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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2296 - Big Jay Oakerson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-03-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2296 - Big Jay Oakerson

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The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Big J.
What's happening?
Hell yeah.
You went with the three nose rings now.
You're getting crazy.
Yeah, it's getting carried away.
I went to go, I had a cold and I think I blew my nose, one of them out.
So then I went to go get it, re-put back in and I was like, throw another one
in there while you're at it.
Fuck it.
I'm just me fighting age, I think.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, yeah.
There's something weird when you're fighting age.
Like, you know you're doing it, but you can't help it.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Like, when people make fun of me, just the way I dress or whatever, coloring my
hair, my piercings.
And they always like, is it going to change at some point?
And I am hitting an age where I'm like, I can't just do a hard shift one day.
But it is funny to think, like, I can't see myself at 65.
With painted nails.
Doing some of the stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
Why not?
Who gives a shit?
You can, but it's also like, I feel if I saw it, I'd have a million and one
jokes about it.
Right.
But it's still at the end of the day, you're like, you know, I'd walk out and
go, oh, I forgot my pocket scarf.
I got to go back upstairs.
I forgot my accoutrements.
As long as you're still funny, you can pull it off.
But when you're bombing with red hair and three nose rings.
Shit, that's true.
It becomes an issue.
That is true.
As long as you stay funny.
That's why I think when I first started, I tried to blend in whatever I was.
I started in that black circuit.
So like, I had so much fubu shit on.
Oh, there you go.
And just like, yeah, jerseys and stuff.
So I definitely played it up.
The funniest was having a big silver chain with a cross and I'm Jewish.
But it just really was like, I think they'll like me more if I have a cross.
When I first started, I thought you had a dress like those guys on Evening at
the Improv.
So I got a blazer and I rolled the sleeves up and I had like a wacky t-shirt
that I wore.
The costume?
Yeah, the costume.
You have a button on your blazer, some wacky button.
I watched all those shows growing up, Evening at the Improv, Caroline's Comedy
Hour.
The evolution of comedy is insane.
It's pretty insane.
Yeah.
The evolution of just like the fact that these guys, I've watched, like we'll
always laugh
and go back and watch like a Bill Kirshenbauer.
Do you know that?
That was the guy.
I don't remember him.
He played, he was the coach on a sitcom.
He got a sitcom called Just the Ten of Us where he had like eight kids or
something.
He was like a coach.
It was a spinoff show of some sort, but he was just like a zany comic.
He just would go on stage and he was just loud and weird.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I remember him.
But these were the guys who made the rounds.
Right.
Monologists.
Yeah.
Well, it's almost like their act just got them to a sitcom.
Like that was a real strategy back then.
You had an act that could get you to a sitcom.
That's all everybody wanted.
When I did New Faces at Montreal, my manager at the time, terrible, just gave
me, I mean,
he was just pushing the old advice.
He was like, everything's like, don't be yourself at all.
Like, write a set that's going to be, what's your sitcom, basically.
And dress, you know, a certain kind of dress like for stage.
And I don't know what I was, I didn't know how to like, what he meant in nice
clothes.
So I had like black loafers and straight leg, like dark blue dungarees.
And like a short sleeve buttoned down shirt.
I'm just picturing you in black loafers on.
And a short sleeve, like blue buttoned down shirt.
It looked ridiculous.
And it was so dramatic.
It's also funny too, doing it as long as I have now.
27 years, I think I'm doing it.
Like the hilarious, like fake emotion you put into things.
I remember having, my daughter was a baby when I did New Faces.
And talking to the picture backstage before I went on stage.
Like, all right, we're going to go do it.
And then had a mediocre set.
And all I got from New Faces was like a MTV2 talking head one-off.
Like, what were they thinking?
What were they wearing?
MTV2 Presents.
You remember those things?
Where you would just start talking shit about people?
That's it.
Yeah, and they would just clip it up?
They took a, they wouldn't, I did a couple of them.
They didn't air most of it.
And the one I always remember, because when I would go back to MTV for anything,
they would always be like, we still pass the, like the segment around of you
doing that.
What were they thinking?
Yeah.
And it was Fiona Apple on an award show years ago to accept her award.
She got there and started quoting.
She's like, the great Maya Angelou or something.
And I was like, Maya Angelou.
I was like, what is she talking about Maya Angelou for?
I go, look, we all loved her as Wheezy Jefferson.
And I enjoy her pancake syrup.
But, and then they were like, yo, you can't call Maya Angelou Aunt Jemima.
I'm like, but I'm kidding.
But I'm kidding though.
I know Maya Angelou is.
Wasn't it funny that they took Aunt Jemima off of Aunt Jemima?
But that was an actual lady who was an entrepreneur?
Yeah.
And they just could get rid of it because no one's paying attention to why.
No.
They just decided that it was racist.
Black people don't dress like that anymore.
They just decided that Aunt Jemima was racist.
Uncle Ben.
But that's true, right?
I mean, this, this is not a TikTok myth, is it?
Make sure that's true.
And I might have, I got, I might have got fooled by TikTok.
I should say reels because I'm not really on TikTok.
Which part though?
Whether or not Aunt Jemima was a real entrepreneur, I'm pretty sure it's true.
I think, I think it's based on a real woman.
And I think she just was like an awesome cook and put together some fucking
pancakes.
Some great pancakes.
Yeah, there's a lady.
But then Nancy Green, it says.
