B.L. Eddie, this movie is so funny, you must have had an absolute blast making it.
E.G. That’s an understatement. Making this film was one of the best times I had in my life.

B.L. How did this script come your way and what did you think about it when you read it?
E.G. My agent called me on the phone and said Universal had called about a project called Undercover Brother and I said, "I’m already in just from the title". I was also already a fan of the internet series on urbanentertainment.com. When I read the script by John Ridley, who created the series, I laughed. You know most scripts you get you sit there and read it and you’re like, "OK that’s a fireplace starter or you can wax the car with that one, but this one was laugh out loud". So I went and met with producer Brian Grazer and the rest is history.

B.L. This guy is very cool, but he has a pretty unique sense of style. How much influence did you have on what he wore?
E.G. The wardrobe lady, she brought me a Lenny Kravitz outfit, because she styles Lenny Kravitz. I didn’t know that he was that small because I tried the pants on and I couldn’t get them up — he’s a little tiny dude. But she went to five and dime stores where you get authentic old clothes and then we just hand picked stuff and then we had the designers remake it.

B.L. Now the hair, come on. It was amazing.
E.G. Yes, I got the hair from the Jackson’s; you know before surgery, way before surgery. Before the jerricurl juice started dripping. It’s the original Jackson Five fro — yes, and the pork chops from Shaft.

B.L. Were you uncomfortable at all wearing all of this stuff?
E.G. No way man. When you put it on you just, boom, it’s 1972. You know it brings the cool out of you.

B.L. Plus, the music in the film is so great.
E.G. It’s the funk baby, the funk! It’s all about the funk! Nothing but the funk.

B.L. As an Undercover Brother you get to do a little action in this film. What was that like because this was something different for you.
E.G. That was a whole lot of fun. I hooked up with a couple of trainers who got me ready for the stunts and some of the martial arts scenes. Having not done it before, I really enjoyed myself and had fun with it.

B.L. And, you get to work with a couple of beautiful girls in this movie; not hard to take!
E.G You know you go to work and there is Aunjanue Ellis and Denise Richards — it’s a good day. I mean Denise would walk on the set and the camera crew would start acting different. They’d start posing, "How you doing today Miss Richards?". When I was on the set it was like, "Hey, Eddie, what’s happening".

B.L. I can’t imagine how you guys got through half of your scenes. There’s you, Dave Chappelle, Chris Kattan. The blooper reel for this movie must be 100 hours long.
E.G. Yes, it's a whole other movie in just bloopers. I have to say that Malcolm Lee, the director, had a very rough job. When you are trying to contain three comedy brains that are on the loose, that is not easy. So hats off to Malcolm; he had a rough one.

B.L. This movie was shot in Toronto, did you have fun?
E.G. Hell yeah, we had fun.

B.L. You made John Q there to, so you might as well get yourself a condo.
E.G. I had a very nice condo when I stayed there; it was on Yorkville. I want to send a special hello to the folks at Sassafraz. That’s one amazing restaurant!!

B.L. I want to know who your comedy heroes are. Who influenced you the most growing up to make you want to be in this business.
E.G. Don’t even have to think about that, it was the great Richard Pryor. He’s my man!

B.L. You started off doing stand-up comedy and you also have a feature length film coming out soon of your stand-up routine, but what is it about doing it that drives you? I always think that you have to be brave to do stand-up, because one never knows how that audience is going to react.
E.G. The fun thing about doing stand-up is the danger, because you live and die on your next word. So you know, it's really the excitement of, "Can I get them? Can my mind movie that quick?" When you are doing films, you’ve got a script to go by, so you know where you want to go already. You can freestyle and get to the same place that is more or less ad libbing. But stand-up is just going up there and taking a subject that’s on your mind and just squeezing your brain like a sponge to see what comes out.