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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2480 - Arsenio Hall' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-04-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2480 - Arsenio Hall

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Let's rock and roll, sir.
Yes.
Our old friend would be so happy.
Not just that picture, but so much that you've done.
Do you believe that people who have gone on know what we're doing or see us?
I don't know.
You'd like to think that you're that important.
Oh, yeah.
I have a feeling they have more important stuff to do on the other side.
Yeah, I guess if you're in heaven, you're not thinking about the mothership.
Right.
Well, the mothership definitely is from her.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that's an incredible tribute to her.
Well, the bar is named after her.
Yeah, I've heard all the comics.
I've heard Shane and Ian and all the guys talk about it after they came back.
And that's just an honor, man.
Plus, you know, I used to say to people, if you haven't taken something from
watching Richard Pryor, you're probably doing it wrong.
Right.
And Mitzi made the greatest comedy mecca ever.
And you got to copy what she did.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Wow.
And this is cool.
She taught me everything about how to run a club, how to do it right.
Basically, kind of let the comedians run it.
Let the inmates run the asylum.
Yeah.
You know.
Yeah.
We're perfect inmates for that.
And right now, the comedy store is greater than ever.
That's awesome.
Yeah, it's wonderful there because, you know, I even got Jay Leno to come back,
you know, because he remembered the old days and hadn't gone back.
And I'm like, dude, it's different.
They pay you for coming.
They split the door in a different way now.
And there are phones in bags.
I had to explain that concept.
Yeah.
We had to encourage them to do all that.
Yeah.
That was your era.
Yeah.
Well, once we left, we started doing that at the mothership for all the shows.
Then other comedy clubs started falling.
So it's the way to do it.
People are too fucking distracted.
Yeah.
And I think it frees us up in a way.
I'll say things and try things and not worry about seeing them on YouTube when
they're not ready or when I've made a mistake and gone too far and said
something.
Oh, 100%.
It's also, you have to be free to fuck around and experiment.
And if someone takes that fucking around and experiment, you don't know what's
coming out of your mouth.
Like right now, I don't know what's coming out of my mouth right before I say
it.
Right?
Yeah.
Right.
And people have to understand that.
This is not like when you're on stage and you're working out, like a lot of it
is freeballing.
You've got material that's like pre sort of established and you're, you know,
you've got the bones of it, but you're also fucking around in the moment.
And sometimes you fuck around the moment and it works.
And sometimes you fuck around the moment and it does nothing.
It goes, or it's terrible.
You said something awful.
You're like, whoops, sorry.
Yeah.
We make mistakes.
You're just fucking creating something.
And then standup is the only art form that you have to kind of create in front
of a crowd.
You can't really, you can get ideas and the concepts and the flesh of it alone,
but you have, it comes alive in front of the crowd.
You have to be able to fuck around.
Yeah.
I, um, me and Chappelle, and you've, you've done this kind of thing.
Me and Chappelle met Chris Rock in Cleveland because Chappelle lives in Ohio,
obviously.
He's done something very similar to what you've done, but we'll get into that
later.
Yeah.
He's done something really cool.
Incredible.
Basically took over a whole town.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's funny.
And especially at a really funny joke about it, about how, uh, when white
people move into a neighborhood, it's called gentrification.
And he goes, they don't have a word for what I'm doing to these motherfuckers.
Yeah.
It's crazy to be Dave Chappelle, the most important man in town.
Yeah.
But, uh, Chris Rock was doing Cleveland and, uh, we met him there.
And that was the first time I saw the bags.
People.
And, and I was apprehensive.
Um, as a matter of fact, I saw a celebrity in LA who didn't want to put his
phone in a bag.
And so they had that motherfuckers stay outside, you know?
Yeah.
There's too many snitches in this world.
Too many people just want to film everything for the gram.
Yeah.
Like, stop.
Yeah.
Sometimes we're saying the wrong thing.
Sometimes we're drunk.
Yeah.
For sure.
A lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot.
Dave loves to get lit and go on stage.
But it's also like, that's one of the ways he creates.
Like, I've seen him do entire shows where he's just completely fucking around
and he films everything.
So then afterwards, he goes over it and he's like, oh, there's a seed right
there.
I only plant that seed.
Yeah.
There's an idea there.
And then, you know, that's how you come up with stuff.
Yeah.
I never drink or smoke before going on stage, but I love to create at home.
And the next day, because sometimes you can write something down and it'll be
like a blazer button envelope.
And the next day you're like, I don't know what the fuck I thought was funny
about that last night when I was smoking.
But I like to smoke and create at home and then take it to the stage.
But when I'm on stage, I've had bad experiences trying to do it high and saying,
this will make me creative.
I'll be like Hendrix of comedy.
That's all wrong.
Your memory will go.
Yeah, your memory will go.
One time I was at the Laugh Factory and I came off and George Lopez said to me,
why you come off?
And I said, I told you I'd do 20.
And he says, you did five.
I was in Tonight Show mode or some shit.
Hey, I got to clear something out.
Speaking of, this has nothing to do with you, but I did a podcast last week
with Theo Vaughn.
And in it, there was like a video on the internet that was accusing me of lying
about something.
And what I said was that I was in the mountains of Utah when the Charlie Kirk
thing was going down.
