Escape Rooms and Black Trauma Films | Charles McBee | Stand Up Comedy

Comedian Charles McBee talks about why he dislikes escape rooms and black trauma films, and how women have way too many group chats.
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Charles McBee is a respected NYC stand-up comedian and writer from Toledo, Ohio.
Charles has written for several TV shows, including Uncommon Sense and Uncommon with Charlamagne Tha God, VH1's Hip Hop Honors 2017, and was also a creative consultant on Nick Cannon's Wild N Out. He also worked on the 2020 VMAs and the 2021 Golden Globes and was the Head Writer for Comedy Central's Hell Of A Week with Charlamagne Tha God, which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award.
Instagram: / charlesmcbee
Facebook: / charlesmcbeecomedy
TikTok: / charlesmcbee
KZbin: / @charlesmcbee8513
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Credits:
Written and Performed by Charles McBee
Executive Producers: Kyle Kazanjian-Amory & Brett Kushner
VP of Production: Marissa Gallant
Live Events Manager: Drew Platt
Co-Directors: Gordie Earle III & Brad Silnutzer
Director of Photography: Mark Davis
Gaffer: Tom Atwell
Swing: Reed Nisson
Camera Operators:
Addison Farrell
Rylie Field
Alan Jensen
Katie LeVander
Marlana Skrobe
Brandon Wells
1st AC: Sarah Alexander
Editor: Jordan Tetewsky
Color Correction: Mark Davis
Sound Recordist: Eugene Kim
Re-Record Mixer: Ryan Meadows
Production Designer: Oak Laokwansathitaya
Set Dresser: Lucy Hislop
Art Assistant: Marlon Reid
Graphics: Megan Hunter
Production Assistants:
Paige Asachika
David Berg
Aine Hunt
Eddie Lorah
Lucas Stone
Brandon Wells
Photographer: Marcus Russell Price
Special thanks to our generous hosts, Triangle Loft in New York City, NY

[@B-Moye]

“ If John Legend is humming, blacks is overcomin’ “ 😂

[@ekdaufin1485]

Maybe if he’d married a Black woman.

[@jakeone8021]

“ I’ve got a cousin who’s been locked up in an escape room for 15 years”😂😂

[@Pukkademps]

I hollered off that

[@1_star_reviews]

“Who was rightfully enslaved?” 😂😂😂

[@er...]

Candace Owens 😅😂🤣

[@john2g1]

​@@er... The groans combined with the sound of half the crowd thinking "eh that'd fix her" was priceless.

[@1_star_reviews]

Someone said Rachel Dolezal and I kinda agree. 😂

[@john2g1]

@@1_star_reviews I don't know... Lover hater Rachel Dolezal was down for the cause. Which cause I'm not sure she knew exactly, but she was working hard for as opposed to hard against like Owens.

[@Malali16]

😂😂​@@john2g1

[@jaysrandomnesschannel]

"If I'm in Alabama and I hear "Wooooo!"..." 😂😂😂😂

[@em0_tion]

"First president to age a country" and "Rightfully enslaved" were very smart observations. Love your comedy style! 👏😂

[@erinerin561]

The Candace Owens joke 😭🤣🤣

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Joke? 😅

[@getinloser666]

“This is a White woman’s group chat, by the way.” This is way realer than it should be.

[@Pukkademps]

Too real. They straight hijacked “Queen , love , and sis” lmao

[@leahpollard3710]

“This final season of America be wild” most underrated joke ever said

[@Malali16]

So underrated you put "be" instead of "is"😂

[@MamaTreNiner]

🏆👍🏾

[@2EKgn16]

That's a serious joke right there....

[@stelladallas802]

RIGHT, I did a spit take of my sprite when he said that. So accurate

[@Thekowaikaiju]

Aint no dood ever needed food to get in the mood. Instant classic

[@MoneyGist]

Know what else is an aphrodisiac? 😅

[@TheShapingSickness]

titties ​@@MoneyGist

[@edwardd.lathaniv458]

That seemed TOO quick of a set. Ya mans was brilliant, I wanted more! I love irony that makes you think. Plus his stage presence is great 👍🏾 ✊🏾🙌🏾💯💯💯

[@Dundurius]

Same! He’s brilliant 😊

[@Deezy_Dubz]

Bro i wanted to see more. He’s great

[@MoneyGist]

Never saw "12 Years A Slave" for this exact reason.

