Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1198 - Derren Brown
Uploaded: 2018-11-09T19:58:51.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1198 - Derren Brown' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1198 - Derren Brown' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1198 - Derren Brown

four three two boom what's up man how are you hello thanks for being here well
i'm pleased
to get here it's a kind of a strange day in this part of la this is as strange
as it ever gets
there the big concern in los angeles has always been according to a firefighter
that i talked to
once that the right wind catches a fire and it takes it all the way through los
angeles down
to the coast yeah it's not quite that it didn't go through hollywood it didn't
go they think one day
it's going to happen and with the right wind they're not going to be able to
stop it but
jesus yeah this is pretty bad this is about as bad as i've ever seen it happen
all in one day
yeah it was extraordinary driving down the road to get here just these huge
just just huge pillowy
i thought it was just you know mountains and i thought it was a strange cloud
formation but it
was just smoke smoke yeah it looks like a giant gray mountain in the distance
yeah it's it's insane
how bad it's gotten i've i've had it happen um three this is the third time i've
been evacuated
since i've moved here 20 plus years ago wow yeah it gets rough but this is the
roughest i've ever seen
jamie and i were doing the podcast yesterday and when it was over i had like
five text messages from
friends that live in my neighborhood saying how bad it was and then when we got
home the wind was just
crazy and it's just it's just it's humbling you know i mean it's super
unfortunate for all the
people that are uh losing their homes and losing their you know losing their
property but the reality
is this is um it's nature you know this is just something that you just can't
avoid there's nothing
you can do about it it gets dry like this and i don't know what started it i
hope it wasn't a
cigarette because that's the big concern i see so many morons are throwing
cigarettes out the window
when they dry it's not just a weather thing that just happens it's it is
literally things like
cigarettes and yeah unfortunately a lot of the times i mean the the weather
certainly accentuates it
because it's dry and windy and this is fire season well please anyway hey
thanks for being here man
on these incredibly comfortable chairs they're not bad right they're amazing
because they support your
back as well which as a 47 year old man is is uh this is a helpful so i'm keep
bouncing away from
the microphone which i'm sure isn't good but yeah they're incredible they keep
you sitting straight
they accentuate your posture they do there you go so what's up man what are you
doing in town for
shoulders back chest out yeah there you go would be proud there you go i'm here
yeah i'm here doing
uh i've been here for a week i've been uh i've got a show on netflix that's
come out so i'm just kind
of generally here to uh talk about it i guess and uh seen a couple of friends
and it's been a really
nice really nice week yeah this is a good way to end it too the giant fire that's
just saying the
giant fire and get the out of here quickly these people are crazy living here
with no water it never
rains yeah it'll be it's very different back home it'll be a yeah it's uh it's
uh it's it's it's amazing
just at this time of year leaving england and coming to somewhere like i mean i'm
sure i'm sure you
don't take it for granted but you know it's it is amazing just for uh the
weather just for a bit do you
like would you like la as a like as a place and a home and a and a does it i
mean you've got an
amazing sort of setup here is it just a is it just a dream place to you it's uh
it's a love hate
relationship certainly the the real problem is the population is just so insane
there's more than 20
million people plus who knows people you know how many they really don't have
no idea how many people
have snuck in you know it's it's just a chaotic place there's no public
transport it just hit me
the other day there's like there's no there was no trains there's no
infrastructure of uh so everyone's
driving these huge huge vehicles everyone has an escalator a tesla or something
yeah it's uh it's just a
strange place there's the highways are massive you know you have five six lanes
on each side and they're
jammed solid where nothing's moving either way and if you can see it from the
really when you realize how
preposterous it is when you're flying into lax and you see the 405 highway in
the distance and it's all
stopped for as long as you could see miles one way and miles the other way just
complete parking lot
and just realized wow what are we doing here they found a spot with great
weather and you know
and then the entertainment industry draws people in i don't know maybe it's
better to be in england
to keep the rain a little bit of a little bit of dreariness yeah see i like a
little bit of that i
like i do like a bit of the old uh sorry i take a lot of pictures and it's very
nice like when the rain
clears and everything sort of glistens and that's a nice yeah your instagram is
interesting you know it's
surprising i well yeah i mainly put i paint and i do a lot of street
photography so those those
i've only gone into instagram recently and i've just been putting putting that
stuff on there which
i don't know how uh interesting it is generally to the world but it's a nice
place to put that kind
of stuff i paint like these big portraits and they just end up sitting around
my house no one wants to
buy it no one wants to you know buy a giant picture of my mother so i don't
really sell them so they
just sit around so actually yeah putting them on at least yeah oh there you go
that's not my mother just
for clarity your stuff is really good oh thank you well these are old caricatures
that i use the tom
wait's one is excellent it's surprisingly good you know i mean you think
someone is really good
at something like magic and you say well that's about as good as he's get it
