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Joe Rogan Experience #2383 - Ian Edwards

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Sup, son?
How is it possible that you haven't been here in the five years I've been
living here?
Oh, shit, it's been five years?
Yeah, man, it's been five years.
That's pretty fucking crazy.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't.
I like it, though.
Thank you.
It's like, it's got the sauna walls and shit.
It's very close to what the old one was.
Instead of brick, we went with wood.
Because we were kind of faking it with the brick in the old place.
It was fake brick?
It wasn't fake brick.
It was real brick.
But what they do is they take, like, a mesh.
And then they take real bricks and they slice them thin.
And then they put up the cement and they glue the real bricks in place.
But it's not really a brick wall.
It just looks like a brick wall.
I feel like a real brick wall should only be the only brick wall that you show.
Right.
Like, I went to a pool hall the other day and they had a plastic brick wall.
And I got deeply disappointed.
I touched it.
I was like, oh, this is a fake brick wall.
This is bullshit.
This is plastic.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a push to have, like, a half-fake brick wall.
Yeah.
But to have, like, a plastic brick wall.
That's you're going too far.
Did you just leave the pool hall?
Like, fuck this place?
No.
No, I didn't.
No.
No, I'm a junkie.
I just did.
But the brick used to bother me that it was fake brick at the other studio.
I'm like, we're kind of bullshitting here.
Some people have, like, some comedy clubs or somebody fake a comedy spot.
Oh, yeah.
They'll have the, it's just a sheet.
Yeah.
Like, it's not a curtain, but.
A brick sheet.
A brick sheet.
And they're like, bro, just, what you got back there?
Let's just show that.
Just show whatever's back there.
Yeah.
It's weird how that became the backdrop for a comedy club, a brick wall.
Why?
It's a good question.
I don't know when to start.
Maybe it started with Evening at the Improv.
What was Evening at the Improv's backdrop?
Was that a brick wall?
It might have been that simple.
All right.
Because back in the 1980s, was it?
Aha.
Look at that.
That's it.
Bro, is that Ellen?
It makes me wonder if that wall is real.
Bro, that's Ellen.
Look at that picture of Ellen.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Chris Rock, Adam Sadler.
Wow.
Wow.
When I started doing comedy, I used to go to the comic strip, and they had a
brick wall, too.
And to get on stage at the comic strip, you had to come the first Friday.
Every month, and try to pick a number.
And if you got a number, they had like a lot of things.
They had like all these open micas lined up down the street.
Mm-hmm.
And then...
This is a dreadlocks Ian's days.
This is pre-dreadlocks.
You didn't have dreadlocks?
Nah.
I might have had like twists and shit.
Please don't find none of those photos.
Bro, how long have I known you?
Like 30 years or some shit?
Yeah, we've known each other 30 years.
That's crazy.
Wow.
We were little babies.
Yeah.
Little babies.
Doing the Boston.
Yep.
Yeah.
It's crazy when I was like, not how, but we just had no fucking idea.
Yeah.
Like how all this shit would turn out.
No idea.
Yeah.
With no idea even how it all worked.
Right.
You know, you're just taking chances on stage, trying to figure out what's
funny, and then
trying to get work, trying to get work on the road.
Mm-hmm.
I just knew once I had the inclination to do it, the moment I had the inclination
to do
it, I was like, oh, I'm doing this for the rest of my life.
Like that, once that moment hit.
So then all bets on everything else was off.
Mm-hmm.
And I just started just doing it and just doing it locally in Long Island.
And then I remember seeing A&E, the improv, and seeing Chappelle on there, and
I noticed
that all the comics on Long Island that used to, like, be ahead of me and host
the shows
that I was doing the mics on and headlined all weekend, excuse me, all weekend
in Long
Island, none of those comics were on TV.
So I was like, I got to get to Manhattan.
Like all the comics that were on TV were in Manhattan.
I felt the exact same way.
Living in Boston, all these guys I knew that were so funny, but none of them
were on TV.
Yeah.
But the thing is, like, I knew that the people that were on TV, then they could
go anywhere.
Once you were on TV, then you could go to Kansas.
Yeah.
You could go to Miami.
You can go anywhere.
But if you weren't on TV, man, nobody was going to come pay to see you.
It was a risk.
Yeah.
You know, you're out with your wife.
You got a date night.
Like, take a chance on this motherfucker.
I don't know.
Look at his face.
His stupid fucking dreadlocks.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I was on TV, fan.
It's weird, though, right?
Like, nobody knew.
I feel like we knew, though.
Like, inside, like, we had some type of blueprint because we'd seen, like,
successful comics.
Yes.
But to go from, like, so, and I came here, moved to America for last 17 from
Jamaica.
So, when I started watching TV, I didn't know anybody on TV.
Oh, wow.
You know what I'm saying?
What was that like?
I didn't know anybody on TV.
So, like, do you remember the first shows you saw?
The first shows, well, we have American shows on TV in Jamaica.
We had one channel back then.
Uh-huh.
Was it one?
We had one.
And then, so, when I came here, I watched SNL because Eddie Murphy was on that
shit.
So, that was a requirement.
I was always watching that.
Now, I finally can figure out how old you are because you lying motherfucker.
You won't tell anybody how old you are.
I don't lie.
I just don't tell.
It's two different things.
It's two different things.
I might run past the question.
I tricked you with that Eddie Murphy line.
He was only on for two seasons.
I got you.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, but I was five years old.
I'm just kidding.
Was Eddie Murphy on for two seasons or one season?
I think he was on for two seasons, if I'm guessing.
Why does it say when I talked about that?
Does it say?
Oh, more.
Four?
Was he really?
Oh, you got a little room for error.
Yeah, I got a little room for error.
I always got a little room for error.
