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I'm Marlon Wayans, and this is my last meal.

Every person has exactly two things in common.

We all gotta eat and we're all gonna die.

Today's guest is legendary, actor, writer, and standup

comedian who you might recognize from Scary movie

Requiem for a Dream and White Chicks

His new movie, Him, is out on September 19th, and he was the

only performing arts student at LaGuardia High School to

do Shakespeare in sweatpants.

Marlon Waynes, welcome to the show.

No, you did some research, but thank you.

But I will disagree.

I think most people have two things in common.

Yeah.

Which is, you know, we all gotta eat.

And we all gonna die.

But I feel like I'm gonna live forever and

I'm gonna miss you all.

I'm gonna miss you.

I, I hope you come speak at my funeral.

I hope I for sure will.

Uh, have you thought about your last meal before?

No.

Never think about like, what would my last meal, meal be?

'cause you know, like I said, I'm, I'm, I want

to exceed mortality.

I, I want to be here forever.

And everybody's like you.

Why do you want to be here forever?

Because I have fomo.

And so when I go, I am be so mad.

Everybody's having so much fun and I'm just stuck

in a coffin somewhere.

I think everyone's afraid of death.

Some people think that by thinking about it, you're

sort of getting closer to it, and that makes it more

scary for some people.

That makes it less scary to think about it.

Mm-hmm.

Which one are you?

Uh, I just don't think about it.

Yeah, I, I'm one of those guys that just kind of avoid it.

'cause I just live moment to moment and as long as I'm

having fun in each moment and I'm collecting smiles,

then I don't care about when it ends or how it ends.

I just care about what I'm doing while I'm here.

You sound like you're really serious when you

talk about living forever.

Yeah.

Are you, are you doing any of the longevity stuff?

Absolutely.

Are you sleeping in hyperbaric chambers?

No, we ain't doing all that, but I do have a, um,

take NAD every day and I. Do have green juice and,

uh, I work out, you know, four or five days a week.

You know, I, I try to live healthy and then I'll have

my bourbon and my cigar, my illegal dente cigar, and, um,

that's my toxins for the day.

They call that the detox retox process?

Yes. That, that's how I live.

You ready to eat?

I've been ready.

Thought you never asked.

I'm like, where's the food?

All right, Marlon, for the first course of your final

meal, we have the Maple and Ash seafood tower.

This has that beautiful chili oil and a whole lot

of incredible butter infused right into that seafood.

And then we have the dirty martini with three olives,

just a little bit of that olive brine in there to really

punch up that saltiness.

And of course.

The pasta back on the seafood tower to finish it off.

You know this whole time you was talking and the

whole time they were setting up, I just literally

just wanted to dig in.

I didn't hear words you said, and it was, they

was teasing me with this.

Sometimes I do stand up in Chicago.

I will make sure I go to Maple and Ash. At least two

times during that trip.

I don't care how many shows I'm doing, I gotta stop, buy

Maple and Ash and I gotta have me a wood fire grilled seafood

tower with the pasta back.

Wow.

You see what I'm saying?

This is our last meal.

We did it.

This is that.

We did it.

Bye y'all.

Bye.

Let's go eat the insides of this little guy.

Let's do it.

But you said when your mom had enough kids, she just stopped

doing any household tasks.

'cause she had her little army of elves.

When it was your turn to do the cooking, did you

have any signature dishes?

My brother Kenny used to come home.

Mm-hmm.

And I would cook him breakfast 'cause that was my way of

saying thank you for all that you do, for for us.

So I would, him and Damon, I would always

cook them breakfast.

I'd have on my big, my daddy's drawers because

I couldn't afford my own underwear a lot of time.

And um, I would just chef up some French toast.

So french toast eggs, and I make really

good fried chicken.

I've heard that you do have some issues with

food safety though.

Well isn it true that one time you were making baked

chicken and you dropped a piece on the ground.

Oh, that got dusty and dirty.

You read too much and you tried.

If you tried to serve it to your sister Kim, she

quote, choked your ass out.

Did that really happen?

She did.

I just forgave her for that last year.

I'm glad we could be.

That all happened.

Ending relations.

Well, it wasn't my fault.

Yes it was, and I apologize.

I should have apologized to my sister long ago.

That was my bad, but I was young.

I didn't, I didn't know.

Yeah.

Well, I, I've done the same thing too.

Not, I didn't know how she knew.

I'm like, how did you know?

