From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment.

What do I say about my guests?

Well, I can't think of anybody else who's a best-selling author, an Emmy winner, a Grammy

winner, who's been directed by Tyler Perry and Paul Schrader and start with movies and

movies with people from Ice Cube to Pedro Pascaul.

I could only be, of course, talking about Tiffany Haddish.

I can't believe she's still sitting here as I'm giving her this introduction.

But it's a thrill to have you here because this series you've done for Vice,

Black Comedy in America, takes me back to, well, both of your books are you basically telling

stories on yourself.

But I was thinking about, I curse you with joy.

You tell that story about the Madam Tussaudetso figure.

And you said, you know, it's adorn with real hair, real eyelashes, but the eyes didn't have any pain.

And I thought, wow, because I thought about that.

In your introduction, you said, from great tragedy and pain comes a very funny comedy.

And it's really kind of the backbone of the show. Us as a people

reacting to trauma, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I mean, as people, as black people in

America, we have definitely experienced much trauma over the years, much, much trauma. And I find that

people that deal with trauma trauma that have experienced great trauma

are usually the funniest and fun to be around. But both your books start off with that. I mean,

stank of onions. I mean, my God. It's like, oh, my God, did I ever say that to somebody when I was

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