Amateur Night At The Apollo Audience Goes BAT-SH*T CRAZY!!!
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- Cam Montgomery Jr SLAYS the audience with his comedic performance during Wednesday Amateur Night at The Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York!
Date: May 11th, 1988 - Zábava
Prime example of when you're comfortable with who you are others will be too. Great set 👏👏.
Thank you, friend!!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Lord… I miss this show on Saturday nights… childhood 90s
Well, when you need a good chuckle, come here and watch my performance any time!!! 😅🤣😂 I won on the TV show with this exact same act.
My Saturday night highlight! 11pm front and center in front of the big floor model tv.....lol. The comedians. Keke, Sandman, 😢 real tv!
Yassss!!!
@@tyarad7156 😅😅😅🤣🤣😂
Facts.
Great, good nature comedy! What the world needs more of ❤️.
Thank you soooo much, my friend!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
As a young man, I sang at the Apollo at amateur night, Jackie Wilson was the Headliner, Memories.!
Wow! I wish you had a video of your performance so we could enjoy it!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@@montgomerycamjr We were sponsored by the 48th Pct. in the Bronx. That was around 1957. Time Dose Fly. We sang a song called ,ehhh Tell Me Why
😱 are you serious??? If you telling the truth, that had to be one amazing experience.
@@jdizzy5076 OH yes, its true. 3 teenage white boys from the Bronx. Sponsored by the 48 PCT.
Best part of being a kid in the 90's! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Adults loved Amateur Night too! 😂🤣😅
1988!!! What a good year for the kid. 😎
Thank you, friend!!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
And his whole act was a character 💯💯
Yep, it sure was! The character's name is "Dale Whitlock." And the monologue was taken from a play named RUPERT'S FOUR. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
@@montgomerycamjr is that you ?on stage ?
@@BoSSLeVeLs Of course!!! 34 years ago this month!!!!
@@montgomerycamjr you looking well sir ! ✌🏼
Great performance 🎭👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
lol does that disappoint you?
Apollo was a Golden Time. So Special. I miss it and appreciate this Nostalgia.❤️🤎👍✌️
Dude's timing was (is) impeccable.. even had some rhymes for you that made the whole routine classic.
Your comment has made my day!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
@@montgomerycamjr All those great entertaining moments from Amateur Night at Showtime At The Apollo are some of the building blocks of my early childhood. Some were outstanding and some were not. This performance was ahead of it's time for many reasons, but I can just imagine someone staying up late to watch this one, just to use these jokes in the lunch room at school 🤣🤣🤣 Y'all used to keep us RAZOR SHARP! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Was that even funny?
@@flashcardsthebeautifulj5632 HYSTERICAL actually!!! 🤣😅😂
@@flashcardsthebeautifulj5632 NAW
I would stay up late every night to watch this, damn I miss it badly
That “that’s right “ at :55 had some power behind it. 🤣🤣🤣 90s was on everyone ass
That audience at The Apollo Theater is LIVE AF!!!!!! If they LOVE you, they love you! If they HATE you, you're DEAD!!! 😛😛😛
I love how even majority of the men in the crowd laughed because now a days they’d be even too scared to look at the stage
After I exited the theater, a group of four, young black men approached me. One of them said, "Hey, man, tell them you're not really like that. That you were just acting." I said, "Yeah, I was just acting. That's a scene from a play I wrote." The young guy turned back to his friends and said, "See, I told y'all he was just acting. Man, you was good. You was good!" 😂😂😂
Woooow
Soool funny
Boy bye🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@montgomerycamjr What do you think would've happened if you answered differently?
That dude should be in the film industry!
3:03 camera man shady as hell for that one🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haaaaaa!!! Wasn't he??? 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣😂
That was a brilliant routine.
Thank you soooo much!!!!!!!!
@@montgomerycamjr your welcome, and thank you for sharing your talent with the world.
Brother is a naturally funny man what ever he does in his bedroom is his business but damn you got me laughing bless up
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PERFECT.
fantastic,period.i hope to see more of him.
