Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2066 - Ralph Barbosa
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2066 - Ralph Barbosa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2066 - Ralph Barbosa

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
What's up again, Brad?
How are you?
What's up, man?
Ralph Barboza on the way up.
What's happening?
Hey, it's good to be here.
Good to have you, man.
I hear good things about you.
I was just talking to Brian Simpson about you today.
I'm a huge Brian Simpson fan.
I love that dude.
We were working out today and he was saying great things about you.
No offense to Brian Simpson, but he works out?
I never thought I'd hear it like that sentence.
He does now.
All right, hell yeah.
Yeah, he's been working out with me for three weeks now.
I got like a little comedy boot camp going on over here.
Yeah?
Yeah, Shane Gillis, Duncan Trussell, Hasan Ahmad, Brian Simpson, and me.
We get together and get some workouts in.
All those guys are living down here?
Yeah, they're all living down here.
That's dope, man.
Austin's pretty dope.
Austin's dope right now.
Hell yeah.
It's a great spot.
I popped in here yesterday to Austin and I feel like I didn't used to be able
to do this,
but yeah, it was dope, man.
I got to go do a spot at the creek and then I got to go to your spot, got to do
the little boy.
Nice.
Yeah, it's been dope, man.
Yeah, it's fun.
Austin's like, it's a new thing.
It's like an exciting thing.
Yeah.
You know, it used to be like before COVID, Austin was, as far as Texas goes,
Austin was like the place to go if you were too scared to go to New York or LA.
People were like, just go to Austin, you know?
It stayed busy.
But it was also like very woke.
And so you had to be like real careful.
And now it's like, nah, it's just, yeah.
It's buck wild.
I like that.
Yeah, it's buck wild.
Yeah, well, you know what it is?
It's Kill Tony.
Kill Tony's, because Kill Tony's here, that show, it sets the standard because
it's all just about being funny.
And people realize like this idea that you're supposed to have like some sort
of fucking social message in your comedy.
Yeah.
I also think it's just a lot of Californians and New Yorkers as well.
Because like everybody started moving down here to be able to actually be on
stage.
Yeah.
From New York or LA during COVID.
And yeah, I feel like when they got here, they were like, you know, be careful.
But everybody from California, New York was just like, no.
Well, it depends on where you're from.
You know, I mean, there's pockets of people that are like enchanted by the wokeness
in all sections of the country.
You know, it depends.
Like if you're coming from the comedy store, it's just about being funny.
But if you're coming from some of the other clubs in LA, maybe it's not.
It's just, it's Hollywood, man.
It's like movies and TV.
They're all run by executives and you have to think like they think or you don't
get hired.
Well, I think another reason that it got so bug wild though is because during
COVID, if you were coming here, it's because you were already like, man, fuck
the fucking COVID rules.
You know what I mean?
If you're really that safe person, you're probably also that like woke comedian.
So I feel like those people stayed back while everybody who was ready to get
bug wild came down to bug wild town and got bug wild.
I think you nailed it.
Yeah.
I think you nailed it.
Because the people that came here were like, fuck this.
Like, fuck telling me that I can't do stand up.
Fuck telling me I can't go to a restaurant.
Yeah.
Especially when you go on the road and you realize that if you just live in LA
and you never leave LA, you think the world is LA.
And then you go to Nashville and you go, oh, they haven't lost their mind.
Yeah.
They didn't lose their mind in Nashville.
They were normal.
Like you go to Dallas.
They didn't lose their mind in Dallas.
People kind of got a little freaked out for COVID for a couple of weeks and
everybody sort of just settled in.
California never settled in, man.
It never settled in.
It's still there.
I've been seeing people with masks on this week.
I see that a lot too.
I remember when I came down to Austin a few times during COVID, to a lot of the
comics from LA, you were like, Jesus Christ.
They were waiting on you to rise with your club, dude.
I was like, you guys are putting too much pressure on Joe Rogan, man.
It's a lot of pressure, bro.
Because I think it's not all LA comics, but there were a few that maybe felt
like the Austin comics weren't showing love to the LA comics.
They were like, man, they put us last on the mics.
They don't book us on the shows.
LA comics got to do our own thing.
But they were like, just wait, man.
I heard a couple of guys say this.
They were like, just wait, man.
When Joe opens up his club, it's over.
We'll be back on top.
But I feel like you brought everybody together, man.
Yeah, everybody should be together.
This is a fun artist community.
And it should be fun for everybody.
There's no us versus them.
Shut up.
We're all comics.
Stop with the silliness.
The Austin comic, LA comic, New York comic.
I think it was only for a little bit during COVID when everybody's just rushing
in.
Everybody was freaking out just about change in the world.
There was a lot of weird shit going on in the world.
And everybody had a higher level of anxiety.
And to take a chance when you're young and you're coming up and everybody tells
you LA is where you have to be.
Are you a 27, 28-year-old comic?
Oh, my God.
You got to get to LA.
That's what I had always heard.
You got to get to LA.
You got to get to LA.
Yeah.
It's not the case anymore.
That's not real anymore.
The thing that helps you more than anything is podcasts.
That's the thing that helps you more than anything.
Yeah.
Number one, social media, podcasts.
You know, those are like, look how big you got so quick from a couple of clips.
Yeah.
Just a couple of clips.
You know it as well as anybody.
If you've got good shit, now it gets out.