What had actually happened was I was here doing a podcast with Charlie Sheen
when the Charlie Kirk thing went down.
We stopped and took a piss break, right?
And that's when we found out about it, right?
And then when I was in the mountains of Utah, that's when the Jimmy Kimmel
thing was happening.
When Jimmy Kimmel was getting in trouble and I was getting all these messages,
but I didn't have any service out there.
So I had to hook up the Starlink in order to find out what was happening.
When I did the podcast the other day, it seemed like I was saying that I was in
the mountains when Charlie Kirk got shot.
I probably was saying that I was exhausted when I did that show last week.
So I did a show on Tuesday night at the club and I have this thing that I do,
unfortunately, where I come home and it's the only time that I get alone time
is when everyone's asleep.
And I stayed up way too late.
I stayed up super late.
Then I had to take my kid to school in the morning and I was like, I'll just
power through.
The problem when I do that, when I get no sleep is my memory is dog shit.
Like I have a really good memory and a terrible memory.
It's really good a lot of the times.
And then sometimes, especially when I'm tired, it's fucking terrible.
It's like from doing thousands of podcasts, my memory is like a room that's
filled with boxes and files.
And I don't know where the fuck everything is.
See, as you were talking, the first thing, everything goes to sports for me.
Some of our greatest home run hitters, they strike out a lot.
Because they're swinging all the motherfucking time trying to get it to McCovey
Cove or something.
Of course.
And I think that's how we are.
Well, not we.
You, especially right now.
You're doing this constantly.
You're talking to lots of people saying lots of things.
And every now and then, there's going to be a swing and a miss.
Let me explain that.
The real problem was sleepy.
The real problem was not getting any sleep.
And I'm not going to do that anymore.
Because I keep doing it.
The thing is, I get home at night.
Have you had that problem before?
Yeah.
Like sleep deprivation and you get yourself into something.
I've had that problem before.
Usually, I can fix it with creatine.
So, creatine is a great supplement when you're tired.
It really, there's been studies that show that creatine supplementation,
especially like 10 to 20 grams, it actually alleviates all of the problems that
happen with sleep deprivation in terms of cognitive function.
But I've been, I just was doing some blood work.
So, when I knew that I was going to do my blood work, I didn't take any creatine
for a month because I want to, because I'd read something about creatine
possibly being bad for your kidneys.
So, I wanted to get a baseline, do it, and then do it again when I supplement.
Oh, yeah.
So, I had this like strategy.
But the point is like, I went, yeah, my brain was foggy.
And so, for the people that like heard that and like, what is wrong with you?
That's what I thought when I saw, like somebody put a video on the line, why is
he lying about this?
I'm like, oh, I forgot.
It wasn't a lie.
It's just, my brain sucks when I don't get sleep and I'm not going to do that
anymore.
Because it's like, when I get home at night, it's the only time I'm alone.
It's like my only alone time.
And even though I knew I had to get up in the morning and take my kid to school,
I was like, I don't fucking care.
I'm staying up.
The problem with that is like, when I have to do this the next day, I just don't
function as good.
I've done it.
I've done it before, but I feel it the next day.
Like, I can't recall things.
My words don't come out as smooth.
I don't have as much.
My vocabulary is limited.
It's like, there's too many problems with it.
So, I'm not going to do that anymore.
First of all, do guys with these arms do creatine?
I mean, would it help me?
Oh, it's great for everybody.
Yeah, creatine is not just a supplement for muscles.
Creatine is actually a really good cognitive function supplement.
It's actually a cognitive enhancing supplement.
Yeah, there's a lot of research on that.
And the other thing that hit me is I was listening to you talk recently, and
you talked about smoking herb and how it enhanced the weightlifting process.
Yeah.
What's that about?
You feel it in your tissues, man.
It's like you feel.
It's really good for coordination exercise.
Like, there's a lot of jiu-jitsu guys who smoke weed.
They smoke weed right before class.
Like, get ripped.
So, the Gracie's were high when I first started seeing them?
Not those guys.
Okay.
Those guys don't do it, but a lot of guys do.
I think one of the – I don't want to throw them under the bus, but one of the
brothers was really into smoking weed and doing jiu-jitsu.
And arguably the best one.
Definitely the best one.
But a lot of jiu-jitsu guys do it.
And a lot of guys like to do it before kickboxing.
You just feel your muscles more.
You feel, like, your coordination more.
You're more sensitive.
It's weird.
It's like instead of you being, like, abstract with your movements and, you
know, just kind of, like, doing it, it's like you feel all the tissues, all the
connections.
When you lift weights, you're like –
Like, you feel all the fibers of all your shit moving.
It's like – it just makes you more sensitive.
It's such a misunderstood substance.
Not for everybody.
I really believe some people should not get high.
I think for some people it throws them off and sends them down a dark road and
it's just not for them.
Causes them to procrastinate about their life and personal responsibilities.
There's a lot of that.
There's a lot of people that just wake and bake and just live in the cloud all
day and never get anything done.
And then there's a lot of people that also get, like, super paranoid and they
get anxiety and they freak out.
And then there's people that – there's a lot of connections to marijuana and
psychosis or schizophrenic states.
But the problem with that is were they already – like, did they alre