Cedric the Entertainer doesn't always headline his own movies. He sometimes gets more attention for being part of an ensemble, like his lines that earned Barbershop its controversy. There are no Rosa Parks references in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, but he plays quite a foil to Martin Lawrence as the adoptive son who seems to always scheme and outshine the firstborn. All these years later, they settle their differences on the obstacle course, still intended for children.

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CraveOnline: Do you have any childhood drama you're still trying to get over?

Cedric the Entertainer: I think that was really the real message of the film, going back and seeing it. I used to be ticklish. I just can remember, I had an uncle. Well, he was actually my cousin but he would tickle me until I peed on myself. As I got older, I just really thought that wasn't funny because I was 16, 17 years old and he would still try to walk up and tickle me. I just thought that was inappropriate. Back then, we didn't have numbers we could call or nothing like that. So recently, I talked to him and I just told him, "You know, remember when you used to try to tickle me 'til I peed on myself all the time, why was that so funny to you?" And he just said, "I just thought it was funny. I didn't even think about it." For real, I was like 14 years old and I'm walking around with pee stains on because I would laugh. So that was one thing about family I didn’t appreciate.

CraveOnline: What happened with the pee problem?

Cedric the Entertainer: I matured. I drank in moderation of water and I don't let people tickle me no more. I don't take the chance so even now when somebody tries to tickle me, for real, when somebody tries to tickle me to this day, I'm actually very defensive about it. I don't know why but that's one of those things that stays in your head even as an adult. I don't even play like that. Don't tickle me. Don't do it, don't do it.

CraveOnline: So you never get over childhood traumas?

Cedric the Entertainer: I don't think so. I think if you have those kind of things that bother you for whatever reason it is, some people it's like food. Anybody can outgrow food sometimes. I remember I had another aunt that was really like my uncle's wife, and she gave me a whooping one time. To this day, you still don't like her. You just didn't feel she was in the circle to give whoopings. She was outside the whooping circle. Sure, you're an adult, but you're my uncle's wife. Not even really kin to me like that to be doing that. Whoop your own kids. Tell somebody about me. Don't. So when they got divorced, I was like, "Nyah." I know that's not nice but that's how I felt. I still feel that way, like, "Nyah."

CraveOnline: With all the other comedians in the cast, were you ever competitive to get the biggest laugh?

Cedric the Entertainer: That was definitely the case because you'll try to enhance a joke or make something a lot funnier. I think that we were fans of each other, so even though we compete trying to get the biggest laugh, then you just can't wait until somebody else's turn too. That was the other thing about this kind of energy. So that was one of the key things to really make it hard for [director] Malcolm [Lee]. I don't know what take he's going to take and use in the editing room, but we're just going to have a ball and leave it up to you to put this movie together.

CraveOnline: What's in the movie that was improv?

Cedric the Entertainer: They took all my good stuff out. I'm going to actually have a small talk with him following this. No, I was trying to think, I think a lot of the speeches and stuff at the end where I'm crying and talking, I'm making up a lot of those stories, like all that stuff was going on. There were takes there that I thought probably could have been funnier but I may have flubbed a line or didn't really tie it all together because I was just improv'ing a lot of it. I would go off on these crazy long tangents about how he raised me and sleeping in the bed and it was just funny. I don't know. So the outtakes should be hot, definitely.

CraveOnline: Did you have a stunt double on the fall for the obstacle course?

Cedric the Entertainer: I did a lot of the stunts. Now, I didn't do the falls only because some insurance thing, but I like doing a lot of my own stunts. But because of the insurance stuff, you can't really do the falls.

CraveOnline: Was that sequence hard?

Cedric the Entertainer: It was. When you read it, it reads very funny. You read the script and you're like, "Oh, this obstacle course will be crazy. This is hilarious right here." Then when you have to do it, when they get it set up, they had it really set up. It was like 80 yards. You've got to really run and jump and I was like, "Come on, Malcolm." So it was tough. That took about five days. It was a lot of time. Maybe five or six days to shoot that just because you've got to run it three times, we've got to see your feet in this one, then they want to see your face and then they get the whole body. So you've got to do the tires six, seven times just so he can get all the coverage. I'm like, "Man, can't we get somebody in here who looks like me or something?" It was hard and there wasn't really a lot of preparation. We swung and they had to harness you up, but we did the sliding thing. All of it was kind of fun after a while, crawling in the mud. All those things after a while, you just don't get to do that as an adult anymore so I actually had a good time doing some of those things, but it's the takes, having to do it three, six, seven times, laying down in the grass.

CraveOnline: Where was it set up?

Cedric the Entertainer: It was like on a farm. This guy had this farm and we shot it out there. There were snakes and mosquitoes and it was really hot and there was some kind of bird that made a very weird noise. You couldn't see him. This was up in them trees. Every now and then you'd think you'd see Bigfoot go past, because it was almost like a swampland. You'd hear dogs, [barking].

CraveOnline: Are you doing anything for Black History Month?

Cedric the Entertainer: I was involved in something recently, the BET Honors which I felt was very important about putting a new spin and a new look on Black History Month. I think that in the past, it started to be something that was less significant to the black community. We celebrated but we don't really care about it. We're going back and not to say but we look at Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King. I thought that this BET Honors was important that it's going to air in Black History Month as well but to recognize people in the community that are doing things now that have made great strides, people in business and entertainment and industry and different areas. I think that if we start to encourage and talk about some of these things and bring some of these things to the forefront, it'll become a little more relevant to the youth and something that will encourage them to be greater people. Then Black History Month can be a little more of a celebration of us all and not just things that we've done in the past, even though that is very important. I think that since we have a whole month, we should be encouraged and be motivated to show the greatness that exists around us and every day that's going on as well as how and why we got to this place. So I was encouraged by that and want to basically talk about getting that more of the influence to talk about what we're doing currently, to talk about who's doing what and why and celebrate these people as well as the Martin Luther Kings, the Malcolm X's, all these great people but again make them real to people. Understand how this person is truly relatable to somebody that you can identify with right now that's doing it.