5 Things I learned at my Bright Friends family reunion

Comedian Josh Pray attended a family reunion in Norfolk Virginia and had a marvelous time... or so he says

[@murdock94]

Word of advice: Bring Tupperware to any cookout. You will save on your grocery bill for the better part of a month.

[@katherinekesler1295]

If that ain't the truth!!

[@MarvRoberts]

I get me enough banana pudding and green bean casserole to go with my hamburger steaks and chicken leg quarters for an entire month! And don't even get me started on the potato salad...thank you, Tupperware! (and thanks to Aunt Flossie for making it all 5 gallons at a time!

[@earldeanpowell]

Tupperware???? You mean old margarine and potato salad tubs????

[@TheMaster5150]

Yeah because if not, your going home with ziploc bags.

[@death1305sam]

@@earldeanpowell don't forget the tubes that lunch meat come in

[@pattiking]

"Who wants some lake water that I just purified on-hand because I'm smart?" 🤣

[@traceyray1831]

🤣🤣🤣😂😜😜

[@firestarter0323]

My last family reunion we all went to jail......even Memaw.

[@GlueGunsRoses]

😂😂😂

[@cwdrock]

Are we related?

[@nathanlisad]

Lmao sounds about right lol. Food check. Beer check. Bail money check

[@badandy102]

Sounds like your family knows how to party hard.

[@phorewhoresman1897]

My Memaw had 25 elbows of Oregon grown "Gorilla Panic" when state bulls got her, she panicked after smoking when they caught her...took 17 troopers to take her down... Gorilla Panic

[@rjchavers9267]

Forget tshirts, buy more food, keep cooking until it's going home and everyone has a plate (or two) for later 👍

[@God-qi1fr]

Two? We taking 9

[@0001captainawesome]

I'm still eating leftovers from when you posted this.

[@comcastjohn]

I am white as ya know Josh, if you remember. But one thing stuck in my craw bud. When you said you didn’t wanna go because you would ruin the party. Don’t think like that bud. I have been to an all black cookout and was accepted no probs at all. When people are face to face, you see the good in most of them because you can interact with them and get to know them. Social media is the bane of existence, because people aren’t face to face and only think of that person by what they say once. Glad you had a great time brother, I enjoyed the video as usual. 👍

[@redskin4040]

Lol I'm white too and me and my friend went fishing together years ago. He tells me to hope in the car we going to get something to drink. He pulled up at a black club that was pretty rough. The prior weekend someone had gotten stabbed. I looked at him and said, man I know I have a good tan brother but yours is a lot darker than mine lol. He said come boy you with me. You'll be fine. I gotta say that's the most fun that I have ever had in a club. And no one got shot or stabbed that night so we had a blast. Shoot pool, drank a few beers, and talked to some ladies. Man we had a great time. It's ashamed that msm has gotten to a lot of people's heads. I'm in a small town but we all use to hang around and get along great regardless of skin color. We always have a helluva highschool football team too. The Richmond Raiders

[@philliphersman362]

The grill unites everyone

[@danielboatright8887]

idgaf, free food is free

[@scapelaine4529]

I love what you said because it's the absolute truth!❤

[@bluefamily3937]

#5!!! I can't stop laughing!...we've had an ongoing beef in my family for 75 years!!!! Folks hold grudges til they DIE!

[@rjchavers9267]

"Your grand daddy might walk that off!" OMG 😂😂😂

[@cjjonez]

That was raw😅🤣

[@robinmattingly3745]

You forgot #6...nobody leaves empty handed. You ask to bring something home for later you get a big plate covered in aluminum foil. Got a family member who wasn’t able to go...whoever lives closest to said family member get to take it to them. At least this is what happens at my family reunions, cookouts, Thanksgiving dinners.

[@jessegardner33]

So true, I always end up leaving with plates stacked high and food for days

[@TheRealUnknown01]

ask? shit, i gotta ask to not take something home. haha. if im walking with out a plate someone always says "you better take your ass over there and get you a plate to take home"

[@brettkelly4575]

Yup somebody is gonna be playing meals on wheels at the end of the night

[@user-ni9zb1rv4i]

We feed you for weeks.

