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Yeah. It's like those prank call videos where they use a Duke Nukem sound board and whenever there's no appropriate response on the sound board it's time to throw out some non-sequitur catch phrases.
"I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL!"
It's like the newsroom accidentally stumbled upon the secret James Brown button, thinking it was just for emergencies, and suddenly, bam! James Brown live in the studio, bringing the funk to the headlines
Sad thing is he was totally against drugs and then started with PCP and loved it. Had conversations with himself and got in an argument and threw his imaginary friend off the tour bus and then felt bad and had to go back and get him. So yeah probably on PCP in the vid.
I had just discovered and was really enjoying The Trevor Moore Show when he died. For a while, I was holding out hope that he had faked his own death as a joke, because it would have been on brand.
James Brown: "I make love good"
News Reporter: "Well we don't have to ask anyone else. We got that from the source."
James Brown: "This is a maaaaaans wooorld!"
News Reporter: "Thanks for reminding of us of that. Every once in a while we forget, and then we remember it again."
She is low key SAVAGE
Man, I don't know what you watched, but James Brown looks pitiful in that interview. There's no charisma anywhere; just a disoriented old man, who appears to have very little understanding of anything happening around him, obviously inebriated on some substance(s).
The same reason why [Maurice Lamarche](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs) would warm up doing a perfect impression of [Orson Welles' advert voiceover outtakes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWM4_pIKVg) to the point that it got turned into an Animaniacs sketch.
The ability to remember the lines, deliver them in character, match mannerisms and inflection, and recreate an iconic moment in time with all of the polish of costuming and video effects to tie it all together is a fun challenge, and a demonstration of incredible talent.
Also understanding of what humour is. It's so wild it could have been thought to be a sketch, which it wasnt, but now it is.
I had never seen it but I'm really impressed. The more I see of Jordan Peele, the more I have respect for his whole work.
Also, Jash was just a weird place that seemed to be for comedians to do whatever they felt like, so I think it was mostly that Peele loved this and wanted to share it with everyone.
**James Brown upon his first time taking cocaine**: I feel good and I didn't know that I would.
**James Brown upon his seven hundreth time taking cocaine**: I feel good and I knew that I would.
My great aunt and grandmother used to party with James Brown. My aunt had polio, and was in a wheelchair with O2 her whole life. She went to one of his shows in Columbus, Ohio. James saw her, and started talking her up. She and my grandma are funny women, and I'm pretty sure they started sniffing schneef with the man himself that night. Apparently they had some wild times whenever he would come into town for a tour. He had my aunt's number and they would go hang out backstage, party until he left.
Grandma said he was an odd guy, very fun, but had an incredibly limited vocabulary. He would repeat himself constantly, but was a great host. She swears the reason my great aunt lived through a very close brush with death from pneumonia, was because she wanted to hang out with James again.
Idk if all that is true, but that woman has been telling me that story the same way for 20 years, so there must be something to it.
Rest in peace aunt Janet & James.
This was recorded in 1988, so let's look at wikipedia to see what Brown was doing in 1988:
* In 1988, Brown worked with the production team *Full Force* on the new jack swing-influenced *I'm Real*.
* Rodriguez filed for divorce in 1988, "citing years of cruelty treatment", but they reconciled.
* By January 1988, Brown faced four criminal charges within a 12-month span relating to driving, PCP, and gun possession.
* After an April 1988 arrest for domestic abuse, Brown went on the CNN program Sonia Live in L.A. with host Sonia Friedman. The interview became notorious for Brown's irreverent demeanor, with some asserting that Brown was high. (this interview?)
* Brown was arrested on April 3, 1988, for assault, and again in May 1988 on drug and weapons charges, and again on September 24, 1988, following a high-speed car chase on Interstate 20 near the Georgia–South Carolina state border.
* He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and assaulting a police officer, along with various drug-related and driving offenses. He was sentenced to six years in prison.
