Joe Rogan Experience #1729 - Gilbert Gottfried

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music)

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Hello, Gilbert.

   3. GGGilbert Gottfried0:13

      Oh, hello.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      It's a pleasure to finally meet you. I can't believe I haven't met you.

   5. GGGilbert Gottfried0:17

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      It's-

   7. GGGilbert Gottfried0:17

      I know.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      ... been a while.

   9. GGGilbert Gottfried0:18

      Tha- Yeah, I don't think... Yeah, I don't think we've ever met.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       No, it's, uh... We just must have just missed each other at every club.

   11. GGGilbert Gottfried0:26

       Yeah. Yeah, like, I-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       Which is kinda crazy.

   13. GGGilbert Gottfried0:29

       Y- Yes, and we haven't even run into each other at the morning radio, uh, stations-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       No, nothing.

   15. GGGilbert Gottfried0:36

       ... where I'll, I'll usually run into comics.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Yeah.

   17. GGGilbert Gottfried0:40

       You know, doing like Captain Bob and Crazy Jim in his morning zoo.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:45

       Yeah, those are a lot of fun.

   19. GGGilbert Gottfried0:46

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Are those s- around anymore? You still do those things?

   21. GGGilbert Gottfried0:49

       I don't... Uh, is radio totally dead now?

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       It's not dead, but it's definitely on life support.

   23. GGGilbert Gottfried0:54

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       It's just, they're censored, you know? It's... And it's, you know, local, it's only like a, a small round arrange, unless you're on satellite radio. And satellite radio's kinda odd too, 'cause there's the internet. You can't really... You know, satellite radio is, it's hard for them to compete with the internet.

   25. GGGilbert Gottfried1:12

       So, uh, radio's on life support, and movies are on life support.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       (clicks tongue) Movies are doing good apparently.

   27. GGGilbert Gottfried1:20

       Yeah?

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       People are going to the movies. These reckless young folks, they don't give a fuck about diseases.

   29. GGGilbert Gottfried1:24

       Yeah. No, I, I think even before, even before like it was, uh, e- the pandemic, movies, you know, they've got to that point where it's like, a movie would be in theaters and also, uh, at, at home on TV, so-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) Exactly. You have…

   1. GGGilbert Gottfried15:00

      ask you something, was this the first show or the second?" (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      (laughs) Exactly. You have one flubbed line, it'll haunt you for the rest of the night, like, "Oh."

   3. GGGilbert Gottfried15:17

      Yeah. And it, and it is like the difference between first and second, it's like you don't know. One, it could be tremendous, and, uh, the other one, it'll be like, uh, "You know, I, I, I fooled them long enough-"

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:34

      (coughs) Yeah.

   5. GGGilbert Gottfried15:35

      "... and I shouldn't be in this business."

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:36

      Are you, uh, working the road now? Are you doing the road these days?

   7. GGGilbert Gottfried15:40

      More and more.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:41

      Yeah?

   9. GGGilbert Gottfried15:42

      Yeah. Yeah. I'm going back to does, yeah, flying and whatever.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       You moved out of the city?

   11. GGGilbert Gottfried15:50

       Uh, yeah, I'm in Florida now, let's-

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       What is that like? You're a, like, lifetime New Yorker, right?

   13. GGGilbert Gottfried15:54

       Yeah, well, yeah. So then now I'm going where Jews go to die. (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       (laughs) What part of Florida are you in?

   15. GGGilbert Gottfried16:03

       Uh, in Boca Raton.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       Oh.

   17. GGGilbert Gottfried16:05

       Re- real, uh-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       Real Florida?

   19. GGGilbert Gottfried16:07

       Yeah, real heaven's waiting for me. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       (laughs) What is it like down there?

   21. GGGilbert Gottfried16:12

       I, the heat is intolerable and, uh, oh, there in, in, uh, in Aladdin, there was a line in the original song when they sing Arabian Nights, uh, where, where, uh, where he sings where they cut off, uh, where they cut off your nose if they don't like your face, it's barbaric, but hey, it's home. That was the line in, the original line in it. And they had to change that and they changed it to where the land is, uh, immense and the heat is intense. It's barbaric-

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:57

       Really?

   23. GGGilbert Gottfried16:57

       ... but it, yeah, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:59

       So the original Aladdin, was it a musical? Or...

