Funny AF with Kevin Hart (2026) s01e02 Episode Script

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- [dramatic music playing]
- [traffic whizzing]
There's still one more spot.
This was tough.
- This was really tough.
- This was tough.
The fifth person going to callbacks is…
Reg, you were really brilliant.
- [all applaud]
- My man!
- I said it!
- Let's fucking go. [laughs]
Just the architecture
of how you put the set together.
It was just really masterful.
[Kevin] I think for the task at hand,
you guys should all feel good
because whoever comes out of this
with the Netflix special,
whoever comes out of this as a winner,
you guys know
like the pool was a real pool.
You guys are all professionals
and I know everybody's fucking name.
I know your material
and I'm not going to forget that.
Shout out to the five.
I'll see you guys later. Thank you guys.
- All right, see you soon. Cool.
- Thank you, guys.
[all cheering, applauding]
Come on!
[both laugh]
- Yo, shawty!
- We going to L.A., baby!
- Representing Brooklyn! Ah, ah, ah, ah!
- Hey, hey, hey.
But you know how far we're coming from?
Come on, son.
- You really, like, killed it.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- You came on-- I loved that FUPA joke.
[Winston] I can't believe it, dawg.
I think I'm more stunned
than anything else.
I'm stunned that I'm moving on,
never in a million years did I think
I'd, A, get this opportunity,
and B, to done well enough
that they saw something in me
that they'd want to see more.
- Winston! I know you shocked.
- Oh, my God.
- Wow.
- Fine.
- But you deserve this shit.
- I appreciate it.
Okay, Ma, so you know I'm in
this competition with Kevin Hart, right?
- ["Path to Greatness" playing]
- [Lorna] Correct.
So, Kevin Hart chose me
to go to the second round in L.A.
- [Lorna] Oh, my God!
- [laughs]
Remember all them
parent-teacher conferences
that you went to,
and they said I was talking too much
and making too much jokes?
Look at that. Look at God.
[pop song playing]
- [Kevin] I have a crazy memory.
- [Keegan] You trip me out.
- He remembers everything.
- Wow.
[Kevin] For example,
if I go and I'm gonna work on material,
- I cannot sit down and write a joke down.
- So what do you do?
It's all-- It's just in my head.
[Keegan] It's literally
what you're saying.
That's what we were saying.
I write everything in Google Docs.
All the punchlines are bolded,
so I can look at a screen and go,
"There isn't enough bolding here,
I need more punchlines."
- It's very intellectual.
- That's impressive.
- [Kumail] Do you write all your bits out?
- Yeah.
But I can commit it
to memory pretty quickly.
Considering as much alcohol as I consume,
it's pretty impressive.
[all laugh]
[theme music plays]
[Kevin] The showcase
in New York was incredible,
and with five comedians headed
through to callbacks,
well, I'm hoping to find even more talent
in the show business capital
of the world, Los Angeles.
This is where you come
to turn comedy into a career.
Comedians here have one thing
on their minds,
and that's becoming the next
great Hollywood success story.
Nobody knows how to do that better
than my guy, Tom Segura.
Tom is one of the funniest
and most successful comedians today.
We both love discovering new talent,
and that's exactly what
we're about to do here
at the legendary Hollywood Improv.
[bumper scraping]
That was brutal.
That's how you know
someone's rich as fuck.
They don't give a shit what they did
to the bottom of that thing.
You ever seen a little man struggle
to get out of a little car?
I see that,
it's a good-sized vehicle for you.
- [laughs]
- How you doing, man?
- I'm good. How you been?
- Dude, I'm great. Yeah.
- Great? Pumped up for this?
- Hell yeah.
[Kevin] Tom spent years working out
his material on the L.A. scene,
eventually releasing
five killer comedy specials.
He spun his success into his own
production company and podcasting empire.
This is memories,
'cause this was home for me.
This was like my first club.
I love that, of course,
we're in a place of memory for both of us.
I mean, look, the Improv
- helped shape and mold us.
- Yes.
And now the fact
that we got comics that are…
basically in the same position
that we once were, man.
Being able to go back, look, and hopefully
put them in a position to do more.
- [overlapping chatter]
- Look how tall you are.
Oh, my God.
You're going to see L.A.'s got it, man.
[Andrea] We are amongst friends.
[Ashley] L.A.'s funniest comedians
right here.
I know. As soon as I saw everybody
walking in, I was like, "Oh, I like you."
"I like you. I like you."
I do feel like everyone
hypes up New York all the time.
And… [laughs] …and they're like,
"New York is the best place for comedy."
"New York is the greatest comedy."
I'm like, "Hey, like… [groans]
…L.A. got some love, too."
You know what I mean?
Like, all the L.A. comics
are really, really good.
You know who it is, right?
Yeah, Tom Segura and Kevin Hart.
[Heather] It'd be pretty cool
to bomb in front of Kevin Hart.
- Not everybody gets to do that.
- [laughs]
- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- [all cheer, applaud]
Yes!
- I like that. I like that, Tom.
- I did that for you.
Uh, what's going on, everybody?
How you doing, first and foremost? Good?
- [all] Good.
- Happy to be here.
[Kevin] We are here
at the Hollywood Improv,
and I want you guys to understand the why.
Why this is happening, why I'm doing this,
why Tom is a part of this.
I think it's very important
for our generation
to take a baton and hand it to the next.
Like, honestly, I'm getting older.
It's over for me.
- [all laugh]
- I think we're the same age,
and I look 25 years older than you,
so it's cool.
The winner of the competition
is receiving a Netflix comedy special.
[all cheering, applauding]
All right, well look, it's a competition,
so unfortunately we can't pick everybody.
We've got 14 comics.
A handful will move on
from this showcase to callbacks.
I've talked a tremendous amount of shit
on your behalf, by the way.
- I tolerate no L.A. slander, so be funny.
- There we go.
And ultimately do good.
I'm excited for you guys, all right?
- I'll see you guys soon.
- See you guys later.
[all applauding]
[Kevin] I'm really excited
to see these comics tonight.
This is a passion for me.
I don't know the choice of material.
I'm not coming in with any edge.
And what I walk away with after I watch
the showcase is what I walk away with.
I like the fact that it is real,
transparent, and authentic
because you're getting a real reaction
from me in real time.
We're here because we know
what we're looking for.
- Yes.
- Good comedy, good stage presence.
The five-minute set, the tight set,
all those things come in to fucking play.
- Right.
- [producer] Tom! You're on!
Go up?
Dude, Tom looks so fit.
- Welcome to the world-famous Improv.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
Uh, this is the first major stage
I ever stepped on.
So it's a very special place to me.
I love it. Yes.
Tonight is a really, really special thing.
You're going to see a showcase
for Kevin Hart.
