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Comedienne and host of Nailed It, Nicole Byer sat down with ESSENCE to talk about Kevin Hart, the thin lines that exist in comedy and whether or not she would apologize.
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00:00No, I want to host the Oscars. Are you kidding? That's too much. That's too much work. No! No!
00:07I say no, but if they asked, I would. Do you know what I'm saying?
00:16You can apologize. I haven't because I don't think I've said anything that's crossed too many lines.
00:21But it's okay to say I was wrong.
00:25I think people seem to think that if you say you're wrong or if you say that you did something bad then you're just like you're weak or something.
00:33And it's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong. And him saying I've changed blah blah blah, it's like okay, but like you can just say sorry.
00:43It's like if you're in a place where a lot of people like you and look up to you, you can just admit that you were wrong.
00:50The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people. Like I'll say a joke to a friend and I'll say it to multiple people.
00:58And then I listen to audiences. If an audience really doesn't like a joke that I've said, I have to go back and be like, well is it the joke? Was it the crowd? What was it?
01:08But also I don't make jokes about, like, I don't know why a lot of male comedians need to make jokes about trans women.
01:16It's, what is it? Why? I think you need to look at why you need to talk about this.
01:23Same with like talking about gay people. Like why? Why? What is the root of why you need to talk about that?
01:29And I truly just talk about myself. I'm pretty narcissistic.
01:36I would absolutely do it in a heartbeat. I'd be like, where do you need me? How high do you want me to jump?
01:41Can I have an Oscar? Can I just have one? Can that be my boyfriend?
01:47I'm so single. It hurts. I'm okay.
01:54Wow.
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