Stand up Comic CoreyBE Artist from Detroit - Corey Sherrill

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I'm so happy to be here, Katie. It's totally awesome. It's crazy how we like clicked up on Clubhouse instantly like Detroit, Detroit, and then I saw how talented he was and I'm like, oh wow. She's amazing. So it felt great to just have someone come in and show me some home town love, especially with having Tiffany Haddish on stage, like everyone who was on stage from Toronto, which is like my mentor in the game. Who's been like a huge influence for me. So it was like dope to have someone come in and say, Hey Detroit, you know, like, I, I absolutely loved it.
We'll have to talk more about Tiran, but I was thank you for all that. And it was a magical stage that we were on. It was the Laugh Factory stage, the Laugh Factory out of Los Angeles, California. And I mean, I grew up in LA, so I was going past sunset Boulevard, like multiple times a day. You would just cruise down sunset Boulevard. It's like, yeah. And when I first moved to Hollywood at the end of 2001, my first like big time huge event, Pauly shore was there and I was there and I like, he was like passing me and I went right up to him and we had this magnetic connection and we were just like, boom. And we were like, I love you. How are you? We were hugging. It was so crazy.
It was like, we knew each other, but, but I don't know if it was just that synergetic energetic connection, like when you connect and meet people or if it was from watching movies growing up, but it's the same vibes of us being on stage together and connecting that way. Like on Clubhouse, like seriously, there were four Detroit artists besides me, there was five, five total, and I'd never been on a panel or in a, in a space where it's like, yo like Detroit, Detroit, two people were from Flint. I was like, this is so cool. Like, this is where I belong. It was like, it was really, it was really fun. So it was neat to, you know, be a part of that community. So, you know, ping me in and don't forget about me.
Always keep me in the loop. Cool. Cool. Cool. So you're from Detroit. And where in Detroit are you from?
From the west side of Detroit? Seven mile Silva. So to everybody from the left side of the Detroit CoreyBe I love Detroit. I'm not I'm from, I feel like I'm from the heart of the city by our seven mile in Livernois area.
Oh, you are actually from Detroit, like west side. That's so amazing. So I grew up seven mile, west side, but in the suburbs. So like, I am like just go straight a little more west and like will be at my parents' house, but my mom find out pat, keep going on the freeway. Royal Oak. The Detroit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like seriously, but still at seven miles
That you gave me, you were like this, but I get it. I get it. I know where you're at.
I grew up going to parties in Detroit, like electric EDM parties before like DJs were big in Western civilization. Yo tell us some stories, like one, two stories about Detroit growing up there and some of your experiences.
Oh, well, first of all, I want to say, I love Detroit. I love what they're doing in Detroit right now. Downtown Detroit, shout out some my for high school. Well being a Detroit, it's a lot of, it's a lot of different things that we, we are debated on that we're like big on one thing, for sure. We're big on our sports teams. Okay. So like, even though the pistons, they never liked kinda was like a team that was like desire team, but we were a tough team, you know? And so like, I remember when I began to want to be like a Michael Jordan fan, my grandmother like literally telling me like, no, you can't get any Michael Jordan. You can get these grand Hills. It's all like, she invested like, no we're going to be Detroit pistons fans until you, you know, til we win a championship or something.
So I think it's just like sometimes having batch sports teams and when my Barry Sanders became really good and became popular, just being happy. But all of my members in my, my memories of Detroit has really been about like more of a country aspect. Cause a lot of my family migrated from Alabama to Detroit. And so it's just that Southern aspect of like what a lot of us do traders have. I believe like, I want to say that because like, it's not like New York, New York is totally like, you should go here, go here. Detroit is more like a home, like people have backyard parties. And so like that's where the comedy started for me in the sense it was like the barbershop, like we had the real true barbershop experience where you're a was so funny or whatnot, you know?
So
Yeah. You see in the movies, right. They have scenes and that's because it's part of the culture. Oh, that's cool. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Tell me some, tell me another story about Detroit. Like some, some favorite places you like going to Detroit memories,
Boiling crab. I want to say it's one of my favorite spots to go to. I love the seafood. There's really good. They got the crab backs or whatnot. That's on McNichols. And then the thing that you have to talk. So that's one of my personal favorites, but something that's like, just amazing is gonna to experience a calling you out and experience. Okay. You got to know what to get. Okay. So like my corny dogs, I love the Coney island experience. So when I come home, that's like my guilty pleasure.
Yeah. And you know, I'm great. So you know, the Greeks own all those Coney islands and
Shout out to all your cousins, like, please give, listen, give me a discount guys. Now you can see me. I should not have to pay taxes. Okay. I may not like the corny dog.
Yeah. So, so when we're both in Detroit, we're going to make a plan and go there together. Okay.
We should do it. We can like go. Maybe we should go on a hunt to find like the best Coney dog experience.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll, I'll, I'll ask some people we can ask. So our, you know, we'll ask,
We can find out, we can find out we could go there I'll be this. I could be the tester. I don't really eat meat, but I think I might help conscious you're plant-based no, I'm more like on a pescatarian side of things. Yeah. I flirt with, I flirt with me.
I was, I was a pescatarian for like more than a decade for sure. I'm all about it. I know what you mean, but I just started eating beef not too long ago. I did my Viome have you done your Viome? You need to do your Viome. I'll tell you about the details about it, but you definitely need your Viome. It's all about gut intelligence and your gut health. And for me, I need to have beef. So it's, it's every everybody's different, but for me specifically, and I'm not an affiliate with them, so I'm not giving, getting a 10% discount or anything right now. But I know, I definitely know he was on Jay Shetty's podcast and I listened to Nevine who's the, he's a multi-billionaire he went to the university singularity. He has a beautiful family and he created Viome for peoples the Humana, the health of humanity.
So he doesn't make money from it. It's just costs. And he does, he didn't do it to make money. He's already a multi-billionaire, but I know he was, I listened to Jay Shetty's podcast that he's on. And I know Jay Shetty has a podcast and his code is like Jay Shetty 10, or just Jay Shetty. So if anyone's listening to this and they want their Viome, there you go. But yeah. So moving right along, you're in New York city. When did you move to New York city?
I moved to New York city three and a half years ago. I moved to New York city and my goal was to pursue like my comedy career acting. And so I kind of studied the comedians around me who was popular, how guys bark. It just kind of hung around the comedy clubs and just kept it quiet. I didn't say Ben talked to many people. Oh. And not. And I'm just studying and understanding my delivery. I was willing to be looking at confidence like the mentality of the community. And so I was there almost as if I was judging content of what they believe the content to be. So it wasn't necessarily if I found it funny, just looking at how he positioned when he came to give us. And so that helped me have a mentality to know what I wanted to bring to Comedy and what I wanted to bring to the, you know, to, to, to the person that was listening and to have a better conference.
Great.
And then, so, so you went as a, as an observer before you started doing the open mic circuit then. And how long did you, were you the observer? Are you a Scorpio by chance?
No, it's a lot of 20 seconds. So I'm like, I'm firing desire. I'm a cancer and a Leo I'm going to cuss.
Very cool. Very cool. So you went in your cause I know, like, so you went in to observe and you did research and you studied. And then how long did you do that before you started doing your first open mic?
So that took me, I want to say, I spend a summer doing that. There's no, no performance this watch.
And did you like go to Mo cause they are like, some are earlier five o'clock, seven o'clock, 11 o'clock. Did you go to like bounce around like 1, 2, 3 shows, like all around New York city
And I would do it. What I will do was I went to every club I found out, like I was looking at people's social media accounts, seeing who was going to be at this place. I looking at like the flyers, like of shows. And I was just watch Each, like I would go to, I, for example, I went to the seller once I went to, if somebody clubs that I that's out here, New York comedy club, I went there once a west side comedy club and I would go to stand up New York. I would go there once. And, and, and once I saw what I saw, I let that be. And I, and I wrote, and I became engulfed him. So I didn't hang out too long. And then I build my money market. So I got a job here to save up so I can be able to market myself cause I wanted to have my own comedy night.
