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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 feral when i hear someone nail a great uh an impression

00:25it just not only makes me laugh it just gets me excited my favorite tv comedy is sanford and son

00:31red fox uh you know when i was coming up that was a quintessential you know television show i felt

00:41like they he was a real junk man you feel do i have a piece of comedy advice david banks who's good

00:48friends with richard prior told me don't stay too long when i first started doing stand-up i was

00:53burning la to fuck up i was burning it up and i was watching this dude on uh on stage and he was

01:00killing i was like god damn man this motherfucker famous and the old david leaned over and said he

01:06stayed too long he's been doing that joke 35 years so it's gonna work in this club but it don't work

01:13outside of here so he told me don't stay too long get in knock it out and then continue to step

01:19upwards television movie whatever i ain't got no comedy pet peeves if it man if you're trying to

01:24be 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 flood oh man come on richard prior eddie murphy

01:35lenny bruce george carlin steve allen victor borga johnny carson jay leno arsenio hall

01:45whoopi goldberg live at the met franklin ajai no one knows who that is in my in my in my in my

01:53this is so fucked up in my early days so fucked up i gotta say that when i was younger i always had

01:59you know on the black side of town we always had a song to come up to

02:02and i had heavy d in effect with more bounce to the ounce heavy d's in effect with more bounce to the

02:09you know i was you know i thought it was killing and then i went to go try out for a living color

02:16but i was used to performing in the hood so they had to we had to perform at the early laugh factory

02:21the laugh factory had just kind of been born and i had my cassette tape and i go to the dude i said

02:27hey man when i go on stage pop this cassette tape in he says what pop the cassette tape in

02:33because i'm gonna come up to the music but i didn't realize it on the white side of town they

02:37wasn't coming up to music so when they called out my name i'm just like and he and he never hit it

02:42but now i've gotten older so my warm-up song is uh memories by barbara straxon i'm lying i'm

02:52fucking with you she's like oh that's so cute i'm fucking around i don't know no fuck around

02:56it's sexy red getting sexy no fuck around i see everything is funny

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

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