[Stern] D.L. Hughley is funny

Smokey · Sep 19, 2007

Long read but good interview.

DL Hughley Visits. 09/19/07. 7:40am

After the break we heard some more of DL Hughley's comedy routine. Howard came back a short time later and had Gary bring in DL who was there. DL came in with another guy so Howard figured that was his bodyguard. DL said that it was his brother-in-law actually.

Howard asked DL if he got into trouble over his comments about the Imus stuff that they were playing when they came out of break. DL said he really didn't. He went on to goof on the Rutgers basketball players himself and said that some of them look like they're wearing cups themselves. Howard told DL about the interviews that Sal went out and did in Harlem yesterday. He said that a lot of people think that OJ should be left alone for what he did. DL said that he doesn't believe OJ should be left alone and maybe he should be put to death over that.

DL and Howard talked about the Michael Vick case as well. They spent a couple of minutes on that and then Howard played the tape of Sal going out and asking the Harlem residents about the OJ case. DL said that they have to get him for something and they will probably get something to stick.

Howard asked DL about his marriage and found out he's been married for almost 22 years now. He said he adores his wife and that's why he's stuck with her so long. He told a story about how he was hosting Def Jam on Saturday and there were some flowers in his room. He told this girl to take them and his wife flipped out and stormed down to get the flowers from the girl he'd told to take. He said that she does do some irrational things. He said that the flowers had been there for 3 days and they had been flicking cigar ashes in them for those three days. DL joked that his wife gets on his nerves and so does his mistress.

DL said that his daughter is an intern in Washington DC and he's kind of glad wasn't there when Clinton was in office. Howard said that he doesn't understand why DL didn't get that late night show deal over at CBS. He said he thinks he's much funnier than Craig Ferguson. DL said he loves being on stage and if they felt he didn't have what it took, he's pretty sure he would have gotten into trouble for saying something anyway. He said that he probably would have gotten into trouble for his nappy head comments or something even though he had a father who had a nappy head an he's got a nappy head himself.

Howard and DL talked about Al Sharpton's hair and how he keeps it straightened. DL said that guy does a lot of antiquated stuff. He said that they do boycotts and stuff at CD stores and that's not going to do anything. Everyone is already done buying CDs at stores like that. Howard said that if he were a black man, he'd keep his hair like DL does. DL said that he has his hair washed and then twisted and untwisted. That's how he keeps it looking the way it does. Howard said that you have to go with what you have and make it work.

Howard gave DL a plug for his HBO special, Unapologetic, which airs this Saturday night at 10. DL said that he actually had people protesting him over his jokes. He had Christian groups coming after him for his nappy head comments.

Howard said he heard that DL is friends with one of the guys who was involved with the OJ thing. He said he'd be out golfing with the guy and he'd get a call from OJ. Then the guy would ask DL if he wanted to talk to OJ and DL would say ''No way mothu****a!''

Howard played the clip of Sherri from The View talking about the world possibly being flat. DL said he doesn't understand how that's an interesting subject. He went off on them and said that Sherri should have just come out and said that she thinks the world is flat. He said that's 3 minutes of her life that she can't get back now. He said that everyone is trying to be provocative and it's just not cool.

Howard heard that DL was supposed to perform in front of Bill Clinton. He said he didn't do it because he felt that if he couldn't tell jokes from his perspective, he couldn't do it. He said he was told he wasn't going to be able to talk about politicians and stuff so he backed out of doing it. He said that he was going to do some material about Larry Craig and went into some of that stuff with Howard instead. He had some jokes about that guy and also some material about filthy bathrooms. He asked Howard if he's ever been in a bathroom that's so dirty that he just **** himself. That led to him talking about men not washing their hands after using the bathroom.

Howard told DL that they used to work at this station where the bathroom was filthy. There would be turds on the seat and lice in the sink. It was disgusting. He said he's not sure why people would do that unless they were just angry or something.

Howard said that DL was in the movie ''Soul Plane'' and that's the one thing that he regrets doing in his career. DL said he sold out by doing that and he knew it was going to be horrible. He said his wife wanted a hard wood floor so that's why he did it. He said he thought he was going to be able to redeem himself by doing Studio 60 but that show got canceled.

Howard gave DL a plug for his Myspace page at Myspace.com/dlhughley. He said you can check out where he's appearing on that page. He then asked DL what comedians he likes these days. DL said he hasn't seen a lot lately but there are some guys out there like Chris Rock, George Carlin, Earthquake and a couple of young guys like Ali who are really good.