So I already kind of had an idea that I want to invest in myself because I saw the marketing. I didn't, I didn't want to be the comedian to need other comedians to push. I wanted to be the comedian to push up. Great.
Yeah. I love that. Did you go to the grizzly pear? So like downstairs on,
I love that. That's actually one of my favorite places to go to
MacDougal street. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. That's a cool street. I love that. Straight back in the day, Yoko Ono, she had a Monday night, my former manager, his dad had its cafe wall and Yoko Ono had Monday nights there and it was called the happening and it would be every Monday and there was no alcohol, so they could stay past open till like four in the morning. But Jimmy Hendrix performed there before he became junior Jimmy Hendrix. And he, my former managers, dad actually gave him the thousand dollars to go to London and do that performance.
And I guess he like thanked four people and it was, it was wow. Yeah, I know. So that, that street is legendary MacDougal street in New York city.
So
Did you, so did you study comedy? Did you take some comedy classes? If so, who did you study with? How to, how does that look for you?
All right. So with Comedy, at least to Deek is the guy who I studied. So Ali Siddique is to me is he's a Legendary comedian. I mean, he's written for some of our top comedians in the world, from the Dave Chappelle's, he's worked along with so many people just in Cami and have so much respect. It was, it was his journey that was similar to mine growing up in Detroit, Michigan. I am Wanda. I suffer from like a lot of kids in the inner cities and these broken communities and the sense we kind of suffer from not having the same normal seasons as others. And so for me, at least to Deek with knowing that he had a story where he was innocent, trying to break a generational curse.
I mean, we all are on one way, whether it's like love your family better. Whether if it's like, if you're trying to break something because you want it to be better, it doesn't matter if yours is different than mine. The fact that we want more it's so dope. And so like for him, his story was so similar to mine, that with, with him going to prison and being incarcerated. And I went to, he went to prison at 17 years old. He did six years and I went at 17 years old. And not only am I talking about it, it was, it was, I don't want to make light of it, but it was conspiracy to a robbery and being young, having some friends, I had a BB gun and just things got out of hand and, and not knowing and, and not knowing that I should have been focused on the help that I needed because at this time I was a homeless kid and I was going through so many things in my life at that time that I believe a young man shouldn't have to deal with.
I should have still been consistently asking for help. You cannot ask for helping up. Whether if you go to the fire department, eyes for help, do not have a healthy living, or if you go to your neighbor or a teacher, but you have to ask for help. And so I'm just going away for so many years. Ali used to be his book, a life for how he walked and what, what he did to become him, seeing it, being able to experience someone that's similar to you, contrary to looking in the past and looking at people to motivate you. I had a guy write or finding me perform. That's what inspired me and to Comedy in, in the outside of Sandra, Richard Pryor's and the George Collins. I mean, there's so many names out here that don't get spoke about with their, how great they are.
And so he's definitely my focal point that I would like to name today outside of the grace that we all can debate.
Okay. Well, a couple of things I would like to have their names and put them in the show notes so people can look them up. Cool. Also in the beginning, at the beginning, when you were a Sharing at the star, I got chills in my body. I'm getting chills now still. And I feel this space within myself and I have some questions if that's okay. Absolutely. So initially there was dysfunction in the home for you to be homeless.
Oh, well, my mother was a prostitute and a drug addict. And so I, I didn't have, I lived with my classmate, my entire high school. So he ended up going to college to Notre Dame and I had, I had a scholarship to play ball and it was just a thing of my last year. His mom said, you need to find somewhere to live court. And I had no family to really call and contact. And you know, I'm, I'm 16 years old at this time. And, and I'm like call my cousin. And my cousin said, you can live with one of his cousins. And I lived with his cousin and they were kind of like some thugs. They were some gods that was just, that was trying to let their frustrations out in a different way.
If there was no leadership, it was like, I'm 16 going to a 21 year old who's hurt too. And that's living in a, a home that's, you know, that's broken into has no structure. And so that was the predicament that I was genuinely in. And I, I beat go to my principal and tell her I was telling her my dilemma and they, they were trying to find me help. But I ended up
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That. They were trying to find me out
So good that you were actually that you opened up and went to the school that
I stay with my coach for a couple of days. So it was like Over, but it's still overwhelming to have a kid that you have to take care of for a whole year. That's a lot on someone and then get on one is to say, go through the system. And so w when we have what, the solution for this, because I want the listener to know, I mean, some of the people, as I'm sure it riding comments or, or have something that they may want to say the solution for this, cause I'm not a person that just rides on the negative story. Cause there's feel free to ask me anything is that we have to have more programs that if someone's in a situation where they don't know where they can sleep at, and you're young, you don't feel like you have shelter because everyone knows what that is.
We should have programs that set up to where that child now doesn't feel as though they're left behind or that they have to go to a job core type of institution where it's like program, oh, like, like job Corps, like sorta like Prison. That's the system, you know, we need more home based programs or you may learn different than me. So people in different living situations, like how I was, where I had nowhere to go, if I would have had help, I probably would have turned out a lot different, however, I'm here today. And this is the most important thing.
Yeah. And there's some kind of analogy where some people say like, before we come, if you saw the movie soul, did you see the amazing films? So it's like, we choose to come to this life. So it's like all the things that are happened, we know it. And we choose the circumstances. Cause it's our way to, like you say, break generational trauma and evolve and learn and be a leader and utilize transmuting that now into your craft, into your art. And they say the greatest, the greatest comedians are the ones that are so funny. They're the ones that understand the depths of the soul and then been hurt so much that they just want other people to laugh because they know how painful it is.
AKA re not AKA, but I guess it referenced that comes to mind is Robin Williams, God rest his soul. You know how you know, people know the pain. And so I'm sure you've gone through a lot of mental struggles with everything we're talking about. I'm a ma I'm a big, I'm a big advocate for mental health. I have my own stuff that I've worked through. It's not about me right now, but, but I feel, yeah. And I, I understand. And so one of the things for you to do and loving Detroit, are you going to cure, rate and team up with people? What is one of your goals and visions to provide that stability and platform with your voice in your name, through comedy, with your affluence, as an entertainer for Humanity, are you going to do those kinds of things, maybe in Detroit for the, for the people there?
Well, for me, for me and Detroit, what I have going on already, I brought up a comedian by the name of wavy Crockett out of Detroit. So he's based in, he's based in Detroit. And I've also linked with my so many different comedians. That's there, Mike Larry and I'm forming a brotherhood and a system of just like open dialogue on creative creativity. Also, I want to say is, I'm also pushing, I have my own foundation that I work with grill world and where I just promote like going to counseling. Like I went to landmark forum, I believe counseling and finding some way of, you know, to go to someone that you can talk to them and let this out.
There's all as for the frustrations or the things you don't get, the things that you don't know. And the wise, there are solutions for those things. And so I'm just showing that the youth that look, man, good stories like mine, this is how you can format the story you do want, you know, and a lot of it is writing it down, writing down what you want your life to be like and how you look for it to be. And then now you go ahead and you make that into existence. You go ahead and be strong and stern. So I hope I'm answering your question. I love this interview by the way. So,
Oh, you're so sweet. Your meats, you, and I'm just like right in it. I'm thinking I'm so grateful for you. Thank you. So you don't know what, you don't know that you don't know that you don't know the white canvas landmark. So what, how far along did you get in landmark?
Oh, that was a good question. I love the questions. Oh, all right. Well, I was like a potential poster boy for landmark there. I was like, I was like, I was like the NBA symbols. I mean, landmark is, landmark is great. I mean, it's everything is what you take, man. You know, like sometimes landmark definitely conditioned me to know that the I can get outside of the, the things that were holding me back. And I did no, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm claiming no organization. Yeah. But I will honestly say that they, that my experience was nothing but fruitful. Great.
I'm grateful. And it was definitely one of the most dearest things ever happens in your, my life. I'll never forget. Landmark mark.
