Joe Rogan Experience #193

Joe Rogan: There’s been a few instances, uh, in the past where there was a guy that was kind of like clearly plagiarizing another guy and then, you know, one guy became famous with other people’s shit. It’s happened more than once. And we’ve all the real pain and frustration of watching someone do somebody else’s material where you know that they’re stealing and they’re not compensating them… they’re just stealing. And it was like a Wild West thing. It was like no one was doing anything about it and it was a… to treat it like it was no big deal… you’re absolutely crazy. It’s the core of someone’s ability to perform on stage… is having great material.

Jim Gaffigan: It’s their life. It’s their life.

JR: You could be the best comic in the world and if you have nothing to say on stage, for that moment, if you go on stage and you having nothing prepared and you have nothing to say you’re fucked. Its not going to be good. You need premises, you need material and so to pretend that it wasn’t a big deal… that the industry was treating it like it wasn’t a big deal, and we were like, “this is crazy… you’ve got an insane person…”

JG: I told you that night what you did was very important. I mean it was very important.

JR: Well for us, it had to happen. It had gotten to a point where everyone was just turning a blind eye to it because they were profiting off of it. And that’s what happens when a person becomes successful… and is a plagiarist. If it was any other form of art, you know writing, writing would be super clear, I mean the guy would go to jail. You know if it was music, they would take all your money. If they can prove you have the same beats and you’re copying it, they take all your fucking money.

JG: And we’re not talking about similar premises…

JR: Which we all have…

JG: Which is always going to happen.

Joe Rogan Experience #193