Name: Joe Rogan Experience #659 - Dean Delray
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #659 - Dean Delray' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-06-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #659 - Dean Delray

hey you fuckers we're live before we even say anything i have to do a favor for
ari shafir
ari shafir's new show uh his show rather this is not happening on comedy
central is starting a new
season starting season two and uh ari really wants to get great stories from
comics that you guys all
enjoy so what ari is suggesting you do is um perhaps tweet him uh suggestions
and also tweet
the comics that you would like to see perform on his show basically everybody's
got some fucking
wacky story just one wacky story and if you've ever seen this is not happening
it's it's stand-ups
telling crazy stories about either things that have happened to them on the
road or during life
or what have you it's just a slightly different form of stand-up so season two
is about to begin and ari
would like you to just tweet at anybody that you would think would be don't
harass anybody don't
twitter bomb people that shit's gross people that ask me to twitter like
twitter bomb joe that's a
great way to never get on this podcast i fucking it's annoying it's annoying as
fuck i don't like it
uh but this is not that what he wants you to do is just uh get the word out
about it and and tweet to
him anybody that you would like to see on it that would that would help as well
all right you fucks
dean del rey ladies and gentlemen hey man what's up brother oh that's funny you
say that because like
i would see for like a year people going joe have dean on your podcast and i'm
like that's the worst way to
get me on well not necessarily if you told them to do it then it would be the
worst way i would never
do that no you never would but a lot of people did suggest it and i i watched
you on the dom
arreira uh podcast because of it which is fucking hilarious you've never seen
dom arreira live from
the laugh factory first of all dom's a great guy hilarious comic but it's a fun
podcast and you were
really funny on that fucking show oh thanks man those rock and roll stories god
damn dude i mean you
you you fucking you came into comedy through a really weird way yeah i came the
fucking long way
25 years the long way 25 years of music yeah i played music 25 years but the
funny thing is
uh when i was a kid i wanted to do comedy but there was no kids doing comedy
you know it was not like
now you can go to a camp or you can just do whatever you know go to comedy camp
for kids that's how tiffany
was started she's dated a laugh factory comedy camp uh as like a 13 year old
yeah same with melissa
via senora yeah wow and uh but when i was a kid you know i'm 49 so i i grew up
on the first couple
seasons of saturday night live and i was like i want to be john belushi i gotta
be him but where can
you be him except for a sixth grade but well there's open mics and stuff like
that like where'd you
where'd you start out where were you living when you were like i grew up in the
bay area you know and
and uh san francisco there was open mics but i'm like you know eighth grade you
don't know about that
there's no internet or anything right and so you had already gotten into music
i started playing music
and then the years just flew by wow because the neighbors played music and and
i loved i loved rock
and i loved comedy in the 70s it was the same you had cheech and chong carlin
richard pryor you also
had acdc ted nugent and van halen they were just the same to me you'd put one
record on and then the
other wow yeah you so you lived next to musicians is that what got well people
in my neighborhood we all
loved rock and they were like let's play let's play in bands you know do you
think if that wasn't around
that you would have gotten into stand up early well here's the thing stand up
was huge in san francisco
in the 80s man you know we had bobcat we had uh bobby slayton robin williams uh
we had the uh that
morning show with carrie snow and uh all those guys you know it was huge but i
just didn't know how to
do it and i was probably scared you know i remember i saw dice and i was like i'm
gonna try comedy and i
did one time at this bar mcnears in petaluma and i went in and i was just
trying to be dice like hey
look at those tits and and i swear it was silent i was like i'd like to fuck
you oh no and i thought
this is how you do it right and man i was tossed out of there of course yeah
yeah there's not intangible
when you see a guy like dice that can say like some of the most offensive shit
first of all because
you know him and you know like the character but there's also there's something
about the way he did
it and like if you're a young kid and you see it you think you could go do it
too yeah you don't
realize how stupid it sounds until it comes out of your mouth and you realize
like oh wait a minute
he's been doing this for a long time yeah it's established you know but i saw
dice uh in 88 at the
store did you really well i used to hang at the store my buddy would like was
dating the head
waitress there and and i'd play rock in hollywood and then we'd go to the store
because it was huge
was that before or after he had become gigantic it was before because i
remember uh seeing him and
then i think like a year later he was on the rodney thing and i was like that's
that guy i was telling
you guys about but he would do monday nights and he would go on and and all the
rockers would go
the rockers would be like you gotta see this guy man and you go down there and
he'd come out he'd be
like look at this hole and he'd be like what the how is this not guy you're not
getting beat up this is
rad and the guy would laugh you know and another guy would laugh and he'd go
what are you laughing at
you fucking asshole and that guy would get up and leave and then it was awesome
man you know yeah
i call it mean dice like there's two different dices there's there's dice and
then there's mean dice
and mean dice will start picking on people in the audience and just lay into
