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Donnell Rawlings is a stand-up comic and actor. Catch his new special, "Chappelle’s Home Team – Donnell Rawlings: A New Day,” on Netflix. www.donnellrawlings.com
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When I first started doing those shows where they locked your phones up, I was like the first comic going on stage. And the first comic going on stage in front of a room with everybody's phones locked up, they get in the heat. Because people are like, what the fuck, man? I've seen people trying to bite them shits open. I've seen people cut them motherfuckers open. I've seen motherfucker answer, try to answer the phone. Through the paper? And it feels weird at the beginning of the night, the wow, it gets to a point where it feels kind of cool. You feel like you're in the moment. You're connected. You're connected. Who the fuck wants to watch a show? How can you enjoy a show like this? Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people doing that too. I realized it when I went to Comedy Works in Denver. They were the first place I ever went to that locked up phones. Now the improv does it. They do it every show. It's the way to do it, man. You know, I wish people would just put their phones away, but they don't want to. They want to. Everything has to be recorded and everything. You got to always show people what you're doing every second. Well, they want to see a picture. Look at Donnell. Look at his on stage right now. I want to see somebody with an Instagram that looks at your fucked up life. See how many likes you get for your life being fucked up. You show up to everything. All type of shit. Bologna cheese sandwiches for dinner and shit. The real shit on the carpet again. Fuck. Not the fucking. Oh, my God. Best life. Yacht life. Living my best life. Yeah, but it's it's that thrill of showing everybody that you're killing it. You know, that's why a lot of people try to do well. They try to do well to show people they're doing well. Oh, yeah. Everything is for the gram. It's very weird. It's very weird. But then it's like you. But then on the other side of it, you want people to see you doing good things. Yes. People want people want to follow you momentum. Yes. And people want to ride with your journey. You know what I mean? See, there's not too many others like you. You probably it's not too many people to like, like can live a social media free life and still make money doing anything entertainment. Real hard. Dave does it. Yeah. He's one of the only people that I know that does it. But he's so intelligent about that kind of shit. He doesn't engage in that. He doesn't engage in other people's opinions of him. He's like, he used my phone. Does he? Yeah. He's not. He don't use his phone. He's a dirty his phone. That's hilarious. Anything social media, whatever he wanted to see through my phone. He checks it out to you. And the motherfuckers addicted to World Star. Is he? Yeah. We'd be on the road, man. We'd be on a vote. And all you see is this. And it's always some shit. Somebody getting ran over by cars. Some shit is like, oh, God damn, World Star. He's on World Star. Hardest shit. Oh, that's hilarious. But anything that's dealing with pop culture and stuff like that, I'm usually like, that God just brings him into it. But does he just keep no phone, no apps on his phone? I don't think I don't think he has an app. Good for him. Yeah. Good for him. It's a good. I lost the phone the other day, man. And I was saying to myself, I was freaking out because you know, if you lose a fucking phone, the minute you do the pocket check, you do like all four pockets. And the first thing you say is fuck. Right. And if you the worst thing is a person that's going when you're going out with a group of people and a person who's phone just ruined the whole fucking night. Yeah, because then you got to go fucking search for it. All right. Be quiet. Be quiet. Call my phone. Right. Call my phone. Could y'all be quiet? Could y'all call my phone? Could y'all call?