Joe Rogan Experience #1868 - Sam Morrill

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. SMSam Morril0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) What's happening, brother? We're up and rolling.

   4. SMSam Morril0:14

      Thanks for having me.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Pleasure to meet you finally.

   6. SMSam Morril0:16

      I know. This is, uh, I'm excited to be here.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      You're one of my favorite guys.

   8. SMSam Morril0:20

      Really? Thank you.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yeah. You're, there's this group of guys that are coming up that are so good right now. I feel like this is a great time for, like, fresh, up-and-coming comedy talent. It's like there's so many guys who've been doing comedy, like, 15-plus years who are just fucking starting to crack, you know?

   10. SMSam Morril0:39

       Yeah. Our group is, like, really, you know, my closest friends are ... They work their ass off, so that makes me work my ass off.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   12. SMSam Morril0:46

       I love it.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       I love it too. That's, that's so important. We were talking about Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis has this fucking bit last night about George Washington that's so good.

   14. SMSam Morril0:56

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       It's so good. Like, I was watching, I was going, "Goddamn, this is great," 'cause it's like a perfect bit that combines his love of history-

   16. SMSam Morril1:05

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       ... with just, like, Shane, you know? Like, his-

   18. SMSam Morril1:08

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       The way he acts things out-

   20. SMSam Morril1:09

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:09

       ... and he's just like, "I don't want to give up, any of it up. It's so fucking funny." (laughs)

   22. SMSam Morril1:13

       There's nothing worse than trying to paraphrase another comic's bit that they're working on, and then they're like, "Why did you do that? You made my bit unfunny?"

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       I would ruin it-

   24. SMSam Morril1:20

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       ... and I'd give it away. And on top of that, it's like, it's very physical. You, you have to see it if you see ... It's-

   26. SMSam Morril1:26

       He's, he's a rare combination of a great joke writer, but also a great performer.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:30

       Yeah.

   28. SMSam Morril1:30

       I mean, when he did Trump speed dating in that sketch?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:33

       (laughs)

   30. SMSam Morril1:33

       That was like ... I was like, I'm, I don't like Trump impressions. I think they're kind of an easy impression.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) …

   1. SMSam Morril15:00

      that fucking coffee down."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      (laughs)

   3. SMSam Morril15:02

      How cool is that to do that to your ... It's like, it's like doing it, like, to you, you'd do that, like, to like George Carlin or something.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      Right. Yeah.

   5. SMSam Morril15:08

      It's so cool.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Yeah.

   7. SMSam Morril15:09

      Jack fucking Lemmon.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Yeah.

   9. SMSam Morril15:11

      That guy kicked ass.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:12

       Yeah. No shit. Fuck yeah.

   11. SMSam Morril15:13

       The Apartment, one of the greatest movies of all time.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:15

       Jack Lemmon's awesome.

   13. SMSam Morril15:16

       On that point, Billy Wilder, maybe the best American director of all time when you look at like the, the, the variety of work he did. Like, you do a movie like The Apartment, then he also did like Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard and Some Like it Hot. Like, who's making those l- like, different types of movies?

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       I don't think I've seen any of those.

   15. SMSam Morril15:34

       Oh, dude. Double Indemnity is like the best film noir ever, maybe.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Yeah?

   17. SMSam Morril15:38

       Oh, it's brilliant. Edward G Robinson and Fred MacMurray at fucking-

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Are you ... You're a big film buff?

   19. SMSam Morril15:42

       I like movies. Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       Do-

   21. SMSam Morril15:43

       I'm on the road a lot. I'm m- You know, I like to watch a g- I ... You feel better if you watch something good on the road than if I just watch some like Beat Bobby Flay horseshit.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um, d- A lot of people feel like to, to, to be entertained is actually good for the creative process.

   23. SMSam Morril16:01

       Yeah, it inspires you.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       Yeah.

   25. SMSam Morril16:02

       You know, you feel-

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       Yeah.

   27. SMSam Morril16:03

       You feel like you wanna make ... You know, like, I'm not gonna make a movie. That's not my sp- But like I watch them, like I wanna make something. I wanna make stuff, so ...

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:10

       Do you do any movie-making stuff?

