Name: Joe Rogan Thinks Back on the Legendary Comedians He Saw
Uploaded: 2025-02-06T17:43:55.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Thinks Back on the Legendary Comedians He Saw' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Thinks Back on the Legendary Comedians He Saw' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-06. Transcript available.

remember jay lennon was selling doritos i think that's when bill hicks started
attacking him
they didn't get along no no i didn't know that did you ever meet bill hicks i
never met him i
saw him live twice two or three times i think three times um but i said hi to
him like like
you know like that okay what's up was he like famous when you saw him he was
famous for comedians
he was famous he had been on rodney dangerfield's young comedian special and
that was a big deal
back then this was before he even had his big hbo special um he was just this
uh weird guy who was
connected to kinnison and then the first time i saw him live i was like holy he
was
doing things that are so different than any of the other comedy that was uh
popular back then it was
all like he had something to say about things it was like cultural it was like
cultural commentary with
jokes but the cultural commentary was as much of a part as what he was saying
was the fact that it was
funny that was totally unique and then it became a thing where everybody was
copying him oh really
yeah so he was like one of those guys that people just started being like
without even without even
realizing it yeah without realizing it and realizing it and just openly plagiarizing
him he was very
plagiarized by a bunch of people but he was uh just doing something different
because his interests were
different he was following his interests yeah you know that's what he was
interested in talking about
so and he was touring so much that he was working so much that he had so much
material because he was
just constantly playing in all these places and unlike a lot of like really
respected comedians
he didn't do his tours in the big cities he was like touring around the deep
south you know he called
it his flying saucer tour because everywhere he would tour was where flying
saucers would be spotted
like these weird fucked up cities and so he developed this like really
intelligent act that would work on
dumb crowds huh very unique guy like low brow high art kind of stuff or
something well some of it was low
brow some of it was high brow some of it was just funny great social commentary
on the war you know
he was just great it was just a different thing i mean he wasn't as like laugh
out loud funny as like
richard jenny but i remember me and richard jenny watched him once and he said
god every time i see
that guy i'm like i gotta do more of that oh yeah richard jenny said that i saw
him say it and so i'm like
wow richard jenny to me at that time was one of the greatest comics alive he
was so good in the 1980s
like people don't realize i've told the story before but just for you there's
one time he was at the
east side comedy club and uh east side comedy club was a big comedy club in
long island great club
awesome club richie menervini used to own it and uh we were there on sunday and
the dude who was the
emcee over the weekend was depressed he was like richard jenny did four
different hours and he goes he
didn't repeat a joke once and every hour he killed he goes he did four
completely different hours and no one
could do that back then so for richard jenny to tell me that he was watching
bill hicks like i gotta
do more of that wow like that's how influential he was did you see george carlin
perform then too
yeah i saw george perform a bunch of times i saw george perform at a time where
he wasn't doing so good
he was struggling with the drugs you think i don't know man i saw him bomb in
new hampshire
i took my roommates to a casino saw him play in a casino in new hampshire and
he ate
shit it was weird it was weird it's like it wasn't worked out yeah it's like he
was uh he would go on
stage with notebooks and he was just kind of like working out ideas and he had
a very different way
of doing comedy like his way of doing comedy was he would write everything out
and then he would bring
notebooks on stage and perform it as he wrote it like he didn't do it like
almost like doing a one-man show
and then every year he would film it for hbo damn yeah it was a totally
different style of doing
comedy and so he went through periods in time where he was doing real well and
he was real funny and then
he went through some dark times where he was bombing a lot and that's
unfortunately the first time i saw him
Thank you.