Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2126 - Donnell Rawlings
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2126 - Donnell Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2126 - Donnell Rawlings

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
I don't want to try to do you dirty, Donnell.
Don't do that, man.
Don't do that, man.
Don't start with that.
Birds flying high, you know how I feel.
They tried to do you dirty.
Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
It's a new day, it's a new dawn.
They tried to label you.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good, Joe.
You look good.
Thank you.
You look real good.
Where'd you get that suit?
Who made that suit for you?
La Catino out of Brooklyn and some Korean tailors that I've been working with
for the last two years.
Nice.
And they're trying to make me go from Ashley to Clancy, and it's a new day.
I think it looks great.
And another thing you don't know about this suit, Joe, I smell as good as this
suit looks.
Okay.
What are you using for smell?
What is it called?
Portrait of a Lady.
It's an Arabic company.
That's all I know.
And I got a guy that outsources my colognes.
What do you do?
A little hair, a little hair, and a little on the wrists?
How do you do it?
Do you spray it and walk through it?
I spray it, walk through it, and then I do that an anointed mouth like, okay,
we get it.
You got some nice cologne on right now.
But it's good to be here.
There's something nice about a nice suit, man.
It does make you look professional.
It makes you work on your posture.
And one thing I did, another thing that I came here today, and it was my intent,
Joe, to break all the stereotypes.
So I got here 20 minutes earlier than I was supposed to be here.
You came 20 minutes late.
You enforced the story those times.
And I wore a suit without a court date, without a funeral, and without a
marriage proceeding.
So this is the whole thing of Donnell in a new day and changing his life.
I'm going through a transition.
What motivated this?
Law and Order?
Law and Order didn't motivate this.
Law and Order, first off, Law and Order is one of the most respected franchises
in the history of Donnell.
It's been around a long time.
Shout out to Author For Me.
Shout out to Dick Wolf.
And shout out to everybody that's a part of that.
And they say in New York, they say that you can't call yourself an actor in New
York unless you've been in Law and Order.
That's how many.
That makes sense.
It makes sense.
I mean, how many versions do they have?
I've been in every, when I first, beginning my career, people really thought I
was a dramatic actor more than a comic.
I was booking a lot of stuff.
I've been on every one of the episodes, not episodes, shows, and out of them, I
think 80% of them, I was arrested.
And I was like, wait a minute, am I getting typecast?
Every time I was able to play action, I'm like this.
And what'd I do?
What'd I do this time?
Every one.
Every one of them, I got arrested for something.
How many of them are there?
How many Law and Orders are there, Jamie?
Intent?
Special Victims?
Special Victims, I'm going to say, I'm going to guess, I'm going to say five.
Five different Law and Orders.
Homicide was technically part of it, too.
Okay.
Oh, maybe, no, this is related.
Never mind, hold on.
You got Law and Order, Special Victims Unit.
Two.
Organized Crime.
Three.
Adapted Series, Law and Order Toronto.
Four.
Criminal Intent.
Law and Order Criminal Intent.
Five.
Trial by Jury.
Six.
L.A.
Seven.
True Crime.
Eight.
Hate Crimes.
Oh, this is in development.
Hate Crimes for the Defense.
They're going to have a whole show dedicated to hate crimes.
But that brand is like, and I don't think those guys, I mean, Dick Wolf and
Arthur Forme,
when I first, I did it years ago, when I first did it, Arthur Forme was the
director when I did it.
And that was like, I think like in 2000.
And then recently.
People love to watch those shows where they get the bad guy.
Yeah.
You have to catch the bad guy.
And you have to have a bad guy.
Yeah.
I think that's a bad guy and you got to catch him.
But everybody is, everybody is more interested in the bad guy more than
anything.
That's in life general.
Yeah.
That's why you find so many people that necessarily don't have a lot of talent,
but they subscribe to the bad guy side of it and want to be negative.
And then everybody draws to that.
The bad guy is winning like a motherfucker.
The bad guy is winning.
In what way?
Yes.
In what way?
What do you mean?
I'll just say, I'll just say like this.
And I'm not being specific to anybody in general.
Even in the world of podcasts right now, right?
The model for a lot of people now is like, say some outlandish shit, say some
shit that's
going to piss somebody off.
Say some shit that's going to make you hate, make people hate you.
And now you have a platform and you have a successful platform because at the
end of the day with
this, it's all about engagement.
It's all about, can you get people to engage?
And at the end of the day, if you can do that, whether people like you or not,
you win.
Sort of.
But I think people get tired of that.
They get tired of conflict.
If your whole business is conflict, people don't want to be in conflict all the
time.
And they realize that a lot of conflict is unnecessary.
And if you're the type of person that likes to talk about conflict constantly
and talk about
it online, you probably also are willingly participating in it, maybe a little
too willingly.
Like maybe you're getting, you know, you're creating problems, creating
problems in your
own life, even as you get attention.
Like be careful what you wish for.
Because if you're, if you're known for just talking shit about people and then
you become
successful, then people are going to talk shit about you.
They're all going to come after you.
But the people that like that, they don't have a conscience to even care about
that.
Yeah, but everybody has a conscience.
I just think we accept a certain amount of bullshit.
