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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2127 - Eleanor Kerrigan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2127 - Eleanor Kerrigan

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Eleanor.
Great deep breath.
How are you?
You really took that in.
What's going on?
What's cracking, kid?
I'm excited to be here.
Excited to have you.
Woo-hoo.
How's LA treating you?
LA's good.
I mean, I'll be honest, I haven't been there a lot.
After I film my special, I mean, I'm on the road so much, which is good.
And then I get to go to Philly.
In between, I hang out with my mom.
So in between gigs, I'll just hang out with my mom instead of going back to LA.
But I feel like I haven't been.
I think I was there for five days last week.
Yeah, when you do the road all the time, your house sort of just becomes some
stop.
Yeah, but I have no responsibility whatsoever.
I don't have a plant.
I have nothing.
What a nice, what a free, what a free existence you've carved out for yourself.
What an asshole.
So selfish.
It's funny because people think about it that way.
Like you have to have things you're responsible for, otherwise you're a bad
person.
Yeah, I always tell my mom I'm living her, what she would want it to do had she
not had
10 children.
10 children.
Yeah, good times.
Isn't that crazy?
Keep it up, lady.
10 kids is so bonkers.
Who does that?
How about on the ninth one?
You're like, one more.
Her worst pregnancy.
The ninth one?
The ninth one.
Longest delivery.
My little brother Bobby.
She said that's how lazy he was.
He wouldn't come out.
He's so lazy.
She said he was hanging on for dear life.
I'm like, why?
And she said, because he's lazy.
It'd be an interesting study to have 10 kids and just to see like what makes
them come
out different because they're fucking, this is one thing like having children,
seeing them
from babies, you realize like, oh, they're different right out of the box.
Yeah.
Like it has zero to do with like what you tell them.
This is what you should do.
Like a lot of them is just how they come from the factory.
Exactly.
And you always think like, I know this genetic stuff, like there's you inherit
stuff genetically,
whatever, you know, I'm pretending I know what I'm saying.
And epigenetics.
Yeah.
But my, oh, that's good.
Oh yeah.
I remember that.
Anyway, I asked my mom to write this thing for me, like what she was going
through with
each kid just to see if I can get it.
Cause we are all different, like in the craziest way.
Oh, like in her life.
Yeah.
Like what was going on.
And it is interesting.
Cause when it gets to my brother, Charlie, like she was going through stuff
with my dad
and physically her whole body, she was pregnant.
She, her kidneys were failing and they had to literally move him to the side,
you know,
operate on her kidneys, take it out, whatever, before it like killed the baby.
Oh my God.
And it was insane.
Like she tells the story.
I'm like, Oh, what?
How?
Right.
Why?
And then she said they put it back, cleared her out.
She was good.
The kidneys didn't affect anything.
And then they assumed Charlie was going to be stillborn.
So she, they, the nurse came in and she was like real down.
And the nurse goes, um, are you nervous?
You're going to miss, you're going to lose this child.
And she's like, is this your first?
And my mom goes, no, this is my sixth.
And she goes, you go right ahead and lose that baby.
Oh my God.
The nurse said that?
It's a different time.
Oh my God.
Imagine if a nurse said that today.
She'd be executed on the spot.
Humans were so different before social media.
Yeah, it was so cool.
What is that?
Is it accountability?
Is it that we're now influenced by so many different people?
Is it like a lot of it is just more bullshit?
Like people can't just say what they really think because they're just
terrified they're
going to get attacked by so many people.
So you bullshit more.
And that lady was telling the truth.
Yeah, she was telling the truth.
That's all she did.
And she was in a weird way.
She was trying to encourage your mother to feel better.
Like, hey, you've got six kids.
You're going to be fine.
You're good.
You can lose this one, right?
She was just being serious.
By the way, Charlie's in his 50s.
He's fine.
Amazing.
They didn't know a lot back then, you know?
I don't know which one of your brothers I've met.
You've met Jimmy.
I know that.
And he tortures me.
He's like, I want that car.
I'm like, he's a car guy, the Bronco.
He's obsessed with the Bronco.
He's like, I'll come now.
I'll take it.
I'll just take it.
I'm like, oh, God.
I remember this one night at the comedy store.
They're crazy.
I don't know if you'll remember this because it was more like I was a nervous
wreck.
Jimmy was visiting.
He installed computers all over the country.
So he would come to L.A. a lot.
And he'd just pop in to the comedy store.
And we'd be like, oh, shit, my brother's here.
So we're hanging out.
We were all hanging out in the, what is it called?
Like the back.
With the parking lot is?
Kind of.
But like in the side, you know, in the little.
Yeah.
So you're sitting on the ledge and Don Barris was saying crazy shit to me,
right?
And in a way, Don does it.
We love it.
We love it.
But I'm dying.
And he's saying like horrible shit, right?
But we're crying, laughing.
And Jimmy was like just taking it in.
Like, what the fuck is this?
And you look at Don and you go, Don, look at his calves.
Rethink what you're saying.
Because Jimmy has these ridiculous calves.
And he's like Popeye.
And he was wearing shorts.
Yeah, of course.
Jeans shorts.
I'm positive.
He's an idiot.
But I was like, Don, you're about to get smashed.
Yeah, he's like, dude, calm down.
And you're like, Don.
And it just made me laugh so hard.
Like every time I think of that.
But Jimmy was in a lot.
Men who don't know or understand dangerous men are hilarious.
And Jimmy walks on his knuckles.
He's got giant hands.
Like everybody always sees his hands and they're like, oh, God.
Well, it's also from a different part of the world.
Right.