He's a little man, but he has big,
big pockets and big opportunities.
I hope you enjoy the show.
You guys are fantastic. Thank you.
[audience cheering, applauding]
- People like you before you even talk.
- Yeah.
I appreciate it, guys.
Thank you. It'll be really fun.
I'm really glad
you guys are the other comics
and not people I don't respect,
so I really…
It feels like it means more from you guys.
[producer] Donohue, your turn!
[comics cheering, applauding]
- [Heather] Have fun!
- Thanks, guys.
[Dan] My name is Dan Donohue.
I've been doing stand-up comedy
for nine years.
Social media has helped my career a ton.
And social media
is a way where you can get people
to see you if you don't have credits.
[host] Give it up for Dan Donohue!
[Dan] All the people in the competition
are people I've done shows with.
Everybody's gonna be hard to beat.
I might not make it
through the first round. [chuckles]
You might not be using
any of this footage. [laughs]
[audience cheering, applauding]
How's it going, everybody?
I'm Dan Donohue.
How are you tonight?
[audience cheering, applauding]
I'm doing pretty good,
I get to travel now.
I went to Missouri, I got off the plane,
I got in an Uber.
The Uber driver turned around and he said,
"When I'm not driving for Uber,
I'm a concealed-carry
firearms instructor."
"This is gonna be
the safest Uber ride of your life."
[audience laughing]
Why didn't it feel that way? Why did--
[audience laughing]
Why did I feel like a seat belt
was enough for me?
[audience laughing]
Both my parents were very anti-gun
and they taught me to be that way.
And I spent a 45-minute Uber ride
- agreeing with that man…
- [audience laughing]
…on every point he made about firearms.
He was in the front seat like,
"I think we should give teachers guns."
I was in the back seat like,
"I think we should give students guns."
[audience laughing]
I really have only one moral code.
And that is,
if I'm in the back of your car,
- I believe what you believe.
- [audience laughing]
- That's a funny bit.
- Yeah.
I'm from a really small town
in Massachusetts.
I love living in the big city,
but Los Angeles has a lot to get used to.
Like, I'm not used to the way people talk
about aging in this city,
because I come from a place
where we let women do that.
[audience cheering, applauding]
[Dan] Yeah.
We got free-range women walking
around my hometown. Yeah.
Yeah.
We got organic, non-GMO ladies
just making their way across town.
That's right.
I am from a place
called Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
And it's messed up 'cause people spend
thousands of dollars every year
on creams and surgeries
to try and look younger, and that's fine.
Do whatever you want with your body.
But if you're doing that
because you think you're aging poorly,
spend a hundred dollars on a bus ticket…
[audience laughing]
…to Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
Get off that bus, look around,
and realize you are beautiful
just the way you are.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
- [Dan] That's right.
All right, that's it for me.
Thank you so much, everybody.
[audience cheering, applauding]
Good jokes, great energy.
- A real quirky, funny look too, right?
- [Tom] Yeah.
- There's something to his look.
- [Tom] There's something going on, yeah.
- The '70s 'stache.
- Yeah.
[comics applauding]
Thanks, guys.
I wanna go to Buzzard's Bay.
- [Tom] I kind of wanna see it, dude.
- I wanna see it.
I wanna see how ugly the people are there,
I bet they're horrendous.
[both laugh]
[Andrea] My name is Andrea Jin.
I first got into stand-up comedy
eight years ago.
Humor definitely played a role
in my family because in my family,
we don't hug, we don't say, "I love you."
[host] Give it up for Andrea Jin!
[Andrea] We would watch sketches together,
and it was a lot of fun.
We were all laughing together.
It was, like, such a core memory.
- So it bonded us so deeply.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
Hello. Hi. Hi. My name is Andrea Jin.
I'm not from here,
I immigrated from China.
- Is that okay? [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
It doesn't matter how you feel,
I'm not leaving, so… [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
- I got in, right?
[audience laughing]
- Yeah, it was easy. [chuckles]
- [audience laughing]
When I first moved here,
I lived with my grandparents
for a really long time.
And they do this thing
where they always have
to have 30 to 40 bags of rice at home.
I don't know where
that behavior comes from.
Having grandparents is kind of the same
- as when you get a rescue dog, you know?
- [audience laughing]
Like, you don't know
what happened to them before they got…
- [audience laughing]
-…they got to you, you know?
You're like,
"Why are you growling at the TV?"
[audience laughing]
And it's not the little bags that you guys
like to get when you're like,
"Oh, let's change things up
for dinner tonight."
[audience laughing]
No, it's like really big,
giant bulk bags from Costco.
It's not fun.
Do you guys know that saying,
"Don't go to the grocery store
on an empty stomach?"
Yeah, 'cause you end up
buying too much, right?
We have a similar saying where I'm from.
It goes like this, it's…
"Don't go to the bulk food store
if you've ever had a communist dictator."
Right?
- [audience laughing]
- [laughs]
'Cause you buy too much. Oopsie.
And it's a real problem.
It's a real problem.
At the end of the Costco trip,
we can't fit everything we bought
into the car.
- [audience laughing]
- And so we're like, "Okay, what do we do?"
"What if we leave Grandma here?"
- [audience laughing]
- [laughs]
She's like,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, leave me here."
[audience laughing]
It's because she gets it.
She's a team player.
She understands
that if we leave rice there,
- someone's going to take it, you know?
- [audience laughing]
But if we leave my grandma there,
no one's going to take her.
- Yeah, because she's a burden, you know?
- [audience laughing]
I was in a long-term relationship
with a white guy,
- and it was fine, we just fought a lot.
- [audience laughing]
We fought a lot about my tone.
He thought I was too loud
and demanding and aggressive.
And I was like, "That's just how I talk.
I'm an immigrant."
And then he's like, "No,
'cause I've seen you talk
to your friends."
"With your friends, you're very nice,
and polite, and quiet, why is that?"
And I was like, "Okay, well, first of all,
those are private conversations
with my friends."
"I told you when my friends come over,
you face the wall."
- Okay?
- [audience laughing]
"And then, also, if you must know,
with my friends,
I've never seen
any of my friends' soft penises before."
You know?
"I don't know what
my friends' soft penises look like,
so I have a lot of respect for them."
- Okay?
- [audience laughing]
"Why are you showing
that to people when it's soft?"
"Be ready or don't show anyone."
'Cause it looks…
It looks like if it was a person,
it wouldn't know how to read, okay?
[audience laughing]
So I'm single now.
That's my time, thank you.
[audience cheering, applauding]
I think she did a very good job
of setting up the world of who she was.
- Her delivery, too, was so conversational.
- Very good. Yeah.
- I'm a sucker for her.
- Right.
I love the stammering over the words.