   29. SMSam Morril16:13

       No.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       Do you write or anything?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. SMSam Morril30:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      (laughs)

   3. SMSam Morril30:00

      "You're not even being the right type of racist, you idiot." And then, and (laughs) , and Raul has the greatest comeback, he goes, "Airborne infantry, what tribe are you in?" And Bobby just goes, "Well played." (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      (laughs)

   5. SMSam Morril30:12

      He took his Ls, which I appreciated, but the club was gr- I mean, it's still great. It's a, it's a classic old school club. Like, I heard when Larry Miller walked in there, he just, like, walked in, and he was like... (sniffs) ... do you smell it?" Like, it was, like, one of those-

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:24

      Yeah.

   7. SMSam Morril30:25

      ... where it's like, "This is a classic club."

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:26

      Right. Like when Paul Newman in The Color of Money walks into a pool hall. (sniffs) "I smell action."

   9. SMSam Morril30:32

      Hell yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:32

       Yeah, yeah.

   11. SMSam Morril30:33

       Ah, dude, Paul Newman fucking ruled it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:35

       Oh, my God. He's one of the greats.

   13. SMSam Morril30:36

       Ugh.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:37

       He's fucking... That guy. Jesus Christ.

   15. SMSam Morril30:38

       I think I saw Handlook, like, for some reason, like, once a week. It's just, like, the coolest movie.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       Ah, he's been in so many cool movies, man.

   17. SMSam Morril30:44

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Yeah. Those old-school club owners.

   19. SMSam Morril30:47

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Did you ever do Kansas City?

   21. SMSam Morril30:49

       I've done the newer room there. I never did Sanford and Sons. I heard that's, like, uh...

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       Sanford's, like, Craig used to run S- I don't know if he's still alive anymore. But Craig also, like, promoted boxing or something like that.

   23. SMSam Morril30:59

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       He was involved in boxing DVDs 'cause he-

   25. SMSam Morril31:02

       A side hustle.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:03

       He was always, like, giving me DVDs of these boxing matches that he was a, a part of. But he had, like, the worst toupee and he sounded like Beetlejuice.

   27. SMSam Morril31:11

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:11

       He's like, "Everybody take care ƒ- ugh. Here we go. We're gonna go to this place. Ugh." And, you know, he was always trying to bang his waitresses and shit. He was hilarious.

   29. SMSam Morril31:19

       Oh, my God.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:19

       Like, "Come here. Sit on my lap."
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. He is. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      physical. He's so funny-looking, too. He's like a human cartoon.

   2. SMSam Morril45:04

      Yeah. He is.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      And he's so likable.

   4. SMSam Morril45:06

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:06

      It's like everything is going great for him.

   6. SMSam Morril45:09

      Yeah, I remember he had a story on one o-... on Ari's, uh, This Is Not Happening, that was so freaking funny. He's a great storyteller. He's, he's good at everything.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      He's also a guy that got on Saturday Night Live and was like, "Fuck this. Fuck all." He talked to his wife about it. His wife's like, "Why don't you quit?" And he's like, "Just quit Saturday Night Live? Really?"

   8. SMSam Morril45:28

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:28

      And she was like, "Yeah, get out of there. Fuck this."

   10. SMSam Morril45:30

       But that was the '90s.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:30

       You're not happy."

   12. SMSam Morril45:30

       That's when, like, you were like, "I'll get a movie deal out of th-..." Like, that... You... That w-... That was such a launching pad in the '90s.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:36

       But he walked away from all of it.

   14. SMSam Morril45:38

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:38

       Like, on purpose. Not because he didn't have prospects or talent, and not because people weren't interested in him. He's like, "Fuck that. I'm gonna live in New Jersey. I don't give a shit. I just don't fucking care. I re- really don't fucking care. I'm just gonna do standup." And that's what he did, and he still does. He's still, like, p-... one, one of the best ever.

   16. SMSam Morril45:54

       A lot of great standups don't get their shine on SNL, I feel like. You know, even, even Chris Rock's a great example. I'm like, "He was funny on SNL," but then when he left, that's when it's like, "Oh, that's Chris Rock."

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Right.

   18. SMSam Morril46:03

       You know? I feel like Colin Quinn's another one. He's so great at standup.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       Yeah.

