Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1715 - Jessica Kirson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1715 - Jessica Kirson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1715 - Jessica Kirson

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Why the fuck would anybody interrupt your show to do that?
Because they're crazy.
That is such a dumb thing to do.
I know.
Interrupt a performance.
Yeah.
To move a bottle off a stool.
Yeah.
Like as if someone's at home going, well, I was enjoying a performance.
She was very funny.
Yeah.
But that bottle.
Right.
I mean, there would have been millions of people who would have been upset
about the
bottle.
So it makes sense.
Was it a product placement thing?
Was there a label on the bottle?
No, it just was bothering someone that there was a bottle in the way.
Oh my God.
This is why it's a problem when you have executives and too many cooks in the
kitchen.
I agree completely.
What a fucking nightmare.
I was so pissed.
I literally went to the microphone and said, I'm going to fucking kill myself.
That was what I said.
They should have left the whole thing in.
I know.
Like the person coming on the stage, taking off the bottle and showing like
what other
art form would be disrespected like that.
Yeah.
Could you imagine Eric Clapton in the middle of a solo performance and someone
comes out
and moves a bottle?
Yeah.
What the fuck are you doing up here?
Right.
Why are you here?
Because we're just animals.
We're clowns.
They just literally.
Yes.
And it scared the shit out of me, by the way, because I'm so traumatized and
like I'm physically
a traumatized person.
So when my manager tapped my back, I'm in the middle of performing.
In front of a fucking crowd.
I mean, think about it.
You're on stage and you feel someone's hand on you.
I was like, am I going to be raped?
What is happening?
What is happening?
The fact that they chose to do it in the middle of your performance.
Five minutes in and I was killing.
That's so crazy.
Killing.
That's so crazy.
And tap you on the shoulder.
Right.
Not even yell out to you.
Jessie, we're going to start.
No.
We're going to stop.
I felt a hand on me.
Oh my God.
What if you died?
And I go, what the fuck?
What if you had a fucking heart attack and dropped her right there?
I would have.
My kids would have been set for life.
Actually, that would have been a great thing if that happened.
Maybe.
Comedy Central probably has some good lawyers.
Right?
Isn't that Viacom?
It would have been a great story.
Think about it.
It would have been a very good story.
I mean, I was right about to, you know, things were going great at that point
in my career.
Motherfuckers.
Yeah.
God.
Ugh.
Yeah.
I know.
And I literally was just like, I'm going to fucking kill myself.
This business is horrific.
I was doing a special once and I always do my specials with the same director.
He's a very good friend of mine.
I've known him forever.
And we do all the specials together.
But one special he could not do because he had a previous engagement.
There's no way he could cancel it.
So we brought in someone else.
And we told the guy exactly how we wanted to do it.
Like, keep it like a comedy club.
Make it very dark in there.
And then, you know, he was like, what about crowd shop?
I'm like, we're not going to use them.
Don't worry about it.
I don't like seeing people's faces.
They're like, what about for editing?
I'm like, we're not going to do that.
Don't worry about it.
In the middle of my performance, this motherfucker turns the lights up.
Oh, my God.
He's turning the lights up more and more.
And my manager has to go back and yell at him.
What the fuck are you doing?
He's like, we got to see the crowd.
He's like, he fucking told you to keep.
And then after all this shit is over, after all it's over, we're done.
I'm like, okay, fine.
We're fine.
He's like, I think we should do this in black and white.
I'm like, get the fuck away from me.
The fuck away from me.
Subtitles.
He's got a trucker hat on.
He's like, really think we should make this in black and white?
Yeah, he's clever.
Then they're like, can you do the material over?
I'm like, are you out of your mind?
Oh, my God.
No.
Oh, my God.
Can you do the material over?
No.
Hey, clown.
Do you know that juggling thing you did?
Juggle again.
Juggle again, clown.
Actually, Burr did one of his best specials in black and white.
I'm not shitting on black and white specials.
But that this guy's artistic jizz that he wanted to throw into the soup was to
turn my special
black and white.
Like, this was his goofy fucking idea.
But there's a lot of-
Hey, let's make it like a Western kind of thing.
Hey, maybe you should wear chaps.
I bet he talked like that.
No, he's like a regular guy.
Oh.
It's just, you know what?
Everyone's always trying to, like, first of all, if you're not a comic and you
don't
have a long history of studying and appreciating stand-up comedy specials, you
don't know what
you're- you're just filming something, right?
You might be filming a sketch.
You might be filming a television show.
You're just filming something.
And it happens to be someone doing stand-up.
If you're not really into stand-up.
Yeah.
You don't really study stand-up comedy specials.
But if you do, you recognize that what you're trying to emulate for the people
at home is
a version of what it would be like to be in that audience.
Right.
So what I always say is when you're watching a comedy show at home, you get
maybe 60 or 70% of what you would get if you were there.
You're missing a giant piece of, like, the interaction with the audience, the
feel, right?
The energy.
The energy.
Yeah.
For sure.
So anytime you add more shit to that, you just fuck it up.
You just keep fucking it up and you keep fucking it up.
It's as simple as possible.
Like, Louis C.K. does his specials.
He's just standing there.
You know?
Yeah.
It's like a fucking regular...
Oh, Jesus.
Ah!
I was worried I was going to spill whiskey over here.
Oh, boy.
And he just stands there and it's just, there's nothing special about his
backdrop.
There's nothing special about the stage.
