Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - The JRE review of 1270 with Lenny Clark

Episode Date: March 28, 2019

Lenny is a comedian from back in the day when Joe first started out as a stand up in Boston. He was a huge influence on Joe and helped him get gigs and pay his rent way back  then. I’m sure we owe Lenny great thanks for getting Joe where he is today. This was a fun conversation between a few really old friends. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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or at a zoo near you. Alright, kids, are we in for a good podcast review today podcast 1270 Lenny Clark old friend of Joe comedian hilarious dude and Quite a wild animal. He sounds like he's done a lot of cocaine. 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 Room View! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? So Lenny is a comedian that was around when Joe started out. Somebody who was able to give Joe work and Joe opened up for him and Joe shows a lot of appreciation for this guy which is pretty awesome.

Again, anytime Joe has these comedians on that he worked with way back in the day in Boston, there's like a kinship, you know, a brotherhood of what sounds like some of the hardest type of stand-up you could ever imagine. I can't believe that any of these guys made it out of there It sounded like the crowds were brutal unforgiving You know they chop you down any chance they got another comedians were not really in the habit of helping you out So it's kind of amazing that that any of those Boston guys made it out But that's maybe why they're so fucking good because they had to go for the gauntlet and then when you hear some of Lenny's Stories and you will on on the podcast with Joe you just like holy shit. Have you even survived? How have you survived? It seems like everything revolved around doing cocaine a lot of blow a lot of blow. I don't know how funny

Cocaine makes people. I don't know. I don't know why funny cocaine makes people. I don't know. I don't know why that seems to go hand in hand. Maybe it just is a reflection of like the wild animal nature of these comics or the unpredictability of them or just their willingness to say, fuck it, let's go. But it certainly gives you a lot of energy, right? So maybe that energy translates a little bit to the stage. But at the same time, it just makes me think it would make you want to fight everybody.

But then again, it may be one of those things where it's just around everyone's doing it. You need the energy to keep going. Maybe you've got another club to do that doing these tiny little podunk places, like the Chinese restaurants and areas where it's just not easy at all to do comedy, the people there are maybe just eating at a restaurant, they don't want to hear it. One bit of the story that Joe said that really stuck out is he wants to have to perform at a place where the mic he was

using was wired into the PA system for the same setup as when they call the tables. So you'd be ready to give your punchline and then they'd be like, you know, Johnson, Party of Two, ready to seat and it would just overpower what you're saying and completely fuck up your line. I've been to some terrible open mics. I cannot imagine that being a setup. It would be unbelievable to like even consider that.

But you know, I guess these guys just do what they did. I mean, they just went ahead and got through it and fuck. Maybe that's why they needed blow just to be able to kind of get on with it. One of my favorite stories told us, Lenny talks about how a Heckler was giving him some shit and he just went into the stage and punched the guy carry it on doing stand up until he won him over again. That would be insane to watch. I would love to watch a show where something like that happened, not that I can do in violence, but seeing an incredibly crazy event like that would be pretty exciting as long as nobody

got too hurt but fucking crazy, right? I mean what a time that must have been. Now these were back in the canister days so canister is a comedian that if you're not aware of you need a Google Google right now stop this YouTube but put them on dudes hilarious. He's got some fantastic lines. He really is a huge inspiration to a lot of comics especially from the Sarah especially for Joe. Joe talks about it a lot, and has a lot to say about Kenis, and no surprise. I mean, when he was in his prime, if you watch his videos online, some of his stuff is just unbelievable. It's so crazy. He's so energized and

loud, and it's like, it really is like nothing else. I mean, the dude's phenomenal. And it's like, it really is like nothing else. I mean, the dude's phenomenal. And yeah, did tons of blood, loads of drinking crazy parties. Lenny talks about one time he left the party with him at a hotel room, came back and there was just people crying, blood everywhere, knowing it's seen canison, it just blow all over the place.

I mean, wild, wild times. This was also the Rodney Dangerfield era. So he helped out a lot of comics up and coming. He's more like a one-liner guy. You're probably familiar with him if you're not getting Google Him. He's got some great one-liners. They're pretty ridiculous. But yeah, he was always kind of wearing a bathrobe, walking around, and from what these guys were saying, he just had a huge death that was just flapping around everywhere. But he was always helping comics out, you know, put him in his shows and movies. If he liked you, he'd put you in in his club and he'd get you set up.

And he was just, you know, one of the powerhouses of the day to really help position some of these guys. So there's a lot of respect out there for him to during that era. And it was, it sounds like it was one of those things where even though there was a limited amount of spots for comics, you know, whether you got your own sitcom or you were doing late night shots, comics weren't necessarily helping each other out all that much from what I understand of this time. I mean Joe especially talks about that and when other comics from from this era come on from Boston they they you know

say similar things but there were a few that did and I think that loyalty really comes through and it should speak today for for comics today that are working together you know it it's better to work together, right? It's better to support each other, encourage each other. That really is the same for almost any industry that you're in. There's no point just making enemies and pushing people out. There's always a space for a talent. If you're good, then you help someone else good,

and you can support each other. And, you know, a lot of times that's how these best guys kind of came out of it. Some of the places that they performed in, there was one time Lenny was talking about how he was performing down in Florida. And he was performing somewhat close to that. And someone paid him in Coke, He took some Coke some money and Ended up somewhere else in Florida like way far away just doing either porting down there or another gig But it really has no idea how he got down there doesn't know how he even

made the Travel like whether he got on a bus or how he got there but ended up at the right spot and was ready to go. And I think he then said that he was either boot off stage or the set went terrible or something else. But again, how he has the balls to have gone through that kind of comedy era and come out the other side. And he's in a hilarious dude. If you listen to his podcast, it's very funny.

He is super energized. He's not doing coke now, but he's got the energy of a guy that is. And he is really funny. He just will not stop brash, you know, but like great. I'd love to see him do some stand-up for sure. Towards the end of their conversation, one of the really cool things is he went out to Guantanamo Bay and he was kind of talking about what the Bay is like

and what is happening out there with the military guys is obviously post 9-11, but he went out there to do some comedy. I guess maybe that's not an OS show, right? I don't know what it would be, but he went out there to do something for the troops. That sounds fucking crazy to go do that. I would not wanna go out there and do some comedy.

I guess it is nice for the troops, but Jesus Christ, not a very happy environment to go out to, but either way, this dude's a legend, a legend of comedy. It was great to hear him talk and get on the episode and you know, really get his name out there a little bit more. It's never too late, right, to get a push.

And if he's in town or in your town anytime soon, go watch him, Lenny Clark. You know, he's huge inspiration to Joe and really gave Joe the start that has allowed him to do the podcast the way he does. So if you're a fan, we all owe Lenny, clock, a little bit of respect there. So anyway, you check it out. Listen to podcasts, it was awesome. Appreciate you guys. A peace. you