Name: Joe Rogan Experience #555 - Rory Albanese
Uploaded: 2014-09-29T23:28:01.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #555 - Rory Albanese' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-09-29. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #555 - Rory Albanese

i missed the english broad we gotta bring her back you want that did this girl
eventually
the joe rogan experience that's not english though that sounds like isn't there
an english
version of it where it's got more of an english or how high was i when i heard
it
you might have been talking to me she was very proper the joe rogan experience
can we do that
sure you get a real chick to do it hey rory what's up buddy hey joe how are you
thanks for doing this
man appreciate it seriously i really appreciate you having me dude you have a
fucking amazing story
you have a hollywood success story do i yeah it's very it's it's the it's
pretty get this thing right
up to your face so you can hear oh yeah that feels good baby that's what i'm
saying yeah can i get
another one on my other fucking everywhere i'm gonna put them all over you
these mics are sweet
man i'll tune you up let's turn that off for a second i gotta do something no i
it's not it's
very uh on hollywood in the sense that i was in new york and working at the
daily show which is next to
the horse stables for central park yeah i should say it's a great showbiz story
i guess so yeah it's
you went from being like a pa to the executive producer of the daily show yeah
that's fucking
awesome yeah well it was good it was not the uh i didn't know that that was
gonna happen i got a job
i wanted to do comedy i wanted to do stand-up but i went to college so i felt
weird coming out of
college and tell my parents i was just gonna be a comedian you know like yeah
remember all that money
and stuff like i'm just gonna tell jokes like my i come from like uh my dad's
like an old school
italian guy like he doesn't understand this kind of stuff he's like what what
about a job you know
what i mean like get a job like he would have been happier if i said i was
gonna be uh like a mailman
or an electrician like that would have made more sense than a job in tv so or
comedy in general so
i got the job figuring like that could at least justify the love of comedy that
sort of makes sense
like look i'm working in serious business well yeah at least television shows
we're very successful
well at least i had to go somewhere do you know what i'm saying i think that
was a big part of it
it was like well what do you do in the morning when the alarm was off oh you
don't have to get up in
the morning because you just work at night and comedy comes like what yeah how
about the comics that we
know that don't do anything during the day at all i mean they just fuck off
completely until they get
on stage which i which i'm always quite jealous of actually you know i i but i
always had that
feeling when people go how do you do both i'm like well you know once during
the day you know so
that's a one way to do both though as i got older i got more tired at night and
it's harder to go out
and do clubs after the daily show it is right it's the hardest thing in the
world when you when you're
on a set i'm not the hardest thing in the world i shouldn't yeah look compared
to anything else it's
really easy it's too easy as fuck but i mean it's hard to work what i was gonna
say it's the hardest
thing in the world to work a full-time job and then try to go out and pursue
something because
you're all your your juice is gone yeah it's like if you're i mean anything you're
trying to do that's
like athletes that have full-time jobs like fighters that have full-time jobs
fuck that's
hard and that's even harder because they have hours of training they have to
put in every day
but just when you're done at the end of the day you're done you want to get a
bite to eat
watch tv so you don't want to go over your notes and fucking yeah or though for
me the other
thing was too is i'm still not even at a place where like i walk into a club
and they're like oh just get
right up and it's right up you know usually they're like why don't you clean up
this
mess at 1 30 a.m you know um but i so for me it was a lot of it was just i i
love doing the time
but sometimes you got to hang out at the club and then you know it's like yeah
my bigger problem was
because then i have fun hanging out with other comics and i have afterwards i
have a couple of
drinks next thing i know i the harder problem was getting up the next morning
and being on work
three hours right so that's where i started to have that uh you know well i'm
doing the thing that
was good about my day job is it got me better at comedy so i didn't really lose
the like sort of
experience i think i would have gotten on stage um what i didn't get by doing
it every night for a
while was uh you know like uh seasoned on stage it took me a little longer to
get like comfortable
on stage to get back into the groove yeah exactly yeah yeah but uh still it was
a good experience
ep was fun that's amazing that's one of those stories that you're gonna ruin
the expectations for
every fucking kid who ever becomes a pa they're all gonna think this is it i
have to say at the
daily show because it's been on so long and john's such a cool guy and like
really gave people
opportunities there um i was among the first people to kind of make that
journey but now have not been
the only one the head writer there was a pa that's amazing a bunch of the ep
the ep's and co-ep's and
stuff were ps yeah like wow people can't come it's like you know it's like a
farm system almost for
good writing and producing it's pretty cool that's fantastic yeah and it's
become like for a lot of
people how they get the news yeah that's a problem that's weird isn't that
weird yeah that's how people
get the news i know john stewart yeah people tell me that a lot they say well i
guess where i got my
news and i get it like i remember being in college we go college kids get their
news i feel like i didn't even
watch the news when i was in college like i don't know you're in college you
