Club Shay Shay - Ralph Barbosa Part 1

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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On this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe sits down with rising stand-up sensation Ralph Barbosa — the chill king of comedy with a dry wit and a Netflix special to prove it. Ralph opens up about the moment he got the call about his Hulu special, how bad he is at acting, and his hilarious (and very real) reaction to finding out Dallas traded Luka. Raised by his grandparents, he explains why they were the best parents for him and shares memories of spending summers in Mexico, moving between different family members, and growing up as an only child — until more siblings came into the picture. He keeps it honest about his dating life, why he’s not trying to get married, and what it was like watching his mom date when he was younger. From spinning the block on exes to red flags in relationships, Ralph isn’t holding back. In school, Ralph was cutting more than class — he was cutting hair, learning how to be a barber (and messing up a few heads along the way), fighting friends in the restroom between periods, and discovering the strange difference between barber licenses and gun licenses in Texas. He also talks about his stand-up grind — from getting booed at his first open mic to performing at a gentleman’s club, and eventually selling out Chicago.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast. You meet your Pell. He gave you any advice? He was like, man, I'm not like no teacher, nothing like that. But if there's anything you want to talk about, just him me up. When I closed the deal with Netflix, I asked them, where the dudes and don'ts are like, what's the general direction that's you going now? And he sent me like four or five mini paragraphs
0:22.2	and was like this what I recommend you do thanks to that I have a good Netflix special
0:26.2	all my life been grinding all my life sacrifice hustle paid the price want to slice got the roll
0:33.7	a dice that's why all my life I be grinding all my life. All my life. Been grinding all my life. Sacrifice. Pustle pay the price. Want to slice. Got to roll a dice. That's why. All my life. I've been grinding on my life. Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shethe. I am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proprietor of Club Shay Shay. Stopping by for conversation on the drink today, he's a rising star, one of the best young comedians working right now. He was nominated as one of Variety's 10 best comics to watch. People of all ages love his down-to-earth humor. Some say he's the funniest comedian in Texas.
1:11.9	Writer, entertainer, headlining across the country, internet sensation.
1:16.2	Here he is, Ralph Barbosa.
1:18.0	How you doing, Jason?
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	How was that intro?
1:21.0	You like that intro?
1:22.0	Did I do you right?
1:23.0	Mr. Shannon, that is a good intro.
1:24.8	Did I leave off anything?
1:26.8	Nah, I think it might be a little overhyped.
1:31.6	Let me ask you a question.
1:32.6	When you hear me reading off of the accolades that you've earned, what goes through your mind?
1:38.6	I need to get to work.
1:41.5	You need to do more work.
1:43.2	Yeah, anytime somebody says something nice about me, it kind of motivates me to just make sure I can live up to it. Can I say something real quick? You're absolutely. We're rolling, right? We're like, yeah, we're absolutely. I just want to say, yes, I'm wearing my grills right now. Yeah. But I'm doing it as a promotion for my buddy Ken. Ken Flores was the first comedian to wear grills on stage and in his special. And it's streaming on Hulu. May he long lives Ken Flores. Okay. He passed away recently, but he lives forever on YouTube on Hulu. Look him up on Hulu. All right, Ken Flores. That's what I was about to ask you.
2:17.9	Your Hulu special. Tell us a little bit about it.
2:21.6	Yeah. Hulu made an offer, and I liked it a lot.
2:28.8	So the Hulu made your offer. Is that how you got the grill or you had the grill first?
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