#1587 - Mark Normand

Mark Normand (0:16)

Hey, hey, good to be here. I know, I feel good, I got tested, I feel great.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Yes, you're clean, you're clean of cooties.

Mark Normand (0:22)

I've gotta be honest, I'm shocked. I thought I've been super spreading for weeks.

I just felt like that in my body, like, ah, I must be hurting people.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Well, there's a wave going through New York right now.

Mark Normand (0:31)

Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

A lot of comics got it.

Mark Normand (0:33)

Everybody's got it, I don't wanna say names, I don't know what's out, but holy shit.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Yeah, I don't know what's out either.

Mark Normand (0:38)

And it got all the funny ones, too. It wasn't like the hacks didn't die. It's just like real comics. They get Patrice, they get Mitch Hedberg, they get Geraldo. Same with Corona.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Well, those are the ones that are hanging out.

Mark Normand (0:50)

Yeah, good point. Funny people hang out with funny people.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Yeah, that is it. When a comic stops hanging out with comics, never turns out well.

Mark Normand (0:58)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

When they kinda alienate themselves from other comics, you've noticed, right?

Mark Normand (1:02)

Good point.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

They get weird.

Mark Normand (1:03)

And we don't care about scandals or anything. If you're funny, we'll still hang out with you.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

We don't care at all.

No one cares at all. Louie was back like that.

Mark Normand (1:11)

Right, right.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

I see Brian Cowan, I give him a hug.

When you're in that weird little group, I think comics wanna think that they're independent in some sort of way, that they don't need other comics. And you could survive without other comics, but those are like army issue MREs. You can kinda get by eating them. But you're not, are you really living?

Mark Normand (1:35)

Ah, that's good, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

You can survive on dehydrated food. You can live, but you're gonna enjoy it.

Mark Normand (1:42)

Well, the pandemic's a bitch, cause you can't do stand up. But when you get that moment, when you're hanging out with the other guys again, you're like, oh, this is what I've been missing. I've been going crazy. I felt like a weirdo in my apartment.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Well, I've been doing these shows in town with Chappelle, and I did one of them with him like three weeks ago.

Well, I did one with Tony Hinchcliffe at the Vulcan Gas Company like four weeks ago. And Ron White was the funniest ever. Cause before he's like, I'm basically retired. I'm just gonna fucking retire, take all my tequila money and just fucking chill out. I'm gonna sail my plane. He's still talking all this shit. And then he gets off stage. He did one set that he hadn't done stand up in eight months. The moment he gets off stage, he grabs me by my shoulders. He goes, we're fucking doing this, okay?

Mark Normand (2:25)

We're back.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

He goes, I don't give a fuck what we have to do. This must continue. Like he was like at 10 He was at a 10

Mark Normand (2:33)

It's in you. It's like when you quit drinking, then you're like, fuck it, tonight we're drinking. It's the same feeling. You just start chugging again. You're like, ah, you rip your shirt off. You'd look like Chrysler.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Have you ever quit drinking?

Mark Normand (2:43)

I try for like a week. I just, I like it. And I feel like I'm good at it now.

I'm in my late thirties. I've drank since I was 13 I got it down. I mean, I'm from New Orleans, you know, you get after it out there.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Yeah, it's a different world up there.

Mark Normand (2:56)

It's part of the culture. But yeah, no, you're right. The comedy, you need it once you get back into it. Cause we're, I think we're inherently lazy. Most comics, we want to put our feet up. Well, not you, you're doing 17 jujitsu's and, you know, making coffee and stuff. But like, I feel like we're inherently lazy when you get us back in that limelight and it all percolates.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

Yeah, in terms of like wanting to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the juice is worth the squeeze. It's, show it again. The juice is worth the squeeze. Like when, if you can get back into like stand up shape, the juice of killing in front of a crowd is so worth the effort it's gonna take to get your act back in order and write.