#1362 - Lenny Clarke

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Do, do, do, do, Lenny Clarke!

Lenny Clarke (0:03)

That's right.

SPEAKER_3 (0:03)

How are you, brother?

Lenny Clarke (0:04)

Joe, I gotta tell you, let me stop by and say thank you. I can't believe the amount of people that stopped me since I did your podcast. Because you asked me a couple years ago, I didn't know what a podcast was. So I did that from the moment I left here. I went down to Venice Beach, guys were watching the podcast in their car.

So everywhere I go, captains of industry, the homeless guy, Lenny Clarke, I saw you in the Rogan podcast, you were awesome.

SPEAKER_3 (0:32)

Homeless guys have phones now.

Lenny Clarke (0:34)

Homeless guy, I'm going, how did you see it? He goes, I seen it on YouTube.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

That's how you know the progress of technology. Homeless guys have phones and they watch YouTube.

Lenny Clarke (0:43)

I'm doing, Matty Siegel, he's trying to rush me out of the studio the other day. And I said, well, you know, I'm not going to mention I'm a Rogan. Oh my God, you talked about me on Rogan, everyone called then, he was all excited, so he said, say hello.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Hello, Matty Siegel. Matty in the morning in Boston.

Ever since back in the day when I was delivering newspapers, Matty in the morning was on the radio. I still listen to him on the radio when I was on my paper route. Him and Charles Laquadera, the mattress, morning mattress.

Lenny Clarke (1:11)

And then Mark Parento.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Did Mark pass away?

Lenny Clarke (1:14)

Yes, he did. And I went to see him a week before he was at the Mass General. And I went up to him, you know, I had him laughing. And then I said, do you have the age? He goes, no. So I said, I'll kiss you goodbye. He goes, you want to kiss me after age? I said, well, I love you, man, but I'm not here for the trip with you.

He was so, he did the five after five funnies.

Blew up comedy. I mean, every time I did that show.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

A lot of comics owe him a lot.

Lenny Clarke (1:36)

Oh, I owed him a lot. He was a great, great guy.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

And then they also had the comedy riot, WBC comedy riot.

Lenny Clarke (1:42)

Exactly right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Radio, this, this, though, is doing this is like Carson was 20 years ago. That's how big it is. I mean, I mean, really, people from all walks of life, especially the kids, man, the millennials, I don't even know what they have, but they love the show, man.

SPEAKER_3 (1:58)

What comes after the millennials? What's the new thing?

Lenny Clarke (2:00)

Well, I'm just glad we got over that Generation X. I didn't like that.

SPEAKER_3 (2:03)

What are you?

Lenny Clarke (2:03)

I don't know. I'm a baby boomer. You're a baby boomer. I'm a baby boomer. How old are you now? I'm elderly, 66 I could ride the bus for a dime.

Well, not bad for 66, right?

SPEAKER_3 (2:12)

You look fucking great, especially all the coke and booze you did. And you're fucking alive and ticking.

Lenny Clarke (2:18)

I think I'm going to donate the body to science, just so they can save the others.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

They're going to run some tests on you.

Lenny Clarke (2:25)

No one thought I'd make it. No one thought I'd make it past 25

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Well, your era was such a great era of stand up. We've talked about that so many times, but you guys in the fucking 80s, really before I came along, because I came along in 88, and you guys before I came along, you were fucking partying hard.

Lenny Clarke (2:43)

Well, you know, Joe, it was like, you could do whatever you want. We started comedy in Boston, so there were no rules. And if there were any rules, we'd break the rules, and we made up our own rules. And that's why today, you see how it is.

Today, I really enjoy working theaters, but the clubs, you know, the other day, this person heckled me. I hate it. People say, you're so good with hecklers. You know why? Because I hate them. I don't want to deal with them. I want to do the show. I want to create. I want to make it. But they throw you off. You're getting going and they're breaking my man. And you say shit that you go, oh, and they start crying. You know, but why are you fighting with me? I'm trying to do a show for you. Yeah, yeah. I had a guy, I had a guy approach me. I'm sorry to interrupt you. I had a guy I did a thing for Dana Farmer the other night. Raised more money than they ever raised. It was great. Everyone's saying, oh, thank you.