Name: Beverley Hills vs Black Beverley Hills | Ari Shaffir on The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Beverley Hills vs Black Beverley Hills | Ari Shaffir on The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-05. Transcript available.

You're still like an L.A. guy, even though you've been here like a decade now.
I'm an L.A. comic, for sure.
But you moved here because the L.A. scene was bad, and you wanted to get good
at stand-up.
It wasn't bad, it was just like I wanted new shit.
But it was, once I got here I realized...
Let's be honest, you moved here because it was a bad scene, and you can't
really get better in L.A.
And so you had to come to New York because there's more stage time and the
comics are bad.
There was more stage time.
It actually did come for a multitude of reasons.
One was more stage time.
Two was I want to finally fuck a black chick, and then I want new restaurants
and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
But that's just off the table in L.A.?
I don't understand.
It's very segregated.
The white parts are white.
You can go to those neighborhoods.
You can go, Nick.
Yeah.
Let me know how it is.
Oh, okay.
What do you think would happen?
Have you just never been to a black neighborhood?
They're not, from what I understand from Michael Myers, Michael, not Michael
Myers.
Michael Moore?
Michael Myers?
No, who's the documentary?
Mike Myers.
Mike Myers?
The comedian.
No, the documentary.
You're talking about his movie The Black Guy, where he plays...
He's like...
Yeah.
I'm African American, baby, yeah.
The smog is too much, is where the black people live, is what I was going to
say.
The constant stream of fucking Newport smoke.
L.A. is very segregated.
Yeah, it's weird.
It's this weird melting pot, but it's not.
It is kind of like the perfect example of just liberal hypocrisy, where it's
like, yeah,
a rainbow flag, but, you know, like literally we have a class structure that's
reinforced
by hills, so the more money you have, the higher up you are.
They really do look down on them and go, ugh.
Literally.
They have their coffee on their decks that are failing.
I mean, it's like feudalism.
It's the richest people live above the poison air.
Yeah.
You know, staring down at the rich people.
We used to go up to the roof of the comedy store and you'd see this ring around
downtown.
The fact that in 2024 there's still a neighborhood that people kind of openly
refer to as Black
Beverly Hills.
You know what I mean?
I know what that is.
That's okay.
Yeah.
You can just be like, oh, yeah, well, that's Black Beverly Hills.
But also, like, how much-
Because Black people aren't allowed to live in Beverly Hills.
It's all Persian now, anyway.
Yeah, I know.
They have their own version of it.
Yeah, and you ask, like, what's the average-
You're going to be like, what's this?
You're like, oh, that's the Black Financial District.
It's like the Financial District, just not as nice because it's for Blacks.
It's Black Tribeca's, basically.
I remember when they showed me that, Black Beverly Hills, and it's like, oh,
those are
the rich Black people.
They're like, what's the average income?
Like, $48,000.
$27,000.
Yeah, but it's mostly cash.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they all-
Do you go to LA at all?
No.
Yeah.
You never lived there, or did you?
I did, yeah, briefly, but I don't, I mean, I just, it's like, it's a heartless
place, I'd
say that.
I was talking to Duncan about it recently, how, like, it's a specific kind of
sad, and it's
like, it's worth, like, writing about.
Yeah, I mean, you can't really be, there's no room to not be, like, successful
in LA.
You're either failing, or you're, like, you're, you're not even, yeah.
I mean, the people who do really well there aren't, like.
Good.
Well, they're, they're people that work in the industry.
It's like, that's who LA is for.
It's for the people that work in the industry.
It's not for people that go there to do creative stuff.
No, it's just for people to abuse those people.
Yeah.
It's all these producers are, like, whenever they take, like, I want 80% of
your projects.
Yeah, yeah.
You're like, why?
Like, because that's the way it's done.
It's kind of like, going to LA, thinking that you're going to be happy as an
entertainer,
is like going to Vegas as a prostitute, and being like, yeah, but that's the
home
of prostitution.
You know, it's like, you're still going to be, like, it's great if you like to
fuck
prostitutes, it's great for that, or for a pimp, but if you're, like, it's not,
that's
not the place to go.
Steady stream of lost people coming in to take a parent job.
Meanwhile, if you're a prostitute and you move to New York, maybe you'll end up
liking
your barista job, and you'll make friends, and then you'll get involved in
socialist
politics, and who knows, four years later, you're bombing, you know, libraries,
and
you're, you know, you found some meaning in your life.
And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and.