Name: Jakob Dylan on Meeting Prince
Uploaded: 2021-07-07T18:01:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jakob Dylan on Meeting Prince' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jakob Dylan on Meeting Prince' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-07. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- It's really interesting watching someone's path
when you know that they already did it.
That's, there's something about that,
like reading about Kenison,
like knowing that he already did it,
just to read the path and how it all went down.
- Yeah, and it's interesting too,
if you look at like, you know, Prince had a really good book.
It was actually a collection of things he'd written
with somebody just before that he passed.
But you read the book and like, it's interesting
'cause you're like, you are, of course,
you know he's gonna be Prince,
one of the more talented people that may ever,
you know, walk the planet.
And so you're reading it
and you're hearing him get denied with demo tapes
and you're hearing no one's believing in him,
that he's a weird kid and all that.
But you know that he's Prince.
- Yeah. - You have like,
as you read the book, you kind of have a secret
that like, you're unstoppable.
Like this stuff doesn't really matter
what you're going through in your high school
and you like basketball and this person denied
and that person didn't want to be like,
none of this is, it's interesting,
but what's actually most fascinating
is you literally were, you were destined to be Prince
one way or another. - Yeah.
- This stuff is almost inconsequential.
You're going to be Prince someday.
- Well, it is fascinating knowing that he did become Prince,
but you kind of feel the anxiety of the journey, right?
Like when you're reading about someone,
even though you know it is inconsequential,
you are, there's no denying he became Prince,
but he didn't know that.
Well, wow, it was all going down.
- No. - That's what's cool about it.
- But it's fun to read, you can read that
and you can hear the people who don't believe in him
and you can be, you know, like we all have a,
I missed that one kind of moment or I didn't see that,
but like, imagine being the guy who's like,
yeah, you know, I had, Prince came in and my,
I didn't hear it.
- Yeah.
- I didn't hear it.
- I remember the exact moment I first listened to Prince.
I was in an Audi Fox.
I had an Audi Fox.
It's his little shitty front wheel drive car.
I was driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike
and I had a cassette that I just bought
and I just unwrapped it and I popped it
into the cassette player and it was,
I listened to I'm gonna be your lover.
I wanna be your lover, that song.
And it was the one where, you know,
the cassette where him, it's like he's got no shirt on
and it's like, he's just staring at the camera.
And I remember thinking like, holy shit,
like who is this guy?
- Yeah.
- Like this is just different.
- Yeah.
- You know, it's like he's singing in a falsetto
about being in love with a girl
and his voice is incredible.
- Well, you could be that outrageous
if you're gonna be really good.
We get a lot of the other,
which is people who are outrageous
and they're compensating for not really
having much to sing or say,
but like he was fully loaded, he had all of it.
- Well, he was that guy.
I mean, that's who he was.
I mean, it was outrageous
because he was an honestly eccentric human being.
I mean, that really was who he was,
an insanely talented eccentric human being.
- You know, I met him once.
Actually, I met him with Dean Del Rey.
- No way.
- Yeah, at a club out in New York,
maybe it's early 2000s.
And I forget what the club was,
it was very, it was crowded.
And somebody, this is a true story,
somebody had come to me and said,
tapped me on the shoulder, said,
"Prince is here, he wants you to come sit down."
And I seriously, I started, I followed it.
I thought I was gonna go sit with Prince William.
That sounded more believable to me.
That sounded like, that I believed.
And then we went over and it was obviously-
- Prince Rogers Nelson.
- Yeah, but it was a really funny night.
I'm glad Dean was there too.
We sat in a booth,
it was Prince and it was his lawyer bodyguard.
- He had a lawyer slash bodyguard?
- That's what he was.
And he was a very big guy.
And we sat in a booth.
And it's hard to imagine now that like,
you know, the guy,
he wasn't like being swarmed with people,
and it was Prince, you know?
But it's awkward.
It's like, you know,
you're sitting, the four of us from the booth,
just kinda like, you know, I know what to say.
And it's kinda loud,
so if I did wanna really have a conversation,
it'd be difficult.
But the bodyguard kinda nudges me and he says,
"You know, it's been 25 years since Purple Rain."
And I was like, "Oh, that's awesome."
And then he's sitting next to me, he goes, "Excuse me?"
I said, "That's awesome."
He goes, "What's awesome?"
I go, "The Purple Rain is 25 years old.
What a great record."
And he goes, "Great record?"
I said, "Yeah."
And he goes, "Well, tell him."
And he's pointing at Prince.
So now I'm like,
he's a very large man,
he's like nudging me.
And I'm thinking, "That's amazing."
Prince, seriously, he cannot be insecure
that people don't love Purple Rain.
But I leaned over and I said,
"You know, Purple Rain, like, wow, 25 years.
What a great record."
And he kinda fanned himself.
He's like, "Oh, well, you think so?"
And like, even Prince needed to hear once in a while
that he was awesome.
- How weird is it that his bodyguard,
this big giant dude's like nudging you
to tell Prince that he's awesome?
- I felt like I got set up.
Like, he knew Prince needed a compliment maybe.
- I'd be nervous and he would go,
"Of course it's good, motherfucker!"
- Yeah, I was nervous.
Well, it was awkward.
Like, what is it?
It's like the night at the Rocks where you just kinda sit
in the booth just like, you know.
It is Prince, it is him.
It is Prince, right?
It is, and then like, you know.
- And so you guys aren't really interacting?
- A little bit, not a lot.
I think he just invited me just to come sit in his booth.
- Just to sit?
- Yeah.
- That's so weird.
- But it was also very, it was very loud,
but that wasn't the problem.
I think he just, you know,
I don't know why I was asked to sit,
but he was very nice.
He was, you know, he was very cool.
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