Eddie Murphy is Coming Back! | Joe Rogan and Whitney Cummings

You know who used to do that at the roast was Greg Geroldo. Yes. He would go out and he would just say the shit, then even at a roast he'd be like, oh, fucking, he'd go first. Well, people hadn't even had drinks yet. You know what I mean? Like, he said, um, ice tea. You're so old, you used your first residual check to buy your freedom. I was like, Jesus, buddy. Like, that would be like his opening joke. Oh my God. It was like 5.30 on a Sunday. It was like homie. Oh my God. Oh my God. He used to fucking. He used your first residual. Oh my God. Like, he would just come so hard and the audience wouldn't even know what to do. Oh my God. But that's something he was so fucking unbelievable at. Greg and I were on TV at the same time and we were right next to each other on The Lot at Gower, Sunset and Gower. Yeah. I was on News Radio and he had his own show for a bit and his show was right next to my show and we would hang out, you know, cause we're, we're both guys from New York that we're more from the East coast at least that we're doing comedy and we're out here like thinking, oh, this is crazy, you know? And I never thought he would die like that. Like when he died of a drug overdose, I was like, Greg. Oh, he had been sober. Yeah. What happened? He went to a party and someone gave him some shit. I mean, it's so tricky when my, I mean, I get worried. I'm like a fucking mom about the shit. What my guy, you know, anyone goes on the road and you're getting shit. You don't know how strong it is. You're getting it from random people. I think he had been sober and his tolerance was low and just tried to go back to what had. Is that what it was? I think so, but I don't know all the details. That fucking need for escape, the need for the pill thing. Does it feel like though in general comics are getting healthier? Like you probably, you saw the days when everyone was on blow and everyone, it feels like everyone's down Jamba juice and on it and kombucha. The real problem is I can't imagine drinking because of that. You know, I mean, I don't, like we've definitely lost our balls. Some people think that in order to be a comedian, you have to be at least a little bit self destructive. Like the great ones, you have to have good stories. I started going to therapy and I was like, fuck, what do I talk about paying my mortgage on time? It's a problem when you become wealthy, right? You don't have any fear of, you know, your bills are paid. When you stop doing desperate shit and making mistakes, you just have less interesting stories certainly. There's that, but it doesn't always have to be stories, right? But I also think it's perspective gets very skewed when you live a life of leisure. You know, when you live a life of leisure and comfort and privilege, which most wealthy comedians do, that's when they all start to suck. Like when comedians have, usually they have a few good years, like they make it and then they have like one or two good specials and then they have some that just get sloppy. Because you think they just don't have to fight as hard. Or I think a lot of times I hear, you know, people will schedule their special. Like I'm shooting a special and I'm smart. It's like, but have you written it? Like you schedule it before you're finished with it. Well, that's the Eddie Murphy thing. Oh, really? You know, Eddie Murphy just got a $70 million deal. He hasn't done standup in 30 years. So like how many times is he going to look, I think, first of all, just as an aside or just to start this off, I'm not bashing him. I'm a giant Eddie Murphy fan of anybody who thinks that Eddie Murphy's do standup again. It's me. And I've even talked about on this podcast that he did that. He did some speech on a podium where he was talking about how bad Bill Cosby fucked up because they had a, he had to give his, his awards back. You know, right? Oh shit. It was hilarious segment. It's hilarious. And I was like, God damn, his timing is so good. I wish he would do standup again. Just jump back to it. He was at the comedy store, walk in the halls a couple times on Tuesdays. This was like a couple of years ago. Really? And he just walked in and he just like looked like he was on a people mover. He was just like float through the hallways and you know, the hallways, it's like fucking Beirut and those hallways and everyone just gets, everyone just gets super quiet. And they're like, is that fucking Eddie Murphy? They're scouting. He hasn't done standup in 30 years. That's how goddamn. You know, as nice as look, Tim Allen is Tim Allen hasn't done standup in forever either. But if he walks by everybody saw that's that guy from home improvement. Yeah. You know, they're not like freaking out that he's there. He was so good during delirious and we were kids. You'd watch that. He was so goddamn good that today, I mean, the legend of it just carries on. I mean, the real question is when he comes back are people going to start tearing apart his old specials and saying homophobic and he. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well, that's not going to look like well, people are going after people for George. John Wayne. John Wayne. That's the best one. He's canceled. He's canceled. Like, okay. He's been dead for decades. Okay. He's not woken up in the 70s. He said bad things about black people or something. No, there's shit now where it's like Picasso's canceled. He's canceled. Yep. Picasso's get Bukowski's cancels. Wasn't that like the fucking? Cosco was. Hanna Barbera, whatever her name is. What's her name? Hanna Gatsby. She had a fucking thing about Picasso. Like hey, baby, you got to let that go. That was a long time ago. He admitted. I mean, it's like, that's the other thing is all these people who put their mental illness and struggles on a can. They would probably agree with us. Oh, for sure. That they were fucked up. For sure. You know, like Van Gogh was shitty to his subjects. It's like, oh, I mean, you see it in his work.