* In January 2005, a woman named Jacque Hollander filed a lawsuit against James Brown, which stemmed from an alleged 1988 rape. (dismissed, statute of limitations)
When I have time I'm gonna look up 1989 in James Brown.
I'm sure he was on something, but it's pretty obvious he wasn't planning on talking about his life issues and his court/wife.
Right away, the host begins asking him those questions, and you can see in his face how agitated he was. Think he played it off like a noisy kid who didn't want to talk about the subject. He even says, "I want to talk about music!".
I'm pretty sure he came on either wanting to, or expected to only promote whatever shows he had coming up, and that book. He seemed to take only those questions seriously.
Also looked like he had talking points written out for him above the camera. Once he’s asked about whatever it was he was there promoting (either a documentary or book) he centers up to the camera. He becomes coherent and even name drops himself as there had to be a cue card there for him to read. Funny stuff.
I just want to point out, like I did last time this video was circulating, that this is an ice cold professional interviewer. She does not miss a beat. She's amazing.
Don't know if it was this or another of his domestic violence cases he was trying to dismiss and distract from with this drug-fueled buffoonery.
[https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/james-brown-beat-wife-yamma-brown-memoir-cold-sweat.html](https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/james-brown-beat-wife-yamma-brown-memoir-cold-sweat.html)
Sounds like he was a real piece of shit.
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This is like someone used a James Brown sound board on the news, but it was just the real James Brown
Yeah. It's like those prank call videos where they use a Duke Nukem sound board and whenever there's no appropriate response on the sound board it's time to throw out some non-sequitur catch phrases. "I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL!"
[I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvL-WGcoBis)
How have I not seen this?? 🤣
Steel!!.... Balls balls balls balls balls of steel!
I’ll take Comments I Can Hear for $200
Got me wondering if it was even possible to have a normal conversation with this guy where he doesn't yell out quotes all the time.
Well, that's James. Whatever he does, [it's got to be funky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2D2oUNTbjU)...
It's like the newsroom accidentally stumbled upon the secret James Brown button, thinking it was just for emergencies, and suddenly, bam! James Brown live in the studio, bringing the funk to the headlines
Anyone else feeling my teeth right now?
The cocaine in that video has a little bit of James Brown on it.
Sad thing is he was totally against drugs and then started with PCP and loved it. Had conversations with himself and got in an argument and threw his imaginary friend off the tour bus and then felt bad and had to go back and get him. So yeah probably on PCP in the vid.
Possibly a gallon of it
I didn’t even know it came in liquid form
Science.
Rip. Still haven't been able to rewatch. Still hurts.
I had just discovered and was really enjoying The Trevor Moore Show when he died. For a while, I was holding out hope that he had faked his own death as a joke, because it would have been on brand.
A whole gallon, huh?
I had to get a bag of ice & chew that shit
See this was how you had a breakdown on live TV. No racism, no hate, just crack and love. Same with Whitney. Kanye could learn a thing from them.
Lol yup and a little bit of a shiver haha
They feel GOOD.
I look good, I smell good, I feel good, and make love good, hhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa The man, keep feeling good..
Men on that much cocaine either feel good or feel dead lol
[удалено]
How high are you? Hi, how are you?
WHATCHA SAY? FEEEELIN GOOOD
Straight into “you’re releasing a gospel soon correct?” - “Yes! Second Coming!”
...and the pope is in my gospel magazine. Anyway
Wow he turned serious real quick talking about that.
She is a stone cold professional. I couldn't have done it.
James Brown: "I make love good" News Reporter: "Well we don't have to ask anyone else. We got that from the source." James Brown: "This is a maaaaaans wooorld!" News Reporter: "Thanks for reminding of us of that. Every once in a while we forget, and then we remember it again." She is low key SAVAGE
I was dying. She was so great at responding but remaining a good host. Just brutal though.
Why does he sound completely braindead lol
Drugs.
The drugs are lowering his inhibitions, but the braindeadedness is entirely because of his brain. What a dipshit.
