Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2300 - Kyle Dunnigan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2300 - Kyle Dunnigan

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
you know who wrote that pop quiz who very famous person wrote what is that from
what
which show is that from 70s yeah begins with an s sanford and son yes who wrote
it you're not
going to believe it quincy jones really yes and it's if you hear the whole song
it's a really good
song i used to love that show sanford and someone's great funny it was funny
ridiculous
red fox was the man he was so funny on that i actually didn't like that theme
song here we go
when i first heard it
that was back when sitcoms were sitcoms oh that one was like way i felt like
way better like three's
company sucks if you watch that now that was like the number one sitcom snappers
are still good yeah
you know what's underrated that i really never gave a chance wait i want to get
a big bang theory oh
fuck fuck i fucked it up sorry i would have said big bang theory it's a good
show i used to shit on it
because i saw clips with uh you know how you do retakes where they're not
laughing yeah yeah yeah but
that's you know what that is that's like retakes um when you work on a sitcom
sometimes you have to
do pickups yeah i actually don't know but yes oh you do pickups and nobody
knows anymore nobody does it
anymore yeah miss pat is like the only person i know with a sitcom oh yeah i
couldn't name one sitcom
think about all the comics we know i know one comic with a sitcom miss pat and
it's uh on a streaming
it's on um bet and that was everything when we when i was first starting like
your whole thing was
like you have to get a sitcom or you don't have any money yeah well or you're
never going to have a
career because you needed there was no way to get people to come see you in the
clubs unless you had a
special or unless you had a sitcom yeah and i remember zach galifianakis like
it was pilot season
remember that whole thing yeah that was huge like pilot season's coming up oh
yeah everybody would be in
town for pilots yeah yeah everybody would be like a special kind of anxious
yeah because your whole
fucking career was laying on this moment where you walked into this room and
there was these weirdos
these casting people there were always really socially bizarre people and like
tired and mad they've
seen some people and it's always a tiny room and you they're the kings and you
are a peasant begging
for a bowl of soup yeah and when you walk in they know they don't want you like
they also know you're
broke yeah and you have that desperate energy you want them yeah you want them
to like you hi hi guys
want want you to like me oh what it is death i didn't get any i never got a
sitcom i i auditioned
probably for a thousand i i don't know why someone didn't say this isn't you're
not good at this no one
told me you could have been a big bang theory ironically i could have been you
would have been a
fucking major get for them i would have been a huge get for the show show would
have been a lot better
i had um actually i did get one of them now this is the story let me tell you
this story okay um
so uh i go in and you know you get like a callback okay first casting director
and then you're like
please like me then you're like call back and like oh they like me second callback
now i get like real
nervous i can make it it was a show happy family have you heard that no little
nugget uh uh what year
are we talking about 2003 a long time ago that guy larroquette was on it oh
yeah i remember him
saying he was you know he's dropping on the set and he goes my friend don told
me um that uh on my
gravestone it should say uh it's not a great plot but larroquette's in it he
told that funny joke
boy so he was uh the john larroquette show was on the same lot uh as uh i was
when i was filming news
radio and uh lenny clark who's a good friend of mine forever yeah lenny was on
that show and you know
i'd run into lenny in the parking lot we talked but we would watch their feed
where john larroquette would
like yell at people yeah that's you the feed is always they forget there's a
feed yeah people were
screaming about but no one had a cell phone back then you know we're talking in
the 90s so this is
probably 94 or something like that yeah yeah yeah and it was a bizarre scene
man i i never adjusted
to being on television never did that's a good gig though i mean that was like
yeah but i couldn't
wait to not do it anymore once i did it really yeah and i had the best version
of it i had the best
version of it hilarious cast brilliant writers what was that the stress of it
it was just like i just
wanted to do stand up you know because you're getting a little famous and then
you have eight
lines yeah and you said they could do whatever you want and you're like blah
blah blah listen as far as
that was also the problems i knew i was never going to get another sitcom like
news radio
the other sitcoms that i read for were yeah yeah garbage after that that they
want you to do some
something after yeah there was a few opportunities i had a couple of
development deals to do stuff but
then when fear factor came on my first thought was like yes no actors oh really
yeah i didn't have
to deal with like the whole thing like the whole thing of the schmoozing and
the you know going to
these award things and these parties and these press junkets that you had to do
it's like i didn't like
it yeah it just felt i don't know it was just weird you know i never auditioned
for anything like uh i
auditioned for a couple commercials in new york it i auditioned for two shows
ever
we're going to get back to my larriquette story don't go go to your no no i
want to hear this i'm
just i want to say out loud because i i set up a story and then i didn't finish
it so i got this
show when i was living in new york it was called hardball and i came out here
to la oh wait a
minute yeah it was a baseball show i i remember jim brewer was in the pilot
