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Joe Rogan Experience #1587 - Mark Normand
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day.
Joe Rogan Podcast by night.
All day!
Hey, hey!
mark normand
Good to be here.
joe rogan
Look at you in Texas.
mark normand
I know.
I feel good.
I got tested.
I feel great.
joe rogan
Yes, you're clean.
You're clean of cooties.
mark normand
I've got to be honest.
I'm shocked.
I thought I've been super spreading for weeks.
I just felt like that in my body.
Like, ah, I must be hurting people.
joe rogan
Well, there's a wave going through New York right now.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of comics got it.
mark normand
Everybody's got it.
I don't want to say names.
I don't know what's out, but holy shit.
joe rogan
I don't know what's out either.
mark normand
And it got all the funny ones, too.
It wasn't like the hacks didn't die.
It's just like real comics.
They get Patrice, they get Mitch Hedberg, they get Geraldo.
Same with Corona.
joe rogan
Well, you know, those are the ones that are hanging out.
mark normand
Yeah, good point.
Funny people hang out with funny people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
When a comic stops hanging out with comics, it never turns out well.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
When they kind of alienate themselves from other comics.
You've noticed, right?
mark normand
Good point.
joe rogan
They get weird.
mark normand
And we don't care about scandals or anything.
If you're funny, we'll still hang out with you.
joe rogan
We don't care at all.
No one cares at all.
Louis was back like that.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
I see Brian Callen, I give him a hug.
There you go.
When you're in that weird little group, I think comics want to think that they're independent in some sort of way, that they don't need other comics.
And you could survive without other comics, but those are like army issue MREs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can kind of get by eating them.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
But you're not, are you really living?
mark normand
Ah, that's good.
joe rogan
You can survive on dehydrated food.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
You can live, but are you going to enjoy it?
mark normand
Well, the pandemic's a bitch because you can't do stand-up, but when you get that moment when you're hanging out with the other guys again, you're like, oh, this is what I've been missing.
I've been going crazy.
I felt like a weirdo in my apartment.
joe rogan
Well, I've been doing these shows in town with Chappelle, and I did one of them with him like three weeks ago.
Well, I did one with Tony Hinchcliffe at the Vulcan Gas Company like four weeks ago.
And Ron White was the funniest ever.
Because before, he's like, I'm basically retired.
I'm just going to fucking retire.
Take all my tequila money and just fucking chill out.
I'm going to sell my plane.
He's talking all this shit.
And then he gets off stage.
He did one set that he hadn't done stand-up in eight months.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
The moment he gets off stage, he grabs me by my shoulders.
He goes, we're fucking doing this, okay?
We're back.
He goes, I don't give a fuck what we have to do.
This must continue.
He was like, at 10. He was at a 10. It's in you.
mark normand
It's like when you quit drinking and you're like, fuck it, tonight we're drinking.
It's the same feeling.
You just start chugging again.
You're like, ah, you rip your shirt off, you look like Kreischer.
joe rogan
Have you ever quit drinking?
mark normand
I tried for like a week.
I like it, and I feel like I'm good at it now.
I'm in my late 30s.
I've drank since I was 13. I got it down.
I mean, I'm from New Orleans.
You get after it out there.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a different world up there.
mark normand
It's part of the culture.
But yeah, no, you're right.
The comedy, you need it once you get back into it.
Because I think we're inherently lazy, most comics.
We want to put our feet up.
Well, not you.
You're doing 17 jiu-jitsu's and making coffee and stuff.
But like...
I feel like we're inherently lazy, but you get us back in that limelight and it all percolates.
joe rogan
Yeah, in terms of wanting to do it.
Yeah.
Well, the juice is worth the squeeze.
The juice is worth the squeeze.
If you can get back into stand-up shape...
The juice of killing in front of a crowd is so worth the effort it's going to take to get your act back in order and write.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And prepare.
I had to prepare.
When you get a good rhythm going, you don't even really have to look at your notes before a show.
mark normand
Yeah, definitely.
joe rogan
If you've been doing four nights in a row, you're ready to go.
Yeah.
You're ready to go.
You might, just to be a pro, probably go over it real quick.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
But man, when you haven't done stand-up in six months, it's a different feeling.
Like, you're going over all the lines.
I found shit before Wednesday night's show.
I totally forgot.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'm like, oh, that makes that better.
Oh, yeah, I forgot this whole thing.
mark normand
Right.
And you ever have that thing where you listen, because I was so nervous going back, that I would listen to old sets.
I was like, I was pretty good.
This is not bad.
This is good stuff, because you were so in the zone.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
You were cooking.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I watched my 2016 Netflix special the other day.
mark normand
I was laughing.
There you go!
unidentified
Because I forgot.
joe rogan
I forgot all sorts of it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
I literally don't even remember those bits because I purposely try to just move on.
mark normand
Sure, sure.
joe rogan
And abandon them.
mark normand
Which is so funny because you put hours and hours and so much.
I'd be in the shower thinking about my act.
Like, ah, that could be better.
That needs a better tag.
That's not hitting like I want.
And then you move on to a new hour and that's just all gone.
joe rogan
Gone.
Gone forever.
mark normand
Crazy.
joe rogan
Gone.
And real quick, too.
For me, it's like a couple months afterwards.
I can't remember how they go anymore.
mark normand
I'm the same way.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
But you know when you get on stage and that rhythm kind of comes back?
You're like, oh, I'm in the rhythm again.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
And then you're off and running.
joe rogan
Well, it's weird.
I felt the rhythm the first night I came back, but then I didn't feel it that good the second night.
The second night, I was a little nervous at first, and I had to get into it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And both shows went well, but my feeling was different.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, the laughs were there, but you know that feeling where you're just greased?
mark normand
Yes, yes, the lube.
joe rogan
Yeah, I didn't feel greased.
mark normand
I get it.
joe rogan
It was working great, but I was like, okay, and then this one, and then I did that one.
mark normand
Right, joke to joke.
joe rogan
Yeah, all like fucking sticking it together and assembling it on the fly.
mark normand
And you can't be loose and funny if you're assembling in your head the whole time.
When you're greased, you're loose, and you're really you.
joe rogan
The Chappelle shows we're doing, he's got this sort of hangout system.
He's got it down.
Everybody's COVID tested, plays great music in the green room, and people are just hanging out drinking and laughing.
So you're having fun.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And it's like, for him, he thought this through.
He's like, I would be, before a show, reading a book, and then go on stage and be funny.
He's like, this doesn't feel good.
This isn't how to do it.
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
So now, we're in the back, and he's cracking jokes, we're laughing, we're talking shit, we're having fun, having a couple of drinks, and then, boom, he goes on stage, loose as a goose, already having fun.
It's really wise.
It's a wise way to approach it.
mark normand
It is, because social, you need that social lube.
Like, you ever fly to Arkansas, you get off the plane, you get into a car, you go right on stage, and you're like, ah, you guys are the first people I've spoken to in 17 hours.
joe rogan
Exactly.
mark normand
And you gotta, like, kick in.
It's good to be loose and social and fun with people.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why, well for me I used to always bring opening acts on the road.
mark normand
Oh, there you go.
joe rogan
For two reasons.
One, you want to hang with a guy, you want a buddy to come with you on the road.
But two, you know the person's going to be funny.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the worst is when you have to sit there through 20 minutes of someone's terrible act and you're like, oh no.
And you feel bad for the audience.
mark normand
Bro, that's the worst.
joe rogan
And then I used to feel bad, like comedy doesn't work.
Like comedy's not real.
unidentified
Right, right.
mark normand
These people hate it.
They'll never come see a show again.
joe rogan
This is not comedy.
What is comedy?
Comedy can't be real.
This guy's talking.
Nothing can be funny.
mark normand
Well, comedy is pretty flimsy when you really break it down.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
You know, it's like one little air conditioner, the blender's going, it's all over.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
The waitress comes, it's all over.
So you're like, damn, it's like a boner when you're 48. You know, it's harder to hold.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
A stumble of words.
mark normand
Yes, that's it!
joe rogan
It slips through your fingers.
mark normand
It's over!
joe rogan
It's gone.
mark normand
Seinfeld said it was like when a car train goes by, like a train goes by, and one of the cars is missing, and you have to jump it with a motorcycle.
That one missing car.
But if you do too late, you'll hit the train.
It's such a good analogy.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a slippery little rascal.
Hard to hold on to.
mark normand
It is weird, though, going back to dropping your whole act, because speaking of Seinfeld and 80s guys, they did their act for 700 years, you know?
But, like, we just drop it, and we work so hard on it.
Is that a little sociopathic?
It almost feels like those people who take in dogs, and then they fall in love with it, and they're like, okay, I fostered a dog, now it's good to go with a family.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
Because it's recorded.
Yeah.
It's gone.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
It's done.
It's out there forever.
mark normand
I guess it is recorded.
joe rogan
I just watched it.
mark normand
Yeah, you got a point.
It's not gone forever.
joe rogan
No, it's not gone.
But it has to be gone for you to concentrate on what you're doing now because we only have a certain amount of room for material in our head.
mark normand
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
When you got an hour and you know how that feeling of the beginning and the middle and you're moving stuff around trying to find out what's the best way to end it.
When you have it down, it requires all of your attention.
mark normand
Definitely.
unidentified
Definitely.
joe rogan
You can't really be fucking around with some other subjects and other old shit and other things that you're thinking about bringing back or something.
You don't have time for that.
mark normand
Right, right.
Yeah, but don't you have friends from high school who were like, this!
And I've never talked to them since.
I don't even think about them.
They don't think about me.
They have families.
And I feel like that's kind of like my act.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
Do you get that?
Do you have people from your past that you don't talk to?
joe rogan
Yes, but I do have people from my past that I do talk to.
I have a few friends that I pretty regularly discuss life with that I've been friends with since I was in my early 20s.
mark normand
And you still get along?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
My friend Tommy Jr. Shout out to Tommy Jr. in Connecticut.
We've been buddies since I was 24, I think.
mark normand
Wow, that's pretty good.
joe rogan
Crazy.
mark normand
And you just pick right up.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Well, I would see him every time I would go to New York.
We'd play pool together.
He'd come to the UFC. He's come to comedy shows.
He's come to visit me in California.
It was very convenient when I was traveling every year to the UFC, or every year to New York City, rather.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the UFC was doing a gig in New York City every year, and then before that, at least once a year, I'd come there to do stand-up anywhere.
I'd do Gotham or, you know, Carolines or what have you.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
I'd always see them.
mark normand
That's nice.
I kind of wish I had that with, like, a wife.
That's why I'm so scared of marriage.
Because you change so much from just high school to now, or college to now, and then you get married, and then you change again, maybe, when you're 62?
Yeah.
And then you're stuck with this plus-size lady, and you don't know what the hell to do and how to get out, and then you can't meet anybody new because you're 62. That's the problem with the contract of marriage, right?
joe rogan
That's the problem is that it is a legal contract.
mark normand
It feels very antiquated.
joe rogan
It is in a lot of ways.
It's very good for ensuring that there's a bond that's not just your word.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, it's legal.
So if you do try to leave, the woman at least has some sort of financial recourse.
In some case, the men.
Every now and then, one of us, we put one on the board.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Tom Arnold is our all-star.
unidentified
Right?
mark normand
In terms of men that have made money from divorces, he's the GOAT. Yeah, I think it's like when a black cop shoots a white guy.
I'm sure it's the same shit with the black community.
Or like when OJ won.
I lived in a black neighborhood, and I could hear the yelling, and people were going nuts.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Every now and then a guy wins.
Who else do we know of that has made money off of like a high profile divorce where the woman had all the money?
mark normand
There's a new one that just came out with an actress that just divorced a guy and he was a nobody and he's cleaning up but I can't think of who it is.
Give that a goog, J-Mo.
I don't know how you would look that up, but...
joe rogan
Yeah, how do you look that up?
mark normand
Guy killing it with hot actress wife.
Yeah, I don't know, but...
joe rogan
There it is?
Oh, Kevin Federline, yes.
unidentified
Oh, there you go.
joe rogan
You know what the thing is, though?
Kevin got fat.
Like, he decided, fuck it, I'm gonna get fat.
He was hot.
mark normand
He was a hunk.
joe rogan
Handsome.
Hunk of burning love.
He had a six-pack and looked great.
mark normand
Yeah, hot wigger.
joe rogan
What is that what he looks like now?
mark normand
I don't know.
joe rogan
Now he's very big.
mark normand
Oh, there he is, the bottom right.
Yeah, he's a chubster.
joe rogan
Yeah, he got very big.
mark normand
That's not so bad, though.
joe rogan
Not too bad.
Got a little gut there.
Oh, he had a heart attack scare.
Oh, Jesus.
That's Kreischer never.
Oh, my God.
He was that big?
mark normand
Look at the clothing.
joe rogan
Bro, he got big.
mark normand
That's pretty big.
joe rogan
But also, you know, he's taking care of the kids under a lot of stress.
True.
mark normand
It's funny how all that stuff rolls out the window when the tables flip.
It's like, hey, women need their money.
Then when the guy's like, I need my money, it's like, oh, what are you doing?
You're like, well, that's what you've been doing.
It's like, how come when it flips, now you're mad?
Ah, I'm a cunt.
You see what I'm saying, but we don't have to get into it.
This is great coffee.
joe rogan
Do you think that, I mean...
It's just the non-traditional roles, right?
And when a woman is killing it, and she's making that money, there's an understanding that more women have been fucked over by men.
mark normand
Ah, okay.
Well, that's probably true.
joe rogan
It is.
It has to be.
mark normand
The beatings and the...
joe rogan
Because it seems natural.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
Like, when you think about it, like, the woman gets the money, like, yep.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Seems natural.
But if you think about the man gets the money, you're like, what?
Why does he want the money?
mark normand
It doesn't feel right.
joe rogan
Right.
It feels wrong.
mark normand
Which is so cool about comedy, because those things are imprinted in people.
So when you make a joke the wrong way, you make a fat guy joke, ha ha.
Make a fat lady joke, no no.
joe rogan
Right.
mark normand
And the audience will tell you that.
And so all the PC, all the tweets, all the bullshit, you can tell me this shit all day, but I got a focus group right here.
joe rogan
Dude, I saved a body positivity meme that someone tried to get out there for men with guts.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It was like a fat men.
Your body's beautiful.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Like, get the fuck out of here.
They were trying it.
But you know, this is not going to work.
mark normand
It's not going to work.
joe rogan
This is not going to work.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It only works on females.
mark normand
It's true, it's true.
Big is beautiful.
It's never about Chris Christie.
You know, it's about Lena Dunham or whoever the fuck.
joe rogan
Exactly, exactly.
Well, there's, you know, and the feeling that they're getting from this is a supportive feeling from other females.
Men would never support you for being a fat fuck.
Never.
They're never like, yeah, bro, who cares, man?
You look awesome with your fat gut.
Like, never.
mark normand
Which is actually healthier.
I mean, it's a little meaner out of the gate, but...
At least we're being honest.
We're keeping it real.
joe rogan
Yeah, or we're not letting them get away with something.
mark normand
Yeah, there you go.
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
Your friends, if they love you, they're not going to let you get away with that.
They're like, bro, you are fat as fuck.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're like, no, really?
mark normand
Like, look at you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
And that's a friendly thing.
joe rogan
Yes.
mark normand
You know, like, if I had a fat son and corona was hitting, I would be like, hey, man, like, I don't care what you look like.
You can do your thing and eat all the chocolate you want, but I'm worried you'll get...
Hit with the COVID more because you're fat.
joe rogan
And you will.
Statistically.
mark normand
And then people are like, hey, you can't talk to him like that.
I'm like, I'm worried about my son.
Fuck you.
He could die.
joe rogan
If it's a woman, you'd be body shaming.
But when they try to say it's body shaming on a man, it doesn't really stick.
mark normand
Right, it doesn't.
joe rogan
It doesn't stick.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's going on here?
Kelly Clarkson's ex.
mark normand
That was the one.
That was the one.
joe rogan
Brandon Blackstock seeking six-figure monthly payments.
Pa-pow!
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Six figures.
How long were they married?
He wants $5.2 million a year!
unidentified
Damn!
joe rogan
A year!
mark normand
A year!
joe rogan
He also requested Clarkson cover $2 million in attorney's fees.
Oh my god!
mark normand
Wow!
joe rogan
Oh my god!
That's insane!
mark normand
This guy's killing it!
joe rogan
That's insane!
mark normand
Black stuck!
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
There's a great difference.
Seven year marriage.
That's great.
But here's the...
Is he taking care of the children?
mark normand
Aha!
joe rogan
Do they have children together?
mark normand
That is the question.
jamie vernon
135 of the 436 was for child support.
joe rogan
He needs child support money from her.
jamie vernon
On top of the 301 and...
mark normand
She's probably on the road a lot, you know?
She's a singer.
joe rogan
Was he like the manager or some shit?
Was it one of those deals?
jamie vernon
Uh...
joe rogan
Because those deals get real tricky.
When the man becomes the manager and it's very difficult for the woman to get away from the manager.
That's like in boyfriend-girlfriend deals where the girlfriend's a singer or in husband-wife.
mark normand
Yeah, or the dad.
jamie vernon
Google says he is an American talent manager.
mark normand
Oh!
There you go.
You called it, Betty.
joe rogan
If there was any question that some of those motherfuckers or Weasley, those numbers, show you.
mark normand
Yeah, definitely.
joe rogan
Just to request that...
Oh my god, you want how much?
mark normand
I know.
All that management.
Joe Jackson was a psycho, and I think Jessica Simpson's dad was a real weirdo.
jamie vernon
He never obtained a license to legally operate as a talent agent, according to...
joe rogan
Of course not.
He was fucking the client.
He didn't have to.
mark normand
Yeah, there you go.
Right?
That's awkward.
joe rogan
You're married to the client.
You don't need a license.
jamie vernon
She was with his company for 13 years, though.
unidentified
Damn!
joe rogan
Damn!
mark normand
That's pretty binding.
Unlucky number.
joe rogan
Well, then there's the question, right?
Like, when a management company and talent are together, how much of the talent's success is due to the management, and how much of the talent's success is due just to the person being talented?
Mm-hmm.
Is it quantifiable?
This is where I can speak, because I have the same manager that I had when I was an open mic comedian.
mark normand
Wow, that's rare.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, dude.
I met Sussman, and I think I was 24. I was like 23 or 24. And I was terrible.
I was an open-miker.
I was driving a limo.
But I had a few good jokes.
I could kill, like, occasionally.
I could catch a good wave when I was loose.
And just randomly, he was in Boston looking for comedians.
And he had set up a bunch of meetings to see all these different headliners, local headliners on stage.
And I didn't know he was there.
I didn't know anything was going on.
I was driving limos and I called the owner up and I asked him.
I said, I had a funny idea.
Could I do five minutes tonight?
Because he was already giving me some spots and I was emceeing some shows.
I go, I got this bit.
I think it's going to work.
I think I got something.
And I went up and I opened with it.
I remember it did get a laugh.
mark normand
What?
joe rogan
I wish I could remember the bit, but it was a bit that actually worked.
I was like, yes!
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
It's real!
And then I was real loose, and then I went into some of my old stuff, and I got off stage and this guy handed me a business card, like a fucking movie.
mark normand
Wow!
The 80s, man.
joe rogan
It was like, he goes, I'm a manager, and I'd love to talk to you and see you do more sets.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I did one next door, across the street, like, the next night, and then I went to New York, like, maybe two weeks later, and did a bunch of sets for him in New York.
mark normand
Jeez.
joe rogan
Catch a Rising Star, and then next thing I was living in New York.
mark normand
Wow, did you fuck him?
No.
joe rogan
Still, to this day, never fucked him.
mark normand
But that's unheard of.
joe rogan
So with that kind of a situation, that guy and Chandra, my other manager, they're responsible for a giant part of my success.
Because I know them so well, and I've been with them so much, and I trust them, and I love them, and we have a friendship as well as a working relationship.
So in that case, yeah.
Some people don't like giving the money to their managers.
mark normand
Yeah, it sucks.
joe rogan
It kind of bugs them.
mark normand
I hate it.
joe rogan
Give this fucking guy a piece.
mark normand
Especially when they don't get it for you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
If they get it, here, have at it.
joe rogan
But I don't have that feeling at all.
For me, it's like that's the only way it works.
mark normand
And they supported you in all the tough times?
Oh, that's great.
All the wackiness.
joe rogan
All the wackiness.
And they...
I mean, none of them thought the fucking podcast was ever going to be anything.
mark normand
No one did.
Podcasting 10 years ago was a joke.
My neighbors go, what are you crazy?
There's no money in that.
Go do Fallon.
I'm like, that's $1,100 and nobody watches it.
I'd rather do this and build something.
joe rogan
Well, if you have money already, like from other stuff and other sources, you recognize that there's a fun and a freedom to internet shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where you could just kind of like, but no one was watching.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
So when we were doing it, like if you go watch the early ones, there's very little thought process to like how entertaining it is.
mark normand
Well, you got to start somewhere.
joe rogan
Yeah.
We're just fucking around.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like for our own fun.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And some of it's going to be enjoyable and some of it's not, you know.
mark normand
But it's funny because the guys you had on then, I re-listened to some really old ones.
I was on a road trip and I was like, let's throw this on Rogan number 18 or whatever.
And it's guys who are kind of big now but weren't then.
And it's fun to hear them.
They're way more loosey-goosey in the early days because you had nothing.
You were just more yourself and you weren't a business yet.
joe rogan
Everybody's worried about the blowback from just being a comic.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
They're worried about, you know, the negative response from saying the wrong thing, joking about the wrong thing.
mark normand
Yep.
I just joke about all the wrong things just because I want to have too many things to find.
joe rogan
If we don't keep joking about the wrong things, then the idea of joking about the wrong things will go away.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
If you see...
Quentin Tarantino has a movie where a woman gets her fucking brains bashed into a fireplace mantelpiece, right?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you get mad at that, or do you think that's part of the film?
Do you think that this is endorsing violence?
No, you think it's a kind of weird art where this craziness is happening.
But for whatever reason, because a stand-up is on stage by themselves and they wrote this by themselves, they're not given that same sort of leeway.
You can't just fuck around about something and say something you don't really mean, but it's outrageous and you're not supposed to say it.
That's the reason why it's funny, is because you're saying something you're not supposed to say.
mark normand
I agree, because also there's layers to a movie.
With a comic, you can just yell at you.
I can just yell at Mark Norman.
He said this.
I have a clip of him.
Look at this piece of shit saying this about special needs Downsy kids or whatever.
But then with Tarantino, it's a director, it's a filmmaker, there's actors involved, and he was a writer, so there's so many different tackles.
joe rogan
Even rap music.
mark normand
Yeah!
joe rogan
Rap music, there's a lot of rap music that's talking about violence and shooting people and robbing people and we sing along.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
We sing along to the worst day of someone's life.
mark normand
It's a great beat.
It goes a long way.
joe rogan
I mean, think about, give me the lute, give me the lute.
Sing along to that song.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
I don't listen to Asian music.
joe rogan
That's a biggie.
mark normand
Oh, okay.
But also, they're saying crazy shit about women, and women are singing it.
joe rogan
Kicking the door, waving the four-four.
All you heard was, Papa, don't hit me no more.
That's a song.
mark normand
That's cultural appropriation.
joe rogan
That's a song about beating someone up when you're holding a gun to them.
mark normand
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
joe rogan
And everybody's like, yo!
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You love it.
I love it.
I love that song.
mark normand
I love it, too.
I'm nutting your eye while we're in the sky.
There's all kinds of stuff that women are singing it at the club, and you're like, you know what he's saying, right?
joe rogan
Right.
mark normand
But...
joe rogan
Yeah, there's weird rules today, but the art form of saying outrageous shit that you don't really mean is my favorite thing to watch.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
So if you tell me that we can't do that anymore, I gotta...
No.
You're gonna be upset, and you're not gonna like it.
You don't have to go.
But if you're telling me that, you know, like Louis C.K. is a great example of that, like, people kind of weren't paying attention or conveniently forgot.
