Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1700 - Eleanor Kerrigan
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1700 - Eleanor Kerrigan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1700 - Eleanor Kerrigan

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
i did a podcast a couple uh like two months ago and the guy sent me a call
sheet and i'm like
you're being serious right now what was it in his house who can be in my
driveway at 11 45
it was like that and there was other people on the call sheet and i was like oh
is there hair and
makeup no but it was that bad was it a popular podcast or was it no that's what's
weird it's like
there's these people that have podcasts and then i go to like to visit them and
they have 13 people
working for them i'm like what's happening here it was like that yeah it was
like a studio it had the
whole feel it had the whole i was like everybody thinks they're supposed to be
running the tonight
show you know what i'm saying and everybody's not the tonight show no like you
don't want to be
like even uh bill simmons i did his uh hbo podcast he's terrific he's great
yeah yeah but when i did it
i'm like why are there so many people here man yeah but he's got that's a giant
he's fantastic but that's
a big one no but but it's still just a podcast the show was oh i see what you
mean yeah yeah yeah sitting
in a diner table talking about stuff so he and i just sitting there talking and
i'm like you got
like 15 people on the show there's so many people here they're running around
clipboards everybody has
to be busy i was like this is crazy yeah everybody do something it's like you
know background action
everybody's got to work everybody's got to earn money but if the podcast is
earning money and you can
pay that many people yeah but why not employ them because they get in the way
this is what they do
they get in the way of a podcast like in the way of doing cartwheels in the
hallway yes yeah eleanor
sees the the hallway the long hallway she's like you ever do cartwheels yeah
you can go ahead do cartwheels
i'm not breaking an arm i'm not a good cartwheeler but i just you get excited
watching you are
so much more free now that you're a professional comedian just being around you
you're so free i'm
sorry if i'm rocking but no no no you're free you're like loose and relaxed
like i remember when
you were a waitress like it's a harder life it's a different 100 different
world but you're also
young like now i think i'm older i don't give a about anything anymore um you
know what are they
going to do cancel me i'm nearly dead for people who don't know eleanor and i
have been friends for
like 26 years that's hard i think when did you start at the store 94. 94. okay
when were you there 93.
yeah so eleanor was there at the store before me and eleanor was a waitress for
how many years
10 years 12 12 years wow well before she ever did stand up yep so but she was
always my go-to
person you were always the person i would go to when someone would say someone
was funny i would go
eleanor is this guy any funny she'd be like hack hack i'd be like really oh
yeah he's a hack he's
terrible and i had my favorite hacks yeah but there was you did you had hacks
you loved that because
people were like no he's i'm like yeah but he's funny he's like good she's good
at it whatever it was
i was like they're good at it you know but there was some people that no you
just but it was you knew
comedy like you understood comedy like waitresses hear our jokes over and over
and all the magic's
gone all the magic's gone you see every trick also when i first started um mitzi
was you know the
waitresses were afraid of mitzi right and i was one of them i was terrified i
was like i'm not getting
this lady is frightening she hired me because i was from philadelphia she
literally when i came in for the
audition or interview whatever i was towering over her because the day shift
told me wear heels she likes
that she don't like that she hates that and i was like you fuckers like i'm
towering over this woman
i'm looking down on her and she's like where are you from and i'm like philadelphia
she's oh you know
dom irira i heard of him i i know his work and then she goes okay you're hired
get rid of the shoes
i was like oh shit okay so i did i was just like but they were that's the
comedy store they they mess
with you yeah get you to come in and do something stupid but nobody would talk
to her and she had weird
things she would do um like if you you could tick her off in the slightest
these waitresses were eating
carnies remember carnies yeah okay this is like hot dog place it's a stand that's
right down the street
it's like you know in austin they have food trucks that was like a food car
yeah like a train car yeah
it was a train car it it still is it's still there they have hot dogs simple
burgers yeah but it's the
stench is uncomfortable the food's good but it stinks it lingers it lingers but
it smells good
to you mitzi came in what the fuck is that did you get like a chili burger i
would have eaten it
i was brand new i was i was new the three girls that were eating it she fired
them and banned carnies
from the building part of me is like that's terrible i was like oh my part of
me is like that is
fucking awful what a shitty boss what a terrible human being these poor girls
but then part of me
is laughing my ass off because because she's cuckoo for coco puffs like she
just did like that
where you were like you can't fire three waitresses and i'm brand new so they're
like hey can you take
half the main room i'm like i don't even know how to log in like what are you
saying so i had to
quickly learn how to hustle learn how to so all of a sudden i became like i
moved up quick which was
not that there's an up in waitressing but you know what i mean like you have
seniority kind of a
thing so i moved up quick because she fired those girls let me drink some
because of carnies
drink some of this oh yeah i gotta do that come on i try to give eleanor a
glass of whiskey with
