Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1935 - Kyle Kulinski
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1935 - Kyle Kulinski' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1935 - Kyle Kulinski

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hi Kyle, we're up in the morning.
Hi Kyle.
Hello sir.
Good to see you, brother.
Good to see you too, man.
That was a great set last night.
Thank you, it was a lot of fun.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Isn't that place crazy?
That place is crazy.
It used to be an EDM club.
We turned it into a comedy club.
That's hilarious.
How long ago?
Just by coming here.
Two years ago.
Two years ago it was an EDM club?
Two years ago it was like a bunch of dirty people that were doing it.
MDMA and dancing around.
Well, I feel like last year it wasn't, like, I don't think they had that cool
projection
of the alien on the back.
Oh yeah, no.
Yeah, it's like they've upgraded it in just a year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's, you know, become a thing.
You know, we're there every week.
And then the club opens up within a couple of weeks.
I'll show you that tomorrow.
Yeah, and you got a lot of comedians who have joined you here, right?
People who are moving here.
Twelve world-class comedians moved here.
And they all, come on, they all just followed you, right?
They saw what you did and they were like, all right, let's go there.
Well, I kind of let them know, like, you don't have to be there.
You don't have to be in Hollywood.
Everybody was in LA.
Stuck in traffic and you don't have to deal with, like, it was always, in
California,
there was always the lure of Hollywood because they were going to give you work,
right?
You'd get on a sitcom and you would do talk shows.
You'd do all these different things.
But those aren't really a thing anymore.
Yeah.
And so what else are you going to be there for?
Movies?
How many movies are there?
You can go in for movies.
And what do you want to do?
Like, everybody wants to do stand-up.
Like, Stan Hope said it once and I thought about it.
I was like, Dad, that's right.
He's like, really what you're doing when you're doing a television show is it's
an ad to get
people to go see you do stand-up.
Like, yeah, that's what it is.
How many of your comedian friends still do TV, movies, stuff like that?
A few of them.
A few of them do?
Yeah, they're trying to do more movies now.
Like, Burt just did a big movie, The Machine.
And it was a real problem because it got delayed because it's all about Russia.
It's about him going to Russia.
It's a true story.
Yeah, I remember his famous...
The fucking trailer is hilarious.
It looks great, but they held it for a long time.
And then we released the trailer on the podcast we did recently.
And so now they're going to release the movie because the trailer got received
so well.
Because they were worried.
Like, people are going to say, you know, it's about Russia.
You can have a funny movie about Russia, but nobody really cares.
So who was, like, pressuring them over it?
It's not a pressure thing.
It's a fear thing.
They're like, oh, let's not release this.
Let's hang on to this.
They did that with North Korea.
You remember when...
Yeah, that's the interview.
Who's the dude's name?
I'm blanking on his name right now.
Franco?
Yeah, James Franco.
Seth Rogen.
Yeah, and they were like, hey, we don't want to cause any problems or whatever.
Yeah.
Which is like, it's hilarious to think that Kim Jong-un is somewhere.
Like, what did James Franco say about me?
How is he joking?
Well, I'm sure they're pissed.
But, you know, whatever.
These guys are pissed about everything, isn't they?
I know.
Well, you know, some of the propaganda that comes out of there is, like, world-class
silly.
You know?
It's like they have effectively a state religion where, I mean, they said
famously, Kim Jong-il
in his first round of golf, he shot, like, I don't know, it was like...
Like nine holes in one?
Yeah, something ridiculous.
Yeah.
So they go top-notch with their propaganda.
They don't mess around.
His first round of golf.
Imagine.
Which is beyond impossible.
I don't even think...
It might be impossible to shoot even par your first round of golf.
Yeah, how would it be possible?
I couldn't even hit the ball the other day.
These guys were driving.
Him and...
Who was with us?
Cheeto.
Andrew Santino was here.
And they were whacking the golf ball.
I missed it, like, three times in a row just trying to hit it.
It's one of those things where, in theory, you feel like, I could do this.
I hit that little thing over there.
Yeah, how long is it to do that thing?
Yeah, it's a big green.
It's 120 yards away.
I got this.
And then you get up and you realize, like, oh, this is...
A lot of people have trouble just making contact.
Yeah.
You hit behind it.
It's called a duff.
And then it goes, like, five yards or whatever.
You thin it and it goes way over the green.
It's a very difficult game.
I've been playing it my whole life.
I know Jamie's, like, obsessed with it now.
Yeah, Jamie's out there with that simulator every fucking day.
Whack!
That's all you hear.
Whack!
I would be with him if I was here.
We would...
If I lived here, we'd be playing golf at least twice a week.
Yeah.
I try to do that in the summer in New York, at least.
It's such an addictive game that I can't fuck with it.
I don't want to be one of you guys.
Well, I think I agree with you that that's a legitimate fear.
I just feel like if you did get addicted, you'd be like, this is awesome.
I'm sure I did so, but I love pool.
I play pool so much, I can't be fucking around with another game.
It's too much.
It would be a lot of...
It would be four or five hours.
If you're into golf and you go play 18 holes of golf, it's going to be minimum
four hours.
Yeah, that's the thing about it.
It's like, I could play pool.
I could have a few games in an hour and be done.
And you can play pool when it rains out.
You know, like, there's a lot of stuff you can do.
Yeah.
But so the Kim Jong-un thing.
