Funny AF with Kevin Hart (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

1
[upbeat music playing]
[Kevin] All right, we got four left.
Steve, Ron, Eva, and Ray.
Two people move on to the next round.
This is not an easy decision.
You made it extremely tough.
Steve, you're gonna move on.
-Fuck me, thank you.
-[Kevin] Okay.
[applause]
[Steve] Man, what am I feeling right now
is a ton of adrenaline.
This whole competition
has become up and down,
whether my personal life
or professional life.
One goes up, one goes down,
but luckily I'm still here
to fight another day, and that's really
all I can focus on right now.
The last person going through is…
[tense music playing]
Ron, I want to see more of you, man.
-[exhales deeply]
-I want to see more of you.
You have this natural cadence
of comfort, man, of charisma.
It looked like you were having a good time
as you were doing your set.
Like, I forgot at one point
that you were doing an actual set.
I want to see where that goes
in the next stages.
I feel appreciative
that I squeaked on through.
But, you know,
as Kobe said, "Job's not done,"
you know, so there's definitely
still more to go.
My asshole ain't released all the way,
but a little pressure is now gone.
So for those that did not make it,
I'm gonna say this,
Eva, you have a very raw,
"I don't give a fuck" energy.
The digs at Marshawn, I felt, were clever.
I felt that there was a nice build.
But I felt like there was a moment
where you got very fast in the set.
It was not in a panic way,
but it was like,
"I'm gonna get through it.
I'm gonna keep going."
"I'm gonna keep going."
And I think you cut off some of the laughs
by getting right into the next thing.
Ray, I'm gonna tell you flat out,
you're the only one that didn't
address the concept of the roast
in its entirety, right?
And what I mean by that,
the set was very funny,
but you didn't hit Marshawn.
When you're doing something like this,
the dope thing is
about giving energy to the entire set.
I felt like you didn't necessarily
stay true to the challenge.
Were you funny?
Fuck, yeah, you were funny.
Are people gonna walk away
and say you were funny?
Fuck, yeah,
they're gonna say you were funny.
But I think people
would understand my why.
So, Eva and Ray, do me a favor
and exit with your heads up.
You're more than capable
of doing whatever it is
that you wanna do in this business.
This was just a stepping stone.
Chin high, this is not a low, it's a high.
I love you. Congratulations, baby.
[Ray] I'm sad, obviously,
we didn't make it through,
but the craft continues
and the journey continues for me.
Hi, Mom and Dad. Sorry.
[chuckles]
-Thank you.
-[Eva] Roasting?
Okay, someone tell me
I'm not good at roasting.
That's not news to me at all.
I feel like roasting is a separate skill.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I said, if you're trying
to figure out if someone can cook,
you don't ask them to bake a cake.
I know what I'm capable of.
I'm a fantastic, strong,
resilient stand-up comedian.
[Kevin] All right.
-Jesus.
-God damn.
-So intense.
-It's a competition, guys.
I'm so proud of you, thankful for you.
-Of course.
-I love you.
-I love you.
-And I'm gonna make you proud.
-I'm gonna take it back for both of us.
-Please. You got to.
-I gotta hold it down.
-I love you.
-I love you so much.
-Thank you.
All right, now let's talk
about the next step.
You guys have all spent years working
on your craft and also your material.
But as I said,
this competition needs
to have a whole range of skills
that you present as a comic.
So what I want to see,
I want to see you guys think on your feet.
Some topical material,
things that everybody
is talking about right now.
And I also want
to see you guys do some crowd work.
Involve the crowd
into what it is that you're doing.
Sometimes a crowd
could throw you a curve ball.
How do you handle that curve ball?
Only six of you will go on
to the live semifinal.
So, that means two more people
are going home.
Man, it's getting good.
Good luck, and I'll see you next time.
Thank you, Kev.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
-Went to war with y'all.
-Come on.
[Usama] Goddamn, that was crazy.
[sighs]
-Damn, man.
-[chuckles]
-Great job, brother.
-Come on, man.
Yeah, the greatest ♪
[upbeat music playing]
[Olivia] It's a new day and like
I'm just trying to have fun
'cause last night was so high stakes
and so much build up
and, like, we've been working
on this for months, and, like, today,
I want to just kind of keep it loose,
not think negatively, go for it.
[Ron]
Are y'all more nervous or less nervous?
More nervous.
[Steve] Yeah, starting to creep in
that this is actually happening.
-[Chelsea] Hey, hey, hey, hey!
-[Kevin] What's up, guys?
-Hey, hey!
-What's up, what's up, what's up?
[Caitlin] Jesus Christ, I have to perform
in front of my hero, Chelsea,
and I am feeling really nervous.
If I bomb, I'm gonna murder everyone
in this building.
The Elite Eight,
Top Eight, what are we referring
to you guys as?
He got dressed up for you guys today,
you see this?
This is a cashmere fucking sweatsuit.
It's not the outfit,
it's the body that it comes in.
But I'm excited to see you guys tonight.
You guys are doing topical and crowd work.
That is the competition tonight,
which I think…
-You ready?
-…is dope as hell.
Just to see how you guys are thinking
in the moment.
Anyone who's paying attention
to everything that's going on
in the world, there's a lot to pull from.
I don't have the topical
on day-to-day side.
That is not my weapon of mass destruction,
which is why Chelsea's here.
You see that?
You're a valuable asset to me.
Yeah, I mean, like, you don't have
to make your whole set
about what's happening in the world,
but something that is relatable
to what everybody sees is happening
is kind of nice to touch upon.
It makes you feel unified.
Yeah, I think in the world of topic,
when you go in,
-operate good and be different.
-Right. Good point.
Is it raw?
And how strong is your opinion
in that space?
Absolutely. Sometimes when you come out
as a comedian,
especially when you're
in venues like this,
you wanna go out
and get right to the joke so fast.
And you don't understand
there's a comfort to intimacy.
When you are involving a crowd,
well, a crowd relaxes.
Sir, what the fuck,
what you doing with your neck?
Let your tie go a little bit.
-Yeah.
-What do you need that up there for?
-Open your legs.
-Open your fucking-- Open your what?
[Chelsea] Tell people to open their legs
and to relax.
-Well, you get the--
-Men, I mean.
Yeah, you get what I'm saying
and you get the reason behind it.
If you don't get the reaction you want,
don't let it stop your energy.
-Don't let it throw you off.
-Break a leg, you guys.
Okay, this is the eight.
We're in the final eight.
Huh? One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight.
You know the beauty of it?
It's gonna be six.
Yeah, who's out?
-Okay.
-Who? Who? Look at this.
We get real creepy.
Come on, let's go. Let's go.
That's it.
[upbeat music playing]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome to the stage, Kevin Hart!
