Name: Louis C.K and Joe Rogan Talk About Jay Leno
Uploaded: 2022-11-15T16:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis C.K and Joe Rogan Talk About Jay Leno' from I'm Not Louis on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis C.K and Joe Rogan Talk About Jay Leno' from I'm Not Louis on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-15. Transcript available.

That place celebrates comedy like Boston comedy is like it's very important to
people that live in Boston
Yeah, and when comics succeed and they come back to Boston. It's a very special
thing. It feels amazing
I did the the garden when I did the garden. It was like I was gonna cry
You know before I got on stage. I was like this is nuts
Yeah, for me there was the Orpheum because that's where I used to go to see
concerts
Yeah, and when I played the Orpheum last year, it was the last show I did of
the tour
It was very emotional. Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a special place
And it's one of the most important places for the development of comedy you
think of all the great comics have come from there
Jay Leno like people forget how good Jay Leno was
Jay Leno when he was just to stand up before we hosted the tonight show was one
of the best comics a lot of the best
I love Jay
I remember when I was working on Conan as a writer and Jay came to do
Panel you know to be interviewed on cone. It was like a favorite, you know,
because he was the bigger guy
It was early in Conan's tenure, but he sat and did bits like he used to on
letterman like he didn't talk about the tonight show
He just did bits and one of them was he said I was I was at the hotel today and
You know he goes I went I went to CVS to buy something and
I paid and the woman didn't even look at me
She just gave me my change and and I go that's it. No. Thank you. No. Have a
nice day. She says it's on the receipt
Ah great bit
That is great
He was still he's just I loved him so much and on the tonight show he was you
know people some people
Hated him whatever. It's easy easy to make fun of him. Yeah
But I don't know I he gave me the lead spot on the tonight show way before
anybody else did way before any other
I was doing letterman I was doing Conan, but I was always like two or three and
Leno they told I had it was booked to be the second guest
But they told me Jay said he wants you promoted. He wants you to be first and
do two segments like for Reynolds
That's amazing. I was like what and he like he liked our rapport
I think I also brought out some funny in him. Yeah, but that was a huge thing
that he did for me and
to this day like every time throughout my career once I knew Jay
I every time something good would happen if I won an Emmy hosted SNL or did
something that people heard about I knew I'd get a call from Jay and
And he just leaves a voicemailing there. I don't know how to reach him. I don't
have his number
He just leaves a voicemail and says hey, that's all you did. It's nice. It's
just good job
I'm real happy for you. He has nothing he wants from me, right, but he always
call me and then when I had a
My my bad time I thought I'm not gonna hear from Jay again
And he called me and he left the same message just in hey, man. I hope you're
doing okay
You know everybody loves you. You're okay, and you know, he's never not been
there. He's a real man
She's a real really great guy. I just think it's important to say because he's
caught a lot of shit from the comedian
He's caught a lot of shit for no reason. I mean, I get he was hosting the
tonight show and it's a different sort of thing and the monologue was very
homogenized
But if you hang out with him and you talk like he did my podcast and he told a
story about
doing stand-up for a bunch of mob guys and
That this mob guy he tells a story about this mob guy yelling at a preacher
because the priest like
Said something and he was like didn't we give you enough money and he's
screaming and swearing as this mob guy and I'm like this is
Incredible yeah, I remember while he's telling the story. I was like this is
amazing
Because you get to see the real Jay Leno. That's right. No, he's a viciously
funny guy
But I understood this tonight show strategy when I watched him in an interview
once and he said my goal is to come up with jokes that have the broadest
Possible appeal like that's just how he thinks about that job
Yeah jokes that every single person can like on some level and obviously those
are watered-down easy jokes
You know and even he was I was on once and Kathy Lee was Kathy Gifford
Yeah was the lead guest and she's talking about her son Cody and she says you
know the the
He has a stage in his bedroom and Jay's like what she's he has got a stage and
lights her son
She's she says, you know kids kids love to put on
Shows and he goes yeah, the gay kids do
Place went crazy the tonight show audience went nuts laughing and she was dealt
she had tears
She was laughing so hard and I saw him after this in the segment break go up to
somebody and go like that
They cut it out. It wasn't it didn't air and I know that was him going like
done done. Let's not use it
Let's not use that. So that's his goal people get to have their own goals
well to those guys that were coming up in that era that spot was the crown that
was that was the that was the throne if
You could host the tonight show you were the man and everybody wanted the
tonight show gig and he protected that thing
Like it was a sacred institution, right?
And that's what he had always wanted and he still did stand-up so he has a
strange strategy though
He doesn't have any material that's out there. He was a if I put my stuff out
there, you know
He still believes that he had this idea in his head that he couldn't do his act
then because his act would be out there
Which is you know, that's his take on things. He's at his best doing his car
show
Because that's when you get to see the real Jay Leno is because he fucking
loves cars
Yes, I've had so many conversations with that guy. Well, he'll just go deep
into cars and just he loves them
And it's not like he loves like cars that make him look like a baller
No, he's he loves like old steam powered engines. He loves like weird fucking
tire knows everything everything at one time
I did the tonight show and after my set he said hey stick around
Are you do you have to go somewhere and I was like no, you know, yeah, hang
around. I didn't know what that meant
So I went back to my room
My dressing room and one of the producers said hey Jay wants to talk to you,
you know, so I hang
I didn't know what it was so I so I wait for a while and he comes with it
He's got a motorcycle helmet and he goes hey, let me show you mine. That's my
new bike
He takes me out and shows me. He has a jet motorcycle
It was he had created it. It's a jet engine with a motorcycle frame built
around it
And I go wow is that a jet and he goes yeah
Yeah, it's it's I took it out of a helicopter and I put it on this and he
starts it and there's this blue flame coming out of the back
And he's and he puts down the visor and he just takes off and
He's not circling around you just I just hear him fading in the distance and I
go to the producers
So is that it because yeah, you can go
He didn't say anything like talking just yeah, look at this
Also imagine this guy who's the host of the tonight show who just rides a
motorcycle to work
Yeah, like he would ride a motorcycle to work all the time like all the money
that's
Banking on him is the biggest show and talk show and this guy's out there on a
motorcycle experimental motorcycle
He told me another time because I asked him about that bike that he got he had
to pay for a guy's Lamborghini because he melted the front of a
Lambert it was too close and he gunned it and he just melted the whole front of
a car
So
Well, he'll probably had spare parts at its place. Sure. He has 11 garages.
There's 11 warehouses filled with cars
When I went to his place, I saw one warehouse and I was like this is incredible
I brought my car there and we did this little segment on my car and
He goes yeah, I got 11 of these I go you have 11 of these he goes yeah,
basically 10 was not enough
He's got 11 giant warehouses filled with cars and it's immaculate like you
could eat off the floor
And there's all these really cool old automotive signs in the wall and so
fucking strange credible