I love, like, "We're just talking."
- "It's fine, right?" She's funny.
- Yeah, she's funny.
[producer] Thirty-second
warning for Kalea.
- Thank you, bro.
- Thank you for rubbing that on me.
He rubbed some of his good juju.
- Yeah. It's African shit.
- Yeah.
- Let me get a little piece of that action.
- Yeah, go ahead.
- Now it's been colonized.
- Yeah.
There aren't any comics on the lineup
that I don't fuck with. They're all good.
I hate to see them lose,
but it's going to be a good time.
I've been doing comedy for 13 years,
and I really worked on my craft a lot.
When people see this, they're gonna be
like, "Kalea came out of nowhere."
And there are a hell of a lot of people
who know this is 13 years in the making.
[host] Give it up for Kalea McNeill!
[audience cheering, applauding]
[Kalea] This is the beginning
of the next level for me.
This is my moment to win
because I don't have anything else.
There's no backup plan.
What's going on, Hollywood?
We good?
All right. My name is Kalea McNeill.
Let's get to the shit.
I've been doing a lot
of traveling this year for comedy.
A lot of traveling.
And I feel like the more you travel,
especially for work,
you start to develop isms.
Like when I was a little kid,
what was the best seat on the plane?
The window seat.
You want to see every fucking thing.
I'm 38, I don't need to see shit.
[audience laughing]
Once my knees hit 35,
what was the best seat?
The aisle.
I need to do this a couple times.
And I got rules to my shit, baby.
If I'm on the aisle, this is my row.
[audience laughing]
You gotta pee? You better pee when I pee.
[audience laughing]
You better get up when I get up.
I lived through 9/11. Sit down!
[audience laughing]
I went to Boston
for the first time this year.
- Anybody been to Boston?
- Yeah!
Yeah, interesting place.
I was doing shows in Boston
during St. Patrick's Day weekend, y'all.
- They did not tell me.
- [audience laughing]
St. Patrick's Day weekend
in Boston is like "Whiteteenth."
[audience laughing]
[Kalea] I ain't never seen
no shit like that.
We got the holidays coming up.
Y'all got some favorite holiday movies?
My favorite holiday movie
of all time, Home Alone.
Part one. I was a '90s kid,
loved Home Alone growing up.
If you loved Home Alone as a kid,
do not watch it as an adult.
Completely different movie now.
I'm watching Home Alone the other day,
I'm smoking some weed a little bit.
We get about ten minutes into the movie,
Kevin come running downstairs
talking shit to his mother's face.
[audience laughing]
I'm like, Kevin need his ass whooped.
[audience laughing]
This little boy is rude, disrespectful.
And remember,
they were going to Paris for vacation,
and this motherfucker was picking off
the whole table talking shit.
I'm like, that could not have been my son.
If that were "Kevon…"
[audience laughing]
that movie would have
been called "Left Alone,"
'cause who the fuck
are you talking to like that
before we fly to Paris,
Texas for vacation?
[audience laughing]
- "Paris, Texas."
- Thank you guys so much.
[audience cheering, applauding]
Amazing stage presence.
You cannot deny confidence.
Of course, jokes around airport travel,
we're no strangers to,
- we've heard a lot of them.
- [Tom] Of course, yes.
If all you do is tour,
what ends up happening
- is you just talk about touring, right?
- Yes.
- Hotels and planes and stuff.
- Yes.
I just wanna hear more about, like,
- your actual life.
- Yeah.
[Kalea] I think I knocked it
out of the park. Walked off the stage
with thunderous laughs and applause.
I think that's good.
I'm like, I really wanted
to close with that Home Alone.
The exit on the Home Alone was fantastic.
[Kevin] What do you think
makes a good comedian?
- You have to be funny, period.
- You do.
And a point of view
is the most important aspect.
Based on my background,
I'm looking for persona.
When they come onto the stage
and I go, "Well, this person-- Okay."
I'm already intrigued.
I think that you have a job as a comedian.
And what I will look for,
what I think makes the best comedians,
is when they step on stage,
the audience knows who the fuck they are,
and they know what they're going through.
How do you make
the audience know your name?
I grew up in this really fucked up
neighborhood right outside of Compton
called Beverly Hills.
That's a joke I do on stage when I try
to make being from Beverly Hills likable.
It's not.
I do identify as a weed mom.
Thank you.
- My pronouns are "she/high."
- [audience laughing]
We're all so societally accepting
of wine moms,
but not so much of weed moms, right?
They're all out here with
their cute slogans like, "Rosé all day."
[audience laughing]
But it's like weed moms
have fun sayings too.
Like, "What? No, I'm not high."
[audience laughing]
I do get a little nervous though.
'Cause I'm like,
it's a hard habit to hide. You know?
One day my son's going to be old enough.
He's gonna go to high school.
He's gonna smell pot for the first time.
I'm afraid it's gonna be like a scene
in one of those detective movies
where all the pieces
come together at once.
Right? He's just gonna be like,
"Wait, Mom, are you cool as shit?"
[audience laughing]
She's likeable.
She was really engaging with the audience.
It was like the first kind of parent set,
which is its own lane,
I think, of doing this.
And those are the things
that get the laughs, right?
- [Tom] It's a solid showcase set.
- It's a solid one.
If you're wondering
what's going on with this face,
I am an Indian man.
It's a good time for us, by the way.
We're people of color,
but we're also richer
than the white people now, huh?
- [audience laughing]
- How about that shit?
You guys were so scared of Mexicans.
- [audience laughing]
- The media had you worried, right?
The media was like,
"You better build that border wall."
And you guys forgot
about the firewall, dude.
[audience laughing]
I thought that a lot of the jokes
had another piece coming.
- Yes.
- And they didn't.
I don't feel like it was enough.
[audience cheering, applauding]
[Kevin] For a five-minute set,
you should come in
and you should have it
as tight as you possibly can.
- Yeah.
- You know, it's the best presentation.
- [host] Keep it going! Keep it going!
- [audience cheering, applauding]
[sighs]
I feel pretty excited
about being in this competition.
The Netflix special would be
the career milestone that I truly want.
I don't wanna be famous,
I don't care about any of that.
I just wanna do this,
and I just wanna be good at it.
And whatever comes
from me being good at it, that's great.
Gotta pray to the greats, you know?
I've been doing this 15 years,
and it's the only thing
I ever wanted to do my whole life.
People would put Led Zeppelin
on their walls.
I had comedy albums, you know what I mean?
Bigger & Blacker, Killin' Them Softly.
- [host] Steve Furey!
- [audience cheering, applauding]
I've been lucky enough
to be on some pretty cool tours
with guys like Marc Maron,
David Cross, and Bert Kreischer.
