Joe Rogan Experience #1083 - Dom Irrera

Joe Rogan 0:01 And four, and three, and two, and one. Dominic Herrera.

Dom Irrera 0:07 Oh, what a way to lead the show there, Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan 0:09 I like to do it that way. I don't know why I've been talking to you like that forever, but I have.

Dom Irrera 0:13 I know, you al- (laughs) We- we always go into those Irish accents.

Joe Rogan 0:16 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 0:17 They would throw us out of Ireland with those accents.

Joe Rogan 0:19 I think it was when you started touring in Ireland on a regular basis.

Dom Irrera 0:23 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 0:23 Like-

Dom Irrera 0:24 That's a long time, Joe.

Joe Rogan 0:25 Yeah. But you, you've always been touring in Ireland. I remember you talking about how great Ireland was, (sniffs) decades ago.

Dom Irrera 0:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 0:31 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 0:32 Right?

Joe Rogan 0:32 You've always loved it there, huh?

Dom Irrera 0:32 I've been to the Kilkenny Festival more than any other white guy. No, I mean American.

Joe Rogan 0:37 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 0:38 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 0:38 How long you been there? How many, how many times?

Dom Irrera 0:40 I think, like, 22.

Joe Rogan 0:41 Holy shit.

Dom Irrera 0:42 And R- Rich Hall al- also went a lot, but he's, he's based in London. I'm the only one that actually still comes over.

Joe Rogan 0:48 Rich Hall. He's not-

Dom Irrera 0:50 Remember him? He did the Sniglets.

Joe Rogan 0:51 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 0:51 He was on Saturday Night Live for a-

Joe Rogan 0:52 He's based in London now?

Dom Irrera 0:53 Yeah, he likes it better there, you know.

Joe Rogan 0:55 Huh.

Dom Irrera 0:55 He, I mean, he still works here once in a while. He's got a place in Montana. But he was on Saturday Night Live, and he did that Sniglets book, and it was a big smash.

Joe Rogan 1:02 I paid to see him live when I was one week into comedy. He was performing at Stitches, and I went there live to see him.

Dom Irrera 1:10 Stitches, oh, Stitches-

Joe Rogan 1:10 There he is.

Dom Irrera 1:10 ... in Boston?

Joe Rogan 1:11 Yeah. So he lives in London now. Is he still doing standup?

Dom Irrera 1:15 Yeah, yeah. I saw him at the, uh, Laugh Factory in Vegas a couple weeks ago. Him, Harris Peat, and Blake Clark.

Joe Rogan 1:21 He always used Harris Peat. Like, he would take Harris Peat-

Dom Irrera 1:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:23 ... on the road with him, and Harris Peat used to watch his Montana place for him.

Dom Irrera 1:26 Right.

Joe Rogan 1:27 That's hilarious.

Dom Irrera 1:28 He was a joyless doorman. Like, he made the comedy (laughs) experience tense and miserable.

Joe Rogan 1:33 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 1:33 But it's pretty funny.

Joe Rogan 1:34 He was, he was rough as a doorman. Harris is... But he's one of those old staples of The Comedy Store-

Dom Irrera 1:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:40 ... which is almost kind of weird, not having him around.

Dom Irrera 1:42 Yeah, yeah. He... I mean, he made it so uninviting, you know. Like-

Joe Rogan 1:46 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 1:47 ... just have a smile to show to people, you know, they're going to have a good time. He made it like a military thing, you know.

Joe Rogan 1:52 Yeah, it wasn't good. Yeah. (laughs) And then there was Chewy, who was always the, the, the, the guy who was sort of working the door, guard the bar-

Dom Irrera 1:59 You could get anything you wanted or anything you needed from Chewy.

Joe Rogan 2:02 Yeah, allegedly.

Dom Irrera 2:03 He... You know, he played, he played guitar at the House of Blues across the street, and he was really good.

Joe Rogan 2:08 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 2:08 And he was with this group, and I was thinking, 30 feet away, you're, like, the sh- the shlub who's, like, you know, running around, trying to, trying to sell s- you know, coke or whatever he was doing, and here, you're like a big star. Like, it's so close, yet so far, you know.

Joe Rogan 2:22 Yeah, he used to headline at the House of Blues. We would all go over and see him.

Dom Irrera 2:26 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 2:26 And he was fucking good, man.

Dom Irrera 2:28 Very good, yeah.

Joe Rogan 2:28 His band... Where's he at?

Dom Irrera 2:30 I don't know.

Joe Rogan 2:31 Wow.

Dom Irrera 2:33 I haven't been seeing him in years.

Joe Rogan 2:35 You haven't seen that guy in literally forever.

Dom Irrera 2:38 Well, this whole, uh, re- renaissance at The Comedy Store has happened since you, you came back and the guys... Then they started filtering back, Bill Burr and, and, uh, Chris D'Elia came in, you know, but it's... But when he was here, it was some slow nights, man.

Joe Rogan 2:51 Oh, yeah.

Dom Irrera 2:52 You know, you know, when you know the place is slow when Paulie and I are the most famous people. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 2:56 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 2:57 That's not a good sign. I'm not putting myself down, but let's face it, it... You need a little more than the two of us.

Joe Rogan 3:03 Yeah, it's weird there now, isn't it? You go there now, it's like it's mobbed.

Dom Irrera 3:07 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 3:07 You can't even get through the hallways.

Dom Irrera 3:08 I know, it's incredible. I mean, like, you know, I... Like, you always think, "What's going on?" It's n- nothing, it's just a regular night, but you'll have something in the main room or, uh, Sam Tripoli or... It's incredible. Tuesday night, main room full. That was unheard of.

Joe Rogan 3:21 Yeah, Tuesday night, main room sold out while the OR sold out while the Belly Room sold out.

Dom Irrera 3:26 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:26 On Tuesday night. It's crazy. It's good though. It's great for us. It's fun.

Dom Irrera 3:30 Yeah. Well, I love the crowds there. I mean, I really get something out of all three clubs. I really do. Like, Laugh Factory is like college kids and, and foreign students and fore- foreign people. And The Comedy Store, to me, is the most, uh, cross-pollinated, like, in the sense that there's so many more tourists-

Joe Rogan 3:48 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 3:48 ... because there are hotels, you know?

Joe Rogan 3:49 Right.

Dom Irrera 3:49 And then at... The Improv is kind of like Hollywood slick.

Joe Rogan 3:52 Yeah, yeah. And then there's the Improv Lab, which I just can't get a read on.

Dom Irrera 3:57 I've done it a couple times just for the challenge, and man, they sit there, and then all of a sudden they laugh, it like scares you, 'cause they were sitting there-

Joe Rogan 4:04 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 4:05 ... it's like, it was quiet and then they, you know, they go... They-

Joe Rogan 4:08 It's a weird little room.

Dom Irrera 4:09 Yeah, they're very discerning, you know. That, that's like the hip spot there.

Joe Rogan 4:13 The thing is, that room used to be a great room when it was set up the other way.

Dom Irrera 4:16 I liked it the other way too. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 4:17 The other way was amazing, when it was the, that whole bar area.

Dom Irrera 4:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 4:21 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 4:22 Well, you know, uh, I just, um... And the thing is, I don't know if, if- if you go... Do... You don't do the multiple, uh, shows... Or you do them all at The Store?

Joe Rogan 4:31 I do some of, um... Some nights I'll do The Improv, then I'll jet over to The Store too. I don't really do The Factory anymore.

Dom Irrera 4:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 4:38 Uh, but if I can do it, if I do an early show at The Store, sometimes I'll do the Icehouse as well.

Dom Irrera 4:44 Well, you'll do benefits there once-

Joe Rogan 4:45 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 4:45 ... in a while.

Joe Rogan 4:46 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 4:47 That's the way Bill d- Bill does it too. It's like, you know-

Joe Rogan 4:49 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 4:49 ... whatever makes you happy. You know, we've talked about this. It's like, uh, we- we're... I- I just love the idea, and I, and I know you do. You have a thought and you can go on that night.

Joe Rogan 4:59 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 4:59 You know? I mean, what... Imagine like, you know, an actor can't do that.

Joe Rogan 5:03 No, it's giant too, because sometimes that thought is funny to you right there in that moment and you know why it's funny to you-

Dom Irrera 5:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:08 ... and you might forget why it's funny the next day.

Dom Irrera 5:10 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:10 You might have, like, a little napkin with something written down, you know, uh, tampons, Kleenex-

Dom Irrera 5:14 Right.

Joe Rogan 5:15 ... you know, paper towels.

Dom Irrera 5:16 Well, I don't carry tampons anymore.

Joe Rogan 5:18 Anymore?

Dom Irrera 5:19 Because my rectal bleeding has ceased.

Joe Rogan 5:22 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 5:22 More what I started with.

Joe Rogan 5:23 I don't think that's the way to go with rectal bleeding. I think there's other options.

Dom Irrera 5:26 I think (laughs) ... You think you're... Did you ever get the colonostomy?

Joe Rogan 5:30 No.

Dom Irrera 5:30 Colonoscopy, right?

Joe Rogan 5:32 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 5:32 Anyway, people ask me, they say... I was saying something, they go, "It's funny." I said, "I don't think these college kids want to hear about that."

Joe Rogan 5:38 No.

Dom Irrera 5:39 You know? It's not the kind of subject I would bring up. It's bad enough I'm older than them. I don't want to bring up stuff that hasn't happened to them yet.

Joe Rogan 5:45 Yeah, stuff that they, they don't... They're never going to understand, like Alzheimer's. "Hey kids, you know what, about Alzheimer's-

Dom Irrera 5:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:50 ... disease, right?" What's the name of that-

Dom Irrera 5:52 You know, what's the name of that disease? I can't remember the name.

Joe Rogan 5:53 Ah, Parkinson's.

Dom Irrera 5:54 Well, we were talking, Jamie, we were talking... Uh, I was telling him the power of this podcast. Not to stroke you, but you know, you know how strong it is. When I went to Australia d- not even thinking of... All these boys were, were there.... and they were, like, busting my chops about not knowing how ... Do you remember we did a thing about how much does a gorilla weigh?

Joe Rogan 6:12 (laughs) Yeah.

Dom Irrera 6:13 And you were much closer than I was and they were busting my balls about not knowing how much ... "Rogan beat you on that one," you know?

Joe Rogan 6:18 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 6:19 Isn't that funny?

Joe Rogan 6:20 Fucking Australia. Of course it's about wildlife over there. I, I got a buddy, my buddy Adam Greentree is always trying to get me to come over to Australia and every time I find something on- online that can kill you from Australia, I send it to him.

Dom Irrera 6:31 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 6:31 I'm like, "Fuck you."

Dom Irrera 6:32 Yeah, but you never see that stuff. You gotta go to the Outback for that.

Joe Rogan 6:35 Well, that's where he wants to take me.

Dom Irrera 6:36 Now what are you ... Why would you want to go there? You might as well just go to the Mojave.

Joe Rogan 6:40 Um, bow hunting.

Dom Irrera 6:41 You could get everything.

Joe Rogan 6:41 There's a lot of bow hunting in Australia.

Dom Irrera 6:43 Bull hunting?

Joe Rogan 6:43 Bow.

Dom Irrera 6:44 Oh.

Joe Rogan 6:44 Bow. Like archery.

Dom Irrera 6:45 Oh my ... C- Can you do that?

Joe Rogan 6:47 In Australia?

Dom Irrera 6:48 No, can you do it? Are you, are you good with a bow and arrow?

Joe Rogan 6:51 For real?

Dom Irrera 6:51 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 6:52 That's where I got that.

Dom Irrera 6:54 Wow.

Joe Rogan 6:55 No, I didn't-

Dom Irrera 6:56 You didn't know I bow hunted?

Joe Rogan 6:57 Can't believe I never told you that.

Dom Irrera 6:58 No, I've done it-

Joe Rogan 6:59 I've been doing it for years.

Dom Irrera 7:00 I've seen pictures of you and Brian, uh-

Joe Rogan 7:02 Hunting.

Dom Irrera 7:03 Hunting, yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:03 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 7:04 Bear and stuff.

Joe Rogan 7:04 With rifles. Was that with rifles?

Dom Irrera 7:06 Do you have any idea how much more of a man you are than I am?

Joe Rogan 7:10 I'm not thinking about it that often.

Dom Irrera 7:11 No, but I'm not ... (laughs) But I never ... I mean, I don't hunt, I don't do anything. To me it's, like, a big deal to have somebody drive me to Vegas.

Joe Rogan 7:20 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 7:21 (laughs) I feel like an adventurer.

Joe Rogan 7:22 I don't think it has anything to do with being a man.

Dom Irrera 7:25 Well ...

Joe Rogan 7:26 I just think you, uh, you don't have the same interests as me. That's the beautiful thing about America, Dom over here. Do whatever the fuck you want.

Dom Irrera 7:32 Thank you, Joe. Thank you for telling me about the country that we love, but, uh, I just don't ... I don't know, I mean, the whole idea of sleeping out in the woods and all.

Joe Rogan 7:39 It's fun. I enjoy it.

Dom Irrera 7:41 I enjoy five star hotels.

Joe Rogan 7:43 I enjoy those too.

Dom Irrera 7:43 24 hour room service.

Joe Rogan 7:44 I like that as well.

