Thank you, friend!!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Well, when you need a good chuckle, come here and watch my performance any time!!! 😅🤣😂 I won on the TV show with this exact same act.

My Saturday night highlight! 11pm front and center in front of the big floor model tv.....lol. The comedians. Keke, Sandman, 😢 real tv!

Yassss!!!

@@tyarad7156 😅😅😅🤣🤣😂

Facts.

Thank you soooo much, my friend!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

Wow! I wish you had a video of your performance so we could enjoy it!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

@@montgomerycamjr We were sponsored by the 48th Pct. in the Bronx. That was around 1957. Time Dose Fly. We sang a song called ,ehhh Tell Me Why

😱 are you serious??? If you telling the truth, that had to be one amazing experience.

@@jdizzy5076 OH yes, its true. 3 teenage white boys from the Bronx. Sponsored by the 48 PCT.

Your comment has made my day!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@@montgomerycamjr All those great entertaining moments from Amateur Night at Showtime At The Apollo are some of the building blocks of my early childhood. Some were outstanding and some were not. This performance was ahead of it's time for many reasons, but I can just imagine someone staying up late to watch this one, just to use these jokes in the lunch room at school 🤣🤣🤣 Y'all used to keep us RAZOR SHARP! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

Was that even funny?

@@flashcardsthebeautifulj5632 HYSTERICAL actually!!! 🤣😅😂

@@flashcardsthebeautifulj5632 NAW

Yep, it sure was! The character's name is "Dale Whitlock." And the monologue was taken from a play named RUPERT'S FOUR. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@@montgomerycamjr is that you ?on stage ?

@@BoSSLeVeLs Of course!!! 34 years ago this month!!!!

@@montgomerycamjr you looking well sir ! ✌🏼 Great performance 🎭👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

lol does that disappoint you?

Adults loved Amateur Night too! 😂🤣😅

That audience at The Apollo Theater is LIVE AF!!!!!! If they LOVE you, they love you! If they HATE you, you're DEAD!!! 😛😛😛

After I exited the theater, a group of four, young black men approached me. One of them said, "Hey, man, tell them you're not really like that. That you were just acting." I said, "Yeah, I was just acting. That's a scene from a play I wrote." The young guy turned back to his friends and said, "See, I told y'all he was just acting. Man, you was good. You was good!" 😂😂😂

Woooow

Soool funny

Boy bye🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@montgomerycamjr What do you think would've happened if you answered differently?

Thank you, friend!!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

Were you at this performance during Wednesday Amateur Night, or did you see it on the tv show, It's Showtime at the Apollo?

Looks like you don't need to wonder much longer, Mr. Cam has responded to your inquiry. Bravo to you Montgomery for being audacious enough to do this performance in a hostile crowd when being "open" was still taboo.

@@spring95q Well, it was actually a scene from a play, but it was indeed pretty courageous of me to perform it in front of those folks!!! Thanks so much for giving it a look!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Haaaaaa!!! Wasn't he??? 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣😂

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Thank you soooo much!!!!!!!!

@@montgomerycamjr your welcome, and thank you for sharing your talent with the world.

My friend, thank you sooooo very much for that critique. Truth be told, though, it wasn't a comedy routine at all. It was an actual monologue from a one-act play I wrote while in college. Because of the way audiences responded to it, I simply performed it in a few talent competitions. I won at The Apollo and I also won with it at Indianapolis Black Expo with singer Jody Watley as a judge. I wonder if she remembers my performance!!! 😉😉😉

@@montgomerycamjr that's awesome, what are you doing now, still performing?

@@robertragolia744 Peep me on Instagram!!!!! @MontgomeryCamJr

@@montgomerycamjr sounds good thanks

Thank you soooo much, my friend!

Haaa! Had to let that wild audience know a brotha was ACTING!!! 😛

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@@montgomerycamjr I hope people that follow comedy understand how intricate that is. That is a list of GREATS and to be able to embody that and still be original is a rare form of genius!

@@thomastaylor1217 You've made my day. I recall being scared to death on that stage, because The Apollo audience can be brutal. In fact, the act that went on before me was mercilessly booed off. And that character I performed could have gone either way with that audience. Luckily for me, they LOVED him!!! I performed the same act on their tv show, It's Showtime At The Apollo (and WON!!!)

@@montgomerycamjr Fear is natural, cowardly is to not act due to the fear. Bravery is to push through beyond the fear. Proud of you black man, that is not only funny but inspiring! Congrats on all your future endeavors, you have a fan in me my brother!

Gay angle ?? Dude is really gay dumb ass

Awwwww, THANK YOU!!!!!! ✊🏾👊🏾✊🏾

@@montgomerycamjr THANK YOU! You made my morning...I woke the whole household and then told them to hush cuz I was trying to hear you when they asked why was I so loud🫣🤷🏾‍♀️! I had my earpiece in but you really gave me LIFE the moment you sat down and there was NO way I was gonna contain myself after the night I had...God bless you and your gift, keep running in this direction, you got IT!🙌🏾🥰😍😘

@@ItsAllLove4Real Thank you soooooooo very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

@@montgomerycamjr 🤩🤗🥰

He's the BEST!!!!

