Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2001 - Gabriel Iglesias
Uploaded: 2023-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2001 - Gabriel Iglesias' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2001 - Gabriel Iglesias' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2001 - Gabriel Iglesias

Joe Rogan podcast check it out. The Joe Rogan experience. Train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day. Finally you're here finally finally you're one of the most
requested guys ever
and I was like I gotta see him somewhere I gotta run into him we'll make it
happen so we made it
happen I'm excited to see you brother it's a it's a pleasure finally I mean we've
run in so many
similar circles for so many years we ran into each other at the Canelo fight
yeah yeah but I mean
god I've been seeing you for 20 years yeah you know well you were always the
hero of the ice house we'd
go down the ice house well how the fuck does he sell out so many shows Gabriel's
doing like a two in the
afternoon show 4 p.m. show how many shows did you do in a day at one point in
time uh the most I ever
did in one day uh like full sets not just like yeah 10 minute spot four shows
four four full one hour
but yeah we were doing uh matinee shows at the ice house it's wild it was wild
like you know it would
we'd go down there and see the signs and all the pictures like this is crazy
like who the fuck is
doing that you know because I was doing uh they were calling them kid shows
because I was allowing
all ages Bob Fisher was bending the rules to let me have that's great because
your act is perfect for
that but you know I mean I I I tailored it I tailored it so you know of course
you know you take out cuss
words in certain topics but for the most part it was a friendly show but you
can do that is what I'm
saying like you you could you float in and out of that world you know you could
be clean and then you
can fuck around a little bit yeah yeah a little cut loose so the set that
usually you would hear at two
o'clock probably isn't the set you'd hear at you know the 10 30 show yeah so
you go from go from that to
do in Dodger Stadium well there was a couple shows in between I know but what
the fuck dude what is
that that'd be a trip what the fuck was that like you know what um I thought
that I was gonna be super
nervous doing that show but it it was probably one of the most calm experiences
for me as far as like
not feeling pressure because it felt more like a celebration versus me having
to perform like all these
people are already here because they know what I've done over the years right
and it's not like oh I
gotta make sure I hope I have a good set right there's I forget how many people
told him but there
were so many people there that all they want is for you to do good right they
want they want to see
you succeed they want this they want this to go well for you that's so crazy
and and to feel that
energy of people wanting you to succeed wanting you to do good you know people
that were there for for
the ride back at the ice house you know 20 some odd years ago look at all those
yeah that is insane
that's insane it was it was a beautiful moment I was choked up in the first 30
seconds walking out
there because they just kept cheering like like you know and then I said we did
it and it was just it
was over after that so it was a big emotional you know show for me on Netflix
it was an hour and almost
two hours but the actual night I was on stage for over three Wow and they could
not get me off that
stage because then I broke it broke out a bottle of tequila and then I turned
it into a big quinceanera
that's what I did at the end and I got fined by Dodger Stadium for going over
the time that's hilarious
if you run the light of the club it's all right come on maybe you mess up how
much did they fine you
well you don't have to say it was over a hundred oh jesus christ Dodgers come
on guys stop being cunts is
that like operating costs like what is that well you got to figure all the
costs that go into like you know
the right Union the the staff I mean there's so many people that weren't worth
it though yes I do it all
over again it was the greatest night of my life and so happy to pay the fine
that's amazing that's when
I saw Bill Burr do Fenway Park had similar sort of situation you know like holy
shit and to do it in
your hometown yeah that's the best part I think it's always harder to get love
at home you know that's
why you go out on the road and you do your thing and I think that getting that
love at home like I never
got to perform at a comedy club at home until I became successful on the road I
didn't get the
laugh factories or the comedy stores or the improvs until I went out and did
that doesn't make sense
though why why would that be were you hanging around you gotta figure 20 some
odd years ago you know
maybe they had a Latino night you know you had to really know somebody somebody
had to really vouch for
you or you you just it was weird I most of my shows were at bars so what year
did you start I started in 97 97 so
most of those years you're hopping around doing bars one-nighters and stuff
like that
oh so-and-so has a room so-and-so has a room you know blah blah Diaz took me to
a lot of those places oh
yeah Joey Diaz would tell you come on motherfucker you want to go to the real
place he would take you to
some Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere it's run by Mexican people it
was amazing Joey would take you
want to go by would spend his weekends he would go to all these fucking crazy
shows but he had a philosophy
behind it he was like you know I want to go everywhere I want to go everywhere
I want to get in front of these
fucking momos I want to go down to the east side and rock those motherfuckers
he was just like he wanted
to do all kinds of different shows like just to like feel it out you know and I
think he's right
they're like those dingy bar shows there's something about those shows that
teach it's a little extra it's humbling yeah the cool part was is that I was
used to performing in places like that before I actually got an audience that