And I think I need to win this for me
to see if maybe I can be that guy.
Maybe I can break through from being
the opener to the guy headlining.
Yes, my name is Steve Furey.
Very happy to be here.
- I just got engaged. What up?
- [audience cheering, applauding]
Yes, going to marry my best friend,
very excited. Our favorite thing to do
is get violently high
and watch television.
[audience laughing]
Try to do it at least seven days a week.
No breaks, get your numbers up.
And she's a demon, folks.
She's a demon, okay?
Because I'll take a 30-milligram
to the face.
She'll take a buck 50 to the dome.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm watching TV, she's kind of…
humming and shaking there
in the corner a little bit.
[audience laughing]
In the middle
of her transcendental meditation,
she popped up and goes, "Steve,
there's something I gotta tell you,
and I need to tell you
before we get married."
I go, "First off, baby, that's a mirror."
"I'm over here, do you see me right now?"
- "Are you okay?"
- [audience laughing]
She goes, "Steve,
there's something I gotta tell you,
I gotta tell you before we get married."
She goes, "I manifested you."
Blew my mind, right?
I think manifestation's real.
I really do. My only thing is
if you can manifest any man
in this world into your life
and all you got was me,
you might not be very good at that.
You know what I mean? I don't know…
That's a good joke.
I don't know if I'd be bragging
about a participation trophy.
We haven't had many problems
in our relationship.
We had one big problem,
had to stop drinking.
Said I was developing a pattern
of self-destructive behavior.
I'm like, "It's called a routine."
[audience laughing]
Like a gymnast or an athlete.
- [laughs]
- [Steve] No, I…
I threw up in the living room, yeah.
[audience laughing]
[Steve] It's hard to argue
throwing up in the living room.
You know what I mean? You can't be like,
"Zach's wife lets him throw up
whenever he wants."
[audience laughing]
I got fucking hammered.
This is the last thing I remember, okay?
I come home at 4:00 a.m., blacked out.
I open the door.
I immediately smash five packs
of Welch's grapefruit snacks
to the face. Yeah, yeah.
My antioxidants were peaking
at this point.
[audience laughing]
And I went to sleep on the couch.
Very important. Why?
Because I woke up in bed. First red flag.
You want to wake up
where you went to sleep.
[audience laughing]
Mainly because that means
you traveled, okay?
And you don't want to travel
when you're sleeping.
- [audience laughing]
- That's right.
I woke up at 7:00 a.m.
because the woman I'm going to marry
has been slamming doors for 45 minutes.
And I live in a one-bedroom apartment.
So if you've been in a relationship
with someone for a long time,
I'm talking seven, ten, 15, 20-plus years,
they don't have to speak for you
to understand what they're saying, right?
So she's slamming these doors,
I reply with the subtle, easy,
"Little fucking early, isn't it?"
[audience laughing]
It's a secret language between lovers
that the outside world
couldn't even comprehend.
"Fucking 7:30?"
Two souls connected at the body and mind,
traveling through space as one entity.
Dude, she came in so quick, she was like…
She goes, "Someone threw up
in the living room."
I just woke up. I was like,
"Someone broke into my house…
- and threw up in the living room."
- [audience laughing]
Then she walked out.
She goes, "I think you threw up
in the living room."
And then she went to the living room.
Dude, I walked out to the living room
so fucking confident.
I was like, "Baby." I go,
"Baby, baby, baby, I don't throw up."
[audience laughing]
And when I got there,
there were Welch's on the ceiling.
[audience laughing]
She goes, "What happened here?"
And I go, "Okay."
I go, "Okay, on one hand, 36 years old,
probably shouldn't be throwing up
on the ceiling."
"On the other hand,
you did manifest this."
"So in a way, it's kind of your fault,
to be quite honest with you."
"Maybe the stars could have told you
to choose someone else."
My name is Steve Furey.
Thank you very much
to everybody involved with this.
- That's a great set.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
- That's a great set.
- That's a great set.
Flawless.
- He killed it.
- That's a flawless set.
That is an amazing pop
of energy, personality, truth,
- deprecation.
- We know who that guy is.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, yeah.
And I mean,
the punchlines were honestly like…
they were words within the story.
- He did them like so they're throwaways.
- Yes, yes.
- [Tom] But they land as jokes.
- Yes.
He had me. He had me.
He had me from the start.
He's definitely going to the next round.
Let's go give him the good news.
Tell him how good of a job it was,
et cetera.
- [Tom] Hell yeah.
- [Kevin] What am I looking for?
A five-minute set
that defines who you are,
personality, stage presence,
and who I feel best services
the need of new.
- All right, yes. This is it right here.
- [comics cheer]
- Nice.
- What the hell is going on?
- Fuck.
- Steve, first of all, great job, man.
Incredible. It was really good,
really good.
There was so much
that I learned about you.
I love how you tied it all in
and how there was even a callback, right?
And traveling was very fucking funny,
that you traveled.
[Kevin] I just love the world
that you presented.
You know, the apartment,
tying it all together, bringing it back,
closing with something
that the audience can relate to.
That's strong to me.
One thing that we agreed on
was you're my for-sure choice.
You're going straight through
to callbacks.
That does not mean
that more are not coming.
We still got more of the showcase to see.
All right. Thank you, guys.
Bro, what the fuck?
[comics cheering]
Give me this fucking hat, man. God damn.
Fuck, man.
I've been doing this a very long time.
This is the culmination
of all the hard work.
Leaving my family,
coming to L.A., being unknown,
parking rich people's cars.
Not to say I deserve it
more than anyone else.
It's a great group of comedians here.
Fuck, yeah!
God damn, okay, cool.
[Ray] There's so much extra pressure
knowing that there's a comic
that's going to the next round.
It's nerve-wracking.
- It's physically nerve-wracking.
- [Macey] I think it would be a great thing
to, you know, say that I won this,
but because Steve had made it through,
I do feel less confident.
[Dvontre] I have to follow Steve Furey,
who is a very good comedian.
I mean, I'm not like nervous to where
I'm shaking and I might forget the words,
but I care. So yeah, I'm a little nervous.
I am Dvontre Coleman, I'm 30 years old,
and I've been doing comedy
for three-and-a-half years.
I've been doing comedy full time
I'd say for about a year now.
[host] Give it up for Dvontre Coleman!
[Dvontre] What made me transition
to full-time comedy?
I was laid off from my tech job,
so comedy is a gamble
that I'm willing to take,
because I think
that if I work hard enough,
I can go make the same amount
of money I was making in tech.
I think about everything logically,
so my jokes,
if you really break them down,
they do make a lot of sense,
even though it's about dumb things.
I'm Dvontre Coleman.
I'm real awkward.
[audience laughing]
That means it's hard
for me to make friends.
