#1700 - Eleanor Kerrigan

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:13)

I did a podcast a couple, uh, like, two months ago, and the guy sent me a call sheet. I'm like, you're being serious right now?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

What?

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Was it in his house?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:27)

It was like that, and there was other people on the call sheet, and I was like, oh, is there hair and makeup? No, but it was that bad.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Was it a popular podcast or was it?

Joe Rogan (0:37)

No.

SPEAKER_4 (0:37)

That's what's weird.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

It's like, there's these people that have podcasts, and then I go to visit them, and they have 13 people working for them. I'm like, what's happening here?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:48)

It was like that.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Yeah, what are you doing?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:50)

It was like a studio, it had the whole feel, it had the whole, I was like.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Everybody thinks they're supposed to be running The Tonight Show. You know what I'm saying?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:58)

And everybody's not The Tonight Show.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

No, like you don't wanna be. Like even Bill Simmons, I did his HBO podcast.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

He's terrific.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

He's great.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

But when I did it, I'm like, why are there so many people here, man?

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:12)

Yeah, but he's got, that's a giant.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

He's fantastic.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:15)

But that's a big one, no?

Joe Rogan (1:16)

But it's still just a podcast. The show was me and him sitting in a diner table, talking about stuff.

So he and I are just sitting there talking, and I'm like, you got like 15 people in this show.

SPEAKER_4 (1:29)

There's so many people here.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

They're running around, clipboards, everybody has to be busy. I was like, this is crazy.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:33)

Yeah, everybody do something. It's like, you know, background action. Everybody's gotta work. Everybody's gotta earn money. But if the podcast is earning money and you can pay that many people, why not employ them?

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Yeah, but still, because they get in the way. This is, they do. They get in the way of a podcast.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:47)

Get in the way of doing cartwheels in the hallway.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

That, yeah.

Eleanor sees the hallway, the long hallway. She's like, you ever do cartwheels here? I go, you can go ahead and do cartwheels.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:56)

I'm not breaking an arm.

I'm not a good cartwheeler. But I just, you get excited watching, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

You are so much more free, now that you're a professional comedian, just being around you. You're so free.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:07)

I love it. I'm sorry if I'm rocking, shy stuff.

SPEAKER_4 (2:09)

But no, no, no, you're free.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

You're like loose and relaxed. Like, I remember when you were a waitress, like it's a harder life.

It's a different-

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:16)

Oh, 100%.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Different world.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:18)

But you're also young. Like now I think I'm older, I don't give a shit about anything anymore.

You know, what are they gonna do? Cancel me? I'm nearly dead.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

For people who don't know, Eleanor and I have been friends for like fucking 26 years or some crazy shit.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:32)

I think, when did you start at the store? 94?

Joe Rogan (2:34)

When were you there?

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:35)

93

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Yeah, so Eleanor was there at the store before me, and Eleanor was a waitress for how many years? 10 years? 12 years.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:44)

12

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Until 2005

So, but she was always my go-to person. You were always the person I would go to when someone would say someone was funny. I would go, Eleanor, is this guy any funny? She'd be like, hack, fucking hack. I'd be like, really? Oh, yeah, he's a hack, he's terrible.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:01)

And I had my favorite hacks, but there was-

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah, you did, you had hacks you loved.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:05)

Because people were like, no, he's a hack. I'm like, yeah, but he's funny. He's like, good at it, she's good at it, whatever it was. I was like, they're good at it, you know?

But there was some people that, no, you just-

Joe Rogan (3:15)

But it was you knew comedy, like you understood comedy. Like waitresses hear our jokes over and over, and all the magic's gone, all the magic's gone.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:24)

You see every trick. Also, when I first started, Mitzi was, you know, the waitresses were afraid of Mitzi, right? And I was one of them, I was terrified. I was like, I'm not getting, this lady is frightening. She hired me because I was from Philadelphia. She literally, when I came in for the audition, or interview, whatever, I was towering over her because the day shift told me, wear heels, she likes that.