Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2276 - Felipe Esparza
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2276 - Felipe Esparza' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2276 - Felipe Esparza

The Joe Rogan Experience
Good to see you my friend it's been too long. What's up?
Boo good to see you too. When was the last time I saw you brother five years
ago or something five years ago
And I did the show here when you were in LA. Yeah at the warehouse
Damn, that's what I miss most about the store is
You know
Traveling dudes we would meet up. We'd meet up at the home base
Yeah, and now when I was a young comic, I would see like older comics like that
was here on television
They would just look coming out at that bar or the patio refresh. Yeah, you
pass by you see. Oh, yeah, that's
I used to see her at Dodger Stadium when I were working at Dodger Stadium
And I would ask her for advice and she was just just you know, like well every
comeback back there just keep writing
She's a funny comic. Yeah, she was a funny comic
Who's that lady that was on?
Um, curb your enthusiasm. She's very funny too. Old school comic. God damn it
I'm very embarrassed that I forgot her name. She hasn't done comedy in a long
time. Look that up
Yes, who's yes, man. Oh, do the other men there stand up. Yes. Oh, she was
great. Oh, she was really funny
I'm middled for her once and like fucking
1989 or some shit
Way back in the day my will you middle for that lady? Wow. Yeah
Yeah, I've got some place on long island. I can't might have been like
governors or something like that
I don't I do not remember but I remember she was very nice
She's very funny very nice very encouraging
Which is though the best man when you get to work with someone that you see on
television and you just like start now and then nice to you
That's so value. I can't believe it like when I when I was yes, there she is.
Whoa
She looked like Elaine from Seinfeld
Yeah, similar but that's the haircut back then, huh?
Yeah, well, they all have the other crazy everybody lost their mind in the 80s
Ali Lieberman
Yeah, they all they all lost their mind back then because like from the 70s to
the 80s nobody knew how to dress
They did crazy shit with their hair. She's going over her set
Yeah, they would all tease their hair. Yeah, it was crazy. There was like a big
hair thing
I think it was when people started doing cocaine
That's what I think I think is the 80s was Miami Vice and cocaine everybody
lost their mind
They lost their fashion sense people said to wear wacky clothes
Cars started looking like shit. Yeah, man. I love the Saab
Pinto
Cars just started looking like shit. I mean if you want an objective analysis
of what happens to a society
When they remove marijuana and mushrooms and then they bring in cocaine
It's like yeah, hey, you know what?
It's gonna call Ford Fiesta
Yeah, cuz we were Fiesta yesterday
But cocaine brought a Sam Kinison, yeah, though you have to real cocaine's done
some good
You think you did a lot a lot a lot?
No, no, it's like it's terrible for everybody who does it
But I do think that there's moments of inspired
Creativity from all kinds of substances
Especially that rock and roll cocaine that they used to get where it was like
just real pure cocaine
It wasn't stepped on did have amphetamines and fentanyl in it all kinds of
other shit
Good shit. None of the stuff you buy like in Grand Rapids, Iowa
And I just say this is a person who's never tried cocaine. Never?
Never. Never tried cocaine
Don't be lying
No, I would not lie
Never?
No, never
No, I got real lucky when I was in high school
I had a buddy of mine and his cousin started selling it and he was a great guy
and
I watched this dude kind of like shrink into himself and lost a ton of weight
and him and his girlfriend just
They had this attic apartment and they would just hang out and do coke and sell
coke and they would just like watch TV and do coke
And it was wow it was like they got bit by a vampire man
I was scared the shit out of me. I was afraid of cocaine man
Because when I started stand-up like I started stand-up like in 94 93
Open mic and I was clean. I was sober. I was a year. I was in rehab and I
wanted to be a comedian
So I went to a library to learn about writing Jean Perrette
comedy writing step-by-step another book called how to write funny be funny and
Make money being funny and that was a real great book, bro. I mean it had um
comedy clubs
Locations in the back and they had your numbers late to submit your comedy.
