Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1161 - Jerrod Carmichael & Jamar Neighbors
Uploaded: 2018-08-23T23:43:41.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1161 - Jerrod Carmichael & Jamar Neighbors' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-08-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1161 - Jerrod Carmichael & Jamar Neighbors

five four three two one live and we're live mr. Carmichael hello my friend mr.
neighbors
hello I brought Jamar I know uh Jamar welcome thank you man didn't know you
were coming but
glad to see you man me neither man he made me come he just came by I was like I'm
gonna I'm
going to Joe Rogan and he was like I'm a calm perfect perfect what the fuck is
going on man
what are you up to I just got him from New York like two hours ago and now I'm
here I feel real
I don't know I feel like a you know you ever see like a homeless man smoking a
cigarette yeah and
he just feels like real Zen and this is his that's how that's how I feel
emotionally right now really
yeah really like a homeless dude smoking a cigarette a weird analogy I feel it's
great it's really great
trying to figure that out that feeling it's like I have everything that I need
right now in your life
I have everything that I need yeah but you've been killing it for a long time
man you know I you were
killing it when I wasn't at the store I'd heard about you um when I was I was
gone I'd heard about
you I think Ari is one who told me about you oh yeah you know and then I found
out that Spike Lee
directed your special I was like what like what the fuck is happening over at
the Comedy Store
you know Spike Lee's directing comedy specials that was a fun one because it
was like
just such a immediate like I was like it has to be in the OR nobody filmed in
the OR and so like
you know getting everybody to agree to that yeah and then like because even
Spike was like but the
main room's right here mmm so big and it's like I was like but I don't do the
main room I do the OR
yeah the main room's pretty good too I used to I used to be prejudiced against
the main room I'd be
like ah it's too big it's too showy it depends on it's dirty and grimy it
depends on like you know
the sides are full or open and what the the room can change depending on like
so many factors of like
seating and whatever just the sound of it well the room really changes when it
gets empty late at night
like that's a strange room I like Brody's doing those midnight spots those have
been some fun spots to
watch just when Brody's just yeah that was like I used to Tommy used to make me
uh follow Brody uh
like all the time it's a that's such a fun interesting thing to do to like
because what
what else is left right at that point you know the audience's headspace yeah it's
in they're in such a
different place that it's just fun to piece it back together and yeah figure it
out well Jamar you get a
lot of those freaky spots yeah man you ever had to follow Brian Holtzman many
times
i'm like no what happens with him well he's just so crazy he'll say so much
crazy that the audience
is just like stunned like yeah it's like Brody times 20. really you never see Holtzman
funny as
fuck yeah I don't I don't think I have yet oh my god dude Holtzman said some of
the darkest
shit I've ever seen anybody say on stage he went on stage after do you remember
Susan Smith that
lady that drowned her kids she was a lady that she drowned her kids I forget
like what the context of
it was Holtzman went on stage like two days later was like I heard those were
bad kids I heard they
sat that close to the tv they never put away their blocks they've fucking spilt
their milk those kids
would not be missed and people were like what in the fuck
when you say that maybe I have heard Brian Holstman dude right after September
11th
Mitzi wouldn't let him go on stage she's like keep him off stage she wouldn't
let him go up
she wouldn't let him go up couldn't risk the potential like riot well he's a
really funny guy and a
really good comic but he's never been a professional like his whole life he's
been doing comedy forever
when I came to the store in 94 Holtzman was already there and he's never been a
professional
he's always had a job he's always been he was a dog catcher he was a meter maid
like a bunch of
different shit yeah so he's never never really branched out yeah Eleanor was
telling me how you
fought uh Martin Lawrence's uh bodyguard well you could call it that you could
say I would say
Martin Lawrence's bodyguard beat the out of Brian Holtzman that's how I would
say
Martin Lawrence was heckling and uh and well Holtzman's on stage he's saying
crazy
shit and there's like 10 people in the room and and Martin was heckling
apparently and
Brian got off stage to point out that it was Martin Lawrence he's like look
there's rich famous heckling me boom oh wow and he gets knocked out by oh it
was that immediate
this wasn't even a parking lot thing this was I heard it was a showcase is that
what you heard
the stories get twisted right yeah stories stories get weird after a while yeah
but yeah that was those
were the dark days the comedy store that was like I want to say that was like I
don't even know if that
was the 2000s what is it now I haven't really been in and like I've kind of
been but like
is it now like still that place where you go experiment try out I do yeah
Jamar is actually though I go to see Jamar what like when I go it's usually to
like it like whatever
one a.m. that's like great I just hit him up and be like hey man I'm going up I'm
gonna do some crazy
you coming through oh yeah I I love it those one o'clock sets it's a different
world it's a different
it's experimental it's strange it's it's kind of sad there's a little bit of
sadness yeah yeah perfect yeah
sadness is those late night because you're like you're looking at your watch
like why am I not at
home why am I not asleep yeah I remember that feeling my first time going to
the comedy store
just being like what like why am I sad like just like this thing that just
weighs you like I I remember
feeling kind of like worthless no just like kind of like depressed just it
