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Joe Rogan Experience #2097 - Jeff Dye

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hey, Jeff Dunn, how you doing, fellas?
Thanks for having me, man.
My pleasure, brother.
I'm a big fan, so.
You were very funny last night.
It was fun.
Oh, thanks.
It was fun to see it.
I was telling them before you got here that, like, it's very rare that I got a
little nerves.
Yeah, that club's weird.
And so when I came out, I was like, yeah, this is a big deal.
You know, like, I don't, it's been a while since I've had some nerves.
And I was coming out there going, oh, it took me like about 30, 40 long seconds
to really dial in and go, all right.
I was kind of having an ad in my head going, Joe's watching and hope this goes
well, you know, because it's such a beautiful club.
The bar's high.
Yeah.
Oh, that whole crowd's going on.
You know, we're going to see everybody, Tom Segura, Joe Rogan.
You follow Brian Simpson, too, who's really fucking on fire right now.
I was just very, very, it was just cool.
It was cool to be in there.
You got a torch?
Yeah.
Yeah, there's one right there.
This is a torch.
Oh, that's a torch, too?
Look at you.
You got all the gadgets.
Yeah, we, shout out to Foundation Cigars.
They actually made us some Comedy Mothership logo cigars.
They're really good.
Is it out?
Yeah, here, try this one.
Sorry.
It might be almost out of juice.
Got it.
But, yeah, I get it.
I was nervous when I first did stand up there, too.
Yeah, it's like that.
It was my first set there.
It was weird.
I was like, are we really doing this?
Yeah, it's in your dad.
We're talking about this for two years.
And then all of a sudden, we're doing it.
We were all shitting our pants.
Every one of us backstage was like, fuck.
It's such a cool place.
But the thing is, we had been doing so much stand up.
Yeah, your whole life.
To get weirded out by this one set for some reason.
It's special.
Yeah, it felt like the audience was like that, too.
They felt a little weirded out, too.
They were like, wow, this is real.
They got to be there at the very first show.
I used to feel like that at the store a bit.
I would literally crush, at the Laugh Factory,
25 minutes before I walked over to the comedy store.
And then I was like, oh, I hope Adam sees this.
For whatever reason, the store has...
I think every comic has some sort of weird issues
with the comedy store.
For sure.
All different things.
But I don't know how or why.
Dude, when I was a kid, when I was 21,
when I first started doing stand up,
people would talk about the comedy store
like it was mecca.
Like you had to make your pilgrimage.
This was where Richard Pryor came from.
This is where Sam Kinison came from.
It was mecca.
Yeah.
And you only heard about, you know,
like that this is the spot.
There was no other one place you had to go.
Like you could go to Catch.
You could go to Catch a Rising Star,
which is in New York.
You could go, which is a great club.
You could go to the Improv and Melrose.
That was a great club.
It's all great.
The store was mecca.
And when you got past there.
Dude, I was already on a television show
when I got past.
And when getting on a television show was cool,
it was cool to be on TV.
Like, wow, I can't believe I'm on TV.
This is nuts.
But the real thing for me was when Mitzi passed me.
Yeah.
I was like, oh my God.
Like, I think I'm a real comedian.
Yeah.
Like, I'm a real professional.
Like, because, you know, in the beginning,
the few years, you feel like such a fraud.
You feel like, you know, like.
Any stage time.
Yeah.
You're learning it as you go.
You're not really sure if you're going to make it.
Some of your jokes suck.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Everyone, now and then, though,
you get one that pops.
Yeah.
You're like, God, I need more of those.
Like, I need more like that one.
That's why so many comics go edgy or like dirty soon.
Of course.
Because they're like, at least a reaction's better than bombing.
Exactly.
I'd rather that than silence.
You know.
And there's always some subjects that just have built-in laughs.
You know, there's some subjects that you pretty much can't fuck it up.
If you, you gotta, it's a, it's a topic that people like to laugh just at the
top.
Like, ah, ha, ha.
I feel like every comic, when you start, tell me if you found this to be true.
Of course, they all start with the, I know what I look like.
Or I look like.
Right.
Or you hear that version of that.
A combination of them.
Right.
Or they, they come up with a, or they, they like some sort of song lyrics.
That's all, because songs are poems.
Yeah.
And they're metaphors.
So, for whatever reason, every comic is like, I was listening to this song the
other day.
Yeah.
And the lyrics, you're like, yeah.
Because it's a metaphor.
Like, and you're going to take the most literal route on this writing.
Yeah.
To make yourself sound smarter than the artist.
But it's like, it's kind of like, trying to get to you and that monkey.
And you're like, he's trying to get to a monkey?
And you're like, no, dude.
That's the radio edit of booty.
You know, they can't say, trying to get to you and that pussy or booty or
whatever.
The real lyric is.
Yeah.
It's a thing.
Well, it's just pop culture too, right?
So you, you really, you're terrified to talk about something that people don't
know about.
You don't want to have to explain something while you're, because then you have
to get their full attention.
It's not an immediate, like if you wanted to bring up LeBron James, you say the
name LeBron James.
Everybody knows who LeBron James is.
It's an instantaneous reference.
Absolutely.
But if you want to talk about some weird sect of the Christian church that you
grew up in, you're like, what?
What?
What?
Like, that's a fucking black belt joke.
You know, like you have to.
You're not there yet.
Yeah.
You're not ready for like a esoteric subject.
You're not ready for any weirdness.
I had a comic tell me the other night, we did this corporate event.
I don't want to say his name because, you know, but he's just new.
That's all.
He's not guilty of being unfunny.