Yeah, well remember the comedy USA industry guide
$100. Yeah, can you believe that shit, bro? I remember dudes used to take out
full-page ads
That's how you knew they were killing it when a dude would take out a full-page
ad in the comedy USA industry guy
I'm like, wow, he's got a full-page ad. I remember bro
when
Well, I was looking for gigs in like in 2000, right and I remember this
comedian named Shang and
Dante
Those guys had a list of a live like a five page list of comedy bookers names
NACA number to call and the back of the page was shitty bookers to avoid
They decided to the comic for like 75 bucks. Wow, I
I got lucky that I was in Boston and
Boston had there was that was like the boom happened in Boston when like
Steven Wright got on tonight show everybody found out about Boston, but it was
already this like crazy community
There's a great documentary called when stand-up stood out. You had the guy on
the show here
Yeah, I've had a few of those guys on the show look at a Chinese restaurant.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Don Gavin
Yes, one of those guys Steve Sweeney legends
I still say to this day. There's some of the best comics I've ever seen him out
I've seen that murder harder than anybody I've ever seen in my life, but it was
just very regional very local and
A lot of it didn't translate nationally for some reason like Steve Sweeney in
Boston in front of a Boston audience is the funniest guy
That's ever lived and I'm not kidding. I'm not exaggerating. He would get like
Boston accents and Boston attitudes
It would be all big part of his act and dude it was murderous if you had to
follow that you were fucked
You were fucked man, and they would do that to dudes from out of town
It was the most ruthless cruel shit. They would do at Nick's comedy stop. They
would take these
Assassins these local assassins and stack them one after the other it would be
Kenny
Rogerson Don Gavin Steve Sweeney and then they throw up some headliner and this
poor headliner
He's used to soft acts on the road. He's used to being known for the guy who
was on television. Hey folks
Yeah, so I'm Mike, you know the sitcom and they try to do stand-up, but just
they were getting eaten alive
He's talking about nuggets. So I think the guys were up there all coked out. Oh,
yeah
They were in the crowd though. They were wild boys - they were a big like
football player sized wild
crazy drinkers and partiers and they were funny man and so because there was
this like love of
Comedy in Boston they had all these comedy nights all over the place where you
could make a living so you could be like a half-assed comedian like I was and
You know you can make 500 bucks a week just hustling just moving around
That's what we all did so there was so many places that you could work and so
many like little booking agents and like like
Western Massachusetts you have to go out there like, you know, like there's
these weird towns that are like
Liberal hideouts, you know what I mean? Like the universe like Amherst you'd
get like Amherst gigs. It was weird
like Amherst, Massachusetts. The other place that you gotta be from there to
pronounce it right. Which one is that?
The one is that you did for a steak sauce. Oh, Worcester. Worcester. Yeah
2010 I was doing last comic standing there and I got there a day early and I
hung out with a
Boston comic. I think his uncle is that cop the guy that caught that was
missing in action
The Irish gangster. Oh
Comedian yeah, and he and they he was I said yeah, man. We performing Worcester
sir
And then he took the joint he goes no bro Worcester. Okay, thank you for
telling me, bro. Yeah, you don't want to say hey Worcester
Nice to be here. They would fucking kill you. They're like, that's where the
great stuff Doug Stanhope is from. Yeah
Worcester Doug Stanhope started in Worcester. I love him. He's the best
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I had a first comedy album the one he did with roaring or something
Mm-hmm the one we did with music in the background. Yeah, that was great. That's
a great place
Like that a Boston place, but not in a documentary, but will Durst
He's a San Francisco comedian. Sure. He had a room like that called a comedy
zoo or the the zoo Holy City
Yeah, and there's a comedian that came out of there
That's a killer comic and he's still alive and he opened for me and he opened
for Rob Schneider and Papa and
He opened up a lot of people
Larry bubbles Brown. Oh cool, and he's always good guy after every joke. He
goes mer
Mer, but he did the letterman in 1992
And then he did it again in 2006
So he has a record for doing letterman between 30 years Wow
But he wanted to come in that like never left San Francisco
There's a few of those guys that got trapped like that. Yes. Yeah, they were
like really good guys remember that one guy in Chicago
Fuck, but was Larry
Larry Reeb
Larry Reeb remember Larry Reeb he was a guy like that like a really solid
national act
But it was so Chicago it kind of stayed around there mostly
It was like every now and you find towns like that you're like one murderer
that lived in the town
Bob Marley in New England
I mean Bob Marley is the murderer of Maine
Robert Schimel was Arizona. I love Robert Schimel. Yeah, he was the best. He
was the best. He was such a good guy
But he was he lived in Phoenix and it was somewhere in that area. I think it
was Phoenix
But for him it was like it was easier to get around the country that way and he
didn't want to be a part of it
He was like one of the first guys that I was like
Oh
You could like be a big-time comic and not have to leave your state
But you get to a point where you can live in Oklahoma like Larry the cable guy
does probably where does he live?
He lives in like somewhere like Georgia or something like that. I don't know in
the country where's he live?
Is that where he lives though? I don't want to give up is I'm not trying to
dock so he was from music on the radio there
But I think yeah, he's definitely from there
I just don't know if he lives there. We probably shouldn't say where he lives,
but that dude is
He could be anywhere. It doesn't matter like you could you could just go
anywhere
I like to see his face when I go to El Paso comic strip and all the dudes you're
talking about they were all there
Dude, I remember Josh Wolfe showed me a picture that he took when he was on
stage and they were doing it was like
60,000 people
So Larry the cable guy was doing like 60,000 people and Josh Wolfe's like got
his camera
He's like moving around on stage like that is the craziest fucking thing I've
ever seen that crowd is so insane
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