Toks Olagundoye interview
Olagundoye is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her goal to be a James Bond girl and how that dream came about.
I don’t want to give away my age but since I was four, I used to collect James Bond films.
Jim Brown interview
Brown is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Kobe Bryant’s return to basketball and Bryant’s confusion with African-American culture.
In the days when we had a summit and we call the top black athletes together to talk to Muhammed Ali about his status with the forces, there were some athletes we didn’t call. So if I had to call that summit all over there would be some athletes I wouldn’t call. Kobe would be one of them.
Stand-up performance
Tiffany Haddish performs stand-up comedy on The Arsenio Hall show. She talks about being pulled over by the police and working for and walking around the house in panties.
How many ladies, you see yourself walking around the house in your panties and say ‘I look just like Beyonce’
Eric Andre interview
Andre performs on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his bonding with his dad and the third season of his comedy talk show. They also talk about how the networks censor his pitches. The last part of the interview was censored and caught Hall by surprise.
So S&P, the Standards and Practice department they don’t like when you do certain things. You can’t show your pee pee on TV, you can’t say bad words.
R. Kelly improv performance
Kelly performs improvisation interactively with the audience on The Arsenio Hall Show. The audience has him create songs based on relish, ketchup and frosted flakes.
R. Kelly interview
Kelly is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about metaphors for his music, what inspires him and music that plays when he makes love.
Honestly I have to be real. I got three kids off my own album.
Shut Up Performance
Kelly performs Shut Up on The Arsenio Hall show in Los Angeles, California. The performance is set up like a press conference.
Stand-up performance
Murphy performs stand-up comedy on The Arsenio Hall Show. He talks about Hurricane Sandy and owners who obsess over their pet.
Charlie Murphy interview
Murphy is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the first time Hall met when Murphy were drunk, his impression of Tony Montana and his getting cold feet, success and the loss of his wife.
Most guys I know, like you, my brother, Dave, you guys got that in common you were kids when you started, ‘ I want to do this’. When I started doing it, like I said I was forty two years old, my wife was alive. But forty five years into it my wife passed away.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about child stardom, self definition and what leads to dysfunction as a child star.
I find to me these kids get into trouble but to me they don’t get into trouble because of the industry they get into trouble because they come from messed up families.
Ne Yo interview
Ne Yo is interviewed by Hall on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his unique approach to his international tour, child foster donations and his motivation to guide disadvantaged kids.
It’s not this kids fault that kid’s parents decided that they didn’t want to be parents so now they’re in a foster home. So now that he’s in a foster home, he doesn’t get some of the opportunities that somebody that grew up with a mother and father gets, I don’t think that’s fair.
Waiting for Superman performance
Daughtry performs Waiting for Superman to promote their new album Baptized on The Arsenio Hall Show in Los Angeles, California.
The Game interview
Hall interviews The Game on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his daughter Cali. He brings her out for the audience to see.
For any man that has a daughter. She is everything to me. She means more to me than life itself. When I look into her eyes that’s all I need to get me going. I mean, I’m motivated.
The Game interview
Hall interviews The Game on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his meet with a Nigerian child that he met in Australia that broke his heart, his donation to charity and his inspiration for his Robin Hood project.
Me with the Robin Hood project my accountant asked if I wanted to make a tax id so I could get the money back. I just told him that it wasn’t about that. The money I give it comes from my heart. Well it comes from my bank account but it comes straight from my heart. There is no certain thing that I donate to.
Sean Combs interview
Hall interviewed Combs on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the type of products Hall suggests he market to show his marketing genius and they also drink vodka together. Combs disagrees with Hall’s marketing advice.
We got a good thing going Arsenio. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. We don’t wanna hard sell. We want to keep it classy. At the end of the day we just on this black glamour, man, and it’s smooth and it’s tasteful and we need to dress up sometimes and take your lady out, take her dancing
They talk about his memory of his father and how he got upset for the first time recently as he thinks about his father.
The way he dressed, his whole charisma, his style, his swag and so I celebrate him you know, it’s in my genes. He had a hustler’s spirit. It’s just a blessing and that’s why it’s so important to me with my six kids to make sure that they know that I’m there for them.
Anthony Anderson interview
Hall interviews Anderson on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his hosting of the Soul Train awards and the return of his musical band.
We gave a legend award to Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Evelyn Champagne King, Jenifer Hudson opened the show right before I did. Everybody showed up man.
Niecey Nash interview
Hall interviews Nash on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her new husband and being in love. They also talk about how she keeps the magic fresh in her relationship.
He’s a really good guy and I think that the thing that I really love about him is that two years in he’s the same guy I dated.
Mike Tyson interview
Hall interviews Tyson on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how he received a call from Hall before he was incarcerated, sex in jail, and how proud he is was of Hall’s success in the 80’s.
We had a great time in the 80s that was just an era, they can’t even dream of that era. That was everything in your face back then. You think this man is big now he was unstoppable in the 80s…unstoppable.
Mike Epps interview
Hall interviews MEpps on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about success on how he auditioned for the film Friday and his struggles with the law before he began his career.
I started off on the bad foot you know. I feel like I am a success story, didn’t graduate from high school, grew up in a single mother home and might be one of the only comedians with four felony convictions but I don’t have them right now. I have a lot of successes.
Juicy J interview
Hall interviews Juicy J on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his background in Memphis, Tennessee, his interest in becoming a CEO as a child and his strong work ethic that he learned from his father.
We didn’t have a car to get where we had to go so we had to catch the bus a lot of different places. So I remember carrying groceries in the hot sun and I remember asking myself ‘how does my dad do this?’, you know what I’m saying? I was this little kid so I really didn’t want to do that, but I had to ’cause my dad was like, ‘Boy you gon’ carry them groceries, you gon’ get on this bus’. It just made me a better person today, you know to appreciate everything, you know nothing was handed down.
