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that’s when you don’t need either

Or you could just listen to the story sober instead of giving yourself an excuse to use drugs.

@@Lamtitude Exactly. Lol

Maybe its so good you dont need help

Same here! I didn’t know lol. L😂

It's a lot of celebrities that don't use their real names

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Honestly though Eric bishop is a great name imo.

He was determined to succeed.

OutFoxxed* 😂

Because you didn’t understand it right 😒

Underrated comment

@@amadi2188 I’m on KZfaqs black list.

😂😂😂😂😂 good one

Shits weak wym

No seriously, it demands instant respect for some reason

Lol apparently it was too hard at one point in his career because they feared his competition therefore he had to change his name he says!

Mr Bishop. 😁

@@jomomma900 bro your last name is same of a white girls first name. And Marcus is one of the laziest names black people give to their children… have several seats

Only his friends and family call him Eric. You Betta put respec on his name

U peasant aren't allowed to call his real name. U're a nobody to him. People has no respect now adays smh

You mean Stacey Green right ?

@@randomguy037 that is his name dude... absolutely stupid to call someone something different from their actual name

@@randomguy037 I'm sorry are you the name police?

You mean Eric lol

Thing is, he doesn't even need a good story - his storytelling is so legendary he could read from the dictionary and that shit would have a flow

@@JohnGrahamDoe agreed! ive said the same thing about him. His storytelling ability rivals all his other talents. Crazy

Talent and endless practice

He just knows how to package and deliver mundane information and make it into a good story bc he sees small everyday occurrences as meaningful. He could've just said, "Well I changed my name to a unisex name to get more action on open mic nights." But he made it sound like a magical story! That's how cool everyone's life is too

Sure is: most famous people and CEO's have names no longer than 11 letters.

Down here in Terrell Texas were he's from we already knew

Eric Marlon Bishop

It's like the secret identity of a Superhero.

It Issssss!!! ☺️👍

Serious?

Brilliant fellow...

@@tj9305 its the truth

What about Horatio Caine?

@@tj9305 amazing singer, songwriter, musician, actor, comedian, story teller and a a few other things i probably don’t know off the top of my head

Lol I know right.

It’s true. I’m black but my mother gave me a “white” name so I wouldn’t be turned down on resumes and opportunities like she was. Gotta be a step ahead of the game to survive.

Anyone with an "ethnic" name who has ever applied for a job already knows this 😂

@@iorilamia Fr it's liked that sometimes

Your race,family wealth,name,sex,where you were born. Everything effects everything else. Its so scary to think that if i was given a different name i could have lived a completely different life.

That gave me Wanda vibes!!!

It sounds like a pornstar name, they were probably like, “ooo, let’s see what Jamie Foxx looks like” Jamie Foxx: “Heyy”

Thats the birth of his Wanda Wayne character 😉

Real life Playa Hater lol

It's the easiest job in the world. You work what, 45 minutes two days a week? You get to drink on the job. People are addicted to attention these days, and I mean more addicted to it than folks used to be addicted to those needles, so you work maybe 2 hours a week, you get your attention fix, you get to travel if you want to, you're essentially working at a bar or a club and if you trying to smash more than likely some chick from your show thought you were funny and hell women will throw you some pussy quick if you can make them laugh. Easiest job.

@@captainobvious90 exactly lol

You say that but but what about hamburger?

Ummm so bones smith is ur stage name? Lol 😂

Darling, he’s alive, your witnessing him righTnoooooow, whatchu mean? No he’s not about to do a Charlie Murphy Hollywood stories movie.

Barry bonds could only play baseball and needed HGH to perform. Jamie Foxx is more like Mickey mantle

@@Gromble_Sir Bo Jackson

You’re both missing the point. He’s saying Barry bonds could hit for power, average, steal bases , and play defense. For a sport. Jamie/Eric can act, dance , sing for entertainment. I hope nobody is still confused

@@jn7428 there's a huge asterisk next to Barry bonds name. There will never be an asterisk next to Jamie Foxx name

@@jn7428 unless there's a comedic enhancing drug, Jamie Foxx is authentic as it gets. Barry? 🙅‍♂️

Jamie is not his name 🤣

Yes .. but not just for what he’s doing… you have to move in the dark to be successful at anything…

Wtf are yall on about? How is Jamie "moving in the dark"

