[THEME MUSIC] Number one show in late night,
nothing but illustrious guests. Mero, who is in the
building tonight? Oh, man. Usually, this is when I do a
very hyperbolic introduction. But this man needs
no introduction. None. Ladies and gentlemen, he goes
by one name and one name only. It is Denzel, ladies
and gentlemen, you know what I mean? You might have named
your baby after this man, you know what I'm saying? Denzel Washington in the house.
- That is right. Make some noise. A living legend in the building! Listen, we would name
some of his legendary films, but our show is
only half an hour. So--
MERO: So-- --we can't do that. We got to get right into it. Just name the legendary
stops on the 2 train. Legendary stops
on the 2 train. We was just-- What's a legendary
stop on the 2? Where would you get nervous? Where would I get nervous-- 241st.
- Why? Because you know what? It's weird because
the train just ends. Right. And like, if you're not
used to that as-- a lot of New Yorkers have
never been on a train where it goes above ground. Right. So imagine the train just
ends, and you keep walking. And now you're in a
foreign land called what? - Mount Vernon.
- Mount Vernon. Well, no, you're
still in the Bronx. Well, no, if you
walk up two blocks, now you're in money-earnin'
Mount Vernon, right? When you come down the
stairs, there's a Peppino's. - Peppino's--
- He know about it. You know about-- Come on, y'all! Ah, you don't know Peppino's? [LAUGHTER] He's official! Denzel knows! I'm official! Denzel is official! Just in case you thought
he was Hollywood, he's not. He's Holly-hood. Yes, there are Peppino's! Now, see y'all young
boys, how old are y'all? 38. OK. When I was young young, you
could get a slice and a Coke for 25 cents. 25-- I thought you were
going to say, like, $2.25. 25 cents. My mother would give me-- well,
I was in elementary school, like, first, second, whatever. Mm-hmm. 15 cents for the slice,
10 cents for the Coke. Goddamn! Wasn't it-- So how much is it now, $2? Man, $2? $2-- that ain't even a slice. No. The slice-- Even the dollar slice
isn't a dollar slice anymore. If you want a good
slice, it's going to be, like, maybe $5 or $7. For a slice of pizza? DESUS: For a good slice, yeah. Yes. I mean, like, if
you go in, like, parts of the Bronx, you
could still probably get, like, $2.50, $2.75. Yeah. But if you in
Manhattan, oh, man. Yeah, shout out
to Louie and Ernie. Shout out to Tommy's,
you know what I'm saying, still holding us down,
you know what I mean? Tommy, what's the name of
that pizza spot in Brooklyn? Lucali. Yeah-- oh, that's-- I'm from Mount Vernon. We didn't go to Brooklyn.
- You don't go to-- - Hey, I was about to say--
- No, we didn't go to Brooklyn. We didn't go to Brooklyn--
you never trooped on a train? I had a girlfriend
on Vernon and Troop. And it was rough. The GG Continental-- Uh-huh? You don't even know
about that train. That's before your time.
- We don't. That was before our time.
That was-- My uncle was doing
graffiti on that train. On that train? That first time I saw it
from Uptown going to Brooklyn, when you troopin'.
MERO: Mm-hmm. --Brooklyn looks different. It's a foreign land. And I'm from Mount Vernon. So they're like, where you from? And then you gotta explain
what Mount Vernon is. Oh, you from Vermont. You're from New Hampshire. New Hampshire! They think you from Upstate! Yeah-- oh, you're
from Upstate. Oh, you take the
Bee-Line bus, huh? You told people from
Mount Vernon, they're like, that's where Niagara Falls is? Or like, it's not that far? Nah, dawg, this
was his rendezvous. Now, this is before your time. What about the Black Spades? Were they there--
this before your time? That's before my time. So in the '70s-- They put me on all that. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, the Black Spades,
Savage Skulls, Savage Nomads, cut your heart out
and squeeze, all that. Uh-huh. They-- then, I was
taking the bus, the 41 bus because I was at Fordham--
- Yes. --going to school. The BX 41, ah-ah-ah. I'm legit. I'm in the back of the bus. Here they come with the
shirt sleeves cut off, the whole thing.