dudes for like 10-15
minutes you see they like smile at first they think that i'll eventually get
tired of picking on me move
on the next guy no i'm not done with you i'm not done with you yet right please
be done with me yeah
what the fuck man i just came to see a comedy show i didn't want to be a part
of it you know just
brutalized people radical man but hilarious store was radical back then you
know everybody was just
flying around on coke and his 80s and there's rock bands and and great comedy
going on you know that's
what's different now that's a big thing that's different now is coke the comedians
are not on coke
there's not a lot of comics on coke it's all weed there's a few that drink but
as far as like doing
coke maybe a couple of them might do it occasionally yeah but it's not like a kinnison
thing where
they're all just getting blasted like you've heard mark maron's kinnison
stories awesome the
fucking the one about doing coke for like 78 hours and hallucinating for a year
yeah he was hearing
voices for a fucking year he had voices talking in his head for a year after
that that was the era man i mean
i did coke every you know not every day but like all the time you just did coke
it was just what you
did man it was raw coke and and you know and it wasn't about getting high it
was just about keep
rolling you know let's keep this rolling man rock you don't want to quit nope
you don't want to go to
bed you know yeah let's go bowling then the liquor store will be open we'll hit
that then we'll go to
this party in the canyon oh god i know it's brutal but it's fun that's insane
it's gross now i think
about it i worship sleep so much now i'm like that man i know when you're young
you'll put that sleep
off it's just like i could stay i've done that many times just stayed up and
just figure i'll go to bed
tonight yeah let's go to bed tonight just ride it out and then the last few
hours of your day you're just a
zombie just it's we're such yeah we need sleep we don't get that sleep you're
like working at like
40 capacity like you have to struggle with everything you do yeah hilarious
right like i get angry when
i don't get sleep you know what i mean i'm like this crowd i remember being
young though thinking like
just feeling like after pulling an all-nighter and thinking the you know the
difference between
me then and me now is i'm probably more aware of how i feel like now i'm more
aware of what my body
actually requires when you're 20 years old and you do something like that you
don't think anything of
it you just you go why am i so tired yeah yeah the endurance is crazy when you're
young you just
it's weird you can lay there when you hear your body working that's scary when
it's just going boom boom
boom boom and you think about what you've made it do it's just all booze and
drugs in you and you
haven't eaten a couple days that's gross so how old were you when you got into
stand-up uh 44 i've been
doing it four five and a half years exactly last week 2600 spots that's a
hustle dude you know it's
weird joe this is a true story when i started thinking of doing comedy all the
guys i loved
were in their 40s you know it's like you ck uh tom papa i was watching a lot
burr and i had i was
really naive thinking like oh it's not an age thing like rock you know right
whereas a rock star there's
only a few guys that get to that mick jagger level where you can do whatever
the fuck you want and
they're looked at as like you know old rockers or whatever but comedians aren't
looked at as old
comics they're looked at as comics because they're the most of the killers are
in their 40s you know the
guys i love well this you could be there's something about your insight when
you get into your 40s that is
probably missing when you're in your 30s like in your 30s you can be really
funny when you're in your
30s but it's very rare that you find someone in their 30s that has like the
insight of a louis ck
like the the point of view the unique perspective of a burr you know it's like
it takes a lot of living
to become that guy yeah you got you have to travel or think yeah you do you
have to come to their own
you have to understand your own bullshit too which a lot of times you don't yet
when you're in your 30s when
you're in your 30s even if you're really funny you might have some funny points
you probably don't
understand your own bullshit yet yeah you gotta admit to yourself yeah you
gotta figure it out i'm
fucking i'm shitty in some ways yeah and then you talk about it on stage did
you go to aa or one of
those things where you stand on a podium and make people laugh that's how a lot
of guys start yeah right
i didn't do that what happened was i drank and did coke every night but i sang
every night and i had three
guys in my band i was losing my voice so i go to the doctor and he goes you can't
drink alcohol it dries
out your vocal cords you've got like what they call pre-nodes which is like
calluses on your vocal
cords like adele god or steven tyler or paul stanley and you got to go in and
get them lasered off you
won't be able to sing for six months whoa and when that when you're making a
living even two days off even
with comedy uh that completely makes the machine crumble so my guys are like
hey you you you can't
drink you know we got we gotta eat and i felt like that too i was like all
right i gotta quit for a
little bit and see what happens then after three weeks went by i felt fantastic
and and i just never
looked back so you never got it lasered no what i did was he told me two things
quit drinking don't
talk all day and don't talk after gigs and i just chilled for like three weeks
and they slow and a
lot of recall was throat coat tea and uh and and the number one thing i did
wrong which people don't
know was when you clear your throat it's the worst thing you can do when you go
damn i do that all the
time it bangs your vocal cords together and that's the worst thing you can do
maybe you just have
bitch-ass vocal cords my vocal cords don't mind rumbling a little bit button
heads your your
your vocal co