I guess it was like a mark on the floor with a

splash, like the chicken, like pop, like a crime

scene investigator scene.

Yeah, the chicken grease.

It was really good.

Did any of your other siblings either good or

bad, have any foods that they made that you remember?

Uh, Keenan made really good breakfast.

He used to cook for us all the time.

My sister Kim makes a great Turkey.

And a great stuffing.

She cooks every Thanksgiving.

Hmm.

Did seafood and martini, did your sister Nadia make

anything that you remember?

Nadia made mulla mush.

What? That So we was poor.

Mm-hmm.

And um, sometimes we couldn't afford like

meat and food stuff.

There was nothing in a closet to eat.

So there was like flour, water, salt, and pepper.

And we had lard.

So my sister would fry the lard, make it hot, and then

basically make a flour pancake with salt and pepper in it.

And we called it moula mush.

That's crazy, man.

We, when you in the projects, you gonna survive.

We didn't have time for la.

Wow.

I got It's some moula mush.

That's wild. I get wild.

I think it's kind of beautiful.

It's like looking at great depression recipes.

How do you know about Moula Mu bro?

What do you mean?

Man? That's crazy.

I read too much.

I don't think I ever said that.

Look, you're a psychic.

If you wanted to, like you tell the white person

made this Moula Mu too.

It's too heavy.

And here I'm gonna do Judge Er also is a Filipino man named

Tony, Billy Tony for you.

But I'm gonna take your muah mush and I'm gonna

dip it in this sauce.

It's kind of a beautiful full circle coming from

eating muah mush to not only eating the seafood tower,

but eating it multiple times when you're going on tour.

That's kind of beautiful, like I made it, mama.

You really did though.

Do the finer things in life.

Mean so much more to you coming from

that poor background?

I, I'm just grateful, right.

I think period to God for my entire journey and yes,

being raised the way we were raised with and with

no money being poor, we were rich in love and rich in

family, and if I ever went back to being poor again, um.

I know that you can still be happy there.

Um, money hasn't made me any happier.

The finer things in life I've learned aren't the

finer things in life.

The finer things in life is to enjoy life, enjoy every meal,

enjoy every conversation, enjoy every encounter.

Enjoy your losses.

Yeah, so there is no bad in life.

Everything in life is good as long as you're living.

Yeah, but being that I'm gonna live forever and this

is your last meal, you know?

Cheers.

That's fine, man.

I've also lived a good life, man.

I got to eat Mulla much with Marlon Wayne.

That's pretty cool.

You know what I'm saying?

One, one of my favorite stories that you've told

though, is how you used to take your mom out on

like weekly date nights.

Yes, ma'am.

And she used to get the wagu steak.

Yeah. Yeah.

You know?

So it sounds like being able to introduce your mom

to those finer things in life, a whole lot to you.

That was a, a treat for me to, to take my mother out.

'cause my mother always complained about my father

never taking her out.

Yeah. But he was, we were poor.

You didn't have money to take you out.

You know, I remember she, she once took her to Benny,

Hannahs and, you know, Benny Hunters, you ordered a drink

and that drink came with a, a a a ceramic Benny hanna

And so.

He took her twice and my mother kept those

ceramic Benihanas.

As a reminder of those two times that my father

took her out, I always wanted my mother to feel

the love that she always craved, that she sometimes

couldn't get from my dad.

So when it comes to my, my mom, I used to take

her out every Monday.

I don't care where I was in the world.

I'm flying to California, or if I'm flying to New

York and I'm taking her out.

We'd go to a great restaurant and um, when we

pull up to the valet, the driver would open her door

and she go, no, no, no.

My son's gonna do that.

He don't like when people open the door for me.

He don't like, he got it and he grab the cane.

He got it.

So I would get her cane.

I hold her hand.

I open her door, I take her to the restaurant, we'd eat.

I let her order whatever she want on the menu.

Well, I want that wagu you, even though it was

like $450 for per steak or, but it doesn't matter.

I mean, and one time she was cursing me out.

Because she had dementia and she would curse me out and she

was eating this $400 steak.

And I was like, look, you gonna have to hold this, uh,

argument till you get that $400 steak out your mouth.

Or we gonna go have sirloin or ground chip next.

We we're gonna the sizzler next time.

And so pay the bill.

I walk her back to her car, I take her back home, she go on

the balcony and she wave down.

Hi.

Bye baby.

I had a beautiful time.

I love you, mama.

I love you too.

And I would drive off.

