D.L. Hughley Uncut

D.L. Hughley Uncut

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  • Episode 14: DL and Love

    DL talks to comedian, author and host Loni Love. While working as an electrical engineer in the early 2000s, she switched to music engineering, until later launching a career in stand-up comedy. She was the runner-up on Star Search 2003 and was named among the "Top 10 Comics to Watch" in both Variety and Comedy Central in 2009. She is one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real.

    31 min
  • Episode 13: Constitutionally Speaking

    DL talks to Ben Sheehan, award winning producer, and author of OMG WTF Does The Constitution Actually Say. It is a funny and informative episode that talks about comedy and politics and the constitution. 

    32 min
  • Episode 12: Not Just Terror

    First, DL talks to Malcom Nance, the American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency, and torture. He is a former United States Navy senior chief petty officer specializing in naval cryptology. He speaks Arabic and is active in the field of national security policy particularly, in anti- and counter-terrorism intelligence, terrorist strategy and tactics, torture and counter-ideology in combating Islamic extremism. Then DL brings in Bakari T. Sellers, a CNN political commentator. He represented South Carolina’s 90th district in the lower house of the state legislature from 2006 to 2014, becoming the youngest African American elected official in the country at age 22.

    37 min
  • Episode 11: DL’s Education

    DL talks to John B. King Jr. who is the President and CEO of The Education Trust.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from 2016 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. DL then chats with Jamaal Bowman, the Democratic Representative-elect for New York's 16th congressional district. Bowman is the founder and former principal of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, a public middle school in the Bronx. 



    20:40 midroll

    38 min
  • Episode 10: Music to My Ears

    DL talks to jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year. And then DL talks elections with John Fetterman, the 34th and current lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, since January 2019. . He has made environmental protection, gay rights, immigration, and marijuana legalization major campaign issues. 

    38 min
  • Episode 9: DL and the Contender

    Dl talks to Jaime R. Harrison who served as the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 2013 to 2017 and is an associate chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Harrison is running against incumbent senator Lindsey Graham for the South Carolina U.S. Senate seat in the 2020 election. He has called for expansion of Medicaid and expanded COVID-19 relief. He is an underdog in the race, but has closed the gap in recent weeks and is given a legitimate chance to unseat Graham. 

    40 min
  • Episode 8: DL and the U.S. Representative

    DL has a fascinating conversation with Katherine Moore Porter who is an American law professor, attorney, and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 45th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first Democrat to be elected to represent the district, which covers much of south-central Orange County, including Irvine, Tustin and Lake Forest along with large slices of Anaheim and Laguna Niguel. Porter attended Yale University for college and Harvard University for law school; she most recently taught at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Porter did not accept corporate PAC money in her bid for Congress.[26] She was endorsed by End Citizens United, a political action committee seeking to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court 2010 decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Porter has cited an overhaul of campaign finance laws and protection of voting rights as legislative priorities.

    34 min
  • Episode 7: DL and Jemele

    DL talks sports, race and politics with Jemele Hill an acclaimed American sports journalist who worked nearly 12 years for ESPN where she wrote a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 and formerly hosted ESPN's His and Hers and co-hosted Numbers Never Lie and SC6. In 2007, Hill won the inaugural McKenzie Cup. In 2018, Hill was named journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists, in recognition of "a distinguished body of work with extraordinary depth, scope and significance to the people of the African Diaspora."

    29 min
  • Episode 6: Out of Wood

    DL, Jasmine and Roy Wood Jr. take on Covid, The White House, and what the future may bring. Roy Wood is a celebrated comedian. In 2015,Roy Wood joined The Daily Show as a correspondent.[9] Wood moved to New York City to take the job.[11] Wood has said that his background in standup coupled with his degree in journalism prepared him for the job.[15] Wood said that his work doing guest roles in sports on ESPN and related companies prepared him for The Daily Show, giving him experience with acting, timing, and building characters.[1][3]

    His first Comedy Central stand-up special, Father Figure, premiered in 2017 with an extended uncensored album of the same name released by Comedy Central Records. In 2017, he was named the new host of Comedy Central's storytelling series This Is Not Happening. Wood's second Comedy Central special, Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You, premiered in 2019.

    Wood has appeared as a comic on many late night talk shows including the Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Chelsea Lately, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Conan. Wood has performed for the troops on numerous USO tours in the Middle East and the Pacific Islands.[16]

    38 min
  • Episode 5: DL and the Mayor

    DL and Jasmine host Mayor, Michael Tubbs who became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the city’s first African-American mayor. Michael Tubbs is also the youngest mayor in the history of the country representing a city with a population of over 100,000 residents.Included in Fortune’s 2018 Top "40 under 40," Forbes' 2018 list of the “30 Under 30” and The Root's 100, Tubbs’ leadership, paired with an ambitious agenda, has received national recognition. Mayor Michael Tubbs has secured over $20 million in philanthropic capital to launch the Stockton Scholars, a place-based scholarship that aims to triple the number of Stockton students entering and graduating from college. Mayor Tubbs also brought Advance Peace to Stockton, a data-driven program that works to reduce gun violence in communities. Additionally, with an innovative public-private partnership supported by a $1,000,000 seed grant from the Economic Security Project, Tubbs launched the nation’s first municipal level basic income pilot, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration.

    31 min

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D.L. and co-host Jasmine Sanders bring a humorous, smart and insightful point of view to the topics of the day. This is about the funny, the important and poignant, all side by side. It is DL at his…

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