Reggie Watts Has Made a Career Out of Being a Weirdo
Your Mama’s Kitchen
Higher Ground
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Comic, musician, and actor Reggie Watts comes on the show to talk about his multi-faceted life. From being born in Germany to growing up in Montana with his French mother and Air Force Sergeant father, Reggie learned the power of being the oddball. Reggie showcases his accents and the works that inspire him. And him and Michele talk about why he tries not to consume sugar, and how to use a sugar alternative for his mother's Crepes Suzette recipe.
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| 0:00.0 | Your Mama's Kitchen is brought to you by Rivian. |
| 0:08.8 | So the kids would make fun of me and call me Pinocchio, but I could beatbox and rap was just starting to become really big in the early 80s. |
| 0:23.0 | And so I'd be on the street in Cleveland on Clearview Avenue, you know, the bunch of kids around me, |
| 0:29.1 | and I'd do the beatbox, and they would rap over it. |
| 0:31.1 | And that's how I kind of got in with the kids. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome back to your mama's kitchen. |
| 0:43.3 | This is the place where we explore how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we |
| 0:47.5 | grow up in as kids. |
| 0:49.6 | Not just the food, but all the stuff that happens there. |
| 0:54.1 | The meals, yes, but also the card games, |
| 0:58.5 | the conversation, the music on the radio. I'm Michelle Norris, and our guest today is Reggie |
| 1:05.6 | Watts, the musically talented and comedically inclined fellow that you might recognize from his |
| 1:13.6 | stages where he combines his beatboxing skills with his wacky, sometimes experimental, |
| 1:20.7 | always entertaining improv comedy routines. He was also the band leader of the show, |
| 1:26.7 | the late show with James Corden on CBS. |
| 1:29.8 | And he is an ever-present image on my social media feed. |
| 1:37.7 | And so it feels like I actually get to talk to you this time instead of just listen to you. |
| 1:42.0 | Reggie, thanks so much for being with us. |
| 1:44.2 | It's my pleasure. Yeah, thanks for having me. Thanks for making time. You grew up in lots of |
| 1:50.5 | different places. You were born in Germany. You lived in Madrid for a time. And then as a kid, |
| 1:55.2 | you moved to Montana. And we always began the show by asking people, tell me about your |
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