Joe Rogan
When I first went onstage I even had a suit jacket on with the sleeves rolled up because that's what I saw on TV or at the Improv that everybody did.Collection: Saws
I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.Collection: Mind
What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond).Collection: Character
You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.Collection: People
I love coming to D.C. I think it's a very unusual city. It's so fascinating that it's this weird place that everything thinks of as the capital of the country, there is so much international business, political stuff that is connected to that part of the country that it has a very charred atmosphere.Collection: Country
Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.Collection: Fun
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town.Collection: Depressing
Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.Collection: Art
Sometimes faggot is the right word. There's a trend in this country to avoid words: "We can't say that one anymore it's offensive."Collection: Country
I think stand is better now than it's ever been. I think it's the greatest time ever to do standup comedy.Collection: Thinking
Like any tool [drugs] can help you or hurt you.Collection: Hurt
I always do that at the end of shows, like a Q&A session. First of all it lets people know that this isn't some preprogrammed, press-play show where I have to say the exact same words in the exact same order. That's part of the thing with live comedy is that people like the fun aspect of it and I enjoy the taking questions part.Collection: Fun
Anytime we go to a new town I try to book a show. I literally know nothing about the club.Collection: Book
Also I can come up with new bits - people yell stuff out and it's a new subject or a subject that I've been thinking about that I haven't done onstage yet and I'll just run with it.Collection: Running
I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't have many comedy clubs where they are organizing more comedy nights in bars. I just think this is a fantastic time for stand up.Collection: Night
When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.Collection: Jerry
It's not necessarily a brave thing, people talk about what they think about. There's people out there who love to talk about politics or where they think the countries headed. I don't talk about that I talk about...things that are a little trippier.Collection: Country
If Tyson Griffin was a girl, I'd say he has a badonkadonk.Collection: Girl
Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.Collection: Civilization
The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.Collection: Mma
For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.Collection: Mma
Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.Collection: Hero
The quicker we all realize that we've been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn't value invented borders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of a happier more loving humanity.Collection: Live Life
Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.Collection: Teaching
People are scared man, they're scared of the void.Collection: Men
Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.Collection: Moving
Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.Collection: Earth
If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.Collection: Taken
You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.Collection: Mma
So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.Collection: Passion
I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.Collection: Church
If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.Collection: Thinking
We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.Collection: Another Life
Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"Collection: Moving
Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.Collection: Clothes
We live in a society that makes it really easy for these pussies to get by.Collection: Pussy
If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip everCollection: Real
I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.Collection: Thinking
It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.Collection: People
If you're dumb enough to do crack, you're supposed to die. It's evolution.Collection: Dumb
You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.Collection: Heart
Choose To Be Inspired.Collection: Mma
People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.Collection: Kings
No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.Collection: Girl
People love to see people fall.Collection: Fall
It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.Collection: Marijuana
Maybe we can combine 2 things that everybody loves. Helping out the poor and blow jobs.Collection: Jobs
I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that's the reward that you get for that.Collection: Mma