Name: From Estonia to The Joe Rogan Experience | Ari Matti on Are You Garbage
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'From Estonia to The Joe Rogan Experience | Ari Matti on Are You Garbage' from Are You Garbage Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-21. Transcript available.

I didn't know that you had a proper career in Estonia.
So you were doing, like, theaters there?
Yeah.
Yeah, no shit.
Any venue.
Making money.
Doing well.
Are you living back at your mom's house?
Nah.
What's that house look like there when you were doing well?
Well, I just, no, I mean, American standards are different.
You guys make millions of dollars.
That's different.
We don't, but yeah.
Yeah, I saw you at the Brooklyn Comedy Club.
I remember I met you guys, like, five years ago for the first time.
And it was Brooklyn Comedy Club, two black people in the crowd, and us three.
Like, very entertaining.
Just a couple.
I did 90 minutes.
Just a couple.
Oh, we did long, by the way.
All of us did, like, 25 in our notebook, having a fucking panic attack.
Fumbling through it.
What else?
And we were heading nowhere.
I didn't have a passport.
You didn't have this.
It was bad.
I don't think you had this podcast five years ago.
No, no, no, no.
I don't even remember this.
I don't remember that either.
I don't think Brooklyn Comedy Club was around five years ago, was it?
Old Man Hustle?
Yeah, it was.
Whatever was the name of that.
Okay, sure.
I just remember us three having a full-on panic attack.
I kind of vaguely remember this now that you're saying it.
Because this is going nowhere, you know?
Sure.
You're just staring out the abyss.
Yeah.
I was probably talking to you going, I could move to Estonia.
And I remember-
I could be the fucking funniest guy in Estonia right now.
I remember I introduced myself to you.
I go, I'm from Estonia.
You go, sure.
No, no, no, no, no.
No way.
Like, you were like, oh, another thing.
That does not sound-
Maybe it was.
Like another thing.
Well, I apologize.
Yeah, another thing.
He's stealing your wallet at the time.
Yeah.
All right.
Jesus Christ, Ari.
What the fuck, man?
This guy's all over the fucking map, literally.
So how long are you in Estonia where you're doing good?
Where you're the big star?
I did like three or four years.
But it was going well, yeah.
We were building a scene.
There were some other comedians there.
We were all doing great.
You know, the scene was building.
And you get a lot of tourism in the city that you're in, right?
Yeah, but we're doing it in Estonia still.
It's very-
Okay.
I have a podcast there.
Things are going great, but I just felt like-
You want more?
Yeah.
I just wanted to do skill-wise a bit better, and there's nobody really to
follow.
Okay.
And I know British people are going to get upset by this, but there's only one
place in
the world where stand-up comedy is stand-up comedy, and this is the United
States.
Yes.
USA, baby.
Like the free-form, personality-based storytelling, going for the edge.
Like British comedy is amazing.
The jokes are amazing, all that.
Very thematic.
It's very-
Yeah, yeah.
It's just a different style of the art form.
And in Estonia, it was similar because we were influenced by the Soviet-
So, the only good thing about communism is they build amazing theaters, you
know, because
you have to build these theaters for all these public speakers.
Yeah.
Sure.
And Germany's the same.
Exactly.
It has great theaters.
Comedy's another way around a sound system.
I'll tell you that.
When you're trying to control, like, your people, what you do is you build the
culture, because
you have to control the subconscious of your people.
Mm-hmm.
So, then all these remnants of these beautiful-
They'd be like a town of 2,000 people in Estonia.
The theater's 800 seats.
Yeah, yeah.
It's beautiful.
All those, like, Eastern, Germany, every little village has a theater that will
fit most
of the village.
That's what slavery and shit does.
Sure, sure.
Build me a fucking-
Just going.
Best green rooms in the world.
Exactly.
Let's give me 1,000-seater now.
But there was the remnants of the theater culture.
I think also in England, this is just a theory, but I think in England, where
comedy's amazing,
of course, it's always been a thing from the theaters where the classism has
developed a thing
where a performer is looked, like, the performer looks down on the crowd and
they love it.
Like, British people love to think you're a grandiose thing.
It is.
It's more of a presentation.
They even call them, like, presenters.
It's more of a presentation.
I think so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And people love that.
People love, like, shit on us, shit in my mouth, you know?
Sure.
Like, whereas I think America, this is what I think, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce,
it's all
about fuck them.
Fuck the system.
I'm in with the crowd.
It's very common, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's I'm speaking for us, not to you.
The stage is lower.
I'm in.
Fuck everybody.
Fuck this, you know?
Whereas I'm one of you guys, so I think the rebellious comedy where fuck the
system and
all that, I think it's more from here.
Right.
Gotcha.
That makes sense.
Which is what I love.
I love that style.
And when did you land over here?
Well, officially, I moved here in June to Austin, Texas.
Joe Rogan, the one true king.
Shout out, Rogis.
Shout out Joe Rogan, my one true king.