ice in it and she almost spit in my face how dare you we're working all day
today kid i'm pure
filth i know i'm excited yeah we're doing like kill tony together tonight this
is exciting it's fun
and great job the other day at uh vulcan it was fun to watch you work oh my god
getting to open in
front of your crowd your crowd's fun though but i've done that at the store
where i've gotten to
um like be the maybe i was the first or second comic i forget but so good like
your crowd really
they're fun yeah they're fun they get into it they laugh they have a good time
they laugh at idiot things
that i say and i love that because i do talk a lot of trash so people tend to
be like we're talking so
much trash but i'm like look i know how to street fight so i'm super happy that
you became a comic
because there was this moment where you started doing comedy i'm like yikes
well you know because
it's uh it's so dangerous it's like to just jump in you know after all those
all those years of being
around it and you don't know a lot of acting and pro wrestling and that other
stuff you did but it was
like it was you know it's a big risk you like you and dean del rey dean del rey
was like a successful
singer right jumped in when he was deep into his 40s he jumped into stand-up it
was i was 30s but yeah
i think he was in his 40s you might be right i'm saying mine was i was yes no
no no yeah yeah yeah
but it was late 30s but it was definitely late yeah like you you waste all that
time i think robert
shimmel who's one of the greats unbelievable he started i believe he was 36. oh
really yeah he
started late which is really crazy yeah yeah i forget what his job was but i
think he had like a real
profession and he just he just gave it a shot him on that rodney special so
good
he's a he was excuse me was a great guy just a great person like every time i
saw him it was always
an opportunity to give him a hug and he was so he was a friendly and good
person genuinely friendly
like real cool to be around and was just just kind and you know and as a comic
you know who was like
loved him as a beginner to like be one of his friends later in life it was
amazing yeah amazing because i was
he would always remember you too which was sweet because i'm not you know i was
just waiting tables
whatever at the store but then i i he andrew dice got his gallbladder out and
and robert
showed up like just hey man just bringing you some stuff because he was in and
out of the hospital with
cancer so he brought him like tootsie pops or something it was so funny and andrew's
like why
really but like i mean i just have my gallbladder but it was so sweet too and
then of course we just
after the surgery we're all sitting in this room screaming laughing then he
would remember me from
years later i'd be like hey how are you you know because we did a residency in
vegas dice and i and
uh robert would do the nights we didn't oh where which close out riviera oh i
love that yeah he was
he was the rivieras where i met sharipa before sharipa was ever great steve
sure yeah people don't
know that bobby from the sopranos is steve sharipa and before that he was the
booking agent at the
riviera in vegas yeah he also was on a show right now blue bloods yes yeah he
killed it so he's great
he works all the time but he was uh working at the this is a terrible and
awesome story we were
talking about with comedy so we went to the riviera it was somebody's birthday
one of the waitresses
and one of the waitresses just started doing comedy and she was pretty bad and
the other girl was just
celebrating her birthday or something whatever we were just hanging out so we're
all in stripa goddess
rooms we're in his office and the girl starts like pitching herself as a comic
and steve goes eleanor is she funny and i went oh um she's new and he looked at
her he went eleanor
just said you're not funny and i was like oh and he booked her oh no i was
pissed so we went
downstairs and that girl called her mom to tell her she got booked in vegas the
other girl called her
husband and i called trip and go are you out of your mind but he took a chance
he booked her twice he
tried to help oh well that was nice of him very nice that's what i'm saying he's
a good guy he's great
tomato sauce oh yeah did that pasta sauce he doesn't make it anymore the marinara
his his company just
got he said it got too big too fast and he couldn't keep up with it and then he
wound up closing the
business oh wow yeah i never got to try it i remember him being on your podcast
it's great it's really good
stuff and i text him said i didn't get nothing i get nothing you just give all
the sauce to joe
i get nothing i used to help him book yeah you did a little i would just send
some people i sent and
then most of them got banned thank you ari anyway it's interesting to see a guy
like that you know like
become this like really successful working actor when you knew him from another
world it's like you
knowing you as a waitress and now seeing you the other night kills like look at
her she's a
real comic what if i would have bombed what have you been i knew you were a bum
because one of my
security guys had seen you last week with dice and he was raving about you and
he didn't even know
we were friends he didn't know anything oh okay he was just raving i said
because he said he saw dice
and he said uh you know i was like how was it he was like it was great it was
great to see him and he's
like the girl that opened for him oh my god she was so funny i was like eleanor
and he's like yeah
the girl from philadelphia so it was it was very cool it was very cool yeah
when a waitress turned
comic mitzi would just shut down i'm not kidding it was so much of a risk well
she would say that
and so when i called her when i started doing stand-up i called her and i said
hey uh i'm doing this
one woman show oh yeah i said and i'd love to work it out in the belly room
because i was so nervous
and i really was thinking it was a one woman show and i was like i'll just work
it out in the belly
room you know that's i i respect the club so much but the belly roo