Dom Irrera 7:46 That's nice too.

Joe Rogan 7:46 I- I like that as well but I do like getting up, opening up the tent, looking out and just seeing a mountain filled with trees and hearing the birds chirp and-

Dom Irrera 7:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:55 ... putting your boots on. Having a cup of coffee that's warmed up by a fire. I love all that.

Dom Irrera 8:00 It must, it must be very funny with you and Callen.

Joe Rogan 8:02 Oh, Callen is one of the funniest guys that's ever lived-

Dom Irrera 8:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:05 ... when it comes to, like, just hanging out-

Dom Irrera 8:07 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:07 ... and bullshitting.

Dom Irrera 8:08 Definitely.

Joe Rogan 8:08 Like with a small group of people.

Dom Irrera 8:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:10 We did, uh, the first time ever-

Dom Irrera 8:12 His energy.

Joe Rogan 8:12 Yeah, uh, his energy and he just knows, he knows how to make shit laugh.

Dom Irrera 8:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:16 We did, um, this hunt in Montana in 2012. It was, like, six or seven days in the Missouri Breaks, which is, like, a very, really, a real wild place. You don't see any people, there's no cell phone signals and it was six solid days of gay jokes coming out of Callen.

Dom Irrera 8:34 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 8:34 And, I mean, gay jokes like Callen being gay with us, like wanting to have sex with us.

Dom Irrera 8:38 Right.

Joe Rogan 8:38 Or wanting us to have sex with him, and, and it just, it never stopped being funny. He's fucking hilarious. It's-

Dom Irrera 8:44 Now do you get all this down? Do you, do ... Does anybody cover it? You know, for, like, a show some day or something?

Joe Rogan 8:50 Yeah, that was for a show. That was for a show called Meat Eater.

Dom Irrera 8:53 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 8:53 It's a, uh, it's a hunting show that my friend Steve Rinella has and, um, we've done that show three times. Four? Four times. We've done that show four times.

Dom Irrera 9:03 Does, does, does your wife mind you going on these trips? Like-

Joe Rogan 9:06 No. She likes it.

Dom Irrera 9:07 That's good.

Joe Rogan 9:07 And the, the meat is amazing, you know, they come back with wild game, hundreds of pounds.

Dom Irrera 9:11 I can't imagine killing something and then eating it. That's so, that's so-

Joe Rogan 9:14 But you're just eating meat right there.

Dom Irrera 9:17 What, the chicken?

Joe Rogan 9:18 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 9:18 But I don't think of it as, like, uh ...

Joe Rogan 9:20 Of course, 'cause you didn't kill it.

Dom Irrera 9:21 The ... I never ... Do you ever think of, like, salami as being, like, part of an animal? It's, to me it's, like, just this little thing that runs around.

Joe Rogan 9:28 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 9:28 They cut its legs off and make a sandwich.

Joe Rogan 9:31 Well, I think about it that way n- now I think about it as meat. But yeah, I always just thought about it as salami.

Dom Irrera 9:36 It's-

Joe Rogan 9:36 It's very convenient.

Dom Irrera 9:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:38 You know. It's very convenient to think about things that way and you lose that convenience when you hunt. You get a, a weird connection with your food that, um, some people just don't want and I understand that too. There's some people who just want to be able to go to the grocery store, pick up a little Styrofoam container that has a steak in it, take it home, cook it and they're good and they're fine with that. Uh, that's fine too.

Dom Irrera 9:59 So you've killed stuff and eaten it there?

Joe Rogan 10:02 I've killed stuff and eaten it in the woods.

Dom Irrera 10:04 Wow.

Joe Rogan 10:04 Yeah. Or eaten part of it obviously.

Dom Irrera 10:06 And then you freeze it?

Joe Rogan 10:07 Yeah, yeah, you bring it home and freeze it.

Dom Irrera 10:10 When did you start this, Joe?

Joe Rogan 10:11 2012. So six years ago. More like five and a half.

Dom Irrera 10:18 And you ... How, what is it-

Joe Rogan 10:19 Really slowly.

Dom Irrera 10:19 Is it a crossbow or what are you using?

Joe Rogan 10:21 No, a compound bow. It looks like a regular bow but it has wheels at the top that are called cams and then the cams s- when it turns over, it gives you a mechanical advantage. It makes the bow more powerful.

Dom Irrera 10:33 Good. It's cool.

Joe Rogan 10:35 It's intense.

Dom Irrera 10:36 I like the crossbows. They're really-

Joe Rogan 10:38 Yeah, those are good but it's really just like a shitty gun. That's what a crossbow is. It's like you're just shooting a stick instead of ... Like, you're, you know, you could rest it and look through the ... Like, you could put it on a rest actually and look through the scope and then squeeze the trigger like a rifle. It's not nearly as difficult as a regular bow.

Dom Irrera 10:55 Now did you ever sh- shoot an animal, hit it and then it ran away?

Joe Rogan 10:59 Uh, unfortunately yes. I did that, uh, on TV. I did that-

Dom Irrera 11:03 Oh.

Joe Rogan 11:03 ... with that Meat Eater show. Yeah, there was a problem with the rifle. The, um, the rifle scope was off.

Dom Irrera 11:09 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:09 It had fallen and the rifle sco- the rifle scope was installed by one of the guys as we got there. We changed scopes because there was a sponsor of the company-

Dom Irrera 11:19 Oh.

Joe Rogan 11:19 ... a sponsor of the show rather, and they put a different rifle scope on and, uh, shot a deer with it and it was wounded and it wa- it didn't die.

Dom Irrera 11:27 Yeah, that's got to suck.

Joe Rogan 11:28 And they had to cut it off. It was horrible. I mean, I'm sure, it sure had died within a couple of hours but we couldn't get to it in time.

Dom Irrera 11:33 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:34 We couldn't find it.

Dom Irrera 11:35 I'd rather just hit it with a car.

Joe Rogan 11:37 Blah.

Dom Irrera 11:38 Come on.

Joe Rogan 11:38 Well that's one of the problems with where we were.

Dom Irrera 11:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:40 In Wisconsin, like, at nighttime you got to drive slow.

Dom Irrera 11:43 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:44 They, they're fucking everywhere. They're darting out into the middle of the road, especially when what's called the rut kicks in.

Dom Irrera 11:50 What's a-

Joe Rogan 11:50 Do you know what the rut is, Tom Iger?

Dom Irrera 11:51 No. The de- you get all horny. That's what I was thinking, yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:54 Yeah. They rut, they rut around. They get fucking crazy. They get so crazy they'll just, like, walk right into traffic and just stare at cars.

Dom Irrera 12:02 I'll fuck anything. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:04 (laughs) You know that's what they're doing?

Dom Irrera 12:04 Even if it's coming at me.

Joe Rogan 12:05 I mean, there's, there's videos of, uh, moose, uh, trying to fuck bales of hay during the rut. Like, they literally lose their mind. They have no idea what's going on. They just-

Dom Irrera 12:14 The moose are, like, nine feet or something?

Joe Rogan 12:15 They're gigantic.

Dom Irrera 12:17 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:17 A good size moose, like a, a good size Canadian moose could be 1800 pounds.

Dom Irrera 12:22 Holy shit.

Joe Rogan 12:23 Yeah. You can't even imagine how big that is.

Dom Irrera 12:24 You don't eat them, do you?

Joe Rogan 12:25 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 12:25 Eh?

Joe Rogan 12:25 I shot one of those.... one in-

Dom Irrera 12:27 Mooseburg-

Joe Rogan 12:28 ... the other room.

Dom Irrera 12:29 You have moose burgers here?

Joe Rogan 12:30 Yeah. Yeah, I've got moose burgers.

Dom Irrera 12:31 Are you serious?

Joe Rogan 12:32 Yeah. I've got some leftover. Yeah, I got a lot of elk burger. That's an elk, that, that big guy on the wall back there.

Dom Irrera 12:39 Wow.

Joe Rogan 12:39 They're delicious. So good for you, too. It's like the best meat-

Dom Irrera 12:42 Really?

Joe Rogan 12:42 ... you could ever... Oh, yeah. It's ev- it doesn't even look the same. It looks like a deep, s- dark red.

Dom Irrera 12:48 I don't know how much psychological, it's obviously psychological, but certain meats like rabbit-

Joe Rogan 12:52 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 12:52 ... I can't eat. And I don't know why, because I'll eat chicken, but it doesn't really make sense.

Joe Rogan 12:57 Are you a Bugs Bunny fan?

Dom Irrera 12:58 Yeah. Big time.

Joe Rogan 12:59 Okay. That's-

Dom Irrera 12:59 Hardcore.

Joe Rogan 13:00 Hardcore?

Dom Irrera 13:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:01 Did you get the tattoo?

Dom Irrera 13:02 Yeah, but I don't want to talk about it.

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 13:04 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 13:04 Can we talk about this off the air, please?

Dom Irrera 13:05 'Cause it-

Joe Rogan 13:05 Yes. Sorry.

Dom Irrera 13:06 It's embarrassing.

Joe Rogan 13:07 I know, I know. Um, yeah, a lot of people get real attached to rabbits. But chickens are like, they're heartless little dinosaurs.

Dom Irrera 13:14 They're noisy and (laughs) -

Joe Rogan 13:17 (barks)

Dom Irrera 13:17 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 13:17 Yeah. Yeah, um, chickens, they're w- they're a w- you know, they're a li- basically a lizard, just a lizard with feathers.

Dom Irrera 13:26 Really?

Joe Rogan 13:27 Yeah. Yeah, you pluck all that shit off and look at 'em, like, "What is that?"

Dom Irrera 13:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:31 What's a bird? It's like a flying lizard.

Dom Irrera 13:33 Not a good-looking animal.

Joe Rogan 13:35 Do they know whether or not pterodact- I, I just found out from my seven-year-old that pterodactyls are not dinosaurs.

Dom Irrera 13:42 Really?

Joe Rogan 13:42 Yeah, she corrected me.

Dom Irrera 13:43 They came in a different period?

Joe Rogan 13:44 I don't know. She told me they're not dinosaurs, and we Googled it and she was right. And then I was like, "How am I so stupid?"

Dom Irrera 13:49 They're not dinosaurs?

Joe Rogan 13:50 And then I was thinking, you know, we always had those images of pterodactyls where they were flying around and they had like bat-like wings, right?

Dom Irrera 13:56 Right.

Joe Rogan 13:57 What do you got, Jimmy? You got something for me?

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 13:59 That's what it says, it says that they lived at the same time but they're not actually dinosaurs.

Joe Rogan 14:02 Hm.

Dom Irrera 14:03 What, what makes it a dinosaur, technically?

Joe Rogan 14:04 Good question. Somehow, they're not actually dinosaurs. They were flying creatures, and paleontologists keep telling us that dinosaurs are birds, so the di- what? Wait a minute.

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 14:14 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:15 They're pterosaurs. But that doesn't make any sense, because dinosaurs are birds. So birds became dinosaurs, but pterodactyls, who could fly, are not dinosaurs.

Dom Irrera 14:25 Well, isn't the bird the, the, uh, closest descendant of dinosaurs?

Joe Rogan 14:29 Yes. Yeah. They're not dinosaurs, so what the hell are they? Here's the thing, like when they show that image of them with, uh, the skin for wings instead of, uh, bats, I don't know if they know if that's real. I don't know if that's based on what they absolutely know or like what they think, because they're starting to think that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers now. This is pretty recently, uh, I was in the museum in Bozeman, Montana. There's a museum, like a natural history type museum-

Dom Irrera 14:59 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 14:59 And they have a, like a split image of a, um, dinosaur, like a raptor, and it's covered with feathers.

Dom Irrera 15:06 Wow.

Joe Rogan 15:07 Yeah, because they think it's entirely possible that a lot of the dinosaurs were covered in feathers.

Dom Irrera 15:12 I didn't know that-

Joe Rogan 15:12 There's just not as much fossilized remains of it.

Dom Irrera 15:14 Huh. I didn't know that man never lived with dinosaurs at the same-

Joe Rogan 15:19 Really?

Dom Irrera 15:19 ... period, yeah. I didn't know that until a couple years ago.

Joe Rogan 15:21 You really didn't know?

Dom Irrera 15:22 I thought cavemen, you know, 'cause they always show them like in cartoon.

Joe Rogan 15:25 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 15:26 I always go by The Flintstones. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:29 (laughs) You really didn't know?

Dom Irrera 15:31 Well, I mean, uh-

Joe Rogan 15:32 You're a real comic, Tom.

Dom Irrera 15:33 I guess I am.

Joe Rogan 15:34 Y- y- you don't pay attention to shit. (laughs)

Dom Irrera 15:38 (laughs)

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 15:38 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:38 Outside of telling jokes.

Dom Irrera 15:39 Thank God I can do that decently, Joe.

Joe Rogan 15:41 Yeah. (laughs)

Dom Irrera 15:41 What would I do? I w- I have no skills. I s- I like to teach kids. I like, I liked teaching fourth grade and that was about it.

Joe Rogan 15:48 But you like having fun. Well, if you teach kids, don't teach them about dinosaurs.

Dom Irrera 15:52 No.

Joe Rogan 15:52 What did you teach? In paleontology?