[crowd cheers]
Wait, wait. What?
Shout out to you guys, too, man. Yeah.
-These audiences are literally gorgeous.
-[Olivia] Yeah.
-Interesting, you know.
-Yeah.
-I don't know what's going on.
-[Olivia] Do you want to hold my hand?
No, I might squeeze it or make it sweaty.
I'm sorry.
Yes, yes. Sit down, sit down.
I want to welcome, welcome you
and the world to Funny AF.
This is my search for the next
great stand-up star, okay?
And tonight, well, you'll see the final
eight comics still in competition.
After their sets,
the field will be cut to six.
Those six comics move on
to our semifinal on Monday, May 4th.
Then it's up to the global audience
who votes live
to decide who makes the finale, okay?
Who wins it all?
And joining me tonight
is an A-list comedian
who's been delivering
off-the-charts comedy for years.
Do me a favor, guys, put your hands
together for my special guest judge,
Chelsea Handler, ladies and gentlemen.
[crowd cheers]
[Kevin] Yeah!
Hi, you guys.
[Kevin] Look at that.
Hi!
[Kevin] Chelsea's value is bar none.
She has been amazing in dealing
with the world of topical humor, right?
In the days of Chelsea Lately,
she dealt with whatever
was going on in the world in real time,
broke it down in a funny way
that was only unique to her and her style.
Tonight, Chelsea, I think,
you know, your visual
to what the performances
break down to be as you're out.
It's not a visual.
It's just an assessment.
It's your visual.
But it's not the right word
that you're using.
What do you mean? Your visual.
You're looking at the fucking people.
Your visual. You're visualizing
what's good about the set
versus what isn't, Chelsea.
Your visual.
I'm assessing. I'm not visualizing.
That's imagining something
that's not even happening.
What you're doing is pissing me off.
That's what you're doing, Chelsea, okay?
-Just fucking let me say the word.
-Okay.
It says Funny AF with Kevin Hart.
Let me fucking talk, Chelsea.
God.
I love her, I really do.
I love her, all right?
Are you guys ready to see some comedy?
Yeah?
Then goddammit, let's see some comedy.
First up!
We gotta make everybody proud.
I'm a little rusty
in the crowd work department,
and I'm not used
to doing it in Los Angeles.
I haven't really performed
on the West Coast.
Such a beautiful crowd. Look at this.
[crowd cheers]
It's representative of Los Angeles.
Will you stop it?
Stop touching my microphone.
[Winston] I'm a little nervous
about showcasing my viewpoints.
My background is really different.
Being raised really conservative,
moving really far left,
but still having a good relationship
with my conservative friends and family.
I didn't want to, like, hurt any
of my friends' feelings or go too far.
I think the challenge is going to see if,
like, what my energy and my vibe is,
if it meshes with what
the audiences are out here.
[Kevin] All right, guys, first up, a comic
from a really small town in Virginia.
Make some noise for Winston Hodges!
-[crowd cheers]
-[upbeat music playing]
Oh, yeah. What's up? Let's go, dude.
This shit rocks, man.
I'm feeling good, brother.
I'm feeling excited, dawg.
You fucking-- Yeah, bro.
I'm feeling good, yeah.
What about you, brother?
You fucking excited for this shit?
You fucking pumped right now?
Yeah, you better fucking be.
You just saw the most famous
Black man on Earth
introduce the least famous
white person you've ever seen
in your fucking life.
I like your energy, man.
You fucking smoke?
You get high? You a drug addict?
You better, yeah.
Well, you better fucking grow up, man.
I don't know what to tell you, dude.
It's 2026. Shit is fucked up.
I don't know what to tell you, dude.
I'll say this, man.
I live in Virginia.
I'm right outside Washington, D.C.,
and D.C. and Virginia, they change…
they change their weed laws all the time.
But as somebody that's 35,
I remember when weed was illegal
so that everybody
that fucking used to smoke it,
they were fucking cool about it, man.
They used to be chill about it.
Not now that it's legal.
There's people getting high
that got no goddamn fucking
business getting high, dude.
[crowd chuckles]
It's true, man,
because I come from the type of small town
where every Christmas
I go home and I get high
with all my high school friends,
and every last one of them
are hard-score, right-wing,
MAGA-level Republicans,
and I don't know
if you guys have gotten high
with a MAGA Republican before.
The fucking vibes are off, man.
Like, it's not…
-[crowd laughs]
-[Chelsea laughs]
The vibes are bad. It's not a good time.
-That's so funny.
-It's true, man.
Weed is supposed
to chill you the fuck out. Nope.
Yeah. Honestly, man, every time I'm home
and I'm around all my Republican friends
that are getting high,
when they start saying their ideas,
it makes me realize everything
that comes out of the White House
the last 18 months really feels
like a group of Republicans
got high for the first time.
Don't you feel like every day
you turn on the fucking news
and there's some new dipshit
on TV being like… [inhales]
we're gonna have a UFC fight
at the White House. [exhales]
-[crowd cheers]
-[Winston chuckles]
Every fucking day, man, every day,
it's just some new dude that kind of
looks like me being like… [inhales]
Y'all think we could buy Greenland,
you guys think?
-It's good, it's really good.
-You think that's a thing we can do?
You got to joke about it, man,
because I don't know if you know this.
We are fucking cooked, man.
Like, it's done.
I live right outside Washington, D.C.,
and shit is scary, man.
Every day I turn on the news,
this is shit going on with Iran
and the Middle East
and gas through the fucking roof,
and it's still going on
with Russia and Ukraine.
Every day you turn on the news, man,
and I was raised really religious,
so even though all that shit goes on,
every morning I wake up
right outside Washington, D.C.,
and I pray and I thank my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ every day.
I thank him every day that at least I get
to live inside the blast radius.
-You know what I mean?
-[crowd laughs]
You got to make some tough decisions
if you don't live
in the blast radius.
When a nuke hits, do you know which one
of your parents you're going to eat?
Do you know which one it is?
The thing I'm most excited about
is when that nuke hits
and the light washes over my fucking body
and I turn to dust,
I'll be like,
"God damn, I finally hit my goal weight."
-You know what I mean, I think?
-[crowd laughs]
I've been Winston Hodges.
You guys have a wonderful night.
That was an A-plus. He's awesome.
[Chelsea] That was an A-plus,
in my opinion.
-You forget his awkwardness thing.
-I can't even talk to you
because of the smell
that's coming off of your perfume.
-It's very strong.
-It's fucking cologne.
I think all in all,
in the spirit of the competition,
I think I did what I was supposed to do.
Whoo!
-[Usama] How do you feel, bro?
-It felt like going first.
-Okay. Okay.
-You guys, this is so fun!
