Joe Rogan Experience #2187 — Adam Sandler Transcript

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3:56 I said, yeah, yeah, and I sat in the back. Well, geez man, I don't know what's happening. Oh yeah. oh, goodness gracious. and we went and we saw him just fucking destroy I mean, there's nobody you can kill, The whatever he had for those few years like in the 80s in the early 90s like right before he died I'll tell tell you, I did a Boston Club comedy connection

7:22 I'm walking, you know that awful feeling He goes, maybe stick with that place. Fucking good dude, man. Oh, you feel, you go home at night head spinning. I feel pretty good right now a no-brainer it would be a little tough so right now we'd have to wait a minute I don't think I could ever do that. I'm like, you know, I used to fucking take working out so serious when I was in

10:22 Well, you fucking walk in now and I go Jesus that'd be fun to look like that I was like, it's a lot of work. Yeah, but did you like the way you felt? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you should do that. So you give yourself new goals what when well I never stopped but I mean when you get started You're just strengthening it slowly. Yeah, the key is just not do too much just do enough and just cut back on you say

13:15 Say I do one to nine say then around fucking ten So then I eat two two of them I got still under that 330 then I go if I have a third that you really enjoy doing. Yes. You know? Yes. Something that keeps you active that he fucking grabbed me, twisted me around, had me in some weird hole. Or during puberty, really. He's a very athletic guy. Yes, 60 something earths. Yeah something insane amount of it was like 40 days or something. Yeah. Yeah, mania something insane

16:57 Oh, yeah when he was getting ready for here comes the boom Farley was a big dude too. I could get out. I only met him once you did meet him Spade and and and and Phil and no spade wasn't on that spade was on that other show just shoot me Oh, you played baseball? I want me to tell you my martial arts, And I fucking saw kickboxing. oh fuck, that guy can crush me too, I had no idea.

20:30 there. You know I'm just nervous as my hamstrings are gonna pop this whole fucking tight I get up and do a fake water break and just I appreciate it, man. and Schneider and KJ were always talking about, And did you just piece it together by doing small sets? And I think I started doing that with standup too. Did you go to the store? Where'd you go a couple times at the store?

24:13 And I always felt self-conscious in that place for how filthy I was other shit so I can't really do it all right because if I already said this so I think like seven years. I did miss it, I didn't even know I missed it. It's the most 100% yes. You go, oh yeah I missed this. I did miss it. But you had to over prepare. That got to be too much Every set that you write it down.

26:55 I was getting ready to do a special in, That's a great feeling. I was like what I don't want to do that yeah, and then I was driving home Why didn't that set in order for three weeks straight, right? So I had it locked in for three weeks I wrote them all out. I would never be able to do that I think it helps me kinda relax a little bit, You just look down at it. I get addicted to that a little too much sometimes I cut in Largo in

30:26 And yeah, if you really have thought about it and prepared for it. It's like a new thing for you And that's a great idea of being, How the fuck do we kinda do it, step away from that? And I called my buddy, Hurlohi, who I went to college, how the fuck do we kind of do it a step away from that? and then see if we can fill it out. Amazing. I love that. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, my fucking I

32:58 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thinking of college kids throwing a tape in, I think a big thing that happened to me even eating it at Catch a Rising Star. But I dug a hole for myself. I did this thing once, do you know Owen Smith? Oh yeah. me and that's so funny if I had to go back there and like give myself advice I Yeah, I look great. He be like you don't just so you

36:42 It was like at the Boston Comedy club like a small place like that. I think that that became Paper Moon became the boss of the same club But I still would go home at night and go fuck and I'm gonna be so fucking good at this My god, yeah. Yeah, there's gotta be a little something in there and then you could build that little something into something special. That's right

38:33 Greg and I, we're both like confused nighttime gigs and I'd meet the real pros the guys who just made a living Yes, like Steve Sweeney. Do you ever see Sweeney when he was in his prime? I got a couple of chuckles. You did? Wow. But it also made me realize what was wrong. I was like wow I might be able to do this I ate it there too! Holy shit, buddy. Same fucking story for me.

