Jamie Foxx is again in motion, each personally and professionally, as his movie Again In Motion premiered on Netflix’s 2025 schedule and he opened up about being hospitalized after having a stroke virtually two years in the past. Now, whereas we get to chortle at him and Cameron Diaz of their new movie, the comic additionally introduced the humorous as he spoke about how humor — and wild issues like impersonating Denzel Washington — helped save him within the hospital.
Whereas talking about his Netflix stand-up particular, What Had Occurred Was, and addressing his medical scare, Foxx additionally talked about utilizing humor in his private life to assist his restoration. Now, his daughters won’t have been conscious of his standup profession rising up, however he talked about throughout this chat on The Graham Norton Present that he’s at all times been humorous at house too.
Setting the scene for what led to his humorous hospital interactions, Foxx defined how he reacted when he awoke after his stroke:
When it occurred, I didn’t keep in mind it occurred. … I had a mind bleed that led to a stroke. Me, like, that don’t occur to me. And, after I lastly got here to, I didn’t even understand what occurred, as a result of I missed 20 days of my life. And, after I got here to, I mentioned, ‘Yo, what am I doing on this wheelchair?’ And my boy mentioned, ‘You had a stroke.’ I mentioned, ‘Come on, bro, I’m Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx don’t have strokes.’ And he mentioned, ‘Bro, don’t attempt to get out that chair, as a result of you possibly can’t stroll. And I fell. I mentioned ‘What, the place is Ashton Kutcher? Am I being Punk’d?’ So when it settled in, I used to be like, ‘Man.’ It’s past this. So, as we’re sitting right here, it’s past on all this. Man, I actually gotta attempt to get again.
To get again, the Oscar winner had the assist of his daughters, household and associates. Nevertheless, he additionally had his humorousness.
We’ve seen this humorous facet displayed in a few of Foxx’s greatest motion pictures and standup work. Nevertheless, the nurses on the hospital acquired a front-row seat to his comedy. The actor defined that he’d joke round and impersonate Denzel Washington within the hospital as a strategy to heal, he mentioned:
The one manner I did get again was kinda being humorous. I saved saying – I say it in my stand-up – ‘If I might keep humorous, I might keep alive.’ So, after they would come examine on me, I used to be at all times telling jokes to the purpose that they thought one thing was improper with me. … ‘The place are you, sir?’ ‘I’m on the fix-it place.’ They mentioned, ‘Who’re you, sir?’ And I used to be by no means myself. I’d at all times be another person. … And, for like three days, I used to be Denzel.
As you possibly can see within the video, Foxx did his humorous impression of Denzel Washington, imitating what he’d do within the hospital when individuals requested him how he was.
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Actually, it is a stellar impression. It is one Foxx has executed earlier than too, and in an interview with Gray Goose Vodka, he even did it in entrance of Washington, who discovered it hilarious.
In instances of hassle, comedy can actually assist heal, and that’s been confirmed again and again. Jamie Foxx’s story right here is simply additional justification for why humor really could make every part higher.
I hope the nurses acquired a kick out of his Denzel impression, and now I’m gonna want Foxx to host SNL so he can carry that impersonation and others to dwell TV for all of us to take pleasure in. Within the meantime, we will all respect Jamie Foxx, who’s healed, glad and wholesome, by streaming his movie Again in Motion and his standup particular with a Netflix subscription.