Yeah. I agree. I'm right there with you. I am. I'm all about it. I only did the first program. I didn't go on my partner, Nikki Scorpio. He like full on, went like full all the way. Like I was like, all right, buddy. That's good for you. I'm good. I'm good right here. But yeah, that's cool. And then the next thing is I was wondering, oh, so just kind of like a sidebar joke. So you're not an affiliate for them or anything like
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been watching you. We've been watching. You want you back, Katie. I need you. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, I mean, anytime you're, you know, people are always scrutinized by what they stand for. And I mean, Lee's, someone's trying to stand for getting people through their breakthroughs. I mean, who, I mean, look at us. We have America that says in one hand and God we trust which we should wear. Then we won't even tell people that milk doesn't do the body good. We will not, we will not tell people. So I look at landmark forum it's you have to be courageous to stand up and say, you want to help people. I'm telling you, man. Cause there's people that could help people, but they don't. So it was definitely a time that I,
Because America and has been domesticated, we've been conditioned and domesticated to be small. No, no, no, no, no. A little find discipline is good to a certain extent, but yeah, we, we need we're primal beings, you know? Yeah. So, but to be able to break out of our own conditioning, to break out, to be a leader is a responsibility, right. It's ability to respond. So then the next thing I want to know about speaking of the Detroit artists that you're bringing up and the community in Detroit, w w what about the comedy clubs there? Because I didn't grow up going to any comedy clubs in Detroit. I just knew one in like my local area, but you had to be 21.
So I wasn't able to go, you know what I'm saying?
Okay. I want a special, special shout outs, Kip filer. He's a promoter in, in Detroit where he has like a lot of the rooms, the smaller rooms throughout Detroit. And he's definitely promoting for a lot of artists to be able to have a voice in Detroit and to be able to, you know, work in kind of work material and get that heart ruins. But we could have, I think that we could have a better comedy scene in Detroit. I'm not an in my, in my opinion, a more diverse diversity cause we have a lot of comics, but then you have to look at like the market. What does our market allow us to have? So our market produces a lot of
Dope talents. I mean, a lot of dope talents, you know, Tim, the tool, man. I mean, I can go to a lot of people from Michigan does like just very talented. I just think that I would love to have more of a community how maybe LA artists have in the respect for the different genre of comedians. So I haven't really witnessed that, but it feels good to like, know that I come from John Witherspoon mean so many comedians from Michigan. That's like super dope. That's pops off of Friday. I don't know if you're familiar with John Witherspoon. John Witherspoon, John Witherspoon. He's on he's he's he ties on boondocks. He's the father's on board. All right. I'll have to see it. It's a good, it's a good show.
Boondocks. It's pretty funny. Regina king is the producer. It's a pretty, it's a pretty legendary size.
Cool. I like her. I was on a talk with her and it was right after the riots and SAC had a panel of, they call it like diversity or people of color or something like that. And Sterling brown was on the panel And Regina and I was, and then I was being, I was like, yo, I was being an ally. And I was like, yo, I'm like, listen, there's 150 people in the 150,000 people in the union. I'm like only X amount of people were at, you know, this event. I'm like, people need to be showing up more. And I was like calling out my union members. I'm like, you need to be showing up. And like being at these meetings to educate yourself on like what we can do for actionable steps and stuff.
And then my mind was going all wild and I'm like, oh, I'm going to produce, I produce it. But I'm going to hire an African-American or an African writer, director and all talent and, you know, just hold space to, you know, do that. So they, it was like something I was curating and putting it together so I could take actionable steps. And then I started like taking actions to, you know, just being more mindful of how I could be an advocate and, and learn more like real quick, if you want to hear not really quick, but a brush stroke. If you want to know something, I would like to share with you, I guess, which I haven't shared ever on my podcast or anywhere, but I'll just share with you here that when the riots happened, I was so emotionally frustrated.
I was going through through some other things as we all were during the pandemic, but I was so frustrated and I was, and I was just going to take a nap to take a load off and, and I went to go lie down and I was just, I just couldn't. And I was so restless. I just popped into my studio and I recorded a piece and I told my story and I told my story of turning a blind eye and how I was taught to turn a blind eye and how, I didn't know certain things. And when I was little, I only watched the news like twice because I'm very sensitive and empathic. So I never watched the news because I knew at a young age, these people are being brainwashed. I would, I would see my mom and dad. And they were just like being like, they were just in the news and it was like all these fires and like deaths and like everyone being erect arrested.
And it was just like, if now that I know what I know, because I'm like older, but still useful, but no it's up. It's like those people were set up, look what was happening now, it's all being filled. As we all know, like will Smith's side and you know, God bless George Floyd and you know him and Brianna Taylor. But prior to that, when at a young, now that I'm reflecting on it and I'm like, oh my God, when I was little, although I didn't watch it, like I heard, I heard about it, all the homes being burned, who was really burning those homes. Why would cause in when I was a kid, I remember like, why would they, why would people want to burn and burn their own homes? Yeah. Their homes were probably being burnt down. They probably weren't burning their own fricking homes and all the murders and things they were saying they were killing, like people in Detroit were killing each other, but you know, we're the people in Detroit really killing each other.
No, it was probably what we already know. Maybe the police doing things, stepping over boundaries because of, you know, those all, all those circumstances. So anyway, I was taught, like to turn a blind eye to not say anything, to like, you know, not saying
I kinda like, don't worry about what, what doesn't have nothing to do with you. Like a lot of people do that. Like just, you know, and then you started this, the thing that why I'm so I'm so passionate about when I hear women speak about what, what black people are going through. It's because women in the sense is like the closest thing, like any woman of color is so close to the experience. In my opinion, this is this one burden of my feet can relate because how many times does a woman, your voice does wasn't matter or how men can oversexualized women or the rights that women had to like the right to vote. Just, I mean, the pay, just the fact that, you know, a lot of women just being a friend with a male, just the cautionary flags that you have to put up, just because you're a woman.
So, you know, for me, I'm very passionate about the Joyce floor situation. I'm very passionate about standing up for what's right. Me. It's time. We should be so happy with where we're evolving as humans from just looking back then and said, looking at where we are now to, to be optimistic, man, about having a better world where humanity matters, not color, not this and not that nothing's that we should be able to say, instinct leaders say, look, man, everyone should be treated with love. Everyone should get a fair education. You know? So these things are extremely important to me. And I love that. We connect on that level, like how to hear your parents, because it's by your version is like, there's not as we have this stereotype, Hey, I feel bad for you. I want to help matures.
It's like you have personal debt. Like you remember like wondering, like what's going on. And I want you to know that, like, I feel good now that tomorrow you can remember this conversation and say, wow, I'm part of crews that know that we can make better together, that we can, we can walk into head and make better together. And that's, that's the goal. And I believe, I believe that that's
It's happening. I have chills running and my body's nonstop. So just so you know, but it's, it's happening, it's happening, it's happening. And you know, to get more prolific on it, if you don't mind, as I'm sure, you know, lake injustice and being right for over 400 years, like it is rape. You know what I mean? It is just like their spiritual rate. There's, you know, rape. And it's like, it's, it's not okay to be stripped away and to be taken advantage of in that way. You know? And that's, what's happened with the African culture and yes, it happens with other cultures and unfortunately, but you know, so I just want to definitely acknowledge that. And like you said, we are holding hand, hand in hand and we are breaking the generational trauma and the energetic grids and patterns that was injustice that don't serve us that were false, that were like falsely accused and falsely portrayed.
And some that's where some noise and some eruptions calm, cause people aren't going to like it, but we're not responsible for what other people, like we're only responsible for sharing the truth.
Hi, I looked like me. He could be a pretty good politician. I said, yeah, well she said, Katie guys,
We're doing something in Detroit.
You see, you got, I got my finger to point. We both got our pointing fingers. Yeah. Me and her, we both, we like to play. We can point.