[@john2g1]

Me: I don't know if I want to see that on a 40 ft screen and I definitely don't want to pay $20 for it... I mean I'm in the comfort of my own home I could stream it but... I plan on enjoying myself so I'm absolutely not watching this over my girlfriend's house... Oh it's up for an academy award? Sure sure sure... I'll put it on my playlist. 12 years later...

[@MoneyGist]

@@john2g1 Exactly

[@mobid.2084]

@@john2g1…that’s funny. It’s was an instant hard no for me.

[@john2g1]

@@mobid.2084 I watch a lot of content I have zero interest in for a few reasons... Ignoring pop culture means you're always on the outside of a society wide inside joke. Great art is still great art, and great stories are still great stories. Technically impressive feats and scientific advancements are still cool (Waterworld was not good, but it really seemed like the entire planet was flooded). Oh even though most people can guess I should add that I'm a Black American. Anyway despite the fact that it was in theory a hard no for me too, my brain tried to convince me to watch it anyway and my conscious just kept coming up with all the excuses I listed in the original comment. I did watch: Underground Seasons 1 and 2 Antebellum I Kindred I think the fact that they had a fantasy element (as in Sci-Fi) or a fantasy element (as in revenge fantasy) is what allowed me to watch. 12 Years a Slave, (the new) Birth of a Nation, and even different topic same trauma Killers of the Flower Moon are too grounded in reality for me to consume without a stick or a carrot. Sorry for the long reply... Guess I had that on my chest.

[@ronnieking3848]

A friend of mine gifted me the book....yes, it's still on the shelf. When I run out of rage I'll get to it.

[@rocketosborne3017]

Give this man his 1 hr special today! 😂

[@FiercelyGold]

Yes, giving us advice while making us laugh. Get off the 24/7 news. Get off the social media. Go find your news. Go find your people. Share your ideas and everything that makes you who you are but don't fall for these companies that just sell you and divide you and alienate you. Take a break from this right here and contact your loved ones directly. Let them know you miss them and want to get together. Take care y'all

[@karenblum5429]

Beautifully said@FiercelyGold

[@nativegurl8886]

I ❤ him!!! I've never heard of this comedian before. Freaking hilarious!!! 🤣😂🤣😂 Charles has great delivery, and his set was effortless. He had me laughing from beginning to end. 👏🏾💯👍🏾🔥 Thank you, "Don't tell Comedy" for introducing me to great talent. 👌🏾

[@unmaskscience111]

This guy is good! Yay Charles McBee

[@greatestvideos3496]

hey sexy

[@tyrawilson7924]

I used to have a friend that wanted to watch Django and 12 years with me and I’m like bro why tf would I wanna watch those😂

[@andypitkin9051]

Don't make the same mistake I did and watch this while eating.😆 This dude's hilarious. Kudos.

[@stelladallas802]

I did a spit take at “final season of America”

[@mojomogul]

Great set i actually lol'd at home several times.

[@EasterlyWind]

I enjoyed every minute of this. Such a great presence

[@SolitaryCynic]

Great set by McBee. Know of him from Mike Finoia's "Dented Cans" podcast; seems like such a genuine, good guy.

[@chichigotdayayo555]

The crowd had no idea who Michael B Jordan is.......that show must be in Idaho 😂😂😂😂👀

[@dimviesel]

This guy is Brilliant!

[@anenigma6940]

Fantastic story teller 👏

[@pelletfunner6701]

Smooth, kind and funny!❤

[@zenleeparadise]

You're a fantastic writer. This is paced so well. I love you!

[@MissRedWine]

i'm so glad i clicked on this and gave this man a chance. he is so funny! charles you're on my top list of best comedians ever.

[@PearlTheSpinster]

White, off white, eggshell 😂😂😂😂

[@kheaven]

This dude is fucking hilarious Keep them coming!

