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Stavvy's World #138 - Joe Derosa | Full Episode

Hey everybody, we have an incredible show with Joe DeRosa coming up.
He's got a special, go watch it.
Just wanted to let you know that we are, the Dreamboat Tour is picking back up
in September.
We're going to be in London.
We've added a second show on September 7th.
Dublin, September 12th.
Manchester, the 13th.
Glasgow, unfortunately, is sold out for now.
We don't think we're adding shows.
Sorry.
Memphis, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville.
Greensboro, Wilmington, Myrtle Beach, Austin, and Boston in America.
And then we will be announcing more dates.
If you think we've missed you, we're not going to miss you, I promise.
We are going to get back on tour again, 2026.
So these are the fall dates.
Memphis, Huntsville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington,
Myrtle Beach, Austin, Boston.
Go stavi.biz.
We'd love to see you there.
And we're going to do another tour early next year.
If we haven't gotten to you, let us know where you are, and we will come see
you, I promise.
And without further ado, let's start the freaking show.
Hoppa!
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Joe DeRosa, I never promised you a rose garden out right now.
Pause this.
Pause this bullshit.
Go watch the special.
You know what I mean?
You can come back to the podcast.
Go watch.
Let's run the numbers up.
Yeah.
Today is the day.
I never promised you.
I do.
It's a very evocative phrase.
Evocative.
It is.
There was three things to what you just did.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
You said evocative.
Yep.
You're wearing that shirt.
Yep.
And you said it.
You went like that.
A little bit of that.
It was the hand with the word and the shirt.
It was like sensual.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's very evocative.
Evocative.
I'm trying to get the people excited.
It is a good phrase.
It's from my, well, there's a famous country song of that title.
But it's the, there's a novel called I Never Promised You Rose Garden and then
they made a movie of it.
Yeah, I mean, you hear it and you just, you immediately, it conjures an image
of like a guy being like, I never promised you fucking shit.
Well, it's, it's.
You know, getting his wife off his back.
You knew what this was, you bitch.
Like, that's kind of what it feels like.
I did three, I did three hours that had you.
And they were all very pointed outward.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the first one was called You Will Die.
That was just a record.
And then my second one was my Comedy Central Hour.
That was called You Let Me Down.
And then this one, I was like, this is the third.
This is, I never promised you a rose.
Yeah, yeah.
The Rose's You Trilogy.
And this is the one that's the most hopeless where there's like, nothing will
ever be better.
You're all, it's fucked.
And I was like, well, that title seems, it seems like we brought it to a, I
keep telling myself, the next hour, I'm going to do something a little more
personal.
Sure, sure.
A little something more endearing, maybe something to have.
And it just keeps coming out like this.
Yeah, never.
Just, you're still mad at everybody else.
What's the common denominator, Joe?
Do you maybe sit and think?
Everybody else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe a little self-reflection.
Not on this special, folks.
No.
But I'm excited.
I think I remember, I remember one of those, because you, so maybe it was the
first one, the record.
Did you have one where it was like, you also included trying to record it and
it going horrible?
Yeah, so the first.
Because I remember this.
Yeah, that's the second disc of the, it was two discs.
And the second disc, I called it At the Mercy of Drunks.
And it was, it was us trying to get the record done.
But the whole audience was shit-faced.
Yeah, yeah.
Where would you record it?
Because I remember this, I remember this when I, this was maybe right when I
was about to leave for New York.
This must have been like 10 years ago did this come out?
Probably 10, maybe 13, no.
12?
No, yeah, no.
Like, God, I still lived in New York.
That was probably 15, 14 years ago.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
It was a while ago.
Interesting.
I was working as a paralegal, I think, because I was just listening to a lot of
albums.
And I remember listening to that one.
And it did in a, because it, and it was like, where was it recorded?
So the first, the disc that's the actual hour was recorded at Star Bar in
Atlanta.
Okay.
Great place.
The outtake disc of the drunks was recorded at Laughing Skull in Atlanta.
Ah, okay, okay.
The reason that that second hour is, is that the venues are different is
because I went to Laughing Skull and I had a headline weekend.
And we said, we're going to record the new album.
And Jason Riggs, who was the producer and had the label that put the record out,
he came out.
And, like, I couldn't, not that I'm, you know, not that I'm selling fucking
stadium tickets now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, I mean, I couldn't sell tickets to see my fucking wife at that time, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, like, four of the five shows, there was, like, 20 people there.
You can hear each individual laugh.
Yeah.
In the mix.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In the last, and then, and then the Late Show Saturday, though.
He's like, Late Show Saturday sold out.
We're cooking.
I was like, that's where we're getting it.
Yeah.
And then that just happened to be the worst crowd of all time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were shit-faced.
A very annoying woman was talking a lot, if I recall.
It's, there's, yeah.
Yeah.
It's classic stuff.
I have never listened to it since we did it, because it's a little, it's a
little uncomfortable
to listen to.
But I knew I wanted to put it out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we, I walked off after that show, and Jason was backstage running the board,
and I
go, I go, that's the record.
That's my debut album.
He goes, no, it's like the third.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, believe it or not, I had four albums out at that point, and I still was
selling
20 tickets on a Friday, 8 p.m.
