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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2378 - Charlie Sheen' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2378 - Charlie Sheen

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Great to finally meet you, man.
It's great to meet you.
It's a trip and, you know, walking in and I'm thinking,
how is it possible that our paths didn't cross all those years?
I mean, it's conceivable we were in the same venue or the same building
or at the same party or at least something.
I kind of avoided parties.
I avoid basically everything.
I avoided parties.
I avoided premieres.
Anything where there was a red carpet.
Like, even if I was in a movie, I wouldn't go on the red carpet.
I'd go into the back door.
Seriously?
Yeah, I don't like it.
Wow.
I don't like all that fucking look over here, look over here.
That is just too fake for me.
Allergy I have to that flares.
And I'm like, I'm going in through the back door.
Fuck this.
Yeah.
No, I don't blame you.
I don't blame you.
They stopped showing me where the back door was because I support a similar
entrance thing.
It's just too weird.
But it's that, it's look over here, look over here.
It's that thing.
Something happens in that moment.
Yeah.
And I think it's like, it brings you as close to possibly sterilization as you
can get without, you know, surgery.
I think it's bad for you.
Yeah.
I think it's legit.
I think it's like radiation.
Yeah.
Like you could take a little bit of it, but you know, you don't want to be
working the x-ray machine your whole life.
No, no.
And then there's always that one lady who keeps calling you back to her.
Charlie, Charlie.
Right, right, right.
Far left, far left, far left.
And you've looked at her like seven times already.
And then I'm out there thinking, if it took me this many takes to get a scene
right, nobody would ever hire me.
You wouldn't get past the first day.
Well, they want to get a million pictures just to get that perfect one where
there's a little bit of side eye to you, just a little something.
Right.
A little purse of the lips, a little something.
Right, the one that kind of like you're responding to something.
Yeah, that's the one.
Yeah.
But then they chew, which one do they always choose?
The one that's absolute dog shit.
Yeah, the one with your mouth open.
Exactly.
Or your eyes closed.
Yeah, yeah.
What I really don't like is the people who like it.
Not that I don't like them, is that I don't want to ever see that in myself.
And so when I'd be around them, I would just go, oh, I got to get out of here.
Right, right, right.
Freak me out.
The trappings.
The trappings, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, is there, because it feels like that system's been in place for over
100 years, right?
Is there another way to do it?
Probably not.
No?
People like it.
You know, photographers like it.
The press likes it.
It's a big thing.
There's a lot of people.
There's a lot of lights flashing.
It seems legit.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
I just, I don't, I can never feel relaxed when everybody's yelling.
Right.
You know, it's just.
Totally unnatural.
It's completely unnatural.
The only way that would be happening in real life is if like you were on trial,
you know,
like you were being paraded in front of a bunch of people.
It's him.
There he is.
Look over here.
You know, it's odd.
It's very odd.
Yeah.
It's almost, it's a form of a perp walk, isn't it?
A little bit of a perp walk.
Yeah.
And just a little bit of a mental illness exhibition.
Right.
You know?
Yeah.
I just had it for the first time, like last, it would have been last Thursday.
The first time ever?
No, for the first time in like.
A long time.
In like maybe over a decade at the Netflix premiere for the doc.
Oh, yeah.
And it was, it was kind of cool.
Like the first, you know, 34 seconds.
I was like, okay, I remember this.
And then it was like, yeah, I fucking remember this.
Wow.
Damn.
And then I, like, I'm in the, right, the sun just beating right on my, on my
floor.
And it's just, I could feel myself start to sweat.
Now I'm questioning the whole outfit, you know, the underwear choice, all of it.
It's just like every decision I made leading up to that was completely wrong.
Yeah.
And it's all being documented, you know?
Oh, it's so odd.
Yeah.
What's really funny at the, when I, when you first walked into the studio, you
brought up
a tweet that I had sent in 2011.
And I think this is when you were going crazy.
Yeah.
And I think this is also when my friend Russell Peters was doing those tours
with you.
Oh, that's right.
It said, I need to get Charlie Sheen on my podcast.
I know it's a long shot, but a boy could dream better than he knows him.
Help me hook it up.
Well, here we are.
Wow.
14 years later, you know, it takes what it takes, right?
Yeah.
Um, it's funny because back then I don't think I had no guests.
I think I had Anthony Bourdain was the only like real guest that I had had a
lot of time.
Yeah.
He was 2011 as well.
And how many shows had you done by then?
Not that many by then.
I don't know.
So were you just doing solo shows?
Just like covering topics?
I would do it mostly with my friends, mostly with other comics.
Okay.
We would just sit and talk shit.
And then eventually.
Your house?
Yeah, it was at my house back then.
Okay.
So it looked nothing like this?
No, no, no.
It slowly had to get out.
It's like I had too many weirdos that I had to bring by my house.
And I have young kids at the time.
They're really young.
I was like, this is just too strange.
Bring these weirdos by my house.
And, you know, it was just too odd.
I was like, maybe some people shouldn't know exactly where I sleep.
Right, right.
Yeah.
And it's interesting because driving here, I was buried in my phone just, you
know, for the
right reasons.
So I have no idea where we are.
Good.
So it was kind of like a version of being blindfolded with a sack over my head,
you know?
Yeah, that's probably how we should do it.
