Name: Joe Rogan Experience #918 - Frank Castillo
Uploaded: 2017-02-17T23:07:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #918 - Frank Castillo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #918 - Frank Castillo' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #918 - Frank Castillo

shh you guys hear that you hear that shit that's the rain that's how hard it's
raining here
all these pussies telling you don't don't don't mow your lawn don't don't water
the lawn don't
fill the pool we're running out of water we're running out of water here in california
not anymore
motherfucker it's there's they're evacuating people jamie what did what it say
in your phone
evacuate sacramento's fucked the dam is blowing frank castillo the dam uh i
usually don't introduce
guests but this gentleman across me here is uh i'm really proud of you really
thank you
frank castillo if you go to his instagram page let me just tell everybody he
just won roast battle
on comedy central which uh with stand-up comedians that's a huge deal i mean
that is that's a big
deal that show's a big deal it's a big deal for comedy but it's a big deal you
won and if you go
to your instagram page dude it's so inspirational you do the shittiest fucking
shows you're out there
doing bowling alleys you're out there doing like bars with three people in them
and you're doing
three four a night you're just always hammering it i love it and then to see
you do that and to see
you working at the store like many other people before like duncan's done like
ari's done like
renazizi's done like so many people have gone from working at the store bobby
lee i think worked at the
store yep so many people have gone from working at the store to making it as a
comic so to see you
go from working at the store grinding every night and then winning roast battle
show these motherfuckers
the trophy here dude it's fucking heavy feel that's legit as fuck damn now i
get why they don't want
people to hand those out like the second i got it i was like i get why they i
get it now they shouldn't
just hand these out the kids it's so powerful yeah you can't just give a kid a
trophy for nothing you
got to win you got to win you got to do it and that this show roast battle is
one of the reasons
why i came back to the comedy store when i went to see ari was doing his uh
special and uh he had
decided to film his first comedy central special at the store and i hadn't been
in the store in seven
years i hadn't even stepped foot inside the place and i was like well there's
no way i'm missing this
so i had a i had to bite the bullet i had to go in there and um then i said let
me just go the night
before and uh jeff ross asked me to be one of the judges at roast battle and so
i was sitting up there
and i was going wow this is crazy this is a totally different thing like this
was never here seven
years ago there was nothing anything like it it was like really creative
writing really like nasty jokes
but then everybody's hugging afterwards you know like that's one like one of
the rules is like after
you do it you got to hug it out like it was fucking great and i was like
creatively this is so inspiring
and it's so there's so much life to it that and then ari specialized said fuck
it i'm back
it was uh it's a crazy thing man i mean it was just also just having you show
up and just be a part
of that that was one of those things where like everyone knew like all the
younger comics all the
open micers because it started as an open mic so when we saw you come in
everyone was just like oh
this is different like that's when everyone kind of was like oh things are
changing
yeah man things have changed since then at the store the store is a crazy place
now it's insane
like i've been there i started there in 94 and uh it was kind of like there's
something that happened
before i got there like a bomb had gone off and like these are the survivors
that just moved back
to the city it was weird it was like the age of kinnison had died you know and
then there was
really no one after him so like i came in the early 90s and kinnison was like
80 you know like
the early 80s to like 86 88 and then i believe he died in like what did he die
in like 1992 or something
like that he'd already left the store and um when i got there it was all these
weird road comics
that were like bodaks bodaks bodaks you know what a boat act is no someone who
does a lot of cruise
ships no disrespect to anybody does cruise ships i know there's a lot of comics
who really do love
doing cruise ships and they're really funny comics this that's not what i mean
but what i mean is like
there's there was certain people that didn't work anywhere else but like really
shitty gigs oh yeah and
there was a lot of them at the store and i was like this is so weird i thought
it was going to be
like richard prior and you know and louie anderson i thought it was just going
to be killer after
killer after killer it wasn't like that but it is now oh this is the time it is
some of those lineups
are the absolute craziest it's ridiculous chris talia bill burr like what over
and over again this killer
after killer after killer moshe kasher joey diaz what the fuck man tasha lazaro
all those guys going up
it's crazy yeah yeah yeah andrew santino boom boom boom it's like killer after
killer young killers
older killers it's crazy ron white is there now just walking around it's the it's
it's actually
hanging with us in that back bar yeah the elder statesman of stand-up comedy i
remember when ron
white came into a casino i was working at i was just before i moved to los angeles
before anything i was
just working in a bar and he was doing a show there and i remember i was just
like oh my god i can't
believe it's ron white yeah man and i talked to him and then now it's just so
crazy to be
like at the comedy store sitting in the back smoking a joint just talking to
him about comedy
dude and you know what we started doing the factory again too we did the
factory last week
and we're gonna do it again next week we're gonna do the factory on wednesday
nights every other
