Name: Joe on Dave Attell's Legendary Status
Uploaded: 2022-05-31T17:36:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Dave Attell's Legendary Status' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe on Dave Attell's Legendary Status' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-31. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- Attell, I think, of the current guys,
he probably influenced the most guys out of New York.
Because if you watch Attell right now in particular,
that's a guy that's probably the most underappreciated
and underrated, even though I know the fans
rate him very highly, I'm talking about
like the general public, every comedy fan
that knows Dave Attell rates him very, very highly.
He might be the best comic alive.
But criminally underappreciated as far
as the general public goes.
And if you see him, he's so good
and his jokes are so sharp.
And you get into that Dave Attell rhythm
and that's all you want to hear.
And then guys start doing jokes like him.
You start doing that, he's got this way of talking.
And it's so addictive.
It's so, I've seen so many guys like,
and I don't, they're not bad guys,
but you see like a little bit of Attell in them
because they're like insecure
and they don't know how to be funny
and they're trying to be funny.
And so they try to do it like Attell.
Yeah.
You know, and they have that like very pronounced
sort of accentuation of words.
I remember "Insomniac" was like big
when I was growing up.
Like that was kind of his big Hollywood thing.
But then I didn't see much after that.
I know, wasn't he like a HBO young comedian special?
Is that partly like him?
Like he just loves standup.
He'll go on last at the cellar.
He kind of just enjoys-
He does a lot of like late night sets
and he can revive an audience.
And he's not like a big energy guy either.
It's like, he's just doing it all.
He's just the master of what he does.
Brilliant jokes.
But yeah, I think the first big success
was definitely "Insomniac".
And then through "Insomniac",
he developed a drinking problem.
And then through the drinking problem,
he quit and then became the best comic alive.
Like it's really happened all through that.
Like his quitting drinking, everybody agrees like unanimously
that his act sharpened up radically.
It got really, really, really good.
And I think it's just, his mind is free.
- It's amazing.
- Yeah.
- Like the amount of new jokes.
He's just a machine.
- And he's super dedicated.
- Yeah.
- That's the thing.
It's like he has a thing that he's really good at,
that he really loves, that he's very dedicated to.
So he's like always after it.
And so because he's always after it,
he's always doing all these sets
and he's always sharp.
And I mean, that's really what it's at for all of us,
you know, and there's some,
there's kind of a lot,
almost a monastic approach that he takes.
He wears the same clothes essentially every night.
I don't mean by the same clothes,
but he doesn't vary in his style.
Just like the same hat, the same, you know.
Look, Dave just sold out the stand up live in Phoenix
and killed it down there.
I mean, it's not like he's not loved.
Like the people that know,
and there's plenty of them love him.
But as far as like great comics
that don't get put into the category of great comics,
like he's number one on my list.
- Yeah, I love him too, he's great.
- He might be the one of the best of all time.
And right now he's in his prime.
And I think a lot of it is like he stopped drinking,
unlike us, and turned his life around.
- When is the last special?
Do you know?
- I don't know.
- Was it Bumping Mike's on Netflix?
- Well, that's interesting too, right?
Him doing that thing with Jeff,
that's a really fun thing.
'Cause they're both so good off their feet.
- Yeah.
- Skanks for the Memories was his first big CD.
That was a really good one.
They did it at Denver at the Comedy Works.
It's really funny.
- That's a great club.