Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1335 - Jim Gaffigan
Uploaded: 2019-08-14T23:00:03.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1335 - Jim Gaffigan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1335 - Jim Gaffigan

dun dun dun ladies and gentlemen one of the greats jim gaffigan how are you sir
thank you
thank you it's great to be here great to see you man i'm excited that you're
doing a special on
amazon yeah i think it's important that there's a bunch of other platforms for
all of us to do
specials on and when a guy like you goes over to amazon legitimizes it makes it
a big deal
it's exciting yeah it's uh it's fascinating how the the outlets for specials
has changed so
dramatically because when we were when we were kids it was just hbo yep and
then comedy central when uh
i released beyond the pale it was that perfect moment where uh in every dorm
room in america
comedy central was on yeah you know it shifted from mtv to comedy central
probably because of
chappelle and and john stewart and so but it shifts you know it's like the netflix
was big and um and we
see these other platforms coming out so it'll be it'll be interesting if i can
convince people because
everyone goes to amazon or someone in their family does so if i can convince
them the next time they're
buying paper towels and socks to just go over to prime because they everyone
has a prime membership
that's the weird part about it right it's like it's shopping but it's also like
the same as itunes
it yeah people have asked me like what if uh you know well one person asked me
they're like what if
someone doesn't have a prime membership and i'm like then they're probably not
on the internet yeah who
are you right they probably can't afford even uh you know high speed internet
so it's like but i don't
know it is going to be interesting i've watched stuff on prime but it's like it's
like every time you
you know i think comedians we like the we like to explore and do things
different you know even uh you
know new rooms and stuff like that we we kind of are risk averse but there is
always the possibility of
like i don't know i mean it comes out friday um there is some support but i don't
know and i know
that amazon is this enormous company but i don't know i don't know they could i
mean in the grand scheme
of things you know my special is really not that big it's not as important as
the toothpicks they sell
on amazon so i don't know if they're going to get behind it or not it's so
weird that it's an
entertainment company and also a massive shopping outlet i mean it's huge it's
two giant things but
they they do support like mrs mazel i see that everywhere yeah so if they have
a hit they will get behind
it and make billboards and and i've seen a lot for uh fleabag as well i've seen
a bunch of ads for that
so i think they're really picking up their support but i haven't seen any
support so far for how many
specials are there that they've done besides yours yours comes out friday mine
comes out friday and then
uh a week later there's four that come out and alonzo bowden has one coming out
for sure and uh there's
three other people with him and then um i don't know they you know there's also
something of uh you
know the the free the flow of information isn't as as dynamic as you'd imagine
because i'm like a nerd
for like if people follow me on instagram they're probably like yeah we know
you promote so it's like
i'm not shy about saying i'm coming to atlantic city and uh so i'm like hey
when is this going you
you know what how can i help and they're to like uh there's a little bit of an
attitude of like we've
got it you know i mean we know all the information there is or they don't care
i'm not sure yeah i
think they're probably overwhelmed right it's probably a new thing or they just
you know some of how it was
explained to me was i released uh nobilate my special before this uh
independently right you know
through a lot of different platforms why did you decide to do that well some of
it was i i got an
offer that was attractive uh i knew that i mean i i love netflix i have five
specials there uh but i kind
of looked at netflix i always describe it as it's a it's a swimming pool
swimming pools are great
you know a special having a special is kind of like a floaty but like netflix
there were just
hundreds of floaties in this in this pool so how do you know people are going
to watch yours you get
like a week at netflix uh for for accessibility and i also thought that uh it
would have a greater
impact internationally i don't think it did for me personally um and and it was
something to try
differently you know what's weird too is you never really know what the numbers
are no you don't know
that they don't tell you you don't know the numbers and it also shifts like so
like the the great success
that uh segura and ali wong had and you know like we're comedians we watch all
of uh the specials
on netflix i mean whether we watch the whole thing is another thing right yeah
that's like with ted
alexandro and i were always like i'm like did you watch it and he goes uh 10
minutes did you watch the
it's like the best compliment is i watched the whole thing i watched chris rock's
whole special right
you know and um so i wanted to do something different you know i was offered uh
and it's
it's you know it's a you know it's expanding your audience and i also
understood that a lot of people
consume things on demand like i have young kids so i'm just i'm still buying on
itunes like it's 1981
you know and people consume things on demand i was convinced on that and so it
went uh we did this
kind of like everywhere but netflix and then there was a second window that was
on amazon prime and it
got a real uh a lot of viewers and so that prompted amazon to approach for this
special so independently when
you released your last one did it like a production company come to you and say
hey jim this is what we
wanted yeah it was comedy dynamics and they were like we're gonna we're gonna
distribute it uh we're
gonna sell it piecemeal different places and so i was like yeah you know what i
