Tyler Perry (The Six Triple Eight, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Diary of A Mad Black Woman) is an actor, playwright, producer, and filmmaker. Tyler joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he realized that his journal could be a play, his fear of comfort, and growing up to leave the door open for somebody else. Tyler and Dax talk about seeing a black middle c ... Show More
Aug 19
Chris Young (on being sentenced to life in prison)
Chris Young (The Wound Is Where the Light Enters, Coherence Consulting) is an author, consultant, and public speaker. Chris joins Armchair Expert to discuss watching addiction consume his mother, spending two years without electricity or running water, and selling drugs by age 11 ... Show More
2h 13m
Aug 17
David Sedaris #6
David Sedaris (The Land and Its People, Happy-Go-Lucky, Calypso) is a bestselling author, humorist, and celebrated storyteller. David joins Armchair Expert to discuss discovering his name in the Epstein files, crossing state lines after midnight to have a tumor removed, and feedi ... Show More
2h 29m
Jun 2023
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (actor, writer, producer, and director) joins Chris Cuomo for a wide-ranging discussion about struggle and suffering, including how life’s trauma can be a necessary evil on the journey to reaping great rewards, the need to sit with your feelings, how to raise a genera ... Show More
59m 34s
Apr 2025
Tyler Perry: Turning Pain into Power | 274
Born in New Orleans, young Tyler Perry is forced to contend with all sorts of abuse. Some is at the hands of his explosive and alcoholic father, as well as neighbors and people he thought he could trust. Eventually, he escapes to Atlanta to pursue his dreams of writing and perfor ... Show More
46m 35s
Jan 2025
The Six Triple Eight with Tyler Perry and J.C. Chandor (Ep. 524)
<p class="p1">Director Tyler Perry discusses his new film, The Six Triple Eight, with fellow Director J.C. Chandor in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, he discusses the serendipitous moment when casting Actor Kerry Washington, enlisting Debbie Allen t ... Show More
24m 59s
Jul 2024
Living the Multi-Hyphenate Life with Trevor Jackson
Who has what it takes to be a PHENOMENAL actor, director, and musician, all at the same time? Trevor Jackson does! And today, he’s sitting down for an absolutely UNHINGED conversation with his good friend Keke. They reminisce over the first time they met and discuss Trevor’s unca ... Show More
1 h