All right welcome to Smokey reacts I’m your boy journalist and on this one uh the best way I could cover this was to just watch abam preach cuz I don’t think anybody wants to see me sit through three hours of Cat Williams and Uncle Shay I love both of them [ __ ] but like
It can’t even run so I’mma check out abam preach tossing my little two cents shout out to abam preach because I know how they’re going to do their video Bros already gone through got the best excerpts probably going to have some good takes I’m either going to disagree
Or try and provide a little bit more Nuance to what I think the situations are or certain things the people are saying from my experience of living and working in Hollywood so yeah that’s the little two cents I’m putting on this thank you guys for joining me if you
Could please hit that like subscribe patreon is in the description and let’s get into this said alhamdulillah it’s I know we’re not on music right now but there’s a dude from South Africa named youngster CPT it’s got a song called alhamdulillah wow it’s a Chun it’s a
CU it’s cat you know how many times these mother stole from nobody’s I don’t care if he AR on everybody I don’t care how Missy it gets I don’t give a about none of that stuff these people are thieves and a lot of people are more protect think it’s more important to
Protect the image of black people rather than rooting out evil people within the community yep okay people who steal they want to make sure we look meanwhile there’s dirty happening in the back Cat Williams interview so essentially cat W was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast Uncle sh sh called the Club
Sh and during the interview he essentially aired out a bunch of people out the Entertainer Steve Harvey Kevin har for all kinds of different reasons uh some for stealing jokes others for claiming accolay that they never had and the interview went viral so some people
Had some things so viral I think it said like 24 million views in 4 days or some [ __ ] like that it’s ridiculous no it’s like 30 million actually like he’s doing movie numbers on a YouTube video is ridiculous shout out to my man sh just
Say a lot of the people who had some responses on the whole stealing jokes allegation a lot of people are really shocked to hear that Steve Harvey Cedric the Entertainer sto jokes I can tell you they absolutely did you can watch the videos themselves uh facts I mean they
Stole those jokes the same Steve that went to go watch Mark Curry do his whole sitcom and then stole everything Mark Curry had Halloween was a trip Halloween we couldn’t afford no Halloween costumes hey kids please mama sent us down to the liquor store put boxes on
Us we didn’t know what we were I don’t know what we are I don’t know she didn’t tell her I think we UPS I guess I don’t know you’ve heard me say that every Halloween I had the same outfit on every year I just had a brown box
No it wasn’t nothing sad just and I asked my father could I have a new outfit and he said no just wear the same one it was just a brown box and he just told me to tell everybody I was a UPS man Cedric doesn’t write God damn it plagiarism is crazy
People just be taking [ __ ] from [ __ ] like nobody’s ever going to know uh what’s his name H bomber guy I just watched not just watched I probably watched like a week or two ago but that 4 and a half hours video just plagiarism just come up with your own [ __ ] or like
Sight [ __ ] or figure out how to do it Like Rappers do just be like well I guess you can’t do it in comedy but rappers love to be like all like ex- rapper said and then say they bar I’m sorry he doesn’t right gas is entirely too high that’s all I say you
Are not supposed to be at the gas station making life decisions you just AC the hump just negro did I eat today man I can’t I can’t get no half a tank I got six cigarettes I can’t even do it if you had 1015 you could go to the gas station
With confidence you knew you was either going to be full or damn near full if you had a 20 you ain’t even talk to the person at the counter you just 20 on 11 [ __ ] mhm throw it at they ass used to be if
You put $15 in your tank you had time to bond with your vehicle you had time to put the nozzle in and set the clicker and look through your car and clean off the dashboard and look through your CDs and run in the store get some Pringles
And a snapper and it’ll still be pumping now if you put $15 in you can’t even turn around good for that son of a [ __ ] click just soon as you put it in Just click click gas $4 a gallon can’t even pump gas like you used to no more $4 a
Gallon you remember when you used to go to Pump and put your nozzle in there and hit it be sitting there talking be on your phone hey what’s happening be walking around cleaning the windshield speaking to g girl what’s happening what you doing he you hey hey do okay you go in there
Bring me a wine cooler bring me a cooler dog not no more ain’t nothing going on at that pump except you and that pump your ass is looking at that [Applause] pump I just this this is completely it’s a completely stolen joke but it’s also