wanted on uh airplanes
right right and i you know i have netflix but not everyone has netflix and also
you know the swimming
pool metaphor you can get kind of lost in there so yours was available on apple
tv it was available on
everything it was on available on everywhere yeah and it was even in theaters
do you get a sense of
the numbers from them oh yeah definitely so the netflix is the only one doesn't
give you the numbers
yeah supposedly amazon will give the numbers supposedly i think they would
gotta get in a room with them
i think that they um you know it's it's it's gonna be so interesting because i
have no idea but i also
you know just as how we consume specials has changed i think that uh you know
getting i think specials
serve almost they're very personal for us right by the way your last one was
great thanks but it's
very personal for us but it also indirectly serves as like an infomercial for
our sentiment sensibility
yeah for sure so it's like you want other people to see it so that they can go
yeah i like this kind
of stuff and so the appeal of it being in different places was appealing to me
yeah i like the idea of
it too i mean i really do enjoy that netflix has gotten so big into stand-up
specials because they've
given so many people opportunities and exposed the world to so many great
comics i don't like the
fact they don't give you the numbers that's a little annoying yeah but i do
like the fact there's other
options now i think it's great i think look hbo now has a streaming option you
know they're trying to
get really behind hbo go and hopefully more people do that so hbo specials will
be what they used to be
used to be if someone got an hbo special like holy it would transform their
lives oh my god like
kenison and all these different people we found out about them because of hbo
yeah i think it's it's going to be interesting i think that uh you know seeing
what disney plus does
and seeing uh you know hbo max and apple but it's i had i had approached um
amazon back i think with my
special obsessed i wanted to do it on amazon they had prime at that point and i
was like i'll give it
you give me this amount of money and you guys own the special and they're like
at that point they
weren't you know they're they were packaged goods company they're like no we'll
give you six cents for
a review and i'm like no no no you don't understand i'm gonna drive people to
amazon.com and they're
like nah we're not interested but so it'll take some time so yeah you know we
might think that apple
and disney will step up immediately for comedy specials but we don't know we
don't know i think
in the future there's not going to be anything on live television except sports
i really do yeah
tv like the idea of like tuning in at eight o'clock on tuesday night that's the
only
time to see something oh yeah it's ridiculous no appointment television is
absurd that's a great
way of putting it yeah appointment television yeah it's just it's insane yeah
release date
and that's one of the other great things about netflix like when stranger
things comes out you
get the whole damn season yeah yeah definitely and so like the binging thing is
really it's absurd
like there's there's got to be some consequences of that oh yeah it's unhealthy
we're just not
getting enough sleep now this a live friend of mine she told me that she was up
watching uh the stranger
things till six o'clock in the morning she had to get up at 10 to take her kid
to school yeah it's just
there's and we binge it like like there's some reason behind it yeah there's it's
just convenience
just get obsessed i want to find out what's next oh my god they left me hanging
yeah what's next you're like
one more just one and those suckers that would wait you know uh like we my
family i don't want to
sound too macho but we watched jane the virgin because my uh teenage daughter
was really into it
so as a family we watched jane the virgin i don't even know what that is it's a
tv show it's amazing
i mean it's one of those things where my family would be watching and i would
come in and i would
kind of criticize it and then after like two episodes i was like move over it's
it's totally
it's a telenovela it's about hispanic culture it's it's great it's great virgin
what's it on great
performances it was on the cw i don't oh that's like i feel like in my adult
lifetime the cw appeared
and i still have never watched the show on the cw like have you ever watched
the show on the cw i
don't believe so right it's a real network yeah but it's like wb yeah i think
the wb was i think
the cw is something like that right there was a few of those little fringe
networks way back in the day
like i remember the wayans brothers had a tv show on one of them yeah there's
it's one of those weird
networks that was i think it was owned by cbs but they're like it's just kind
of like uh uh you know
like it would be teen shows like teen romance shows and you like the show uh jane
the virgin i liked it
i liked it you know i'm not ashamed to say it don't you know like if i asked
myself six months ago would
i be on joe rogan's podcast saying that i like jane the virgin i would say no
of course not
well i remember when you know people used to think that being on one of those
networks wouldn't do you
any good one of those little small networks but then true tv put on impractical
jokers and those guys
are selling on arenas amazing that show is so crazy popular it it's you know it's
fascinating watching
that show because i you know you try and understand it because but i think it's
the authenticity of
those guys they're pals and it's not manufactured right and and i think people
like that yes it's
very appealing you're like you know and i think that's also like real guys yeah
i think there is so
much beautiful people that we consume so so much beautiful people that we're
shocked when we see a
regular looking person we're like wait a minute what what did that person that
person must be a bad
guy i used to have a joke about that they seem like you could hang out with
them t