So when he got in trouble...
mark normand
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
And then he came back to do stand-up.
He was doing stand-up the way he always did stand-up.
mark normand
Of course!
joe rogan
It's the same thing.
Say horrible shit that you don't really mean.
You're not supposed to say it, but it's very funny to say it.
mark normand
It was brilliant back then.
joe rogan
And that's what he does.
That's what he's always done.
mark normand
He had a joke about 9-11 and jerking off between the two towers falling, and they got an applause break.
And then he talks about Parkland.
Everybody's like, he's a monster!
I'm like, he's the same fucking bald ginger douche!
joe rogan
Exactly.
mark normand
But yeah, I had a gig.
But here's the thing about the censoring and all that.
It makes a lot of people feel good joking about this horrible shit.
So everybody's like, you're hurting people.
I'm like, yeah, but other people are enjoying it too.
So like, it's like hot sauce.
If it hurts your tongue, just don't eat it.
And it's the same with...
Horrific jokes.
I did a show in PA a couple days ago, or a couple nights ago, and I did a couple wheelchair jokes about people in wheelchairs making fun of them.
And I get off stage, and I'm selling merch, and this lady rolls up in a wheelchair.
And I was like, oh, shit.
I didn't see her the whole show.
And I was like, oh, fuck.
This is gonna be bad.
Oh, man.
And she was like, I loved it.
I love the wheelchair stuff.
Thank you.
Everybody treats me like an idiot.
And I was like, oh, thank God.
And then I pushed her down some stairs.
But...
But yeah, it's just, some people enjoy it, so she's like, don't treat me like an idiot.
I mean, remember the special needs kid in gym class?
You made fun of everybody but him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
That's the ultimate insult.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
And it feels weird to do that with people.
I'm not going to talk about black people, because that's a...
joe rogan
Be careful.
mark normand
Yeah, so like, say just excluding them, I mean, they exist.
joe rogan
Be careful.
Yeah.
mark normand
I'm just saying.
joe rogan
No, no, I know what you're saying.
But that's one of those things, it's like...
Making fun of things was always part of the way people coped with stuff.
And making fun of things you're not supposed to say was always like, I can't fucking believe this guy!
It was fun.
It was fun to see.
I mean, that was Dice Clay's entire career.
That was a big part of Sam Kinison's career.
mark normand
And Carlin.
Piss, fuck, motherfucker, and tits.
That was his big hit for a while.
That was his Hot Pockets.
joe rogan
There's so many versions of that with so many different great comics that we all love and want to see.
Now, if you told those people they can't say things that are offensive to really sensitive people, we're all fucked.
Now we all miss out on some of the best bits ever.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
I had an argument with a guy who was telling me that comedy punches up always.
That good comedy punches up.
mark normand
Oh, that's silly.
joe rogan
I talked to him about the Sam Kennison bit about starving kids in Africa.
mark normand
Great bit.
joe rogan
Which is one of the all-time greatest bits.
mark normand
Sure.
joe rogan
And it's the most punchy downy bit of all time.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's making fun of babies that are starving.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
What could possibly be more punch down than that?
mark normand
Right.
And different things are up to different people.
Punching up.
Like, Colin Quinn is the best line.
He's like, it's not punching up, it's not punching down.
It's all play fighting.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
So you gotta stop putting these levels and hierarchies on people on victimhood.
It's about play fighting.
I'm batting you, I'm batting you, that's it.
joe rogan
Here's what happened.
Everyone who got on social media, everyone has the ability to comment on things.
And some of the people commenting on things are not good at comedy.
mark normand
Yes.
A lot of them.
Most of them.
joe rogan
There's a lot of them that are comics that are commenting on it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they're not good at comedy.
They're comics, but they're passable.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
They don't do well.
They don't have thriving careers.
And their act is...
Right, right.
Sometimes it's okay.
You know, I'm not, like, being totally objective.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe they could have put a little more work in.
Maybe they could have figured it out better.
Maybe they could have...
Whatever's wrong, whatever...
You know, it just sometimes...
It doesn't work out for people.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Those are the loudest voices against very successful, outrageous guys like Louie or like Joey Diaz or like many of the other ones that people get mad at for bits.
mark normand
It just knew, though, the comics attacking comics.
joe rogan
It's not good.
mark normand
That's not good, and when I started, that wasn't even a thought.
joe rogan
No.
mark normand
You'd be like, wait, what are you doing?
You know why I said that horrible thing.
I'm trying to get a laugh here.
joe rogan
But it's never guys like Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle.
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
Or, you know, it's never Bill Burr attacking comics.
mark normand
No.
No, I'm with you.
joe rogan
It's comics that are like...
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And some of them I even like, which is a real problem.
I like them as a human being.
I see them.
I want to hug them.
They're nice.
But, you know, all of us inside are filled with turmoil and insecurity.
mark normand
We're flawed.
We're human.
joe rogan
And weirdness.
unidentified
All of us.
joe rogan
All humans listen.
And I think comics more so than any of us, right?
That's what led people to take the abuse of bombing on stage and keep going.
But some people, they just harbor this resentment for all the bad feelings that the art form has provided with them.
And they somehow or another, those bad feelings of not getting the success they felt they deserved or not achieving the heights or the accolades that they thought they needed, they should have gotten, they'll fucking internalize the negativity of the art form.
And that's what they want to concentrate on all the time.
jamie vernon
Right, right.
joe rogan
Instead of like, what a great thing to be able to do for a living.
mark normand
I know.
We're so lucky.
It's such a beautiful thing.
And why would you ruin it by getting mad at a guy who said retard?
Like, this is your life?
And also, four million sperm didn't make it.
You made it.
And this is how you're going to spend it?
On Twitter?
Tweeting and twatting.
joe rogan
A lot of people are unhappy, man.
Twitter is a magnifying glass for that.
mark normand
People are normally unhappy.
I mean, we went through the Crusades and the Depression and, you know, Vietnam, Civil Rights, whatever.
Everybody's unhappy.
We're all going through shit.
It's just weird to attack and pile on.
Why would you make more shit?
joe rogan
Well, it's just, it hasn't been explained to some people, or they have a different opinion of it than we do.
Like, there's a lot of people that say things that I don't like, but I don't have time.
And comics that say things that I just don't think are very funny.
Sure.
I don't have time.
And I have no inclination whatsoever.
I have no desire to go shit on their act.
mark normand
No, that's crazy.
unidentified
It's crazy.
mark normand
They're trying.
At least they're trying.
joe rogan
Bro, it's a weird thing, and sometimes it takes people forever to figure out how to do it right.
unidentified
That's awesome.
mark normand
Well, some people just, if you don't have it, you don't have it.
joe rogan
That's true, too.
mark normand
No one wants to mention that.
That's another part about comedy that's tough.
No one ever goes, you know what?
You suck.
I know you're mad at everybody.
I know you hate the business.
You hate funny, successful people.
But you're just not good.
They go, hey, it's because I'm this.
It's because I'm that.
But also, have you heard any laughs?
Isn't that weird when a comedy gets offstage and it was a complete bomb?
They're like, all right, what are we doing after?
I'm like...
You don't hate yourself right now?
I would be in the bathroom shitting my brains out crying.
Ah, I never got that.
Like, you should be upset.
You should be at least thinking about it.
One time I did a gig, and I was the middle act.
Host killed, I bombed, headliner annihilated, and I was shitting.
It was at the Denver Comedy Works.
This was years ago.
I was shitting, and I was in the stall, and I heard two guys washing their hands.
And one of them goes, how about that host, huh?
And he goes, oh man, so funny.
And he goes, how about the headliner?
And he was like, oh, unbelievable.
And he goes, what did you think of the middle guy?
And I was like, oh, you know, my pants are down, the most vulnerable position.
And I went, I thought he was pretty good.
And they went, ah, he sucked, he sucked.
And then they left, and I was like, oh, I did suck.
Crushed me.
Crushed me.
I'll never forget that.
joe rogan
But if you don't experience that bad feeling, you're not going to work hard enough to keep going.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
If you just take that and you say, that audience was filled with assholes.
mark normand
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They didn't respect me.
mark normand
They don't get me.
joe rogan
They don't get me.
They want to hear dumb comedy.
They want to hear stupid jokes.
mark normand
They're all right.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's something about them that's wrong.
It's not me.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
That's what people do.
Look, man, people do that in relationships.
They do that in friendships.
They do that at work.
mark normand
A lot of blaming.
joe rogan
Look, there's a lot of people that get fired from their job and then they just want to say, like, you know, I was discriminated against.
No, no, no, they didn't like you!
They don't want you in the office!
mark normand
That's it.
You remember the guy used to go up to a girl and hit on her and she'd go, no thanks, and he'd go, fucking dyke.
Maybe she just doesn't like you.
Every girl's got to want to fuck you.
joe rogan
That's a dark thing when you see that for men.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think that, again, comes from the same kind of thing that we were talking about with comedy, that a lot of people in their head, they don't think about how lucky they are to be a comic.
They think of how fucking, just so filled my life with frustration and fuck, and it's because of these fucks and that fuck, and I didn't get where I wanted to be because of fucks like you, that fucks like him, or fucks like her.
I think that's the same thing with almost everything.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
Yeah.
I agree.
joe rogan
You know, this weird way of re-looking at things to align it with yourself and make yourself look good.
mark normand
It just feels better.
It's just easier on your psyche.
It's the same with religion.
It just feels better knowing there's some guy in the sky and then Heaven's this great after party where everybody's hanging out and happy.
It's easier.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
I know that's a big jump from comedy to Heaven, but...
I don't know.
Religion, it's...
joe rogan
I'm jealous of them.
That feeling that you get, though, that you were talking about, that is critical.
That feeling of just awfulness.
mark normand
Yeah.
That should be innate.
It should be there.
Why don't you feel bad about that set?
I mean, this is your job.
It's the worst feeling.
Yeah, like, even if the crowd is a bunch of mooks on Long Island or some country club, you should still try to figure out a way to get them.
You're the entertainment for the night.
They paid.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
I don't know.
I find that strange when people are just upset, aren't upset that they bombed.
joe rogan
Well, that's protecting them.
mark normand
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
People gotta realize that protecting thing doesn't work.
You pay the price.
You just pay the price in mediocrity.
If you don't hate things that you do that suck, then you don't feel that sting of bombing.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you don't feel that sting of bombing, you don't recognize the urgency.
You're at the precipice of falling into an abyss of sucking.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You better pull yourself out and write some better shit and approach the set differently.
But if you're one of those guys that can pretend and like, oh, it was good.
I thought it was good.
You're fucked.
You're fucked.
Internalize it.
The energy has to go somewhere.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
If you just pretend and put that wall up, then you're not going to get the good out of it because you're not going to have the juice.
You're not going to have that horrible feeling.
You're going to sleep like a baby tonight.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, I'll fuck up one word and I'll take a piss at three in the morning going, fuck!
mark normand
Exactly!
joe rogan
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
mark normand
I do that all the time.
joe rogan
Bro.
mark normand
Oh man, many red roof ends showering going, go!
Why did I say that fucking riff?
That was horrible.
I hate myself.
joe rogan
But that's why you're good.
The hate of the bad stuff, like you're the one who knows it more than anybody because there's no surprises for you.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
You're the one who's act you have to hear every fucking day and there's no surprises.
Right.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Occasionally, you riff a surprise.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And when you riff a surprise, you get a little joke.
unidentified
Yes, yes.
joe rogan
Like, oh, a little joke from me.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
I get a little juice from that.
unidentified
Yay!
Right.
joe rogan
But most of the time, you don't get the laughs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The laughs are coming your way because you're orchestrating it well, but you're not laughing.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
Very rarely.
mark normand
And you know your instrument better than anybody.
You're calibrated.
So when somebody goes, sounded good to me, and you still know, I wasn't there, it wasn't great, it's all how you feel.
joe rogan
Exactly.
mark normand
And don't let them change it.
No, you killed, you killed.
And some people go, eh, maybe I did.
joe rogan
Exactly.
mark normand
But no, you gotta stay the course and know you suck.
joe rogan
Some people don't like that feeling, so they start blaming other people.
They start blaming the audience.
They start blaming this.
And it's natural.
That's a natural thing to do.
But it's anti-growth.
You can't do it that way.
mark normand
Yeah, anti-growth.
joe rogan
It'll fuck you up.
mark normand
That's good.
joe rogan
That sacrifice for that good feeling of dishonesty, that feeling where you're like, yeah, fuck them, that you could turn your anger on external sources.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're ruining your opportunity for growth.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
You got a little gift right there.
You got a little gift of eating shit.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
You got to take that little gift and just remember it.
mark normand
I mean, what have you done with weightlifting?
Ah, that was too hard.
These weights suck.
Fuck this gym.
joe rogan
Patriarchy.
mark normand
Yeah.
COVID is actually a great motivator, because people keep trying to bring it down, and it's still killing.
It's impressive.
COVID's got haters up the ass, and he's like, fuck you, I'm still going.
Everybody's talking about me, I'm a household name, I'm universal.
COVID's huge.
That's a great way to look at...
I look at COVID, I'm like, I gotta be more like COVID. Hated everywhere?
Well, not hated, but I'm just saying that kind of drive.
I'm not pro-COVID. Hang on here, folks.
joe rogan
Working out material.
mark normand
I'm just saying it's impressive how COVID just keeps going.
A lot of us could be a little more like COVID. Right?
Still going.
Everybody's trying to take him down.
He won't fall.
joe rogan
The vaccine's going to come along.
mark normand
You taking it?
joe rogan
Put a hole in the sails.
It depends on how many people get the Bell's palsy.
Right now, only four out of like 20,000 people that took it in England.
Right?
Is it 20,000 people?
mark normand
Four is amazing.
I mean, that's better than aspirin.
joe rogan
Unless it's you.
And then you can't do stand-up for a long time.
mark normand
I don't think I'm going to win the lottery, and I'm applying that same logic to the bills.
joe rogan
Do you know who got that for a little bit?
Dom Herrera had it for a little bit.
It went away.
mark normand
It went away?
joe rogan
Yeah, it goes away.
You get it, and then it can go away.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
When you're a comic, for months, you can't do stand-up, because half your face doesn't work.
mark normand
Yikes.
joe rogan
Yeah, and they don't know why.
mark normand
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
That's the scariest when doctors are like, we don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, my buddy's kid got it from Lyme disease.
Yeah, he got Lyme disease, and all of a sudden he had Bell's palsy.
It was a young kid, too.
I believe at the time he was seven.
mark normand
Is that from a tick?
joe rogan
Yep.
mark normand
Oh, jeez.
That's terrifying.
What about Sly Stallone?
Does he have Bell's, or is he just like that?
joe rogan
No, when he was born, the doctor fucked his face up.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
He had like a forceps, like grabbed his face.
mark normand
No way!
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
mark normand
I never knew that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a well-known story.
mark normand
Damn.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Well, good for him.
joe rogan
Ayo.
Yeah, that's not Bell's palsy.
mark normand
But back to the bombing feeling, let me just say this.
joe rogan
Please.
mark normand
I have that in regular life, too.
You know when a guy's at the gym with his music playing loudly?
I'm like, who could do that?
I'm so concerned about everybody's feelings and how I perceive and everybody hating me that I'm like, I could never do that, and I'm almost jealous of the guy.
And I feel the same.
It's like the same with comedy where I walk off and like, oh, that was bad.
If I was the loud music at the gym guy, I would walk around going, oh, that was dumb.
What was I thinking?
I was so inconsiderate and selfish.
joe rogan
Dude, I hate everything I do.
I hate when I do ads.
Jamie will tell you.
unidentified
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
I do my ads and halfway into the ads, I'm like, fuck, fucking cunt.
God, I suck at this.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just start yelling at myself.
mark normand
That's a good way to be, though.
I mean, Jay Leno said it best.
Self-esteem is underrated.
Or low self-esteem.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Low self-esteem is...
Wait.
joe rogan
Low self-esteem is underrated.
mark normand
Thank you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's something to it.
There's something to it.
And I don't think it's that.
It's just a ruthless examination without any charity.
It's not low self-esteem.
I don't have low self-esteem, but I ruthlessly examine everything I do with no charity.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
I don't give myself any breaks.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not healthy if you can.
mark normand
It's not healthy.
joe rogan
But I can handle it.
mark normand
But on paper, you should be the biggest cum-guzzling douche on the planet.
I mean, just your track record and everything.
You do the UFC. You got the biggest pod.
You're a huge stand-up.
You got a ton of money.
You got every car you want.
You know all these celebs.
You got J-Mo here.
I mean, you're killing it.
And so on paper, you could just sit back and go, I'm great.
I made it.
Everything's perfect.
I got a wife.
I got kids I love.
I got a handsome dog.
On paper, you're knocking it out of the park, but you're still hating yourself with the ad reads.
joe rogan
You have to.
Yeah, fucking ad reads.
Ad reads.
Yelling at myself for fucking up a stamps.com ad read.
Yeah, it's inevitable.
mark normand
That's a good way to be, though.
joe rogan
I don't think there's any other way to be, because that's how I always was.
So if I always was that, and if I changed upon success, that means that somehow or another I've perfected anything.
I've never perfected anything.
I haven't perfected any of the things that I like to do.
So then I'm always trying to do better.
So if I'm always trying to do better, why would I like any of the shit that I'm doing?
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
I should always be trying to get it better.
mark normand
But I think you're in the minority.
I think most people get one glimmer of some success or some money or fame and they just go off the rails.
joe rogan
But I think that's the same thing that we were talking about.
That's what they do to protect themselves.
Then instead of concentrating on the work, now they're concentrating on like Accolades they deserve.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, now they're going mommy dearest on you.
You know, now they want all the love and all the attention.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But your work suffers.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
You can't do that.
Like, first of all, it's not wise to do it as a person because I don't think it's a healthy way to look at things.
Like, if you're playing a game and all of a sudden you win the game and you're ahead, do you change your opinion of yourself because of some stupid fucking game?
No, you gotta look at it for what it is, and if it's an art form like stand-up, it demands that you pay attention, that you're honest.
If you're not doing that, you're not gonna get better.
So all the people that wind up wanting more than they...
You get what you fucking deserve.
mark normand
I know, if you do the work, it'll show up.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get what you deserve.
mark normand
Yeah, the results...
joe rogan
It's a real meritocracy in a lot of ways.
It doesn't seem even sometimes.
Sometimes maybe you aren't getting attention when you should, but it always balances itself out with consistency and constant work.
The people get the word out.
It's a real meritocracy in that way.
mark normand
I think that's why sports and UFC... I love watching because it's just like, that guy got punched in the face, he lost, and he goes, ah, I should have dodged, I should have ducked, or I should have parried, or whatever it is.
And it's just so A to B, where everything else is complain and blame other people.
It's just fun to see, like, I fucked up there and I lost.
joe rogan
Well, that's why I always love the game of pool.
Because the game of pool is absolute.
The ball either goes into the hole or it does not.
And you can find a lot of reasons why the ball doesn't go in the hole.
And a lot of guys who are...
They would lose a lot at pool.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
They...
They decided there was reasons why.
mark normand
The table's slanted.
The stick sucks.
I don't have my stick, man.
joe rogan
It was always excuses.
Somebody distracted them.
Or, you know, this guy's on drugs and that's why he's playing so good.
Or, the balls won't roll for me today.
I'm getting bad rolls.
Like, this is bullshit.
I got shit luck.
There's always a reason why they don't do well.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
And you can see it.
It's a denial of...
The reality of your circumstance.
You're just not as good at this game as this other person who just beat you.
They could probably beat you 100 out of 100 times.
They're better than you.
And the way to get better is to concentrate and play.
But some people don't want to do that.
They just want to complain.
But the thing about the pool is it didn't give a fuck who hit the ball.
There's no charisma involved, no personality.
It's just physics.
This ball, click, hits that ball, and this ball rolls into the side pocket and And you win.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
Or it bobbles and it hangs there and you missed.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
That's life.
mark normand
Exactly.
Which is the same with stand-up.
I mean, even if you're the biggest celebrity, the most loved guy, after a couple minutes they're like, we love you, we're going to give you a big ovation, but...
That shit ain't funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, we need material.
mark normand
I need something.
joe rogan
We need real shit.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They need real things.
You would watch guys come to the store that were like big TV stars and they would go on stage, Kramer, and they would go on stage and...
mark normand
He's got great material.
joe rogan
Immediately, the audience would love that they're there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they would realize after a while, like, you can't just take 10 years off or whatever you've done and just jump on stage with no act and...
And hope your charisma is going to get you through it when you're following Bill Burr and Ali Wong and whoever the fuck else is up there murdering it.
You have to have an act, man.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter how famous you are.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
Seinfeld, as famous as he is, as beloved as he is, he's got 30 seconds.
mark normand
Yep, yep.
joe rogan
He walks in that club.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jerry Seinfeld.
Holy shit, we're going to get to see Jerry Seinfeld.
This is amazing.
mark normand
This is great.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Wow, what a great surprise guest!
And then it wears off, and then he's got to do the work.
mark normand
He's got to kill it.
It's like when a hot girl tells a story.
Everybody's like, oh, look at this lady talking.
Wow, she's a looker.
And then you're like, this story fucking sucks.
joe rogan
This story sucks.
mark normand
But she's probably been pampered her whole life and told her, everybody says, you're great, you're hot.
joe rogan
That's the saddest thing in the world, a really hot girl with boring stories.
mark normand
Oh, man, I think that's L.A. People have been lying to you forever.
joe rogan
Well, that's the thing, right?
That's why when you run into a hot girl who's really smart and is a great conversationalist, you're like, wow!
mark normand
You're in Canada at that point, because they don't have that here.
I mean, come on.
You know, you meet a smoking hot lady, and she's like, I have an engineering degree, and I invented this conveyor belt, and I got a patent, and you're like, what?
joe rogan
Oh, I'm in Montreal.
Yeah, I work in a children's hospital, a surgeon.
You're like, what are you saying?
mark normand
Right, right.
Not here.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's hilarious.
mark normand
Yeah, it's true.
Well, it may be here, not L.A. Yeah, that's the whole thing about the Instagram ladies, you know, the hot-ass models and all that.
I'm like, what are you gonna do when you're...
joe rogan
50?
mark normand
51, yeah.
joe rogan
Be the hot, older Instagram model.
mark normand
I guess, but isn't that also weird?
Like, feminists must hate them, because it's like, don't objectify and all that.
I'm like, well, that's...
That's what she's putting out there, so what do I do here?
joe rogan
Here's the problem with feminism.
mark normand
Oh boy.
joe rogan
This is a problem.
mark normand
Okay.
joe rogan
That's a woman too.
That's her choice.
That's her choice to do it.
No man is looking at bodybuilders and saying, like a guy who's got big muscles and lifts weights online, no man is looking at him and saying, what you're doing is bad for masculinity.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
What you're doing is bad for men.
mark normand
We don't give a shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, we don't care.
mark normand
I'm trying to get my stuff going.
joe rogan
If you have CrossFit exercises on your Instagram page and you're doing cleans and presses, men don't look at that and go, oh, you're getting attention for that.
You know how bad that is for masculinity?
You know how bad that is for the opinion that women have of us?
They already look at us like we're meathead idiots.
And this is what you're going to fill your page with?
mark normand
Squats?
unidentified
Squats?
joe rogan
Really?
Really?
Do better.
mark normand
I hate the do better, but yeah, that's true.
The future is female.
Well, tell that to Ellen Page.
joe rogan
What goes back to that, uh, yeah, well, it's Elliot, you dead man piece of shit.
mark normand
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Oh, I forgot that was a thing.
There's a name for everything now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's a fun time.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a fun time to be offended.
mark normand
But that's one thing, I think when you focus on your group too much, you're already fucked.
Like, I'm an Italian guy, and I think this, and we gotta stick together, and I'm a woman, and I'm a black guy, and I'm a gay guy.
It's like, just do your shit and kill it, and then everything will fall into place.
Don't worry about what group you're in.
I know, obviously, some people have to make groups to protect themselves.
joe rogan
Well, you get a free stack of coins.
It's identity politics.