Just like how much of this is like same idea kind of [ __ ] because these are all like General Life Experiences but the way that he he goes about the structure of the joke you can tell that is [ __ ] inspired or comes from catch Joo but like this approach or concept of like
Gas is too high so we like you spend less time actually like pumping gas because you get less gas like that’s a the universal concept currently so I’m just like God damn it like why you have to steal it it don’t make no sense to me you could just did your own
Thing 4401 God [Applause] your radio so L yeah this the first one I said with it cut off it look like this you flossing in a SI [ __ ] [Applause] Converter [Laughter] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] oh [Applause] Comic View ain’t going to happen y’all move to the Moon damn it we coming to the Moon nice to lce jump too space shutts with Cadillac Grills I used to letuce J just rolling one headl out out tags be all wrong all
Bas y’all know we’ll drive a space shuttle too that’s right up our damn alley a space shuttle is long see like Cedric setup I feel like it makes it personalized but it’s still a stolen joke but I really used to love the [ __ ] out of this joke it used to be so good
Now they tainted this one to me I was like now my [ __ ] said ain’t scared no black we a driver love driving long cars we drive a space shut like it’s a 72 deuce in a quarter we get us a cig we get us we be in a space like it’s a 72
Dude they s those jokes they both St those jokes some people like how do you know um listen joke stealing is interesting because very people don’t feel like it’s a big deal and yet if one artist stole a song from another artist you would think it’s always right for
The artist to pursue them in court but I can’t call somebody out for stealing my work if you don’t know the process of making a joke especially when it’s your and and then still any joke according to C on words this is one of his best jokes
One of the jokes he closed with and you close on your best joke because you want people to leave the show on the highest note that’s what they sto making that joke is a lengthy process that can sometimes take years mhm and you take an idea you go about you’re perform it it
Bombs it doesn’t work well it’s clunky as [ __ ] but you got to live through those awkward moments with those audience until you get to the point where it’s it’s finalized product so you go through all the ups and downs you have other comedians watching you improved like I know and memorize the
Acts of most of the comics I know cuz I see them so often and I see the progress so you get happy watching them improve and you get to talk with them backstage and sometimes they offer little tip bits like yo you missed that well last time
You performed it differently so you go through that whole Ops and down and then you get to the point where it’s ready for you to tour do that stuff and now you’re proud because it’s killing in front of crowds and they’re loving it right in that one hour that you spent
With the crowd that one five minutes that everyone’s losing it on right you spent years crafting and then someone comes along sees your [ __ ] and then think they just because they they they they title with it a little bit or change the privateer of going to burn you up cuz you strive
For that and now they Tak the credit like it’s their own tribulations when it’s not that’ll irk anybody that’s why an artist who seems their Melodies being stolen has recourse in courts courts and that’s why people who have jokes stolen want that same kind of recourse now does
This mean that I just on the the note of like how jokes get constructed cuz this last Fringe that happened in Edinburgh I got to do it for a comedian named Mark black and I did his whole Edinburgh Fringe run and and watching him each night do the jokes like you really get
To see the process that AB is talking about where a [ __ ] is molding the joke like as it’s happening in the room at the time of telling you because the flow of the show’s not the same like where jokes show up in the show how the
Joke gets told where or why the delivery changes like it’s really crazy to see because by the end of it those last two nights of The Fringe that we did like he was just he like perfected the show throughout the run that those last two were some of the best nights that he
[ __ ] had and the first night or the second to last night people were there to laugh and have a good time so like it’s really really [ __ ] working and then you got it I got the ability to see like when people come to a show to come
To a show but they’re not really there to go to like a comedy show they just wanted to go out for a night so that last night was really people just trying to get to like a friend show for the last night still a soldout event but it
Was really just not the right type of crowd for comedy and I’m seeing him do the same show from the night before but he’s really having to work it now and I’m seeing how he’s even shaping it for the room at the time I’m just like [ __ ]
It’s a real hard graph to be a comedian so I can see why they get mad because like it’s a hard graph when you write a song and you come up with music or harmonies or Melodies but like when you’re doing it as a comedian I feel
