Sports Illustrated interview
Carter speaks to Sports Illustrated about budget cuts and Hulk Hogan in TNA.
I think Hulk has been worth it. He’s opened a lot of doors for us. When you’re about to lose a deal in an international territory and one phone call from Hulk Hogan makes a man who doesn’t even speak your language melt and you get your deal back, that carries a lot of weight. There’s not another guy out there who could do that.
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.
The Art of Wrestling interview
Austin is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss WWE, podcasting and making money early on in the business.
My whole existence running up and down the road, making 15-20 dollars a night. When they told me they were sending me back to Texas. I thought I got fired. They said, “No… we’re gonna turn you heel and put you against Chris (Champion).” I was guaranteed 100 dollars per night. I thought I was making superstar money.
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!
Kenny Edmonds interview
Winfrey interviews Kenny Edmonds in depth about his process for creating music, music industry today, as well as his fiancé.
I knew Deion Mr. Prime Time, seemed like a nice guy. Well he became a classy guy because before I had met him, when he called me and said he didn’t want to meet my children until he sat down and had lunch or breakfast with me so he knew me before he met my children.
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.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon interview
Cosby jokes about what he would like to have at his funeral, which includes Late Night’s house band The Roots playing some music.
Pitiful, it sounded better when I was back there.
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Cosby jokes about why children shouldn’t be celebrated and questions the physical state of Fallon’s copy of Cosby’s book Fatherhood.
I know that’s me but I never put out a book like that in my life. It’s all ragged.
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.
Steve Austin Show interview
King is a guest on the Steve Austin Show to discuss music, football and touring.
It’s just reinforcing songs you may have known in the past… songs you’ve never played live before because you don’t want to go out for the first show and suck. You wanna give the people at the first show the same experience as the people at the last show.
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.
Reverend Al Sharpton interview
Winfrey interviews Reverend Al Sharpton and discusses his role in the civil rights movement and his new book.
Every morning I believe you should. I don’t believe I’ve prayed unless I am on my knees. Civil rights social justice not black rights civil rights for everyone. That’s what I do that’s my calling its what I’m good at.
The Talks interview
Hopper gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses the Venice Film Festival and winning the Best First Film Award.
I bullshitted everybody and told them all my dreams and things I was going to do. And what happened afterwards? I became a total failure. I was full of shit and that’s the end of it.
Tony Danza Interview
Danza is interviewed about the Central Park Run/Walk on New York Live.
We take kids from all over the city.
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.