In identity politics, you get a free stack of coins if you go in with an identity.
mark normand
Oh, I see what you're saying.
joe rogan
If you walk in the conversation as a woman from India, you get a stack of coins right away, you get a little stack, and you identify as a woman from India.
Now these other women from India are like, oh, she's one of us, she's on the team.
If you just want to go in there as a human being, you get no stack.
You don't start off with a stack of coins.
You've got to earn all your coins.
Right.
So identity politics, in a lot of ways, is people...
First of all, there's people that want equality, and they don't want to be marginalized, and they want people to treat them well.
So they go into it saying, look, I am also...
Gay people.
I'm also a person who's gay and I just think we're just people and I represent gay people because I want you to know that we're just people.
That's one way of doing it.
But some people don't do that.
They go into it as someone who's already oppressed and I want my stack of coins.
I want my stack of coins because I'm in this group and first of all, you need to check your privilege before you talk to me because you're not in this group and I'm in this group and I got a stack of coins.
Right?
And so, like, if you're a white man, and I'm not like, oh my god, you're defending white men?
No, I'm defending human beings.
If you're a white male today, like, you come into the game with the lowest stack of coins.
mark normand
But we used to have a high stack.
joe rogan
But...
You still have a lot of advantages.
And everybody knows you still have a lot of advantages, but the people who don't have the advantages that you have, they want to let you know and show you their stack of coins.
mark normand
Right.
But my thing is, show me some results or some worth.
joe rogan
If you get a free ride, if you get a free stack of coins, because of whatever you come to the game with, whatever identity, whether it's a nationality or a gender or a sexual preference...
If you really have that and you use that, it's the same thing as someone who's not really paying attention to their act.
unidentified
Ah, yes.
joe rogan
You're relying on this crutch.
mark normand
Yeah, work on you, not the identity.
joe rogan
But it's like you are who you are, whether you like it or not.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
But if that's all you're concentrating on is who you are...
Like, we've got a problem.
mark normand
And then it comes full circle when it all doesn't work out because they never worked hard, and then they go, oh, it's because I'm that thing.
And so there we go.
It all self fulfills.
joe rogan
And if you can't find people, that's one of the beautiful things about the comedy community, is they don't give a fuck what you are.
If you're funny, you're in.
mark normand
I never thought about it before when I was a kid loving comedy, and now I think about it all the time, and how is that progress?
You know what I'm saying?
I used to be like, oh, Paula Poundstone's hilarious, or Ellen is funny, or Richard Pryor is funny.
I wasn't like, I love this black guy!
And now I think, hey, I'm laughing at this black guy.
How cool am I? I'm progressive.
But I'm like, isn't that worse?
Isn't it better to see him as a guy?
joe rogan
I think it's like an intermediate step to people realizing how stupid it is and then eventually going to the best version of just a person.
The best version of it.
So we get through all the pitfalls of identity politics, all the pitfalls of people wanting their stack of coins and being real aggressive about whatever they are even though what their art form is is fucking mediocre and nonsense because they're not really about that.
They're about getting as many coins as they can for who they are.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
We get through that, realize that doesn't work, and then on the other end of it, you get...
Wouldn't it be better if everybody was just cool to everybody?
mark normand
It'd be nice.
joe rogan
That'd be it.
And then eventually, more people realize that than realize it now.
Now, people don't want to get called out.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So they're very scared of being called out and shamed for the lack of respect for identity politics.
unidentified
Right.
mark normand
It's funny.
You go to every green room in America, and it's you and a bunch of douchebag comics going...
We don't think any of this, right?
And they go, oh, God, no.
I'm just terrified to say what I really think online.
And you're like, all right, all right, I'm not crazy.
joe rogan
The worst is when you see comics, like, just virtue signaling.
mark normand
It's very strange.
joe rogan
Just calling out to the mob and asking, you know, like, look at what I'm saying.
I think, like, the most progressive person alive, even though I got a bunch of cunt jokes that I'm sitting on.
mark normand
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Ready to break out with.
mark normand
I know.
I wonder if that will come back, like, you know, 10 years.
Kevin Hart said gay or whatever, and he gets in trouble.
I wonder if in 10 years it's going to flip the other way.
Like, hey, 10 years ago he said hashtag men suck.
I mean, that's a little sexist and, you know, whatever.
joe rogan
I hope the comics do it themselves.
I hope they realize themselves.
mark normand
It'd be nice.
I assume people are laying in bed at night going like, what am I doing on TV? You know Bridget Phetasy?
Yeah, she's funny.
joe rogan
Hilarious.
mark normand
Good Twitterer.
joe rogan
She's the best.
Maybe one of the best follows on Twitter.
But just great on podcasts, too.
I love her on her own.
I love her when she's on this one.
But she's one of the best examples of someone who...
She writes about things exactly the way she sees them.
And she goes hard in the paint.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Like, nobody reads her tweets and goes, oh, she's pretty funny for a chick.
mark normand
She's pretty insightful for a chick.
No, that never crossed my mind.
joe rogan
No.
Only, just, you look at it, it's just only funny.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
As a guy.
mark normand
That's all we want.
joe rogan
As a girl.
mark normand
We don't give a shit who is.
joe rogan
As a human.
Yeah.
Yeah.
mark normand
I remember as a kid watching Mel Brooks movies and being like, this lady's hilarious.
And it was Madeline Kahn.
She was so funny to me, and I never thought, like, I like this funny lady.
It was just, she was funny.
And now it's just forced down your throat.
Hey, you gotta love women.
Women are funny.
You're like, alright, alright.
joe rogan
I had a point about Bridget and I forgot what the fuck it was.
mark normand
Oh shit, I stepped on you with con.
joe rogan
I smoked weed.
I smoked weed before this show.
God damn it.
Weed is great and it's terrible at the same time.
mark normand
It'll cloud your mind.
joe rogan
It will open doors of your mind but then the breeze goes through and knocks on the door shut and you're like, what happened?
You let in the breeze.
You let in that weed breeze.
mark normand
I wish I liked weed.
I see all my friends toking all day and eating brownies and shit and I'm like, I would be ruined if I did that.
joe rogan
What were we talking about right before I brought her up?
mark normand
Ah, shit.
Jugdish, the Indian lady.
joe rogan
Cunt jokes.
mark normand
Yeah, we're all in a green room jizzing on each other with the truth and everybody's on Twitter and full of shit.
joe rogan
I had it.
jamie vernon
I started saying her name because she says whatever she wants on Twitter.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there was a reason.
I had a point and I forgot what the point was.
jamie vernon
It'll come back.
joe rogan
Son of a bitch.
mark normand
See, that sativa will get you there, Fetty.
joe rogan
Also, I'm fasting.
mark normand
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, so today I'm not eating until after the show.
mark normand
What a country.
We fast on purpose, baby.
joe rogan
Yeah, we starve ourselves on purpose.
mark normand
What a weird, weird world we live in.
It's so good we gotta make a struggle.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
We do that every day.
I gotta tell you, this coffee is so good.
I'm trying not to drink more of it.
I didn't start drinking coffee until I was like 34, and now I'm obsessed with it.
joe rogan
What happened?
mark normand
I just always looked at it like, oh, my mom drinks coffee.
What is that?
I got energy.
I don't need to fucking rely on this brown liquid.
And then one day I was hungover and I said, fuck it.
And I've never gone back.
And now if I don't drink, I get a headache.
joe rogan
Oh, you're hooked.
mark normand
It's got a hold on.
I'm sure you do too, but you just probably drink so much you don't get the headache.
joe rogan
I just keep drinking it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's available.
You can get it everywhere.
mark normand
I know, and it's very good.
BlackRifalCoffee.com This is good stuff.
I'm drinking the Keurig dog shit at home.
joe rogan
This is the real shit.
I don't know what version of Black Rifle this is.
It tastes like it's Ethiopian.
mark normand
Oh, jeez, you know your coffee countries, huh?
joe rogan
Well, Ethiopian has, it's got like a kind of lemony flavor to it.
That's where all coffee originated.
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
Yeah, a little tidbit I learned from Peter Giuliano, who's a coffee expert who was on the podcast many, many years ago, but all of it came out of Ethiopia.
Then they started planting it in Colombia and all those places.
mark normand
Right.
Well, what's up with energy drinks?
Who are these idiots?
I mean, like, I see some 14-year-old kid drinking a Monster.
I'm like, what are you doing?
You're 14. You need that?
joe rogan
They taste good.
mark normand
Oh, I disagree.
joe rogan
Monster, Diet Monster, those white cans.
mark normand
There's a diet one now?
I drink it all the time at the UFC. I love the guy who's like, I need this shitty elixir to fuel me, but he's like, I gotta watch my weight, too.
joe rogan
He's like drinking poison.
You still want sugar.
mark normand
Oh, all right.
joe rogan
You want the speed, but you don't want the sugar.
mark normand
I just died.
It looks like piss coming out of there and it tastes all chemically.
I don't know what I'm drinking.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I understand what you're saying.
I respectfully disagree.
Those white, cold monsters, those diet monsters, I fucking like them.
They're not good for you.
It's not like something you should drink all the time.
It can't be good for you.
mark normand
Can't be good.
joe rogan
I mean, there's a bunch of stuff.
It's like Diet Coke.
That's not good for you all the time.
But occasionally, I like a Diet Coke.
mark normand
They say it's worse for you than regular Coke.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've heard it actually does something to fuck with your mind.
Your mind thinks you're taking in sugar.
mark normand
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then there's weird chemicals that really probably shouldn't have been passed.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And they were made legal anyway.
Like, well, you need a lot to kill you.
Sell it!
Sell it!
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
They think it killed Tammy Faye Baker.
mark normand
What?
joe rogan
TFB? That bitch.
Sorry.
That lady.
I say that too much.
Like, people don't know.
They don't know I'm joking around.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
Like, that bitch is crazy.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, no, I don't mean that.
It's like, it's an expression.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Tammy Faye Baker apparently drank...
mark normand
She did the makeup?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
She was way back in the day when Jim Baker was with Jessica Hahn and the Sam Kinison love triangle.
Remember all that?
mark normand
Oh, that's right.
That was some 90s shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was back in the day, son.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But she apparently drank just fucking pounded Diet Coke all day and then got cancer and died.
And everybody's like, it's a Diet Coke.
mark normand
Oh, look at that.
joe rogan
Get it!
Get Diet Coke!
mark normand
I don't want to speak out of school, but Colin Quinn got real sick, and he drinks Diet Coke.
It's got like a vein thing going on.
What do you call that?
SUV? What is that thing?
What is that called?
joe rogan
A stent?
mark normand
No, it's a...
joe rogan
Varicose vein?
mark normand
ICU? The thing, the bag with the hose.
IV? IV! Thank you, we got there.
See, we're on the same wavelength there.
joe rogan
You gotta get an IV for...
mark normand
I'm just saying he drinks so much Coke, it was like an IV. Oh.
Like, he sits down at the cellar and they hand him a Diet Coke.
That's where he was at with it.
And he got fucked up from it.
joe rogan
Do you think that's what get him in?
mark normand
I think that's part of it.
I don't want to go into his whole health world.
joe rogan
Is he on that New York City pizza diet?
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
He eats like a six-year-old retarded kid at a swim party.
And, you know, it's like wings and all this horrible shit.
And, you know, we're getting older.
You got to cut it out.
joe rogan
Yeah, you got it.
You can have that stuff in moderation, but it should be the exception, not the rule.
What's up, Daniel?
jamie vernon
I read an article about her interview where she said this is her quote, what she was doing for breakfast.
joe rogan
It's on the screen.
mark normand
Oh, Faye Bake?
joe rogan
I'm sitting here eating a Nestle's Crunch for breakfast.
I feel it's a good breakfast because it has Rice Krispies in it, and I'm also drinking a Diet Coke.
Well, first of all, she's probably high.
Let's be honest.
mark normand
No doubt about it.
joe rogan
You know that lady was probably on some pills.
They probably juiced her up with Valium.
jamie vernon
It said that she picked up the Diet Coke when she kicked the prescription pill issue.
Kicked.
joe rogan
Air quote, kicked.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
They took her off one, put her on something else.
mark normand
It's hilarious when you hear what they fed these actresses back in the 40s.
F! Well, it was like cigarettes, coffee, and like broth water.
You know, for the Dorothy from Wizard of Oz lady?
What's her name?
She died on a boat with the other guy.
That's the one!
joe rogan
She died on a boat?
mark normand
No, who am I thinking of?
joe rogan
Natalie Wood.
mark normand
Natalie Wood.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
She also just ate air, salads, and smoked cigarettes.
That was their whole diet.
joe rogan
The saddest thing that they tell women to starve themselves.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
That's what looks good for us, a starving woman.
mark normand
It's a shame that it works.
But see, I'm all over the road with the ladies.
My lady's got some good curves and an ample bosom.
And then you see a super skinny chick, you're like, hey, I'm into that too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
I'm not one of these.
I got a type.
I like a vagina and a face.
joe rogan
Well, some people are skinny because they're healthy.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And they exercise a lot and they have a fast metabolism and that's their body type.
But some people are starving themselves, and there's a difference.
The girls who are starving themselves want to be like that other body type, but they're just not.
So there's this weird thing going on where you're just killing yourself to look like that.
mark normand
I think black people had a big change in that.
joe rogan
With the...
mark normand
Well, with the thickness and the butts.
Butts were...
Nobody's talking about butts in the 80s.
joe rogan
True.
mark normand
And then black people came in, they're like, we like asses.
And I cannot lie.
joe rogan
We went to a weird place when they figured out how to do butt implants, though.
mark normand
That's no good.
Don't like the butt implants.
joe rogan
They went to a weird place when they figured that out.
When people figured out how to give people with skinny legs big butts, it's like, whoa.
mark normand
I know.
And they're chunky, and they're bouncing in the wrong way, and if you see different lumps, it's bad.
Brazil's all into this.
jamie vernon
What did you guess the first breast implants were?
joe rogan
Where?
jamie vernon
When.
joe rogan
When?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
21. 1921. There was a TV show on it starring the dude from Friends.
jamie vernon
Breast Men.
joe rogan
Yeah.
David Schwimmer?
mark normand
Yeah.
I jerked off to that.
I think we all did.
jamie vernon
Did you jerk off to that?
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Way before that.
joe rogan
Really?
mark normand
Yeah.
1921, I'm saying.
joe rogan
All right, let me guess.
Let me guess.
unidentified
I'm going to say 1950. It says they've been around since the 1890s.
What?
jamie vernon
And the first butt implant was 1969. What?
Yeah.
unidentified
What?
Yeah.
joe rogan
The 1890s?
jamie vernon
I'm gonna look it up.
joe rogan
There was this one dude who won Fear Factor.
mark normand
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And he was torturing this other guy that was competing against him.
The other guy...
I don't know if he was really homophobic or they were just joking around.
I don't know.
But anyway, at the end of the show, the dude told the other guy he was going to spend all the money on butt implants.
Because the gay guy won.
And he told him, he goes, I'm going to get my butt implanted now.
And you can see the guy just defeated.
Just thinking, I would have had so many good uses for that money.
Now this guy is just going to get his butt bigger.
mark normand
What an idiot.
Also, if he was a bottom, wouldn't that hurt that you'd lose some inches?
joe rogan
Maybe he's not a bottom.
mark normand
Oh, there you go.
joe rogan
Maybe he just likes to have a lot of pushing for the cushion.
mark normand
Not all gay guys fuck in the ass.
They actually get upset about that rumor or that myth.
joe rogan
Oh yeah?
mark normand
Yeah, my friend's gay.
He's like, we don't all fuck this.
Enough with the ass fucking jokes.
We don't all do that.
I was like, oh, alright.
I didn't know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
A guy and his husband or boyfriend in Connecticut once came up to me after a show and made a point of telling me that.
mark normand
Oh, there you go.
You see?
joe rogan
I'm not looking for facts.
I'm trying to be funny up here.
mark normand
And some people do do it.
You call us breeders.
A lot of people don't have kids.
joe rogan
That's true.
Good point.
But breeders doesn't have any sting to it.
mark normand
No, it's hilarious.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What are you out there, breeding?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't work.
It's like a wisp.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like a mist.
mark normand
It's like honky.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Right over.
joe rogan
Nothing.
mark normand
Although...
jamie vernon
So that movie was the introduction of the silicone sacks.
mark normand
Ah, that was a game changer.
jamie vernon
Before that, they were using...
This says it goes back even further, but the 1890s, they were using paraffin wax.
unidentified
Wow!
jamie vernon
And then up until even the 1950s, they were using a sponge.
joe rogan
So in the 1890s, when they were using paraffin wax, they probably had no anesthesia.
Did they have anesthesia then?
Like, when did they invent anesthesia?
jamie vernon
It just says they're injecting it directly into the breast to make them bigger.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
mark normand
They used whiskey and shit and he bit down on a belt.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Ladies, imagine how much you love dick.
You're like, there's gotta be a way to get more dick.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I have an idea.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
See that wax?
The candle wax?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What would happen?
jamie vernon
This even says there was a small time period when women were trying to make their breasts look smaller, and I don't know when that was.
mark normand
That's what's interesting about fashion.
It all comes and goes.
joe rogan
Maybe that was during the Rubenesque days.
jamie vernon
Well, then it says Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, never heard of her, were the ones that paved the way to make them look bigger again.
So that would have been...
unidentified
What?
mark normand
Huge cans on Marilyn.
joe rogan
How did people forget?
They forget they like big tits?
jamie vernon
They didn't have a lot of pictures, I guess.
joe rogan
That doesn't make any sense.
People are so busy starving to death, like, oh, just get back to the mines.
mark normand
Right, exactly.
joe rogan
You gotta go to the mill.
What good is a big tit gonna do me?
I need coal.
I need to get more coal out of this fucking mine.
mark normand
Can you imagine how pent-up dudes must have been in the 40s or 30s?
I mean, first of all, you look at a pin-up and they're all creaming themselves, but like...
We all look at porn so much.
It's so accessible.
There's women walking around with nothing on now.
Back then, you couldn't look at porn.
You just had to imagine shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
That's crazy.
joe rogan
And masturbation was greatly discouraged.
mark normand
That's right.
joe rogan
You were taught that you were going to be...
You're a bad person.
You're going to go blind.
Ari told me that when he was in...
He went to some serious religious Hebrew school in Israel where it was studying the Torah 10 hours a day.
He told me that they taught him...
That when you're masturbating, you're making a demon in hell.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
Like in another dimension.
Like you're having sex with a demon and creating some evil entity in another world.
I'm like, what?
mark normand
Who's the weirdo here?
I'm just jerking off.
You're making up jerk-off tales.
joe rogan
They want you working.
Because back when they wrote that rule, people were starving to death.
People needed to go gather food.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
People needed to fight off the enemy.
You know, there was marching soldiers coming over the hill.
You could see them coming.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
So they're like, stop jerking off.
You're making demons in another dimension.
unidentified
Like...
joe rogan
Oh no, you're the reason why our town is burning, because you were jerking off.
People believed that back then.
mark normand
Totally.
And you know how boxers don't jerk off to get tougher or whatever?
So imagine how tough and how much testosterone you had because you weren't jerking it.
joe rogan
Mike Tyson never did that.
mark normand
Oh, really?
He jerked.
joe rogan
And he was the most ferocious of all time.
mark normand
Good point.
joe rogan
He's like, I don't want that kind of distraction.
mark normand
Yeah, I'm with him.
joe rogan
It was distracting.
He wanted to relax.
mark normand
I'm the same.
joe rogan
So he would relax by having sex.
mark normand
Yeah, but it says it builds your testosterone if you don't explode.
joe rogan
I think he had enough.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'm just going to go out on a limb.
I think he was okay in that department.
mark normand
He was knocking out old ladies in the 80s.
unidentified
Pfft!
mark normand
I mean, imagine seeing that guy in Brooklyn in 84. Oh my god.
joe rogan
No shirt on, walking down the street with a tiger.
mark normand
A couple pigeons on his shoulder.
Yeah, terrifying.
joe rogan
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it to you.
He's the reason why this table's this wide.
mark normand
Oh, you were just nervous?
joe rogan
This table, I was going to make it more narrow.
I even had a smaller table that we were working with as a guide, and then we were still doing the shows back in LA when we were setting up this studio.
I did an interview with Tyson, and he was so amped up for this Roy Jones fight that I got nervous to be in the room.
I'm like, I like that extra six inches of space between us because he was so ramped up.
mark normand
Oh, man.
joe rogan
When he left, Jamie goes, that's a totally different person.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because he went from being Mike Tyson, pot grower, not working out at all, to getting ready to go to combat again.
Getting ready to fucking throw hands.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
He was so amped up.
mark normand
And we've all watched the video where he calls that photographer out, and he's like, I'll fucking eat your ass, you bitch, I'll make you love me!
Yeah, I watched that, I'm like, ah!
joe rogan
He said, I'll fuck you until you love me.
mark normand
Wow, where does that come from?
That's an inner demon.
joe rogan
That's letting a dude know he's gonna be fucking him for a long time.
Yeah.
mark normand
But it's a weird jump, because he's not actually gonna fuck the guy, he's gonna beat the shit out of him.
joe rogan
He might.
He might.
If he decides to, that's his call.
That's what it is.
mark normand
Yeah, that's what it is.
unidentified
Domination.
joe rogan
When he's yelling that at you, he's letting you know, if I decide to, I'll fuck you until you love me.
That is one of the deepest, darkest things a person's ever said to somebody.
mark normand
That haunts me at night.
Terrifying.
joe rogan
Plus, back then, he was in his prime.
Oh, yeah.
That was post-prison.
I think that was the Lennox Lewis fight.
I think he did.
I don't know.
mark normand
It's just amazing that there's people on this planet who are like, oh, I'll fight that guy.
They're looking at video footage of this fucking killer, and they're like, yeah, I'll take him.
joe rogan
There's a lot of killers out there.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
They always want to be the man who beats the man.
mark normand
That's what it is.
That gives me hope.
I know we call it toxic masculinity or whatever the hell, evil men, but it's amazing that somebody would want to go toe-to-toe with this thing.
Fucking monster.
joe rogan
What is this about?
This is a different thing.
jamie vernon
I know it is.
joe rogan
This is how I'll eat your children.
Oh, this is a different one.
Yeah, play this.
mark normand
I'll eat your children.
joe rogan
Play this.
mark normand
J-Mo.
joe rogan
Jamie.
mark normand
The COVID has really hurt you, I think.
joe rogan
It's a mess.
mark normand
You've been slacking since.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I don't know.
joe rogan
Something's wrong.
mark normand
By the way, quite a hog on J-Mo.
I saw it in the sweatpants.
Yeah.
Quite a piece you got there.
joe rogan
There you go.
mark normand
Man, he's not denying it either.
joe rogan
He's smiling.
He's all red now.
unidentified
Look!
mark normand
Oh my god!
You look like the wolves!
No!
Get it out there!
Get it out!
Tell the fans!
joe rogan
Imagine if they come up with a hog implant that's like a legitimate, legitimate, like good to go, everyone universally accepted the way fake boobs are accepted.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because fake boobs are basically...
mark normand
Normal.
joe rogan
No one says, listen, you've got a great personality, but this is bullshit.
mark normand
Girls in high school are doing that shit.
unidentified
Oh!
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Is that legal?
joe rogan
How is that legal?
mark normand
Well, you know, you hit 18 or whatever.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
mark normand
But yeah, it's...
joe rogan
I feel like it should be 21 before you do something like that.
mark normand
Yeah, but man, would I kill for a huge dong?
joe rogan
How big would you want that?
mark normand
Well, there's rumors about your cock and balls there, but...
joe rogan
I used to have a bit about big dick pills.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
If there was big dick pills, it would take about 30 seconds before the first guy die of an overdose.
No one's going to take just one.
If a pill makes your dick bigger, we'd be thinking, like, how many do I take before I get a stroke?
Give me one less of that, and let's fucking do this.
It would change the shape of vaginas, because there would be no regular dicks anymore.
mark normand
There we go.
Taking the big dicks.
unidentified
...with Mike Tyson, who's standing by with Jim Gray.
