Theater, television and film dot David Alan Grier's past, and his ability to excel in all three mediums is a testament to the man's inherent sense of comic timing. In October 2009, Grier released his book (co-written by Alan Eisenstock) "Barack...Read on
He blows that pistol off, and you're running. Oh, you're waving -- 'Look at me, I'm running a marathon!' Oh and it's great. It is exciting! It is exciting for about a mile-and-a-half.
Everything is messed up. The air travel -- you know that's messed up. Remember the good old days? You roll up curbside, check a box of grenades -- clear on the through to Chicago.
All of my relatives got old in one day. I came back this past year, everybody looks the same: they're all fat, bald, with a mustache. Men, women, kids -- I don't know who I'm talking to half the time.
Every year, I go home, and I always go back to my old neighborhood and walk around. Everybody's standing on the street corners holdin' their nuts. Everybody -- in the middle of the day -- 'What's up, man? Motor City all up in it, yo.' And these are the women!
I still believe in love. Actually, my friends say I love too much, because I did. I put my ex-wife on a pedestal. I thought the sun rose and set in her stankin' ass.
I stopped smoking reefer because I started thinking, if great men throughout history had smoked reefer, no tellin' what would have happened. Like if somebody like Martin Luther King Jr. had smoked reefer, he would have been giving speeches like,...
All we do is have sex: sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex -- until you're chafed, raw, swollen, bloody, scabby! And what do we do? We have more sex because we are in love.
You wake up one morning, and you're talking alike. The next thing you know, you're dressing alike. Then you start blowing your friends off, telling your family to go to hell, skipping school, skipping work -- just living in each other's ass.
Breaking up is always hard to do, isn't it? I broke up. I recently broke up from my little honey bunny. I was distraught. I thought I was going insane. I lost all this weight, got all skinny. My friends were like, 'You look fabulous!'
I see all these beautiful women... and then you see the men hanging out. 'Yo, yo, yo -- yo, sweetness, yo, yo -- Oh, you don't want this? Oh, OK then.'
A lot of people think it's easy to date these young women. It's not; it's very difficult. It takes a lot of preparation. I have to work out almost every day to remain portly, and I got to do my homework 'cause you have to talk to these...
When you're married and you want to have sex, you've got to plan ahead. You've got to strategize. You've got to know when to strike. You've got to get maps and everything, plotting it out. You've got to hit your wife under the cover of darkness,...
Soon as a baby's born, it's all about the baby. And it's scary because a lot of these parents, it's like they can't see their own children's faults. They're perfect. 'Look at this baby! Look at him, he's so cute. Look at him! Oh, and he's smart,...