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Gold Minds with Kevin Hart

London Hughes

Gold Minds with Kevin Hart

Hartbeat

Comedy Interviews, Comedians, Kevin Hart, Comedy, Kevin, Stand-up

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Comedian London Hughes joins Kevin Hart to discuss the difficulties of being a black female comic in Britain, getting her own Netflix special, and how comedians like Whoopi Goldberg and Gina Yashere inspired her to come to work in America.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And now, join Kevin Hart as he dies into the minds of some of the world's funniest comedians.

0:07.0

This is Comedy Gold Mines with Kevin Hart.

0:11.0

Welcome. Welcome to an all new episode. God damn it. What do we do here?

0:16.0

I think it's my job to let you guys inside of some of the coolest and dopest minds in the business and in the game.

0:23.0

And today's mind, today's mind is special. Definitely won't disappoint. Please welcome London Hughes.

0:30.0

What the, I'm intro made. Like that intro London. Yeah, I wish I saved it. I love it.

0:36.0

Very good one. I can't this. How are you?

0:41.0

Living my best life. I really appreciate you for doing this. I felt I felt the need to talk to you London for so many reasons.

0:49.0

First reason, first reason I want to say is because what a phenomenal year you have, right?

0:56.0

In a year where things are not only up and up, you know, where we're faced with so much bullshit, so much bad.

1:07.0

You found a way to find a lot of light and your career, your career is blossoming. It's truly blossoming and it's so dope to watch.

1:15.0

As not only a fan, a friend and a supporter, I'm just, I'm in all of the way that you're moving because it's, it reminds me of, you know, a point.

1:29.0

And the reason why I always, I always try to pull from personal experiences is because it's how I relate. But, you know, I remember early on in my career where things just started happening kind of fast.

1:38.0

It was like one after the other, and I just found myself, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, I just kept on shit. I can't believe I can't believe.

1:44.0

And for you right now, you're getting a lot of, oh shit. I mean, you, you dropped the special this year.

1:49.0

How to catch a dick on that flicks and then you follow that with a show on that flicks.

1:56.0

And, and now, you know, from my understanding, you have several things in development that you're working on.

2:03.0

Before you handling all of this success, I mean, coming over here, from the UK, now in the States, and, you know, is everything happening the way that you saw it?

2:13.0

I was just, how no, no, no, no, no, are you crazy? No, you know what, I'm that girl that always, they say that you should live in the present.

2:25.0

I was always living in the future. So back when I was broke, living at my mom's house, not even three years ago, I'd be driving to auditions and thinking about my life thing, L.A.

2:35.0

And how I'm doing and me doing TV shows and me doing a Netflix special, like I always had that mental, I was always thinking of the future. So now that it's actually happening, it's so surreal because I dreamed of this.

2:49.0

Not exactly what I wasn't in a global pandemic, it wasn't, it wasn't like I'm stuck indoors, but my career is blossoming, but I can't go outside.

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