Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1575 - Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1575 - Bill Burr' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1575 - Bill Burr

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
We're already rolling, so just keep going.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry, we are?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah.
We're talking about Steve Byrne's new movie.
Yeah, opening act.
Steve Byrne got in a lot of fights?
Yeah, he had more than...
He's so nice.
He is.
He is, but I don't know what it was.
But I remember he was at the comic strip, and he did the late night show, and
somehow somebody
threw a chair at him.
I remember it hit him in the head, and he got cut.
And then two days later, I go to the comic strip, and somebody had taken his
headshot down and
put staples in his forehead where he got hit by the chair and put it back up.
I guess back when you could do stuff like that, he could just tease somebody.
So he had that movie coming out.
I was just saying it got nominated for some film festival award.
So I was very, very happy for him.
He's a guy...
Like, if you had told me, like, do you think Steve Byrne has ever been in a
fight?
I'd be like, no, he's so nice.
Who's going to fight Steve Byrne?
I'll let Steve come on here one day and tell the story.
I would love to hear it.
I know a half a dozen.
Well, Al Madrigal's another one.
Like, when I heard that Al Madrigal has a temper, I'm like, what?
Al?
I didn't...
I've never seen it.
That's weird.
Like, the side of Al I know is always hugs.
Like, I've known Al since he was an opening act at the Old Cobbs in San
Francisco.
Down, you know, downstairs, the little tiny club.
Did you ever work that place?
No, I did.
I've done the regular...
I didn't know there was another one.
The Old Cobbs was tiny.
It was a little tiny place.
It was like...
There was Tom Sawyer, the guy who ran the second Cobbs.
He used to run, like...
It was a great club.
It was great.
He had a real good taste for comedy, so the level of comedy was very good.
Dom Herrera told me about it.
So I went there, and this was when Al Madrigal was first starting out.
One of the first times I ever hung out with Al Madrigal.
I was working there for the weekend.
Al was the...
I think he was the emcee.
And after the show, he and I went over to...
I think it was his brother's house.
And we got super baked and watched old Oprah Winfrey episodes.
It was Oprah back when it was Big Hair Oprah.
Remember Big Hair Oprah?
I remember Crazy Show Oprah.
That was the show.
She had like KKK people, and there was like white plastic chairs.
Yeah, midgets and all kinds of crazy shit.
That was what Oprah was.
And we were just barbecued, smoking out of a bong like high school kids.
Right.
Watching Oprah Winfrey.
That's amazing.
Yeah, this Big Hair Oprah.
Old school.
Old school.
I don't remember.
That's when she was probably just in Chicago, right?
I do not know, but it was like...
No, wait.
I was watching it back.
Or I knew of it.
Well, that was back when she had the smarts to see where that was going.
Because that was like Morton Downey Jr., the Ricky Lakes, and all of them were
just doing...
Like daytime TV was fucking bananas.
Crazy.
It was crazy.
And then Jerry Springer, I think he was like the goat of all of that stuff.
He hung in there longer than all of them.
Jenny Jones was doing it.
But remember Jenny Jones, she used to have a comedy show.
Do you remember this?
Where it was women's only.
Jenny Jones was a comic before she was ever one of those daytime talk show
hosts.
Okay.
She was like a pretty good comic, you know, doing the road.
But she found a niche, and that niche was girls only.
So she wouldn't let anybody in that was a man.
No managers.
Get the fuck out of here.
It was all women.
And so they would tell like dirty dick sucking stories and wild shit.
And they just do wild comedy only for women.
And Jenny Jones had a super popular daytime talk show until they had a show
where they had a guy on.
And he said, you have a secret crush.
And they bring in the secret crush.
And it's another guy that he works with.
And the guy who he works with was like, you know, I've always fantasized about
you and this and that.
And so he went over to that guy's house after the show aired.
He was embarrassed.
And he shot him and killed him.
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah, and then they were like, that was it.
They killed the show.
Well, you know, it happens.
Music, there's everything like that.
That was the end of the disco era, I guess, of the talk shows.
But with Al Magical, I can't imagine that he had a temper.
Like my experiences with Al Magical was always super fun, very friendly, always
laughing.
No, he doesn't snap.
He just sort of gets quiet and then stares at the target and the wheels start
turning.
Like he is like, I think he's half Sicilian, half Mexican.
So he has all that love, family, all that.
But if you cross him, that other things come into moment.
Like it's like, it's not like me.
I got like the German-Irish temper where I just flip on and I start screaming.
He's like plotting your demise.
I used to do a thing with him at Nerd Melt.
And I swear to God, it was like every three shows,
he would tell a story about something that he did during his daily dad life,
something that somebody did to him and what he did to get revenge.
And, you know, as he's telling it, he's not in the mindset.
He was like, okay, so they did this.
And so I was like, okay.
And then I went down.
And then just this calculated, like, it made it more disturbing.
It made it more disturbing.
Well, he used to have to fire people for his family's business.
Right.
And I think he developed a hard shell when he had to learn how to do that.
No, he has an incredible book in him on how to do that.
And then also how to like break up with women the way he did it.
Like it was just like, I don't, these are his stories.
So yeah, you got to have him on, have him tell the story of how he,
like how the way he would end a relationship.
I haven't seen Alan forever.
Yeah.
