JoKoy Interview

so jo koy is in the lobby here at key 102 so we're gonna go get let's go we have to fight Joe said John said joe said something out there I do thank you are you halfway so I do you just drive here by yourself no I got a driver oh yeah that's what drivers do my sister first like an escort or something oh good by the way I know this is the best beginning to it this is Jo koy and I'm chilling my homegirl the Filipino Wonder Woman she smells like lumpia but she looks like longganisa trying to making something cute and all I can think is long and nice all right in the house into building yeah we got the one and only Jo koy yes finally I get to meet you I know man I just bamboozled you in the while um why why the initial like the first thing you say when we meet is are you really Filipino and if I chose a particular race no because retail on time though your hell on to your hell on time I was on the top 10 30 he's really he's right here enough I will never be late for anything Wow that's how you gotta be it was a good name huh did you give us a good name I know my mom forget it my mom is she my sister is the worst my mom is really bad at being on time so when you tell my mom is 30 minutes late always my sister hour to hour and a half and I'm not even making that up Wow it's it's embarrassing so when you told them you have a show you tell them it's an hour and a half before hand my sister my sister my mom always been show on time okay now of course because they get to meet everybody yeah I'm his father yeah yeah yeah but all the preparation leading up to the show late everywhere oh really oh yeah mom meet me for dinner blow a llama here okay I'll be there and it's always like okay I'm on my way Josh hey I had to pick up nothing ahahaha at home the bunker but exact where are you mom I'm on this anywhere below like I'm on my way I'm on the freeway mom I hear a TV yeah that's American Idol but you guys are really close though yeah and I've been blessed with a good mom we fight I think everywhere I think you know if you're not Filipino I will say this uh Filipino mom's hold on to grudges for a long time hell yeah they're a grudge holder my mom will literally before she dies will look at me and go you know I'm not sorry right I can totally see you two all totally hella proud so proud yeah she it's not her fault you know it I can't understand why you think this is my fault job but you know you learn and love it but a lot of I mean because you talk about your mom in your standup yeah and actually you have a lot of videos with her cuz people think I make it yeah I really think my routine is just made up like oh sure your mom doesn't I'm right let's go let's meet my mom yeah I mean and you'll see what I'm talking about you'll see the we in a room you'll see you'll see my mom at a buffet you'll see what mom the president of the Lions Club you'll see my mom at a radio station with her own show guys time for those are jokes I mean they're jokes the way I tell the story yeah it's really happening that's my mom well somebody asked me on Facebook I said hey you know I finally get to meet Jo koy and I'm gonna ask him you know what do you want me to ask ask him and a lot of folks were just like man just ask him how his mom's doing asking how's mom's doing she's doing great I bought her a car oh did you what kind they just picked it out she I let my mom do it so she's got a Chrysler she won that big Chrysler 300c Chrysler the Cadillac yeah say this man's been Mercedes bench yes that's why my mom used to call it yeah I've been in a good position yeah mom look I got my sister and car bought my dad a car really yeah is trying to be you know you buy yourself a car oh yeah I don't want Carmody here try to plan what did you buy yourself a car I got two okay okay I could Tesla oh do you have a Tesla yeah about the Tesla Romano what is any Wagon I got the time the best one nice the p85 fee the fee 85 85 haha yeah I got all the cookies if you're gonna get the Tesla just get it get everything really we did if you buy it you don't have everything gonna be like I wish I got it you know but when when did you um you know when did you really start so how long have you been doing comedy 25 years really sorry 1989 people didn't even know his Filipino when I started I was doing black comedy shows yeah what do we do that used to open for Chappelle Snoop Dogg Ludacris uh I won the Apollo Showtime at the Apollo and he's comic feet I was on def Comedy Jam tour I was on all that no one even knew no one know newer where it came like I didn't want anyone to know I was Asian yet like I was telling people I was Asian but I didn't want to do Asian shows oh I want to keep myself away from that I wanted like and that was because markets first because I want to show people I was just funny right I'm not funny for Asian guy yeah funny for me to be like oh you're not gonna get his jokes because you're not Filipino I want to be like no you're gonna I'm gonna kill all these shows yeah I mean and then you're gonna him yeah when I did The Tonight Show you know same thing so when you started doing all these like you know um you've been on some really high-profile I held out to on those too so you've actually read