Will Halle Berry Join the Cast of Comedy Central's South Side?

What's going on guys? Here with me right now I have Bashir and Sutan from Southside.

What's up?

What's up?

doing.

I'm just kidding. We don't know which mic we're going to talk into so we're just right now.

Okay, cool. Like this right here. There you go. Maybe by the end we can have like it can synchronize.

Yeah, like that. There you go.

Well, seriously, congratulations you two on the show.

Thank you very much.

What can you tell us about it?

Southside is a workplace comedy based in and around the Southside of Chicago where we were both born and raised. We brothers, we grew up there. I think for us, we knew how funny the city is and how much joy there is. So I think when people see Chicago in the news sometimes, they see a lot of the challenges the city faces. Our feeling is like that's just a very small piece of a very big pie and so we're going to give you the rest of the pie with our show and show you that on the southside we know how to laugh and have fun and, you know, it's a joyous place and we really want to bring some of that joy to some living rooms and have people just have fun with us.

Yeah, for sure. Do you agree with that?

Oh, 100%. I agree with that 100%. I think uh it's time for people to laugh and we're just happy to be able to ones to do that.

Yeah. So is that kind of what inspired you two to jump on the show, you know, make people laugh and entertain but also teach them something?

Yeah, absolutely. I think that uh, you know, we're trying to make a show for years and wanted to do something based in our hometown. Um, and so we're trying to figure out what to do and it just so happened that like Thanksgiving, I'd be home and it'd be hanging out with this guy and our other friends who actually work at this place called Ren Center where they rent appliances, which is something a lot of people are discovering is a real thing. I know it seems fake, but a lot of the stuff that happens in, you know, in the hood is is unbelievable. And so but we'll be telling all these, but we've been hearing all these great and funny stories about some of the things that our friends are doing and we said, you know what, this is the show right here. And we actually leaned into that. And so we have so many Chicagoans, not just, you know, in front of the camera, but behind the camera, the writers, the creators, uh, the executive producers, so many Chicago people, so many Southside people. And we really tried to get like the funniest people we could from the city to be on the air. So, some of them are actors, some of them some of them are just some funny people that we know like twins.

Exactly.

Really? Wow. Tell us, tell us about twins.

Well, I mean, the twins are on the show. Uh, one plays the manager of myself and his brother and they're just they're funny people just every day all day sitting around them and especially going back to what he was talking about earlier uh going home and having Thanksgiving, those guys will come over along with other friends and it would just be every man for himself and all out funny situation. So that's kind of where that energy comes from.

Yeah, that's super cool. For sure.

That's how Chicago gets down.

That's how Chicago gets down.

How do you two get down?

Chicago start getting down. I try to get down every morning. When I wake up, I just immediately put on some jams.

Okay.

Put on my dancing shoes.

All right.

Before I brush my teeth. I'm jamming.

Yeah. What are you listening to?

Uh right now I'm listening to Tyler the Creator's new album. It's amazing. Shout out, Tyler. And watch our show please. Yes. It's on uh Comedy Central by the way.

Exactly. You didn't get it Comedy Central. Southside. I know you don't watch a lot of television in your day because you're busy and you're making music and touring but you got to make time for this, man. You going to like this one. You going to enjoy it. I promise.

Very much. Okay, if you guys could have anyone guest star on your show, who would it be and why?

Uh, you want to go first?

Uh yeah, I'm going to say Halle Berry just because I can tell all my friends I sit next to her. That's it.

Yeah. Yeah, we're going to write a but I'm not going to have you sit next to her in the scene. I would say Bill Murray. I mean, he's a Chicago guy. He's a Chicago legend. You know, Chicago has a really rich comedy tradition.

Yeah.

A lot of times people don't see the Southside as part of that and so, you know, somebody like Bill, he knows that that's the case. So we'd love to like bridge that divide but, you know, to have a legend like that on season two uh would be amazing. And the offer will be in the mail.

Yeah. Cuz I don't think he has a phone. I think you got to email him like you got to write a letter.

He doesn't have a phone?

Yeah, he just knows how to get in touch with him. He just kind of shows up.

Yeah, he shows up and plays. You got to like say his name three times in the bathroom with the lights off or something like that.

That's bloody Mary.

Oh, it's not. Oh, I was wondering why he didn't show up. I was like saying it. I totally played that in school.

Anyway, young Hollywood is educational, y'all. Y'all going to learn some stuff.

That's real.

Yeah, exactly.

Okay, what are three things that you think the Young Hollywood audience needs to binge your show?

I think you need a lot of friends around you to binge the show because I think it's the kind of show where people are going to like laugh and you want to be in a room full of people laughing. That's number one. Um, I also think you need it wouldn't hurt to have It wouldn't hurt to have some food and pizza around when you guys are sitting in the show. That's important. As well as soda.

Yeah, and if you're in California and over the age of let's say, I don't even know the age, 25. Yeah. Uh, feel free to blaze, kids. It's legal here. That's what I'm saying. It's legal here. It's America. Enjoy it. You know, it's funny regularly. But if you add that layered that 3D layer of the blazing, then you get all kind of other jokes that other people aren't going to get. You going to see jokes off in the corner that nobody's there. You going to see you look at our show. If you look at like even in the extras like all the extras in our show, we made sure every single extra is doing something funny. So, it's very layered. It's funny in the it's very layered. It's funny and there's funny all around the screen.

Yeah, we want people to laugh, man. Yeah. It's really important.

I just want to say that I think it's important to uh really open your mind to what Chicago is going to be after this show because it's going to allow people to see into a world that they have never seen before and it's going to be hilarious. You will transform the city.

Yeah. I like that. Transform the city. I am not. No. I'm from the Bay Area.

Oh, okay, that's cool. That's like from the Bay. We ain't trouble now. From the Bay Area. Hell of scary.

Yes. I love when people throw hell at me. I love words y'all.

We do actually say that, you know? You say it all the time. It's actually hella annoying. You say hella hella a lot.

Yeah. What do you guys say in Chicago? Do you guys have a little like a slang word? You dig?

No we have tons of stuff I'm going to say on camera. You dig is a good one. A lot of people Joe. Yeah. What up, Joe? What up, Charlie? What up, mang child? Uh a lot of stuff. A little mang. Big mang. We say we say my uh we say my fault. instead of my bad. When you make a mistake. Shouty. Yeah. Those are kids. So y'all can use those phrases in and around your city. Try them out at home. See if they fit with you and your family.

Exactly. Try them out on your grandmother. She might, you know, she might be cool. Hey, shouty.

Yeah, say what's up. See your grandmother.

Exactly.

Okay, lastly, you two, can you please describe Southside in three facial expressions? And throw them straight to camera for me. Yeah. I'll say one, two, three and we'll do one, two, three. Yeah, I'll do it for you, okay? Ready? Facial expression, number one. And number two. And three. Thank you so much for hanging out. Congratulations on the show. We can't wait. Young Hollywood. Right now. Young Hollywood. Hella cool.