Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE review of 1249 with Donnell Rawlings

Episode Date: February 22, 2019

Donnell is a brilliant comedian and was a character on the Chappell show. This conversation is a great one for getting to know what makes Donnell tick. He’s a really chilled guy that has some funny rants. Joe gets him to start a podcast! Lol What a surprise.. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

En el Centro Universitario Sanisidoro, ascrito la Universidad Pablo de la Vide de Sevilla, formamos a los profesionales del mañana. Derecho, HAD, Comunicación Digital, Periodismo, Publicidad, Audiovisual, Fisioterapia, Caffeed, Convírtete con nosotros en un profesional 360 y prepárate para el futuro. Hoy, Centro Sanisidoro.es Hello and welcome to another episode of the JRE Review. Today I'm reviewing episode 1249 with Donnell Rollings. It's pretty awesome. Donnell is probably

best known for his appearances on the shepel show and if you've watched that comedy series and remember a lot of the great skits in there, Donnell is a big part of those. Or, you know, mostly a guy kind of in the background or to the side of the main people in it, but has some great lines, very funny dude, and is a really good comic. His conversation with Joe was pretty light-hearted and again it's always good when Joe has comedians on. I think it just gives a different feel to his podcast. He's almost a little bit looser. Everyone obviously gets a bit sillier and this conversation is another

example of that. So let's start the review. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? So obviously like I said, on our is one of the guys from the Chappelle show, we worked alongside Dave Chappelle, making that incredible show or like whatever parts he was involved in and And has been a comic before and ever since then Chappelle show was the best really Joe talks about it and If you haven't seen it, let's say you're a bit young because it's an older show now. I mean that show is

What 15 years old maybe I think it's like 2005, maybe a bit before that. Or maybe I don't know, it's around that time. So it's not, you know, it's not all that new, and I don't know what generations of people are keeping up with it, and whether it holds up, but it was the funniest thing of its time. It was raw and and Chappelle really just said whatever he wanted on that. He made some outrageous skits that were absolutely hilarious. The Rick James one is still watchable to this day and the Prince one in the same way. Oftentimes when I look at my YouTube feed, if a shippel show skit kind of pops up in it, it's one of those that I, as soon as I

see, I have to put it on. They were never that long and they're each one and they were just so funny, it was unbelievable. A KKK skit, if you're listening to this and you've never watched the Dave Shepard KKK skit. 100% put that on immediately and watch it. It's so good. Don out talked a little bit with Joe about just censorship in his own right and Joe's questions about the control the Comedy Central had. Obviously, during the third season of the Chappelle Show,

Dave Chappelle walked away from that. It's pretty well known. I don't even know what I'm talking about it really, but he walked away. And, you know, it's like why? And the thought was really that comedy central just kind of came down on him about his language, how he was talking, what he was betraying, and they were it that like advertisers would lose out, blah, blah, blah. And I think this is the dialogue that Joe understood. As far as I understood it, that was as much as I knew. And obviously Joe is like super close to all these different comedians. So I would have thought he really knew where it was coming from.

But Donnell actually explained that he didn't think that comedy central was necessarily putting too much pressure on Dave. And he kind of alludes to that during this conversation and also that, you know, he didn't really ask Dave about it. He was just happy for the friendship and all the rest of it and Dave just needed to go. And, um, and yeah, I, that guy, Dave Chappelle. I've seen him a few times just walking in in the comedy store Obviously when he shows up everyone just lets him does do his thing and he'd be on stage for hours But both Joe and Donnell were talking about just the impact of knowing him how free and Lucy is and how what Where Dave is funny is how he's speaking the truth, but he doesn't hold back and

And most importantly owns it right so there's all this outrage culture and these comedians are concerned about what they're up to and what they're saying But as long as they own it like you know many of the greats Do then you can power through that, you know It's just I guess when these guys get nervous and start kind of apologizing for what they're saying, things get messed up. And that makes sense. I mean, the level of comics that these guys are, it's really interesting for me to hear that and think what the rep against, because you see good comedians, you know, on the television or YouTube or whatever, and you're thinking to yourself, you know, obviously the television or YouTube or whatever, and you're thinking to yourself,

you know, obviously they've worked hard for that. That's incredibly difficult, but you don't think about the jokes they weren't able to use, or the things they weren't able to stay. You know, they have to dial it back and finding that fine line between how far back do you have to dial it to still make it true to you and funny and also how far do you keep it where it's still a little bit outrageous. I mean, it's tough and it must be a weird thing for them too because I wonder if comedians think about how it will hold up in time. Maybe they say something today but in 10 years time it's going to be seen as a really messed up thing to say.