MERO: Uh-huh. I'm looking at the bus driver. He's like, you ain't
getting no help over here. I'm keeping my
eyes on the road. Nobody on the bus-- - Mm-hmm.
- --but me. Of course, I'm a
Black man in the back, in the corner on the right side. Here they come. [LAUGHTER] Nice shoes you got, B. Oh! Here we go. Here we go. Don't want to hear that. Yeah! Yo, man, what size is that? Where you from? I just got here
from Florida, man. Gotta lie. I couldn't say Mount
Vernon 'cause they'd been up there wreaking havoc. - Where' you go to--
- Fordham University. - Fordham University.
- Fordham University. Two years in the Bronx,
two years at Lincoln Center. Wasn't-- was the Metro North
there when you were in Fordham? Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not going to that many-- Go Rams. It's expensive.
It was expensive. You know about that? MERO: My wife graduated-- Oh, from Fordham? Fordham University,
yeah, yeah. Shout out to the
Ram Van, you know what I'm saying, taking
all them drunk kids home from Lincoln Center
back to the Bronx, you know what I mean? So they don't got to get on the
D train, you know what I mean? Coming from Connecticut. Right, right. The White Castle over there. Yes, murder burgers. Yes, sir. That's what we called
'em, murder burgers. The other night, I
saw-- there was, like, some white kids walking
barefoot from that White Castle back to Fordham. Because there's that bar over
there on, like, Arthur Ave. Oh, yeah. I'm like, you
can't be doing that. Is that still
Italian back there? It's-- they're
fighting to stay Italian. But it's very touristy now. It's very, like-- Oh, yeah? It's nothing but
tourists are there. So they have to, like,
play up the Italian-ness. I'll tell you what,
it's a lot of Albanians pretending to be Italian. Also that. On Arthur Avenue. Mm-hmm. So what's a slice
up there cost? Ooh. It's weird because it's
not, like, a regular slice. Like, they go authentic--
like, flatbread. The Margherita, you know? You know, like,
not-- you can't-- Like, not pineapple on the-- Yeah, you can't bend it and
have anything drip out of it-- not that kind of New York slice. You go to California,
you get pineapple. MERO: Yeah! Chicken on it. MERO: I don't want no
alfalfa on my pizza. I got pizza at LAX
once, and I was like, yo-- - This ain't it.
- --what is this, fam? This ain't it. Pineapple on pizza? Just nah, man. DESUS: That's not it. Denzel says that's not official. Listen, it's not valid. Mm-hmm. You heard it here, you
know what I'm saying? The man has spoken. Do not put fruit on your pizza. (LAUGHING) Don't put
fruit on your pizza. Oh-- one of my favorite
memories of you, the Boys & Girls Club commercial. OK. Getting on the bus? Yeah, just the work you've
done with it and how you-- because you were a
member as a child, right? Yeah, absolutely. DESUS: And you showed your card
and how, like, you've made it. What made you do that? How could I not? Mm-hmm. The club and my mother-- DESUS: Yeah. --saved me. She'd come get me. Mm-hmm. - She'd embarrass me--
- Yeah. --and come get me. Dad working three jobs, so
he-- you know, he was-- yeah. Yeah, you know how that goes. Yeah. But she'd come get me. DESUS: Mm-hmm. Oh, kept me on the
straight and narrow. Yeah, my mom-- ooh. DESUS: Your mom
would come get you? Oh, she would
come get my ass-- and I relate to-- In front of everybody? In front of everybody. Oh, don't even care? I relate very strongly. Because who's meeting me when I
get off that 40 bus on Tremont? Mom, mom right
there, making sure that I ain't smoking
nothing, I ain't doing nothing funny style.
