Joe Rogan Experience #1335 — Jim Gaffigan Transcript

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0:00 Ladies and gentlemen, one of the greats, Jim Gaffigan. I think it's important that there's a bunch of other platforms for all of us to do specials and john stewart and so but it shifts you know it's like then netflix was big and um and we see And I'm like, then they're probably not on the internet. it's like every time you, you know, I don't know. But they do support, like, Mrs. Maisel.

3:01 How many specials are there that they've done besides yours? You know, how can i help and they're like you know a special having a special is kind of like a floaty but like netflix there were just also shifts like so like the the great success that uh segura and ali wong had and you know like So I wanted to do something different. say hey jim this is what we wanted yeah it was comedy dynamics and they were like we're gonna

6:58 It was available on everything. By the way, your last one was great. I mean, I really do enjoy that Netflix has gotten so big in the stand-up specials because they've given so many people opportunities and exposed the world to so many great comics i don't like the fact they don't I wanted to do it on Amazon. I'm going to drive people to Amazon.com.

9:42 that's a great way of putting it yeah appointment. Appointment television. Yeah. It's just, it's insane. Like there's got to be some consequences of that. It's just, there's, and we binge it like there's some reason behind it. And you're like, one more. It's amazing. Great performances. It was on The CW. Oh. It's great. Name the Virgin? What's it on? Great performances.

11:19 It's a real network. it was owned by cbs but they're like it's just kind of like uh uh you of like it would be teen shows, like teen romance shows. on joe rogan's podcast saying that i like jane the virgin i would say no of course not well i remember when you know people used to think that being on one of those networks wouldn't do That person must be a bad guy.

13:26 Crazy. I was like, what? They show videos and all kinds of crazy shit. And they interact with things. arenas yeah and and they just keep going and they have like a whole multimedia show right they show understand it's like even it's it's a it's a weird thing i i don't know i don't know if you I didn't see it coming. doing it. And then it totally 100% built by word of mouth.

15:44 would be like the end of stand-up comedy. Like they can kind of promote, you know, No media outlet has any sort of monopoly on how to define someone or something. You'll change a few people's minds because they'll buy into it. father-in-law is he used to write movie reviews close to objective does that make sense yeah no it does and i think if you're going to really study something like if you if you want to know about a person you know say if it's a politician

19:19 So it's like he's a good guy. Do you know what I mean? And it wasn't here and there. where's the diversity like you have to insert diversity to meet their criteria like you can't different varieties of people and there's no judgment whatsoever i can't wait for that time knowledge and the foresight but humans we're just clumsy yeah we're just So it brings that up.

23:58 America loves Italians. racist that are just even keeled people that appreciate everybody well you know there's there's also this too Yes. But when they come to my show, they don't want me to rehash it. Yes. we solve the flu is we're going to put these leeches on people. I live in New York City. more diversity, my kids walking to a subway station sure than if we lived in the suburbs for sure um and uh yeah you know it's you know they don't

27:54 Look at this person. You're always recognized as a comic. i mean i'm traveling constantly too so it's but there is yeah i just like do it i mean here's Well, some of it is peers and friends. I don't like the idea you know the hierarchy of i always kind of get you know a But also it goes back like 20 years ago. Yeah. And I also don't want to like, I don't want a friend like Todd Berry looking at me like,

31:46 It's better if you come in at 840 or 910, the Laugh Factory, and then there's a few on the outskirts. No, it wasn't the case in 2008. Also getting rid of the old management, firing them. And then you'd look at the lineup. Yeah. tonight anywhere no i'm uh probably not come on i'm an old man get the fuck out of here you're I mean, it's just, I've been doing all this promotion for this Amazon Prime thing.

35:12 there but like it's strange to do a show have a great time you know you really kind of engage Yeah. You never have a chance to take it out. Are you trying to do good? express himself and you go oh now i know the real bernie because i never knew him in these goddamn Like, there's, my wife has videos. Before you go on stage, I like it It fires up your brain.

38:44 Just smoke one cigarette a week week and it'll be fun panette you know i'll just do that you know what i mean you you seem thinner though than i've seen So what you have to do is two things. It's like when you work out, you have to focus on working out. how you feel about this but i feel like the amount of time that you spend concentrating on your Performing, those are critical, but also listening.

41:50 It used to be like I needed the sets in the city back. Like the curriculum nights alone are going to be insane. i don't know what they're called now but alt shows in brooklyn which is it'll kind of like So I'll pull back. And it was just great. feel of a city whether it's cleveland or columbus yeah i mean i love the fact even you know how uh people in Boston might be like, you're crazy.

46:16 reaction to trump winning the election comics saw it coming more than most people who live in la it was fascinating because there was a time for me because i tour with uh ted alexander a lot trump voters were more emboldened kind of like that's right and then also the left Never-ending. But it is, I was also thinking, like, because we live in this very precarious time and, you know, a very divided country on a lot of different levels and there's so much drama

50:32 And the takeaway was not, oh, the Germans are bad and Nazis are bad. But it wasn't. It's a good reminder. this i also learned this in greece they'd be like they'd be like uh okay so as punishment the bride like that's how they had to get married because he raped her I don't think people really appreciate that World War II was 70 years ago. Or Syria.