with me i mike star from
goodfellas was in it i don't know that guy uh bruce greenwood who was in star
track he's been in
everything he's a great actor he was in it he was like the older pitcher that
was like my nemesis
terrible show terrible show like so bad i think i saw that guy like so bad the
intro of it or
something i remember hardball yeah it lasted six episodes and then the other
show that i got was
news radio and it was the only other show i auditioned for it was just so i'm
so everything
else i auditioned for was like movies and stuff that i never got and there was
a couple of shows
after news radio was over that i auditioned for that i didn't get but it was
just like the it was so
bizarre so when i would go to these auditions for other things it wasn't that
big a deal because i
was already already on news radio so it wasn't like if i didn't get these
things it was like this
would be okay but it was like still the anxiety of that like i had money and it
was still like oh this
is awful like this whole thing is so stressful and so weird and everybody's so
fucked up because
you get a bunch of people that desperately want attention and then you go there
to this place where
you're surrounded by people who are desperately want attention in in hollywood
and then you're you have
this one moment in front of these people and they're looking at you like this
okay kyle um hi so
you're reading for bobby correct i love the script so funny you know bobby's an
athlete yeah no i can
do all the things whatever you say i can do it i'm good at it right okay um tim
here's gonna read with
you and tim like could barely read it's always like some pa who's probably on
ketamine could barely
read and you have to like pretend like you're having this emotive moment with
tim i'm so glad
i don't have to do that oh it was the worst but some people love it some people
look man we're comics
some people are actors they love it like mcconaughey that dude loves like
pouring himself into a
role get getting psychotic about who the character is that's i wish i if i
could go back i wish i looked
at those as like and someone said this as like an opportunity to perform
instead of like i'm trying
to get something right i didn't i was just desperate like i had no money and i
have to get this i will
say though if you're on a sitcom that has really good writing it's fun as shit
news radio was how you
said you just got it how did you just just i had a development deal with nbc
and they were going to do i was
going to do my own show but they had a sitcom that they were already greenlit
and uh ray romano
was on it and ray was like the maintenance guy and ray got fired during the
pilot which is like the best
thing that ever happened to him he goes on to do the ray everybody loves raymond
and it's
huge bigger than news radio ever was so like he he gets fired and another guy
got hired and then he got
fired so i didn't feel bad because i'm friends with ray i love ray there's i
bet you that part just was not
good it wasn't the actor's fault because you audition and then i don't know
what it was it's
like you never know what they want like when paul the guy who created it paul
simms is this brilliant
guy who worked on um larry hbo um larry sanders thank you he worked on larry
sanders he was a brilliant
brilliant guy and he did a very clever thing like in the um the auditions yeah
the first audition i read for
it wasn't funny like on purpose they wanted to cut out all the people who were
hamming it up
right i was like oh my god this writing is nothing so i'm like i don't know
what this is so like you
know the nbc asked me to go in and read for it i memorized this stuff and i was
like i don't even know
what i'm saying this doesn't make any sense so i go in and i do it it's like
real flat and i say thank
you and all of a sudden i have a call back and then they send me the callback
sheets and it's hilarious
and i was like oh whoa in order to see if you could turn something because that
was a thing that
everybody hated was the hammy hammy sitcom actor come on bobby what are you
doing you're you're good
at that that's really good i've seen a lot of those guys so they wanted to
avoid that and so
then you know they they had a call back and it was just like me and two other
guys and these two other
guys look like they just got back from vietnam they were sweating they're pale
in the face that makes you
confident when you see someone nervous you're like okay super confident i
looked at these guys like
oh they can't handle pressure and i sat back in the couch and put my feet up on
the coffee table like
a dickhead yeah you did yeah well i was waiting or in the waiting room i was
looking at these guys
panicking and i was like just us yeah yeah i got this i had just like a sketch
show one of the rare
things i got and the guy i was so out of my mind nervous and i could hear in
the door this guy not
doing good panicking and i just got calm and i was like i got nice yeah yeah so
god then the show got
canceled well they all get canceled yeah 90 of them don't maybe even more right
don't most of them
never make it to a second season and definitely most of them never make it to
syndication they you
know they go a few episodes then they get canned i was on oh go ahead no i'm
just saying if the
production company's not making money the network's not making money it's not
getting ratings i was in a
situation it was um um said with the entertainer presents it was a sketch show
and it was like i
was so i remember that yeah i joined mid-season what year is this 2003 and i uh
big year for me um
so i uh i get there mid-season like we need a white guy to like pick on you
know i was a token white
guy and um louis ck was a writer was like a great freaking show and this he got
into like a fight with the fox
here's where i knew things were downhill now i didn't sell my car i had a
really and i'd pull up
to like the good spots and it was like lamborghini you know and then and it
wasn't just a shitty car
from like the early 80s it was