[crowd cheers]
I am, as always, terrified.
I feel like I'm so in the good graces.
It's not even real.
Like, everyone's amazing.
You really saw the level yesterday.
Like, everyone is here to play.
There's no weak links, and I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling the pressure.
This Bengali comic
kicked off the roast last time.
From New York City, Usama Siddiquee!
-[upbeat music playing]
-[crowd cheers]
Keep it going.
[crowd continues cheering]
[laughs]
How we feeling? Feeling good?
We love ourselves, yeah?
Gotta love yourself, man. We're all
insecure about something, right? Right?
You got a small dick, you're like,
"Oh, no, I hope nobody finds out
I have a small dick." Right?
You got a big dick, you're like, "Oh, no,
I hope nobody finds out I can't read."
-[chuckles] That's you.
-Right?
You got a massive dick, you're like…
[grunts indistinctly]
You get a super tiny dick, you're like,
[imitating Donald Trump]
"We're gonna save Venezuela."
"We're gonna do it."
[crowd cheers]
"We're gonna do it."
[in normal voice] Donald Trump,
all his people are crazy.
You know this, right?
Kristi Noem, her husband
was caught cross-dressing.
Y'all know about this?
Why is it when Republicans get caught,
it's never like
a normal amount of gay ever?
It's never like, "Oh, he was
like holding someone's hand in a park."
No, it's like, "Senator found
with nine dudes in a Buc-ee's bathroom."
"So much fluid, nine dudes died."
Jesus Christ, man.
That's the thing with it,
the worst Republicans,
they got this anti-gay sentiment.
You know what I'm saying?
Bro, homophobic or nah?
[crowd laughs]
Yeah, just quick, quick fire.
Don't think, don't think, bro, real quick.
Just gotta check,
just gotta check real quick, okay?
You can't, you can't--
Bro, homophobic or not?
Okay, but you're Black,
so your dad is homophobic, right?
[crowd laughs]
Listen, all Black dudes
are homophobic as fuck.
But they're funny about it, right?
Because when they want
to call someone gay,
they'll say everything
besides the word gay, right?
They'll be like… [in deep voice]
"Your friend Jimmy,
a little loose in the shoes."
"Hey, all I'm saying is
the boy plays tambourine." [chuckles]
[in normal voice] I'm like,
"Are you saying, 'He's gay?'"
[in deep voice]
"Boy, I ain't saying shit."
"But that boy likes to slip and slide."
[chuckles]
"All I'm saying." [laughs]
[in normal voice] Oh, my God. No, no.
My guy, my guy, always, always.
That's good.
Kevin, I had an old Black dude roommate,
never said gay.
If I had a gay friend, he was like…
[in deep voice]
"That boy got the devil's butt."
"That boy got that devil's booty."
[in normal voice] Kevin, then my friend
went trans and he was…
[in deep voice]
"Now, he's got Satan's coochie."
[Kevin] Oh, shit.
[in normal voice] Clap it up
if you grew up Christian, clap it up.
Okay, awesome, awesome.
So, these people grew up homophobic.
Bro, I grew up Muslim.
Bro, I had Muslim leaders
doing homophobic speeches, right?
But they're always doing it
in like deep Arabic, right?
So, it was always like…
[grumbles indistinctly]
[grumbles indistinctly]
I'm like, "Yo, how you
gonna hate on gay people
while sounding
like you're sucking a dick?"
Listen, y'all been amazing.
Thank y'all so much.
-Such a great set. Such a great set.
-[crowd cheers]
Thank you, guys. Thank you, guys.
Thank you, guys. Oh, my Gosh.
Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you. Thank you.
In a theater like that, I've never gotten
a standing ovation like that before.
That was an insane experience.
I usually never rate my sets well,
but I think that was… that was a nine.
That was a good set.
That was a very good set. I feel good.
Brother, just a--
-Oh, damn. That was great.
-And yet you were scared.
Just got the first standing ovation.
How much-- Was that
like primarily crowd work?
It was crowd work,
but I was like working bits in
and kind of working off the crowd.
You're making me think,
rearranging myself.
-No, no, it's all good.
-[Chelsea] He's a star.
To introduce difficult subject matter
and make it light and funny,
the Black experience
-and Black homophobia…
-One thousand percent.
-…you're dying because it's true.
-That's my dad. That's my fucking dad.
He's charming
-because his energy looks fun.
-Yeah.
It doesn't look forced.
It doesn't look like,
"I'm coming to my next joke.
Here's the robot."
His participation, like, with crowd,
towards crowd was even so good
because it was about,
"Hey, man, what are you?"
"You're going to be--"
"You're going to do this quick, quick."
"What are you?
Are you homophobic? Yes or no?"
-"Quick, quick, quick."
-And confident.
-Yeah.
-Like, confident and a stage presence.
That's important, to have stage presence,
to come out here and command
-the attention of everybody.
-I agree, I agree.
Bro, you're gonna kill it. You're the man.
-Appreciate it.
-You're fucking amazing, dude.
-It's gonna be amazing.
-Love it. Good stuff.
-We'll knock it out. Right on.
-My guy.
[Ron] I got picked last.
I'm not certain as to what made it
between me and whoever else didn't get in,
but I've done crowd work,
I've done topical,
so now we're back in my element.
I will absolutely be
one of the semifinalists.
All I gotta do is do my job,
and you're gonna get these laughs
one way or another.
I can't stress this enough.
We are dealing with our top eight.
And you're seeing people come out
with fucking real, real,
real fucking thunder, man.
This is what comedy
and competition is about.
[producer] You just wanna
stop scooping ice cream.
So listen,
about this ice cream thing, man,
that was a little thing, right?
I did not mean for it to be
my whole fucking life story, all right?
Don't nobody ask me shit
about no motherfucking ice cream
no more, all right?
If I had it my way,
people would remember me
as the coolest, most handsome,
hugest dick,
funniest guy in the world, you know?
But that's just me, right?
From Detroit, Michigan,
please show some love
to my guy, Ron Taylor!
-[crowd cheers]
-[upbeat music playing]
I want Ron to do good.
Cut it, cut it, cut it.
What's going on, good people?
[crowd cheers]
All right.
Like he said, I am from Detroit.
[crowd cheers]
Okay, y'all must have never been there.
[chuckles]
Detroit is fucked up.
It's rough out there.
Most places need the police.
Detroit, we need the Avengers. We need…
There's a story y'all might not know
about this because y'all white,
but there's a rapper who got attacked.
They was trying
to snatch his chain, right?
They wrestled him.
He took their gun, shot them.
I knew that story was about a person
from Detroit just from hearing it.
'Cause people in Detroit, we have dreams
of having shootouts in a club.
