” >> Muhammad Ali? He said, “You a funny mother Tucker.” I said, “All right.” >> >> Met Mandela? Met Mandela? Went to Africa and he was like, “Where is Chris Tucker?” >> >> I want him to meet my grandkids. >> Now you know why I want to be Chris Tucker. >> Is Donald Trump your president? What do you consider him your president? >> You mean Donald? Are you serious? >> >> Believe me.
> Believe. Believe me. I know Chris Tucker. He’s a great comedian, great guy. I like him. I’m It’s true. I do like him. I met him. I didn’t say much, but I said, “Hello.” >> >> Chris can impersonate just about anyone, and every so often, it lands him in trouble. >> went to Africa one time with Bill Clinton. He invited me to Africa, man.
He invited me. He said, “Tucker, you want to go to Africa with me? I think you’ll like it. You’re black, I’m black. I think you’ll like it.” So, I started doing the impressions, man. Everywhere we went, he wanted me to do them. We had little parties at night. “Tucker, come come do me. Come do me. Come on over here.
” Every country we went to, finally I got tired. We got to Nigeria, he wanted me to do it in front of the president of Nigeria. He said, “Tucker, come on. Come do me. Come do me. Don’t act like that. Come on, it’s the president. I’m tired, you know, it’s been a long trip. Maybe I won’t do it this time.” “Tucker, come on now.
I need you. I didn’t say anything up there. Come on, don’t let me down. You want to ride home, right? Huh? You want to ride commercial or private? You let me know, Tucker. That’s a long ass flight home, Tucker. That’s a long ass >> Some stars are everywhere. Others, like Prince, you almost never get to see. Up close though, he was something else entirely.
>> Prince came over and said, “Hey.” But he would you know, Prince is shy, so he I didn’t know I just heard this noise behind me and I didn’t know what it was. He he just trying to get my attention. HE WAS LIKE I WAS ACTUALLY WITH MY FRIENDS. I WAS LIKE, “WHAT’S THAT NOISE?” >> >> HE WAS LIKE HE SAID, “MAN, THAT’S PRINCE TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
” HE SMALL, so I was like, “Hey Prince, how you doing?” So, he was like talking to me, but he was licking on his fingers when he was talking to me. I was kind of He was like, “How you doing? You like the show?” And it was a girl. >> >> Thank you for coming, Chris. I love you. >> Uh-huh. Uh-huh. >> You’re funny.
>> People think stars live in Hollywood. You you live in Atlanta. >> Yeah, Atlanta. I’m from Atlanta. I’m from Decatur, Georgia. So, I’m back and forth. I’m halfway in California and halfway in Georgia, man. So, I I love it down there. >> Do they leave you alone in Atlanta? >> Sometimes it’s cuz they don’t see a lot of celebrities, so they be coming up to me looking at me like, “Hey man, you you?” “You you?” I’ll be like, “Yeah, I’m me.
You you?” They’ll be like, “What you doing out here in the grocery store shopping?” I’ll be like, “I GOT TO EAT TOO. I’M GETTING SOME FOOD. YOU THINK I’M A SUPERHERO? YOU THINK I’M WAVING MY CART, MAN?” >> Have you introduced Jackie to Michael yet? >> I don’t know. Have Michael I don’t know. Like, wanted to meet Jackie though.
He always said to me, “I want to meet Jackie.” >> call me. I was asleep. He called my assistant to answer the phone. Uh can I have a Who’s speaking? This is Michael. My my assistant Michael what? Michael Jackson. Okay. I’m sorry that that it Uh then my I hang up the phone. Then afternoon I wake up because I went to a night night show. I wake up.
You know, big brother they call me big brother. You know who? Michael Jackson. I said, “No.” >> >> Yes, Michael Jackson called. I SAID, “WHY DON’T YOU CALL ME?” “WHY DON’T YOU CALL ME?” >> HE TALKS SO LOW HE PROBABLY THOUGHT it was somebody was playing on the phone. >> Yeah, well it could have been that that could have been the case.
>> SPEAK UP. >> MICHAEL JACKSON. >> LATER, BEAT IT. >> WELL, when you operate at the level of Michael Jackson, a simple trip outside turns into a full-blown operation. As Chris found out, Michael didn’t always see it that way. >> We did one time we was we went to a mall. We was out.
Michael wanted to go to the record store or something. He didn’t He forgot he was famous. He was like, “I got to go to the mall. Go to the mall.” And we find some Michael, you can’t go in the mall, man. You forgot who you are. He said, “Well, let’s go.” And it was only thing was in the car was was a was a Spider-Man mask.