Dom Irrera 15:54 Ta- I taught everything. (laughs) Yeah, I r-

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 15:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 15:55 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 15:55 I taught everything 'cause it was Catholic school.

Joe Rogan 15:57 Oh.

Dom Irrera 15:57 I taught everything but the, but the smart kids math, 'cause I was dumb, I s- I stuck with the dumb kids, and-

Joe Rogan 16:03 Oh.

Dom Irrera 16:03 ... we would split the class. Like, "Come on, you retards, come with me," which you couldn't say now.

Joe Rogan 16:08 Yeah, you couldn't say that now. You'd get in serious trouble. You'd be on the front page of USA Today.

Dom Irrera 16:12 You know, I still have kids get in touch with me.

Joe Rogan 16:14 Really?

Dom Irrera 16:15 Yeah. They said, and it made- makes me feel so good that it was the best year of their lives as far as going to school. 'Cause I really, m- we, we had fucking fun. I would go in, my, my speech was, "I want to go to the gym more than you guys do, so don't mess it up for me."

Joe Rogan 16:29 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 16:30 And you've got to learn some of this stuff, I don't know why I hate it too. You know, I'd be like kind of honest.

Joe Rogan 16:34 Right.

Dom Irrera 16:35 And they dug it, and we had just, we said, a d- we had dance contests and everything.

Joe Rogan 16:39 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 16:40 It was hilarious. I had this one kid, Tyrone Dunn, he was like a baby James Brown. He could do a split, a complete split and then s- then get his, his self up without touching anything.

Joe Rogan 16:51 Wow.

Dom Irrera 16:51 Yeah, amazing.

Joe Rogan 16:52 Like James Brown?

Dom Irrera 16:54 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 16:54 Wow. Yeah, well, when you're a kid and you're going to school, like anyone who has any spark of life is exciting.

Dom Irrera 17:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:01 I still, to this day, think about some of the teachers that I had in high school. I had two really good teachers in high school. One lady, I wish I could remember her name, and one guy who was a Spanish teacher that I'm pretty sure fucked one of my friends, who was a girl.

Dom Irrera 17:17 Oh.

Joe Rogan 17:18 And she, he- (laughs)

Dom Irrera 17:18 (laughs) Thanks for clearing it up.

Joe Rogan 17:20 He, he was a young guy, he was like 25 years old, and she was hot. And, uh, I know that they were like talking a lot, and she was 17, he was 25, and I'm pretty sure he fucked her. I'm al- I'm almost positive, 'cause she was very sexually aggressive.

Dom Irrera 17:36 Oh.

Joe Rogan 17:36 And she was, uh, ad- uh, advanced for her time, both physically and mentally. Like, she was one of those girls-

Dom Irrera 17:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:42 ... where like you knew she was not gonna last in that town, she's gonna get the fuck out of there.

Dom Irrera 17:47 I remember I did this clean show at the, uh, that hotel in San Diego, the, uh, I forget what it was, Some Like It Hot was.

Joe Rogan 17:55 It's a clean show?

Dom Irrera 17:56 Ch- Del Coronado. Uh, I did a clean show, like an early show at 7:00 on a Saturday.

Joe Rogan 18:00 Did they, did they make you be clean?

Dom Irrera 18:02 Uh, they can only make you be so clean, but to the point, the, the thing I was getting at was, uh, there was these 15-year-old boys there, right? And they were with their parents, and you could tell their parents were a little snooty. So I said, "15, what a great age." And this, this is, this can be a dangerous thing to say. I said, "You know what's great about f- being 15? You can nail a 15-year-old girl and not go to jail for the rest of your life." (laughs)

Joe Rogan 18:23 (laughs)

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 18:24 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 18:24 Right? Like s- and the p- the kids were crying laughing, and the parents were really, they looked like they wanted to pull them out of there, you know?

Joe Rogan 18:31 Oh, yeah. Parents don't want kids fucking. Isn't that hilarious?

Dom Irrera 18:36 Well, if they're both fif- 15-

Joe Rogan 18:37 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 18:38 ... they re- they really can't get in trouble.

Joe Rogan 18:39 Well, the girl could get pregnant.

Dom Irrera 18:41 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 18:42 That's no bueno. But, like, the idea that you're gonna stop them, like, "Hey, you stop doing that thing that feels better than anything-"

Dom Irrera 18:48 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 18:48 "... you're ever gonna do, at school, at work." Don't do that, though. Your o- all of your cells in your body are compelling you in that direction.

Dom Irrera 18:58 But don't do that.

Joe Rogan 18:59 But don't do it. Your whole body, your DNA, your thoughts are haunted. Everything is wrapped around, like, tits and ass and legs and feet and mouths and argh.

Dom Irrera 19:11 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:12 Don't do it.

Dom Irrera 19:13 I remember the first time I whacked off in my... I was in my bedroom in Philly, and I came so much that I thought, "I'll never have children."

Joe Rogan 19:23 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 19:23 I re- I really did. I thought I... I swear, Joe, I thought I emptied it.

Joe Rogan 19:27 (laughs) It's how you drain the tank.

Dom Irrera 19:29 It just kept coming-

Joe Rogan 19:30 Oh, no.

Dom Irrera 19:31 ... like flow, like flow, it gushes.

Joe Rogan 19:32 Yeah. Isn't it amazing how far you would shoot back then, too?

Dom Irrera 19:35 Oh.

Joe Rogan 19:35 The distance was insane.

Dom Irrera 19:37 Knock your eye out from butt- (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:39 We, we Googled it, and we think, I think, if I remember correctly, the furthest a guy ever jizzed was like 29 feet.

Dom Irrera 19:44 Holy shit.

Joe Rogan 19:45 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 19:46 I can't even-

Joe Rogan 19:46 Isn't that great?

Dom Irrera 19:46 ... throw it that far.

Joe Rogan 19:48 I don't remember making that search.

Dom Irrera 19:49 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:49 I p- it wasn't there. (laughs) You blacked it out of your mind, your memory, like a childhood molestation.

Dom Irrera 19:54 There was a- (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:56 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 19:56 There was this guy, Lenny Schultz.

Joe Rogan 19:57 I remember Crazy Lenny.

Dom Irrera 19:58 Oh, you do?

Joe Rogan 19:59 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 19:59 He used to do a bit about jerking off a midget. He goes, "I jerk off to midget, and he would come in the air and then I would bat his cum onto the crowd."

Joe Rogan 20:05 (laughs) What the fuck?

Dom Irrera 20:07 (laughs) Yeah, I know. Crazy-

Joe Rogan 20:08 Crazy Lenny.

Dom Irrera 20:09 What do you say to that? Joe, good... I see you writing, always writing.

Joe Rogan 20:12 He used to fucking walk on stage with a Smokey the Bear doll, and he would, he would hold the doll up and say, "Only you can prevent forest fires."

Dom Irrera 20:20 Oh, geez.

Joe Rogan 20:20 And he goes, "Shut the fuck up!" And punches the bear.

Dom Irrera 20:25 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 20:25 (laughs) It didn't make any sense, and you were crying laughing.

Dom Irrera 20:28 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 20:28 He was one of those guys that was just fucking funny, from the look on his face-

Dom Irrera 20:33 Yeah, he was.

Joe Rogan 20:33 ... to everything he said. He just knew how to... He was his own unique style. He just knew how to be funny.

Dom Irrera 20:40 Well, he had that psychotic funny too, like he looked like a guy that would pet a pigeon and go, "Yeah, sure, daddy loves you," and then snap its neck-

Joe Rogan 20:47 Yeah, yeah.

Dom Irrera 20:47 ... and go, "What did I do?"

Joe Rogan 20:49 Exactly.

Dom Irrera 20:49 Daddy loved you. You're crazy.

Joe Rogan 20:50 Exactly, and then chuck it aside and keep-

Dom Irrera 20:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 20:52 ... moving on with his act. (laughs)

Dom Irrera 20:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 20:55 He grabs the bear, "Only you can prevent forest fires. Shut the fuck up!"

Dom Irrera 21:01 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 21:01 Boom! Punches the doll. (laughs) He l- ... Remember Jimbo's Place in Montreal?

Dom Irrera 21:06 Which? Yeah, of course.

Joe Rogan 21:07 Comedy Works.

Dom Irrera 21:08 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:08 That's where we were. That's where we-

Dom Irrera 21:09 Oh, yeah?

Joe Rogan 21:09 That's where I saw Crazy Lenny.

Dom Irrera 21:11 Well, that wa- ... That was probably around the first time I met you then.

Joe Rogan 21:13 Probably, yeah. Like, '93-ish? Somewhere in that range.

Dom Irrera 21:17 I remember meeting you d- on the, at the, the Club Soda.

Joe Rogan 21:20 Yeah, that was fun.

Dom Irrera 21:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 21:21 And then we ran into each other again at Amsterdam Billiards.

Dom Irrera 21:23 Right, and then we started shooting pool.

Joe Rogan 21:24 And I was like, "Oh, this time of year to play the pool."

Dom Irrera 21:27 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 21:28 There's only a few of us that play the pool. Artie Lange plays real good pool.

Dom Irrera 21:31 Does he?

Joe Rogan 21:32 Yep, very good. Fitzsimmons was here yesterday. He plays real good.

Dom Irrera 21:34 Yeah. Uh, Greg and I just played at the, uh, the, uh, at the Improv. They used to have a, a quarter table upstairs.

Joe Rogan 21:40 Oh, really?

Dom Irrera 21:41 Yeah, for years.

Joe Rogan 21:42 Oh. The, the setup up there is very nice, though, now, at the Improv.

Dom Irrera 21:45 Yeah, the-

Joe Rogan 21:45 That whole green room with the, the, the, uh, podcast studio.

Dom Irrera 21:49 Yeah, that, it's cool.

Joe Rogan 21:50 It's very nice. It's a good setup.

Dom Irrera 21:52 We're plugging the shit out of these clubs.

Joe Rogan 21:54 Oh, that's what we do down there at uh...

Dom Irrera 21:56 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 21:56 But yeah, like, out of... Guys who play pool, like comics who play pool, it's a fucking small group of us.

Dom Irrera 22:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 22:02 Not that many. Who else? Somebody else plays good.

Dom Irrera 22:05 I think, uh, M- Adam Ferrara plays.

Joe Rogan 22:07 Yes! Ferrara plays very good.

Dom Irrera 22:09 He does?

Joe Rogan 22:10 Adam plays very good. Yeah.

Dom Irrera 22:11 He was at my house playing, but I know I'll never get you back there 'cause there's too many, uh, obstacles.

Joe Rogan 22:16 Just gotta jack up, do... Like have one of those little baby cues.

Dom Irrera 22:19 Well, Joe, who has room like this? Who has 50 feet on each side of a pool table?

Joe Rogan 22:23 (laughs) Well, we're gonna stream some stuff from here. We're gonna eventually stream pool matches.

Dom Irrera 22:27 Oh, yeah?

Joe Rogan 22:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna set up cameras and just talk shit and have a live stream. You ever heard of Twitch? Do you know what Twitch is?

Dom Irrera 22:35 No.

Joe Rogan 22:35 Twitch is a streaming service where you play games on it, mostly video games. Most people use it for video games. But we've been talking to them about doing, um, video games, and then I'm thinking we might do some pool matches as well, And even some archery.

Dom Irrera 22:48 Well, put me up against Tosh.

Joe Rogan 22:50 All right, you're going to-

Dom Irrera 22:50 Yeah, I like to beat-

Joe Rogan 22:51 Does Tosh play?

Dom Irrera 22:52 Little bit, but I just-

Joe Rogan 22:53 He doesn't?

Dom Irrera 22:53 I always beat him, you know?

Joe Rogan 22:54 (clears throat) Oh.

Dom Irrera 22:54 Which is cool.

Joe Rogan 22:55 Psychological advantage?

Dom Irrera 22:56 I don't know. I love beating him in that and then shooting baskets, 'cause, 'cause he calls me old man, grandpa and all this shit, so I wanna beat him in something.

Joe Rogan 23:03 Uh, you know what? I'm modeling some of the, what I do after Tosh, in that he doesn't do any interviews. He's like, "I do it enough." So it's like-

Dom Irrera 23:10 He's so fucking smart.

Joe Rogan 23:11 He's so smart. He's like, uh, he knows how to not be overexposed. And I've, I've fucked that up in the past, and now I, n- I'm just like... When I g- hear, when I get requests for interviews, I'm like, "What? I say, I say too much already."

Dom Irrera 23:23 Well, promise to-

Joe Rogan 23:24 "I'm already talking too much."

Dom Irrera 23:25 You notice I never ask you again because you did me the favor, and I don't wanna push it. But the fact is, we had Jamie to fuck around with that time. So, no, I w- you know, I'm not gonna really nail you on an interview, make you-

Joe Rogan 23:36 Oh, you mean on your podcast?

Dom Irrera 23:37 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 23:38 That's different. I do friends' podcasts-

Dom Irrera 23:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 23:40 ... all the time. But it's, um, like, interviews and real shows-

Dom Irrera 23:44 No.

Joe Rogan 23:45 ... and stuff like that, it's like...

Dom Irrera 23:46 You got nothing to gain, Joe.

Joe Rogan 23:48 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 23:48 You're famous enough. And, uh, and Daniel's right. I mean, what do you, what are you gonna get good out of that, like doing, uh, Jimmy Kimmel?

