Name: Joe Rogan Experience #660 - Jim Florentine
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #660 - Jim Florentine' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-06-16. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #660 - Jim Florentine

Yee-haw, we're fucking live. I was just about to take a sip of coffee, but this
shit is way more important.
We're here with Jim Florentine, hilarious stand-up comedian and transracial
pioneer.
You were doing that, you were pushing the transracial movement like about two,
three decades ago, right?
I was, you know, and, you know, living with Jim Norton, you know, I've seen a
lot.
That video, there's a video of you guys, was it you two living together where
you had the fucking black mold?
Yeah.
Oh my god, when you move the picture and you see the mold on the wall, people
fucking die from that shit.
Like the amount of mold you guys had.
I know, I had it in my bedroom and I would just, I put tinfoil on the walls to
cover it.
Around by the bed, it was all the way up coming up, climbing up the walls, I
just put tinfoil on, it should be fine.
That is so fucking crazy.
Who made that video?
It was somebody from ONA show, came over and did the cribs.
God, like people get really sick from that shit, right?
I know, I don't understand how we didn't get sick because we had it for like a
year.
We're paying $800 for a three-bedroom right outside of New York City in the
Jersey side and splitting it three ways.
I had a girlfriend who lived with me at the time too, so we're paying like $266
a month.
Wow, that's pretty sweet.
And we weren't making any money, so we figured we'd move right next to New York
City.
Here's the video, it's going on behind you.
Did you get tested to see if you had anything from living there?
No.
Fuck no.
Tom Likas had to evacuate his whole house.
Yeah.
Tom Likas, they had to tear his walls down.
They have to like, I guess they treat the mold to kill it.
They got to tear all your walls down and they got to do these like tests of the
air to make sure there's not spores that are flying around the air.
I mean, it's a real infestation.
It's fucked.
I know, we didn't even look it up to find out if it was toxic.
It's, I'm pretty sure it's not good.
Like, this is sick.
It's like, it's dripping down the side of this painting.
Now they moved this painting.
We went to a garage sale around the corner to buy more paintings just to cover
up the mold.
Oh, my God.
That's what we would do.
Dude, that can not be good.
Oh, it's super bad for you.
It's absolutely super bad.
You know what else is?
There's my damn Marino jersey hanging up.
But you got to think that just the sheer air that's in that room, it's got to
be filled with spores and shit, right?
And I think that's very, very poisonous.
Like, you probably have some kind of fucked up shit from that.
No, I bet he's fine now.
You don't?
But I bet back then you were probably suffering from just a lot of stress on
your lungs.
Yeah.
What am I, a doctor?
Was your voice before really high-pitched?
Was it like, hi, guys?
No, it's always been like this, yeah.
Jim's always had that voice.
That didn't work.
But when you're fucking young and poor and you're a comic, that is the way to
go.
$2.66 a month, we're paying.
The lower your bills are, like for comics, it's like the whole thing in the
beginning is you got to get through the spot
where you don't make any money, figure out how to do it, and then start making
money.
Start getting road gigs and start, but that area where you just, like, it's so
important to fucking save as much money as possible.
Yeah, we were, you know, we were living like an hour south of the city in
Jersey, me and Norton,
and we figured we needed to get close because we were going in there like four
or five nights a week trying to get in the clubs.
I moved in with, I didn't even like this girl.
I just wanted her to pay a third of the rent.
I really didn't even like her that much.
I'm like, look, we can cut this in threes.
That's hilarious.
Look at Jim, all fresh-faced like a little lad, like a little boy.
Oh, look at your bathroom.
Gee, sweet, merciful Christ.
I had a shithole of an apartment in New Rochelle.
Ooh.
It was actually, it could have been a lot worse.
It was like just mostly families and shit in the neighborhood, but that was the
same thing.
It was the cheapest place that I could get that had a place to park because I
had to do a lot of road gigs.
I did city gigs like in New York City, but at a certain point in time, I was
like, fuck, man.
These sits are only like 10, 15 minutes long.
You've got to travel all over to do them.
They don't pay any money.
I could just go to Connecticut and make 150 bucks tonight.
You know, I could go to Long Island and make 150 bucks.
I think that's real money.
I think that's when I first met you is Bob Levy and his wife had all these gigs,
these one-nighters that pay like 150 bucks, 200.
His wife was hot.
Oh, my God.
Good Lord.
It was insane.
She was one of those like what happened there relationships.
First of all, Bob is hilarious.
Chicks love, like, he's so funny.
Like, have you ever hung around with Bob Levy?
Do you know Bob Levy at all?
Yeah, but I haven't hung out with him.
He's fucking hilarious.
That dude's hilarious.
He was at, I watched Artie Lang headline in Vegas once at the Luxor.
It was me and Joey and Eddie Bravo went because we were there for the UFC.
And he went up and he was doing some shit where he was having girls eat his
asshole.
Yeah.
They put blue cheese on his ass and he was describing why he couldn't do that
anymore because of lawsuits or whatever.
But he would put blue cheese on girls' asses and eat it on stage.
Right on stage, right out of her ass.
I would probably do that.
Maybe he would do it, but I don't know.
He was a famous comedian.
I mean, Bob Levy's like a nationally known comedian and he's doing this.
Are these girls from the audience?
Yes.
Yeah, from the audience.
Guy would go to his wife, go up there, come on, let him eat blue cheese out of
your ass.
What's the big deal?
I'm like, that's unbelievable.
It's so crazy.
It's so crazy.
But he's just a funny fuck.
Like, people were heckling him.
He was just torturing him.
Bob's been around forever.
He's an old pro.
He's one of the best nightclub comics out there.
Old pro.
Old pro.
Just kills every time.
He knows how to do it.