shows where I was supposed to do like the Kim's of comedy yeah you know with the you know and I turned that down I was working three jobs I needed that gig but I turned it down Wow three jobs it was dr. ken Bobby Lee Steve Byrne and myself and they wanted to call it the kings Kim's of comedy on Comedy Central yeah and I was like why am I gonna do that show and I could do a whole hour by myself I get my own hour on Comedy Central so I turned it down and I didn't do it and I remember when they upset at you they were like no they weren't upset you know Bobby was just like why weren't you doing it I told him and it uh he got it you know what I mean and it's just like my dream was that my own hour not to have a theme show and and only geared towards Asians yeah yeah like I wanted everybody holding that kind of stuff - yeah no I want everyone to see it so I was kicking myself when they went on tour they were making a ton of money and you know that it was a successful special and and I was still ringing at Nordstrom Rack you know stacking books at Borders Books and I was just like ah this son a couple years later I got my own special so it paid out you know so how was it when you got that call like when I got this vessel yeah it was beautiful I actually got it from right when I got off stage I was opening for a comic in uh the the president of County Central Missouri and he gave it to me Wow because you got your special yeah I go he goes yeah now yeah finally I called everybody so how far into your career did that happen oh my god oh man fifteen years Wow fifteen sixteen years I wanted to die man I was like like I wanted to quit but you know my mom kept telling me well Joseph get a better job like it's yeah being the bills but she didn't know what like that's what I wanted to do you know hmm well yeah so she wanted me to be a nurse you know that nurse that you surprised your uncle's abandoned Joseph get you a job oh yeah yeah but that's so um how how did you not give in to because cuz I that's what I I knew I want to be a comic when I was 10 so it wasn't it wasn't the fact that I wanted the money it was just like I was living my dream yeah I mean I was I was performing at coffee houses for you know fifty bucks you know nummy and I was happy you know because I I had my part-time job and I'm getting 50 bucks here and then I go over here I get a hundred bucks there you know I mean it all added up so I was successful you know yes all this other stuff was just a bonus for me I had I had to wait I had to wait it out so yeah I think a lot of people have that misconception of like okay now you're here but then they don't see the the were the years of work that you put in yeah and don't realize that yeah now I'm telling you that it was a long long journey man and I and I did a lot of things that I pat myself on the back for you know I mean because it was a risk but I knew it was gonna work out because I believed in the in the stand-up you know like I I knew that if I went to these markets like Omaha and in Kansas City when I first started that I would build that market up yeah and they would appreciate the stand-up and not just me going in there and just trying to capture all the Asian people that live in Omaha you know right right so now my fan base in Omaha there's hardly any agent when I go to Nashville there's no Asians you know hey that's cool so but that was a long long journey you know cuz you what I guess is cuz you already had that vision of how you wanted to be recognized or or appreciate it why not when Chelsea and I met we met yeah how did that happen me man eight years ago or maybe nine and we met through Jon Lovitz I was opening for Jon Lovitz no and John was friends with Chelsea and he was like you gotta meet Chelsea she's hysterical and this back with myspace without her oh my god Friendster yeah myspace yeah he's like she's my only friend off MySpace and I and then next II know she's on the shows with us and she loved me man she's like I want you to be my asian psychic she just got done the show deal with E yeah and she was I want you to be my agent sidekick like I'll go to you and I'll send you on the road and and you do all these interviews and and you know and I'll you know it'll just be you and I yeah yeah Jo and I said no I turned it down and that's another thing that I did because I knew if I would have taken that role I wouldn't be able to be me yeah later Wow so I said no to it and I remember her cursing me out on the phone and this is the biggest mistake you'll ever make public just yelling at me like I should have recorded it cuz it'd be worth some money right now she called me every word in the book and she was so pissed because I went to a couple meetings with her on it and you know me we had it all planned out and I turned out and I just told her I was like I have like a vision there's something I wanted to you know yeah and that show got picked up I was still at Nordstrom Rack on that show got picked up and I was just like man is this cuz I had my son and I'm like is this really happening like you know I mean she she started blowing up and I'm sitting at home like I said no to this and then next you know like three months into it you know or four months into