Name: Stavvy's World #135 - Ali Siddiq | Full Episode
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Stavvy's World #135 - Ali Siddiq | Full Episode

Hello, everybody. We have an incredible show coming up for you right now with
the great Ali Sadiq.
One of the best comics working today. Maybe the best storyteller in stand-up
comedy currently.
You're going to love the episode. He was great on the show.
Just wanted to let you know we are going to be on the road a bunch coming to
the UK and Ireland in September.
We're talking Manchester. We're talking London, Glasgow.
Then also Dublin, of course. How could I forget?
Let's not forget coming back stateside. Memphis, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Knoxville,
Asheville, Greensboro, North Carolina, Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, Austin, and
Boston.
And we are adding more shows. Believe me, don't worry. More shows are coming.
Go right now to Stavi.biz to get your tickets. Can't wait to see you there. So
fun.
And now let's start the show.
Opa! Welcome, everybody, to Stavi's World. 904-800-STAV. Call in. We'll solve
all your problems.
On the couch today, we're pumped to have Ali Sadiq. Thank you for being here,
man.
One of the most prolific. I truly don't understand. I see your YouTube channel.
I'm like, fuck, man.
I've got to work so much harder than this. I'll do one special every two years.
I'm like, this guy's doing shit that I'm like, people are crying. They're
laughing. You're moving people.
I'm like, man, do I even do the same art form?
I just talk about my dick being small for about half of it and being too fat
the other half.
So I love it. Your shit is out of good.
I mean, truly, dude, it's like nobody's doing what you're doing on the, like on
YouTube and like with your specials.
And so we're so, so happy to have you here. We're huge fans here, for sure.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, and you got a special right now that just came out like a couple weeks
ago, probably.
Yeah, My Two Sons.
My Two Sons, yeah.
Four million already, so.
Yeah, dude.
It's moving.
I mean, everybody I talk to, I'm like, YouTube's dead. Don't even bother
putting a special up.
And then I check your shit and you got eight million on like that.
On some film with like one, it looks like security camera footage like this.
He just did a special in the lobby of a fucking, you're doing theaters.
You're like, yeah, let's just do another one for fun. Let's do one at a club.
It's incredible what you're doing, man, for real.
That's actually what happened.
We had did all these other specials and then we had some footage and we was
looking at it.
It was like, this is pretty structured.
Fuck it.
Let's put it out in between.
You know why they're waiting on another special.
Don't get used to that.
If you're a Stavros Alex fan, do not expect that kind of production.
We are taking our time with this special, man.
Yeah, no, dude.
And I love, I mean, you know, you have so many of them, but the domino effect,
so great.
A four-part special that's like six hours almost, like the whole thing.
So, and your life story is incredible.
I mean, you know, I don't want to, go check Ali's stuff out, but, you know, we'll
just talk about, you're from Houston.
Yes, sir.
And the whole thing, I mean, I love the domino effect because it takes you
essentially from like childhood into when you come out of prison, which is like,
you know, such a beautiful arc to the whole thing.
So, but yeah, Houston, I mean, we're big fans of Houston too.
We love it.
It's a great city, man.
It is, it is.
Yeah.
It, it, I don't think I would live anywhere else.
You know, I still stay there.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm so anti-moving anywhere else.
Yeah, why do it?
If the place you're from is cool, like, you know, I'm from Baltimore, I love
Baltimore, but it's like, first of all, my family's there, which I love, but I
like being, four hours is nice.
Four hours in a car is the perfect distance from your family.
An emergency happens, I'm in the RAV4, I'm there.
But my mom can't just pop over, you know what I mean?
My dad can't annoy me, you know what I mean?
It's like, they are far enough away where I, I literally went down yesterday
for the day and I did like, I checked off a visit to everybody, my dad, my mom,
my brothers.
I'm looking at the back.
Yeah.
You Greek?
I'm Greek, but yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'll be going to Greece.
Oh, hell yeah.
July.
Oh, nice, dude.
I'll be going to Greece.
Where you going?
You got the, you got the trip right now?
Like three islands, I think y'all have to go.
Yeah, we got a lot more, but yeah, the three's good.
I think it's like three spots that I'm going to.
The big ones, yeah.
No, Greece is the best.
I'm going because this is the place where I can wear a Speedo and look
excellent.
No one is, yeah, everyone's going to be like, nice, dude, that guy's, that guy's
crushing it.
They might call you Obama, that's the thing.
Greek racism is like, nice.
It's like they just, their favorite, if they see a black person, they'll just
say their favorite black person.
They might come up to you and be like, LeBron, you know, they'll say some shit
like that to you.
I was there with an ex-girlfriend and we were having, you know, we're breaking
up on the trip.
It's horrible.
And then, but then I just, this like, like, like stately older couple, right?
Like this black dude, you know, black couple, and they're like, you know, in
their 50s.
They really look like, he looks like a senator or something, right?
And the guy just won't stop.
The Greek waiter does not know any English, won't stop calling him Obama.
I'm just like, they're ruining this vacation.
But I'm like, all right, it's making me laugh while I'm breaking up with my
girlfriend in a beautiful island.
So they might hit you that.
Can you break up in Greece?
I didn't think you could, Ali.
I'm like, I'm sitting there thinking, like, everything I've heard about Greece.
Like, can you break up in Greece?