Jim?
mark normand
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay, thank you, Steve.
mark normand
Mike, was that your shortest fight ever?
unidentified
I'll be here to see you.
I love you with all my heart.
All praise be to my children.
I love you.
Oh, God, amen.
What?
mark normand
Is this your shortest fight ever?
unidentified
In any time, amateur, professional ever?
joe rogan
That's Jim Gray hanging in there.
unidentified
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
Yeah, yeah, Lennox Lewis, Lennox, I'm coming for you.
Mike, is it frustrating to train like you did and then have this in seven or eight seconds?
I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight.
I had to bury my best friend.
And I dedicated this fight.
I wasn't going to fight.
I dedicated this fight to him.
I was going to rip his heart out.
I'm the best ever.
I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been.
There's no one can stop me.
Lynx is a conqueror.
No, I'm Alexander.
He's no Alexander.
I'm the best ever.
There's never been anybody as ruthless.
I'm Sonny Liston.
I'm Jack Dempsey.
There's no one like me.
I'm from Nairclaw.
There's no one that can match me.
My style is impetuous.
My defense is impregnable.
And I'm just ferocious.
I want your heart.
I want to eat his children.
Praise be to Allah.
Whoa!
joe rogan
That's the craziest post-fight speech of all time.
There is no second place.
mark normand
No, he's got great writers.
Holy shit.
joe rogan
And even the way my style's impetuous, my defense is impregnable.
It was just, bam, I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey, I'm from their cloth.
unidentified
Woo!
mark normand
He got to there from the easiest question.
It was a yes or no question.
Is this the shortest fight?
All he had to say was, yep or nah.
And he just went all the way to left field.
That was amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was heavy.
That was heavy.
mark normand
I mean, could you be in his entourage?
Because he seems like a guy who could just flip on a dime and you're just like, hey, you want the Funyuns?
I'll fucking kill you!
You're like, oh shit, I'm sorry!
We've been best friends for 30 years.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know if he would be like that.
When I've met him, he's been very nice and very friendly to everybody.
But I think when you're a dude that's that fucking driven and that maniacal when you're at your best, you've got to realize throughout his life, all of his great success came from his ability to be ferocious.
All of it.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, the whole success of his fighting career came from his skill, his technique, and his ability in the heat of the moment to be ferocious.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he was just geared up for that.
I know, but...
There it is, right?
This is the brawl.
mark normand
This is the other one, though.
The brawl.
Fuck it till you love me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Oh, God.
That guy must have been trembling.
unidentified
I can't tell you that.
I'll fuck you, you ass.
Don't fight, boy.
I can't tell you that.
I'll eat.
I'll make a fucking ass dress.
joe rogan
Heavy.
mark normand
I mean, how do you go back to the green room with that guy?
joe rogan
You go, you're right, Mike.
mark normand
Yeah.
Good point.
Well said.
joe rogan
Well said.
I think you did everything perfect.
Let's get out of here.
mark normand
If I was that punk-ass white boy, I would have been running out the fire exit.
joe rogan
That guy still to this day, if he's still alive, probably wakes up in the middle of the night.
mark normand
Jesus!
joe rogan
He's thinking of Mike Tyson over his bed.
mark normand
Oh, I love you, I love you.
joe rogan
Punching him in the face.
mark normand
Holy shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But again, in the context of a regular life, that is outrageous behavior that you would never expect from anybody.
But in the context of a life where you're rewarded for being the most ferocious...
And you're ruthlessly successful at doing that.
Like, that is normal.
Yeah.
Like, you look at his fights, the stoppage of Trevor Burbick to win the title, you look at his destruction of Tyrell Biggs and Marvis Frazier, and you go through his career, and of course he's got that in him.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
That's how he can turn it on.
mark normand
But that feels like more.
There's more there.
joe rogan
That's why he's one of the greatest to ever lace up the gloves.
mark normand
But it seems like there was some real trauma, like something we don't know about.
joe rogan
100%.
He talked about that trauma, but that trauma is also what motivated him to be so great.
See, the thing about a guy like him is you can't get there any other way.
It wasn't that it was just skillful and just competitive and just...
He's unbelievably technically proficient in the art of smashing people with your fists.
He also had an extra gear that other people didn't have.
And he was even hypnotized when he was a young boy.
mark normand
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, Customato.
He was telling me the whole story of it on the podcast that Customato took him when he was a young boy.
You've got to realize he's like 13 years old.
He gets adopted by one of the greatest minds in the history of boxing.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Customato, he was a hypnotist.
He really understood psychology, like, deeply.
And he was one of the great boxing trainers.
He trained Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres, like, world champions.
He was in the game forever.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he was always looking for that one great fighter, and he found it in this 13-year-old kid, and he knew right away.
Because this 13-year-old kid was 190 pounds.
13. Yeah.
190. Jacked.
At 13. That's great.
mark normand
That's more than me.
joe rogan
And just had incredible natural ability and drive and was getting praised for doing something finally.
Whereas all of his life he's getting shit on and dismissed and locked in jail and all this different stuff.
Now all of a sudden he's getting praised for it and then he's getting hypnotized.
He's getting hypnotized by this guy who's telling him, you don't exist.
Only the task exists.
Don't fill your mind with thoughts of yourself, and good or bad, or I'm a bad person, I'm a good person.
You don't exist.
You are the task, and you move forward, and you attack.
mark normand
Yeah, Jesus.
joe rogan
When he was saying that you don't exist, like think about just the task exists.
So he's got him so focused on going out there and attacking that person.
The other person has all these doubts and fears and this and that, all this shit in their mind, but he's trained to think.
Like a locomotion.
Just a train.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just coming at you.
You're not going to stop him.
He's just going to figure out...
He's not filled with self-doubt.
He's filled with confidence.
He's filled with knowing at the end of him smash you in the face.
You're going to be lying on your back.
And he's going to get that amazing good feeling that he gets every time he does this.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
So every time he smashes people, he gets this incredible feeling.
So he's dedicated.
Just like we were talking about Lazy Comics.
That Lazy Comics can become like actually disciplined when they want to get their act together to do stand-up.
A fighter is so motivated by that great feeling...
mark normand
Of winning.
joe rogan
Of winning.
That you just become, the more you feel it, the more you want it, and the more disciplined you get, and the more you drive towards it.
And that was him.
mark normand
I know, plus then you had that guy with all that hypnotic shit, and then fame, and then money.
I mean, that's a bad gumbo.
joe rogan
It's a bad gumbo.
mark normand
And look what happened.
joe rogan
Well, he's okay now.
He came out on the other side an interesting person.
mark normand
He really did.
That's true.
A lot of people don't come out of it.
joe rogan
Particularly before the fight.
Before he had signed on to the fight, the first time I met him and talked to him.
I met him before the UFC, but the first time I talked to him on the podcast.
He was an interesting guy.
He's a very thoughtful person.
He thinks a lot about things.
But then he's got that switch.
And he turned that switch on before the Roy Jones fight.
You can tell.
mark normand
Which I think he won.
joe rogan
Yeah, if it was a decision, for sure.
But there was no decisions.
jamie vernon
I was trying to see if anybody knew who Mike was yelling at in the crowd there.
So I googled and look who was in the crowd.
Doing a special report.
mark normand
Oh, shit!
jamie vernon
He was doing it for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
He's like a whole week of shit there.
mark normand
Oh my god, good eye, Jaymo!
jamie vernon
Talking to tons of people.
joe rogan
Look how skinny Dave is.
mark normand
What a gig!
joe rogan
It's a young, young Dave.
mark normand
You gotta bring this up when you see him tonight.
This is amazing.
jamie vernon
I don't think there's a part where he's talking to Mike here, at least, but...
mark normand
Probably for safety.
jamie vernon
He may or may not have been the guy who's fucking yelling that.
joe rogan
No, he's a white boy.
jamie vernon
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Dave would never yell out a stupid...
mark normand
No, no, no.
jamie vernon
There's a joke online.
mark normand
He was yelling at Jim Brewer.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
A lot of people are listening.
They're like, who are you talking about?
Dave Chappelle.
mark normand
Right, right.
A skinny, young, goofball Dave Chappelle.
joe rogan
And they're playing rock, paper, scissors.
He just jacked Lennox Lewis rock, paper, scissors.
unidentified
I got the chance.
mark normand
Remember you were a young comic?
You'd take these weird gigs?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
East Coast bitch!
That is hilarious.
mark normand
Wow!
You forget the body of work.
People have just done so much in showbiz.
George Foreman.
unidentified
Oh wow!
joe rogan
Look at the size of Foreman's fucking hands.
Oh yeah.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
mark normand
What year are we at here?
jamie vernon
2002 it says.
mark normand
2002?
joe rogan
2002, George was still fighting, I think.
mark normand
That can't be right.
joe rogan
Was he still fighting in 2002?
No.
No, he had already retired.
He probably retired like 99 or some shit, if I'm guessing.
jamie vernon
Dave's hand's holding up just one of...
joe rogan
Look at the size of his fucking hand!
Look at that left hand in front of you.
George is known for having these gigantic canned hams for fists.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
You ever seen the documentary?
Is it King of Kings?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Or When They Were Kings?
joe rogan
When They Were Kings.
mark normand
That is amazing.
joe rogan
That is amazing.
mark normand
Zaire.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I would have loved...
It's interesting.
Fighters get defined by their era, right?
When George Foreman came up in the era of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, and those were his contemporaries, right?
But...
It would be so interesting.
It's impossible.
But if you could, if you had a time machine and you were just an asshole, and you're like, I could save the world and stop assassinations, or I could just take Mike Tyson from 1988 and bring him to the George Foreman When George was undefeated and he was the champion and matched them up.
If you could get together Sonny Liston and Lennox Lewis.
Just wild combinations.
mark normand
It'd be funny to do that with old white baseball players and put them in now.
They'd fucking get dominated by some South American guy in two seconds.
joe rogan
Yeah, Babe Ruth with his hot dog stomach.
mark normand
Like, I was like a god.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Isn't that weird, too?
Like, that fight, that Ali Frazier fight, or Foreman fight, was so big.
It was like an event.
It was like a world event.
I don't feel like we have that anymore.
We're so splintered now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
That, like, it's hard to get...
The only events are bad now.
It's like COVID. That's something we can all get behind.
Or maybe, like...
9-11.
joe rogan
The thing about it was that Muhammad Ali was different than just a fighter because he was a cultural figure.
He wasn't like anybody else in that he was a guy who stood up for the Vietnam War, stood up for the soldiers and said, I'm not going to fight.
He stood up against the Vietnam War, I should say.
They tried to draft him, tried to send him over there, and he's like, I'm not going to Vietnam.
And they took his title away because of it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like, no Viet Cong, no Vietnamese man ever did anything to me.
Like, I'm not doing this.
mark normand
It's a good point.
joe rogan
And everyone agreed with him three years later, and we'll let him compete again.
But they took three years out of the prime of his career.
And so he became something that wasn't just a fighter.
He became this spokesperson for the people that felt like...
The government was doing something awful and terrible and he had the courage to lose his career and stand up for it.
For three years he had no income.
mark normand
Three years, that's insane.
joe rogan
In his prime.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he's at the peak of his abilities and they took three whole years away from him.
mark normand
They did it to Elvis, too, but he went.
Elvis had to go to the Army.
Isn't that insane?
They made him go, and that'd be like, hey, Bieber, you gotta go to Iraq.
Sorry.
joe rogan
Bro, that'd be hilarious.
mark normand
That would be great!
Seeing Bieber get a haircut, you know, and doing push-ups, getting yelled at by an old guy with a buzz cut.
joe rogan
I think Joe Louis, they made Joe Louis join the Army, too.
mark normand
Yeah, you had to do it.
I mean, we bitch now about how things are.
Like, oh, listen to that.
LGBTQ, it's all unfair.
But then you're like, yeah, but they made you do shit.
Like, Lenny Bruce, we all bitch and moan, but we went to jail for saying cocksucker.
joe rogan
Many times.
Many times, yeah.
And they would wait for him in the back of the club, and then as soon as he said something wrong, they would run up on stage and handcuff him in front of the crowd.
mark normand
Yeah.
You ever heard the story about him getting cuffed, throwing in the back cop car?
Carlin throwing in the back of the cop car?
Same car.
unidentified
What?
mark normand
That was his idol.
He was rioting or whatever.
Like, don't arrest him.
So they threw him in the car.
He's in the car with his hero in cuffs.
joe rogan
What a great deal.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah, that's fun.
joe rogan
Best time getting arrested ever.
mark normand
I know, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, those guys got arrested for stand-up.
They got arrested for the things that we take for granted.
mark normand
I know, and now we arrest each other.
What the fuck are we doing?
It's true, like some L.A. queef is like, you shouldn't say that, and you're like, why are you yelling at me?
You're the cops now.
You want to be on that side?
joe rogan
It's not we, it's people that have lost their way.
They're not thinking about it correctly.
Or, you know, there was a lot of ones with Louis, in particular, where I was like, I know what's going on here.
You're jealous of that guy.
Like, what you're saying about him, about never being very talented, like, that's crazy.
You could say that you don't think what he did was right, but the way you're doing, you know, some people were, like, dismissing his talent.
mark normand
Yeah, that's strange.
joe rogan
Like, you not.
This is not real.
This is not real.
No one agrees with you.
No one agrees with you.
mark normand
And then you're like, well, why should I listen to other stuff if you're gonna say that?
joe rogan
Exactly.
You could say you don't like him.
You could say you don't like him as a person.
You could say whatever you want.
But as soon as you say, he's not talented.
I saw a lot of that, and I was like, oh, I see what's happening.
mark normand
People are trying to redefine.
Yes, there's that weird pile-on that people do.
Like, oh, let's go harder, harder.
And it's kind of human nature.
It seems like when the king falls in the square, everybody's fucking going nuts.
Yeah, fuck that guy.
He was on the throne, and I live in shit.
Now he's going through hell?
I love it.
joe rogan
Yes, but it's never anyone good.
People that are really, truly great, they never pile on.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
Again, it's the people that have a deficiency in their own career, or deficiency in their own act, or they're not happy with where they are, how it's worked out.
It's one thing if someone has done something horrific.
mark normand
Yeah, Cosby.
joe rogan
We can all get behind.
Cosby.
100%.
Cosby's the best example.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Because there's no chance that it was just too many fucking cases.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
It's insanity.
We're talking about like 50 cases.
There was a woman who was a prosecuting attorney who was doing an interview about this, and she goes, I need you to understand that this might be the most prolific serial rapist in history.
mark normand
Crazy.
joe rogan
And she said that, I remember thinking like, what?
unidentified
Wow.
mark normand
The cleanest family guy, I mean sweaters, pull your pants up, is a rapist.
It's insane.
joe rogan
But no one's talking shit about his act.
mark normand
Exactly.
Well, you can't deny it.
It's 40 years of great work.
joe rogan
That's my point.
If you don't like what a person did, okay.
But if you just start saying, well, he was never really talented.
mark normand
Right.
It's strange when people do that.
joe rogan
Bill Cosby?
You don't think he was talented?
mark normand
You're right.
joe rogan
Are you crazy?
mark normand
Well, people get put into this lump, this group, and they go, all bad, no matter what, all bad.
But there's nuance.
You know, like when people go, Trump, and you go, Trump's pretty funny, huh?
And they go, oh my god, how can you say it?
You're like, I just heard a clip.
It was hilarious.
I'm not saying I want to hang out with the guy or I voted for the guy, but I'm just saying that was a funny clip.
joe rogan
Mark Norman on the JRE says, COVID is king and Trump is funny.
mark normand
Just saying, COVID has got a good work ethic.
That's all I'm saying.
It's killing it.
joe rogan
And Trump is funny.
mark normand
He's got some funny lines.
He was talking to Mitt Romney once, and he goes, no, they were interviewing him about Mitt Romney, like, you think he's going to vote for it?
He's got a lot of money.
What do you think?
And he goes, first of all, he doesn't have a lot of money.
And you're like, that's hilarious.
That's what bugged him about that sentence.
And he went right for it.
And it's just, he's a bully from Queens.
And it's fun when you look at it that way.
joe rogan
Yeah, but when he becomes the president, it becomes a bit of a problem.
unidentified
Wow!
mark normand
I'm not saying he's not a psycho.
joe rogan
So is Biden.
They're all psychos.
They're all psychos.
Anybody who wants that job is a psycho.
mark normand
Well, that's for damn sure.
Except for Yang.
joe rogan
Oh, I love Yang.
mark normand
Love the Yang gang.
But yeah, no, I'm with you.
joe rogan
Not everybody wants that job.
I don't think Tulsi Gabbard's a psycho.
I didn't think Bernie Sanders is a psycho.
I don't think Andrew Yang's a psycho.
mark normand
But Bernie's a little kooky.
joe rogan
He's got some kooky ideas, but I was interested in seeing what would happen.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Look, if they did really absolve student debt, there's a lot more happy people in this world.
If they really did figure out a way to use just a small percentage of a penny from every stock exchange transaction and they would use that money for good, that was what he was saying.
When he was describing how they would use, this is where they would get the money to institute national health We're good to go.
mark normand
Yeah, isn't that weird?
joe rogan
Most people in cold climates are douchebags.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
And the hockey and the drinking and the moose.
Yeah, no, you're right.
But no, Canadians are way nicer.
joe rogan
Way nicer.
mark normand
And way smarter, way more educated.
joe rogan
Education's free.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're probably more educated per capita than Americans are.
mark normand
But you know there's more people in California than in all of Canada?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Isn't that wild?
joe rogan
That's nuts, yeah.
And Canada's pretty crowded.
You go to Toronto.
mark normand
The middle is pretty empty.
joe rogan
There's a lot of empty.
mark normand
A lot of empty.
joe rogan
A lot of empty.
You ever seen the border?
mark normand
What do you mean?
joe rogan
You know how we have a fence for Mexico?
With Canada, it's literally the opposite.
They've cut the trees down and made a path.
An enormous path that's like a couple of football fields wide in between Canada and the United States.
You just walk through this nice plowed path and then you're in Canada.
mark normand
That's so Canadian.
I've never seen that.
joe rogan
Get a photo of the line in the woods.
It's literally a line in the woods.
Yeah.
And you walk up there.
Drug smugglers must do it every day.
Look at that.
Look at that line.
mark normand
Oh my god.
How hilarious is that?
It's so welcoming.
joe rogan
That's the border.
It's literally the exact opposite of Mexico.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
It's a fucking welcome.
mark normand
It's negative space.
joe rogan
It doesn't look as wide as I thought it was.
It looks like it's about...
That's not even a football field.
mark normand
It's a beautiful hike.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's not a football...
It looks wide from the fucking sky, though.
mark normand
Oh, you can see it.
joe rogan
Maybe it's wider in other spots.
But I think I had read that it was...
That's it?
mark normand
20 feet's not nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it looked wider when I looked at it before, but maybe it was just because I was looking at...
Like, right there.
mark normand
But are they even guarding that?
Like, I could just pop over.
joe rogan
Take that photo that you have in the right-hand corner, that photo, and make that larger.
There's no way up there that's 20 feet.
That big-ass wide spot?
Oh, maybe it is.
Maybe it's perspective.
mark normand
A great wall, almost.
joe rogan
I think it's just a perspective thing.
I think that hill behind it is closer than you think it is.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
So it's just trees cut down.
They cut down a nice little path.
mark normand
You ever go...
There's a place called Windsor.
It's right above Detroit.
And it's so funny, because you're in Detroit.
There's barrel fires you're getting shot at.
Then you pop right over, and it's like rainbows and lollipops.
joe rogan
I knew a lot of people who came over from Canada and they had to marry people to stay here.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nobody cared.
mark normand
Nobody cared.
joe rogan
Nobody treated them like anchor babies.
Nobody thought it was some sort of fucking scam.
mark normand
No one's ever yelled, these Canadians are taking our jobs.
That's never happened.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of Canadian comics would come over here and they'd have green cards and they'd have to try to figure out how to get a citizenship.
And it would take a long time for some of them.
mark normand
Right.
My friend paid 20 grand or something.
He was like a broke comic.
He had to scrap that together.
We had to write letters for him.
Like, this guy's good.
He deserves to be here.
joe rogan
A lot of people that are born here, you get used to how awesome it is here.
mark normand
But that's the other thing.
Everybody shits on America, but everybody's trying to get here also.
So it's kind of like, well, which one is?
joe rogan
Well, there's things to shit on.
mark normand
Of course.
unidentified
We're not perfect.
joe rogan
There's plenty to shit on about America.
So if you want to concentrate on the negative aspects of America, you've got a lot to choose from.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I get it.
But if you want to think of it in terms of a place where you have opportunity, especially if it's an art form.
Like, if you're trying to be a comedian, there really is no better place in the world than right here.
mark normand
Definitely.
joe rogan
I mean, I know there's a great comedy scene in England.
There's comedy scenes in Australia that's a great scene.
There's lots of scenes, but this is the best scene in the world.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this is where it all started.
mark normand
And we got the best movies.
They all play.
China, you go to China, it's all our shit.
It's like our music, our movies, our TV. There's no Chinese friends.
joe rogan
It's also watered down for China, specifically, from here.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
We were talking about that the other day on the podcast where different things that have happened with China were like, you know, Doctor Strange in the Marvel comics.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
The guy who teaches everything to him is supposed to be from Tibet.
mark normand
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And in the movie, they made it a white woman- Ooh.
With a bald head.
It was like this magic white woman- Interesting.
... who dresses like a monk instead of being from Tibet because China's like, they don't recognize Tibet.
unidentified
Aha.
joe rogan
China and Tibet have issues.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
So to make China happy, they changed how that movie was constructed.
mark normand
Right.
I hear they don't like brown people that much, so they make a lot of the movies just, give us the white superheroes.
joe rogan
Really?
mark normand
That's what I heard.
So they'll shoot a lot of movies because they want to sell it in China, so they'll have a lot of whitey, and people get mad here, but they're like, we just want to make money over there.
joe rogan
We should see how well did Blade do in China.
mark normand
Oh, there you go.
Blade versus Iron Man or something.
joe rogan
It would be, yeah.
Yeah.
Or Black Panther would be the best example because it was recent.
mark normand
That's a good one.
joe rogan
Are they going to have a different Black Panther?
They can't get rid of Black Panther.
jamie vernon
They're not going to replace him.
joe rogan
They'll never replace him?
But what about the Avengers when they have to call on Black Panther?
mark normand
And they redid Superman.
What about the wheelchair guy?
jamie vernon
It says they would not recast him.
joe rogan
What if they...
Oh my god.
I was thinking so gross.
I was like, what if they had another actor do it and they just CGI'd the face?
mark normand
Oh, that's weird.
That's weird.
joe rogan
That is weird.
mark normand
Like they did with De Niro in...
joe rogan
But that just made him younger.
mark normand
He's not dead.
That's true.
He's the same guy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
I think they did with Kevin Spacey, though.
He had a scandal, so they took him out of a movie digitally.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
mark normand
Yeah, that's what I heard.
I forgot the movie, though.
That's right.
joe rogan
I remember that.
Go back and watch House of Cards.
mark normand
Oh, great.
joe rogan
The guy's a fucking savage.
mark normand
I know, right?
joe rogan
He's obviously grabbing some 17-year-old dicks here and again, allegedly.
mark normand
Maybe they're 18, maybe they're 19. When I was a kid, I grabbed all my friends' dicks.
jamie vernon
I think they're just gonna use different characters instead of his character.
They're just gonna write about different people.
The other characters in the movie.
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
In Wakanda.
joe rogan
No, you have to have Black Panther.
He's the fucking hero.
You can't rewrite comic books.
Listen, they've had a bunch of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man is interchangeable.
They've had a bunch of Hulks.
Hulk is interchangeable.
I guess when someone dies on the job, you can't really just replace them.
But they did it with Christopher Reeves, right?
mark normand
They did it with presidents.
joe rogan
But he didn't die on a job.
He wasn't active.
And he also, he got injured really badly after the movies.
mark normand
He died slowly, yeah.
