Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1978 - Ms Pat
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1978 - Ms Pat' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1978 - Ms Pat

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Joe Rogan.
It's good to see you.
It's good to see you too.
What's happening?
Ah, life, life is good.
I moved back to Atlanta, my husband retired.
I'm having fun.
I'm getting ready to move into my first theater tour called Your Girl Done Made
It.
That's beautiful.
Life is beautiful.
That's exciting.
How's your show doing?
My show is doing great.
We just wrapped it.
Well, the third season just came out in February.
Got some big news coming.
You know, see what the fourth season got to give.
You know, it's going great.
It's a funny fucking show.
Thank you.
People are loving it.
It's a real sitcom, you know, and there's not a lot of those anymore.
It's not.
It's not.
And that's, you know, we was nominated for an Emmy.
Nice.
First time for BET or BET Plus.
Really?
Yes, yes, yes.
The director got nominated for such a great episode.
And so we can repeat this year.
Who's that gentleman that you brought with me last time?
Your executive producer?
Yeah, he created the show with me, Jordan Cooper.
Jordan Cooper is a genius.
That young man.
How old is he?
I think he's 27 now.
That's insane.
Yeah.
I've never met anybody who knows more about TV.
When he was telling us about the history of, like, how Lucy and Desi Arnaz
controlled that show and how they took it and took it on tour and then made it
into a television show.
Like, I didn't know all that shit.
He loves TV.
We just, we did a whole Lucy and Ethel, me and Tammy Roman, because people love
us together.
He brought her into, you know, he casted her before he dang near casted me.
And he put us together and he said, I'm telling you, y'all going to be like
Lucy and Ethel.
And that's what the world think we are now.
And they love us together.
Shout out to Tammy Roman.
Shout out to Tammy Roman.
I'm so glad your show has caught steam because that genre for comedians is kind
of a dying genre.
You don't really see sitcoms much anymore.
Not with comedians.
Thank God I had a million and one stories.
And, you know, thank God that, you know, we on BET Plus because they let us
push the envelope.
They don't, you know, they don't want to wrap it up in a bowl.
They let us wrap it up to Miss Pat way.
So we talked about everything the last three seasons from, you know, from me
having a gay daughter, the gay experience, you know, being in jail, being a
teenage mama, hating my mother, being molested.
We just did a black hair.
We just did an episode on me being molested by my mama's boyfriend, which was
very funny, but also very touching.
And I did the episode to let people know that you can't change the past.
All you can do is look for what's in front of you.
So don't whine about it.
Find a way to laugh about it.
And it was a very serious episode that hit home for a lot of the people who
watched the Miss Pat show, but they was able to laugh at it.
That's a complicated subject to try to make funny.
I try to make everything funny, Joe Rogan.
I know you do.
But, you know, I tell people it's my story.
So I got the right to react to it the way I want to.
I could be somewhere crying.
For what?
I found the funny and we wrote it into an episode and people was like, thank
you, Miss Pat.
You make me realize that I don't have to cry about what happened to me 10 years
ago or 20 years ago.
Forgive them and move the hell on.
My mama's boyfriend is dead.
Other people molest me is dead.
Hey, look at me now.
Even my kid's father.
I talked about him many times to you.
I mean, he's working at Jiffy Lou's and he done had like four heart attacks.
I wish him well.
I'm okay.
And that's what it's all about.
It's about me.
That's a great attitude to have to go through life.
Because you really can't change the past.
No, you cannot.
But I can control what's happening to me now.
What I love about your show is your show is doing things that some of the great
old sitcoms did.
Like, it's, you know, people thought that that multi-camera shoot where you're
doing it in front of a live audience, people thought you weren't doing that
anymore, which is kind of crazy.
Because that used to be the thing that everybody wanted to do.
You know, all the way back to, you know, before Seinfeld, Sanford and Son, I
mean, all in the family.
They did all those shows with an audience.
Well, they went to canned laughter, you know, which was much easier.
You know, if you ain't wrote nothing that's not funny and you ain't got nobody
sitting there, you can just drop in the laughter.
What shows used only canned?
I think, you know, I saw a clip of the Big Bang Theory.
And it was a Big Bang Theory, but without the laughs.
Like, they removed the laughs so you could see, like, what the show actually is.
And, like, why are people laughing at this?
This is strange.
Like, I don't know if that was a retake.
Because, you know how it is.
Sometimes you have to do retakes and sometimes you do them when the crowd's not
there.
Well, last time I talked about Big Bang Theory, I got in trouble from little
white girls.
So, they was down my throat.
They were sending me death threats.
Like, they were all going to clone themselves together and whoop my ass.
Because I didn't recognize the star of the Big Bang Theory.
But, I mean, I've never watched the Big Bang Theory.
So, but I'm quite sure a lot of sitcoms taped that away without a lot of studio
audience.
And you can even look at sitcoms now who do use canned laughter.
The laughter is when they're going up the steps or when they're combing their
hair.
You'll be like, who the fuck added this shit?
Right.
This ain't right.
This ain't funny.
They're just trying to make it too funny.
With us, we just, he wanted that loosey feel.
He wanted the old school feel.
And we taped in front of a live studio audience in Atlanta, Joe.
Had never been done for a sitcom, a multi-camp.
So, when we got there, the people, the camera people had never did it before in
Atlanta.
