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Joe Rogan can fuck right off for all the reasons. But first let's jam some dirty gym socks in his mouth to shut him the fuck up.
Are you sure that weirdo won't get off on that?
Roughly quoting Jay Mohr from his recent interview on Bobby Lee's Tigerbelly podcast:
"How Joe Rogan became the arbiter of what is funny is beyond me... all the times Joe Rogan has made us laugh... "
Joe Rogan has gotta be one of the least funny "comedians" in the game at the moment. I wish his relevancy would've peaked with Fear Factor.
What's funny is that I genuinely didn't know he was a comedian until reading your post. I always knew him as some Alex Jones tier Podcaster.
I don't really hear about Rogan very often any more. Thank Buddha. But it blows my mind that he's still super popular. The average person sucks.
I only really knew one of his stand up routines and thought it was alright for what it was. I learned about his podcast and that it was supposedly good, but i had no way of listening to it. Then it was on Spotify and i listened to the bob lazar episode and ho-ly, no idea how he ever got popular AT ALL. I have more understanding for people who listen to Ben Shapiro
Times like this, I really miss George Carlin.
Rogan’s entire career was predicated on the normalisation of reactionary right-wing beliefs/prejudices. He was the motte to the bailey of the Thiels and Bannons, easing perfectly normal dudes along the path, one casual joke at the expense of minorities at a time. And for a while it worked, to the point where Spotify bet the company on him. And then, the word “weird” entered the discourse, and people realised that casual cruelty and obsessing about strangers’ genitals weren’t the time-honoured values of a silent majority.
It would suck to be holding Spotify shares right now.
And then, the word “weird” entered the discourse, and people realised that casual cruelty and obsessing about strangers’ genitals weren’t the time-honoured values of a silent majority.
Eh, we'll see. I remember a lot of people thinking "#MeToo" was going to put a hard stop to sexual harassment in the workplace. And, for a brief moment, it did look like our social norms and criminal justice system would maybe do the right thing. But then the reactionaries got even more reactionary. Now we're debating whether rape victims should bleed out on a hospital floor during an ectopic pregnancy while doctors huddle around fearful of losing their licenses if they try to provide treatment.
Joe Rogan isn't going away. If anything, his fascist dogwhistling seems to be bringing in more and more rabid dogs to his cult community in Austin, TX. My home state has never felt more fucked than it does today. Old enough to remember when "Keep Austin Weird" was charming. Not so much anymore.
We don't need to care about him. Bad comedians with shitty world views are a dime a dozen. He's famous because he communicates well and not because his ideas are worth attention or respect.
Actually he got famous for making people eat animal testicle for money, that's what made him a household name.
When was the last time you even had a special before this? I thought he stopped doing comedy like in 2010. It's been a while. And he was a failed comedian. Like that's why he got into everything else. He wasn't very good at it.
That's the worse. I loved comedian Rogan during the 2000s-2010s. He used to make jokes about being a idiot, and accepting that. The past few years have been a nightmare. Bill Burr calling him out on his contradictions is gold. Rogan continues to spiral into hack territory.
UFC really morphed him into being a guy with awful takes, and his fandom caused his ego to grow. His podcast continues to create disingenuous arguments that riles up the fanbase. Like he'd bring up a topic, but then only invite one perspective and fully let them run wild and even agreeing with them, while dismissing the truth. Even when he gets fact checked, he shrugs and goes, "woops", as if he didn't just spend a few hours calling for hostility about something he doesn't understand.
His "I'm a idiot" shtick doesn't work anymore when he keeps control of the narrative and is intellectually dishonest.
Imo, Joe Rogan is as dumb as shown in this thumbnail.
Idiots are fine and all, but people should definitely not be taking cues from them
Toxic meathead with a gigantic microphone. Worst fucking case scenario. Jamie, pull that up.
He's never been a good comedian. Podcaster alright but his jokes were dogshit pre-covid, it seems that no one tells him though.
He's been doing a Sam kinison impression since his careers start. Always odd that none of the comedians have said anything
Holy shit, a double whammy! Weird Vance discussed gay sex with his grandma, and Weird Musk permanently deleted a picture from the internet forever.
"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe younger, and I stumbled upon a broadcast by some fire-and-brimstone preacher. The man spoke about the evils of homosexuals, how they had infiltrated our society, and how they were all destined for hell absent some serious repenting. At the time, the only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women. This described me perfectly: I disliked girls, and my best friend in the world was my buddy Bill. Oh no, I'm going to hell."
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as "Mamaw" — she replied bluntly: "Don't be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you're gay?"
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
"JD, do you want to suck dicks?" she said, according to the book.
The young Vance, apparently "flabbergasted," said: "Of course not!"
"Then you're not gay. And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay," she replied. "God would still love you."
Remember when he used to present Fear Factor? He was alright at that, not a stand up though
I agree that he wasn't that funny. But it was also really tame. I don't remember it being "gay sex obsessed". I don't understand why people care so much about him. He's really just extremely average.
He may be extremely average, but he's also one of the top podcast hosts and platforms a lot of harmful stuff. That's why people (who are against him) care. I don't know why people like him though.
He caters to the average right wing npc with lower than room temperature IQ
The demographic is pretty large.
It's so crazy how this show is basically the exact same shit the exact same type of guy would have done 10, 20, 30 years ago with the exact same jokes. The only difference is the post-covid brainworms and the context of the transphobia being presented as a losing ideology. Kinda mindblowing that this dude is a couple years from AARP eligibility and still talking like he's in middle school. That sucks.
Every time you read the next part of his "act" you think you can't roll your eyes any harder, but then you can
It's not a weird competition!
Everyone can be weird in their own way... just some should never be in charge of anything ever...
Using "weird" about a comedian actually risks the whole gambit IMO. You start calling everyone weird, maybe it's just you who is the unusual person calling everyone who disagrees with you weird.
The whole point of the attack is that the weird people are not acceptable elected officials. Keep it to people who are trying to get elected.
Imo it isn't great anyway. I'm fucking weird, and I've been working my whole life to turn "weird" into a good thing rather than something for 90s bullies to use to call you retarded (along with retarded itself). In 6mo "weird" is going to be synonymous with "nazi." Austin TX is gonna have to change their slogan lol.
I noticed him on my Netflix just now.
Thumbs downed the lot on principle. I ain't watching that shit.
...is he closeted gay? Gays who know about closeted gays, please enlighten me.
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