[@marshallpaintingservices5335]

This is what our American culture is really like, weed out any negativity on ur phone and keep our American sense and sensibilities and stay on positive vibes. The media is poisonous. Love ur message✊🏼✊🏿and all my fellow Americans.

[@jamesbrinley8453]

yup if anything your gonna get fed well. nobody goes home hungry... and most don't go home sober. good times.

[@traceyray1831]

Truth 💯

[@brett9121]

I'm that 100 like because like the previous commenter... this is 💯

[@Megramia288]

it's a mix of all three reasons we dont stop cooking. We have to be polite enough to make sure to send you a plate home for you, your s.o., your kids and anybody else that might need some from your home. We also dont want to go home. We're having fun and not worrying about everyday life at that point. I forgot the third one by now,

[@natashadavis2959]

Cooking is a social activity.

[@leslieshafer6343]

LOL, be sure & post it when you remember the 3rd thing

[@sarahj3152]

So people keep eating, and dont start talking and get in a fight. Lol

[@charllie_k_69]

😂😂😂😂😂 The food thing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 100% If you leave my house hungry that's not my fault. That's on you!

[@TheRealUnknown01]

with all this moronic hate being spread back n forth lately, its a blessing to see someone who has their head on straight. keep doing your thing brother.

[@mikeks8181]

I left Quantico Vs one Fri with my roommate to Ohio. He told me there may be some disagreements amongst the family. Around sunset after dinner was served. It Started. I ended up standing next to the but free where all the refreshments were. About 8-10 of us watching it unfold into a Malay! Stunned and nervous watching this. We all figured out talking that we weren't involved because, we were Not related to anyone Passed the free line! Still love telling that story.

[@bchambliss264]

You will also be adopted and invited back even if your friend can't make it, you will be welcome back every time.

[@Hundredacredaycare]

Please run for president ❤️

[@The-Almighty-Whitey]

🤨

[@eddiemccosh6718]

keep up the good clean comedy. love to here someone smart!

[@tomjones1967]

It went down at Father’s Day! Google Tedesco Ct in Guilderland NY. When I told some of my black friends they were speechless. I love these videos. Who wants to see Josh Pray snowboarding?

[@nicholeborgner4761]

🤣 got me dying this morning, just had our family reunion..... and yep.

[@maegliinvalantor6441]

We’re having the 150th Anniversary of the family farm coming. Cow pie baseball in my future lol

[@daniellewhitman3921]

Always have extra food tbh. Everyone takes extras, no exception.

[@celestialgoddessgaming]

Yeah, this reminds me of my family reunions. My family is southern and our family reunions were just...yeah. It felt almost like a reality show. Everybody kept cooking, talking and asking over and over if you want more of something "Anybody want any more peas? cornbread? fried chicken?" The most common phrases from my family reunion. "Hey, ya'll wanna hear about the time I..." and usually it's a story like something dangerous happened to them or not really food-friendly conversations. "Yeah, we skinned a deer the other day and you should have seen..." goes into so much detail while everyone is trying to eat. Also, my grandpa's and uncles always had to say something about fishing and who was best at it, who caught the biggest fish, and why their way of fishing was so much better than the others.(arguments at times over this) Meanwhile, my mom, grandma's and aunts talked non-stop about how long it took them to do their hair, cooking recipes(that eventually turned to arguments because each one had 'the only right' way to cook something) and what cousin so and so was doing what, with who, and just a lot of gossip. The cousins...well that is just too long of a story. Basically a lot of one-up talking about everything!

[@Junglehunter677]

My last family reunion, 7 people ended up in the hospital, 2 in the ICU, and 1 in the burn ward. The rest of them were in the drunk tank at the county jail

[@mothertwinkles4198]

😂😂😂

[@scottbivins4758]

Damn your family knows how to party 😂😂i like that. If it you feel any better one of the last cookouts I was at my dad got super drunk and let's just say he ended up in the burn unit to 😂😂😂 white people family reunions and white people parties are just completely different we flirt with death

[@IbnuDaruAji]

You're one of my favourite people, Josh. Best wishes for you.

[@thehairybeast9707]

It wasn't a birthday, bbq, holiday or reunion until me and my cousin brawl. Mind you, we do it just to do it.