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Great storytelling, punchline set-up was immaculate and hilarious finish. Outstanding Comedy routine!
My friend, thank you sooooo very much for that critique. Truth be told, though, it wasn't a comedy routine at all. It was an actual monologue from a one-act play I wrote while in college. Because of the way audiences responded to it, I simply performed it in a few talent competitions. I won at The Apollo and I also won with it at Indianapolis Black Expo with singer Jody Watley as a judge. I wonder if she remembers my performance!!! 😉😉😉
@@montgomerycamjr that's awesome, what are you doing now, still performing?
@@robertragolia744 Peep me on Instagram!!!!! @MontgomeryCamJr
@@montgomerycamjr sounds good thanks
Man! I remember this! Always wondered what became of him. Killer set
Were you at this performance during Wednesday Amateur Night, or did you see it on the tv show, It's Showtime at the Apollo?
Looks like you don't need to wonder much longer, Mr. Cam has responded to your inquiry. Bravo to you Montgomery for being audacious enough to do this performance in a hostile crowd when being "open" was still taboo.
@@spring95q Well, it was actually a scene from a play, but it was indeed pretty courageous of me to perform it in front of those folks!!! Thanks so much for giving it a look!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
So much Talent!
THAT'S how you walk out, sit down and own the ENTIRE stage🙌🏾🤣😂🤣😂🤣❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Awwwww, THANK YOU!!!!!! ✊🏾👊🏾✊🏾
@@montgomerycamjr THANK YOU! You made my morning...I woke the whole household and then told them to hush cuz I was trying to hear you when they asked why was I so loud🫣🤷🏾♀️! I had my earpiece in but you really gave me LIFE the moment you sat down and there was NO way I was gonna contain myself after the night I had...God bless you and your gift, keep running in this direction, you got IT!🙌🏾🥰😍😘
@@ItsAllLove4Real Thank you soooooooo very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@@montgomerycamjr 🤩🤗🥰
Story telling like Pryor
Cadence like Dolemite
Crowd control like Mack
Tone like Tucker
Gay angle -Original and funny. #GreatBit
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@@montgomerycamjr I hope people that follow comedy understand how intricate that is. That is a list of GREATS and to be able to embody that and still be original is a rare form of genius!
@@thomastaylor1217 You've made my day. I recall being scared to death on that stage, because The Apollo audience can be brutal. In fact, the act that went on before me was mercilessly booed off. And that character I performed could have gone either way with that audience. Luckily for me, they LOVED him!!! I performed the same act on their tv show, It's Showtime At The Apollo (and WON!!!)
@@montgomerycamjr Fear is natural, cowardly is to not act due to the fear. Bravery is to push through beyond the fear. Proud of you black man, that is not only funny but inspiring! Congrats on all your future endeavors, you have a fan in me my brother!
Gay angle ?? Dude is really gay dumb ass
WOOOOW!!! Now this is a Character right here 😆😆😆
He's the BEST!!!!
This guy is just awesome!
Thank you, FRIEND!!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
That thank you was mighty strong tho 🤣🤣
Haaa! Had to let that wild audience know a brotha was ACTING!!! 😛
Just SUPERB!
Outstanding!! LMAO 😂😂😂
Now that fool is a dam fool!!!! HE KILLED IT!!!
Haaaaa!!! THANK YOU, Mr. Johnson!!! 😜😜😜
Love him
✌️, 💕 And Blessings....
You are good! Great set!!
Thank you soooo much, my friend!
This show should ALWAYS be on tv!
I loved it too!!!! 🤗🤗🤗
His performance: timing, acting, speech exceptional; the material ... Aedin
Thank you sooooo very much!!!!!! I had a BLAST performing that night!!!!
Right when he sat down we all knew it was going down! Hilarious, well done sir!