Can you imagine then, like, I'm the guy they're blaming for introducing this?
Just put everybody in a blindfold and put them in the back of an SUV and drive
them to an
undisclosed location.
And make the guy drive a few circles around in, like, some neighborhood right
over there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But we did it.
We're here.
Those things that you did with Russell Peters were so fascinating.
It was, the whole thing was so fascinating.
I watched the Netflix thing.
I watched the first episode.
And the whole experience of watching the guy from Platoon, the guy that
everybody knows is
like this gigantic, super cool movie star, hot shots, all these different
things, to watch
you just, not just go off the rails with drugs, but, like, be super open about
it.
You're like the first guy super open about it.
You know, and everybody just embraced it.
Instead of it being like, oh, Charlie Sheen's doing drugs, that's so sad.
It was like, we love him.
Keep going.
It was kind of crazy.
Keep going.
All the tiger blood stuff and winning.
Everybody was saying winning all the time.
And it was.
What was that like for you?
Was that like, was it the worst kind of reinforcement?
Or what, or did it let you, like, were you surprised by it?
That's a great way to describe it.
It was, it is, yeah, the worst kind of reinforcement.
Yeah.
It was like, unintentionally or otherwise celebrating a guy's demise.
Right.
You know, and I guess the train wreck was so spectacular that there was such a
spectacle
that they couldn't turn away.
But they were also being invited in to follow it down the tracks.
Yeah.
You know, and, and somebody asked me about it and, and, and I, you know, I don't
know if
I was the conductor, if I was riding the caboose or both simultaneously.
Um, it was a trip because thinking back on it, it's, you know, some of it just
kind of exists
in, in just Polaroid snapshots that kind of drift past through the mist, you
know, other,
other moments are in high def, but kind of seen through a tunnel vision.
Like, and, and, and it's, it was, there was an energy or it was, there was an
energy I tapped
into that felt like I was playing a role, but I couldn't figure out if, you
know, what the
movie, what the plot was, who my co-stars were, where somebody, you know,
somebody show up
with like a page one rewrite, that's what we fucking need, you know, um, and it,
and
it got away from me and, and had it not been encouraged, I think it could have
been curtailed.
It could have been shut down a lot sooner.
Right, but you become kind of captured to the image.
Yes.
Yeah.
And there was something that, and just recently, something I stumbled onto, um,
it's, um, I was,
I was, in, in some way, um, I was being a bully.
It had a bullying kind of energy about it, you know, and I've never been that
guy.
How so, how so, like, bullying?
The way I was attacking people and the way I was challenging people, I was like
a tough
guy on the block and had all these soldiers, I had this whole cadre behind me
and it was
like, you know, inviting people into the ring.
I've never been in the ring.
What are we doing, you know?
You're on coke.
That's what it is.
It's total cocaine behavior.
Among other things.
Um, yeah.
And, and I think, um, there was a whole testosterone component as well that was,
um, out of, just
out of control because there's, you know, what do they recommend, like a
quarter-sized dollop
and like every other day and, no, I, I, there's a line in the book where I say
I was, I was
slathering that, that shit on like a fucking Ponds commercial.
Oh, so you were using the cream?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, which is hard to measure.
It's not just hard to measure, it gets on other people.
Oh.
I read this story about this guy who is on TRT cream and his child started like
showing
signs of premature development.
Oh.
And they realized that this kid's testosterone level was through the roof
because it's through
the dermis, right?
It's through the skin.
So he's getting it on his arms and then he's hugging his child and the kid is
getting juiced.
Like what were the kid's numbers?
Do we know?
We don't know.
Like in the 7,800s?
I don't think they released that, but they, they said that it probably
permanently affected
the kid's development.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Because this kid is like experiencing puberty at three, you know, you're
getting bombarded
with testosterone.
Sure.
While your dad is holding you.
Insane.
Yeah.
Insane.
Is that part of the reason they recommend like an inner thigh application?
I guess then the only person would get it is the person you're having sex with.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Or, uh, or, or your horse.
Right.
Yeah.
Stupid.
It's probably good for the horse.
Right.
So there was testosterone and cocaine together at the same time.
That's, that sounds like a combination of hubris.
And a lot of rage.
And a lot of rage.
A lot of rage.
But the rage, I think, um, it's, it's interesting because when you finally get
some distance from
something, you start to realize that, that it wasn't really so much about what
you said
it was about in the moment.
And I, and I'm, you know, really realizing it was, wasn't about the job, wasn't
about
chalk.
It was, it was about all the stuff in my personal life.
You know, it was about trying to just be, be a certain guy at work, be a
certain guy at
home, and then just never having the time to be a certain guy with me.
And I just, I just couldn't, I couldn't find any place to, to find any refuge
or solace
or any type of just a moment to breathe, just to decompress, you know.
That's so important.
Yeah.
And I, there was a, it's not in the book because I can't really, I don't
remember it
well enough to put it in the book.
And that was kind of how I decided what's in there and what's not right.
Um, or if something just isn't true, it's not in the book.
And so, um, but it, it, um, you know, I was, I was, I was trying to just kind
of, you
know, like, you know, I, I, I, I went through two divorces and, and had four
children during,
during that run of eight years, you know, and so, um, it's insane.
That's insane.
Yeah.
And, and they both, you know, they, they fell apart for, for, for 