the you know I get the call from her and as she put me on but not as the sidekick he has to be a panel regular and I was on it every week yeah you know I mean it was literally like my own TV like not mine but her show but I was I was like a weekly gasps yeah people started and then our banter and that just it's people started and it was organic it was organelle me that shows so good yeah like the first three four years was just like Josh wolf and and Loni love and Heather and Sarah and myself and Ben believe and and Bobby like man those were great man it was just cuz that like we literally started that show off by writing in the green room you know together and then and then Chelsea just had this look this is this is the genius behind Chelsea she knew that there was something there when she didn't know our jokes you know I mean so like when to be any of those at the beginning of that show when it started she used to come in and hear our jokes I mean and listen what do you got for that one yet for that okay and then she noticed that when she didn't come in that there was that room to engage she wasn't expecting it right he's very more spontaneous yeah that organic part of exactly so then what happened is she stopped coming and then we stopped writing like like literally like I wrote but I would literally just write the idea down and then maybe a punch for one of the jokes but then I knew that Chelsea was going to engage somehow so I always always ready for that and then I made that show the way that's chemistry though man it was great man I'm telling you man it was unbelievable and that's what took my my demo to that next level you know because when you made it on Chelsea if you were funny on Chelsea it showed on the road back in the day with Johnny if you were funny on Johnny you were big on the road and that's the same thing with Chelsea like you killed on Chelsea forget about on the road people were coming to see you it make a man and you know how like you know Philippine being Filipino it's like um oh and he's PDP Noah and all of a sudden it's like you know every wants to clean me yeah yeah I mean and everyone's your cousin cuz we're all related I asked my boy man Sojo kuya's I got PETA's I got so many everything I'm coming out of the woodwork now so how did you get jo koy jo koy is John Myatt my cousin Mona she's like my best friend my cousin wrote it uh well she is my best friend uh well I should say that cuz my sisters listen so but Jett Mona her mom my Aki Evelyn yeah he gives us all these messed up Filipino names everybody nicknames Simona her nickname is gay so everyone calls her gay Mona gay Lisa Mona Lisa again so I call her gay everybody calls her gay and then my appeal in who is actually really gay ha ha ha because she called her leg boy LarryBoy and they call she called her leg boy and in my CDs right now oh yeah we got a tunnel and then my Tina my happy Bell my Annabelle she calls her bang bang beat the bounds and I'm buzzed bang I'm close to that one yeah my bomb bomb seeds crazy right and then mine was joke boy and I don't even know where it came from joke boy and when I first started stand-up you know back in the day like God 8990 I used to do open mics and you know when you're doing open mics I'm just trying to find anything funny and my real name is Joseph Herbert I was a girl fans Joseph Herbert and of course everyone would laugh at my name and then the embassy would make fun of my name yeah yeah I was just like dude I can't even get to my jokes cuz I'm defending my name and I was really sitting there trying to figure out what my name is gonna be with Mona I remember this like yesterday we're just sitting in the living room and then we were like much ricasso just to change your name call it call yourself Glen Joseph because my middle man yeah and then uh and then all of a sudden my hot the Evelyn popped around the corner she was Joey that's it and then Mona looked at me shields Jo koy ha ha corner self jo koy but i but i we cos went away my aunt says she doesn't say like that you know john-boy it's your hive it sound fun like Hawaii so that's where I came from so that's that's where the name came from there Wow I like that I like that because I was gonna ask you like so that but that didn't come when you were really like a young kid that was yeah that that came what the nickname was always there okay yeah the nickname was always there but when I started my stand-up I didn't ever think to use my nickname Jim I don't think anyone would if you nickname was Joe hi cuz when my friends would call my house it was one of the most embarrassing things yeah and um you know they'd call and my real names Francis uh-huh or bronze Francis yeah they'd you know oh they call hi is Francis there and then my parents are like Oh Francis okay hold on ah who's this me CL me CL okay hold on ah Bam Bam see Michelle like that's so funny and then I get on the phone and then they'd be like borrowed your parents just call you Bom Bom you know like name did you ever get that like do did your parents call you Joe they all liked it ever like really yeah I mean my American friends were just like that like the Filipino kid lady be like okay yeah whatever there's no I haven't been on