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  • -You have to be excited. -I'm super excited, bro.

  • -You got two giant movies. -Yeah. It's a really, really --

  • it's gonna be a crazy summer, yeah.

  • -Dude, can you even imagine. Are you freaking out?

  • I mean, does it -- -I'm definitely freaking out.

  • Because it's like, it's -- these two movie--

  • especially these two movies.

  • It's not like you're just making, you know,

  • "Super Cartoon 6" you're -- it's like it's "The Lion King"

  • and it's the "Toy Story" franchise.

  • -It's like an American institution.

  • -They're American institutions 100 percent.

  • I feel like, I feel like I'm Betsy Ross and I'm like,

  • we need another star on that flag.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • "We want Keegan to to sew it." "You want me to sew it?!"

  • you know what I mean? -You're making a new flag?

  • -I'm making a new -- though it's like,

  • "You want me to do a Norman Rockwell painting?"

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I would just -- I don't know what to do.

  • Yeah, because they're so sewn into the fabric of

  • of American culture it's really, really huge, yeah.

  • -Alright, let's talk about "Lion King" first.

  • -Yes. -I mean because this is uh,

  • you go in there, what voice are you doing for?

  • -So I'm playing one of the hyenas and, uh, I'm pretty --

  • yeah, yeah, I know. [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -You think would be doing -- -It was very appropriate

  • that they laughed, because of the hyena.

  • -You thought that out. -Is that right?

  • And actually, I was studying the hyenas from the previous movies.

  • You remember it was uh, Whoopi Goldberg...

  • -Yep. -...and Cheech Marin...

  • -That's right. -...and then the hyena

  • that was on crack. [ Laughter ]

  • So, and so I-I-I was I was studying them.

  • -Which one am I? -Yeah I know, just which one?

  • Which one am I? Am I playing? [ Laughter ]

  • If I had a choice I would like to be the Cheech Marin,

  • if you don't mind because I'd rather have words as my lines

  • other than just going [vocalizes].

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I'd rather that not be the guy I play, if you know.

  • 'Cause I'm a black man, I'm trying not to

  • play crack addicts anymore, I'm trying hard not to do that.

  • You know trying to uplift. -Thank you.

  • Hey, you know what, let me answer your question.

  • -Yeah. -So we -- I'm doing my

  • regular voice, I was ready to do something special,

  • and Jon Favreau who directed -- the amazing Jon Favreau

  • the director of "Iron Man" and he's and he directed

  • "The Jungle Book" and so for him, he's an improv guy,

  • and he really wanted us to just bring as much as ourselves to it

  • as possible, and it's unbelievable.

  • It looks, it-- by the way, Jimmy, it looks un--

  • I mean you guys have seen the trailer for "Lion King"?

  • -Yes! [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -But do you, do you -- when you're doing this

  • do you see what it's gonna look like?

  • I mean did you see the trailer the way we all saw it

  • and go like, what is happening, amazing like...?

  • -Yeah. I saw the trailer -- I was watching the trailer,

  • in a room with Jon Favreau before a voice-over session.

  • I was sitting in a room and, you know, just a room

  • with couches and equipment, and I'm watching the trailer,

  • and I was like "This, this is gonna be good.

  • This is gonna be amazing!"

  • He's like, "Yeah, bro, you're in it."

  • -You're in -- that's why -- [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -We're about to get to work. -That's why you're here.

  • -"We're getting up to go to work."

  • I'm like, "But did you see the giraffes?!"

  • -You're in that! -But I can't -- Oh, I'm in it.

  • [ Indistinct speech ] -Yeah.

  • They ha-- I was, I was in shock, because it looks like

  • a "National Geographic Special".

  • It looks so real, the technology,

  • the CGI they're using now is so real,

  • it's like you're just watching real animals.

  • -There's also great music in "Lion King,"

  • did you get to, did you get to sing in it?

  • -I did not get to sing. I did not get to sing.

  • -You have a great voice. -I know, thank you.

  • I appreciate that. I-I offered to sing.

  • I said do you guys, do you want me to do "Circle of Life"?

  • they're like, we got Beyoncé. [ Laughter ]

  • -Oh, a little oops. -Okay, sorry.

  • I said, can I do, "I Just Can't Wait To Be King?"

  • We got the Childish Gambino so we're okay.

  • Keegan, just stand over there and go [vocalizes].

  • Like really all we need from you.

  • -That's all we need from you. [ Cheers and applause ]

  • We're good. -I mean, it's Beyoncé Knowles!

  • -Yes! -It's -- and every time --

  • any time that you do, like a red --

  • I'm not looking forward to the press for this movie.

  • -Yeah because you're just gonna be on the carpet,

  • and they're just gonna go, so Lion King... Beyoncé.

  • -Beyoncé. Tell me about her. -So Beyoncé's in it.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -But it doesn't -- I mean she's so huge a Martian could go

  • [vocalizes] -Yep.

  • Beyoncé. -They even know.

  • -We love her. Oh --

  • Shey blop bloh blu blop, which means we love her on Mars.

  • -Yeah they love Beyoncé everywhere, yeah.

  • It's gonna be giant.

-You have to be excited. -I'm super excited, bro.

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