John Witherspoon's Son Does a Great Impression of His Dad | Joe Rogan

Unbelievable. How? I talked to the mic there. Unbelievable how? He can work that foot. How do you feel about your son's impression of you? It's really good. He doesn't think it sounds like him at all. He doesn't. Give me something. Well I only know it because this is how he talks to me all the time. He'll just be like, um, JD, what you doing today? You got work. You got to go sit back and talk to all them people and just boop. All the noises, you know, like he's, he's, he'd be a, you'd be perfect for ASMR. We should just make that type of stuff. Like him, him just breathing. I was in line at the airport coming from, I think I was in St. Louis or something like that. And so I'm behind this lady, anybody in line, but it was two, three people in front of her and I'm behind her. So I'm back to making my little noise. She was like an old, old Latino woman, Spanish woman. And she looked back and she went back to looking forward and then she, I said, come on, but well, I don't care. Whatever. She said, you make a lot of noise. She said, you make a lot of noise, sir. Remember making any noise. You do when you got in the car today, you got in the car and you got to express myself. It's noises and noises and questions. Those are his, those are his, those are it. Like the moment you get in the car, how far are we going to get to Joe? We're driving 30 miles an hour. He's like, I think you're going a little fast. Don't you think? A little quick, a little quick on the freeway. I'm like, we're on the freeway. It's 60 miles. I'm going slow right now. What is that? But no, his voice is just like one of many. I come across, could I do voiceover and all that stuff? So it's one of those things where I'm lucky enough to have that one in my back pocket. Cause sometimes I'll throw it out there and people that be like, I don't know. A lot of people do a John Witherspoon in person. It's interesting. That's a practice on it. Yeah, man. It's gotta be nice though. Seeing him get in the show business, getting to stand up. I guess so. Do you like it? Yeah. I don't, you know, I came from 11 kids and then get, so hope you'd be successful. I'm going to try my best to be successful. He's too busy counting his coins to worry about my career. God bless us all. God bless us all. You're on your own. Good luck. I mean, no, he's, you know, he's supportive, but he's one of those guys where, cause I didn't want to do entertainment at all when I was younger. I wanted, I wanted to do art. And when I was drawing, I used to go to college and then I didn't know how to turn art into a career. So one of my friends like, why don't you try acting? You're always wasting time in class, making us laugh. And I was like, oh, that's interesting idea. So I started like doing commercial acting and I, but, uh, uh, I have friends who are comics. Like I don't usually bring up, he's my dad. Like it's something that just randomly happens usually. Like, uh, and when that comes across, they're like, Oh, that's crazy. So you got like a well of information in the sense of being a good comic and writing and this and that. I'm like, uh, not yet. Like not that I don't, but it's just asking him questions about stuff like that is the funniest stuff. Cause he's just very, like, like you just said, it's very flat out and just kind of like, uh, yeah, uh, yeah. Yeah. Be funny. How much more can you tell the guy though? Really? Yeah. You just gotta get your own. You know, we talked about that last night. People ask me, do you go to the clubs and look at your son and help him write? He doesn't, I featured for him and uh, he doesn't watch my set. Like I just go up and I do my, I do my time and I come into the Korean room and I'm like, are you ready to go? And he's like, Oh yeah, GD. Uh, they sound like they were laughing. So sound like you did. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, man. What is a father to do? Do you ever give them any criticism or any pointers or anything? Huh? You ever give them any pointers? Any tips? Better be funny. I'm usually the one I'm the one on the opposite spectrum, giving him tips about, uh, like how he can, how he can leverage like his, you know, his, uh, his notoriety in this day and age on the internet. That's my thing. So it's one of those things where like, if I have a question about standup, I'll ask, but he doesn't, you know, yeah, you should definitely have a very active social media. Yeah. I help him run it. So yeah. Who's on the all the time. Kevin Hartens always always. Here's the thing. She's always on. Here's the thing. Literally creating his social media was just a fluke. Cause one day, like five or six or seven years ago, someone trended that he passed away. And because of that, we had to create social media for him. So when that happened, he's calling me and I'm getting calls from random people who know him. And also my cousin's like, I got, I got family calling me crying like, is he okay? Is everything okay? And he called me and he's like, JD, oh, you, you got to help me. Uh, some, some wrong on the internet. They think I'm going. He's saying my, my, all my, all my family's calling me and I don't want to talk to him. So we created him a Twitter that day. And then through Twitter, I told him, I'm like, well, just tell people you're around. And we tweeted out like, Hey y'all, this is the real John Witherspoon, blah, blah, blah. Don't listen to those phonies, making up them rumors. Cause it was, it was worldwide trending or whatever, like hashtag RIP pops or something. And then off of that, his Twitter gained like 25 K and I'm like an hour. And then later on down the road, he got into Instagram kind of randomly where he just, uh, he had an Instagram, didn't really post. And then I think one day you did, you did just a random thing where he was ramped. I talked to, I talked to Megan and, and what's the name? Oh, he was, he was making like a joke about like Bill Cosby and whatnot. And he was like, can't mess around with them. That does stuff, bill and whatever. But other social media platforms randomly found it, reposted it. And now he's like, he went from like 6k to like 120. I just don't do anything. Yeah. He doesn't understand like how social media, you know, there's like the future, but I try to keep them in a loop.