And two minutes later, my mother would

call me in the car.

I had a beautiful time with you.

You all sure know how to treat a lady.

And we had those magical moments until,

you know, she finally couldn't do it no more.

Yeah. But, uh, I missed those days.

So now I do it with my family, my children, my

daughter, my little one I take out Monday nights.

Yeah, we go to dinner.

That's beautiful, man.

We gotta get to this pasta back situation.

Let's go.

So I'm gonna set up, so at the restaurant, what we've learned

is they'll come out Yep.

With pasta.

Yep.

And they will take all of the leftover seafood juices.

No they don't.

No, they don't do that.

You're the veteran here.

You take.

And you dump the pasta into there.

Into there, and then we eat it straight out there.

But you can dump it because that'll make it like, look,

kind of cook into it a little.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So let's go Now, what I would like to do, please,

is we gonna throw some of this, toss it in, toss

it in, pasta in there.

I know this is my last meal, but I'd like you

to curate this 'cause you're gonna live forever.

You don't do this.

I am gonna live forever.

So this is your last meal and I'm, I'm gonna

treat you right now.

I don't know man.

I'm not calling you daddy, but like, I do appreciate this.

You know what I'm saying?

Like I do like, I'm your daddy.

Now we take this and boom, now we gonna

throw this back in here.

Get the hell and you don't put it all in there.

You put a little bit in there and now you have

some of that pasta back.

Boom.

What a romantic date night, daddy.

Thank you so much for taking me out here.

You're welcome, boo.

I don't get to do nice things.

You welcome, boo.

You know that's what daddy do.

You know that's what daddy do you know what I'm saying?

I take care of my white hoes.

You know what I'm saying?

We've discussed, I might be 3% African.

We did talk to, okay, well I told you, you still don't

- have enough to say to N word - I'd never said that.

I wanted to say maybe the song.

To be clear, maybe if you're singing lyrics at

karaoke, I'll forgive it.

He did say that I could do that, but I

want you to know that.

I don't want to, that's all I'm saying, you know?

No, it's crazy.

One.

I tell my white friends, I say, you gotta have a pass.

Mm-hmm.

It's like a passport.

You have to stamp it with every black person you meet.

Every new black neighborhood.

Just 'cause I give you an N word pass don't mean No.

That's a universal pass that goes for the

district and the people.

Yeah.

In the hood that you are familiar with.

Yeah.

Everyone you go to, you gotta get a different pass.

So you have a past karaoke pass.

I appreciate that.

But they do do redistricting sometimes and there's,

there's an app where you can just see what district, what

jurisdiction you're in there.

That was about growing up in such a big, funny family.

The legend, like the landscape of entertainment

would look completely different without the wees.

Yeah.

Just tracking to in living color.

You had five Wayne siblings.

Mm-hmm.

You had Jennifer Lopez, you had David Allen Greer, you

had Tommy Davidson, you had Jamie Fox, you had Jim Carrey.

Mm-hmm.

So many things sprung from just that.

What ultimately do you want your legacy to

be for the comedy and entertainment landscape

when it's all said and done?

You know, I don't really think about that.

Uh, yeah.

But what I will say is my brother Keenan

was a visionary.

You know what he did with a living color, what he

did when I'm gonna get you sucker, what he did with my

family, like God was in him.

Because that came from a very special, unselfish place to

make sure that his siblings were taken care of to make

sure that he helped his mother and father and buy them a

house after he'd seen them struggle their whole life.

I'm blessed.

Yeah. I've had five.

I grew up in a house with legends, so I think Keenan

had the baton and he taught us how to be farmers

and agriculturalists.

Mm-hmm.

When that baton comes is in my hand right now, I

want us to be industry.

Education.

And philanthropy.

And philanthropy.

I'm passing on.

That's my son and them.

That's their baton.

That's Craig and them.

That's their baton.

Yeah.

But we are going to be industry and we're

gonna do education.

Which is institution and that's continuing legacy.

You know, I read the book Eight Habit of

Highly Successful People and that those are the,

that's the, the blueprint.

Yeah.

And so what Keenan and Damon did, and Kim and Sean,

you know, they blazed a trail for me and I followed

that and then I was like, no, I gotta go this way

because I can't follow you guys where you took me.

'cause I gotta take your kids and my kids somewhere else.

If they made a Wayins family biopic, would it just be cast

with other younger generation?

Wayins? You're god damn right.

That's the only way to do it all.

