Sam Jay: Taking Aim - Metro Weekly, August 6, 2020

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“I do checks in my head before I move forward
with any joke: Me Too, trans, Trump. It's like,
‘Why are you saying this? Why do you want to
say it? Why do you feel like you need to say it?
Okay. ALL YOUR CHAKRAS ARE ALIGNED AND
IN A GOOD PLACE, GO FORWARD.’”
wasn't talking about her at first and she
was like, "You don't ever talk about me."
And I was like, I don't know, I just didn’t
have anything to say. And then when I
started having stuff to say, it was like,
"Don't be talking about me!" But in the
realness of it, I run everything by her.
She's such a big supporter. I don't know
if I would even be here without my girl in
my corner. She literally goes on the road
with me and I hate going on the road,
especially I hate going alone, and going
with her always just enriches the experience.
Even all those jokes I got out of
Europe, I have to attribute that to my girl.
If I would've went on that European tour
alone, I wouldn't have much of nothing
to say about the trip.
So in that regard, I run everything
by her. Like, "Babe, I'm thinking about
doing this or talking about this thing,
and are you cool with that?" Or, "Are you
uncomfortable?" if I do just get on stage
and happen to riff something, and it just
comes out — when I get off, I'm like,
"Was that too much? Do you not want me
to say this part?" Or, "Are you cool with
all of it?" Because I do respect her, and
I don't want to be out there disrespecting
her. Even though people are going
to watch it and be like, "Oh shit, she be
talking crazy about her girl." I want home
to be good. I want us to be like, we good
and we know what we on.
MW: I've never dated a comic, so it’s never
come up, but I feel like if it takes a lot of
nerve to be a comic, it must take a lot of
nerve to be with on. Is that the case?
JAY: Yeah, my girl, she's no pushover. If
she don't want something, it's not going
to happen. I always tell people, "I'm really
the bullied one." If only people knew.
A lot of this stuff I have to run by her
because I'm just afraid of her. And I'm
like, I don't want to deal with no static
later on.
MW: So I want to talk about SNL, because
I am a lifelong fan of that show. Was it
a show that meant something to you as
a kid?
JAY: Well, yeah. I definitely watched it. I
was younger and I feel like the show is one
of those shows where it comes in phases.
So I remember being like nine, 10, and my
parents would watch it. And so by default,
I knew about it and knew the players and
stuff. And then I used to watch Eddie
Murphy's Best of SNL tape that my mom
had all the time. So I was aware of the
world and what the world was.
Then, when I was in my early teens,
it was all Molly Shannon, and I loved all
that. And I would go to every SNL movie.
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