Joe Rogan Rodney Dangerfield Is Underrated

Because some ideas just go away. Like, they're so profound. They're so profound, but then a couple hours later, like, what the fuck was I thinking? That always used to get me where I'd have this amazing idea, what I thought was an amazing idea. And then I go, ah, that's such a good idea, I'll remember it in the morning. And I go to sleep. And I still pull that shit. I've never remembered it. Never. Never. I still pull that. I go, what are you doing? If my phone, if I didn't have my charger, now I finally got a cord and it's next to the bed, so I always have a cord to plug in my phone. But never. Why do I? And not half the time. Never. And I still have the nerve. I go, oh, no, because that's a good idea. Never. Hedberg had a joke about that. Too lazy to get up. Yeah, about being too lazy to get up, to get a pen, to write something down. So I just convinced myself it wasn't that funny in the first place. It's like, wait. But what's great is that that was a bit he did on stage, and it would kill. Yeah. I didn't do it well. I don't remember the way the phrasing. You got the gist. You know the used to, we were thinking, OK, I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. Yes. So last night we were saying, I used to do Mitch Hedberg's. I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. I mean, I still do, but I used to too. OK, I know. Let me back up for a second. So I do Mitch doing Roddy Dangerfield. You know, I do Rodney if he did Mitch. I'll be like, I'll tell you the other day, guys, I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too. You know? That's actually pretty good. So you do any Mitch Hedberg joke is Rodney, and it's, you know. And it's killed. It's, I'll tell you the other day, I guess if I wanted a banana. You know, I said, no, I want a regular one later. So all right. You know, I'll do it. You know what you're going to do, right? So I do the used to, I hope this goes somewhere. So I used, I did the, I'll tell you, I used to do drugs. I still, so my friend asked me if I still do that. I go, I used to do the Mitch Hedberg. I still do drugs, but I used to too. I still do, but I used to too. There's something in there. It's amazing that you kept it all together. I did for that one. There's somebody used to, to use to too. But it makes sense. It makes sense. And you nailed it. You dismounted. I shouldn't try. Feet flat on the ground. It's a solid dismount. There's no stumble. No, it was good. It was very good. Thank you. It was very good. Thank you. Mitch, he's like, to me, one of the more amazing comedians ever, because what he would do was a complete non sequiturs. He would go from one non sequitur to another non sequitur, nothing connected together. Other than here, here's some other shit I thought up, you know, here's another shit I wrote down. And, and even though not through probably a good idea for everyone to know that does one-liners, that there's still, it has to be an essence of you in them. Like, even though he's jokes didn't segue together, like they seem, you're still, you knew who he was by his jokes, obviously, like the, oh, he had a, you know, he definitely had. They're not just individual jokes, just glued all together. No, they were all so silly too. So right. Exactly. That's the thing about, I've always said like the best way to describe him. He's like one of my favorite silly comedians. I know. It's funny. A lot of people you don't hear, always complimentary, of course, about Mitch, but silly. And that's what I realized later after he died, like how silly. He was silly. So silly. That was who he was very silly. So that that's what you know about him. You know, he was a type of comedian. He would get into his rhythm. Like I would listen to him a lot of times on the way to the airport because I was, you know, that traffic on the way to the airport's annoying. He just wanted to just chill out and giggle. So I'd put on some Mitch Hedberg and just be fucking giggling like in and when you're just smiling, when you're not, when he's, you know, in between punchlines, you just have a big smile on your face because he, he would put on this silly vibe and you would get caught up in it because it was really fun. And then he had such great writing too and playful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think in Rodney had a lot of that too. You know, Rodney's seriously, seriously underrated comedian and his style. There was a great article about it recently. Didn't we talk about this on the podcast that rod? There was an article that was written recently about Rodney. I forget who wrote it. Like Esquire, one of those things, but they were talking about how long it took him to become a good comedian. That it wasn't until he was like in his fifties that he figured it out. And it's like talking about him boiling down his act and talking about how cutting all the fat out of his act. If you go back and listen to his early performances, you could see his more meandering. And then towards the end. It was more standup-y. I realized that a few