Which Waynes is playing you, man.

Oh, my son gotta play me, but he may not be

goofy enough to play me.

You know what I, I'd have to say Axle, my

2-year-old have to play me.

Yeah.

'cause she gets me.

Get ready for the role right now, man.

She's crazy enough.

She is little.

Me.

All right, gimme one sec. I gotta go check

on the next course.

I need three chicken, one salad all day.

Chef?

Yes, chef, chef, chef, chef.

We've cooked meals in this kitchen for some of the

biggest celebrities on the planet, and the one

thing that every meal has in common is that at least

something has come from a Kroger family store.

And that's because, well, for true grocery heads like

us, Kroger has everything we could ever possibly

want, whether it's fresh or arugula, and dive and RQ

for a beautiful tree glory salad or free range organic

chicken for the best dang chicken sa you've ever had.

If it comes from a Kroger family store, we know

it's going to be high quality and delicious.

Hands, chefs.

I need hands.

Why are you yelling?

We're right here.

I'm sorry.

I get carried away sometimes.

Marlon, for the second course of your final meal,

we have the spicy seafood soup from Nobu with a

little bit of Nigo sake.

And then we have a tree calor salad that has the

arugula, the end dive, and the radiko in it.

And then of course, the chicken saute from Mr.

Chows with the peanut sauce on the side.

And Mr. Chow's special hot sauce and garnished with a

little bit of fresh mint.

Yama, can I pour you up Yama and I'll pour you.

Damn, you have a hell of a pour, it's actually

traditional to overflow the sake glass as

a sign of overflowing riches in your life.

There he goes.

How's that?

I'll check it.

Okay.

Cheers.

Cheer.

What? What are we eating here?

Should we go with the salad first?

Yes, we're gonna go with the salad.

I usually have this when I go to Pache.

Sometimes I take Axel a a, a date there.

Yeah. And we go and she

Tears the place up

talking about filming Requiem for a Dream and Scary movie at

the same time I was filming.

That's Nice.

Requiem for a dream, Scary Movie, and Dungeons and

Dragons, Jesus Christ, all at the same time.

Man.

The concept of doing all three of those movies at

the same time is crazy.

Yeah. But.

I'm crazy.

I've noticed.

It's great.

I think you either take your insanity and you

turn it into genius.

Mm-hmm.

Or you just become insane.

You have to do, I'm a doer and the more I do, and I don't

know if my assistant and I drive her Ebony Gray crazy.

And it's because she's like, you added a show.

And I'm like, yeah.

Because I work.

Yeah.

'cause that occupies any empty space in my mind.

I'm here for a purpose.

I'm working.

What are you afraid of, of that empty space?

'cause a lot of people like to live in that empty space.

I'm afraid that, uh, I'm wasting time.

Mm. If I'm gonna be here, I'm gonna leave behind

something beautiful because then when I'm, if.

I'm gone.

'cause you know, I'm living forever.

If I'm gone, everybody's gonna have the world's gonna have

all this stuff that I left behind that they can watch.

Yeah.

And so when I'm gone, I'm still living.

I'm living through their laughs.

I'm living through what I made them feel.

I'm living through what I taught them this, this

synapse called life.

What are you doing in that synapse I dedicate to my art?

I just thought, let me just work.

I'm gonna do standup, I'm gonna do characters.

I'm gonna do drama.

I'm gonna go to performing arts high school.

I'm gonna go to film school, I'm gonna write movies.

And what I've applied myself to has allowed me to be.

Something even different than my heroes.

Yeah.

Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carey, Damon Williams.

I wanna be an undeniable force of nature, and that's where

my brother raised me to be.

That's what he whispered in my ear about what success was.

And I take that shit very seriously.

It comes through, man.

I mean, comedy, drama, intensity, it all comes

through in your movie, Him.

And all of those things come through really, really hard.

I believe Jordan Peele took you aside on set and said,

Hey, lemme take 15 minutes to tell you how special you are.

You'll be reading too much.

Will I read a lot man?

I like to read.

Are you on my shoulder?

You, here's the thing you like, like you watching me.

But why do you think Jordan took the time to do that?

Hm.

Because I think Jordan understands that we're made

from, from the same cloth.

Mm-hmm.

Jordan Peel understands how hard it is to do sketch.

How hard it is to do comedy, how hard it is

to be able to take this light and this energy and this

desperate thing that you have to make people laugh

and to hone that energy

and to making people feel, and then to come

outta that energy.