Joe Rogan 23:55 Uh.

Dom Irrera 23:55 Doing, doing five minute, uh... You probably wouldn't want to do the standup even though it's your favorite thing, and then you go over to the panel and, you know... And l- like, I liked Craig Ferguson only because it was improv.

Joe Rogan 24:05 Right, right, right.

Dom Irrera 24:07 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:07 Well, I think that sitting down and talking to someone should be like this. You really, you really a- really wanna get to know somebody?

Dom Irrera 24:13 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:14 You should talk to them like this. Have a, have a real conversation with them. Having a conversation with someone when you're under the gun of five minutes and-

Dom Irrera 24:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:21 ... you know, there's a band there and you're sitting sideways and you're at the desk-

Dom Irrera 24:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:24 ... and I'm sitting over like this and, you know, we're talking about some project that I'm doing. He-

Dom Irrera 24:29 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:29 It's like a quick pitch. You have, like, a quick story that you can tell and just...

Dom Irrera 24:33 "So, I understand you rent a car when you come into town. What's that like?"

Joe Rogan 24:36 Ha! (laughs)

Dom Irrera 24:36 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 24:37 That's funny, Dom. You know, uh-... I do rent a car and I always take the insurance. You know why? 'Cause I drive like a fucking maniac. (laughs)

Dom Irrera 24:46 You people here on Highway 95, what are you, nuts?

Joe Rogan 24:49 What is going on with the drivers in Los Angeles?

Dom Irrera 24:52 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 24:52 You turn to the audience. Yeah.

Dom Irrera 24:54 You know, I did, I did Ferguson's show once and he gave me the wrong plug. It was ... I had already worked that, th- you know, the Denver club that you like so much?

Joe Rogan 25:01 Comedy Works?

Dom Irrera 25:01 Yeah. I had already worked that and he, they plugged it on. I said, you know, I came out, I said, "Craig, you got a really cracked stamp here." I already worked that gig. I said, "But I'm so hot, I'm white hot in this business, they have to post-plug things so there won't be a riot."

Joe Rogan 25:13 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 25:14 Right? And he said, "Well, we'll just start it over, you know, 'cause we're filming it." I says, "No, I, I got a spot in a couple of hours. I ain't starting it over." And we got, like, in a fake argument. It was the most fun I ever had doing st-, uh, live standup because they, I s- ... "Let me go, go sit in your high chair and judge me like a little joke monkey."

Joe Rogan 25:29 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 25:29 And then I come over and we'll say funny stuff there too.

Joe Rogan 25:32 Well, he's just doing standup now.

Dom Irrera 25:33 Yeah. He, he's got a podcast.

Joe Rogan 25:34 I mean, he, he has a show. Yeah. It's on Sirius too, as well.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 25:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dom Irrera 25:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:38 But he just got tired of doing his show.

Dom Irrera 25:41 Wasn't his name Hitler something or ... You know.

Joe Rogan 25:42 Whoa. Really?

Dom Irrera 25:44 I think so. His name-

Joe Rogan 25:44 His name's Hitler, Craig Ferguson?

Dom Irrera 25:46 Was it?

Joe Rogan 25:46 What kind of a fucking asshole for a parent ... If you're born-

Dom Irrera 25:49 No-

Joe Rogan 25:49 ... with the name of Hitler, I don't care how far you get away from that-

Dom Irrera 25:51 I th- I can't remember the whole name, but I think Hitler was in the, in the name.

Joe Rogan 25:54 In the name?

Dom Irrera 25:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:55 Like Hitlersburg?

Dom Irrera 25:57 (laughs) I don't know. But-

Joe Rogan 25:58 Hitlerstein?

Dom Irrera 26:00 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:00 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 26:00 Well, he's, he's Scottish, right?

Joe Rogan 26:01 Yeah.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:01 Oh, yeah. He's got something.

Joe Rogan 26:03 What is it?

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:04 It says that Bing Hitler, it was like a-

Joe Rogan 26:05 What?

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:06 ... something he did in the '80s, looks like. Hold on. I'll play it.

Dom Irrera 26:08 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:10 Oh, Bing Hitler?

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:12 Oh, was it a character that he was doing?

Dom Irrera 26:14 Oh. Must've been a better character, yeah.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:14 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:15 Oh. I wish we could play it. Oh, Jesus Christ.

Dom Irrera 26:18 Look at that. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:19 Look at him.

Dom Irrera 26:19 That's hilarious.

Joe Rogan 26:19 He looks like he's 12.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:21 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:21 He looks like he's a kid in school.

Dom Irrera 26:22 He really does.

Joe Rogan 26:23 Look how young-faced he is with his fake act, with his hair all fucked up.

Dom Irrera 26:27 He's like, "Worms, they get everywhere."

Joe Rogan 26:28 Give me some volume.

Dom Irrera 26:28 Wow.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:30 Sometimes they get everywhere.

Joe Rogan 26:32 That accent's insane.

Dom Irrera 26:33 So, so-

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:33 Ticky worms.

Dom Irrera 26:33 ... so much thicker, isn't it?

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:34 Even in drinks now.

Joe Rogan 26:36 Wow.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:37 That stuff, mezcal from Mexico.

Joe Rogan 26:40 Wow.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 26:41 What the fuck is that about?

Joe Rogan 26:42 So he had a character.

Dom Irrera 26:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:45 That was the character that he'd do, and the character, he would go crazy with it. Yeah. Well, there was a time, and there still kinda is still a time, where we're enthralled by mediocre people with fake accents.

Dom Irrera 26:55 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 26:56 Not fake accents, but, you know, accents from other places. Foreign accents, I should say, not fake.

Dom Irrera 27:01 I also, it's like, I th- the thing that bothers me, and I, I love standup and, uh, I, it, it's when a guy acts so different a- like, all of a sudden he goes into this character.

Joe Rogan 27:10 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 27:11 You know what I mean? Like just-

Joe Rogan 27:12 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 27:12 ... instead of them ... I mean, the funniest guys to me are guys that do characters but they're themselves.

Joe Rogan 27:17 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 27:17 And they talk real, like, you know. And that's why, I mean, you and Burr, y- you're the same guys on and off stage. You know, when, when we're, we're talking, sometimes you get silly, sometimes you're serious. Right?

Joe Rogan 27:28 Right. Be ... Just be yourself, yeah. I know what you're saying.

Dom Irrera 27:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 27:30 Be sincere.

Dom Irrera 27:31 But you can be just as fucking goofy as you want, but don't stay in that.

Joe Rogan 27:34 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 27:34 It's so hacky to me.

Joe Rogan 27:37 It can be. I'm always waiting for someone to do it right, someone ... I don't wanna pass judgment. Like, maybe one guy comes along and he's in character all the time, but it's fucking hilarious.

Dom Irrera 27:45 Oh, I just-

Joe Rogan 27:45 It's possible.

Dom Irrera 27:46 ... I just watched Jim Carrey on th- uh, the, uh, when he did Andy Kaufman.

Joe Rogan 27:50 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 27:50 It was fucking amazing.

Joe Rogan 27:52 Oh, that was that m- the documentary, um-

Dom Irrera 27:53 Oh, that, that was ... Yeah, that sprang, sprang from that.

Joe Rogan 27:56 Right.

Dom Irrera 27:56 But I was watching the r- the movie last night, I forget what it's called. Uh, uh, something-

Joe Rogan 28:00 Man on the Moon? Man in-

Dom Irrera 28:01 Yeah, Man in the Moon.

Joe Rogan 28:02 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 28:03 Boy, Jim's good.

Joe Rogan 28:04 Oh, it's s- br- brilliant. You know what's really interesting with him? He's taken, like, a severe, um, psychological and I guess philosophical turn where he's, he's just thought about life and things. Some ... He must have had, like, some psychedelic experiences too.

Dom Irrera 28:23 I think so. Sounds like it.

Joe Rogan 28:24 Yeah, because he's just talking about, like, what matters and what doesn't matter. A- and, you know, and there's this, a bunch of, like, interviews and, uh, clips of him discussing things where you're like, "Whoa." Like, this guy does not ... He's not talking like Jim Carrey, the world-famous-

Dom Irrera 28:40 No.

Joe Rogan 28:41 ... A-list actor who's had gigantic smash movies. He's not talking like that at all. He's, like, talking like some guy who's just trying to sort of understand his place in the universe in this-

Dom Irrera 28:53 Yeah, yeah. He really is.

Joe Rogan 28:54 ... really profound way. He's a very w- well-thought-out guy.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 28:57 Did you watch this thing about him painting?

Joe Rogan 29:00 No.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 29:00 This came out a couple months ago.

Joe Rogan 29:01 Oh, we ... Didn't we play this, where some of his paintings are really cool, they're like in neon and shit?

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 29:04 Yeah, but he talks about it. He says some of the stuff that he's been thinking about and dealing with and whatnot.

Joe Rogan 29:09 Mm. So it's called I Need Color and it's on Vimeo.

Guest (unidentified fourth person in studio) 29:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:12 So folks, go check that out.

Dom Irrera 29:13 Joe, you know ... Uh, did I tell you about the, the, the little part I have when I'm, when I'm dying up here?

Joe Rogan 29:18 No.

Dom Irrera 29:18 Okay. So I play F- Fitzy Anderson 'cause they wouldn't let me use Fritzy Anderson. Remember Fritzy Anderson?

Joe Rogan 29:23 No.

Dom Irrera 29:24 He goes, "Is this thing on? Hello? Is the sound system working?"

Joe Rogan 29:26 Oh, your character.

Dom Irrera 29:26 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:26 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 29:27 And they wouldn't let me ... It's ... Apparentl-

Joe Rogan 29:28 Why wouldn't they let you do that?

Dom Irrera 29:29 They said Fritzy was a, a slur for, to Germans.

Joe Rogan 29:32 What?

Dom Irrera 29:33 Yeah. But I swear-

Joe Rogan 29:34 Oh, Jesus Christ.

Dom Irrera 29:34 I know. So anyway, I go in this comedy store (coughing) on a Thursday night. Why I was there? Just to practice. I had no, like, real ... I'm trying a couple lines and doing some shit, and Jim's in the audience. He comes out, he hugs me. Anyway, long story short, he, he was with his wife, his ex-wife, and they were, their daughter was, was ill. Uh, and, uh, this great girl. Uh, she's a really good singer too, by the way. But anyway, uh, they start talking and he says, "I forgot how fucking funny Dom was." He goes, he goes, "I wanna put him in this show." And, uh, Melissa goes, "Well, I'll tell you one thing, he's not gonna dance for you. You want him, yeah, ask him, but he ain't gonna audition." He goes, "I'm not gonna make him audition. I've known him for fucking 30 years." Anyway, that's how I got the part. Isn't that funny?

Joe Rogan 30:15 Just randomly?

Dom Irrera 30:15 Randomly. He was ... Uh, he came in to look for young comedians. I am not one of them.

Joe Rogan 30:19 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 30:20 (laughs) If you could tell by my, my receding hairline. But yeah, I, I mean, isn't that amazing? I mean, just there on a Thursday night randomly.

Joe Rogan 30:27 Is that show still going on?

Dom Irrera 30:28 Yeah. We're, we're shooting, uh, they're shooting 10 more. I'm, I got a ...I know I'm doing, um, an alcohol, an alcoholic the whole time. Which is-

Joe Rogan 30:38 (laughs) I never watched it. I watched one episode and I thought it was pretty good. But, I, uh, heard that it was-

Dom Irrera 30:43 It got better.

Joe Rogan 30:43 Yeah, yeah. I heard that it was improving.

Dom Irrera 30:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:45 That's what I heard.

Dom Irrera 30:46 Well, you know, look-

Joe Rogan 30:47 All those things start off clunky.

Dom Irrera 30:48 Yeah. Do you remember Seinfeld at the beginning?

Joe Rogan 30:50 I remember News Radio, the show I did in the beginning.

Dom Irrera 30:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:52 It was clunky.

Dom Irrera 30:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:53 It took a while to really get rolling.

Dom Irrera 30:55 Yeah, to get the rhythm.

Joe Rogan 30:55 To become what it is.

Dom Irrera 30:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 30:56 Sitcoms are very difficult. You know, I mean, one of the reasons why people are like, "Oh, why aren't there any good sitcoms on the air?" Well, goddamn, it's hard to do.

Dom Irrera 31:04 Well, this is a serious one. Like, I'm kind of the comic relief on this because it's about, like, comedians but not like, you know, when we goof around, (imitates crazy person babbling)

Joe Rogan 31:13 Right.

Dom Irrera 31:13 It's not... You don't see hardly any of that. You see them more, like, jealous of each other and-

Joe Rogan 31:17 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 31:18 ... yeah, they're showing the, the dark side of it. The woman who plays the Mitzi part is, uh, Melissa Leo. She's a, she won an Academy Award for some boxing movie, I forget. Uh, but she, she's playing Mitzi really serious. And I don't want to say anything, you know, because she's a t- great actress. But if I were asked to give one note, I would say M- they were... Mitzi really had a fun side to her.

Joe Rogan 31:42 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 31:42 Mitzi, by the way, for those of you that don't know, is, was the owner, is own- the owner of The Comedy Store.