I want to meet new people.
I'm on all the apps trying
to get all the matches.
[audience laughing]
I recently downloaded Grindr.
Yeah, because I thought it was an app
for niggas with work ethic.
[audience laughing]
I mean, it is.
[audience laughing]
But it ain't.
[audience laughing]
I live alone.
Somebody told me to get a cat.
Where my cat people at? Make some noise.
[audience cheering]
I fucking hate cats.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughs]
Listen, couples,
I have some advice for you.
If you've ever thought about going
through your partner's phone,
I couldn't recommend it less.
[audience laughing]
Yeah, I went through my girl's phone
and it broke my heart.
Because there was no niggas
hitting her up.
[audience laughing]
Yeah.
I'm fighting for my life to keep her.
And I'm the only one that wants her.
[audience laughing]
I love his cadence.
Yeah, his timing is probably some
of the best in the competition.
[Denny] He really takes his time.
I'm single now, I'm on dating apps.
My favorite dating app is Tinder.
Yeah, I like Tinder
because they fucking on there.
[audience laughing]
Tinder is dangerous, though.
The worst part about Tinder
is that it gives you more opportunities
to be robbed.
Yeah, I lost six hoodies last year.
[audience laughing]
That's all right, though.
I've been getting my revenge.
I started stealing back.
[audience laughing]
Yeah, I take ownership of whatever's left
in my apartment.
Don't text me talking about,
"Hey, I think I left something
on your dresser."
These are my eyelashes now.
[audience laughing]
You can probably tell by my outfit,
I'm a young uncle.
[audience laughing]
[laughs]
I like having nephews,
but it is dangerous.
I don't know
if y'all been around children lately,
but they have superpowers now.
Like one of my nephews, his superpower
is that he can make anything weird.
He doesn't tell you
what you're doing is weird.
He just asks you questions
that make you think, "Whoa."
Is that weird?
[audience laughing]
Like one time I took my nephew
with me to go get a haircut.
And as we were leaving the barbershop,
he looks up at me, he goes,
"Hey, why you let them spin
you around like that?"
[audience laughing]
[laughs]
I've been Dvontre Coleman.
Y'all been a lot of fun.
Make it loud for your hosts.
[audience cheering, applauding]
- He's hilarious, dude.
- Yeah.
Very clever within his writing.
- His voice and the choice for low energy.
- Yeah.
Watching it, you may not realize
how clever the things are
that he's saying.
And the confidence it takes
to sit in the pause.
Like, he took real long pauses.
It's a style.
- He knows this shit works.
- A thousand percent.
Like, a lot of the bigger Black comedians
are usually so physical
that in our community
a lot of times we're told, like,
that's how you're supposed to do comedy.
So I think it's so dope
to watch you just sit in your pocket
and just be a sniper
about things, you know?
- And I got a durag on.
- That's gangsta.
Boy, do I love wearing a durag
in white places.
That's gangsta.
[stage manager] Okay,
Macey, it's time for you.
[Kalea] Okay, Macey!
[comics cheering, applauding]
- Hello.
- Hello.
- It's so much fun.
- Hello.
- We're hugging.
- Thank you, we're hugging.
[host] Let's hear it for Macey Isaacs!
[audience cheering, applauding]
Hello, thank you. Thank you.
Do we have any parents here
in the audience?
Oh, okay. All right.
I do have a bit of advice.
I hope it's not too late.
But if you're a parent
and you're at your kid's sporting event
and you feel the need to yell
"look alive out there" to your kid…
[audience laughing]
…while they're playing that sport…
[audience laughing]
…maybe they don't want to play,
you know, just a thought.
Maybe take them out to lunch.
Find out what they really want to do.
What's the dream?
She's so laid back.
"Look alive out there" is funny.
I want kids one day, I do.
I have to be honest with you guys, though.
So far, my husband and I,
we've had three miscarriages.
And it's okay, I barely knew them.
- They were really early.
- [audience laughing]
[Macey] Really early.
I was lucky.
They all happened at about six weeks.
And a lot of women don't even know
they're pregnant at that point.
But I wonder if it's just
my body still thinks I'm in Texas.
- And it's trying to protect me, you know?
- [audience laughing]
Because after six weeks in Texas,
you're in trouble.
That's a great joke.
My body's like, "You need to drop a pin."
"Let us know where you are
before we proceed."
- That's a great joke, dude.
- You know? Yeah.
I actually had two in one year,
which I feel like is a little more rare.
- I call them my Irish miscarriages.
- [audience laughing]
And all three of them,
they're actually all missed miscarriages,
meaning my body
didn't show any signs at all.
The doctor had to tell me every time,
"Oh, this is happening again."
Irish goodbye, you know? All of them.
I just…
[audience laughing]
That's why I call them
me "McCarriages," and…
[audience laughing]
Which sounds like a seasonal item
at McDonald's, I think.
[audience laughing]
- [sings McDonalds theme song]
- [audience laughing]
- I'm losing it. That's what's happening.
- [audience laughing]
- That's what's happening.
- [audience laughing]
I am a bit of a hypocrite, though.
I have to be honest with you.
You know, I came in here hot
with the parenting tip.
But when I went in for my last ultrasound,
I did look down and I yelled,
"Look alive out there."
Because I thought maybe
in this case it would work. It didn't.
Thank you, guys. I'm Macey Isaacs.
- Very smart.
- [Tom] Really smart.
- That's good writing.
- [Kevin] Point of view very clear.
- For a five-minute set, like, who are you?
- Yes.
[Tom] Take us on a ride and then be funny.
You're not going
to forget what she spoke about.
[Tom] No way.
As a comic, when you're dealing
with shock factor material, that's tough.
[Tom] There's like inherent risk to it.
It can land poorly.
Like, she nailed it.
- [laughs]
- [comics applauding]
- I did it!
- [Ray] You crushed!
- I'm just putting it all into perspective.
- Thus far, we've got Steve.
- [Tom] I think you got Macey.
- [Kevin] I think we got Dvontre, Andrea.
- I think Kalea was funny as well.
- [Tom] I like Dan.
Us being in line this far is a good thing.
- Yes.
- Right, okay.
If you had to put ingredients in the pot,
what you feel
are the important ingredients
to make, shape, or mold
a fucking good comedian,
what would they be?
I think there are three.
Point of view, perspective.
Like, I want to get to know you on stage.
I want you
to do a joke that only you can do.
- [Chelsea] Yes, for sure.
- The second thing…
is the technical aspect of comedy.
Do you know how to structure a joke?
Do you know how to do tags?
Do you know how to keep your setups short?
Do you know how to, like,
have a bunch of punchlines in a row?
And then the third
is sort of the X factor,
and that's a very hard thing to define,
whatever the star quality is.