really feels like a ghost is
choking you up like it's not like it's like a weird who's ghost oh man pick
pick one yeah there's a
lot of ghosts in that room and they come they when everyone's gone that's when
they show up you think
for real no no I don't think for real like you'll see them but you do
definitely feel like weirdness
yeah no there's a weird especially when you bomb you get that cold
like you prior
well you know he bombed there too you know there's some classic famous stories
about prior bombing as
he was filming live in the sunset strip like some of the uh had the the footage
oh really yeah the uh
the showtime dot had like the footage of the that show oh the show where he was
prepping like where
he's getting ready yeah well no no like the show where it just didn't go like
you know oh so they
filmed a few of them yeah well they filmed the you know that strip show where
he had to come back the
next night and and like kind of redo it he just had like he was just he he you
know operated from such a
place of just like it was so on it had to be honest to him i i think and it had
just hadn't gone up in
a while and was on stage and was just like in the room and just sat in it he
just he just said the
footage is crazy see me that wow yeah yeah it's really who's got the footage
well it's in the doc you
can see it in a documentary like a little bit but i think it's extended footage
i haven't seen the
extended footage if that exists but there's some great old cassettes that i
bought from uh like a gas
station there were uh red fox's comedy club red fox had a comedy club and prior
would go up and just
around man just around and there was many of them i mean there was like seven
or eight recordings maverick's
flats i think it was right that was the name of the company i think so off of
like crenshaw or
something over there like oh where the club was yeah i don't know i got them
when i was living in
boston i was living in boston and i found them like at a gas station they were
for sale oh yeah and it was
crazy because it was like it was small crowd you could tell it was a small
crowd and prior was just
fucking around man he was just he was ad-libbing you could tell that like it
wasn't structured and some
of it was really funny and some of it like kind of fell flat yeah and you could
hear like the clink
of glasses and shit in the background it was just so real rich you know richard
prior back then he was
doing something that it's like he had figured out a thing that he could do that
other people hadn't
figured out and that thing was like just be totally honest and also just
explore ideas on stage in
front of people like not even have it mapped out yet just just around and find
what's funny and he'd be
smoking cigarettes and just talking and he figured out a way to turn and then
you would see it boiled
in to like richard prior live or live on the sunset strip or any of his specials
you would see it boiled
down into that yeah yeah doing it for tell you know he performed for television
really well um and and
that's like kind of a an element that uh i think people kind of forget that
like how well of a it
connected with you watching it at home like you know even me 20 30 years later
after it's filmed and
just watching it with my dad it it it's he plays really well here you know what
i mean like to you
it's like you can feel how personal how honest it is and like so when it was
like boiled down it was
just he was also captured really well did you ever see him live no prior yeah
wait how old do you think
i am no he was alive uh doing stand-up 10 years ago yeah maybe a little bit
more maybe 15 years ago yeah when
he did he die uh maybe it was more than 15 years ago now that i'm thinking
about it did you ever see him
live yeah i had a um i had to follow him like five weeks in a row man really
where like a run in five
2005 he died okay so it was more than i thought like a run um he did a run
before he died it was probably
right before then um actually i want to say it was like the late 90s early 2000s
somewhere around then
he was real sick and they would have to carry him to the stage and it would
take like five minutes for
him to get to the stage so they introduce him and the comic would get out of
the way and then um uh
chewy and marilyn martinez's husband would help him walk to the stage they
would hold on to him take him to
the stage it would take forever it was a slow process and they'd get him and
they'd sit him down and
they'd crank up the mic like this because his voice was so soft people and yeah
yeah and he would do
stand up oh do like 15 20 minutes and then i would go on after him almost every
time it would be me and uh
uh just eat shit oh just eat shit
first of all first of all nobody knew who i was and second of all they just saw
richard prior
and they're sad because he's fading away right in front of everybody yeah it's
an interesting
feeling like you never before is like a british type intermission been needed
more a british type intermission you know like where it's just like all right
richard prior is gone and
uh you know 15 minutes people go smoke cigarettes come back what year did you
start doing stand-up uh
2008. yeah so you missed it yeah did you go to the clubs at all before then to
look around uh no well
two nights before my first time two nights before your first two nights before
my first time i went to
uh the comedy store wow yeah did you have my first day in l.a my first day in l.a
i i saw the whole show
nine to two a.m wow you sat through the whole show the whole show did the open
mic that sunday
whoa that's an experience man the the people that do that man that's like
running an ultra marathon
like yeah no but i am to two it's interesting i can watch i can watch it you
know i can consume like a
high volume of it in in a lot of cases like you know i'm i've always been
interested in like whatever
people are talking about you know like and it was just an interesting sampler
of like all right
what's fascinating about the store there's the 15 minute blocks that you're
seeing these completely
different viewpoints 15 minute chunks you know it's just like if you