[@airgunningcolorado78]

Someone's mama going down next time lmao

[@Toaster81]

#6 we always have a minimum of one veteran. Usually 2 or more & rarely the same branch. I was Army, one cousin was Army one that was Air Force, a Aunt & Uncle that were both Marines, another couple cousins that were/are Navy, & a great uncle that was Coast Guard. I also have family that are police. Some Metro some Sheriff Dept. We all talk smack to each other. And brother if you get invited to a family reunion (at least with my family) then you are family. Nobody will look at your skin, with my family they'll look at the way you are built & say I got Josh when we play football. But fair warning most bright families don't play tag/flag football, so drink up before lol

[@scotthummel4248]

You gonna haveta come back to texas and go lake fishing with me on my bass boat. We'll stop in at Whataburger before and after. Love ya man!

[@amymaliga1674]

Scott Hummel I said the same thing!!! Lol!

[@buisyman]

I fell out of my chair laughing, again. LOVE YA, JOSH!!!!!!!!

[@gusmancuso8191]

LOL! Sooooooo true! My nephew went to a family reunion I go to every year. FOOOOOD! Yeah baby. You missed only one point dude. At my family reunions you will get hugged by VERY large people. When I say LARGE I don't mean "you gained a little weight" or "you are a bit heavier" ... NO. You are fixin to get absorbed by family. They will love on you 'till you can't stand it and retreat to a back corner near the fence. Maybe it is the old Sicilian traditions, but you will feel the love for days after LOL!

[@fozziebear26]

😂😂😂 damn bro u got everyone in these comments laughing hard. Luv it from the🇬🇧

[@bethshadid2087]

We get better with time like a fine wine 😁

[@wonkothesane8691]

Hell, half the reason we have family reunions is to get the drama out in the open and dealt with. The other half is to meet girls. (Just kidding, there.)

[@shannonbroome7918]

Idk about anybody else but cooking is how I show my love 🥰🥰🥰

[@0707moto]

Who the hell could dis like this. it is funny as hell and true

[@airgunningcolorado78]

You must be new, you gotta subscribe. Josh is hilarious and it's all true! I found him a month ago and binge watched my wife to pissed lol

[@zenaehyman9495]

I love my family reunions, going to a black cookout has many dances and the home-made macaroni

[@kevinlegg188]

Cooking food is an expression of love. Everyone cooks their favorite foods or foods they are good at or proud of to share with the family. It's like a non-stop greatest hits culinary edition. Oh, and don't get me started on the stuff the old folks cook. When you got 60+ years of experience at fixing hem fixins, it's heaven bro.

[@rebelstudio9378]

I love the way them girls sing in the vocal song at the end of your vid.

[@soupcampbell9306]

God damnit, josh nailed it to the wall!!! There's ALWAYS 30 year old bs popping off at the reunion.

[@tiffanygruwell3765]

Hahaha the cooking part I can relate to. At Thanksgiving I usually cook around 40 lbs of food f for my family...... There's only 5 of us 😆.

[@cj916]

6 years ago my buddy Drey got kicked outta his house. My family and I took him in and he's been to every single one of my white family reunions, hell he is family.

[@brandonsides4589]

"I don't know if they wait til they 50 to be fine."🤣

[@scottbaker7532]

Josh you're a trip!

[@oddijohnston9144]

Been following you for alittle over a year and I love when you do 5 things Ive learned from my bright friends. Shits hilarious. Could be mid music video, 5 things by Josh Pray pops up, that music video can wait 5 minutes. Keep on, keeping on brotha

[@zacharilowe]

Great videos! Stuff like this brings people together. Nothing but love and respect for you.

[@popesarmyyeehaapopesarmyye1499]

zacharilowe RESPECT MY FRIEND great to see a lovely comment greetings from IRELAND 💚 ☘ 🍀 💚

[@Joe-it2dh]

A couple of points regarding what you said in this video: everyone is family at a family BBQ and NOBODY goes hungry. Even if the get together is at a local park and people just wander in, everyone is family. NEVER say the phrase "I'm hungry" at a white family BBQ unless you just showed up and even then it's dangerous, people will hand you plate after plate of food until you can't even see straight. The reason this happens is because in that moment they have more than enough for themselves so they take the opportunity to look out for others and make sure nobody goes without, again everyone is family for the day.

