The Comedy Club That Joe Rogan Opened

"It's just like a political thing with nothing more or less than that," he says. "If you're someone who wakes up at seven every day, you're probably just not very funny." He was once hired to do an eight a.m. show for a corporate conference in Seattle. The stand-up comedian stopped filming 20 minutes into the show and asked people to put their phones away. A lot of comedy clubs have similar policies: check your phone at the door; don't be afraid if it doesn't work on you.