Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2083 - Taylor Sheridan
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2083 - Taylor Sheridan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2083 - Taylor Sheridan

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience trained by day Joe Rogan
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night all day what's happening brother how you doing man thanks for doing this
man thanks for
having me um dude listen man I've been a fan of your work for well first thing
I ever saw that
you did was hell or high water but going through the my friend Andrew Schultz
turned me on to
Yellowstone I got a text message from once like at one o'clock in the morning
like dude Yellowstone
have you seen it like no everybody's watching it should I watch it he's like
dude watch it so I
got into Yellowstone and it goes like Yellowstone is fucking great but 1923 is
better but 1883 holy
shit and on your recommendation I finished it last night I was up till 1 30 in
the morning I didn't
sleep I went I went to bed at like four because I was just laying around my
house just thinking about
just going what the fuck man that I don't think anybody has ever nailed that
time period like you
did there's nothing close there's nothing even in the fucking ballpark nothing
well thanks I you know
the reason I chose to do this for a living um I was off to my third college I
was gonna go flunk out of
and uh and and and right before I left I'd read Lonesome Dove you know Mercury's
book and then I saw
the miniseries with Duvall and and Tom of the and I said I want to do that I
don't know what that is
but that's what I want to do wow you know so I started I started as an actor
first because I thought that's what
it was and then I realized I'm not doing that I'm not creating a story and then
finally you know I got
the conus to quit and and and write my own but yeah 1883 was me Yellowstone's
the the punk rock me
there's there's a fair amount of um it's it has no plot really you know don't
take my land I want your
land right um and in that I have a lot of opportunities to to poke fun but also
kind of point out different
points of views and kind of really study away a life in a world um but there's
a lot of defiance
in the way that I do it it's it's not surprising that critics hate it because
uh it's designed for the
critics hate what they hate Yellowstone and confounded by its success oh god
they can't get their heads
around why it's there's been new york times has done multiple multiple articles
where they're doing like
this essay on how is this so popular oh god that's so funny it's so funny that
they don't get it 1883
was me grown up saying like hey let's take a look back at history yeah let's
look at us and who us is
as far as the you know the Europeans who settled this place and and let's not
argue about whether they
should or shouldn't have let's just look at what the hell they went through to
do it critics are less
relevant today than at any time in human history they really are they're they're
off so much more than
they're on yeah agreed and most people don't buy into it at all like if you
look at the like a perfect
example is uh one of dave chappelle's specials the critics score was like three
percent on rotten tomatoes
and then the public score was 97 yeah like that's all you need that's all my
shows who who the are
you like who are these people who are these people that are critics i have a
show called mayor of
kingstown which is all about literally the decay of an american city and i
think it was 21 on rotten
tomatoes and 94 audience ratings of course bananas and it i just don't
understand why they're still
employed i mean what what is the purpose that they serve other than speaking to
other completely
disconnected supposedly highbrow people that live in congested urban areas yeah
and i think also that
critics and i don't know why but they seem to feel a need to judge any project
by what it how is it
looking at the lens through today's new question morality how is what should we
be making movies
about and you can make a shitty movie about something that they support and
they're going to support that
movie but my that's not my job my job as a storyteller is to pick a world and
look through the window and
not judge it and go hey here's what it was yeah and and here's the decision
some people made and you know
for me you know the holy grail as a storyteller is entertain educate and
enlighten don't give anybody
answers just lots of questions to think about that's my job because i can't
stand to pay money
and have somebody preach to me yeah their ideas that's the fastest way to get
me out of that's
the reason i hated forrest gump and i don't mean to say that i'm gonna catch a
lot of shit but this
doddering fucking idiot is the only guy that can figure out the world everybody
else around him
he's just going to go on a fucking run across america and everyone's going to
follow him and that's
going to heal the country i just was like what is this shit well i think back
then it was just it was
novel because it was the idea was like the the word like it could be so much
simpler that this simple
guy could figure it out and that we're all so disconnected the irony is you
couldn't make that movie
today oh no because someone would be too offended at sure the portrayal of
forest character well my
favorite movie that you can never make today is tropic thunder oh it's a great
movie
i'm so glad they haven't banned it you know like like they've done so many
books like you know
and tom hanks uh you know like if you go and watch his portrayal of forrest gump
it's nothing compared
to the way they do like that simple jack character in tropic thunder and when
he says you never go full
retard like you can't even say that word anymore no but but if you look at that
movie which was designed
to offend but also ridicule us taking ourselves too seriously that's that's one
of our jobs yes you
know it's hey let's we're all taking ourselves way too seriously and if we can
make light of this and