Joe Rogan 31:47 Pauly Shore's mom. She brought us two things. One of them was awesome.

Dom Irrera 31:51 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 31:52 (laughs) No, I'm j- just kidding, Pauly.

Dom Irrera 31:54 Has he been on this show?

Joe Rogan 31:55 Yeah, he's been on. Yeah.

Dom Irrera 31:57 Yeah, he...

Joe Rogan 31:58 I like Pauly. He's a sweet guy. He's a good guy to be around. Like, he gives people hugs and shit. And, and like all of us, he's trying, he's growing.

Dom Irrera 32:05 He's trying, he's trying to grow up. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:06 Well, he's, he had a hard life. I mean, can you imagine being babysat by Sam Kinison?

Dom Irrera 32:11 No. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:12 I mean, what in the fuck kind of crazy shit is that?

Dom Irrera 32:14 Argus Hamilton sleeping in your mom?

Joe Rogan 32:16 Yeah. Argus and Sam Kinison hanging around your house, everybody's doing blow.

Dom Irrera 32:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:20 And you're going, "What, buddy? It's the Weasel." (clicking tongue)

Dom Irrera 32:24 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 32:26 He was gigantic at one point in time.

Dom Irrera 32:28 Who? Sam?

Joe Rogan 32:29 Well, Sam was for sure. But so was Pauly.

Dom Irrera 32:31 Oh, Pauly, yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:31 Pauly was gigantic, dude.

Dom Irrera 32:33 What was it? The... Yeah, the Weasel.

Joe Rogan 32:35 I mean, when he was doing movies, like, uh, In the Army Now with Andy Dick. Remember that? Jesus Christ.

Dom Irrera 32:41 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:41 He was huge.

Dom Irrera 32:42 He had a three-picture deal. And, uh-

Joe Rogan 32:44 Encino Man, that was another one. Bio-Dome. Remember he did Bio-Dome?

Dom Irrera 32:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:48 With, uh, Stephen Baldwin. It was a good movie. I enjoyed it. Don't look at me like that.

Dom Irrera 32:54 (laughs)

Guest (unidentified third person in studio) 32:55 That's Son-in-Law? I hear some people talk about Son-in-Law all the time.

Joe Rogan 32:58 Yeah, he's fucking funny. Those movies were fucking funny.

Dom Irrera 33:00 Yeah, he is funny.

Joe Rogan 33:00 I don't know what he did wrong or where it went wrong or... You know, sometimes, like, I think people just get bored. They just want some new person, right?

Dom Irrera 33:10 I'll tell you who's hot right now, is Tiffany Haddish.

Joe Rogan 33:12 Oh, Jude. Dude, I love that girl.

Dom Irrera 33:14 I call you Jew. Jew-

Joe Rogan 33:15 (laughs) That's what I said.

Dom Irrera 33:16 Oh, Jew.

Joe Rogan 33:16 She is Jewish.

Dom Irrera 33:16 I was trying to say Jew. I was trying to say dude. She is Jewish, by the way.

Joe Rogan 33:18 Is she?

Dom Irrera 33:19 Yeah, she's Ethiopian Jewish.

Joe Rogan 33:20 No kidding.

Dom Irrera 33:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 33:22 Tiffany Haddish is the person who told me about, uh, sickle cell anemia being related to, uh, malaria. That people who have a resistance to malaria developed a trait for sickle cell anemia.

Dom Irrera 33:34 Wow. N-

Joe Rogan 33:34 And that's where the origins of it are, apparently.

Dom Irrera 33:37 Oh.

Joe Rogan 33:37 Isn't that crazy?

Dom Irrera 33:37 It's primarily a Jewish and, and a Black, uh, disease, right? More so.

Joe Rogan 33:42 Isn't it a Jewish disease as well?

Dom Irrera 33:43 Um, more so Jews and, and Blacks get it than any other group.

Joe Rogan 33:45 Oh, that's interesting. I did not know that. I thought it was just Blacks. I had a f- friend of mine who died from it.

Dom Irrera 33:50 Really? Right.

Joe Rogan 33:50 My friend... Yeah, my friend Walter. Yep. Um, from back, uh, when I was, uh, fighting. He, uh, I remember he-

Dom Irrera 33:59 Man, I would love to see you fight, Joe.

Joe Rogan 34:01 I was a different guy, man. I was, uh, very intense. I wasn't v- very funny.

Dom Irrera 34:06 Did you ever think you'd be a comedian when you were... in those days?

Joe Rogan 34:08 No.

Dom Irrera 34:09 Oh.

Joe Rogan 34:10 I didn't think I was funny. I made people laugh, but the people that I made laugh were all psychos. They were all, like, guys that I, I was training and fighting with.

Dom Irrera 34:18 Right, right.

Joe Rogan 34:18 And I was just... Like, I felt like we were all freaks, you know, 'cause we were martial artists that were traveling literally all around the country and entering these full-contact tournaments, and it was terrifying.

Dom Irrera 34:29 You don't have any video?

Joe Rogan 34:30 I have some video. There's a video of me on YouTube with me knocking somebody out.

Dom Irrera 34:33 No kidding.

Joe Rogan 34:34 Yeah, when I was 19 in Connecticut.

Dom Irrera 34:35 You think you could beat me in a sparring court?

Joe Rogan 34:37 That's why... No. I couldn't, I love you too much.

Dom Irrera 34:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 34:40 I'd just hold you.

Dom Irrera 34:41 Well, you know what you do, which is really interesting for a str- guy that's strong, you never-

Joe Rogan 34:44 That's me right there. That's me in the blue and I kick that guy and launch him.

Dom Irrera 34:49 Oh. Wow.

Joe Rogan 34:50 That's all I have.

Dom Irrera 34:51 It's great.

Joe Rogan 34:53 I have some other video on my computer somewhere of some, like, uneventful round of some TaeKwonDo tournament. There's a guy out there who's got a couple of videos of me though, and he and I have gone back and forth on that.

Dom Irrera 35:04 What weight were you?

Joe Rogan 35:05 That was 154. I... When I was in s- senior year in high school, I fought at 140 and I was too light. It was too hard for me. I was always dehydrating myself and I would, uh, like, uh, do things in the shower, like jump up and down in the shower and shadow box in the shower with the s- the f- the hot water on to try to sweat out weight.

Dom Irrera 35:27 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 35:28 I couldn't eat for, like, a whole day. And then, I would, I would fight that day and it was terrible. I did that for one year.

Dom Irrera 35:33 That sounds horrible.

Joe Rogan 35:34 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 35:34 My father was a professional boxer.

Joe Rogan 35:36 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 35:37 And he, uh... But he was... The bad thing about it, he was a .500 boxer.

Joe Rogan 35:41 Oh, no.

Dom Irrera 35:41 In boxing... In .500 in baseball, you're the greatest player ever.

Joe Rogan 35:44 Right.

Dom Irrera 35:44 But boxing, you, you gotta be, like, .800, you know, at least.

Joe Rogan 35:48 Yeah, especially to make a living, right?

Dom Irrera 35:49 When he won, he would come home beaten up.

Joe Rogan 35:51 Oh.

Dom Irrera 35:52 You know?

Joe Rogan 35:52 That must have been hard to see.

Dom Irrera 35:54 Yeah, it was hard to come home.

Joe Rogan 35:55 You see your dad all fucked up.

Dom Irrera 35:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 35:57 Yeah. I see people, um, that fight in the UFC and their kids come to hug them, uh, you know, in the cage. And, you know, you see the, the terrified look in their children's face and they're looking... The guy's eyes all fucked up and swollen.

Dom Irrera 36:11 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 36:12 (coughs) Cuts and... It's a different group, a different type of human being that does that.

Dom Irrera 36:17 I had so much fun though the time... You invited me to the one in Montreal where the guy who's the king of Montreal was-

Joe Rogan 36:23 George St-Pierre.

Dom Irrera 36:23 That was incred-... It was the loudest noise of cheers I've ever heard.

Joe Rogan 36:27 Yeah, they love him.

Dom Irrera 36:28 And the other one was when, uh, we went to the, the place where there was... Those guys who own the, uh, Sacramento Kings, the, the pla- where they have a Playboy Club.... and you had a f- you know, fights there. You know what I'm talking about? That-

Joe Rogan 36:40 Hmm.

Dom Irrera 36:40 ... it's off the strip.

Joe Rogan 36:41 Yes, the n- The Palms.

Dom Irrera 36:43 Palms.

Joe Rogan 36:43 Yes, yes.

Dom Irrera 36:44 And one of the cool moments, I mean, e- even though it's, you realize how powerful and how real it is, this kid got knocked out. And I was sitting next to his mother and his, uh, wife.

Joe Rogan 36:53 Hmm.

Dom Irrera 36:53 And he w- he wouldn't wake up for a couple minutes. Then he, then he finally got up. But... And then there was another kid who, like, w- was, like, in the c- in the cartoons. He ran up the wall, and I don't know how the fuck he did it, and he just... And he was a young Black kid. He ran up the wall and went upside down and then landed on his feet. You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan 37:09 Yeah, John Dodson.

Dom Irrera 37:10 Is that... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 37:11 Pretty sure it was John.

Dom Irrera 37:12 Maybe.

Joe Rogan 37:12 He does that after fights. He runs up the wall and does flips.

Dom Irrera 37:15 Yeah, so it was after the fight. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:16 Yeah, he's a freak. Awesome athlete. Yeah. Yeah, that's a different kind of human being that does that.

Dom Irrera 37:23 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:24 It's a, it's... To, to be in that world, that's a, that's a... Poof, it's just a, uh, an intense existence that's unlike very many other in this-

Dom Irrera 37:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:35 ... in this world, other than war. You know, war is probably the most intense existence, guys who are warriors, actual soldiers.

Dom Irrera 37:43 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 37:43 Other than that, I think MMA fighters and then, obviously, first responders, firefighters, cops-

Dom Irrera 37:49 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:49 ... things along those lines.

Dom Irrera 37:50 Oh, man. I was thinking about that with those fires this year.

Joe Rogan 37:53 Oh, god. My buddy's a firefighter. He was up there. And, um, uh, he's in Simi Valley, and they, they shipped him out with everybody else. And he was telling me, it was insane. He's like, "You, you just, you couldn't stop the fire. It was just too big."

Dom Irrera 38:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 38:08 And they had, you know, they had thousands of firefighters. And here's the other thing, not just thousands of firefighters, but prisoners.

Dom Irrera 38:14 Really?

Joe Rogan 38:15 They had prisoners working the fire.

Dom Irrera 38:16 And they could get out early maybe?

Joe Rogan 38:18 Pshh, I don't think so.

Dom Irrera 38:19 No?

Joe Rogan 38:19 I think they got paid, and I don't think they got paid much. I think they got paid-

Dom Irrera 38:22 Oh.

Joe Rogan 38:22 ... like, a dollar an hour, like something fucked up.

Dom Irrera 38:24 Whoa.

Joe Rogan 38:24 And they're out there working on the fires. I would just pretend I got burned, just run into the fire, "Aah."

Dom Irrera 38:32 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 38:32 Fire!

Dom Irrera 38:32 I'm free.

Joe Rogan 38:34 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 38:35 (laughs) Like, "I got a fake ID, I'm going to Mexico."

Joe Rogan 38:38 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 38:38 Yeah, um, I'm pretty sure they did that. I think that's one of the most fucked up things about prison, is that they get them to work, and they pay them, like, pennies.

Joe Rogan 38:46 I didn't know that.

Dom Irrera 38:46 I mean, I know they get them to clean up, but like-

Joe Rogan 38:49 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 38:49 Even if you have a DUI, you can get that, and that, without even going to prison.

Joe Rogan 38:52 Yeah?

Dom Irrera 38:53 Uh, I'm pretty sure, yeah. You can work, you can work it off or pay it off. But they-

Joe Rogan 38:56 Oh, really?

Dom Irrera 38:57 ... like, cleaned the sides of the roads. A friend of mine did that instead of... He didn't have the money.

Joe Rogan 39:00 How much is the money to pay a DUI?

Dom Irrera 39:02 Uh, I think it all comes to around 10.

Joe Rogan 39:04 $10,000?

Dom Irrera 39:05 Yeah, I mean, with the lawyer and everything.

Joe Rogan 39:07 $10,000 out of a dollar an hour is a long time.

Dom Irrera 39:09 Oh my god.

Joe Rogan 39:10 If they really pay you a dollar an hour.

Dom Irrera 39:11 Yeah, I, uh... Well, you know I get that DUI.

Joe Rogan 39:14 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 39:15 (coughs) Damn.

Joe Rogan 39:15 You're just, you just Uber it now most the time, right?

Dom Irrera 39:18 Yeah, I ju-

Joe Rogan 39:18 Are you drunk right now?

Dom Irrera 39:20 No. Do I look drunk? (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:23 Just kidding. (laughs)

Dom Irrera 39:23 That would be sad. I c- I get nervous when I talk to you.

Joe Rogan 39:27 We've been friends for 30 years almost.

Dom Irrera 39:29 Holy shit.

Joe Rogan 39:30 Isn't that crazy? We've been friends for 25 years, somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 years. That's a long time, Mr. Herrera.

Dom Irrera 39:39 Yeah, a little.

Joe Rogan 39:39 That's crazy. Isn't that nuts?