know yeah so i guess
it's better than nothing but uh i always tell people it's a good place to start
to get interested
in a topic and then go off and do your own research or whatever you want
because when people get into
political debates off of like emails and like daily show clips and they're like
that's actually not
true it's like you know they don't have like a real understanding of each story
necessarily you know
yeah it's a weird thing isn't it when you're when you're doing a television
show that's also
an educational show and also has uh like a very progressive point of view a
very what you would
think of when you think of john stewart is like very intelligent very
progressive mocking of both
the left and the right when they do ridiculous shit yeah you know but it's got
to be funny
sure i mean so it's it's that's a hard job yeah well it's really hard for him
for me it was a lot
easier because i got to watch him do it right i mean that's the thing about
john that's amazing is
he does all he's involved from 9 a.m through the end of the show obviously when
he hosts it but in
other words he's so intimately involved and he's so smart he's so sharp that
like when he's in the
chair i never worried about a joke not working right even when they didn't work
he just would like
call an audible in his own head and then like remember a joke from like the 90
and meeting that
he liked that didn't make the script and throw that in or it's pretty amazing
to watch him too
sitting in the studio because he'll change a joke in prompter as a prompter
scrolling and then later
there's a callback to the joke he changed and he remembers to change the callback
or skip the
callback and i'm like and i'm sitting there with the script watching the prompter
going oh no i'm
like oh no here comes the callback like we're screwed you know and then he just
jumps it or or tags
it with the joke it's it's amazing yeah it's really like watching what a guy's
been doing it for that
long too i mean he's fucking smooth he's so used to that gig like for jimmy
fallon or maybe for seth
myers to try the same sort of an impromptu ad lib they might pull it off but
john stewart's been
doing it forever yeah forever and ever oh no doubt and he also uh yeah he just
and he also just knows
a lot he was a good comic too before he ever started doing that yeah he's a
great comic but
he also just knows um he understands comedy in a way that um i'm sure those you
know i know both
seth and jimmy super funny guys i just never worked with him in that capacity
so i know john
understands it like music you know what i'm saying oh no that won't work this
will work right you know
and people go how do you know something's going to work before you try it it's
like you just kind
of know i don't know you just kind of know well he also has a very specific
voice he knows his voice
you know his style of delivery absolutely it's um it's it's an it's a
fascinating show because
it's very political but yet very funny it's he doesn't sacrifice like going for
funny yeah like
to try to look like less silly or try to look dignified he's not trying to monologue
it yeah
you know he's just making this stuff as funny as he can and sometimes he gets
extremely animated and
it's fucking hilarious yeah well yeah i mean he's he's he's versatile in that
sense like he can really
do any kind of comedy yeah and uh but yeah as far as it i think it's because it
really is and people
this always bothers people so much they always want to go oh what they think
the daily show is like
an agenda it's like we're all sitting around in a circle be like how do we
screw the right you know
it's like no it doesn't it's people don't believe that and they go oh you're
just hiding behind the
fact that it's a comedy show no doing comedy is really hard there's nothing to
hide like we still
have to take the stories we still try to get everything right we have people
who fact check
there's a guy there named adam chadikoff who's like just a guru of information
and we'll come in
to the rewrite room between rehearsal and the show after we change the joke and
i go
you can't say this this way because it's statistically inaccurate to like
sometimes i'm like yeah man no
one's gonna care you can't say that but i'm saying it's not even it was a we're
so we really fact
check stuff that goes out but the you know so we it really a big part of the
day is figuring out how
to tell the story the narrative and then adding the jokes is why you have you
know writers and guys
like john you know right just then you can pile on the funny but funny is the
most important thing
there it really is that's what's so fun that's why i stayed so long because it's
not like a uh
i don't know it's there's no like movement happening there's just a comedy show
well that's why everybody
who gets so attached to it is so crazy it's like they want it almost to be more
ideologically driven
than it is yeah you know it's like people would they would want it if he said
something ridiculous
supportive in support of obama they would like it sure but if obama fucks up he
goes after him too
all the time yeah i mean that's the thing uh the show really became what it is
or what people think
of it as now during the bush administration so i think people really associated
it being this like
hardcore left-wing uh show and it definitely slants left i mean
it's hard sometimes for it not to with in comedy because everything that's when
you're pointing out
some things are just straight up absurd yeah it's hard sometimes not to seem
left because you're
throwing away like right you know so i think that's why people go why don't
people do a right wing
daily show it's like it's not really a left or right thing it's just a lot of
times comedy is dismissive
of people taking themselves too seriously and conservatives have a tendency to
take things very seriously you
know what i'm saying that's exactly what they are they're conservative they're
taking it more seriously
comic by nature is the guy sitting in the back of the classroom being like look
at this dick you know
it's just like yo