Thank you so much, friend!!! As soon as I crossed my legs like that, I heard them start losing it!!! 😛😛😛
His comedy is needed in 2022
To do this set in 90s took huge balls
It was the '80s!!!!!!!! 1988 to be precise! 😅🤣😂
Hope you get that talk show bro
You're the BEST!!! Thank you!
Im so very proud to call you by your name...Friend❤
Awwwwww!!!!! 😛😛😛
Lol 😂 he is too funny😂
A blazing display of bravura!! The Apollo crowd knows a Quality Performance when it sees one. 👏
My friend, I truly, sincerely and deeply THANK YOU for such a beautiful compliment!!! Hard for me to believe I performed that monologue 34 years ago!!! 💯💯💯
Man you took me by surprise with your amazing performance ✋🤣
My friend, what a compliment!!!!!! Thank you sooooo very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
@@montgomerycamjr Man am glad i ran into you they don't make em like that no more salute 👑
Yo, I remember this guy! I really miss Showtime At the Apollo!! 👍🏾
Haaa! I'm humbled you remember me. I performed that monologue at Wednesday's Amateur Night and Top Dog competitions. Also performed it on the TV show, It's Showtime at the Apollo. 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
to echo the comments below, true, when your comfortable with yourself people are way more comfortable with you
Agreed!!!! 👏🏿💯✊🏿😂
Good performance!
Your Apollo performance had me in stitches. I love what you're currently doing with voice-overs. You are working with some heavy hitters! Strike that, they are working with a heavy hitter!
You, my friend, have made a brotha smile from ear to ear!!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
How did Hollywood let this guy get by now that is what you call stand up.
THANK, THANK, THANK YOU, my friend!!!!!!! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Why do we celebrate everything and anything while having the least
WHO are the "we" you're referring to???
@@montgomerycamjr black people
Dope ish. Do ya Thang
Gracias, amigo!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
the best!
Thank you soooooo very much!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Oh Yeah !!! Bring it Bro !!! Very funny, nice job, you killed it !!! 👌 Man I miss this show !!! 😂
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I'm glad this was recommended to me he killed this set👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you soooooo much!!!! ✊🏾🤟🏾👊🏾🤟🏾✊🏾👊🏾👌🏾
This Man Was Comedy, and as a Straight Black Conservative Male, I 100% appreciate his Class and Honesty, Pure Comedy Genius
Thank you sooooo much, kind sir.
The piano and chimes though
😂😂🤣😅
Ok Cam
I don't know if you're just being yourself but you've got talent.
Haaaa! All you gotta do is Google a brotha to find out what he's really like! 😛😛😛
Cool
Thank you!!!!!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
That laugh tho... he was either nervous or unstable...
I was nervous AF!!!! That audience can be CRUEL!!!! Luckily, they LOVED a brotha!!! 😂😂😂
@@montgomerycamjr Thought so. You need to be in movies or on a show somewhere...
You go girl! He is funny
😂😂🤣😅
Hilarious!❤️
Sherry Shepherd, Sandman, Steve Harvey etc great great memories especially when you were young and had to be in the house with the street lights.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
You murdered this shit.. I had to rewind it twice. Lol
Haaa! Thank you, friend!!! SHARE it with folks you know who could use a chuckle!!! 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
Made me laugh!
@Troy Sterling, I had a BLAST performing there! 😜😜😜
@@montgomerycamjr I used to watch that show in the 1980’s and watch all the re-runs till this day. Did you ever do Def Comedy Jam?
@@troysterling1382 No, sir, I never did Def Comedy Jam. I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor/writer who writes and performs monologues.
This is one of the best comedic geniuses I’ve seen in a long long time love his humour 10/10 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Wow!!!!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Wait a minute is that you?!?!?!
@@VeniceMenace-ky6yfYep!!! A 24-year-old ME!!!!! 😂🤣😅
@@montgomerycamjr that's cool man 😂
Excellent comedic timing, masterful narrative from beginning to end…💯
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
This was 1 year ago today+
the camera shooting the white couple while talking the klan lol
Haaaaa! I thought the same thing!!! Damn shady cameraman!!! 😂😂😂😂
Mind you he was being nice because he didn't mention any names.
