Chaunté Wayans on the Pressures of Being Hollywood Royalty, Substance Abuse in Comedy, and More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Chaunté Wayans is very, very funny. But she’s also deeply aware of the pressure of her family name and the expectations that come with that. In fact, it’s what led to one of her funniest bits—a joke about delivering food while also appearing on TV. (Google “Chaunté Wayans and Postmates” to see what we mean.) That reflective approach to comedy and to her own life serves Chaunté well, and has made her both a better comic and a more thoughtful person. In this week's conversation both aspects are on display as she speaks candidly about: meeting her father for the first time, the power and drawbacks of her family name, giving advice to other young comics, and more. The episode is a funny and super insightful look at a rising star in the comedy scene.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host,
0:08.6	Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes.
0:13.6	We've started from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. You grew up seeing your family everywhere.
0:23.7	Yeah. Like scary movie and living color. Their staple in culture. What was it like for you growing
0:29.5	up as a Wayne's before you made your own half? It was Gibson Curses. Like I said before,
0:38.0	I would come to Cali. We go to Jordan Camp, Jordan knew who we were. You know what I'm saying?
0:45.6	We go do all that. See all premieres and all that stuff. And then I go back home.
0:51.2	My diamond rings that I got was the brightest thing in the crib.
0:54.8	You know what I mean? But it was a dope experience in the beginning especially because you know,
1:01.6	you got to see like, oh my god, where we came from. Me, my brother, my cousin Craig, we grew up
1:07.6	in the same projects that, you know, 10 kids plus my grandparents were already living.
1:13.2	So we started off there and got to see that. And then to see them,
1:16.5	uh, excelling and do that, it was just, it was amazing. It really was.
1:21.5	Yeah, the poor side of the way is a funny, funny, funny, funny line.
1:27.2	It is. And I knew, you know, me as somebody grew up in New York, the first time I saw them,
1:32.5	because, you know, Holly was shuffled stuff like that. I didn't know until I was an adult working
1:38.7	in entertainment how deep the way is we're in certain those projects. Right. Because they weren't
1:44.0	the face of these projects. So the first time I saw them was, you know, really like when I saw a
1:47.8	homeboy shopping network. Not only did I know, okay, these are people that came from poverty,
1:52.6	or no poverty, but these are New Yorkers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is some New York shit. Yeah.
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