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You have general ideas of jokes, but you don't put it in no order. I don't have jokes. I have visions of what I want to talk about. And he said, Man, why are you writing that joke? It was come out already…. Just express your views. You're a comic. In Earthquake married, telling the Florida Sun-Sentinel that marriage was like "having cable with just one channel.

Marriage and family played a large part in his routines, but some of his material was political in nature. The former war resister now backed the Iraq war and had become a conservative, drawing some of his themes from the Fox television network's O'Reilly Factor talk show hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly. Earthquake attributed the poor showing of Republicans among African-American voters to "a bad image.

It's like if the KKK had a bake sale. No matter how good the cupcakes, black people still wouldn't go," he told Mekeisha Madden of the Detroit News. He was an equal-opportunity satirist, however, frequently poking fun at President George W.

Bush and criticizing him as the chaos in Iraq deepened. That's who you need to put on the case. The next step for Earthquake was to follow his lates contemporaries into television and movies. Signed by the ABC television network to develop a comedy, he came up with Earthquake , in which he was set to star as a struggling father of four. The sitcom didn't make it onto the air in the fall of , but Earthquake kept at it, working on another series deal with HBO and performing in his own minute One Night Stand HBO special in August of He appeared with Arnez J and other comics that summer as part of a Super Stars of Comedy tour, and he ventured into film Getting Played , opposite Vivica Fox and theater, playing a principal in a play called Listen to Your Woman.