Name: Joe Rogan Experience #676 - Esther Ku
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #676 - Esther Ku' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-07-30. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #676 - Esther Ku

Fresh back from her lion hunting safari in Africa.
Esther Kuh, you're here.
I understand.
This is a lion mania today, Esther.
Are you paying attention to this?
I can't.
No, what happened with lion today?
But some dude killed, like, a loved lion that had a GPS collar.
They lured it away from this protected area where it was living, and he killed
it.
And they tried to hide the fact that he killed it.
He's a dentist in Minnesota?
Yeah.
It's a sad story.
Tried to destroy the tracking device.
Why?
Why did he try to destroy the tracking device?
Because he didn't want people to know that he killed this lion that was a
protected lion.
Apparently, they lured it away from the protected area with meat.
They, like, dragged meat behind a car, like, to put the scent so that this
thing would follow the scent and smell it.
Did he use the GPS tracking device to find the lion?
No.
They found it, allegedly, according to them, they found out that it had a
tracking device after they killed it.
So they didn't know that it was a protected lion.
Oh, what was he going to do with the lion?
He's going to put it in his office.
Just for the Instagram picture.
That's why a lot of people are pissed off, because it's, like, this beloved
lion, but yet they're only doing it for, like, the photo, you know?
Well, he's got a trophy room, I think, because he's killed everything.
This guy's killed fucking everything.
I think Jimmy Kimmel said he killed half of Noah's Ark.
Like, literally, it's fucked up.
Jimmy Kimmel started crying when he was talking about Lost Night on TV, and I
think it was legit.
I know it was legit.
He's not a bullshit artist.
But, yeah, this guy's one of those trophy hunters that just wants to have these
stuffed animals in a room.
Wow.
Oh.
You know, we talked about Big Cat Derek the other day, and he had contacted.
He wants to come out and fly out and be on the show.
Okay, yeah, I'll definitely have him on.
You know what we should do?
He's one of those guys we should go visit him.
Yeah, in Texas.
We should go to Texas.
Yeah.
So where was his lion killing?
It was in Africa.
Somewhere in Africa, which is a fucking huge place.
Somewhere in Africa is, like, saying somewhere on Earth.
I think it was in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe?
Yeah.
I want to know the two guys that dragged it out knew that this was a beloved
lion, obviously, if it was such a superhero in that area.
Like, they, it seems almost like a setup or something.
I don't know how much of a superhero a lion is to the people that live there.
To the people that live there, that's a fucking lion.
You know, I think a lot of the people that are, like, conservationists and are
people that are tourists and are visiting, that's a beloved lion.
That beloved lion will kill you, just like any regular lion.
It's not the lion king.
People are probably more mad at him than the woman who killed the giraffe.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
Because there's no giraffe king.
No.
Like, you know, in that moment with Simba.
Yeah.
I think we love lions a lot more than giraffes, don't you think?
We love a lot of animals based on cartoons.
We really do.
And cats.
We need a giraffe cartoon.
Yeah.
Oh, Toys R Us.
They kind of have a giraffe.
But it's just a commercial.
Jeffrey.
Yeah.
We need, like, a real cartoon, like a half hour.
Have you ever seen the video of two giraffes fighting?
They, like, fight to the death.
Two male giraffes over breeding.
I don't think so.
With their legs?
No.
Their necks?
They use their necks.
Wow.
They use their head like a whip.
And they swing their neck into each other.
It is fucking crazy.
Wow.
And then they pull, like, tug of war?
No.
They just slam their neck into each other's ass.
They slam their neck into each other's body.
You know they have those, like, nubs?
Like, here it is.
Watch these dudes.
Watch these dudes go to war.
Oh, we can see it on this one in front of us here.
Watch these dudes go to war.
Wow.
Look at this.
They slap their bodies into each other.
Look at that.
I whip my neck back and forth.
I whip my neck back.
Look at that.
Come on.
How crazy is that?
Oh, my God.
They, like, whip...
They should put a wig on them.
Why would they put a wig on them?
So it'll look cool.
Like, hair, like, flailing everywhere.
Or a wet wig.
Like, they're, like, the wet water.
Yeah, like, a mop head.
It's just a, what a crazy way to do battle.
Don't they know they have legs?
It's like sword fighting, kind of, though.
It's kind of cool.
It's like violent yoga.
Yeah, but if you were, like, a giraffe and you were smart, and you're, like,
okay, I see
what these guys are doing.
I'm going to just kick his legs.
Yeah.
Kick him right in the fucking head.
Oh, yeah.
Leg sweep it.
Just sweep the leg right there.
Yeah, that seems like it would give you a massive headache.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they had one of them walk away.
These two guys, they went to war about it, and they walked away, and his whole
body was
fucked up.
Like, he had just massive open sores all over his legs and his open wounds all
over his legs
and body.
Because those horns they have, their antlers, they're slamming their antlers
into each other's
bodies.
Bizarre.
So, why did they get in a fight?
What do you think precipitated that fight?
Sex, 100%.
They fight over breeding rights.
This is pre-sex?
No, no, no.
They fight to make sure that they can breed.
Oh.
You know, they fight, like all, a giraffe essentially is like a type of deer.
It's like an antelope or something, that kind of hooved animal.
And all those animals, they have real similar behavior.
And they have similar behavior where they grow the largest ones with the
biggest antlers
and the ones that get to breed.
And they clash heads to make sure that they're the bigger ones.
And that's why they have these big, impressive antlers.
That's to let the females know.
Like, oh, look at this motherfucker.
Jeez.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The male giraffes get dark when giraffes, when they start dominating.
The dominant male, like, you can see them.
