Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1850 - Whitney Cummings
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1850 - Whitney Cummings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1850 - Whitney Cummings

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
What do you love?
Oh, yeah, what is that?
It's an NFT, sort of.
It's like digital art.
It's Beeple, do you know who Beeple is?
He's the best.
Brilliant.
Every day that guy puts out a new piece.
Insane.
And it's computer generated, but does he go in and like paint?
I don't understand how it works.
But there's something involving computers.
They should.
I think there's a Palm Pilot.
I think every time I see one of his pieces on Instagram, like, you know, they'll
be like a sweeping sort of dystopian city.
Look at the new one.
What the fuck is that?
This is going to give me nightmares for a while.
This is the hair.
I got hairy legs.
But wait, are these?
They look raspberries, but those are germs?
I think, yeah.
See, it says mild symptoms.
That's what it's called.
Oh, funny.
He's just such a character, too.
He's a really fun guy.
You would enjoy him on your podcast.
My uterus right now.
Wow.
What is the one where he'll do like a cityscape?
And I'm like, oh, they should make an animated movie about his world.
Yeah.
Not that one.
There's a bunch of them.
Well, there's so many.
The problem is he puts out one every single day.
God, it's wild.
Yeah, it's amazing stuff.
It's really good.
Wow.
It's almost, I don't want to compare it.
He'll probably hate me if he hears this, but it feels like it's got Banksy-esque
commentary,
like using sort of famous, iconic images and subverting them.
But he'll say, like, when you ask him, like, you know, why do you have all the,
you know,
dicks dressed up as missiles?
He's like, I don't know.
I fucking just made a fucking picture of some dicks.
That was us last night watching Top Gun, which I loved.
It was a mind-bending thrill ride.
Mrs. Rogan wasn't that into it.
Well, it was.
She was like, eh.
We definitely were laughing at parts that got a little too, like, homoerotic?
Like, melodramatic.
It felt a little telenovela.
And it was, it didn't help that all the machines look like giant dicks flying
through the air.
It was all these guys on dicks being like, love you, man.
But I thought it was cool because it was just like, it was so unabashedly
emotional and patriotic.
And it was like a love letter to our forces.
Oh.
It really is.
I mean.
Well, they got in trouble, right?
Like, China won't distribute it because he wore a Taiwanese flag on his back or
something?
Was that the Jon Hamm character?
I think someone told me he was, the character was so decorated and had one
Taiwanese flag and they might have made them take it out, of course.
I think they were going to take it out, but then they changed their mind or
something.
But it's like the pressure from China.
Yeah, there it is.
I bet.
Yeah.
So here it is.
2019, the trailer for Top Gun Maverick showed Cruz's character, U.S. Navy pilot
Pete Mitchell, in the same bomber jacket he wore in the original film.
But two of its flag patches, representing Japan and the Republic of China, the
official name for Taiwan, appeared to have been replaced by other emblems.
The movie was like four years old then?
That's wild.
If they had a trailer in 2019.
That's wild.
They're like, we can't believe Tom Cruise believes.
So they started filming it then?
I think it was supposed to come out and then the pandemic happened.
Oh, that makes sense.
It's funny that the problem they have with Tom Cruise is that he believes
Taiwan is its own country and not that he believes in aliens.
Well, I believe in aliens.
He doesn't believe in aliens.
He believes that we are thetans.
Right, right, right.
That we were like dropped off in volcanoes.
That we're like ice cubes.
I have a hot take on Scientology, which is that I drive by the creepy ass
Scientology Center in L.A. now and I'm like, you know what?
I'm glad anyone that thinks that's a good idea is in a building.
Anyone that would be vulnerable to that is just they've got them.
They stay in there.
They go on boat.
Like what would the people that think Scientology is a good idea to subscribe
to be doing if Scientology was not available to like be the cult that they're a
part of?
They would like join the Moonies or something.
Yep.
They would be something else.
Yeah.
They would find some other thing to latch on to.
Cult type thing.
Yeah.
I mean, there's just a lot of vulnerable people out there that just have weak
minds.
And I think the more apocalyptic the world becomes or the more it feels like
this doomsday thing, the more we all want to latch on to something that's going
to give us a sense of control, fake control.
If they didn't have such a wacky origin story, I think they'd be way more
successful.
The problem is like the guy who started, did you ever read Lawrence Wright's
Going Clear?
I saw the documentary.
I interviewed him.
Fascinating guy.
You've had Leah on?
Yeah, I've had Leah on.
I had Miscavige's dad on who escaped, like literally escaped in a car chase,
left the compound to get away from his son and Scientology.
And the wife is missing, Shelley.
I don't believe she's missing.
I think she came out and said, no, I'm fine.
Oh, really?
But, you know, I think she's probably.
Was it my robot with her color hair?
I am fine.
I think she was punished for insubordination.
I bet.
She probably didn't salute correctly.
Something went wrong.
It's pretty wild.
I mean, and the fact that they still have tax, they don't pay taxes.
That's the wildest thing.
It's like, first of all, here's what's wild.
That guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who created Scientology, was a science fiction writer
who is the most prolific author in human history.
He has more published work than any other author ever because that motherfucker
never wrote a second draft.