- Right, right. MERO: I'm with the right people. Who's laughing now? Uh-huh. Now we on TV, know
what I'm saying? Now we on-- you feel me? Now we on TV, sit
next to Denzel. DESUS: With Denzel,
just chatting it up. - That's all.
- Chatting it up. So I'm in the
park, playing ball. Mm-hmm. There's your mom here, D. - Huh?
- Huh? There's your mom, D. Mm-hmm. I'm like, whatever, 15, 16. I'm like, man, I'll
go deal with this. So I go around the gate. I get in the car, and
they're behind the fence where the park is right
there, laughing and listening. And I'm looking, I'm like--
and she is screaming. I think this is where
I started acting. She was screaming. I'm like-- you know,
so I went like this. As I turned-- pow! Wow. Just put my head under the-- - Oh, yeah!
- Just drive, Ma. You were looking at your
shoelaces the whole way home. Because I know
everybody's on the ground. Right, cracking up. On the ground. DESUS: Mm-hmm, cooking you. Cooking me.
DESUS: Cooking you. Your face stay burning
for two days after that. You like, [GROANING] damn! [GROANING] So "The Tragedy of Macbeth." DENZEL WASHINGTON:
He had to go get it. DESUS: Oh. Come on-- all
right, first of all, you see the A24 logo, so you
already are like, come on. This is going to be stunning. You know it's going
to be something. - OK.
- You involved. - Right.
- It's-- Black and white. Black and white,
it's classic material. Coen, McDormand, Frances. You know what I'm saying? And the youngsters are coming.
DESUS: Mm-hmm. MERO: Yeah! Moses Ingram, young lady,
and Corey Hawkins, and-- Yeah, that's a little
all-star team you got-- Chopping-- chopping heads off. Because you've been in so
many different character roles, how do you-- because we-- shout out to the homie
Michael B. Jordan. We just interviewed him. Right. That's our guy. And he had so much
praise for you about how he was watching
you to learn how to, like, get into the role and
get into the mindset of-- - Act.
- Yes. Right, right. How-- I know this is like
asking LeBron or Steph Curry-- How do you do it? How do you shoot the shot? How do you--
- What's the mechanics? How does Denzel Denzel? You got to practice. It's too late when
the game starts. DESUS: Yeah.
MERO: Right. It's too late when
the game starts. You know, one of the lessons I
learned was taught by my mentor at the Boys Club, now Boys
& Girls Club, Billy Thomas. I was running track,
and a new guy joined the team, Reginald Whitfield. And the coach could see how-- Billy could see I
was out of character because this guy was faster. He said, yeah, Denzel,
he's faster than you. But he doesn't have
the fundamentals. He doesn't know how
to pass the baton. He doesn't know how
to run the turn. He said, your natural ability
will only take you so far. DESUS: Right. So when I got to the point-- I was about to say, where
I no longer wanted to do some of those other things. Right, right, right. I almost gave in. [INTERPOSING VOICES] I mean, listen-- Talk that talk, Denzel. Listen-- it's real. It's real. When I got to that place-- and by the grace
of God, I realized I was given this ability to act
and direct and do these things. But I remembered
my natural ability would only take me so far. So I knew I had to study more. I had to get deeper. I had to go to learn more. So that's what I
did, and it paid off. And it's paying off now
in a film like "Macbeth." DESUS: Nice. In terms of acting,
what's more of, like, a boot camp for acting? Because he's done it all. He's done small screen,
big screen, stage-- - Stage.
- Stage? Stage.
MERO: OK. You learn how to act on stage. MERO: OK. Because it's like what
y'all doing right here. Right. Once they say
action, it's live. Mm-hmm. Now, if the thing fall
down, you got to pick it up. Yeah. In a movie, you could--
oh, I've got to refill. Ah, we've got to reset. Oh, we got to do this. Now you here, you here. Go.