It's basically like picking a fight with a Russian.
Like Philadelphia dudes.
That's true.
They're fucking different animals.
Yeah, they're not.
They fight way more often.
It's like Philly, Boston.
There's like a few cities like that.
Parts of New York where you better shut the fuck up, man.
Yeah, just take it in.
They'll fucking hit you quick.
A lot quicker than you think.
Like you're not going to have any room for talking your way out of this.
You're going to get hit.
It's not going to help, Don Barris.
I remember Don's face like, what?
I remember thinking like, oh, my God, what happens here?
Your brother's going to beat the fuck out of poor Don Barris.
And Don's just saying, you know.
Well, that was a thing, though.
Because we play those games.
Don would do that to everybody.
He would go on stage in the later spot, the last spot in the OR.
And that show was done.
It was done two hours ago.
And somehow or another, there's still people in the audience.
So those people in the audience, they're the strangest of people.
Like some of them are just ne'er-do-wells.
Nothing's ever worked out for them.
But then finally, at 1.30 a.m. in Hollywood on the Sunset Strip on Tuesday,
they found their tribe.
Yeah.
They found their tribe.
And it's just them and a few other fucking scragglers and Don Barris.
And Don Barris is telling you how big his dick is.
And he's like, and he's put his foot on the table, staring people in the eye.
He's just doing, he's developed this style to do like kind of anything to get
laughter out of people that have seen everything.
Everything.
You have to understand, for people that are listening, how the Comedy Store
works.
You get there, the show starts on a regular night, starts at 8 o'clock.
What is it, what is it, Potluck?
What night does it start on Potluck?
Potluck's Monday now.
It was Sunday and Monday for a while.
It was Sunday, Monday, Tuesday for a while.
We were dying.
Was it Tuesday, too?
What time, when does Potluck start?
I think it starts at 7.
Okay, so that might be Don Barris might go on at the end of all the comics who
go on after the end of all the open micers.
So there might be people that are on fucking all kinds of shit.
Oh, yeah.
Methadone, fucking Adderall.
How many drinks they had.
Their whole life's a mess.
They've been texting their ex through the entire show and she's not texting
back.
These fucking lost, lost people.
The dregs of society.
And Don Barris would have them left over.
Yeah, and I've seen people like women walk out on their guys because they're
just, Don's like, let me spit in your mouth.
You know, it's, what?
I'm like, you want another rum and coke?
Like, I'm trying to sell drinks.
It's so crazy.
He was just trying to, I mean, he essentially developed a style.
Oh, yeah.
The king of late night.
Yeah.
Well, he put on a show, right?
Right.
It wasn't just his stand-up.
Like, he had a show.
Yeah.
Like, he really needed, he'll play music sometimes.
Da, da, da, da.
Yeah.
There was a lot going on.
He was entertaining you, which is interesting.
It's like, he's an entertainer.
He's truly the freest of entertainers.
Like, when I go up, I still get nervous.
I don't know if you get nervous at all.
Sure.
You do?
Yeah, sure.
Because sometimes I feel like an idiot.
If you care about something, you're going to get nervous.
There you go.
Yeah.
That's what it is.
I panic a little.
But Don Barris just doesn't, he just walks up like, hey, it's me.
Like, he just, maybe it's from years of doing the warm-up as well.
I think that, too.
I think it's a reps thing.
It's reps.
How many reps do you put in on stage?
Like, some of those guys in New York that were hosts, they would get better
really quick.
Especially at their delivery.
Because if you're hosting these nights in New York where people are doing seven
minutes,
you're going on stage, you're interacting with the crowd over and over and over
again.
Yeah.
And you find a way to be yourself.
It's like the inauthentic thing that a person does on stage.
You feel it while you're doing it.
The audience feels it.
And they might laugh still.
But you know that you're not really.
But then when someone figures out how to be just them, for whatever reason.
Like, Sebastian, he had to figure that out.
Sure.
Sure.
It took him a minute.
But he did.
And when he figured it out, it was like instantaneous murdering.
It's the best.
It went from a guy trying to figure it out to, oh, I got it.
Joey.
Do you remember the early days of Joey?
Joey Diaz?
Yes.
Interesting.
Do you remember?
I do.
Joey used to bomb.
Joey used to bomb.
Okay.
It was crazy.
It didn't make any sense.
He was the funniest guy in the parking lot.
And then he would get tense when he would go on stage and he wouldn't have a
good set.
It just wasn't him.
Interesting.
Yeah.
It was like more jokey joke.
Like he was trying to be a comedian.
He was trying to be some guy that's on late night television or something.
Maybe because I saw him in that light, the parking lot light, or he would fuck
with me
if I was waiting tables.
So it would make me laugh.
So I didn't judge what he did on stage.
The funniest guy of all time, talking to people.
Oh, yeah.
You would scream.
If there's a few of us hanging around and Joey came over, all of a sudden the
life of
the party was there.
Everybody had a big smile on their face.
Oh, Joey's here.
You know, and it would be fun.
But it took him a while.
And what it was was like getting his heart broken by deals that didn't happen,
agents that
didn't follow through, managers that fucked him up or fucked him over.
Yep.
And then he eventually was like, fuck these people.
Fuck these people.
And he just brought that energy on stage.
Like he thought it was over.
He thought, I don't have a career.
I'm probably going back to prison.
I just got out of prison.
Like when I met Joey, he was not out of prison very long.
No.
I mean, yeah, when did he come to L.A.?
96?
97?
Somewhere around that.
Okay.
Yeah.
I know I was on news radio.
Oh, okay.
Because Joey would come visit me on the set.
And th