Yeah. For all, you need to go. If you're listening, just go to the YouTube on the sophisticated psychos channel and just watch our pointing session back and forth over here. Yeah. But it's up to us. We can do what I wanted to do years ago. I was seriously what I wanted to do years ago, which I haven't done yet. Like I'm a DJ I DJ. And like you do Comedy. So what we can do is curate now and connect with the people that we know and set up certain events, outdoor events and things like that, you know, planet and plant seeds, just to manifest, bring your homeys, bring the artists. I'll bring some people we can Connect more and get a sponsor and have an event. And we can talk about things and have a conversation and bring people, you know, and, and Yeah, let's do that.
And then we can, what we can do is with like you about promo marketing, we can have the conversation about it online. So people are knowing about it. So when people come, they come with kindness and they come with compassion and they come knowing it's like a, kind of like a peace festival. And it's a beautiful,
It's about growth growth. When you know, something's about growth. It doesn't even mean that we're pointing that you arrested and you're not doing that. We're just saying, Hey guys, that's all great.
Yeah. So let me share something with you real quick. And then I want to get more into the Comedy. So my friend, Michelle, she's not from Michigan, but she's lived in Brighton for 15 years. And she is quote unquote called like one of those brat kids who went all around brat, you know, army brats, like her family. So she is like amazing. And she takes the local community stuff and she goes to DC and she speaks for the people. And she runs actually a small women own business here that employs 15,000 women. And yeah. Hello. So she and I were going to you and I are going to talk with her and curate something, but she is like the generator to make it happen.
So List she was on my podcast. You have to hear it. So she created, let me tell you, at the beginning of the pandemic, she was supposed to be going to Africa, but she just to speak to these women. She thought it was a couple hundred women in Africa. And her partner is Annie, who is a part of the, the president of the AF African women's president association in Africa. And then she's all, they, they did the zoom thing. That's on my YouTube channel, the sophisticated psychos with the former like CEO of the Mandela foundation, gentlemen. So long story short, she wasn't able to go to Africa to speak to these women because of the pandemic. So they did a zoom and then they did a zoom.
There was 1800 women, African women in Africa who were launching their businesses, fashion businesses who were losing their businesses. So she went home, she was at home, she meditated, she meditated. And she said, if not me, who, if not now, when, so then she took action. She raised $1 million for these women in Africa, 1800 women and created an Amana box project. And yeah, that's who, that's who I stand for. That's she's gonna love you. She's gonna love you going to do what you're doing and we're going to make this happen.
Totally. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm just a reflection of you, man, from, from when I met you, like I think podcasts sometimes do you kind of know what you're going to get, you know, and we'll it to you. I just love your energy around, like how we met what you present, hearing your artistic vulnerability. I mean, you're, you're not asleep. I'm not asleep and all you as army. So that's why I'm here. Like I heard you, you saw me trying to defend I might've. Hey, wait. Oh, she's dope.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. She's dope. Quick.
Speaking of DELP is it? I was going to ask the question, but I kind of want to pivot. I'm feeling it. If it now or after this question, it's up to you. Can you like for the listener and viewer, can you do like a couple of your bits for us? Like,
Joe,
Do you want to do that now? Or in a little bit? It's up to you.
It doesn't matter.
Are you sure? Should we make the audience waits? Just getting,
I mean, the audience let's just make a way, just a little bit. I ended off with that. I and I, and you guys offer some after it doesn't matter.
Yeah. I like a good teas, but before, before we, you know, move along. So you have a club in Clubhouse for anyone who isn't on club house. It's amazing. And you have a club. So how do people find you on the club and what is your the club about? So the club is called the Comedy Courts. And how, and how do we follow the club? The Comedy court. And why should we and tell us more? I mean, obviously you're there, that's your Club?
Well, okay. So my Club, my club event, a house is a List Club
Club
That ain't List Club. And my show that is on there. My improv show is a Comedy Courts
Club.
So I started the alias Club December 9th.
Oh. So, okay. So you started the alias club and then you have a show called the Comedy Courts. And then do you have other artists do shows in your alias Club? Dope. You are such a leader, natural born leader.
I have like 10,000 followers almost since December
Kamala's that is booming people. That is so cool. I love that. And it's every single Monday and it's at 9:00 PM Eastern standard time. So 6:00 PM Pacific. And if you're in Philippines or India, then you have to look at your phone to decide how to get there. You're outside of America. You know what to do? Just get
At this bread off everyone's time zone. I would have been like overly impressed.
Oh, I'm not that smart.
And we got texts from people like, Hey, what time is it over? And I'm like, I don't Siri.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you haven't done any performances in the standup clubs in Detroit because you, you started researching and, and you started doing standup in New York.
Yes. It was started. I heard that it was the toughest place to do it. So I said, I might as well either start my career somewhere tough or, and I didn't realize how hard it was, but I came out pretty natural.
You're like me, you like a challenge. Yeah. I mean, it
Is what it is.
If you're going to do it, do it right. Has to be the best thing.
Yeah. They give it all you got and then, and then regroup with what's what you have. So
How, how does a, a Comic get booked on comedy?
Well, the best thing I can tell a guy is get a solid five minutes, five to six minutes. Okay. Once you get your thoughts out on five to six minutes, then get someone to record your solid five to six minutes where you're showing what you do. And then, then the Google, the comedy clubs that are like just surrounding areas and ask them, Hey, can I get your booking information? I'm a person that would like to submit a video to you. Like any other job opportunity you want put yourself out there seeing your content. Because in a lot of sense, if you don't ask an open mouth, doesn't get a closed mouth, doesn't get fed. And so, in a sense, like you want to put yourself out there to let them know that, Hey, I'm available. Everyone's not going to bite to that.
But some people may see your potential and say, oh man, yeah, I have a show or yeah, I would love to have you a part of this. So that's one way for a person to start. I started with my own movement, Manhattan, moron, and Brooklyn, Ron New York. So I got here. I was like, these guys is making $150. I can make $150 for my me. You know what I mean? And from that, it became a thing of like now I have 40 people waiting to come see me. So what do I do? Then? There's like 50 people there. I have 60. I'm like, oh, snap, I have something going on here. And so that's how I grew up.
So like some comics I've seen when I go to comedy clubs, they'll be also comics, but they're doing the promoting part. So those are the ones who are getting $150.
Yes. I mean, between the Comedy, I mean 150 $300. I mean, no, one's not performing. You're not performing for the month. And so you, I mean, you're trying to get the mix. The mikes are more important than the money. The more my,
Oh, so you're seeing, because you see what days are the busiest who's coming in and out. You're meeting other comedians who are already there. So it's an opportunity to network with them as well. But you didn't want to do that. You're like, I'm not doing that middleman stuff. I'm just going straight to the top. Right. I love that. I love that. Yeah. Cool. And then, so when was your first performance in, where was it?
I was in 2018 at the red rooster.
Oh my God. I love the red rooster. I've been there only twice, but holy awesome.
Yeah. At the comedian, it was talent that comedian hamburger, they were on like Def jam Comedy and they were hosting a show and I had a red blazer on and when I sat right in the front and they start making jokes on my blazer, and then they said, what do you do? Who are you? And I said, I'm the funniest guy in here. And then he was like, oh, you think you funny get the mic? And they gave me the mic and I went and I sat and they were like, okay. And then people was laughing and they was topping. And then that's when my career started about boom.
So the universe, just it, that you were in flow, like it was in flow for you. That's a really cool story. Wow. At their Legendary red rooster. Oh my God. Okay. So, so when, when things lift a bit more, we definitely need to have some food there.
So,
So that was downstairs that you performed. Okay, good. I've seen, I've heard like jazz music, but I haven't seen any standup comedy there.
Well, that's so cool.
How many nights a week do they have Sandra comedy there? I know
I'm doing it. Every talent, talent. He's he kind of started out with like Chris rock and all those guys to Tucker. And so talent was, he had his own night there weekly. So right now I don't know what they're going to do because you know, the pandemic, why not? So he already had an act and he was like allowed apps to come. So we already had a lineup and then her outcome. And I'm like, I'm the funniest guy in here. And then it's just, oh, then people I give them their mind and y'all picked on him. Give him the mic, Mike and wow. Yeah. I know. I pinched myself if he asked me what I said, I couldn't remember.
