Steve Harvey has revealed how he and fellow comic Cedric the Entertainer received detained on the border after attempting to journey into Canada to gamble on the casinos following a gig in Buffalo, New York.
The legendary host recalled the incident, which occurred years in the past, between tapings of Household Feud and shared a video clip on his Fb web page on Monday (February 3). “Arrested on the Border with my boy Ced, and let me let you know, it was a complete state of affairs!” Harvey captioned the publish.
Harvey defined that after an evening performing comedy on the Arco Area in Buffalo, he “took money that night time as a result of I’m going to go throughout the border to the casinos in Canada, and I’m a chance.”
“We within the limo, me and Ced, we go throughout the factor, [and] border patrol say, ‘who’re you guys?’” he continued. “They took us inside, began asking us all these questions. And, you understand, we simply received off stage, we received pink fits on and s***, we do appear like pimps.”
“They have been racially profiling me, and justifiably so,” Harvey joked. “‘Cos we seemed like we have been god**** drug sellers.”
He went on to say the border patrol officers minimize the liner of their fits open and noticed how a lot money they’d. “They requested, ‘How do you might have this a lot money?’ I mentioned, ‘We inform jokes, man. We’re the unique kings of comedy; you don’t have any concept how a lot cash we make.’ I used to be displaying him checks that I had, however he couldn’t perceive that a lot money.”
“Them mom******* saved us in customs for seven hours,” Harvey added because the viewers gasped. “They did background checks, you understand, you will get your information expunged, however not on the federal degree. So, no matter you probably did… the feds can discover something. In order that they have been digging up s***.”
“And after they undergo there, everybody in that limo had a f****** felony background,” he quipped. “They have been pulling up s*** I forgot about!”
Harvey went on to say that it was midnight after they received there and daylight when he and Cedric have been lastly allowed to depart. “They didn’t discover no medicine within the automotive. And what saved us was, that morning, an previous Black dude got here to work and got here in there, and he mentioned, ‘Steve and Ced!’ I mentioned, ‘Thanks, Jesus!’”
He remembered the person asking, “What are you doing in right here?” Harvey retorted, “We finna go to jail; that’s what we’re doing.”
You’ll be able to watch the complete video of Harvey’s story above.
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