No, it's.
Is he doing comedy during this pandemic shit?
I haven't seen anybody unless you were on the same parking lot show that I was
on or,
or, or whatever.
Like I, I've started, um, uh, the magic castle parking lot where they,
they park everybody's cars is that's a good one that I've been doing.
They're doing shows there?
Yeah.
Stand up?
Dude, they're actually funny shit.
Really?
The first night I went there, I bombed.
Like I, it was my first five minutes because my idea,
because this stand up thing is you don't understand like how you're just
listening to the crowd.
Yeah.
And they're, they're in your, like, you, you lock in where they're at.
And then you start taking them where they're going, where you want them to go.
Right.
And you get on a roll and then that's when you can start, you know, get, start
killing.
They're in their cars.
So it was like, it was, it felt like I was like deaf trying to do stand up and
trying to
gauge how they were laughing.
But what's the weirdest thing though is just after one night you adjust to it.
And then your whole new idea of what killing sounds like.
You're able to block out the traffic and the police helicopters.
I'm not even joking that are going up because it's right in downtown Hollywood.
And then it just becomes this crazy fun gig.
And there's comics waiting to go on behind you.
It's really this amazing thing where I kind of like, uh, feel like you're kind
of going back to just the pure love of just going up there,
trying shit out, making people laugh, supporting other comics.
People are adapting.
Yeah.
It's been, uh, it's been, uh, it's, it's crazy a year and so much bad stuff has
happened to so many people that, that aspect of it has been fun.
And, and, um, it kind of woke up all this, uh, muscle memory that I had as a
comedian that I lost.
Cause once you start selling tickets, you do get a little softer because you
get the, well, oh, it's this guy.
We like this guy.
Where before I had to go back to like, like, okay, I got to get these people.
I don't have to go on stage and now I, I, I have to avoid losing them.
You know, Joey Diaz started to get some popularity.
And when Joey Diaz started to get some popularity, one of the things he started
doing is going to the dirtiest, dingiest open mics that he could find.
Like specifically, I go, why do you like doing that?
He goes, Joe Rogan.
He goes, you can't forget your roots.
You can't forget your roots, Joe Rogan.
And he, he was like, he was serious about it.
I could hear him like take, I was on the phone with him taking hits off the
joint.
Joe Rogan, listen to me.
These motherfuckers don't know.
They don't know.
They don't know what we went through.
They don't know the fucking trenches.
These fucking kids out here are soft.
He goes, they're talking to me.
Oh, I can't get up at the comedy store.
I can't get up at the comedy.
Bitch, I did 20 minutes in La Hombra.
I drove down to a fucking Chinese restaurant and I did an open mic night in
front of 15 people.
And only 10 of them spoke English.
And he would just do these gigs.
He would do four a night.
Like I go, what'd you do last night?
He goes, I went down here and then Felipe has a room.
I went down and I did that.
And then I did that.
And he would do this on a regular basis.
And he did it specifically because he felt like he had to be in motion.
He goes, I got to, I got to, I got to go back to my roots.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I didn't do that.
I've done a few of those.
That's what he's like about Ha Ha.
There was a point where I started to do those because the comedy store got so
crazy.
It was such like, it was so like just on 10.
Yeah.
Then everybody was murdering everything.
Like even during the, every night started feeling like Saturday night.
Like I want to go out, lean on the mic stand, try out some shit, feel out a
story or something
like that.
And then I'm going on after, you know, these, these beasts on the show.
And it was like, ah, man, I, so I started doing the belly room.
And then, um, there was, there was a really cool one on Fairfax that I was
doing in this
back room of this, like, uh, I want to say Russian bar or something like that.
That was great.
It was fucking great.
And I went there and I felt that, that thing again, where it was like, you know,
um, I
feel like if I go to the comedy store, somebody knows who I am.
If I go to that one, people, like most of the people don't even know who I am.
Cause you, you start to forget like just how much shit there is out there to
watch.
And, and all you need is just like 1200 people in each city to know who you are.
And you could do like a theater.
Yeah.
But you know, you can have a very niche level thing.
Like I tried to explain that to somebody where they go, oh, you're selling this
thing
out.
So everybody knows who you are.
It's like, no, it's like there's people selling out Madison square garden that
you've
never, bands you've never even fucking heard of.
But there's, there's 20,000 people that know who they are.
You know what I mean?
So I'm sort of tapping into that, trying to go to these places where, um, you
could have
that fun again of like, oh, you don't think I'm funny.
Oh, you guys don't know, like, yeah, and I know how to do this shit.
And so then that also means you don't know how I joke around.
So now I can have this fun of, of like, you don't know what my style is.
So it can still be like surprising as opposed to, oh, now he's going to do this.
Now he's going to flip out.
And then I'm going to laugh and clap.
And then he's going to say goodnight.
You know, you can kind of break out of that, which is, uh, is fun.
The worst thing that can happen to a comic is you get real soft because
everybody loves
you and they go to see you and they laugh at anything you say.
That's one of the reasons why Steve Martin said he stopped touring.
Right.
Because Steve Martin, when I was a kid, uh, Let's Get Small was out and he
would come
out with the bunny ears on and like play the banjo.
Fuck.
He was so good.
These kids today, these motherfucking kids today, they don't know that Steve
Mart