Joe Rogan SHOCKED By Chuck Palahniuk's Stories

oh my god that's another thing not to talk about my books are banned so many places and and sometimes I think that maybe that's a good thing because it they aren't reaching the psychos my books are banned in prison systems what because they are enormous ly popular these Prison librarians tell me but the books are considered way too stimulating so why people in prison cannot read my books holy [ __ ] all prisons I don't know if it's all but it's Texas and a number of other really big states so I don't know that's kind of a badge of honor yeah but it doesn't equate to like the the immortality of being banned like a howl or a tropic of cancer or Salman Rushdie yeah exactly yeah oh god that [ __ ] struggle man the struggle of wanting to express yourself as as freely as possible but being limited even by your own peers that is that's unexpected to someone who's on the outside of literature someone just reads it because it's not in the comedy world what is in the comedy world but not amongst good comedians well another aspect of that is that so often people aren't censoring it because it offends them they're censoring it because they're afraid it will offend someone they know they're doing it they're kind of white knighting on behalf of someone else David Sedaris told me this story about telling a joke or something very funny about a girl in a wheelchair and how he looked out in the audience and no one was laughing they were all looking at a girl in a wheelchair and the moment she started to laugh the entire audience started to laugh oh yeah and so so often people in a workshop they might not personally feel offended by the word but they're thinking how that word might hurt people they know but yeah that's a fact yeah that's a that's a an issue in comedy if you if someone's telling a joke of someone's onstage talking about someone who's fat and there's a fat person in the front row that joke will bomb yeah it just yeah but that's because people are good people overall you know they were recognized that they don't want to cause pain another really odd comic David Sedaris story is it he always told me when you're on the road don't read from your current book always read from the next book piece it's the way of road testing the stories and finding out which ones work and should go into the next book and in doing so he was telling this story about being in this this forensic laboratory as and as an autopsy was taking place and this autopsy table was adjacent to this this huge indoor window that separated the autopsy suite from this lunch room and in the lunch room were the rest of the forensic staff they're all eating their lunches they all had tuna sandwiches and and cans of coke and barbecued potato chips and they were watching through the window as this absolutely perfect twelve-year-old boy was being autopsy and just hours before this kid like two hours before this kid had been riding his bicycle he'd fallen over he'd hit his head on the curb and now two hours later he was dead and dead without almost a scratch on him just this perfect naked dead twelve-year-old boy on the autopsy table and as he the technicians eating their lunch watching it through a window the daywatch as the as the pathologist incises around the top of the kid's face at the top of the forehead the hairline and then peels the face down like peeling an orange peels the entire face off of the skull of this little boy and leaves the face around the neck like a mask like a rubber mask and this exposes this liver colored dark red musculature of the child's underlying face and this one guy watching it with a mouthful of tuna sandwich he points this out and he says see that that dere that's the color of red that I want to paint our rec room holy [ __ ] and when Sedaris told that story in front of 600 people it was dead silent and you could hear people weeping people were crying and they were hating David Sedaris in that moment and so on I had to laugh I laughed really loud like a dog and it was amazing how they hatred in that auditorium swung from hating David who they did not want to hate to hating this jackass over here who was actually laughing and so I threw myself on the sword for David and that story never went in any book Wow did the story not go in any book just because the reaction by the audience or just an uncomfortable moment he just decided he speak to him about it no I did not afterwards it was just such an awkward painful thing I would never had to throw it back in his face well to my knowledge that was the only time the story was told to have those like scattered about are these are their scenes what you wrote and you just sat and looked at him and went no I just got to put that one somewhere else oh there that that aside jokes that I told where I got hissed by 800 people and you know and you can live through those moments you realize you can live through a lot you can be hated by 1,100 people at a Barnes & Noble on Union Square oh yeah you can be hated by your mother it's okay now when those people come to see you how many of those people are fans of literature and how many of those people are specifically fans of your work like there's there would be a difference like the people or fans of your work would at least expect some uncomfortable moments and for the most part that tend to be more or less just fans of my work mmm and still still hiss oh yeah but it's again they're hissing on behalf of someone they're not hissing up for themselves you know I made this horrible cheap shot and they always know a cheap shot people always know a cheap shot I I was commenting about how in Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote had made this observation that Americans don't like true beauty true classical natural beauty they want to see a very plain person who has been so groomed so exercised so made up so style stylized that she can kind of pass as this this amazing strange beauty that's what Americans want because natural classic beauty is not a gala terian you're either born with it or you're not hmm they want to see a plain person who has been transformed and to make my point at the end of the story I made a cheap shot I said and that's why we have Sarah Jessica Parker and I said this in New York in New York Sarah Jessica Parker is worshipped like a God and that whole crowd hissed and booed and did everything but throw excrement at me Wow but then later in line half of them came up and whispered that was really funny yeah that's well that's one of the things about dark comedy clubs you want the dark know you don't want everyone illuminated like the one the