   25. GGGilbert Gottfried17:02

       Uh, yeah, yeah, well, yeah-

   26. JRJoe Rogan17:03

       What was it? The movie?

   27. GGGilbert Gottfried17:04

       No, the one that I did, I was in, yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan17:06

       Oh, okay.

   29. GGGilbert Gottfried17:06

       It was, yeah, but it had songs in it.

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:08

       So, and, but the song, was it an old song?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah. …

   1. GGGilbert Gottfried30:00

      would, they... You... After a while they were doing identical plots from one to the next with one or two scenes changed.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      Yeah.

   3. GGGilbert Gottfried30:09

      But, yeah, I used to love those. And, I mean, they were the classic ones, you know, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man. And then there would... I, I would enjoy the crappy ones too, like, uh, The Hideous Sun Demon.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:25

      Yeah, there were some bad ones.

   5. GGGilbert Gottfried30:26

      Yeah, yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:27

      The Hideous Sun Demon. I, I just remembered that one now, now that you brought it up.God, who, who was that? Who was in that movie?

   7. GGGilbert Gottfried30:33

      I don't... I don't know that anyone was known, except for, like, those, uh, D movies. (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:38

      Yeah. Those were great though. They're so... They were so dumb.

   9. GGGilbert Gottfried30:42

      Oh, y-

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       There it is. There's The Hideous Undine.

   11. GGGilbert Gottfried30:43

       Yes, yes.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       (laughs)

   13. GGGilbert Gottfried30:45

       (laughs) Look at that thing.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       (laughs)

   15. GGGilbert Gottfried30:47

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Oh, my God. That's so ridiculous. Oh, my God. Look at that thing.

   17. GGGilbert Gottfried30:51

       Yeah. It, it looks like, uh, like they put coins all over it. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       Get some, get some video of that, Jamie. We need to see that in video. God, I forgot about that movie.

   19. GGGilbert Gottfried31:00

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       That's hilarious.

   21. GGGilbert Gottfried31:01

       Yeah. Yeah. They, they pulled a switch, rather than the sun coming out and turning him into a monster.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       '59.

   23. GGGilbert Gottfried31:08

       Or rather than the moon- Yeah. ... it's the sun. Oh, it's atomic, so of course that means you-

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:13

       Of course.

   25. GGGilbert Gottfried31:14

       ... turn into... (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Yeah. They did a lot of those movies right after World War II-

   27. GGGilbert Gottfried31:18

       Oh, yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:18

       Right, right after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

   29. GGGilbert Gottfried31:20

       Well, yeah, like Godzilla-

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       Mm-hmm.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      to it, and as this thing's changing, and he falls to the ground, you see his, his hair pop up on his back. (character grunting) Fuck, this was good.

   2. GGGilbert Gottfried45:10

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      Oh, what a great movie.

   4. NANarrator45:20

      I didn't mean to call your meatloaf, Jack. (character grunting)

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:29

      It was such a great movie-

   6. GGGilbert Gottfried45:30

      Yes.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:30

      ... because it was a combination of comedy and horror.

   8. GGGilbert Gottfried45:33

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:33

      But it was both. It was both actually really funny and really fucking scary.

   10. GGGilbert Gottfried45:37

       Yes.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       Oh my God, what a great scene.

   12. GGGilbert Gottfried45:42

       Uh-huh.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       Yeah, and completely well lit. Look at that. Fucking amazing movie. Oh, you have to turn the music off?

   14. GGGilbert Gottfried45:53

       Oh, th- that-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       Oh, yeah, I did it.

   16. GGGilbert Gottfried45:53

       ... that was once a case of like, uh...

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       And then the face, when his face stretches out.

   18. GGGilbert Gottfried46:03

       Oh, yes, that's this.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       Yeah. I mean, Rick Baker's a fucking genius. Imagine being able to do this in like, what was it, 1980 something?

   20. GGGilbert Gottfried46:12

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:18

       I mean, there was nothing like this before this.

   22. GGGilbert Gottfried46:21

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       It was so revolutionary.

   24. GGGilbert Gottfried46:23

       Yeah. These, these came out at the same time, this one and The Howling.

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:27

       Yeah.

