Arsenio Hall on Joe Rogan: Why no desk changed late-night TV

1. SPSpeaker0:02

   Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

2. SPSpeaker0:04

   The Joe Rogan Experience.

3. SPSpeaker0:06

   Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat rock music]

4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

   All right. Slap some headphones on. Let's rock and roll, sir.

5. SPSpeaker0:15

   Hello. Yes. Our old friend would be so happy. And n- not just that picture, but so much that you've done. Do ... Like, do you believe that people who have gone on know what we're doing or see us?

6. JRJoe Rogan0:32

   I don't know. Y- you'd like to think that it ... you're that important. [laughs]

7. SPSpeaker0:37

   Oh, yeah. Yeah.

8. JRJoe Rogan0:37

   I have a feeling they have more important stuff to do on the other side.

9. SPSpeaker0:41

   Yeah, I guess if you're in heaven, you're not thinking about the mothership.

10. JRJoe Rogan0:45

    Right.

11. SPSpeaker0:45

    But, um-

12. JRJoe Rogan0:46

    Well, the mothership definitely is from her.

13. SPSpeaker0:49

    Yes, yes.

14. JRJoe Rogan0:51

    Yeah.

15. SPSpeaker0:51

    Well, I mean, that's an incredible tribute to her, um, that the-

16. JRJoe Rogan0:56

    Well, the bar's named after her.

17. SPSpeaker0:57

    Yeah. I, I've heard all the comics. I've heard Shane and Ian and all the guys talk about it after they came back. Um, and that's just an honor, man, that, that ... Plus, you know, I used to say to people, "If you haven't taken something from watching Richard Pryor, you're probably doing it wrong."

18. JRJoe Rogan1:16

    Right.

19. SPSpeaker1:16

    And Mitzi made the greatest comedy mecca ever, and you gotta copy what she did.

20. JRJoe Rogan1:26

    100%, yeah.

21. SPSpeaker1:28

    Yeah. Wow. And this is cool.

22. JRJoe Rogan1:30

    Yeah. She taught me everything about how to run a club, how to do it right. Basically, kinda let the comedians run it. Let the inmates run the asylum.

23. SPSpeaker1:38

    Yeah.

24. JRJoe Rogan1:39

    You know?

25. SPSpeaker1:39

    Yeah, we're, uh, perfect inmates for that.

26. JRJoe Rogan1:42

    [laughs]

27. SPSpeaker1:42

    And, and, and right now, the Comedy Store is greater than ever.

28. JRJoe Rogan1:46

    That's awesome.

29. SPSpeaker1:47

    Yeah, it's, it, it, it's wonderful there because, you know, I even got Jay Leno to come back, you know, 'cause he remembered the old days and hadn't gone back, and I'm like, "Dude, it's different. They, they pay you [laughs] for coming. They split the door in a different way now, and there are phones in bags." I had to explain that concept.

30. JRJoe Rogan2:07

    Yeah. We had encouraged them to do all that.

Episode duration: 2:52:41