[@georgecompton1879]

Lots of love back atcha!!! As a Virginian. You hit it right .

[@papaboo._.]

The lake water part fuckin killed me🤣🤣

[@tylerhunt8425]

Never had a reunion... But I hadn't saw my cousins since 1st grade... One of my cousins forgot who the hell I was 😂

[@0001captainawesome]

I'm still eating leftovers from when you posted this.

[@bradg5823]

I miss our family reunions. They died off after my grandpa passed away in 1991.

[@pisces1017]

White girl from VA, family from NC. We always had a T-shirt and we ALL wore them on a specified day so EVERYBODY in the hotel knew who we were! Oceananna Family Resort Atlantic Beach. ❤❤

[@stephskipcain4599]

Im having my "steph's family reunion" in 2020 around July. Ppl. Who just loves and accepts me as family no matter what. You should come...

[@lillianmaybriggs5358]

My family reunion was a couple weeks ago and I couldn’t go this year. But our white family reunion has a lot of melanin. German Mexican Black and Middle Eastern. I miss my family.

[@mattmlo12]

When he's talking about the cooking it reminded me so much of my granny she died in 09 but her thing was cooking and she was Damn good, when granny said come eat you better go cause she'd whoop your ass if ya didn't. She would make a huge dinner and always say it ain't much but it's all we got and to this day when the family is together for Thanksgiving or Christmas and the dining room table is full of food someone always says it ain't much but it's all we got.

[@jillian5050]

“They been beefin since 1973” really tho

[@juistian]

There are always some of us who will kick the fireant hill to get the major drama started so we can kick back and laugh

[@Wisper0316]

dont forget the sherif and some deputies are already there

[@frostchrisl]

It's a courtesy thing. We NEVER want anyone who may show up late to not have some good food to eat. & leftovers you take make the cook feel good cause it's a compliment to their work ;-)

[@sabinka7412]

Josh is everyone's favorite uncle. You got a lot of family reunions to get to brother. I'll hit you up when we havin ours :P

[@texasdirtbikerider3335]

Bro this one was so damn funny! 😆

[@grievousangel7364]

We don’t want nobody to leave hungry lol. 😁😁 and when it does go down, it goes down hard as hell 🤣🤣😂

[@alecsnyder7]

That grill will never be cold.

[@kevinb314]

Cook and cook and cook, and "Ohhh here honey, take some with you!"

[@brandibowman4121]

way late. But "if you go home hungry, its your own fault." Also as others have said; yes please, take all you want and share all you can

[@elischultes6587]

I remember getting tee shirts at one family reunion. Each of the kids of great grandparents got a color each. Grandma’s color was purple. There was green red yellow blue. I forgot what colors we were missing.

[@ChuckADickiner]

Lmao. Brilliant. This reminds me of my cousins and I bringing our "non bright" friends to different family events. Reunions, Thanksgiving, Easter etc. Asian cousins, African cousins, South American cousins, middle eastern cousins, list went on forever. Always got reactions like yours. Good times always.

[@royrodgers567]

Just had our family reunion 2 weeks ago and all that did happen except the cookin stopped when we all got a lil too tipsy lol

[@phorewhoresman1897]

As always, had to hit like before watching... never disappointed. US TOUR! US TOUR!

[@realist-2024]

I am the pitmaster in my family...I cook till the meats gone...I enjoy being pitmaster and making folks happy there is plenty of time for me to eat later.

[@heatherhammerquist6239]

2:16 first thing we ask anyone who comes in “are you hungry? Can I get you a little something?” As we say this, we’re heading to the food to see what we have & we’re starting to put it together before your shoes are off. Even if you say no, we will almost FORCE food on you. It doesn’t matter how poor we are, you will be offered something, that’s just good manners. Most of the time we keep cooking so there are leftovers & the people that we feel might be a little light on good food will be the ones to get the lions share. You’ll hear things like “oh no, there’s no way we’ll get through this on our own, you need to help us out by taking it”. That’s so the person receiving doesn’t feel like they are on the end of charity, we can be a little proud, we don’t like to be thought of as needing help. So we try to help without making it look like it.