[@stangramz6932]

This guy is pretty good! I actually laughed through the whole bit. 😂

[@sugahbrown9014]

He IS funny! I enjoyed his set. Refreshing to hear good jokes again. Not too vulgar or explicit and still grown folks humor. I immediately looked for more of this guy. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@MrCreed145]

Accidentally watched this one 1.25 speed but it made it even better. Dude is hilarious.

[@davidarmstrongcharles]

Love it!!! So funny!!!

[@MrBrian000]

Great set

[@1_star_reviews]

Ever since the Wayans brothers went on hiatus Black movies have sucked. Also, how the hell was my comment deleted but these thot bots are allowed to run free in the comments? 🤨

[@keetasingletary]

Thot bots 😮😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@annahope787]

Even they sucked actually.. goofy af

[@1_star_reviews]

👆See what I mean about these thot bots? 😒

[@TheSocratease]

Exactly.

[@1_star_reviews]

@@annahope787There’s so many of them, they can’t all suck. I’m gonna get you sucker? White chicks? Little Man? Blank man? Don’t be a menace? Come on. You can’t tell me you thought all of those sucked.

[@NinaDisco]

Awww snap. He came for Candace! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

[@RebeccaBrown-m4n]

Great set, very funny.

[@swadidgafchartonbai8151]

I clicked this video randomly cause it was short. And liked it.. But i washed my hands to put a "like" on this guys name after that "rightfully enslaved " "Candace Owen's joke". 10/10 on just that.

[@Passion84GodAlways]

He is FUN-NY!!! Instantly found his YT & subbed!🔔

[@stelladallas802]

Darn, that was too short! He’s incredible The last joke LMAO

[@gregjones8996]

Pretty good set

[@Heavenzvoice]

Amazing… laughed out loud through the whole thing. Cool dude.. solid material. Would love to see a whole Netflix Special! Please come to Washington DC!!!

[@seafull49]

A pile of dust ..😂

[@funkijote]

I've a group chat just for my toxic friends where I tell them that they are actually the problem in their relationships 😅

[@GoBeavs92]

Damn he's hilarious, loved it

[@zigtgut1]

Watched this while eating supper and, boy, did my food digest well😂

[@tonythenonja]

Funniest comic I’ve seen in ages!

[@AlOfNorway]

There actually were people who were “rightfully” enslaved after they committed horrible crimes 😂 and would probably be a great movie to watch 😂. Great show man.

[@mr.hester5671]

Fix yo crown queen 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bighomieJ5X]

Excellent flow, 👏🏾👏🏾

[@ameeracomedy]

very funny!

[@KristineMaitland]

Listen to the man. No more Black Trauma films or Black enslavement movies paid for by Brad Pitt (he was a producer on 12 years a slave)

[@JVilla26]

Nice set😂😂😂

[@LonerFez69]

One of the hackiest sets of all time haha just combining legendary jokes from burr and Chappelle 😂

[@suspirodelmoro1430]

Congratulations on upvoting your own comment. He’s nothing like either Burr or Chappelle.

[@Dayvit78]

I know he was joking about black trauma films, but I'd really love to get his take on Pam Grier and those 1970s films!

[@ekdaufin1485]

That’s the movies. We wish others came through as you describe.

[@Passion84GodAlways]

White...off white...eggshell!!😩😫😄😆😅😂🤣🤣🤣

[@moistestslug5749]

the whole presidents aging thing feels way too similar to Wanda Syke's bit in "its not Normal," like almost the exact same joke

[@matt-be8lc]

Trump the first President to age a country. We got old, how that happen? 😂

[@K4R3N]

Alabama jokes 😂

[@marshallbrooks4982]

Facts lol.

[@1_star_reviews]

His girlfriend in the front row laughing way too hard.

[@fasameijer794]

Yo! Hodup hodup! So I wanna about d black woman's group chat😂😂😂😂

[@MelissaMNaturealiztabeauty]

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@Jay-hr3rh]

"A bus full of immigrants in NY is just a bus."

