Scene 2 Seen Podcast: Lil Rel Howery Discusses His Latest HBO Standup Special ‘I Said It, Ya’ll Thinking It’ And The Process Of Curating A Comedy Routine
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Another week, another episode of the Scene 2 Seen podcast. I am your host Valerie Complex, associate editor and film writer at Deadline. On today’s episode is comedian Lil Rel Howery.
Now you may be wondering why this is posting on a Thursday morning instead of the usual Tuesday afternoon. The podcast has moved to Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. ET. This change allows for us to prep promotion leading up to the episode debut. There will be other changes coming, so stay tuned for those as well. Anyway, back to our guest!
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Howery is a comedian, actor, writer and producer who has occupied a variety of roles in film and television. His breakout role as TSA agent in the Oscar-winning Get Out kinda made him a household name overnight. It garnered him an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance in a Movie, and an Image Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
From there, his career went full-speed ahead with a co-starring role in Netflix horror film Bird Box and other films like Brittany Runs a Marathon, Free Guy, Vacation Friends, the six-time Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah among others.
On television, he acted as producer for his own Fox sitcom REL. He made a guest appearance on Issa Rae’s Insecure and Lena Waithe’s Showtime series The Chi. He also starred in the acclaimed NBC comedy series The Carmichael Show as Jerrod Carmichael’s brother Bobby. Howery also was an executive producer, wrote and starred in the weekly sketch comedy show Friends of the People on truTV.
He’s accomplished much, but none of this would have been possible without starting as a stand-up comedian. His first hourlong stand-up special, Relevent, premiered in 2015 on Comedy Central. It was executive produced by Kevin Hart and was named one of “The 10 Best Stand-Up Specials of 2015” by Vulture. His second special premiered on HBO, in 2019, and his third show I Said It, Ya’ll Thinking It premiered last month on HBO.
In this interview he talks about curating his comedy, how strict observation helps him come up with hilarious material, and why his new comedy special is different from all the others.
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