Name: "What Is Unique In Your Head?" with David Choe (from Joe Rogan Experience #563)
Uploaded: 2014-10-22T21:11:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"What Is Unique In Your Head?" with David Choe (from Joe Rogan Experience #563)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-10-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"What Is Unique In Your Head?" with David Choe (from Joe Rogan Experience #563)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-10-22. Transcript available.

Hello freak bitches
When I when I got out of high school
I went to art school for a year or two and then I dropped out and I was just
like
How am I gonna make a living doing this and I and I got all my best drawings
and I went to I think it was CalArts
It was like a it's like open call like and it's like every single animation
studio every single advertising agency
and I got there and it's all these fucking kids with all their art and there's
really long lines to talk to a guy that
like has a pencil behind his ear and goes work on this yeah work on this and I
was like fuck this and so I was like
I'm not even gonna wait in this line
So I went I went to go take a piss and I saw one of the advertising guys get up
and I followed him to the bathroom
And I said and I pulled one of those well while his dicks out
I'm like hey look at look at this crosshatch penis look at this and he's like
hey
You can't wait in line like everyone else. I'm like dude. I'm please and he
like looked over. He's like hey
That's pretty good
and so he's got his dick out and
And I go hey nice fat dick dude
No, he gives he gives me his card and he goes you're fucking dope man
You should come to my office in beverly hills and i'm I was like either 20 or
21 and I was like
Yes
And it's the it's one of the biggest advertising agencies in in la
I show up there like with a tie on and everything and as I walked down the
hallway, it's like every movie poster
and uh
I was like I made it
I'm fucking like young and i'm gonna make a living drawing like this is fucking
crazy
so I think
Back then I don't know how it is now. They would have all these artists draw in
The style I forgot drew struzan. That's that star wars, uh, um, they got
painted all the star wars
Mm-hmm. These guys all draw that same style and you draw
The movie poster and then they give that to the photographer and then the
photographer because you know
There's no art in movie posters now right and this is i'm talking about fucking
20 years ago, so
I'm sure it's different now and it was a avalanche movie with
Chris o'donnell no chris o'donnell chris o'donnell
I think the movie was called avalanche
And so I sat in the room and I was like, this is so cool
I get to see a movie before it came out, you know, and i'm like this movie
fucking sucks
And then i'm sitting there watching it with like six old guys with like
cigarettes dealing dangling out of their mouth
I'm like, all right guys, we need avalanches
We need this and this we need chris o'donnell looking like this and i'm like
this is amazing
You know and I sit in a room and I draw chris o'donnell and there's a poster
vertical vertical vertical limit
There it is
I think I drew that bill paxton. Well, that's what you do
Yeah, there's that's pretty is that willem defoe who's the guy in the back. I
don't remember
Scott glenn. Oh that guy. Yeah, he's that guy's awesome. So I got all their
headshots. I'm drawing them
The art director's coming in. He's like, you know, it's amazing. He starts with
a compliment. Dave. That's great
Can you do it again? Like a little bit smirk a little bit more heroic and then
um
Not even a day in i'm like, I hate this job
I just drew fucking chris o'donnell and same thing at the same thought then i'm
like
How did this movie get made right like it's horrible like like who like
Like why don't chris o'donnell's a beautiful man. I always want to see him
right. It's a good date night movie
And so I very safe I lasted at that job
You know when you say like you got to draw shit like yeah
The next one was like a sandra bullock movie where she's an alcoholic like 28
days or something
And you know that that whole like hey i'm somewhat part of showbiz and i'm
working and i'm making the good money
I walked into the guy's office less than a month in i said
Like thank you for this like i appreciate it like this. I learned so much
I can't do it. He's like
What are you talking about like you you see that line you see how many people
would die?
He's like dave and he closes the door. He's like i'm gonna tell you something
You remind me of me like 20 years ago the fucking crazy hair you got like that
fucking punk rock attitude
If you stay here and you do what i tell you you could be running this fucking
place in like 20 years
And he's like and i was like oh you know he gave me a nice ego boost down with
the devil
Yeah, and i'm like i wonder if you said this to all those guys out there, you
know
And because i was the youngest guy there and i go
I i can't even believe i'm telling you like like i said thank you for this
opportunity
I can't do this though. I can't like i feel like art is my passion. I love it
I feel like i'm dying here
You know because i thought oh i could draw chris o'donnell all day and then at
at night
I could um draw whatever I want ar-15s and buttholes
But muscle memory
I had just spent the entire day training my hand to draw in the drew struzan
style of chris o'donnell
I get home and I want to do my shit and i'm like oh
Fuck that butthole looks like chris o'donnell's face
You know
So I tell the guy go hey look, I can't believe this great opportunity you gave
me, but i'm gonna i'm gonna have to
Regretfully decline this thing and he goes
What are you gonna do dave draw your funny books?
He didn't say it in that voice, but he's like he's like was like mocking. He's
like no
Yeah, a little not like hardcore, but he's like what are you gonna do?
Yeah, and he's like good luck with that and I was like, you know what i i've
made at that young at that
It's it's the it's for me the saddest thing when I see young people that have
already like given in
Yeah, i'm like that's the time you fight that's the time that you should try
and fail and try again
And then it's like when you get old you're like at least I tried didn't work
out
You know, so I said look man i'm gonna go for it and if I end up fucking broke
or poor or whatever then
Fuck it, you know at least I tried, you know yeah, and and the next
Next job from that was drawing on midgets and and and buttholes for hustler
So I was like yes, I get to at least draw what I want to draw midgets and buttholes
for hustler
Yeah, I work for like asian fever and the whole larry flint. Yeah, it's trying
to monetize a creative vision
It's it's always it's it's really important that you try to figure out what is
unique in your head
What is in your head and if you how do you get it out?
And if you want to bring up the chapelle show or anything, it's like
This whole like like I don't want to start my own network. I don't want to
start my own publishing company
It's like i'm just going to do whatever I want
Knowing that it's not going to make any money and then what always happens is
because it's so unique and whatever it does make money
Oh, that's so easy for you now dave because you have fuck you money. I'm like,
how do you think I got it?
How do you think I fucking got it?
Like it does you want to still be working for that advertising right?
Exactly. I took the chance when I had nothing and I had nothing to do
They say the rich and the poor have more in common than the middle class
because they both
Like if you're poor, you're like yeah, I got nothing to lose if I get sued or
whatever like they could take like my fucking
Toilet paper roll or whatever, you know, so I don't know