54:26 Muammar Gaddafi, and then the rebels it's wonderful. Jim Gaffigan can things based on uh compassion and looking at things in in an intelligent non-biased way so We have more in common than we promote. And we're looking for true believers. He's not a monster. My family and his family go on vacations together. And I think that's one of the things that kind of died with the Trump election.

58:18 You're black or white. And I'm like, I hope so. a lot of people like that's like that's a crime yeah like that's he's you know you know it's like We do it all the time but i do think that there is kind of this almost puritanical thing that's ironically happening on the left that is what we you know as comedians we used to make fun of the right for perspective and i think dick cheney's probably satan you think so i think dick cheney was running

1:02:11 That's how it was heated. He was in D.C. I always – like everything I hear about, I'm kind of like cut it in half, which makes me kind of still think Trump is absolutely crazy. But Katrina, he didn't go there right away. were doing what's called a canned hunt where they open up these gates and they let these birds fly you you know like you're those you i'm a real type a i'm a real like i get up i do what are those

1:04:52 I put CBD oil on my knees, and then I just lift bulldozers. What does elk meat taste like? You have this huge place. man it's just prepared poorly venison is delicious it's it's all of it is how the meat is taken care Why don't we eat more elk? Why don't we eat more elk? We look down on those. And I think there's some places where you can buy commercially raised elk in North America.

1:07:06 think wild animals are healthier also i think the the karma of what you're doing is very different for sure yeah he'll be the bread man yeah and then like good for Doug Benson could sell the weed I get it made by a butcher that I know. We just didn't have the right phone numbers. Do you think that we will, that, what is the, what is the, do you think that elk is the new kale?

1:09:00 a different experience why wouldn't someone listening to this start an elk ranch? contributes to the contamination of certain diseases. go to hunt elk because we're maybe it might be different from where I hunt elk. You should come with me. And I'd put some kettle bells on it. They fuck you up. human yes not a human yeah and then they uh they wouldn't really wouldn't know if it wasn't human

1:11:34 Yeah. you notice is the grass-fed beef is a darker color. Occasionally. want to convert people no no why not buy a ranch no no no no i don't want people to buy it like of um um people that are chefs that shoot them in the head there's uh they think that it's quicker Yeah. But you're just talking. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, that's good. You either win or you don't.

1:15:55 rising to the occasion is it something you have to be you have to like stand up you have to be All you would have to do is understand how to keep your breath under control, grocery there's no grocery stores to serve wild duck. And you chop yourself. really get true enjoyment out of it are have that shared kind of you know like the prep time How dare you put an alarm on it? I know.

1:19:21 by the way when i started and and started and you're around the same period, Insane. like a song just appears and some of it is we put in the time and we we put in the work on ourselves and kind of like little vacations oh you get a great perspective on material yeah it's like suddenly And to me that is, I don't know if that's, I'm on both sides of it.

1:22:24 when you were falling asleep and it's gone They're like a salmon in a river. What does an elk sound like? Or elk calves and deer fawns Yes It's a wild world, and I've been involved in it since like 2012. Are you because of you because of life experience, or were you born like this? but it's not everything Was that your mentality? and fight i competed with mr miyagi no he wasn't around back then but that's that's really what i

1:25:48 I always think it's weird when people will say, That's fine. There's certain people that just never get it. we're such an exhibitionist and voyeuristic culture that there is a requirement of that that's true. but authenticity is so important. But like now in this Kardashian kind of reality show era, people want to see a little bit behind that you know i mean

1:29:53 well it's it's i remember when i saw when i you know was deep into stand-up maybe like eight years was someone special do you remember when he was doing that special in long beach and there was a hopping around you know i've told this story before but it's a it's a crazy one i was in And I go, do you want to go up? Dave Chappelle's here. know and that is why it's not just his his his obvious talent and his brilliance but also his

1:33:33 you know like these are notes from like ireland i mean i love being in other cultures because i the equivalent of a subway joke, but they appreciate the research. you know what i mean and that's you know they're not asking for it but it's fun so do you mostly just write But it was not, you know, not the roasting form, Not really. regard i was in northern i was in belfast and uh listening to people that were drunk

1:37:08 Like, you'll see a different side. And I know that I maybe drank one of them. I think someone told me the percentage of There's 400 kids in the backyard. But he's convinced. kind of like this um you know and obviously the irish are very different than the english but there It's super authentic. It's how people die. Yeah, I just saw that. Oh, there's a car waiting for you.

1:40:22 But I have this meeting of uh you know Thank you. you like the character they're like oh you know i mean i usually i used to play it a lot of nerds Yeah, I abandoned it a couple years ago. But it's like, that was like uh i remember that was like three weeks Yeah. gaffigan you're a bad motherfucker please tell everybody uh when your new special drops friday this friday i think friday the 16th what is today wednesday