When Eric Andre is serious , it’s serious.

This is the longest I’ve watched Eric Andre without laughing

This is the first time I've seen this dude act like an actual person,not like trying to make people laugh constantly which is nothing wrong with that,but seeing him in a serious mood.

I have never seen Eric this serious. Makes me really appreciate the significance of this situation.

Those cops need to ranch it up.

A serious Eric is rare lmao 🤣

What’s sad is that this only gets talked about when it happens to a celebrity.

Imagine going through a full TSA screening and then immediately running into a cop who says they want to search you.

Asking the cop with senority "do I have to say yes" is low key a brilliant move.

They saw Eric Andre and were like “oh hell yeah he’s gotta be on drugs”

It sucks it happened to him, but in a way I'm glad it did and that he reacted so well. Because normal people don't have the money to lawyer up and take this to court, and don't have this show up on the news. Hopefully it results in meaningful change, doubtful, but one can dream. Respect for Eric Andre.

I just pray that Eric has to testify in a trial and when he’s done the judge says “What is going on with you? You sound insane right now.”

This wouldn't happen if the police just legalise ranch

You know it's really bad when Eric andre gets serious

i can’t tell if he’s serious or in character the entire time

Wow, I think this is the first time I've seen this man calm and collected.

I think it’s important to understand the difference between “arbitrary” and “random.” A human being cannot perform a “random” drug search. The only way they could is to run each ticket through a random number generator, but that’s not what’s happening. There’s always the influence of the officers deciding who does and doesn’t get searched.

I have never seen him being this calm.

For some reason I thought his lawyer was going to be Hannibal Buress lmfao

"I just got racially profiled at the airport. My body is now your communion. Please eat from me."

I was shocked not hearing him laugh and crack a joke. Hope everything goes his way.

It's scary how serious he is

Security: sir, can we search your luggage for drugs and contraband? Eric.A : do I have to say yes? Security: no, you don't have to say yes Eric.A : then no Security: that's fine too, have a nice day .... Eric.A : i have never felt so disrespected in my entire life. The fear. The racisms. I've never been treated like this.

I kept expecting him to run off screen and tackle his lawyer.

I applaud him for contacting his lawyers about this because this needs to stop. It happens way too often.

I’m an American of Middle Eastern descent and this literally happens to me every time I go into the airport. If it happened once or twice even I’d be like alright w/e lol but it’s just pure harassment. I’m glad Eric’s calling this bullshit out as a celebrity and taking legal action cause it will bring more attention to something that still doesn’t get addressed enough.

the thing that people dont understand is, from the start these random searches are not RANDOM. profiling someone in a crowd is already not random, they pick people with certain traits that's it.

I've seen racial profiling happen right in front of me at an airport. I'm American and I was going through US customs after having been in Europe for the summer. I was in the line for American citizens, spouses of Americans and permanent residents, and green card holders. So I went to the shortest line and there were two men in front of me. The first man was wearing what I think was traditional Sikh attire and he looked Indian. Keep in mind the border agent looked to be of Indian descent as well. From the moment the Sikh gentleman walked up to the border agent, he had a hostile attitude and after their interaction, he was pulled aside from the line and his belongings were searched. The next person in front of me was an African gentleman and he spoke with an accent from Africa. He got the same treatment from this border agent and was pulled aside and searched as well. Then I go up. My mom is ethnically English and my Dad is Native American, and I look like a lighter version of my dad. I was expecting the same treatment and to be honest, I was ready to go toe to toe with the border agent. I was returning home and didn't have a flight to catch, so I had all the time in the world. But surprisingly, he treated me much better. I don't know why. I was kind of shocked to be honest. While, I've seen and heard stories like this, it was my first personal experience with racism from a government official.

Eric my guy, keep your head up. This happened to me before and I asked if they were going to check any white people and the guy got in my face, all red and started yelling at me lmao. The protocol is messed up

I know he's being serious and this is awful that it happened to him, but the entire time I was watching I was waiting for something fucked up to happen like a guy falling from the ceiling into the glass table lmao

Great job Eric. You’re handling this in the absolute right way. The more times this road is taken, the more the racist cops will be weeded out or at the very least learn the consequences

Why the hell would you stop people on the bridge? Isn’t that what TSA is for - screening people for drugs, weapons, etc before they get anywhere near a plane?

Unfortunately, this has happened to me as well at an airport. I was coming back from a trip outside the country. The stop definitely caught me off guard and the explanation for the stop was lack luster. It actually ruined my experience coming home.

This happened in Lisbon to my family. My mom-in-law's best friend was the only person of color in the bag check line and she was the only one that they pulled aside and opened all her luggage and thoroughly searched everything. It was clearly profiling and it was sickening. Made all of us feel so gross and sick that this was happening.

Maybe. Or maybe they know Eric does many bits about drugs like smoking with his mom, legalize everything, how much he loves weed, on and on...

Dude Atlanta's the blackest place in the US. I'm not buying the idea that he was stopped solely on being a (light skinned) black person, and I'm black. Dude was probably acting weird in the airport and made someone raise their eyebrow.

How can he be so controversial? Yet so brave.

Makes me extremely mad to think about how many others that this has happened to. Sadly, they didn’t get to talk about it on the news.

“Sir are you on your way to the Nintendo convention?”

Appreciate him sharing ! This is serious and this bs needs to stop !!

The biggest thing he brought up to me, is the fact that there are so many people this happens to that don't have a platform and it's unfortunately has created at least generational anxiety and most resentment in people, that would rather just accept it as normal than fighting to have it acknowledged as wrong.

The cops "appeared out of nowhere" like they were previously invisible?