He was already older.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
But Spider-Man seems to be, we have no problem with them swapping Spider-Mans out.
mark normand
We've had a black one, a white one, another white one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, the Into the Spider-Verse, I think, is the best of all the Spider-Man movies.
mark normand
It's pretty amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it's a great example of you can make a film with a lot of diversity, but it just is natural.
mark normand
It didn't matter.
joe rogan
It didn't matter at all.
It felt completely natural.
Versus some movies like Star Trek or Star Wars, rather, when it was all women that were running the show and women generals and everything.
I was like, what is happening here?
mark normand
Right.
When you're making a statement like Ghostbusters, nobody watched it.
It bombed.
But we like Bridesmaids because it was just a funny movie with women in it.
joe rogan
Well, the thing about Ghostbusters 2 is all the men were morons.
mark normand
Morons were evil.
joe rogan
They were the morons like Thor.
Thor was in it.
mark normand
Chris Helmsworth.
joe rogan
He was a moron in the movie.
And then what's his name?
Who else was in it that was bad?
jamie vernon
Which one?
joe rogan
The Girl Ghostbusters.
mark normand
Not Moranis.
No, he was in the original.
And then he got knocked out in New York.
joe rogan
Yeah, isn't that hilarious?
mark normand
What a weird twist.
This guy?
joe rogan
Just some guy walking right up to him.
He's such a tiny little guy.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
The guy just knew he could get off a swing on him.
mark normand
And they caught the guy, I think.
There they are.
joe rogan
Well, it's Bill Murray was in it.
That's who was in it.
Bill Murray was a bad guy.
mark normand
You can't make Bill Murray bad!
joe rogan
Oh, he was a bad guy, and he died.
Spoiler alert.
mark normand
My childhood hero.
joe rogan
They killed him quick.
So he was the hero of the first movie, bad guy in the second movie, and they kill him quick.
jamie vernon
This was supposed to come out this summer and didn't.
joe rogan
Another Ghostbusters?
jamie vernon
Yeah, they're going to redo another one.
joe rogan
With who?
jamie vernon
With everyone that's still around.
mark normand
Oh, no!
joe rogan
Bill Murray again?
But the other guy is...
mark normand
Harold Ramis is dead.
joe rogan
Harold Ramis died.
He was awesome.
mark normand
He was a great writer.
joe rogan
He was awesome.
mark normand
And he was in the ground floor.
I'm talking Caddyshack, Animal House, all that shit.
National Lampoon.
joe rogan
There was an article that I was reading recently.
I'm lying.
Okay, there's an article.
I saw the headline, and I nodded my head in agreement, and I didn't read it.
But it was about, why are there no good comedies since, like, 2010?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Since the woke movement happened.
And I don't think it's true.
There was that one, the Seth Rogen one, that you thought was really funny.
What was that?
jamie vernon
About the kids?
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
The Good Boys?
mark normand
But that's a TV show.
Superbad.
joe rogan
Superbad was, I think, more than 10 years ago.
jamie vernon
Wow!
joe rogan
Maybe not.
Might have been 10. Good Boys is what it's called, yeah, yeah.
Good Boys.
That's pretty good.
jamie vernon
Yeah, it came out in 2019, it says.
joe rogan
What year do you think it was?
mark normand
What, Superbad?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
2011?
joe rogan
What do you think, Jamie?
mark normand
Actually, you're right.
jamie vernon
No, before that.
mark normand
Maybe 08, yeah.
I think it's 09. Apparently he was writing that for like 10 years.
joe rogan
2007. Ah!
jamie vernon
Okay.
joe rogan
That is a great fucking comedy movie.
mark normand
That's funny.
joe rogan
It's gonna be real hard to make a comedy movie with all this woke shit.
And Holiday, or Holiday, Hollywood has gone so all in on wokeness.
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
Like to pull back now for a film.
mark normand
Yeah, I think it's flipping a little slowly.
Because people want to laugh.
And Instagram and all that shit has such funny sketches.
YouTube has such funny shit on it.
And it's all politically incorrect.
It's like a guy cheating on his girlfriend and he jumps out the window and she's like...
And it's very primitive and kind of basic.
joe rogan
But they go viral.
mark normand
They go viral.
Because people want to see that shit.
joe rogan
Or like what Schultz is doing.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
These things he's doing, first of all, it mocks the watered down bullshit monologues that you're seeing on late night television.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
It mocks those.
Because it shows...
Because when late night television...
Got hit with the pandemic and they took away the audience.
And then you get to see how lame these jokes are when it's just a person saying them.
And also, a lot of those guys, unfortunately, don't work with crowds a lot.
So they don't understand that the reason why they're saying it the way they're saying it is only because there's a large group of people in the room.
You have to give a pause because the laughter's killing so hard.
But if you just stand there like a fucking idiot after you say something that's not even that funny and you're waiting...
mark normand
It's brutal.
joe rogan
To say the next thing, and there's just silence.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It seems so strange.
There's no momentum to it.
Well, Schultz figured it out.
And what he did was just fucking hammer.
Joke, joke, joke, joke.
And it's all great writing, and it's like one fucked up punchline after another, and they're mean, and they're vicious, and they're nasty and hilarious.
mark normand
And the people spoke.
It got crazy views.
joe rogan
Crazy views.
mark normand
Better than The Tonight Show.
I mean, who would have thunk this guy who's just a comic is putting on such good work that it gets the platform it needs, and it's bigger than The Tonight Show.
That's such a crazy concept.
joe rogan
Crazy.
mark normand
But he did it.
joe rogan
And it's all self-made.
mark normand
And that's 2020 for you.
joe rogan
And it's all based on merit.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
It's all based on people seeing it.
mark normand
As it should be.
joe rogan
Sharing it.
His friends sharing it.
And then people responding and enjoying it, and then the next one gets more popular, and the next one gets more popular.
He literally, his career was already killing it, but he got into COVID and literally picked up more steam.
mark normand
Right, right.
When everyone else said, hey, put on Netflix and get the takeout.
joe rogan
Yeah, at best, a lot of guys who were just playing stand-ups, they just survived.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, COVID has not been good for anybody.
And a lot of the specials that people have released during COVID have been odd.
It's hard to watch a special where some people have done social distancing specials or...
Burt's doing all his shows, driving, movie theater.
Some people are filming those.
I think Colin.
Didn't Colin film those?
mark normand
And it was pretty good, but it's 90% green room.
So it's fun, because you watch the comics interact more than their actual act, because it just honks and headlights.
joe rogan
That's so weird.
mark normand
So you don't even want to watch the stand-up, because there's no crowd.
But Colin is so good at capturing that off-stage banter bullshit.
And it's like tough crowd almost.
It feels like that.
They're shitting on Voss and Bobby Kelly.
It's fun.
joe rogan
Last time he was here, I was telling him, there's got to be a way to bring that back.
Because it was legitimately one of the greatest shows in the history of comedy.
And it showed.
It was the best example, other than podcasts, of how comics get together and talk shit with each other.
mark normand
But he's so sick of people telling him that.
You've got to bring it back, man.
He's like, I know!
unidentified
I know!
mark normand
I know.
No one will hire me.
Fuck you.
Leave me alone.
But I was glad you did it on a microphone because he had to talk about it.
joe rogan
He could do it himself.
mark normand
Yeah, he won't do it.
joe rogan
People don't have to hire him.
mark normand
He's drinking Diet Coke.
joe rogan
Getting IVs.
mark normand
Yeah, exactly.
He won't do it.
But I would love it.
And it's a whole new crop now.
It'd be great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
How's he doing?
Is he okay?
mark normand
Yeah, he's fine.
He's fine.
He's good to go.
But I'm with you, man.
And this COVID thing, I think it's cleared off a lot of the comedy fluff.
Like, you gotta go.
You weren't really into this.
joe rogan
People that aren't 100% dedicated are not doing rooftop shows.
mark normand
Exactly.
I'm in a fucking park.
joe rogan
Bill Burr was talking to me about doing stand-up in people's fucking backyards.
mark normand
Yeah.
I heard he got heckled by a neighbor, like somebody was yelling out of their house, and he was like, fuck you, you fucking cunt.
I'm trying to do my job here.
I know I'm in a park.
I'm bad.
I'm vulnerable enough.
You got to yell at me.
joe rogan
He was here Saturday night.
I went to see him at a place out in Dripping Springs, which is not that far from here, like a half hour from here.
It was awesome, man.
It was freezing cold, right?
So I'm wearing a fucking warm jacket zipped up to the neck, sitting down, my buddy Todd and Brian Redband, his girlfriend, and my buddy Gino.
And we just watched, like, audience members.
It was amazing.
mark normand
It was great.
That's great.
And it gives you hope for stand-up because you're like, oh, people actually want to see this shit.
Like, people are coming out in the cold.
joe rogan
It gives me hope, too, because of the way Bill Burr does stand-up.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He doesn't give a fuck.
He's throwing bombs.
mark normand
He's one of the best.
And I heard a clip, I think on here, where he was like, I'm going to go to Dallas and shit on...
I'll talk about how I voted for Biden.
Then I'm going to go to Austin and talk about how I voted for Trump.
And people get so mad about that.
I'm like, that's the essence of comedy.
That's what we're doing here.
Why the fuck are we trying to toe the line?
We're supposed to be going against it.
joe rogan
He didn't say vote on, it said shit on.
unidentified
Shit on.
joe rogan
I'm going to go to Dallas and shit on Biden.
I'm going to go here and shit on Trump.
mark normand
That's what it's all about.
joe rogan
He does whatever he wants.
And if you don't want him to shit on something, that's when he's going to find a way to get you to laugh at it.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
He's going to sneak it in on you and you're going to be mad at the end like, God damn it, Phil Berg got me.
mark normand
I know.
I thought that's what we were doing here.
So when people get so angry, you're like, what are you doing?
Why do you have a comedy show?
Why are you trying to take comedy away?
joe rogan
I just thought it was interesting that he went on Saturday Night Live and just did regular stand-up.
mark normand
Oh, that was special.
joe rogan
It was amazing.
mark normand
That was amazing.
joe rogan
It was amazing.
They let him do regular stand-up on Saturday Night Live.
mark normand
But I will say it hurts my soul when I see these queefy crowds going, whoa!
I'm like, this is a comedy show!
It used to be a counterculture.
The opener was George Carlin.
They had Richard Pryor on, Sinead O'Connor ripped the Pope up.
This show used to have some balls, and now it's become this fucking college politics fest.
I hate it.
You gotta say the right thing, you gotta say the right joke, and no punchline, you gotta punch up, and like...
What are we doing here?
Let's express.
Let's have art.
We're in a crazy, tumultuous time, and you want me to fucking stay in line?
joe rogan
Come on.
Well, in their defense, they put him on Saturday Night Live, so it's not that they all want the exact same thing.
They must have known his set.
I'm just talking about that crowd.
But the crowd represents this movement that's happening in young people today.
It's a sign of the times.
And I think ultimately, like we were talking about with the Quentin Tarantino movie, they're going to recognize that this is a style of art.
It's not like these are statements.
mark normand
I hope.
joe rogan
He's saying these fucked up things because they're funny.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
It's not that he really wants this to happen to that person or really wants this guy to die this way or really wants her to choke on a dick.
That's not what he really wants.
mark normand
And I think people just want to bitch.
He got a lot of hate, which I love that Burr is just getting tons and tons of tweets and just kind of not caring.
He's like, I don't care.
I just did my act and I move on.
But I read a bunch of them and they're like, he's a racist.
He's a racist.
You want to be like, his wife's black.
And then they go, ah.
What do you mean, ah?
You got to say, I'm sorry.
I called you a horrible thing.
I was wrong.
But they never do that.
joe rogan
No, they're looking for things where they can dismiss you.
They can say a simple statement, you're that, and then they can dismiss you.
mark normand
But being a racist is such a horrible, ignorant thing, and you just called me that publicly, and then when I prove you wrong, you go, eh, or you don't even respond.
joe rogan
Well, you're talking to people on Twitter.
mark normand
This is a problem.
unidentified
I know, but...
joe rogan
It's a terrible way to communicate with people.
mark normand
It bugs me.
joe rogan
The way to communicate with people is supposed to be one-on-one.
It's the only thing we're designed for.
Even large groups, people get weird.
That's why we allow politicians to speak that way.
They're speaking in this fucking completely disingenuous way to a large group of people.
That's a fucked up way to talk to people.
mark normand
I agree.
unidentified
It's strange.
joe rogan
It was you and a politician alone, and they were talking to you like that.
You would never trust a word they said.
You'd be like, why is this guy talking to me like this?
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Because we're designed for this.
mark normand
Yes, but yeah, face-to-face is lost, and that's really what's big social media thing is that if that guy was in the room, he would never say that to me, or you, or whoever, and it's a bummer.
joe rogan
I did a bunch of Zoom, I've done Zoom podcasts, but I've caught way back on them.
With some people, it's important, like they're older folks, or they're far away, and I can't do it any other way, and I'll take it, because I just want to talk to them.
But it's just not the same.
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
And for comics, it's not going to work.
And for important people, it's going to be the first time I talk to them, I'm like, let's wait.
Let's give it a year.
Let's wait until this fucking shit blows over and you can come in here safely.
mark normand
It's better.
I mean, these Twitter fights.
You know when you're in your car and somebody cuts you off and you're like, I'll fucking kill you, you piece of shit.
I hate you.
I hope your fucking kids die.
I'm going to fuck you until you love me.
And then you pull up at the red light and you're like, oh, hey, what's shaking?
It's all changed.
And that's kind of the same thing when you bump into some guy who's been shitting on you.
joe rogan
Well, at least bumping into them at the red light, you feel protected by your car in the distance.
mark normand
Right, right, yeah.
joe rogan
Meeting them at a bar, face-to-face, that's when things are weird.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
I've had that with guys before.
mark normand
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where I got into it with them, and then I ran into them in real life.
And, you know, it was like...
mark normand
It's all different.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I'm also like, listen, this is unnecessary.
You don't have to talk like that.
It's not a normal way a person would talk to someone if they knew the other person was going to see it.
There's things that people say where they would never say to your face.
Not that they're scared of you or anything, but it's just a shit way to communicate with human beings.
You're giving no consideration whatsoever to how that person is going to receive it, no consideration whatsoever to their feelings, but yet you're pretending you're compassionate.
mark normand
Exactly!
joe rogan
That's what's the most bizarre thing about it.
It's like you found a way, like a little loophole, to be a cunt while also pretending you're the most progressive person alive.
mark normand
I know.
I'm a lefty guy and I get so embarrassed because I'm terrified of the left.
I'm like, you're going to ruin my life!
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm a lefty guy too, but I don't look like one.
That's part of the problem.
mark normand
Yeah, that's a bummer.
People go off looks.
joe rogan
They do.
mark normand
They lie about it, but they do.
joe rogan
They do, for sure.
Yeah, and they also go off what you make fun of.
mark normand
That's the other thing.
I never got that.
Just because I'm joking about a group, why do you go straight to hate?
joe rogan
Yeah, because it's easy and convenient, and it dismisses you.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
It's a thing.
He's a this.
mark normand
Phobe.
joe rogan
He's a that.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
It's ist, racist, homophobic.
joe rogan
It's just lazy people, too.
There's a lot of lazy thinking going on.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you don't want to take the time to think about what's the nuance to this discussion.
What am I missing?
What is really going on here?
And what am I getting out of tweeting mean shit at Mark Norman?
What am I getting out of this?
What am I hoping to accomplish?
Am I waiting for him to respond?
Am I signaling to my friends, I'm attacking Mark Norman.
I'm going to move my fucking pawn.
mark normand
Right, exactly.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what they're doing.
They're playing a little fucking social chess game.
mark normand
I usually don't respond, but every now and then they get that one that just zings you.
And you're like, ooh, that one turned the knife a little.
So fuck you, I can't help it.
joe rogan
That's what they were hoping for.
mark normand
I know, I'm weak.
I'm weak.
Man, remember...
What year did you start comedy?
41?
88. So, like, isn't it amazing that you...
This never came up until, what, seven years ago, six years ago?
joe rogan
Yeah, seven, six, seven years ago.
mark normand
So you had a great ride.
joe rogan
I had a great ride.
But I love comedy as much now as I did when I first started.
Maybe even more.
Oh, there you go.
Like, literally have not lost any enthusiasm for it.
Still enjoy it.
Enjoy it more now because I enjoy it as an...
I like watching as an audience member now, like, purely.
I can enjoy it.
Whereas back then, in the early days, I was too jealous or I wanted to get on stage.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
I wanted to get on stage.
mark normand
But you had such a great career.
What could you be jealous of?
joe rogan
In the beginning.
mark normand
You got TV out of the gate.
joe rogan
I got TV six years in.
mark normand
That's pretty good.
joe rogan
Well, I was on TV before that with MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour and some stuff like that.
mark normand
Oh, even then?
So you already got credits?
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
Oh, you shouldn't have been jealous of anything.
And you were a hot guy back then.
joe rogan
There is no way you're not going to be jealous if you're starting out and you're seeing people that are successful.
It's just part of the game.
mark normand
I guess so.
joe rogan
You see people that are killing it and they're doing HBO specials and you're like, wow.
I remember running into someone that I had seen on HBO and I was a year in and seeing them at a nightclub and I'd be like, wow.
mark normand
Yeah, same.
That's him.
joe rogan
He's right there.
mark normand
Dude, I started in Louisiana.
I remember seeing Theo Vaughn back in the day and he was, I don't know, three years, four years ahead of me and I was like, oh my Somebody's been on MTV! And now I'm like, somebody's on MTV? I spit in their coffee.
I don't give a shit.
But back then it was like, oh my god.
It was 2006 or whatever.
It was unbelievable that he had been on TV and I would tremble going up to talk to him.
He was not a celebrity then, but it was still crazy.
joe rogan
I got to see Richard Jenny when I was an open-miker.
And I sat in the front row of Catch a Rising star in Cambridge, and he was doing stand-up, and it was like a Wednesday night or something like that.
So it wasn't even full.
Back then, even as good as Richard Jenny was, he wasn't selling out every show.
mark normand
Isn't that fucking nuts?
joe rogan
Crazy.
unidentified
Crazy.
mark normand
He's so good.
Never gets brought up, by the way.
joe rogan
I bring him up all the time.
All the time.
I'm trying to get people annoyed with me.
mark normand
Because I'm just Googling him.
joe rogan
He was that good.
You know, I always was a giant fan, but I got on another Richard Jenny kick not that long ago, a couple years back, because I was driving home from, I think it was Irvine, somewhere in Orange County-ish.
mark normand
That's a good club.
joe rogan
And I was driving home, and you know how your Bluetooth will randomly sometimes play a song?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
I had a Richard Jennings album on my phone, and it started randomly playing one of his bits from a steaming pile of me.
And I'm fucking laughing hard while I'm driving.
I'm like, I forgot how good this was.
So I went, and I got the whole album, and I started playing the whole album on my thing.
I listened to it the whole way home.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
I was like, this is incredible.
It was so good.
He's great.
Some of the writing was so tight.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
So many punchlines.
mark normand
I know.
But he was also great visually, too.
He would do huge act-outs and jump on the stool and backflip and all this shit.
So just the fact that you could hear it and still laugh is a great sign.
joe rogan
He was one of the first guys to wear one of them fucking Bobby Brown microphones on stage, too.
He's got his hands free.
mark normand
Yeah, he had the big pants on.
Yeah, he was all over the road.
joe rogan
He had done a lot of Tonight shows and stuff.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He'd done a shitload of them.
So he's used to doing stand-up with no microphone.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Like on television, he did a lot of stand-up with no microphone.
mark normand
Uh-huh.
It kind of makes sense.
I mean, I'll never be the douche with the Madonna headset.
Yeah, because I just hear my high school friends going, who the fuck do you think you are?
You fucking pop star, you know?
So I can never do it.
But it kind of makes sense.
Because look at this.
I'm just holding this stick for an hour.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
You know, and look, some people use it and they hit it on their head and they dangle it or whatever and make a joke out of it, but if you're kind of just free and lose, it makes more sense being a comedian, I think.
joe rogan
It certainly does, but you get so used to having that mic.
mark normand
I know, I know.
joe rogan
And then modulating the sound from pulling the mic forward and back.
mark normand
That's true.
There's a lot there.
joe rogan
Some guys use it a lot.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some guys hit that punchline.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
Hit that punchline.
mark normand
Right.
They eat the mic, go, hey, that shit.
Yeah, so I guess you're right.
You can use it for comedy, but...
joe rogan
Whose fucking cow is it?
You know, like there's that thing that they do, they get right on the mic when they accentuate the punchline.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Damn, I had a thing and I lost it.
joe rogan
I got you with the cow?
mark normand
Yeah, you got me with the damn cow.
I actually, a heckle popped in my head and it ruined my, because I got heckled, I was making a fat joke and this larger lady went, hey, boo!
Or something like that and I went, are you saying boo or moo?
And it Killed!
It was one of those magic moments, you know?
If my mom saw that joke, she'd be like, come on, Mark, how dare you?
But at the time, I just needed it because she came after me.
joe rogan
Oh, boo is the worst.
mark normand
I hate a boo.
What do you say to a boo?
joe rogan
It's so dumb.
It's so like, I am more important than all the other people that are laughing.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
My opinion will now shut this show down.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
That's what she's doing.
Even though other people were enjoying it, she has decided that she's going to call on her stack of coins.
She's got a little stack of coins, identity politics, big woman.
They're female.
I've got female, and I've got sigh shaming, and I've got body shaming.
I've got all these chips, and I'm pushing them in.
mark normand
Yeah, she pushed.
joe rogan
I'm all in.
mark normand
I took those chips, though, with that moo, I'll tell you that.
Yeah, I had a Zoom show the other day, and I was like...
joe rogan
That makes me sad.
mark normand
It was literally 400 audience members, which is pretty good.
So it paid well.
That's weird.
That's why I did it.
And I was like, all right.
joe rogan
Do you hear him laugh?
unidentified
Huh?
Do you hear him laugh?
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
So it was pretty good.
joe rogan
Where are you standing?
mark normand
I just did it on my laptop like an idiot.
I'm sitting in an office chair going, Uber, huh?
You know?
Yeah.
But I was making sure, because I've bombed so many of these corporate-type gigs where they've got to be clean, and you've got to say this, and not talk about sex.
So I made sure, like, is there anything I can't say?
Just tell me now, because I'm doing a half hour, which is a lot to do into a laptop.
And he was like, you can say anything.
Go nuts.
And I go, all right.
And my second joke, I heard an older lady going, no, no, no.
Cut him off!
Cut him off!
And I was like, oh, they said I could do anything.
I'm sorry.
And I couldn't see who it was because there's so many little squares.
And they shut her off.
They muted her.
And I was like, oh, this is the only time Zoom has been good.
You know?
Because you can't mute an audience member.
So they muted her.
joe rogan
They get to laugh so they can also, they can heckle.
mark normand
I guess so, yeah.
And she heckled.
joe rogan
This is the beginning.
This is the beginning of some sort of virtual reality comedy that they're going to do, where your avatar will be there.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
But yeah, you say, ooh, but if it gets to the point where every time you go outside, you risk dying, but you could strap on this fucking Ready Player One headset and be there in front of this audience sitting down.
mark normand
Not gonna happen.
joe rogan
And then people would be sitting there as their avatars, though, so every girl would be hot as fuck.
mark normand
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
That's where feminism's gonna go out the window.
If you have an avatar, and through your avatar you can be anything you want, I guarantee you no one's gonna be a big fatty.
mark normand
Yeah, interesting.
I thought it was beautiful.
What happened?
joe rogan
You're not going to.
If you have your choice, like, my choice is not to be who I am.
This is unfortunate.
I'm big boned.
I have a slow metabolism.
I have a food allergy.
I have this and that.
My thyroid's got a lot of insulin.
All these problems, right?
But if that was just all you could do is choose your character, and that is indistinguishable.
From real life.
Like, you would be some smokin' hot woman.
mark normand
It's true.
joe rogan
They're all gonna take it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everyone's gonna take it.
mark normand
We would do it, too.
