Joe Rogan Experience #2300 - Kyle Dunnigan

Kyle Dunnigan is an Emmy, Peabody and Writer’s Guild Award winning comedy writer. He also is the creator and host of “The Kyle Dunnigan Show." tour tickets at https://www.kyledunnigancomedy.com/ Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan Go to https://ExpressVPN.com/ROGAN to get 4 months free!

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Apr 5, 20252h 20mWatch on YouTube ↗

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0:00 – 15:00
(drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…
1. KDKyle Dunnigan
  (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. NANarrator
  The Joe Rogan Experience.
3. NANarrator
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
4. KDKyle Dunnigan
  (upbeat music plays) Doo doo doo doo.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  (inhales deeply)
6. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Doo doo doo doo, doo doo.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
8. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Doo doo doo. You know who wrote that? No.
10. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Pop quiz.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Who?
12. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Very famous person wrote it. ♫ Bum bum ba na. ♫
13. JRJoe Rogan
  What is that from? What, what show is that from?
14. KDKyle Dunnigan
  70s.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
16. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Begins with an S.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Da da da. Sanford and Son.
18. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yes.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Who wrote it?
20. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And ... You're not gonna believe it. Quincy Jones.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
22. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yes. And it's, if you hear the whole song, it's a really good song.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  I used to love that show.
24. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Sanford and Son was fucking great.
26. KDKyle Dunnigan
  It was funny.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It was funny, ridiculous. Redd Foxx was the man.
28. KDKyle Dunnigan
  He was so funny on that. I actually didn't like that theme song. Here we go. When I first heard it. (instrumental music plays) ♫ Wa wa pa pa ow. ♫
29. JRJoe Rogan
  That was back when sitcoms were sitcoms.
30. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Oh. That one was like way, I felt like way better. Like Three's Company sucks if you watch that now.
15:00 – 30:00
Couldn't you think that…
1. KDKyle Dunnigan
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Couldn't you think that studio executives would be wise enough to go, "Look, we got Louis C.K., we have Cedric the Entertainer, we have a fucking show. Let's figure out a way to promote this correctly."
3. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And it was funny. It was just... And it's so hard to make a funny sketch show. They try to plop people together and you need, you know, real synergy with the cast and the writers have to figure out how people are funny.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
5. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And it takes like... That was the first-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  It takes a while.
7. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah, the first set of SNL, uh, cast, they already worked together.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
9. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And like that's why they were like gelled right away. I mean, one of the reasons. But all these sketch shows they put together... And they'll say, "Don't pitch a sketch show, they never work." It's 'cause they like pluck people who don't even do sketch, you know?
10. JRJoe Rogan
  It's like putting together a boy band.
11. KDKyle Dunnigan
  E- exactly, yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  You know? Like y- you have to put together a fake band. You-
13. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Not a bunch of guys who grew up together in Seattle, been playing in the basement. No. You gotta like-
15. KDKyle Dunnigan
  That works better though.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Find some... Yeah, that works better.
17. KDKyle Dunnigan
  If you put 'em... If you just put a bunch of hot dudes together.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
19. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Get the hottest fucking guys.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Get some good hair. Let 'em Milli Vanilli it up.
21. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Remember those days?
23. KDKyle Dunnigan
  By the way, Milli Vanilli-
24. JRJoe Rogan
  They got a bad deal.
25. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Not to change topics but...
26. JRJoe Rogan
  They got a bad rap.
27. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Like now they'd be fine.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  They'd be fine. No one cares if that's your voice.
29. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Milli Vanilli.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  You're hot, I love your dreadlocks.
30:00 – 45:00
He stayed, he stayed…
1. JRJoe Rogan
  but it was mostly just complimentary about her movie.
2. KDKyle Dunnigan
  He stayed, he stayed cool and he just, he makes that, uh, eye contact and then...
3. JRJoe Rogan
  It's like you need crazy people to make great movies.
4. KDKyle Dunnigan
  He was flirting actually, probably won't say that.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  She flirted with him.
6. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  You need crazy people to make good movies. You need it. You n- you need a guy who's gonna pretend he's Lincoln for four months.
8. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And That Goin'- There Will Be Blood, I just saw the other day which is so good.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh my God, phenomenal. What's that?
10. NANarrator
  Silver Linings Playbook.
11. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I drink it up.
12. NANarrator
  I played Brad Ford.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  What was it?
14. NANarrator
  Silver Linings Playbook. I think her and Bradley Cooper are in it.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh, I didn't see that one.
16. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I drink your milkshake.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh my God, it was so good.
18. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Look-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  He was so good. He was such a great psychopath.
20. KDKyle Dunnigan
