#2480 - Arsenio Hall

**Joe Rogan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
All right, slap some headphones on. What's wrong?

**Arsenio Hall** (0:14)
Hello, sir. Yes.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:17)
Our old friend would be so happy. Not just that picture, but so much that you've done. Do you believe that people who have gone on know what we're doing or see us?

**Joe Rogan** (0:32)
I don't know. You'd like to think that you're that important.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:36)
Oh, yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (0:37)
I have a feeling they have more important stuff to do on the other side.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:41)
Yeah, I guess if you're in heaven, you're not thinking about the mothership.

**Joe Rogan** (0:45)
Right.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:45)
But...

**Joe Rogan** (0:46)
Well, the mothership definitely is from her.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:49)
Yes. Yes.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:51)
Yeah.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:52)
I mean, that's an incredible tribute to her.

**Joe Rogan** (0:55)
Well, the bar is named after her.

**Arsenio Hall** (0:57)
Yeah. I've heard all the comics. I've heard Shane and Ian and all the guys talk about it after they came back.
And that's just an honor, man. That... Plus, you know, I used to say to people, if you haven't taken something from watching Richard Pryor, you're probably doing it wrong.

**Joe Rogan** (1:15)
Right.

**Arsenio Hall** (1:16)
And Mitzi made the greatest comedy mecca ever. And you gotta copy what she did.

**Joe Rogan** (1:25)
A hundred percent. Yeah.

**Arsenio Hall** (1:28)
Wow.

**Arsenio Hall** (1:29)
And this is cool.

**Joe Rogan** (1:30)
She taught me everything about how to run a club, how to do it right. Basically, kind of let the comedians run it, let the inmates run the asylum.

**Arsenio Hall** (1:38)
Yeah?

**Joe Rogan** (1:39)
You know?

**Arsenio Hall** (1:39)
Yeah, we're perfect inmates for that. And right now, the comedy store is greater than ever.

**Joe Rogan** (1:46)
That's awesome.

**Arsenio Hall** (1:47)
Yeah, it's wonderful there because, you know, I even got Jay Leno to come back, you know, because he remembered the old days and hadn't gone back. And I'm like, dude, it's different. They pay you for coming. They split the door in a different way now. And there are phones in bags. I had to explain that concept.

**Joe Rogan** (2:07)
Yeah. We had to encourage them to do all that.

**Arsenio Hall** (2:10)
Yeah, that was your era.

**Joe Rogan** (2:12)
Yeah. Well, once we left, we started doing that at the mothership for all the shows, then other comedy clubs started falling. It's the way to do it. People are too fucking distracted.

**Arsenio Hall** (2:24)
Yeah. And I think it frees us up in a way. I'll say things and try things and not worry about seeing them on YouTube when they're not ready or when I've made a mistake and gone too far and said something, you know?

**Joe Rogan** (2:38)
Oh, 100%.
Also, you have to be free to fuck around and experiment. And if someone takes that fucking around and experiment, you don't know what's coming out of your mouth. Like right now, I don't know what's coming out of my mouth right before I say it. Right? And people have to understand that. This is not like when you're on stage and you're working out, like a lot of it is freeballing. You've got material that's like pre-established and you've got the bones of it. But you're also fucking around in the moment. And sometimes you fuck around in the moment and it works. And sometimes you fuck around in the moment and it does nothing. Or it's terrible. You said something awful. You're like, oops, sorry.

**Arsenio Hall** (3:17)
Yeah, we make mistakes.

**Joe Rogan** (3:19)
You're just fucking creating something. And then stand up is the only art form that you have to kind of create in front of a crowd. You can't really, you can get ideas and the concepts and the flesh of it alone, but you have to, it comes alive in front of the crowd. You have to be able to fuck around.

**Arsenio Hall** (3:38)
Yeah. Me and Chappelle, and you've done this kind of thing. Me and Chappelle met Chris Rock in Cleveland because Chappelle lives in Ohio, obviously. He's done something very similar to what you've done, but we'll get into that later. Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (3:53)
He's done something really cool. Basically, took over a whole town.

**Arsenio Hall** (3:57)
Yeah. Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (3:58)
It's funny, and especially had a really funny joke about it, about how when white people move into a neighborhood, it's called gentrification. He goes, they don't have a word for what I'm doing to these motherfuckers.