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Damon Wayans Reveals the First Person To Say He 'had a gift' For Comedy

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Damon Wayans Sr visits "The Talk" with son, Damon Jr and shares the moment he knew he had the gift for comedy. Wayans (Sr) reveals, "I had a teacher in seventh grade named Mr. Friedman. Who, one day, he was a science teacher, he was trying to explain inertia to the class. I said, okay, Mr. Friedman what happens when a fly flies into the train and the train starts moving, why doesn't the fly get smashed against the train. And he tried to explain...after class he was like, you stumped me. He said, you have a gift, the problem is I need to control the room. He said, because everyone listens to you. So I'll make a deal with you, Fridays at 2:55 it's your time to do whatever you want to say or do, for 5 minutes. And I would shut my mouth so I could perform. And I would do impressions of him and all the other teachers. He was the only one that told me that I had a gift. Everybody else said you're gonna be dead or in jail, including the guidance counselor." Damon Wayans and Damon Jr star in "Poppa's House" premiering tonight at 8:30pm ET/PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.