He's not guilty of being a bad guy.
He's just guilty of being new.
Yeah.
That's all it is.
Like we all were.
And he goes, what do you think about this joke?
And it's this wildly insensitive joke about the Bible and Mary.
And it's a gross oversimplification, but it's also just latently disrespectful.
Like, and that's okay.
You know, Louie wants to do that joke.
You want to do that joke.
Some people want to limp in on that subject.
You can do it.
Yeah.
And I go, you can't.
You know what I'm saying?
He's like, what do you mean I can't?
I go, no.
You're not ready for that.
Two months in, you're trying to tackle that.
Like, it's not going to work.
An abortion joke in your first five minutes.
Like, settle down.
Yeah, these people have no idea who you are.
And you're like, it's not going to work.
Leave that to Bill Burr.
Yeah.
Leave the abortion joke to Bill Burr.
Maybe not month one, bud.
Yeah, you're not, you don't have any idea what you sound like.
You don't have any idea how other people are perceiving you.
It's chaos up there.
It doesn't seem like it should be.
It's, I feel like we understand it more than most people, which is why so many
people think
they can do it.
But even we kind of barely understand it.
Like, I understand how I do it.
But there's a lot of guys, I see them like, I don't know what you're doing, but
it's hilarious.
Harlan Williams.
I love Harlan.
Harlan Williams.
He's so silly.
He's so silly.
Yeah.
When you watch him on stage, you're like, if you wrote that out.
Oh, yeah.
It would not make any sense.
Sir, can you please look away?
I'm trying to perform up here.
I'm fucking dying.
You can't write that.
He was on Kill Tony, and he brought a checkbook and started just writing checks
to people
for like a million dollars.
And it just became this running gag.
It was hilarious.
He had Jeff Ross roast a roast.
He pulled out a roast, and he put two little googly eyes on it, and he goes, I
want you to
roast this roast.
And that's only Harlan can do that.
Only Harlan.
If anyone else did that, I'd be like, get this dog shit out of here.
But like Harlan Williams, it's perfectly his voice.
I've known that guy for probably like 25, 26 years.
He's always been super cool.
No one hates Harlan Williams.
No one.
You will never meet anybody who doesn't like Harlan Williams.
He isn't like, but is exactly like Norm Macdonald, where he's got his own thing.
His own thing.
And they're both Canadian, and they're not similar, but they're both these
unique, one-of-a-kind
men.
Yeah, he doesn't vary.
He's always that guy.
He's always like this super sweet guy.
That's got that guy offstage, onstage.
Hey, fella, what a great club.
You know, he's a pumpkin pie haircut freak.
He improv'd that on the movie Dumb and Dumber to Jim Carrey, and it stays in
the script.
Like, that's how.
Yeah, no, that's Harlan.
He's such a fun guy.
But like, I don't know how he does it.
Imagine if being Harlan's comedy coach.
Like, I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah, just do you.
Yeah, I don't know how to tell you.
William Montgomery's another one.
Have you seen William?
He's a young guy from Austin.
He was in LA for a while, then he came out here.
His comedy is so...
I wish I could do one of his bits, but I don't want to give up some of his
material.
Oh, you got a kid that works at Mothership, who I'm obsessed with.
And I don't know if he'll be a star.
I don't know.
I've never been able to predict any of this shit.
If you'd have asked me if I'd have thought a lot of these people that became
stars are stars.
I'm not a good read of this, but I do know a brilliant comic when I see one, a
Casey Rocket.
Oh yeah, he's very funny.
And here's the difference.
So, for me, here's the difference.
Is when you watch me, you go, oh, I know who Jeff's inspired by.
You know, he likes Patrice.
He likes Norm.
He likes these truth tellers.
And he loves The Simpsons.
And if you know that formula, when you watch me, you go, that's what this guy
liked.
That's what he watched.
You know?
No one's doing what Casey Rocket's doing.
No.
So, at least it's different enough that you, like, whether you love it or hate
it, you go, I've never seen it before.
Well, even if you, well, first of all, you should appreciate that.
But then also appreciate that whatever he's doing, it's funny right now, and he's
going to get better.
Yeah.
I love it.
It's going to get even more better.
I watched him, and I don't know if you'll like me saying this.
He didn't do too great on the show that I watched.
And I'm in the back going, whatever that is, sign me up.
I'll watch that.
He varies, but he does well a lot.
He does well a lot.
He's got real potential.
He's a funny dude.
He did, like, six minutes on Jimmy Carter.
Kid's in his 20s, and he's doing Jimmy Carter jokes.
And I'm in the back on, no one's going to, because, you know, it was like a bar
show in Manhattan Beach, and they want some race hustling jokes.
Oh, yeah, if you're doing a bar show in Manhattan Beach, that's, well, that's
hit or miss.
It is hit or, yeah.
Boy, those are good for, like, just stress testing the vehicle, though.
And who cares if the joke doesn't work?
Yeah.
You can, you know.
I watched you last night for probably 30 minutes of the hour that you did.
It seems like you're having a lot of fun.
I'm having a lot of fun.
Is this a new or is this a, I mean, I've seen you a bunch of times, but, I mean,
like, it's been a few years, I think, since I got to see you on stage.
And you seem like you're having so much fun.
I'm having a good time.
That's inspiring to watch.
Yeah, well, first of all, you know, I'm in a place where I can do whatever I
want, so I'm doing as much stand-up as I want.
And I'm doing it specifically just to make the stand-up better.
Like, that's how I think about it.
All I'm doing is, like, I treat it like, well, what is the most important thing
of it?
The most important thing is the show.
Like, try in 