Uncover Your PASSION and Turn It into Purposeful ACTION | Bert Kreischer EP 401

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:13Every funny guy from high school and college, none of them are doing anything right now that I know of. How did you become who you are where most people from high school and college who are the funniest person in the room don't do that? Very short answer is I think humility. In college, I was probably the funniest guy in the room. There was a bunch of really funny guys. a bunch that tried to get into stand-up. Really? Yeah, yeah, but tried it, but they were like, they didn't do well and then their ego shut them down. I mean, the funniest guys a lot of times are like the athlete who just it's not funny.

0:50He's just the loudest, biggest, slapped a guy in the back of the neck, everyone laughs because no one's like, that's the energy. And I'm not saying I wasn't that guy. I wasn't that guy, but like, I was an athlete. In college, I was a frat boy. I was like a meathead and I'm sure a lot of my laughs were at the expense of other people at times. But when I got to New York and there was this thing of my ego was shutting me down of like, not like, I didn't want to, I didn't want to put myself out there, really be vulnerable and say like, I want to be funny. How do I do this? Like, can someone help me?

1:19Cause I was funny. I knew I was funny, but you got to go like, I got to learn. I want to learn. But there's an art to stand up and comedy versus a group of five buddies and telling jokes and just having people laugh at you. I mean, let's be honest with the guys I grew up with, just calling your friend gay. Right. That was People laugh. That was the sense of humor. Right. Look at him. Look at this shirt. You know, like, and it doesn't translate. You got to figure out how to write a joke and learn how to write a joke and learn how to learn stage presence, learn how to think quick on your feet. There's a lot.

1:45Be comfortable on stage. There's a lot of that that goes on. And then after you get all that, you got to find your voice. How did you find your voice? And was it different than what you were in college for those years? So what's interesting is that I had my natural voice the very first time I got on stage. Really? I have 100%. What happened is I moved to New York and comedy wasn't doing what my natural voice was. I was more of a storyteller and New York was very set up punch, very crowd worky, very quick on your feet, very, very improv-y, but like trick improv. Like you ask someone a question, but you already have the punch line.

2:23And then you can like trick people to think you came up with it on the fly. And it was like that. And so I had to learn that and I had to learn crowd work. and then I moved to LA and I got further away from my voice as I learned real set up punch. Like, you know what cops hate when you touch their faces. And then that was me and then I took it on the road and I got a little better but I was always sort of derivative of what else you were seeing and I think that was a lot of us comics. I think podcasting helped me find my voice. Really? Yeah. But you started in 2012, right? Well, I started whenever Rogan started.

2:53I started doing my podcast like a couple years after Rogan but I started doing Rogan's podcast when he's, you know, right, the first year he was doing it. Yeah. And I remember going in with jokes to do his podcast the first time. Interesting. And this was like 10 years ago or something, right? This is 12 years ago? It's going to be 13. And this is my impression of Joe. Huh? Because you don't tell a joke to another comedian. You would never run. I'd never fly a joke by you. Or I might go like, hey, let me ask you. Have you heard something like this? I'll do that. But I would never like really tell you a joke as a comic.

3:27Why not? It just isn't, it's not, that is against the law in our business. What are the unwritten rules in comedy? You do not, you do not on a bit buy another comic and think they're not going to catch it or smell it. Like, I remember Patrice O 'Neill, someone was doing a bit and he goes, are you doing a bit to me right now? You think I'm going to sit and listen to a bit? Wow. Out in front of the club, do it on stage, don't do it in front of me. Gross. I told Rogan a bit about on his show. on his show. I said it, and then I watched it start to fall apart. And then I was like, I was like, I was like, you know, never mind.

4:04He was like, no, no, tell me. Drop it in the story. Whatever. No, no, finish it. I go, I don't think you'd like it. And he goes, tell me. Why not? Why would I like it? Joe is like, Joe's like my wife, just brutally honest. And you're like, good God, I'm so uncomfortable. No, no, tell me. And then I told it to him and he goes, I like it. And I was like, okay, this is not jokes. This is not morning radio. This is going to be two friends talking and having a conversation. And so I started developing bits based on a real authentic conversation like I would have had in high school, like I would have had in college, like I did the first time on stage and then I got known for a little bit I was like, hey, next time I'm on, do you want me to tell you about the time I got involved with the Russian Mafia?

4:37And he's like, wait, what? I was like, I'll tell you when next time I'm on. That's a good promo. And then a week later, he's like, dude, you gotta come on and tell me the story. So then that's when I found my authentic voice.

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