Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2045 - Jimmy Carr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2045 - Jimmy Carr' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2045 - Jimmy Carr

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hey, hello Jimmy.
Hey Joe, how are you?
Good to see you, buddy.
It's very nice to see you.
This is, it's a hell of a setup.
Thank you.
I'm like in Austin, Texas.
I've been here about 18 hours and it's, yeah, five stars on TripAdvisor so far.
Did you do a set last night?
I didn't do a set, but I went to the club.
Yeah.
And the club is, it's phenomenal.
Thank you.
It's almost like someone with an unlimited budget built a comedy club.
That's what it felt like, Joe.
I don't know, I don't know if your business manager has a view on this.
Yeah, I don't.
I think something along the lines of.
I'm not good at taking advice.
Yeah, but it's, it's so great.
It's so set up from the comics point of view.
Yeah.
It's like, no food.
Yeah.
No food is a great choice.
Yeah, you can't have food.
Go eat before.
Yeah, eat after, eat for.
There's so many places to eat on Sixth Street.
There's a nice pizza place right next door.
Your neighbors are going to love you as well.
Yeah.
Because it's that thing if you go, yeah, it creates a bit of a community and it's
full.
It's like packed with people and it's kind of, yeah, it's phenomenal.
Great space.
Well, it's one of those Kevin Costner things, you know, when you build it, they
will come
from the field of dreams.
Yeah.
Well, it feels kind of bigger than that as well in terms of, you know, you've
come out here
and what are you giving back?
And comedy has given you everything as it has me and you go, well, what can you
give back?
Yeah.
What can you do for your community?
And it feels like that's a great thing to do.
Well, it also seemed like I kind of had to do it because when I moved here, I
had this idea
that I'd just be able to like do whatever local spots I could and then go on
the road.
And I kind of could, but one of the things that I've realized is that comics
need community.
It's very important.
Like, and that's one of the things that we really had at the comedy store that
made the
comedy store so special is that it wasn't just that it was a great place to
work and come
up with new material and work on it, but it was also a great place to meet
other people
that were doing the same thing.
It's interesting comedy as opposed to acting.
Yeah.
You know that Alan Havy said this great thing to me.
He said, comedians were out for ourselves, but in it together.
I thought, oh, that's, it's really interesting.
That thing of like going, yeah, everyone's doing their own things.
It's comedy is not like acting.
It's not a zero sum game.
Right.
So you doing your thing, no matter how successful you are, has no impact on my
thing.
If anything, you pull me up.
Yes.
So comedy becomes like a bigger thing.
If someone does fantastically and they're playing hockey arenas, then more
people are pulled
up through the clubs and the theaters into the arenas.
It feels like it feels like we're living in a golden age for comedy.
It feels to me like this is what it must've felt like to work in music or
movies in the
seventies.
Yeah.
It's like, it's, it's feels like there's something culturally going on with
comedy where it feels
like it's got a value that's people need it.
People need to go out and feel like they're part of a community.
And I suppose when you think about what we're doing on stage, it is pretty
special.
We're letting people into our minds and we go into their bodies.
Yeah.
We're possessing them.
We changed their physical state.
It's extraordinary.
It is extraordinary.
It really is like a drug.
You're giving people a happy drug.
Well, it's too, I mean, it's, it's the endorphin because you don't quite know
when the punch
is coming and then the serotonin of laughter and the live experience as well.
It's like the live experience is so incredible for comedy, even as opposed to
music, because
what do you get when you go out to a comedy club?
Well, you'll laugh 30 times more than watching the footage and really, and
props to Netflix.
Netflix have been part of the reason comedy is having this golden age, but you
go watching
something on screen is like, that's how you find out what you want to go and
see live.
Yeah.
And live is so much better because physically it gets you in a different way.
And you see people kind of coming at their body language changes, their whole,
and they
get into this kind of this state with a performer.
They breathe with the performer.
They, they kind of, they roll with it and it's, it's so immersive and you don't
remember
a word of what the comedian said, but you remember how they made you feel.
Yeah.
There's also the shared experience of being there with other people that really
feels good
for people when you're laughing with a bunch of people, especially in a world
where
the individual has become sacrosanct and the tribe has been left to the side.
And people want to feel a bit tribal.
They want to feel like they're part of something.
Why do people want to go to music festivals and South by Southwest and Glastonbury
and they
want to go and see a comedy show.
They want to be in a room and a thousand people that all have the same sense of
humor and feel
a bit bonded.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, there's that.
And there's also with our art form, it's uniquely coming from one person where
it's, unless you're
a singer songwriter, there's really not, or an author.
Those are like probably the only other people, any other mass form of
entertainment that you're
seeing, you're seeing a lot of different people collaborating, which is good.
Like in a film, you have to have that.
But there's something about an individual's perspective and someone going, what
the fuck
is this?
And it's, I mean, for me, that thing of, you know, standup is naturally
progressive.
For me, it's like standup is about, um, there's an Overton window about what,
you know, that
theory of the Overton window, what is and what isn't acceptable to talk about
publicly.
And comedy is always pushing the edge of that, not just edgy comedy.