But you always have to always come back
around to who you are.
[Kevin] Yes! That value is gold.
That's what I think
is special about comedy.
And the great comics do that
like nobody else.
How do I make you relate?
How can I fucking put a string
through this audience
and make everybody grab the string
and everybody hold on to it
and go, "We all do that."
Regardless of race, color, shape, size,
whatever the fuck you are,
what I'm talking about,
everybody sees through the same lens.
I hate that whole thing they do when
they're like, "Oh, you're from Chicago."
"What, were you a Chicago ten
and now you're like an L.A. four?"
Because first of all, I shouldn't have
to do math to know if I'm hot.
Here's what I know about myself.
If I spend 24 hours
in Appleton, Wisconsin,
I can get somebody to buy me a house.
That's nice in this economy.
That's nothing to laugh about.
[audience laughing]
Within some of these jokes,
when your setup takes you a while…
- Yeah.
-…I want the payoff to match.
- Right?
- I'll let you know a little bit about me.
I'm married.
I don't care if you believe me or not.
[audience laughing]
Human lady, the whole shit.
I'm in an interracial relationship.
My wife is white. I'm Mexican.
Sometimes you hear the grumbles of Latinas
in the crowd mad at my decisions.
I go, "Oh, my wife is white."
They go… [grumbles]
[audience laughing]
Fuck you, lady.
You didn't want to fuck me to begin with.
[audience laughing]
Tripped a couple times.
He didn't hear the reaction
from the crowd that he wanted to,
and I think it shifted.
Growing up Black,
there's so many unwritten rules
in the Black community
that you gotta learn.
For example,
I don't know if y'all know this,
there's a lot of white people in here.
Did y'all know we can't eat hot dogs
in the Black community no more?
Did y'all know this?
You could be at a whole barbecue
and they like,
"Oh, this nigga eating a glizzy."
[audience laughing]
And I'm like, "Grandma, you made these."
- A little nervous.
- Yeah.
He's got charisma like crazy.
- A lot of personality.
- Yeah.
[Kevin] I think watching newer comics,
they'll grab for the easier joke.
- [Tom] Yeah.
- [Kevin] We've seen it for years,
and I think the research in comedy
is something that
a lot of the younger people skip.
Yeah.
- We have three more to see, right?
- We have three more to see. Right?
And these next three
might just fuck us up.
- We don't know. Yeah.
- I hope that's the case.
- I hope they make the decision harder.
- Yes.
[stage manager]
Thirty-second warning for Ray!
[grunts]
Ray, what are you doing?
- I'm stretching.
- Kama Sutra stretches.
[comics laughing]
I am from Seattle, Washington.
I graduated college
and then I instantly moved down
to Los Angeles.
I was raised by two immigrant parents
from Hong Kong.
My parents don't fully
understand what this is.
Are they supportive? I don't know.
Not in a traditional American sense,
I would say.
I have a seven-word sentence
that I think really illustrates
the fact that my parents
don't understand what this is.
I've invited my parents to two shows ever,
and the last time I go,
"Hey, you guys wanna come to the show?"
They said,
"Is it gonna be like last time?"
- [host] Give it up for Ray Lau!
- [audience cheering, applauding]
[Ray] When I first moved here,
I was working part-time
at a crab restaurant.
I was doing open mics.
But that wasn't like my career.
It was always a point to become
a full-time stand-up comedian.
So this year, six years in, I quit my job.
I've been a full-time comedian
for the past four months.
Yeah, what's up? I am Ray Lau.
I got some good news for me.
My good news of the year
is that this year, I quit my job.
So now, for the first time ever,
I'm a full-time stand-up comedian.
[audience cheering, applauding]
- Yes.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
So now, I am self-employed,
which I learned
not that different from unemployed.
[audience laughing]
There's no money coming in, okay?
Self-employed means,
"I guess I'm my own boss now,
but I realize I'm a bad boss."
I had to look my employee
in the mirror this morning.
I told him, "We can't pay you this week."
[audience laughing]
He was hella pissed off, of course.
So I took him to the other room.
I gave him a hand job, okay?
[audience laughing]
I had to quit my job because something
I realized about me at work is
I was hella fake.
I was very fake at my job,
and I realized why,
because I was the youngest person
in the whole office.
Okay, everyone else, a lot older.
They all got kids,
and all they talk about are their kids.
I'm like, who gives a fuck?
[audience laughing]
I remember I was having a bad week
at work, and this lady,
she brought her son into the office,
and he sucked.
[audience laughing]
He comes up to me, he goes,
"Hey, guess what?"
"I can count to 100."
I go, "We're busy."
[audience laughing]
[laughs]
And everyone else in the office,
they love it though.
They go, "Aw, you can?"
"Well then, show us."
He goes, "Okay, one, two, three…"
I start looking up how to get a vasectomy.
[audience laughing]
"Four, five…"
And if I had to listen to the whole thing,
so do you, okay.
"Six, seven…"
This was 9:20 a.m. "Eight, nine…"
You think, "He's not really gonna do
the whole thing." Oh, yes, I am.
"Ten, eleven…"
Make sure you wear a condom, okay.
"Twelve, thirteen…"
Make sure you vote next time, all right?
"Fourteen, fifteen…"
Vote for less kids if you can, all right?
"Sixteen, seventeen…"
The kid was white,
if that matters, all right?
"Eighteen, nineteen…"
It doesn't matter, but it does make sense.
"Twenty, twenty-one…"
If he was Asian,
we'd already be at a hundred by now.
I like the creativity.
I like the creativity.
And then, dude, the kid,
he gets stuck at 31.
He goes, "Thirty-one…"
I go, "Bro, what the fuck?"
[audience laughing]
"You didn't even practice."
Everyone else in the audience,
they start helping him. They go,
"Come on, you got this.
Thirty-one, thirty…"
He goes…
"Thirty-two." Everyone starts clapping.
I'm like,
this is why we're losing to China.
[audience laughing]
We're applauding this?
If this happened in China, they would take
that kid and send him to America.
[audience laughing]
I know,
because that's what happened to me.
[audience laughing]
That's my time, guys.
Thank you guys so much.
I'm Ray Lau. Thank you so much.
[audience cheering, applauding]
- [Tom] That's a really strong set.
- Very creative.
- Outside the box.
- That's why I love a curmudgeon.
I love somebody who's like, you know,
railing against polite speech.
Absolutely.
Because everybody knows
how you treat kids,
which is you go, "That's great, buddy.
You can count."
And like, it's a release
to hear somebody go,
- "Fuck that shit." Yeah.
- "Fuck this shit."
That's what we're here for.
- Yeah, that was good.
- We're looking for the new energy
- in comedy with comedy.
- Yeah, yeah.
