comedian has to be able to read the room, and a businessman has to be able to look and see business opportunities. you know what? i think a lot of the same skills i used as a comedian i use in business. just being honest and being open, transparent. people are comfortable with you. and i have a mission, and that mission was clear. you know, when martin luther king was assassinated in april of 68, that was something that was quite traumatic for the whole country. and i got to know martin luther king s widow, coretta scott king, and she taught me a lot. she said to me, byron, as black people in this country, we have four major challenges. number one, end slavery. number two, end jim crow. number three, achieve civil rights. and then she choked up and she said, and number four, the real reason they killed my martin. achieve economic inclusion. and she said, byron, they didn t kill my martin over the speech i have a dream. they killed him over the speech he gave at stanford university
issue. these kids are sitting there in their position to fail. no proper education, no jobs, no economic inclusion. and by the way, it was the wrongful death, and at a certain point, you have to understand people are speaking out because they are being abused. this is genocide. it s just a slow genocide, but it is genocide. so are you and former obama in contact with each other? we re not in contact, but i have all the respect in the world for him. listen, you have to understand something. the president of the united states is nothing more than temporary hired help. that person is there to serve us and to work for us, and you have to constantly remind them, you re here because i need you to take care of something. i want to bring this full circle because i read somewhere that you said there s a connection, a transferrable skill between being a comedian and being a big businessman. that s right. and that, you know, a
they come and go. bye. i see. well, that looks like fun. lots of fun, yeah, lots of fun. who is dominic, what s his st story? dominic is a hollywood producer and studio exec. his marchriage is falling apart basically because of his sex addiction. his marriage is about to end. his wife is supposed to be on the trip with him and his daughter and they decided not to come and he s at a very difficult place in his life. how big a draw was it for you that the entire show was shot in sicily? huge. huge. that s a huge draw. when they said that shooting in sicily like okay. is your family from sicily? a tiny slice of my family is. most of my family is from rome and surrounding part of rome, yeah. so speaking of family, your
welcome back to who s talking. not every actor can say their first movie role was in a classic. not every actor can say their most famous role was in one of the most popular tv shows ever. and now michael imperioli is checking into hit show on our sister network hbo. so, your new role is starring in season two of the white lotus. you play a businessman named dominic and you go to sicily with your elderly father and your college grad son. let s take a look. flirting is a pleasure of life. you re 80 years old. but the women i desire remain young. you can relate to that. i just want to inform you my good friends here, they re going to be visiting me this week. coming and going.