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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.

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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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Black Coal Fingerprints
I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Stardom Success Training
You can’t be a doctor if you don’t know the entire parts of the body.
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Body Doctors Knows
Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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Always Comedy Like Success
My daughter was a beautiful child.
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Beautiful Children Daughter
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
I don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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Laughing Names People Training
Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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Black Littles Satisfy Thinking
I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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Joy Lot Place
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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Always Finish Grandmother
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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Daughter Jobs Later Married Mother
Comedy has been so good to me.
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Comedy Good One
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Actors might Pain Producer
I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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Play Waiting Want
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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General Hate Mean Something Sports
I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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Arms Break Needs

You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.

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You don’t see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can’t play the game. I can’t – my tolerance – I know I’m getting old; I’ll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I’m getting old? ‘Cause my tolerance level is low.

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