To make people laugh again.

There's rare people that know what it takes and

have assigned themself to this, this tireless

journey of being an artist.

Oh man. Dig into this.

The soup's getting cold, man.

We're Oh, thank God, because it's spicy.

You gonna sweat?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You gonna ask me for my washcloth, man?

Oh yeah.

Shit.

Ooh, that is, man, I spicy seafood.

This is.

That one right there.

Woo.

Talking about this idea of legacy and charging hard

for greatness, and you're obviously on track to be

like one of the goats of comedy. In the movie, Him.

They take a pretty harsh lens on the idea of sacrificing.

For this idea of almost being this kind of God-given savior.

There's so many different parallels to your life

that you could draw from that movie, but I'm

curious where you found the most similarities.

I don't know if Jordan Peele and Justin Tipping know, but

they probably saved my life.

No shit.

I had lost 65 people I loved.

Geez.

And I had a baby, a new baby, and I was doing so much.

And then, um, I got this movie, him looked

at his character and I was like, he's dark.

So I gotta dive in a dark pool to find this character.

Alright, let's go.

So I dove in this murky pool to go find this character.

Went on walks, started meditating, sitting in red

light therapy, read a bunch of books, read Relentless by Tim

Grove and just what it takes to be a great, and I dove in

that pool to get Isaiah and I grabbed Isaiah's hand and

I looked up and I saw Marlon.

I saw Marlon Wayans just floating like dead in a pool.

Yeah.

And I was like, oh wait, I know I'm getting

this character, but I need to go get him.

Yeah, he's broken, but he doesn't even know

his potential yet.

Let me go breathe life into Marlon, but come on Isaiah.

So I'm Isaiah.

Meet Marlon.

Yeah, so him became him.

And I understand through God's journey.

And through the lens of God, understanding what now I'm

supposed to do and I haven't owned what I am or what I do.

I've been very humble about.

But now you have to own it, right?

At this point you gotta own it.

And it only comes from the confidence of doing the work.

And I don't get tired 'cause I'm inspired, but this movie

allowed me to see through Isaiah's eyes what it takes to

be a goat, what Marlon needed.

And now I feel like.

Oh, I get it.

Yeah.

Cheers.

Let's have some chicken satay

Alright, so you gonna dip this?

All right.

And then you gonna take and put some hot

sauce on it because I like seeing you sweat.

'cause I'm sweating.

Hey, me too, man.

Mm-hmm.

It gorgeous.

Now, Marlon, for the third course of your final meal

on earth, we have the fried chicken flight.

The first one is gonna be a classic spicy

southern fried chicken.

We're using some Cajun seasoning on this, and

of course gotta have the Louisiana hot sauce.

And then we have the Nashville Hot Chicken.

I know you're a cultured guy, so we're going over

to Korea for some sweet soy, garlic glazed chicken.

And then finally the Sichuan hot chicken.

I just love this.

I'm eating with a knife on fork.

Hm.

Hmm.

Delectable.

Did somebody in your life and family make

fried chicken for you?

My mother once.

Just once.

After that my mama had 10 kids.

She was tired?

Yeah.

And we became her elves and this is where my mama

taught us how to make it.

And was little Marlon.

Okay.

Get the flour put in the thing, and then mama gonna

come in there and do the rest.

All right, now take some Ries and get some

uh, uh, Adobe seasoning and some garlic powder.

Then take the chicken and throw it in that flour and

then let Mama know and I'll come in there and do the rest.

Okay, now put it in the oil and let it ball

and then let mama know when it start popping.

Okay, mama.

It's popping.

Alright, now take the chicken, place it one by

one in that powder and then put it inside the.

Pot.

All right, mama Gonna come in there and do the rest right

after you flip this chicken.

Now flip it again.

Okay.

I'm gonna go in there.

I flipped it, mama.

Now it's all golden brown.

Alright, take it out.

Put it on a napkin and put it on a plate.

And then mama gonna come do the rest.

Okay mama, it is on the plate.

And mama. Mama.

Come in there kitchen.

Put the hot sauce on the chicken.

Taste the chicken and go, woo.

I made that.

She really was the funniest planes.

Brilliant.

She really was that woman.

The timing.

That's my, I love Lucy.

Yeah.

You have one of the most spectacular standup

specials I've ever seen called Good Grief.

Yeah.

That at the same time is like very raw, emotional

earnestness about the death of both your parents

and then also just laugh out loud, funny moments.