Yeah.
That movie.
I never saw that.
Did you ever see the interview?
I never saw it.
First of all, I don't even know if they actually ended up releasing it.
Do we know if they ended up releasing it, Jamie?
I know they postponed it a little bit.
I believe it was released.
No, it's definitely on streaming services and everything.
Okay.
They had that big Sony hack that happened as it was supposed to be released.
That's right.
And then that was like being, it wasn't like the debate or the full thing that
they were
after, but they wanted the movie to be withheld.
Yeah.
And I couldn't believe over Russia, you said for the Burke movie.
That's amazing.
So it's like basically anything that causes political problems, they say, hey,
don't release
this.
But like everything is controversial.
You know what I mean?
So how can you do that?
It was just, I mean, it was the timing of it, right?
You know, Russia invades Ukraine and then that's right when he finished it.
So yeah, that's poor timing.
Yeah.
They couldn't say, look, Russia's fun.
These guys are drunk.
We're robbing a train.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
That wouldn't work out too well.
Yeah.
But it's a funny fucking movie.
And so that, so the answer to the question is like, yeah, some of my friends
are still doing
movies.
Tom's doing some movies, but really the bulk of what everybody does now is
podcasts and stand
up.
Right.
And you don't have to do that stuff anymore.
So that was one of the allures to get people to come here.
It's like, hey, the number one podcast in the world is here.
And your mom's house is a huge podcast.
Tim Dillon's here, which is another huge podcast.
Yeah.
Tony Hinchcliffe has Kill Tony here.
That's a huge podcast.
So it's like, there's a lot of reasons to come here.
It's like, there's a new scene here.
Yeah.
And it emerged during the pandemic.
Well, I saw Tim Dillon.
This was just before the pandemic, just before I feel like he blew up.
We were probably was just when you moved here.
We were here and we saw him perform.
And I remember looking at Corrin and saying, this guy's going to be big.
He's going to be huge.
Because he's already getting way bigger.
He's selling out theaters now, but he's going to be one of the biggest comics.
Well, he's already, he's pretty close to one of the biggest comics in the world
right now.
He just, it's one of those things where this potential is massive.
Well, that's, you know, like the, what's the black comedian's name from last
night?
What was, what's his name?
Brian Simpson.
He was phenomenal.
Yeah.
And I feel like he, he needs to get his due.
And he's going to get his due.
He is because he was really funny and I'd only seen him maybe once before or
something,
but I feel like he's undervalued.
He's well, he's still getting better.
He's coming into his own.
Like in just the time that I've known him, he's got quite a bit better.
He's one of those guys that's just like, all the pieces are falling into place
right now
for him.
He did a Netflix special and now people know him from that.
And now he has a bunch of new material that he's working on.
Like last night, he's working on a bunch of new stuff and he's better all the
time.
He's like at that 10 year mark where guys really start to put it together and
take off.
He, he was homeless.
He was telling me and it wasn't too long ago that he was homeless.
Yeah, not that long ago.
A couple of guys we work with were homeless.
Like Hans Kim, who wasn't there last night because he's in Hawaii right now.
But Hans Kim was homeless just a year ago.
And then a few months later, he's doing arenas with me.
How does that happen?
Is it, is it your impact?
They come on your podcast.
They get a little bit of a name for themselves.
They get some spots.
Like how does that work?
What's the pipeline?
Well, he's doing Kill Tony and Kill Tony is a huge show and he's a regular on
Kill Tony.
So he does a new minute of standup every week on Kill Tony.
And so there's that.
And then I started taking him with me on the road, having him open with me and
Tony.
And, you know, so that's how he's doing arenas.
He's doing arenas with me.
And then he starts selling out on his own.
Like now he's doing like headlining tours.
So he's going out and selling out comedy clubs and he's doing great.
What an amazing story.
I wonder like how many people out there are kind of similar in that they would
be hilarious
if given the opportunity, but they never really step on stage or things in life
don't quite
come together and they're stuck at their nine to five or whatever.
It really makes you think like what percentage of people can do this if given
the opportunity
and if they get on stage.
Do you think so?
Yeah, there's a lot of there's the funniest guy that I ever met never did stand
up is a
guy that I used to work with.
That was a private investigator.
I was his assistant for a while.
It was really he lost his license drunk driving.
Oh, boy.
So he needed someone to drive him around.
And so he put an ad out.
This is like, you know, the 80s, put an ad out for a private investigator's
assistant
and I started working for him.
And I would, we would most, it was mostly like insurance scams.
People that were, you know, doing insurance scams, we'd take photos of him
working when they
were supposed to be debilitated.
And he was funnier than anybody I'd ever met.
Wow.
He was so fucking funny.
And what's crazy is his cousin owned a comedy club.
His cousin was one of the owners of the Comedy Connection, this guy, Bill Downs.
So this guy, Dave Dolan, who's my buddy, we stayed friends for life until he
died, which
was a couple of years back.
But he was, without a doubt, he would have been a brilliant comic.
Without a doubt.
He just had no desire.
There's a, do you agree with me that there's like different kinds of funny,
like there's
some people who can be funny off the cuff naturally in a conversation.
And then there's people who can actually take it to the stage.
Because in my opinion, the stage is something totally different, you know, like
in order
to, it's one thing to do offhanded quick comments and play off what other
people are saying.
But if you're u