Jean did you know that I had a little comedy career situation?

Wait, I did not know this Parker. Tell me more.

Well, it was really only one summer.

I mean, that still counts. One summer. That's more than most of us have.

Yeah, it was like this one summer in film school and I was an intern at Comedy Central.

And I was actually one of these things called a rock turn, which it was called that because it was

a program created by Chris Rock after he said he was tired of only seeing white people in these

writers rooms for TV shows. We never met Chris Rock by them.

Never met Chris Rock. No. But I'm assuming you and all the other rock

turns were brown, right? Well, we were people of color.

It was like, yeah, and we were very conspicuous.

And there would be these like intern lunches with comedians like Larry Wilmore and Asim Hanvi,

which was awesome. And they were supposed to be these pep talks. But it was mostly about like how

messed up the comedy game was. Oh, I mean how it goes. They like season bets. They've seen a lot of

things. They try to like make sure you go into it with your eyes open. You know what I mean?

Yeah, so that summer like we used to go to a lot of stand-up shows at bars in the evenings.

And I would always sit in the back because whenever I'd sit up front, the comedian who's usually

you know white or non-black would point me out for an off-color joke pun intended. Wait,

what would they say? I mean they would be doing crowd work, right? And so there was a truly

distressing number of fried chicken jokes, Gene. Really? Like fried chicken really? The so lazy

and so corny like in the 21st century, we're making whatever. Yeah. And like it's really hacky

and the felt embarrassed for them. But if you're a person of color trying to come up through the

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