Like you have less opportunity to to mold it unless you’re always getting on stage and then once you do mold it a [ __ ] they just take that from somebody cuz I can music most of the things people are doing have been done already versus in comedy yeah conceptually most things
Have been done but like how they’re getting done is what separates them versus the reutilization of like some of these harmonies or runs or samples in music is quite common versus in comedy you don’t have that so when I come up with some [ __ ] [ __ ] that’s my [ __ ]
That’s my [ __ ] like [ __ ] going go night night that’s that’s Kevin Hart can’t take that from that [ __ ] Cedric the Entertainer Steve Harvey aren’t great entertainers no that’s not what that means some people are great performers yeah they’re just good at performing other people’s bits right they’re not the first does EV
Tell jokes cuz he [ __ ] he coming for these [ __ ] like he a comedian not the last and also keep it a stack with you people from that era stole a lot of jokes them old [ __ ] was constantly seeing jokes and you know what the worst part is we’re only hearing about it cuz
It’s cat you know how many times these [ __ ] stole from nobody’s you know cuz some people just come up with one or two bits that are really great and the rest they act as trash but it’s still theirs right just cuz you’re a one hit wonder does not mean anyone has the
Rights to your song and anybody who steals jokes like this I promise you they steal from a lot more people it doesn’t just happen once to be able bold enough to steal from a famous person like cat cuz that [ __ ] was being performed on television when they stole
From him they stole from a lot more people and you that [ __ ] Carlos manc his whole thing got blown up because of Joe Rogan be like I can’t take this joke stealing [ __ ] no more this must this can’t run find it there’s all kinds of on forums people doing side byid of
Steve Harvey with other people he might have stolen from and those bits sound crazy similar answer that is by telling the bomin story it’s a true story see there was this white family lived in Mississippi they had he on and about a week one night he just
Finished Mar 10 and the party and the lady of the house realized that she didn’t have any money so she said to him bomin I I want to write you a check but I I don’t know how to spell bomin he said well I’ve been meaning to
Talk to you about that see when I came to work for you I told you my name and then I said but you can call me by my initial call me b is fine you call me that don’t even worry about it everybody call me B I’m like all right so all week
Long my ass talking about bomin what up boy hey bomin run to the store grab some Bill come on back my cousin said what you calling him damn said now my [ __ ] said are you Stein it’s all right for me to call him that like no man it ain’t
CJ he saying you could call me by my initials that’s what he’s playing now here’s the thing still it’s not because two jokes sound similar that’s we steal everything is contextual okay well are you guys running in the same circles okay how similar is it been okay is it just topical
Meaning when the juicy smole stuff happened a lot of people ended up writing the same jokes people never met each other on different continents how did that happen because enough people looking at the same problem enough people are going to come up with the same ideas when it comes to the
Solutions and things like that same thing for jokes when a lot of people are covering the same topic but then you have to look at okay well how similar they and if you look at a cat’s bit it’s a very physical bit he’s doing motions he’s doing physical stuff when you’re
Replicating a lot of the same physical gestures then I’m starting to look at you like okay when you’re using a lot of the exact same words then I’m looking at you like okay you’ve seen that bit before I think we UPS I guess I don’t know and he just told me to tell
Everybody I was a UPS man as a matter of fact it kind of happened to you but it was not stealing I remember that you did a joke about we made a video about abortion and we made a we we made a video about abortion like we had like
30,000 subscribers on this channel we made a video about and how you were you you asked the question you’re like I just want to ask a question and you said if it’s her body her choice shouldn’t it be my money my money we filmed that we cackle about it we post
That video the video goes out couple of weeks after that Dave Chappelle special come out and yeah yeah he had the same someone dm’d me someone dm’ me like yo Dave S your joke I’m like you it’s it’s impos and I’m going tell you because of
The to create a special the jokes that you have on a on that special the time frame that it takes for you to build that joke for it to be ready for that special two months after you release that video video it’s crazy it’s that did not happen but the
Similarity is possible and that was for one line [ __ ] the whole bit Curry that’s 100% death and and like I know the difference like when I’m in Montreal and some other random comic in Los Angeles is doing a similar bit I’ve never published myself online and we
