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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #611 - Josh McDermitt' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-02-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #611 - Josh McDermitt

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Once upon a time, we were in Phoenix, Arizona,
and there was like an open mic competition. Was that what it was?
No, I think it was a contest for the Las Vegas Comedy Festival.
Ah, it was a Las Vegas Comedy Festival contest,
and one young man stood out and wound up working with us that weekend,
and it's this guy, Josh McDermott, who's on the fucking Walking Dead now.
Yeah, man.
How's that happen?
I don't know, man. I was just talking to Brian about it.
Like, I've hit the jackpot.
Dude, you got a lottery ticket. You get the Willy Wonka golden ticket.
I did.
You're on, like, one of the greatest shows ever.
It was my favorite show before I came in, so literally, like, I hit the fan
lottery,
and I'm just like, I don't know, man. It's weird.
It's really surreal to think about, like, because that show, I don't know, man,
that show in Phoenix that we did, like, you were doing a weekend there,
and then they asked the audience after your show to stick around so that they
could do this little,
it was like a contest or some sort of showcase to select someone to go to this
festival,
and they put me last, and the first comic goes up, and half of your crowd, like,
most of your crowd stuck around.
Half the crowd walks after the first comic, and I was like, oh, shit, man.
And I'm sitting in the back next to you, and I hadn't met you.
I mean, I'd met you, like, as I worked at that radio station, but, like, you
know, we didn't know each other.
You're just eating your meal, and you're watching this, and I'm looking at you,
and you're not laughing at anybody because it wasn't funny, and I was like, oh,
this sucks, man.
Like, Rogan's just going to be like, man, these guys fucking suck.
Like, he's going to talk trash about us or whatever.
More and more people keep leaving as the show's going on to the point that it's
like a 500-seat theater,
and there's, like, 30 people left by the time I get up, and I didn't give a
shit at that point.
And literally, I heard you laughing the loudest in the back at my set, and I'm
like, well, that's a victory, I guess.
And then I got to go to the festival, and that was fun and everything.
But, like, you literally, you asked me, you're like, hey, you know, you want to
open for me the rest of the weekend,
and that just kind of set me on this path to come to L.A. and pursue acting and
to continue to do stand-up and all that, dude.
Like, I don't know how much you realize, like, how important you've been to me,
man.
Seriously.
That's ridiculous.
Like, I wouldn't be here.
I literally wouldn't be here.
Wow.
Well, that's amazing because you're fucking fantastic on that show, dude.
So it was all meant to be.
Thank you.
It's just one of those things.
I don't believe in fate, but if I did believe in fate,
there's plenty of evidence.
There's plenty of evidence, yeah.
And if there's a fucking Bill Hicks biopic, dude, you're playing him.
You're not the first person to tell me that.
Jesus Christ.
Russell Crowe's got, like, got the rights to some, like, Bill story or
something.
Yeah, well, they'll probably ruin it.
It's probably not something you want to be involved with anyway.
It seems like every time they do a story about a guy that was a real person,
they just butchered the reality and fuck with it.
Weren't they doing something with Kinison a while ago?
Supposedly.
Yeah.
I saw some trailer come out with some guy.
I don't remember who he is.
Like, I recognize him from different movies, but, like, he was on stage just
being Sam,
and I was like, oh, my God, this is amazing.
But that was, like, five years ago, and I hadn't heard anything about that.
I haven't seen that.
I never saw a trailer.
I know who it was.
It was in that movie Take Me Home Tonight with Topher Grace.
He played one of the guys, like, his friend in it.
Dan.
Josh Gad.
It wasn't Josh.
He was a Josh Gad type.
It says Josh Gad to play.
No.
Going to play Sam Kinison.
This was a while, dude.
This was a while ago.
It might have, like, swapped in and out because the project's probably been on
the shelf for so long.
Yeah.
They'll fuck it up.
They'll make him something that he wasn't.
They always do that because they're doing that prior movie, too, aren't they?
They'll fuck that up, too.
I think that already came out, yeah?
The prior movie?
No, no.
You're thinking of the Jimi Hendrix movie.
That came out, and that was dog shit.
They've ruined them, man.
I mean, you know, there's this guy, Mark Schultz, and he was the Olympic
wrestler that his brother, Dave Schultz,
got killed by that guy, John DuPont, that crazy millionaire, billionaire guy in
Connecticut.
They fucked that up, man.
I went to see that movie, and, you know, he was—Mark Schultz made a bunch of
tweets about it,
about how pissed off he was, about they fucked with—
They fucked with his story.
They fucked with his timeline.
They fucked with how much success he actually had as a wrestler before he went
to—he was already an Olympic gold medalist and a world champion.
They made it out like he was struggling.
Sure.
They added a bunch of weird gay shit.
They changed the timeline of when he fought in the UFC, and the UFC fought a
white guy instead of a black guy.
Oh, geez.
They changed the timeline of the UFC.
They made the UFC in 1987.
It didn't even exist until 1993.
Like, Hollywood is filled with assholes.
Right.
Just filled with assholes that think that they can alter reality.
We're talking about a real-life story, a guy's real fucking story.
Yeah.
It's—they do seem to screw it up a lot, but I don't really know—is there
anyone that they've done that they've—has there been a movie that we kind of
go, oh, yeah, that's pretty great.
You know?
Never.
Lenny.
Dustin Hoffman played Lenny Bruce, and he fucking nailed it.
Yeah.
It was—and it was a really good movie.