42:51 And then they're concentrating on all their shit, and they're also they can't laugh at anything inappropriate true was Paul McCartney did it the year before. He's not gonna miss. before but still felt I did good because I fucking remained kind of confident and believing probably a guy who wouldn't mind sucking a thousand dicks in front of his mom. Why did you stop on that one man?

45:27 Everybody's got a different way of doing it. Thank you. Oh, you're like, how did I ever do it Very smart. Yes, because you know one mind is great, but a bunch of minds together in is the way to go. Well, you always have a very tight ship too. No one's an asshole. Like how many of you go up on stage when you take gigs on the road? If I do a gig I bring

48:35 brings on Ron white Ron white murdered Philosophy is I I don't want bad comedians going in front of me Sometimes I'm going on stage an hour and a half Dude, I remember when I first came back to stand up, that I'd be like that's too much that's too much you wear the audience out yeah that's a lot it's gotta be a banger of a Yeah, all the classics you know welcome to the jungle sweet child of mine

51:41 Button, don't rip, baby! You know, you need recovery. Got the manly arms ready. They're still enjoying it. Yeah, and when we were kids there were no old rock stars, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right, right? blaring over somebody's pioneer system Live and you fucking be still as excited. Yeah, look smooth as shit I know I love him talking about fighting with you and

55:39 To train kendo which is a sword fighting art right right right just him and his dog That's how it goes. asset. But then they'd fucking have those hits that just take your They, like I remember hearing Sabbath on tour would fucking all show up in different planes. Ain't talking about love. it'd be like David Lee Roth was just the smoothest and funniest and fucking one of the greatest front

59:18 Don't stage didn't get the respect now does the stand-up? One of the funniest choices is what, if you look back at like the metal days, like you Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. It's just so funny all the different styles of bands that exist. Oh, man. I had fucking pleather pants and it was downtown. Delusion, yeah. He had that neck injury where he fell and and broke one of the bones in his neck

1:03:05 yeah that nasty push that microphone up to your face sorry bro no and and uh yeah They were the fucking band. Steven Tyler. That's a New England accent, too, on Joe Perry. Well they were the kings of Boston. I was like, my fucking Aerosmith. Yeah, they became the Kings again exactly that was their big comeback song I play a lot of the old shit for my kids.

1:05:15 The first three albums kind of shit. Something about the freedom of comedy that they appreciate. Yes, you don't have a band. You don't need anybody one of the things that would strike me is like, All these people have to break down the stage, man, they're kicking our ass, man. Oh, yeah, man, awesome back then Jay Giles was the fucking man when I was in high school

1:07:53 Yeah, and then some comics there I paid to see them right like I saw Kinnison there. I paid to see it And this was before I'd even thought about doing standup. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Fucking 150 knee surgeries right his knees were destroyed, and you'd have to help him get on the versaclimber machine Yeah, his knees are destroyed that sucks man man. What a hero what a stud always loved him

1:10:14 I was like... I'd watch basketball, I'd be like, this is nonsense. I did that and then I think a little early in life. I tried it out, but I just my body man I wasn't meant for it. It's not for everybody. No, it's good though. That's like everything in life Yeah, paying money to spend a few hours undisturbed with the freshest male corpses remember that bit

1:12:01 Because the first time I saw it, it came out on video. it was just different Yeah. bucks an hour this is crazy so I always carried a hoodie with me and so I had my security Wow, man, and I was like, whoa, okay. What did I sign up for? Nervous yeah, like I'm not I never felt like you get in a fight with someone someone hits you in the back of the head With a bat also yeah fight someone. It's that's never the end like they're gonna go get their cousins. They're gonna get their brother

1:15:10 It's like oh you have a bad opinion of me. Oh, that's okay What a terrible sight that is. I don't want to have anything to do with this, especially outside of fighting. Right. You know, it's funny, you said Kinnison. And it was the best. And a couple other guys. And they go you know that was so cool man, but kineson to just took over you saw him in the moment

1:17:59 And he was just, it was already like, boozing heavy. His brother wrote about it. writing. It wasn't the same. It was like a caricature of Kinnison. That's funny. It just happens nice to me. And he had that kind of glazed, had a few too many in the eyes but he was just, he definitely Because there was no comedy like that before Kinnison came around.

