#1490 - Jimmy O. Yang

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Hey, what's up, brother?

SPEAKER_2 (0:02)

How are you? It's great seeing you.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:04)

It's great seeing a fellow comedian that I don't think I've been inside a comedy club or seen any comedian for two months now.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

It's weird. It's like they're trying to get it out of our system. Like, they're trying to, like, if we're junkies, if we're comedy junkies, we've gone through a rehab.

You have to live like a regular person for months.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:21)

I mean, I've gotten past a phase of like, because back in the day, if I didn't do standup for a week, I'll get depressed. Because there's nothing else going on in my life.

But now, I got other stuff going. I can do writing, whatever. But I feel bad for like the road guys.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Oh yeah.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:36)

And the open micers that's just coming up.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Oh yeah.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:39)

And I'm sure you've gotten this. Are a lot of people inviting you to do virtual, virtual standup comedy shows on Zoom?

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Yeah, they can eat shit.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:47)

That is the worst idea on the fucking planet.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Bro, even great comics look terrible on those.

Jimmy O. Yang (0:53)

And they can record you forever.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Exactly, and you record you looking terrible, bombing.

It's just not the right place. It's like, let's play basketball underwater. No, that doesn't work.

SPEAKER_2 (1:07)

But that shows you how desperate people are.

Jimmy O. Yang (1:10)

They would put their whole material on the line to do virtual, no real people audience just to get their rocks off.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Dave Chappelle's got a very unique solution. He's doing some shit in his backyard. He sent me, well, not his backyard. His friend has a wedding pavilion.

So he set up this thing at a wedding pavilion.

All of it is COVID safe. Look at that. That's Dave on stage in Ohio at a wedding pavilion.

Jimmy O. Yang (1:38)

Oh, wow, dude.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

That's where people would get married and Dave's up there doing standup.

Jimmy O. Yang (1:44)

Yeah, well, he's so good. He doesn't need like a low ceiling, packed seats.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

He just needs a crowd. And you know, he also, I think he just figured out how to improvise. He's like, there's gotta be a way to get around this. I'm going crazy.

Jimmy O. Yang (1:59)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

There's gotta be a way. And doing it outside, separating everybody, following all the COVID requirements, the governor actually had approved this.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, he's in Ohio. So the governor of Ohio approved all this.

Jimmy O. Yang (2:11)

When did this happen? Like recently?

Joe Rogan (2:12)

He's just doing it. He just started doing it. He texted me a couple of days ago saying it was gonna take like four days to work the kinks out. We're making history over here, Joe Rogan.

And then, you know, next thing you know, he's off and running.

Jimmy O. Yang (2:25)

This, I mean, comedy clubs probably gotta be the last thing to open up, right?

Joe Rogan (2:29)

No, not the last thing. I think like Staples Center, shit like that, arenas, big places, that's gonna be the last thing. Restaurants are slowly starting to, there it is. Boom.

What is this? Brooklyn Vegan?

SPEAKER_2 (2:41)

Ew. Very reputable site.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

It's just like, boy, is that fraught with peril. People that are really into being from Brooklyn and people that are really into telling you they're a vegan, together at last.

Jimmy O. Yang (2:59)

Speaking of improvisation, I'm always very jealous because I think my buddy Ben Schwartz and Thomas Middleditch, they did improvising show on Netflix, right?

And that is like the ultimate hack to people like us that take, like my first special took me 10 years. And now these guys can crank out five in a day because it's improvised. I'm like, what are we doing here?

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Well, I remember the first time I saw you was at the improv. I saw you kill in that little tiny room of death.

That lab is death. Everybody eats shit in that lab.

Jimmy O. Yang (3:32)

That is the worst. Ever since they remodeled it, that lab, half the room is a bar.

Joe Rogan (3:37)

Yes.

Jimmy O. Yang (3:37)

And then there's pillars in the front of the stage.

Joe Rogan (3:40)

And right next to you is where the door is. So people are coming in the door. There's all this chit-chat and talking and buying tickets. It's right there.