Joe Rogan Experience #2045 - Jimmy Carr

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays) Hey.

   3. JCJimmy Carr0:13

      Hello, Jimmy. Hey, Joe. How are ya?

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      (laughs) Good to see you, buddy.

   5. JCJimmy Carr0:16

      It's very nice to see you. This is, uh, it's a hell of a setup.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Thank you. Thank you very much.

   7. JCJimmy Carr0:20

      I'm like in Austin, Texas. I've been here about 18 hours, and, uh, it's, uh, yeah. Five stars on TripAdvisor so far.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      Did you do a set last night?

   9. JCJimmy Carr0:27

      I didn't do a set, but I went to the club.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Yeah?

   11. JCJimmy Carr0:29

       And the club is, it's phenomenal.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Thank you, thank you.

   13. JCJimmy Carr0:32

       It's almost like someone with an unlimited budget built a comedy club.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       (laughs)

   15. JCJimmy Carr0:35

       That's what it felt like, Joe. I don't know, I don't know if your business manager has a view on this.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       Yeah, I don't-

   17. JCJimmy Carr0:40

       But I think something along the lines of-

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       I'm not good at taking advice. (laughs)

   19. JCJimmy Carr0:43

       Yeah, but it's, it's so great. It's so set up from the comic's point of view.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       Yeah.

   21. JCJimmy Carr0:48

       It's like, uh, no food.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Yeah, no food.

   23. JCJimmy Carr0:51

       No food is a great choice.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       Yeah, you can have food.

   25. JCJimmy Carr0:54

       Yeah, people can eat afterwards.

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Go eat before.

   27. JCJimmy Carr0:55

       Or afterwards. Yeah, or afterwards.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Eat after, eat before. There's so many places to eat on 6th Street.

   29. JCJimmy Carr0:58

       There's a-

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       There's a nice pizza place right next door.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Magnificent. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      But it's, it's-

   2. JCJimmy Carr15:01

      Magnificent.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      I think what Dave enjoys is just the work. I mean, when you talk to him, he gets up in the morning, or whatever he gets up, he goes to the coffee shop, smokes a cigarette, drinks coffee, and starts writing.

   4. JCJimmy Carr15:14

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      Goes over the news, finds out what's going on. When he goes into a town, like say he's in Cleveland, "What's going on in Cleveland? Oh, there's a scandal with the mayor. Oh, okay. There's something going on with the roads. Oh, okay." And then he starts writing things about it. "The team sucks. Oh, let's write about that."

   6. JCJimmy Carr15:28

      But this is, this is the, the life, right? It's the-

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:30

      Yeah.

   8. JCJimmy Carr15:31

      I, I don't know. I mean, maybe he's as successful as he needs to be because really what's this about?

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:36

      Right.

   10. JCJimmy Carr15:36

       It's, it's ab- it's quite stoic, I think. I'm, I've become quite the stoic on... I like going, "Well, I... The world ordered a stand-up comedian, I need to honor that."

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Yes.

   12. JCJimmy Carr15:45

       I'm a stand-up, so anything that's not writing jokes or performing jokes is not doing the thing.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Right.

   14. JCJimmy Carr15:51

       And the thing is all I care about.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       I would add to that, that it's good to experience life too. And then I think one of the things that accentuates life is accentuating your perspective on things, and that comes from experiences. And it, there's one, one problem that some comics have where they just perform and travel all the time, and a lot of their jokes-

   16. JCJimmy Carr16:11

       Airplane material.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       Yeah.

   18. JCJimmy Carr16:13

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       You know, it revolves around what they know.

   20. JCJimmy Carr16:15

       It's, it's hard, that work-life balance is very tricky. I've just, I've had kids quite late in life and work-life balance is hard, you know. You know, uh, it's, it's difficult. Being a comedian, here's the, here's the first world problem I have, um, uh, you know, work i- is, is more fun than fun.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       (laughs) Yeah. That's true.

   22. JCJimmy Carr16:32

       It's more fun than fun.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:33

       More fun than any vacation.

