Name: Theo Von & Chris Distefano on Joe Rogan and the Power of Podcasting
Uploaded: 2019-02-12T00:00:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & Chris Distefano on Joe Rogan and the Power of Podcasting' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von & Chris Distefano on Joe Rogan and the Power of Podcasting' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-12. Transcript available.

you're fine girl really girl your whole career is fucking blown up you got a
real career now man
you go out there you sell tickets you're not playing bananas in new jersey to
10 people like
me oh they yeah well i went over there and played by the railroad track yeah
there was a fire on a
train while i was on stage i believe you man half the people what's it like now
where you go to a
place and the tickets are sold it's got to be a great feeling at this point
right yeah i guess it
i mean it definitely is it is different you know what's funny it's like you can't
you almost forget
what it was like when it wasn't interesting and you forget and you just almost
forget about it quick
and you also get nervous that like you know i feel more pressure now to make
jokes right where before
i just felt a pressure to be myself right but now it's like they want to be
funny they pay good money
to see you right and now i feel a little bit of that all the time and some of
it i don't like and
somehow i'm trying to find ways in my own life to get back into a place where i
just feel
like that pressure isn't there you know well even in like a day even in like a
day-to-day basis you
know like i mean nick's done uh so much to help our podcast grow and like
instagram and right you know
he really championed a lot of different ideas and you know so it's been
everything you guys got is
professional as far as like the the cameras you know the content it's all like
it's like podcasting is a
business now it's almost like for our friends who don't have podcasts like and
who still think like
doing a late night set matters it's like you you're that shit is so 20 you're
out of your mind it's
2019 yeah the only way to get ahead is to like you know having somebody out
here like like a joe rogan
like you know all you guys you know get like that's like being on the tonight
show like you guys so
like you know johnny carson was like the guy and then like all the comedians we've
ever heard of
seinfeld ray romano all these guys who blew up and became icons did so through
carson and now i feel
like it's joe rogan it's like now you got you know you burke kreischer um tom
segura all these guys
that are selling more tickets than anybody what's the common theme you know you
guys all you know
crushed it when you came on rogan you all crushed it and then because it's one
thing it's like people
comedians could go on big podcasts and not do well and then nothing happens so
it's like one of those
things you guys were all you guys were all great and then you guys all went on
the episodes and
crushed so it's like now his fans become your fans but now it's not even now it's
your fans so now it's
like when you go yeah maybe the first time they heard of you was through this
guy or through that
everybody needs a godfather yeah you know but that now it's like yo you've
converted real fans and i
think the only way that we can do that now in 2019 is through podcasting so
when i came out here to
promote my special i was like man i want to do bert and i want to do theo i
would love to have done
rogan and but it's it's not possible right now i get i gotta get to the next
level but but i was
like that's more important to me than doing any late night shit like the late
night bookers were
like oh you know because it's it's so pc now they're like oh i had jokes about
my daughter yeah
puerto rican and you know i and they were on my comedy central special because
one thing i'll say
about comedy central is they're about the comedian first that's why it's dope
that's why like
specials that come out on comedy central are dope because they they the the
executives there are not
scare they're like no no this is the name comedy is in our network right so if
you think that shit's
funny even if it's crossing the line and whatever then we'll stand by you and
we'll protect you so
that's that part of i've seen some of ron funch's clips and his just did really
well and i saw some
of his clips uh yeah where he called his son the n-word yeah man and i i
respect it it was just like
that's it was so funny yeah dude but for them to be willing to also put that
out and i just saw one
of yours too actually they started putting clips of yours they started putting
clips of mine up now
yeah someone yesterday so i have a clip actually one of the clips i put up is
is me impersonating my
poor my my daughter can we play it or not yeah sure i don't care will we get in
trouble for playing
that day well it's where is it posted it's on my instagram okay yeah that'll be
fine and his
daughter's puerto rican yeah my puerto rican oh well actually this the the clip
that i was on my
instagram i'm gonna post the daughter one tomorrow the clip that's on my build
that crib you know
what i'm saying yeah baby let's fucking get these kids locked down they they
they they said i couldn't
do it on late night or i could do those jokes but i couldn't impersonate and
put on a puerto rican
accent because i'm not puerto rican and it's like that's such bullshit like it's
my daughter you
know what i mean it's my kid it's your kid and you know what's funny is they'll