Screaming .. he is funny
The man in back at 3:00
Lol, man you're crazy! I LMAO, good set. I from Detroit and I'm surprised I never heard of you. I'm going to keep looking for you. 😂😂😂
Thank you, brother. These days, I do commercial voice-overs!!!
soundcloud.com/user-962426081
Gooood
You're too kind!!! Thank you!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Genius
Thank you soooo much!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
@@montgomerycamjr This routine is so good on so many levels. The intro to just sitting down and getting situated implies so much, and the crowds reaction. Why am I just now discovering you?
@@jsvideogameclips7497, I was scared crapless about performing a monologue in front of that crowd, but true enough, by taking my time to allow the audience to feel the character's presence was key. Just crossing my legs like that prepared them for what was to come!!! 😂
Good stuff!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, my friend!!! ✊🏾🤟🏾👊🏾
That's a GOD DAMN shame that's entertainment in the black community particularly at such an iconic venue!
Alright Barbara.....lol
The performance is an excerpt from a play. The character is being interviewed by Barbara Walters, so that's who he's talking to!!! 😂😂😂
I'm in bits 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Women love this shit.....
Women get a kick outta flamboyant gay cats. And closeted dudes get something else outta them!!! 😂🤣😅
U did an AWESOME JOB!! 🤣😂🤣😂 What year was this?
Joshua, this performance was wayyyyy back in May 1988!!! Were you even BORN back then??? 😛
@@montgomerycamjr ya got me!!! 😂🤣 I was born in ‘91
@@joshuaafrifa8134 I knew it!!! 😛😛😛
@@montgomerycamjr Dang I thought my photo would fool you
this is very brave for 1988, but he's among loving people at the Apollo. god bless the homosexuals
Brave, indeed!!!!! Thank you so much for taking a look. ✊🏾🙏🏽👊🏾
Came here from ah comment from someone killing Dem neighbors den himself 🙏🏿 ya did gud 🙏🏿
Haaaa! Thank you, my friend!!! 💯✊🏾💯✊🏾💯
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMBO,🤣🤣😂😂
😵💫
Lmao
😅😅😅🤣😂🤣
Good stage presence. Does episode 2 have all the jokes?
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Funny😅😅😅😅🔥💯👍
Thank you, my friend!!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
LMAO 🤣
Why is the spaceship name the Apollo😅😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
How many times you win?
I won ONCE, but was asked back to perform the exact same monologue two or three times. I was hired to perform the same piece at a yacht party on the HUDSON RIVER too. If you ever watched the TV version, "It's Showtime At The Apollo," I won on that show! The monologue also won a contest judged by singer, JODY WATLEY, all the way in Indianapolis, IN at The Black Expo. Honestly, that monologue took on a life of its own.
I’m the clan joke
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't like this cause I'm a short dude!🤣
But very funny!!!💯🤣😭🤣
Haaaaa! It was just a joke!!! 😂😂😂
What year is this
May 1988!
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Are you still doing stand up?
I have never done stand-up. The performance you see here is a monologue adapted from a play I wrote while in college. Thank you so much for watching.
what year was this
1988!!!!!!! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Where is he now? 😂
Google Cam Montgomery Jr!!! 😉😉😉
HE'S ABOUT AS FUNNY AS A CAR CRASH.
I've seen some funny car crashes!!! 😛😛😛
Well damn 🤣🤣🤣
Lol he's actually funny but it's just kind of weird to look at for some reason.
@@montgomerycamjr Wait, is this actually you on the video I'm looking at??
@@IslamIslam-vj5fz Yes, sir, that's a 24-year-old baby CAM Jr. I performed that monologue in front of that WILD audience 34 years ago!!! Wow!!!
Crazy as a bed bug. But funny as hell
Haaaa! You're a kind soul!!! 😅🤣😂🤣
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