Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1813 - Tony Hinchcliffe
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1813 - Tony Hinchcliffe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1813 - Tony Hinchcliffe

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
And we're up.
All day I've been trying to recover from yesterday, drinking with Stan Hope.
Oh yeah, he's a fun one to hang out with, huh?
We did a podcast like right when he was coming out of the pandemic
and I think I was probably sober or mostly sober during the podcast
and it just didn't, it just felt off.
It felt clunky and he felt like that too.
So I'm like, this one, I'm going to make sure we do it right.
And I just got blasted with him.
We just drank whiskey and got fucked up and talked for like, how long was it?
Three and a half hours.
Wow.
And a couple of pee breaks and just obliterated.
I don't remember half what we talked about.
He's so fun.
Yeah.
Last night was incredible.
Last night was insane.
Yeah.
Let's tell everybody, first of all, let's tell everybody you're going to be in
Phoenix
this weekend at Stand Up Live, which is an awesome club.
And maybe I'll drop in on Friday because I'm going to be there for the UFC.
Beautiful.
Let's have some fun.
We'll have some fun.
The great and powerful William Montgomery will be there as well.
And then last night we do a show at Vulcan and who goes on stage with us
but motherfucking Roseanne Barr.
Wow.
What a clinic.
She hadn't been on stage in years.
In years.
And she killed just as hard as anybody.
God, the amount of applause she got when she went up there.
Natural freak talent.
Killing the whole time.
Getting little tiny standing ovations throughout.
Totally like the way she moved, the way she talked, her pacing, her timing felt
so natural and conversational.
But she wasn't even planning on going up.
Yeah.
This is what's crazy.
She hadn't gone on stage in years.
And she did it.
And then afterwards she felt fucking great.
She was hanging out in the green room.
She was all fired up.
Yeah.
And she's like, I want to fucking move here.
Yeah.
She's the best.
She belongs here.
She's the vibe.
Yeah.
Well, her daughter lives here.
So I think we got a real good shot of getting her here.
I hope so.
Oh my God.
She is, I mean.
Last night was special.
It really was.
Doug Stanhope, Ron White, you, Hans Kim, Roseanne Barr, and me.
Yeah.
What a fucking lineup.
What a fucking lineup.
So fun.
Hey, you want to know something funny about this picture?
You see that bottle that Stanhope has of mineral water?
Well, there's cigarettes in there.
You see that?
Yes.
A few minutes after this picture was taken, he took a huge gulp of that,
forgetting that it was an ashtray.
And he handled it so funny.
He made sure everybody knew, and he made a funny face.
And like, he really milked it like a real comedian.
We found out yesterday that Stanhope had COVID, and he never even knew.
He goes, I've been dealing with COVID-like symptoms for the last 30 years.
That's 30 years of being hungover.
30 years of being hammered mostly every day.
The rare breed.
You know how many comedians fail because he drinks on stage?
There's so many comedians that think they can drink on stage and do good
because of him.
Or they could be like him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But they don't have a point.
Right.
Like, he writes.
The thing about Doug Stanhope is Doug Stanhope may be a guy who loves to drink.
He is.
Well, fuck, maybe.
He's a guy who loves to drink.
Yeah.
But he also loves to write.
He writes a lot.
He's got a laptop, sits down with it.
He makes notes, drinks coffee, smokes cigarettes, writes.
He is dedicated to being a comic and a writer.
He writes.
And that's a lot of the guys that go on tour and try to emulate that thing.
They leave out part of it.
They leave out that part.
You know?
There's a...
I've been into this audio book by Steven Pressfield, The War of Art.
I just finished it.
And now I'm on his other book that he has.
It's a similar sort of vein.
It's called Turning Pro.
But one of the things in Turning Pro, it's like talking about the things that
people do
to distract them from the work.
And that one of the things they'll do is that a lot of people who will...
They romanticize the lifestyle of being like a rock and roll star, right?
You're out on the road, but they're doing the drugs and, you know, they're boozing
and partying.
That's like part of the lifestyle.
But what they're not doing is the writing.
They're not doing the work.
They're not being a pro.
They're just distracting themselves with the nonsense aspects of it, the partying
aspects of it.
Not the getting better at the art form aspects of it.
Stanhope has a good balance.
He writes a lot.
Like, you know, you see him and he's got points.
There'll be something new about, you know, anything that's going on that's pertinent,
that's in the news.
He's got new bits.
Yeah.
That's sort of what you're saying.
It sort of reminds me of Dave Attell, who, you know, I feel like amongst comedians
is considered one of the best in the world right now.
One of the best of all time.
Yeah.
And, you know, he was the party guy forever.
Yeah.
Right?
The insomniac going out, up everywhere.
And I remember, I mean, well, first of all, he's sober now.
But I remember when I got to work at the comedy store, when I started working
there 15 years ago, I was also working to make extra money at a coffee shop
right next to it.
And I would work really, really, really early mornings, like this 6 a.m. to 11
a.m. shift, because then I would go work phones at the comedy store all day and
then at the comedy store at night.
So I was just working all day.
Anyway, there was a lot of times where I would be at the comedy store until 2.30
a.m.
And Attell, if he was visiting from New York, would be there, you know,
watching or going up or hanging out or both.
