Eddie Griffin: Master P Cut Me $1M Check For "Foolish" Script

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now at what point did really start doing comedy oh I see yeah shit I want class clown every motherfucking year in high school it's just my personality I never thought nothing of it as a business I was actually you know studying to be a biological engineering gal had a free scholarship went to K State University stayed there for about a year then went to the United States Navy and all think you're taking me is one year they kicked me the fuck out so uh you know cuz they were like drop give me 100 pushups and like I didn't come here to do calisthenics motherfucker all right the commercial said go overseas and see some new shit right they stationed in Meridian Mississippi I could have drove down to it so never seen a boat some bullshit so uh I think it was my 18th or 19th birthday me and my cousin uh look Curtis was hanging out Kansas City back home mm-hmm so we went to this little who's just bar hopping drinking this shit and you know had little fake IDs and shit so we stopped his comedy club there called Stanford songs sweet walking to motherfucker and it was one dry comedian afternoon so my cousin's like nigga you funded these motherfuckers we just hanging out in the owner block I said I bet you $50 gonna get your black ass up there how broken the motherfucker there and I ain't never been on stage talking you know I had booked a lude and locked in all that shit in one every fucking talent show my foot was ever here mm-hmm but never talked in front of audience right I think I'm looking at that empty wallet nigga took a couple more drinks so I walked over to the manager and said yeah you mind if I get up do five minutes he said yeah we ate five minutes see what you can do at my fucking handed me their mic I did 45 stood him up they banned me from the club mm-hmm why did they Betty from the club they said I was a little too blue for a taste I didn't understand what the fuck blue meant again you know once I got into the business real that means you know your little ng4 they taste yeah so I said fuck it I'm too no spirit so I went to all the jazz clubs on 18th and vine I said what's your slow night honey like Tuesday Wednesday I say you mind if I do a comedy night head yeah I'm saying I see five people in here now so if I bring two more motherfuckers you win it so started doing that shit and I did that for about nine months it was ass back in the house Marsha Warfield came to town she had a show at the Uptown Theater so I opened up for Marshall so Marsha told me look here you look black motherfucker you need to get out of this city that you need to take your ass to LA or New York run too funny for this shit all right so my mother said we're down she's like nigga your big fish in a small pond I see what you're talking about you got your little local TV show and all that shit like your big fish in a small pond now once you take your ass out to the ocean and see if you were well hmm so I jumped back on the Greyhound bus and he came back to LA and uh I was homeless for about a month cuz I refused to go back to confer to Malka Bucky's house cuz the shit over there is just not conducive to what the fuck I'm trying to do it when you say homeless do you mean fit in hill downtown LA so you were actually sleeping on the street yes standing up sleeping standing up budget had three jobs at work that uh it was his restaurant down there called Googie restaurant I'd worked there during the day then I'd work at Tony's pizzeria yeah I mean I still see Tony from time to time and that was inside the Bonaventure hotel and then there's little flea-bitten uh hotel I finally got a room at after I got my first check for them two jobs I started doing security at the door for that spot so later he was working around the clock sleep like two or three hours so uh then I read this little they call it a drama log or something my saying I said oh yeah comedy stores on and so forth so I took a bus ride up to the comedy store so I said yeah I like to showcase for the owner Mitzi shore anyway well he had it played at three to comedy clubs around the nation all this shit so I said at carnac site and they had a pay phone at the time out front right so I'm looking at this drama low so I called on the phone playing like I was my manager hello yes this is Eddie Griffin's manager and I'd like to set a showcase up for this young man he's from Kansas City Missouri it's kid is phenomenal you're gonna love him he's played Caroline's I'm reading shit out the fucking book he's been at the improv and the funny bones he said yeah he's on the night in a 8 o'clock I just hung out out front don't look so 8 o'clock I went up there they gave me five minutes I remember closing with a Michael Jackson on crack right I got off stage at MIT teacher walked up to me she's like oh my god you got more time you're Pinker than twice in ten years you're gonna work me so the manager was standing next to her I said can you translate with this bitch Jersey I can understand what the fuck she's Indian so he says he won't work I said tell her bitch I got a problem I'm homeless she said she put me up at cress Hill okay so his uh his little mansion she's got shit she put club comedians and shit so I stayed there for a minute Andrew Dice Clay came in this was at the height of his shit right and uh he was looking for opening act for this uh big Tories doing Madison Square Garden all that shit yeah so everybody ain't they're trying to get together great so he came in one night so I did this impersonation on Andrew Dice Clay as a homosexual how's it going so I'm sitting there sucking a dick right this guy's balls deep in my ass oh so this motherfucker sitting there I get Allstate he walk up to me I'm taking my jacket I was I think