Joe Rogan - Tony Hinchcliffe's Nightmare Gig in Connecticut

Trips, I did something that you told me not to do, Joe Rogan. You ready for this? You told me not to do it years ago and I did it and it was rough and I performed stand-up comedy in Connecticut. Was that right? You were right, dude. I told you it's a place of despair. Yeah. It's really crazy. So one of the things that happened was is I noticed this really cool old guy stood out in the front middle of the audience, right? And I'm like, you seem like out of place and cool as hell and old as fuck. What's your story, dude? Right. And I noticed that there's this angry older lady, almost like Dana Carvey's like church lady character sitting next to him. And I go, and who's this angry lady that you're sitting next to? She doesn't want to be here at all. And he goes, that's my wife. And they were the most different seeming couple you could ever imagine this happy smiling, laughing at everything guy and justice. I mean, she was looking at me with hate, not just not having fun. She hated me. It could have been something that I talked about early on. Maybe it was like something about your Amy Schumer joke could have been that could have been my me too. Joe could have been my Trump misdirect joke that people, you know what I mean? Anyway. And but I noticed next to them, there's this girl who seems even angrier than the mom. And they're the only two angry people in the room. And it's a gig at a casino in Connecticut. Give me a face. Just literally like literally like a modern day. Like if someone said to a bad actress, like play angry, play angry, angrier, angrier to a horrible actress like that. And and and I go, and I go, what's the problem? And, you know, there's like, I ignore it for like 45 minutes, right? And I'm going on and on. But the mom's angry. It turns out that the chick next to them is the daughter. And they're basically mad because of whatever, whatever material or whatever. And I end up towards the end of my set going off on the girl. I go, I go, I go, take the scowl off your face. What are you doing? Do you think that's going to affect me? Lady, I'm getting paid the same amount, whether you laugh or not. And I'm back to LA back to the dream tomorrow. You know what I mean? Like at this point, I'm just my fans are loving it. And they're the ones that stumbled into the wrong casino for the wrong show at the wrong time. If they were looking for Christian puppet comedy or whatever. And I said to her, I go, you seem like I go, I go, you seem like an Internet troll that just stumbled in here. Like you seem like you're going to write about this. You seem like the type of angry where you think you're going to change something or you're going to do something to my career. That's what I that's the vibe I get from you. I literally made the jokes. The crowd's loving it, by the way. You know what I mean? Because they can tell like it's not saying anything to her. She was there was one. There was one part where I go, I go because my goal, the thing that the reason why I ignored them for a while was because I go, you seem like a tough lady to the mom. Right. I go, you seem tough, but I'm going to break you at some point during this set. And when I do, I'm going to make sure this whole room knows I'm going to say I got you and I'm not going to tell you when it's going to happen, but I'm going to make you laugh. Anyway, 45 minutes later, I get to the point to where I had in my mind set up that there's no way she's not going to laugh at this. And sure enough, I got a big smile out of her. Right. I'm not, I won't say what the joke is. I don't want to give anything away, but I got the smile and I'm literally like, and the whole crowd's already laughing and they can tell that I'm looking to watch to see if the lady breaks and she doesn't. And I go, how in the, I thought I was going to get you. I thought I was going to get you on that one. How is it possible that you don't laugh at that? Like, what do you do for fun lady? Like at this point, I'm just right all amped up. And I go, what would I have to do to possibly make you laugh? And that's finally when the angry daughter goes be funny. I go, oh, no, I've been killing for 52 minutes now. You know what I mean? Like at this point, whatever there's everybody out the 99.9% of the other audiences, the witness at this point, and they're against this chick, right? Cause this chick's now just mad because whatever. And, and I go, you seem like the type of girl that thinks that you can even affect an artist. You know what I mean? This is this little millennial nerdy girl. And sure enough, sure enough, I go on Twitter later that night. There's at Mohegan son, you should not be promoting this comedian. Two days later, my manager gets an email and he's like, dude, we got this, uh, email from, uh, some lady in Connecticut says you were mean to her on stage. I'm like, she wrote you a letter. He's like, it's three paragraphs long. Like what is happening? Like, I mean, what is happening in this world where someone's taking the time to write a letter to my manager of all people who by the way is laughing at the whole thing. Imagine if your manager dumped you for that enough. Right. One audience member in Connecticut. Yeah. And then hold the crowd. 99% thought you're funny, but that's not good enough. You need a hundred percent, but man, you were right, dude. And, and, Connecticut is weird. It's a weird place. You can run into a person like that anywhere. Yeah. I mean, I've run into people like that at the store. They sit in the front row with their arms crossed. You're going to run into people like that everywhere. Yeah. But there's something about Connecticut where it's, there's no real cities. You got Hartford, which is a land of despair and you got new Haven, which is worse. And it's just a highway between Boston and New York. That's all it is. Yeah. Boston's great. New York's great. Connecticut's like, what the fuck are you doing here? What's going on here? It's become such a running joke that Lex Friedman, the scientist from MIT who's on here the other day to talk about artificial intelligence, he brought it up as a joke. What did he say? Do you remember what he said? Something about like he just wanted you to shit on it. I don't remember exactly. Dude. I did so many gigs in Connecticut. So many, so many, because I lived in Boston and it was like a, you know, hour and a half drive, two hour drive. You're in Connecticut. We did a lot of gigs there. Greg Fitzsimmons and I, we did a shit ton of gigs in Connecticut. We'd always leave going, what the fuck? What was that? It was, it felt, it felt dirty. It's a gig I did purely for the money.