Jamie Foxx Names Comedy Heroes & Greatest Sitcoms | THR Comedy Roundtable Off Script Moment

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THR pulls Jamie Foxx aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of his THR Roundtable interview and he reveals who his comedy heroes are, what he listens to before performing stand-up comedy in front of a crowd and more.

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00:00what's something that never feels to make me laugh a good impression like a I'm gonna give

00:17you some old-school shit Rich Little or Jay Farrell when I hear someone nail a great

00:23impression it just not only makes me laugh it just gets me excited my favorite TV

00:29comedy is Sanford and Son Red Fox you know when I was coming up that was a quintessential you know

00:39television show I felt like they he was a real junk man you feel do I have a piece of comedy advice

00:46David Banks who was good friends with Richard Pryor told me don't stay too long when I first

00:52started doing stand-up I was burning LA to fuck up I was burning it up and I was watching this dude on

00:58uh on stage and he was killing I was like goddamn man this motherfucker famous and the old David

01:05leaned over and said he stayed too long he'd been doing that joke 35 years so it's gonna work in this

01:12club but it don't work outside of here so he told me don't stay too long get in knock it out and then

01:18continue to step upwards television movie whatever I ain't got no comedy pet peeves man if you're trying

01:24to be funny just you know especially in today's world you know anything you say everybody know

01:29you know I go crazy man let that shit fly oh man come on Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy Lenny Bruce

01:36George Carlin Steve Allen Victor Borga Johnny Carson Jay Leno Arsenio Hall Whoopi Goldberg live at the Met

01:47Franklin Ajay no one knows it Eddie in my in my in my in my this is so fucked up in my early days

01:55so fucked up I gotta say that when I was younger I always had you know on the black side of town

02:01we always had a song to come up to and I had heavy D in effect but more bounce to the ounce heavy D's in

02:07effect a more bounce to the ounce you know I thought it was killing and then I went to go

02:14Triumph with Living Color.

02:16But I was used to performing in the hood,

02:18so we had to perform at the early Laugh Factory.

02:21The Laugh Factory had just kind of been born,

02:24and I had my cassette tape, and I go to the dude.

02:27I said, hey, man, when I go on stage, pop this cassette tape in.

02:31He says, what?

02:32Pop the cassette tape in, because I'm going to come up to the music.

02:34But I didn't realize it on the white side of town.

02:37They wasn't coming up to music.

02:38So when they called out my name, I'm just like, and he never hit it.

02:42But now I've gotten older.

02:44So my warm-up song is Memories by Barbra Streisand.

02:51I'm lying. I'm fucking with you.

02:53She was like, oh, that's so cute.

02:54I'm fucking around. I don't even know why.

02:56No, I'm fucking around.

02:56It's sexy red getting sexy.

02:59No, I'm fucking around.

03:01I see everything is funny.

Jamie Foxx Names Comedy Heroes & Greatest Sitcoms | THR Comedy Roundtable Off Script Moment

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