@@speedlimit6869 Not the dark. You have to guard your hand to play. This is not the dark. This is common sense. You don't get fans in the dark. You don't get fame in the dark. Jamie Foxx has both. The dark is for those that don't seek reward. The zealous. The most sure of themselves. Those will move mountains in the dark, and never take eather credit or blame. I doubt this is the sort of potency you considered success. It is the sort of potency that can get to anyone. Solve anything. At the price that it stays in the dark. Most of the evil done there is done to keep things hidden after all. Stay out of the dark. It's not for you and me. Read the prince, employ some machiavellianisme. Think a little about what you want to accomplish before you start. You'll be fine.. No need to go darkside. You won't find what you are looking for there. You will find other things, and then likely wish you hadn't. Getting the people around you to root for your success is usually the easier way to get it. Nobody- no matter how good or clever can be successful if the people around them don't want them to be. Not saying assholes can't win. They often do. I'm saying assholes have to rotate the people around them to do it. They must fight an unnecessary uphill battle socially. This caps their prospects powerfully. Success isn't just about money. In fact it's hardly about money at all. It's about who you know- how they feel about you. It's about who trusts you. Nobody builds trust from the dark. The dark isn't good for networking* Honesty and openness is.

@@speedlimit6869 Yes Indeed!!!

He was on one of my favorite shows check it out. In living color

Did you see his recent impersonation of Trump. When i thought he’d done it all he killed a Trump impersonation! It’s on complex with Snoop.

@@Msd4-13 WOW thank you for suggesting that..that’s arguably the best Trump impression I’ve ever seen 😂😂

Now he just needs the Tony.

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That’s a negatory

Me too!

Heard this story a long time ago about "Jamie". I watched this video thinking it was going to explain why he chose Foxx, haha.

Same.

Colbert has a fake name too. He completely made up the French pronunciation. Jon Stewart also hides his last name of Leibowitz. So Colbert is Irish and pretends to be French and Stewart is Jewish and tries to not make it obvious

Aww, I knew. I'm a fan😍😍

You don't get out much, do you?

I gotta give it to Sammy Davis jr

@@ChadtheHammer Dude is a comedian, actor, singer, and musician. He's won a Oscar and a Grammy.

@@TexasMade903 good for him. Very talented, yes. Do you understand that the OP claimed he was the most talented overall entertainer IN THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD? Do you also realize how old Hollywood is and how many extremely talented entertainers there have been?

Dude jamie can do an impression of celebrities you don’t even know He is talented af

U mean Jamie right🤔

@@stockstock6805 hahahahaha yes !!!! Jamie

It’s a reason he wanted to be called Jamie 🌈

@@daribanz seek help

@@FleshWolf Exactly 💯%!! @Darshawn is hatin' because his life is miserable while he sits on his dusty beat up couch from Rent A Center while eating a king size bag of sour cream and onion potato chips and drinking a 12 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer with his cousin whose also his wife that's making him a fried balony sandwich with extra fried onions and extra dabs of mayonnaise while patiencely waiting on handymen who are outside fixing the leaky roof on his 30 year old double wide trailer!! 🥪 🍺

@@isiahwarner3087 that's the kind of person you got from "Darshawn"?

@@lestervarela3332 I'm dead 💀

I always think about all the talent we have been robbed from someone who wasn't witty like Foxx or other scenarios where they can't catch a break. Instead we get clowns who aren't funny at all.

You’re a retard. It’s nothing to do with gender, they knew his name Eric and when they saw it wouldn’t call him to perform, so he put fake names using unisex names so they wouldn’t think it’s him. Gotta use your brain, he explained all of what I just said in the clip

No need to put coming to America those who know, know.😂

Good 👆

“Wait a second, wait a second..a man has the right to change his name to whatever he wants to change it to..and if a man wants to be called Jamie Foxx, gah dammit, this is a free country, you should respect his wishes, and call the man Jamie Foxx.”

@@yopappy6599 😂😂😂

Name quite fitting

Honestly i didn't until i read the comments. I forgot he sings and plays piano too.

You trippin bro he a legend and everyone knows…. Don’t be a chris

1 of. 👍

Listen to his first album Peep This from 1994. Man’s been killin it a long time

Obviously I'm not lol

Foxx

The way you speak n type, obviously yours isn't that high lol

@@thesanders5822 Oh for chris sake get a life would you?Key-rist you’re annoying!

I always say what u say. He is not ordinary

God you sound insufferable

@@thesanders5822 talk about lit

Fse😂

That's how it goes, people try to put you down because of how much better you may be to them. Happens everywhere.

@@txstdmmy9774what are you talking about? It’s the main part of the interview.

Same here