Deon Cole

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

From being the face of Old Spice, to Black-ish, to Conan, to touring around the country... Deon Cole is everywhere. Deon tracks his career, from not even knowing he was funny... to performing on Conan and immediately earning himself a job there... to the "awkward" through-line of all his characters. He also memorializes his mother, recounting her love and support of him and why he named his special, "Charleen's Boy," after her. With Dan, Deon explores his grief, and feeling her presence during the performance. Deon's latest Netflix special, "Ok, Mister" is streaming now, and you can watch "Average Joe" on BET+. Visit deoncole.com for upcoming tour dates and tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to D Beach Sessions.
0:29.0	This man right here, Dion Cole, he is thirsty.
0:31.6	Look at that.
0:32.1	He is starting.
0:32.8	He is ready for everything here.
0:35.0	He has done just about everything that there is to do in Hollywood,
0:38.7	acting, stand-up comedy, writing, producing. You can catch him on Blackish and Grownish.
0:44.7	You've got a new special out, OK, Mr, on Netflix, Average Joe on BT Plus, and we'll talk to him
0:51.3	about an assortment of other things including uh writing for conan
0:55.0	o'brien but thank you for making the time for us here and thank you so much for having me
0:59.2	my sharing your platform among the things that i just mentioned you enjoy which of them the most
1:04.0	which is the most fun of all the things you've dabbled in in hollywood that thing i think stand up
1:09.2	because it's more therapeutic more personal personal, you know, it's more
1:13.2	my thoughts. And, uh, yeah, it's, it's more me, you know. I've, I've read you say
1:20.1	therapeutic a lot when it comes to comedy. Is it because you're not putting these things
1:24.4	anywhere else? You're, and so you you're you're throwing them at the audience
1:28.2	and getting them out in the open
1:29.7	is some sort of cleansing for you?
1:31.4	It really is, to be honest with you.
1:34.5	You know, instead of holding all these thoughts in and everything,
1:37.8	I mean, to have someone to talk to about it
1:40.4	or anyone, an audience that can understand basically, because you can have people
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