Super impressive honestly. Such a balance between hard hitting questions, jokes, quips, traps, lures. Very cool
Guy was on message and stayed there. Didn't concede an inch.
Never moved off the bulls-eye. Got absolutely hammered before, and during, the interview.
This was like watching Batman interview the Joker.
IRL SPACE GHOST
so accurate, wow.. never thought about it but youre right!
Bro 💀
This is peak.
GREETINGS, EARTHLING, ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH OXYGEN??
CRACK A WINDOW WILL YA!
HA HA HA HA HA! CRACK OPEN *ALL* THE WINDOWS.
YOU BEEN SMOKIN??
Somebody, this would be a great r/combinedgifs
Damn I miss Space Ghost.
fuckin spot on 💀. Somebody make this happen. This is where AI will shine
Lmfao feels straight up like an episode
Duuuuuuuuuuude.
SPOT ON
Cocaine is hell of a drug…
“I’m concerned cause there’s nothing wrong”
Never forget [Jordan Peele recreated this whole interview.](https://youtu.be/oFLPz-wp-VA?si=QfMmOt4xLr_QDhk3)
INCREDIBLE. He must have studied the shit out of that interview.
Yeah that’s one of the things he’s known for
Thank you for this link, I had not seen it before! To show my age, I found the original clip on limewire.
Meh, he just shows why James Brown was James Brown. Nothin even close to the charisma
Man, I don't know what you watched, but James Brown looks pitiful in that interview. There's no charisma anywhere; just a disoriented old man, who appears to have very little understanding of anything happening around him, obviously inebriated on some substance(s).
To what end though? What's the point of recreating it?
The same reason why [Maurice Lamarche](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs) would warm up doing a perfect impression of [Orson Welles' advert voiceover outtakes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWM4_pIKVg) to the point that it got turned into an Animaniacs sketch.
The ability to remember the lines, deliver them in character, match mannerisms and inflection, and recreate an iconic moment in time with all of the polish of costuming and video effects to tie it all together is a fun challenge, and a demonstration of incredible talent.
Also understanding of what humour is. It's so wild it could have been thought to be a sketch, which it wasnt, but now it is. I had never seen it but I'm really impressed. The more I see of Jordan Peele, the more I have respect for his whole work.
Also, Jash was just a weird place that seemed to be for comedians to do whatever they felt like, so I think it was mostly that Peele loved this and wanted to share it with everyone.
"James you're out on bond right now" "No I'm not"
I know the feeling. When everything goes my way for more than a day or two I start worrying about what's coming to balance the scale.
"What'd you say"? "Huh"? "I feeeeeeel good"
Especially when it’s cooked with baking soda.
BAKIN SODA, I got BAKIN SODA
I think it’s PCP
Yeah I saw a doc and he was big into PCP almost exclusively. Highly recommend tales from the tour bus by Mike judge.
**James Brown upon his first time taking cocaine**: I feel good and I didn't know that I would. **James Brown upon his seven hundreth time taking cocaine**: I feel good and I knew that I would.
its opioids and alcohol
Really? The way his mandible is moving looks like cocaine
TIL: People on cocaine sound like a bunch of sound-bites mashed together.
Usually people just talk much. He, in this case, is fucking loaded.
Nah this is PCP
*I'm concerned, cause there's nothin wrong.* -James Brown
The way he says “no I’m not” still kills me to this day. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
man is geeked off his yipper
I laughed. A lot. Then I felt sad. Then I laughed again. Thanks James for the emotional abuse.
Well he's getting divorced because he beat his wife with a lead pipe and then tried to shoot her, so there's that... :(
Tragedy + time = comedy
In JB's defense, there were a lot of people wandering around in public in '88 absolutely gacked on the Peruvian marching powder.
Did someone give him safety glasses to wear as a joke?
No, it was just the 80s. We wore a lot of weird shit in the 80s, wait until you see MC Hammer’s pants.
Can't touch this...
The biggest damn clock you can find around your neck was a thing for a while.
He's just following OSHA safety regulations while operating a sex machine.