I do quite edgy stuff.
It's not about being edgy, particularly even someone doing observational stuff,
Seinfeld
saying the world is crazy.
Nothing makes any sense.
This is ridiculous.
He says the thing and it pushes or someone talking about their relationships
and their
kids.
It pushes what's acceptable to talk about in everyday life further.
And it expands that window.
And so we have more open, meaningful conversations.
Like you go and see a comedy show, you have a much more interesting chat
afterwards.
You go to comedy on a date night.
It becomes like a more interesting conversation because something the guy said
sparked something.
It pushes that, it pushes the conversation.
It's naturally progressive.
Yeah, it is.
And, and also in this day and age, it's one of the rare places where you can
hear people
speak freely about controversial subjects.
And in my club, we lock up the phone so people don't, they're not self-conscious
and they're
also not distracted.
And then you don't have to worry about people filling clips.
It is weird, isn't it?
The locking up the phones is such an interesting point because that's what
people want.
Yeah.
They want that boundary of going, I'm in a live.
Yeah.
Like there's lots of people that would, you would watch your favorite show.
You'd watch, I don't know, whatever you like, like Game of Thrones or an MMA
fight or whatever.
And if you have your phone near you, there's a temptation to check the news and
refresh and
refresh and see what's going on and to ruin the experience for yourself.
But somehow being out in public, like you're aware, like it's, it's performative
being in
a crowd.
Like we're not the only ones performing at a comedy club or in a theater.
The audience are performing.
People, how are you doing?
Like you ask an audience, how are you doing?
And they go, yay.
Well, no one says that one-on-one.
No one's ever, hey, how are you doing, Joe?
Yeah.
You sound psychotic.
Right.
But in an audience, it's entirely acceptable to be that person, to dance and to
clap along.
You'd look strange listening to a band play live and just standing and
listening.
Yeah.
And not dancing in the crowd.
Right.
And that thing about going, well, this is, it's performative being in the
audience.
Don't think you're the only one performing.
They're all with you.
They're all, the laughter is, you're partly, you're signaling.
It doesn't mean that it's fake laughter, but you're signaling to other people
that you got
it and you're applauding when you kind of agree a little bit.
Yeah.
There's a rhythm to it.
Being in an audience is a performance and it's so fun to do.
Yeah, it is.
It's my favorite thing to watch still.
After all these years, I love, I watched Christina Pazitsky last night.
It was awesome.
Was it fantastic?
Oh, she's so funny.
But it's just, it's fun.
It's fun to laugh.
It's fun to see someone's writing and see like where they're going with ideas.
And it's, it's, it's also, it's the same and totally different.
It's, it's a guy on stage with a mic, a girl on stage with a mic.
And it just, what's he doing with this?
It's a totally different thing.
It's, it's, you know, that self-authored thing.
I mean, my, the thing I'm working on at the moment, I'm slightly jealous of the
club.
I'll be honest.
I sort of saw the club last night and went, this is quite something to do, to
set up a
club and to have that community.
And it's great.
And I think that I'm trying, I'm working at the moment on a, I don't know
whether it's
a book or whether it's a, I think it might be like an online course, but a
comedy course.
And how to do standup?
How to write jokes, how to be a standup.
That's great.
I think, here's my vision for it.
I think we're going through a golden period, but maybe it's just beginning.
Comedy is quite a new medium anyway.
Yeah.
We get to be the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, or certainly someone in our
generation does.
You know, if you think about it, like George Carlin and, and, uh, Richard Pryor
were John
the Baptist, or someone's coming through.
It's like that thing of like, it feels like it's, it's getting bigger and
bigger.
My vision is it gets taught in schools.
So we teach, we teach music and we teach drama and art.
And I think standup comedy is an art form.
And I think we need to get less, less magical thinking and more, okay, let's
put down a language
like music.
You can write it.
Let's come up with the, I mean, I've kind of, I'm working on like 50 joke types,
but let's
come up with a, a way of analyzing this and teach people how to do it.
Because what does it give you?
Like if your kid does standup comedy, okay, well it's, they have to find their
voice.
Uh, they have to look at things in a, in a, from a different angle, a different
perspective.
It's about pattern recognition.
These are all transferable skills.
And it's about finding your voice.
The reason every standup is interesting to watch is because it's individual
voices and really
what's growing up about what's school about finding your voice, finding out
what you're
about, finding out who you are.
Like, I don't think it's a dumb idea to teach standup comedy and to say, well,
everyone should
give this a go.
Yeah.
Because even people that have done, I've got a couple of people that come and
see me live
or whatever that tell me, oh, I did like four or five gigs 10 years ago.
Um, but they enjoy standup comedy more than the average person.
It's like someone who's can play a little bit of guitar, right.
Goes and sees and goes, well, this is right.
They have an inkling of how good it is.
Yeah.
Someone that does a little bit of jujitsu, I imagine goes and sees an MMA fight
and goes,
He's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They've got, they've got like some idea.
It's like that they've gone from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence.
Hmm.
Yeah.
We've actually talked many times about putting together a course and we've
thought about
doing it maybe at the club and, you know, j