Donnell Rawlings Talks 'Chappelle's Show' Sketches, Covid Comedy, & Charlie Murphy's Legacy

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with comedian, actor, and radio host -- Donnell 'I'm Rich Biaaaaatch!' Rawlings. The hilarity ensues from the jump as Donnell calls out Talib for disrespecting him during a recent comedy event they attended with Dave Chappelle. They go on to discuss Donnell's stand-up philosophy of challenging himself to the fullest with every performance, they dig into the elements that went into creating sketches on Chappelle Show like the all-time classic "Player Hater's Ball," he talks about some of his first appearances on TV with the "Ricki Lake Show," and sneaking onto People's Court every chance he could. Donnell also reflects on his early days doing stand-up in D.C. where he was born and raised, and what brought him to Brooklyn, New York where he would seek out gigs anywhere he could, until eventually landing a spot on Def Comedy Jam. He gives his thoughts on his stint in the military and then goes to expand on his "go hard or go home" hustler mentality that he's maintained over the years which he credits to his success.

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0:00.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to be came see the MCO
0:03.4	I love the fact that y'all checking out the people's party and showing us a lot of love
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0:12.2	Just make sure you subscribe and leave a review people's party. Tell it quality. Let's go
0:30.0	What's up party people in the place to be it is Tyler quality to be came see the MCO the little libousky urban achiever
0:36.0	I'm coming to you live from my remote hideout. I used to be in the trap house
0:40.2	I've upgraded a little bit you see we got plants in the background. This is the people's party
0:44.2	We are respecting the social distancing. I want you to give it up to my lovely and talented always thought provoking always funny
0:50.6	Co-host Jasmine Lee. What's up Jasmine? How you feeling?
0:53.4	What's up? I'm great. How are you doing?
0:56.3	Good good good you are quarantining it up over there in Los Angeles
1:00.8	Yes, man in my new apartment. I'm living the life over here. How is it?
1:05.4	It's great. I'm just trying to get everything unpacked slowly but surely we're getting there. Okay
1:11.8	Well, that's a good segue because we're going to do a lot of unpacking today now we always have
1:19.4	Very interesting guest and a lot of guests are my friends
1:22.4	But this guest that we have today is probably one of the most interesting and probably one of my better friends that we're gonna have on this thing
1:28.3	He is a comedian. I know you love the comedian's Jasmine
1:30.7	Yes, and I love this one a lot too. Yes, this comedian right here that we have might be
1:37.1	One of the best stand-up comedians I've ever seen in my whole life
1:41.9	I mean this man takes the stage and he mutilates the stage
1:45.2	I mean I've seen him do incredible things in front of some of the biggest comedians in the world and still make that stage his own
1:52.5	If you were to pay this man a dollar for every one of every time you said one of his jokes out loud
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