You know, maybe I gotta rethink that common denominator.
What were those called before, before you?
Yeah.
What were the first three?
The first one's called the Depression Auction.
The Depression Auction, okay.
The second one's called Return of the Son of Depression Auction.
So you've always had a mind for linking your body of work together.
Yeah, well, initially, I was like, I was like, in the, yes, yes.
But, but I, because I was like, all the musicians I liked, you know, so, but,
but initially, in
the first couple records, I was like, man, I love to shit on myself, and I'm,
because life
is sad, and I'm a depressed guy, and my body sucks.
And then, somewhere around the third record, I was like, you know what, I can
point the
finger out with.
Yeah.
Were you, as a kid, were you like, did you point it in, or were you like,
deflective?
No, I've always had, I've always had massive, wait, really quick, though.
Please, yeah.
I said that to Jason, that's the record, and he was like, what are you, crazy?
Yeah.
That sucks shit.
I was like, but that's why it's awesome, because my favorite comedy album of
all time is The Day
of the Laughter.
The Day of the Laughter.
Dude, you don't have to tell us.
We, we literally, we would listen to that, maybe, when we discovered it, we
listened
to it, like, every day for a month.
Yeah.
It's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Yeah.
Eldest, this is the most, like, this is the most, we're secretly gay together
accusation
you could ever come up with, because he, a present for me one year, he transcribed
all
of The Day of the Laughter Died, and, like, printed it up for me.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, like, typed it, like, typed up every single word in there, broke it in
little chapters
based on the track list, and, like, printed it out for me.
How long did that take you to do?
That took a long time.
But, but, that's a, that's, that, that album's over two hours, a double album.
That's a lot.
Well, there's The Day of the Laughter Died, then the, there's, there's a second
one, which
is the sequel.
I only did the first one.
The first one is the, the first one's a double album, though.
I bought it, I bought it the day it came out as a kid, and it's two full cassettes.
The second one's only one cassette, and it's called Part Two, but that first
one
is a full, it's long, yeah, it's long as shit.
And it's a couple, I think it's a couple shows cut together, because you can
tell he's talking
to different people at different points.
Yeah, there's a couple moments where you know, like, this is before the person
walked out
earlier.
Yes.
But because it's edited this way, like, they're still there or whatever.
But I, I'm.
I'm with you, though.
Literally my favorite album as well.
It's, it's amazing.
It's, it's, it's what forged, like, my friendship or friendliness with Dice.
When I met him, I was like, Dice, and I, every time I saw him, I'd sit down and
I'd be
like, Dice, I gotta talk to you about that record again.
Yeah.
Like, you don't understand.
Because I told him, and this is true, I go, I go, Dice, like, do you, I go, you,
you know
what you've done in comedy, obviously.
I was like, but do you understand?
Like, I go, like, that record, like, Brooklyn Coffee Shop comics think that
record is awesome.
It is.
I'm like, it's, it reaches an audience that never would appear in your actual
audience.
Because it's actual art.
I mean, it is art.
I mean, it's beautiful.
Whatever you want to say about Dice's act, I mean, he, he did MSG, all that
stuff, but
some of it's, doesn't exactly hold up.
But, I mean, I think that's a fair way to put it.
But the day the laugh of Dice is, is really interesting because, and that's the
fascinating
thing about Dice because it's also like, he does something like this, and he
understands
how to play with his persona, and he understands how to make something
interesting and actually
good with his persona, but then he also, it doesn't feel like he gets it, or he
just, he
also is addicted to being that big, you know what I mean?
Or, like, there's something about, because the arena act that he was, is
because he was,
I mean, the parallels you could draw between the, like, what's going on now
with comedy,
I mean, it's almost like, if you distilled Dice into something, it's Kill Tony
selling
out arenas now, you know what I mean?
It's almost like the continuation of that, where it's like.
Well, he's the first.
Well, I guess Steve Martin was the first, right?
Yeah, but I'm saying.
But Dice was the first record-setting arena comic, right?
Yeah, but yeah.
And Dice, Dice's thing was very vulgar and very sexist and racist, and like, it's
like,
you know, shock, it's like almost, he, Dice, you could argue, is what is a
reaction.
PC culture might be a reaction to, essentially, Andrew Dice Clay's act.
Like, truly, it's like, what he represents is why, like, Tipper Gore got mad at,
like,
Dice is the white version of, like, two live crew, essentially.
And those together is, like, what annoying liberal 90s culture is almost
reacting to.
Well, it's really interesting, if you watch a documentary about Dice, I'm a staunch,
for better or for worse, free speech believer, right?
I'm like, it's got to be everything or nothing.
Sure, sure, sure.
I'm not saying I think it's great if a guy runs down the street screaming,
let's all kill each other.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you should be able to, you should be able to fucking say whatever you want.
But it's interesting if you watch, like, a documentary or something about Dice,
because the contrasting opinions, both arguments are very interesting to me
because you have people saying, like, well, at this time, this type of humor,
I perceived it as quite dangerous because these are things that were happening
socially
that this was, in this person's opinion, whoever's saying, this was fueling it
or this is one of the things that was fueling it.
And then there are other people saying, no, man, that