I lost both my parents and I found that, oh man,

you too young for that.

I, how old are you?

Dead mama gang.

33 gang.

No. Dead parents gang.

Dead parents.

Gang, gang, gang.

You too young.

That's what?

That's life.

No, but see that is what makes me grateful.

Yeah. Everybody looks at the loss.

Mm-hmm.

And they're not looking about thinking about how

lucky I was to have my parents for 48 years.

I had my mama for 51 years.

I had my daddy.

'cause I look at you and I go, oh.

Come in.

It's alright.

You wouldn't be you if it wasn't for what they did.

And I think deep pain makes for great artists.

I didn't think I was ready for anything in terms of dramatic

acting, in terms of where I'm going until my parents died.

Hmm.

And once they were gone, this something

hit me just magically.

I was like, oh shit.

I know what I gotta do.

I know.

I know what I'm made of.

I have this deep pain inside of me now where I have used

to have to manufacture tears.

They're just a thought away.

Yeah.

And then I go, what's funny about the things

that hurt me the most?

And that's when I got funny, when I started

talking about what hurt me and telling the truth.

The painful truth, in a funny way, is what I do.

Yeah, it's how you wire yourself.

Is it a burden or is it a purpose?

There's a moment in that special where you start

crying on stage, which is an incredible moment.

But also for me, even the really dirty stuff, I found

that when my parents passed away, everyone expected

me to act a certain way.

They tried to sort of put me in an emotional

box, and all I wanted to do was break outta that

because it was so painful.

Yeah.

Was any part of that, you sort of trying to take control of

your own narrative from that?

Yeah, it was, uh, it was the way I heal, the

way I chose to heal.

Yeah.

It was cathartic to go on stage every night and talk

about my mother and my father.

You know, it's crazy.

I'm crazy.

The I had before I did, uh, God loves me.

My mother had passed.

So I had a, uh, a great half hour mm-hmm.

About my mother passing and what was funny about

it, and then I was like, but it's missing something.

I need another half hour.

And then I did God love me?

And I was like, I love you, ma, but this slap happened.

I gotta talk about this right now.

After I finished that special, my father died and I was like.

Wow.

Now I could finish this special, and I used to go on

stage and I would cry a lot, and my nephew, who Craig would

come on this road with me and he'd see me working through

this deep pain every night.

And I'd go backstage and I would just cry and I

would just cry on stage.

I would just take a in and I would just cry because

the pain of losing my parents was unbearable.

I couldn't sleep at night.

I, I just to drink myself to sleep.

I went through a whole lot and.

Well, what I found was my therapy was jokes.

Yeah.

And so it helped me run from the pain.

Just cracking jokes.

Now when I see another person's dead

mama, dead daddy.

Hey gang, gang.

Nobody understands that.

What's, what's, what do you guys do when,

see your mama die.

Wait until daddy die.

Then you could be in his game.

Gang, that's, that's a threat.

Wait until you there, it's their last meal.

Gang.

Gang.

Right.

So.

It helped me heal.

Yeah.

That's how I dealt with my pain.

And I gifted that to the world because now anybody

that is going through some kind of grief, they can look

at that special and then go, that really helped me.

And in minute 57, I got to sit with Marlon and

go, how do you feel?

Damn.

And the reality of my parents being gone hit me.

Yeah.

And in that anxious moment, I allowed myself

to be vulnerable, to feel it and to cry.

And then the beautiful thing about my audience,

because they've known me so long and they root

for me 'cause they've known me since I was 19.

I grew up in their house.

But what you saw was me broken at 57 minutes,

me hurting, and then the audience cheers me back.

To life.

Those laughs, those applause like, come

on, Marlon, come on.

I pulled it together and I finished out.

You have to assign yourself to healing that people

are rooting for you.

There's people that you could lean on.

My audience was people I could lean on.

I'm glad that every last single face that came to

every last single show, y'all don't know how

much y'all help me heal.

You're not my fans, you're my family.

Marlon, for your final course of your final meal

on Earth, we have the Sweet Lady Jane triple berry

cake, garnished with some extra fresh blueberries, and

then we have our ode to the cipriani's meringue cake.

We made some vanilla meringue with the egg whites, fresh

and torched it just to set it.

Then we have some Blanton's bourbon on the rocks, and of

course, your Lee ante cigars.

I have my own cigar company.

That's the other thing I do.

Uh, dente cigars.

So this is my signature, bland, the ill bambino.