them I don't know why we can't just have our regular names oh yeah I have cousins ding-dong yeah angling yeah Bootsy yeah bong bong we got Oliver ringing but do ding-dong I'm like oh and then my aunt named my daughter or not my oh my sister's daughter his name is Natalie but she calls her Tulane Beggs that's so funny that's so true they do that I don't know don't even name us those dangerous why are you giving us names for yeah I know but you see your mom used to UM enter you and like everything my mom used to always be in filipino associations every single one so we lived in Tacoma you know especially when we came up there were hardly any Asian xeno out there you know mean like when I came up in the 80s yeah wasn't like it is now these kids don't even know like like now everyone's brown yeah I mean now you have you have role models on TV at the Jabbawockeez yeah Bruno Mars you have Apple to app you have Manny Pacquiao yeah imagine that you have anything yeah no no Asians anywhere so my mom you know when my mom and dad divorced you know she was looking for friends and and she would she would enter these uh did not enter but join these Filipino Association just so she can you know mingle with young Latinos and they would always do events you know I mean there was always some event that they would throb and Easter Christmas Thanksgiving parties and of course my mom would always enter her kids you know it wasn't a talent show or something but no just as talent like we were the entertainment like for these parties and my sister you know at the top my sister could sing she was she would kill it back then and then uh and then I would dance so that's that's how that all went down my mom was a talent Booker ha ha for these parties and we get every single one then my sister was little superstar she should have been the first man yeah my sister would have been um if she would have been more focused man she would have been huge man she was so good she was ahead of her time I could say man so do you think that but do you think that what your mom did yeah don't you like you know shape what you're you know yeah are you for well she never gonna want to be a comedian but her getting me in front of people I'm totally broke that ice you know meaning that wall went down fast so I was ready I was ready to get in front of people and uh perform my sister always wanted me to be a comic so you know I mean it's really tell me she would always go oh you're funnier than him ha ha yeah you're funnier than him yeah my sister used to perform in Vegas like she would do all these lounges and and then she start bringing me up to sing with her and then that broke the yeah you cuz you could sing I uh not really yeah you were sister Carol aren't be stuff that you do yeah yeah my sister Ken why I can't sing yeah you can my god let me see what did you say whatever here I go to see you saying some black street backstreet um yes man you can either get some bug you got some karaoke practice or what cherry hood no okay you know like I my sister really say with a band so we didn't have karaoke she was karaoke she was no joke do you have a karaoke machine at home I don't let myself go to a Filipino party there's everyone's singing machine because there's this one song that's not on that one so I have I'm pulling up my bass one doesn't have greatest level yeah solo well Sarmiento wanted to ask you if you still play Wii with your mom game over game over no we stop my mom doesn't play anymore cuz it's old but she still hasn't set up it's funny if you walk into my mom's house it's right next to the dining room table yeah she hasn't oh yeah a little TV and her we and everything it's funny what do you like to play know what's funny is uh my son went online and you know these electronic fly swatters I don't they have those you have these fly swatters that look like tennis racquets and and you don't even have to really like swat it away you just barely touch it and it shocks it zaps the fly fly and and it's a tennis racket and there's there's a company that Rogaine over on the tent and I like yo you owe me money and then we'll see there's these tongs there's these tongs yeah and it says Taylor called ting ting tongs and I'm like y'all you only wanted me cuz they be trying to get on get capitalize on your study do it oh they want to ask you to vote somebody Duke oh bob says to make sure you don't put the rupee in your coffee rupee yeah that's my mom used to always say that to me well you are really concerned with strangers they're going to put a drug in there and you're like the bass up but would you really be concerned about I used to do this joke about keys in my hand huh and I'll and my mom goes when you walk to your car Josef put your keys in between your fingers try and get you you can punch and I'm like I'm never doing this long and then one day I was walking to my car I was like let me put these keys it I've done that too I got it I was driving a Honda yeah that's definitely gonna kill somebody but you but um my mom has given me so many jokes it's so funny dude I just listened to her it's like that's gonna be funny that's what's really cool though is that you know you don't have to make anything up it's like it's