Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1989 - Andrew Dice Clay
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1989 - Andrew Dice Clay' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1989 - Andrew Dice Clay

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Yeah, number one, it's great to see you.
Great to see you too.
Let me just do what I gotta do.
You know.
Are these your podcast glasses?
You got special ones?
What's his name?
Jamie, that's your name, Jamie.
You do understand I'm doing the Joe Rogan Experience, right?
He's doing the Joe Rogan Experience.
So why wouldn't I use the best?
Yeah, you got swapped glasses.
Ooh, I like those.
We go with the chrome.
I like it.
You see what happens?
I like it.
I like the chrome.
We go with the chrome.
I like it.
I like how you have a case.
Those are serious shades.
This is the experience.
This is your...
You've now taken over everything, in my opinion.
And I'm proud of you for that.
Thank you.
Well, I'm proud to be your friend.
Well, I'm proud to be yours.
Now, if you notice...
You know, I was in your documentary, and everything I said, I 100% believe is
true.
And I appreciate it.
And we were actually just talking about you last night, and I was telling these
guys, I
go, Dice is doing the only real alternative comedy that's out there.
Those videos that you're doing with fans, you were...
First of all, you were one of the originators of what I would call alternative
comedy.
This is what you did.
You did The Day the Laughter Died in the height of your success.
You were selling out arenas all over the fucking place, and you decided to do
Dangerfields when
no one was in there, with no material, and just fuck around, and it's amazing.
Listen.
Listen.
Before we even go there...
All right.
I got a little beef with you.
Nothing that's not...
It's not going to get violent.
Okay.
None of that.
What's the beef?
Because even years ago, when you first came to LA, and trust me, you were
alternative.
The minute I walked into the...
Alternative?
I don't mean alternative in a negative way.
You're doing it your own way.
Oh, okay.
The way you saw fit.
The way I did it.
The way Kennison did it.
That's how you did it.
So, I come walking into the original room.
I come in through the back.
I always do the same thing.
I go in through the kitchen.
Club soda.
Red straw.
$5 tip.
Into the original room.
Because I'm hearing something.
Somebody I don't know.
Okay?
And I look in there, and it's you.
Full force.
I mean, screaming at the crowd.
And what made it even better?
You, number one, you were doing time.
And you were just going ballistic.
I thought you were going to start breaking the stool.
I mean, you just, you know, you were also just finding your legs.
We're talking about 25, maybe even closer to 30 years ago, when you first came
out there.
And you're screaming your head off.
And you get in a heckle fight with a guy.
Now, I will admit that the heckle fights I've had end in the club.
Okay?
It just ends.
Not you.
This went outside, where there's, I don't know, 20 people, 20-something people
between the two years.
And I'm going, he's going to kill this guy.
For what?
The guy yelled out during his set.
But you were right, because the guy didn't stop, and he was one of those.
Well, no, that guy was threatening me.
No, he was threatening.
He was threatening me, and he said he was going to throw a glass at me.
And he was really drunk.
And you would just try.
I don't know if he was that drunk.
I think he was just a piece of shit.
Yeah.
And he had, the thing about that guy, I know that story.
That guy had done that to a bunch of other comedians before me, and I got to
see and watch it.
And they didn't know how to handle it.
Uh-huh.
He was just being a piece of shit.
No, I know that.
And look, I've had.
There's a difference between, like, a heckler and someone who, like, purposely
tries to interrupt the set for their own joy and fuck with people.
And doesn't care.
And then he threatened me.
And so I was like, okay, we'll see what happens.
Let's go outside.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But that's what I loved.
You know.
You know, I even loved one time.
You know, I'm out back, and I know how close you are with Diaz.
And he gets in a little argument with someone.
But what is, and I'm watching this, and I'm like, oh, please, why am I even
here?
You know, I wasn't even going to come out tonight.
And it's getting heated, and he has a bad temper.
So he takes one of the big glasses.
Oh, yeah.
And he just breaks it so it's a jagged edge.
And I'm like, Joey, what are you doing?
Put the glass down.
It's like I see that he's seeing red.
I go, put the glass down.
And he's looking at me, and he's like, yeah, you're right.
He's not worth it.
I go, I'm worth it.
This is a comedy club.
What goes on here?
You know, Rogan's chasing people outside to continue to fight.
You're ready to cut some guy's throat.
I know the Diaz story, too, though.
The Diaz guy.
That guy was a piece of shit, too.
But the other guy was a biker.
He was like this tough guy that liked to fuck with Joey.
And Joey was like, I will cut you.
And he was willing to.
But this is Joey like fresh out of jail, Joey.
This is Joey like 30 years ago, Joey.
It's a different Joey.
Yeah, and this is Dice just wanting to do a pop-in.
Well, also me for then, back then, it was just so weird to be around you.
Because I've told the story before, but when I was 19 years old, me and my
girlfriend were sitting in my fucking car in front of my house.
I'll never forget it.
And we're listening to Dice the cassette.
And we're howling, laughing.
She was crying.
She was just going, ah!
She just kept, like, slapping her arms.
And I just remember thinking, this is before I even thought about doing an open
mic.
I just kept thinking, how the fuck is someone so funny?
I remember listening to that cassette.
It was so good.
It was so fun.
It's so silly.
And just me as a kid, as a 19-year-old kid, trying to find my way in life, it's
just like, so just for me being around, when I came to the store, I used to be
like, holy shit, that's Dice Clay.
It was weird.