And if you look, it says Ill Bino 7 23, which is

me and my mama's birthday.

I was born on my mama's birthday and it says

Ba Elvira, which is my mother's name.

So my mother's immortalized in a cigar, and I know

she'll be like, hmm.

You know, I don't like no smoke trolling your mom's

feet on the grave, man.

Yeah.

Put me on something like a cake.

I'm like, you know, I, it's not a cake company because

your mom used to have you sing Christmas carols outside

your Jehovahs Witness's dad.

Like she taught you what troll do this man.

Yeah.

How to be a troll.

So for the rest of my life, I'm a troll.

But they're great.

Uh, great relaxing.

I sit down, smoke with my friends, hang out, have me

a nice whiskey, you know.

Cheers, man.

Cheers.

Now this cake and this cake, tell me about the cake.

This cake is a family is.

Favorite for my family.

We always had like a cheap cake in a box, inman's cake.

That's what raised me and my family.

The Inman's Lemon cake.

Yep.

So it was lemon with coconut shreds.

And so this was kind of the upgrade that Keenan found,

or Kim found for my family by Sweet Lady Jane's, which

is a wonderful bakery.

We've been going there for years, my

family and I. And, uh.

It's, it's one of my favorite go-to cakes every year on

my birthday and my kids' birthday, we have the Sweet

Lady Jane's three berry cake.

Both of these, man, this is, this is such

LA right here, man.

Win.

They need to box this intimates need to buy Sweet

Lady James and box this.

'cause there is no bad part of the cake.

Yeah. And um.

This cake, this pie is from Cypriani in

Beverly Hills, Jesus.

And um, I just got familiar with this probably maybe

seven, 10 years ago, maybe seven years ago.

I was in a Saudi Arabia.

I was in Jedda and I was doing a show in Jedda.

And uh, I ordered this pie.

I seen it on the, on the menu and I was like, that

is looks, it's like, it sounds like it'll be great.

There's a chip ani in Jetta, Saudi Arabia.

Yeah.

And they have, uh, I think I, Mr. Chows, like Jetta is,

Saudi Arabia is pretty hip.

They, you wrote Beverly Hills and put it in Saudi Arabia.

They did.

And then, so it is like, you have this Beverly Hills

section and then sand,

sand and like clay buildings, but they have the cipriani's

there and it is really good.

And it, dude, I mean, this is an incredible cake.

It just makes me happy.

It just makes you tired.

It just rocks your mouth to sleep.

I wanna ask you about, you don't stop working.

You work seven days a week.

You've sacrificed so much.

You've given up a lot.

You've also, and I'm promoting a movie Him.

Well, no, I wanted to talk about this.

'cause the tagline of that movie, and I'll watch

any movie where this is a tagline, is what are

you willing to sacrifice?

Now, from my own viewpoint, I generally see that and

I go, probably not as much as this movie's gonna show

me, but you starring as the person who sacrificed

all that in that movie, did you watch it and just go,

I'm willing to sacrifice the world for greatness.

Or die trying.

'cause it seems like you're on that war path right now.

I'm willing to sacrifice the world, but not my world.

Yeah.

I'm not willing to sacrifice strong bonds with my family.

Um, time with my kids, saving a little space for some real

healthy love, but I'm willing to sacrifice all the bullshit

and transform all the energy and all the distractions.

Yeah.

Into my art.

Right.

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, and

as we sit here having our last supper, the only thing

value, the only thing that is valuable to me is time.

So I want things that help me manage and create

more space to have more time for the things that

I love outside of my art.

You said when your parents died, the training wheels

were off because your dad was always the pillar of your

family, and now you had to be the pillar of your family.

Yeah.

When your child came out as trans, I know that was a

big testing moment for you for what it meant to be.

The pillar of your family.

Yeah.

I'm wondering what you found out about yourself

through that process.

I found that my child, first and foremost, they

deserve their anonymity.

Yeah.

And all children deserve, even though they're grown

to have their space.

Mm-hmm.

To just develop an incubate in their own way.

And Kai healed me.

Their journey with what they went through.

They were a vessel to my healing.

I was broken from my mother.

In my mother's death, I was trying to put myself back

together with my father's death, and I was dealing

with this transition.

God was trying to lead me personally somewhere, but

I was deflecting and God took the very thing that I

love most was my children.

And he taught me acceptance.

Yeah, taught me healing.

My life has been completely different because of them.

They brought me.