[crowd laughs]
We all wanna be Rambo.
It was my little brother's dream
to be shot in a club.
[crowd laughs]
That was his dream. He thought
he was going to get cool points for it.
I had to tell him,
ain't nothing hard about being shot.
I said, "If you want to impress me,
I want to see you get hit
with a bow and arrow in the club."
Just imagine my brother dancing,
"Snap, this party's all hype."
Somebody go, "I can't stand
this motherfucker, man."
"Every time I come in here…"
[crowd laughs, cheers]
[imitates arrow]
"Oh, fuck!"
50 Cent got shot nine times.
Take nine arrows to the chest.
Had to get the fuck out of Detroit.
Went to Austin, Texas.
It was weird. I was in Texas
when Trump won the second time.
My mama was all mad.
She called me, "What the fuck?"
"You just let Trump win?"
I said, "I ain't they leader."
"The fuck you want me to do?"
But I get it.
That ICE shit, that is different.
And I tell you, as a Black man,
I thought I would feel happier
seeing white people
get fucked up by the police.
I did. And it was sad. I didn't like it.
Because y'all not ready for it.
Y'all surprised.
[crowd laughs]
-He's good. He's good. He's good.
-Y'all was shocked.
Just, "Oh, me?" Yes, motherfucker, you.
What y'all thought we've been rapping
about this whole time?
That's funny.
Avengers: Doomsday is coming out.
Y'all ready?
[crowd cheers]
Hell yeah.
Those are my favorite movies,
all the superhero movies.
That's all I think about
is different powers to have.
White lady.
[Chelsea chuckles]
This is serious. If you could have
any power, one power, what would it be?
-I don't know.
-You don't know?
Maybe the power to think? Come on now.
There you go, Ron. There you go, Ron.
Ammunition. Good shit.
Okay, Asian man. You can have one power.
What would it be?
-Speed.
-Speed?
Okay, you're a freak, you want
to touch people and run, I get it.
[Kevin] There you go, Ron.
-Speed.
-Yes.
White lady, you got one power.
-What would it be?
-Strength.
Strength? Okay, you scared, I get that,
get them niggas up off you, I get it.
I'll tell you the best power to have,
right, is to heal like Wolverine.
-There it is.
-[crowd cheers]
See, they don't tell you the other side
of Wolverine's powers, right?
Condom, what the fuck is that?
I'm fucking everybody raw.
I'd just heal right up.
Do you know
how many drugs Wolverine is doing?
Gonorrhea, what's that?
[chuckles]
Ladies and gentlemen, that's my time.
I'm Ron Taylor.
[crowd cheers]
-Great job, Ron.
-He's got stage presence.
-He needed it--
-He's charismatic.
He needed it, because yesterday he…
-Really?
-…he was shaky yesterday.
-He came back strong today.
-And it's original.
Been a good run.
Within current events, in culture,
let me educate you guys…
-Right.
-…because I'm going to make you understand
the world that I don't know if you know.
[Chelsea] His crowd work was the best
crowd work that's been done all night.
Ron was so good with his,
"Okay, what's your superpower?"
-What?
-That's a great…
-Okay, you would--
-…also great question to be asking people.
But he had a punchline for each one.
I think Usama's crowd work first,
his second.
This count as crowd work?
As I'm doing it.
-You don't have that moment?
-No, literally, I went out there mentally.
I am talking directly to a person,
asking him questions,
and I'm like, what is crowd work? Really?
When we get down to it.
-Lines…
-Five seconds.
Come on, five seconds. Ready?
Let's go, five seconds.
-[Olivia] So…
-Yeah?
…I've been insecure
throughout this competition…
-Why? Okay.
-…because I'm the newest, young…
-I feel like a child.
-You're the newest young.
-I'm the newest young.
-You're youth.
I feel like I have maybe a chip
on my shoulder
because I am the least experienced
and like the youngest person here.
Every set you do is already
like the most you set.
Takes till like mid-30s, I feel like,
to get there and you're already there
and I'm like so blown away. And like…
-You are, like, so good at what you do.
-Thanks, bro.
Here's our newest stand-up
from Kansas via New York.
Here is Olivia Carter!
-[upbeat music playing]
-[crowd cheers]
Yes! Keep it going for me. Yes!
-Whoo!
-[crowd cheers]
Wow.
I'm so happy to be here.
Oh, my God, what a thrill.
Were any of you beaten by your siblings?
Make some noise
if you were beaten by your…
-[crowd cheers]
-Oh.
Yeah, there's a lot of trauma
in this room.
What'd they do to you guys?
What'd they do to you?
He drove over my hand
with a remote-controlled vehicle
that he put pushpins on the wheels.
If you didn't hear that,
he put needles on a toy car
and then ran over his hand with it.
And when he first said it,
I thought, "A real car?"
And then you found out it was a toy car,
and you're like,
"He's kind of being a pussy."
And then you found out they put needles
on a toy car, and you're like,
"Your sibling should be in prison."
What's he doing now?
Sorry, it could be a woman,
but is it a woman?
-No.
-Totally, it's not. Okay.
He just smokes a lot of weed and paints.
He just smokes and paints.
Okay, sounds like Hitler.
Um… [chuckles]
My sister, she used to kick me
in the vagina every day.
[crowd laughs]
Yeah, and she had, like, size nine feet.
So, it really set vaginal standards
too high for me.
You know, guys will be like,
"Do you like my cock?"
And I'm like,
"Well, it's no foot." You know.
[crowd cheers, laughs]
And I've been doing this thing recently
where a person I've been thinking about
a lot at this time is Erica Kirk.
Let's give it up for her.
Just kidding. She sucks.
Oh, my God. Don't do it.
Someone was gonna do it. That was crazy.
Do you guys know how her and Charlie met?
So, she went in for a job interview
to work for his company,
and he was like, "You're incredible,
but I can't hire you
because I wanna date you."
I was like, I guess it's better
than the other way around,
like going out with a guy and he's like,
"Can I hire you?" You know?
But I'm like, "What did she say
on the interview?"
She was like, "My greatest strength,
I guess I bounce back quickly
from tragedy."
Oh. That's good. Good joke.
[crowd cheers]
"And I don't have a gag reflex."
He was like, "That's my wife."
[chuckles]
And I'm originally from Kansas,
which everyone is disgusted by.
And I'm like, "I didn't mean to, yeah."
It all happened really fast.
And Kansas has been in the news a lot
'cause they just passed this law
that basically makes it,
like, illegal to be trans.
It's like, there's enough overalls
to go around, you guys.
You know, you're gonna be okay.
And you know what actually freaks me out?
I… I would love a trans child.
You know what freaks me out?
Just, like, having just a son.
'Cause one day,
there'll be a man in your house.
