Cedric The Entertainer Had Style From A Young Age | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I have to say the other thing that has. always impressed me is you have such. amazing style you really have fans I. mean even the Hat you're wearing right. now oh it's fantastic yeah these are fun. these are fun this is a good friend of. mine uh this guy uh James Keith the the. company is named Keith James but he you. know he came up with this red bottom hat. like a few years ago and it was me and. Floyd Mayweather we kind of jumped on. early and then everybody you know it's a. very popular hat the red bottom hat so. this is this is cool you can go and grab.

it that's a very cool looking hat I. don't think I could pull it off I think. you have to be able to pull it off and. when I put a hat on I look like a child. that stole his father's hat that's what. it looks like you know what I mean it. just does. and I've got a massive head so even a. big hat looks like a yamaka on me oh. yeah which you can relate to Mr Schaefer. of course but you know it's amazing. because I'm I'm curious that was. something you were interested in even as. a as a young man as a kid you're very.

interested in style yeah yeah you know. we I grew up in a um a small town in. Missouri Caruthersville Missouri but my. mother who was probably you know I guess. in her generation was one of the first. people to kind of go away to college and. then come back and so she she you know. she knew how to do the order from the. catalogs and and you know so people. would normally shop at the little local. store in town but my mother would be. like you know ordering from magazines. and so very early on I could remember. having like nice outfits when I go to.

school right third fourth grade like. people would know me for my clothes and. so it's not like like today's generation. where you gotta have like the the top. thing you know like everybody like you. go you gotta have Jordans or these shoes. it's just like you just wanted to have. something different than the other kids. yeah and so I think that became you know. a part of like my identity for sure and. then coming from St Louis that was. another thing to like Midwest was a very. I remember like my family would dress up.

on Saturday mornings to do nothing like. you would go by and you're like where. are you going no nowhere just. full-fledged beautiful outfits on and. that was kind of the way like people who. love to show off their clothes so so I. think I brought that to the stage uh and. it was good because I think very like. right after me the you know the kind of. jeans and t-shirt thing became very. popular and I I kind of like that I'm. not that I treat going on the stage more.

like a professional yes yeah I always uh. I always like even to this day if I'm. doing if I'm on stage I like to put on a. tie and sometimes I'm wearing it with a. jean jacket but I'm wearing a tie. because I like to create the difference. between it's like if you get up at the. altar or something in church yeah you. you want to have a little bit of that. feeling of Separation that I've I'm. dressing up to go do this thing that's. very important to me and you have to. show it in very small ways.

um but you know I I didn't get I didn't. realize how much clothes could influence. a person. I I had no had no clothes I was nude for. years uh but I wasn't it wasn't until I. was like in my late 20s Conan O'Brien. shrieks shrieks I kept wearing anything. I can see his veins. cover that thing up.

so I was I was uh no but it's true that. I I didn't have a sense and I remembered. uh getting some important gig and going. and needing a suit and going out and. buying like a nice suit and I put it on. when I was in my late 20s before I owned. like a really nice suit and I remembered. thinking this makes me feel better about. myself oh definitely it and uh it it was. as much for me as for anybody else and I. think when you get up on stage and you.

know you want to I don't know you want. to feel like you look good it helps any. any you'll take anything that will help. a little bit no definitely that's so. important I I don't think people would. like take that into account anymore like. because it's just really a world where. you can just show up with whatever you. got on and everybody's just like it's. all about the artist which is fine you. know but I I say the same thing I. remember when those like Suit Warehouse. places kind of came on you'd be like. three suits for a hundred bucks or.

whatever yeah and I used to like um sell. fax machines like I used to sell uh like. uh the the RICO fax machine and I. remember having one of those suits and I. lucked up and got one like a A zenuti or. some some brand that felt like it was. like oh this is really Italian right but. I remember that particular suit made me. feel extremely aristocratic like I was. like oh the lab changed I did that laugh. actually yeah.

oh guys come on. yeah anybody can get a message from you. like just put this in there. this is gonna be the thing for the next. seven decades you'll uh. the facts is never going away never. going out you're gonna leave this trust. me this you can own this forever fam. you also you saw you you were a claims. adjuster for State Farms insurance oh. yeah yeah yeah yeah yep that was uh and. that was that was were you good were you.

a good claims adjuster no no no let's. just get that out there and and you know. in case anyone's trying to hire you yeah. they're still in a rental car yeah you. know which is probably the kind of stuff. I would do I would just I would just. like I was I was like one of those. claims adjusters like you give me any. hard luck story I'm like okay sure that. makes sense. to the point that one year a mommy a. mommy stole your house yeah oh yeah of. course yeah I get it mommy's it's been a.

rash. trust me I see it all the time I haven't. seen I got files just stacked up over. here you're good but I I definitely. people would would start to come to me. around uh prom and graduation time and. have these made up accidents so that I. can get them rental cars for their kids. to drive so you know and I knew that's. what was going on so like oh you know. somebody ran into me at the grocery. store I'm like okay got it we'll uh well.

let's say that your car needs a two-day. thing and go ahead we're at the Cadillac. for the door I know what you're doing. but I was able to you know I was able to. do that for a while that was a fun that. was a fun kind of professional gig where. you did learn the you know like all the.

differences between people's. personalities because car people are. exactly kind of who you think they are. like Corvette people are the super the. best if you you know you can't tell a. Corvette person anything they they drive. a Corvette yeah you're like we didn't. have Ferraris in in you know in St Louis. so that was rare if I met a Ferrari. person I would be in awe yeah to this. day I've never driven any of those fancy. cars really I've never driven a Ferrari. or a Lamborghini or a Bugatti or any of.

those I don't even know what it's like. to drive one I don't know that I've been. in one yeah I've been I had a Ferrari. for uh I had a Ferrari for like maybe a. couple of months it just it kept. breaking it was weird I don't know I. felt like I had a lemon or something so. I didn't really keep that one and then I. got in a Lamborghini one time and you. know it's so low it just really wasn't. made for you know the brothers of my. girth uh so so it was quite embarrassing.

it's like you pull up in a 300 300 000. car and then you got to do some kind of. drop and roll. all right. the valet is like yes yes thank you. 9.8 once I put the gas in I'm waiting to. everybody else leaves before I get in. you know they should have uh tailors for. cars they should have yeah you know what. I mean like you want a Ferrari I make.

you a Ferrari you know when they measure. you and then they get you that slightly. wider rounder I love Giuseppe. but of course.