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again. This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. Comedy is a

tough business, and it's the rare star you can get to the top and stay there. But David

Allen Greer has done it for decades. I'm never in a million years thought at my age.

My career would be what it is. I'm in demand constantly. Yeah, this is amazing. I'm going

to roll with this to the wheels fall off. I don't know if it's going to be big or small,

but I'm going to be doing something. Comedy legend David Allen Greer next on a word with

me, Jason Johnson. Stay with us. Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, impolitics, and

everything else. I'm your host, Jason Johnson. Takes a lot to break through in Hollywood,

talent, hard work, and a lot of luck. But to stay booked and busy for decades is a whole

other level of star power. One of the people who has it is comedian David Allen Greer. He had

his big break in the 1990s with the iconic sketch comedy show and living color. He's been in films

and television ever since. Most recently, he co-starred as a pot-smoking grandpa in the Jamie

Fox Netflix comedy dad stopped embarrassing me. Why can't we be like every other father,

just get drunk and pass out? It's 2019 for God's sake. It's 2021 for God's sake.

I recently spoke with David Allen Greer about his career and how his new show with Jamie Foxe

came together. It's about his relationship with his daughter, Karen, centering around that age

when she's about 14, 15 years old. I play his dad. The concept for this show is really a throwback

in nature. And he really felt, this is in the middle of the pandemic. This is the first thing I really

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