Dom Irrera 39:41 You'd think I'd have more material by now.

Joe Rogan 39:44 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 39:45 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:45 You've already used it all.

Dom Irrera 39:46 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:47 Hey, aren't you, um, you're talking about filming something.

Dom Irrera 39:51 W- what do you mean?

Joe Rogan 39:51 Are you talking about filming a special?

Dom Irrera 39:54 You know what? I did one. It w- last time I was on the show, you told me I should do one. I did it, and I just didn't like it.

Joe Rogan 39:59 Oh, well, when did you do it?

Dom Irrera 40:00 Um, not f- whenever... The last time I was on this show...

Joe Rogan 40:03 It's like a year ago, I would imagine.

Dom Irrera 40:05 A little more. And then I, I waited about three months, and I, I shot it. And, uh...

Joe Rogan 40:10 You just decided not to release it?

Dom Irrera 40:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:12 What was wrong with it? Like, what didn't feel good about it?

Dom Irrera 40:15 I don't know. I just, uh... My ass looked fat. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:18 (laughs) I just didn't like it. I mean, I d-... It didn't seem to have the energy I thought I have. Hmm.

Dom Irrera 40:25 You know?

Joe Rogan 40:26 Huh. So it didn't feel to you like representative of a real set that you would have, like, at a club?

Dom Irrera 40:31 Right, just a normal night at a club. That's all I wanted, was-

Joe Rogan 40:33 Did you feel pressure? Like, uh, 'cause that, that's one of the things that I feel that I always battle when I do, uh, a special, is that, like, here's the moment. It's now.

Dom Irrera 40:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:42 Ready? Go. And one of the best ways I found to combat that is I do a bunch of shows. I do four shows now.

Dom Irrera 40:47 Yeah, see, that's smart. I did two.

Joe Rogan 40:49 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 40:49 And, uh-

Joe Rogan 40:49 Two is tight.

Dom Irrera 40:50 Yeah, and they were back to back and-

Joe Rogan 40:52 Yeah. Sometimes people clam up. I've seen people do one, and it becomes a disaster. You could feel the tightness-

Dom Irrera 40:59 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 40:59 ... on stage 'cause there's so much riding on it.

Dom Irrera 41:01 Right.

Joe Rogan 41:01 It's just not just a regular show. There's no room really to fuck around.

Dom Irrera 41:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 41:06 You gotta have room to fuck around. Like, part of what a live show is, is it's flowing, you know?

Dom Irrera 41:11 Yeah. I mean, I would like to get myself in a club where I'm half... Once, like, some- if something's, like, worth talking about with a audience member or something-

Joe Rogan 41:19 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 41:19 ... that's really cool, I would do it. But just be a normal club set, that's all I want.

Joe Rogan 41:23 Right, right, right.

Dom Irrera 41:23 Where, like, a, a normal but very strong club set, uh, you know.

Joe Rogan 41:26 Where did you film?

Dom Irrera 41:28 Uh, The Laugh Factory in Vegas.

Joe Rogan 41:30 Hmm. Yeah.

Dom Irrera 41:32 That's... Remember, that's, uh...

Joe Rogan 41:33 You should do The Laugh Factory in Hollywood. That's a comfortable club for you, and they're already set up for filming.

Dom Irrera 41:38 Yeah, I know. I could do it any night.

Joe Rogan 41:39 Yeah, maybe that's a good move.

Dom Irrera 41:41 Well, Jamie wanted to tape me, like, uh, a couple weeks in a row doing, like, 40 minutes-

Joe Rogan 41:46 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 41:47 ... uh, you know?

Joe Rogan 41:47 You should.

Dom Irrera 41:48 So-

Joe Rogan 41:48 That's a great place to do it, Dom, because they, they film you whether you like it or not there.

Dom Irrera 41:53 Yeah, well, we talked (laughs) about this.

Joe Rogan 41:55 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 41:55 That's not a good sign.

Joe Rogan 41:57 But they do have the setup. They, they have the setup to film you.

Dom Irrera 42:00 Their Vegas room is nice.

Joe Rogan 42:02 Is it?

Dom Irrera 42:02 Yeah, well, uh, you know, it's g-

Joe Rogan 42:03 Is it a Trop?

Dom Irrera 42:04 That's a... Well, here's the thing that's great about Vegas, Joe, is that you could do the, uh, I'm doing the, uh, that the first week of April, I think, the, uh, the, the Trop. But then I'll do Brad Garrett's club too, because they don't give a fuck. It's Vegas.

Joe Rogan 42:16 Right.

Dom Irrera 42:16 Vegas, unlike, uh, Columbus, Ohio, they have the same audience pretty much, you know. But, uh, there, they have, the, the audience comes in from far away every week.

Joe Rogan 42:26 Hmm.

Dom Irrera 42:26 You know, so you could play Vegas a lot.

Joe Rogan 42:28 That is true. Like, that's one of the reasons why a residency works in Vegas, 'cause there's always people-

Dom Irrera 42:32 Yeah, 'cause it wouldn't work anywhere else.

Joe Rogan 42:33 Yeah. Have you ever thought about doing that, a residency?

Dom Irrera 42:36 I think... Well, I, I, I think I'd kill myself in Vegas.

Joe Rogan 42:40 ... just boozing and-

Dom Irrera 42:41 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 42:41 ... hanging out and-

Dom Irrera 42:42 At the-

Joe Rogan 42:42 ... hitting the Rhino at 3:00 in the morning.

Dom Irrera 42:44 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 42:44 Whoo! Fistfuls of dollars. (singing)

Dom Irrera 42:47 (laughs) I, I go out with this girl, uh-

Joe Rogan 42:50 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 42:50 ... and she's got really hot daughters, right? And she's hot too.

Joe Rogan 42:54 The girl you're dating?

Dom Irrera 42:54 Yeah, she's very hot. But she's always telling me how beautiful her daughters are. I go, "Look, I, I know, but I don't want y- s- stop pimping off your daughters to me."

Joe Rogan 43:01 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 43:01 But I took, I took them to see Tosh. It was in, uh, uh, town for the Super Bowl. And, uh, Daniel was at the, uh, Mirage. And it got s- I forget how big a deal it would be to a 16-year-old boy to meet him and-

Joe Rogan 43:15 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 43:15 ... we went back and he was so, he was so gracious with them but it was, I think, I couldn't believe, I for- 'cause this kid played John Lennon in Love, when he was a little kid. And so he's got, he's been around theatrical people. You know Love, that Beatles song?

Joe Rogan 43:28 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 43:28 Sing-

Joe Rogan 43:28 That Beatles thing is fucking amazing.

Dom Irrera 43:30 It's good, eh?

Joe Rogan 43:30 At the Mirage?

Dom Irrera 43:31 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:32 Yeah, yeah.

Dom Irrera 43:32 They start, start that acapella Because.

Joe Rogan 43:35 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 43:35 Ev- Very cool, yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:36 Well, I know you're a huge Beatles fan.

Dom Irrera 43:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:38 You've always been a big Beatles fan, so I, I, I took my family to see that, uh, about a month ago or so.

Dom Irrera 43:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 43:44 Went to see that f- The Mirage? Fuck, it's incredible. It's such a show, man.

Dom Irrera 43:49 Isn't it cool to see your kids kinda digging it?

Joe Rogan 43:51 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 43:51 Like it, all those years ago and, you know. Man, I know so many little kids that like The Beatles. It's, it's weird.

Joe Rogan 43:57 They're so good. They were so good. And you, and I think it's hard for someone today, in 2018, with this vast variety of music that we have and so much good music, over the history of music, you know?

Dom Irrera 44:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:11 So much recording, that it's hard to understand how in the 1960s, how amazing The Beatles were.

Dom Irrera 44:18 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:19 That out of nowhere, this band out of Liverpool-

Dom Irrera 44:21 Right.

Joe Rogan 44:22 ... comes out and they just have this revolutionary music. It's just, so much of it is so different.

Dom Irrera 44:28 Yeah, it was very different and they were the ones, they added orchestras-

Joe Rogan 44:32 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 44:32 ... and all this stuff. Uh, you know, but w- it reminds me of the, uh, the thing we were talking about before of the, uh, sitcoms.

Joe Rogan 44:39 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 44:40 They were given a chance to get better. A lot of people today, if they, if they're w- one or two bad records, they're out.

Joe Rogan 44:47 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 44:47 Then they got some other beautiful girl replacing them, you know?

Joe Rogan 44:50 It's true. You know, I, I, there's, it's the same way with fighters.

Dom Irrera 44:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:53 You know, I've had this conversation with, uh, my friend Brendan Schaub and I were talking about this the other day, that guys-

Dom Irrera 44:57 I know Brendan. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:59 Big Brown. Uh, guys get into the UFC too young and then they're fighting top flight competition-

Dom Irrera 45:04 Right.

Joe Rogan 45:04 ... like, right away and it's either sink or swim.

Dom Irrera 45:06 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:07 And some guys swim, but some guys have real massive potential but really, they should be fighting someone of a lower caliber and developing their skills-

Dom Irrera 45:14 Sure.

Joe Rogan 45:14 ... and experiencing a bunch of different styles, and then eventually working their way up to the UFC after, you know, five, six years or so. And instead they're fighting in the UFC at 20 years old, and they're just not really ready for top flight competition.

Dom Irrera 45:26 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:26 'Cause in the UFC, if you string together five, six wins, you're in title contention in some weight divisions.

Dom Irrera 45:30 Yeah, that'll discourage the shit out of you.

Joe Rogan 45:32 Yeah, and you're getting fucked up by some guy who's just many, many levels above you. You really shouldn't be-

Dom Irrera 45:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:37 ... fighting him. Like the flyweight division is a perfect example 'cause it's run by this guy Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson.

Dom Irrera 45:43 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 45:43 He's probably the best pound-for-pound fighter that's ever lived. And-

Dom Irrera 45:46 Wow.

Joe Rogan 45:46 ... you know, if you-

Dom Irrera 45:46 That's, that's saying something, man.

Joe Rogan 45:48 He's fucking incredible and he's, he's a wizard.

Dom Irrera 45:50 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 45:51 Like, he barely gets hit and, you know, and you s- we've seen him in the octagon develop and grow and become this guy and now-

Dom Irrera 45:58 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 45:58 ... now he's just, just, uh, there's everybody and then there's Mighty Mouse. Mighty Mouse is just another level above everybody.

Dom Irrera 46:03 I never seen anybody as good as Mayweather to, to avoid punches.

Joe Rogan 46:07 No one's better. No, no one, no one gets hit less.

Dom Irrera 46:09 That's incredible.

Joe Rogan 46:10 Yeah. I mean, the guy's 50 and 0, and obviously one of them was Conor McGregor, which is kinda crazy.

Dom Irrera 46:15 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 46:15 But Conor hit him, you know? I mean-

Dom Irrera 46:17 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:17 ... Conor can crack. But he's just didn't, had no business in the ring, hon- honestly. I mean, we really didn't know if he had business in the ring until he fought him. After the fact, it's easy to say that.

Dom Irrera 46:26 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:26 But like, he caught him with that uppercut in the first round. What if he wobbled him? What if he hurt him?

Dom Irrera 46:30 Oh, any, anybody can get knocked out.

Joe Rogan 46:31 It's crazy.

Dom Irrera 46:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:32 If, if you get hit right, anybody can get knocked out.

Dom Irrera 46:35 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:35 But Mayweather has been hit right where he was hurt. I don't think Conor hurt him, I think he just hit him good. But he's been hurt. Sugar Shane Mosley hurt him. He's been hurt a couple of times in his career but over the course of 50 professional fights, where most of them are at world championship level-

Dom Irrera 46:52 Right.

Joe Rogan 46:52 ... it's crazy.

Dom Irrera 46:53 Remarkable. I was watching the, they had like a highlights of the MMA on, uh, on Fox today.

Joe Rogan 46:59 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 46:59 And, uh, Ronda Rousey, when she got kicked in the face. That was-

Joe Rogan 47:02 Oh, Jesus, yeah.

Dom Irrera 47:03 What a great kick that was.

Joe Rogan 47:05 Holly Holm, yeah. That was in Australia. I remember being there for that.

Dom Irrera 47:08 Oh, that was in Melbourne, right?

Joe Rogan 47:09 I think it was in Sydney.

Dom Irrera 47:10 It was?

Joe Rogan 47:11 Yeah. Pretty sure Sydney. That was crazy. Might have been Melbourne. You might be right. Might be right. Think you're right. Now that I think about it, I think you're right. Um, no, you're definitely right, now that I know. Um, but-

Dom Irrera 47:22 Stop arguing with yourself.

Joe Rogan 47:23 Sorry.

Dom Irrera 47:23 Leave yourself alone. You're a good person.

Joe Rogan 47:25 Trying to remember. I love Melbourne.

Dom Irrera 47:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:28 Ooh, I love that town.

Dom Irrera 47:28 Great restaurants.

Joe Rogan 47:29 Fuck, I was just gonna say that. Great coffee too.

Dom Irrera 47:32 Donovan's.

Joe Rogan 47:32 They have everything. Like, their seafood's fantastic but it's almost like, um, an artsy, sort of San Francisco-like-

Dom Irrera 47:40 It is, yeah. San Francisco's the one I compare it to.

