BONUS EPISODE: Deon Cole On 'Average Joe' + Buju Banton Announces New Album
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Actor/comedian Deon Cole sits down with Ebro in the Morning for a great conversation on the different roles he would like to be playing, the journey in joining the cast of BET+ newest show 'Average Joe', playing his character of Joe Washington, how 'Black-ish' helped his career, and much more!
Buju Banton joins Ebro in the Morning to announce his brand new album 'Born For Greatness', discuss collaborations with Victoria Monét and Stephen Marley, and being a man of the people. 'Born For Greatness' is set to be released September 8, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Ebro in the morning with Laura Stiles and Rosenberg and Dianne Cole is on a program that's right comedian extraordinaire. Yeah, man, got his new program on BET average Joe |
| 0:15.0 | Big pro listen, I saw the promo for this during the BET awards and I was like yo BET got a show up my wife. Yeah, this I felt the same way |
| 0:24.0 | I was like this looks like a show show. Yo, Dianne. This is a show show. This is show show |
| 0:31.0 | I see a line here that says a bloody and violent confrontation triggers a chain of events that forced Joe and his close knit circle |
| 0:40.0 | of family and friends out of their very average and mundane lives into a life or death race against time to find the truth and the millions |
| 0:53.0 | So you get to you get to shoot somebody in the face is what I'm reading it |
| 0:57.0 | Yo, I get to I get to do a lot I get to do a lot of normal like comic wouldn't be able to do like you know they pigeonhole comedians a lot of time |
| 1:08.0 | So I get to get a chance to do you know action and you know gangster stuff and be vulnerable as well as you know |
| 1:18.0 | Just play a whole bunch of different ranges with this character now did your role on blackish |
| 1:24.0 | Really, you know set you up for the have to have that kind of range as an actor because your role |
| 1:30.0 | You had a very complex character and in a way you carried that role on blackish |
| 1:36.0 | That really showed your acting chops. I'm not sure before that if you really got to showcase in that way |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, no, no, definitely blackish was one of those like steps one of those steps that in my career that showed that I can |
| 1:51.0 | Get down a lot of ways or whatever but as far as like playing this serious role I think a lot of people see me in the heart of the fall |
| 2:01.0 | That's yo, yes, that's right |
| 2:04.0 | Part of that too |
| 2:06.0 | Yeah, yeah, they was like, you know, we think he think he could pull this off or whatever |
| 2:11.0 | So yeah, we, uh, man, we got to go in. Yeah, we made make some good magic with the show |
| 2:18.0 | To do was our I'm sorry you go ahead Lord. Yeah, did they did they reach out to you specifically for this role or did you have to audition or how did it go? |
| 2:26.0 | No, no specifically they came out to me and was like, yo, man |
| 2:32.0 | We definitely think that you just character and |
| 2:36.0 | We really want to talk to you about it and like I turned it down a couple like a couple times |
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