the crowd is like the one this is one of the real issues with doing a comedy special is that especially the old way they used to do them they still like to light up the audience which completely changes the dynamic of the the room changes what you'll laugh and what you won't laugh at you know a scene like this Erica Sarah Jessica Parker joke it's a perfect example like you don't want to be caught dead being the one person that throws their head back in the house and that you know cheap shots they're just to stay away from them but that's another I'll ask you ask you a question you know with so many colleges becoming these kind of strident safe places that demand their own aesthetic what is it like doing comedy well it hasn't changed that much people getting a little got a little bit more sensitive because they're aware that other people are more sensitive with the audience's that come to nightclubs which is primarily where I perform if I do a theater those people were there to see me so that's there they're usually pretty loose pretty fun but if you're in a nightclub they're there to see especially the comedy storm only good things about the Comedy Store is there's literally two dozen people on the line out there not necessarily just here to see you they're there to see Anthony Jeselnik and Chris D'Elia and all these other comedians that are also there as well so you get a much broader comedy audience but their nightclub audiences they have a few drinks in them maybe they smoked a little pot before they got there those people there to have a good time colleges are a nightmare now it's a nightmare because it's recreational outrage it's it's kids who have been under the control of their parents for most of their life and haven't had their own sovereignty and identity and now they're free and they are very quick to be outraged they want to porn out their moral superiority there was a virtue signal and every opportunity they want to shut down anything to think is air quotes problematic they don't want things to go on a bad when they think for some reason that comedy should be uplifting and it should only punch up like I had this conversation once with a professor who wrote a book on comedy and he said all great comedy punches up and I said that's [ __ ] I said one of the greatest bits of all time is Sam Kinison spit about starving children in Africa about watching those commercials we're starving kids are in Africa and you know and they couldn't you please help and he goes in you know and kinnison's like you just want to grab the guy hey why don't you help them you're right [ __ ] there or send something like me you go send something like me it's gonna take these people go hey we just drove here 5,000 miles with your food and it occurred to us you wouldn't be world hungry if you people would live or the [ __ ] food is he goes clear you see that that's and we got saying in America - we just don't live so he's built he goes in one of the greatest bits of all time is literally about starving babies in Africa it's one of the greatest bits of all time and he didn't have anything to say he didn't know where to go with it don't don't say comedy is only about punching up that's crazy talk that's what you're doing is you're there's there's a this moral thing that they're trying to achieve that literally is completely independent of humor it's not what's funny it's like they're they they want to they want it to be a a multi-purpose tool they want it to be funny as well as morally uplifting and great for people who are discriminated against and amazing for folks who are marginalized and uplifting for those who are disenfranchised well that's not what comedy is what comedy is is funny those things are wonderful in turn if you want to do a spoken word show or poetry or writing or you know a one-person play those are great but that's not funny comedy is funny so it's either funny or it's not funny and some things are funny that are [ __ ] up you know Kinnison had a bit about homosexual necrophiliacs who are paying money to spend a few hours undisturbed but the freshest male corpses and he's so he would lie down on his stomach and he goes you imagine these people there on the slabs like well I went through life and had a good time and everything and now I guess I'm gonna go and be with Jesus and hey what the hell is this and he's rocking back and forth feels like some guy's got his dick in my ass you mean life keeps [ __ ] you in the ass even after you're dead it never ends it never ends oh you would close on it because it was that he couldn't follow it it was such a powerful bit it's about a dead guy getting [ __ ] in the ass there is no further down that you could punch other than starving babies in Africa you know and I'm not sure about if this is punching down but do you remember the the routine that kind of put Whoopi Goldberg on the map a million years ago about being a black surfer chick no oh you know she did it on television I must have seen it on cable when I was like 19 years old but she talks in Valley speak nobody's seen this will be person before she's brand-new nobody's ever seen her on television she's got this funny name and she's doing this Val speak about being the only black surfer chick on the beach and she loves surfing and she loves this one white surfer guy and she finally hooks up with him and then she'd realized that she's pregnant and it's all very funny the whole front end you're just roaring with laughter and then she's pregnant and she doesn't know what to do so she gets a rusty wire coat hanger and she goes into a public bathroom on the beach and she gives herself a coat hanger abortion and it spills out there on the concrete floor and everything's okay and now I'm back on the beach and I'm just doing fine and and why don't you come on down and see me here on the beach it's great down here it's great oh [ __ ] it's a fantastic piece and she did it on television if she did it on TV and it started so light like an IRA Levin novel and then it went to such a dark horrible place and then it came up with just this kind of token everything is okay ending every I'm gonna be all right don't worry this is just something to happen that just leaves you shaken and that's the kind of comedy I love know where it goes to that dark or that sentimental place and it breaks your heart and then it kind of comes out of a little bit but I are eleven to death so well Nora Ephron in her books she was so good at doing that heartburn heartburn is fantastically funny but by the end you're just weeping the book is so sad

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Published: Wed Aug 22 2018