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Cathy Durant Show, September 8, 2026

Cathy Durant Show, September 8, 2026

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The Cathy Durant Show The Reynaldo Rey Documentary and a Career Built on Comedy with Marcus Head Filmmaker and former stand-up comedian Marcus Head joins Cathy Irby Durant to discuss his new documentary on comedy legend Reynaldo Rey, the comedians who credit Rey as a mentor, and his upcoming projects on Black firefighting pioneers and radio history. From Stand-Up Stages to Film Sets Cathy Irby Durant opens the show by welcoming filmmaker Marcus Head, a friend of five years, to discuss his newest documentary. Head explains that he grew up in Chicago and moved to Atlanta after a friend called about opening a pawn shop; the shop never materializes, but Head falls for the city and drifts into stand-up comedy. He recalls performing his Fire Marshall Bill bit at the Comedy Act Theater around 1997 or 1998, when Bruce Bruce hosted, and remembers Kevin Hart telling him afterward that he had the presence to keep going. His first big break comes opening for Ron White in Columbia, South Carolina, which leads him into booking shows for touring comedians. Watching the production crews at those gigs sparks his curiosity about filmmaking, and years later, prompted by his wife to finally write the movie he always talked about, he creates his first film, Can't Get Right, now streaming on Tubi. Meeting the Reynaldo Rey Family Head turns to the project at the center of the interview, a documentary on comedian Reynaldo Rey, whom he calls an unforgotten icon of Black comedy. He details Rey's résumé: host of BET ComicView, the mailman on 227, and the only comedian to appear on ComicView, Def Comedy Jam, The Tonight Show and Showtime at the Apollo. Rey was managed by Redd Foxx for fifteen years and toured with Foxx, Bob Hope and Richard Pryor, part of a circle Head calls the Black Pack. Head explains that Rey started as a college professor in Cleveland before a student urged him into a comedy club, where an owner offered him more money than teaching paid. Head describes how he met the Rey family through a chance encounter on the Michael Colyar Show, which led him to Rey's grandson, then to Rey's son Todd, and eventually to Reynaldo Rey himself, who mentored him personally and called him Youngblood after a club performance in Atlanta. Landing Katt Williams and Sinbad Durant asks how Head persuaded so many major comedians to appear on camera, and he credits the Reynaldo Rey name itself for opening doors. He recounts a chaotic shoot day with Katt Williams in Los Angeles, when his camera crew got stuck in Dallas and he scrambled to find a replacement operator who arrived only minutes before Williams did. Head calls the interview that followed one of the film's centerpieces, noting Williams speaks at length about what Rey taught him. He also describes traveling to Sinbad's home in early 2025 for what he says was Sinbad's first interview since his stroke, adding that Sinbad remains sharp despite two heart attacks and reduced mobility. Luenell, George Wallace and Joe Torry also appear, along with rare archival interviews of Dolemite and Redd Foxx discussing Rey. Head reports the finished documentary, roughly seventy-five minutes long, has already won a Telly Award and three film festival prizes, including the Vegas Film Festival, and is now being shopped for distribution. New Documentaries on Firefighters and Radio Icons Beyond Reynaldo Rey, Head previews other documentaries in development. First to the Fire profiles Black firefighting pioneers, including Montel Williams's father, one of Baltimore's first Black fire chiefs, and CeeLo Green's mother, who became one of Atlanta's first Black firefighters in 1979. Head also describes twin firefighters in Tulsa, Oklahoma whose father was the city's first Black firefighter in the 1960s, the first Black firefighter in Houston, and Molly Williams, an 1818-era volunteer who fought fires as a cook's helper and earned the nickname the thirteenth firefighter. A documentary clip plays of an elderly man recalling putting out a house fire himself before volunteer firefighters arrived, which prompted someone to tell him he ought to become a fireman. Head also holds the rights to tell the story of Jada Jones, known on air as Ms. Dupre from the Tom Joyner Morning Show, who died a month before the broadcast, with Joyner and cast members Sybil Wilkes, Myra J., Damon Williams, J. Anthony Brown and George Wallace agreeing to be interviewed. Women in Comedy and the Business Today The conversation shifts to comedy history and the state of the business today. Head traces a line of female pioneers starting with Moms Mabley, whom he calls the godmother of comedy, through Whoopi Goldberg, Marsha Warfield, Shirley Hemphill and Syreeta Morrison, the first Black woman to write for Saturday Night Live. He praises current performers Cocoa Brown, Sommore and Mo'Nique, and names rising acts including K-Davis, Flo-So-Amazing, Alanna Marie and One-Act Drama, several of whom appear in the Reynaldo Rey documentary ...
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