  It's like the... If I read that movie, I think I'd be like, "This is boring." There Will Be Blood is just-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. I'll drink your milkshake.
22. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Boring.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
24. KDKyle Dunnigan
  At the end, he's talking to that guy who's religious, he was like, "Can I have some of your, I've l- I've..." And he's like, "No, there's no more oil under you." He's like, "I drank it up."... I- and he just made the analogy of a straw.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
26. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Like, drank up his thing, and then he beats him with a-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  I drink your milkshake.
28. KDKyle Dunnigan
  ... a, a, a bowling pin.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  A bowling pin.
30. KDKyle Dunnigan
  A bowling pin. He's like, "I'm finished." One of the best endings to a movie.
45:00 – 1:00:00
Right, you'd be like,…
1. KDKyle Dunnigan
  gonna work at all."
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Right, you'd be like, "This is nonsense. This doesn't make any sense at all."
3. KDKyle Dunnigan
  No jokes here.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Meanwhile, everyone's lining up in the back of the room to see him say these things.
5. KDKyle Dunnigan
  It's so... Yeah, I think it's, like, that Andy Kaufman of our, like, little time period there, where he was, like, a different thing.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Andy Kaufman was a brilliant actor and a brilliant comedic actor, he was great on Taxi. But he, I don't think he ever killed on stage like Brody did. Brody was, uh, he brought... One time, we were in the Improv-
7. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Oh, yeah, in the Timr- different type of comedy. But it was, like, you know, a, a different, when he went out he was on stage, like, people, the comedians watched him.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes. It was his different thing. He's doing his own thing.
9. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  He's doing this Brody Stevens thing. One time, we were at the Improv, and it's really late. Like, I'd gone up, a lot of people had gone up. The crowd was kinda tired, half the people there. And, uh, they announce that Brody's there, and Brody's worried that people are gonna get up. So, Brody takes his shirt off, and he starts swinging it around in the air, over his head, and walking through the crowd, "Let's go."
11. KDKyle Dunnigan
  (laughs)
12. JRJoe Rogan
  "Positive energy." (laughs) And he gets on stage, and he pulls drumsticks out of his back pocket, starts beating the chairs-
13. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  ... then he starts talking shit. And, and he just changed the energy of the whole room.
15. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Mm-hmm.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Changed the energy of the whole room.
17. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I don't think there's anybody li- like, since him, I can't think of somebody who's, like, replaced him. Someone will replace that, but, yeah.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  They're gonna do it in their own way. You know?
19. KDKyle Dunnigan
  You gotta go, like, "You have Brody is on stage, you have to go watch." And part of the fun-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Holtzman's like that now.
21. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Holtzman? Oh, I don't know him.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Brian Holtzman?
23. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  You don't know Brian Holtzman?
25. KDKyle Dunnigan
  No.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, my God, dude.
27. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I stay in my house a lot.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, my God. Do you let him stay at your house? You don't even know?
29. KDKyle Dunnigan
  No, I say, "I stay at my house."
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh. You've f- you've never stayed Holtzman-
1:00:00 – 1:04:43
It's just like reading…
1. KDKyle Dunnigan
  just turned the camera off.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  It's just like reading the comments. Don't do it. (...) you want to.
3. KDKyle Dunnigan
  By the way, you know these young'uns, uh, these y- young kids, let me lecture on this.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, these young boys.
5. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Uh, yeah. I was... There was one point where-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  What about John Larroquette? Are you ever gonna get to that?
7. KDKyle Dunnigan
  We'll get to it.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
9. NANarrator
  (laughs)
10. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Let's not rush that story. Let the podcast breathe for a second.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay.
12. KDKyle Dunnigan
  And then, we'll fi-... So, these young kids now, I notice this, uh, women will do this. They'll be like, people say, um, I light up the room. One of these women told me this.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Who ever says people say I light up the room, that actually lights up the room?
14. KDKyle Dunnigan
  That's what it sometimes... People say I'm funny.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
16. KDKyle Dunnigan
  But I, I've noticed, like, young, younger people, they c-... They tell you compliments they got. And I'm like, "Why is this..." 'Cause for our era, it's like, you never say, like, "I'm great. People think I'm g-" You never would say that.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. KDKyle Dunnigan
  But now, this is my theory. I don't know if this is true. They, they've grown up on Facebook where people say, "You look so pretty," and then everyone sees the compliment. And now, when they go out in the world and they get a compliment, then they're like, "Oh, I let people know my comp-..." Everyone sees the compliment.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  That's probably exactly what it is.
20. KDKyle Dunnigan
  That's my theory.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  That's a very good theory. I think that's dead-on.
22. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Write a book about it.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You should.
24. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I'd buy that.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Make sure you do the audio yourself.
26. KDKyle Dunnigan
  I have no merch. Yeah, I'm gonna definitely audio.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) You don't want any merch?
28. KDKyle Dunnigan
  No merch.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  You should have Caitlyn Jenner merch.
30. KDKyle Dunnigan
  Yeah, baby.

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