   24. JCJimmy Carr16:34

       What are you, what are you doing on a, on a, on a, you know, night out?

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:36

       Yeah.

   26. JCJimmy Carr16:37

       "No, we went and had dinner."

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:38

       Right.

   28. JCJimmy Carr16:38

       You go, "Okay. Did a thousand people clap-"

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       (laughs)

   30. JCJimmy Carr16:41

       "... when you walked in the restaurant?" No. No, they didn't.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   I mean, he was…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      I mean, he was fantastic during the Vietnam War. He was fantastic during the Civil Rights Movement.

   2. JCJimmy Carr30:04

      So, ga- ga- get back to the Kennedy thing. So, he-

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      So, he went on the Geraldo Rivera Show in 1975. And so, this is twel-

   4. JCJimmy Carr30:11

      How old is Geraldo?

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      He's old as fuck.

   6. JCJimmy Carr30:13

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      So, but he looked good back then, he looks pretty fucking good now. Um, so, he, Dick Gregory went on and he went on with the Zapruder film, and it was the first time the Zapruder film was ever exposed to the public. So, Geraldo Rivera played the Zapruder film and you see Kennedy grabbing his neck where he got shot-

   8. JCJimmy Carr30:30

      A- a- a-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:30

      ... from the front.

   10. JCJimmy Carr30:31

       D- and Dick Gregory brought it on?

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:32

       Yes, Dick Gregory brought the film to Geraldo-

   12. JCJimmy Carr30:35

       That is-

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       ... and played it.

   14. JCJimmy Carr30:36

       And our next guest is a comedian. For a bit of light relief, he's gonna show you-

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:40

       Yeah. You wanna play it? Here, we'll play it here.

   16. JCJimmy Carr30:41

       ... th- this Zapruder f- Zapruder film.

   17. NANarrator30:43

       How many concert gigs did you do? How many appearances or talks-

   18. I don't know exactly when on the video he talks about it-

   19. JCJimmy Carr30:47

       Okay.

   20. NANarrator30:47

       ... 'cause it's a long, it's a 20-minute video.

   21. JCJimmy Carr30:50

       Okay.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       Well, s- s- screw ahead there.

   23. JCJimmy Carr30:52

       So, he sh- he shows-

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       So-

   25. JCJimmy Carr30:53

       ... the video of Kennedy being shot and then he goes, "And I'm gonna be at The Laugh Factory in Miami Beach on Thursday. Come see me."

   26. NANarrator30:58

       Unfortunate net effect of that is, to make more people watch it. Well, I'm telling you right straight out that if you are at all sensitive, uh, if you're at all queasy, uh, then don't watch this film. Just put on the, uh, the late night movie, uh, because this is, uh, very heavy. It's the film shot by the Dallas dress manufacturer, Abraham, uh, Zapruder. And, and it's the execution of President Kennedy. And, uh, Bob and Dick, would you please narrate what we're seeing as we show this film?

   27. This is, uh, this is commercial footage leading into Dealey Plaza. This is the car on Main Street.

   28. So, this film was taken by actual newsmen? This was spliced together with the Abraham Zapruder film?

   29. Yes.

   30. All right. So, this is the beginning of the motorcade.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JCJimmy Carr45:00

      were a generation ago.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JCJimmy Carr45:02

      Let alone two generations ago.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      Yeah, but-

   5. JCJimmy Carr45:04

      So-

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Well, very recently, in the '90s.

   7. JCJimmy Carr45:07

      I mean, in i- i- i- it's- it's crazy, but it's true.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      Yeah.

   9. JCJimmy Carr45:10

      So, there's a weird thing where ... Okay, so let's say you're a gay guy in, I don't know, 1890. You knew you were gay when you were 14 or whatever. Like, everyone else is getting married and going off, and you go-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:22

       Right.

   11. JCJimmy Carr45:22

       ... "I'm a gay guy." The priesthood was a smart move because you went, "Well, I don't have to get married, and I know I'm not about that, so I'll join the priesthood."

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:29

       Mmm.

