My New Internet Crush...Amanda Seales
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I been wanting to fuck her for a decade back when she was known as Amanda Diva
Ahhhh was trying to figure out where i knew her from
Yoooo
I didnt even realize that was her on insecure.
I forgot about her and didnt know a lot of shit actually..(grenadian background, columbia graduate)
That was a great interview. Sistas been putting in work for a loooooong time. I forgot she was in floetry and all the controversy/backlash she received.
Yeah man shes definitely my usual "type"...educated, funny, concious sista with natural hair. Glad to see her doing well
I didnt even realize that was her on insecure.
I forgot about her and didnt know a lot of shit actually..(grenadian background, columbia graduate)
That was a great interview. Sistas been putting in work for a loooooong time. I forgot she was in floetry and all the controversy/backlash she received.
Yeah man shes definitely my usual "type"...educated, funny, concious sista with natural hair. Glad to see her doing well
Don't forget she was on 'my brother and me'
Yup. Shit talking Deonne
I'd fuck? 
But I'd also cuddle with for some odd reason?
But I'd also cuddle with for some odd reason?
With her looks, athleticism, and importantly her phenotype, I would go raw repeatedly with greed in hopes to seed her with my lineage
Don't forget she was on 'my brother and me'
I'm 35 years old so you know this was my SHIT!!!
I met her before she was real cool.
I thought you didn't like biracial women. She is biracial. Why would you want to seed up a woman that is half white if you don't even like white people either.
Saw her standup on Seth Myers show, and it was not very good, and I'm actually a fan. Her DivaSpeak TV channel on Youtube was dope, so despite some recent hostility towards straight black men, I'm gonna check out the HBO Special. Hopefully she's gotten a lot better.
She'll be looking like Jasmine Guy in a couple of years.
https://art19.com/shows/good-one-a-podcast-about-jokes
What’s your writing process? Do you sit down with a pen?
When I put pen to paper it’s immediately not going to be funny. I have to come up with it onstage, like Jay-Z, off the top of my head. Once I knew I was doing the special, I got a little bit more deliberate about how I was going to write these things. I started getting clearer about, I need to stick to this being this way every time. I actually sat down and wrote out certain jokes I knew I wanted to find a new ending to. I also learned that I am not a surgical comic. I was trying to force myself into, Okay, you’re going to perfect every word. You’re going to Seinfeld this. And Stan Lathan, who directed my special, was like, “Nah, that’s just not you. Let it breathe. You know how to think with edits in mind. We’ll figure it out.”
Your bit about catcalling really started after an appearance on CNN, and a subsequent lecture called “Side-Eye Seminar.” How did you move from a serious event to something you can joke about?
I’ll start out from a serious place because I’m a serious person, but it’ll always end up goofy because I’m also a goofball. The lecture was always going to have a humorous tone to it because I already understood that anything I do needs to be funny. I just hadn’t committed to being a stand-up.
So how did stand-up become the vehicle for what you wanted to say?
Stand-up was what made my life make sense. Wow, I never said it like that before. Until stand-up, I was this person that had all these multi-hyphenate skills and people would be like, “It’s almost like you do everything but nothing at all.” Stand-up came into the mix, and all of a sudden being a writer, a host, a singer, a performer became requisites versus distractions from each other. That just made everything make sense for everyone, including myself.
Your Instagram bio says, “I’m not for everyone.” And in the intro clip for I Be Knowin’, you really delineate for whom you are and are not making the special. What do you make of that conventional stand-up wisdom that says, “A good comedian can make everyone laugh?”
That’s bullshit. I’m not interested in making everybody laugh. I’m more interested in making everyone learn. I want some people to feel uncomfortable. I want them to shift in their seats. I want to make some people cry. There’s some people I’m like, “You need to go look in the mirror and smear your lipstick and listen to Sarah McLachlan and think about yourself.”
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You’ve mentioned that you think of your stand-up as a TED Talk with jokes. There’s a part in this joke where you get claps because you said something the audience agrees with, and there’s no joke. What is your defense of this sense of TED Talkery?
