#1296 - Joe List

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Two. Joe List, ladies and gentlemen, Joe List!

Joe List (0:04)

Oh, I'm already in, I'm already going.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

I want to do it like one of the morning DJ guys.

Joe List (0:08)

I appreciate it.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Hey Joe, I hear you're in town for the funny fuck.

Joe List (0:11)

I am, I'm doing the funny fuck this weekend, tonight through Sunday.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Excellent, actually you are working with me tonight. We have two sold out shows at the Hollywood Improv.

Joe List (0:21)

I appreciate it, I'm excited to be there.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

It's going to be fun. It's going to be The Machine, Burt Kreischer.

Joe List (0:25)

I love Burt.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

And Cheeto Santino, Andrew Santino, you know Andrew?

Joe List (0:29)

I know Andrew, but I don't know him personally.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

You just know all of them? He's hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, it should be a good old fucking time.

Joe List (0:36)

Yeah, I'm excited. Thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

My pleasure. How long are you down for?

Joe List (0:39)

I leave tomorrow morning. I got here on Sunday. I got here Saturday, actually. I stayed down Manhattan Beach.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

What are you doing? Posh, hanging out with the people by the beach?

Joe List (0:48)

It was night, I was down at the airport, my wife is here, and I said let's go down to Manhattan Beach for lunch, and we were enjoying ourselves, so we got a hotel and made love and walked on the beach. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

You must really love her if you made love.

Joe List (1:00)

I do.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

I went to a party once in Manhattan Beach, and the guy collected toasters.

And I was like, what is this? And he was like, oh, I just collect toasters.

I'm like, okay. From all different time periods. He had an ancient toaster from the 50s with all this patina on it, and then he had modern toasters. But I think he was trying too hard. You know some dudes just wear bowling shoes and shit. They just try too hard to be wacky.

Joe List (1:28)

Yeah, was he like a hipster or was it like an old sage?

Joe Rogan (1:32)

He was a guy who was trying to fuck my girlfriend. And she wanted to go to this party.

She was an actress, and I think he was in the movie business.

Joe List (1:41)

Imagine getting cucked by a toaster collector.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Yeah, I almost did.

It was one of them squirrely deals where she was like, I'm so not interested in him. I just want to go to this party for networking.

I was a young lad. I had just moved to Hollywood. I did not know the ways of this goofy fucking town yet.

I hadn't exercised myself from Hollywood. I was still doing the thing, acting, going on auditions and shit. So it was like, when you first get here, you're like, what is this? Especially in the 90s, it was super squirrely, because everybody was trying to get a development deal, and everybody was trying to get a sitcom, and they kind of let you think that that was the only way. You have to get a sitcom. You want to be like Roseanne? Don't you want to be like Tim Allen? What about Seinfeld? He got a sitcom? You should get a sitcom. I'm like, damn, I want to get a sitcom. And so everybody was out here just trying to do the acting thing. I did it for a while, and after a while, you're like, these people are not worth it.

Joe List (2:38)

But you did get a sitcom, right?

Joe Rogan (2:40)

I got a couple of them. I was on a couple of them.

Joe List (2:42)

It seems like fun.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

It's fun. Standup's more fun.

Joe List (2:45)

Yeah, it's not something I'd be interested in doing, but...

Joe Rogan (2:48)

If you could do a sitcom with all standups, that would be the shit.

That would be the shit. Like, if you could do a sitcom with really good writers who are cool and all the people on the show were standups, that would be fucking monstrous. But it's not usually like that.

Joe List (3:03)

No, and it seems very... What do you call it?

Corporate, and you got to do this and this and a lot of rules and stuff. It seems like podcasts are...

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Well, they're trying to make money, you know? And they can't make money if people do things and get people in trouble. They say things and get people angry, or someone calls up Human Resources, and Joe List was talking about his dick, and the craft service lady heard it, and now there's a lawsuit.