Have the same bit I’m not going to think he stoen M right but when you’re a famous person like you run the exact same circles as these dudes they see each other in clubs they watch each other on television they stealing each other’s [ __ ] yes you can’t get away with
That kind of stuff that’s crazy and if here’s the thing forget television before Steve even puts that [ __ ] up online he has to be performing that [ __ ] in club somebody would have told him yo that’s cat’s bit there’s no way you get away with that running that through a
Bunch of comedy clubs without him finding out there’s just no way so do I think these people absolutely and also here’s another thing once you get to that kind of level of Fame all right these cats they don’t write their own jokes they don’t even really do stand up
Like that people think because they were great in their young years now they doing all these movies they still great no they got writers they got people who handle this stuff for them that’s how Kevin Hart got nabbed one time is because he has people who right for him
The problem is where are these guys getting their jokes from well they go to a club sometimes and they just pilfering from people yep that’s that’s facts that’s facts and why a lot of these big names don’t like talking about it is because they don’t want to cause conflict because it affects TV
Deals it affects brand deals it’s negative publicity but a lot of this stuff happens all the time intern Internet business has got a lot of weird and Shady people with weird practices and because of personal relationships a lot of people don’t like saying nothing so even big comedians who know this to
Be true will not say stuff because they don’t want to anger Kevin Hart or see this is the point I was going to take up with the whole Mo’Nique and her money situation and now how terashi P wants her money but she’s getting paid lesser because she’s a black woman and they
Don’t [ __ ] feel like they need to pay her the money that she’s owed so Monique’s issue was she spoke up cuz she was trying to get the money she was owed and then all these black comedians Cedric the Entertainer Steve Harvey all these big boys that are supposed to be
Like ah like they they the man they chastised her in public but then like privately you would be like oh you ain’t do nothing wrong and then I seen a interview where Steve Harvey’s like yo we black out here we a we can’t be messing our money up I’m just like it’s
[ __ ] like that is why the ecosystem is so toxic cuz cuz you [ __ ] Ain’t willing to stand on nothing you’re not willing to change nothing and with somebody that is deserving of actually getting the pay that they need or the recognition and the pay that they deserve and it work for you aren’t
Willing to do that because you’re I might mess my money up a little bit like I don’t know it’s like like God I really lose a lot of respect for some folks cuz when you have the position of power if your only reason for keeping it is
Because you want to keep the money and not because you want to wield the power to its most effective utilization and make sure that [ __ ] continues to flow properly after you have the power then I don’t think you should have had the power in the first place because you’re
Just a placeholder and you just keep kicking the can down the road and then the problem’s still there eventually and then the next they going to have to deal with it align themselves with can or whatever it is but these things happen all the time all the time as a matter of
Fact that’s why when I went to Bobby Lee’s podcast and I went and I told him so why didn’t want to say nothing about Carlos Mania stealing your joke and he’s like well I said something when he came to my podcast he okay but I’m not talking talking about when they did that
Little video and Joe Rogan was doing that video and everything and stuff you didn’t you didn’t they don’t want to talk they don’t really want to do all of that it’s not everybody that really wants to have conversation like that and do stuff like that they didn’t want you
Know but I had to ask him I had the apprun so I did mind you it like I said it’s possible that people are going to have the same similarity in the bits like that if someone ever comes to me and it has happened yo the bit is
Similar to that I’m dropping that [ __ ] I got other jokes I don’t want to even sound like someone or remotely I don’t tell I know close or me making them remind them I don’t want to remind someone else of another comedian if if it’s even close I’m like I I don’t mind
Sometimes because like I have a whole bit that I wrote about sleep after you like seven years ago okay and then Joy Koy came out with a special recently and it’s there’s some similarities yeah that you know someone poting it out to me I’m
Like no cuz I want I have videos of me doing it seven years ago so I’m not getting rid of it cuz I know I did it before him but two it’s like this is personal to my life it’s real mhm so I don’t need to let it go but I understand
The sentiment I understand the sentiment I’m not mad at you for that yeah everyone got to make their choice what is clear to me one they a stolen but of course it’s going to be it’s going to be a like a context of course you know if
