#1146 - Jeff Garlin

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Three, two, one. Hello Jeffrey.

Jeff Garlin (0:06)

Hello Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

How are you doing man?

Jeff Garlin (0:08)

I'm young and handsome.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

You are young and handsome. Yes.

We all are, if we're not dead. I don't know what that means.

Jeff Garlin (0:16)

It's all good.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

I'm all jet-lagged.

Jeff Garlin (0:19)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

It's cracking. How are you?

Jeff Garlin (0:21)

I'm a big bowl of wonderful.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

A big bowl?

Jeff Garlin (0:25)

A big bowl. A fucking huge bowl of wonderful.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

You're aggressive with that statement.

Jeff Garlin (0:31)

I am. Don't doubt me with wonderfulness.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

I don't doubt you.

Jeff Garlin (0:35)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

It's good to see you, man.

Jeff Garlin (0:37)

Good to see you, too.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

What's the latest?

Jeff Garlin (0:39)

What is the latest? About to start another season of The Goldbergs, another season of Curb after that.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Do you enjoy working with the fabulous Brian Callan?

Jeff Garlin (0:49)

I love working with Brian Callan. He makes me laugh all the time.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

He's here later. He's going to be here at 2 o'clock.

Jeff Garlin (0:55)

Oh, so then I'll see him.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Or 3 Yeah.

Jeff Garlin (0:57)

Oh, maybe not. But anyhow, point being is I dig Brian Callan very much.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

He likes you too.

Jeff Garlin (1:02)

Yeah, that's cool. That's cool, man.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

What's the latest with the stand-up career? I see you around the store a lot.

Jeff Garlin (1:11)

At the store, on occasion. I don't do the store that much anymore because I've stopped doing showcase spots for the most part. I just do. I have a regular show every Friday night at the improv in the lab, and I do an hour, hour, and ten minutes. And then occasionally, I do Flappers, which is a horrible name in Burbank, but a great room, a great room.

And I do there on occasion on Sunday nights. So I do an hour.

Going out of the house for 15, 20 minutes, not worth my time.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

When you do an hour set, do you plan your sets out, or do you have some material that you like to be working on? And is that why you like the freedom of having an hour, so you can just kind of fuck around?

Jeff Garlin (1:56)

I have no preparation whatsoever, except I may think, oh, I'll talk about that tonight.

But I have no preparation. I may bring up a story I've told before, but I have no idea. Literally when I step on stage, I have no idea what I'm going to talk about. What does help me, what I've done for quite a while now is I come up to a different song every time I come up.

And then I just talk about that song, the story of the making of that song, who sang that song, what that song means to me, and that will usually lead me to something. That's all I need.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Yeah, the reason why I ask is you have a very unusual style. I've seen you a bunch of times at the store. You're very loose.

Jeff Garlin (2:35)

Yeah, very loose.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

But it's a great thing because you have the confidence to do that. A lot of people have to be super rigid in their preparation.

Jeff Garlin (2:42)

Without a doubt, yes.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Say things, set up punchline in the correct order every night.

Jeff Garlin (2:47)

I'm only confident in the fact that I'm funny. I am not confident in any other fact in terms of going on stage.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

That's the most important thing.

Jeff Garlin (2:55)

It is the most important. And so I go up with the knowledge that no matter what goes down, I am funny and will be funny. Boom. Good night.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

That's it. Good night.

Jeff Garlin (3:04)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

And are you doing The Road at all?

Jeff Garlin (3:07)

Hardly ever. When I do The Road, I did London in December. I did a couple weeks of shows. A couple weeks? Yeah, a couple weeks at a theater there.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

What theater did you go to?

Jeff Garlin (3:17)

Soho Theater. It's a small, cool theater.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

And that's like 500 seats or something?

Jeff Garlin (3:21)

I don't even know. I don't even pay attention.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

I feel like I've done that.