-What the fuck?
-[crowd laughs]
If you have a kid,
you're just slowly letting a man
into your home.
That's good. That's good.
And then he could have friends over.
That could be up to, like, nine men.
That's a branch of government
amount of men.
And dads are always like,
"You don't want too many daughters."
"You do not want too many daughters."
Right, you know?
Look at the Kardashians. Yeah.
That was way too many women.
That was so many women,
their dad became one, so. Watch out.
That's good.
All right. Thank you, guys!
-She's such a good writer.
-[crowd cheers]
Everything is an OG clever angle.
That is original shit.
-Oh! Bam, bam, bam, bam! [grunts]
-Bam, bam, bam, bam!
It does feel closer,
in like, the longer I stay in,
the more I want the… the cheese.
I want the cheese.
You did such a great job.
I'm so proud of you.
[producer] I hope your special is called
"I want the cheese."
I want the cheese.
No, I'm lactose. I'll fart. [sighs]
You're gonna crush. Bye.
[Steve] It's kind of an interesting time
in my life.
'Cause my personal life has gone down
quite a bit. My fiancé and I split up.
Seven years we lived together.
We were planning to get married yesterday.
It was supposed to be the wedding.
And that kind of fell apart, obviously.
But, you know, it just made me realize
that comedy's been the thing
throughout my life
since I was 20 years old that never left.
It's been there on my darkest days.
It's been there on my best days.
So, the Steve Furey train
is gonna just keep going, man.
Guys, our next comic,
this guy always brings the energy.
From Los Angeles, here is Steve Furey!
-[crowd cheers]
-[upbeat music playing]
My man, how are we doing tonight?
[crowd cheers]
I'm excited. This lineup is fantastic.
We've got the line at a DMV right here.
That's great.
We've got the offensive line right here.
We've got Planned Parenthood right there.
This is what you need.
Four girls, six abortions.
That's what I like.
How are you doing, beautiful?
Blonde hair and Mexican?
That's natural, right?
That what's… that what's going on.
What's your name?
-Carol.
-Carol. Beautiful name.
-Are you single?
-Yeah.
Yeah? Ooh! What's your favorite sign?
Um…
-Leo.
-Leo? That's my sign.
I'm an Aries, I'm actually an Aries
I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
Don't tell Carol, she took a long time
to think of that, it's not her fault.
I fucking hate billionaires, man.
I-- This is what I wanna do guys,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
If I could, I would kill
every single billionaire.
Does that sound pretty cool?
Does that sound pretty fucking cool?
This is the problem
I've been trying to figure out which one,
it turns out every one,
so I said, "Let's reverse engineer
this bitch," right?
Let's see which ones I don't wanna kill
and I found two.
Number one, Warren Buffett, right?
Warren Buffett
was everybody's first billionaire.
He's like the Pikachu of billionaires.
You know what I mean?
You like him. He's kind of cute.
You know why…
you know why you like him, but he's there.
Another one of my favorites
is a guy named Phil Knight.
You guys know Phil Knight? CEO of Nike.
He designed Jordans. If you like Jordans,
he designed 1 through 13.
He's getting a little bit old.
He just donated two billion dollars
to the College of Oregon's Health
and Sciences to cure cancer.
Pretty fucking cool, right, Carol?
Pretty fucking cool.
I will say this.
If someone gives you two billion dollars
to cure cancer,
You gotta cure cancer.
You know what I'm talking about?
You can't come back not curing cancer
for two billion dollars.
I fail shit for free every fucking day.
I would love to not cure cancer
for two billion dollars.
I look forward to the phone call.
"Phil, what up? Yeah. Yeah."
"Fucking didn't do it, man. It was hard.
Cancer's hard, dude. It was hard."
"Yeah, no, I'm cool."
"I'm just chilling at the beach house
eating sashimi right now."
"It's not that bad. Can't complain."
Who's your favorite person
in this administration, Carol?
Do you like anybody
in this administration?
-No.
-No? God, you're good.
Thank God you were up front.
Let me tell you,
it's not like I'm gonna be on Netflix
with this shit or anything.
I like Pete Hegseth,
'cause he's the first guy
where you could look at him, and be like,
"Maybe I'm the secretary
of defense one day."
I don't know.
It could happen to you, dude.
You just be beer bonging one day
and then you're in
the fucking president's area.
So, I'm trying
to get in the mindset, right?
And this is my idea for invading Iran.
Number one,
you send in Gen Z, just fodder.
They're dead. They can't make it.
They're not gonna make it.
They're not gonna make it, guys.
It's because they're not having sex
and they're not drinking.
You can't go to war not drinking whiskey,
just sipping matcha in the trenches.
It just doesn't work out,
you know what I mean?
The second wave, right here,
OnlyFans models, right?
Yeah. 'Cause you got to think about it.
These guys only seen chicks in burkas
for 80 years.
Imagine 50,000 BBLs
traversing the Iranian countryside.
Just Riley Reid on a horse
with an axe coming at you.
You're not gonna shoot
the hottest woman you've ever seen
in your fucking life.
You're not gonna be looking
down the barrel being like,
"Sir, I can see your ass from the front."
"I think we should listen
to what they have to say."
[crowd laughs]
And that's where we come in, folks.
That's the boys, 30 to 50-year-olds,
no ACLs, riddled with gout,
walking the countryside.
We can't bend down to shoot anybody.
"Has anyone seen my CPAP machine?
I can't sleep in the desert."
My name's Steve Fury.
Thank you guys very much.
[crowd cheers]
So, that was not a great set.
I don't think it was a great set.
Beginning was a little rough.
I think the crowd work aspect
threw him off without getting responses
and or the energy
that he could've been looking for.
But you also don't blame the person
you're talking to for the response.
-Like, you work with it.
-No.
You don't make fun of them
and belittle them.
How you feel, brother?
-It's all right.
-[Winston] All right?
Solid six out of ten.
Well, come on over to the all right couch,
my good man. [chuckles]
I wish I would've slowed down,
cut one of my jokes,
paused for laughter a little bit more.
Crowd work is a part of doing stand-up.
It's a skill set.
Audiences love when you pull jokes
right out the hat.
But I look at every one
of my competitors' faces,
and I realize, "You can win this."
Like, there's not a person I see
who can win this.
So, this is now a death match.
All right. Our next comic, Reg Thomas!
-[upbeat music playing]
-[crowd cheers]
Yo.
Very happy to be here.
I have learned so much
about the presidency
in the last year and a half.
'Cause I'm gonna be honest with y'all,
I had no idea
a president could do all that.
The president could do
whatever the fuck he wants.
Like, I'm not gonna lie,
I look back
and I'm low key disappointed in Barack.
