#1715 - Jessica Kirson

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Jessica Kirson (0:15)

Because they're crazy.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

That is such a dumb thing to do.

Jessica Kirson (0:19)

I know.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Interrupt a performance.

Jessica Kirson (0:21)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

To move a bottle off a stool.

Jessica Kirson (0:23)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Like as if someone's at home going, well, I was enjoying your performance, you was very funny.

Jessica Kirson (0:27)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

With that bottle. Right.

Jessica Kirson (0:30)

I mean, there would have been millions of people who would have been upset about the bottle. So it makes sense.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Was it a product placement thing? Was there a label on the bottle?

Jessica Kirson (0:37)

No, it just was bothering someone that there was a bottle in the way.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Oh my God. This is why it's a problem when you have executives and too many cooks in the kitchen.

SPEAKER_6 (0:48)

What a fucking nightmare.

Jessica Kirson (0:50)

I was so pissed. I literally went to the microphone and said, I'm gonna fucking kill myself. That was what I said.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

They should have left that whole thing in. Like the person coming on the stage, taking off the bottle and showing like what other art form would be disrespected like that. Could you imagine Eric Clapton in the middle of a solo performance and someone comes out and moves a bottle. You're like, what the fuck are you doing up here? Why are you here?

Jessica Kirson (1:17)

Because we're just animals.

We're clowns. They just literally, and it scared the shit out of me by the way, because I'm so traumatized and like I'm physically a traumatized person. So when my manager tapped my back, I'm in the middle of performing.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

In front of a fucking crowd.

Jessica Kirson (1:31)

I mean, think about it. You're on stage and you feel someone's hand on you. I was like, am I going to be raped? What is happening?

What is happening?

Joe Rogan (1:39)

The fact that they chose to do it in the middle of your performance.

Jessica Kirson (1:43)

Five minutes in and I was killing.

SPEAKER_6 (1:45)

That's so crazy.

Jessica Kirson (1:47)

Killing.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

That's so crazy. And tap you on the shoulder.

Not even yell out to you. Jessie, we're going to start.

Jessica Kirson (1:53)

No, I felt a hand on me.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Oh my God. What if you died?

Jessica Kirson (1:56)

And I go, what the fuck?

Joe Rogan (1:57)

What if you had a fucking heart attack and dropped dead right there?

Jessica Kirson (1:59)

My kids would have been set for life. Actually, that would have been a great thing if that happened.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Maybe. Comedy Central probably has some good lawyers.

Jessica Kirson (2:09)

It would have been a great story. Think about it. It would have been a very good story. I mean, I was right about to, you know, things were going great at that point in my career.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Motherfuckers.

Jessica Kirson (2:16)

Yeah. God. Oh.

I know. And I literally was just like, I'm gonna fucking kill myself. This business is horrific.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

I was doing a special once and I always do my specials with the same director. He's a very good friend of mine. I've known him forever. And we do all the specials together, but one special he could not do because he had a previous engagement. There's no way he could cancel it. So we brought in someone else. And this, we told the guy exactly how we wanted to do it. Like keep it like a comedy club, make it very dark in there.

And then, you know, we like, he was like, what about crowd shots? I'm like, we're not gonna use them. Don't worry about it. I don't like seeing people's faces. They're like, what about for editing? I'm like, we're not gonna do that. Don't worry about it.

In the middle of my performance, this motherfucker turns the lights up.

He's turning the lights up more and more. And my manager has to go back and yell at him. What the fuck are you doing? He's like, we gotta see the crowd. Like, he fucking told you to keep, and then after all this shit is over, after all it's over, we're done. I'm like, okay, fine, we're fine. He's like, I think we should do this in black and white. I'm like, get the fuck away from me.

The fuck away from me.

Jessica Kirson (3:25)

Subtitles with Chinese.

Joe Rogan (3:27)