Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:08 Are those human remains?
00:09 Do you guys have a permit for that?
00:10 Shut the fuck up, Philip.
00:12 Cliff, you don't talk to me like that.
00:14 You want me to beat your ass?
00:15 I'm just-
00:15 Fuck out of here, Philip.
00:16 I will eat your sweater vest for dinner.
00:18 Always been a fucking douche.
00:20 [MUSIC]
00:21 Listen, Monk, you need some time off.
00:23 Why don't you go back and spend a little more time with your family?
00:25 You know that all successful writers are tormented by their families.
00:29 You look fat.
00:30 Okay.
00:30 [MUSIC]
00:32 Welcome home, baby!
00:34 How's the fuck?
00:34 I don't feel like much of a writer lately.
00:36 Your books change people's lives.
00:37 And something I've written haven't changed your life?
00:39 Absolutely.
00:40 My dining room table was wobbly as hell.
00:42 Oh my god.
00:43 Before your last book came out.
00:45 It was like perfect.
00:46 [MUSIC]
00:48 How's your brother doing?
00:50 I still live in Tucson.
00:51 What's wrong with Tucson?
00:52 There's one gay bar and it's full of college kids.
00:54 One of them asked me if I was Tyler Perry.
00:56 I mean, Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right?
00:58 Fuck you.
00:59 [MUSIC]
01:01 Any news?
01:02 Editors, they want a black book.
01:03 They have one.
01:04 I'm black and it's my book.
01:06 Look at what they expect us to write.
01:07 Would you read an excerpt?
01:09 Yo, Sheronda, where you be going in a hurry like that?
01:12 If you gots to know, I was going to the pharmacy.
01:15 [MUSIC]
01:20 If they want stereotypes, I'll give them one.
01:23 [MUSIC]
01:25 What is this?
01:26 Deadbeat Dance, Rappers, Crack, that's black, right?
01:29 Nobody's going to publish this.
01:30 Just want to rub their noses in it.
01:32 We love it.
01:33 What?
01:33 It is very, uh...
01:35 Black?
01:36 Yes, that's it.
01:37 I'm happy you said it and not me.
01:39 [MUSIC]
01:41 I wrote it as a joke.
01:42 People want to love you, Monk.
01:43 You should let them love all of you.
01:45 [MUSIC]
01:52 We sold the movie rights.
01:53 Yes!
01:54 We think it is going to be a bestseller.
01:55 I'm sure white people on the Hamptons will delight in it.
01:59 Yeah, we will.
02:00 They, they, we...
02:02 It's going to be huge.
02:03 [MUSIC]
02:05 Can you stick around and help with Mother?
02:06 I got to get home.
02:07 It's eight in the morning.
02:09 I'm not flying the fucking plane, Mom.
02:11 [MUSIC]