We'd be tall guys with a huge dong.
unidentified
You'd be Thor.
mark normand
Full head of hair, yeah.
joe rogan
Full crowd full of Thors.
mark normand
Yeah, you're right.
Which would actually make beauty less important.
Because if we're all beautiful, it doesn't carry as much weight.
joe rogan
It wouldn't work anymore.
mark normand
No pun intended with the fact.
unidentified
But yeah.
mark normand
You know, but it wouldn't actually be that exciting.
You need the rain to get the sun.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yes.
That would be a curse.
mark normand
It would be a curse.
joe rogan
If everyone was sexually attractive, then there would be no...
If everyone was that perfect, there would be no uniqueness in seeing someone who's that perfect.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Like, if you're around a lot of regular people, and then some, like, Tara Patrick in her prime walks in the room, and everybody's like, holy...
mark normand
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
That's what that's from.
But if you walk into a room full of people that look exactly like that, and it's every day, it's normal, then it's not unique.
mark normand
It's not unique and it's not fun.
I mean, that whole, we are beautiful and every...
It's not true because then it's not beauty.
You're ruining the definition of it.
joe rogan
You're a beautiful soul, but the visual beauty is a tyranny and people don't like it.
They don't like that it's not evenly distributed.
They don't like that you can't earn it.
They don't like that it's just...
What's more valued than anything when it comes to the way men treat women is their looks.
mark normand
And women!
Women like Kim Kardashian.
They don't like Susan Boyle.
Susan Boyle's way more talented.
joe rogan
Good point.
But this roll of the dice, they don't like the fact that this roll of the dice determines whether or not you have the greatest gift.
In terms of the way people treat you, if you are a woman and you are stunning and just a physical specimen, and you're in a room filled with men, those men are going to be stumbling over themselves to help you, and you're going to be telling terrible, boring stories, and they're going to pretend like they're awesome, like we were talking about earlier.
mark normand
Sounds like a great cat!
That was my impression of the guy, listening to her.
But yeah, no, you're completely right.
But it's true.
It's just human nature, and we can bitch and moan about it all day, but it's biological.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
If you had the choice, if we entered into a virtual world and you had to press that button, it could be anything you wanted.
You're not going to decide to be someone who looks like you.
You're not going to decide to be uncomfortable in your own skin.
You're not going to decide to be someone who feels really bad when they have to sit in the middle seat because they ooze over into the two seats next to them.
You're not going to be that person.
mark normand
And what's interesting about people is when they're the victim, when they're the loser, when they win, they tend to act the same way that shitty people were towards them.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
They're bullies.
mark normand
Yeah, they turn into bullies.
And you're like, isn't this what you kind of hated?
But now that you have the power, you're a cunt.
You know what I never got?
You see these underwear ads for plus-size women?
These are real women.
That's what they always say.
These are real women.
It's always like heavyset ladies.
And you're like, so skinny women aren't real women?
So you're now being inclusive because you're allowed to be.
joe rogan
Right.
mark normand
But if a skinny chick goes, we're real women, those are fucking cows, then they'll get sued.
But you can do it the other way.
Isn't that interesting?
joe rogan
It's weird.
It's weird.
They're giving themselves a pat on the back.
They're asking for chips.
mark normand
And we all go, look, they're gross, let them have it.
joe rogan
You want a stack of coins.
I'll take you a stack of coins for being big and I'm beautiful.
I'm big but I'm beautiful.
Look at my coins.
mark normand
There they are.
Just like a casino, if I give you money, you'll probably lose it faster than if you have to earn your own money at Blackjack.
joe rogan
But if you've got someone like Taylor Swift, look at Taylor Swift's body.
That's just how she's built.
She's this long, thin girl.
That's just who she is.
She doesn't look like she's starving herself to death.
She's just like Calista Flockhart.
Do you remember her?
mark normand
Oh, duo.
joe rogan
Tiny, skinny woman.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Is she real?
She seems like a real woman.
mark normand
Oh, yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
She seems real.
mark normand
She's a person.
joe rogan
Different body types, right?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, there's Ralphie Mae and there's Chris Rock.
Is Chris Rock not a real man?
mark normand
No, I get it.
unidentified
He's a man.
joe rogan
That would be the dumbest statement anybody could say.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
Ralphie Mae's a real man.
mark normand
That's my point.
joe rogan
No, he's a man as well.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
But so is Chris Rock.
mark normand
But they can say it because they're the quote-unquote victim or loser or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But it's this weird thing that only works with one gender.
Isn't that weird?
Yeah.
It's very strange because so much weight has been put on females looking beautiful.
There's been weight put on men looking good, but men have this weird out clause where you see disgusting fat men with hot women if the fat man is rich.
unidentified
Right.
mark normand
Well, men are lucky in that regard that women will fuck us based on skill or worth.
joe rogan
Status.
mark normand
Status, yeah.
We're lucky.
We're very lucky in that way.
joe rogan
There are those guys that do fuck women based on status.
mark normand
Totally.
joe rogan
Those dudes live a sad life.
mark normand
It's a tough life because you're just constantly having to keep that status going or keep that career going, whatever it is, just to get laid.
joe rogan
Also, we all know.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
We know.
mark normand
But some dudes seem fine with it.
Like, yeah, like the 90,000-year-old guy who's fucking Aunt Nicole Smith.
We know she's not into him, but we all go, eh, you know.
He's like, who's the joke on?
I'm decrepit, and I'm getting plowed by this skank.
So he's like, yeah, I know that she's not actually in love with me, but hey, she's a piece.
joe rogan
But there's the opposite.
I'm talking about the man who is batting under his average for a gross woman.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Because the gross woman has some sort of financial...
mark normand
Oh, is that a thing?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
mark normand
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I've seen it.
I've seen it.
mark normand
Because he just wants the money.
joe rogan
Rich woman with a boy toy.
mark normand
That's a sad dude there.
joe rogan
Sad dude.
mark normand
Yeah, that's like, A, you couldn't get your own worth.
joe rogan
Exactly.
mark normand
And you're willing to bang this weirdo.
joe rogan
It's sad for women.
If a woman is in a good relationship and she sees a girl who's a gold digger, who's married to some big fatso, she's like, oh, poor girl.
I know your value, honey.
You deserve more than this.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
But that's the biggest misconception, is that it's all men.
And look, a lot of it, we're shallow, we're pigs, but like, women are so shallow to other women.
It's like a hot girl walks in, your girlfriend's now pissed, and you're like, why?
She could be nice.
Like, I don't like her.
Like, what if you don't like her?
You don't even met her.
Ah, she's got huge tits, and they're out, I don't like her.
And you're like, alright.
And like...
But look at men.
They don't like the way it makes them feel.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
It makes them feel like this girl's going to get all the attention.
I remember one of my wife's friends had a wedding, and one of the guests brought a girl.
It might not have been my wife's friend.
I'm trying to remember now.
But one of the girls brought a guest...
One of the guests, rather, like a male guest, brought a date, and the date was smoking hot and had a low-cut blouse and a tight skirt, and she was fucking furious.
mark normand
Ah, yeah.
joe rogan
I remember this conversation.
I'd be like, why does she give a fuck?
Because it's her big day.
It's her big day.
mark normand
Right, now the attention.
joe rogan
This girl was getting all the attention.
Could you imagine that?
mark normand
Yeah, that's crazy.
joe rogan
Weird, right?
mark normand
I mean, but you, you're, I'm an insecure guy.
I see like a tall, hunky, hot guy.
And I don't hate the guy, but I just take it in.
I go, ah, I wish I was, looked like that.
joe rogan
Take solace in the fact that those guys are almost never funny.
mark normand
That's true.
Good point.
joe rogan
They're like a hot woman.
Right.
They're so rare that everyone's stumbling over themselves to get to them, so the guy never developed a sense of humor.
Now, that's not absolute.
mark normand
There's exceptions.
joe rogan
There, I'm sure, are good-looking, tall, handsome, Thor-looking dudes who are hilarious.
mark normand
Right.
It's rare.
joe rogan
I never met one, but I heard they're out there.
They're like Bigfoot.
You just gotta go finding them.
mark normand
Well, that's what seems so appealing about Brad Pitt.
He's like this tall, good-looking guy.
He's like the poster boy for a hot guy.
And I was watching Jackass one time, and some guy was in a chicken costume, and he was in a shopping cart, and the shopping cart hit a speed bump.
He flew out.
The helmet came off or the mask came off.
It was Brad Pitt.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
mark normand
Pull that up, J-Mo.
It's amazing.
This fucking hunk is hanging out with these dirtbags, and he's in a fucking shopping cart like the rest of them.
What year was this?
Late 90s, I'm sure.
jamie vernon
Very early jackass.
They did a kidnapping on the streets of Hollywood.
joe rogan
What year was this?
So he was already a movie star.
mark normand
He was huge, yeah.
joe rogan
So he was already a movie star, and he got kidnapped.
mark normand
So this is clearly set up, obviously.
jamie vernon
I think he's at Pink's right there, I think.
unidentified
Oh, he's at Pink's.
joe rogan
Is that what it is, the big line?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
mark normand
I mean, look at the guy.
He's beautiful.
And then...
joe rogan
He's cutting the line.
They should have kidnapped him.
jamie vernon
Maybe he'll just stand there for a while.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He cut the line.
jamie vernon
They cut the video.
joe rogan
They should put him in jail.
mark normand
But, yeah.
joe rogan
That line at Pink's is the dumbest line that's ever existed.
mark normand
It's a fucking hot dog.
joe rogan
It's not even a good hot dog.
mark normand
Oh, really?
joe rogan
It's a regular hot dog.
jamie vernon
Oof.
joe rogan
It's not like...
jamie vernon
They're yelling at him.
joe rogan
Yeah, they grab him and they pick him up.
mark normand
And he's fucking with it.
He's going with it.
He's committing to the bit.
You gotta love this guy.
joe rogan
No one helps at all.
They don't give a fuck.
mark normand
Oh, one guy.
The manager.
joe rogan
He half-assed it.
He half-assed it.
mark normand
Oh, we gotta chase.
This is pre-cell phone camera too.
joe rogan
No, they got a phone.
Got a flip phone.
mark normand
He's got a flip.
Alright, they're all talking.
They're on the horn at least.
joe rogan
There's the people that didn't sign the waiver.
There's the guy who did sign the waiver.
You see their blurred out faces, the guys who wouldn't sign the waiver.
mark normand
Wait!
But yeah, at one point he's in a shopping cart, I swear to God.
joe rogan
Listen, it's totally possible.
It's totally possible to be...
You know who's got a great sense of humor?
Chris Pratt?
mark normand
Yeah, he's another one.
joe rogan
He's a hunk.
mark normand
He's a hunk, but he was a fat guy.
joe rogan
But he was a fat guy for a while.
mark normand
Exactly.
It all checks out, baby.
Fat guys are funny.
joe rogan
That's what you want.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fat guy who gets his shit together.
mark normand
Like, you could even say Jim Carrey was a handsome guy.
joe rogan
He was a handsome guy.
mark normand
But he was homeless as a kid.
unidentified
Oh.
mark normand
And that'll fuck you up.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
mark normand
He lived in a van with his dad or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
That's some deep need.
mark normand
Norm MacDonald at one point was a handsome guy, but he lived on a farm with his grandpa in the middle of nowhere, so I don't think he got the handsome love.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a fucking great guy.
mark normand
He's my hero.
joe rogan
I love him to death.
mark normand
Maybe one of the funniest guys on the planet.
Dave Attell, Norm, and that...
There's something about those two.
joe rogan
National Treasures.
mark normand
I agree.
And the fact that he's not, like, the biggest comic of all time is weird.
joe rogan
Well, he is to us.
mark normand
I guess so.
joe rogan
To comics.
I mean, he's not the biggest, but the comics he's on...
The Mount Rushmore keeps getting bigger.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
Four heads is not a good enough mount.
mark normand
You gotta stop using that thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a bad thing to say, the Mount Rushmore, but in the Hall of Fame.
mark normand
Hall of Fame.
joe rogan
That's the thing.
mark normand
There you go, yeah.
joe rogan
He's in the Hall of Fame.
mark normand
He's like on another level where he's invented certain things I never knew.
He's taking comedy to this higher point, which I didn't know existed.
Hmm.
I wish I could come up with an example.
joe rogan
Well, he's another guy, too, that still does real comedy.
When he goes on stage, he's fucking ballsy.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He swings.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And he gets confused if everybody's mad.
Like, what's happening?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just a joke, folks.
mark normand
He keeps it real.
you don't have to pull this up because it's long, but there was a radio show, like a morning show, like you have to do on the road for press, and he's doing one, and he's like, well, you know, black people, they're poor.
And the lady is like, oh my God, how can you say that, Norm?
That is so race.
He's like, I'm reading the newspaper.
I'm watching the news.
I'm looking at the stats.
They're poor.
And she's like, oh my God.
And all these black women call in.
They go, Norm's right.
We're fucking poor.
It sucks.
And he's like, you see?
You see?
It was such a great moment.
joe rogan
What radio show was that?
mark normand
It's on YouTube.
I don't know.
It's just some dickless and jizz in the morning, you know, one of those things.
joe rogan
People don't like him doing things.
When he was doing his Netflix show, someone specifically did not want him doing interviews because he got on the Howard Stern show and he wanted to say, well, if you think that way, you're fucking retarded.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
But he didn't want to be offensive.
So, well, you think that, you must have Down syndrome.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He thought that would be the better thing to say.
mark normand
I guess it is.
joe rogan
I'm not sure.
Everybody started freaking out that he said that.
Instead, he thought he was covering his tracks.
mark normand
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
And so he couldn't do interviews after that.
mark normand
Yeah, he's brilliant.
I mean, the little things.
He's just one of those guys who describes the most basic shit that we all know, but it's funny because he points it out.
His Letterman set, the last Letterman, when he goes...
Yeah, yeah, Germany decided to attack the world, you know, and you're like, that's so true!
And then he goes, who do you think you are, Mars?
I mean, it's just so funny, those little things where he's just telling you facts and it's funny.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he's a unique dude.
There's a lot of unique people in this weird art form.
mark normand
Have you hung out with him?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
I've never hung out with him.
joe rogan
I hung out with him twice accidentally on two separate occasions.
mark normand
The airplane.
joe rogan
I told you about it, right?
mark normand
I heard they are the one of them and he's smoking.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
Smoking as soon as he landed.
He was talking about how great it was to quit smoking.
As soon as he landed, he ran into the gift shop and bought cigarettes and was lighting them before he was on his way out the door.
I go, I thought you quit.
He goes, I did.
Talking about it.
I wanted to smoke.
mark normand
Yeah, he just does what he wants, it feels like.
joe rogan
But randomly, on two occasions, I just was sitting next to him on a plane.
mark normand
Wow, that's so weird.
joe rogan
One time I was sitting right behind Richard Jenny, right before he died.
Right before he died.
mark normand
Did he say hello?
joe rogan
It was from here, from Austin, Texas.
He was in Austin doing...
Yeah, I said hello.
He was in Austin doing a corporate gig, and I was at Cap City.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
And we were on a plane.
I'm pretty sure it was Austin.
We were on a plane together at the same time, and I got to talk to him.
It wasn't like a year or so maybe before he died.
I can't remember exactly, but it was enough that I remember thinking, fuck, why didn't I talk more to him?
Right.
mark normand
How could you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, I only had a couple of conversations with him ever.
He's always such an awkward guy.
mark normand
I met Carlin once, and that was pretty big for me.
I went to a book signing, and I was in line.
It was at a Borders Books on Wall Street in Manhattan, and all these people were going up, I loved you in Jersey, girl.
You were great in Dogma.
And I'm like, oh, these people don't get it.
They're not real comedy fans.
And then I went up, and I just unloaded on them.
And I had all these books in my hand.
I was like, I love this bit, and that joke, and that special is one of your best things ever.
And he was like, are you a comic?
I go, yeah.
He goes, you sound like a comic.
And I go, really?
He goes, yeah, you got a real talent for jacking around.
And I don't know what that means, but my friends were watching.
They hit the floor, I hit the floor, we got a photo, and that was it.
joe rogan
You got a real talent for jacking around.
I met him at the back alleyway of the store.
mark normand
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was doing sets there.
And this is like 2000...
I want to say it's like three or four, somewhere around then, and he was working out material.
Damn.
Super friendly, man.
Real friendly.
Hung around like was normal.
mark normand
Normal guy.
joe rogan
Walked right through the crowd like normal.
Said hi to everybody like other comics.
Said hi to door guys.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's like, hey, how are you?
How are you?
I go, what's up, man?
He goes, hey, how you doing?
Walked right through.
mark normand
There you go.
Good comics are normal.
Seinfeld, normal guy.
joe rogan
I think at least you've got to be able to hang.
I think the hang is a part of the diet.
We were talking about you can eat those MRE meals and survive.
You can be on your own and still be funny and survive, but Jenny was a guy that didn't really hang around with a lot of guys.
mark normand
That's true.
joe rogan
Those guys that don't hang around with other comics or don't like to.
Some comics, as weird as it is, they go on stage and they perform in front of all these people.
They're kind of introverts.
mark normand
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
I've got a lot of that where I have to force myself.
It's almost like going to the gym.
I'll see a table at the cellar of all these great comics and I'm like, my first instinct is to not go.
I don't want to go over there, but then I go, ah, just go, and then it's always great.
joe rogan
What I was saying about the Chappelle shows is that doing these shows out here and, you know, we're hanging out Michelle Wolf's there and Donnell Rawlings and fucking Tony Hinchcliffe.
And there's all these people we're hanging out with and we're having so much fun.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like just comics talking shit.
Nothing better.
All like piling on each other and laughing and goofing on things and.
It's so, like, fulfilling.
Like, I feel, after it's over, like, that's what I was missing.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I was missing those shit talk sessions.
mark normand
Completely.
joe rogan
With people who don't...
They're not gonna get offended by anything.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Like, they're just swinging haymakers at each other.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And everybody's laughing.
mark normand
I know.
And then you get these fans...
You ever have these, like, people who like your act and they go, Hey, you're coming to Austin...
Let's get a sandwich.
We'll bullshit.
I'm like, what are you kidding?
That's work.
That's the last thing I want to do is listen to you about your family and your job.
I want to go talk to Wolf and chop it up.
joe rogan
They don't know any better.
mark normand
I guess so.
I guess so.
joe rogan
They're just comics.
They're just comics.
They're just fans, rather.
They just want to get to know you.
mark normand
But that's the cool thing about comedy is like, okay, Mick Jagger.
You could say the biggest musician alive, maybe, or Paul McCartney.
If you're a barroom guitar act, you're never going to meet Mick Jagger.
But I have met Carlin, you've met Jenny.
Isn't that cool that comedy, the A to B is so much closer?
joe rogan
Man, I met Hicks when I was a literal open-miker.
I'd been doing comedy like twice.
mark normand
What's he like?
joe rogan
I didn't get to talk to him.
I was in his presence, I should say, more than I met him.
He was right there.
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
I was like, hey, what's up?
unidentified
What's up?
joe rogan
I didn't meet him and talk to him.
mark normand
I met you at the Ryman years ago, and you were a big name, obviously.
It was all sold out, but I feel like you've escalated to another stratosphere.
But I remember being like, oh, I met Rogan.
That was cool.
But I didn't get much out of you.
And I was like, damn it.
But that's the breaks.
It's not always going to be a headlock and a noogie and a diner hang until three in the morning.
joe rogan
It's risky.
mark normand
It's risky.
joe rogan
You've got to take a chance when you let a comic into the fold.
mark normand
Of course.
joe rogan
Where was it where we were hanging out and we hung out in a fucking hotel lobby with a couple other comics?
mark normand
Atlanta.
joe rogan
Like five in the morning or something ridiculous.
mark normand
We were pretty sloppy in Atlanta with Santino.
joe rogan
That's right.
mark normand
Yeah, that was a great hang.
joe rogan
That was a great hang.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was a lot of fun.
That was a great comic hang.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
Just comics, sitting around, talking shit.
mark normand
Yeah.
There's that two seconds of like, hey, how you doing?
Nice to meet you.
And then, hey, you ever seen that one Leno bit or whatever?
And then you're off and running.
joe rogan
Well, once we started talking about comedy and joke writing and that kind of shit and talking about the dedication, I go, oh, he's for real.
unidentified
I can tell.
joe rogan
Because it's hard to know.
You don't know.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
He's a poser.
joe rogan
Sometimes you get guys that laugh at shit that's not really funny and they're just trying to get closer and closer and just want to work their way in.
mark normand
That's weird.
That must be how a lady feels all the time.
joe rogan
All day.
mark normand
It's gotta be a nightmare.
joe rogan
That's how most of them feel.
That's why they think guys are douchebags.
Because most of them are just trying to slip their stinky little hog into their body.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Imagine, everywhere you go, someone wants to slip their stupid little dong into your beautiful, pristine, unvarnished snatch.
mark normand
Beautiful gash.
But here's the thing.
Every now and then, a lady wants you to be that guy.
Isn't that weird?
That's the weird sexual dance.
joe rogan
They want you to be that guy if you're hot.
mark normand
I know, but...
joe rogan
But if you look like Thor and you're that guy, sometimes they like it.
mark normand
But how many ladies have you seen and you're like, she's with that guy?
Because she saw something in him, something resonates, something clicks, and you're like, maybe I could be that guy.
joe rogan
Well, there's some guys that like bitchy women.
There's some guys that like women that tell them what to do.
They enjoy it.
They always wind up finding that girl who yells at them and tells them what to do.
They get off on it.
mark normand
That's a nightmare.
joe rogan
It's weird.
mark normand
Yeah, that's a horrible kink to have.
But it's almost like, you know, you meet that girl, she's like, I keep dating alcoholics.
And you're like, well, yeah, your dad was a drunk, you know, which is in you.
unidentified
Oh.
mark normand
It's like familiarity, and you just go towards it.
joe rogan
Or the opposite.
Either you gravitate towards it, or you run from it with every fiber of your being.
mark normand
Right, like the dad who hates black people, and she's on black.com now.
She went the other way.
joe rogan
She's like, I'll show you, piece of shit.
Look where I am now.
mark normand
Do you go with the interracial porn?
joe rogan
I like to pretend it's me, so that's hard to do.
mark normand
Oh, good point.
joe rogan
It's harder to do.
mark normand
Good point, yeah, when it's some 6'5 stallion.
joe rogan
With a giant dong.
mark normand
I mean, black people have to be at least thankful for the dong.
I mean, there's a lot of other stuff.
joe rogan
They don't all get it, but imagine being a black guy that doesn't have one.
mark normand
That's gotta be tough.
joe rogan
That's rude.
mark normand
That's brutal.
joe rogan
That's gotta be the worst.
Like, they expect it?
mark normand
It's like a dumb Asian.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
How dare you?
mark normand
Well, I'm saying most Asians are smart, so being dumb...
joe rogan
Isn't it funny, though, that that's almost racist?
mark normand
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
To say that?
mark normand
Same with the Jewish, though.
Like, hey, they're great at business.
joe rogan
Oh, you piece of shit.
mark normand
I know, but it's a compliment.
joe rogan
I remember I was at a show once when I was, I don't know how long in a comedy, not very long, and I did a college, and someone...
I was doing like a little Q&A with the audience.
I did my hour, and then I was doing a little Q&A, and someone said, do you know any joke jokes?
I think.
I think that was how it started out.
Where are you going?
Where are you going, Jamie?
Going to pee?
Bring us back some whiskey.
mark normand
Oh, and two glasses.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Two shows tonight.
joe rogan
I go, they go, you know, tell us a joke joke.
I go, I know one.
Two Jews walking to a bar.
They buy it.
Not a good joke.
Terrible joke.
unidentified
I like it.
joe rogan
This guy came up to me after the show, and he was real timid about it, but he felt like he had a shot.
And he goes, I was actually offended by that joke.
Oh, boy.
Legitimately.
We're talking like 1991?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
92?
mark normand
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I go, you were offended.
I go, it's a joke about being good at business.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's offensive?
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
It's a stereotype.
I go, it's a stereotype about Jews being good at business.
Two Jews walk into a bar, they buy it.