[comics cheering, applauding]
- [Ray] Thank you.
- Yeah!
[Kevin] Ray's bumped someone.
- Yeah, for sure.
- Yeah.
I felt like Ray's set
was more polished than Dan's.
Yes, yes.
[Tom] Dan has something funny to me.
I don't know.
I kind of want to see him more.
I just, he's funny to me.
- [stage manager] Papp Johnson.
- Get 'em, Papp!
- Papp! Papp, Papp, Papp, Papp, Papp!
- You got this! You got this!
[Papp] I first got into comedy
because I ruptured my Achilles
and I could not play basketball anymore.
And I just needed something to do.
And I was like, okay, well, I'm funny.
Let me go pursue this now
because Hoop Dreams is over.
And I think that's what's beautiful
about comedy
is that there's immediate reaction.
[host] Give it up for Papp Johnson!
[Papp] It's instantaneous, and it's like,
oh, you get what I'm talking about.
You understand.
And I think
that's what really gets me going.
Hello, my name is Papp Johnson.
I'm a big wrestling fan. Anybody else?
- [audience] Yeah!
- Yeah.
Yeah, so I'd like
to give a shout out to John Cena.
[audience laughing]
See, y'all ain't put enough respect
on John Cena's name.
Yeah, because I think John Cena
is the most accomplished
monkey-faced white man…
[audience laughing]
…that there ever has been, yeah.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughs]
You like that?
You like "monkey-faced white man."
I would love to see John Cena
in like a new Planet of the Apes.
- [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
Yeah, he show up to set.
He's like, "Where's hair and makeup?"
They're like, "You good, you good."
- [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
Yeah.
Now, I know I say
a lot of dumb shit on stage.
That's because my father
used to beat me as a child.
The hardest times would be like
when the report card would come home.
Yeah, my mom, she would look at it
and she'd be like… [sighs]
"…I'm so disappointed in you, you know."
"You just wait
till your father gets home."
Yeah, and then she would go
in the other room
and put on a moustache.
- [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
No, I had a father. I had a father.
Tim Allen.
[audience laughing]
Yeah, I was raised on the Tool-Man.
Recently, I heard that he's been demanding
that he say the N-word on stage.
Yeah, that shit was driving me crazy.
I was just at home like…
Toy Story 5 is about to be off the hook.
[audience laughing]
Yeah, to infinity and beyond, nigga.
- [audience laughing]
- [laughs]
Man, I don't think
it's gonna get better than that.
[audience laughing]
So I think I've been amazing.
- Y'all been all right.
- [audience laughing]
- Enjoy the rest of y'all night.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
John Cena being a monkey-faced white man.
John, if you're going to see this
and see me laugh, I love you.
Funny's funny. I couldn't avoid it.
Funny's funny.
[comics cheering, applauding]
I think having a cadence, having a rhythm.
His beats were beats.
- Like, he took his time.
- Yeah.
There were a couple times that was like,
"You got another joke in there?"
- Yeah. Just waiting.
- Yeah. Is there another joke?
- Or are you waiting?
- Yeah.
- He has a twinkle.
- Yeah, there's a likability to him.
But I don't like that I don't know
if he ran out of jokes or not.
- Right.
- [Saul] Who's closing it out?
- [all] Felicia.
- [Felicia] Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
The whole day, yeah.
I'm excited to close it out.
I feel like they'll still have
a lot of energy, hopefully.
- [Kalea] Yeah.
- [Felicia] I've been doing stand-up comedy
for about 12 years.
I feel like in comedy, a part of it
is not knowing what's coming up
in life in general. You know what I mean?
Stand-up's like that.
I was diagnosed
with breast cancer August, 2023.
And then I did chemo, and then surgery,
and then radiation,
and that took about a year and a half.
And I've been cancer-free
about a year now.
- [stage manager] Felicia Folkes!
- [Dan] Felicia!
The whole time I was thinking, like,
I really can't wait to perform again.
I mean, I've been through a lot,
and I just want to kind of prove
to myself, yeah, I was sick,
yeah, I was out of the game,
but I'm back, I'm in it,
and I didn't lose my chops.
I want to make the top three.
That's what I want.
[audience laughing]
Oh, yes. Thank you. Thank you.
I'm gonna be very vulnerable
with my stand-up.
People come up to me after the show,
and they say to me, like,
"Wow, I've never seen someone talk
about that."
"I've never seen someone say it
that kind of way."
You know what I mean?
So I don't know any other place,
really, that a Black woman can just
honestly be open and be herself.
Hi. My name's Felicia Folkes.
I'm from Inglewood, California,
born and raised. Yes! Yes.
If you haven't heard of Inglewood,
you should go tonight.
Bring your kids. Bring your jewels.
[audience laughing]
Walk around.
Explore the city.
[audience laughing]
I'm excited to be doing comedy again.
I had to take a year and a half off.
I was really sick.
I don't know how else to say this.
I had, this is true,
I had stage-two breast cancer.
Very true. I know, very sad.
But now I'm, like,
over a year breast cancer free.
- So that's pretty cool. Wow.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
Thank you, guys.
Thank you. I'm a hero.
[audience cheering, applauding]
Oh, God. No, I did beat breast cancer.
A man could never.
It's crazy going
through something like that.
I don't want to sound shallow or anything,
but the whole time I was like,
man, I'm gonna have massive surgery
and radiation and chemo.
And I'm a woman, I just want
to feel beautiful and attractive.
But ladies, if you're worried
you're going to get sick like that
and be ugly, don't worry.
Men will still try to fuck you
even if you're radioactive.
- [laughs]
- [audience cheering, applauding]
- Very funny.
- I don't know who needs to hear
this message tonight.
I know you're like,
"If I go through chemo,
I'll lose all my hair
and my eyebrows and my eyelashes."
They don't care.
[audience cheering, applauding]
I've learned they just flip you over.
This is something I've learned.
- This is something I've learned.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
- This is something I've learned.
- That's funny.
I did get hit on at my favorite place
I've ever been hit on at.
I got hit on at chemo.
- Not to brag, not to brag.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
Not to brag, thank you.
A lot of bitches can't say that,
you know what I mean?
Because they're healthy
and they're gonna live, but…
- [audience laughing]
- I feel like it was my fault.
I was being really nice at chemo.
It was my first day, you know what I mean?
So I had a lot of energy.
I was like, yeah, let me be nice.
Let me smile. Let me be positive.
And one day this man looked at me
and he was like, "Man, I like you,
what you doing after this?"
"After chemo?"
- [laughs]
- [audience laughing]
He was like,
"No, what are you really going to do?"
"We got to do something together,
we got to live one more time."
I was like, this motherfucker's smart.
You know what I mean?