Come on, man.
So, that's three years.
Yeah.
So, you did the 81 and 84?
Yeah, 81, season 81.
80, 81, 82, and 83.
So, four seasons.
So, he put in his time.
There's like, you know, I was saying about Cam Patterson getting on SNL now.
Right.
He might be the first guy in a long time to become a movie star from that.
Yeah.
Because it kind of went away.
It kind of went away.
You know, in the Mike Myers days and Phil Hartman and obviously Adam Sandler.
And like, everybody became a movie star.
Right.
From David Spade.
They all became movie stars.
But then that kind of stopped.
You know?
And they kind of did it to themselves with all that woke bullshit.
Yeah.
Like, they kind of like, they killed comedy movies.
Or they just picked somebody funny.
Like, there's people they overlook all the time.
That we know are funny.
Yeah.
That could be on that show.
So, it's good that they picked Cam.
I'm going to say some positive, derogatory shit about Cam.
That's number one.
Let me just.
Fuck Cam, number one.
Fuck Cam.
I remember the first time I saw Cam.
And I saw Cam.
We were at.
What's.
What's.
What's the.
That room on six.
The Vulcan.
The Vulcan.
Yeah.
So, I think I just did your room.
Then I went to the Vulcan.
And then they don't.
And.
And.
What's his name?
Like, you're next.
And then Cam was to the side.
So, then I knew he was next.
It was like the unknown show.
So, then I bring him up and I watch him.
And then I had a tag for him.
And I said, I'm going to give you this tag.
After he got up stage.
I'm going to give you this tag.
But it's only going to make you better than me.
And you're going to get picked up and advanced.
I could just tell.
I was angry and I loved him at the same time.
You know what I'm saying?
You just.
You know, somebody just got it.
And they.
Fuck this guy.
They got it.
Yeah.
You got to celebrate it.
You got to celebrate it.
Because we got into this as fans.
You got into this as fans.
And if someone's funnier than you, you got to go.
God damn.
He's funny.
It'll inspire you to work.
Yeah.
And you can be funnier than you are.
But you can only be so funny.
Yeah.
But this is how crazy it got.
So, then two months later, I'm in L.A.
I see him at the store.
And I said, what's up, man?
You in town?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I said, yeah.
I'm here with my manager.
It's my manager.
Your manager's managing him now?
Oh, my God.
I was like, I knew it.
I knew it.
Meanwhile, your manager's been ducking your calls.
Sorry, I'm on a jet with Cam.
I'm on a jet with Cam.
Call you soon.
Yeah.
All's great.
But that's how close the parallels were.
But the motherfucker's funny, man.
He makes it look easy.
He works hard.
Yeah, and he works hard.
He works hard.
He's always working.
He's always on stage.
He does that.
One new minute of Kill Tony every week.
That's hard to do.
That's hard to do.
It's very hard to do.
You have to sit down and work on shit.
You have to.
I mean, the guys who excel at it, like Ari Maddy, Hans Kim, him, those guys,
they fucking work hard.
Yeah.
And a bunch of people did it for years and years and years.
Like William Montgomery is probably, I think he's the longest running guy ever.
Right.
But he's such a maniac.
He can get a minute out of anything.
Right.
He can get a minute out of coffee.
Like going and getting some coffee.
It's like a big part of what his comedy is, is just his personality.
Yeah.
Which is great.
Uh-huh.
You know, because he's kind of a character.
He's such a freak.
Yeah.
That when he's on stage, kind of anything is funny.
Yeah.
He's like, you know, it makes me mad.
Like when you say that, I finally just see what Will is because it's obvious to
see what Cat Williams is.
Like, and it's a part of him and it's his voice.
And it's like, I call it a comedy cheat because I don't have it.
Right, right, right.
But like, they're going to talk.
It's going to be funny.
Funny.
Then if they add some writing to it, then you don't stand a chance.
Joey Diaz is the ultimate.
Yeah, there you go.
Joey Diaz is the ultimate version of that.
That motherfucker is funny the moment he grabs the mic.
He's like, come on, who God gave him that?
Just looking at him.
Come on, God.
Everything about him.
Everything about him.
He's just walking comedy.
Yeah.
And he's fearless.
Yeah, and he's fearless.
And so he looks like that and he talks like that and he gets on stage and you're
like, oh, it's over.
Yeah, it's all right.
It's like, you're already like.
It's a force.
Yeah.
It's like, if you give your mind up to him, like, to think for me.
Let me, take me on a journey.
Take me on a journey and think for me.
But Theo's got that a little bit too.
Yeah.
And we saw Theo develop that.
Yeah.
Like, through the years.
And then he just started like.
He just hit.
Drifting off and just getting to that place where you're just constantly just
saying shit.
And it kind of makes sense even if it doesn't.
Right.
And it resonates like.
Brody.
Brody.
Another good example.
Brody was just funny.
He would 818 till I die.
He'll die and laughing.
No one even knows why they're laughing.
Right.
When they're laughing at that.
He's talking about the area code for the valley outside of LA.
It's this, like, celebration of mediocrity in second place.
Hilarious.
You know?
And was it Reseda?
Yeah.
Of all places.
Yeah.
He was the best at that.
He was so infectious.
Yeah.
Like, his comedy was infect.
It would infect you.
And you'd be in the parking lot, like, repeating his lines.
Mm-hmm.
It was so fun.
Yeah.
I would play this game with Brody where I'd just treat him like an open mic-er.
And he would just play along.
I was like, keep going up, kid, man.
You're going to get better.
You're going to get better spots.
Don't worry about it.
And he's like, thank you, sir.
You're great.
Yeah.
And we'd just do it.
He just went with it.
Yeah, when we were starting out, like, both of us were like, when I me