Listen, first off, I appreciate the things you say and that you have said when
I'm not here, but am I allowed to tell you how proud I am of you?
You can tell me anything you want.
No, because I have watched you.
See, people forget your beginning.
You know, I remember the stand-up.
I remember you on a hit sitcom.
I remember.
It wasn't really a hit.
Well, I remember.
It was a hit coming after.
Yeah, that was a hit.
I remember what I do remember, and you've brought this up on the show, where I
was like, I had like a few weeks off.
I would do half a million people and then come home for a few weeks.
That was my touring, you know, we'll get into all that.
We could show a clip.
I think I sent the clip of me just standing on stage at the garden, not even
talking.
And so what happened is I'm back, because I would book 20 cities at a clip.
And honestly, we all know this is before any kind of social media.
This is 35 years ago.
Yes.
The ad was the size of the pad, which, if you notice, says, Rogan, I bought a
pad to make notes.
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
I appreciate it.
You know.
I like how they're written big, too.
Don't forget the back page.
The back page.
Yeah, that's a whole pad that I'll never use again.
What you didn't notice, I'm not in leather.
You're wearing, are you going vegan on me?
No, this is daytime dice.
Oh, daytime dice.
Why would I wear a show leather during the day?
So I gave you the motorcycle, I gave you the gloves, but we went cotton.
I like it.
All out.
Casual.
Comfortable.
Casual.
Comfortable.
So back then, I see you hanging outside.
This is the first time we talk, really.
And I come over to you.
You're just in the back parking lot.
The same area where Diaz was going to cut someone's throat.
Weeks earlier.
All right.
And you're just hanging out, you know.
And I said, how you doing?
I introduced myself.
And you were really respectful, really nice.
You still are.
And I said, what are you doing here?
And you said, what do you mean?
You know, I'm a comic.
I'm going to do a set.
I go, no.
What are you doing here?
You know, at the store?
You know, for $25.
I go, you're on, in my opinion, a hit show, a hit sitcom.
I go, you could be out there making tens of thousands of dollars on the road.
And I'm thinking, who's his manager?
Like, I wanted to call the manager.
Go, why do you have your client at the store when he's on a hit show when in
three days he could go make himself 15, 20 grand in a minute?
You know, and you were looking at me going, really?
Yeah, that's what it's about.
Well, this is what I tell everybody this.
I remember where we were standing.
You came up to me like, you should do the road.
Right outside the back door.
Why are you doing the road?
I was like, why aren't I doing the road?
Yeah, I should probably do the road.
I mean, it was, a lot of it was like, sitcoms are a lot of work, especially in
the early days.
There was like 16-hour days, and you're exhausted.
And I just was happy to just still be doing stand-up.
So I'd go to the store.
I didn't have any friends.
I just moved there.
So I'd go to the store after I did my work all day, and I could do a set.
That's sort of why I did it.
But it was just so great the way you looked at me like, really?
Like, I could be making more than 25?
But I knew I could be making money.
And we all know what the store's about.
It's not about money.
The store's that college for comics that we all...
The hangout.
It's just the greatest place.
It's the greatest place.
Well, now there's two great places.
Now we've got the mothership.
We basically did the store in Texas.
But you telling me that changed my life.
It did, because then I started touring.
I listened to you.
Because that's why you're sitting right here right now.
That's why when your show elevated to this level, you were getting texting from
me.
Because I was there before you in a different way, you know.
But, you know, let me tell you something.
When you're the first guy to...
I'm the first guy to do what I did.
Yes.
You know.
I mean, I always looked up to Eddie Murphy.
I think he's the absolute greatest from stand-up to the films he's done.
And that's sort of the career I wanted.
I figured I would just go from doing, you know, millions of people on the road
to just movie stardom.
You know, but, you know, I got the backlash, you know.
Yeah, you were the first to get the backlash.
Yeah, but, yeah.
I was the first cancel culture.
Ban from MTV.
So, ban from MTV.
Ban from MTV for jokes.
I mean, you're bringing up stuff I want to bring up.
But, all right, so with MTV, this is what you'll love.
This is the part you don't know.
Well, didn't they approve that set anyway?
No, they didn't approve anything.
They didn't know?
No, see.
You know, this is the thing.
You know, I always had an expression.
Nobody fucks with Dice.
Dice does the fucking.
In the past, the present, the future, and a day, Dice ultimately...
In the multiverse.
Dice does the fucking.
That's it.
In the multiverse.
So, I come for the rehearsal, and my whole job was to hit my mark, and, ladies
and gentlemen,
I remember it.
The Last Puritan, Cher, and I make that move with my hand.
Right.
Cher.
Okay.
So, I'm getting ready, and they already had a couple comics on that just tanked,
you know.
Paul Reiser, and I think he's great, but you don't come out on the MTV Awards
at the Universal
Amphitheater and talk about the Hats Sinatra War.
I'm looking at my friend going, look at the crowd.
It's like he's not even in the room.
You know, my friend says to me, he goes, well, you could go out there, and you
could either
be a teardrop, or you could be a tidal wave.
You know you.
Okay.
So, I don't really want to go nuts.
I'm trying to do the right thing.
I got the biggest manager ever, Sandy Gallen, who had everybody from Whoopi to
Stallone to
Dolly Parton.
I mean, I'm sure you know the name Sandy Gallen.
Okay.
So, biggest manager in Hollywood.
So, I'm trying to do the right thing.
And so, now, I don't know, a minute before I go out, Arsenio's the host.
Here comes Dick Clark, who, wow