So Michael said, “I’ll put this on. We’re going in.” We get out. I said, “Michael, you can’t do that.” >> >> Spider-Man ain’t going to just be walking through the mall. Ain’t nobody going to They’re going to know it’s you, Michael. He’s like, “No, it won’t. Chris, it’ll work. It’ll work.” We go in the mall and he was getting away with it until people figured out cuz I was with him and he was like, “Chris, is that Michael Jackson in that Spider-Man mask?” “No, that’s Spider-Man.
No, that’s Michael Jackson.” All of a sudden the mall went crazy and they had to scoot us out. You should have seen it. >> Chris has a story about nearly every star alive. The Michael Jackson ones are on another level entirely. >> Do you ever go in public anywhere with Michael Jackson? Cuz what’s that like? >> You know what? We go to the mov- the movies sometime. We go to the movies.
Uh both of us like going to the movies. So we go to the movies, but it’s hard because Michael got to sneak in the movie right before it start. So Michael come in there like with a ninja suit on. He’s hiding in all black. All of a sudden I’m sitting there and I’m like, “Where’s Michael in here?” I turn around, he’s like, “Hey Chris.
” I’M LIKE, “OH MAN.” >> >> “HOW LONG YOU BEEN HERE?” HE SAID, “ABOUT 5 MINUTES.” >> >> I’m sorry. You guys hear me? >> Uh-huh. >> Sorry Chris. We watching a movie, he’s the loudest person in there. >> Really? >> Yeah, he’s watching A MOVIE LIKE, SO MICHAEL, WHY DON’T YOU SIT UP WHERE PEOPLE SEE YOU? >> >> I’M SORRY, IT WAS FUNNY CHRIS.
>> YEAH. That’s it. I don’t even remember the song. You just see him, how do you sing Michael Jackson? >> I sing all the time. >> You do sing Michael. >> >> You and Michael. >> Thank you. >> That’s an odd choice of songs of all the Michael Jackson songs to go with Dangerous. >> >> But while Chris knows everybody, it turns out the feeling isn’t always mutual, especially the time he landed in Hong Kong.
>> you feel because see my fear is that all people in Hong Kong will think all Americans now are like Chris Tucker. >> Oh man, Hong Kong. >> >> I was the only black person in Hong Kong. I was looking for black people. I said, “Where the black people at?” No black people, no, no.
They thought I was Kobe Bryant, man. They didn’t know who I was. >> Really Kobe Bryant? >> THEY SAID, “KOBE, KOBE, STAND MY UP. KOBE.” “WE LOVE YOU. WHERE IS SHAQ?” >> HAVING Jackie Chan show you around China sounds like a dream. For Chris, it came with a catch. >> What’s he like in China with Jackie Chan? Is it just ridiculous? >> He’s the man. Jackie owned everything.
He’s like, “You like hotel?” He said, “You like hotel?” I said, “Yeah.” “It’s my hotel. That’s my hotel.” >> No. >> So I got to do more movies. >> >> And then he was like, “Why are you over here?” I said, “I came to see you. What do you think I’m over here for? You’re the only person I know in China.
” >> >> But he really just goes everywhere he just be like >> Walks around with like 15 people and then I’m like in the back of the 15 people. JACKIE, WAIT UP. HOLD UP. IT’S GOING TO LOOK RIGHT, MAN. WE SUPPOSED TO BE TOGETHER. HE SAID, “OH, THEN COME ON AND MESS AROUND. We going to mess around.
” I used to get on teachers’ nerves. They used to hate me. They used to get mad. I used to I used to They said, “Listen, Chris, if you act up again, I’m going to call your mama.” I said, “If you going to call my mama, you going to have to pay the phone bill cuz the phone been cut off for 2 weeks.” You sick. GO TO THE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE.
SO, I DIDN’T CARE. Cuz I was in the principal’s office so much, I was cool with the principal. We were tight. He’d be like, “What you do to this Call my mama, pay the phone bill. MAN, YOU CRAZY. YOU CRAZY.” >> >> You a fool, Chris. You a fool, boy. >> Michael was famously generous with the people he loved, and Chris was about to find out just how generous Michael could be.
>> He would give you anything if you liked something. Like I was just complimenting a a flat-screen TV he had and he gave it to me. I was like, “Michael, you I didn’t want the TV, but then the black came out of me. I started liking everything after that. I was like, Then Michael, “I like that Rolls-Royce. That’s a bad Rolls-Royce.
” Not the old one, the new Rolls-Royce, right here. He was like, “You like it, Chris?” I said, “Yeah, I like it.” He said, “You sure you like it?” I said, “Yeah, I like it.” He said, “Well, you better go buy one cuz I ain’t giving you my Rolls-Royce. I gave you a TV, damn.” >> He struck out trying to talk a Rolls-Royce out of Michael, but Charlie Sheen’s Ferrari, that one barely took any effort.