   20. SMSam Morril46:06

       You know? So many great standup... It's... Uh, it's a hard format for a great standup, I feel like.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:11

       It's a dead format. It, like... It's, like, it's still alive, but it's not the same thing. Like, to compare that to, like, Belushi and Aykroyd in this. Like, it's not... It's not really Saturday Night Live anymore.

   22. SMSam Morril46:21

       But, you know, also never... They never get appreciated 'til, like, 20 years later, 'cause like everyone-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:25

       Yeah.

   24. SMSam Morril46:25

       ... said that cast sucked, and I, I liked them a lot. They were... I was a kid watching that. Like-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       Who said that cast sucked?

   26. SMSam Morril46:29

       Ev-... I... At the time, people were always like, "Well, they're not, uh, Phil Hartman," and... Like, whatever classes before-

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:35

       Really?

   28. SMSam Morril46:35

       Yeah. Oh, totally. Yeah. When I was a kid, I remember people being like... But I was like, "Holy shit, Will Ferrell." Like, I-

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       Yeah.

   30. SMSam Morril46:40

       I loved it. I, I thought they were great.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:02:23

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      "No."

   2. SMSam Morril1:00:00

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      "No, this is, this is it. This is it."

   4. SMSam Morril1:00:03

      And, and does what get better? Like-

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      Life.

   6. SMSam Morril1:00:05

      ... just life?

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      Yeah.

   8. SMSam Morril1:00:05

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

      I think one of the things that we have as comics that a lot of artists don't have is we have a community. We have a group that we get together and we do the thing together. You know, like last night, I was saying after the show, we had Hans Kim, Brian Simpson, David Lucas, Eddie Bravo, Tony Hinchcliffe, Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, and me, and we had the fucking best time. We were all hammered, right? 'Cause we did, we did the podcast, we all got blacked out drunk, and then we went and did Kill Tony that night, and then the next night, we all did standup together, and it was fucking magic. And I was like, "That is everything." Because it's so hard sometimes to relate to other people, like, what, what you do. You know?

   10. SMSam Morril1:00:52

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       Like, "So how do you come up with your jokes?" I'm like, "Hm, so, you know, I write-"

   12. SMSam Morril1:00:56

       I know.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       "... do stuff, I think of things."

   14. SMSam Morril1:00:58

       But it was just, like, an instant connection with comics.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       Yeah.

   16. SMSam Morril1:01:01

       I mean, like, I've never met you, you're easy to talk to, and it's, you know, it's, it's the comic thing.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       Yes.

   18. SMSam Morril1:01:06

       I know, uh, you're also, you know, you've done a lot of interviews in your day, you know how to do this, but also there's a thing past that where you're like, there is a comic connection where, like, you're in the green room, you don't know the guy opening for you, he sits down-... it's not weird usually.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:20

       Right. It's like, "Hey, what's up?"

   20. SMSam Morril1:01:21

       Yeah. It's like people know how to be, and, and-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:23

       Yeah. Where'd you start? Where are you from? You know, where, what's your opening club? Where'd you go?

   22. SMSam Morril1:01:27

       I mean, at Comedy Cellar, I remember like, at first, I was so nervous to work there because I, I had so much reverence for that club as a young New York comic. I wouldn't go there before I worked there. I was too nervous. I, I had too much respect for the club. And then when I started working there, you know, uh, she books me on these like 11:30 shows every night, and then I'm going on at 1:00 AM every night. And you're like, "Oh, shit. My lifestyle is really changing." And then I look around, I'm like, "Oh, I get to, I get to watch Dave Attell every night-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:53

       Yeah.

   24. SMSam Morril1:01:54

       ... because I'm on the late show." So you're like, "Holy shit." And then you kind of become, you know, friendly with those guys.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:02:00

       Yeah.

   26. SMSam Morril1:02:00

       And you kind of start to d- I mean, it, I learned more from watching Dave Attell than anything in comedy. Like you can't, you can't learn more than ... He's, to me, he's the best comic I've ever seen. I-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:02:10

       He's one of the greatest of all time.

   28. SMSam Morril1:02:12

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:02:12

       Unquestionably. And-

   30. SMSam Morril1:02:13

       And he's so fucking funny. Like it's-

Episode duration: 3:11:21