Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1929 - Louis CK
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1929 - Louis CK' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1929 - Louis CK

The Joe Rogan Experience
Train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day
I never thought about a lot of shit going on over there. That thing is weird
What this thing right here? Oh, that's a piece of art. That's
that comes from
Beeple beep beeple crap on Instagram people is a digital artist
He puts up a new piece of digital art every day
And he came in to do the podcast and he gave us this thing. That's that's Elon
Musk
If he was jacked like once genetic engineering comes along. I'm just gonna grab
a paper towel. Oh, okay
Glasses are brutal I
Wear reading glasses when I try to like look at my phone in the morning and I'm
not Jesus fucking Christ every day
I'm going a little blinder. Yes, you are every day. Just like that's just the
way it goes
Yeah, I mean, they're just such intricate little machines and they're organic
so they just start to soften on you
You know, I had a guy in the other day Bala Muhammad. He's UFC fighter who's
had a detached retina and a detached
Lens on his other eye on both eyes. It's like you're talking to people like
that and the game they're playing is you know
You're punching people in the face and a lot of times thumbs go in the eyes
because yeah UFC gloves have open fingers
So yeah, guys accidentally get poked in the eye. Mm-hmm fucking terrifying
That's the reason I wouldn't ever I mean there's a lot of reasons I wouldn't be
a pro fighter
But that's it now if it wasn't for the eyes
I'd be all over it. They can kind of fix them a little bit
Remember when Sugar Ray Leonard had a detached retina and he retired from the
sport and everybody's like, holy shit
And then he came back
And everybody's like he's back
I think he needed the money, but I think he also needed the thrills
Yeah, it must be those guys retire so young and then yeah left a huge
Expansive life ahead of you not just that it's like the things that you've
looked forward to or these enormous events
Well, you're in your underwear and you're walking out in front of this gigantic
group of people that's there to watch
You slam your fists into someone's face well
And you've worked up to it to all the training and the getting ready the
challenging someone that's setting the fight and then where it is in
Your career and who you know are you are you challenging?
Are you are you defending and so it's like a year a fight's like a year of your
life? I mean in boxing
UFC they fight more often, right? I guess I don't know depends depends on the
fighter depends on you know what stage there are in their career
Yeah, yeah, but the guys like to fight more often just to stay comfortable,
right?
Because otherwise the moments so big like when you have more fights like you
can relax and you just yeah, it's more
No, I remember Ali describing somebody asked him. Does he get nervous? He's a
he was a great guy because he wasn't a
Bullshitter like he bullshitted when it was time to sell the fight
But whenever anybody asked him things like that, he was honest. Yeah, somebody
asked him. Do you get nervous?
He said every fight I get really nervous when I come out to the ring. I feel
like I can't do this and that guy's huge
and what why did I why did I come here yeah and
But then the bell rings and as soon as I start moving as soon as it becomes
about the work I go
Well, this is what I do. Yeah, and then what takes over is just routine
It's what I do and then he's just serious. You know, I always felt like the
worst part was before the fight started
Yeah, the worst part was like standing there getting ready before the fight
I could imagine but then once the fight starts it's on you're on instinct. You're
sort of normal
You know, that's what stand-up is like I fucking hate waiting to go on stage.
Yeah, it's the worst thing and I get a little if there's a
Stuff going on I get irritated if the openers going over a little or yeah
You want a drink you want of this you want of that give me something to
distract myself. Yes. Yeah, it's bad news
Yeah, but yeah, I could see why guys like that need to come back
But it's good to be able to live your life where that's not
Norm, but that's not what you're what you need
It's a gigantic shift though in the way you view the world
You have to view the world is not like these big events that you're planning
for every three to six months
But instead just life. Yes, that's what I've tried to do in the last few years
and
This is I'm about to end this tour and then I'm gonna take a year off. I think
a hundred percent off. Yeah, no no realize anywhere
That's great. That's the plan. I think that
There's a there's a balance between performing a lot and perspective
Like and one of the things that happens to guys when they perform too much is
that they talk about things that are related to their life as a traveling
comedian
It's all air travel and flights and hotels and restaurants and and so much of
the material revolves around this very narrow window of existence
Yes, that's true and but also you put all this pressure on performance that it's
got to fix all your life
It's not going to right
But if you live a fuller life then then comedy has the place that should which
is like it's a weird thing to do
It should always be weird and it should always be like man. I can't believe I'm
doing this
Yeah, if your life is normal then comedy is a gas
It's a it's a jolt and inside of it you'd you know for me you do work
You're working in there and there's routine and there's you know, yeah
But it should stay special, you know, so you're at you're at a point right now
You're ready to do this special which is the this thing that you're gonna live
stream. Yeah in Madison Square Garden
Yeah, fucking super exciting. I love it. Yeah, thanks January 28th. That's my I'm
going back to the garden
I used to play there all the time haven't played there in a number of years
I didn't know that come back. There it is. Yeah
And so we put the sale Joe and sale
I'm right I wrote to you because I wanted to do it in the round. Yeah, I never
did it that way
And so I asked you if it was good. You said it was really fun. It's so fun
And then I found out that it cost twice as much because you got a light from
two sides
Yeah, and also you need four you need to be able to see the guy from four
angles
So you need more cameras right and then we sold the thing out like we sold 10,000
tickets on the first day
It's sold out now
It's 18,000 seats is the most people I've all ever have
But I mean I'm doing this 38 years. That'll be the biggest audience I ever
played for
and so it costs so much money though to put the cameras in there yeah for the jumbotron
and
Then I thought just let's live stream because it's actually only costing a
little bit more. You know, there's not that much more
Because we already have all this shit in there right right so yeah, so we're
gonna live stream it
And on my website you just go and you it's like 25 bucks and that's awesome. We'll
keep it up there
It's a live event. It's not a special so much as a live event
So it's all new material since my last special and it'll be
Up till the 17th, I think of February then we take it down and then it'll go
away
And then in April put out a special of the same material that I already shot
At the Dolby theater in LA I shot a special there. Oh really? When did you
shoot that?