make jokes about this then all of a sudden it won't feel so serious and we can
be reflective well what
what's happened in your business has happened in my business too the business
of comedy like comedy
movies are dead they've been they've essentially killed the genre all the
movies that we grew up loving like
all the movies like something about mary and you know you can go down the line
all the way down to
animal house you could never make any of those movies anymore and and to go one
step further like
comedians since lenny bruce these guys men and women whose job it was to push
the envelope as far as it
can be pushed to help us look at ourselves and you think of the greats like the
great comics bill hicks eddie
murphy sam canison i mean robin williams and and you look at their at their
acts hell look at look at
uh what's her name before she did a talk show joan rivers yeah none of their
acts would be socially
acceptable today and and i don't know that they were socially acceptable then
but that was their job
richard prior he couldn't say 90 of what he said yeah but he's but you need
people to sit there and push
those boundaries because art to one person defensive to another but you got to
have it you got to have it all
yeah we say you know in the comedy world we say we're the last line of defense
because this is
where where the woke meets the wall the woke meets the wall with stand-up
comedy this does you can't
have woke comedy it sucks it's impossible you can't like always punch up and
cater to everybody and it's
like no it's that's not what's funny what's funny is the the fucking weird
things that people do and all of
our hypocrisy and all of our contradictions and all the chaos about being a
human being and if you want
to never make fun of marginalized groups or never make fun of protected classes
or never make fun of
anybody that's downtrodden or disassociated or disaffa you can't do that you
can't that's that's not
stand-up comedy stand-up comedy has to be everything it has to be everything
that's funny regardless of
whether or not it's socially acceptable to make fun of those things and i think
that we need to
it's healing to laugh right yeah it's healing to to and by the way if we're
going to talk about race
relations uh who are some of the people that help push that who help people
understand how you felt
on you know how in the world when i'm 14 years old am i supposed to know how it
feels to be african
american in la how am i going to know that growing up in a small town in texas
but then you see a comic
who's from south central la make jokes about me make jokes about living there
and you get some
understanding of it yeah you have some empathy you have some some knowledge
well we're in a weird time
where everybody has a say and i don't think everybody should be able to talk it's
like i mean everybody
should be able to talk but through social media that gets just broadcast in
mass to the world
and you get these groups of people that they huddle up in these
fucking echo chambers and they duke it out i think i think we have what's
happening right now
and it's privilege it's it's from a coddled where the this is the wealthiest
nation society in the history of civilization yeah and people are so cuddled
that they have
confused feelings with rights and your feelings being hurt as a violation of
your rights and it's not
yeah you do not have a right to never be offended it's worse than that they've
confused hurting your
feelings with violence yeah they literally could say words or violence yeah
disagreeing with someone is
violence you've never seen real violence then you're talking nonsense somebody
said something once
and i've repeated it many times but it's a great thing to say the worst thing
that's ever happened
to you is the worst thing that's ever happened to you even it's if you just the
worst thing that's
ever happened to you got a flat tire oh my god if you had a bunch of shit
happening and you get a
flat tire like i guess i gotta change my tire it's no big deal but if you are
living this
fucking sheltered life and the worst thing that's ever happened is you're a a
dude in a dress and
someone misgenders you you know like oh my god this is violence like no this is
not violence
you're a fucking guy in a dress and it's confusing man it's fucking confusing
if you want me to call
your girl i'll call you a girl but this is confusing this is fucking confusing
this is not violence the
other thing is they'll say now if you disagree with someone you're phobic yeah
when a phobia is an
irrational fear of something right so disagreeing is not an irrational fear it's
disagreement right
and and we've reached a point to where people won't they can't even have a
conversation because
someone's going to sit there and scream as soon as you hear violence or you
hear then the conversation's over
right you're racist you're transphobic you're homophobic whatever you are
conversation's over they've minimalized everything they've marginalized your
position
it's it's interesting it's terrible for comedy movies though but it's really
fun for comedy though
for stand-up comedy it's actually fun are they are they running with it oh my
god we're having a great
time it's like what my friend ari said it best he said this is a really great
time for comedy
because comedy is dangerous again because comedy didn't used to be dangerous
for a long time you could
there's a lot of shock comics that were kind of they're saying things just to
be shocking
you know and i certainly did that early in my career and now like if you have
you have a position
to defend if you're going to go out on a limb you're going to make fun of
something that's dangerous
you got to have that tight it's got to be good it's got to be glorious huge
laughs it has to be
it has to be something where people go oh i can't like dave chapelle's the best
example that when he
goes after something whatever it is it's just so goddamn funny that even though
it's supposed to be
something you're not supposed to talk about it's so good that everybody has to
back off except the
critics of course but what makes chapelle so