Regina King and Tracee Ellis interview
Hall interviews King and Ellis on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about African-American female business owner Beverly Bond of Black Girls Rock which empowers African-American women and men. They also talk about aging gracefully and how all women rock. King:
One of the things that’s really great about Beverly’s camp that she does every summer. Is that it’s not only about empowering but it’s also through the arts and that’s something that is being forgotten about in our schools, being taken out in a lot of our schools.
Beau Bridges Twerk interview
Bridges performs the Twerk dance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Bridges talks about his enjoyment of watching his wife do the dance at home.
Arsenio Hall interview
Winfrey interviews Arsenio Hall and questions the former feud between them.
You were mad at me because I did a Stedman joke. Yes. Best and worst day of my life. You schooled me in a very classy way. I knew you were serious, but you didn’t scream.
Chris Hart interview
Hall interviews Hart on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about need for more African American shows going on the air and his relationship with BET.
Of course you wanna see anybody succeed, at the end of the day is there a shortage of black television shows? Yes. But are they doing better with makin’ them. I mean you guys have these independent producers like Tyler Perry whose going and putting so many shows on television.
Leah Remini interview
Hall interviews Remini on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about how much Remini longed to be on his original show, their first meeting and being kicked out of an after party before meeting Hall and Eddie Murphy.
We’re just like ‘What’s up? Where’s the funny dude? Next thing I know we’re asked to leave ‘You three out!. We’re literally like walking down the driveway with our messed up purses because we didn’t know what was supposed to go down there. We didn’t know the deal.
Country Grammar performance
Hall performs Country Grammar on The Arsenio Hall show after losing a sports bet with Nelly after the St Louis Cardinals beat the LA Dodgers.
Blair Underwood interview
Hall interviews Underwood on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his mother’s crippled condition and how he was inspired to play the role of a disabled character that resembled his character.
My mom’s kinda bad ass. Mama don’t play. Yeah she’s tough, she’s tough and it really is that kind of independent spirit and she laughs a lot. She’s says all the time ‘Every day above ground is a good day’.
Jackie Chan interview
Hall interviews Chan on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the rumors that scared Chan’s friends back home that he had died.
You know Chinese so believe these kind of things, ‘Oh nothing nothing I said ‘ What?’. ‘ Nothing, bye bye where are you?’ I said ‘ok’ and hang up then phone ring again. They said ‘Jackie!’ I said ‘What?!’ they said ‘Oh my god’. I said ‘What’s going on?’.
Cedric the Entertainer interview
Hall interviews Cedric the Entertainer on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the origin of his name and why he decided to become a stand up comedian.
I didn’t have a lot of jokes when I first started so I would sing, I would dance. So when they wanted to introduce me as a comedian, I was like ‘No, call me entertainer, don’t call me a comedian!’
Tyra Banks interview
Hall interviews Banks on The Arsenio Hall Show. They discuss’Smize’ or smiling with your eyes. She does a demonstration for the audience with Hall.
I talked with some of your friends that work with The Arsenio Hall Show and there’s a weakness that you have that I think if you think of that, not only think of it but it’s in front of you, you will ‘Smize’ correctly.
Bill Maher interview
Hall interviews comedian Maher on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about being on the road again doing standup, racism when Obama took office, and the state of the government deficit.
I am the one who’s actually out in the country every weekend. I see this country. I know what’s going on in this country ’cause I’m out there. Ten seconds after Obama got into office they were like ‘ We want our country back’.
Mike Epps interview
Hall interviews Epps on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about being a comedian and musician celebrating big girls, called Forget Lettuce. He performs the song for the audience.
I love the big girls you know what I’m saying, my mama’s a big girl, my sister’s a big girl, the world’s a big girl. I love the big girls. So I made a song about the big girls.
Vivica Fox interview
Hall interviews Fox on The Arsenio Hall Show. She talks about her single love life, her happiness being single, her free time and her opinion on who is her best on screen kisser.
Everyday when I wake up whatever Vivica wants to do, we do, if we want to go shopping, if we want to go buy diamonds, if we want to go to the spa, if we want to do nothing. If we want to hang out with our friends, if I want to hang out with my beautiful god son, Christian I can.
Orlando Jones interview
Hall interviews Jones on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Jones innovative multicultural emoticons for social networks, his inspiration to create the emoticons and they show some examples for the audience.
So I thought African Americans are such a seminal part, Latinos, Asians of pop culture why aren’t there multicultural emoticons? So my idea was I’m going to make multicultural emoticons.
Gordon Ramsey interview
Hall interviews Ramsay on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about how he is famous for profanity and how he deals with the challenges of creating his show Hell’s Kitchen for children.
Kids do swear let’s get that right.
Howie Mandell interview
Hall interviews Mandell on The Arsenio Hall Show. Mandell gives Hall a nolstagic gift from Hall’s original show.
For those of you who don’t know when you do a television show there are gifts. Backstage gifts in fact that’s the only reason I’m here.
Russell Simmons interview
Hall interviews Simmons on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Simmons involvement creating a Harriet Tubman prank comedy tape that outraged his fans and the frustration felt by his artists they deemed as degrading.
I’ve done lots of comedy and lots of bad taste. Lots of music and bad taste…lots of poetry that’s offended people. Lots of music that people really felt hurt by but I’ve always stood by it. But this particular piece, when I understood how hurt people were, I pulled it down immediately. I’ve never pulled down a piece of content.
Bill Bellamy interview
Hall interviews Bellamy on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Mothers’ Day versus Fathers’ day. Bellamy expresses how mothers get a lot more attention than the dads.
I wanna be a mom. Mother’s day is so fly. It’s like the MVP day for moms and they deserve it. Actually every mom deserves it…especially if you’re a good mom because it’s a lot of work.
Dr Phil interview
Hall interviews McGraw on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Hall’s first show and why McGraw held his wife’s hand and how he feels about his wife’s reaction in general when he is asked to be a guest on a talks show.
I grabbed her hand and we walked off and everybody thought that is just nice, that is real and she now has missed one show through eleven years and that was the day she had to be on Oprah.
Kendrick Lamar interview
Hall interviews Lamar on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about their nolstagic meeting with the late Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur as a child.
My father seen him, I’m two minutes at the house. Down the block, he came and grabbed me, it was pandemonium. He put me on his shoulder, I’m watching Pac and Dre just right there conversing with all the beautiful people out in Compton.
