Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - A Review of 1223 Greg Fitzsimmons

Episode Date: January 18, 2019

Greg is an amazing standup comedian and very old friend of Rogan’s. They stated out in comedy together and have stayed close ever since. Greg is always a fun and articulate guest with a really fantastic way of describing his adventures through the world. One of my most enjoyable podcasts of the month. Make sure to check it out! Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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Spiceberry and Ginger Coconut. In today's episode of the JRE review, we are reviewing one of Joe Rogan's best friends conversation in podcast 1223. Greg Fitzsimmons. Greg is an hilarious comedian and always a great guest. He has such a cool way of describing things in chilled manner and you know as soon as they get talking you know it's one of Joe's really good friends. So let's get reviewing. As you can imagine they get off to a great start, you know, they were probably talking for a good hour before they even started recording this podcast anyway. It's just really effortless when Joe is with one of his oldest friends and good comedian buddies but they start talking about Hunter S Thompson and Hunter S Thompson is for those either don't know is

was Rolling Stones sports reporter from like the 60s He's the guy that they the Johnny Depp played in fear and loathing in Las Vegas and like kind of loosely a true story of just the craziness that he got up to, the drug-induced madness. And he was truly a unique fella. There's a really good documentary out that they talked about called Gonzo. I believe that's on Netflix, I've seen it, but he lived an incredibly free life and was an unbelievably gifted writer that they talk about and sadly killed himself. You know, later in life, while on the phone to his family, he said his goodbyes and he

said it was time to go. I guess he was in pain physically then and he just, he had enough. He chose one to go, which is Sad but poetic in its own right Greg talking a little bit about you know, I guess seeing Joe in the shape that Joe's in and he's saying I haven't been able to work out for some time because You know, he has some injuries. So he has some bad knee injuries and a lot of inflammation and those sorts of things But one cool thing that Greg was talking about is I guess he used to be like do gymnastics

So he could do he can just straight up do a backflip, you know up until a few years ago and handsprings and all kinds of different things And that was something Joe didn't know that he was able to do and it's quite funny really too if If you followed any of Greg's comedy and you've seen him on podcasts before, you wouldn't immediately assume that he is a guy that could just do backflips and all sorts of different things. They get into kind of how comedy has changed over the years and it really has.

I mean, we're very sensitive now. They give the example of living color and it was a show that Damon Wayne's Jim Carey was on. And one of the examples that they gave was Jim Carey playing Fire Marshall Bill. And the irony is Fire Marshall Bill, and you could Google it. It's on YouTube. It's a character you could never do today because he is basically an horrific, a burn victim. So he was horribly burned, and he would like come in and tell you about fire safety, but I think he likes most of the gags

as he's ends up burning himself again. A lot of physical comedy when it comes to Jim Carey, of course, he's super talented there. But that whole show is something that would be very difficult to like, re-air today. Living color had amazing people on, but you know, just some of the characters, they would be seen as so insensitive today that you just couldn't, you couldn't recreate it, but it was absolutely hilarious show. And talking about how sensitive people are getting, Greg was talking about how sometimes now during his shows he gets booed for having different opinions on things.

People are so upset and he said that never used to happen. But these are the changing times and with it like any comedian, you got to change those times. So this is what they're learning to do. change of those times. So this is what they're learning to do. If you are a writer or a comedian or really just anyone working on a personal project and you struggle with procrastination, they get into some really interesting things about organizing your writing and especially organizing comedy writing. Comedy writing is very difficult to do because it doesn't require a lot of writing, it just requires good writing, which is hard because it's much easier to write a lot of shitty writing that doesn't have any value than just short little bits that turn

into jokes. There's a ton of procrastination that comes with it. And really the only way to get around it for comedians is to force yourself, you know, say, I every day, I write an hour or every day I write a joke or something. And even then even to do that is incredibly difficult. And if you could, it would be massively beneficial to your standup. And then they talk about how, at least with up, you've got to perform your bits. So let's say you don't do stand up, you're just a general writer, you're just working on any sort of project. Well, there's the portion of planning and then there's the portion of execution. And they're different because in the same sense of writing, comedy, if you're writing, you know, you want to just, you just want to write it down with no judgment. You just want to see it's funny and go. Then afterwards when you perform it, that's when you really want to take a look at what you're saying and be critical. You can't do

both at the same time. You can't be free and critical. So you got to separate those those two tasks and and they get to they get to kind of talk about that. This is why when Joe does Joe Rogan does this show at the comedy store sometimes called standup on the spot and it's a show that Jeremiah Watkins puts together. He's also a fantastic comedian but it's something where people would just shout out from the audience and you will, the comedians then have to take that word and turn it into some comedy. And by doing that, it's also, like,

even though it's a very difficult show, it's kind of like a free bit of writing for them because if they make some laughs out of something that they hadn't considered before, that's, you know, possibly a good opportunity to make some jokes and Kind of bring up some some good comedy there Greg talks about one time when he was a lifeguard. He was able to save someone's life

some some Japanese girl was kind of drowning at a pool area and He was able to jump in there and save him sadly nobody saw him save this girl So he wasn't getting a lot of credit until a busload of people went by that saw him and they were kind of chanting that he was a hero which made him feel great. Greg asked Joe if he'd ever saved someone and Joe says, I don't think so. But then Greg brought up something interesting and said, well, maybe this podcast has saved some people. And then Joe makes the joke, maybe it's also, you know, ruined some people's lives, which is tongue-in-cheek and funny, but at the same time,

when Greg kind of repeated it back, you know, do you think that this is done a lot of good for people, and if you really helped people that way, Joe kind of put it down as like, look, you know, when people say that I've changed their lives, you know, he says, no, you change your life because if you take on the good, you also got to take on the bad part of that. And I don't think Joe is really saying that he's afraid to take on the bad. He's just saying that, you know, he doesn't have to take credit for what people are doing. He's just bringing information to people. And that really is a great thing. And it's one of the reasons I do this podcast.

He told a little bit about shows, like great shows that are out there right now. One that keeps popping up is the marvelous Miss Mabel. Supposed to be a great show, all about standup, how a woman's struggle to be a standup, in the early days. And it's one I definitely wanna check out, I've been meaning to watch it, but they're saying it's really good. And what are you watching right now?

What shows a good that you really liking? I mean, it just seems like there's so many to go through you almost need like a Netflix review They just kind of goes through and tells you what good shows are out there because they're just coming at us So fast. It's almost impossible And now there's all that controversy about the that new black mirror episode Which I haven't seen either, but Netflix got sued pretty hard for, so they got into that too. But it's a great conversation.

It's one of the good ones. If you understand up comedy, definitely listen to it. Greg is an excellent guest, and it's just one of those chilled, funny, laugh along, don't have to pay up. Hell of a lot of attention to type of podcast. But anyway, thank you so much for listening. I appreciate you guys, I'll be more soon. Pero ¿cómo es posible que sean las tres de la tarde? ¿Qué lleves casi una hora de atascotir? ¿Qué de todo el camino por delante? ¿Y tú estas ahí dan tranquila a tus cosas? ¿Cómo si te dese todo igual? ¿Cómo es posible?

Vamos, que tú vas a trabajar no estás llendo, ¿no? ¿A dónde vas tú tan contenta? ¿Eh? ¿A dónde? Llega el mejor momento del año. Llegan tus vacaciones. Este uno de Julio sortió extraordinario de vacaciones de Lotería Nacional con 20 millones aún decimos. Lotería se recuerda que juegas con responsabilidad y solo si eres mayor de edad.