[@mikebell1801]

My father and father in law my brother and I we cooked for 12 hrs straight on a private island we rented and invited everyone coming in from scalloping and had fresh scallops fish and venison

[@carolesherk4891]

I love him still laughing

[@lisastewart1872]

I am glad your page popped up on my feed. You are so funny.

[@elianaboer7078]

You are a god send in this time. We need humor above all else at this point. 🤓😎

[@slappy200]

Great stuff...as always

[@tinadudley5318]

Josh I love how you say bright friends!!

[@rexdink]

All true and on point. The only Thing that differs in my Bright family(Danish Decent), is that we don't throw down with the Drama. We hold that in and write letters to one another, putting our hurts and slights on paper. We of Danish decent are an odd folk. Might just be my family though.

[@lindah6954]

I hope you took a plate of food home with you for later. No one is leaving my party hungry ever. We plan a party $200 for the hotdogs $200 for the hamburgers. $100 for rolls, cheese. buns, catchup, mustard, mayo and fresh veggies. Both tanks will be filled.

[@rocknroller77]

😄 the whole #5 ending!

[@maxkuhns81]

Dude... You are a genius.

[@fredmarshall9210]

If we had family reunions, I would surely invite you! But our family feud us almost beyond repair sadly....

[@kylegleason9084]

You.... Are.... A.... Genius!!!! Hilarious man

[@BeatMower]

"I want some of that lake water"

[@earldeanpowell]

In college we had some games in the ATL area and teammate's family showed up in reunion shirts. I thought that was the stupidest waste of money I had seen in a while. Glad you recognize that, cuz.

[@markzingsheim8147]

Tupperware or an ice cream bucket, butter tub, sour cream container, cottage cheese tub etc etc, all are acceptable for bringing chow😂😂 You are getting invited to my daughters graduation party brother!!!

[@Jeepboy]

Love the shirt!!!!

[@kokomo74149]

We love feeding people. If we already cooking then we make sure everyone has a plate to go home because we exhausted the next day after the bonfires. 😂😂😂

[@greg5775]

I used to work with a lady who had those every year with her kin. She told me those gatherings would draw at least 150+ people. I was amazed at the this.

[@duogemstone]

Not uncommon back in the day we use to get around that when I was a kid and a teenager, thankfully the part we held it at had a bunch of old stables with picnic tables lined up inside of them (pig stables I think). Sadly as the older folks pasted away less and less people show up (can't blame them we had people flying/driving in from all over the country for a single day, and was showing up mainly because of grandpa/grandma or great grandpa or grandma. Add in the fact that you have internet to keep in touch means you can talk to your family at any time rather than just once a year) now a days we are lucky if 30 show up and have moved it to a lake so we can spend most of the day fishing and give the kids a playground or let them go swimming.

[@EasyMoneySG]

hilarious as usual.

[@rf8479]

Funny as hell cuz !

[@jamesharrison2374]

Love these videos, you remind me of two of my co-workers in Frankfurt Germany on the base. We were civilian staff in the FTK-Milcom support.

[@hebertjerome]

your just great man thanks

[@radiantmind8729]

Love that outro, Josh!

[@woohoo2491]

Youre a good man Josh

[@markc2152]

Wight Virginia checking in I got into sort of a brawl on Easter Sunday just for asking my oldest sister why she had a problem with my old lady it was epic . The law showed.up and was like keep it in the house

[@sethbouquet5692]

LOL.. You are crazy and funny!

[@jetdr]

You need to go to an Italian Family Reunion!! You will have food for a month and learn how to play Bocce!

[@MyHellaKitty]

BBQ goes back to the cavemen days. That's why we love camping, bond fires and grilling. Remember, we had to survive the ice age up in the north. Fire was a big deal then. That's why they depleted the forest. I know I feel right with the world, when I am camping, near a fire pit or grilling. It just gets in my soul like that.

[@michaelsnelling8302]

I really like your videos

[@graymanA51]

You musta gone to a good one cause most the ones i've been to the 50 yr old women got hair lips and can make a scale cry.

[@ms.anonymousinformer242]

Eewwww lol. I'm in my early 40s and don't have any of that going on lol. No where close. Ill be just as good in my 50s lol