- Right. Right? If you here, you know, he's
moving the camera around. Yes. So it's-- theater
belongs to the actor. Mm-hmm. And the theater
is live, you know? And it's none of my people, but
you know how y'all people are? - Mm-hmm.
- Your cousins-- Mm-hmm. --when y'all-- they
come to the shows. DESUS: Yeah.
- (MOCK SCREAM) Denzel! DESUS: Denzel! Denzel! He's so handsome! Denzel! I love you! I love-- MERO: Ah! --I love you, too,
baby, but it's a play. You trying to do
a monologue, someone throwing panties onstage. I'm like, this is Fences! This is serious! My mom, God rest her soul-- I lost my mom this year-- Aw. But yeah, 97. She didn't get cheated,
nor did I, nor did I. I didn't get cheated. Got-- she was 97. I got out of her 66 years. Billy Dee Williams played
Martin Luther King on Broadway. I never saw my mother
out of character like-- DESUS: Mm. I was like, Ma, sit down. You see a different side. Oh, Billy Dee's a different--
he's a different dude. I don't want to hear that! That's your mom! No, I'm just saying-- listen, my mom,
too-- like, listen, Billy Dee is a smooth dude. So-- so when it
came around now, my turn, I was like, oh, OK. Now you Billy Dee. DESUS: Mm-hmm. Now somebody mama
looking at you like-- mm! I was signed-- I did "Julius
Caesar," which-- even preparation for "Macbeth"-- Right. 2005, I did "Julius Caesar." So that was my first time
back to Broadway, or back to theater in about 15 years. I was trying to raise the kids,
help my wife raise the kids. And it was about an
80-something-year-old woman. She says, boy, if I was
about three years younger-- [LAUGHTER] would All right, Gladys, calm down. - Gladys!
- Only three? The cougars is out there. And straight looking me--
you know, sizing me up. DESUS: Yo! Checking the package. DESUS: Yo! "If I was about
three years younger"-- I said, oh, lord! DESUS: Yo! Start sweating like, oh-- DESUS: I was shocked. I'm sweating now
thinking about it! I was like, yes, Ma'am. What is one of the most
important lessons in Hollywood that everyone should know? One of the most important
lessons in life that you should know is to remember
to have an attitude of gratitude, of humility. Understand where
the gift comes from. It's not mine. It's been given to me
by the grace of God. Use what I have,
use what you have-- sound like your mom, right? Yeah, yeah.
I was about to-- Yeah, I saw you listening! I just felt it, and
he was like, yeah. My mother told me,
use my imagination. I'm very creative. Obviously, y'all very
creative-- to help others. Mm-hmm. On your last day, you
can't take it with you. DESUS: Yes, that is true. But you can leave it here. True. You'll never see a
U-Haul behind a hearse. Woo! Boy-- yo, hold on,
hold on, you just-- Yo-- That's a bar. Hold on, that's a bar. You can run with that. You'll never see--
what did I say? You'll never see a
U-Haul behind a hearse. Now, the Egyptians tried it. That's right.
What did they get? They got robbed.
- They got robbed. - That's true.
- I was about to say-- Or end up in a museum. Or you end up in a museum.
DESUS: Mm-mm. So-- Have you ever forgotten you've
done a movie because you've done so many movies? Have you ever-- someone ever
mentioned a movie to you like, yo-- - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- "Ricochet." I was, uh-- Some movies that
I wanted to forget. [LAUGHTER] I was about to ask you. Good look. A couple that I wanted
to forget, you know. You know, I-- [LAUGHS] Because yo,
that's a real thing. Because you know, when
you're starting in the game-- Yeah. --it's not about, you know-- for some people, it is. But for some people,
we just trying to put food on the table, so-- Well, you do what you
got to do so that you can do what you want to do.