I described his liver he said not on our name that like that you fucking funny right I got a dual coming up don't get excited I'm saying I'm taking you right I like you badonk comedy I said I don't know about nine months nine months was it yet nine months so he's waiting on me to ask him about the tool so I refuse asses back of my head I'm like ninety nine he said so he came back the next day watch me again got our stage took now friends like you want something to drink at that time I didn't drink it sit down drink you know drink it's an Andre he said I bought some oysters I'd take some oysters he's like huh nine months huh all right fuck it I'm taking you we leave tomorrow seven o'clock we get on the motherfucker playing we get to the first was Providence Rhode Island 30,000 white people in it I'm the only nigga in the house so bill chef was the opening comedian right you know his where's the soup standing one placetype comedian so he got these huge Jumbotron so that the crowd can see the show right so he posed to do 15 minutes funny as shit it was something he condensed 15 minutes into fo minutes didn't miss an inflection cuz they was throwing shit in his motherfucking head you can see all the jump of trying to candy every time he come down as my foot is yeah so I went over I was 19 min so I went over to a sound man I said all these motherfuckers is thinking about his Andrew Dice Clay so I got to take that out of date they cerebellum since then I went you want to play this song when he introduced me I said he ate a duck scene he played the song nigga I came out motherfucking locking in all this shit Brad and Mike let me hear you say hey motherfucker hey motherfucker hey 30,000 white folks hey motherfucker hey motherfucker hey cut the musical lit into the ends before they knew what hit him did 30 minutes stood their motherfucking ass up walked backstage looked at dice your necks had motherfucker running around backstage can i form come pick them kind of fucking pick him over there it's a kid's gonna be a superstar so him and his managers started management and today Dice Clay was actually managing yeah he managed me to footage for the first year that was the real start of your career right there yeah I was actually going still am godfather to his oldest boy max I mean I some people who are watching us aren't gonna remember but Dice Clay was massive at one point he was like the biggest comedian in the world yeah he broke a lot of Records yeah thank you doing our garden yeah exactly he was doing stadiums like it's a big deal right now if I Kevin Hart to do a stadium but he was doing stadiums back then back then that's what's up okay so you're doing stand-up you're working with Andrew Dice Clay what do you think was your next big breakthrough after that Def Jam def Comedy Jam yeah I had actually signed with H be able to do my first HBO special before I did Def Jam right so we was in back at The Comedy Store one night and uh Martin Lawrence came up to me he said hey I want to do Def Jam I said def jam said what's Def Jam he's like Russell Simmons put this thing together you know convenience come out do like five minutes I said I just signed with HBO to do my first half hour and do five minutes listen I'm cool he's like ed if you do five minutes and blow it up on Def Jam before your special coming out motherfuckers that know who y'all and be waiting on you light bulb went out damn smart nigga yeah so I did Def Jam blew that shit up hey did the next-best it was the highest-rated special in HBO's history at that time your car especially oh hell yeah it was all it was on classic yeah classic yeah I still remember the part about the sperm the turkey the sperm like you know they hit the condom and like oh thing what my ass give me my kids riding kiddin shit so yeah that's what that's what it took out and then right after that I came back to the comedy store and I was on in the main room one night and I did this joke called a Superman if there was a black Superman the old motherfucker would fly three feet off the ground you know he pick his hair out there the naps would blow the fuck up thinking like dynamite and all that shit had x-ray vision looking at bitch's butt naked in the showers shit so Robert Townes approached me at backstage he said I'm telling a joke my mom I saw just I'm up he was like nigga that's a movie ended up becoming meteor man aha also meteor man was based on your skit yeah and you were in meteor man yeah but you weren't the star no it was Robert Townsend well you know I was yet to be you know right Eddie Griffin so right you got to start somewhere they call it and you dues exactly so code people kind of murdered you know uh Robert I wasn't over that movie you know I got to meet a lot of people doing that you know Don Cheadle was in the movies also from Kansas City Bill Cosby was in it make doctor cars James Earl Jones met you know very stoic figured he would always sit in his uh his chair and read between every tape you know which I thought was very interesting so yeah you know he's in my office I pick up a lot of books yes up and uh that's when I met tiny Lester mmm big Zeus yeah chop you allowed on the set where you choked out debo when you interview him he'll tell you the house guard really and he like that is the strongest little motherfucker cuz I didn't know if he was playing he just slamming people you know he gets physical so the motherfucker came with me I didn't watch wrestling I know this big cockeyed nigger was I just knew I had to jump behind him I got my motherfucking arm underneath that motherfuckers Adams out but shut that shit up in his go it put his ass to sleep are you actually I held don't you like that motherfucker backed up against the trailer Nick I pushed off and bear down I was you trying to beg you against a friend if I let go