Joe Rogan | So Many People Ripped Off Dave Attell w/Anthony Jeselnik

You know, on stage. Did you have like an idol like someone you were trying to be as a stand-up? Um... Like in the beginning? I think those are probably a bunch of guys. I sounded a lot like Richard Gennie in the beginning. I was kind of stealing. Like almost stealing his timing. And then I realized that one time I was on stage and I heard myself sound like him and I was like, alright, I gotta fix this. Yeah. You know. I did that with Dave Attell in New York. Everybody did Attell. I would run downstairs and watch Attell's set and then one day I caught myself not doing one of his bits but like one of his mannerism kind of things. Yeah. It was just fun to do and I felt I was like, I gotta stop this. And I went and told Esty, the woman who books the comedy seller, I was like, I gotta stop watching Dave Attell. And I said it like confessional. And I thought she was gonna be like, you're not a real comic then. Everyone watches Attell and she goes, good. Like more people should stop watching Dave Attell. Like people are just ripping him off and I understand why. He's got such a bizarre sense of timing and it's so infectious. Yeah. Oh yeah. Just so fun. So fun to watch. I've known Dave for like 28 years, I think. And he's always been like that. He's always had that very strange way of talking. Yeah. You know. Oh, it's a box. I've known him maybe 10 years and I don't know him at all. You know what I mean? We've like talked a couple of times but I don't know anything about the guy. Yeah. And I think I met him after he had quit drinking. So I think it was a different. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I knew him in the heart. When he was on that show Insomniacs and he was getting blasted out of his gourd every night, every night he was going to these places and it was killing him. And he stopped doing the show for that very reason because everywhere he would go, it would just be shots, shots, shots. And then he, one time I ran into him at the improv and it was like one o'clock in the morning and I was headed home and he's like, hey, is there an after party? Where do we go? I was like, where do we go? Like, go home. Like, go to sleep. Yeah. And then the next time I saw him, he was totally sober. He's one of those guys though that got sober and didn't stop being hilarious. No. A lot of guys do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.