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the jurogan experience so i when i started i moved to uh actually i have a story with you oh yeah about first starting oh you were responsible for basically the first time i ever went on stage uh i mean almost in a comment i think zany chicago might have been the first actual club i went to is he that or the comedy store so i was friends with uh a buddy of mine josh baker he was in the band prom kings do you remember band i think sure yeah yeah and so we came out to la to stay hanging out with him and he uh and so they knew you and so this is i mean i think it's 2003 or four and i've been to a comedy maybe a year and so we come out and then we you invite us to the show at the comedy store so we come watch you we sit in the front row i remember all this stuff that's like a nightmare as a comment now when you think back then i didn't care had you been thinking about doing it already i already started i moved to chicago so i was in i was in chicago with like hannibal and pete holmes and tj miller and kumail like that was kind of the group that was in chicago so i'm we went from chicago to la to go just visit and so we hung out with them we go to your show you introduced them at one of their shows because i guess you were good friends with these people or with the with the band or you liked this band and so you introduced them and i remember i talked to you afterwards like we were like at the show and i'm like talking about comedy i'm trying not to be i'm a new comic so i don't even really know what to ask you were very very nice and then uh we go watch you and then you said you're going to go up at the comedy store i was like it was when you had to sign up for the open mic the week later so you signed up for the monday to go up the next week and i was like well i was like i'm not going to be here and uh you go i'll call and then you got me on stage that you called and said hey he's just in town doing this how many dude
i'm a year coming look at it so it worked out it worked out dude they brought me up they go uh this next uh one of joe rogan's best friends and they were i mean other comics are just furious and i'm like i don't i was like we met him last night he's a very nice guy that's a funny thing man the those little like nudges and like uh little pieces of good like uh like criticism or good you know a praise from a comic when you're starting out like that could go so far so far from i remember to this day like uh lenny clark i'd done stand-up i'd done it for like a year and i'd gotten paid one time before this is the second time i ever got paid and i opened up for lenny clark in pittsfield massachusetts this was after i think i've done this show this gig yeah is that jay's jays and pittsburgh was it in a hotel um i don't think so i've done a pittsfield mascot oh it was uh like a nightclub and it was it was like one of the best road gigs like everybody get it it was a three-hour drive from boston but it was one of those road gigs where everybody would get excited and this was after lenny had been on hbo he was on the ronnie dangerfield young comedian special ronnie whatever ronnie called it and so see just being around him was crazy and then opening for him was even more crazy and then after i got off stage he was like kid you're really funny like with that crazy boston accent and man that powered me through like years for three years i was i was like oh man i'm doing this like i'm i'm never quitting now like lenny clark said i'm funny [ __ ] yeah i'm good it's the it's the it's gigantic yeah like that was you doing that at that time hey i knew the comedy story but it's not like i even really and then it was like going to new york and then be like i've already done the comedy store
and even as the open mic it was just i saw the world and i got to see the world and then talking to you at that uh the band you were just talking about going up and like you got to go up like you know stuff that you would say to comics but it was like stuff that i didn't know at that time and you realize you know that that that's enormous yeah that's enormous i did that pittsfield mass gig uh because i was in new york i opened up for tony v oh i love sony vs yeah and they i was the host got paid 500 bucks it was crazy like i was like this is crazy i've never paid 500 bucks for a gift right it's packed it's sold out i mean you just murder and i thought maybe it wasn't at hotel i don't remember my wife with me it was a big night they gave me 500 bucks cash i end up later on tonight i lose the 500 oh no it just falls out why so the night goes from this amazing night with my wife for 500 bucks to now we're in a fight and uh i and but i mean i still think i tell her every day because at the time i was like were you ever going to remember this 500 like i always kind of live by that motto like i'll get another 500 i bring it up still i mean it's been 15 years and i still just go you remember that 500 like just to make that point catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience