i called mitzi to tell her what happened
and mitzi was like wow
stay away from them you know i basically
told her the whole story i'm like mitzi
he's stealing comedians material and
doing their closing bits right before he
brings them up on stage
when he's there we flash the light so
that people know that he's in the
audience so you don't do your best
i would just do crowd work and then
tommy would get mad at me all the time
why are you doing yourself i'm not gonna
do my set in front of that guy cause he
was notorious joke thief and there were
comics
a lot of my good buddies would not go on
stage if he was in the room
i remember in the beginning hearing that
a lot
write something so specific that no one
can steal it
then an hour later i get a call from
tommy tell me that i'm banned i go i
just got off the phone with mitzi i go
if mitzi gave me a spot i go she gave me
a spot oh
mitch she didn't know she doesn't
understand she'll understand what the
problem is
i go if you choose that you choose that
path i go i'm not coming back
but why didn't you get him back i
couldn't i wasn't big enough
my stand-up career hadn't taken off the
way his had then everyone got
mad at joe because carlos had his show
that was doing pretty well
with all the the beefing that went on in
the background with a lot of different
comics
everybody built up teams he was very
apprehensive of coming back here because
of the terrible experience like he did
so much for the club he bought he
bought the purchase the sound equipment
in this room and
he gave so much to this club and he
really got the shaft in that whole
fall out when he got thrown out you know
joey diaz and some of the guys that were
like the lifeboat blood of this place
got sent away
and so yeah it went through this dismal
time but the mitzi felt that carlos
macia was going to be the new
paul rodriguez and i think that she
loved paul
so much that she wanted that well carlos
is going to start packing the club out
and like a week later carlos was like
hey don't put my name on the marquee i
don't want people knowing i'm going to
pop in
and then the crowds never came then
there was a slow corrosion
of his reputation and the store slid
all of a sudden it was like the bad part
of hollywood
showed up my agent called me up and they
said we had the same age at me and
mancia and the agent said that i had to
apologize and i said first of all
i'm not go if you're insinuating that i
should apologize to him
or we're not going to work together well
our decisions already made i'm not going
to apologize
and we're not going to work together
because you asked me to apologize to
someone who steals
he used all his power he could just try
to squash
joe even me a guy who was on fear factor
a guy who was relatively successful
still
lost my agent still got banned from the
comedy store that's
why people don't call people out the
banning of joe
in this club was a genuine fuck-up
because he stood
for what was good and so red band did a
show
i think he's called it joe rogan returns
it's like the most
emotional i think i've ever been before
going on stage ever
and then i just did my set had fun and
then i was back
and i said alright i'm back
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