   13. JCJimmy Carr45:29

       So, you joined the priesthood. You're a gay guy. There were other gay guys that had had the idea. Great.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       Right.

   15. JCJimmy Carr45:35

       Now, here's the weird thing. Pedophilia was the same level sin in the eyes of the Church-

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       Oh.

   17. JCJimmy Carr45:42

       ... at that level, so one covered for the other. There was all- you were all damned and going to Hell.

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       Mm-hmm.

   19. JCJimmy Carr45:48

       It was all terrible, which is obviously some fucking nonsense. But-

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       Yeah.

   21. JCJimmy Carr45:53

       ... yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       Well, there's also- there's a different attitude towards, uh, same-sex, um, minors and adults that is with some people in the gay community. In fact, there was a law that they were trying to pass in California where they were saying that the age of consent being 18 was, in somehow or another, uh, anti-LBGTQ because some-

   23. JCJimmy Carr46:21

       What?

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       Yeah, because some young men sought mentors in older gay men, some young men who are gay.

   25. JCJimmy Carr46:27

       I mean, that sounds like some-

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       Wasn't there- there was a- was his ... Klein? Is that what his name? There's a- a- a politician in California that was very controversial because he was promoting this.

   27. JCJimmy Carr46:36

       Very controversial 'cause he's promoting pedophilia.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       Well, and he's-

   29. JCJimmy Carr46:39

       Yes. Yeah, that's gonna be controversial.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       Well, I think his idea was like 16 and 17-year-old boys, and that that should be okay. Which is, you know, it gets-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:07:02

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JCJimmy Carr1:00:00

      very good advice for anyone that's young listening to this. Like, what are you interested in?

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JCJimmy Carr1:00:05

      What do you pay attention to? Do that.... do that? What c- you know, 'cause that 10,000 hours thing, it slightly loses the, what could you stand to do for 10,000 hours?

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      Right.

   5. JCJimmy Carr1:00:17

      So, 10,000 hours is the minimum. I don't think there's any mastery in 10,000 hours.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

      Right.

   7. JCJimmy Carr1:00:21

      But I think there is-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:21

      You become a professional at 10,000 hours.

   9. JCJimmy Carr1:00:23

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

       Yeah. Well, with me, I just, I, when I got into martial arts, then I realized, like, "Oh, I'm not lazy. I'm just not interested in those other things."

   11. JCJimmy Carr1:00:33

       Yeah. (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

       And then, when I got into martial arts, I was extremely disciplined.

   13. JCJimmy Carr1:00:37

       Mm-hmm.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:37

       Like fanatically. Like I, I trained every day. I literally, I lived at the gym.

   15. JCJimmy Carr1:00:43

       But you, and-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       I taught, you know.

   17. JCJimmy Carr1:00:44

       ... this is ... Uh, you're preaching to the choir. You can't beat your environment.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:47

       No.

   19. JCJimmy Carr1:00:48

       And that thing of, like, finding your tribe, finding your thing. So-

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       Yes.

   21. JCJimmy Carr1:00:51

       ... a lot of people that are lost just haven't found their tribe, their thing.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

       Well, I-

   23. JCJimmy Carr1:00:55

       It's hard if you haven't foun- found it yet, 'cause you kinda go, "Well, it's easy for you to say. You've found it."

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       I was also not around people that were following their passions. Everyone that I was around was working. You know, we lived in a blue-collar community, and it was surrounded by a white-collar community, and these people that had all worked really hard, got a very good education, and got a respectable job, either as a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or whatever-

   25. JCJimmy Carr1:01:18

       And-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

       ... and they had a wonderful home, and they'd, they'd worked well.

   27. JCJimmy Carr1:01:20

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:20

       But I looked at them as, like, these d- deteriorating vessels of flesh that were barely getting by in the world, and I didn't want to do what they were doing.

   29. JCJimmy Carr1:01:29

       Well, it's-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       And I didn't know until I got into martial arts that there were people that were doing different things, and that they were surviving and thriving teaching something that they loved. And so, that was my path. My path was competition and teaching.

Episode duration: 2:48:21