-[crowd laughs]
-That's good. Very good.
After the last year and a half,
I'm like, damn nigga,
we could've really had white slaves.
[crowd laughs]
[crowd cheers]
If this nigga would've just locked in.
That's good.
'Cause the current president going north,
the current president
got everybody scared.
I haven't heard anyone
speak Spanish in public in months.
[crowd laughs]
This is Los Angeles.
I walk around seeing Mexicans,
they out here whispering and shit like,
"Mira, mira."
[shushes]
I'm from New York,
we all go to the bodega.
The bodega is love.
[crowd cheers]
You walk up in there, you're like,
"Yo, papi, what's good? Where's Juan?"
Now you go in there, he's like,
"Yo, primo, you making it hot."
"My name is John." I'm like, "Okay."
Got everybody scared.
I thought I was getting deported
and I'm from here.
I thought I was getting sent
back to Haiti.
I'm too American to go to Haiti.
I own a Waterpik, I can't go.
And I'm a good citizen.
I follow the laws in this country,
even when I don't believe in 'em.
Last year, I was in Texas being messy,
met this girl, got her pregnant,
[crowd gasps]
had to get an abortion.
[crowd gasps]
And when it was all over,
I turned her into the police,
'cause that's illegal in Texas. You can't…
[crowd laughs]
Can't do that. I was like, "Get her!"
Like a good Christian would.
[crowd laughs]
-What's your name, dawg?
-It's Kevin.
-Kevin. Everyone say, "What's up, Kevin?"
-[crowd] What's up, Kevin?
-Kevin, who you here with?
-My wife, Kelly.
Your wife, Kelly. Nice.
How long y'all been together?
-Ten years. Married three years.
-[Reg] All right, all right.
-What about you, bro? Who you here with?
-[man] My wife, Maya.
[Reg] Maya. Okay. Yeah, strike two.
Who looks romantic in here?
Who look like a lover?
-[girl] The top.
-The top?
You niggas are not even here. Anyway.
[crowd laughs]
I can't even see you niggas.
There you go, use it.
What about this guy right here?
What's your name, dawg?
-[man] Ali.
-Ali?
-All right, and who you here with?
-My wife.
[Reg] Your wife. Strike three.
Yeah, fellas, look, I don't really need
to be talking to you niggas.
I'm a wingman.
I'm here to make y'all look good.
You come to the comedy show
with a pretty girl
and I ask you who you here with,
that's a chance to say
something romantic like,
"My beautiful date. My gorgeous wife."
All three of y'all,
"Who, this bitch? Yeah, yeah."
-[crowd laughs]
-"Yeah, it's that one."
That's good stuff.
I'm trying to help you get a blowjob.
Just say something nice.
Look at Ali. He like, "Ask me again."
No, no.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-But, yo, that's my time.
My name's Reg Thomas.
Thank y'all very much.
[crowd cheers]
Great attitude, cute, adorable.
-I like him a lot. And he was real.
-I'm so proud.
And to hit you with the reverse reverse,
like crowd work,
our information or suggestion,
guys, do it at the top.
Come out, get the crowd on your side.
And he also had three strikeouts
and then still cleaned it up at the end.
-Yes, yes.
-That I appreciate.
Well, the strikeouts
is a part of the joke, though.
Y'all basically said,
"Yeah, I'm here with this bitch."
-Yeah.
-The strikeouts were to the audience.
Which is how I feel.
Yeah, that's how I would introduce myself.
Well, I would never introduce you.
-If I was you--
-I would introduce you as "this bitch."
You're this bitch.
-That's exactly who you are.
-I was actually going to say "my queen."
-Don't make me throw up.
-Okay.
[Felicia]
I didn't think I'd make it this far.
This month is my two year remission
from breast cancer. So,
I've just been trying to get back being
able to stand up on stage for like,
30 minutes and do a set.
I know a lot of these guys
are like, they're touring,
and I know they probably had
the opportunity to do more crowd work
on the road
because they've had the chance.
But I feel like I was doing crowd work
at the hospital.
I'm learning how to be a comedian now
after everything I've been through.
But I think it'll be worth it.
And hopefully everyone knows
and can see that, like,
I'm a good comedian and I can do it.
You know, I hope.
I really hope. I really hope.
All right, guys, are we still here?
Is my crowd still here?
[crowd cheers]
Guys, this is a big fucking deal
from Los Angeles.
Make some noise for Felicia Folkes!
-[crowd cheers]
-[upbeat music playing]
Yes! I like that!
Yes!
It's dangerous going outside now.
I don't know if y'all noticed.
I don't know how y'all got here safely,
but it's dangerous.
Everybody, they love blasting away now.
That's the thing.
You cut somebody off in traffic,
they ready to blast you at the light.
It's dangerous outside.
But I'm trained.
I want y'all to know, okay?
If anything goes down tonight, I got you.
Okay?
I did active-shooter training recently.
Did any of y'all
do active-shooter training?
I don't know, I want to know if I…
Okay, okay. Where'd y'all do it?
At your job? What job you got?
-I'm project manager
-A project manager?
People bringing guns in for the projects?
What's going on?
Who else? Someone else raised
their hand over here, too.
Yeah, where'd you train at?
-Universal.
-Universal Studios?
Bitch, this is Netflix.
[crowd laughs]
We don't fuck with Universal here.
That way they won't shoot me. Okay…
-No. Okay, where'd you get trained, ma'am?
-I'm a nurse.
You're a nurse. Okay, give it up for her.
Give it up for a nurse.
-[crowd cheers]
-[Felicia] Thank you, okay?
She can shoot you and save you.
She's important.
Do people bring guns into the hospital?
Absolutely not. I'mma do it.
[crowd cheers]
My doctor, that bitch
won't give me Ozempic.
I'mma come in.
I'mma come blasting it, man.
Personally, I didn't
like active-shooter training.
I didn't like it.
I feel like everybody needs to be
trained specifically to their life.
You get me?
Because I'll train y'all right now.
This is all they do.
They go, "Hey, defend yourself."
Number one, first thing you need
to do is defend yourself.
Throw the items in front of you, okay?
Do you have anything?
Oh, fuck. You ain't got shit?
Okay, you got a little water bottle.
We are fucked.
Oh, my God.
None of y'all got nothing? Goddamn!
Y'all ain't got a chapstick?
Okay, all right.
Number two, the thing they say is run.
-That's a hard one for me.
-[crowd laughs]
I do stay focused
on the defense because the running
ain't really my shit.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I can't-- I'm not The Matrix.
I can't dodge no bullets.
You know, I can't…
This is the third thing they say.
They say, "See something, say something."
That's the full training.
This is why
I don't like active-shooter training
because I feel like you--
There's like no way you're training me,
a Black woman, in seeing something
and saying something.
