David Alan Grier Dishes on ‘In Living Color’ vs. SNL

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Three decades after they appeared together on ‘In Living Color,’ David Alan Grier is now playing Jamie Foxx’s father on their new Netflix sitcom ‘Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!’—despite just an 11 year age difference between the two comedy legends. On this episode, Grier recalls his first impressions of Foxx when he joined that iconic sketch series in its third season and tells some outrageous stories about doing the Super Bowl halftime show, hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ twice before turning down a spot in the show’s cast and tackling the rape charges against his one-time mentor Bill Cosby on ‘The Carmichael Show.’

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0:00.0	Long before my guest on today's show was cast as Jamie Fox's father on the new Netflix series Dad Stop Embarrassing Me.
0:08.4	They were sharing the screen in scenes like this one-night-stand sketch from In Living Color.
0:14.4	Oh my gosh! I think I just saw a skint-back mongoose or something.
0:19.0	She saw a mongoose or something. Oh, real, do you get out?
0:23.6	Oh, get out, oh, go out.
0:28.6	Come out.
0:29.6	Oh, wow.
0:30.6	Oh, but not.
0:34.6	For real, for real, doll.
0:36.6	Did you get it off, dog? I don't think it's ever coming off. For real, for real, doll.
0:39.0	Did you get it off, y'all?
0:40.9	I don't think it's ever coming off.
0:44.8	Oh, Lord, I couldn't have.
0:45.8	Please forgive me.
0:47.0	Forgive me of all my sins.
0:47.9	Forgive me, please.
0:48.7	That's okay.
0:50.1	I know you concerned about me and stuff,
0:51.5	because you was religious last night because you kept going, oh, God, oh, yeah.
0:53.3	And I said, hey, word
0:54.9	oh, man. This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Jamie Fox,
1:10.1	with my guest today, David
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