Name: Jaleel White on Fame, Growth & Getting Weird | You Made It Weird
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jaleel White on Fame, Growth & Getting Weird | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-24. Transcript available.

Jaleel White on Fame, Growth & Getting Weird | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. Yeah.
You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made
it weird. Yeah.
What's happening, weirdos? This is a big one. I'm so glad that Jaleel White has
joined us on the program. Shout out to Adam Ray for making this happen. Always
helpful, kind, sweet, hilarious Adam Ray.
Hooked me up with Jaleel White, who is also hilarious, kind, thoughtful,
interesting, brilliant, and a delight to talk to.
Obviously, we know Jaleel from Family Matters, where he was Steve and Stefan,
and we know him from Flipside, his new game show.
He's got a weed company called It's Purple. It's one word, and P-U-R-P-L, where
they make their own purple Urkel weed, which is super fun.
He gave me some. Haven't smoked it yet, but very excited. We're glad that you're
here. Not too much else to plug.
Up top here, I'm going to my own website right now, which feels kind of a
little weird, but here we are.
PeteHolmes.com. I have Largo this week here in Los Angeles. Cleveland. We're
rescheduling Miami Improv. I'm sorry about that.
Chicago. Pittsburgh. New York, New York on November 14th. We have New Jersey
the next day.
The Milwaukee Improv, Brea Improv, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Royal
Oak, Michigan.
All of those are available on PeteHolmes.com, and more will be added as they
are added.
That was a great sentence.
But I really love this chat with Jaleel. It was such an honor to sit down with
him, and it went all sorts of wonderful places.
So I'm so glad you're here. Let's enjoy it together. Thanks for tuning in. Jaleel
White. Get into it.
You smoking?
I do, but I can't right now. See, Adam Ray told me that you have your Purple Urkel,
and that you guys smoked when you were on the podcast.
Well, no. We did that special when we did it on stage.
Oh, okay, okay. Because I was like, I would love to be stoned with you, but we
have another.
No, that's a different brand of all.
Here, grab your mic. Grab your mic.
We were on stage at...
This is for Dr. Phil?
Yeah, for Dr. Phil at the comedy store. It was just the coolest thing to do,
and then everybody freaks the fuck out when we want to go back to talking.
It'd be like, anybody always want it? And they go, oh, no, no, no, no. They
turn into like fish in a pond.
You mean they want it?
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That's like Snoop. The times I've... I haven't seen Snoop enough to even really
call him Snoop.
But when he did a show with Seth Rogen I was at, they just started passing his
weed around, and my friend Oren hit it, and he said it was the strongest weed
he had ever smoked in his life.
But see, mine isn't just strong. Mine is like way flavorful.
Okay.
Like, it's different.
That's for you, by the way, if you want.
Oh, this is all my goodies?
It's all you.
Oh, man, look at this guy, man.
We should have more.
It's a classic.
I'm honored you're here. I really am.
I like the cocoa.
Oh, they'll be thrilled.
I can feel that.
Yeah, I think you now are owed at least $50,000 for saying that.
Wow.
That's not it. That's not what we're getting. I just mean you.
I get the hustle, bro.
But this is you. That's got caffeine if you need it.
Okay. Don't need that.
All right.
I'm pretty worked up.
Are you a big weed person?
I'm not.
No.
I'm actually not.
You're just an entrepreneur.
A little more to it than that.
Tell me.
I had my first toque when I was about 33 years old.
I'm the same, by the way.
Late.
On a ski trip with some guys.
Same.
Wait a minute.
I'm just kidding.
They were all white guys.
Same.
And it was fantastic.
I can still taste that steak in my mouth today.
You mean you got high and then you ate?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Incredible steak.
We had a chef and everything.
It was off the charts.
And so I just made the meal just.
This is my first time experiencing a munchie.
So that's why I said I can still taste the steak.
And then I just became so much more curious.
I was like, well, how come brown people are the ones that go to jail for this?
But you guys have the best of it.
Right, right, right.
It's cocaine and crack all over again.
It's true.
It's real.
And it just, that little social construct became fascinating to me.
And then at the same time, people were sending me from dispensaries Purple Urkel
anytime they would find it.
They would send me little, you know, screenshots of it.
Before you were making it?
Oh, yeah.
Because, again, people act like I made Purple Urkel.
I did not make Purple Urkel.
Oh, I didn't know.
I thought you made Purple Urkel.
Are you kidding me?
I've been name checked in shows like Billions and Rap Songs, whatever, for like
the last 20 years.
For Purple Urkel specifically?
Because Urkel also in hip-hop is a whole thing.
Oh, exactly.
It's a whole thing.
And we could talk about that separately.
Imagine if you got residuals.
Oh, my gosh.
Everytime Tribe Called Quest said.
Oh, my.
Listen.
That's the first one I remember.
Go to rap.com and type it in.
And you'll see how many times it's been named.
It's crazy.
But it's also.
It's kind of a flex.
I like it.
It is.
It's awesome.
It's a great rhyme, too.
Yeah.
It's like Ike Turner gets mentioned because so many things rhyme with Ike.
Like, I feel like Ike shows up more than he would if his name was Howard.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
And Urkel is a fun word to rhyme with.
Very fun word to rhyme with.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it's been used so much from Ice Cube to you name it.
Yeah, wow.
You know, it's been used so much.
I personally just enjoy the ones who have used my actual name, my real name, Jaleel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they've done it in a really smooth way.
Jaleel's even better.
Drake's done it.
No way.
Isaiah Rashad has done it in a really, really cool way.
Get out of here.