Joe Rogan 47:42 Yeah, but it's got its own thing.

Dom Irrera 47:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:43 Melbourne's got its own thing. Fucking crowds are amazing.

Dom Irrera 47:46 Oh, aren't they cool? I know.

Joe Rogan 47:47 So fun.

Dom Irrera 47:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:49 They're great up there.

Dom Irrera 47:50 I did a comedy store in Sydney in between, like, bigger gigs that takes, you know, to make it worth it for them to bring you over there.

Joe Rogan 47:55 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 47:56 And I love it. I just-

Joe Rogan 47:57 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 47:58 ... love the culture and the people.

Joe Rogan 47:59 I did that too. Ari and I did the comedy store in Sydney on, uh, Sunday night on a whim. The fights took place early in the day so that it could be on-

Dom Irrera 48:07 Oh, wow.

Joe Rogan 48:07 ... UFC Pay-Per-View.

Dom Irrera 48:08 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 48:09 And so we called up the comedy store and said, "Hey, can we do an impromptu show tonight and we'll just put it up on Twitter?" And they said, "All right, hold on. We'll just call you right back. All right, we're doing it. Let's do it."

Dom Irrera 48:17 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:17 And so we put it on Twitter and then Ari and I went and did a show that night.

Dom Irrera 48:21 And the kid- they, they came, huh?

Joe Rogan 48:22 Yeah, it was packed. Yeah. It was awesome.

Dom Irrera 48:24 Isn't that cool that you have a draw? Like, you helped me get a draw in Australia. Isn't that amazing?

Joe Rogan 48:28 Crazy.

Dom Irrera 48:29 Yeah, I mean, when I was, you know, when I started out, like, if you get on The Tonight Show, that would be the first time the whole, all of America saw you.

Joe Rogan 48:37 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 48:37 But the whole world, not like this. The whole world hears this.

Joe Rogan 48:42 Yeah, this is weird.

Dom Irrera 48:42 It's incredible.

Joe Rogan 48:42 This thing's got its own life.

Dom Irrera 48:44 I remember when one of the-

Joe Rogan 48:45 I'm just here working the wheel.

Dom Irrera 48:46 ... I was at your house one day when it, when it, kinda like you had started, but you said you feel... I forget what, what the exact word, but b- a, a momentum going. When you felt... You, you knew something was... Something, uh, incredible was gonna happen with this show. Do you remember that?

Joe Rogan 49:01 Well-

Dom Irrera 49:01 That you just had the... You told me you have a feeling, and you weren't bragging, not at all, but you were just, like, uh, going with the energy of it, you know?

Joe Rogan 49:08 Well, I, I was, I was saying that I felt like there's something going on.

Dom Irrera 49:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:13 Like, this show, like, it was just starting to pick up momentum then, and I was like, "There's something going on here." And then I was thinking about what the potential of this was. And at the time, when we first started, there wasn't that many people listening to podcasts. It was very small.

Dom Irrera 49:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:27 And, uh, we were also streaming live on YouT- UStream, and there wasn't that many people listening to that either, or watching that. But I was like, "But this keeps growing." And I, and I knew that I was very interested in doing it, so I knew I was gonna get-

Dom Irrera 49:39 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:39 ... better at it, and I was always trying to figure out what, what ways I could do it better, how to get outta my own way, how to not talk over people, knowing when to talk, when not to talk.

Dom Irrera 49:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:50 I, I had to figure that out.

Dom Irrera 49:51 No, it's tricky.

Joe Rogan 49:52 It is tricky.

Dom Irrera 49:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:53 It's tricky to, um, l- to p-... You, you have to put yourself in the seat of the person that's listening, and I think listening to podcasts helps that as well.

Dom Irrera 50:03 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:03 And listening to things that you don't enjoy. See, 'cause one of the things that Stephen King always says about writing is that you should write, but you should also read.

Dom Irrera 50:10 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 50:10 You should read a lot. I think that's the case with podcasts too. I think that's the case with standup as well. I think listening to other standup is good, as long as you're not getting ideas from them.

Dom Irrera 50:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:21 You know, as long as you're just enjoying it, like what... The, the good feeling that you get-

Dom Irrera 50:25 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 50:25 ... from watching standup, watching someone kill. You know? It's like, I, I get inspired by it and it makes me... And then I see things maybe where they're a little clunky in someone's act-

Dom Irrera 50:35 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 50:36 ... and I'm like, "Oh, they need to clean that up."

Dom Irrera 50:37 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:37 "Or tighten this up." And it makes me more cognizant about those flaws in my own act, and makes me more, more self-aware.

Dom Irrera 50:45 Yeah, I love to watch, uh, like, say, like, Chris Rock when he does something and then two weeks later, it works.

Joe Rogan 50:51 Yeah, yeah.

Dom Irrera 50:51 And you see him and, and-

Joe Rogan 50:52 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 50:52 ... and you, you know he's got a germ of something there, but he's so good at putting it... You know, setting it up to, to be a potentially great bit, you know?

Joe Rogan 50:59 Well, he's one of the all-time greats for a reason, and one of the reasons is he's a real craftsman. He's a real artist.

Dom Irrera 51:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:05 You know? Chris will go in there and he will... He's not just trying to kill every time he goes on stage, you know? He's, he's trying to develop material.

Dom Irrera 51:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:16 He's using that time, and it, it's a very valuable thing for him, you know?

Dom Irrera 51:21 Well, I, I really believe that this generation is better than the generation I started with, and only because they got to see them and, or grow from them.

Joe Rogan 51:30 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 51:31 You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan 51:31 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 51:31 Like, you had to have somebody in the middle, because, I mean, honestly, you know... You and Bill, to me, I take you and Bill over Pryor and, uh, Carlin.

Joe Rogan 51:40 That's sacrilege. That was-

Dom Irrera 51:41 No, I'm s- I'm serious.

Joe Rogan 51:42 ... one of the worst.

Dom Irrera 51:42 I stand up... But, you know, and, and I'm not saying that 'cause you're my friend and we're here. I'm saying it because just... I, I seen these guys, and I loved... I loved them, you know? I mean, I was, uh, one of those kids that, you know, grew up watching them, but I think you just, uh... You know, th- this... Your generation is taking it to a different level.

Joe Rogan 51:59 There's a... There's definitely a benefit in being able to see the people before you, for sure.

Dom Irrera 52:03 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:03 I've, I've learned a lot watching other comedy, work- watching people, just getting... Uh, you know, we were talking yesterday about Richard Jeni, that, um, I think, um-

Dom Irrera 52:12 Brilliant writer.

Joe Rogan 52:13 Oh, he was so good. Well, one-

Dom Irrera 52:14 Every time I see a man with sand- sandals, I think of him.

Joe Rogan 52:17 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 52:17 Just... "How you doing there, Spartacus?"

Joe Rogan 52:19 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 52:20 Something like that (laughs) .

Joe Rogan 52:21 Yeah, um, he, uh... I was listening to one of his, uh, recordings on the way home, uh, A Big Steaming Pile of Me, like, uh, I don't know, it was at least a year ago. It was probably more. But I remember, like, getting a noticeable bump in my writing after I listened to it 'cause it was so inspiring.

Dom Irrera 52:38 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:39 And that... I think that's a giant advantage that we have today with, like, YouTube and iTunes-

Dom Irrera 52:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:46 ... and things along those lines, where you can listen to anything you want. Like, and go back and... I was listening to an old Woody Allen recording the other day, just in my car driving around listening to Woody Allen do standup in the 1960s.

Dom Irrera 52:57 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:57 You could tell he was a fucking pervert even back then.

Dom Irrera 52:59 Well, you know what? There was a line...

Joe Rogan 53:01 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 53:01 There was a line in Love and Death (laughs) .

Joe Rogan 53:03 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 53:03 There was a line in Love and Death. Remember Love and Death?

Joe Rogan 53:05 Yes.

Dom Irrera 53:07 And Diane Keaton goes to this high priest and she steps on his beard, you know, this very funny scene. And he says, "The most beautiful thing in the world is a 12-year-old girl, blonde hair, preferably twins." Right? And this is all this perverted things. I'm thinking-

Joe Rogan 53:22 Yeah. ... "This... Who?"

Dom Irrera 53:22 Wow.

Joe Rogan 53:22 This happened 20 years bef- 25 years before he got accused of anything.

Dom Irrera 53:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:27 You know? But it was just interesting hearing it, 'cause he, he did a couple... He did it even in Manhattan with, uh, Hemingway. It was a little bit, a little bit twisted, you know? I don't remember Manhattan very much.

Dom Irrera 53:38 Well, he falls in love and she falls in love with him. She's, like, supposed to be 16 and he's 18.

Joe Rogan 53:42 Oh, Jesus Christ.

Dom Irrera 53:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:45 Well, isn't that something that people tend to do? They try to normalize whatever fucked up perversion they have-

Dom Irrera 53:51 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:51 ... and, and they put it into art? Like, that was one of the things that they were accusing Louis C.K. of-

Dom Irrera 53:56 Right.

Joe Rogan 53:56 ... with this movie that he released right before it came out that he was jerking off in front of a bunch of people.

Dom Irrera 54:03 Oh.

Joe Rogan 54:03 That he had this movie, and part of the movie was just talking about how everyone's a pervert. We're all perverts.

Dom Irrera 54:10 Well, I'll tell you something off the air.

Joe Rogan 54:11 Okay.

Dom Irrera 54:11 When we get off, remi- I'm gonna tell ya-

Joe Rogan 54:13 Okay.

Dom Irrera 54:13 ... I don't wanna say it on the air.

Joe Rogan 54:13 I'm writing it down. Off the Air-

Dom Irrera 54:16 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:16 ... with Dom Irrera. That's your new show.

Dom Irrera 54:18 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:18 Off the Air with Dom Irrera (laughs) .

Dom Irrera 54:20 All I do is burn people and-

Joe Rogan 54:22 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 54:22 ... l- lose any contacts they've ever had (laughs) .

Joe Rogan 54:25 (laughs) "Hey, is this thing on? It's not?"

Dom Irrera 54:27 It's not (laughs) .

Joe Rogan 54:27 "Good. Let me tell you a story." (laughs)

Dom Irrera 54:29 I got a good one, man.

Joe Rogan 54:30 Okay.

Dom Irrera 54:30 Actually, the night that he went... Or the, the day after he went, I went on stage. I got... I said, "I'm so excited. I got a part in Louis, uh, C.K.'s new TV show. Should shoot in about 10, 15 years."

Joe Rogan 54:42 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 54:42 (laughs) And it took 'em a beat, then they got it.... yeah.

Joe Rogan 54:46 I, I think he'll be back in a year.

Dom Irrera 54:48 Well, you know what, Joe? He has that advantage of ... He was the one that created the idea of selling your own thing, right? I mean-

Joe Rogan 54:53 Yes.

Dom Irrera 54:53 So he can do that.

Joe Rogan 54:54 (sighs)

Dom Irrera 54:55 He doesn't need a producer for that.

Joe Rogan 54:56 That's true. That's true. Um-

Dom Irrera 54:58 You'd have him on this show, right?

Joe Rogan 55:00 I would 100% have him on.

Dom Irrera 55:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:02 Yeah. Um, I think he's a different person than when he did those things. I think what ... Those things that he did, jerking off in front of a bunch of people is terrible, and I think, uh, he probably had an idea in his head of what those things were and of who he was and who he would be. And I think a lot of your self-definitions, a lot of times, um, are based on, uh, this very limited idea of who you are, very limited idea of who you're going to be.

Dom Irrera 55:28 Right.

Joe Rogan 55:28 And he's, like, wallowing in his own weirdness-

Dom Irrera 55:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 55:31 ... and just wants to jerk off in front of somebody.

Dom Irrera 55:32 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:33 You know, it's ... Out of all the offenses of things you could do to someone, it's one of the least egregious, 'cause he's not raping. He's not-

Dom Irrera 55:40 As long as he didn't lock the door.

Joe Rogan 55:42 He's not ... Yeah, he didn't lock the door. He's not doing anything awful to someone. He's just doing something weird in front of them.

Dom Irrera 55:48 I think it's beautiful.

Joe Rogan 55:49 Do you?

Dom Irrera 55:50 (laughs) No.

Joe Rogan 55:50 No, I don't think it's beautiful. There's a lot of things that I think are beautiful.

Dom Irrera 55:53 I think it's ape-like.

Joe Rogan 55:54 It's definitely ape-like. Well, it's, it's human-like.

Dom Irrera 55:57 "Then I batted it out of the air."

Joe Rogan 55:59 'Cause a, an ape doesn't really care if you're jerking o- ... if you're watching when he's jerking off.

Dom Irrera 56:02 No, he could be-

Joe Rogan 56:03 Like a person.

Dom Irrera 56:03 He could be eating and jerking off at the same time.

Joe Rogan 56:05 Yeah, banana in one hand-

Dom Irrera 56:06 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 56:06 ... banana in the other. Get it? Hey.

Dom Irrera 56:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:09 Hey. ƒ%$#%$#. See what I did there?

Dom Irrera 56:12 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 56:12 Yeah, um, out of all the things that he did. And I think that his apology p- pretty ... Was p- ... What's a way to look at it? Um, I think it was honest, and I think it, it sort of explained how his mind worked and why he did it in the first place. It's not ... He's ... It's obviously not something he's proud of.

