#811 - Jim Breuer

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Oh, don't forget, five, four, three, two, one.

SPEAKER_2 (0:04)

Yes!

Joe Rogan (0:06)

How the fuck has it been so many years and you haven't been on here? This is ridiculous.

Jim Breuer (0:11)

Timing, everything, there's tons of you. Super busy.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

And you too.

Jim Breuer (0:16)

It's really good seeing you.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It's fucking awesome seeing you, man.

Jim Breuer (0:18)

It's really awesome seeing you.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

This is a weird thing, because we're having this conversation, and people are listening to it, but at the same time, you're one of my favorite people, and I've fucking known you forever. We were friends when we were both hungry, scrappy, young comedians with no idea what the fuck was gonna happen.

Jim Breuer (0:36)

Right.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

You know, we were both like, well, what the fuck's gonna happen in the future?

SPEAKER_4 (0:40)

You know?

Joe Rogan (0:42)

But that's like, there's a bond that you have with people that like you and I were essentially in the same place in our lives, in the same place in our comedy careers, at the same time.

Jim Breuer (0:52)

And you know, I tell everyone, what I liked about you, how real and honest you were. And you were also like, all you want to do is play pool, which I didn't know shit about pool.

SPEAKER_5 (1:05)

And you're like, dude, it's all right, it's all right, we're gonna play pool.

Jim Breuer (1:07)

And I would suck.

And I could tell you get bored real quick, and then you'd have, you'd go to pool halls, and you'd fucking work out. Dude, you wanna go to the gym? Like, all right, we'll go to the gym.

SPEAKER_5 (1:17)

But you'd be there for like an hour and a half.

Jim Breuer (1:20)

And I gotta say, as I watched your whole career grow and grow and grow, I can tell when the fighting came along, the UFC, am I wrong to say you probably were the happiest? That was not the greatest job for you ever. Because you never changed.

All I knew you as, a tough guy, honest guy, played billiards, worked out. I've heard you say, dude, I'll fucking choke you out right now. This guy's, dude, we're at a craft table for a Disney show.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

What show is this?

Jim Breuer (1:56)

What was the baseball show?

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Oh, Hardball, that's right, dude. You were the fucking pioneer.

Jim Breuer (2:02)

Harvin.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Dude, I have a photo of us.

Jim Breuer (2:05)

The monkey.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

I have a photo of us that I have to bring in.

I have to bring it in. Because I gotta, fuck, I gotta find, I know exactly where I put it. I don't have to find it, I know exactly. It's you and me from like 1993

SPEAKER_6 (2:17)

We look like babies.

Jim Breuer (2:18)

We are babies.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

We look like babies. And with Ruthann, remember? The agent.

Jim Breuer (2:23)

Yes, yes.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Yeah, dude.

Dude, that was a funny role. That was one of my favorite examples of a show that could have been a really funny show written by really funny guys and the networks just chiseled all over it.

SPEAKER_2 (2:38)

They just stuck their own thumb up their ass. Just, oh, this is mine now.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

And they ruined it.

They ruined it, dude. But you were there at the pilot.

Jim Breuer (2:50)

But you're on the craft line, craft services, which to me, that was the greatest part of even filming anything. I was still, this is free. Oh, I got, so there was a guy, young fucking little guy, just he probably wants to be an actor, but he's serving rice to us.

And he has a shirt that says, I love karate.

And you, and you're, just fucking answer, here come, you're fucking, you're all hopped up. And he goes, dude, you take karate? And the kid goes, yeah. You go, dude, I, I don't know what, I don't know if he said kickbox or whatever he said. I'd fucking, karate sucks, it's the fucking worst.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

There's no way you're not mischaracterizing this conversation.

Jim Breuer (3:37)

No!

Joe Rogan (3:37)

There's no way it happened like that. Like I just walked up to a guy dealing rice, and he's like, dude, karate sucks.

Jim Breuer (3:43)

No, no, no, he had a shirt. He had a karate shirt.

Joe Rogan (3:46)

Right, and that was enough to set me off?

Jim Breuer (3:47)

No, no, no, you started poking questions for him. You were like asking his intelligence. You said, okay, man, what you, we'll catch you in the karate. And then he would go something like, you know, I like the martial arts. And then you would say, dude, you should take this. He'd be like, no, I think karate guy would win it. And then I saw you just like, dude, I'm telling you right now, fucking crush it.