![]() Some of these younger black guys just want me to see their act. They didn’t get it until Lorne said yes a few years later, and then it was too late. I probably called four managers - the biggest managers in comedy - to manage her, and all of them said no. She’s about as funny as a human being can be, but she didn’t go to Second City, she doesn’t do stand-up at The Cellar and she’s not in with Judd Apatow, so how the hell was she ever going to get through unless somebody like me says to Lorne Michaels, “Hey, look at this person”? I saw her at a comedy club four or five years ago, and I wrote her name down in my phone. Smoove for Saturday Night Live, and I just helped Leslie Jones get on that show. I still remember people thinking I was crazy for hiring Wanda Sykes on my old HBO show. The people whom I’ve tried to help, I’m not sure anybody was going to help them.Īnd I have a decent batting average. I’d do the same for a young white guy, but here’s the difference: Someone’s going to help the white guy. Arsenio didn’t have to let me on his show. Keenen Wayans didn’t have to put me in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka. Eddie didn’t have to put me in Beverly Hills Cop II. And I try to help young black guys coming up because those people took chances on me. ![]() ![]() I wanted to have a convertible Rolls-Royce with a fine girl driving down Melrose blasting Prince. I had a small part in the movie, but my dream was bigger than that. I was only there a couple of weeks, but I remember every day Jeffrey Katzenberg would call Eddie Murphy - I don’t even know if Eddie was calling him back - but it was like, “Jeffrey Katzenberg called again.” “Janet Jackson just called.” “Michael Jackson called.” It was that crazy. I got to just hang around when the biggest parts of show business were happening. Some days it would be the Porsches, and the next day it would be Ferraris. Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer’s office was in the same building as Eddie’s office, and they would come to work every day with matching cars. He’s in a Rolls-Royce, and he’s not just a star, he’s the biggest star in the world. Eddie Murphy brought me out to do Beverly Hills Cop II and he had a deal at Paramount, so I remember going through the gates of the Paramount lot. I was probably 19 when I first came to Hollywood.
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