Mike Epps revealed on Saturday what happened with his “Survivor’s Remorse” character Julius: “I asked for some more money and they killed me.”
“That’s usually what happens on TV shows,” he continued, “if you can remember ‘Good Times,’ that’s what happened.”
The comedian made the comments during the Television Critics Association press tour panel for his new ABC sitcom, “Uncle Buck.”
“[On] ‘Survivor’s Remorse, I was like 24th lead,” Epps quipped — he’s much happier being No. 1 on the call sheet nowadays.
Perhaps Epps wasn’t top dog on the LeBron James-produced Starz series, but he had appeared in all 16 episodes of “Survivor’s Remorse,” per IMDb.
The stand-up comic and the rest of his “Uncle Buck” panel participants — producers Steven Cragg, Brian Bradley, and Will Packer, as well as co-stars Nia Long and James Lesure — spent much of the rest of their 30-minute media session contrasting the sitcom with John Candy‘s 1989 film version.