Lil Rel’s Can I Have, I Want

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jesse speaks with actor, comedian, writer and producer Lil Rel Howery live at Vulturefest in October 2018. The conversation centers around a joke Rel told on Martin Lawrence's 1st Amendment Stand Up in 2010, and ties into material from his 2015 stand-up special RELevent. Rel discusses family, his hometown Chicago, and the comedians that shaped him, like Bernie Mac and Robin Harris. Watch Rel in Rel on FOX. Follow Rel on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. Hello and welcome to Good One a podcast about jokes. I'm your host
0:17.9	Volcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Each episode a comedian comes on to
0:22.3	pick a joke from the career to play and discuss.
0:25.0	For example, this episode where exactly that will happen.
0:29.0	Our guest this week is Lil Rell Howrie, which may be best known for his breakout role and get out, and also this past fall for
0:34.5	co-creating and starting in the semi-autobiographical Fox sitcom, Rell.
0:38.8	We touched on both those projects, but the focus is Rell Standup.
0:42.2	I love Rell Stand Up because a real sense of place.
0:46.0	That place, of course, being the city he's from and started in Chicago.
0:50.0	But it's more than that.
0:51.0	With his storytelling and how he inhabits a character
0:53.7	in his life, you get a full picture of his world.
0:56.6	The story behind the joke you're about to hear
0:58.2	is pretty special, so I want to let Rael tell it.
1:00.9	But just for some context, the version I'm about to play is from his 2010 appearance on Star's First Amendment stand-up series.
1:07.0	One other note that the episode was recorded live at Volchre festival LA this past fall.
1:11.0	So, here's Little Rel in 2010, then Little Rel and I and the people
1:16.2	quietly watching the interview from 2018. Enjoy.
1:20.0	No matter how crazy my parents, it's like I grew with a 70s father some you know what that is
1:25.6	Every time I day used to talk he point bend down and step back on your head
1:29.6	He says some sheet point bent down step back on your head
1:33.0	They can still say it say, what are you child turkey taking off the garbage?
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