He's just a funny guy.
He's just been around.
And he's a good dude, too.
But goddamn, did he have a hot wife.
Jesus louise.
She's still hot.
She came to my show about a year ago.
I'm sure she is.
Still hot.
Crushing.
It was insane how hot she was.
Like, Bob, you don't deserve that.
How does that happen?
If she lived in California, it would kind of make sense if Bob was on a sitcom.
If Bob was on a sitcom and she lived in California, like, girls like her, I
think, are more common in California.
But in Jersey?
Jesus fucking Christ.
They didn't even have a number for that.
She wasn't even a 10.
You had to, like, you got to go.
Like, it's like a 10 plus, like an executive class 10.
She hung in there for, like, three years and then she couldn't take it anymore.
They were booking gigs.
I did a bunch of their gigs.
Yeah, that's when I originally met you because you'd do a bunch of one-nighters.
Such a good dude.
Yeah.
Always been a good dude.
Funny, crazy fuck.
Yeah, he would, but, and you know when he had, he had to stop eating blue
cheese out of girls' asses because he was going through a divorce and his ex-wife,
the second wife's lawyers were using the footage on YouTube against him in
court.
So you had to tell the audience, look, I got to stop eating blue cheese, and
they would boo.
He goes, look, this shit's on YouTube.
I'm trying to get custody of my son.
Oh, my God.
It's just, like, specific dressing.
What about Thousand Island?
No, blue cheese or nothing.
Like, look, this girl is there.
He puts blue cheese on her ass and he eats it on stage.
What a lucky guy.
Oh, he's a savage.
And he holds on, too.
He doesn't let go.
Like, he'll hold them, and they're trying to run away, and he's...
He's a fucking savage.
Yeah.
He's a savage.
He's, look at that girl's ass.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Wow.
Blue cheese in Wildwood.
I mean, it's kind of like a cultural legend thing.
You know, like, when...
And by the way, when I first heard that he was doing it, I wasn't even remotely
surprised.
I was like, oh, Bob Lee, if he's doing that?
All right.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
He's fucking crazy.
They'd tell...
Like, if somebody told me that Greg Fitzsimmons started eating blue cheese out
of girls' asses, I'd be like, whoa, what the fuck happened to Greg?
Well, Greg went south.
He went crazy.
Greg's gone crazy.
But when I heard it was Bob Levy, it was, like, totally acceptable.
Like, if you know him, like, something like that's, like, completely acceptable.
Like, oh, yeah, that's probably what he does.
The first time he did it, this gig got canceled.
We were just hanging out in, like, a Holiday Inn in the room where the comedy
was supposed to be.
And some girl was there, and we were drinking with her.
And somehow we got her to go, hey, we'll get mustard up, like, $37 if he can
eat blue cheese out of your ass because we're eating wings.
And Bob said, I want to eat this blue cheese out of your ass.
And I go, how much would you do it?
She goes, I don't know.
And I got $37.
She goes, okay, fine.
And he ate blue cheese just in front of, like, four people.
And Levy's like, I got to close with that.
I go, I don't know.
I got it.
I got work between us friends.
I don't know if that's going to work on stage.
Oh, my God.
I got to close with that.
What kind of a fucking animal?
What kind of a fucking animal offers a girl $37 to eat blue cheese out of her
ass?
And then after he's out, it says, I got to close with that.
I'm fucking crying.
Oh, my God.
I'm fucking crying.
Those are the beautiful people that you meet in stand-up comedy.
I know.
You only meet those people in stand-up comedy.
They don't exist in other professions.
Or, like, Extreme Elvis.
I've met that guy a few times.
Oh, he's crazy.
His show is amazing.
I don't think he does that anymore.
Yeah, I don't think he does either.
It was a fucking amazing show.
Extreme Elvis is this guy who's an Elvis impersonator.
And he takes his clothes off and he pisses in this girl's mouth.
It's like, it's fucking crazy.
He gets totally naked.
Yeah.
And they're really good musicians.
Like, Penn Jillette.
Did Penn Jillette tell them about me?
I don't know who told who about them.
But he and I talked and he wound up hiring the guy to do, like, a party at his
house.
And Penn's, like, strict.
Like, no drugs, no this, no that.
So you had to do it sober.
Because Extreme Elvis would do all shows completely fucked up.
Like, drink a gallon of fucking whiskey on stage.
That's him right there.
Holy shit.
Yeah, dude.
I mean, you ain't seen nothing yet.
So weird.
I wrote a whole blog about it.
I wrote a whole blog about it a long time ago, like, way back in 2003.
Because it was amazing.
This show was amazing.
He goes, who won't drink the King's piss?
The girl next to him goes, I do, I do.
He just pisses in her mouth.
She's lying there.
She's topless.
She's hot, by the way.
And she's talented.
And she can play.
You know, I forget what she did.
Whether she sang or she played guitar.
I forget what instrument.
But I remember, overall, it was a very good show.
They were very talented.
On top of the fact, it was insane.
He was pissing in this girl's mouth.
And some guy, like, from the audience, like, someone, or it was a girl.
Some girl tried to stick, like, a beer bottle up his ass.
Because he was totally naked.
So some girl comes up behind him and starts sticking this beer bottle up his
ass.
And he grabs her hand and starts putting it in the right hole.
And then she panics and she runs away.
Like, he was helping her shove this beer bottle up his ass.
Holy shit.
Like, he's like, girl, come here.
You want to do that?
Go ahead.
And she's like, fuck this.
And the girl just leaves.
It was a fucking crazy show.
Did you see what Jamie just put up?
It was a poor cue of his ass.
I'm not surprised.
Well, I'm also not surprised that he doesn't do it anymore if he was doing
these kind of
things on a r