*Following an appearance by rumored boo Common on last week’s episode, everyone’s favorite comedian Tiffany Haddish joins Talib Kweli for the latest episode of People’s Party podcast.
Throughout the episode she talks about getting her start and the various roles she’s had throughout her career.
- 2:25 — Tiffany also speaks on her view of Hollywood while she was growing up in South Central LA during it’s height of crime and gang activity during the 80’s and 90’s. She also speaks on coming to a realization of how much police contributed to the cycle of violence in her neighborhood after dating a cop.
- 13:41 — Tiffany speaks on using comedy as a coping mechanism and tells the story of getting into trouble in school for being disruptive, forcing her into a summer comedy camp. Tiffany also digs into promoting more black ownership, and speaks on how gangs should consider getting legal and incorporating.
- 24:32 — Tiffany talks about her involvement in the documentary “Lost In America” addressing the epidemic of youth homelessness, and is asked why she felt like it was important as a celebrity to lend her voice to supporting this cause.
- 30:55 — Tiffany asks what ever happened to the rapper Canibus, which they explore, and Talib also points to some of authenticity issues he had with the movie ‘Poetic Justice’, “shout out to the great John Singleton but…”.
- 36:04 – Tiffany shares her side of the story on how she ended up casted in Eric Andre’s prank movie ‘Bad Trip’.
- 49:07 — Jasmin then asks Tiffany how often she gets asked “who bit Beyonce at the party?”, and if she’s still friends with Beyonce.
- 55:30 — Talib asks Tiffany about her Ethiopian Jewish heritage, Tiffany talks about getting a shout-out from comedian Sinbad that almost made her cry, expands on why she has no issues with sharing the mistakes she’s made, she lists all the people that gave her support and valuable advice while she was coming up in the industry, and how tough Leslie Jones was on her when they first started working together, having to earn her respect.
- 1:03:16 — Tiffany talks about her role as Lelia, the daughter of famous entrepreneur, Madam C.J. Walker in the series “Self Made”. She speaks on how she had wanted to bring this story to the screen for years and how happy she was when she found out Octavia Spencer had the starring role. Jasmin also asks Tiffany about how she’s been keeping it together during the quarantine, and she also speaks on the legacy of Florence Griffith Joyner and how much she idolized her growing up.
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