real stuff that's real you know the one you know the one that I'm talking about now her doing the radio show I do that now and it's just like when I get on stage I get the same response you're making that up your mom's not a DJ I literally had to take a film crew to my mom I saw that on YouTube yeah I had to and it's just like his people think I make it up and she called you Joseph yeah not Joe yeah she called me John said no when there's cameras she announced he AIT's the word correctly she always does that Joseph this is my son Joe sad cuz she knows were recording boy what's that cameras up John sad why do you say that about my purse but do you think that people always expect you to be funny like we're gonna even when you're not on I want them to yeah cuz I am you know you totally are but it's kind of like you know I love it me and my Jon Lovitz yeah geez we had that same conversation and he was like we were like uh he said to me he goes I don't understand how people don't see the funny and things yeah and then he goes cuz that's all I see that's what he said to me he goes it is how I see it and he goes when when I talk and I see an opportunity for a joke I say it but I don't think about it it just comes out of my mouth and I'm like I'm the same way I'm not trying to be funny I'm not sitting here looking at me right now going what's my next joke when I see it I'm like it's like double dutch it's like I know when I'm gonna hit it and I know when it's gonna come out of my mouth it's just I don't control it it's just it's just part of you it really is like I'll go and see it last night I did two hours and literally 45 minutes was just improvising with the crowd oh that's cool yeah and it's it's a gamble that you have to take but that's the only way I can sharpen my skills you know what I mean like that's that's how I that's how I get good but I think that's what a will like a real and that might be kind of kind of mean but I mean really that's what a real comic should be able to do I think so you know I mean and and there's a and I love all comedy that that's so like I don't like to disrespect any of the comedian's yeah I'll watch a prop comic I'll watch a puppet comic I'll watch you know a political comment I don't care funnies money to me yeah I hate it when people judge or hate on somebody I mean and uh but I I feel like you're funny for a reason there's things that you do that are funny and and and when I'm on stage I like to do that plus I get a lot of repeats I get I got people that are tweeting this my sixth time's seen you at ten times so I can't go up there and do the same routine yeah 2012 yeah I gotta give them something new make it feel like it's their show you know I mean well yeah so you have a show so you're at the San Jose improv last night but you have few more shows over the weekends yeah I left the last of ten I did 10 out here really I did 10 shows Wow crazy right and he sold them all out sold them all out yeah so are there any left for you try for the Early Show tonight I think there's a few but everything else sold out last night was crazy Wow not a seat left ma'am but I mean it's like um that's it's not but that's normal for you though that's such a trip like when you think about like Manning you know from coffee houses to like yeah you know all these sold-out shows like that alarm groans yeah as a 25 years you should see what I did man I wouldn't know me back in the day oh my god I mean like in Vegas I used to rent theaters you mean I used to rent theaters I would solicit advertisement so I can get money to fly comics out oh wow oh I've made my own tickets I sold my own tickets I was I wore every single hat and then I would still perform on stage it was nuts man you can ask Bobby next time if you ever do an interview with Bobby I yeah yeah asking where he was 19 years ago when jo koy flew him out to to Vegas to perform in front of 25 people was it really yeah but I said hi I made 400 seats because I thought 400 students were gonna come so I put 400 seats out I was like yo it's gonna be packed tonight Bobby Lee and I and man maybe 20 people came and most of all was just like my mom my dad relatives my sister is that they're fried we still went up cuz that's what she did man you didn't care yeah go for the video cuz you loved it I did it because I loved it man wow I'm excited I'm excited to see the show - yeah you don't want to have beef about that show - I'm gonna say right now why because that was like that was like 20 years ago and I was just starting I went to UNLV okay and uh and my cousin was going to school there and we went to the Filipino Student Association because if I can get a student Association yeah disappoint rent out the computer for me it would only be like 20 bucks cuz their students they do that for students yeah but if you're not a student there it would cost you like 600 bucks so I was bagging them I was like please like I'm Filipino and white Bobbili is Korean and you know I have it I had another guy that was on the show that was Filipino his name is uh god I can't remember his name but anyways that I had four guys and they were all ethnic you know and I was like this would be a great show to bring to the school and you guys will