[@juliogutierrez8859]

Hello Paige

[@FFmaxxx]

This comment section is a mess. Holy fuck

[@audreyfry4032]

His knowledge of our white women group chats is uncanny! 🤭

[@rholloway717]

😂

[@K4R3N]

Wrongfully enslaved😂

[@aumioishaat8167]

Bangladesh mention lesssgoooooo

[@paigechavez9232]

Hello Alex

[@thosethatcan]

6:40 that's black maga tho

[@shanehamilton5622]

Isn't that first bit about presidents aging a little bit too much like that Wanda Sykes bit? I mean they probably just both independently thought of it, but yeah.

[@CollinsCorp]

Bromance book club❤❤ men supporting men🎉 I’m serious this is real look it up

[@willsommervil6141]

I’m with him on the slave movies. I stopped watching them. I have enough 😊🤣🤣

[@hahamasala]

Great bit about the Presidents! Trump definitely stressed me out! 0:55

[@Pumpkin0_0]

As a European, so as an outsider looking in, it's always funny to me watching some Americans talking about Trump, especially when they had such great lives yet can never seem to remember it. 😂

[@ronnieking3848]

I believe you're thinking of the Obama years, lol...

[@Pumpkin0_0]

@@ronnieking3848 You're joking, right?

[@InIversal]

​@Pumpkin0_0 you were right about one thing... you're definitely an outsider.

[@Pumpkin0_0]

@@InIversal Then you've just proven one thing, I'm European and I know more about this than you. You have the internet at the tips of your fingers and you don't use it. There's no excuse not to know, you just choose not to. And we all live on this planet together. We're all human. What happened and is still happening there is also affecting everyone else negatively. And all because certain people want to keep their hands deep in the pot...

[@InIversal]

@Pumpkin0_0 my friend I'm born and raised in the 80s... in the NYC area. I've grown up with a front row seat to the fuckery that is Donald J Trump. You could've saved the whole lot of nothing that you just typed.

[@brandongovreau9218]

I heard of a few movies that they exist never seen them but I have seen a few there's a black movie about a black guy who time travels to the medieval times and improve society in medieval times and advances society quickly and too funny black movies I've seen is The nutty professor and norbit I might be white but I love any kind of movie

[@dreharrison352]

I hope he starts acting, if he already isn't

[@theestebanserrano]

ROTFL

[@fosterscott3877]

Who was rightfully enslaved?! 😂😂

[@ekdaufin1485]

That’s Black ONE, no plural so far.

[@ekdaufin1485]

Zactly Black folks don’t need to pay to go to an escape room!

[@creativeness68]

True, Trump did stress Americans out. Not me, though. I don't follow too much politics 😂😂😂😂😂 But I heard people across the world those who didn't like him. I liked him for the simple reason he pushed back. Like he invented NARCISSIST.

[@SAT0SHI.NAKAM0T0]

Joke theft. 😃-1

[@joguestin]

Hold on. Isn't murdering exes (and their kids, coz why not) a cisgender man's thing? Hilarious set though. 9.5/10.🔥

[@Pukkademps]

“He was crying and shit, you know he was liberal” one thing liberals gone do is that

[@thosethatcan]

😎🔌⚡🚗💚👍🏽🌳🌲🎭🏆

[@Myjourney389]

Just raw talent. No yelling and very little cursing.

[@kdavis623]

Im not going to talk about politics....... except for all of this political sh¡t😂

[@ekdaufin1485]

Nope that was Blaxploitation. Do Jewish comedians say no more Jewish Holocaust movies?

[@henriettebopda5895]

Facts!! The only excuse is the joke

[@brittanyfielder1092]

I guess I’ll be the one to comment something about the video lol 😂 Very funny! I was actually entertained from beginning to end

[@shao0076]

The set should’ve been WAAAAAY LONGER 🤣🤣 I needded a good fidden 🤣

[@sirenknight8007]

Is there a movie between Black Trauma and Madea? “Nope”

[@BrandonBreathes]

that Candace Owens joke sent my gliding💀

[@towercommand6749]

"All slaved out." Agreed.

[@xapokalypse]

every single joke hit. Loved it!

[@iwanttoliveinthewoods]

Quality set

[@CeciliaKronvall]

Agreed!

[@briajohnson9967]

HmmmHmmmHhmmmmmm 😂😂😂

[@ChrisCupcake3]

This was amazing. I love this!