Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1146 - Jeff Garlin
Uploaded: 2018-07-26T02:03:45.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1146 - Jeff Garlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-07-26. Transcript available. Jeff Garlin is a comedian, actor, producer, director, and writer.

Joe Rogan Experience #1146 - Jeff Garlin

Three, two, one. Hello, Jeffrey. Hello, Joe. How you doing, man? I'm young and
handsome. You are young
and handsome. Yes, we are, if we're not dead. I don't know what that means. It's
all good. I'm
all jet-lagged. Yeah. It's cracking. How are you? I'm a big bowl of wonderful.
A big bowl? A big
bowl. A fucking huge bowl of wonderful. You're aggressive with that statement.
I am. I
am. Don't doubt me with wonderfulness. I don't doubt you. Yeah. Good to see you,
man. Good
to see you, too. What's the latest? What is the latest? About to start another
season of
the Goldbergs, another season of Curb after that. Do you enjoy working with the
fabulous
Brian Callen? I love working with Brian Callen. He makes me laugh all the time.
He's here later.
He's going to be here at 2 o'clock. Oh, so then I'll see him. Or 3. Yeah. Oh,
maybe
not. But anyhow, point being is, I dig Brian Callen very much. He likes you,
too. Yeah,
that's cool. That's cool, man. What's the latest with the stand-up career? I
see you around
the store a lot. At the store, on occasion. I don't do the store that much
anymore because
I've stopped doing showcase spots for the most part. I just do. I have a
regular show every
Friday night at the improv in the lab, and I do an hour, hour and 10 minutes.
And then
occasionally I do flappers, which is a horrible name in Burbank. Great little
club. But a great
room. A great room. Yeah. And I do there on occasion on Sunday nights. So I do
an hour.
Going out of the house for 15, 20 minutes, not worth my time.
Does it, do you, when you do like an hour set, do you plan your sets out or do
you have like some
material that you'd like to be working on? And is that why you like the freedom
of having an hour
so you can just kind of fuck around? I have no preparation whatsoever, except I
may think,
oh, I'll talk about that tonight. But I have no preparation. I may bring up a
story I've told
before, but I have no idea. Literally when I step on stage, I have no idea what
I'm going to talk
about. What does help me, what I've done for quite a while now is I come up to
a different song every
time I come up. And then I just talk about that song, the story of the making
of that song,
who sang that song, what that song means to me. And that will usually lead me
to something. That's
all I need. Yeah. The reason why I ask is you have a very unusual style. Like I've
seen you a bunch
of times at the store. You're very loose. Yeah, very loose. But it's, it's a
great thing because
you have the confidence to do that. Yes. Like a lot of people have to be like
super rigid in their
preparation. Without a doubt. Yes. Say things set up punchline in the correct
order every night.
I'm only confident in the fact that I'm funny. I am not confident in any other
fact in terms of
going on stage. That's the most important thing. It is the most important. And
so I go up with the
knowledge that no matter what goes down, I am funny and will be funny. Boom.
Good night. Boom.
That's it. Good night. Yeah. And are you doing the road at all? Hardly ever.
When I do the road,
it's, I did London in December. Did a couple of weeks of shows. A couple of
weeks? Yeah. A couple
of weeks at a theater there. What theater did you go to? Soho theater. It's a
small, cool theater.
Is that like 500 seats or something? I don't even know. I don't even pay
attention.
How's that? I feel like I've done that. I've done Leicester Square. I've done a
couple
different places. Yeah. Leicester Square is good. Yeah. I just, I'll go to
London. I go
to New York on occasion and perform. I use, I've played everywhere. I've played
everywhere
from Indianapolis to Seattle to Miami, like, and all points in between, you
know? Tucson, you
know, Phoenix. I mean, like all over. Right. I've done it. I'm, I'm 56 years
old. I've got
two TV shows. I develop a bunch of other stuff. I'm passionate about my standup.
I get enough,
I don't have to earn a living by going on the road, which I have had to in the
past. So I
stay home and do my standup when I can, which is every Friday for sure. That's
a nice thing.
For sure. Because the thing that does get you. It's a very nice thing. I've
worked towards
that. That's a beautiful thing to work towards because the thing that does get
you is that
travel. Oh, you know, it was, the thing that no one understands is the only joy
that you
can possibly get when you travel is the moment when you're on stage. And if
that's troublesome
or not fun, it's a drag. It's depressing. But those moments on stage, if they're
great,
it's all worth it. Yeah. No, it's the thing. Also, when you go on the road, if
you have to
do morning radio and you have to do those kinds of things. Well, that's the
thing. It screws
up your time, you know, what time you go to bed. Because I, I like to set, I
don't worry
as much on a consistent basis what time I wake up, because that'll be automatic.
I try consistently
to go to bed at the same time every night. It's a different approach that a
psychiatrist
told me, and it has worked wonders for me. A psychiatrist told you. Yeah.
Because everyone
always focuses on waking up the same time every day. Right. He said, focus on
going to bed
at the same time every night. And that'll be more productive for you. And I do
that with
a sort of a half hour bump to fall asleep, to maybe read for a minute, whatever.
But I'm
in bed usually by 10. I've never gone to a psychiatrist, but one of the shows
that I was
on, I was like the only person on the set that didn't go to a psychiatrist. I'm
like, maybe
I'm fucked up. No. By the way, if you're functioning in the world, that's great.
Congratulations.
I have sometimes trouble functioning in the world. How so?
And well, it's like I find going on stage, I'm fearless. And I don't even like
leaving
my house. I prefer to stay home. I love napping. Oh, do I love napping. If I
could smoke some
indica and take a nap every day. I do transcendental meditation. I do all the
chill things at home.