I’m so proud of Eric Andre for what he said, it’s not just about him but the other hundreds of thousands of black and brown people. Wish more people would see that.

The other interesting thing about this complaint was that out 560 people they stopped, they only arrested 2 people for drug offences. (one person had prescription meds, but couldn't produce the actual prescription on site.) during that 5 month period, the cops also used asset forfeiture to collect a million dollars! More case details from a lawyer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLGeeauLr5uWhmw.html

What a badass, I can't believe Eric is so serious in this interview! You know this is very important to him.

Sooo never ever again should someone question a brown person.

This is what happens when you don't trust like that.

Thats the most serious I've ever seen Eric Andre, you know he's not making this up. Dude ain't playin'.

I wonder if he did like Harold and Kumar. 😂 “You’re not black… you look like Matthew Perry”

He totally doesn’t look like he’s ever done drugs.

Cop: I swear I've seen this guy tweaking somewhere before...

I've never seen him so serious but when she mentioned that he immediately loosened up 😂 you can tell he was holding back

For ppl saying "if you got nothing to hide .." keep in mind, nothing stops certain cops from planting drugs onto you, even a tiny bag can get you linked to actual drug traffickers and land you a hefty sentence

As everyone else I was expecting a hilarious bit seeing this. I like the candid demeanour and how straight forward he was about this.

When Eric Andre isn't joking around, you know shit's real. It even hurts to see him this upset.

I was just thinking about his 2016 interview and how he dealt with the awkwardness there, and how he is treated by society personally. Based on the somber reaction and response here, I appreciate him speaking up about it.

When Eric Andre is serious, he’s not joking around

Oh no a millionaire was mildly inconvenienced!

You can’t spell American Dream without Eric Andre.

Hold on. He says half the stops are of African Americans... has he not gone through the ATL airport?? Like 2/3 of the people flying out are African American whenever I've been through there.

I feel like every POC in 2021 yelled "racism" about literally everything. It will be interesting to see how the court rules it.

@0:19 Who else saw them introducing Eric and started laughing at how careless he was to be there 😂 I almost thought it was gonna be a skit and the way he just looks around the room with his poker face 💀💀💀

I know the joke is "If he's Eric is serious its a serious issue" BUT IT ACTULLY IS!

I don't think they were racial profiling. They probably saw him eating a sofa on his show and were Eric Andre profiling.

I think this is the very first time I’ve seen Eric being actually serious, it’s crazy

No one deserves to be racially profiled for simply getting on an airline.

I was waiting for Fart Explosion.

He is implying whites are never harassed. How does he know ?

Being black and famous there is a prejudice to pills or weed.

I ride with Eric Andre !

Who's that lawyer ? Where's Hannibal Burress, Attorney at Law?

was waiting for something to happen funny like every eric andre skit

talk talk talk *plugs the show on HBO* keeps talking. 😭

It's f'ed up that he has to go through this, that anybody has to go through this! It's humiliating and it's scary!!

I was just waiting for Eric to start trolling 😂

Sad to see what ranch does to people

Eric Andre was probably acting like ERIC ANDRE. "Let me in!"

This happened to my mom when when we were in Canada. My mom has a Mexico passport and the rest of my family has USA passports and they only stopped my mom. It infuriated me because all the other people that were stopped with her were very obviously Indian and other poc. This needs to stop. It's one of the most humiliating things to get stopped because you're of a different race

Wait up, don’t airports have the right to do random searches? I’ve been searched before, they didn’t find anything.

Waited for him to scream "BIRD UP" but it never happened. Serious André is serious.

I'm sad his lawyer isn't Hannibal Buress, I would've looked at his suit. (No but, on a serious note, that whole situation really sucks)

Those cops must really like cheap desks and were upset at Eric for abusing so many lol

If Eric Andre serious about it you know it's valid

Time to deliver a pizza ball - ranch me brotendo!

*Once they get a little bit of money they become "uppity" don't they?*

Oh it was "random," in the way that New York's Stop and frisk was "random," the same stop and frisk that never seemed to net any the drug syndicates in New York....interesting. Too bad they never seemed to stop and frisk any of the Sacklers at Random, would have saved a lot of lives.

This happened to me multiple times when I was living overseas and coming back to the states each summer. Mind you, I was 14-17. Only one time did I not get stopped when coming into the US. But like he said, it was usually going through customs. I figured it's because I have dreads and would wear those caps that you put your hair in. And I'm light skinned.

ERIC IS CLEARLY OVER IT...THIS IS SERIOUS.......

I have been randomly searched at an airport and I'm a white guy.

Same thing happened to me at the Denver Airport. I was stunned and shaken. Pulled me into a room and started quizzing me, then did a complete search of my luggage, and groped me like a piece of fruit at the market. Found nothing and said "thank you for your cooperation" By the way, I'm white.

"Can we search you for drugs?" "No." "Okay have a nice day." LAWSUIT

No need to profile racially... no need to profile at all really... this particular individual openly and publicly proclaims he participates in illegal drug use quite often.

I literally seen this guy publicly try to harass Alex Jones at a rally.

Context is definitely needed. I can say I've been profiled. Without proof it's just another cry wolf

Lol what a stupid thing to ask from security, are you buying or selling drugs here 😂 what is he gonna say “oh no now that u asked damn you got me”

“I’m black” barely has a tan LOL

did he kiss the officers after they stopped him?

It’s weird seeing Andre being serious 😂😂

That's the dumbest use of tax dollars I've ever heard of. Well just ask random people if they have drugs on them and if they say no well keep moving. 🤔

Clearly, this dude wants to be a victim.