Joe Rogan on Performing to 10,000 People

It's all out theaters. He's I just pre sold sale sold out everything so not everything huh when you move into arenas Hey speaking of arenas How was Toronto fucking insane? What is it like in the when you're doing 10,000 people? 10,600 people with the Scotia Bankery was the Air Canada Center the UFC is back there in December I'm not crazy like oh one time I was here alone And then you see it like filled for Events like that. I mean, that's where the fucking Raptors play. It's it's so ridiculous It doesn't seem real but I gotta say the show felt like as intimate as a set at the store really I'm not bullshitting. Yeah Yeah, yeah, it was it was fucking nuts. We're real. Yeah. Yeah, it was fucking easy peasy was fun I mean, it was literally like any other set I was I was nervous that I wasn't nervous Yeah, I was nervous that I was calm and I did a lot of sets leading up to it like when I did I did you know, I Constantly do sets but I did like I did four sets Thursday night. I did really yeah I did the ice house Wednesday, so I did an hour plus the ice house. I did three sets on on Tuesday night. Yeah, I mean that's that's I think that's the key is you just got to do get a shot for it Yeah, you have to just do so many that you're you're just Just like working out. You can't have any doubt. You got to be just in shape. I just sent you a video This is this shows you how ridiculous the crowd booked but when you're but you're also getting used to arenas because you know It's weird. This is your fourth arena fourth. Yeah, maybe fifth. I did I did Columbus Vancouver I did Columbus I did Kansas City Kansas City was weird cuz it was outside. That was weird. That's like an amphitheater Crazy yeah, so this is the biggest one this one was bananas Yeah, wild man. I'm stressing 12 Tom and I are doing tours at the exact same time next year and I'm stressing doing theaters 1200 in the theater going like fuck it. How do you like it gets normal man after a while? But scooter scooter had to say a couple of seconds and you can see it when I get on stage like like like watch When they turn the lights on this is what's really strange When you get to look out over the entire audience My god ridiculous that's crazy That's madness. That is that's wild man do that and there's an upper deck that It doesn't seem real and it just happened and you you did this and the same night bird did the forum 20,000 no bird is not 20,000 those are 9,000 the Western Forum the Great Western Forum I don't know it is the thing online said it was 20,000 people. They're wrong cuz Dean Del Rey said it was 9,000 Okay, I think they just made a mistake, but it's huge either way. It's huge. So I was thinking last night I know you I know that you're not like this I know you're a little bit like this but to compare different times of comedy right And compare people I know you're like comparing people but has there ever been a time in comedy where? This many acts were selling arenas this many acts were selling theaters and this many acts were selling out clubs I don't think so. Well, well birds sold out Madison Square Garden, which is way bigger than that Madison Square Garden I think is 18,000. That's true. How about this Sebastian is ready to sell for He's already sold out three. Yeah, he's they opened up a fourth show at Madison Square Garden Just stop and think about that. That's almost 80,000 people that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that's like a fucking NFL game Stadium as there ever been at this time like just look at theater comics just legit Selling like multiple theater shows Eliza Delia. You can name any of you, right? Myself like you go down the list Aziz. There's so many comics selling theaters theaters But I don't think there's ever been a time. No, there's never been a time like this never There's never been time when this many comics are selling out Multiple thousand seat places and then there's the big first of all this Kevin Hart who's the biggest of the big he sells out 50,000 a cat Williams is actually a lot bigger than he is cat Williams. Oh, yeah, I watched it on the Breakfast Club I Joking I'm joking. Okay, you didn't he got Williams just slam him. Oh pretty fun. I like that. I like I like that too, but he's Eccentric at best. No, Kevin is the biggest man. He's the biggest monster. So he's like 50 he can sell 50,000 he sold 50,000 Philadelphia when he did a special. Yeah, there's only one of him But you know was real close to him that people forget about is Larry the cable guy because Larry the cable guy was selling out Football stadiums because Josh Wolf was opening for him and Josh Wolf took a picture and showed it to me He goes dude, this was me on stage opening up for Larry the cable guy and you're like, yeah Yeah, but people don't think about first of all Larry