Like, if you watch that movie Lenny, you really feel like you kind of
understand what Lenny Bruce was going through.
This was back when he was being tried for censorship.
He would—he would go in front of these courts, and they would make—they
would do his act.
They would read his act out loud, like the words that he said.
Yeah.
And then convict him for these profanity charges.
I mean, that guy really fucking paved the path.
If it wasn't for him, you and I wouldn't be here.
I mean, if it wasn't for the guys that—like him and George Carlin, the guys
that actually went to jail for saying words that we say on a regular basis.
Right.
That was 50 fucking years ago.
It wasn't that long ago.
I know.
It's crazy if you really stop and think about it.
It's insanity, man.
Did you see that preview for the new NWA movie?
That looks pretty legit.
I mean, it's a great trailer.
That's a documentary, isn't it?
No, no, no.
It's actually—it's just about them growing up.
Oh, it's like a biopic?
Yeah, it's kind of like—and they have a guy that looks kind of like Ice Cube,
and I mean, he sounds just like Ice Cube.
It's really neat.
Who's in it?
A bunch of no-names, mostly.
But I guess that's why the whole thing happened with that big guy, TMZ guy.
Josh McDermott tweeting while he's on a fucking podcast.
Can't do it.
Put it down.
I'm trying to find that guy.
Which guy?
Here he found it.
Sam Kinison guy.
Here he found it.
He put the picture up on the image.
Yeah, sure.
Here.
This isn't it.
How dare you?
You were making such a big deal over there.
Yeah, this.
What is that?
It's a screen test.
Dan Fogler screen test.
Tony Winner?
Is that who the guy is?
Well, that's a screen test.
Hold on.
Stop.
That's a screen test.
That's not a trailer.
Yeah, I didn't know it was a screen test when I watched it.
I mean, I would have known if it said screen test, but wherever—
Yeah, I mean, that might not be him.
I mean, either way, they'll ruin it.
Probably.
But if they do a Bill Hicks one, and they're going to ruin it and give you a
lot of money, I'd say fuck.
If we're going to ruin it, I'd rather it be me ruining it than someone else.
You know, let's have some respect for the guy.
Dude, that character you play in The Walking Dead is very unusual.
That's a weird character, like a strange sort of pseudo-autistic, really
intelligent but fucked up dude involved in one of the—
Like, the show's not even about the monsters anymore.
No.
It's about the humans and their interactions with each other and just them
surviving the apocalypse.
I mean, the biggest threat isn't the zombies.
It's, you know, the guy with the eye patch, the governor.
Or it's like someone else going like, you got food and water.
I want that.
Yeah.
You know, that's what's really scary.
But this character, you know, it's kind of funny when I hear people like really
simplify him and go, he's just weird.
And I'm like, okay.
It's a lot more than that.
There's a lot more to him.
He's very complex.
And, you know, it's fun to play a different character in this world where, like,
you know, obviously you got guys like, you know, Daryl or Michonne who are just
like epic badasses.
And obviously those people are probably going to rise to the top in this world.
You know, just people who are physically fit and can just, you know, do
whatever they have to do to survive.
This guy is, like, completely opposite.
And that's what becomes fun about playing him is that, you know, you just
wouldn't expect that.
I think, I have a theory that if the apocalypse happened, most people would be
more like Eugene than they would like Daryl.
Yeah, most likely.
Did you know the whole character arc?
Like, what was going to happen to him?
Like, I mean, I don't want to give away too much.
If you're one of those people that binge watches, stop now.
Because we're probably going to talk too much about the show.
We'll fuck it up for you.
Spoiler alert!
I, um, well, obviously the show is based on a comic.
So, you know, the information is out there from there.
But on the show, they like to do, they like to deviate from the storylines on
the comics.
How much do they deviate?
I mean, they'll just create brand new storylines for people.
Um, again, if you haven't watched this last weekend's episode, there was a
major character death.
But his death, you know, he dies in the comics.
But the death on the show was not how they did it in the comics.
There was another character that, that guy's death was this guy from last
weekend's death in the comics.
And so it just gets mixed around.
Um, but with, uh, so I knew that, you know, when I took the job, I knew the, uh,
the big reveals that my character would have.
And this is weird to be talking about it in vague terms.
I feel like if you haven't seen it by now.
Yeah, fuck you if you haven't seen it by now.
Yeah, so when we find out, if we have, so we find out Eugene, Eugene was lying
about knowing the cure.
But the moment I, cause I came out in season four, I knew that, um, he was
lying the whole time.
Oh, okay.
Um, but you know, I don't think some of the other actors knew, you know, cause
they don't read the comics.
They don't really tell us what's going on with other people's storylines.
Right.
And you don't know necessarily whether they're going to stick with that
storyline that's in the comic or whether they're going to deviate.
Right.
And so that's where, like, you know, I knew that I was lying and that, uh, once
I, once that was revealed, like all bets are off.
Like, I don't know how much longer I have.
Right.
You know, how much longer I'll be, I'll be on the show.
Cause they like to kill off their main characters.
So I'm just like, ah, shit.
All right.
But either way, man, this is going to launch you, dude.
I mean, you're, you're on one of the best shows ever.
Dude.
Ever.
Insane.
It's epic.
It's so good.
I watched last night's and I was squeezing my wife's hand while the show, I
watched it.
I didn't, you know, this week's episode, I didn't watch it until last night.
I'm just, she's like, look on my hand, look on my hand.
You get fucking crazy.
It's s