His work is so bad.
It's so bad.
It's like, and then they pulled the laser beans out and shooted them at the
planet, and then the planet blew up into a million pieces, and then those
million pieces shot off into individual spaceships, and those individual spaceships
floated out into different galaxies and started their own universes.
Like, it's so bad.
But back then, was he on a typewriter, or was it handwritten?
Oh, yeah, typewriter, for sure.
Yeah, that's too annoying to have to go back and redo.
Well, they all did that.
I mean, that was Hemingway's famous quote that Ari used to have glued on his
laptop.
It said, the first draft of everything is shit.
First drafts are supposed to suck.
Yeah, they suck.
You're trying to get your ideas out there, and then you go back, and you sort
of reform them.
And that's, I mean, that's how it is with every bit, right?
I'm just, I cannot tell you.
This is the first time I've shot an hour that I felt like was, like, ready.
Like, ready.
Do you think you're more ready because we have all this time because of the
pandemic?
I made a promise to myself that I would not come out of the pandemic less
skilled at anything, less interesting, you know.
Too late.
Sloppy.
How dare you?
And I was like, okay, we obviously have this time.
Like, we can't sit around and just get rusty.
We can't when we come back and everyone finally is, you know, in their mind
taking a big risk going to a show where people are exhaling on each other or,
like, you know, taking a risk to go to a venue, which is what people thought
about it, at least some states, when we first started going back out.
And they've been inside for two years.
They've been listening to us on podcasts.
They feel connected to us.
I was like, I'm not going to go out there and be mediocre or work out and it
would, like, be sloppy.
And so I worked really hard over the pandemic to be writing, to be thoughtful
and to go, you know, this stuff is killing, but in 10 years, will it still feel
insightful and fresh?
Like, just cutting a lot of stuff that felt like it works, but I would rather
go smarter or weirder or try to figure out a way that this is going to age well.
Mm.
I think it gives you time to – I think the thing about, like, the way we were
doing specials before was, like, every two years is great.
Louis did it every one year for a while, which I think is kind of insane.
Yeah.
But every two – and that's what Carlin did, too.
So I think that's the model that he adopted.
Every two years was good, but for me, like, I'm about to film and I feel like
my shit has never been tighter.
It's, like, never been tighter because I had the time off and then getting back
into it also had, like, this newfound enthusiasm because I recognized, like,
hey, this thing that we love so much almost went away and kind of did for at
least a year.
We took it for granted, for sure.
Yeah.
But now I have these bits that I didn't record in 2020 and I got to hone them
and sharpen them and edit them and polish them and then add all this new stuff
to it as well.
And it's just – I think that's the way to do it.
I think it's more like three years or maybe even four.
This is – and you made a very big impact on me one day.
You might not even remember it.
But this was maybe my last special and I was about to shoot it and you went, I
just shot a special.
All I can tell you is if you think you're ready, do it for another three months.
Yeah.
Like, when you think you're ready, that's when you need another three months,
you know.
And I had probably – after I thought I was ready, I was able to do, like –
I mean, I did maybe 85, 90 shows or something of this one.
So it was really fun to, like, be in the pocket, feel like it was ready and
then go, no, there's more to do.
There's more to chisel.
Yeah.
And I don't know if you really know until after you filmed it, but this is –
I've done five specials.
This is the first one that when I taped it, I was like, I'm done.
I wasn't still thinking of tags later.
It wasn't haunting me.
I wasn't looking at the edit going, ah, I should have thought of it.
I was like, I have left everything on the floor.
Well, when we saw you at the Paramount, you were so loose.
You were so in the groove.
You know when someone is just like – you know when someone's thinking while
they're up there and they're thinking about their next bid or they're thinking
about their transitions?
You were just free.
You know, and that's a sign that someone's ready.
Thank you.
And that means a lot.
And I agree with you, not to – it sounds narcissistic, but I do think that,
you know, there's a point you get to when you work something so hard in front
of so many different kinds of people.
You know, in that hour, you know, I feel really precious about in a way or
connected to it because I was doing it outside, on cars, with people in masks,
like in parking lots.
It's like so many different places.
So by the time I got to like a theater where, you know, it's like – it just
feels like you're flying.
And it's the best feeling in the world to just kind of go like, I know all this
is going to work.
Now what else can I bring to it physically or playfully and how can I surprise
myself so that I'm actually on a ride with them too.
That's pretty wild that you did it in parking lots too, right?
Whoever gets to say that?
Jesus.
I did stand-up to people in cars.
Because so now it's like I've been getting such amazing feedback, which has
been sort of suspiciously nice, you know, because the internet usually, you
know, doesn't treat anyone like that, much less female comedians.
But there's something that feels so – like this is everybody's hour because I
did it so many – everyone that came and laughed and honked and whatever the
hell we were going through.
I'm like, I know that you guys laughed.
And if anyone says this isn't good, they're judging you.
Like I went all over the country.
I went everywhere.
And I just really feel good about that.
That's great.
Like this has worked everywhere for a while.
And I had fun and I was in the moment when I was performing, which is hard to
capture.
You know, I almost feel like specials.
Like, you know when you just shoot – when you have a great performance
somewhere and you're like, God, I wish we h