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- Regine always gave like
the rich auntie vibes.

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She always had a good outfit, a good wig.

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She came in, even if she
was having problems like,

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"No, no I'm going to look good.

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I want to look better than I feel."

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(audience laughs)

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(techno music)

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- "Living Single" was a show created

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in the '90s about six
friends living in Brooklyn.

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(telephone rings)

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- Oh.

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(audience laughs)

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Oh, no, I got to pick up
this heavy phone again,

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Synclaire spot me.

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- It was a lot about the '90s.

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The dressing was all about baggy pants

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and really bright clothing, Afrocentric,

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but also a swag to it because
that's when hip hop was born.

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And it was obviously
born in New York City.

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- Oh, hell.

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(audience laughs)

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- And the friendships
were really authentic

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and no one really stabbed
each other in the back.

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It wasn't super, super dramatic,

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even if they were tackling Black issues,

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it was a comedy focused on it.

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- What do you care about?

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- Food shelter, my career and good sex.

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(audience laughs)

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- The person that I related
to the most was Khadijah.

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She was a boss.

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She owned "Flavor" Magazine
and she was a journalist.

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She was really making her own way

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and showing us what an
entrepreneur could be like.

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- I decide when we get started.

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Okay, let's start.

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(audience laughs)

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- I like Synclaire and
Obie's relationship.

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I think that really signified black  love.

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She was Queen Latifah's assistant,

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but she was also really
interested in building a family,

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and he was interested
in building a family.

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(audience laughs)

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- Goobie?

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(audience laughs)

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- Do you recognize this-

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- I know, I didn't really see a lot

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of Black people with their
natural hairstyles on screen.

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So Maxine always had the box
braids always, always, always.

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So I really love seeing that.

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- Good morning, Bannon.

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- She embraced this hairstyle
and she was a top attorney

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and she was just such a strong woman.

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- When they told me my lawyer
was somebody named Max Shaw,

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I expected a good deal more testosterone.

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(audience laughs)

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- Get to know me.

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(audience laughs)

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- It was authentic. They
weren't trying too hard.

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They were speaking directly
to their target audience.

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What made it revolutionary
is just like those storylines

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of, like, oh,

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you have some Black people
in different classes,

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but you all live together in
Brooklyn and an inner city.

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It works.

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It's really what made
it, what it is today.

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Because even millennials,

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we go through a lot of these situations.