And then I started flirting
with everybody at chemo.
The more I went, I was like, he's right.
I got to pick people's spirits up.
I got to really do this.
And sometimes men would not want to come.
They'd be like, "I'm so tired,
I'm too sick, I don't want to come."
I'd be like,
"Come to the next appointment,
I'll give you a hand job."
- I was saying anything.
- [audience laughing]
I thought we were going to die.
I was saying anything.
[audience laughing]
And guess what? They lived. They lived.
- And I don't-- Right.
- [audience cheering, applauding]
And you know what? I don't get any credit,
and that really pisses me off.
[audience laughing]
They give the doctor all the credit,
but I was saving niggas' souls.
You understand me?
[audience laughing]
Pulling niggas through.
Thank you.
All right, I think that's my time.
Love you, bye!
[audience cheering, applauding]
- [Tom] Thank you.
- [Kevin] I love her.
Very strong. A great way to close out.
- That was great.
- A great way to close out.
Taking something as dark
and making light of it.
- Yeah.
- I just saw a very tight…
- Yeah, five minutes. Yeah.
-…five minutes.
And the audience was,
they were there every step of the way.
- She's highly likeable.
- Yeah.
That conversation of Ray and Dan
is now Ray, Dan, Felicia,
because she was great.
Well, we got a pickle.
We got a fucking pickle.
Shit.
[host] And give it up for yourselves.
Y'all were a great audience.
Thank y'all for coming out!
- [Kevin] This is a very strong group.
- [Tom] This is a strong group.
- [Kevin] Very strong group.
- Damn.
This is a good problem to have.
It was so cool to see
all your friends' best five minutes.
It's not an easy thing
when you're narrowing it down.
[producer] Kevin, if I could get you guys
just to bang out this list.
So we know what you're thinking.
My biggest question with Papp is,
did he run out of material?
[producer] Even though
you laughed the hardest with him.
The John Cena joke made me laugh.
- [producer] Yeah. I know.
- John Cena joke killed me.
- That's what we're all reacting to.
- That's a joke.
- I've never seen you laugh like that.
- Off the chain, though.
No, it's a joke, though. It's one joke.
So I can't be unbiased.
We're talking about the set.
Tom is a comedian that,
of course, knows hard shit,
has been through the ups
and downs that comedy will bring
at your doorstep.
But he stayed true to the craft.
And I'm grateful for his help
in selecting the comics going through.
We have to get this right.
We can't fuck it up.
- We find out tonight?
Yeah, you find out right now, I think.
It was fun. It was fun to watch everyone.
If I make it to the next round,
I will shit myself.
[chuckles] In a happy way.
- Macey, so good. So funny.
- Thank you. You're so funny.
I really, yeah, I think this is going
to be really tough.
I have no-- And everyone's so different.
I'm nervous. Yeah. I'm-- Yeah.
They said they were, like, taking notes.
Like, they were really…
Good job, everybody.
Good job. Good job. Good job.
[all cheering, applauding]
I couldn't have asked
for a better display of talent.
Everybody here should be
proud of themselves.
Great choices of material.
Creativity within material, right?
But as you know, it's a competition.
So unfortunately, we can't pick everybody.
We can't take everybody. It is what it is.
- We pick what we see or what we feel…
- Yes.
…is the best.
With that in mind, here's my top five.
First and foremost, Steve.
[all cheering, applauding]
- Good job.
- Hell yeah!
- Catching that hat, catching that hat.
- It's the hat.
- Yeah, it was the hat trick.
- Catching the hat was very cool.
Macey, where's she at? Where's Macey?
[all cheering, applauding]
- Wow.
- Macey, you were so poised, too.
It was fun to watch you do what you did
and the way you do it.
- It was really great.
- Really, really great.
- Thank you.
- Number three, Andrea.
You also are going to L.A. as well. Yes.
[all cheering, applauding]
Very, very funny.
Love your choice of material.
It was refreshing,
so congrats to you as well.
[all cheering, applauding]
I just want everyone to know I'm funny,
so I'm hoping he thinks that.
I want to win everything.
Number four, I mean, Felicia, goddamn.
- Thank you, oh, God.
- [Kevin] Yes.
From the moment you stepped on the stage,
you grabbing the microphone,
your energy, it was vibrant,
it was real, it was personable.
You had the audience in your hand
from the moment you stepped on
to the moment you stepped off.
- That's right.
- So congrats to you. All right?
[all cheering, applauding]
[Kevin] Our fifth person going through is…
I feel nervous. I am.
I'm like, I don't want to lie and be like,
"I'm confident right now." I'm nervous.
I'm worried.
[Papp] I feel like I did enough,
but I'm never 100% sure,
especially with the amount
of talent that's in this show.
[Ray] It feels nerve-wracking.
You know,
we're always nervous a little bit.
As comics, we face a lot
of really high pressure sets constantly.
There's always someone
we're trying to impress.
Today it's Kevin Hart and Tom Segura
and we'll see what happens.
Dvontre, man, I'm gonna vote you.
[all cheering, applauding]
The confidence to be able
to sit in pauses the way you do,
it usually is something you see
if somebody's been doing it, like,
at least ten years.
So, I don't know
if you're a fucking alien,
but it's… it was really…
- Three years of doing comedy was…
- Yeah. That's nuts.
It's extremely impressive.
[all cheering, applauding]
Now, you know,
all these decisions vetted out.
It wasn't easy.
It came with the fucking conversation
of extreme back and forth.
We said that we were going
to come out with a handful.
A handful was five.
But we made a decision to do
something just made up on the spot.
We're not done. We still got more.
Motherfuckers. What?
[Kevin] We're going to take
six instead of five.
["Backwardz" playing]
Say they ready for the show
I don't know, I don't know ♪
Hit another stage
Gotta go, gotta go ♪
Turned another page
Other chapter long ago ♪
Handling this business
Like a pro, like a pro ♪
Stay authentic
We gone get it ♪
We drop in it
Represented ♪
We jumped in it
Gotta keep it hot ♪
- With the true sauce in ♪
- Never gone stop ♪
- That's proof we wit it ♪
- Never gone stop ♪
- We will never quit it ♪
- Never gone stop ♪
- This just the beginning ♪
- Never gone stop ♪
You thought that it ended, admit it ♪
We gone keep it movin', yeah
'Cause there ain't no other way ♪
Only way to do it, yeah
Do it every single day ♪
Gotta keep the focus, yeah
Locked in and loaded, man ♪
That's the way we do it, yeah
You must have it backwardz, and ♪
- Backwardz, backwardz, backwardz ♪
- Yeah, you got it ♪
-Backwardz, backwardz, backwardz ♪
- Yeah, you got it ♪
Backwardz, backwardz, backwardz ♪
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