#1265 - Andrew Schulz

Joe Rogan (0:05)

Headphones, sir? Do I have to? They're better.

Lock in. Are we live?

Hey, Andrew, how you doing?

Andrew Schulz (0:13)

I'm good, how are you?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

I'm good, man, what's up?

Andrew Schulz (0:14)

Chilling, man, thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Thanks for being here, dude. Hey, I like what you're doing.

Andrew Schulz (0:19)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

I like a lot of things you're doing. First of all, I like that you decided to put all your shit on YouTube. You're like, fuck it, fuck it.

Look, it's hard, look, there's about a million fucking comedians today. There's more comedians now than ever.

Andrew Schulz (0:31)

Take these off, is that all right? Yeah, I'll lock in, don't worry.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

We don't have to have them on, there's like a million comedians today. Yeah.

And a lot of these companies are overwhelmed. They have no room for all these up and coming guys that are coming up. Yeah. And some guys like you are really good.

They're looking like, how do you get your shit out there? Well, just put it out there on YouTube.

Andrew Schulz (0:54)

Exactly that.

Yeah, I mean, everybody just said no to me, that was a thing. So I didn't have a choice.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

Well, a lot of people, that's happening to Brian Cowen right now.

Andrew Schulz (1:01)

Right, and then he just did his, right? I posted his thing.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

But he's releasing it on iTunes, he's releasing it on all the other platforms, but there's no fucking room.

Andrew Schulz (1:10)

Yeah, it's a weird thing because I guess for me, the stand up industry wasn't really inviting to me, even from the beginning.

So a couple years ago, I filmed my own, especially when I did it in New York. And I did five clubs and I did the cab rides in between. And the idea was, all right, if you don't fuck with me, at least you can appreciate this part of stand up that is being a New York guy.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Did you do 15 minute sets in each place? Oh wow, that's cool.

Andrew Schulz (1:37)

Yeah, so I was like, if you love the game, you at least will take a look at this and maybe support this.

And everybody said no, like CISO said no. And I had a show with them. Like, bro, it was bad, like humbling, you know? But I just believed in the project and I thought it was dope, so I cut a 15 minute version. But I'll tell you why I did it, is because you can learn everything you need about stand up from asking people who don't do stand up.

Really? Yeah, like I asked all my friends and just people I would meet and be like, who you watching these days? And they'd say the names that we all know. And then they'd always say this, they'd be like, yeah, it was funny, man, but I didn't finish it.

Everybody said that, right? And I was like, all right, so it was too long.

So I cut it down to 15 I did like a 15-minute version of the special. I did four clubs. And I just put it right on the YouTube. And it was weird, I like sold out shows that weekend in San Diego, and I was never a sellout guy. You know, I have a few guys come out from the podcasts I do and that kind of stuff, but it was never like a sellout, you know? And I was like, well, that's kind of weird. And then I did a show in like Columbus, Ohio. You know, the, what is it, the Funny Bone out there? Great club.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Great club.

Andrew Schulz (2:50)

And I think we sold like 1600 tickets.

And I was like, what the fuck is happening? Like, I was never, not in Ohio, you know? And like people were coming out, like, I like your thing. I was like, oh shit, maybe people are watching this. And I started to kind of like sit back for a second. I was like, why are people watching? Man, maybe it's short. And I was like, all right, fuck it. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna put a joke out a week for a year.

You know, I got another 45 minutes left to the special and I could probably produce some more standup. I'll just put a joke out a week. There was this singer who was doing that. And like, he just put a song out a week. His name was Russ. And I was like, all right, he's a worker. I can at least control that. I can outwork somebody. So I'll do that. And I put the joke out for a week and like the joke started to go. And like someone would go viral. And I was like, yo, this is crazy. And people are coming out to shows. And then my YouTube guy hits me. He goes, yo, something weird is happening. I go, what's up? And he goes, when people watch a clip, they'll watch for two hours.