I'm dead that's all I'm thinking I was holding on for life yeah alright next time I the interviewer tiny Michelle Tina's dog he'll bring that shit up yeah Italians actual from Compton to yes I know yeah okay so you did meteor man but he went on to do a whole bunch other movies yes Undercover Brother yes dysfunctional family what do you think was your favorite movie that you've done a foolish with Master P really yes cuz it's a true story it's based on my life okay that was written by me and Preston Whitmore who uh I did the walking dead with okay I had a show in uh this is 91-92 the singer theatre down in New Orleans so the promoter came up to me backstage he's like yeah I got these two local rappers man yeah he's a cool to let him open up for you on the show I said bring them back let me see him it so it was P at mystical jimick scare me to dressing room I was ready to different look at the hitting that shit I say hell yeah put them niggas on so they blew the spot up so years go by I'm sitting on sunset thing it's like 98 now some shit you know I'm on the my grenade Charlotte shit so I'm sitting there just hanging and shit so all these motherfucking camouflage suit start coming in the motherfucking dough right so the gold teeth coming around the corner y'all need memory don't you said I remember you nigga shit massive things like years yeah what's up I said nothing man like nigga you know cuz you know you gave us that shot over there you know things blew up nigga I want to return the favor I don't think Hollywood then gave you a proper shot at a movie that you can star look this was before Undercover Brother yes is way before my Undercover Brother okay so he said uh you got any scripts I said nigga be right back and bullshit got in the car nigga went over press his house got the script foolish so brought it back handed to the link to Nate get me a check for a million dollars Master P gave you a check for the script for the script I was a writing motherfucker oh so did he actually cut the check himself where he got it from movie company no Massa P we did that independent that was independent yes because I remember master remember we slung that movie like he slung his music we did our own bus ads all over the country to Staten the other ball boom / screen average eye opening weekend I think we had like maybe 700 theaters Wow okay we came out against Star Wars we beat Star Wars per screen average foolish speed Star Wars yeah this was Star Wars Episode one you can go that yeah now I believe you yeah I believe you because I Master P was really the the first one to do movies himself with I got the end of a hold on with a about it mmm-hmm not the world's best movie but he actually put it together and then you saw an improvement after that like I got the hook up I thought was good well he created the model yeah I mean where you know you can circumvent the movie theaters and shit like that you know go direct sales to the public you know and uh I'm sure they piss Hollywood the fuck off and ran they started doing it because you know they said okay this is a smart motherfucker so uh yeah we did that I remember it was my birthday July 15 we was on the set so Pete boy came over to them he said yeah Percy want to see you know when they call that nigger Percy is seriously upset by son Oh I said Percy want to see I said about what they say the nigga want to see I said tell him I'm over there you better get your little black hands over there so I go over to the digger trailer and niggas just bullshit yeah a little more fucker you know me I hate you round here you know just doing stupid shit Nick getting high on the sack nigga this here's a business nigga head nigga grab me dougie and then pulled out a motherfucking presidential row legs and say happy birthday mother fuck as a class act Lee sighs and so but master P actually cut cut you a check for a million dollars for a scratch now I'm not very familiar with Hollywood is that typical for a script no no like I always usually get for a script these days well I it depends you know as it uh you know superhero Marvel Comics type shit yeah you get a big check for but but but you're talking about an independent small fan small film how much should that check should have been for in the market place these that you know at those days I'm probably like 300 400 okay so you gave you way more than you were supposed to get yeah well I knew what it's about it was returning the favor before you know ah being that nigga okay yummy so you cut you a billy dark jack yeah was that the biggest trick you got at the top at that time yeah that time okay million dollar check oh that's what's up take is the one before that was like set margin so you know but yeah that was there that's what's up as far as taking shots on me this is hip-hop it's fair game you know um if they took it as a shot then it's a shot because perception is reality and you know at the end of the day I'm not here to say no I didn't it is what it is he has some lungs some gut check lines in that record but as far as like being top 5 I can't go with that I can't go I'd like no way in the world I say maybe top 20 no way in the world 20 oh no I mean not even that huh

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Keywords: VladTV, DJ Vlad, Interview, Master P (Musical Artist), Eddie Griffin (TV Writer), Foolish (Soundtrack), Hip Hop Music (Musical Genre)

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Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 10 2015

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Thanks for posting! Eddie is great.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/pricklypete 📅︎︎ Nov 10 2015 🗫︎ replies

fascinating

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Is this story true?

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