-- Oh, I thought it beat me. (laughing) Oh yeah. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. But you had one on yours in the intro. You smile, you look kind, and you look more elegant. The scene. All right, so which one are you? Blue team or red team? Hold your wings up. (laughing) Well that's all blue like we want. Let's see, let's see, let's see. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Oh, what jingle will never die? Oh, I wrote that down for you, 'cause I'm old. I got you. I don't want to grow up. I'm a targer, let's keep it. (audience laughing) You got any more? (laughing) I'm gonna wash that gray right out of your hair. She's showing her a. I'm scared. I'm scared. Okay. What about this one? (singing in foreign language) Best part of the way you can up. Best part of the way you can up. No, no, no, no, that one was the McDonald's needed to really, 'cause black people cooked that whole, who wouldn't eat the McDonald's? Well, we couldn't hold it. So, to get us out there, to say, let's take the black kids to the playground. They made 'em right. And they're all black kids. I'm all the gotta back down. That's what's got to them. They ain't work. They ain't work. They ain't work. They ain't work. That is crazy. Okay. All right. So, that's red team with the McDonald's rep. Or Dr. Pampal, baby. It's good. Do-do-do. I don't know. That's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible. It's impossible. Here we go. Let's see. What's something that would immediately end a first date? That must have missed that in the talking box. They only put the order in the one arm. That would do it. Will you say the order in the one arm? The one arm. Let's see. On a first date. I have had friends who have gotten up from the table and just left the date. When women went on a date with a man who was like, "So you want to split or what?" Yeah. On a first date. Yeah. I'm talking, she got up so she was like, "Oh, no. You make sure you can take my little pocket book." Quick. Yeah. Quick. What'd you say? It would be if you asked me for six. On the first date? Oh, yeah. It's it. I don't think I ever gave it up on the first date. I was 24 years old, so when I was coming up, there was a 90-day rule. So you had to wait 90 days and then he was considered a good girl. No. Wait. They have a book. That's called that said it. It was called the rules. Yeah. The rules. The rules. That's what I read it from. But it was people in her age that wrote the book. And there was one of the rules. When I was like, "When you first talked to a guy on the phone, you only can be on the phone for 15 minutes." And then you got a bad, bad. This way, I'll be getting my husband out. Yes. And another one was like, "Make sure that you're a partner or whoever you're trying to date will set up the date three days ahead of time." Because that way, because you know, our generation will be like, "Oh, where are we going tomorrow?" Right now, like you want somebody that's going to set up the date at least three to intention on. Right. And it follows through. Yeah. So the rules miss passed 90 days. It worked. Did not have sex before 90 days. Now I didn't say I did all that. (Laughter) Yes. (Laughter) But you said mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. Oh, wait. You had to wait. And like, the wait is, you couldn't, when I was coming up, you couldn't wear your stomach out. I get so mad when I see women as sexist we are today. I was like, "Well, why y'all want doing that when I had a body?" Y'all going to wait til I get fat, and then you're going to tell me, "Y'all like big booties." (Laughter) Why y'all do that when I had a body? Yeah, when I had a body, when I was in six or seven grade. (Laughter) That's bad. That's bad? I'm going to hell. I was fine as hell. (Laughter) Okay, red team or blue team, Roger Wingser. I don't know what team. Ms. Pat, do it. (Laughter) Here we go. Next one. Next one. What filler phrase should be banned? Oh, filler phrase. Okay, so like, you know when people are like, they're in a conversation and they say they might say something. You know, or whatever the case may be. Or they say something like, they say something. At the end of the day. Yeah. My mom was. My mom was. My mom was as good for her at the end of the day, but she's also a croc, she's also good for her. Quiet, that's his cat. Anything young people say. You the birthday. Clocky. Six, seven. Period. Y-E-N-U-T. You ate that. Cook, fry, how you're over. Wait, time, she's up. Leave.