Like, some of his best specials, you see, like, curtains and, like, fucking
wires and shit.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
You're watching a comic just like you would be if you were in the theater.
Yeah.
I agree.
I mean, less is better with specials.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These motherfuckers.
It was a nightmare.
And then, of course, because it was on Comedy Central, it was on once.
This is the thing.
Everyone was like, the fact that you can't get a special is fucking crazy.
And I agreed.
I am very humble, but the fact that I couldn't get a special was insane.
Thank you.
That's very sweet.
You're very, very funny.
Thank you.
So, Bill called me and was like, I'm producing your special.
I'm like, great.
Thank you.
I mean, it was just insane.
So, then they put it on once.
Like, all that material I worked on for years.
It was on one time.
And then it's probably on the Comedy Central app now.
Right.
Who goes on that?
There's like five people on that.
They're downloading South Park right now for a plane trip.
The problem with all these fucking apps and streaming services, it's like there's
so many of them and they all cost like 10 bucks.
Right.
How many of them are you going to have?
You have Hulu and you got Disney and you got ESPN Plus and HBO Max.
What the fuck else are you going to get?
No one watched it.
Netflix.
You're not going to keep buying them.
Right.
No one.
Seven people watched my special.
The only one that's free, I think, is Amazon, right?
Isn't Amazon Prime, isn't that free?
You have to have a subscription to Amazon and it's included with that.
But does Amazon cost money?
Amazon Prime subscription?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They all cost money.
It's the same thing.
It's like 10 bucks a month or 100 bucks a year.
They all cost money.
Everything costs money.
Yeah.
So how many are you going to sign up for?
If you're a person that's, you know, you're trying to watch your budget.
Like I have a lot of friends that just have Netflix, nothing else.
They have an internet connection and Netflix.
That's their whole, if it's not on Netflix, they don't watch it.
Yeah.
People are like, how can I find your special?
I'm like, don't worry about it.
You can't.
Don't even.
Why doesn't someone like bootleg it and put it up on YouTube?
I cut it into clips.
I was like, I don't even care if this is legal or not.
I'm fucking cutting it up and I'm putting it out.
And I did.
You should pretend somebody else did it.
I mean, someone else.
Could you take out that part?
Someone else cut it up.
You know, the thing is like a lot of comics have had like great success just
making their own specials and put it on YouTube.
And the amount of views that like Joe List.
Yeah.
His new special has 5 million views.
I saw that.
It's fucking amazing.
Yeah.
It's amazing because he would have been in a similar situation to you had he
gone and brought that same special to Comedy Central.
It probably would have aired once or twice and that's a wrap.
And then maybe how many people?
A hundred thousand, a couple hundred thousand would have seen it if you're
lucky.
I don't even think that many, Joe.
I'm not kidding.
I don't think so either.
When you see the ratings today for like cable shows, it's crazy.
Like everybody's been sucked up by the internet.
The internet has consumed most people's viewing time.
Yeah.
The next one I'm doing on my own in like six months.
I've been thinking about doing the same.
You should.
Are you kidding?
Yeah.
But my worry is if you do something controversial and it's on YouTube and then
YouTube decides to pull it down.
Because YouTube's been censoring things like crazy.
I know.
That's the new thing now.
Yeah.
It's insane.
It's insane.
It's like they just decide to censor things based on ideology or based on what
they think, you know, it could be like what the current science is.
Like for the longest time, if you had a video on that talked about the lab leak
hypothesis, like Facebook would just remove it.
They would just take it down.
But now that's the primary hypothesis about how COVID got leaked.
It's from a lab.
It's the most scientists believe that now.
But if you went back a year ago when this was all going on, and especially when
Trump was president, nobody believed it.
Everybody was like, this is a terrible, dangerous conspiracy theory.
And if you have this up, we're going to delete things.
And so they're doing that with all kinds of stuff on YouTube.
And it's not just having to do with COVID.
It's having to do with all kinds of things in politics and anything where they
find that what you're doing doesn't fit into their narrow, rigid box of what's
acceptable.
Yeah.
Isn't there a way for you to do it not on YouTube for free?
I don't know.
Not as effectively.
I mean, I could put it on Vimeo.
I could put it on.
There's a bunch of other.
What is that one?
Bumblebee.
What is that one?
Bumblebee.
Isn't that a dating website?
That's Tuna.
Rumble, yeah.
Oh, right.
Bumblebee Tuna.
Is it Bumblebee Tuna?
Bumblebee Bumblebee Tuna.
I'm so out of it.
Oh, yeah.
I love that song.
Yeah.
We're old.
Oh, yeah.
I love that song.
That's an amazing song.
I used to hear it on the radio.
It got me excited.
Harvey and I used to dance to that in the kitchen.
There's Rumble and Odyssey is another one.
Odyssey.
Vimeo's good.
Yeah, Vimeo's good.
But the thing is, in terms of traffic, no one can fuck with YouTube.
Fuck with YouTube.
With you especially, I feel like they would go right to that special and look
at it and
be like, I don't know.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe they'd be like, fuck him.
With comics, I don't know.
They're on us like flies on shit right now.
Well, we're in this weird class of humans that are allowed to talk shit.
And we can say things-
That's what I mean.
That we don't really mean, that are like completely the opposite of what you're
supposed to be
allowed to say.
I know.
Yeah.
We're just talking out of our asses.
We're doing it because the same reason I always say, like, when Quentin Tarantino
has someone
murdered in a movie, that's not real.
I know.