So in the front, when you walk in, there's that area where there's a DJ. So I talked to the person there and I was talking to them about, I was going to DK there and then the pandemic happen, but I wanted to DJ there. Isn't that. So cool. I like really connected with the, whatever the GM, I don't remember his name. I had his card, but life took its course, but
That's
Him. That's I think that's his thing. That was his name. Yeah, totally. That's so cool. Cool. Okay. And then also there was this really cool guy there. You're probably gonna know his name, but they had to like, cause I'm a painter too. And they had all these aprons and that our server he's the guy, he made the whole collection for everyone in the restaurant. And he was, he got a deal and he was doing very well. And what a great market, because I mean, it was, there were so cool. So I had his card. We were going to do stuff together too. And then, you know what,
Now you have me though. So I might miss a connection. Now you have gotta be turned because I love them. They're set out to red rooster on 1 25 guys. If you hear, if you're like checking this out, that's definitely a spot that you want to get something to eat. Tell them Comic. CoreyBe tells you to come there. They're not going to do nothing, but send you some alkaline water. That's it. They're not going to give you no discount, but they might send you some alkaline water on me. Huh?
Yeah. Cool. No, we're going to send them this and we'll give them like a little bit and then they can repost it on their social media to support you. What? Cool. So what are like some tips for upcoming comics stuff? That's things we haven't covered. What's what are some tips for them?
I have a thing called building your bid, building the healthiest way to build your bid and your personality is, and I'll say it again. Building your bids. It's it's identify. Is it true? So the best comics tell the truth. They tell the truth. As they see it, Richard Pryor, he was giving examples. He never Richard Pryor, never. He, he never cuts all of his characters car first, but Richard Pryor. I've never cursed. So identify with your story, who you want to be. So for me, I could go some to me, ranches. Cause funny things happened when I was incarcerated or funny things happened when I lost my virginity at 24, like funny things happened at mom. So being able to identify the funny moment and then being able to understand where to add the joke.
So today I tell a joke that prob I'll, I'll get a job with my job after suburb or whatever.
It's never ending. I don't know what you're talking about when it's over, that's not happening.
Oh, this is the all night forever guys out here. This is that
This is the new
Clubhouse. Yeah. Detroit versus everybody podcast. We we're doing it.
I need to get some of those. I need some of that gear. Maybe we should reach out to them to be our sponsors.
I know, I know them over there.
Let's reach out. They need to be the sponsor. What let's have that happen. So yeah. Do you have any like favorite poets or do you do spoken word poetry, poetry, like what's, what's the vibe in that area?
I can appreciate close from my tablet smiley. I, I really enjoy him. I'm not really like a big Poetry person. I kinda write my, I have my own sands that I write. I'm more like good in my own quotes. I have quotes. Like life can be exciting, but don't live life to where excitement runs your life. I write things like that. Power strengthening, quotes and stuff. So I'm definitely, I'm a reader though. Like the last book I read race after technology. Wow. My rule book by rule hub Benjamin. And it broke down life after technology and what that looks like the New Jersey CRO code. Like, so I'm always reading things that can enhance my today.
Yes. I love that. I love that. Very cool. Very cool. Cause you, you so much look like a palette, you know like you, I mean, yeah. I mean you're so much like an artist, obviously
For sure. Some people, some people say that I'm the sexiest comedian in the world. I'm not gonna, I mean, right now I'm having like one of those hair days, but this is the potential. What the look is kind of like to be one of those.
No, you are to fly. Like you were like really like it's you're, you're, you're too hot for this, the screen.
And let me tell you how tough on him though. Let me tell you how to find him. I'm so tough that if we were in the jungle in the safari and I was there and whatnot with you that if a lion came out of nowhere, so tough that I'm willing to scream so loud, it's going to be loud as hell, but it's, it's gonna, it's gonna lie. It's gonna lay here. Nothing. That that line would be like, we're going to give them a break.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I feel that very cool. Very cool. All right. Well we know we're safe and secure when we're in the jungle with CoreyBe. Cool. Cool. And then, so what's next for you? Like I know you're at the Broadway comedy club coming up and then so are you just going to perform more around New York? Are you going to make appointments to perform in LA? Do you want to shift into comedy or do you want to be on screen for TV? Are you going to do a musical theater comedy? Like what's what's what's on the horizon for CoreyBe
Well, I decided to retire today. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, as of right now I have a couple of leads on things. I mean, Hollywood is kind of open it back up April 1st. So I'm optimistic that I'll be on Netflix. Hulu. I have a lot of opportunities. My show has been picked up right now. So I'm gonna end treatment level with Comedy Courts. Shout out to Shana Pharaoh, J Pharaoh's sister she's executive producer of the show. And so we have like some cool things going on for about my personal projects. And now far stand up comedy. I am a New York Comic. New York is home. I love Detroit. I am a Detroit. Okay. Well I have my, I keep my Detroit house near, but Comedy for me is about building my brand here and showing on it, being a bridge for Detroit artists that want to come to New York, coming to my hat and in Harlem and all those beautiful barrels around here to work, you know?
So York is home Broadway comedy club. I had an RA, my talk show will be up and running. So with wants to pandemic and I figure out like how many people we can have in a crowd and all of that. So hopefully that'd be going on soon. And I'm really just trying to figure out what me and Toronto like Toronto is like definitely one of the homeless and comedy.
I met him on Clubhouse and yeah. So like, cool. I'm a fan. Awesome. Cause like, like I like a few weeks ago he posted a comment and he's like Clubhouse, gang, firefighter fire. And so I, then I went to his and I wasn't even like in a comedy room, it was like a different room. But then I went and I saw who he was and I followed him. Like I didn't like see who he was. Cause I don't know who he is. Like I've never met him in person, but I just love how he like commented Clubhouse gang. And then I just kind of saw he was a Comic. So I followed him. But that's that's I, it sounds like he's going to be my new friend as well, but cool. So you're doing projects with him too.
Yes, yes, yes. This part, come on, man. He'll have some core things that we are doing once upon them because are to kind of like Brian Detroit and myself, you know, he's not this, he loves the fact that I'm want to do deans to be an influence for the city of Detroit.
Well, cool. He can, he's invited to Detroit with us when we do our yeah, he can, he can perform to,
We can see again. Then he could tell us the secret mind. He could tell you the secret behind his Rhodes and why he wears ropes. Like he's the coolest bike ever with his robe. He, he, he wears these rolls around the LA nice bro. Like that's his part of his style. That's why
That's so cool. Okay. Well with what you just said, I have to tell you, do you know Vipassana? Yes. So I did a 10 day Vipassana and Northern California a few years ago. And it was over the holidays. And for 10 days, you for the viewer and listener who do not know the Pasana, I literally, you can't, you don't look at people in their eyes for 10 days. You're silent for 10 days while you're meditating. And so you're wearing PJ's. You don't wear anything flashy. You don't wear jewelry because you don't want to distract. And it's a part of just like getting still in quiet and going within. So I had this boss role that was just like Red, like, like Christmas red robe. And I wore it for 10 days in a row and there were 120 people, 60 guys, 60 girls and guys are over here and girls are over here and I'm the girl that walked around with the red row for 10 days.
It was like a whole thing. Like everyone was talking about it when you could talk. Yeah. So that's my robe experience, but that's hilarious. That's funny when I stopped his Instagram more, I'll have to see some photos of him in the rug robe. I didn't, I guess I didn't look too much at his Instagram to see any ropes cause I didn't see any, but are they on there? The
Robes are on. There
I go. Oh, okay. Now I'll know the story. We some of the story. Cool. Very cool. And then when you mentioned earlier, so the, the Netflix deal that you're working on your personal Show?