So, it was a teaching moment for first season.
Oh, wow.
So, now they got the hookup.
That means, you know, everybody know what they're doing.
Now, we're turning away audience members.
The third season, we was turning people away.
That's great.
So, they're loving it.
And it's like a party.
It's like a family reunion.
People come from everywhere to come to see Miss Pat's show on Atlanta.
Well, what he did, what everyone did, is capture the essence of your stand-up
and of you on podcasts.
Yes.
Like, why people love you.
And to put that into a sitcom and not make it corny, like, I told you last time
I saw it, before I saw it, I was like, I was skeptical.
I love you.
I think you're hilarious.
The last thing I want to see is you in some mediocre version of the Miss Pat
life.
But they nailed it.
Yeah, we nailed it.
And that's hard to do.
It's very complicated.
Because you're telling a story.
You have all these characters interacting with each other.
And you got to wrap it up within a certain time frame.
Because of streaming, do you have a specific number of minutes you have to do?
Or do you have more flexibility?
A little bit.
They might give you 33, but no more than 35.
They be screaming, cut it.
And Joy will be saying, no, you're going to mess up the whole part of the show.
Don't cut it.
So we fight a lot about a little longer episodes.
And BET is pretty much open-minded with it.
I mean, if we ask them, if we beg them not to cut it, because it's going to
mess it up,
sometimes they'll let it go.
But the good part about it, they'll move it over to linear.
And then, you know, they'll cut a lot of stuff out.
And I'll be like, hey, y'all, the show is a lot better if you just go back over
to BET+.
Yeah, that sucks that they have to do it that way, because that has to be 22
minutes.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, and they take the monologue out.
And I hated the monologue.
And people love the monologue.
And the monologue is kind of like when Seinfeld did a joke up front.
But mine is more where I tell you how I'm feeling and what you're about to get
in the show.
So every episode.
And I hated them, because I had to learn them like I had to learn the strip.
And sometime the day before.
But you just hate them because they're hard to do.
But do you love the final product, like how it looks on the show?
I do love the final product.
And, you know, I have a lot of control with this show.
So I'm thankful for that.
That's amazing.
Because I've heard horror stories where you don't get a lot of control.
Yeah.
You know, and they'll have people writing you the way that you're not.
But it's so foolish, too, because of the person like you.
It's so clear that you know what you're doing.
Like, you've been doing it a long time.
Just let her do it in the sense of a sitcom.
Just get the pieces in play.
And that's what I always tell them.
I say, you know, one thing I know, Joe, is I know funny.
I know me, and I know the type of funny that I'm trying to put out.
And that's all I ask them.
To move out the way and give me the space.
You know, I don't want to explain every joke to you.
It might not be for you.
Right.
So, you know, that's one of the reasons why I'm really glad we at BET Plus, too.
Because we can be black as hell.
I'm not in a room with a whole bunch of white execs who's scared to say nappy.
Are you allowed to swear?
Can you say basically anything you want?
We say everything.
Bitch, hoe, motherfucker, nigga.
We say everything.
Oh, that's amazing.
We talk like Ms. Pat talk for real.
That's amazing.
Like families talk for real.
Now, I would say this.
Black folks do come out and say, she don't represent the black family.
No, I don't represent you.
I represent me.
I'm not out here trying to recreate your family.
What I did was put my family on TV.
And if your family can relate or if you can relate, then come on and get on
this train, baby.
Who couldn't relate?
You guys do an amazing job of setting it up.
Well, you know.
It's a great show.
Thank you.
It really is.
It's, you know, and it's not a black show.
It's a show about, that relates to everybody.
You know, I have people from all walks of life walk up to me, tell me, I
download BET Plus just for you.
I believe that.
It's a very unique show.
And it is.
I mean, it's about your, it's about the experience that I went through in life
that relates to everybody.
And it's the coolest thing when I see an old white dude and a young, hip, black
dude.
They ain't got shit in common, but they both like Miss Pat.
And when I go to the club and I perform, they'll both come up and say, I love
your show.
And that's what I know.
I say, oh, this shit ain't black.
This shit for everybody.
Yeah, that's beautiful.
I love when old ladies come up to me at like an airport and tell me they love
the podcast.
Like old ladies.
I had these old ladies.
They were like in their 80s, man.
You'd be surprised.
I have white, young white guys have a thing for me.
Ah.
I don't know if they want a nanny or some old black pussy.
I don't know what they want, Joe.
Maybe both.
Maybe both at the same time.
They don't want mine.
I don't shave on a regular, but hey.
Oh, Jesus.
I can't get into this new bald head vagina shit, Joe.
No.
No, I ain't got time about that shit.
I got a garage on top of my vagina.
I ain't got time to pull in that shit back once a week to catch no hell.
It's crazy how the pubic hair thing just vanished.
Like, everybody used to have pubic hair.
You watch the old porns.
For all of history, people had pubic hair.
But back in the day, it made you look like you had a fat cat.
Yeah.
A fat pussy.
Yeah.
You put your underwear on your thick down there.
Now you put your underwear on this thick into the vagina.
I'm like, where'd men get into bald head pussy?
It is weird because I experienced it through high school.
Yeah.
When I was in high school, that's when porn first came out.
When I was in high school was the first time VHS tapes came out so people could
rent porn.
And that's when the pubic hair thing changed.
It changed 