Dom Irrera 56:32 No.

Joe Rogan 56:32 It's obviously something he's disgusted by himself. And you can't ... Here's the thing. You jerk off in front of someone 10 years ago, how do you fix that?

Dom Irrera 56:40 Uh-

Joe Rogan 56:40 You don't do it again.

Dom Irrera 56:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:40 And he hasn't done it again. Here's the thing. No one's saying he's done anything in a long time. Like, all the accusations were like ... I wanna say they were from ... They were from years ago, right? What do you do? Like, how do you fix that? Like, so let's say you did jerk off in front of a few people, Dom. Like, you know, like, I don't know what came over-

Dom Irrera 57:00 I jerked off in front of a blind lady. Is that, is that still count?

Joe Rogan 57:03 It depends on how good her hearing is.

Dom Irrera 57:05 Oh, you're right. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 57:06 If she's hearing ... (imitates squeaking)

Dom Irrera 57:07 If ... (laughs) Yeah, you're right.

Joe Rogan 57:09 She's like, "What are you doing over there, Dom?"

Dom Irrera 57:12 My bad.

Joe Rogan 57:12 "Nothing, nothing." (imitates moaning)

Dom Irrera 57:15 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 57:16 (laughs) And she has to guess. It's all fucking guesswork. Uh, what do you ... How do you fix that? Like, what does a guy do to fix that? I mean, I think out of all the people ... Like, how the fuck would you rehabilitate Harvey Weinstein? How do you let Harvey Weinstein-

Dom Irrera 57:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 57:30 ... around a woman again? How do you, how do you leave Harvey Weinstein in a hotel room-

Dom Irrera 57:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 57:34 ... with a woman who comes in for a meeting or an office?

Dom Irrera 57:36 Ko- Cosby's was the worst, though.

Joe Rogan 57:37 He's the worst. He's the worst. I don't think you could rehabilitate him. How-

Dom Irrera 57:40 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 57:40 What do you do? How do you f- ... How do you, uh, how do you fix that? The only way Cosby gets rehabilitated, um-

Dom Irrera 57:46 B-

Joe Rogan 57:46 I mean, not really rehabilitated, but the only way he gets reintroduced into society is if everyone believes those girls are lying.

Dom Irrera 57:52 Oh, that's impossible.

Joe Rogan 57:52 And that's never gonna happen. It's impossible, 'cause everybody heard those stories a long time ago.

Dom Irrera 57:56 Yeah. When I ... I did Star Search in, like, '83, and he was the, uh, guest host, and we were hearing shit about him on the set then.

Joe Rogan 58:05 Really?

Dom Irrera 58:06 About womanizing and stuff. Yeah, I mean, of course not, not as extremist, uh-

Joe Rogan 58:09 Drugging.

Dom Irrera 58:10 ... drugg- drugging them-

Joe Rogan 58:10 Right.

Dom Irrera 58:11 ... and, and raping them.

Joe Rogan 58:12 But, like, if you're a guy like Louis C.K., how do you ... What do you do? Like, what would he ... What could he have done before the story came out that he's doing that to girls? What, what could he have done to, to make amends? I mean, what could he have done? He said sorry to some of the people.

Dom Irrera 58:28 I don't know. Why are you looking at me like that?

Joe Rogan 58:30 I don't ... I'm just trying to think.

Dom Irrera 58:31 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 58:32 I'm just trying ... Um, you're my friend. I'm looking at you. You're right there.

Dom Irrera 58:35 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 58:35 But it's, uh ... (laughs) I'm just thinking, like, what would one do? I mean, it seems like ... Let's ... I mean, I'm not exonerating him, right? But it seems like all these years since then, he hasn't done it again, right? So if he hasn't done it again, he must understand that there's something wrong with it.

Dom Irrera 58:52 Yeah, right.

Joe Rogan 58:53 That there's some weird compulsion and-

Dom Irrera 58:56 And it had to be a power thing, 'cause if it ... Anybody can get a hooker-

Joe Rogan 58:59 Right.

Dom Irrera 58:59 ... and do that.

Joe Rogan 59:00 Mm-hmm.

Dom Irrera 59:00 You know?

Joe Rogan 59:02 Well, here's the thing. He was probably doing that too.

Dom Irrera 59:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 59:06 I mean, if he liked jerking off in front of people, he might've just liked jerking off in front of all kinds of people. He might've jerked off in front of hookers too. I mean, I'm ... I don't know.

Dom Irrera 59:14 Right.

Joe Rogan 59:15 But we know that he did it in front of women that really didn't want him to do that.

Dom Irrera 59:18 That's, that's what I thought might be part of the kinkiness of it.

Joe Rogan 59:20 Yeah. But there's some stories of him doing it in front of women and they thought it was hilarious. Uh, he did it-

Dom Irrera 59:26 Well-

Joe Rogan 59:26 ... in front of some female comics-

Dom Irrera 59:27 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:27 ... and they thought it was hilarious.

Dom Irrera 59:29 How do you stay hard when they're laughing?

Joe Rogan 59:31 You gotta be a real animal.

Dom Irrera 59:33 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:34 It's better than ... Better man than me, Dom.

Dom Irrera 59:36 But I did a line ... (laughs) Joe, I don't know what you think of this line, but, uh, Woody Allen, uh, I said, uh ... Mentioned him on stage and these women started booing. I said, "Why are you booing?" And they said because of what he did and the daughter and all this. I, I said, "Look, I don't know." I said, "But one thing you gotta admit, he, he really must love her 'cause it's not like she's hot." You know?

Joe Rogan 59:55 (sighs)

Dom Irrera 59:55 I know, but that got a laugh. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 59:59 (laughs) When we get off stage, I'll tell you, uh, one of Tony Hinchcliffe's new bit. I can't say it on stage, but I'll, I'll tell you on stage when you tell me your thing on stage?

Dom Irrera 1:00:07 What, uh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:08 Tony Hinchcliffe, uh, has a new bit that's fucking ruthless and killed me, and we came up with it in the car this weekend. We were on a road trip and, uh, we were talking about something and he said it, and, uh, I, I fucking died. I said, "You gotta say that on stage." He goes, "Seriously?"

Dom Irrera 1:00:23 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:23 I go, "You gotta say that on stage."

Dom Irrera 1:00:25 Yeah, he's funny.

Joe Rogan 1:00:25 I, I'll tell you. He did it last night and the room fucking exploded.

Dom Irrera 1:00:29 You gotta come back and do the show when I do it.

Joe Rogan 1:00:31 What show?

Dom Irrera 1:00:32 His show.

Joe Rogan 1:00:32 His show?

Dom Irrera 1:00:33 Kill Tony.

Joe Rogan 1:00:34 Kill Tony? I don't like to work Monday nights.

Dom Irrera 1:00:36 Oh, yeah. Well, you gotta-

Joe Rogan 1:00:36 I have a schedule now.

Dom Irrera 1:00:37 No, you gotta see the family. I agree.

Joe Rogan 1:00:39 Yeah, but I have a schedule now, on Monday-

Dom Irrera 1:00:41 Sundays and Mondays-

Joe Rogan 1:00:42 Sunday n- ... Yeah, Sundays and Mondays is ex- extreme family time. I just-

Dom Irrera 1:00:46 Good.

Joe Rogan 1:00:46 I don't do jack shit.

Dom Irrera 1:00:47 No, because you won't have these days and they, and they grow up so fast. Not to get corny, but enjoy them.

Joe Rogan 1:00:51 It's true. Yeah, it's true. Um, I'm enjoying it. I'm ...I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life.

Dom Irrera 1:00:57 Good. That's great to hear that.

Joe Rogan 1:00:59 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 1:01:00 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:00 And I'm also, I think I'm a nicer person now than I've ever been in my life.

Dom Irrera 1:01:03 Way little, way, way, way nicer? Geez.

Joe Rogan 1:01:06 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 1:01:06 Don't have much to compare with. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:07 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 1:01:08 You little prick.

Joe Rogan 1:01:10 Well, I think it just makes you, uh, you know, Dave Chappelle said this to me once, and I think it was a really great quote. He said, "Not only has having children made me, um, made me love someone more than I ever thought I could, it's changed my capacity for love."

Dom Irrera 1:01:24 Oh, that's cool, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:25 Yeah. He's like, "My capacity for love is much greater." I'm like, "That makes sense." Like, you realize, like, eh, a lot of our struggles and a lot of the shit that we, we go through in this life, it's, uh, a lot of it is about perspective, and a lot of it is about who's around you and what kind of loving environment you're around. And it's also having kids and not having the strain, the financial strain, the emotional strain, and the ignorant strain that my parents had and their parents had. Like, i-ignorance is a big thing too.

Dom Irrera 1:01:58 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:58 Like, they didn't know how to raise kids back then.

Dom Irrera 1:02:00 Of course not.

Joe Rogan 1:02:01 They hit us. They, you know, they yelled at us and they didn't know ... I- my mom didn't hit me, but, you know, it was a common thing for people to hit their kids.

Dom Irrera 1:02:08 Yeah. I remember Bruce Willis said to me one time, to be a name dropper, uh, uh, he said that, you know, one of the things about having kids, he goes, his little girl, I forget the middle, middle one's name, and he said, "She would wake me up to walk her to the bathroom, and, and, and to her, I wasn't a movie star. I wasn't any ... I, I was daddy-"

Joe Rogan 1:02:26 Right.

Dom Irrera 1:02:26 ... who's, because she's afraid of the dark, walking her in, you know?

Joe Rogan 1:02:29 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 1:02:30 And he said that really ma- it made, it humanized him. It made him feel good 'cause, you know, you know what it's like. You get stroked all the time. It's like sometimes you just wanna be normal.

Joe Rogan 1:02:38 Well, not only that. When Bruce Willis was famous, there was way less famous people because there was no famous internet personalities.

Dom Irrera 1:02:47 Right.

Joe Rogan 1:02:47 There was no famous reality TV stars. There was way less famous rappers and there was way less famous comedians.

Dom Irrera 1:02:54 Well-

Joe Rogan 1:02:54 Think of how few famous comedians there were.

Dom Irrera 1:02:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:02:56 Back in the day.

Dom Irrera 1:02:56 Well, that's why we all, like me and Dice and guys that were on Rodney's specials, we were really fucking lucky.

Joe Rogan 1:03:02 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 1:03:02 Because we became instant draws.

Joe Rogan 1:03:04 I, I paid to see you-

Dom Irrera 1:03:06 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:03:06 ... after you, uh, were on, uh, Rodney's special.

Dom Irrera 1:03:08 Yeah, you at Nick's, right?

Joe Rogan 1:03:09 I, yeah, I went to see you at Nick's, and I went to see you two nights in a row 'cause one night I thought you were supposed to be there, and either you missed your flight or something happened and Denis Leary was there instead.

Dom Irrera 1:03:19 Uh-huh.

Joe Rogan 1:03:19 And I was like, "What the fuck?"

Dom Irrera 1:03:21 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:21 And so we came back the next day and we saw you again. But, um-

Dom Irrera 1:03:24 W- who were you with?

Joe Rogan 1:03:25 A, a girl that I was dating. Her name was Stephanie. She was, uh, she used to tell me what to do. She was older.

Dom Irrera 1:03:31 Oh, really? (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:32 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 1:03:32 She was the, the dominant one?

Joe Rogan 1:03:34 She was. It was the first girl. She was 25, I was 21.

Dom Irrera 1:03:37 She's sick.

Joe Rogan 1:03:38 She liked the dick, though. I'll tell you that. Woo.

Dom Irrera 1:03:41 Like a bit, a little bit of the old Schlesinger?

Joe Rogan 1:03:44 (laughs)

Dom Irrera 1:03:44 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:44 Well, that was what was exciting about it. She was the first woman I dated. Like, you know, she was a woman.

Dom Irrera 1:03:50 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:03:50 Like I had dated girls before that. That girl was a woman and, you know, she was fucking smart too.

Dom Irrera 1:03:55 I prefer girls who are a woman's age.

Joe Rogan 1:03:57 Yeah.

Dom Irrera 1:03:59 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:59 Yeah. She was, um, she was just intense. She'd tell me what to do with standup too. She'd give me standup advice.

Dom Irrera 1:04:06 Really?

Joe Rogan 1:04:06 Yeah. It's kind of hilarious.

Dom Irrera 1:04:07 I saw that Seinfeld episode where the girl broke up with him because of his act.

Joe Rogan 1:04:11 Oh, really?

Dom Irrera 1:04:11 And I'm sitting there, "That is so fucking funny."

Joe Rogan 1:04:13 No, no, no.

Dom Irrera 1:04:13 She goes, uh, "I, I don't think this is gonna work." He goes, "Why? We're having a great time." She says, "Well, your act what the ... Did you ever notice?" You know. She goes, "That's not my style of comedy." He goes, "You're breaking up with me because of my act?" She goes, "Yes, I am." (laughs) And that was the end of the f- that was the end of the show.

Joe Rogan 1:04:27 That's hilarious. Well, if you were a girl and you were a huge comedy fan, like imagine if you were a girl and you just, you love Chappelle and Bill Burr and Dom Irrera and Duncan Trussell and Joey Diaz and all these great comedians, and then you, you