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  • -My first guest is a nine-time Emmy nominated

  • actor and producer

  • starring on the seventh season of "Black-ish,"

  • which airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.

  • Here is Anthony Anderson!

  • Yeah! That -- -Whoo-whoo! Yeah-yeah!

  • -Yeah, the neat-looking.

  • You look good, buddy.

  • I love it. -Thank you, baby.

  • -You look great, man.

  • Thanks for coming back on the show.

  • Hey, how was your Halloween weekend?

  • Did you celebrate Halloween?

  • -No, I did not celebrate it, man.

  • You know, our kids are 24 and 20 now,

  • and they're out of the house.

  • So there was really no need for us to celebrate Halloween.

  • But my wife wanted to decorate.

  • And I was like, "Okay, that's cool."

  • But she decorated the house, man, inside and out

  • as if we were having kids come up to the door.

  • And I was like, I don't want these little COVID babies

  • running up to our door,

  • ringing the doorbell, trying to get candy.

  • -Yeah. I want no people to come here.

  • -No, we normally do it big on Halloween in our neighborhood,

  • but, you know, no one did.

  • But she decorated the inside of the house

  • like it was a Halloween festival, man.

  • And it's just her, myself, and our blind dog Riley

  • just walking around bumping into pumpkins and candy stashes.

  • And I'm a type 2 diabetic, Jimmy.

  • So I don't know why she's tempting me

  • with all this damn candy in the house.

  • -Oh, my gosh.

  • I want to talk to you --

  • Last time I talked to you, you were planning on

  • all these big summer celebrations

  • you were looking forward to,

  • but with quarantine, you can't really do that.

  • I mean, you were going to get your star

  • on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,

  • and you were going to turn 50.

  • -I did. Those things still happened.

  • They just didn't happen like we wanted them to.

  • There was no pomp and circumstance

  • for the star on the Walk of Fame.

  • I had 11 people there -- 8 family members,

  • my manager who spoke, my agent, and George Lopez,

  • who spoke at -- and my mom, who spoke, as well.

  • Oh, I would be remiss if I didn't show you this.

  • Let me see -- Can you see that? -Yeah.

  • -It's my Hollywood Walk of Fame ring...

  • -Wow. -...that George Lopez

  • and Ced the Entertainer got for me.

  • -Holy moly. That's a nice ring.

  • Wait. Why do they -- Why -- Just 'cause they're your friends?

  • -Yeah, well, George Lopez got his star on the Walk of Fame.

  • He was the first one of our whole crew.

  • So he bought the ring for himself.

  • Cedric the Entertainer was the next one of our crew who got it,

  • so he bought Ced a ring.

  • I was the third in our crew,

  • so George and Ced put in and got the ring.

  • And our crew is me, George, Ced, D.L. Hughley,

  • Don Cheadle, and Chris Spencer.

  • So, the next person who -- who I believe is Don

  • who's next in line, we'll all pitch in

  • and get him his Hollywood Walk of Fame ring, as well.

  • -I saw a fun video that you posted of you and your son

  • celebrating your star on the Walk of Fame.

  • Let's take a look at a little bit of that right here.

  • ♪♪

  • [ Laughs ]

  • Come on, dude.

  • -[ Laughs ] -Come on, dude.

  • -I don't think that's the song that was playing

  • when we were dancing on the strip, there, Jimmy.

  • -We couldn't clear that song.

  • -No, I understand. I understand.

  • I just want the world to know

  • that's not what was playing from the car.

  • [ Both laugh ]

  • -We can't afford that, man. Come on.

  • That's a dream come true, man. That's pretty cool.

  • You have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

  • -Yeah, man, it is. And I went to Hollywood High,

  • literally across the street from where my star is.

  • And never in a thousand years did I ever think

  • walking those streets that I would be immortalized

  • on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. -Oh, congrats.

  • -And I want to throw this in there.

  • My mother has vowed to come out there with her assistant

  • once a month to clean my star.

  • Mama, November 5th is your month.

  • Come up. It's your day of the month,

  • November 5th. -Oh, my God. Do not --

  • -The 5th of every month, she has to come out.

  • -No, do not make your mom clean your -- Absolutely not.

  • No, no. You're a big boy. -She offered it, Jimmy!

  • She offered it! -You're a big boy now.

  • You don't do that. Come on, man.

  • You're 50.

  • -Yeah. -That's amazing.

  • You look fantastic. 50 years old.

  • -Thank you, babe. Well, you know black don't crack.

  • It does chip a little bit, though,

  • and it starts to rot on the inside.

  • -Wait, I have to talk about this.

  • You did something very big recently,

  • I think like around two weeks ago

  • that was -- -Oh.

  • [ Laughs ]

  • -I have to talk about it. Can we?

  • -Yeah, let's talk about it.

  • You know what? I went and had --

  • Because I turned 50, I went and had a colonoscopy done.

  • It was that time. -Yeah.

  • -You know, I had been getting the PSA, the blood test done

  • up until then. But turning 50 --

  • And I should actually had this procedure done when I was 45,

  • so I'm a little late to the game.

  • But I wanted to document it

  • to take the stigma off of getting a colonoscopy,

  • especially for men of color, to go in and get this checked out,

  • because it's better -- -What is it like?

  • What do you do? What is it like?

  • -You know what, man? They give you --

  • You change your diet four to five days before,

  • and it's a low-fiber diet for obvious reasons.

  • -Yeah.

  • -The prep day is the most difficult day,

  • and difficult is the only word that I can use

  • be-- It's not that bad.

  • You have to flush yourself out.

  • They give you a solution to drink.

  • You can't eat any solid foods.

  • And you go into the doctor's office the next day,

  • they give you the Michael Jackson,

  • you lay it out for an hour and a half,

  • and you don't feel anything before, during, or after.

  • -You don't. And so you're back up,

  • and you're like, everything went well?

  • -It was best hour and a half nap, sleep that I had.

  • The procedure only took 15 minutes.

  • And as I posted on my social media pages,

  • I had a clean bill of health. -[ Clapping ]

  • -You know, there were no polyps. There was nothing there.

  • So I did that so I could get men, especially men of color,

  • to go into their doctor's office and get a colonoscopy done.

  • It's better to have it done early

  • and understand what it is that you need done

  • if you need something done than wait till the last minute,

  • and the outcome won't be so great.

  • -It's great that you did that, and it's great

  • that you're using your platform to raise awareness.

  • There's a lot more to talk about.

  • Can you stick around for a little longer?

  • -I have nowhere to go, Jimmy.

  • -More with Anthony Anderson when we come back.

-My first guest is a nine-time Emmy nominated

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