back it and say that into yours a blah blah and they're like yeah we'll get back to you and then uh and then they said no wow and I was like wow okay that sounded bad and then this girl I was dating at the time white girl she had a friend that was in a fraternity and he was like I'll do it it's just a bunch of white dudes so that's the reason why I hit twenty like I had 25 people there cuz they all came the fraternity here so all these white dudes came and they brought like their girlfriends it was the craziest thing I'm like wow man thank you for supporting you guys yeah and I was so bad I had so much beef with those Filipinos yeah that's a trip that's kind of pushed me I was like yeah you'll see you let me watch you can see what's gonna happen you're gonna be like yo you shoulda I should have signed that contract for Joe you know I mean so you could have done that show that's yeah that's a trip those are those little fires that burn you you know mean and and he and that's why you like you go after things a little bit more aggressively and you go you know I mean like yeah yeah like I'm watch they're gonna I remember that too I was like they're gonna I was so mad you don't understand is like offended - I was like did I even game over I went to Kinko's and made this beautiful portfolio you know I did it so professional and yeah I was so angry man but but I'm glad I'm glad I am where I am today it's all just guys okay nikka themselves cuz they know who I am yeah I all do ya know I mean the baby feels so good when I hear an ex girl that did me wrong and comes and they come to places that whole like cheaters revenge kind of thing I'll feel so good I had this one girl come up to me at the end of the show at the Mirage I sold out the Mirage right Wow that's how many people's eyes like 17 others were boys have been play it was a night and uh it was just a sold out and she was the usher there oh she's oh sure and she still had the same haircut oh no she said the same bob haircut and and i was like oh it was so funny i went to the top of the staircase because i want to watch the show up in the back of the room and she goes Joe and I just heard I go oh my god like oh what's up she's like I'm so happy for you I always do to make it I was like yeah I knew you would I knew you're gonna remember this day oh I remember that I was like wow does that look on her face just all you should have seen it she had tears in her eyes she really of course before Sanjay shortened that he's here has me know she did me so wrong what did she do observe a Oh but I'm just saying it yes it felt good yeah cuz I mean I remember back then hell I thought I remember seeing it twice I was like she's gonna kick yourself watch she's gonna be like I used to date him I used to date did you have old pictures of you together corn I'm pretty sure she does it's funny though Mac there's like me on Facebook it and be like no joke a long time yeah it's gonna be even longer ha ha ha so are you basketball fan I love basketball like so yeah I'm gonna go Russ yeah yeah I have no team to identify with cuz I'm from Seattle so my Sonic's are gone so for the past what three years I've been attaching myself to OKC because of Durant cuz you know he played for Seattle and then uh and then of course the Clippers because I live in LA and I hate the Lakers so yes so uh alright but I'm not really there's no heart behind it so like it just sucks because you know my team is gone yeah the Sonics but uh so I I told my son I was like we need to see this because it's kind of like this is kind of like history made oh yeah made right now LeBron is doing his fifth straight no one's ever done it and you know he went to Cleveland and and took this team to to the final like that that's especially right man that's amazing and then of course death is just amazing uh I think he's an alien I don't know I don't even think he's from this world I'm not even joking that the shots he makes it has ridiculous and and any man that fell on the back of their head like that should have been out for it I don't know man he came back during the game and just went Adam man so there's gonna be a great series they got it they got a heavily-favored for the Warriors I think it's like 75% on the pole that that's really yeah um I'm gonna be I hope you guys don't hate me I really feel like Cleveland might have this oh yeah I mean a lot of folks somebody was asking here on uh I don't know man them some big boys down there in Cleveland there's some big big boys and don't care they don't care we got a lot of heart man I'm kidding me you guys are amazing yeah I don't know man there's something about that LeBron James I won't see we'll see yeah he's a big dude he's a big news only never know but okay one more thing um so my own sin hate mail Mylene it Matt um she says write name I saw his show at Thunder Valley and I had a great time it's Lupus Awareness Month yes and he what she wants to know how your sisters doing she's doing all right yeah yeah it's flared up again but she's good my sister is Filipino so she's fool you know I mean she's my full sister I'm half is my mom remarried yeah and um but yeah she's got that Filipino mentality where she just doesn't care about the