Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1758 - Carrot Top
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1758 - Carrot Top' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1758 - Carrot Top

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Cheers, sir.
Dude, yeah.
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you, too.
Very nice to officially meet you.
Yeah, it's cool.
I follow you on the Instagram, watch your posts all the time.
Okay, good.
See how many big silly goose you're having a good time?
Yes.
I've been doing these little, what do you call it?
We kind of reenact a scene for movies, and it's been really fun.
It's hard because you have to know the scene really well,
so I've done the planes, trains, and all, my fucking car, my fucking.
So it's been fun.
That's my new little gig.
But, yeah, I try to keep it fun, Instagram.
No, you definitely do.
And obviously you've done a lot of radio because you have one ear on,
one ear off.
Jim Norton always does that.
I'm just retarded.
No, I do this.
Jim Norton does that, too.
Yeah.
A lot of people do that and have done a lot of radio.
Yeah, I've done a lot.
Yeah, so I like to be able to hear.
Yeah, they want, like, a little in the noise.
Yeah, a little bit of, yeah, a little, exactly.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand that.
Because if they're looking at me like, put your headset on, right?
Yeah, we've been doing comedy for so fucking long and that we've never met.
It's kind of funny.
That is bizarre.
I mean, you've been doing it, um, 30-plus years?
Yeah, same.
I started in 1985.
Yeah, I started in 88, so I had to reach out.
All right, I got my three.
Did you?
I'm the veteran here.
Fuck.
Um, you're a funny guy, man, and you take, you at least used to take a lot of
shit.
And I never understood it.
I never, I don't either.
I never have understood that.
But it's mellowed out a little bit.
It's kind of like, you know, you've done it so long.
Yeah.
You're kind of like, okay, you can go to the barbecue now.
You're part of the club.
But, um, for years and years, I mean, uh, from, from the very, very beginning,
which is
kind of funny, you being a comic, but when I started in Florida, um, one thing
everybody
worried about was, uh, was, you know, the fever, you know, you don't want to
steal, you
know, and he stole his act.
So I thought, you know, not only did I do my, my thing just because I wanted to
do props,
but I thought, wow, no one's going to hate me because I'm doing, I'm not doing
anyone's,
I mean, I'm, you know, stealing crime watch signs and shit.
Right.
And lugging him around the country.
So if anything, they would say, you know, okay, he's not funny, or at least he's
original,
but he's not funny.
But they would say, oh no, he's, you know, everything.
I just got, I would get shit for, like, I was the shit, I was just filling the
punchline.
Yeah, you were a whipping boy.
Yeah.
You know what it's like?
You're like the, it's like Nickelback for whatever Nickelback takes so much
shit.
It's like someone decides that that's a good punchline, you know?
Right, and I've seen Nickelback, and they put on a pretty amazing show.
They've got some good songs, man.
And they do.
They're pop songs, yeah, but so fucking what?
It's like they're not hurting anybody.
It was, you know, so let's say I would do a show, and we have a, you know, nice
crowd.
It was great.
It's a standing ovation.
We get on the bus, and we're driving to wherever next gig, and we're all
watching,
you know, the TV, and then boom, there's a Caratop rip.
And I'd be like, you know, what the fuck?
We just, I just, not only, we just did a great show.
We had a whole bunch of people laughing.
Yeah.
So this one guy is telling me, you know, that I said, whatever, you know.
I've always been a guy that's considered the source.
I mean, I was always picked on as a kid, but when I'd come home, my mom would,
you know,
what happened?
Another guy picked on me.
Who was it?
And it was this guy.
Well, consider the source, right?
Yeah.
It's always been that with comedy, too.
Like, when, you know, George Carlin said I was funny, that negated every
asshole that
said I sucked.
Yeah.
I was like, George Carlin thought I was funny.
No, you are funny, man.
You have a good show.
Well, you kind of want, I think most humans want everyone to love them, right?
Yeah.
But as comics, we're even more sensitive.
I want not only to have fans, but I want my peers to like me as well, so it's
weird.
And then people say, well, who gives a shit of, you know, you have fans that
love you.
Who cares about your peers?
I'm like, well, you kind of want other comics to go, hey, man, I dig your style,
you know?
No, for sure.
That's the thing.
If you're rejected by your peers, even if the rest of the world loves you, but
comics hate
you.
Right.
It's horrible.
Like I said, I've done it so long, I guess they're finally like, ah, fuck it.
He can stay, I guess.
Well, I think, first of all, you own the genre now.
There used to be, like when I started in 88, there used to be prop comics.
Yeah.
You became so successful as a prop comic that you own the genre.
Like, there's no prop comics anymore, man.
I think, I know.
I don't think anyone wants to be one.
That's what I think.
They're like, fuck that.
I'm not going down that path.
I'm going to take over all the abuse that I took.
I'd tell them, don't do it.
But we had, though, like you said, Rip Taylor or Gallagher.
And by the way, Gallagher was very much of an influence on me when I started
doing comedy
and I would get, well, I should just say, so one day Gallagher meets me for
lunch and
Gallagher's listening.
So he's up my, I mean, he's yelling at me and screaming in front of everybody
in front
of the, like, the valet.
And he says, I stole his act.
And I was like, Gallagher.
He meets you for lunch to yell at you?
Yeah.
Well, I think we've made up since, I think.
He came to the show and told me how to redo it.
But I know he did.
He's out there.
I've heard him on Stern, dude.
He said, get rid of that.
This sounds fucking crazy.
And, you know, stop doing props.