- Exactly. MERO: Exactly. So the relatives coming
out the woodwork now? Am I--
- Yeah, they already know. Well, you know--
[INTERPOSING VOICES] Are they eating? Listen, listen, I've been
sending a lot of people back home. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Oh, everybody in DR, easy. Oh, they eating because
of the exchange rate, you know what I'm saying? They think I'm a billionaire. They think I'm Jeff Bezos out
here, you know what I'm saying? Because I can send them a
barrel full of, you know, jeans. Right, right, right, right. No, all my relatives
think I'm like-- well, my aunts are like, you
had an interview with Denzel? MERO: Yeah.
- Now, where are your people? Your people are-- My people were in the Bronx,
but also Jamaica and England. What part of Jamaica? What is it-- St. Elizabeth.
- Oh. DESUS: In the hills.
- You ain't been down there? Nah, I was supposed
to go down there. We couldn't go because of COVID. So I'm trying to go-- That chicken, that jerk. Mm-hmm. Denzel, are we
rolling to Jamaica? Now?
DESUS: Come on, let's go. Let's go, man. But let's run the video on the-- on this "Macbeth" first. Let's go! Let's make the money
so that we can go. Let's leave-- [LAUGHS] Right? Let's do that
so we can do this. So we can get more jeans
to put in the barrel-- DESUS: Exactly. --for the DR. More CD-Rs, cousin. You know what I'm saying? Get ready, we're sending you a
whole big gallon of Mazola oil. Oh-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] And we got some know "Macbeth"
tapes we're going to send you. DESUS: Exactly.
- Tapes. Tapes. 'Cause you're-- No, not DVDs, not-- what's
the new thing y'all do now? You know I ain't-- The little USB sticks? No USB sticks. Not that, no streaming, nope. - No streaming.
- No, no. We sending VHS. We sending VHS. We sending VHS and a VCR. How you know? MERO: What the hell is this? You can't go in Best Buy-- This is-- Do they still
sell those at Best-- They-- they should. I feel like Denzel is
not the person to ask. What? When was the last time
you been in a Best Buy? I'm not the person to ask. See? You be going out--
like, so what do you do? Like, because me-- I been getting out
now with the mask. OK-- oh. OK, so-- So people with the
mask, people who could-- But what about when
you start talking? You know what? People recognize my
voice as much as my face. DESUS: Mm-hmm. Is that a problem, you
know what I'm saying? Like, do you ever
try to be incognito? Especially now with
the mask and the-- you could go out with a mask
and shades and a hoodie. And you just Unc. Hi, we're from-- Yeah, you can't do that. [INTERPOSING VOICES] I'm behind you. Yeah. I'm gone already. You know, and you
keep it in rhythm. Yo, D!
Yeah, aight. - Peace.
- There it is. - Aight, I see you.
- My man. - Hey--
- Deuce. Yo, do your thing. Black man, trying
to get like you. Yes, Sir.
Maintain, brother. Yeah, exactly. I had a guy Uptown, he
runs up, looks at me-- yep! Yo, that's him. And left-- didn't say nothing. Yo, that's him!
That's-- That's Uptown.
That's Uptown. That's Uptown. I was in the
bodega one night-- Not even like, yo,
let's get a picture? No, no-- yeah, he didn't
ask me-- you know, oh, no, now you get-- well,
you know, D, I mean-- you know, whatever you did--
you know, this is for my girl. This ain't for me.
- Yeah. DENZEL WASHINGTON:
My girl want this. No, one time, it
was like, 4:00 AM. It was like, 2:30,
I'm in the bodega. And this guy goes,
you got a podcast? And I was like, yeah. He was like, cool. That's it, that's it. He walked off. And I was like, hey, I
hope he doesn't rob me. Cuz, hey, but you know? Hopefully, he was a fan. And that's what I'm saying
about the mask and the glasses. Because I was-- I
recently-- and I laughed. And apparently, I have
a recognizable laugh. So homeboy just points at me-- points from across the
street, hey, I fuck with the show, my G. Stay up. I'm like, OK, thank you. I appreciate that. All right. You know, you train--
you were raised to see ahead of you in New York. You raised to move--
- Yes. --at angles. You're not walking
around like this. And then that's the
other thing in New York, like, occasionally, you
run into celebrities. So it shouldn't be a big deal. Because you know,
you see a celebrity, you be like this, like-- - Yeah, right.
