#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

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

Kyle Dunnigan (0:18)

You know who wrote that? Pop Quiz.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Who?

Kyle Dunnigan (0:21)

Very famous person wrote it.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

What is that from? What show is that from?

Kyle Dunnigan (0:26)

Seventies.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Yeah.

Kyle Dunnigan (0:28)

Begins with an S.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Stanford and Son.

Jamie (0:31)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Who wrote it?

Kyle Dunnigan (0:33)

You're not going to believe it. Quincy Jones. Really? Yes. If you hear the whole song, it's a really good song.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

I used to love that show. Stanford and Son was fucking great.

Kyle Dunnigan (0:43)

It was funny.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

It was funny, ridiculous. Red Fox was the man.

Kyle Dunnigan (0:47)

He was so funny on that. I actually didn't like that theme song.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Here we go.

Kyle Dunnigan (0:53)

When I first heard it.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

That was back when sitcoms were sitcoms.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:01)

That one was like way, I felt like way better. Three's Company sucks if you watch that now. That was like the number one sitcom. Stanford and Son is still good.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Yeah. You know what's underrated that I really never gave a chance?

Kyle Dunnigan (1:14)

Wait, I want to guess.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Big Bang Theory.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:15)

Oh, fuck.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Fuck, I fucked it up. Sorry.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:16)

I would have said Big Bang Theory.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

It's a good show. I used to shit on it because I saw clips with, you know how you do retakes?

Kyle Dunnigan (1:24)

Where they're not laughing?

Joe Rogan (1:26)

You know what that is? That's like retakes. When you work on a sitcom, sometimes you have to do pickups.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:33)

I actually don't know, but yes.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Oh, you do pickups and nobody knows anymore. Nobody does it anymore. Miss Pat is like the only person I know with a sitcom.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:43)

Yeah, I couldn't name one sitcom.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Think about all the comics we know. I know one comic with a sitcom, Miss Pat, and it's on a streaming. It's on BET.

Kyle Dunnigan (1:53)

That was everything. When I was first starting, your whole thing was like you have to get a sitcom or you don't have any money.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Yeah. Well, or you'll never going to have a career because you needed, there was no way to get people to come see you in the clubs, unless you had a special or unless you had a sitcom.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:09)

Yeah. I remember Zack Galifianakis, it was pilot season. Remember that whole thing? That was huge. Pilot season is coming up.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Oh, yeah. Everybody would be in town for pilot season.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:20)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Everybody would be like a special kind of anxious.

Jamie (2:22)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Because your whole fucking career was laying on this moment where you walked into this room and there was these weirdos, these casting people, there were always really socially bizarre people.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:37)

And like tired and mad, they've seen some people, and it's always a tiny room.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

And dismissive.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

And they're the kings and you are a peasant begging for a bowl of soup.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:46)

Yeah. And when you walk in, they know they don't want you.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

They also know you're broke.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:50)

Yeah. And you have that desperate energy.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

You want them to like you. Hi. Hi, guys. I want you to like me.

Kyle Dunnigan (2:58)

Off-putting is what it is.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

Death.

Kyle Dunnigan (3:01)

I didn't get any. I never got a sitcom. I auditioned probably for a thousand. I don't know why someone didn't say this.

You're not good at this. No one told me.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

You could have been a big bank theory, ironically.

Kyle Dunnigan (3:10)

I could have been.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

You would have been a fucking major get for them.

Kyle Dunnigan (3:13)

I would have been a huge get for them.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

The show would have been a lot better.

Kyle Dunnigan (3:18)

I did get one of them. Let me tell you this story.

You got a call back. First casting director, and then you're like, please like me. Then you get a call back. They like me. Second call back. Now I get real nervous. It was a show, Happy Family. Have you heard of that little nugget?