We are in an era where information and truth are so under fire that comedians oftentimes are the last bastion of truth and reality. Comedians are the last folks that aren’t being run by a network, and our voices are not being curated by some outside force. If you’re a truth-teller, it’s only natural that you’re going to tell truths that make people laugh, and some that just make people be like, Yes, I agree with that.
Around the time the special came out, you compared it to a milestone like getting married or having a kid. How did the process or the release of the product give you a sense of what’s coming next?
The special was the first time I’ve ever had to wait that long to see something come to fruition. It’s what I imagine doing a sensory deprivation chamber would be like. I had to trust it. And when you come out the other side, it empowers you because now you really are like, I do know what I’m talking about. I can trust myself in a whole new way. That gives you a bit more of a safety net to take bigger risks. Certain dreams have started to feel more like goals: writing a film and really getting my production company going. It gave me a certain level of confidence and insight and access and resources to bring those dreams to a more reachable level.
What’s your writing process? Do you sit down with a pen?
When I put pen to paper it’s immediately not going to be funny. I have to come up with it onstage, like Jay-Z, off the top of my head. Once I knew I was doing the special, I got a little bit more deliberate about how I was going to write these things. I started getting clearer about, I need to stick to this being this way every time. I actually sat down and wrote out certain jokes I knew I wanted to find a new ending to. I also learned that I am not a surgical comic. I was trying to force myself into, Okay, you’re going to perfect every word. You’re going to Seinfeld this. And Stan Lathan, who directed my special, was like, “Nah, that’s just not you. Let it breathe. You know how to think with edits in mind. We’ll figure it out.”
Your bit about catcalling really started after an appearance on CNN, and a subsequent lecture called “Side-Eye Seminar.” How did you move from a serious event to something you can joke about?
I’ll start out from a serious place because I’m a serious person, but it’ll always end up goofy because I’m also a goofball. The lecture was always going to have a humorous tone to it because I already understood that anything I do needs to be funny. I just hadn’t committed to being a stand-up.
So how did stand-up become the vehicle for what you wanted to say?
Stand-up was what made my life make sense. Wow, I never said it like that before. Until stand-up, I was this person that had all these multi-hyphenate skills and people would be like, “It’s almost like you do everything but nothing at all.” Stand-up came into the mix, and all of a sudden being a writer, a host, a singer, a performer became requisites versus distractions from each other. That just made everything make sense for everyone, including myself.
Your Instagram bio says, “I’m not for everyone.” And in the intro clip for I Be Knowin’, you really delineate for whom you are and are not making the special. What do you make of that conventional stand-up wisdom that says, “A good comedian can make everyone laugh?”
That’s bullshit. I’m not interested in making everybody laugh. I’m more interested in making everyone learn. I want some people to feel uncomfortable. I want them to shift in their seats. I want to make some people cry. There’s some people I’m like, “You need to go look in the mirror and smear your lipstick and listen to Sarah McLachlan and think about yourself.”
LEARN MORE »
You’ve mentioned that you think of your stand-up as a TED Talk with jokes. There’s a part in this joke where you get claps because you said something the audience agrees with, and there’s no joke. What is your defense of this sense of TED Talkery?
We are in an era where information and truth are so under fire that comedians oftentimes are the last bastion of truth and reality. Comedians are the last folks that aren’t being run by a network, and our voices are not being curated by some outside force. If you’re a truth-teller, it’s only natural that you’re going to tell truths that make people laugh, and some that just make people be like, Yes, I agree with that.
Around the time the special came out, you compared it to a milestone like getting married or having a kid. How did the process or the release of the product give you a sense of what’s coming next?
The special was the first time I’ve ever had to wait that long to see something come to fruition. It’s what I imagine doing a sensory deprivation chamber would be like. I had to trust it. And when you come out the other side, it empowers you because now you really are like, I do know what I’m talking about. I can trust myself in a whole new way. That gives you a bit more of a safety net to take bigger risks. Certain dreams have started to feel more like goals: writing a film and really getting my production company going. It gave me a certain level of confidence and insight and access and resources to bring those dreams to a more reachable level.
I like her, i wanted to be in love with her so bad; but her opinion on things makes that impossible.
I do respect her intellect and passion for things though.
I do respect her intellect and passion for things though.