cable guy is like the most humble Plus doing that in like the heartland so people will just dismiss it because it's not like an LA show or right So those two guys I think I think Kevin Hart is numero uno. He's number one Yeah, and then there's Chappelle could basically do anything he sells out mass Fucking for him not the former the Hollywood Bowl. Yeah. Yeah, that's huge. What is that 20,000? I don't know That's like 20,000. He has amphitheater offers like left and right and then they'll you know, who they'll probably be like Yeah, you do a show it's like you'll get like 700,000 He'll be like I'm gonna do the belly room and then he just goes and does that because he likes it Yeah, he likes the intimate shows. Well, he's also I hate to use a term like this, but he's a legitimate artist. Yeah, he's just trying to do better work You better comedy and always evolve it. He's one of the rare guys that could do a special and then the next week I'll have a new hour. Yeah, and somehow it comes out works. I know I mean, he's just it's supremely dedicated Yeah, yeah, so there's him there's Chris Rock can still sell out pretty big places if Louie came back I think you could sell out giant places giant burr sells out everywhere. He wants to burr could sell out He sold out Boston Garden, which is like 18,000. Yeah Wells Fargo Center in Philly. How big is that? 15,000. Yeah, that's crazy. He could sell out all those places. It's really hard to put in perspective and I think you guys can understand this but I mean You were selling out clubs what like? Six 17 years ago. Were you just doing clubs? Yeah, for sure, but when you were when you were selling them, yeah, when you were selling out just clubs That's an achievement in this business. I mean to sell out weekends and ad shows is a legit achievement So undermined when you go in and you San Jose or you do whatever and you sell out everything and then go Oh my god, like holy shit. Like there's there's some it's the possibilities are endless. Yeah. Well, I think it's the internet It's that's what it is. It's people and then there's like this network of Comics now that everybody knows about you know, if you know about bill, you know about Joey Diaz, you know about you You know about you. It's like there's this thing going on now where everyone's sort of connected Yeah, that's never existed before and then a lot of these people not Sebastian He's one of the rare ones that doesn't but most these people have podcasts Kevin Hart doesn't obviously but Kevin Hart has major movies Sebastian actually does one I Don't think they I don't think he can get to it like weekly but they definitely serious I'm I think you do it specifically for serious. I'm just does it whenever you can get to think so. Yeah I think it's you've probably but you've been in this longest of the three of us But have you ever known a time in comedy when comics were more friendly? Like it seems like everyone's on the same team Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this is a completely different thing. I've talked about this before It's because I really believe it's because the internet and also because there's no Things we're fighting for anymore like tonight show spots or stupid shit like that or sitcom auditions But in the past it was like there was three channels and there was the tonight show and the Letterman show and everybody wanted to host The tonight show but Jay Leno was hosting in forever or Johnny Carson before him right and there was this competition between comics where they were just cutthroat and There's not that anymore now instead Like radio shows right radio shows always shit on the other radio shows always they always the other morning shows in town They shit on them. It was all shitting on everybody fucked them a coward stern was notorious for it Yeah, we do the opposite. They'd start wars for ratings. Yeah, but we do the opposite We all have successful podcasts, but we all have each other on our podcasts. We're all super friendly about it We all promote each other's specials. We all we all hang out together Like there's a camaraderie amongst comedians now It used to be like there might be some camaraderie amongst a couple, but it would always go bad You know that and then there was never like a bunch of real headliners hanging out together like they are now Yeah, yeah, I mean even the simplest things like Delia does something funny And I'll just put it. I'll talk about it on my open tabs and get like half a million views Yeah, yeah And then you just go like I mean Delia's might be one of my favorite People to watch these days because I just watched his Instagram. We go. What's he doing today? He's ridiculous. I can totally talk about all my open tabs and just share it with everyone. Yeah, and just go Oh great, Bernie Schaub, but like Dude, it's been funny shit