>> Charlie let me borrow his Ferrari, man, when I was like, I don’t know, 24 something like that. It’s like, “Charlie, can I borrow your Ferrari?” He was like, “OKAY, SURE.” >> >> I WAS LIKE, “WHAT?” I KEPT THAT FERRARI SO LONG HE FORGOT I HAD IT. HE SAID, “DO YOU HAVE my Ferrari?” I said, “I think I do.
” He said, “Can you want to bring it back?” I said, “Okay, okay.” But my brothers, they was all laughing at me like, “All right, I’m going to come down and see you perform.” And I went I invited them down to the comedy club and they was down there and I was on the list, but you know, being a comedian, you might you might not get to go up.
>> guaranteed. >> So, I didn’t get to go up that night. So, I had to ride all the way home and they was in the car, “I thought you was a comedian.” You know you didn’t go up and all this stuff. And I said, “Okay, one day I’m going to go up. Y’all going to see.” So, now they they ask me for money every day and I said, “I thought you was going to pay me back.
” >> A lot of people assume Chris and Michael go way back. The truth is, the whole thing started with one very expensive decision. >> I spent a lot of money to see Michael cuz I took a private plane to New York cuz Michael told me, “You know, when you finish Rush Hour, come see us.” So, I knew he was there. I called him before I went cuz I was going there for something else and I didn’t hear anything.
So, I got on that same private plane, flew back to Los Angeles again and I was done. As soon as I landed, I got a message from Michael Jackson’s office like, “Michael want to meet you tomorrow in New York City.” I was like, “What?” I went right up to the captain seat and I said, “Take me back to New York.” They said, “Well, this going to cost.” I said, “I don’t care.
You got my credit card. Just take me back.” >> The bond between Chris and Michael was unmatched, but there was one night that pushed it right to the edge. >> went over Barry Gibb’s house from the Bee Gees. You know, Barry Gibb’s. I was like, “Damn, this is fly.” And all of a sudden, both of them start singing.
They was singing How Deep Is Your Love. I said, “God damn.” It was just me and a dog looking at dog. He was even surprised. I was like, It’s fly. So, they start singing. Michael start singing first, man. I never heard him sing live before. He was like, “How deep is your love? How deep is your love? How I really need to know.
” Then I got caught up and came in, “Come to you ALL THE SUFFERING AND YOU KNOW IT.” AND YOU KNOW IT. Then Michael was like, “Chris, no. Chris, no.” Mama calling me for Christmas wanting a Christmas gift and Always want something. SO, MAMA, WHY DO I EVERY TIME YOU CALL, YOU ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING. WHY THE YOU JUST CAN’T TALK? YOU KNOW I AIN’T GOT NO MONEY.
I TOLD HER I SAID I’M BROKE. BROKE AS A I’M SO BROKE, if a rob me, HE’LL JUST BE PRACTICING. YOU EVER HAD A NEIGHBOR THAT BORROW YOUR AND KEEP IT SO LONG, YOU HAVE to borrow IT BACK? I TOLD YOU YOU GOT A BROOM I CAN BORROW, MAN. NO, YOU STILL GOT MY GODDAMN BROOM. >> Once the money started rolling in, Chris made a few classic beginner mistakes.
This one might be the best. >> you spend money on? >> I spent I spent I was spending too much money. I like I was I didn’t know I was just acting crazy. I bought two houses right next door to each other. It was crazy. I said, “I’ll take that one, too. I don’t want nobody to mess with me. I want to >> Yeah. >> I was borrowing stuff from myself.
I said, “You got some sugar I can borrow?” You know we got some sugar. I’m you and you me, man. >> But not everybody was after Chris’s money, though. His Rush Hour partner, Jackie Chan, had the opposite problem entirely. >> First Rush Hour, Jackie Chan would give me a gift every day. He’d send it to my trailer.
Yeah, I’d be like, “What is going on?” I’m like, “HE’S SO NICE.” AND I had to buy him something out the wild. I said, “I got to get him something.” But then I realized he’s from China. They make everything over there. He was getting it for free anyway. Chris, shut up. You hear me? Shut up. And I knew she couldn’t get up and move cuz it was in the middle of the church.
So I said, “Mama, you shut up, Mama.” Mama. >> >> HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND, CHRIS? NOW, I SAID, “SHUT UP, BOY.” MAMA, I SAID, “SHUT UP, LADY.” >> >> You wait out the church. You wait out the church, Chris. Mama, you wait out the church, Mama. You hear me? YOU WAIT OUT THE CHURCH, MAMA. YOU DON’T THINK SOMEBODY KNOW BREAKFAST? MAMA, YOU DONE WENT CRAZY, BOY.