- Little head nod. I see you, and
then keep it moving. Like, other places, they
start screaming and stuff. DENZEL WASHINGTON:
Right, right, right. But New Yorkers will make
you-- they'll be like, oh-- - Yeah.
- --you on the train. - They'll humble you, yeah.
- Yeah. And you're famous for? Yeah, I know. Yeah. Or here's my favorite--
where I know you from? And I'm like, nah,
we're not doing this. It's just the vibe, man. It's New York City. I love it, though.
MERO: Yeah-- I love New York. Yes, we can see it. You're a New Yorker. [INTERPOSING VOICES] This is a great interview, man. You emanate it. How did it feel like, though,
going from New York to LA? Like, is that-- are you there? Like, is that your home base? I couldn't
understand why people wouldn't use all the lanes. Like, there was that
lane on the side. Yo, LA traffic is-- I'm like, why is
everybody waiting? It don't make no sense, bruh. It don't. LA traffic ain't nothing
compared to the Cross Bronx. I was like, that's the
worst traffic on the planet. So when people are
like, oh, LA traffic, LA traffic, I'm like, y'all
ain't driving on the shoulder. Y'all ain't breaking no rules. That's why it's so bad. I saved $2,000. I got a white used Volkswagen. DESUS: Mm-hmm. I'm on the Cross Bronx. And some Dominicans-- [LAUGHTER] --tore the back of my car! And some Dominicans-- Papi, I'm sorry. Papi, no se. Papi, I'm sorry. Hey, you bring it to
my Papi Julio shop, he'll fix it up
real nice, you know? We don't got to call police-- Yeah, y'all got to
take me up to Broadway and 130-something so I could-- - Did they fix it?
- They fixed-- They fixed it? --a few things. Hey-- [LAUGHTER] Denzel, chill! Chill! They fixed a few things. Chill! Denzel went from
thespian to hood legend. They fixed a few things. MERO: Yo! Oh, man, where'd you
go to high school? I went to-- you know, I grew
up in Mount Vernon. Mm-hmm. And I wasn't gonna make it. You know, I was throwing
rocks at the penitentiary. So they-- my mother
got me out of there. I was pretty smart. And they sat me down. They said, you know this
kid's got something. So they found a school for
me to go to school uptown-- upstate. But there was a
lot of guys there-- some guys there like myself,
and a lot of guys from New York. Mm-hmm. So there was a guy-- I don't know if
he's still alive, Peachy from Bathgate Avenue. Whose father owned
the funeral parlor. OK. - OK.
- You're making money. Yeah, yeah. You're making money in the
Bronx you own a funeral parlor. Yeah, for real. Still-- It's a fact, you
know what I mean? Still. Shout out to Ortiz. Oh, god. Yo, I-- where's that? I know that. Well, that's like--
it's a chain, so-- - They got a--
- Yeah, Ortiz, OK. Yeah.
Chestnut, Fordham. Low key, that was the flex
if you got buried at Ortiz. That was like, oh-- your fam put a little
money aside ahead of time. Like-- They knew you was out here
running wild in the streets, so-- Ortiz is so out of
pocket they have-- you go there, they're like,
yo, which playlist you want? And like-- they have,
like, a playlist-- like, "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye"-- MERO: All that. --or like, "Gangsta
Lean," all the classics. MERO: You know what I'm saying? Dudes are out in the parking
lot pouring Henny out, you know what I'm saying? Like-- it's real. Real talk. Y'all are crazy. [LAUGHTER] We got it! Y'all are crazy, man. Oh-- Because we still have time. We just Bronx boys, man. You know what it is. You can't take it out-- Can't take it out of us. Can't take us out of this, yo. And I'm claiming it because
I grew up on Mundy Lane. Mundy Lane! In Mount Vernon. By Baychester. Outside our window
was Mount Saint Michael. - Mount Saint Michael.