That's what happens when you date a rich girl.
Like, I grew up poor.
I was like, we're going to Greece.
She can't say anything.
I mean, I'm the man for bringing her to Greece.
But when someone's family is, her parents have taken her to like every place
you can imagine.
So to me, this is a big deal to her.
It's like, she's annoyed she can't, you know, she's missing out on New York.
We're two different worlds.
I fucked up.
Now you're making me think, is this what my daughters are going to be like?
Yeah, unfortunately, that is the problem with success.
Your kids end up being like, ugh.
You know what I mean?
They, like, I don't want my children to know what ramen is, like, real ramen is,
until they're 25.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's got to be packets.
Oh, no.
They, they, I think I'm a healthy mix in between well-to-do and, you know, not
well-to-do.
Sure, sure, sure.
I was on another podcast and a guy was like, yo, Ali, what are you, are you
bougie or are you regular?
I said, okay, I heard exactly what you said.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, but I, I was listening, but I wasn't listening because I'm actually
sitting inside my Bentley.
And all I can think about is shooting these squirrels that see my apples.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Off my tree.
Absolutely.
And I'm sitting there like, the, the pellet gun that I just bought is in the
trunk.
Like, why?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I, I just can't wait to get on this podcast so I can shoot these squirrels.
Like, I am going squirrel hunting.
This guy, I'm going to have a trash bag full of bodies.
You still have it in you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I still have, I still have it, man.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like.
You do, but unfortunately, I think you are, how many, how many kids do you have?
Because I know.
A plethora.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice.
That's just how I describe it.
Maybe that's smart.
This is a plethora.
Yeah.
And they still, you know, I have a healthy range.
They start at 31 and then they go down to four.
Wow.
That's smart because then you're like, all right, I'm spreading the resources
out.
So none of you gets to be that rich.
You know what I mean?
Maybe, maybe that's how you'll stop it from them being too bougie.
So what's crazy, I only own this Bentley is because I was with my foyer getting
my truck
serviced and she was like, that's a nice car.
And I said, well, let's look in it.
The dealership is right next to the other dealership.
I said, let's just go look in it.
And she got in the back and she literally crossed her legs and crossed her
hands like,
this is nice.
Okay.
Well, yeah, she's toast.
She's going to be like my ex.
It's going to be the worst.
Sorry.
She's done for sure.
You know, the 31 year old, probably they'll be cool.
You know what I mean?
He is definitely not up across.
He is definitely rough around the edges.
Yeah.
Before the YouTube ad money came in.
Oh, man.
Before the, before, I almost, he really, before the career even.
Oh, wow.
I've been doing stand up 27 years.
Okay.
So my oldest daughter is 26.
My oldest son is 31.
Okay.
So he is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He is the brunt of.
Of course.
Hey, man, I mean, where do you actually work at?
Yeah.
Several places.
Yeah.
What's the little, what's the, you know, what's the little gap between when the
career, because I, you know, in the specials, you're talking about how you sort
of kind of started doing stand up entertaining other inmates when you were in
prison.
And it was like, so what's that little gap when the career, when you got out
and before it like really started going off, what are you doing?
I am, and this is the, in the shadows gives the explanation of how I started in
1997, December the 2nd and how I go up from, from there.
I was actually 18 months before I was on my first TV show.
Wow.
Holy shit.
Which was Comic View, which is four minutes and 30 seconds.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
And then you think that you, you are exploding after that.
Yeah.
And then you realize, no, only really like to host.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
It was always like a famous guy would be hosting.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
He was doing pretty, that was kind of like the farm system where it was like,
you would, if you do well enough, they might bring you back another time.
Yeah.
And then if you have some other shit going on, then you get to also host the
thing too.
Yeah.
If you, if you used to be a competition to host, then they used to start making
this random statement with Bruce.
Bruce was the host one year.
Ricky Smiley was the host.
I think Ricky did it twice.
So the, the, the three years I was on, it was Bruce, it was Ricky.
And then they had, I think it was a weird year in there where it was like two
hosts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause they taped in multiple places.
Right, right, right.
That's when she started falling apart.
When it was just like, no one even gave a, gave a fuck anymore.
They're like, whatever, man, you host it.
You know what I mean?
I remember people would do Comic View and then they would come in the club with
shades on.
And I was like.
Yeah.
You might, I thought them shades cost more than you made.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah.
Those first, I mean, I remember my first thing for Comedy Central that was like
four minutes.
It was like a, they were like, oh, last year this paid $8,000 and we did it in
Hawaii.
This year it's in Brooklyn, it's $400 and you get, and you get an Uber ride.
I'm like, what the fuck?
I was the first, I'm the first generation, they're downsizing this bullshit.
It was literally, it went from Adam Devine's house party was like the little,
and they would
fly you to Hawaii and the next year they just fucking did it at like, you know,
one of these,
somewhere in like Park Slope.
It was, it was horrible.
I declined Adam Devine's house party.
Ah, yeah, yeah.
It did, it didn't, I, because I had won, I had won.
Yeah, you're in a different place by then, you know what I mean?
No, I had just won Comedy Central's comic to watch, right?
Yeah.
And it came with, you know, an album, um, of appearance on one of the Comedy
Central shows
and they kept offering me shows and I kept declining them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was like, yo, what is, what's going on with this, with this guy?
And t