#902 - Live Underground from The Comedy Store

Jeff Ross (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Jeff Ross, this is the first time we have ever done a live podcast from The Comedy Store, and it's with you, buddy.

Jeff Ross (0:20)

I feel like we're in Hitler's bunker. Do you?

Joe Rogan (0:23)

I think Hitler's bunker is probably not as well lit.

Definitely didn't have the sound dampening. That's how you know it's a real podcast studio. They have this shit.

Jeff Ross (0:32)

The sound dampening stuff.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

The sound dampening stuff.

Jeff Ross (0:34)

I think this is cool, though. It's in the color of the Comedy Store.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Old Comedy Store sign in the background, and we figured, fuck it.

We're here all the time. Usually, I'm just here hanging around after, why not do a podcast? Have some fun.

Jeff Ross (0:47)

I love it. Hi, everybody.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Hey, everybody.

Jeff Ross (0:51)

Happy Thursday.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Happy Thursday. So, tell me about your fucking show. Tell me, your roast battle is on Comedy Central.

Jeff Ross (1:00)

It's crazy, man.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Yeah, it's amazing.

Jeff Ross (1:02)

Started out in the Belly Room. You know, you came.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Fucking great. It's one of the reasons why I came back to the store. When I came to see that show in the Belly Room, I was like, wow. It was the day before Ari filmed his special.

And I hadn't been to the store in seven years.

Jeff Ross (1:16)

I remember.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

I came here.

Jeff Ross (1:17)

I saw you at the improv that night.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Yeah.

Jeff Ross (1:20)

I'd seen you a couple. I'd been sitting at the improv around. I kept talking about it.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

That's where I was doing sets.

Jeff Ross (1:24)

And I kind of made it a personal mission to bring you back to the Comedy Store.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Aw, sweetie.

Jeff Ross (1:30)

And Roast Battle was the bait.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

Well, Roast Battle definitely helped too. Also because it was so electric. I was like, man, there's something going on in this place.

Jeff Ross (1:39)

Dude, I love doing this show so much. And the comics love doing it. It's the only competition show where comics who aren't even on the show come to watch other comics.

It's insane.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

It's one of the rare shows where comics come to watch other comics.

Jeff Ross (1:52)

We're shooting in the old House of Blues across the street. They're knocking it down in a couple weeks and building condos forever. Very historic building.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

It's kind of crazy.

Jeff Ross (2:01)

So our producer, Joel Gallin, had the idea to go in there, pull the stage out, clean it up. There was like all kinds of stuff living in there. And we built our Roast Battle arena inside the old House of Blues for four nights.

I can't believe this is happening.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

That's crazy.

Jeff Ross (2:17)

It's like, you know, the early days of wrestling or fighting or something.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

I can't believe they're turning into condos.

Jeff Ross (2:25)

That stuff's hard to realize that that's what we're going to have across the street, but maybe it'll be good in some way.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Well, I bet a lot of comics are just going to get a fucking apartment there. If you can afford it, that'd be amazing.

Stumble out of bed, walk across the street.

Jeff Ross (2:36)

Oh, I don't even think about that.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Yeah.

Why not live there? Huh? I mean, come on, man, it'd be the greatest. And if you have a reluctant girl, you know, you're trying to meet a young lady, and you're like, come on back to my place. Well, I mean, I'm getting kind of tired. Listen, baby, it's just across the street.

Jeff Ross (2:54)

Yeah, you're there, we're already there.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Come on over. Okay, Jeff, I mean, you are kind of funny, and I just want you to know I'm not that kind of girl.

Jeff Ross (3:03)

Well, we'll play Ping Pong in my rec room.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Ping Pong's a good one to play. Everyone thinks they know how to play foosball, right?

Jeff Ross (3:13)

I don't know, do they?

Joe Rogan (3:14)

Yeah, a lot of drunk people think they know how to play that one.

Jeff Ross (3:17)

Oh, foosball.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

Yeah, you know that thing.

Nobody knows how to play Ping Pong. A few people do, but they're assholes.

Jeff Ross (3:22)

I have two Chinese cousins, and they're very good at Ping Pong.