Oh, so her name wasn't Jemima?
Right there.
That's the real lady?
I mean, this is the first ads, I guess.
You could tell me that's, you could tell me that's.
Hold up, hold up, hold up.
That looks like racist propaganda.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Eyes in town, honey.
Okay.
All arguments are out the window.
Eyes in town, honey.
Okay, unless you are an actual black person saying that, you can't write that
down.
Like, you know that was some fucking egghead advertising executive to put that
together.
Oh my God.
And then the poor guy, the poor guy at the printing press had to keep double
checking.
He was like, are you sure we're going to do this?
I, apostrophe S?
Okay.
Yes, it's how they speak.
Oh, I don't know, man.
Oh, bro.
I don't want to get involved in this.
Damn, that was a crazy picture.
I just saw, I went to a, uh.
That's so crazy.
I was looking at an art gallery in Philly recently that had like a Dr. Seuss
exhibit at it.
And I forgot that Dr. Seuss had all those like crazy racist drawings and stuff.
Right.
What were they?
What were they?
It was just like, you know, a hunter, like with like a savage with like giant
lips and stuff like that.
That's right.
You know what's like the most crazy racist shit that caught me off guard was R.
Crumb.
Yeah.
You know, R. Crumb, the like 70s sort of psychedelic comic book guy.
Um, he was very popular when I was a kid living in San Francisco and then when
I was an artist and I was like, I used to love his stuff.
Cause I was like, God, this guy's so weird.
And then I saw some of the, like the super racist ones.
And you're like, yo, what the fuck?
It really is.
The explanation is like, yeah, it's a different time.
He had some just weird shit, man.
Like he liked riding on giant women.
You ever see the documentary they did on him?
No, but I know what it is.
Yeah.
No, I've never seen it.
It's very interesting.
It's like, cause his brother is super weird and his mother is super weird.
And you know, here's this guy like wearing a tie and he's real pervert.
And he's like openly a pervert, but like a brilliant artist.
That's great.
Yeah.
Really fascinating.
I've heard of it before.
It is amazing though.
I was, I went to a, a musician, a musician's house for New Year's Eve when I
first moved to New York.
So 20 some years ago.
And he just invited me and Kurt Metzger and we went to his apartment and it was
covered in like Sambo paintings.
Like real.
Oh, geez.
But there was like black people at the party.
It was just like, yeah, it's art.
And I'm like, I don't know if I'd cover my house in something.
I had to explain every one of them to people.
I go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah.
You have a lot of choices.
You can have puppies, flowers.
I see.
It's so funny when someone makes a strong decisions, if they change their ways.
I used to drive strippers to bachelor parties to be the bouncer with zero
skills to handle that whatsoever.
I took the job as like fat kid that wanted to see naked girls for free.
And I ended up at a bachelor party with two brothers.
It was one of the brothers thing and he was covered in like swastika tattoos
and all kinds of crazy shit.
And the strippers were not both white for sure.
But there's also black people at this party and stuff like that.
And I don't know the explanation these guys have to give.
But I talked to one of their black friends and was like, hey, is it weird to
ask?
But like these guys are all covered in like swastika and racist tattoos.
And they were like, oh, yeah, they just got caught up in some bullshit when
they were teenagers.
They're good dudes.
And you're like, wow.
And they're still wearing short sleeve shirts, huh?
That seems strange.
You think these guys are being like wearing Terrell Owens body suits like to
cover that up.
It's like one of the arguments why you shouldn't be able to get a tattoo until
you're 25.
Is that when the brain's fully formed?
Yeah, when you're a boy, women mature younger.
But when you're a boy, your brain is fully formed at 25 when you're able to
make solid decisions.
What decisions do girls make for tattoos that are that great?
Very few swastikas.
Very few swastikas.
Like what are the numbers of swastikas on girls versus on dudes?
Like if we could Google that, please.
What percentage?
Like what percentage?
I think it's just that one girl, the character that Firuza Balk played in
American History X.
I just read a thing recently.
This made me laugh so hard.
You know this movie, American History X?
Yes, I remember that movie.
That movie was crazy.
Great movie.
Crazy movie.
Ending is such a question mark on it.
Right.
And if you recall, like, you know, he goes to prison.
He reforms himself.
He comes out.
He tries to get his brother out of that mindset of being a white supremacist.
And then he succeeds basically in telling him the story of what happened to him
in jail.
And then the next day he walks his brother to school.
His brother gets killed by a black kid, shoots him in the chest.
And he dies.
And then he goes in to save him.
Or he goes in there and just cries, screaming, like, what have I done?
You know, his brother's dead now.
And then they end the movie.
The director, who apparently was a lunatic, him and Edward Norton, like, fought
the whole time.
Oh, really?
Over, like, how the movie should go.
But the director's ending he wanted to do was after the brother gets shot by
the black kid, they were going to show Edward Norton in the mirror and then
with the big swastika tattoo on him.
And then he was going to smirk in the mirror and walk off.
And I was like, they should have played back in black after that.
He's back.
And he's racister than ever.
I was almost going to get it removed.
Just imagine being...
Smiling at him.
Can you imagine having a Schwarzenegger movie ending to American History X?
That is so crazy that he wanted to do that.
I mean, not the song.
But that is...
Yeah, but the image...
But they should have played the song.
Yeah, the image of smirking.
The song would have been...
Everybody would have been so mad.
Can you imagine if you cheesed i