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(audience laughing) made me mad as hell, i said, don t ask me no damn question like that! i ain t never had no pumpkin pie. kick it! (audience laughing) (upbeat music) - you know the women of def comedy jam hold a special place in my heart because they are like the women of gangster rap. they had to really make room in such a toxically masculine space. that is not an easy thing to do. - when you get that nfl contract and you get that nba contract, who do you marry? you marry bambi, you run the other way, you should have been (beep) with a country hoe, such as myself, from arkansas. you woulda got your (beep) sucke and biscuits from scratch up in that mother. (audience laughing) - at about the same time as def comedy jam, snl was looking for another great black sketch artist because eddie murphy left and chris rock was super young and he wasn t quite ready at the time. he eventually left and became much bigger after snl. - honey, it ll be aight if you just say you did it.
don t say shit. like, he never deal with all that. - martin lawrence was the best host. - you come here. yes. - martin was good at being spontaneous. he could come off the cuff and when you look at some of those old def jam performances, a lot of what he did was improvised. i don t know that he ever went out there with a playbook. - i know big bird outta business, but what the (beep) is up? (audience laughs) - def comedy jam was a black comics paradise. - after decades of being told how to behave, what s appropriate, what s okay and what s not okay, black comedians had enough. you will no longer censor me. - we put on the acts that we wanted to see, edgy. - i m so broke, if a nigga robbed me, he ll just be practicing. (audience laughs) - def jam comes along and boom! now everybody knows bill bellamy, adele givens, bernie mac, steve harvey, eddie griffin. so i m grateful for it. how could you not be? - she said, does this (beep) taste like pumpkin pie?
on the hip hop culture. it was our voice. - what s your favorite collaboration you ve ever done? - it s all i need with method man. - it was like for the next generation. lil bow wow, all these younger acts. - we got lil wayne in the house right now. - yes, sir! - 106 & park compared to something like trl is putting on younger, edgier guests. but at the time there was nothing that was more edgy than def comedy jam. - tag was a game what we played at the mall. you know where you go to the mall, you see some shit you like. you notice that the price is way too (beep) high. (audience laughs) you find the tag appropriate to your financial needs. (audience laughs) when you re ready to go but static and wrinkles are like, nooooo! try bounce, it s the sheet. less static. less wrinkles. more softness. more freshness. bounce. it s the sheet.