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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]

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