(audience laughing) - Wait, wait, I'll see you red on that. I'll see you red on that, I'll see you red on that. - 'Cause I don't know what the hell my kids been talking about at the house. They was like, "Call your Uber." I'm like, "What the hell are you going?" What is that? That's the new thing, "Call your Uber." - I don't know none of it. - And the birthday, what's the birthday? - Everybody, when it's your birthday, you're special. So it's your day, you, you the shit. You the birthday. - Maybe like, okay. - Yeah, birthday. - You the birthday. - You the birthday. - You the birthday. You the birthday. - It's kind of, it's kind of shady. - It's shady? - From what I've heard. It's kind of like, well, I mean, you know you the birthday. (audience laughing) It's all about you today. - Maybe not in Atlanta, maybe in LA. (audience laughing) Because they seem to like it. It's a good thing. Maybe in LA, I'll be in a little shady over there. (audience laughing) But you know what? (audience laughing) It's the little, it's the little saying that I don't understand like, why isn't it? I had no idea. I thought that was young in the restless. (audience laughing) It's young, nigga. I thought it was young in the restless. I was like, "Why y'all wearing real colors? What's up with y'all in the restless?" It took me a while. And I literally have a house full of kids. And they'd be talking, I was like, "What are y'all talking about?" I would hate to see a young person able to be an eyewitness these days. (audience laughing) - Wait, I took my little sister to the emergency room. And her nurse was pretty sure a top of the, like low, low, low millennial, top, top, Gen Z. And at one point, she came into the room to deliver like results for a test. And she was like, "It's giving. You're gonna have to stay overnight." (audience laughing) (audience laughing) (audience laughing) - I said, "How old are you?" I don't think you can talk to us like that. What does it actually say? (audience laughing) - Is given. - Okay, here's the last one, y'all ready? This is one for all of us. Okay, what song turns any party? What song turns any party? Okay, here I'm gonna say, I'm a sorry. I'm a sorry. - Okay. - I'm a sorry. - Okay. - I'm a sorry. - Okay. - You have to say I'm a, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna just give you one. - What would be wrong? I got one. - Y'all join in if you know it. - Right, let's see. - Okay, here we go. Ryan Reynolds here from Int Mobile. The message for everyone paying big wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything goodness world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpay, no judgments, but that's weird. Okay, one judgment. Anyway, give it a try at mintmobile.com/switch. Up front payment of $45 for three month plan, equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate for three months only. Then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See full terms at mintmobile.com. (audience laughing) - What you about to do first? - I'm a maddy. ♪ It's driving me out of my mind ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hard for me to find ♪ ♪ Kicking me out of my head ♪ ♪ Miss her piece of love ♪ ♪ That girl is for me ♪ (audience cheering) - You know, you are a shit. Nice and stuff, too. (audience cheering) - Yeah! (audience cheering) - You know it's good when you take your lips in. (audience cheering) (audience laughing) - Okay, what you got? What you got? What you got? - You ready? - Okay. - Are you ready? You ready? - Ready. - I'm ready. - Okay. - Who the hell put you in bed? - Shaking. - Shaking up. - Yeah! - Yeah! - Put a hook in your back. - Yeah! - Shake your arms. - Go ahead, these are gonna get you going. - Come on, come on. Get it, shake your arms. - Hey, it's fat. - What? - Oh, yeah. (audience cheering) - What you got, mister? - I'll tell you what else you got. - Thank you. - You really went to the boss today. - You're gonna do this. This is gonna go on. (audience cheering) (laughing) - That's what we used to do. (audience cheering) - Yes! - Yo, do that shit. (laughing) - You ain't better. I'm me shaking like that. I'm a needy. - I'm a needy. - Come on, mister. - I'm a needy. - Come on, mister. - You're a needy. - What you got, mister? - You're a needy. - Okay. - You're a needy. - I'm a needy. 'Cause I'm a dog. My shit will be, knock if you buck. (audience cheering) (laughing) (audience cheering) - If you buck, knock if you buck, knock if you buck, knock if you buck. - Hey! (laughing) - Okay. - Okay. - That's only because I used to fight a lot. - We in Atlanta. - Uh-oh. - We in Atlanta. - Okay, you're a needy too. (audience cheering) - Me? - I don't know. I'm gonna take you to some a little different, but take you to some different. (audience cheering) ♪ You make me wanna lead a wanna live ♪ ♪ It's time to do relationship with you ♪ - Oh, yeah. ♪ Do you think about it ringing ♪ ♪ And other things are coming along ♪ ♪ Where did you make me ♪ - That is my song and my second hood. - Come on. (audience cheering) ♪ You make me wanna lead a relationship with you ♪ ♪ This ain't what you do ♪ ♪ Think about it ringing, don't need to come along ♪ ♪ Where did you make me ♪ ♪ You make me wanna lead a wanna live ♪ ♪ You make me wanna lead a relationship with you ♪ ♪ This ain't what you do ♪ ♪ Think about it ringing, don't need to come along ♪ - I don't know what to do. - Oh, damn it. (audience cheering) - All right. - She said who is that? - That's that worst