MY MAMA so mad at me. They thought she was shouting. She mad AT ME. OH LORD, I’MMA GET HIM, LORD. I’MMA GET >> STRICT MOTHERS HAVE THEIR OWN RULES. For Chris, Sundays were never up for debate. >> I get up. YOU ARE GOING TO CHURCH. I’M LIKE, Can’t the preacher come here sometime? Get up. You are going to church. Make me sick.
MAKE HER MAKE ME LATE. So I tell her we making her late. And she ain’t dressed neither. Walking around with her bra ON. YOU ARE MAKING ME LATE. I CAN’T GET DRESSED FOOLING AROUND WITH >> DON’T HAVE your family working for you. >> Okay. >> In the comedy club. Because my family worked for me in my comedy club and I went there, the club wasn’t making no money, but everybody had new cars.
That’s what My brother was drinking up all the inventory. He was like, “I got to try this stuff, man. Make sure they strong.” >> >> How long did it last? >> About a year. That was it. >> Who made the call to shut it down? >> I did. I said, “This is over. I’m not making no money.
This going to mess up my movie money.” >> Were they upset with you? >> They My My dad was upset with me cuz he was the cook. He was like, “What am I going to do now?” >> >> I said, “Be my daddy.” >> Every day I couldn’t wait to come on the set to see Jackie Chan. I was late most of the time, but when I got there Jackie was there waiting with his legs crossed saying, “Where’s Chris Tucker? We are late, you know.
” >> You’re not my brother. >> I’m not your brother? All the stuff we’ve been through? >> Rush Hour 1, Rush Hour 2. >> >> May I help you with some peanuts? Shishin. >> >> Need shishin? >> >> Shishin. >> See? How difficult was that? My English even cannot say three words. Chinese. >> You need some lunch? >> You need some lunch? >> I got it before that.
>> See? See, now you know how difficult I am. >> That’s right, Lee. For the last three years I’ve studied the ancient teachings of booty. Of booty. >> >> You’re right. Let me see your pants, BUDDY. >> SHOW YOUR ASS. SHOW YOUR ASS. Y’all are scared. >> >> Chris played a cop across the whole Rush Hour franchise.
How he feels about the real ones is another matter entirely. >> Cops get on my nerves though cuz they they just they ask stupid questions. I was driving one time a cop said, “Did you see me back there? Why you start speeding up?” I said, “Cuz you was catching up. That’s why.” You stupid self. Pay this ticket. Yeah, you paying for me.
I just throw the tickets out the window and they get mad. I think cops are childish. Hiding in the woods waiting for somebody to speed. THAT’S CHILDISH. HIDING AND TALKING TO SQUIRRELS AND BIRDS. THEY WANT TO PULL YOU OVER AND TALK TO YOU. THAT’S ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS TALK. That’s all they want to do. Why you ain’t got your seat belt on? CUZ I WANT TO DIE. I WANT TO DIE.
YOU THINK I AIN’T GOT THEM? I FORGOT IT. If you care about me, don’t give me a ticket. Let me go. Just tell me to put it on. They don’t care about you. >> We love to see that. We love to see that, Jackie. Jackie, we like to see that. We we like to see that. Now, Jackie, we love to see that. We we love to see that. His name is Lee, god dammit.
Lee, we would love to see that. >> Sometimes you date you think you date a little younger than you, you think that’s cool. That ain’t cool, man. Cuz this new generation is something wrong with them. I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m serious. I was dating this girl and it was going good, you know. I thought it was cool.
I said, “This is going to be good.” And we got closer to being wild and we start making love and I was like, “This is good.” She’s like, “She might be the one. She might be the one.” And I opened up my eyes and she was tweeting. I said, “WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING TWEETING, MOTHER What is wrong with you?” >> >> PUT THAT DAMN PHONE DOWN.
YOU ARE RUDE AS HELL. SIT DOWN. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING. I SAID, “AH, NO. NOT THIS. NO.” I TOOK THE PHONE. I SAID, “WHAT THE HELL you tweeting?” Talking about Chris handling his business. I said, “You can tweet this, but that’s IT. THAT’S IT. THAT’S ALL YOU CAN DO.” THAT’S WRONG with you. >> >> What’s the name of this thing? >> Gefilte fish.
>> Gefilte fish. >> Oh, what’s the name of this fish? >> Gefilte fish. >> Gefilk gefilte. >> Do you know what this is? >> What is it? >> Gefilte fish. >> It’s gefilte fish. Gefilte fish. You want some of my gefilte fish? I want this. Oh, what’s the name of the fish? >> Gefilte fish. Gefilte fish. >> GEFILTE FISH. OKAY.
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