Comedian and actor Faizon Love chats with Trey Elling, ahead of his headlining shows at Cap City Comedy Club. Topics include:
- Snoop Dogg forcing Faizon to retire from weed (1:29)
- Where he draws his standup material from (4:00)
- Having his first kid at 50 (4:33)
- The difficult art of standup comedy (7:23)
- Starting his standup career at the Comedy Store in the mid-1980s (10:11)
- Faizon’s first encounter with Richard Pryor (13:25)
- Sam Kinison (14:31)
- Comparing standup and comedic acting (15:52)
- A scene from Elf as an example of comedic timing (19:08)
- Learning to surf for Blue Crush (20:10)