Blake Leeper interview
Hall interviews Leeper on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his confidence in being the first disabled Olympic medalist, his favorite idol Bo Jackson and his discovery of the Blades. Jackson makes a surprise guest experience.
My father coached me so I had to be the best player on the team right. So playing sports has always been very huge in my life, I was able to show the community that regardless of my disability, regardless of where I come from of who I am respect me on the basketball court, respect me on the baseball field then they respect me in life.
Mario Lopez interview
Hall interviews Lopez on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his solo hosting experience on the X Factor and the challenges faced.
There’s a lot of moving parts and a lot going on on the show there. It’s sort of difficult to bring the show in on time, make sure everyone gets their ample time and make sure the talent is doing their thing.
Toni Braxton and Babyface performance
Braxton and Babyface perform Hurt You, from their album Love,Marriage and Divorce on The Arsenio Hall Show in Los Angeles, California.
Jesse Jackson interview
Hall interviews Jackson on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about having John F. Kennedy as an immortal leader, student loan debts and how it affects future university students from enrolling.
If you have not paid your debt from last semester you cannot enter this semester. It’s putting a squeeze on these schools. Grambling’s budget’s been cut sixty percent and so they’re closing schools then building jails.
Rosie Perez interview
Hall interviews Perez on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her autobiography, her struggles that she faced and her belief in being successful.
It really is about…my life was so unpredictable from the time I was born. I was put into the child welfare system and it took years for my aunt or my father to get me out.
Key and Peele interview
Hall interviews Key and Peele on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk their improvisation stand up act, how they met each other on MadTV and social media’s impact on their show.
We love standups we’re very inspired by them. We do a type of standup on our show but really what we do is we get out there and we play around and we kind of try and find things for like an hour and just cut the funniest little things we can find.
Hill Harper interview
Hall interviews Harper on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his book and it’s impact on incarceration in America, his meeting with young prisoners and his love for African-Americans to succeed.
We gotta understand. We’re locking people up and forgetting about ’em. This are young men, young women predominantly from neighborhoods where the school system didn’t support them. It’s gonna be up to us to actually figure out a way to solve this problem and we have to do it, the government’s not gonna do it we have to do it.
Whoopi Goldberg interview
Hall interviews Goldberg on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her meeting with Spielberg and her role in the The Color Purple. They also talk about a show that she pitched to called BleeT which deals with assimilation.
He understood that is was about. If we over assimilate people we want, we demand people be exactly as we want them to be and forget to let them be themselves and their culture and be part of ours. But it’s a blend!
Eddie Murphy interview
Hall interviews Murphy on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the tabloids, their friendship, their days on set when shooting Coming To America, drinking vodka and having a conversation with his dogs.
He had a fifth of Stoley’s vodka and the story ended horribly.
Mayim Balik interview
Hall interviews Balik on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her boys, attachment parenting and positive discipline.
Attachment parenting is a loose sort of guidelines that many people follow. A lot of people don’t realize that they’re following them when they do things like staying with their child using slings instead of strollers. Safely co sleeping or sleeping in the same room if not the same bed with your child sort of seeking to be attuned with them in a positive way.
The Best Man Holiday interview
Hall interviews Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan and Regina Hall on The Arsenio Hall show talk about The Best Man Holiday. They also talk about African-American women’s role in Hollywood. Regina Hall comments on her experience:
It’s a reality I mean there are women, that does exist. So I mean it’s heightened because they’re still trying to sell a television show. But the important thing is that people get to see other images that are just as valid and just as true.
Jerry Ferrara interview
Hall interviews Ferrara on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his role alongside Robert Deniro in Last Vegas, his first meeting with Hall, his big break on Entourage. They also talk about how it’s important to be nice to the writers of the show.
You gotta be nice to the writers and casting as well. I’ve been very very lucky, I’ve had some very beautiful female love interests. That’s why you go around saying it’s the best written show I ever seen in my life.
Quincy Jones interview
Hall interviews Jones on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how much he misses Michael Jackson, how Thriller is still the best selling album and how the evolution of big bands came about.
I did my homework when I was very young, I didn’t care about money or fame. That’s the way beboppers work we just talk about resolution.
The Best Man interview
Hall interviews Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Terrance Howard and Harold Perrineau on The Arsenio Hall Show to discuss their film The Best Man. They also talk about the state of African Americans in Hollywood film. Chestnut comments about the Best man being a positive film for African Americans:
I have to give that credit to Malcolm Lee. I think this was really the first time that a lot of the gang genres that was coming out just prior to this. It was the first time that you saw a group of affluent, articulate young black people.
Anthony Hopkins interview
Hall interviews Hopkins on the Arsenio Hall show. They talk about how he grew up with English comics in England, and working on Thor. They also talk about his favorite comics.
It was brought up with English comics called Dandy and Beano and my favorite character was Desperate Dan. Then after the war, not the First World War, The Second World War, Captain Marvel was the comic that came to England. Captain Marvel was completely new for me.
Donnie Wahlberg interview
Hall interviews Wahlberg on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his start with the New Kidz On The Block, his TV show and finding time to do music again.
We worked so hard for so many years to be in a position that I’m in now to do all these things that I wanna do, producing tv shows, acting in a TV show, toying with my band in arenas every night. If it means no sleep then I get no sleep.
Terry Crews interview
Hall interviews Crews on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about the goofing off with his friends, being bullied by coaches on the NFL and the freedom of leaving when you don’t like your boss.
I played the NFL and I got bullied straight up. I had a coach that used to bully me non stop because you got to understand the NFL is like jail with money.
George Wallace interview
Hall interviews Wallace on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Wallace’s best friend, Jerry Seinfield, and his new book that teaches people to travel while they are healthy.
Travel while everything is working because old people are mean. Who starts wars? Old mean rich white men start wars and young people, you give me ten young kids from Africa, ten young kids from Shanghai, China, ten young kids from Brazil, ten young kids from your hometown Cleveland and ten young kids from Toronto, Ontario Canada you give em’ a boom box and a keg of beer and you come back one hour later…there’s a party goin’ on.
Ted Danson interview
Hall interviews Danson on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the strange things Danson says to his wife in bed.
What he’s saying is that my wife Mary thought that I was kind of slick during the cheers years when she met me and then she realized that after the first time we made love and I said ‘Gosharooney’ she realized I wasn’t that slick.
Tyler The Creator interview
Hall interviews Tyler The Creator and questions him about YouTube, his career and Obama.
YouTube, the way that it’s set up, it gives anyone who’s creative a platform to showcase their work to people. And for a website like YouTube to have an award show, you would think they would use that platform to give creative people who aren’t on the Top 20 Billboard [chart], or that everyone doesn’t know that’s not popular — a chance to actually get recognition for being creative and innovative, but instead they did the same thing that the VMAs or the Billboard Pop Awards did with the Katy Perrys and the Justin Biebers.