So, yeah, so, but the thing that I thought was kind of funny, because I, in my
defense of
Gallagher, I used to always say, it's not the watermelon that's, he's a really
brilliant
comic.
I mean, you go back and listen to his writing.
Yeah.
It was great.
But all people knew was him jumping on a big couch and hitting a watermelon.
But I would always say, no, that guy's a genius.
And so then he meets me and he tells me, you know what?
You stole my act and you didn't steal the, you stole the stupid stuff.
And I said, we talked, well, first I didn't steal anything.
He says, hey, the stupid stuff.
Why didn't you steal the smart stuff, the words, the stuff that's actually
clever?
Why would you steal?
I said, but I didn't steal.
It's my stupid stuff.
What was he saying you stole?
My whole act.
He said, you know, just maybe the genre, I guess, because if you break down
Gallagher prop
stuff, it was always a pun.
It was a shoehorn.
It was like Rip Taylor, kind of like a, hey, it's a butterfly.
It's butter with wings.
And mine was like, no, it's a crime watch sign.
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it was more of an invention prop.
So he thought that by, you know, you holding up two things and saying it's a
this and a
that, but like he used to do that.
See, and I never did that.
That's what was funny.
We never, I've never, my, my style of prop comedy is kind of an interesting, it's
like
an inventive, if you go back and find any prop.
No, no, I have seen it.
There's always a twist to it.
So it's not just me holding up a, it's not a word, play word, like the wid, you
know,
it's like, I've got my tubes tied and it's just tubes all together.
So Moran's like trying to think what I would have, like, you know, I don't know,
like a
microphone from Mick Jagger that has an oxygen thing in it.
So, you know, so it's, it's something, it's something that's more into a,
anyway, it's
just a different, same with what I did.
It's jokey, but it's also.
Yeah.
And when I did the family guy, they said, they called, they said, you know, we
got the thing
already and they sent me the script.
And I was like, so the joke is, it's a seesaw, right?
So I'm like, so it's prop is a saw with glasses on it.
Right.
And that's kind of not what I do.
Right.
And so I was like, oh man, this is a, I don't like this.
If we change it to something that I do.
And the guy, what's his, um, what's that?
McFarlane says, um, dude, no, this is, people's fucking great.
And I said, I don't know, but it's seesaw.
It's really stupid.
And he says, I wrote it.
I said, no, it's not that stupid.
I said, no, no, I just want to do, it's like, can I, can I do one of my props?
He said, well, two, two things wrong.
We already have the animation done.
Right.
And secondly, everyone loves it.
And if you want to do it, well, you know, we'll just get someone else to do the
voice.
It's fine.
And I said, no, no, I want to do it.
I just, if we can't, fuck it.
So I did it.
And I still, to this day, get people to go, dude, seesaw.
So they were, they were right.
I just, I just was like, damn it.
I want it to be a little more, but whatever.
I get it.
Yeah.
Well, also, you've got to be a little defensive after all the years of people
shitting on you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
True.
What is it like having a Vegas residency?
Because I've always thought about that.
Like, there's people that I think did it where maybe they probably shouldn't
have done it.
And then there's people like you that it seemed, you seem to be having a good
time doing it.
And then you still do occasional shows in other spots.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love it.
I mean, I was telling you guys out front there a bit ago that in the beginning,
I was very reluctant because I was my road guy.
Yeah.
And so I would do, you know, the road and live on a tour bus and that.
And then they, they offered the gig.
And I was like, uh, so I started doing like just a couple of weeks, which now
they call residencies.
Residencies when, you know, you live there as resident.
Right.
Right.
But now you have a weekend.
Now they're doing a residency.
So, uh, so I said, I'll do two weeks at a time.
And it was kind of rough.
I was, I wasn't, I wasn't, the Vegas is a day.
I was a different beast.
I just wasn't ready for people sitting in, you know, like booths and eating,
you know, like dinner show, eating and kind of getting slouched.
And I was like, I'm used to people like, you know, psyched for the show.
Right.
Yeah.
They're coming out to see you.
George Carlin would tell me, he says, you know, you couldn't get into, oh, so
fuck it.
I'm going to go see Carlin kind of thing.
So as I've gotten more fans, I think I'm getting more of my audience.
But back then there was just people that were, you know, going by a buffet,
going, I get a carrot top ticket and whatever.
Check it out.
How long have you been doing it now in Vegas?
Uh, this is 16 at the Luxor and then 10 at the MGM to 20, 26 years.
And then at Bally's once, one year.
I mean, sorry.
So 27 years.
So you've been in Vegas.
Penn and Teller have been going back and forth and who's been the longest.
And I said, well, I do all the work.
You have fucking Teller, right?
So I, I went by default.
Well, you know.
And Teller doesn't do shit.
He just stands there.
Penn and Teller, that's a, they're very unique people.
Absolutely.
Very, very unique.
You know, Penn is a, he's a super interesting guy and you really wouldn't think
that he would fit in in Vegas.
Penn?
Yeah.
He barely fits.
He's 6'9".
He's a giant dude.
Yeah.
But he seems like you belong somewhere else.
Yeah.
But, but, so, 26 fucking years as a, doing a residency, that's a long ass time,
man.
It is a long time.
Have you always done some road work while you're doing that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We just, we just did a last, two weeks ago, we did a whole bunch of Kansas City
and Detroit and Chicago and Minneapolis.
What is, what do you like doing?
Do you like doing, like, weekends?
I like both.
I like the Vegas show.
It's, you know, it's kind of, you're there every night, you get to go home.
But the road shows are, you kind of f