Well, let me, I'll be, it's not a nice place. I want to be very specific. I'm working my project Comedy Courts. So Comedy period where the prosecutor, the judge, sometimes I have a celebrity judge that comes in. So I've had Rodney Perry on myself and my leads to D Gary Owens has come by through to my show, Monique Corey bell claimed English from 85 south. I've had joined Medina, Adele givens, the beautiful miss Tina Graham, who started Def jam comedy, who started that whole thing and, and bringing so many talented artists to the world and showing us who they were.
She's a part of comes to my shows and whatnot. And then when I created this, it's an improv show. It's a courtroom parody where the jurors prosecutor, as I said at the judge and the defense attorney are all comedians. And someone comes with the petty story. So it could be, oh, Corey, my mom, my mom needs to step up and cook Thanksgiving dinner because my grandmother's under cooking all the food. Now they could come up and pick a turn into defend them and we'll decide, no, you need to step up and cook. Cause your mom doesn't want to cook. And she's tired. She used to cook for you and your adult to find herself. It's kind of like a way to pick up fans and show people how we turn pain.
And so laughter and so that's the whole theory behind my show. So just, you know, preparing the visual deck for that and just being able to be in a position where I'm creating ideas, but people see that this idea to grow. So yeah, that's the, that's the objective, but I want to, I'm going to make sure that maybe I over-talk myself, I don't have nothing specifically with these people, but I have things that's like some opportunity inside opportunities shows that starting on Netflix, that I'm auditioning for to wait because I'm going to wait to see what
Kind of thing.
No. Well more so like there's a show that has five seasons on it. I have a, I have an audition. So they've been creating a role. I have.
Are you represented for acting? So are you represented for acting as your not representative for acting, but, but
I went to HB studios for acting I've been, yeah. I've I can coach shout out to crystal. She has a lot of, a lot of people on TV and stuff. So I'm like I have, I don't feel yet.
I studied with Susan Batson. Do you know Susan Batson?
No, I'm asking later. I guess
She was with HB studios and they broke off years ago, but she has Susan Batson, B a T S O N. She has an amazing book. It's a blue cover. It's called truth. I definitely highly suggest for you to make the book called truth. She's Nicole, Kimmons personal acting coach for over, over 20 years now. She is Oprah Winfrey's coach Liv Tyler, a bunch of a bunch of people, but I studied with her for a year nonstop when you know, when, when 2012 I studied with her, but Susan, Bateson's amazing for Studying. Cool, cool. Yeah. Sounds like you need some kind of agent to be representing you as a Comic.
So you can be on the more T on the TV shows as a standup comic.
I mean, it's only been the thing is that's not how 2020 no one worked. So I started in 2018. So I did all 2019. I did my first comedy special boot up relationships and I don't want to blur, but you know, and I did that. And then you have 2019, I'm discovering myself more and more than you have 20 that no one really lived through because of things. So I believe that I would have like, probably like I've turned down 90 day fiance not to spend off 90 days, I'd say like love island. So a lot of shows that I want to be to be on it, like are turned on.
I could talk about the shows I turned down, I've turned down. What is it? Social Christmas for it to be Don Cornelius for solo training. Because I wasn't prepared where my acting. I want it to be like very much theater. I want to say that was off Broadway. I wanted to be prepared. So not unprepared. Like I have kind of all of the right people in my life right now, TJ Stein has reached out for management and he, he managed some of it's some of the top celebrities in the world. It's just not to panic right now. Cause I just had a year to sit off and not do anything. So for me to be on the last those G to have worked, you know, background to, to have some grace, I mean I've down and talked to Angela Bassett for three hours.
My uncle's the most recorded Jasmine, Jasmine just in the history. So I have a pallet to reference towards is this about just in golfing now? So I don't need an agent right now. I don't need a magazine right now. I just need to keep working on CoreyBe and then all of the elements are going to come for sure.
Oh, they'll come together. It's great for the listener and the viewer to not rush things and have this illusion, the idea that you need, certain things like just trust the process and enjoy the process. A lot of people want to get to the end goal. The Def the, the destination of the angle when the angle is in probably going to be what you envisioned it to be anyway, because life takes its course as it does, but just to really enjoy the process of writing and researching and being connected with people on an authentic level and being true to yourself. So it sounds like you have a really great head on your shoulders and a beautiful blossoming career going on. Right?
And one last thing I want to say saying that a lot of people say Hollywood is going to call you. They'll call you. They will call you. You don't have to worry about it. Just keep doing you. They will call you, they'll call you and say, Hey, we love what you're doing. We see, they see, you know, is this a matter of like time and your time? And you've been authentic. So continue to be authentic. And that happen. A lot of people go to Holly, going to LA and they didn't know that they should have just kept stay with their, where they were at and to be familiarized with LA, but stay where they're at nine years there. And then their brand Connor sheets. Because like you're not Hollywood. It's people that are, could change a life like this. They're not, and it's just a tax write off for them. Personally can give you $5 million, that $5 million or $10 million, and you could make your film.
So it's not like you're when people have scenarios where, oh, I'm about to have a project I'm about to, and I have this pot. No, it it's people that like really was cited. Here are those done? Well now I have this project going on. I have that. So understanding the momentum of artistic of your artistic journey. So I understand that my artistic journey is going to have so much in it. The fact that I'm an artist I'm healthy, we've lost so many people during COVID recipes that everyone has lost so many people and, and we've had so many great moments. And so just pretty this being over, I'm excited to have met people like you, we have a healthy algorithm we can socialize on.
And, and I think those are the biggest things that artists that need these things that we know we need to focus on. And he ended up making you appreciate reaching and teaching one at a time, one at a time, one person at a time. And you'll get whoever you want.
It's one person at a time. It starts with us. We're a part of the ripple effect.
That's how it goes. Yeah.
Yeah. That's so cool. That's so cool. One shout out to the pit because I only did a six week class in New York before the pandemic happened. And, and that was my first ever really doing the Comedy and I did in New York. And then they had me after my graduation, after six weeks, I had a five minute thing at the pit. And so people on here who are in New York are just wanting to do a six week course for basic one-on-one Comedy. I'm not an affiliate with the pit, but I think the pits are really great landing space for people. Cause I was, you know, by in New York and I know all the joints in LA. So I was like, I was like, okay, so what are the top five in LA? I looked and I'm like, what are the top five in New York?
And then I looked and the Pick came up. It was my, it was a couple of months before my birthday. I'm like, oh, this isn't just going to be a birthday gift to myself. So I did that and that's kind of like my background, but before earlier, it was very difficult for me to get involved into comedy because I was so emotionally attached to all of my stuff that I wasn't able to be vulnerable. I didn't have the courage and I was having this public persona. So I wasn't able to dismantle the projection of people pleasing and what other people would think about me being judged and judging myself. So I actually tried Comedy with Joey Paul Jensen. Who's amazing casting director and Billy Ryback.
Who's a great comedy writer. If you know him, Bailey Ryback, he would write for the golden Globes and Tim Allen. Who's from Michigan where we're from and a bunch of other people. And anyhow, they tried to like get me involved in the whole Comedy thing. But I was so emotionally attached to myself, self that I wasn't able to get involved. And then after I traveled the world and did a bunch of things in the world, like she's all over the place, the podcast, I was dismantling those things because you said you have to speak from the truth and the experiences of what you've been through. You also have to be ready to be able to be open and vulnerable. And not only that, the comedians are very, very intelligent.
So you, you need to be highly intelligent to be a comedian because the great ones are jet like you, the great ones are very smart. Very smart. Yeah. And then I guess lastly, I want to close out with saying that I am going to do my hardest, not to laugh because with the technology, I don't want you to miss a word or something. So when you do some bits, I'm going to be over here, like going like this, but, but not laughing out loud, just so the listener can fully enjoy without my big mouth getting in the way. Cool. So would you like to close us out with some Comedy? That would be such a tree,
Sir. I'll give you guys something. Okay. Well, first of all, understand, I'm Comic CoreyBe C O R E Y B E. It's a constant reminder. The reason why my name is Corey beads to remind kids, to being the best version of themselves. Okay. Sometimes you gotta, you gotta give yourself that push and alive. So that's why I have add a bee to my man, guys. And it's a reminder that Corey going to be like, I'm going to be like, I'm late all the time. I knew what this podcast is called. So I was just trying to get myself. I was ready. I was going to tell her like, I'm all over the place and this is the name of this. So that's why I thought I was on her. Oh, let me say this guys. I do have a little treat. I have a plea for being kinda broke. I been kinda broke lady.