get it's not like
he's going to be that good at something else but you are you're literally flicking
through my instagram
yeah i mean you're you're a really good artist thank you very much have you
done this your whole life
uh not yet um yeah pretty much like as a as a kid i used to draw and paint a
lot and uh always faces
like i'm you know no good anything else but uh faces has always been my thing
so i used to do like
these kind of you know caricatures and now i paint more sort of straight
pictures i guess but it's
nice if you do something that's kind of you know public it's nice to do
something that's private and
yeah it's that thing of something bigger than yourself to throw yourself into
and to lose yourself in
you know it's great you know days weeks of you know just being in my studios is
just it's lovely that's
a great thing do you find that stuff like that clears your mind for your other
work i think it's it's
just the sheer contrast you know one of my favorite parts of the year is
touring and i get to do the
shows in the evening and then the days are free and i'm like i'm not in london
i'm in some other city so
no one no one can like get me in for a meeting or anything i just have the days
free and i can
write i had a book on happiness that i wrote which i wrote while i was on tour
and it was just this
amazing routine of just finding a coffee shop spending the day writing and then
if that does
get a bit you know a bit boring or a bit you know sad or something if it's not
quite coming together
you've then you then get to go out and be this amazingly charismatic well
rehearsed version of
yourself on stage which is you know full of adrenaline and lovely so that that's
an amazing routine i think
that's my favorite favorite thing so yeah the painting and all that photography
is an interesting
one because you you you find yourself on the one hand kind of slightly because
i do street photography
so it's kind of you know out taking pictures of candid moments i guess so you're
you're a step out of
it but you're also very open and engaged and and that feels like a really prime
state that's a very kind
of porous lovely state to be in and having been used to keeping my head down
out in public because
i realize i'm not known here at all but the uk i am a bit so i if i if i was
out in public i'd generally
kind of naturally kind of hunker down yeah hunker down a bit and now it's the
opposite it's a totally
changed uh that relationship so that's interesting all good yeah it's nice just
photography just being
out there taking pictures yeah because you're you're having to be you know
mindful and open and alert
and uh but at the same time because i'm probably a little bit shy so having
that that little step
back thing as well because you're you know taking pictures is is uh i find that
a really uh a really
great state and it's a lovely contrast to the uh the shows and the you know the
rest of it were you
always shy or did you become more shy because of becoming really famous i was
always well not always
i thought i i think i grew quite um that's probably quite insecure as a kid i
was very charming and very
uh quite bright and quite like socially you know that was that was all good but
i think like inside i was
um i was very intimidated by the kind of sporty kids you would have terrified
me
as a as a child um and uh i athletic kids like yeah just yeah yeah just that
exactly because i really
didn't fit in with any of that um and so like when i first saw my like i
started my career as a
hypnotist and i i saw this guy performing at university and i uh i just thought
i'm gonna i'm gonna do that
it just i didn't realize at the time all these boxes that it was ticking you
know performing that sort of
you know need for affirmation and and love and center of attention and also the
control aspect of
it you know the kind of um uh yeah the control aspect and also the kind of
people particularly
the sort of guys that would respond well to hypnosis and come up on stage and
you know and respond well
to it tended to be exactly the kind of guys that would have really intimidated
me before so that was
like at an unconscious level and i hope i've grown out of that now mainly but
uh yeah it ticked a lot
of it ticked a lot of boxes so that that was that's how i started and yeah i
was definitely driven by
insecurity because any any sort of magic which sort of followed for me on from
the hypnosis you're
basically it is the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people that's
you know the subtext is
only you know look at me aren't i great which is not that interesting after
after a while so i've
tried to you know as i as i've grown up i've tried to move it into a different
area and one that's a
little more resonant than just showing off that's fascinating that you started
out doing a hypnosis
show was it a comedy show no it was sort of um i would mainly perform at like
uh colleges and i'd do a
demonstration and then have questions and after questions and answers
afterwards and i wasn't making people look
stupid it was an entertainment show and i guess it was kind of you know funny
but it was um
it was uh it's just a really interesting thing and the trouble with doing it on
stage is of course
it gets mixed up with people just kind of playing along and stuff so it it's
but if you take that out
of it it's just a really interesting area and i've done this stuff for you know
20 years back home and
i'm not i don't think of myself as a hypnotist that was just kind of where i
where i started but the
the the suggestion based techniques of that is something i've continued with
and brought into
different areas and i still don't fully understand it you know now it's there's
you can have a quiet
climb inside someone's head and know what they're experiencing like i used to
do in the when i used
to do these like stage hypnosis shows the last thing i did was to i'd tell
these people on stage that
i was invisible right and i'd i'd float something through the air right like
this bottle i've got here
and uh it's normally something bigger like a chair and they'd be freaking o