And I would work these shifts four hours later at Starbucks and he would be
there reading the newspaper with a notebook, like literally grinding and grueling
out the work.
Not on his cell phone reading, like absorbing actual paper, you know, reading
material and kicking out writing immediately.
Like someone who's about to start, not like someone who's a 20, 30 year veteran
of the game.
And he takes it that seriously and it shows continuously throughout his work.
You know, everybody that is great is doing the work.
Yeah, there's no substitute.
There's no substitute in the universe rewards you, like life rewards you for
the amount of effort you put into something.
The amount of attention and focus you put into something will be represented in
how good you get at it.
It doesn't mean that everybody starts from the same place.
Some people have more natural talent.
Some people have more natural insight.
Some people are just funnier when they start.
But it is really about the amount of time and focus you put in and how much
better you get.
There's a lot of people that have like maybe a natural personality for standup,
but they're lazy and they don't get much better because they don't write.
And so they kind of develop this sort of passable act and never really improve
upon it because they don't spend the time doing it.
Whereas someone who wasn't as good as them initially would be far better than
them at the end.
Yeah.
It's just time.
It's time and focus.
I think that would apply to everything.
I think it would apply to fucking playing a guitar or writing books or whatever
the fuck you're doing.
It's time and effort.
Time and effort.
And there's no substitute for those things.
And thinking and being, you know, really thinking, like being honest about what
you're doing.
You know, looking at it and go, God, is this good?
Like, let me look at this again.
Let me look at this with fresh eyes.
Let me go walk around the block and think about it.
You know, that's part of it, too.
One of the things that Pressfield talked about is also something that Stephen
King would talk about is that he would write and then he would go for walks
after the writing, which is very common amongst writers.
They like to go for walks afterwards and review the notes in their head.
And Pressfield would take a little recorder with them, but obviously you could
use your phone and just use the voice memos and just talk into your phone and
say, you know, I have this thing about page five.
I feel like this is off.
Or chapter six is, you know, a little flat.
Maybe this is a new solution.
Yeah.
Walking helps a lot, no doubt.
It's one of those things that we would do in the writer's room, a bunch of
sloppy, lazy bum writers in the roast writer's room.
We would have to take a break because the blood just circulates around your
head all day.
And then after four or five hours, especially after lunch, you have to get the
things rolling again.
So, yeah, it changes perspective.
But most importantly, it just really gets the blood flowing.
Especially after lunch if you're eating bread.
Yeah.
Guys who eat sandwiches, like big sub sandwiches for lunch, they're useless
after lunch.
It's so true.
And I remember we used to literally order from a place called, I don't know if
it still exists in L.A., but it was called It's All About the Bread.
And it was the thickest because it was Jeff Ross's show, basically, in his
office.
And we know, like anybody that knows anything about Jeff knows he doesn't give
a fuck about what he eats.
Like he's always smashing food.
He has the fastest metabolism out of anybody in the world.
How's that possible?
I don't know.
But he's so big.
He's big.
That goes to show you how much he eats.
I mean, the man is always snacking on something.
Really?
Yeah.
He just burns it by whatever, thinking all the time or whatever's going on.
But, oh, so there was just no, there was no like, let's eat something healthy
today.
Because like, he doesn't give a fuck.
So we used to order from this place.
It's all about the bread.
And we would all crash so hard.
We would have to drink seven cups of coffee to even come back from it.
But it was like a drug.
It was like doing like bread heroin or something in the afternoon time.
Yeah.
Sandwiches are the worst for that.
Yeah.
Like a big sub sandwich.
Because you think about like, when do you ever eat a piece of bread that big?
Right.
Never.
And then a piece of bread that big stuffed with meat and cheese and fucking
mayonnaise and shit.
And this was like a baguette.
I remember the exterior was hard.
It was like very textured, like tough.
And tons of bread in between the starting point and that hard outer shell.
So your body has to break all that down.
It's just glue in your stomach.
Just clogging up your brain.
But meanwhile, if Jeff eats something like that, he gets like, he turns into
like the Incredible Hulk for like 25 minutes after that.
Like everybody's just dying of laughter about anything, whatever happens.
He's a special guy.
So he's just gets excited about the food and that makes him happy.
And then he's funnier.
100%.
Yeah.
Stan Hope and I were talking about this yesterday because Stan Hope had no idea
that he had COVID.
We were talking about this.
I remember in like the brief flashes that I can remember of our drunken
conversation.
I was like, I wonder how much of a factor stress plays into people getting sick.
Because how is he okay?
Stan Hope chain smokes, drinks constantly.
He's basically my age, a couple months older than me.
And nothing's wrong with him.
Allegedly.
Hasn't been to a doctor in years.
Like in forever.
He goes, why would you go?
They just fucking give you bad news.
And he goes, just fucking live until it breaks.
That's like his thought process.
Just live until his body breaks.
It was interesting watching him go face to face with Ron White last night.
And the first thing that Ron said to him was, Doug, I'm sorry.
I couldn't fight the fight anymore for us drunks.
He was like apologizing to Doug for having to back out of the game.
You know, Ron, after 50 years of daily tequila drinking.
He's like, I wish I could still be in the fight with you, my friend.
Meanwhile, here's the thing.
Just like Dave Attell, Ron White is better than ever.
Ron White is on fire right now.
And I'v