- Right there. [INTERPOSING VOICES] - With the track.
- Yeah, with the track. Yeah, ran on that track. Keep walking up that
street, hit the Target. Hit the who? There's a Target up
there if you keep going up. Not then. DESUS: Not then, but now. Oh, wow. So we-- "Macbeth." "Macbeth." [LAUGHTER] My lord. Do you care how
people watch it? Are you one of those
people who's like, yo, I-- because-- More people will end
up-- like, I did "Fences." I directed-- you know, acted
in "Fences," Viola and I. Oh, we-- MERO: Oh, we know. We know about
"Fences," Denzel. I give that same speech to
my kids all the time, the-- I love you, but I
ain't got to like you. I ain't got to-- oh, oh,
you've earned that one? Like you? Who said I got to like you? Who said I got to like you? [LAUGHS] When we did "Fences," we
made a nice amount of money. Then I-- you know, I'm producing
all of August Wilson's plays. So then we produced "Ma Rainey." Netflix has 250 million or
whatever it is households. Right. So-- Yeah. --now, 250 million
people were exposed to-- - Uh-huh.
- --to-- you know. So I want both. I want it both ways.
MERO: Yeah. DESUS: Got you. We want it all! I want it all.
Why not? - You can't tell him no.
- He's Denzel! You know what? You can't tell me no twice. You can tell me no once. Not twice. Not twice. He'll put cases
on all you motherf-- [LAUGHS] Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Oh, I'll put cases on
all you motherfuckers! Shoe program. You know what I'm saying? Shoe program-- aw, shit. Shoe program.
Come on! Shoe program.
Yes, I'm feeding you. Shoe program. Yo, I'm feeding you motherf-- Shoe program. 23-hour lockdown. That's right. You motherfuckers-- You think you
can do this to me? To me? Jake-- Jake-- go
ahead and say, Jake. Jake-- You think you
can do this to me? You'll be playing-- Basketball at Pelican Bay! When? When I get through with you. When I get through with you. Man, that shit was powerful! It's just like "Macbeth." This is like-- what you're about
to see is the same difference. It's no different. DESUS: It is no different. It's a different
crown, different money. Uh-huh. [LAUGHS] This has been a
top five interview. - Top two--
- That's it? Top two. Top two, and it's not two. I'm just saying top
five so other people don't get offended.
Sorry, Obama. Listen-- Oh, what, you brought
him-- the president here? We went down to
DC to interview him. Oh, you had to come see him. You gotta go see him. He should have been here! Listen, listen-- Barry, come back here. - All right?
- Denzel says-- Maybe you could top this. I'll sell you something. What you need, B? Yo! What you need? For real, what you need, baby? MERO: Come on, we got it all. Give you some
dice, make it happen. Michelle ain't
gonna let that happen. Michelle ain't-- no, Michelle
ain't gonna let that happen. Barry better show. Barry you aren't rolling
dice with Denzel. They-- they trouble. The three of them
together, they trouble. Listen, all of our
guests are illustrious, and all of our guests
get a neon sign. DENZEL WASHINGTON: Mm-hmm. What would you like
your neon sign to say? Blessed. MERO: Boom. DESUS: Denzel Washington
in the building. MERO: Ladies and gentlemen-- Check out "The
Tragedy of Macbeth." The attitude is gratitude. And if y'all don't want
to watch that, just-- I don't know, watch the other
5,000 movies he's been in. That's right. 50. - 50?
- Or 5,000. That's like 5,000. Come on.
This might be their funniest interview ever
Looked like the Micheal Anthony of smacked not that I'm high shaming
Mero gotta know the lines if he gonna be quoting the GOD D.W.J 🌹