1:20:54 It was 94 and the Kinnison era had ended Fucking cool, and they would all go and I remember thinking imagine people coming to the comedy store just had I was just going fucking rock is so cool right people fucking fly an I talked to Roc yesterday, And then he's right back to like, got some ideas. I think that was like the best thing that ever happened to him because then he became like wild again

1:23:38 He would tell people, if you think I'm going to talk about it, Yes, people would just tell the bits and yeah, it wasn't even ready yet You know like what did you do? How did you set this up? How come nobody tackled him? there in everybody's mind. When you see Will Smith. Oh, he slapped Chris Rock Becomes this shit. Yeah every now and then someone pops through and it elevates all of us

1:26:35 Holy shit. Always trying shit out, always, either notebook or just trying to remember or whatever. I remember one time he went on The friends who saw you the first two nights, Killing it yeah, it elevates everybody around you yeah, man everybody everybody gets a little better because of that or Louie or anybody who's just like really killing it. Yeah.

1:28:44 Jon Stewart goes, I don't I quit and sometimes the stage monitors, And so when he would, he'd have to stand there, You do the other one of them out here. What are you framed? Yeah, man one of his album covers. He did a bunch Yeah, yeah, I lived in the same apartment building when I was on SNL as Phil Yeah, so I did MTV half-hour comedy hour. I got a development deal out of nowhere Wow

1:32:12 So right, so if I did this pilot the pilot got picked up And so within like three weeks I had this crazy deal for like a hundred fifty thousand dollars But I was like I hated LA. I hated being around actors. I couldn't joke around with them. They were all so sensitive I can't just leave the apartment. I got that show. How many years did it five years that's pretty good? Yeah, but it became a sure got you really big in syndication. I see I see before years

1:35:22 Oh, he was the next level and he was so good. Him and Steven Root was so good too. Yes, yes, yes. But I literally didn't get shit growing up I auditioned for shit and never got nobody like me really every audition really do think that you're ready. Like I remember thinking that like at open mic And then you realize looking back, Fucking UFO project Wow man top secret shit, and then they put all that kind of stuff

1:37:53 Alone in your head, or you had somebody who brought it up Uh-huh, and and I apologized to the club owner. Because I put the book down. Spiral yeah, I started questioning things. Yeah, it's like what else don't I know Wow Wow. Crazy mass murderers and shit and I would start going what happened and he would tell me these things Joey Diaz gave me this book called Murder Machine once.

1:40:24 Oh my god, and you just get in the wrong fucking place at the wrong wrong guy shows up at your house. Oh boy so they would give you the directions over the phone. So I sit down and I'm watching this documentary Your dog's dead, right? watching this thing about these people losing everything in these fires I go watch that fucking thing that I have similar

1:42:59 I'm a little down, I get on stage, all of a sudden I let the crowd own me. Yeah, don't fuck then, you know, they're not testing you go have some fun with them. Yeah. Don't, you know, they're not testing you. Go have some fun with them. Because in the early days days when I was headlining Yeah, so I realized like if you could go on the road with funny people you're gonna have fun

1:45:06 I want the audience to have fun, it didn't matter if we were in Ohio or New Jersey, Yeah, yeah. Because I loved him. And then I'd call him on Sunday. Yeah, man, if Joey shows up okay ground now. We got a three-man show on him perfect. I love that so I Yeah, you're you're having a good time. You steal their shit. Yeah, but you're having a good time.