disease to show you where she just doesn't care and like we warned hers like you gotta stop drinking that she's a dr. pepper yeah she's addicted to dr. pepper I'm like you gotta stop drinking it we like you have lupus yeah and that's part of the reason why you have these flare-ups you got to start drinking healthier stuff yeah yeah and she just we let her do it man she's something else man she walks around with sunglasses on everyone thinks my sister's weird cuz she has sunglasses but she wasn't because she well they're prescription sunglasses and her eyes are fully dilated and they won't they won't won't go back Oh weather lupus yeah so she has to wear that cuz if it's bright y'all chill chill she'll have like migraines so I wear sunglasses all the time but everyone thinks my sister's being Hollywood think that funny way well I'm glad that you guys could joke about that case like she don't care she loves it she loves you know me yeah she knows I'm there so are you gonna be doing the reason $100,000 for for for the awareness okay yeah because that's what they were true just asking if he has any any events yeah lupus events in the bay coming up uh I mean we won't do any events we might throw another like in LA I do them all the time you know because it's it's just easier for me some pause on the road so to come to San Francisco even though it's just a you know some hour flight yet for me being at the airport is you know yeah and I do every week twice a week to be exact and uh so it's kind of hard you know I mean so on my day off I'd rather just do it in LA so I do the I do the events in LA a lot so okay it's yeah I always do everything with Apple that's cool apples my inspiration and I love that guy yeah I got to cook a double with him did you yeah great we can raise ten thousand dollars in Vegas so we donated that to uh to the Philippines to build schools oh nice it was so funny I was at a man just do my show I'll go I'll donate to your foundation and he goes I defied thousand dollars world for one school I got I do it Beth just in the show he goes I had to it and I go I'll buy a school to five were done so not yes so that's nice you definitely give back so he's the man dude like I didn't know he was that big of a fan until uh and this happened years ago this is like oh my god this is this is before any special this is what I used to make a DVD at home on iMovie oh yeah and I would take my Apollo set might be et set and I splice it all together with like some home videos yeah and I used to sell those for like five bucks like I was on that I I was gonna say yeah I would do that I still work at Nordstrom Rack and borders borders displaying these these DVDs and I got this lease from blockbuster videos throw them away the bag Wow see me the manager and I was like you don't throw them away give him to me so I can put my DVDs in there hey do what you gotta do yeah man and then uh and so my friend was dancing for the black-eyed peas right on it on tour and he's like yo um apples like your biggest fan dude I'm like what I go you're kidding me so I went out I just happened to do a show where they were performing and they and he took me backstage that's cool and we went to the bus and out like Fergie was on the bus right and she's like yo Apple this all he watches his comedy you know I mean like you know he's got every single comedy DVD on the bus but the only one he ever watches is that one right there and it's the bootleg one I made my whole video bleep yo I can't stop laughing at this stuff man it was all bootleg stuff Wow he's that is that was it a stack of flattery yeah it was humbling oh this is crazy we've been friends ever since and then that's how I met you know taboo but I know like I knew of them and we've met before but we never became friends you know me cuz they're from LA yeah I mean like we all do them and uh so I was always friends with taboo and all that like you know I mean like we certain events we always knew each other like yeah who I was and I knew who they were but I didn't know it was like that like he was on the tour bus laughing at my stuff like that's what I mean yeah cool it's been it's been kind of written down taboos son's Godfather I really yeah yeah yeah it's crazy like out of that oven riding around out you know it's crazy apples really nice you said some nice things about me is like you're the thanks for what you do for the Filipinos man you're an inspiration I'm like yo dude you know you're a black IP right wait please chill out man you guys both are in that position too uh those really make a difference a that man I was like that alright thank you I guess no but it is true it is it's true gotta keep doing it I guess grindin yup and thanks for again for coming by with your back all messed up and hurts man so I'd like to take drugs as you fall now I like to take that stuff you know I trained just go through it without doing it like I got in my hand but I won't take it throw it away I don't know

Channel: Freska Griarte

Views: 627,598

Rating: 4.7509313 out of 5

Keywords: Jo Koy (Award Winner), Comedy (Theater Genre), JOKOY, Filipino Comedian

Id: QfWpOJSDR_M

Length: 38min 45sec (2325 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 03 2015