Tiffany Haddish Discusses “Friday Night Vibes,” Flo-Jo Role

Tiffany Haddish is staying busy and adding a lot to her career resume. She recently sat down with Complex to discuss her latest projects.

Haddish has landed a role different than the funny girl she played on “Girl’s Trip.” This time around, she will appear and help produce a film based on her idol Florence Griffith Joyner.

She’s also landed a gig to host another TV show, TBS’ Friday Night Vibes, which will air on Friday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m. EST/PST.

The variety show, which Deon Cole co-hosts, will have other guests, including Snoop Dogg, Tina Knowles-Lawson, and others.

“It’s like you’re in a beauty salon-slash-barber shop-slash-movie theater-slash-good time party, like a reunion of some sort,” Haddish told Complex. “It’s good times.”

Haddish discussed an array of things during her sit-down.

When asked how she got into the hosting field, the rising star says she enjoys giving others a platform to shine and a voice, considering she had once wished that someone would give her a chance.

As for her new TBS show, the actress says, “It’s a variety show in the middle of a really great movie. I think of it like this: Remember back in the day, when we used to go to the movies? Especially in the hood? It’s a pretty good movie and people be talking to the screen.”

“When you come to my house to watch a movie, we’ll be talking, pause the movie, talk about this, talk about that. Maybe a song might come on, somebody might play some music like, “Oh, this reminds me of this dah, dah, dah.” And we laughing about that. We laugh about this and like, “OK, you want something to eat?” “Yeah, sure.” And you’re like, “You want something to drink?” “Yeah.” “OK. Cool.” Get the drinks everything, push playback on the movie, right?”

She also said there will be both new and old musical acts on the show. “We’ll have my celebrity friends come on, we’ll talk about whatever movie’s playing.”

The show was an idea she brought to the network. “I produce all kinds of stuff. Like I used to, in a group home, create little shows. I was talking with my friend about things that I like, things that I would like to do, stuff like talking about stuff from back in the day that I used to do. And then they were like, “Hey, would you want to host a show?” And I’m like, “It depends on what kind of show. It depends on what time it comes on. It depends on blah, blah, blah.” And then we put together this little concept and they were like, “Oh, TBS has these movies they’re trying to do.” I was like, let’s do it! Let’s do that! And then let me bring my people. Oh, and it’s for the culture?” And they’re like, “Yeah, for the culture.” They wanted me to use the word culture and I was like, “It’s Black, just keep it… Just come on.”

She also took the time to discuss her upcoming project that she’s honored to do, the biopic of the fastest woman in the world, Flo-Jo.

When asked how important it is to bring all of her “Flo-Jo” projects together–a podcast and a documentary– she says, “It’s been a journey already. It’s a full-on transformation, and it’s not easy. Her journey wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. It inspired so, so many of us. When I was in high school, I’m in track and field, I made sure my nails were done, I had my hair… To me, that made me faster. I put on a little liner, even though I looked like a raccoon after the race. Sweating everything.”