Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I really think you're going to love this week's guest. It is the great, the energetic, the light, as she says, Tiffany Haddish. She's been on an incredible two-year run since the movie Girls Trip came out, got her a lot of notice.

That was just two summers ago, 2017.

That fall, she hosted SNL in another huge breakout moment where the country got to see how funny and talented she is.

And we're lucky enough to sit down with her.

I'm joined, as always, by our great producer of the Sunday Sit Down podcast, Maggie Law. Hey, Maggie. Hey, how's it going, Willie? Good. So she's, she feels like she's

been in our lives for a long time, but it's only been really two years unless you're a super, super diehard fan. Right. But she's been at this for 20 years.

I was going to say, that's what I found out.

I had no idea.

She said she started stand up in 1997, so it's only 20 years that she's been at this, but really only came out on the scene about two years ago. Yeah, and she has, she'll talk about all this, but her childhood is not to be believed. She grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Her father left the family when Tiffany was three years old. A few years after that, her mother got into a bad car accident.

Right.

Had permanent brain damage, became abusive to Tiffany.

When she was 12 years old, Tiffany and her siblings were split up and put into foster home.

So she grew up in the foster care system.

And then she tells the story of being a

16 year old and her social worker saying, you've got a choice. Right. We can send you to a mental

hospital or you can go to comedy camp at the laugh factory to channel all this crazy energy and

humor that she had. Yeah. I love that. I mean, I think it's, it's an incredible story and one that I

had no idea about, but, and she talks about in the podcast about how, you know, to turn that darkness

into light and the comedy, the way she got through it with comedy. So it's just, it's so interesting.

She talks about being the light because there was so much darkness and she thought okay my job in this family

in this neighborhood is to be the light she took jobs being what she calls an energy

provider that was one of my favorite things I learned about no an energy producer producer I love

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