Steve Harvey Motivational Speech That Made Oprah Winfrey Cry 2020!

i used to spend the night in hotel parking lots what was i going to do i had a way to stay so i lived in the car i had 35 and i said come on god man i've been trying to make this dream come true you left me out here like this and i was crying so hard that he just said i didn't like hear a voice or nothing but he spoke to me and however he said if you get up i'm gonna take you places you ain't never been now it's fitting to quit so i said skip it i'm gonna quit anyway so i got my car i went to a pay phone and i was gonna call my dad you remember back in the day where you could punch in the code and call your answering machine and get your messages so i called and i punched in the code and it said dude he said hey steve this is chuck sutton with showtime at the apollo we saw a tape of you you're very funny if you could get here sunday night uh we'd love to put you on television call me back let me know if you can make it so i hung the phone up i'm crushed cause my whole dream of being on tv and i couldn't get to new york i got 35 how i'm gonna get to new york i can't make it so i'm standing there at the phone booth and tears just coming down my face i said god so that must be a sign for me to go home because this is it i ain't even got the money to go to the apollo my whole thing i want to be on tv i couldn't even make the dream come true i'm just i'm i'm this is the most messed up moment and so i said man let me call this dude back and see if he said this sunday cause maybe he said next sunday and i can hustle up a little bit of money or something i don't know what i'm gonna do but let me just call him back so i called him back see this chuck sudden showtime department we saw a tape of yours you're very very funny look we have an opening sunday night at showtime department if you can make it we love to put you on tv i say it's this sunday before i hit the button i heard dude you have another message that wasn't there before so i punched my code in i listened to the second message says steve harvey this is tom sober from the comedy caravan i had this was a thursday he said i have a gig in jacksonville florida on friday night that pays 150 if you can get there friday night you'll make 150 so i i called him back and i said hey tom did you get a gig away he said no it's still available he said can you get that i said i'm in pensacola florida i'm three and a half hours away so i drive to jacksonville florida and that night i killed i made the 150. club owner said man you funnier than the guy we hired if you stay tomorrow night i'm going to give you another 150 so now i got 300 now so i get on the phone i call chuck sutton i say hey man is the gig still available at showtime at the apollo he said well we got one opening left i said i'll be there so i called eastern airlines who used to be open back then they had a special for 99 going from jacksonville florida to new york round trip so i parked my car at the airport i got got on plane flew everything i had was in two bags got to the apollo i said hey man i'm here i got that at 11 o'clock in the morning he said you can't stay here because you don't come on to the late show tonight i said i got nowhere to go i said if you just let me stay in this building man i ain't gonna move around nothing i ain't got nowhere to go i'm in harlem i can't go back out here i got these two bags i got victim rode all over me man so he said all right if you go upstairs don't come down so he put me in the dressing room on the sixth floor so that's where all the comedians was so i stayed up there i got hungry around three o'clock and i couldn't take it no more so i went back downstairs dude named alton listen i said hey man he said man i thought i told you don't come down them down steps i said hey man i'm just hungry man i said let me go to that kfc i saw on the corner just let me get some chicken i'll come right back he said man if you ain't back in 20 minutes you ain't getting in this building so i went bought me some chicken came back so the comedian started coming in the building they started coming up on the sixth floor so i meet this guy named dl hugler i introduced myself he introduced himself i'm sitting there another guy come here named dwayne johnson then this other dude walked in named jamie foxx and i introduced myself we don't know each other ain't none of us famous it's 1991 man they gave everybody the lineup i was on the last show of the night i don't go on to 11 at night i'd had this there's four pieces of chicken i'm starving man that chicken didn't wore off i'm nervous man i'm about to throw up d.o hugely went downstairs dale hugley got booed off dwayne johnson got booed off foxx went down there and got booed they booed jamie then jamie started singing and then they started clapping and jamie had their ass then he went back to them jokes and they got his ass so i'm walking down the steps and i see jamie sitting on the steps i said hey man hang in there he said man ain't never happened to me before man this crazy this jamie foxx man one of the most talented people in all of comedy and now you don't even know how nervous i am man i can't even my breathing is shot cause these dudes been booed so i walk out i had wrote this joke mike tyson had got in a fight in harlem with his heavyweight name mitch green mike tyson had hit the dude in the eye in the store now he was on the news his eye was swollen so the joke i wrote was they was interviewing mitch green and he was telling everybody what happened but his eye took over the interview and i wrote this joke that his eyes started talking and was just i tell you what happened the heavyweight champ's fist is coming towards my face i just say lord lord lord and i wrote this whole joke about this dude's eyeball talking and when the punch came and all this help the apollo man they went crazy they lost their mind i got a standing ovation man i walked on stage i walked off stage man just started crying i couldn't believe it they paid me i made 750 dollars for being on tv for one night i'd never made 750 telling jokes in one night and so that was my first television appearance couple weeks later sinbad was the host of the show he got this job on a different world and so he quit and so mark curry became the host and then mark curry got hanging with mr cooper and he quit and they came to me and said would you come back to new york and host amateur night for us to just try you out i ain't no problem and so i went to new york i hosted amateur night and i was killing but every time we went to commercial break i was supposed to let the warm-up act take over like reuben does but i knew not to let the warm-up act do that because he would change the attitude of the crowd because apollo was a wild play so i stayed out there i did the warm-up and the holster and i created a bond with that audience and that's how i got on tv with my very first tv show i hosted showtime at apollo i ended up being the longest running host in the history of showtime i did that show for eight years nobody ever did it for eight years and that was my turn back moment see in your life everybody has a turn back moment you have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up but the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up the guarantee is it will never happen that's the guarantee of quitting that it will never happen no way under the sun the only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what because god is always coming he's never too late at your worst smoke look man when they told me i had to be in new york i saw no way i could get there but that guard though he make the phone ring i end up in florida i make 300 then i go to new york i make 750 i almost got a thousand dollars out of nowhere that's that's what happened to me that was my my moment of never giving up that's when i first learned that faith was everything that that you have to remain [Applause] faithful you

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Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 26 2020