John Witherspoon Says The Boondocks Is Coming Back | Joe Rogan

No, I host the show. Was he always like this? Always. Oh no. People, no, I got friends who asked me, so your dad just, that's who he is? Or is that a character? I'm like, oh no, no, no, he got on for being himself. Yeah. He's professionally himself. He's one of the lucky, he's one of the lucky. Yeah, I told him that jokingly back in the day. I was like, you know you lucky, right? He's like, what you mean? I was like, you're, I was like, you are, you're where you are because you are who you are. You don't have to fake it. You just go. No, you're supposed to. When you're acting, you should be yourself. Yeah. You're funny enough. Definitely be yourself. You should be yourself. Yeah. I'm on the cartoon. What, at the boondocks? Uh-huh. I didn't change my voice for the boondocks. No. I did all, I did that. And they coming back. They coming, but boondocks are coming back. That's a great show. Yeah. It's one of the best cartoons I've ever been on. I met the dude who created it. He was friends with my friend Todd. Yeah, I am a group. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We've been over this. Smart dude. Yeah. Yeah. Very smart. He did, but like Jesus also, he wrote that too. Yeah. Like Jesus. That he like fell into. That's the funny part. Because remember what, the thing is I went in for that show to play one of the leads or whatever. It didn't happen, but I remember because he's friends with Aaron and whatnot. Aaron just called him in to do a like a one day role. Remember? Yeah. He wanted me to, he said, John, we need your character to just do the pilot. I said, yeah, I tried, man. I don't feel like doing no. Jesus. I'm a homeless man. I got into, I thought it was cool. He said, he wants a job. It's yours. I said, well good. So he went in to do like a guest star role and then they were like, dang, he's funnier than what we were thinking. So they gave him a role and he was a series. You did three seasons. You did two that aired. We finished the third. Did a third one that hasn't aired yet. And I used, see when I did Hollywood Shuffle, I played a man who had lost everything. He was homeless. So I'm sitting out there. And Robert Townsend didn't have any money for wardrobe. So I went to the secondhand store and Goodwill and bought coveralls and an old shirt. And I had a t-shirt that I tore and put a pin to put it back up. So that was, I thought that was clever. So this happened 20 years ago. I kept that outfit in my garage for 20 years and I used it on black Jesus. Same thing I wore on the Hollywood Shuffle. Why not? Hollywood Shuffle. What was it? Whole Cake. What's the name of that? Hollywood Shuffle. That's it. That's Hollywood Shuffle. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. He ain't got all that stuff. But then they, so yeah, so then they took, so then he wore it, they did their thing and then they were like, well, this thing stinks. So we'll just recreate it for you. They did everything over. It got the same outfit that I had. Look at that one. I got Thunderbird wine. I got my little wine. Look at that. Whole Cake. What happened to Robert Townsend? What is he up to? He's a director now. Just directing different movies? Not a different movie and commercials and things. He used to do stand up too. Oh yeah. We just stopped doing it. We just went on tour with him and we worked all the big places. I remember his specials. He always had those HBO comedy specials. Yeah. Damon Wayans did them. A lot of people did them. Yeah. Robert Townsend. He's still around. I saw a picture on my phone. I don't know how. Where's my phone? I don't know. It's probably a new jacket man. Oh.