Like that, there is not a TV show in the world that would have done that for
you.
You would have had to be the star.
Like if you were living in the 90s, you would have to be the star of some NBC
sitcom to sell the kind of tickets you're selling right now.
Just from clips online.
It's beautiful.
For comedians, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
I feel like it's letting people decide who gets to blow up.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know what it used to be like because I wasn't there.
But I feel like it used to be the industry kind of decides when you get your
break or not.
Do they put you on this show or that movie?
They sort of do, but stand-up has always at least partially been a meritocracy.
You know, stand-up, the quality of your stand-up is the most important thing.
When they're not, people are laughing.
That's the most important.
It's always been the most important thing.
So if someone is undeniable, they always come through.
They always come through.
But they also have to be a hard worker.
You've got to actually put it.
There's too many guys that are really good that just go to one club or they go,
you know,
they don't go on the road.
There's too many guys that, like, they miss this window of opportunity where
they could
have been, like, real national headliners and they just never developed a
following out
there in the world.
They fucked up.
A hundred percent.
I know a handful of comics, like, back home or in New York or L.A., who I feel
like are
some of the funniest people in the world and don't have a lick of work ethic.
So the world will never know.
It's horrible.
But some of them, it's not the work ethic.
Some of them get jobs, like, in the business, like their writers or, like, Owen
Smith, who
is one of the top 20 stand-up comics alive.
Owen Smith is a fucking killer.
His shit is so tight.
He's so smooth on stage.
You look at him, you're like, how is this guy not selling out arenas?
How is this guy not selling out arenas?
It's because Owen had, they're great jobs.
He got a bunch of great jobs.
Like, he runs sitcoms and stuff, runs shows.
He's a writer.
But goddamn, when you look at, like, the quality of his stand-up, like, man,
you should be everywhere.
You should be everywhere.
I mean, to each their own.
If he's happy, he's happy, right?
Yeah, I think the writer's strike probably freaked him out.
I think the writer's strike and the actor's strike freaked a lot of those guys
out.
They're like, oh, shit.
Like, because if they just pulled a plug for five, six months in some sort of
contract negotiations,
like, some of those executives were literally saying, wait these people out
when they start losing their homes.
Yeah, I saw that.
Yeah.
That's some cutthroat shit.
That's wild.
Imagine if you got to go to work with those people after that.
Imagine you know that's how they feel about you.
I couldn't do that.
I couldn't.
I mean, I already didn't go that route.
I don't know if I could ever go that route.
You could have gone that route in the 90s.
In the 90s?
That was the only option, man.
In the 90s, when I first came to Hollywood in 94, that was what everybody
wanted.
You wanted what Jerry Seinfeld had.
You wanted what Roseanne had.
It was Brett Butler, who's, what was that show called again?
Grace Under Fire.
Grace Under Fire.
That was a big show.
Tim Allen.
You wanted to be a comic that got a sitcom.
That was the shit, dude.
Fuck yeah.
If you were a comic that got a sitcom, now you got a house in Beverly Hills.
You're fucking balling out of control.
You're driving a Ferrari.
Woo!
You made it.
That's what everybody wanted.
This was, like, the goal.
Right?
Yeah.
And somewhere along the line, I think it was, like,
the 2000s, reality shows came around.
Everybody wanted a reality show?
They're too cheap.
They're so cheap to make.
They're so cheap to make.
And you don't, I mean, you have, like, you barely pay the people that are on
them.
Like, all those real housewives and shit, they're not, like, making millions of
dollars,
I don't think.
You think they are?
I don't know.
How much does it make?
Now I'd like to know, just so I can talk shit to them.
You broke.
I think, like, maybe the new ones do.
Like, they could, obviously the Kardashians make a shitload of money.
Oh, yeah.
But I think they own their show.
But what about, like,
The point is, like, they're way easier to make than a sitcom.
Way easier.
Like, Fear Factor was, you know, was complicated in the stunts and all the
stuff they had to do.
But you don't have to write a script and, like, all that stuff, like, plays out
on its own.
It's, like, people competing.
It plays out on, the drama just happens.
And you have good editing, good music and all that shit.
But a sitcom, man, to write a good one?
Bro, that shit is brutal.
Yeah, props to writers, man.
Props to writers.
Props to writers.
I don't know.
That's a hard gig.
TV in general just kind of scares me.
Acting, writing, I don't know.
You're just so attached to, like, other people's opinions of you.
Like, you're constantly getting chosen for stuff.
I feel like even though I've never done that, I do get tired of, like, comments.
Like, I know they say never read the comments, but I'll read them.
But it'll be like the, like, I can take a joke.
I can take getting roasted.
Especially if it's people who follow me.
It kind of feels like, oh, well, I mean, they follow.
It's some sort of support.
It feels like you're getting roasted by, like, your cousin.
Right.
I ain't still on my team.
Fuck it.
But the ones that, like, piss me off, like, I don't know why they shouldn't.
But they just throw me over there.
It's like, I want to fucking hit this guy in the face.
It's like, if I just left, like, let's say I did Miami last month.
And then I, or, like, two weeks ago.
And then I post, like, a flyer for next show's month.
Like, next month's shows.
And people are like, what the fuck?
You avoiding Miami?
I'm like, hey, dumbass, I was just there, like, two weeks ago.
Like, when did you start following me, asshole?
Like, stop making me look like I don't show your shitty love.
You can't pay attentio