There is nothing offensive about that.
mark normand
If I was a Jew, I'd high-five my Hebrew brethren.
joe rogan
There's nothing detrimental.
There's nothing derogatory.
There's nothing negative.
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
How is that offensive?
Who's looking to be offended?
mark normand
That's what it is.
And that was pre-Twitter.
unidentified
Wait!
joe rogan
That guy must be the biggest social justice warrior of all time now.
Now he's the king.
Now he's probably a professor somewhere.
mark normand
This is why Seinfeld's a badass.
He's a big hebe.
And I had this joke where I say, I met my girl on that Jewish app.
What's that Jewish app?
PayPal.
Got a big laugh.
It was a bulletproof bit.
Never bombed.
But I was considering changing it to Venmo.
I was like, maybe Venmo is more modern or whatever.
And Seinfeld in the green room goes, keep it as PayPal because it's got the word pay in it.
And I was like, Yeah!
And this is a big, you know, this is the King Jew saying this shit.
And that's why he's a more comic than Jew.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Venmo makes you think.
What is that?
mark normand
You pay money?
Right, right.
PayPal is...
joe rogan
Yeah, like, my mom probably has no idea what the fuck Venmo is.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
But she knows what PayPal is.
mark normand
There you go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Invented by Elon Musk.
joe rogan
Yes.
mark normand
Who's about to be your neighbor.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's moving out here.
Gave up.
Gave up.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Well, you know, California.
Tired of this bullshit.
It's had its run.
It was great.
California Dreamin', Beach Boys, good times, but it feels like everybody's getting hip to it.
joe rogan
Now it's all tents and U-Hauls.
mark normand
That's a great meme.
Gavin Newsom was like the best thing that ever happened to U-Haul.
joe rogan
Oh, he really is.
Yeah.
Him and fucking de Blasio.
mark normand
Well, he's got a vineyard open.
He's going to restaurants.
Like, the hypocrisy is bananas.
joe rogan
Did you see what happened with the mayor of Austin?
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
Told people, now's not the time to relax.
We gotta buckle down.
While he was in Cabo partying.
mark normand
No way!
joe rogan
He made the film.
He made the actual film.
Jamie Brink brought us two half bottles.
We have a whole case of this Austin Still stuff.
It's alright.
No, we don't need more.
mark normand
We're good, we're good, we're good.
joe rogan
I'm just fucking around.
I'm gonna give you this.
Come on, we're drinking the same things.
mark normand
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
And when we're done with that, we'll have this.
mark normand
Alright.
joe rogan
What time are your shows tonight?
mark normand
Six and nine.
joe rogan
Six and nine.
Oh, it's perfect.
mark normand
I'll just slide right into it.
joe rogan
Dude, you're perfect.
mark normand
And the show's pretty close to here.
joe rogan
We're going to need more.
I'm going to have to mix whiskeys.
mark normand
You want to mix?
joe rogan
Yeah, let's mix them.
No, we'll get it later.
mark normand
And we get to honestly say, hey, we did the show and we killed two bottles of whiskey.
joe rogan
Yeah, we killed them.
Yeah, I mean, they were already dying.
mark normand
Hey, Mazel Tov.
Happy Hanukkah.
joe rogan
Is that today?
Yes.
mark normand
Is it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Oh boy.
joe rogan
First day of Hanukkah.
mark normand
Look at that.
joe rogan
Hey!
mark normand
Weird how Jew is a religion and they...
By the way, Jews get no street cred, I feel like, for how much they were, you know, tortured and whatnot.
Or, you know, burned in ovens and all that shit.
joe rogan
You don't think they get street cred for that?
mark normand
No!
I think people are like, ah, you're Jewish, you're fine, you own the weather, you're killing it, you know?
joe rogan
You own the weather!
mark normand
And how?
But, like, every other group is like, you know, gets a lot of, you know, sympathy.
But I don't feel like Jews get it.
joe rogan
There's a weird ability for some people to accept anti-Semitism when they would never accept any other kind of...
mark normand
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
They would never accept any other kind of discrimination.
mark normand
Right, right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Some people that are weird conspiracy theorists, that's one sign that you're going down a dark road and you start blaming things on the Jews.
mark normand
Oh yeah, red flag.
joe rogan
It's one of the signs.
mark normand
It's clockwork every time.
joe rogan
It seems like a little schizophrenic-y too.
When people go schizophrenic, they oftentimes start blaming things on Jews.
mark normand
Yeah.
And it's the weirdest group to hate because you can't spot them.
If you hate black or Asian, you're like, alright, I got one there, I got one there.
But Jew, you're like, what's your last name?
joe rogan
For the ones that are conspiratorially bent, they start thinking about Hollywood and Hollywood controlling the media.
And then they start thinking, the Jews are pulling the strings.
They're pulling the strings.
mark normand
I know.
But there's a ton of anti-Semitic statues.
Like Walt Disney or Roald Dahl.
joe rogan
Was Walt Disney anti-Semitic?
mark normand
That's the rumor!
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Imagine a Robert E. Lee land.
joe rogan
I feel like when you say that, you should probably have some actual things to pull.
You know what I'm saying?
mark normand
He's dead.
joe rogan
But if you wanted to say to me, you know, about Al Capone ran organized crime.
mark normand
Syphilis.
joe rogan
Are you sure?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, he did.
He was a mob boss.
Like, I could tell you what I know about Al Capone and him being a mob boss.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
What can you tell me about Walt Disney?
mark normand
I have a lot of Jewish friends and they talk about it.
joe rogan
Right.
mark normand
And I feel like they would know.
joe rogan
I feel like they would probably know more than you, but I feel like if you're going to say it, that's a big thing to say.
mark normand
Sure, sure.
joe rogan
Didn't we get done talking about calling people racist and you don't really have a good example for it?
mark normand
You got a point.
You got a point.
joe rogan
Let's find out.
mark normand
I'm saying I've heard he was an anti-Semite.
I'm not saying he is.
joe rogan
Did you hear it from whiny Jews?
unidentified
Ha ha!
joe rogan
I can't say that either.
They don't exist.
There are no whiny Jews.
mark normand
But nobody wants to hear what stereotypes have to come from somewhere.
joe rogan
I'm Italian.
I'll tell you about all the stereotypes from Italians.
mark normand
They're loud.
joe rogan
Most of it's true.
mark normand
They force food on you.
They hit their wives.
All true.
joe rogan
They're all linked up with the mob.
mark normand
Yeah.
I'm half Italian and I don't give a shit.
joe rogan
My grandmother went to jail.
mark normand
Oh yeah?
joe rogan
My grandmother went to jail for running numbers.
mark normand
What?
unidentified
Yes.
mark normand
How cool is that?
joe rogan
It's weird.
I didn't find out until I was an adult.
When I was a little kid, I knew she had disappeared for a little while.
I didn't know what was going on.
We'd always like, where's grandma?
Oh, she's at her aunt.
She's at Aunt Mary's.
unidentified
Whoa.
mark normand
The idea of a grandma in the clink is so crazy.
joe rogan
And she was knitting sweaters for the guards.
Like, literally.
Old Italian lady.
mark normand
Was it, like, Guinea jail?
Like, mob jail?
Like, on Goodfellas where they're eating lobster and drinking Cuddy Sark?
joe rogan
I don't know.
You know, my grandmother got very sick.
She had an aneurysm when I was, like...
I was young.
I think I was...
I might have been in like my pre-teens or maybe early teens.
It was something like that.
But she was supposed to die.
They gave her like 72 hours.
And she lived for 12 years.
mark normand
Wow!
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was a long, slow process of leaving this earth.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so I didn't get to talk to her much as an adult.
Most of it was as a young boy, and I was kind of scared of her.
She was a scary lady.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
She would yell all the time.
She had a monkey.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
She had a monkey.
Yeah, she had a monkey named Chi-Chi.
Chi-Chi lived in the attic, and he would bite people.
But Chi-Chi...
mark normand
This is terrifying.
joe rogan
She didn't keep Chi-Chi in the attic because Chi-Chi only liked her.
She shouldn't have had a fucking monkey, man.
mark normand
No.
joe rogan
You're not supposed to have monkeys.
mark normand
So is it shitting up there and everything?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Again, I was a little kid.
mark normand
Imagine hearing that.
joe rogan
I think the monkey bit my cousin.
I'm trying to remember.
mark normand
That sounds like a comedy album.
unidentified
I think the monkey bit my cousin on HBO. I think it bit someone.
joe rogan
It might have bit my cousin.
I think it bit someone in the family.
That's hilarious.
I feel like it was one of my cousins.
I feel like it was my cousin, Iona.
mark normand
Did he get powers?
I mean, that sounds like an origin story.
joe rogan
Historian and social critic Neil Gabler, author of An Empire on Their Own, How the Jews Invented Hollywood, said he exhaustively researched Disney for the 2006 book Walt Disney, The Triumph of the American Imagination.
I saw no evidence other than the casual anti-Semitism that was common to To non-Jews during Disney's 20th century era.
mark normand
Alright.
joe rogan
Alright, so he wasn't really an anti-Semite.
mark normand
I was wrong.
I take it back.
joe rogan
Oh, but look, Henry Ford, apparently.
mark normand
He was a big old Jew hater.
joe rogan
Wow.
Never getting attention to his views.
mark normand
I also heard Dr. Seuss.
unidentified
What?
mark normand
Yeah, I heard he didn't like the Jewish folk.
joe rogan
Did he rhyme them with news?
What did he do?
Snooze?
He would make up words.
mark normand
Yeah, he was a genius.
And he's like one of those 11 people said no, and then the 12th guy said yes, so always stick with it, blah, blah, blah.
joe rogan
Well, he's another guy that he's drawing these things, and you look at them, and you immediately know they're coming from Dr. Seuss.
Very strange.
That's true.
There's a few guys that can do that.
mark normand
Best kind of artist.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They develop this style, and you go, oh, I know who that is.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Picasso has that.
I mean, Quentin Tarantino has that.
Oh, for sure.
You go, this is a fucking Tarantino movie, and you get excited when they come out.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
jamie vernon
His grandniece backed up Meryl Streep's claims of his anti-Semitism that she recently...
Well, it's not recent, but a couple years ago said in an award ceremony or something.
unidentified
Hmm.
mark normand
What does she know about Walt Diz?
unidentified
I don't know.
jamie vernon
That's part of the...
mark normand
Check out Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, if you don't mind there, Jame Jame.
joe rogan
Meryl Streep, anti-Semite check, misogynist, of course.
Well, we don't know who's the grandniece, right?
Huh.
Is she, like, super sensitive?
mark normand
Yeah, just a weird group to hate.
They haven't done anything.
I can see you can make fun of them, you can shit on them, but, like...
joe rogan
Well, you know what it is, too?
unidentified
Like...
joe rogan
Jews are one of the rare religions that doesn't want anybody joining.
mark normand
That's true.
joe rogan
They don't make it easy for you.
mark normand
That's true.
joe rogan
My uncle converted.
mark normand
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, my Uncle Sal.
He converted when I was a little kid.
That's when I found out what Judaism was.
jamie vernon
Right.
joe rogan
I was real young when it happened.
I was like seven or something like that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I remember thinking like, what?
Wait.
I think I was younger than seven.
I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Because we were Catholic.
I was like, there's something else?
mark normand
Yes!
I was the same way.
joe rogan
What is this other thing?
What is it?
What do they believe in?
They're like, well, it's similar.
They believe in Jesus, but they don't think that Jesus was really as important as we think he was.
I was like, what are you saying?
I don't understand.
Who's right?
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
I remember freaking out.
mark normand
That's a good question for a kid.
Because you just hear other ones and you're like, that's crazy.
And you're like, oh, ours isn't?
This guy's coming back from the dead and put on a cross and all that shit?
They're all crazy.
joe rogan
It's all crazy, but it's like their version of it was different than our version of it.
I was like, well, what are the differences?
And I remember nobody wanted to answer me because I was annoying and I was six or whatever it was.
mark normand
Yeah, such an odd group to hate.
But religion, I went to Catholic school and we had one Jewish kid there and he took a ton of heat.
joe rogan
Did he?
mark normand
Oh my God, just the hebe and the circumcised rabbi and Sabbath.
They waved bacon in his face and shit.
joe rogan
Well, I went to high school at Newton South High.
And we used to call it fast times at Hebrew High.
Because there was a lot of Jewish kids in my class.
So I was, from that point on, from high school era on, I was so used to being around Jewish kids.
It was so normal.
So any sort of discrimination or any sort of...
Derogatory shit about Jewish people didn't make any sense.
mark normand
I agree.
joe rogan
Regular guys.
mark normand
And then when you start doing the math, you're like, all my heroes.
You're like, oh, Groucho Marx, Jew.
Larry David, Jew.
You just start going online, you're like, I love Jews and I'm a wannabe.
joe rogan
You want to be Jew?
mark normand
Yeah, oh yeah.
joe rogan
Mormon sounds Jewish.
mark normand
You think?
joe rogan
You kind of could sneak it in.
mark normand
I'll take it.
Because look, I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood, so I was the white guy.
joe rogan
Well, if you find yourself a nice Jewish lady, then you can convert.
And then your kids will be Jewish.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the kids, the mother determines the religion of the kids.
unidentified
That's true.
mark normand
It's like balding.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
That's on the mom's side.
unidentified
Yeah.
mark normand
That's not even a joke.
joe rogan
It's true.
mark normand
It's true, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
But Jews had a little flavor.
They had something.
They had a history.
They're oppressed.
And as the white guy, you're just like, ah, I'm the token boring nerd.
joe rogan
Well, also, they have a history of fantastic success.
mark normand
Yes!
joe rogan
Stop and think about all the Nobel Prize winners that happen to be European Jews.
It's crazy.
mark normand
And back when they were shit on.
They still won all that shit.
joe rogan
Well, the numbers of European Jews that have invented things and won awards.
The other thing is that they stick to themselves.
So when people stick to themselves, they get discriminated against.
That's true.
That's a weird thing that happens.
A friend of mine described it really well.
He said you create a walled garden and other people can't get in.
And they automatically hate those inside the walled garden.
Even though they don't really hate you, one of the things they hate is that they can't be there.
mark normand
Right.
Not to mention, though, we're chosen.
So he's kind of going, oh, you're chosen?
I'm not chosen?
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Yeah, he was talking about just one of the things about comics, about groups of comics, that when you get a great group of really funny guys and they hang out together or girls or whatever...
That sometimes they get hate from people on the outside because they wish they had that going on.
So they get angry and they snipe at it.
And I think if you see any kind of real strong, loyal unity, and the Jews have a very loyal unity.
mark normand
I agree, but it would look bad if other groups did it.
You know, if other groups were like, if you were like, you can only marry a white guy to your daughter, then you'd be like, Jesus, what's up with Rogan?
But when they do it, you get it.
joe rogan
When you say that's your son, you need to marry a Jewish girl.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Find yourself a nice Jewish girl, because they want the religion to pass on.
mark normand
They want to keep going, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're allowed to do that, right?
That's weird.
mark normand
That is weird.
If other groups did it, it'd be very frowned upon.
joe rogan
Well, if Muslims do it, you let it slide.
mark normand
That's true, too.
joe rogan
I don't want to say shit.
mark normand
I don't want to say shit.
joe rogan
I'll just let it go.
mark normand
I think the weirder you look, the more it's okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, but if you're a Christian, you say, I want my son to marry a Christian girl, people are like, come on, Dad, let it go.
mark normand
Yeah, right?
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Aren't you happy the kid's in love?
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
Does he have to be a Christian?
Just because you are?
Really?
Let him be his own fucking man, pops.
mark normand
Also, what's crazy about Jews is they're so prominent.
We talk about them a lot.
They're around.
You know them.
They're 6% of the country.
6%.
joe rogan
Very small number.
mark normand
Very small.
And look at all the progress and the work they've done for 6%.
joe rogan
And look at all that puppeteering.
Pulling all those strings at CNN and Hollywood.
jamie vernon
Dr. Seuss apparently made cartoons in opposition of anti-Semitism.
joe rogan
You son of a bitch.
You don't know what you're talking about.
mark normand
I'm taking down every dead guy.
jamie vernon
He got some shit for making some very racial cartoons about Japanese and Japanese Americans, but then apparently that's what Horton Hears a Who is about.
It's almost like an apology for it, I guess.
mark normand
Oh!
Okay, okay.
joe rogan
Interesting.
jamie vernon
I was just trying to read through it real quick.
joe rogan
You know what's really weird?
Watching old Bugs Bunnies.
mark normand
Oh, it's crazy, huh?
joe rogan
The Japanese racism?
mark normand
Japanese, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
mark normand
The black stuff is weird.
He'll do blackface, and he's like, and all that shit.
It's crazy.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Are those still available?
mark normand
I think they're around.
joe rogan
That's the thing.
Say if you have a cartoon, and the cartoon is clearly discriminatory, clearly racist, clearly sexist, whatever it is.
Do you leave it there to show that people are different, or do you remove it from the record?
mark normand
I think you leave it.
joe rogan
That was the discussion about Little Rascals, right?
mark normand
Oh, O-Tay.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of people thought Little Rascals was like crazy racist.
mark normand
Well, the Buckwheat character was crazy.
joe rogan
Or, you know, Mark Twain.
mark normand
Yeah, N-Word Jim.
joe rogan
They're literally taking these books off the shelves of schools and libraries.
Bugs Bunny nips the nips.
mark normand
Oh, man.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
jamie vernon
I remember seeing it from when I was in college.
joe rogan
Look how shaky it is.
The animation back then was all done by hand, so nothing ever stood still.
mark normand
But this was state-of-the-art, too.
Oh, there he is, the little Asian guy.
But you've got to remember, this is the enemy of the war.
This is from 1944. Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
So this is during the war.
Wow.
Wow.
And all the Japanese guys have glasses and buck teeth.
What a weird...
Isn't that weird that that became the stereotype?
Glasses and buck teeth?
Like you knew it was an Asian guy?
mark normand
You gotta pick one thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you know like Milton Berle used to take his cigar and stick it in his mouth and do like an impression of an Asian guy.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
And talk Asian, but the buck teeth...
Was standard.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was a part of the impression.
mark normand
That's true.
joe rogan
How weird.
mark normand
That's interesting.
Yeah, I wonder if they had different...
Like, you know how British people have bad teeth.
I wonder if that was like an Asian thing too.
joe rogan
Pull up Milton Berle does impression of Japanese guy.
That was like a Catskills type thing.
mark normand
That was huge.
joe rogan
One guy must have did that and got a laugh.
They all stole it from him.
mark normand
And then look at fucking John Panette.
His whole act was the Asian voice.
And that was fine.
That totally flew.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right.
mark normand
That never bit him in the ass.
That was the 80s.
joe rogan
I watched John Panette murder when I was like a year into comedy.
I was living in Boston.
This is a Japanese...
That guy doesn't learn Japanese.
mark normand
No, that guy was Sicilian.
joe rogan
That's just karate.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
That guy's just doing judo.
I watched...
John Panette went up, and he...
mark normand
He was a killer.
joe rogan
He had some sort of a deal with Nick's Comedy Stop.
I don't remember what the deal was, but they're like...
They were managing him or something along those lines, so they would get him up on the stage all the time.
And he was just starting to pop, like just starting to pop.
And he went up on that stage, and he was doing this bit about going to a Chinese restaurant and eating at the all-you-can-eat buffet.
mark normand
Yeah, that was his big signature.
joe rogan
That was his big bit.
And I watched that bit in front of...
You know, like the 350-whatever people at Nick's Comedy Stop just fucking leveled a room.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like a nuclear bomb went off.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
You watch people fly backwards.
mark normand
I know.
Dying.
It's still funny.
You listen to it now, you're like, this is fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
Hilarious.
mark normand
But I'm sure the Asian people are like, Jesus, here we go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
mark normand
But they don't complain.
Have you noticed that?
You don't see a lot of Asian complaints.
I think they're too busy with the cello and the studying or whatever it is.
joe rogan
Well, some of them have pointed out, and rightly so, that it's kind of fucked that some colleges have changed their admission standards for Asians.
That's fucked up.
Harvard has made it more difficult for Asians to get in.
mark normand
I don't get that at all.
joe rogan
Because there's so many of them that kick ass at Harvard.
So they're like, well, we've got to slow these bitches down.
They're fucking up the curve.
mark normand
But you say, hey, work hard, study, you know, hustle, and then you do it, and then we gotta give you a handicap and pull you back?
That's fucked up.
joe rogan
Well, they definitely have a point.
I've seen the argument.
It's an interesting argument.
mark normand
What's their argument?
joe rogan
What, the Asians' argument?
mark normand
No, no, the Harvard.
joe rogan
Well, no, that's not a good argument.
mark normand
Oh, that's okay.
joe rogan
No, I've seen the Asians' argument that Harvard's doing this to them.
Because it's not straight up like they're just completely...
Discriminating based on the fact they're Asian.
They're kind of sneaking it in with like...
It's basing it on various aspects of their personality and how they engage with people and different activities that they gravitate towards.
And they're making those more valuable.
I had a conversation with a guy who was actually with Andrew Yang when he was here about it.
Here meaning on the show.
And he was explaining it to me.
I was like, oh, wow.
So it wasn't as cut and dry as I thought.
I thought it was like, oh, if you're white, you have to get this point, but if you're Asian, you have to get that point.
It's not that clear, but it's definitely geared towards...
There's a reason why they did it.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they did it because there's so many Asian people that were kicking ass.
mark normand
But that's not their fault.
joe rogan
And getting amazing grades and being super dedicated and getting into the schools.
mark normand
They should be rewarded.
I mean, what if we did that with NBA? Like, hey, I'm a seven-foot black guy with a killer jump shot.
joe rogan
Okay, you gotta shoot from back there.
unidentified
Yeah, exactly.
mark normand
You gotta get in the stands.
Exactly.
I mean, it doesn't make sense.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a non-competitive thing, and it's a weird thing.
It's like, are you doing this because you're admitting that you can't compete with them?
Were you worried that other people can't compete with them?
mark normand
I guess so, yeah.
It sounds like it.
Again, why sports are always so fun, because it's just meritocracy.
No one cares about the color.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, no one's complaining that there's too many black people that are on the NBA. Yeah, and again...
They're really good at it.
mark normand
They're good at it!
I'm sorry!
joe rogan
But we won't accept that same standard when it comes to Asian people in universities.
mark normand
Right, and...
Also, we don't want to get our kids in the NBA. You want our kid to go to Harvard.
So that's another factor.
joe rogan
I wonder what Harvard's argument is for why they do it.
mark normand
They just don't want it fully Asian, I guess.
But why are you looking at it that way?
Just full of people.
joe rogan
What if they did that?
But what if the Asians were literally willing?
At what point in time would you decide it's not healthy?
What if one group was studying until they literally dropped dead?
mark normand
Sure.
joe rogan
10% of them were dying before they got to the finals.
mark normand
Yeah, well, the sad thing is I don't think college is as important as it used to be.
joe rogan
I like how you did this with your hand to accentuate.
mark normand
I don't think we need it.
I mean, look at the internet.
Look at everybody's doing their own thing and starting apps and startups and all this tech shit.
So, like, just do that, Asians.
Stop worrying about the Harvard grades.
joe rogan
Well, this is where I thought that having college free would benefit everybody.
Because part of the problem is you're all in on this career.
If it costs you $250,000, it doesn't give you the flexibility to change careers.
If you're just getting educated.
You're just getting educated.
It's not necessarily your career.
You didn't spend any money.
Just like you did your work and you got a free education by the government because your parents pay taxes.
It makes sense.
mark normand
Yeah, but how serious are kids?
I barely took college seriously.
I failed out of three colleges.
And I paid for it.
So imagine if you don't.
joe rogan
But is it going to make you more serious if you don't?
mark normand
I think if you pay for it, you're going to work a little.
You're going to go, I should go to class.
joe rogan
I'm paying for this shit.
mark normand
I know, but I'm an idiot.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I think you would have done the same thing if it was free.
mark normand
I don't know.
joe rogan
I think you're a comic.
mark normand
That's what it is.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
mark normand
Yeah, that's why I quit, to go do comedy.
joe rogan
I only went to college because I didn't want anybody thinking I was a loser.
