OK, So I get hired to do a Dannon Frusion commercial. Now the people that hire me don't know that I'm a comedian or that I have hosted shows on BET or any of that. I'm just the guy that looks and acts like the type they had in mind. Anyway I'm on the set and I am the only principal (main person) on the shoot. They have something like thirty or forty extras and background people. For some reason the other people don't talk to the principals. I even tried striking up conversations with some of the people (brothers and sisters) and they really weren't feelin a nigga or somethin cause I ain't get no love. So we started at about six in the morning. By ten o'clock I am realizin' I'm the outside nigga and pretty much keep to myself during the shoot. Well, I forgot that the sound man has mic'd me up and can hear everything I'm sayin'. The line I'm supposed to deliver is " trade in your breakfast for a Dannon Frusion Smoothie.", and by lunch time I had said it at least a trillion times between the shooting and me talking to myself. Anyway, fast forward to the end of the day. It's about five o'clock and it's the last shot of the day. The director and a couple of the producers come to me and say, "Joe, your doing great first of all. For our last shot we are gonna mount a camera inside of a city bus and have it swing around the corner and get you as it goes by. We have an air cannon that's gonna shoot confetti out of the top of the stand behind you and we were wondering if you could kinda sing the song like we've been hearing you sing it to yourself all day and do a little dance." Now I could tell they knew they was wrong by the way they all approached me. I couldn't believe I was being asked to sing and dance in 2005, but here I am in "Hollywood" feelin' like Sammy Davis Jr. and them back in the day with that "sing for me nigga" shit! Right after that thought went throgh my head I then thought of walkin' off the set. To me that's some racist shit. But here I am in the middle of a shoot. There's money to be made and I don't need to be the "confrontational black man" 'cause them niggas don't eat. So I quickly gain my composure, like in a movie or some shit, and say "Cool. No problem". I knew I wasn't gonna dance but I would sing. And I decided I would sing it my way so my brothers and sister and my niggas back around the way could tell what was goin' on. Thus the clip above. It could have been a lot worse. Keep hope alive.Enjoy
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