Joe Rogan on Louis CK's Leaked Comeback Set

They know they know. You know, I've been reading these articles written by these angry women about Louis C. K.'s comeback, and some of them have been going to his shows and writing about the show. And one of them that I read today was from this woman in Pittsburgh. What I thought was fascinating, she said that he has a... he doesn't allow people to bring cell phones, you know, they have those yonder pouches where you put your... The woman's... her rationalization of this was... and she included me and Dave Chappelle in this, that we use those because we know that words offend, but we don't want the consequences. Which is not what it is at all. No. It's you don't want people sharing your material online because you're developing it and you're touring with it. Yeah. Just like we... And jokes are a surprise. A musician doesn't want you recording them just noodling around before they finish this song. But for a musician's song, the difference is you can hear it over and over and over again and it doesn't lose any of the thing. You have to enjoy it more. More to the point. But if you have a bit about diapers, right, and there's like a very specific punchline about a diaper, and then they already know it. They know that punchline and you're working out how to get to that punchline and how to set up the bit, but someone leaked the audio already. Yeah. Like that... Like Louis is touring right now with that leaked set. Yeah. Which is weird. Mm-hmm. All that stuff about the Parkland kids and I don't know if he's still doing those bits, but he was doing some of those bits. Yeah. Like he has a bit about losing all the money and about how he bought a gold watch. Those bits, like this woman referenced those bits in the article, which means that she went to the show and he's doing the material from the leak, which he kind of has to do. Yeah. Because he's only... If he wrote an hour over the last 10 months where he's been hiatus, what does he do? Like what... He can't... He's touring. He's like, this is a whole new hour? Get the fuck out of here. Yeah. I mean, I feel like he's quite obviously a special case because of his behavior. Yeah. But it's almost like I will say that aside, like I have my problems with Louis and what he's done and everything, but overall I'm on the side of free speech. And in terms of being comedians, we can't allow you to come in and film our shit or to record it. Yeah. Because it's... The larger thing is like everyone... One thing with comedy is everyone thinks they're an expert. There's no other art form where someone's like, I know what the best shit is or I got a friend funnier than you. Right. But in all fairness, if I go to see a movie, I'm not a movie maker, but if I go to see a movie and I think it sucks, I should be able to say, oh, that movie blew. True, but you're not allowed to go on set and film it yourself while they're filming it. Right. Well, you're also not allowed to bootleg it and then put it online. You'll go to jail. Yeah. And you really will. Yeah. And people that record our stuff, like Stanhope was tweeting about that, about how is this legal? Right after the Louie thing. Yeah. And Chappelle has that thing that the ComedyWorks has where you come in with your cell phone, they put it in a locked pouch. You get the combo, you get it when you leave. I was doing that before I did my Netflix special, but I was only doing it to really... Because I was tightening up my set and I didn't want any of it getting leaked right before the Netflix special. But once I filmed it, then I stopped doing it. Sure. Because I was like, it's too hard. Yeah. It's too complicated and it's just like the internet is going to be the internet. It did make the show better though. You know where it did make it better? Miami. Oh, really? Because in Miami, people are... There's such chimps that they just kept getting up and walking out. Yeah. And to check their phone. Yeah. So they'd get up, they'd go out to get their phone, they'd come back. And so they were all just popping up and down. Uh-huh. They're trying to fucking do Coke in Miami. Miami's insane, dude.