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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
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