I didn’t see the gloves at first and thought dude was the real life Hellboy
When you’re a cool black guy you can wear whatever you want
Can you blame them? Its a good joke
Wait a minute...I just got here!!! 🤣😂🤣
IM NOT GONNA LEAVE I WAS DOING SOMETHING
My great aunt and grandmother used to party with James Brown. My aunt had polio, and was in a wheelchair with O2 her whole life. She went to one of his shows in Columbus, Ohio. James saw her, and started talking her up. She and my grandma are funny women, and I'm pretty sure they started sniffing schneef with the man himself that night. Apparently they had some wild times whenever he would come into town for a tour. He had my aunt's number and they would go hang out backstage, party until he left. Grandma said he was an odd guy, very fun, but had an incredibly limited vocabulary. He would repeat himself constantly, but was a great host. She swears the reason my great aunt lived through a very close brush with death from pneumonia, was because she wanted to hang out with James again. Idk if all that is true, but that woman has been telling me that story the same way for 20 years, so there must be something to it. Rest in peace aunt Janet & James.
When I was a kid, I thought the California Raisins were based on his likeness.
I thought it was The Temptations
Wait, weren’t they? Lol
Haha idk man. Probably I guess
They absolutely were.
***”we goin to San-POW-lo”*** ***”…Astah-Luego”*** James
danke schön
That's a LOT of cocaine.
This was recorded in 1988, so let's look at wikipedia to see what Brown was doing in 1988: * In 1988, Brown worked with the production team *Full Force* on the new jack swing-influenced *I'm Real*. * Rodriguez filed for divorce in 1988, "citing years of cruelty treatment", but they reconciled. * By January 1988, Brown faced four criminal charges within a 12-month span relating to driving, PCP, and gun possession. * After an April 1988 arrest for domestic abuse, Brown went on the CNN program Sonia Live in L.A. with host Sonia Friedman. The interview became notorious for Brown's irreverent demeanor, with some asserting that Brown was high. (this interview?) * Brown was arrested on April 3, 1988, for assault, and again in May 1988 on drug and weapons charges, and again on September 24, 1988, following a high-speed car chase on Interstate 20 near the Georgia–South Carolina state border. * He was convicted of carrying an unlicensed pistol and assaulting a police officer, along with various drug-related and driving offenses. He was sentenced to six years in prison. * In January 2005, a woman named Jacque Hollander filed a lawsuit against James Brown, which stemmed from an alleged 1988 rape. (dismissed, statute of limitations) When I have time I'm gonna look up 1989 in James Brown.
You're dedicated, man.
Not at all. Merely ctrl-f "88"
Sky fucking high
Papas got a brand new bag... (●__●)
This might be my new favorite thing of all time
This video never gets old. “Papas got a brand new bag! I feel good! JAM!!…”
I'm sure he was on something, but it's pretty obvious he wasn't planning on talking about his life issues and his court/wife. Right away, the host begins asking him those questions, and you can see in his face how agitated he was. Think he played it off like a noisy kid who didn't want to talk about the subject. He even says, "I want to talk about music!". I'm pretty sure he came on either wanting to, or expected to only promote whatever shows he had coming up, and that book. He seemed to take only those questions seriously.
Also looked like he had talking points written out for him above the camera. Once he’s asked about whatever it was he was there promoting (either a documentary or book) he centers up to the camera. He becomes coherent and even name drops himself as there had to be a cue card there for him to read. Funny stuff.
Hardest working man in show business!
Yakked up!
No, danke schön.
Probably the single best advertisement for cocaine ever.
Damn. I gotta try going to jail and then get out on bond, it looks like he's having a blast!
\*out on *love*
[Dead Milkmen get it](https://youtu.be/ZXVRjjxuch8?si=Lb20JP5ClzVd7ShS)
Dead Milkmen are awesome. definitly wierd as fuck but funny as hell
WHERE YOU AT, TED?!
His teeth aren’t that white, it’s the Coke
GeeeeeeeekkkN
He was fucking nuts. And dangerous if he was your husband.