No, I need y'all to really, I invented
"See something, say something."
Black women, that's all we do.
Have you met-- No seriously, have you met
a Black woman seeing something
and not saying something?
She could have got there a lot faster.
All right, thank you so much.
That's my time, love you.
[crowd cheers]
I like how active she is.
I like how vibrant she is.
-[exhales]
-[Kevin] But what was topical?
-Like, see somebody say something?
-Active-shooter.
Okay, but you stayed
in that bit the entire time.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-Okay, that bit became
-the entire set, right?
-It was too long. Right.
And the payoff wasn't big enough
for the duration.
Right now for me, in my opinion,
I think Felicia, Olivia,
and Steve go at the bottom.
-Okay, and who's the last one?
-Okay?
Caitlin. You still got Caitlin!
So for Caitlin, I think
this is a make-or-break moment.
I'm curious to see her approach to this,
and I like that we're ending it with her.
-Yeah.
-Like, right now, you're closing it out.
Whenever I do a five-minute set, I go in
and I prep, prep, prep, prep, prep.
Like, that's who I am, and we didn't get
to do that this time.
They want you to be off the cuff.
They want you to be present.
-I've never been that person.
-Absolutely not.
I wish I had an ounce of whatever
that open mic comic has. [chuckles]
Yeah, I'm freaking out.
Okay.
In crowd work, there's a lot
of things that can go wrong.
It goes off the rails, it gets weird.
What if I say something and then
they're like, "Well, your mom's a whore."
And then I have to fight this person.
It could happen.
Usually, when I have
a set that's really important to me,
I prepare for weeks, if not months.
And with this one,
I didn't get to run it at all.
I literally have
to surrender and I hate it.
This next comic was inspired
to try stand-up after seeing
Chelsea Handler perform.
That's a true story.
Ladies and gentlemen,
from Brooklyn, New York,
here is Caitlyn Peluffo!
-[crowd cheers]
-[upbeat music playing]
Hey! Hey!
Hello! Hello!
Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness.
Hi, everybody. We feeling good?
We feeling strong?
-[crowd cheers[
-Hell, yeah!
Oh, my God. I'm excited. It's April.
I'm ready for a slutty summer, okay? Yes!
I love that the women are screaming.
I gotta be honest, though.
I'm having a hard time.
I don't get hit on a lot.
I think it's because I talk, okay?
Also, the days of men hitting on women
in real life are kind of over, you know?
It's all about DMs, dating apps.
One time! One time a man came up to me
in real life, told me I had nice teeth.
I didn't know what to do.
I was like, "Oh, my God, pick a hole."
-[grunts]
-[crowd laughs]
"Nice teeth?" We can agree
that's a terrifying pickup line, right?
"Nice teeth."
-You'd make a great rain stick.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did fuck that guy, okay?
I fucked that guy. Thank you, thank you.
Yeah, no, I just…
I knew he'd have a big dick, okay?
I just knew it,
because he approached me, okay?
Thank you, yes.
This is big dick energy, okay? Absolutely.
Yeah, I'm 5'8" , loud as hell,
and can deadlift a Vespa, all right?
[crowd cheers]
Everything about me
says "I demand girth," okay?
That's my version of catching print, okay?
Yeah. We got some people
on the slutty side of TikTok. I like that.
Do you guys know what catching print is?
-[crowd cheers]
-Yes! Hell, yeah!
My hookers showed up tonight. I like that.
If you don't know what it is, okay.
A gay man went on TikTok
and he told the straight ladies
how to find out if a man is packing, okay?
How to find out if he's got a big dick
based on where his bulge is, all right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's pretty straightforward, okay?
It's A, B, and then damn, okay? Yes, yes.
It's will call you, won't call you,
doesn't own a phone, all right?
Oh, my God.
I love telling men about catching print.
Have you heard of catching print, sir?
No, no, no,
you didn't know, you didn't know.
I love it. Do you consider yourself
a grower or a shower?
Answer the fucking question.
[crowd laughs]
Come on, buddy,
don't make me make you stand up. Come on.
I don't give a shit who your mother is!
You tell me right now!
[crowd cheers]
Understood the assignment.
Oh, God. [chuckles]
I hope that guy who made that video
now makes a video
about how to find out
if a guy is circumcised or not.
Yeah, because I'm only going off accents,
you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, mon ami's got a little foreskin.
You know what I'm talking about.
-[crowd laughs]
-Don't make me ask your mom.
[crowd laughs]
Good. Good, Cheslea.
Cheslea, that's good.
I love a foreskin.
We got any foreskin in here?
Come on. Come on. Yeah. Ooh!
We got a little dangler over here. Okay.
-You got your foreskin. Okay.
-All intact.
All intact. Yeah, you got the confidence
of a man with his whole dick.
-I like that. That's good.
-[crowd laughs]
Are you with a partner right now?
Who you fucking?
-I'm with my straggot.
-You're with your what?
-Straggot.
-What's a straggot?
-It's a straight…
-Straight faggot. Okay, thank you.
-[crowd laughs]
-[exhales deeply] Um…
Okay.
Thank you for just canceling my career.
I appreciate that.
Kevin, he said, I repeated what he said.
I didn't want to say it, but he said it.
I'm a good girl. I love the gays.
I love the gays. [squeals]
Love the gays. Yes.
Gays always have
a big age gap when they date, right?
-What's the oldest man you've ever dated?
-Nine?
Nine years apart?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I dated a guy who was younger than me,
but he was too immature.
Okay, yeah, he was a picky eater.
He had never had soup.
I was like, "Honey… you eat ass."
I've had soup.
We've had soup.
[crowd laughs]
Your mom's laughing at that joke.
Your mom's laughing at that joke!
All right, you guys have been great.
I'm Caitlin Peluffo. Bye-bye.
[crowd cheers]
Way to make it count! Caitlin!
[crowd continues cheering]
Okay. [exhales deeply]
I feel good. I feel good.
Okay? I feel good.
That might have been
the best set of the night.
-Next to her and Usama were the best.
-I said… I said…
-That girl did more improv than anyone.
-Anybody.
Like yeah, yeah.
Usama's the only one
who got the same elevation.
Caitlyn mashed it.
-The crowd atmosphere.
-Yes. Yeah, she fucking rocked it.
That was one of the best sets
I've seen in a long time.
-That was awesome.
-With the assignment.
Absolutely.
-So are we bringing them out?
-We're good. Let's go.
I definitely was who I am.
And that was literally what I do.
So if I go out on that, that's okay.
Thank you so much for being so dope.
Good night, guys. Thank you.
And if you guys miss Kevin
when you leave here,
just turn on your TV
and hope you see a credit card commercial.