You know, it's tight. When the only time you get to use lotion is when you given somebody a massage, that's what I'm trying to use. I have to go up to somebody's house and say, oh, can I use some of your lotion? I'm over at my neighbor's house, looking at my hands. They realized, because this time no convenience are making money. Look, I went on a date the other day. Y'all know my thinking is this some people, some people say that black people, we think we, the, this, some people say this white folks is uptight. I won't say neither. Okay. But what I will say is that the Chinese people need to learn some system to me. I'm on this day, this lady, you hand me my car back to my prepaid card. Declined. Why? So you have to tell this lady my money situation. She didn't run me off. I let her, let me know. I got a prepaid card.
She looked at me and said, I thought he was an anesthesiologist. We know we all don't tell the truth on Tinder. I'm like, no, I'm close to my cousin. Anesthesia, autocorrect be messing up. I'm Courtney. Thank God so much, man. Thank God. But right. Just listening to some of my style or what? Whatnot gods. And by the way, what did I say to the lady that for, I want to know I've told her and I said, look, my car didn't decline is trying to decide if it's trying to pay for this date or not. Okay. So that's what happened. That's my spray. I have to tell him my way. I'm CoreyBE thank you so much. I just want to hit a little something. I just, you know, cause I'm like a long storyteller. I'm like long, like playing long stories on her, but that's just like alone. That's like one of my times jokes, I got a good stock joke for you.
All right. Here's the goal. Here's the goal. It was a family. Okay. It was a family and they wanted to have a child and they were, they were like, baby, you know what the wife said to the husband? She said, baby, let's go to the opportunity and let's go ahead and see if we can go there. Maybe we can do it that way. And so the husband said, you know what, honey, I'll do it. The doctor wanted them. Both this baby could have some malfunctions. Something can happen. And the child comes out just ahead. It was just a head, nothing else. And the family loved this baby. Just a head. Love the baby. Just no neck, no nothing. And love the baby all the way till he was 20 years old. And the father said, son tomorrow, you're going to be 21. I'm going to take you to get your first drink.
He took him and get his first drink. The most magnificent courageous thing happened. The boy has a shot of father. Pour the shot in his mouth. The boy grows a neck, arm and shoulders and everything. He gave him another shot. He grows his torso, his knees, his legs. He gives him another shot. The boy stands up and he dies. The bartender said, he's just, just stopped when he was just the head. Huh? Is this a stock joke?
That's so cool. Oh my gosh. That's so cool. That's so good. That's so good. Yeah. I like LA. I like long form storytelling. Thank you. And I feel like Kevin, when I was watching all these comedians, cause I got a list when I was in the class and all these people to watch, I just went on a binge and I was just watching to see, you know, who's who, and when I was watching Kevin Hart, it took a while for me to understand his comedy. Cause he he's just really all over this place and he does a long form, but it all weaves in, but he's, he's kind of hard to keep up with energetically. But you have to, you have to like listen to him for a while to kind of get his float.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah. It's a way, it's a way of like, for example, let's say if our here go I'm might to create a story right now, this is a Christian. So I'm thinking about spelling, how people sometimes struggle with spelling. Okay. Are you a Christian? Yeah. Would you consider herself
On Greek Orthodox Christian?
Can you spell Deuteronomy for me? Spell what? Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy. The books of dude around me is not in the Bible or can you spell first and second? Can you spell Corinthians? No Joke. I'm not saying you can't, but if you spell on an everyday basis. Okay. So I'm going to get it to my joke. Think I can't spell. So my, my area, if I was gonna write a joke because the whole time I'm going to pandemic, I've been writing themes. Okay.
During the pandemic he's been writing and writing his work. Not doing nothing
To keep me busy. Cause it's like not fun if I'm not performing it. But I could say I could write down irritating things about cooking. Okay. And then when I come by and do a theme that says when I heard about shopping, so I can, like, I hate a lot of things about shopping, shopping with my grandmother at a time, maybe shopping at the grocery store with a woman. Let's say, if I want to write jokes, like I write themes that I can tack a lot of stuff too. So right now it's spelled, okay. So I can start off with the joke and say, I'm on a date all, and I'm going to date everybody. And I know I messed up when I got a text and I answered the texts back. First of all, you shouldn't be texting at the phone. Anyway, if you're on a date, I said, have my phone down. Okay. And fellows are not talking about, I'm not in fellas. I'm not talking about face down.
I'm talking about having a down up that tells you ladies. I don't see, okay. Now let me start it. But I'm not doing that. I'm on the phone. So I'm on the phone texting and I see my day, she's paying attention. And then out of nowhere guys, as I'm texting my stop and I say, definitely my point is this the fact that she wanted to stop the date because she saw that I can still definitely. And I needed to use audio speaker to spell dumb. That's why she doesn't like ma'am can you spell it? Definitely. And then I can hand the mic to somebody in that could throw him off. And then in the crowd, and then I can pull the mic back. People live. I'm like, no, seriously like yeah. Different types of people. If language was that important to her, she could have sent me a voice message that says if we were out on our first date and there was an emergency, what would you do?
CoreyBe and I would've said to her call an ambulance and right then and there with me there, an ambulance and ambulance, she would have known that I might struggle with reading or struggle with using audio. Like this is improv right now. So taking it and letting it go organically, like, and just
Letting it grow. That's your vibes. That's your vibes. That's
My vibes. Not, we're not performing, but this is, I don't know why it's called them. I put it on I'm so sorry. I I've got a phone call while I was on the phone with you.
You're popular. Obviously. De CoreyBe is so popular. I don't know how we're on the phone. This on the, on the S so long. I mean, you've gotten like 17 calls since we've been talking.
I don't know how. And I actually did put it on airplane. I don't know.
Airplane
Moon mode. The moon mode. I did press the moon.
Steve jobs. You're closer to the moon right now than us. What is going on,
Rob? We got one. That's the sign that I loud when it's time to down.
Yeah. I see your good energy. Yeah. Energy gave me the permission to be able to do that. So people, listen, you need to be around people. You need to find people. It's an energy. It's a flow because what I just came up with, I've never said in my life, and I don't know if you think it's genius, but I did. Yeah. Cause I mean, I just played off of what you gave me. And so to be around people who have that vibe is like what? We're here sharing and telling you while we're having this moment. Because life is this. We're here for one long moment. What are you doing?
And it's so real for comedians. Look, Hey guys, I'm working. I'm working. There we go. I'm sorry. My daughter, my daughter. I have a seven year old.
Oh, congratulations. What's wrong, Kaylee. Kaylee. That's so cute.
Listen. I think she could possibly be funnier than me. She's seven. She's
Seven.
No, she's not. No, she's not here with me right now, but she's seven. And she's like changes between what she wants to be in life. She's like, dad, I want to dig up and dig up. Dinosaur bones naturally. What did I say as a dad? I'm like, oh, you want to be an archeologist? She's like dad, no, like you can't teach me. I want to be a pound tologist I'm like, she's one of
Those. Okay. Then she
Asked me after that, what school did you go to? That's what she asked me after that. Wow.
Wow.
I'm like, I was looking at her like, oh, okay. All right.
Oh, so earlier when you said dad joke, now I get it because you're an actual dad, which is makes you so much more likable for the whole world. Because the perspective of where you sit your seat in the world, you're able to reach more audiences with your jokes and, and compassion for being a dad, being a family member, being an advocate for family and Humanity, but also for the children. That's so cool. I love that.