was willing to just
be quiet and listen yes so I felt like oh wow that was hard you know because
you have to
come out the gate swinging to get people in a bar people that are focused on
the game focused on trying
to hook up having a drink trying to wait you know waiting for somebody there's
all kinds of different
things happening and so the fact that you know to be able to go out there and
get their attention
yeah you know that that that was like a look it was school yeah it was school
it is school
it's a school that no one is going to give you a lesson plan you got to kind of
do it all yourself
and you got to learn from the other people that are doing it like Joey but it's
like I did the same
thing in Boston we mostly we got road gigs because those are the ones that you
know they would pay you
to drive two hours and do some you know 40 minutes in front of a bunch of crazy
people and you were
excited to do it oh my god yeah it was amazing just the fact that you were
making money doing comedy was
amazing and you're learning how to do it you're learning how to do it the hard
way in restaurants and bars and pubs
and just yeah weird little outdoor venues and there was no social media back
then no YouTube no tick tock
video clips no nothing that you could post you just had to go out and but
honestly that's great because
that that gave you this chance to first of all know you really wanted it
because if you were gonna really
gonna grind it out every night going all these weird shitty places for no money
for years for years
you're not making any money you got to be committed to that because a lot of
people they got half one foot
in one foot out they have one good set and they're like yeah maybe i'll give
comedy a try but guys like
you and guys like me we're out there every fucking night every night i knew
that with time money would
come as long as i i stuck it out you know i was in a very cush position when i
started doing stand-up so it
was it was a little you know challenging to say goodbye to security you know i
had i had a great gig
selling cell phones i was making about 5k a month you know and in 1997 you know
working in sales making
that i i've never had insurance i had uh you know a nice little ppo plan couldn't
you work
there during the day i did for how long i did i lasted about a year because i
found out that
i couldn't just do my job and then go do shows at night and then go home you
couldn't go home
you had to stay out we had to wind up at a denny's you had to wind up at some
freaking taco shop
or whatever at two three o'clock in the morning talking to other comics because
that was the only other
way you were going to find out about another show you couldn't send a tweet you
couldn't send a text
because you didn't have that as an option you had to talk to people right hey
so-and-so has a room
oh really what's okay give me that number and you had to learn to write numbers
and save numbers and
information and learn how to follow up hey what do you think about you know and
then yeah yeah can you
vouch for me that meant a lot back then someone calling on your behalf hey so-and-so's
got a tight 10.
yeah it's huge you know that's huge so staying out late at night uh coming home
at four or five
in the morning and then having to be up at seven to go do my nine to five it
fortunately i was young
and i was able to hang for about a year and then i just couldn't i was falling
asleep at work and i got
caught i got caught you know i was working inside of a little uh kiosk selling
cell phones and one time
i just kind of let me do some inventory here on the floor and then i guess i
was snoring and somebody
caught oh my god oh my god that's a beautiful story though yeah that's an
american dream and i thought
that because i had done a couple of um television shows and i saw the money
that i could make doing
stand-up at that time i said oh well and you start doing the math the the delusional
math well if i get
one of these a month and i do this and this and this i only need this much to
pay my rent this much to pay my
car note i'll be i'm gonna be fine and i quit my day job and i got um evicted
from my apartment
because i ran out of money so fast um they came after my car the repo guy was
looking for the car i
got evicted i went to go sleep on my uh sister's couch it was it was one of
those and everybody's
like well go get your job back and i'm like ah if i do then then i'm not gonna
pursue this at the time
20 21. yeah you could still kind of up a little bit at 2021. yeah i had no
problem sleeping in a car at
that age now i'm like maybe i gotta get that day job back but no back then i
was willing to do whatever
it took but that's what you're supposed to do you know i've met a lot tony did
that i know a lot of
people that did that a lot of people slept in their car brian simpson was
homeless yeah it's like if you
really believe in it you know what yeah what are you willing to do what are you
willing to sacrifice
to make it happen because there's a path it can be done it's just not easy it's
not easy and you got
to hope you have talent and hope you're not delusional and hope you can figure
it out and maximize that
talent because a lot of people say that they want it but do they you know it's
like how do you say a lot of
things people are scared of being uncomfortable that's really what it is they're
scared of
challenges they're scared of being uncomfortable and i get it i got it but you
know the key is like
being around a bunch of other people that are also taking risks it helps you a
lot you see them do it
and then you want to do it too if you're around people that are trying to bro
listen to me get your
fucking job back stop being a moron you're not gonna make it i never thought
you were that funny
if you're around guys like that a lot those are your buddies
that's a drag that's a drag well a lot of those voices i heard were family not
necessarily friends
it's like even closer yeah but they're just looking out for you you know they're
worried
they didn't know you know if they had a magic crystal ball they'd be like oh oh
okay oh i should
have been more suppo