LS Episode 535: Brains, Boundaries & Bullsh*t (feat. Godfrey)
Angela Yee's Lip Service
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Lip Service, the crew sits down with comedian Godfrey for a wide-ranging conversation that blends humor, intellect, and raw honesty.
Godfrey breaks down why the best comedians are often the most informed, how reading and curiosity shape great conversation, and why “double intelligence” is essential to comedy. He opens up about funding and independently releasing his stand-up special Rebel With a Cause, sharing behind-the-scenes stories involving unexpected support, industry politics, and trusting the right people.
The conversation also dives into discipline, health, food prep on the road, gym routines, and why taking care of yourself is non-negotiable—especially as you get older. Along the way, Godfrey gives candid takes on relationships, dating dynamics, masculinity, spiritual skepticism, and why he refuses to follow trends just to fit in.
Unfiltered, hilarious, and thoughtful—this episode is classic Lip Service energy with a deeper look into how Godfrey thinks, works, and lives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:21.1 | Godfrey, we're trying to start the podcast. All right. It's lip service. I'm Angela He. I'm giggle-faced Gigi McGuire. I'm Jordie Jordy Jor. Akeem Woods. What's up? Hey. Why did it sound like that. I came. What happened to you? He sounded gay. He won't. A king would. |
| 0:22.1 | I was trying to show. |
| 0:24.1 | That's how he sounds. That is how I sound. That is how I sound. I was trying to show Godfrey and you mocked me that I am Nigerian. You didn't let him introduce himself. Oh. That's your podcast. That's true. I don't care. He said, I don't care. Anyway, I really do look canori though. I did my African ancestry. Look, don't care he said I don't care anyway I really do look |
| 0:37.9 | Kanoi though I did my African ancestry look don't these little girls look like they |
| 0:42.0 | could be oh wow cousins that's cool they get that you and he face yeah they |
| 0:46.9 | do look yeah he's my tribe that's awesome yeah well you, by the way, you're half Asian and half Caribbean. |
| 0:57.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:57.6 | So this is Chinese geneticist, and he had to admit he goes last year. |
| 1:03.1 | He goes, from all of my studies, I have realized that China, we come from Africa. |
| 1:08.3 | We've been telling you that. |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.9 | The Asiatic face is actually an African face. |
| 1:12.3 | The Afrocentric Asian. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, but it comes from the San people in South Africa. |
| 1:16.1 | They're the oldest people on the planet. |
| 1:17.4 | And they look like black Chinese people. |
| 1:18.9 | That's why you see Mandela, how he looked like an Asian man. |
| 1:21.5 | That's where the Chinese gene comes from. |
| 1:23.5 | Okay, see, look at it. |
| 1:25.0 | It has to be a lesson. Kosan, that's an X in South African language. |
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