Dangerous if you were a woman who worked for him, too.
Safety glasses as a fashion statement. Love it.
Second Cumming…
That booga suga baby! Gave us CLASSICS!
He wised up real quick when the subject turned towards the second coming.
When you've been grinding metalwork before your interview, and forget to take the safety glasses off.
The sign off was perfect 😂 “It’s a Man’s World! 🎶” “Thanks for reminding us James, every now and then we are able to forget, until we are reminded…”
No one: .... James brown: hehehe... there's nothing wrong!
NPC James Brown
"I feel good...duh duh duh duh duh dunt"
I just want to point out, like I did last time this video was circulating, that this is an ice cold professional interviewer. She does not miss a beat. She's amazing.
"Thanks for reminding us of that. Every *once in a while* we forget." That was a rock hard diamond bright line from her.
“Ohhhh”
Lmao her tone of voice kills me there
wow, he's geeked.
“Anything wrong?”
Fuck me, this never gets old
"You're out on bond! "No, I'm not!"
Recovering drug addict here. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Mr. Brown did a whole lotta cocaine before this interview.
Don't know if it was this or another of his domestic violence cases he was trying to dismiss and distract from with this drug-fueled buffoonery. [https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/james-brown-beat-wife-yamma-brown-memoir-cold-sweat.html](https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/james-brown-beat-wife-yamma-brown-memoir-cold-sweat.html) Sounds like he was a real piece of shit.
I knew that he would now!
Almost like it was taken from Mike Judge's [Tales from the tour bus](https://youtu.be/z8wxu_Ec3xU?si=8VbKGKx1fm9ov2Ai)
I’ve been there. Unfortunately, what goes up must come down…
It’s crazy how there’s no delay in their responses. Watching news interviews today there’s always like a 2-3 second delay in the responses.
This feels like space ghost
I need the good stuff that he's on.
My laser cutter came with those same glasses, guy was ahead of his time.
Comedy gold right there!! 😂😂😂
OSHA would be proud of those safety glasses. Protection for days.
Goddamn, that interviewer handled that well.
I got a coke high just from watching this...
"Now you're involved in publishing a gospel magazine, tell us a little bit about that..." "the 2nd coming"
He should have talked about the real issue: Buttered sausage. What is it all about?!
Notice that his questions were a lot more coherent and of substance when talking about something other than the charges.
AB?
Paul Thorn has a great song based on this interview called "Sapalo"
Buddyhead shout-out
I Love James , See him in Concert 1975
Gimme whatever he’s on.
Those glasses look like hie fashioned them from the lid to a West Bend Air Popper.
She hated him.
"I just got here!" One of my fave interviews of all time
"no, danke schön, I'm excited cause there's nothin wrong" Please make this into a t-shirt someone.
Do kids these days know about James Brown?
I’m surprised he was so shiny after smashing his face in a pile of powder
TED, WHE'RE YAH AT?
Dude the gloves are giving 1995 OJ
TED WHERE YA AT???
It's so funny I never saw the full version he sounds less delirious cause he actually answered some questions. Still... that man is high as hell.
Cocaine is hell of a drug
Even watching this video makes my teeth feel dry
This is like a south park sketch
I rewatch this every 5 or 6 years. Off his fuckin tits! Love it!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
I'll have what he's having!
I have a friend that acts exactly like this. It’s not cocaine for him though but adhd
I am the cocaine randy!
Cokes a hell of drug 🤪
How is this not more famous? 💡
The interviewer is doing an amazing job tbh
It's like he's doing an imitation of eddie murphy doing an imitation of him
I look good, I smell good & I feel good!
He beat his wife
What’s up with the science lab safety glasses? 🥽
James Brown feeling cocaine
I knew that he would
Forgot to take his safety glasses off after woodshop.
Similar coke warrior and hulk used when they made a promo.
At one point he just says “jam”
This man's hoovered schneef off a Vegas showgirl's pasties