Earlier this month. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's really good. That's a great idea. I
love that
Yeah, so that's like the album. Yeah, right, right
And that'll be the same as every special I've ever done like 10 bucks and you
can download it and all that stuff and keep it
But this one is only for streaming and a short limited so Chris Rock is doing a
live special to on Netflix, right?
He's gonna film it and it'll stream live on Netflix. Is that gonna do it for
the first time?
Yeah, they never live streamed anything so that he's their first one and that's
cool for him and it'll be March
I think he's doing is in Atlanta. I've heard nothing but good things about his
new set. Yeah
He's what he's been I think
Holding back a little bit. So this I think this tour has been great for him.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah
I think this is gonna be really great. I'm excited. I'm excited for his show. I'm
excited for comedy right now
Yeah, comedy is getting it's amazing
Picking up steam. Well, it's also it's like people are really longing for it
because there's so much political correct
Bullshit this woke bullshit what you can and can't say and so many people feel
upset about it and that like they don't know what to say because they can't
talk at work or they get
Fired they can't talk amongst their community or they get shamed and they don't
they like
And then you can go see someone talk on stage like yeah
Yes, and that's what comedy always was yeah
It's always been that yeah, and it's to me everything that's happened has been
natural
It's like normal that comedy has to be defended every few years. Yeah, like
when when everybody's being cool
like when the world is kind of cool like it was up till maybe 2015 or so like
it's just kind of cool
Comedy is cool and every you know, but then when things get shitty and in terms
of this sort of thing
people being more divided and unable to
Express themselves comedy gets more important, but also starts getting attacked
and we have to defend it. That's all yeah
I mean by just doing it. That's all I don't I don't get into defending it by
saying fuck these people
It just means you have to keep doing it at the same
Discipline right and doing it the same way. Yeah. Yeah. Don't pull back. No,
just keep doing it and folks will show up
Uh and love it. Well, that's one of the things I really loved about your last
special
It was like a hundred percent a louis ck special there wasn't you didn't back
off of anything like that whole thing that you did
At the end the the the faggot thing was so funny, man. It's so funny. It's such
a good bit
Yeah, that's just new today's straight matter. Yes. It's so funny. It's so good
because it's so like ah
He's going there, you know, but it's really well thought out my audiences are
really
Diverse that I mean in terms of like I get young people and some kind of like
progressive looking people
I get men and women and in all races mostly white, but you know some cities I
get more but uh
But I tested it in front of so many people that bit and they every kind of
person laughed at it
every the only people that got offended by it
Where people like in the south are more kind of like red state people because
when I said straight men are faggots
I'm talking about you know
Brooklyn twinks and right right right
They don't know they think I'm talking about them. Hey, you know, so they didn't
they missed it
I thought I would be offending
Progressive young kids, but they're they for them
It was a relief because it's about them right and they feel that way in real
life
People like being laughed at they like their community to like when you do good
jokes about black people not like white perspective
About being alienated from them
But if you do a good joke about black culture or chinese culture or jewish
culture the people in those
groups laugh because
They're in the show and they know their culture as well as anybody does, you
know, yeah
so that's always been the case but people just
You know, I mean it never really changed all the and the way I figured it was
there was no point in backing down and changing
Because what do you want out of life? Like what?
maybe I could have
Like I already had a crazy heyday where the kind of comedy I do which is just
flagrant fouls just fucking just
bad bad behavior throughout
Right for a while that was like considered the greatest thing and people were
just like this is great
The mainstream loved it. Everybody loved it. Right and I had that for years
that success
So I figured if if I have to do it and I start getting hated for it or even
just business goes down
I have to take some heat
from the sides
So what that's not a lot to ask of me considering