The Joe Rogan Experience - #2564 - Chuck Lorre

Chuck Lorre is a writer, producer, and director behind numerous hit television series, including "The Big Bang Theory," "Two and a Half Men," "Young Sheldon," and "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe." He is an inductee of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has received multiple Golden Globe Awards, the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Television, several BMI Television Music Awards, and the Critics' Choice Award for Creative Achievement, among others. His new book, "Sitcom: A Memoir," is available now.https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sitcom-chuck-lorrehttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521143/https://chucklorre.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Watch Chris Pratt in The Terminal List Season 2, October 21 on Prime. Pre-order and get campaign early access! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Broadcast on: 13 Oct 2026
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Chuck Lorre is a writer, producer, and director behind numerous hit television series, including "The Big Bang Theory," "Two and a Half Men," "Young Sheldon," and "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe." He is an inductee of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has received multiple Golden Globe Awards, the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Television, several BMI Television Music Awards, and the Critics' Choice Award for Creative Achievement, among others. His new book, "Sitcom: A Memoir," is available now.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sitcom-chuck-lorre
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0521143/
https://chucklorre.com

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It was at the Singer Ball in 1969. Jimi Hendrix was the headliner, the experience right after Monterey, and Janice Jafflin and the holding company, big brother in the holding company was the warmup act. Wow, what was that like? Well for starters, we bribed a little security guard to get in, me and my friends. I think we gave him $2 a piece, and we walked right up to this stage and watched, like, right there. That was my first, I guess I got to start drinking southern comfort, because she's making it look pretty good. When I worked with Phil Hartman on News Radio, one of his favorite stories was he was like a stage hand at the whiskey, and Hendrix performed, and it was his job to stand with his hand on the speaker, because he was worried that Hendrix would knock the speaker into the crowd, and I guess it was just not very stable. So he said he was literally standing there with his hands on the speaker with Hendrix two feet away from him playing guitar. Early on, he would destroy his equipment, like the who would do as well. They'd tear up the amps, he'd set the guitar on fire, you know, and you know, I'm 15, 16 years old going, oh man, don't, don't set the, oh, give me the guitar, don't set it on fire. Don't smash the guitar. Please, no. The guitar was back then. Yeah, yeah, it was, it was an expensive way to end a show, but that's what was happening. It just was a, I guess it was just a wild rock and roll thing. It was amazing. A rebellion thing. It was an amazing time to be a kid watching that stuff. Well, it's such a crazy time in human history. I mean, it was one, it's one of the weirdest times in all of culture. If you take the difference in the culture of the 1950s to the culture of the late 1960s, it's like just an insane shift. Like one of the most insane shifts that was so radical and so big, it happened so fast. It was a response to the 50s. Yeah. It was that and the Vietnam War and drugs, all the above, all of them psychedelic drugs, everything all together. And the birth control bill. Yes. That changed everything. Yes. Yes. Very good point. Yeah. Very good point. Yeah. Gave women freedom. As well, it did the same for men. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Everybody could just do whatever the fuck they want and end their doing drugs at the

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