I’m but there’s one punch line there’s one punch line that I’m like that’s crazy how yeah yeah I like that the rest of it is fine but there’s one that I remember watching his I’m like you I got I got I I’m I’m just like this why I
Don’t watch Comics I don’t watch Comics I understand I don’t watch anything but I’m like you know what cuz I don’t even want it to like cuz here’s something sometimes you accidentally steal you hear it once you comeing out talking and then you get this funny idea not realize
You’d already observed it through osmosis a while back you were you you heard some [ __ ] 10 years ago and then you enter iniz that [ __ ] I don’t watch people like yo you see I I haven’t watched this special in like 5 years 5 years other than the comedians that I
Watch locally I don’t watch nothing maybe that’s not the best way to improve I don’t care for me this is what’s working the this is the thing I love about AB preach is the fact that they are mature and adult with a lot of the ways that
They approach this [ __ ] so when I seen that they was doing Cat Williams I was like preach is for sure going skim through or watch the whole thing pull out the best bits and we go to talk about all the messy [ __ ] that c talked about this [ __ ] had a
[ __ ] adult perspective he’s not here for none of the mess he’s just talking about joke stealing at his [ __ ] core and why it’s right and why it’s not like why it’s wrong and that [ __ ] God damn it this is not the video I thought I was
Going to get I might actually have to watch that cat [ __ ] still [ __ ] okay but moving past that so they stole it okay I don’t want any they stole it some people don’t like the idea that people are fighting arguing about this uh they don’t like that cat exposed a lot of
These people people don’t like the idea it brings another problem because people don’t like the idea that a black man is exposing another black man you know there’s that thing in the community where you can’t expose out loud your community because it makes you look bad
In front of white people or in front of the large majority I don’t play that respectability politics [ __ ] I don’t give a [ __ ] of a [ __ ] wrong a [ __ ] wrong and I’m about to I’m airing that [ __ ] out like of the people in power and stuff like that and automatically when you do
So publicly you are viewed as bitter as jealous as I be all that I’ll be all that but people don’t ask the questions of what’s going on or they don’t assess of maybe what if there’s something there you know so there’s also that there’s also that that that side of the story
Where you can’t talk about your own in public there has to be that that sort of uh fraternity Brotherhood that has to be there that you cannot talk bad upon your person it happened in another video that we covered you know the guy that was covering restaurants got mad because you you
Cannot live a bad review to black people you can’t do that so there’s also that someone still Jes in your community sorry someone’s stealing jokes in your community is doing a disservice to the community you’re not airing that thing out doing a disservice it’s just like the no snitching thing it’s killing
Everybody out there but you can’t talk because it’s going to make us Mo back I understand but you’re not protecting yourself while doing that I’m sorry what I’m saying no keep going yeah that’s pretty much what I see as well on on that side there kind of that side thing
That I see as well that I’ve seen a lot online where you cannot question your own never yeah and you have to forever shut the [ __ ] up and then you you just live all that thing and people he said a beautiful sentence is like winners don’t get to let losers tell the
Story facts so the victors right the history thing that sometimes your it be your own people man your own Community let sh about certain things because it’s not going to look good it feels almost like a relic of the past of s y you know he not supposed to look this [ __ ] face
Slavery you know it’s not supposed to B it’s weird there’s also that feel weird sentiment that I feel when whenever that happens I can’t tell no you [ __ ] up and you’re [ __ ] me over you’re [ __ ] up you’re making me you’re stealing from us but I can’t tell you that you still that’s a
Mess it’s a myth whole topic of like oh why is he airing them out publicly listen I don’t care if Cat Williams is being loud about it I really don’t care cuz these people were being loud when they stole from him they were stealing from him on television wasn’t that loud
When they were engaging in Theft on National Television you know you don’t like it the fact that oh there’s a little bit of conflict bro this man committed a crime against me on television and y’all want me to be quiet I don’t care I don’t care if we Ary
Everybody I don’t care how messy it gets I don’t give a about none of that stuff these people are thieves and a lot of people are more prot think it’s more important to protect the image of black people rather than rooting out evil people within the community y okay