guy. - Okay. - Yeah, yeah, we got that. - This one is for all my sisters. - I don't know. - Uh-oh. - Don't you care? - No. - Oh, you know, Chris and me. (audience cheering) Drop your B.J. (audience cheering) - No, no, no, no, no, no. - Thanks for humming them up. - I can do that, I can do that. - Please, good job. - But that's the way, the way. - Every kiss on it. (audience cheering) - Hey! (audience cheering) - Oh, no! - Do you wanna run? - Do you wanna run? - Woo! - Woo! - Woo! - Woo! - Woo! - Woo! - Do you wanna run? - Woo! - Woo! - Do you wanna run? - Woo! - Yeah, give it up for me. - Woo! (audience cheering) - Give it up one time for your sales. Give it up one time for your sales. - Yeah! - Give it up for me. Give it up, Brooks. (audience cheering) Give it up one time for me. - Oh! (audience cheering) - Oh, thank y'all so much. This has been such an incredible experience, y'all. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. We could not have done this. We could not have done this without you all. I'm getting there. (audience cheering) Thank y'all so much. Thank you again so much. I'm Scott Evans. This has been "House Guess Live." - Woo! - Thank y'all. (audience cheering) - Woo! - Woo! - Thank you guys! (upbeat music) ♪ A little bit of laughter, a lot of smiles ♪ ♪ Won't you come in and stay alive ♪ ♪ Hey neighbor ♪ ♪ Hey neighbor ♪ ♪ Hey neighbor ♪
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Danielle Brooks, a television and stage actress, shares her journey from growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, to landing her breakthrough role in *Orange is Not a Crime* at age 23.
She emphasizes the support and influence of women in her life, particularly her godmother Miss Annie Edge, who left her $20,000 for college and was a member of Delta Sigma Beta, shaping her identity and ambition.
Danielle reflects on her struggles as an emerging artist, including years of unpaid work, low-paying jobs, and emotional doubt, while highlighting her resilience, faith, and belief in her own worth.
Summary:
Danielle Brooks shares a deeply personal and inspiring journey from her childhood in Greenville, South Carolina, to her rise as a celebrated actress. Raised in a poor household, she learned early resilience through resourcefulness and humor, forming strong bonds with women who supported her growth. Her path to success began with a $20,000 bequest from her godmother, a Delta Sigma Beta member, which enabled her to attend Juilliard.
Despite years of unpaid work, low-paying roles, and emotional doubt, Danielle maintained faith and perseverance. Her breakthrough role in *Orange is Not a Crime*, where she was just 23, marked a turning point, transforming her from a struggling performer into a household name. She credits her success not just to talent, but to the support of women in her life and her own unwavering belief in her abilities.
The story underscores themes of resilience, self-worth, and community, as Danielle reflects on how her journey exemplifies the power of perseverance and authenticity. Her experience in the entertainment industry, including navigating industry challenges and maintaining personal values, reinforces the idea that success is deeply personal and shaped by individual experiences. Through her honesty and vulnerability, Danielle offers a powerful message of empowerment to young people—especially Black women—demonstrating that dreams are possible with patience, faith, and a commitment to self-growth.
The narrative also highlights her commitment to independence, creativity, and personal values, such as living with her husband in separate bedrooms for comfort and mutual respect, and her pride in owning her career and creative vision. Ultimately, Danielle’s story is one of transformation, resilience, and self-empowerment, showing that true success comes not from external validation, but from inner conviction and the courage to stay true to oneself.
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Danielle was inspired by seeing Black women in media, especially in Tyler Perry's shows, which showed her that people like her could succeed in the entertainment industry. She also had a strong interest in theatre and dreamed of becoming a Broadway star.
Danielle faced significant struggles after graduating, including working low-wage jobs like being a typist and a dog walker. She remained patient, believed in her journey, and eventually landed her breakthrough role in 'Orange is Not Green'.
Danielle's mother was a member of Delta Sigma Beta, and her mother's support and legacy helped shape Danielle's values and sense of belonging in the community. The mother's generosity, including leaving money for Danielle’s college education, was a pivotal moment.
Danielle was introduced to Delta Sigma Beta through a mentor, Miss Annie Edge, a woman from her childhood in Greenville, South Carolina. Miss Annie Edge, who was also a Delta member, inspired her and left a lasting impact by supporting her education and career.
Her role in 'Orange Is Not Green' launched her into fame and marked a turning point in her career, proving that young Black women could thrive in mainstream media and create powerful, authentic stories.
She reflects on the challenges, including being underestimated or reduced to stereotypes, but emphasizes the importance of resilience, self-worth, and community support in overcoming doubt and building a successful career.
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