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On ‘The Real’: Why Comedian Tony Rock Will Never Apologize For a Joke [WATCH]

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9 years ago

January 10, 2018

*On Wednesday, January 10, the hosts of “The Real” wonder if changing up American Idol by not showing “bad” auditions will help or hurt the show.

The ladies also discuss if they “clean out” their social media followers, if they’ve ever accidentally left a loved one behind somewhere and co-host Adrienne Houghton shares how she was the champion hide-and-seek player when she was a child!

Also, actor and comedian Tony Rock drops by to talk about his new BET game show, Black Card Revoked and what it was like growing up with nine brothers and sisters. He also reveals why he will never apologize for a joke!

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Why Comedian Tony Rock Will Never Apologize For a Joke

Tony Rock: I will, you know. I will, I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke.

Loni Love: Right.

[The Real audience applauds]

Loni: He doesn’t.

Tony: If you walk into a comedy club – if you walk into a comedy club, just by virtue of being inside a comedy club, you’re going to hear something that might offend your sensibilities as far as your race, your religion, your personal background, your financial status, your sexual preference, your sexual orientation, your height, your weight, your color – don’t come in the comedy club if you don’t want to hear that!

[The Real audience applauds]

Tony: Right?

Jeannie Mai: That’s so true.

Tamera Mowry-Housley: It’s true

Tony: It’s like – it’s like, if you walk in a – it’s like, walking in a church and saying “Hey, this guy keeps talking about religion.” Why are you in there?

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OFFICIAL TRAILER RELEASED FOR “CALL ME MICKY,” EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY DOMINIQUE JACKSON

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18 hours ago

August 31, 2026

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**New 22-minute documentary short follows Micky Angelo Petrillo after transitioning at 59, with the acclaimed POSE star helping bring his story to the screen**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — NEW YORK: The official trailer for CALL ME MICKY, a new documentary short Executive Produced by acclaimed POSE star Dominique Jackson and directed by Andrew Rasmussen, has been released on YouTube ahead of the film’s upcoming festival run.

The 22-minute documentary follows Micky Angelo Petrillo, a larger-than-life New Jersey native who transitioned at 59 and is now discovering what comes next.

Rather than presenting transition as the conclusion of Petrillo’s story, CALL ME MICKY focuses on the life unfolding afterward — through Pride celebrations, open mics, friendships, storytelling and Petrillo’s increasingly public embrace of the man he fought decades to become.

Jackson also appears in the film, joining Petrillo for an intimate on-camera conversation about identity, visibility and what it means to finally live openly as yourself.

Internationally recognized for her commanding portrayal of Elektra on FX’s groundbreaking series POSE, Jackson is an actress, model, activist and producer who also served as an Executive Producer of the acclaimed documentary I’M YOUR VENUS, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival.

Petrillo is the author of the memoir Walking the Earth: First as a Woman, Then a Man.

While CALL ME MICKY captures one chapter of Petrillo’s much larger story, the film offers an intimate portrait of a man discovering that becoming yourself is not the ending — it may only be the beginning.