years ago when you listen to the old ones and he would, like, in other words, a joke could be, it was still Rodney, but it would be like, this is more of a joke. A comedian would tell not really one line. It'd be like, you know, you know, you're getting old when your family tells you, you know, when your family talks in front of you, hey, you know, hey, put pups in the garage. We got people coming over, you know, pop just sits there in drools, you know, but that was more like a piece. Yeah. And I forgot about that, Rodney. And then there's a lot of, you know, just there's short little stories, but they're not. And then all of a sudden, I saw him, remember Bob Nelson? Yes. Bob Nelson opened for him. And then I got to Rodney backstage through Bob. And you know, it is when you think you know something, it applies with everything sexism. You think you know what it is, but you really don't. There's still a lot more to learn. Right. Of course. I knew what timing was before I saw Rodney. I could tell you I was a comedian for 10 years at that point, right? But I know what timing is. But then when you saw Rodney, I went, Oh, fuck, that's timing. It was so like, I knew what it was, but I just got a doctorate in what it was. I just saw it delivered like the best of the best of the best. And I go now, I mean, it was just crazy with every turn and every, and then just when you think, how can he take you anywhere? And then the band kicks in and then he starts like, you know, doing betting music. And I'll do this the other day and my wife and she don't, and then the band bump, they got bigger and bigger. Then he started singing the song because everybody sang them. But Rodney did it in his own way. He starts going, you know, something about to dream, whatever the song is. And then he does about 10 seconds of it. And then he goes, what the fuck am I singing for? I'm watching him. I'm going, Oh, my God, to you, they're just a band. But he goes, I know that this band to you, they're just a band. But to me, they're a bunch of fucking idiots. And then the band has, they're taught because they're all, you know, people, musicians from that city. Obviously they're taught, you know, so they, he goes, No, they'll tell you what they are. They're not. And then they all stand up and they go, we're fucking idiots. I got to see Rodney when I was 19, when I was working as a security guard at Great Woods. Great Woods is a concert place in Mansfield, Massachusetts. And Rodney was there in the bathrobe era. Did you see bathrobe? Rodney? Oh, he went out on stage in a bathrobe naked. The bathrobe on. Yeah, I thought it like the improv he would show up. But you're saying he was doing this in arenas. This place is big. Great, Great Woods is like 12,000 people. Isn't that great? No way. It was a fucking maniac. He was a fucking maniac. He was amazing. He was so free. He was hanging backstage. And apparently his cock is enormous. His cock and balls were just hanging out. He didn't give a fuck. He just got this bathrobe on and he's got his legs crossed. His fucking sack is hanging down. And the security guards would be like, what the fuck, dude? I didn't see that. I only saw him. It's like a Bigfoot sighting. And I met him later in life. But to me, like in 1990, I hadn't even thought about doing stand up yet, but I was such a huge fan of it. He walked from, you know, like, like you're looking down the hallway to where his dressing room is. And he walked from one room to another. It was like, what Bigfoot sighting? Like, I always saw him for a second, but I saw Rodney. It's like that. It's, you know, I said seeing Rodney was like, it's not like seeing the, like if you saw Paul McCartney or you think, yeah, you'd freak out. But seeing Rodney was like getting to see if you saw Fred Flintstone, you can't see Fred Flintstone. He's a cartoon. Rodney is so larger than life that it was overwhelming. You weren't just going, taking in someone that was a celebrity and you see it on TV. There he is. There he is. There he is. Like three feet from you. And you'd be like, fuck, that's Rodney. What is that between his legs? No, shut up. It's balls covered by something. Is that real? Yeah. Oh, that's his balls. That's his sack or his dick or both. Yeah. He's an animal. Bob would have, Bob Nelson would have great stories about like, and they were so specific and you knew Rodney said them and it was just so, a couple came up to him after their wedding. And they go, do you know this one? No. And they go, uh, uh, Rod, he was trying to gamble, you know, Rodney, we just got married. What do you think? And he goes, uh, you both could have done better. What? What do you think? You both could have done better. That's a well-disguised insult. I'm telling you, that's a beautiful joke. Those people won't know that it was an insult till they get in their car. Wait a second. That means he says we're both, we're both ugly. It's canceling out. That's playing ping pong in their head. You both get it. Who's that an insult to? That wife goes, it's an insult to you. I think it's both of us, you moron.