#2011 - Tony Woods

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The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Tony Woods, what's happening, baby?

Tony Woods (0:14)

What's happening with you, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Good to see you, my friend.

Tony Woods (0:16)

Man, I'm glad you had me back.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

I'm glad you came back.

Tony Woods (0:19)

You know what?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

It was good seeing you last night.

Tony Woods (0:21)

Because I was like, somebody said, hey, Joe got a new club.

I just sent you a text like, hey, man, let me do your club. You hit me back, okay, I'm like, all right, what's up?

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Yeah, I'm excited. This weekend, that's gonna be fun.

Tony Woods (0:36)

It is, man.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

You're gonna love it.

Tony Woods (0:38)

Yeah, well, you got to put the village right down here in Texas, man. Like back in the day when they had the Comedy Club here, we'd go to the Boston Comedy Club, go to the Salad Club, go to da-da-da-da-da. All of that, that's how it is, is just bouncing around.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

We got five clubs on one street.

Tony Woods (0:56)

But you got the Madison Square Garden.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

You got the mothership.

Tony Woods (0:59)

Yeah, you got the mothership.

I said to somebody, I said, I'm going to Austin to do the mothership. He says, wow, that's gonna be a long flight. You're flying through Boston to go to Africa? I'm like, no.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

What?

Tony Woods (1:17)

I said, Africa is the mother country, the mothership. But then I broke it down. I'm like, yeah, mothership, you know, like George Clinton, the mother, you know, and the parliament and all that. And he was like, I've never heard that.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Well, it's new.

Tony Woods (1:31)

Yeah, it's dope, though, man.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Thank you. Yeah, we've been open four months now. It's been wild.

Tony Woods (1:36)

And it's like, I see it's a line all the time. Other comedians have sent me pictures of people lined up. Like, they're going to see Star Wars the first time.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

It's hard to get tickets, so people get amped up about it. It's really nice.

Tony Woods (1:50)

Yeah, I like it. The grand room is dope, too.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Yeah, we set it up. I mean, we basically set up everything to make it perfect for stand up.

You know, just perfect for the comics, perfect for the staff.

Tony Woods (2:02)

I've been in clubs and they go, yeah, we put our heart and soul into this. I'm like, you guys do comedy? No, we don't do comedy, but this is our new club. I'm like, this is clubs. You don't want to say it. You didn't know what you're doing. Yeah, I went to this one club, and they had this the stage, the ceiling is like that, so it sounds like you're in gymnasium.

It's like that, and the bar is right there.

And just...

Joe Rogan (2:26)

People ordering drinks while the show's going on.

Tony Woods (2:28)

They got like a tier up here. It's more like a dance club. It looks like, yeah, like bandstand, American Bandstand or something. It'd be dope as a club.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Well, there's not a lot of clubs that are designed by comedians.

Where the comic comes in and says, we need to fix this, we need to do that. We had Louie come in, too, that helped a lot.

Louie gave me some real good advice, real good tips. I listened to everything he said. I said, let's do this, okay, I'll do that. He's like, make the stage in the small room smaller. Okay, how much smaller? Four feet on each side, chopped it up. It was like right before we poured the concrete, too, so they had to change the rebar and all that jazz. But it's perfect.

Tony Woods (3:08)

When you, like from the stage, I give advice on, like I might, you know, poke fun at the club, you talk shit, and like the owners always say, you know how much money I put into this club?

You don't do stand up, man. You don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're doing. And when I said it, people laughed, so, but then sometimes you rip on a club because it's comfortable, and you rip on it, and then they'll go and fix it. Like, dude, what you doing?

Joe Rogan (3:34)

Right.

Tony Woods (3:35)

Don't clean it up, man, what you doing?

Joe Rogan (3:37)

Like the Punchline Atlanta.

Tony Woods (3:39)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:39)