#823 - Eleanor Kerrigan

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Yes, Eleanor! What's up, my friend?

So good to see you.

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:10)

What's up with you?

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Eleanor, my long-running friend, one of my longest-running friends in Hollywood, and a girl who's now a professional, legit professional stand-up comic, who I always knew for years as a waitress. I always tell everybody this story, but it's true. Eleanor was my go-to person to find out if somebody was a hack.

Someone would say, oh, you gotta check out this person, they're amazing. I'd go, okay, cool. And then I'd go, Eleanor, did you see blah, blah, blah? She'd like, fucking hack.

And there was a lot of people that got tricked.

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:42)

Oh, trickery is big in comedy.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

A lot of people we thought were like, you think they're legit, and then you see them a few times, and you're like, oh. What's going on here?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:53)

Yeah, there was a lot of them, I feel like.

And I used to tell my customers, I'd be like, all right, right here, you're gonna wanna go to the bathroom. You're gonna wanna stay in there for a while.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Well, when you came to the store, you were at the store before I was.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:06)

93

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Yeah, I came in 94 So when I was there, you were already there, but those were dark years.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:13)

There was, not the beginning. In the beginning, I was still doing three shows in the OR two shows in the main room.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Was it like 97, 98?

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:22)

It just kinda, yeah, around there. Yeah, cause it got bad.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

Yeah, well when we first got there, Martin Lawrence was on top, and he would come there all the time and fill the place.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:33)

Yeah, my...

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Sort of like how Louis does now, when Louis comes.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:36)

Yes, and Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Yeah, that guy.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:41)

No, but my first ex-fiance used to represent Martin Lawrence.

SPEAKER_3 (1:46)

Oh, that's right, that's right.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:47)

I have a couple ex-fiances, whatever. Not a closer, guys, not yet, not yet.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

But you were receiving a master class in comedy before you ever did it.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:59)

Oh my god, yeah. I would watch them all the time, because then when I wasn't at the store, I was with my fiance and we'd be at comedy clubs. We were on the road with Chris Rock when he was doing Bring the Paint, because Chris was his other client. So it was like watching everybody. That's how I became friends with Sharipa, through my first ex-fiance.

So we would go to all, he would let us come.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

And Sharipa was booking the Riviera.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:22)

Yeah, and then I would help iem book people, once in a blue moon, and of course they all get banned, idiots.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

Isn't it crazy that Sharipa was booking the Riviera? We always knew him as this booking guy who was really fun to hang out with.

He was just such a great guy. And then all of a sudden, he's on the fucking greatest show of all time.

SPEAKER_3 (2:40)

We're like, what?

Joe Rogan (2:42)

It was so weird for me to watch him on The Sopranos. I'm like, how is this possible?

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:46)

He's like, I might get this part. I'm like, what?

I mean, we were all freaking out. Like, are you kidding? And then he finally told me, he goes, I finished the paperwork today. I'm like, oh my God. I was freaking out. I couldn't wait to see him on The Sopranos.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

You know, he has the best fucking spaghetti sauce in the world.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:02)

I know, I have to try it.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

It's really good.

What is it called? Look up Steve Sharipa's sauce. Something New York.

Brian Redban (3:08)

Which one on Sopranos was he? Was it Younger Clean Cup?

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Yeah, they made him put a gut suit on.

Like, they made him, he wasn't that big. He's pretty big now. Like, if he wanted to do it now, I probably wouldn't have to wear it. It's all that sauce.

SPEAKER_3 (3:25)

He's a fucking character.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

God, thank God for people like that. There it is. Uncle Steve's, that's what it is.

Uncle Steve's.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:32)

I knew it was something like that.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

And what is the, is it Uncle Steve's?