Joe Rogan on Joke Stealing

For two years. Yeah, and I had been doing comedy for more than 20. Yeah, and we were co-headlining so I would headline one night he would headline the other night and Mean to be able to go on after a guy has been doing comedy 24 years Whatever the fuck it was and go on after him and do 40 minutes when you've only been doing yeah And just the balls that yeah, yeah, yeah, and he would just go on out there like you own the place But passed away, right? Yeah, geez lost away About a little over a year ago I think all the people that we work with that that I'm here anymore a lot. I'm gone my good God It's up the ones that suck Hey, I worked, you know You always make it a point and but people stale material one of the biggest thieves that ever was Ali Joe Prada I never met him. All right. He was this big rip big fat redneck guy, right? And we're working down self someplace maybe Florida and we're in the green room and he watches the Tonight Show And it's on and we're doing the late show and Casa comes up does his monologue and after small I listen with all the Joe Prada. He went out and did gosh. It's monologue Ovation no one will ever know there was no VCI's back then there were no tapes. There was nothing I go Wow, I just don't want my guys made you so much okay. Yeah, but I do it better I got no you don't just be out of sudden twang to it man. That's all yeah, but I do it better Yeah, that's what he said these young kids. Yeah, man, but I do it better Well, you know back in the day in the Catskills times They all stole like there was there was no honor amongst thieves back then and everyone just had jokes They were just joke jokes like you almost had like a toolbox like oh I needed three-eighths And then as Television came along and then people started getting in trouble for stealing you know Robin got in trouble and a few other guys got in trouble and then it sort of died off until like I Mean when YouTube came along then it kind of killed it There's a still a few thieves that are still running around to this day and some of them are famous But most of the audience knows now and if you like look at someone who's a thief and then you look at their Instagram Comments like holy shit people go after them. Yeah people know now They know it's the darkest thing you can do when a guy works or a girl works forever on a bit And then you just come along at the finished product and snatch it and switch a couple words around And pretend pretend you came up with it on your own Well when I started I was working as a janitor in City Hall in Cambridge And I took the other janitors out for best we went to the Springfield station when we saw Sweeney And we saw Sweeney and Bill Campbell and I'm going oh my god Sweeney was just he was a guy said wow this guy I'm gonna say anything like it and a couple of guys A couple other comics went on make the janitor said you're funnier than these guys You should do so I talked to George McDonald about it at school the next day and he goes yeah, man You should be a comedian. I go what's that? He goes that's what you saw last night So we went over to his house and we listened to Woody Allen album And I didn't even know what I knew Woody Allen from his movie I didn't know he was a comedian and he did that joke about hitting a moose up in Maine So I went on and I've been on stage before that went on at the thing I was spring-first reached alone, and I did this and it was unbelievable I changed all my ever stunderest applause like a standard ovation and afterwards this little old guy comes in the back He's mr. Clark you're very funny, but you shouldn't use Woody Allen material. What do you fuck you? And that was it that was it and I sucked for months I said, but it was all mine You know it was crazy. Yeah, there's a lot of guys in the beginning that's Greg Fitzsimmons and I used to steal from each other We had a deal though like if he was on because we both only had like 15 minutes And we had to do a half right so I would steal 15 of his he'd still 15 of mine And we were best friends. Oh yeah, so we'd go to he'd go. Oh, dude that blowjob material killed and fucking paw tuck it That was fucking pretty is that sure is your fucking morning because I never know what I was doing I can't remember is I can't I can't remember you know I mean I just See the best guys don't know he Diaz you got to be waiting for Joey offstage with a notebook Yeah, you got to go say that again The fuck would I say?