It's ridiculous.
You really are fucking ridiculous.
[tense music playing]
-Way to go, you guys. Great job tonight.
-Yeah!
[Ron] It did not go the way
I would have liked it to,
but what I did do, people laughed at.
[Steve] Right now, I don't care if I was
the best, which I probably wasn't,
but as long as I wasn't the worst,
I just don't want to go home.
I just want to stay here,
but we'll see how the cards fall.
All right, only six can go, okay?
-Eight minus six is?
-Don't do that.
[all chuckling]
My first comic that I'm going to say
is moving on to the semifinals.
I'm gonna go with Ron.
Whoa!
You were so comfortable on stage tonight.
You managed to get into
like what you like
and somehow tie it
into crowd work so good.
You made the audience a fucking part
of the set and it didn't look
like it was programmed.
So, kudos to you
for stepping up to the challenge.
Yeah, way to go.
Our second comic.
-Caitlin.
-[man] Whoo!
Oh, my God.
Your set was fully embraced
off of improvisation
and crowd participation.
Great job, Caitlin.
-Way to continue to go.
-[Chelsea] Yeah.
That's badass.
That's badass what you did up there.
You were fucking funny
and firing on all cylinders.
Thank you. That means a lot.
Number three.
I'm going to go with Winston.
Aw, Winston.
"The vibe is off
by smoking pot with Republicans."
-That's your line, right?
-Yes, ma'am.
-Your point of view--
-You kept it topical, but--
and political and relatable.
Like, for people
who are not following politics,
you kept it topical enough
for them to pay attention to.
-Yes. Keep going, Winston.
-Thank you both.
Number four, Usama, man.
The way that you went
to what's a touchy subject
in comedy for some,
you seamlessly weaved in and out of it
because you made it likable.
And then that's one
of the most artful things about stand-up
is introducing difficult subject matters
and making people laugh about them.
-Thank you.
-My number five.
I'mma go with Reg, man.
[man] Great set, Reg.
[Chelsea] I thought it was great
that you got eliminated,
that you came back.
I saw you backstage before I came out,
and you were like,
"I've got nothing to lose."
And that's exactly
what your set looked like.
-Thank you very much.
-And the fact that you flipped it
and did the crowd work at the end
instead of the beginning,
which is kind of the opposite
of what everyone did, it was ballsy.
And that spirit of you having nothing
to lose, like, I felt that.
[Kevin] Yeah, so congrats
on fucking showing up.
Yeah, and send a thank you letter
to that girl who bailed.
I mean, yeah, way to go.
All right, guys, I got one more.
-Olivia, you are my sixth choice.
-Wow. Thank you.
-Thank you.
-You have not changed at all.
What you are is what you are going to be,
and there's no ifs,
ands, or buts about it.
Your jokes are hidden,
your punchlines are delayed,
and they have never not paid off.
-Congrats on continuing.
-Thank you.
Felicia and Steve, we're not dealing
with bad comics at this point, all right?
We're talking about an assignment.
Felicia, I'll start with you.
I think in the attack of the assignment,
you gave me one topic,
you stayed there, and within crowd work,
it was questions
and not really receiving the answers
to do anything with them.
Yeah, you have incredible stage presence,
and you're fucking funny as shit.
This just was not the right fit,
you know, for the assignment.
-But you're a fucking star.
-I couldn't agree more.
I worked really hard to be here, you know.
I worked up to this moment.
You know, like two years
ago I couldn't even walk.
So I got to walk out on that stage today
and I'm very proud of myself.
-Nothing but love for you, though.
-Absolutely.
-And I expect to see you later on, okay?
-Absolutely.
Steve,
I think that you rushed a little bit.
I don't think you gave anything a second
to, like, truly build or truly land.
I think that caused a ripple effect.
Because when you got to your material,
-it started to go.
-Yeah.
But I will tell you,
-you are a fucking polished comic.
-Thank you.
[Steve] Am I mad?
No, I'm happy I was even able
to experience this, you know?
Am I going to drive home in silence?
For sure.
Am I going to drink alone? Definitely.
That doesn't mean I'm going
to stop doing comedy
or going any less hard than I have been.
I just want to say all
of you guys have been really great.
It's been great to know all you guys.
Kevin, I want
to thank you for even doing this.
This was a huge opportunity,
and I don't think her
and I will ever forget it.
-Ever forget it.
-And thank you for this.
-Thank you, all you guys.
-I'm going to say, fuck y'all!
Fuck, y'all! No, I'm joking.
-Thank you, thank you, thank you, really.
-Thank you guys very much.
Much appreciated, Steve. Thank you.
Felicia, thank you as well.
Congrats again for moving on.
Of course, it only gets harder
from here, okay?
I am no longer a part of the judging.
It is up to the world to now figure out
who will be our winner, man.
Like, go prepare.
You got a week until our next show.
Guys, this will be a push on social.
If you guys can push yourselves,
push your clips,
amplify yourselves and your talent
to the world,
so they make no mistakes
about who you are, okay?
Next week, I'll let you guys know,
I'll be joined by a very special guest,
a good friend, you definitely know him.
-It's Chris Rock.
-Holy shit.
-Mama mia.
-What the fuck?
You guys have been with me for weeks.
And I said, Chris Rock, whoa!
It just got real.
[crowd cheers]
[Kevin] Well, this is it.
Six comics remain,
and one Netflix Special's within reach
But for the first time,
the final decision isn't mine.
We're handing control over to you.
You, the viewers,
vote live to choose the winner.
I didn't even know
if I was going to get on the show.
So, like, being here and making it
all the way to the semis is crazy.
[Caitlin] I'm feeling
really excited, very grateful.
And then I'm also nervous as hell.
I'm a man of the people.
I've been waiting for the world to see
what the vibes are about Reginald Thomas.
[Olivia] What does America like?
What I'm going to do to prepare
is probably Adderall.
[Usama] There's no weak links.
We're here because we want to do this.
We want to win. So it's like, let's go.
Man, this shit is scary.
You know, if I have a heart attack,
somebody got to pay for that, man.
I'm scared, but I'm ready.
[Kevin] Funny AF goes live
on May 4th and 5th.
Oh, and one more thing.
I'm bringing a friend.
One of the greatest to ever do.
Chris Rock.
-["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 gon' get it
We drop in it, represented ♪
We jumped in it
Gotta keep it hot ♪
-With the true sauce in it ♪
-Never gonna stop ♪
-That's proof we wit it ♪
-Never gonna stop ♪
-We will never quit it ♪
-Never gonna stop ♪
-This is just the beginning ♪
-Never gonna stop ♪
You thought that it ended, admit it ♪
Backwardz, backwardz, backwardz ♪
[song concludes]