WATCH: Tisha Campbell Talks Comedy, Her Career And Family Life

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Tisha Campbell on her career in comedy says, &quot;I didn&#039;t want the comedians that I&#039;ve been working with all my entire career to think that I was just jumping in and doing something out of nowhere without integrity.&quot;

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00:00The manager of the Brea Improv, he had said,

00:03I see the best of the best come through here.

00:06I see people who are actors or actresses

00:09trying to do comedy.

00:11He says, but I've never seen anybody

00:12like you have such command of the stage,

00:15are so relatable, and you're doing a great job.

00:18He was so encouraging.

00:19I didn't want the comedians that I've been working with

00:22all my entire career to think that I was just jumping in

00:27and doing something out of nowhere

00:29without, you know, integrity.

00:33And so the fact that people like Miss Pat,

00:38Lunell, Kim Whitley, Dave Chappelle, Damon Wayans,

00:43they're all rooting me on, and they're like,

00:45yeah, keep going to you, and they're giving me advice.

00:47I just wanna take chances that I've never taken before.

00:51Even with my kids, they're older now.

00:54I didn't even take jobs that were outside of California

00:57because my kids are based here, right?

00:59So for a long time, I didn't take jobs,

01:02and it probably hurt my career a lot.

01:04Like, I wouldn't go to another state.

01:08I wouldn't go to another country

01:09because raising them was more important than anything else.

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