So, you know, people send me this stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
And so, you know, I kind of make mental note over who did it the best.
If you're, I mean, playing it loud and waiting for your name check.
I mean, that's got to be a fun feeling.
It is fun sometimes.
And then there's other times where it's weird.
Oh, I thought it was going to be mean.
No, I never mean, but just weird.
Yeah, weird.
I remember I was, it's actually one of my favorite times of my life.
I flew to Paris to the Watch the Thrones tour, specifically to go to the French
Open one day
and the Watch the Thrones tour with Jay-Z and Kanye and fly back home.
How many times?
It was 48 hours in Paris.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And with a big group of people and it was awesome.
And then, of course, Ye gets on stage and he's on this giant throne.
He goes, you know, you got, what is what?
I almost don't even want to remember it half the time.
And I'm like, oh, people.
What was it?
He goes.
Oh, it's a lyric.
Yeah, it's a lyric.
Too many Urkels on your team.
That's why your wind's low.
Too many Urkels on your team.
That's why your wind's low.
Your winds are low.
Yeah, exactly.
That's pretty good.
It's a good bar.
It's pretty good.
It's a great bar.
Pretty good.
But it means your winds are low because you have too many Urkels on your team.
So it's a little bit of a burn.
So it's like, hey, it's kind of a burn.
Is it established that Steve isn't good at sports?
Did we ever see him play sports?
No.
First of all, I'd crush Kanye in any sport he wanted to play.
But that's a separate conversation.
That's a good, right?
So, you know, I'm just, I take it for what it is.
You have too many Urkels on your team, you got, so your winds are low.
And then, but I'm at the stadium in Paris and it's like,
my show is syndicated very well in Paris, Italy, all across Europe for the most
part.
Really?
And so it's like an entire section just looks up at me.
No.
Because they already clocked you.
Yeah, they already clocked me anyway.
So then when he does that, it's like, hey.
Oh, what did you do?
Nothing.
You just got to play it off.
Yeah.
And then for the people closest to you, you're just kind of like, yeah, man.
Bonjour, Jalil.
That's amazing.
How many times did they play N-Words in Paris?
Oh, they did it like 14 times.
14.
I was there when they did it like that epically 14 times.
That was the time?
Yes.
Because I thought maybe they did it every show, but they're in Paris.
No, no.
And it was specific because how they were doing it.
It wasn't like they were just, you know, we were all in our seats.
Yeah.
But the GA section, Jigga and Ye were like manipulating the GA section.
They were like, yo, okay, we want half of you over here.
We want half of you over there.
And then they'd strike the song and make them run at each other.
Or they'd make like holes.
Give me a hole over here.
What?
Give me a hole over here.
Like Caesar?
Give me a hole over here.
Dude, this was dope.
Right?
So the people were all spreading back, creating like mosh pit empty holes.
Right?
And then they're like, you ready?
You ready?
And we're like, okay, can we make four holes?
And they were like, okay, they made four different holes.
And they would just keep making-
Like crop circles?
Yes, like crowd circles.
Crowd circles.
Dude, we are coining a phrase right now.
Crowd circles.
Jay-Z and Kanye were making crowd circles that looked like crop circles.
That's it.
Nailed it.
And it didn't even bend the people.
And then they would drop the beat.
And then they would all just mosh pit back up into the holes that they created.
And then they'd stop the beat?
Did they do the song or did they just-
No, they do the whole song.
They do the whole song.
They do the-
But it was just like the energy of just starting each song that way carried you
through the
whole song.
Oh my God.
And then they'd do it over and over again with these different configurations.
Because when I heard about that, I was like, it's a great song.
And then I remember-
Like 14 times?
Oh yeah.
I'm not sure I got the number right.
You can look it up online, but I know it was just like, it was in the teens.
But did you as an audience member, as a fan-
Yeah.
I loved it.
We loved it.
You loved it every time.
It was incredible.
Every time?
This was, dude, I'm telling you, this was, I don't ever like to sound like I'm
bragging,
but I've like accidentally done some really iconic shit.
Like I flew out to freaking Paris.
I had just done Dancing with the Stars.
And I was kind of like zonked from the show.
And we had a friend that was a major manager in the rap game.
And he was like, I got us.
And it was like 10 seats, great seats, right on the railing.
And just those stages, the way they went up again.
And rap being what it is, you're never going to see those two probably perform
ever again
together.
I doubt there's going to be a reunion there.
So, you know, so it's like you just caught this moment.
And something told me, just go.
And so I went to the French Open the first day when I got there.
Martina Navratilova, who I was competing with on Dancing with the Stars.
Oh, wow.
That's where you went.
Are you a tennis person?
Yeah, I love tennis.
She had hooked me up with a plug when I got there to the French Open.
So I got a chance to do that at the highest level.
Wow.
And then-
I think watching any-
I'm not a tennis person, but watching any-
anybody who's the best at something they do.
I think it would be amazing watching someone-
Dude, you were on the same page when it comes to that.
I love watching the best of anyone.
I mean, I flew to South Carolina one night just to watch Bruce Springsteen.
Yeah.
And I feel so honored that I did that.
Yeah.
Where did you see him?
I saw him in South Carolina.
And you just got the feeling like this is a-
Well, a friend of mine was going to fly down on his jet.
And so it was like, I never knew-
I never knew that Springsteen had so many groupies with jets.
It started in the loading docks.
So now it's on the private concourse.
Oh, it left the loading docks a little time ago.
A long time ago.
They own the loading docks.
Yeah, that's right.
They sold those companies.
And now they have jets.
Dude, you get to the Clearport and it's just-
Backed up.
It's ba