Name: Johnny Depp's Friendship with Hunter S. Thompson
Uploaded: 2022-04-29T17:49:55.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Johnny Depp's Friendship with Hunter S. Thompson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Johnny Depp's Friendship with Hunter S. Thompson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-29. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience. I love a good superhero movie. I'm corny. You like
like Avengers and shit?
Love it. You like Aquaman? I like it when they bring in the Hulk. Yeah, I like
the Hulk.
I didn't watch Aquaman because I'm not I'm not watching any movie with Amber Heard
in it.
I'll tell you what I am watching is The Trial. Dude, it's the best reality show
of all time.
I think I need to spark a joint up before we're gonna talk about The Trial. Do
it, bro, because I can't get enough of it.
It's literally it's amazing. It's fantastic. It's the best thing on TV. At
first, I was upset because, you know,
I'll watch the news and they interrupted Ukraine getting bombed in the middle
of a war with Russia.
It's like breaking news. Johnny Depp, Amber Heard. I'm like, oh, God, what are
we doing here?
I was like, let's see what's happening. I was like, oh, hell, yes, sign me up,
dude.
It's it's it's a cautionary tale for people that were thinking that it's worth
it to date a crazy girl because she's great in bed.
No, this is my thing, though. How great is she in bed that she can shit in your
bed?
She can rip your fucking index finger off and she must she must be a real Tomcat
in the sack, dude.
I think he's probably a really nice guy and he had great moments with her and
he keeps going back to those great moments and
thinking they can get past all this craziness because Johnny. I don't know
Johnny. Well, I've talked to him before,
but I know of his career and I know of his love of Hunter Thompson and he's
close with
Stan Hope. Yeah, very close. And that's how I know him. That's how I've met him.
Well, I've talked to him.
I met him once personally in the comedy store, but I talked to him on the phone
for an extended period of time once when he was dealing with all this shit and
I think he's a really good guy. That's what I think. I think he's he likes
chaos, though. He likes doing cocaine.
He probably likes doing things. He shouldn't do like he probably likes driving
fast.
He's probably an animal in some ways like he just loves like chaos and I think
that's one of the reasons why he loved Hunter Thompson.
He loved a brilliant man who loved chaos and that's what Hunter was. Hunter was
just like
brilliant writer who was a cultural commentator who also enjoyed getting like
obliterated.
How long ago, Joe? How long are we talking?
Well, Hunter killed himself in the early 2000s.
Okay.
After, what was it like 2010, 11 or something like that? I forget what year he
killed himself.
Okay. But Johnny was friends with him. Yeah. And Johnny played him in the movie,
you know, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
And he also, yeah, he also narrated the Hunter Thompson documentary, which is,
was it Gonzo? Life in, yeah.
Died in 2005.
What's that?
Died in 2005.
In Colorado?
Yeah. Yeah, he shot himself. I mean, he was hurting at the end. He had hip replacements
and he was in constant pain.
And a life of doing drugs, like hardcore drugs and alcohol obliterated his body.
So it was Johnny's, Johnny Depp's North Star, basically.
Yeah, that's his, that's his hero in a lot of ways. I mean, Johnny Depp is, I,
I, I, I, I don't know the exact details,
but he has a significant amount of Hunter Thompson memorabilia. Like he bought
a significant amount.
Yeah.
When the wife, when Hunter's wife was going to get rid of some stuff, Johnny
stepped in and got it all.
I'm a fan.
Johnny paid, Johnny paid for Hunter's funeral.
Oh, wow.
It was millions of dollars.
He built a cannon to shoot Hunter's ashes into the sky.
And like, you know, that, that he has this, um, this, uh, logo that's, uh, I
don't know if you've seen that Hunter Thompson for sheriff poster that I have
out there.
He has a logo. That's a fist with two thumbs, like a mutant fist that has a mescaline
tab in the center of it.
And that's his logo.
Jesus.
And so he made a giant cannon out of this logo.
And, you know, play this because this is Hunter talking about it.
It's all described.
They'll do it from the beginning because he's explaining to the, the, the mortuary
how he wants this done.
It's hilarious.
So he's discussing his future demise.
Yeah.
God, this is dark.
Yeah.
And so that is different.
Yeah.
So he just decided that he was going to do this and Johnny Depp actually wound
up doing it at his, at his funeral.
Well, I mean, clearly he was going to blow his hat off though.
I mean, yeah.
So this is him.
This was a, this was a young Hunter planning this out.
God, that is dark.
Yeah.
And so when he got old and, you know, became friends with Johnny, I mean,
Johnny's got
all the fucking cash in the world.
So he decided to just do it.
And so he spent millions of dollars building this fucking cannon and shooting
Hunter's ashes
into the sky.
That Jack Sparrow mother.
I think what fucked him up too.
Look at that.
That's the, that's the, the rocket.
Jesus Christ.
It's going to be a pile of rocks.
This is crazy that he actually went and did this.
It's so dark.
I mean, music's all fun.
Johnny Depp is hilarious.
That he fact, just the fact that he did that, that he carried through.
I agree.
He's a legend.
Spent millions on it.
I'm a fan, man.
But also think how long Johnny's been famous too.
So he's going to be wired a little different.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
It's not good.
It's like the way I've described it is like getting famous when you're really
young
and then trying to be a fully grown adult is like making cement, but you don't
use all
the material and then it doesn't cure right.
You don't, you don't grow up in a realistic world.
No.
Like nothing's real.
Yeah.
It's beyond.
And that's Ralph Steadman.
The guy who's drawing it.
He did all the Hunter S. Thompson artwork.
He's brilliant artists.
And so he helped Hunter design it.
I don't know if he was, but look at this.
This is the fucking cannon.
I'm on team Depp for life.
You hear me?
Yeah, me too.
Team Depp.
Yeah, man.
I mean, I wish he wouldn't wear eyeliner, but yeah.
Team Depp.
And a little too many scarves, right?
I don't give a fuck.
Here's my thing.
I don't give a fuck anymore.
He can do no wrong in my book.
I'm a Johnny Depp fan.
If I was younger, I probably would have criticized him for it.
Now I'm like, yeah, look at that.
There it is.
This is super dark.
It's a wild move, man.
The guy shoots his fucking ashes into the sky out of a goddamn cannon.
It's a tough follow.
It's a glowing fist.
It's a tough follow if you die.
How are you going to die?
And all these people go to his fucking funeral.
Bill Murray, who also played him in Where the Buffalo Roam, which is another
fun Hunter
Thompson movie.
But the guy was a writer.
Yeah.
And two different big time movie stars played him in movies.
Jesus Christ.
Johnny Depp and fucking...
Yeah.
Bill Murray?
Bill Murray.
That's what a bad motherfucker Hunter Thompson was.
Bill Murray has some anger issues, huh?
I don't know.
Allegedly.
Maybe someone was a cunt on the set.
I agree.
Maybe they deserved it.
I'd like to hear both sides of the story.
Yeah.
I don't know.
There's people watching it from a distance.
Yeah.
My funeral will not be like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't waste that money on me, man.
I'm out.