Tiffany Haddish Talks Comedy, Early Career Struggles, Hip-Hop

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with actress, comedian, and author -- Tiffany Haddish. The thoughtful and hilarious conversation begins with talk about how both Tiffany and Talib met and became friends with Jasmin. Tiffany goes on to talk about being raised in South Central, she tells about her love of the movie "Roger Rabbit'' and reveals the line from the film that changed her life. She also reflects on her harsh upbringing with her mother suffering a serious brain injury due to a car accident that her stepfather caused. Tiffany talks about using comedy as a coping mechanism to get through hard times, explains how she's been helping push the industry to establish more positive black narratives in film, and speaks on her work in the documentary "Lost In America" bringing awareness to youth homelessness, a cause close to her heart, herself being homeless at one time. Tiffany is also asked how she commands such a strong presence in her performances, if she enjoys the competitive side of comedy, and what it was like working with Ice Cube and Mike Epps in "Janky Promoters".

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0:00.0	What's up party people it's Tyler quality to be came see the MCO
0:03.4	I love the fact that y'all checking out the people's party and showing us a lot of love
0:07.2	You know what we do we bringing you all the live guests we bringing you the best podcasts on the internet
0:12.2	Just make sure you subscribe and leave a review people's party. Tell it quality. Let's go
0:30.0	Peace and love party people in the place to be is the BKMC
0:33.4	Tyler quality this is the people's party. There's another fantastic episode
0:37.9	I'm having such a good time doing this. I'm back again in a trap house
0:41.8	Still in quarantine still a lockdown shout out to my wonderful talented lovely co-host with the velvet shirt on
0:48.9	Jasmine Lovett. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited because we always interview your friends and finally
0:56.1	We're interviewing one of my friends and I'm oh I
1:00.3	I'm ready. Let's just say that. It's good man. We should have more of your friends up here. Yes
1:06.5	Okay, well this woman
1:08.5	The way that she performs
1:10.5	She feels like a friend to the whole community
1:14.2	We have a legit movie star now 2020
1:18.5	The error of celebrity is dead
1:21.0	Like people trying to be famous is dead and the only thing that has value is if you're just good at your craft
1:26.6	If you if you've mastered your craft you can't just be famous
1:30.2	this is a
1:31.5	craft master everything that she's work for she's earned
1:37.0	She's an incredible stand-up. She's gistin on shows from Bob's burger to Sesame Street to that so raven
1:45.0	To it's always sunny and Philadelphia
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