1:47:23 And so I used to get booked a lot I was 17, 18, they were 25, shooting the shit, you You know getting into trouble, but going on stage and destroying You talk, I still let them own me, these guys. Where did you play? It was packed. Kowloon in Saugus. So when I came around, He's exactly Jesus Christ. I would murder fucking Tommy sledge. Do you remember he?

1:50:18 No. And then Steven Wright gets on The Tonight Show. He was like right after Rodney. You'd repeat his jokes. We'd kind of try to write in that vein of a little weird and make you think and what is what a cool joke Yeah, and they were headlining and there's one time during the heyday where Nick's comedy stop had three rooms running simultaneously I remember Bill Downs was the...

1:52:52 And to this day, one of the funniest guys and I'll never get rid of it because it's got a voicemail on that phone from him where I'd be like yeah, and I'm in my head. I'm like, okay, it's over big guy. Yeah. Yeah, call you big guy Oh, okay. I got there, it was huge. They were right back then. It's like Jordan fucking wasn't the man for a while. I was cocky and tell him my friends in college are gonna be fucking movie star. They'd be like why?

1:56:23 And then I did it and then they hired me as asked me to be a writer and I remember saying to Hurley he who knew more What was the audition like? What did you have to do? Tim Meadows we were just always together so there was this crazy band confidence Look at that fucking cast. Yes. Harpin, Tim Met... Look at that fucking cast. Oh, fucking... Every comedian loves Neelon.

1:59:23 So I don't fucking remember that when you did he goes I sort of did Do you know what that is? you're constantly meeting people, which is very unusual for human beings. That's right. Yeah. I've funny there was that's all it could take and that's how your brain is your brain doesn't have room for all these people We don't a lot of shit, but it's yes, but you know they watched me on news radio

2:01:59 Yeah, what the fuck will you do it put a fucking horrible performance there? and they want you to watch something that they've done? This is for the best also. I'll start shitting on you. Yeah, if you play that I'm gonna shit, you did it, you're on TV, man. so I was like the first comedian to be on, Hey! Melba Moore! Yeah, no I fucking yeah, I can't say I was very good back then, but I had some fucking confidence What was the first movie you did?

2:05:03 we're doing a movie on a boat. I said, okay, when? Next week we leave. I go, okay, great. I said, That was a star the movie. I was I was Shaki. Whoa. I don't know how it happened Milton Burl was in it And that's yep. Yeah, I get shut down by a girl there and that's when I was fucking Why did you use that dumb voice? I was like what fucking dumb boy, but then I watch it back. Oh, that kid was right man

2:07:31 people liked it when you know it wasn't a massive hit but it was cool as shit. Yeah. I didn't even know what he was talking about back then. And I was just walking down the street, and I ran into Bobcat. with this box of medals. Fuckin' A. Yeah, yeah, I didn't want to do it anymore. Yes. Yes. Yes, just to stand up and yeah like hey, where's Bobcat?

2:10:14 I know it's like but I was trying to do that. That's what I'm saying when I was young and I wasn't doing well You just go I'm here. I'm talking but I'm not here right now, right? My mouth is moving every time, I want to be only thinking about that subject. I get exactly what you're saying. And it's like, it's a form of hypnosis. I can't be gone too long and then I go shit

2:13:06 Fucking having the ten minutes up front not hurt the fucking right. It's just so crazy. I got a lot of stuff And I remember when I was on stage like ooh, this is weird. this is weird. I had never in my whole career, I got knee surgery And then I remember that was, and I'm like, Yeah, I'm basically telling all you people just watch me for an hour, right? Just watch me. You're gonna it's worth your time

2:15:11 That's but I did have so much shit by the time I did the special. I just came off the road So it's left it the way it looks. Perfect. Yeah, yeah. That actually, that day was, you know, so Josh Safdie he directed it he wanted it to feel like you're getting to hang out with me. That was not a comedy club. Congratulations to you, too. Yeah. Thank you.