We accept it.
And I think you should just concentrate on doing whatever the fuck you do well.
You don't have to just say outlandish shit.
And be so negative.
I just don't think it's necessary.
You don't, but you are living in a different world than black Twitter.
It does work.
It gets people's attention.
No, to the people you're speaking to, yes.
But black Twitter.
I get it.
And on these urban sites, you could be negative for years and years and years
and years and years and years and a motherfucker will come up.
And that's the truth.
You are around a world of, oh, he's a jolly good fellow.
But in that dark world, in that black Twitter world, it's a lot, lot of
negativity.
And it's very unfortunate.
That is unfortunate.
That's a very unfortunate thing.
I don't enjoy that.
I get it.
Black Twitter?
No.
Insulting people.
Getting mad at people.
At a certain point in your life, I realized that there's no room for that in
life.
You don't have to.
You can avoid it for the most part.
If you get avoided in your immediate life, you could probably avoid it in your
internet life, too.
I think you avoid that conflict and negative energy the more successful you
become.
Because I think that creates a, I don't give a fuck about bullshit attitude.
I think a lot of the anger and a lot of frustration that comes with a lot of
people is the beginning of the stage.
It's the beginning stages.
But when you get, like we were talking about it earlier.
Damn it.
Fuck.
You gave me that joint too quick.
You gave me that motherfucking joint too quick.
We were talking, um, this is a bad one.
Because I tried to get that pause to get my thought back.
I don't know what the fuck you just, what the fuck you just gave me, but it
just erased everything I was just thinking about.
You were talking about as you get successful, it's easier to avoid conflict,
which I probably agree with.
Also, you're comfortable enough where you could recognize the patterns that are
beneficial and not beneficial to you in your life.
So that's been your entire, not even as a fucking young Joe Rogan, you didn't
have the injury like, fuck this or fuck that motherfucker, I don't give a fuck.
You've always been this calm.
You've always been this collected and this calm your entire career.
No, definitely not.
So that goes to my point.
Yeah, but I learned how to do it.
Because I realized, you know what happened once, man?
This is a true story.
I was watching this dude on stage and I was hoping that he was bombing.
I was hoping he would bomb because he went on after me.
I didn't want him to do well and I realized, I go, what a bitch-ass way to
think that is.
To want someone to not do well.
I was 21 and I'll never forget it.
But that's the age though, Joe.
That's the age when you're like, fuck it, that's it, night-night, bye-bye.
Well, at that age, everyone is so ambitious and competitive that was getting
into comedy at that time that it was like,
it wasn't very, there wasn't a lot of camaraderie between like the open micers
because everybody was like super desperate.
Like, do you remember the desperate days where you weren't sure if you were
ever going to be a professional?
Like, there's desperate days.
I've never, I've never felt that way.
Never?
I'm telling you, it's not being cocky or whatever you want to say.
I've never felt that way.
Back to open mics?
The first open mic I ever did, I got a standing ovation.
That's insane.
I got a standing ovation.
I think it wasn't a standing ovation because I had the best material.
I was the funniest.
But earlier on, I used to go to the comedy clubs and fuck with comedians, right?
And I probably shared this, I used to heckle comedians.
And people started coming to the show to see me heckle.
So it was a thing.
This is why when people say I'm an interrupter, I've been an interrupter.
I've been an interrupter before I even got on stage.
That's hilarious.
How old?
I was like, I had to be like 21 or 22.
Perfect.
And the thing was, it was starting to build, people started getting excited for
me.
They knew that I was the guy in the audience that was funny.
But it was like some people in clubs that hang around, you'd be like, man, he
should do it.
You know what I mean?
Or like one day he should try it.
So I ruined all other comedians' careers or whatever.
You know, I would just destroy them.
They used to come up to me and be like, could you not fuck with me?
I'm working on some new material.
I'm like, it's my job to heckle you and it's your job to try to be funny.
You were a professional heckler?
I was a professional heckler.
That is so insane.
So much that, and I drew, I was drawing an audience.
That's so, how does this happen?
It just happened.
And then eventually the club wanted me to shut the fuck up, right?
They was like, we'll shut his ass up if he go on stage.
And then the audience, people really started coming to see me talk shit.
And I think the night, the first night I went on, I think it was to build up
like something
people felt like this dude is gone.
They felt like I was working for Safeway as a security guard in a grocery store.
And the first time I went on stage, all the people that were from my job used
to come,
they all looked at me like he's about to quit or get fired.
You know, it was just something that by chance, I never thought about doing
comedy.
I used to go there because I got free promotional tickets.
I never was the guy when I was younger than 13.
When I first looked into the mirror, I knew that comedy is what I wanted to do.
It was never that.
It just so happened being in that situation, I went up, I ripped it.
And when I ripped it, the first time I went on stage, I knew, I was like,
this is what I will be doing for the rest of my life.
And I didn't say it.
And with that thought, Joe, I didn't feel like I'm going to be rich.
I'm going to be famous.
I'm going to have a TV show.
For the first time I went on stage, only thing I want to do is be good.
That's almost to this point in my career now.
I'm like, if you're good, and this applies to anything in life, if you're good
at something and you're really good at it and you're pa