And I leave to work. I don't like going to parties. I like a good dinner party,
because that means I can have an actual conversation with someone. But I was
just at a party the other
night, a goodbye party for a friend of mine. It was at Jeff Ross's house. And I
had the worst time.
I lasted 20 minutes. The only people I could talk to were comedians.
Who else would be at Jeff Ross's party but comedians?
Well, some people with man buns and a hot tub. It was very unsettling and wrong.
I wanted nothing to do with it. I said my goodbyes to my friend, and she's
moving to Japan, so I said my goodbyes. I was out of respect to her that I went.
But out of respect to myself, I didn't stay long.
Man buns and a hot tub is never a good combination.
Right. You see a man bun in a hot tub, you go, I don't belong here.
It's over. It's over.
I don't belong here.
Yeah, you don't belong there.
Yeah.
That can't be done.
No, it's bad.
When did that start happening? When did the man bun stuff?
Man buns, to me, like in a big way, a couple years ago.
It was like samurais, and then there was a big drop-off for a long time.
Samurais, and then a big drop-off. That's exactly it. I don't get it. I mean,
why grow your hair long if you're going to wear a man bun?
I think they like the idea.
Either grow your hair long and dig it. Yeah, the idea of it, it's ridiculous. I
was at a gas station in Studio City, and I was seconds away from talking to
this dude.
He had a man bun that looked like a bird's nest with a waterfall on the outside,
and I just went, why? I just wanted to ask him. I go, I'm being totally
friendly. I want to make this a conversation. Why? Explain. I don't get it.
I feel like what it is is like they're letting you know that this is me when I'm
out, but when I'm at home and I'm feeling sexy, I just undo that.
And you let it down. I don't know what it is.
I just relax, and I unravel, and I'm sexy. It's a big ball of rung. It's a big
ball of rung, and no, you're not sexy.
Let it go down. I'm feeling sexy. You're douchey.
What's the longest your hair's ever been?
Mine? I had like a Jufro-type festival happening when I was younger, like
longer, curly hair, but not like shoulder length.
Right.
No, you know. It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
It's weird that hair grows that long only on your head. That's what's weird.
But by the way, if you're a rocker and you're grown like Robert Plant's head,
cool hair, go for it. Don't man bun it. Go for it. I'm all for long hair.
Rockers have different rules.
I saw a guy last night in a band, a bass player, big man bun, big ball of rung.
You know what I'm uncomfortable with? A CEO haircut in a rock band.
Oh.
What are you doing with that fucking button-down conservative haircut?
See, I dig that.
Playing a band.
I think playing against type is a big ball of delightful.
Nah, not into it.
Joe, we differ on this one.
We differ on this one.
Yes, we do.
I think a group of men, like I thought David Bowie's band Tin Machine, I didn't
really dig their music, but I love the look of all them wearing the suits with
the close-cropped hair.
Well, Bowie's so odd and so undeniably creative that he was allowed to get away
with anything he wanted.
Well, he's allowed to do anything he wants, but truthfully, if you have any
sort of confidence, you can, except the man bun.
There it is right here.
Yeah, there it is.
The history of David Bowie's.
Yeah, but that dude should have cut his hair short, the one with the long hair.
Maybe, but he's kind of John Travolta and Paul Fiction-ish.
No, there he is.
He cut it short.
There he is now.
The pressure from the other three guys got to be too much.
He got tired of buying shampoo and all that bullshit.
Yeah, the upkeep is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's outrageous.
Yeah.
Dudes who condition their hair and they have to leave it in for 10 minutes.
Oh, that's a big bowl of, come on, man.
Come on, bro.
Yeah.
But for something, there's some reason why it is okay in a band, but it's not
okay for a comic.
Like a comic with long, like Led Zeppelin hair.
Because you know what happens when a comic does that?
Their whole act becomes about it, and it's like, dude, that's just boring.
Do you remember Jackson Perdue?
I do remember Jackson Perdue.
Crazy long hair.
Yeah.
Like a band guy.
Yeah.
A lot of material about his hair.
He did have a lot of material about his hair.
I know.
I just, you know, I used to, when I was younger, I went for the obvious.
I did a lot of material about having a big head.
Oh.
Now it's of no interest to me.
You know, you couldn't also do like the Robert Plant shirt thing either.
I have.
I have a Robert Plant shirt.
Not his.
You never like let it open down to your crotch.
I think it's called, nurses do it better.
Or nurses, some of the nursing on, it's powder blue.
He wore it on one of the Zeppelin tours in the early 70s.
And I saw it for sale on Amazon.
And I bought one.
It doesn't give off the same vibe.
Yeah.
It's different with different people, right?
Yeah.
But I always, one of my non sequiturs to tell people all the time is you love
the nursing
industry.
I just say to people, you know what you love?
You love the nursing industry.
I've said that to nurses.
And what do they say?
People just chuckle.
They don't know how to make, you know.
It's a non sequitur.
He's weird.
Yeah.
It's a non sequitur.
They don't know, you know, non sequiturs throw people.
Nervous laughter.
Yeah.
Nervous laughter.
There's a certain things, a certain looks that came and went and people tried
to bring
back.
Like, do you remember a few years back they were trying to bring back bell
bottoms?
No.
Yes.
That's how much of a failure it was.
Bill Murray was actually photographed a couple of days ago at a golf course
with some fabulous
bell bottoms on.
Oh, see, that's delightful.
Yeah.
Because it's so wrong that it's beautiful and perfect.
Bill Murray.
They're crazy, too.
Look at the picture.
Look at them.
Oh.
See, that's a big bull.
He's so fun, that dude.
He's wonderful.
He is just a, he is so fun