let anybody get on
there and impersonate like somebody from the south or somebody from the midwest
yeah or somebody who
they think is you know uneducated as long as the uneducated person isn't black
or max it's but if
it's like they're white and uneducated then it's fine but the thing is the
people that are in all
these networks they're fucking white yeah but that's why like what you have
like the six the
type of success you have and the the way that you're selling tickets now is so
powerful because
you could not that you're a scandalous dude unless do you still finger women do
you still get paid to
finger women well that's over anymore okay so you see you're not a scandalous
dude and it's like even
if even if you said something that was out of bounds unintentionally your fans
are still going to be
there man you're still going to go to wherever place and sell out that theater
where some of these
dudes are comedian friends who are tied up with these on these networks like
they say one shit
their fucking career is done you know everything will be taken away from them
but you got real fans
that fuck with you right you could say whatever you want to them because they're
like and that's what
i want that's what you guys have i mean that's what i'm going after like i got
a podcast called the
history hyenas yeah and it's you and giannis papas and we go fucking wild on
that podcast and he's uh
where's he from he's greek isn't he's greek yeah we go wild and our fans you
know they're not as
as powerful and big as your guys fan bases yet but it's like you know we're
trying to get there
man we just it's unfiltered shit we're talking about history but we're being
honest about shit
you know so it's dope you certainly deserve it man you and andrew schultz are
two like the funniest
guys that i always think about all the time schultzy is schultzy's got a career
that's that that like
you man schultzy wherever he goes he sells out and he put his shit on every
network's a note of
schultzy everybody everybody's to know there's our special every single yeah
they said he was a uh like a
male show i heard all kinds of whatever bullshit they said but he was the the
best comedian i saw
when i was in new york yep now he's got millions and millions and millions of
views and what does
that translate to ticket sales yeah so it's like you know you gotta have this
mindset where it's like
the fit with the we got the fans give us power like we and we have the fans
have direct access to us
and we have direct access to them it wasn't like that in the 90s it's like you
know what i mean like
jerry jerry seinfeld can only be seinfeld with one show on nbc you know like
and there was only one
big show there was a few networks it's like now with this oversaturation it's
like man you like
some you could walk you could be you could walk past the theater that you have
sold out and people
may not even recognize you because they're sold out with your specific fans
whereas like back in the
day it's like to be like a big you know of a guy who's selling out theater
tickets he would not be
able to get through the airport without having to take a thousand autographs
right but shit's different
now like john wayne or yeah man it's like who else john fucking uh marilyn monroe
no kareem abdul jabbar
kareem abdul i'm talking about an entertainer though maybe john newton that's
who i'm thinking of john
newton i mean i feel so grateful i don't even know how i happened into like you
know um i mean i know i
did a lot of work over the years doing stand-up um but you did your thing man
you just you know and
now and now look and it's a beautiful thing because now it's like you have an
opportunity
opportunity to like be out here for like long format stuff people get to know
you that feel like
they're a part of your family yeah and then they come out to the shows man and
you'll never lose
them you'll never lose the fans i mean you could have people like you on that i
think are funny dude
you could do something fucked up tomorrow and maybe you'll lose ads on the
podcast yeah but you ain't
gonna you ain't gonna lose your fans what do you think i would do they'd be
fucked up an honest crime
you could see me doing let me take the hat honest real shit that i could see
you doing a real crime
and i'm gonna tell you a couple about you yeah okay so like a guy like you well
first of all you look
like you're on crystal meth like you know what i mean like i know you're not
but like you look like
like like it would be it would be shocking to me that a guy that looks like you
isn't using crystal
meth like i'd be i'm in shock that you're not why because there's not a t-shirt
under the sweater
well because it's just sweater to skin it's sweater to skin yeah and really
like and just like the hair
and the beard it's like it's like you just look like on a beard well whatever
like a little bit
you know he's got like a civil war head you know what i mean and it just looks
like like you use
drugs to like get through your pain you know what i mean so i would think so i
so definitely like rob
in a liquor store is what you love you have that rob in a liquor store look you
also look like you
could be like you're you're a suspect you look like you're in any making a
murder shit like you're
on the list for sure you're on the short list wow you know what's crazy is my
sister can't even
read but what does it have to do with us right now hope you enjoyed that video
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