#1207 - Jeff Ross & Dave Attell

Dave Attell (0:02)

It's like old school Russian.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Three, two, there's something I like about the fact that you can smoke in here.

Jeff Ross (0:09)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

I like that people can be relaxed.

Jeff Ross (0:12)

I had to find a comedy club to shoot our special where Dave can smoke.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Where did you go?

Jeff Ross (0:18)

Comedy center.

Dave Attell (0:19)

The underground. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

The underground, they let you smoke?

Dave Attell (0:22)

No, but they let him smoke.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

I think there's a rule where if you're a performer, you can get away with it because it's a part of your routine.

Dave Attell (0:31)

Like a cabaret still on the books?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Don't take my word for that. I believe I learned that from Dice while he was on stage.

Dave Attell (0:39)

Yes.

Jeff Ross (0:39)

I think you read that in the Dice-Chapelle manual.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Yeah. Well, they just can get away with it. Yeah, Dave's always smoking on stage.

Dave Attell (0:46)

No, I don't smoke anymore. But I'll tell you one thing that that year in between, we're not allowed to smoke on stage, that was a tough year because he used to like smoking and the crowd smoking. It was kind of a fun thing.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

A punchline enhancer too, right?

Jeff Ross (1:01)

Dave, you do smoke on stage.

Dave Attell (1:03)

Not all the time, like towards the end of it, maybe.

Jeff Ross (1:06)

Not only that, but when we're on the road and we do like an hour and a half, he'll pretend he's getting a phone call or something. He'll go smoke and leave me on stage by myself.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Really?

Dave Attell (1:16)

Yeah, but it gives you a chance to like open up a long form bit. Now you're hearing it, Joe. Now you're really hearing the whole story behind the Bumping Mic.

Behind the Bumping Mic.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

What do you get out of smoking on stage? It just fulfills the nicotine fix or does it actually give you something? Because they say, I've smoked one of Tony Hinchcliffe's cigarettes a couple of times before I went on stage and you get like a pick me up. There's a little something. You get like an enhancement.

Dave Attell (1:45)

I'll say right now, it definitely is a weakness that like now I don't drink, don't do anything, but like coffee and cigarettes, it's like, it's breathing for me. But on stage, it does focus. It helps focus you.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

They say it's legitimately, they say nicotine is actually a good nootropic.

Dave Attell (2:02)

Oh, is it?

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Yeah. It actually enhances cognitive function. Like if you do a test without nicotine, then do a test with nicotine, it's non-users. Yeah.

Jeff Ross (2:09)

It makes me nauseous if I accidentally smoke a blunt and not just straight weed or something.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

Really?

Jeff Ross (2:14)

Just tobacco like Snoop handed me something the other day and I thought it was all pop, but there was tobacco in there.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

These things are the shit. What is it?

There's backwards.

Jeff Ross (2:23)

I can deal with it on the paper.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Jamie, where'd you get these?

Where were they at? This company, Hollywood's, I don't know, the stores. These are the shit. These are my favorite.

Jeff Ross (2:33)

I'll have to check them out.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Charlie Murphy got me into these things back in the day, because he would roll them himself. He would get those Swisher Sweets and he would tear them apart and then he'd put the weed inside of it and roll it up.

Jeff Ross (2:45)

Oh.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Yeah, old school.

And then Chappelle got me into it again, because I smoked one with him one day at the back of the comic store. I was like, damn, this is a weird high.

Dave Attell (2:56)

What is it like?

Joe Rogan (2:57)

You get a buzz. It's like you're a little bit high, but you're also a little bit buzzy from the tobacco.

I like it. I'm a fan.

Jeff Ross (3:05)

Whatever it takes to make the jokes fly, bro.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Whatever they were smoking when they made your jacket.

Jeff Ross (3:13)

Dave will smoke a cigarette right before we go on, and I'll take one hit of weed right before we go on, and we meet in the middle.

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Yeah. One hit's good.

Jeff Ross (3:21)

One hit before.

Joe Rogan (3:22)