World’s Funniest Comics on The Jonathan Ross Show | Volume 1

that we always said what's funny about poverty what's funny about poverty you know, we go to funerals because you know you know the projects in which many people die So we go to funerals and we say what's funny about this funeral and It's just the way our mind works sick like me, I'm serious, like I went to my cousin's funeral and my aunt walked up to him in jeans and some Air Force ones at the coffin, so he's sitting on the coffin like this and me and my brothers are like there's a guest list in heaven, he said he won't come in, there's a dress code he won't accept with those jeans or be at the door like sorry, seti, uh, man, you can't go in with them, james, hey. now I have a photo of you here's a selfie you like to take selfies when you're out uh we've almost had a few photos but there's this one here, let's see the one that was taken at a funeral I believe you, yeah that's my cousin is there oh, That's my aunt's funeral, that was a lot of fun, I don't know if that's the case, yeah, it seems like you're having a good time at that funeral, well, we have a great time at every funeral and the funny thing about that funeral is that sometimes My cousin liked a eulogy and my cousin saw the ghetto, they went and sold the eulogy, the special appearances of the Wayans family and they sold the funeral on the streets as contraband.

I'm dead. Seriously and I like it, we made up, so my brothers and I made a flyer for the after party, like Opmo's death funeral, come party with ammo, we're just a sick and twisted family, but now it's beautiful What was it like working with Kanye? the set, uh, it was, it was great, I mean, it was very, it was very surreal to have Kanye, who is a huge comedy fan in that movie, hanging out, yeah, for two days and hanging out, and He? I mean, he just debuted. This new video, um, the one with the motorcycle, yeah, with uh, uh, huh, honey, yeah, he played you like that, I knew it, girlfriend, he played, he was playing the new tracks from the album that hadn't been released yet, like this that you had a first peak, please. first listen and uh he was playing the tracks a lot yeah and it's kind of like that over and over again uh that must be tricky when you try it even when you're trying to film yeah just play it play the tracks yeah , and they are loud, they are also loud, whose job was to explain to Kanye that he was not a scared 18-year-old intern, I knew that you had sports experience, I did not know that you were a boxer because you were not a bad boxer, right?

I was very good, I was always second, okay, third, yes there was a referee, but your dad wasn't a boxer because he was in trouble, he was a boxer in the army when he was younger, yes, he was a kid, yes. and then when I was born and all that we lived in a doctor's office, that's where we were, it was our living room and you know, people come in with flu and colds and all that kind of stuff because my dad was working in the springs in at that time and then he got into

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business a little bit later, you know, in the kind of late '60s, late '60s and '70s, and he was a singer and he played, it's amazing, so, what? did you go on tour with him? all the time that's what we did, I mean that's pretty much what the book is about, tor and renner like the working men's clubs manchester newcastle sheffield uh birmingham and liverpool and they must have been quite different for you now to be of turn and do the other guard, I mean, my mom is a very witty woman, my mom and I remember we sat in a club, this club really hard on me, mom, well, I mean, dad used to do this imitation of John Lennon, you know, was singing this song, I imagine. there's an old heaven and all this and there's a guy who says he yelled at you, he meant it's not like he was john lennon and my mom said hey, hey, things that shut your mouth like that on this blog, who do you think are you?

She owned yoko and she gets angry, you know she's a very resourceful woman, you know, you know well that she was taking care of your father, yeah, I mean, when we were kids we had nothing, it was on this kind of municipal property, no We had nothing like rent day, we had to hide from the rent man, so when the rent man knocked on the window, you know, my brother was like him, he was like a coffee table, I was a lamp, did you? You know what I mean, it suddenly fell on the television like the carpet, you know?

I mean, that's what we did on rent day, you know, it's big of the rent man, but your dad is what I love about the guy, he comes ac

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as a real character, I mean some of the stories about it and they're like oh, it's fantastic, so cool, they're all true stories, I mean, um, I mean, because in those days the clubs were so tough, you know, there was one particular place in Liverpool, I'm not sure if It was called the Shakespeare club, but I remember one night this guy had won at the pool and he bought this crap that was like a yellow tartan suit and it was on all his friends' tables.

He thought he would invite all of his friends, you know, but he kept echoing me, Dad. and in those days you had a free backing group that was like piano, bass and drums, but the bass that he played on his specific night was huge, I mean, he was like this kind of guy, you know, and this guy wouldn't let to bother me, dad and then, right at the end of my father's act, he thought wrong. I'm going to try this place. I'm going anyway so he said and they went to make me laugh and my dad said let's borrow your suit you know so this is really it. made this guy mad and we were all sitting in the locker room, there was me, my mom and my brother, we all sat there, I was only like five and six, I sat there, but in the corners this little shy woman just She sat down, they are all like that, like some kind of quiet and shy woman, so we are all in the dressing room for dad.

I can hear all this commotion. This guy is going crazy on me. Dad enters the dressing room. Right, he comes in and hits. the door and he leaves, I think there's going to be trouble here, I think there's going to be trouble and we all said, oh no, you know, and there was a knock on the door like that and my dad said, it's that guy, it's the guy of the audience. right, then he said that when that door opens, I'm going to light a lamp for him, yes, right, then the door opened, he did like this and the guy walked directly past him, he approached the small, shy woman who was sitting in the corner and said, "You're a scumbag, you're a scumbag, and you're that ugly, right, and he came up to me, Dad went, of course, I had to go with your wife, what do you think, my dad left okay." , she's not my wife and So this great bass player, this great musician came to the door and left, whose wife was she?

Is it you?