They stand out.
They're actually darker than the other ones.
Now you know.
Wow.
But, yeah, you came here on Lion Day.
I mean, my Twitter feed has never exploded like this over an animal.
It's very interesting.
Yeah.
It's all over Facebook.
And I've been scared.
All my Facebook peeps are scared about the 100 days, 100 nights thing, about
the gang violence.
Is that real?
No one really knows 100% for sure.
But it's like the L.A. Times has a, you know, everyone's talking about it.
And supposedly these two, somebody died in a popular gang.
And supposedly the gangs, two rival gangs, decided to have a competition who
can kill the
most people in 100 days here in L.A.
And so it's called, like, hashtag 100 days, 100 nights.
And a lot of people are calling bullshit on it.
But who knows, you know?
Well, it's the idea that we have so many people that are in gangs and so many
people.
I mean, you ever talk to one of those L.A. gang task force guys about how many
gang members
there are in L.A.?
Every day he follows me.
There's a lot of fucking gangs.
And there's a lot of gang members, a lot of disenfranchised young people that
have nowhere
to go, criminal backgrounds, fucked, can't get a job, can't vote, can't join
the military.
It's everywhere.
I think a gangbanger joined my high school, like, mid-high school.
Where'd you go to school?
East Lydon High School.
Where's that?
It's in Chicago.
Oh, you're from Chicago?
Yeah, I'm from Chicago.
What's up, Ohio?
Where'd you start doing stand-up?
Boston.
No shit.
Where in Boston?
The comedy studio in Harvard Square.
Oh, I didn't even know about that place.
Where's that place?
Really?
You've never been there?
No, never heard of it.
Oh, my God.
Wait a minute, is that the place above the Chinese restaurant?
Yeah, above the Hong Kong.
Oh, I have been there.
Yeah, I have been there.
Yeah, it was there once.
Yeah, that's where my first show was.
Guy got mad at me there.
What happened?
Some old guy got mad at me for something I was talking about.
I forget what it was about.
Did you guys get in a fight?
Nobody got mad at me.
Like, after the show?
You got mad at my subject matter.
The audience was laughing hard, though.
It was fucked.
It was weird.
It was like this one guy just decided that it wasn't funny.
It just hit him the wrong way.
It was just too personal for him, maybe.
Yeah, I wish I could remember what it was, but I was just laughing.
Like, you really think I'm serious?
Like, I forget what it was.
Might have been.
I'm not sure.
I'd be guessing.
Was he bigger than you?
No, he was not bigger than me.
He wanted to start a fight.
I don't think he wanted to start a fight.
I think he just wanted to express his disgust.
He wanted to, like, put a suggestion in your suggestion box to your face.
It was really dumb, because it was like, like, if you were at a show and
everybody else was enjoying it,
if there was all this laughter and all this fun going on, then you're like, no,
you shouldn't be enjoying this, because I don't like it.
Like, that's stupid.
Just leave, you know?
I've had people tell me that.
Like, you know, I would enjoy your act so much more if you didn't use so many
curse words.
Or, like, if you didn't talk about, like, sex, you know, the whole time, and I'm
just like, what do you want me to talk about?
Like, that's just what I'm passionate about sometimes, you know?
You're passionate about sex.
That's beautiful, Esther.
I am passionate about sex.
It's just ridiculous.
Isn't everybody passionate about sex?
No, there's a lot of people that...
They're not alive.
They would like to pretend that sex doesn't exist, because nobody wants to
touch them.
Yeah.
There's a little bit of that going on.
Right?
Or, like, yeah.
There's a lot of that going on.
For sure.
But most people are passionate about sex, no?
There's a lot.
But there's some people that don't like you to talk about it, and that's, like,
New England, like, that Boston area.
That's a big thing down there.
Like, that's a very button-down town.
Very conservative in a lot of ways.
Like, everybody wears khakis and, like, blue-collar shirts from J.Crew, you
know?
That's, like, the Boston uniform.
There is a lot of that going on.
Yeah.
That's a very...
It's in a lot of ways.
It's a liberal town, a Democrat town.
Which is why it's a good town to, like, start comedy in, because they're so
tight that you make them laugh, and then you go somewhere and they're like, oh,
this is so easy.
Those Boston people are so hard.
Some of them are tight and uptight, and the other ones are mean and drunk.
So you've got two good groups to pull from.
The drunk Irish people.
Yeah.
Well, it's a good spot at the start.
That Cambridge place was known to be, like, a good little spot.
That's Rick Jenkins' spot, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I feel like he could have, like, a big comedy club.
Like, he always prided himself in not advertising.
He's like, we don't advertise, and look, there's still 20 people here on a
Saturday night.
And I'm like, you should advertise.
Like, you can make so much money if you, like, grew the club, because, yeah, it's
been there for a while.
People have very strange ways of looking at things, and they just decide that
this is the way.
Oh, look, I've always done it this way.
Right.
Not advertising a comedy club seems pretty silly.
Pretty silly.
Like, how the fuck is people supposed to know?
Yeah, who's here this week?
Who knows?
You know, like, why would anyone go there?
Right.
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense, but...
So...
How many people were out of there?
There was this one gay dude that was there that was really fucking funny.
Like, really flamboyantly gay dude.
He was hilarious.
I forget his name.
I want to say he's Iranian.
Did they call him Persian?
Is that Tripoli?
No.
He's not Iranian.
He's Armenian.
Um...
Forget his name.
A gay dude.
Followed him on Twitter for a while.
Lost track of him.
I don't know.
Saw him years back, though.
He was very funny.
From the comedy studio?
Yeah, from that spot.
Yeah, a lot of people came out of