To the healing I couldn't find for myself.

And so I'm grateful for that.

Some people look at things and go, oh, that's terrible

that you went through that.

No, I didn't go through nothing.

I went through everything God wanted me to go

through and I'm very happy.

Yeah, and as long as they're happy, I'm happy for 'em.

All I want is a fathers.

I don't care about success.

Y'all could live with me for the rest of your life.

If you are happy most of your day.

Then you're successful.

And, um, all I want for them is to know that I love them.

And that's all.

I love you wholeheartedly for two forever times,

infinity plus one day.

Yeah.

So, cheers.

Cheers, friend.

With all this talk about God, what do you think

happens when you die?

I don't know.

I think you're in a box and, and it's a wrap.

I hope it continues.

You got a Baptist mom, a Jehovah's Witness Dad,

I have no faith man.

You're a man of God.

You got no faith.

What the hell are you doing out here?

I don't know.

Nobody's ever came back from the dead.

Like, yo, you gotta die.

You gotta get here.

This shit is popping.

So for me, um, that's why it's important for

me to live this life.

Yeah.

You ready to jump in the lightning round?

Yeah.

Let's go.

Who's the one person dead or alive you'd wanna share

your actual last meal with?

Jesus, what song do you wanna be played at your funeral?

Never would've made it.

Mm-hmm.

Never would've made it without you.

Who's your dream eulogize at your funeral?

I would like each one of my family members to

eulogize me, uh, my nephews, my nieces, my kids last.

I want them to feel the pressure of going last

and even though they don't like to talk.

I want to hear what they have to say about me.

When you said Terry Cruz had a crush on you in character

for white chicks, he did.

Like, you think he actually would, he was

trying to beat this.

Like you think he would've, like, you

think he would've hit?

No, I think would Terry.

Terry fell in love with my white chick's character.

Yeah. I start seeing him.

He'd be like, oh, Snoop.

Like, I was like, Hey bro, this we just acted finally.

Marlon, are you happy?

Very.

If you wanna deliver your last words to that

camera right there, I hope that you felt seen,

and I thank you for seeing me.

Amen.

And making me feel seen.

That's Marlon Wayans everybody.

Everyone make sure you check out Him in theaters on September 19th.

And check me on tour.

Uh, wild Child Tour.

Check MarlonWayans.com

Uh, hit me on Instagram at Marlon Waynes Facebook.

Marlon Wayans, uh, Snapchat, Marlon Wayans and let's do this.

Thank y'all people, the family for riding with

me all these years.

My best work is ahead of me and I think my best

work is in the movie, Him.

Go watch it September 19th.

If you don't, you don't love me.

It really is an incredible movie.

I'm not gonna pull that emotional manipulation, but

I will say it's an incredible movie, the perfect way to

elevate all of your Meals.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
sacrifice /ˈsæk.rɪ.faɪs/ B2	verb - to give up something important for someone or something else noun - something given up for a more important purpose
legacy /ˈleg.ə.si/ B2	noun - something that is a part of your history or remains from someone's past actions
grief /ɡriːf/ B1	noun - intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death
cathartic /kəˈθɑːr.tɪk/ C1	adjective - providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions
incubate /ˈɪn.kju.beɪt/ C1	verb - to develop something slowly over time
synapse /ˈsɪn.æps/ C2	noun - the junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter
philanthropy /fɪˈlæn.θrə.pi/ C1	noun - the desire to help others, especially by donating money to good causes
deflect /dɪˈflek.t̬/ B2	verb - to cause something to change direction
vessel /ˈves.əl/ B2	noun - a person or thing used as a channel for emotional or intellectual energy
acceptance /əkˈsep.təns/ B1	noun - the act of agreeing to receive or undertake something
anonymity /ˌæn.əˈnɪm.ɪ.ti/ C1	noun - the state of being unknown or unidentified
transition /trænˈzɪʃ.ən/ B2	noun - the process or period of changing from one state or condition to another
crave /kreɪv/ B2	verb - to desire something strongly
valet /ˈvæl.ɪt/ B2	noun - a person who parks cars for customers at a restaurant or hotel
dementia /dɪˈmen.ʃə/ C1	noun - a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury
curate /ˈkjʊə.reɪt/ C1	verb - to select, organize, and look after the items in a collection or exhibition
eulogize /ˈjuː.lə.dʒaɪz/ C1	verb - to praise someone, especially someone who has died, in a speech or piece of writing