   26. GGGilbert Gottfried46:27

       Both were.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       I think this one came out first.

   28. GGGilbert Gottfried46:29

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:29

       If I'm r- and I think this was so successful that it sort of ignited this desire for, uh, werewolf movies.

   30. GGGilbert Gottfried46:38

       Oh, and then there's, uh, a dopey horror film that I, I think it's called The Beast Within.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   Yeah, I would think…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

   2. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:00

      Yeah, I would think so. Maybe, maybe it was, could've been even in the '60s. I don't know when Improv started.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      And then Catch a Rising Star came after that. That was the first place I did in the city.

   4. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:13

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:14

      And then, um, there was all the other ones, you know, The Cellar and, uh-

   6. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:18

      Oh, yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

      ... Dangerfield's. I heard Dangerfield's went under recently.

   8. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:20

      Oh, yes, just recently. I was in New York, and we were in a cab, and I looked out the window, and there's that big awning of Dangerfield's, and it said, like, "Room," uh, you know, "space for rent."

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:37

      Isn't that crazy?

   10. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:37

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       That place was always so weird. Like, it was never really packed.

   12. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:42

       Yes.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       But it was a great room.

   14. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:44

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:45

       It was an amazing room.

   16. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:46

       Like, I'm wondering if his mob (laughs) friends were doing business there.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       Most likely. It's, I mean-

   18. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:52

       Well, that, another thing I always thought mob, uh, Grandpa Munster-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       Yes.

   20. GGGilbert Gottfried1:00:58

       ... had his own restaurant.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

       Yeah, Grandpa's.

   22. GGGilbert Gottfried1:01:01

       And, yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       It was in Staten Island.

   24. GGGilbert Gottfried1:01:02

       And, and that place, I, I always think, uh, "Eh, I'm-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       Maybe.

   26. GGGilbert Gottfried1:01:06

       ... sure, yeah." (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:10

       Yeah. (laughs)

   28. GGGilbert Gottfried1:01:10

       Oh, and-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:10

       They knew some friends.

   30. GGGilbert Gottfried1:01:11

       And, and, uh, uh, the chief from, uh, Gilligan's Island. He ha- he had his own restaurant.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:28:08

   Yes. …

   1. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:00

      people the news." And it's like, if it's a b- I, I, I, it, I understood it exactly, 'cause if it's a bit you've been doing for a while, you know, like, rah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, and then you gotta go, "Oh, wait, wait. Let me actually, uh, perform this." (laughs) Rather than-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:15:19

      Yes.

   3. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:20

      ... yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:15:21

      Yeah. Well, you got... The thing about comedy to me has always been, if I care about what I'm saying, then it's gonna be good.

   5. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:27

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:15:28

      But if I don't care about what I'm saying, I'm, it's g- the audience are gonna know.

   7. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:31

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:15:32

      They smell it.

   9. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:32

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:15:32

       They smell it. Right?

   11. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:34

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:15:35

       When you were 15, when you started, uh, had you been a fan of watching comedy before you did it? Like...

   13. GGGilbert Gottfried1:15:40

       Well, I, I was a fan of just, I was just a fan of show business and a- actors and comics and, uh, so I started watching people on TV and imitating them. And so, when I first, the first, uh, couple of years, like maybe two, three years that I was doing it, I wasn't that different than like, you know, when they used to have impressionists, you know? Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, uh...

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:16:14

       Yeah.

   15. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:14

       Will Jordan. And, you know, that, uh, hey, you know, which was always like, "Ah, and imagine if your waiter was Cary Grant. It-"

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:16:26

       Yeah.

   17. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:26

       "... might go something (laughs) like this."

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:16:28

       That was a lot of people's act back then.

   19. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:31

       Yes.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:16:31

       Yeah.

   21. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:31

       And, and you don't see, with the exception of Las Vegas, you'll see impressionists.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:16:37

       Yeah.

   23. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:38

       But you, you don't see them on TV. There used to be all those guys.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:16:42

       There used to be prop guys too.

   25. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:43

       Yes. Yes.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:16:45

       Yeah. But then Carrot Top became so successful...

   27. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:48

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:16:49

       ... that like, he owns props now.

   29. GGGilbert Gottfried1:16:50

       Yes.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:16:51

       He's the only prop guy.

Episode duration: 3:02:47