Deon Cole Can’t Stand ‘Cancel Culture’

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Deon Cole started doing stand-up comedy on a $50 bet in his hometown of Chicago. 26 years later, his new special Cole Hearted is premiering on Netflix. Cole says he’s come too far to be “canceled” now: “I should be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them, but this culture nowadays, they’re like, man, if you mess up it’s off with your head.” In this episode, Cole breaks own his comedic journey, which has included stints writing for Conan O’Brien and starring on ABC’s Black-ish and Grown-ish.

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0:00.0	There was a middle seat open next to me.
0:01.7	I ain't want none of them sitting there talking me
0:03.5	the whole damn flight.
0:05.1	So I had to turn my blackness up.
0:07.3	Oh yeah, white people, that's something we do.
0:10.3	It's called Managing Your Blackness.
0:14.9	See, white people, y'all can be white all day long.
0:17.2	Black people can't be black all day long. Society don't play that.
0:26.6	It's messed up.
0:28.6	But we have to choose throughout our day when to be black
0:31.6	and when not to be.
0:35.6	That's crazy. That black dude you work with, that ain't how he really got.
0:40.3	Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh.
0:47.3	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:49.3	My guest this week is Dion Cole.
0:52.3	Dion is a stand-up comedian who I first saw when he started
0:55.5	popping up on Conan about a decade ago. He was a writer there for several years and did tons of
1:00.7	bits with Conan on the show. After leaving, he has gone on to break-through roles on ABC's
1:07.1	Blackish and then the spin-off Grownish where he plays Charlie.
1:15.9	But stand-up has always been Dion's true passion, and we talked a lot about that in this episode,
1:20.7	because today his first hour-long Netflix special, Cole-hearted, started streaming.
1:26.0	There is a lot of funny stuff in this special, but I have to admit that some of it also rubbed me the wrong way,
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