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Toure Show

Nore Davis–I'm Funny

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Nore Davis is an hysterical young comedian—we talk about how to make people laugh, how to make it in comedy, his struggle with depression, how therapy helped, what it’s like to have your parents unimpressed with what you do, and how street racing can get you into trouble. Toure Show Episode 266 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good sort of race show, okay though, good to a race show, okay though. Norie Davis is an awesome young comedian, but he's also a man with a message.

0:26.4

He's got a James Baldwin tattoo on his arm and being black really mean something to him as a comedian.

0:36.0

Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days.

0:40.0

There is a woman who went the distance who broke ground as the first true influencer by living a remarkable life.

0:49.0

Her name Elizabeth Taylor.

0:52.0

I'm Katie Perry.

0:54.0

This is the story of the original influencer.

0:57.0

This is Elizabeth the first.

1:02.0

Elizabeth the first, the podcast, wherever you listen.

1:07.0

What does being black mean to you in terms of your work?

1:11.0

And you have a great tattoo on your arm, right, on this on your right arm.

1:18.0

Let me see so I get the quote right?

1:21.0

No, no, no. Oh, yes.

1:23.0

To be black, James Baldwin, be black and conscious in America,

1:27.0

is to be in a constant state of rage,

1:30.0

which is an interesting thing for a comedian you have on but you can be a comic and have the I mean clearly

1:36.8

prior moony the rage was you know rock was barely yeah under the surface even though I'm making you laugh. I'm not a joke. I'm not a

1:47.9

comedian, not a court. Like you said, some of the white boys are like court gestures. We go up there where I'm not your

1:54.0

court jester I'm mad about America but I'm gonna make you laugh your ass so.

1:58.0

But what does being black mean to you and how does it translate into the work and

2:02.4

what does this quote have to do

2:05.3

with you and the work? That quote I remember there was a year a couple years where I was just like

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