Howard read that DL was kicked out of high school. DL said that he was the one talking **** back in school and that got him into a lot of trouble. He said that he got beat up a lot over the stuff he'd say to the other kids. He said that he got into a big fight at school and he ended up getting kicked out over that. He was actually in the Bloods as a gang member. He said that he had to fight even if he didn't want to. He said that they got into this huge fight and that was it for him.

Howard asked DL if he can pretend to fight instead of actually fighting with people. DL said you can't do that at all. He said he had to fight hard and he'd use anything he could find to battle these guys. He said he couldn't see staying in the gang though. He said he knew he had something else inside of him and he knew he could do something else with his life, he just didn't know what that was.

DL said he got kicked out of a few schools over the years and then he just stopped going to school. He said he didn't have much of a choice as far as which gang he got into either. He lived in a bloods neighborhood and that's what he had to become. DL said that he never really thought about what he wanted to do for a living when he got older. He didn't think about being an astronaut or anything like that. It just never came up.

Howard read that DL always thought his father was his biological father but it turns out it wasn't. He didn't find that out until he was 12. He said that he considers that man his father though. He said he doesn't know where his biological father is. He said his mother hated his biological father and he had to guess at what he should and shouldn't do because his mother used to tell him he did stuff just like he did. He said they eventually found his father and flew him in to talk about some stuff. He said he just wanted to know what kind of genetic problems they had in their family.

DL said that he came home and saw his biological father in the pool with his kids and he told him he had to get the **** out of there. He said that he doesn't need him hanging around him now just because he's famous. Howard asked DL if he thinks most of his anger is because that man abandoned him. DL said he never really thought about that and he's angry about a lot of stuff. He said he has a lot of guilt in his life because he made it out of the gang and stuff like that while most of his friends ended up dead.

Howard took some phone calls and let some fans ask DL some questions. One guy said he wasn't a big fan but after this he figures that DL is the most self-aware guy he's ever heard. He said that DL had basically just described the whole black experience in that interview and it was very interesting. He then asked DL how big his **** is. DL wasn't going there but he did say ''membership does have it's privileges.'' Another caller said that DL really was a good interview and told Howard it was probably one of the best he's ever done.

Howard gave DL a couple more plugs for his web site and for his DVD, ''D.L. Hughley: Unapologetic,'' that's coming out soon. He took some more phone calls and one of the calls was supposed to be his father but it was the guys playing clips of an unintelligible man rambling on and on. Another guy said that he saw DL do a show one time but he and his friend were the only white guys there.

Howard gave DL a couple more plugs and then wrapped up and went to break. He mentioned that you can buy tickets for DL's NY Comedy Festival show at NYComedyFestival.com
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bladeage · Sep 19, 2007

He is NOT funny actually.

Smokey · Sep 19, 2007

btw, who is Sherri on The View who thinks the world is flat?

WTF!

Achilleus · Sep 19, 2007

Smokey said:

btw, who is Sherri on The View who thinks the world is flat?

WTF!
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The View sure does a good job of making women look smart.

FlyerFanatic · Sep 19, 2007

Achilleus said:

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The View sure does a good job of making women look smart.
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WOW, that show if ridiculous. why is that still on the air?

Rocket River · Sep 19, 2007

bladeage said:

He is NOT funny actually.
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I totally Agree

Rocket River
and hasn't been in a minute

Davidoff · Sep 19, 2007

FlyerFanatic said:

WOW, that show if ridiculous. why is that still on the air?
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You answered your own question, because of how ridiculous it is.. It seems like many house wifes love that stuff..

tulexan · Sep 19, 2007

Interesting Book.

peleincubus · Sep 19, 2007

Achilleus said:

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The View sure does a good job of making women look smart.
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my my my.

annoying comes to mind

Hippieloser · Sep 19, 2007

I thought D.L. was pretty good in "The Original Kings of Comedy" but he was the least funny of the four. I haven't really seen anything else he's done except his aborted "late night" show that came on a few Fridays on Comedy Central.

He gives some good interviews though-- he's a smart guy, real guy. He had a good one on the Onion a while back that dealt with the nappy-headed ladies.
http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/d_l_hughley

ferrari77 · Sep 19, 2007

Hippieloser said:

I thought D.L. was pretty good in "The Original Kings of Comedy" but he was the least funny of the four. I haven't really seen anything else he's done except his aborted "late night" show that came on a few Fridays on Comedy Central.

He gives some good interviews though-- he's a smart guy, real guy. He had a good one on the Onion a while back that dealt with the nappy-headed ladies.
http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/d_l_hughley
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Exactly. I dont think he's that funny or even close to being one of the ten funniest (famous) black comics. But he is a smart chap and I enjoy listening to him sometimes but as for funny ish give me Steve Harvey, Bernie Mac and Ced anytime.

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