People who steal and piler they want to make sure we look good meanwhile there’s dirty [ __ ] happening in the back your clean image doesn’t matter you know what I mean like it it feels like the same thing with like the I’m not saying it’s the same level of crime with art Kelly
Stuff or whatever but some people don’t want to critique black people so badly that they’ll let people do all kinds of nasty [ __ ] you’re not good for the car it goes It goes for our churches it goes for families it goes for l thing it
Looks good but you don’t want to a it out because it because you’re fear that it’s it won’t look good I don’t really care about protecting people who steal from others I don’t care about people who care about protecting I don’t care if you’re black white Chinese blue don’t give a you get
The same treatment from me if you harm your community if you harm your people if you harm people in general you don’t deserve protection from nobody even if it’s my own family member I may not attack them publicly if it’s my own family member though you’re not going to
Get get my protection don’t care you want to go around stealing you need to eat your consequences hold your accountability for it you want to steal from people you want don’t don’t expect me to be jumping through hoops but y’all here want to be more concerned with protecting everybody even if they don’t
Deserve it but you’re only going to do that because you’re not the one personally affected that’s fake to me all this talk about Community but the truth is it’s because it’s not your own Pockets the truth is it’s not your own work that’s being stolen cuz if it was
You you would would hope to God that your community came to your defense to stop the person who’s predating on you but no we got to protect our own yo get with that shit’s point of the community the moment I get hurt they telling me to keep quiet further victimizing myself you’re not
Going to get none of that support from me never never we handle it we might not handle it publicly but if you’re not able to handle it privately and you still that we didn’t we have nothing to talk about you need to come out publicly and fix what you did publicly I don’t
Want to steal my [ __ ] and then come to say s in private you better get up there and say until you do then we don’t have any amends and there is no no justice no peace none of that stuff that’s how I in watching this I didn’t know before
How idealistic uh Abba would be towards we’ll say like joke stealing or like comedy but in watching this finding out that he tells jokes or like he does comedy and Abba and preach does comedy as well it’s very funny to me cuz I’m like yo he’s as idealistic as I am when
It comes to like [ __ ] need to write down Rhymes I know it don’t work like that completely in the industry but still like there’s a part of me that like did you steal that [ __ ] bar like I don’t give a [ __ ] like see this nigga’s face right now that nigga’s
Upset as he should be but it’s just I don’t at least for me in all the times I’ve watched ab and PR there’s not too many times that you really see ABA just really be like yo this like this has touched my third rail this is this can’t
Run I see it shout out to cat let him do his thing always been one of the greats was still one of the greats and uh will go down as one of the greats I love his work so I support everything he said there as long as it’s true I don’t care
How it comes out even if it’s a little funky also shout out to Shane sharp he’s killing it with the Pod [ __ ] right just sat back and good interviews not going lie but then what oh word he was he was able to pull back whenever when was it was the
Right time to pull back and ask the right question no no let’s let’s Circle back on what you said yep yep y yep that’s that’s professional mess provider I want y’all to know the way Uncle Shannon handles his [ __ ] interviews that’s a messy [ __ ] that’s a messy messy messy [ __ ] however he’s a
[ __ ] professional so he knows how to be messy in the right way and that’s why God damn it I’m still G to probably have to watch that interview now cuz boy there’s some [ __ ] that I know I got to see oh well the wife should be submissive to uh her husband is the
Husband should be submissive to Hala look that up I don’t know what you’re talking about look that up uh anyways let us know what you guys think in the comments below I have no idea what you’re talking about we’re only here all right yeah that’s it for me
Like I said in the beginning I’ve watched these [ __ ] enough I I felt like I might get two of not like I have a problem with a two of an adult approach but I thought I was going to give a little bit more jokes I got jokes
All right but like not the ones I wanted I thought they was going to be a little bit more Messier or a little bit more just going over the actual interview nah they just [ __ ] don’t steal jokes I respect it uh it’s pretty much it for
This one thank you guys for joining me if you could please that like subscribe uh let me know in the comments what you think about all this joke stilling and all this cat stuff and yeah I’ll see you on the next one I’m out of here peace
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