I got tired of telling people I was taking a year off.
mark normand
Oh yeah, especially back then.
joe rogan
Dude, I would tell people and the fucking look they would give me, it was so depressing.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
It was such a bummer.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
And it was disappointing everyone.
I'm taking a year off like, oh, loser.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that was New England too, which is like very- It's college town.
Blue collar, go to work.
mark normand
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
Well, you had to work hard.
Even though it's a college town, there's a lot more colleges per capita in Boston, I think, than any other city.
But there was also cold weather.
And you had to fucking shovel snow.
You had to work hard.
You had to get up in the morning.
You had to do things you don't want to do.
That's rewarded.
And if you're a take-a-year-off guy...
mark normand
Ah, I see.
joe rogan
Like, what are you doing?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck are you doing with your life?
mark normand
Because where I come from, the take a year off guy is a badass.
You're like, oh, you're going to Nepal or, you know, whatever, Tibet, you know, like to backpack?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
So you're like, oh, you've got it figured out.
You're open-minded.
joe rogan
No, there was none of that.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It was a different time, too.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
I graduated high school in 85. Sure.
It was a different era.
Reagan was president, I think, still.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Was he still president then?
mark normand
I think so.
joe rogan
Whatever it was, it was a dark era.
mark normand
Damn.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
But maybe a better era.
joe rogan
Well, the good thing about it is there was a real chance that you were never going to get your shit together and you're scared.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so that led me to get my shit together.
mark normand
The fear is good, yeah.
joe rogan
Being dismissed for not going to school right after high school, not going right to college.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
But I wasted time there.
I didn't learn anything.
mark normand
I did too.
joe rogan
Didn't learn a goddamn thing.
mark normand
The fear thing is so true.
I mean, I felt like when I was in high school and college and all that, going to parties, I had a constant fear of being punched in the face.
It was completely normal to get punched out.
Not punched out, but like, if you said the wrong thing, all right, these guys are going outside and all that shit.
joe rogan
Right.
mark normand
And I think that kept me in line.
joe rogan
Oh, there's definitely that, but that's, you know, it's like an argument for bullies.
There's an argument for...
mark normand
I think it's natural.
I mean, now they're on the internet.
They're always going to exist.
You can anti-bully all day long, but they're always going to be there.
joe rogan
Well, I dealt with a lot of bullies, and that's why I got into martial arts.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
That's the reason why I got into it.
And if everybody was really nice to me and I wasn't terrified all the time, I probably would have never gotten into martial arts.
mark normand
There you go.
That's my whole point.
joe rogan
I remember very clearly after some kid kicked my ass, some kid threw me down in the locker room and could have punched me in the face but didn't, just kind of held me down and humiliated me.
mark normand
Oof.
joe rogan
I remember thinking like, okay...
This can't happen anymore.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not only did he do that, but then I was avoiding him.
I remember being so embarrassed because I was looking out the window to where the door was, and I noticed that he was on the other side.
This is a little breezeway, and he was on the other side, and I saw him there, and I was like, shit.
And then someone opened up the door because they wanted to go through, and I was just standing there.
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
So I was like, oh, shit.
And I just felt like such a pussy.
And I remember it very clearly.
Like, I don't like this feeling at all.
mark normand
Yeah, that's a bad feeling.
But what a psycho this guy is.
Like, there he is!
I'm fucking him up!
joe rogan
But that's how normal boys behave.
mark normand
I guess so.
joe rogan
Especially if they find that you're weak and you're scared.
I just didn't know anything.
I didn't know how to fight at all.
mark normand
It's a horrible feeling.
joe rogan
It was the worst.
mark normand
I got knocked out in college and I pissed myself.
So I was laying on somebody's front lawn and I woke up and my girlfriend was going, Oh my god!
unidentified
Oh my god, are you okay?
mark normand
And I look, you know, I come to, and I look down, and my pants are soaked, which is like fucking kicking a dead horse, alright?
I'm already, you know, I'm already humiliated.
I got knocked out, and now I'm covered in urine.
joe rogan
Do you remember what it was about?
mark normand
Yeah, it was a fight in New Orleans about, it was over Mardi Gras.
It was a bunch of college dudes, and I had a bunch of college friends, and we all started going at it, and one guy ran up, and my girlfriend goes, there's a guy running, and he knocked, he had a running start, and it hit me, and I saw a white, I remember it.
joe rogan
So you didn't even know the guy?
No!
mark normand
Didn't know the guy, and I came to it, and everybody was just over me, just fighting like a melee, brouhaha.
I remember looking at my friend, his face was on the grass, and he was getting stomped on by a Birkenstock.
Oh my god.
And I was just like, jeez, this is bad.
Then the cops broke it up eventually, but I had a welt the size of a fucking cue ball on my eye for two days.
But yeah, you know, it was part of it, just growing up.
You got hit every now and then.
joe rogan
It's so dangerous, too.
I know.
When people get knocked out like that, they die.
It happens often.
mark normand
I was lucky to be on a lawn.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
For sure.
If you were on the concrete, that could have been the end.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And that happens to people.
They don't even think twice about it.
mark normand
I know.
unidentified
Ah.
mark normand
Then you think, like, you have daughters, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Aren't you kind of glad that somebody's not going to eat?
They're not going to get beat up.
joe rogan
But you hope.
I think I got beat up by a guy.
Guys beat women up, man.
We're not girls.
The physical vulnerability that a woman feels when she's around some really aggressive, shitty man has got to be horrible, man.
Especially when you're intimate with this person.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Now this person's hitting you.
mark normand
That's crazy.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
mark normand
I know.
I could never do it.
I could never, like...
I'm not saying I'm some saint, but I could never, like, punch a lady.
It's just...
My brain wouldn't go that way.
joe rogan
You ever have a girl punch you?
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
How many?
unidentified
How many?
mark normand
I don't know, one or two, you know?
I mean, I think women are, like, wired that way.
Like, you step on their foot and they're like, hey!
And they hit you.
unidentified
Really?
mark normand
Yeah, I mean, that's just...
They hit you in the shoulder or something.
joe rogan
You ever go, like, take a good swing at your face?
mark normand
Never had that.
Never had that.
I had stuff thrown at me.
Like a vase or a plate.
joe rogan
Whoa, a vase.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
A vase can fuck you up.
mark normand
Yeah, I dodged it.
It was a girl throw.
But no, it was...
You know, you get heated.
I get it.
But, like, yeah, hitting a lady is crazy.
Imagine balling up your fist and hitting a broad.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some guy said to me, do you know that most domestic violence is women against men?
Did you know that?
mark normand
I did not know that.
joe rogan
And I go, you know why you know that?
Because you're a bitch.
What are you talking about?
You worry about girls beating you up?
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
Are you worried about a girl beating you up?
Are you worried about a girl raping you?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
And maybe beating you to death?
What are you saying to me?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you saying to me?
The men are the real victims?
No, when men beat up women, they die.
mark normand
Sure.
joe rogan
Like, men can kill women with their bare hands.
There's a difference, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's a man, there's a woman.
Like, there's a spectrum, clearly, but generally speaking, men are more dangerous and violent than women, right?
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
We all agree on that.
mark normand
I agree, but women will kill you slowly.
unidentified
Kill your soul!
mark normand
Well, you know, you always watch these killer women on TruTV, and it's like they put antifreeze in the guy's oatmeal every day for six years, and he eventually croaks and they can't figure out why.
joe rogan
That was that HBO autopsy show.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Michael Badden.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
Remember that?
They would catch people doing things like that.
mark normand
I love that shit.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
She slowly poisoned him with arsenic.
mark normand
Yes.
unidentified
Yes.
mark normand
There was one where a woman slowly killed a guy and she put it in his aspirin bottle.
So it was a full bottle of aspirin.
She put one cyanide pill or whatever it was.
So she had to wait all those years for him to have enough headaches to take the right pill.
How fucking methodical is that?
joe rogan
What a fun time for her.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
Every day.
Is today the day?
mark normand
This could be it!
Jim's gonna croak.
joe rogan
Well, honey, we still have some aspirin.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He goes into the bathroom and she just sits there and waits to hear the scream.
mark normand
Exactly.
joe rogan
See his mouth foaming.
mark normand
She's like, yeah, my number came in!
I know, that's wild.
And then they took Aspen off the shelf.
unidentified
She started screaming at him, you fuck, I waited for this day for years.
mark normand
I know.
joe rogan
Imagine you're dying, you can't believe it's your wife that did this to you, and you think about all the mean shit that you ever said to your wife, and you realize she's been storing it up inside, and you wait for you to suck down that one lone cyanide pill.
And if she's really gangster, she drops it in there and shakes it up.
Shakes it up so it gets to the bottom.
mark normand
Oh my god.
joe rogan
It's that pill.
It's wait a while.
mark normand
You scared me, Joe.
unidentified
It's wait a while.
mark normand
That's a bit.
joe rogan
It's wait a while for Tom to kick the bucket.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, one of my friends was murdered by his wife.
mark normand
Come on.
joe rogan
Phil Hartman.
mark normand
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
As a wife that I tried to get him to leave.
mark normand
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
mark normand
Damn.
joe rogan
I was telling him, bro, you gotta get divorced.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
She was mean to him.
Mean to him publicly.
Make fun of him in a way that you could see bothered him.
She would talk about her ex-boyfriends.
They used to have pickup trucks.
My ex-boyfriends had pickup trucks.
I love trucks.
mark normand
Whoa.
joe rogan
Weird shit.
Just make them uncomfortable.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bad relationship.
You know, and they split up a couple of times, and I was like, bro, just get out.
He didn't want to get out.
He was worried about a lot of things.
You know, there was the fact that he was a father, and he didn't want to separate from his kids, the fact that he didn't want to give up the money, the fact that he had a sort of reputation of being this family man.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
He was this guy.
mark normand
Divorce is scary.
I'm scared of marriage.
My gal's pushing it, but...
joe rogan
How hard.
mark normand
It's getting a little tense.
joe rogan
Thinking about breaking up with her?
mark normand
No, no, she's a great gal, but I'm just saying I'm scared, because I'm only just scared of divorce.
joe rogan
Yeah.
mark normand
Because you change, you grow, you move on, whatever it is, and I don't like that blemish of a divorce.
Even though it's not a big deal, and I'm overreacting, but...
joe rogan
It's a legal complication in a lot of ways.
It's coming from someone who's happily married.
There's a thing that you're doing where you're saying, we're going to bring other people into this.
Even though this is a romantic bond between two people that just enjoy each other's companies.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
We're going to make this a legal thing involving the state and laws.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
We're going to have laws and lawyers.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We're going to draft paperwork and there's going to be revisions and reviews.
We're going to go back and forth with this stuff until we get it right.
Like...
mark normand
Sounds romantic.
joe rogan
Or you could have no prenuptial agreement and take the ultimate risk that when in the heat of battle, when you fucking hate each other and you want to break away, then you're going to be cool with each other and work this out amicably.
mark normand
Oh, boy.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
Then you're going to be like that fucking guy who's trying to get money from that Kelly Clarkson.
mark normand
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
You're going to ask for ridiculous amounts of money because if you start at 10 and you really want 10, you're not going to get 10. No.
You've got to start at 30. Yeah.
You've got to scare the shit out of them.
We're in for a long haul.
mark normand
Did you watch A Marriage Story?
joe rogan
No.
mark normand
Oh, it's all about this.
It's just a brutal divorce, and it's a nightmare.
joe rogan
Who's in it?
mark normand
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.
Great movie.
Great writing, great acting, but holy shit.
It's just like the lawyers are going, well, what about that time you got drunk and dropped Timmy?
Oh, I don't think she's fit.
And she's like, you told him about that?
And they start crying.
Oh, it's fucking brutal!
joe rogan
They have to.
The lawyers are going to battle.
mark normand
Yeah, because you've got to win.
joe rogan
My friend got divorced, and his ex drug it out for years on purpose to try to drain him financially.
And she was not working, so he had to pay for her lawyer.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
So he's paying his legal fees for his lawyer.
He's paying her legal fees for her lawyer.
So he's paying for the army.
mark normand
Yes.
joe rogan
It gets worse.
Psycho.
mark normand
Psychological.
joe rogan
And paying for the general of the army that's trying to take him down and ruin his life.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
Here's how it gets worse.
She knew that they were going to get divorced.
mark normand
Oh, God.
joe rogan
So she decided to meet with a bunch of different lawyers.
Yeah.
him.
mark normand
Oh, man.
joe rogan
So she specifically targeted the top lawyers, the top divorce lawyers in town and sat with them and talked to them and unbeknownst to them, because this all happened pre-internet days.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, she would go to another one.
mark normand
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And then she would go to another one.
mark normand
This woman needs a hobby.
joe rogan
She did it for a while.
mark normand
How could you go from, this is the person I want to spend my life with and love and she loves me.
joe rogan
It gets worse.
It gets worse.
mark normand
How could it?
joe rogan
Here's how it gets worse.
They've been divorced longer than they were married.
And he's married now with a family, a new wife, and he still pays her hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
mark normand
Was he rich when he married her?
joe rogan
Well, he made money during the relationship.
mark normand
So you have to always pay that level.
joe rogan
They don't have a family.
They don't have children.
It's just marriage.
So he fucked her so hard she can't work.
He's responsible for her whole life.
It's crazy.
It doesn't make any sense.
They've been divorced 14 years.
They were married for 12. Wow.
And he's still paying.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Like, she can't work.
He fucked me too hard.
I can't work.
mark normand
You're scaring the shit out of me here.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
mark normand
It's crazy.
It's terrifying.
joe rogan
But it was no prenuptial.
He didn't have a prenup.
And you're in California, which is a crazy state.
mark normand
Right.
joe rogan
California's like...
You know, they...
Look, there's an industry...
I don't care if it's the man or the woman.
You see what this Kelly Clarkson thing.
It's not a matter of male or female.
It's who's got the money.
You can think of it as my team.
Yeah, girls, we got that one.
Or guys can think of it like with Tom Arnold.
Yeah, one for the boys.
You know who's winning?
The fucking lawyers.
mark normand
The lawyers are cleaning up.
joe rogan
This was the thing that Phil Hartman said to me that got really crazy.
I go, just give her half.
He goes, it's not half.
He goes, it's a fucking scam.
It's two-thirds because the lawyer gets a third.
And I was like, whoa.
mark normand
Holy hell.
joe rogan
He was doing really well then.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But he was doing really well for a guy who had really struggled his whole life.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
He didn't get on Saturday Night Live until, I don't remember how old he was then, but he was like 46 when he was on news radio.
mark normand
Damn.
joe rogan
So when I met him, So, you know, he was protective of his...
So talented.
He was very protective of his success.
mark normand
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And the money that he made was hard-earned, you know?
Hard-earned and came late in life, and he just...
mark normand
I mean, you start to get the hitman thing after a while.
You're like, I could just hire a person and finish this problem off.
joe rogan
Whether you do or don't, the real thing is that there's an industry designed to extract money from people that are going through an emotional and disturbing breakup.
Yes.
And you have a legal bond.
So the legal bond allows people that are good at it to manipulate this sort of discussion and accentuate the arguments.
And I'm sure that was in that movie.
mark normand
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
They ramp up the fights.
Definitely.
And that's how you ramp up the money and you ramp up this.
And now you're going to war and you're battling.
And the longer you drag that war out, the more the lawyers get paid.
mark normand
I know.
And you can see there's moments in the movie where he'll go up to her face to face like, why are you doing this to me?
What are you crazy?
We're human beings.
And she's like, hey, you know, you live, you learn.
That's life.
And you're like, whoa, so you're buying into this shit.
That's what scares me is like people have that evil in them and the lawyers will pull it out.
Because you don't want to lose.
You'll do whatever it takes.
I mean, it's like the right and the left.
You see them fighting and you're like, dude, we're all Americans.
Hey, take it easy, everybody.
But they just want to win.
joe rogan
I like how you brought this back to politics.
mark normand
Ah, shit.
I shouldn't do that.
joe rogan
No, you did a good job.
mark normand
I'm just saying.
joe rogan
It's true.
But it's more intimate, right?
It's obviously...
The emotions involved in the right and the left pale in comparison.
The emotions involved in a divorced couple.
mark normand
Totally.
joe rogan
Some people get divorced and they're great.
mark normand
They're great friends.
joe rogan
They don't have a problem...
I know.
I got a buddy who got divorced, they both hugged it out, and now he's friends with her still, and she's got a new guy, and he's got a new girl, and everybody's fine.
mark normand
Yeah.
joe rogan
It can happen that way too, but people vary so much personality-wise.
mark normand
I know.
People don't want to lose.
joe rogan
No.
A lot of people hate it.
mark normand
I know, but I think it's weird that a prenup is insulting.
Why?
I thought we were in love.
Isn't that weird that's an insult?
Like, how could he say that?
Or how could she say that?
You're like, why?
Why are you marrying me then?
joe rogan
Here's the thing they'll say.
mark normand
It's pretty cut and dry.
joe rogan
But here's the thing they'll say.
You are not all in.
Because you want a prenup.
So if this goes bad, you want to protect yourself, and you want to save your money, because your money is more important than this relationship.
You're not all in.
mark normand
Yeah.
I guess not.
I guess I'm not all in.
joe rogan
But here's where that's bullshit.
You're not all in.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Because if you were all in, you would know we're never getting divorced.
This doesn't even matter.
Hey!
mark normand
Nice spin, Rogo.
joe rogan
I like that.
mark normand
That's good.
I'm getting nervous about this show.
I go on in half an hour.
joe rogan
Oh.
Well, you'll be fine.
We should wrap this up.
mark normand
I'm having a blast.
joe rogan
Do you have an opening act?
How many opening acts?
mark normand
Two.
I try to keep it limited.
These guys put 19 people on the shows nowadays.
joe rogan
Do you know the people that are opening for you?
mark normand
I don't.
I know.
It's a roll of the dice, but I told you.
joe rogan
You might want to stay a few minutes.
You might want to avoid it.
mark normand
But I'd like to see what I'm up against, hack-wise.
joe rogan
Oh, that's true, too.
Yeah, but you don't want to watch too much of that.
It's contagious.
Not contagious, but it really does.
I can't watch.
If someone's bad, it makes me feel like there's no comedy.
Comedy's not real.
mark normand
I know.
I know, because the audience is going, what the fuck is this?
What kind of show is this?
joe rogan
But there's a lot of good comics in Austin, so I would imagine that if they're smart enough to hire you, they're probably smart enough to hire some good local people.
mark normand
Oh, I appreciate it.
joe rogan
There's a lot of good local people.
mark normand
Okay, yeah.
Well, it's so weird that the club closed, because I didn't know the club was month to month.
I thought they were killing it.
It's like a legendary room.
joe rogan
It's a legendary room, but it was going through COVID. Man.
Nobody's getting through this and killing it.
mark normand
No.
Except for the plexiglass guy.
That's the one guy killing it.
joe rogan
Plywood guy.
mark normand
Plywood guy.
The heat lamp guy.
Those guys are killing it.
Pfizer.
joe rogan
Guys who sell tents.
mark normand
Did we invent the vaccine?
It's coming out of Belgium.
joe rogan
England is working on it right now.
mark normand
Yeah, I'm like, ah shit, I thought we had one.
joe rogan
They're already shooting people up with it.
mark normand
I know, I know.
My doctor took it.
joe rogan
Did he?
mark normand
Yeah, he said he feels great.
unidentified
Wow.
mark normand
He's in the hospital doing shit without a mask on.
He doesn't give a fuck.
unidentified
Whoa, gangster.
mark normand
I'm joking about that.
Yeah, he's like, I don't know why you wouldn't take it.
joe rogan
So he got it already, huh?
mark normand
Yeah, last week.
joe rogan
Did he say he got real sick?
mark normand
He said he felt woozy, but he was fine.
Next day, 100%.
joe rogan
Is he a robust doctor?
mark normand
Yeah, he's 65, too.
joe rogan
Really?
mark normand
Yeah.
Wow.
joe rogan
Good for him.
mark normand
I know.
He does all the work for the comics.
joe rogan
Everybody should be rooting for the vaccine, right?
If it works out, and we can all get back.
The thing that I just heard that was fucking freaking me out, and by the way, I heard it from America's most trusted news source, Tim Dillon.
On his Twitter page, it said that even if you...
mark normand
He told me Walt Disney was a Semite.
unidentified
Ha ha ha!
mark normand
No, I'm anti-so.
I'm just kidding.
joe rogan
He said that even if you get the vaccine, they're saying that you're going to have to wear a mask because you could spread it to other people.
mark normand
Oh, right.
Like you're just a vehicle for it.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Can we just be a masked society from now on?
mark normand
I can't live like that.
joe rogan
Is that how we're living?
mark normand
Can't do it.
Can't do it.
I'm ready to get out of this.
I don't know how I haven't got...
I feel like Magic Johnson's wife.
I'm like, how am I dodging this?
It's crazy.
joe rogan
What are you doing?
mark normand
I've been everywhere on flights and shows.
No, I just...
joe rogan
Drink?
mark normand
I never get sick.
I drink a lot.
I don't know.
joe rogan
You're healthy.
mark normand
I think I got a decent immune.
I work out.
I eat oatmeal.
I exercise.
joe rogan
You've got those things going for you.
You should probably take some vitamins, though.
mark normand
I should, but I hear those are a myth.
joe rogan
By who?
mark normand
Well, they say it's the placebo sometimes.
joe rogan
Who says that?
mark normand
I've heard that.
joe rogan
Say people that tell you anti-Semitic shit about Walt Disney?
mark normand
I'm just saying, I hear a lot of vitamins, it just makes you think it's healthy.
unidentified
No.
mark normand
It's actually nothing.
joe rogan
No, there's peer-reviewed studies on vitamins.
mark normand
Okay, well that's good to know.
joe rogan
Especially with the immune system, it's very important.
jamie vernon
Take vitamin D. According to the AP article I'm reading right now, it says the reason why they're saying you'll still need to wear a mask after you get the vaccine is because at least these two vaccines, both Pfizer and Moderna, are going to take at least two doses, and it may take a couple weeks after the second dose for full protection.
mark normand
Oh, jeez.
joe rogan
So, only for a couple weeks.
But what they were saying was, Google this then...
Even though you get the vaccine, you can still spread the virus.
So the question was that even if people have the vaccine and have the immunity to the virus, there may be a potential for them to carry it, even though their own body doesn't express it.
You just checked your phone.
jamie vernon
I'm pretty sure it's a headline confusion because that doesn't say after getting both shots of the vaccine.
You know, it's two doses.
joe rogan
Right, that's true.
mark normand
And it's once apart.
joe rogan
Like maybe after one, you still have to wear a mask.
jamie vernon
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Could be.
Mark Norman's got to go to a show.
mark normand
I'm just getting worried.
What about Russia?
They can't drink.
He saw that for a month.
joe rogan
Two months.
mark normand
Two months!
joe rogan
Two months.
It's less than two months.
I think they said 40-something days.
mark normand
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
They're just saying it doesn't work.
You know why?
Because they developed a vaccine that's not real, because they were trying to compete with America and get it out quick.
So what they did is they just filled up a fucking syringe with Kool-Aid, and they go, what do you want to do?
Don't drink for two months.
It's the only way it works.
So that was racist, too.
But you're allowed to be racist against Russians.
mark normand
You are, because their skin is white.
Yeah, British, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, there you go.
mark normand
Italians, hey!
Hey, fucking pizza!
joe rogan
Alright, Mark Norman, you're the shit.
Appreciate you, brother.
Always good to have you in.
mark normand
Such a fun chat.
joe rogan
Give out your Instagram and Twitter handle.
mark normand
Please don't yell at me.
I'm at MarkNormand on Instagram.
Always putting up funny clips.
MarkNorm on Twitter.
MarkNormandComedy.com.
And listen to Tuesdays with Stories and praise Allah.
I'll fuck you till you love me.
joe rogan
Shout out to Joe List.
mark normand
Yes!
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