wednesday oh that's amazing at 10 o'clock yeah man we because the factory was
struggling and we were
like the laugh factory is a good club it's just you know it had a lot of weirdness
in the past
that was connected to it and the store was always that place to go to
so like i think it's important when we see these clubs that we're really lucky
to have
that we support them all absolutely you know keep them going it's because it's
guys like you these
guys that are coming up like you're you're going to be in the same position
that we're in someday
where you're you know you're you're capable of like organizing a night and
filling up a room
and then it pumps up the business and then guys like you get in you know like
when we did the ice
house wednesday night you know like guys like you get in and then you'll be in
that same position
someday too it's fucking cool to watch man yeah it's absolutely just insane to
be a part of you know
what i mean because it's like doing i get to host when we were at the laugh
factory that wednesday and
that was bananas because it was just like meeting the booker and the manager
and all these people and
again sick lineup yeah and it's just crazy yeah yeah i know you you're getting
in you're you're like at the
door you're it's i remember those days man wasn't it and i was never in a
position like you're in though
like your position is better than my position when i was in like your your
stages of stand-up because
you got into something through stand-up i got into something through a sitcom
yeah like a sitcom is like
it's okay but it's not the same like the the stand-up route is the best route
yeah it's really odd too
because of like just how many people have seen the roast battle like just the
finals like i almost i almost feel
naive because i didn't realize how many people were there like it was like
winning the combine of like
the nfl combine but for comedy it was dude it was a big deal it was a big deal
it was like guys at the
store and girls i shouldn't be sexist guys the girls and girls at the store um
we were following it like a
sports team like we were following it yeah like it was crazy it's like who's in
the lead who's winning
where's he at you know yeah and just the the vibe in the room was absolutely
crazy just like hearing
that's just it was like a sporting event it was nuts dude when i showed up at
the store after you'd won
it was like like we were super bowl champs yeah it was people were like crying
like other com but
also me winning was such a weird thing because it was like especially the la
comedy community i don't
want to say like open micers like it's a terrible term but it's like i'm still
an open miker you know
what i mean like i still hit open mics i'm still a comic that does these things
so it's like when i won i
had see all these guys that i would see at these open mics and it was just like
it was like we won
you know what i mean because it's like they see me at all these spots they know
me as the guy that's
always working at the store that's always doing something so it was like a
weird sense of pride it
was like your home team winning yeah but it's also it shows you that you can do
it like they're you
you're them you guys are all working together yeah you're all doing those open
mics together they know
there's nothing like you didn't get some willy wonka golden ticket and somebody
let you in no you
just hammered it out man you kept doing it your instagram page is this man i
really do draw inspiration
from it i love seeing and i know you're funny too which helps thank you because
there's certain people
that i look at and i go well this guy is this guy or this girl all they have to
do is not this up
they're funny like you got it yeah and it's like it's very important to tell
those people that too
like some you you can do because i remember people saying that to me and it was
a huge like mark maron
gave me a speech one day after i uh did a show at um uh the comedy connection
in boston which was a
little tiny room and he said some cool to me after my set and i was just a raw
open miker like way rower
even than you i was like how long you've been doing it now uh started when i
was 21 so i'd say about
27 now so six years but like seriously for four which is like the pace that i've
been doing it where i'm
like hitting mics trying to go on shows i'm really taking it seriously is it
harder to get cracking
in la do you think because there's so much comedy here i don't think it's hard
to get cracking i think
it's tougher definitely but i think if you're willing to work hard because you're
surrounded by this is
something my manager told me right before i moved because i was supposed to get
a job and then i didn't
and i was really bitter and i wanted to move los angeles he said you could move
now and find out you're the
shit and things are going to go great or you could move now and find out you're
not the
shit and then work really hard and then get really good and that's what i did
it's like you got a good
manager that's good solid manager advice he was i mean he was a it was a
restaurant manager but i mean
it was great advice wow so he doesn't have anything to do with comedy no he was
just called that dude
tell him to start an agency that's why it was so logical that's why what he
said was so logical yeah you
never hear that from stand-up comedy managers they give people the worst advice
but that's what i did
i moved here and then it was like you know people were like oh there's no time
in los angeles like no
there's time if you're willing to make it like i will drive to a mic sign up
drive to another mic sign
up drive back to that first mic hit a spot text someone that's running a show
or a host that i know is
going to just toss me up at the end so i know i could go to that mic in two and
a half hours while i'm
waiting for this other mic so it's like it's just like how much are you willing
to pay for gas you
know what i mean like you it's really you're investing in yourself yeah well
you're you're
you're also you're you're definitely investing in yourself but you you're
growing in some weird way
like when the more set