Yeah. I feel for all the dads who let the girls, like, I feel like her mother must whisper in her ear. Like how to like kind of working in a little bit. Okay. Her mother told my daughter, like, this is how you get your dad's heart. You want to get close to his heart. This is how to talk to him. Cause he does pretty good. I have a great daughter. She's very smart. She gets everything right. She was due another month in December. And when school opened back up, I'm like, do y'all have any other smart kids in this school? So like she's always accomplishing a lot of stuff. She's asked me so many questions. She is like, she's like, she wants to be funny, like me and she wants to be tall. Like me. I'm six, four. So my daughter wants to be a big person. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay. So this, this is what I want to share. And I got no pun intended it before, but this is a bit premature. Ha no pun intended. Cause she's seven, but I've never, ever invited a seven year old on my show. But have you ever want your daughter on my show? We need to get a permission slip from the mother. Anytime she is ready, whenever she's ready. And we want to bring kalien, she's invited what? It can be, whatever she wants to talk about them, then let's have her on the show. It'd be really cool. I would love that. Let's honor her. And one day, whenever she's ready and you're ready, let's have her on the show. That'd be
What, what I'll do is I will ask Kaylee to describe how it is when I'm cooking. It's the funniest thing I've ever heard a child do. She described me going to the, she said, daddy, you make the foods, make it seem like you're going to cook something that's special. But dad has just a burger. I do. I'm I got to set the everything. Like I want to be cool too. But you know, I'm, I'm not a soccer mom, but everyone doesn't have a dad. That's cool. Like me. Like
I don't want to judge a book by its cover, but you definitely do not look like a soccer mom.
I already see your team. Kaylee. This is 45 minutes of my life. Five minutes on my daughter. And you choose her. Where are you guys? Are you guys stick together? And I'm gonna tell you this.
I learned it's important to make a choice. Right?
Listening. Yes, it is. When you're dealing with the woman know that she's right for one, okay. Listen, fellas, my trainers, a woman. And one time she had it's so crazy when she had Beyonce come on, I'm like, can we turn it off? She's like, what did you say? I'm like, can we turn that song off? And I didn't realize it was the onset I had worked out. I told him, you understand it. My goose was so tight. I'm like, I get it. I get it. Who run the world's girls. I just want to make sure everybody know. I know who run the world. That's it. Can you see how she's walking slow? She's going deep into like, yay. That's why he smoothed that over. All right. Well she got that finger. I got you.
Well, since you mentioned that I do have a short story and then, and then we'll wrap it up. Cause I know, cause I'm sure you have other things to be doing, like spending time with your awesome seven-year-old daughter. So the vibe is this in 2007, I was in Shreveport, Louisiana and I did a film with Jessica Simpson and I played her best friend. I was her makeup artist. It's called major movie star. It was major. And it was like huge in Germany anyway. So we had these like amazing dinners right after the movie and Joe Simpson, her dad, cause he was like manager or whatever, growing up in their careers. But he was there and I don't know the whole deal about whatever, but he's sitting at the head of the table and then it's, you know, the producer and then it's may, and then the director, Steve miners across from us.
And I remember Joe Simpson when in 2007, he said, he said it as clear as day, it was so good. There was like this long table. It was like a long table and like 15 people, 20 people. And here's Joe Simpson and I'm right here. Right. And he just says this in the conversation. He says, he's married, I guess. I don't know. But he says the woman's always right. And when he said that, it doesn't matter what it is. Just if you just know any better, it doesn't matter. Who's wrong or right. This is the woman's always. Right. So when he said that it was just really impactful and it was just really struck a chord.
And I just kind of always remember that, like, you know, the woman's always right. I like that. You know what's up. Yeah. Cool. Cool. Okay. Well, it's a, it's such a pleasure to have you on so much seriously. You're amazing. And we'll see you and we'll hear you in Clubhouse really soon and yeah. So I'm really excited. Oh, you can say anything.
I just want to say guys to all her listeners, I'm one of the most passionate people I've met in a long time. Katie, thank you so much for having me on. I love your process. I'm definitely going to let people know that like you are official everything about you and getting your patients to have patients. I mean, gosh, you may not know this or even know it, but I have to detect them Coty difference. Some technical difficulty difficulties, excuse me. And for her to just come in and just hope and warm me through it. And you took some, you took some breaths with me. Remember? I was like one Corey, Corey. It was like, I was having a baby.
Let's take a deep breath. We've taken all day in the nose.
So why get tears? Corey it's okay.
Let's reset. Let's reset. The narrow transmitters. We have 60 to 70,000 thoughts per day. 90% are the same thoughts. What thoughts are we having? We fire rewire. We fire. We wire. We here, we unwire according to Dr. Joe Dispenza. So just to start on a clean slate for the listener for the viewer, we wanted to really like set the tone, leave everything there and just realign and center and breathe together fully for you. So that's why we're here. We're here fully for you. It was there.
It was, it was, I was so relaxing. And you would not have known because I let out guys, it was a silent killer though. It was, that's why I kept making a face. I wasn't about to cry. I just, when he said breathe the way I did, I'll never breathe. And she's like, have your hands up, Courtney, put your knee up. And I had my knee up and she was like, and I just let him, it was, it was, and that was it. That was it. But you didn't know.
Yeah. I love I'm telling this is the first time I've ever said, said this in my life. I love those silent killers. Like I love that.
Yeah. I mean, heck you're like So excited. You know? What's so funny about this. You guys get to see that. I have like some like, like I'm like a color Carnegie type of guy. Like, you know, I'm like big with the style. Even my, even my sweats when I want, because I'm supposed to be showing a top up. I'm like moving around. I'm like, oh shoot. They see, I have sweats on. But I tell them glad that I came to your show. Anytime you need me, I want to come back. Yes.
Oh no. I mean, seriously. I would love to have you back immediately. Like that's definitely.
Yeah, absolutely. Maybe we can come in a theme or something there. I can come and do like the shot. I wasn't prepared, but I still have like a thousand things running through my mind and also know this is a show for everyone. So I had to take so much out of my mind for the record, but I'm always prepared for,
Well, we, we planted a seed and God willing. It's the first of many. And it'll be different subjects all the time. Right? That's the point is all over the place. It's it's, I'm, I'm an advocate for mental health. I'm an advocate for environmental justice, social injustice, black lives matter, LGBTQ plus community, women empowerment. You know, I'm here for the artist. I'm here for the planet and for the world and for the
Human.
How about 20 to 22? No problem. 22. I got 22. I got you. 22. No, seriously. When I say money to people, like if I'm sending like a hundred dollars, I don't send a hundred. I sent 111 and 11 cents. I'm like, I'm one of those people, but I'm going to send you like $50. I'm gonna send you fifty five, fifty five. Yeah. My birthday is 1111. So I'm a numbers girl.
I love her energy is so magnificent.
It takes one to know one.
Oh, that's Michael Douglas. She's the one. She's cool.
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, hon. What's the 4, 1, 1. I'll tell you the 4, 1, 1 I'm 3, 1, 3. What? I get it right from seven mile. West side.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah. I love it. I love it. I love the Katie. I got a cold and Katie
It's been real. Yeah. Yeah. Next time. I'm not going to be so polite. I'm going to do a Joe Rogan and all the other podcasters. You want to be like ha all over the mic.
I know he used to do one with like having your head down. I started to start like, or, you know, start the show, like going off on someone and they come out.
Can we get that little
Time next time? Like how the whole, I don't even have nobody here. They come here by. Hello. It's good to have you.
We're going to do that. We're going to do that. Okay. Until, until next time, everyone. Thank you so much for listening, for watching, for being here. We are flossing and bossing, and I know you want to share this with everyone because we're so gorgeous and beautiful and we have so much value and insight to gift to you. So make sure you share with your friends and family, make sure you like and subscribe and like keep it real and say positive and cool. And then just check out the show notes below. We're going to have 'em all the stuff we talked about in the show notes and definitely follow CoreyBe and keep it real and be on the lookout for like all of his performances and follow his journey. Show, love, support Detroit. What's up and yeah.
Keep it real. And we'll see you next time. Thank you so much. And we are out. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you next time. Kyriaki, over and out.