Haaaaa!!! THANK YOU, Mr. Johnson!!! 😜😜😜

Thank you so much, friend!!! As soon as I crossed my legs like that, I heard them start losing it!!! 😛😛😛

My friend, what a compliment!!!!!! Thank you sooooo very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

@@montgomerycamjr Man am glad i ran into you they don't make em like that no more salute 👑

You're the BEST!!! Thank you!

You, my friend, have made a brotha smile from ear to ear!!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you, FRIEND!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Thank you sooooo very much!!!!!! I had a BLAST performing that night!!!!

Haaa! I'm humbled you remember me. I performed that monologue at Wednesday's Amateur Night and Top Dog competitions. Also performed it on the TV show, It's Showtime at the Apollo. 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

I loved it too!!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Awwwwww!!!!! 😛😛😛

It was the '80s!!!!!!!! 1988 to be precise! 😅🤣😂

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My friend, I truly, sincerely and deeply THANK YOU for such a beautiful compliment!!! Hard for me to believe I performed that monologue 34 years ago!!! 💯💯💯

Thank you soooooo much!!!! ✊🏾🤟🏾👊🏾🤟🏾✊🏾👊🏾👌🏾

Agreed!!!! 👏🏿💯✊🏿😂

Gracias, amigo!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

Haaa! Thank you, friend!!! SHARE it with folks you know who could use a chuckle!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

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Thank you, brother. These days, I do commercial voice-overs!!! soundcloud.com/user-962426081

Haaaa! All you gotta do is Google a brotha to find out what he's really like! 😛😛😛

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THANK, THANK, THANK YOU, my friend!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

I was nervous AF!!!! That audience can be CRUEL!!!! Luckily, they LOVED a brotha!!! 😂😂😂

@@montgomerycamjr Thought so. You need to be in movies or on a show somewhere...

Thank you soooooo very much!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you, thank you, thank you, my friend!!! ✊🏾🤟🏾👊🏾

Thank you!!!!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾

@Troy Sterling, I had a BLAST performing there! 😜😜😜

@@montgomerycamjr I used to watch that show in the 1980’s and watch all the re-runs till this day. Did you ever do Def Comedy Jam?

@@troysterling1382 No, sir, I never did Def Comedy Jam. I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor/writer who writes and performs monologues.

Wow!!!!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Wait a minute is that you?!?!?!

​@@VeniceMenace-ky6yfYep!!! A 24-year-old ME!!!!! 😂🤣😅

@@montgomerycamjr that's cool man 😂

WHO are the "we" you're referring to???

@@montgomerycamjr black people

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Haaaaa! I thought the same thing!!! Damn shady cameraman!!! 😂😂😂😂

The performance is an excerpt from a play. The character is being interviewed by Barbara Walters, so that's who he's talking to!!! 😂😂😂

Thank you sooooo much, kind sir.

You're too kind!!! Thank you!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Thank you soooo much!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@@montgomerycamjr This routine is so good on so many levels. The intro to just sitting down and getting situated implies so much, and the crowds reaction. Why am I just now discovering you?

@@jsvideogameclips7497, I was scared crapless about performing a monologue in front of that crowd, but true enough, by taking my time to allow the audience to feel the character's presence was key. Just crossing my legs like that prepared them for what was to come!!! 😂

Joshua, this performance was wayyyyy back in May 1988!!! Were you even BORN back then??? 😛

@@montgomerycamjr ya got me!!! 😂🤣 I was born in ‘91

@@joshuaafrifa8134 I knew it!!! 😛😛😛

@@montgomerycamjr Dang I thought my photo would fool you

Haaaa! Thank you, my friend!!! 💯✊🏾💯✊🏾💯

Thank you, my friend!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

Women get a kick outta flamboyant gay cats. And closeted dudes get something else outta them!!! 😂🤣😅

Haaaaa! It was just a joke!!! 😂😂😂

Brave, indeed!!!!! Thank you so much for taking a look. ✊🏾🙏🏽👊🏾

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I won ONCE, but was asked back to perform the exact same monologue two or three times. I was hired to perform the same piece at a yacht party on the HUDSON RIVER too. If you ever watched the TV version, "It's Showtime At The Apollo," I won on that show! The monologue also won a contest judged by singer, JODY WATLEY, all the way in Indianapolis, IN at The Black Expo. Honestly, that monologue took on a life of its own.

Haaaa! You're a kind soul!!! 😅🤣😂🤣

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Thank you, new friend!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

May 1988!

1988!!!!!!! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Google Cam Montgomery Jr!!! 😉😉😉

I have never done stand-up. The performance you see here is a monologue adapted from a play I wrote while in college. Thank you so much for watching.