I wonder if they're starting to worry about that. I mean, who knows? But, you know, their point is you've got to be brave with your stand-up and go up after great people. That's another thing that Joe was talking to Don Alabaad is following really good people is very difficult. You know, and he talked about Martin Lawrence in the 90s. I mean, following someone with great energy and that's really good, I mean, it's gonna be very difficult, it's gonna be hard.

Because the crowd has just gone wild for, you know, 20, 30 minutes, and now they're kind of a little bit, like, almost mentally exhausted. So when the new comedian comes on the energy kind of drops and people are kind of done with that much laughing and that's it. They have to pick up that energy. So I'm sure Rogan or any comedian that follows killers learns a great deal. You know, Joe Rogan's talked about it before with Joey Diaz following him and his energy. And if you've ever seen Joey Diaz's comedy and especially if you've seen him live you know exactly what that means. I mean he is something else. He's just so funny, so much energy, he's a powerhouse of comedy and going after him, I mean the audience is almost exhausted. You don't have to go out and just do backflips for 10 minutes, I don't know, it would

be tough. It would be really tough. Joe talks to Donnell about doing a podcast. They get into that and it's very funny. And I think he wanted to call it too soon with Donnell Rollings. But Joe really pushes him for it and lots of points on this. And it's like one of those things. Joe says maybe I say this too much to people but you should start a podcast.

And he thinks that it would be very good at it and also that Donnell might be one of the top podcasts in the country. So as the Donnell is kind of done rating Joe Rogan's weed box that he has he has like a chest full of weed and Donnell is just like holy shit just gets in there and starts taking whatever he wants. just like holy shit, just gets in there and starts taking whatever he wants. Joe once again was like reiterating the value of doing the podcast and it's not just about him as an individual and his name like Donnell Rollings,

people know who he is, so therefore they download his podcast. Joe says it's not about that, it's about the network that they have. So the network is huge and everyone gets a bump. So everyone goes on everyone's show, right? Which is a really cool thing. And Donald points that out.

And he says, this is a huge positive message. And it's like, what Joe is pushing is networks, the idea networks. So I ask yourself in your life, what kind of networks do you have? You know, because Joe says the same thing about comedy. It was like for a while there was like a scarcity idea that there were only a few spots and everything was competition. Well that isolates you, keeps you alone. If you see everything as a network, you see it's everyone's working together that you can learn from everybody, that you can work with everybody and everyone gets a push.

It's like Don L. Rollins went on, but Christy's show recently is Cooking Show and was very funny. That gives, but a jump, a boost. It also gives Don L. a boost. The same is going on Rogan's podcast, but it also gives Rogan a boost because he's a good guest to have. And it's just a really nice message that Joe puts out. Like, obviously, you know, there are people that create conflict and they maybe at your work or in your life or other areas that make you forget about the value of keeping a good network

and getting the positives out of knowing certain people and working together with other people. You know, it gets you out of that mind frame, but they do exist. It is possible. These guys, comics at this level really starting to stick together and they're making a ton of success for themselves. Joe Rogan might be the conduit of it, but a lot of people are getting it down. Aries Shafir has a fantastic podcast. And Joe even says, he says, it's hard when you're alone, right? It's hard when you're struggling, and that makes you feel alone, but you're not. And there is a network of people that want to work

with you out there and to help you get ahead and you help them get ahead. And again, it's just one of those nice positive messages that you get. He says there's no real competition and it's good for everybody. So it's like a community thing, you know, it's just one of those messages that you got to tell yourself in a lot of ways, easy to forget and then just get frustrated. But anyway, this conversation with Joe and Darnell was not only ridiculously funny in parts, but just a real eye-opener in a lot of ways to the life of these comics and these guys on TV and these sorts of things. So, y estos cosas. Así que, por favor, gracias por dialogar y disfrutar de ustedes. ¡Chao! ¡Chao! Tienes derecho a ser libre, a escaparte, a disfrutar de tu tiempo.

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