Just like jimmy

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He's waaaay too preachy to ever be a funny guy.

What are you talking about? You don't find incessant talk about weed and its legal status in any given state shouted at the audience absolutely hilarious?

Before his head became a smoke-filled kettlebell, he was good. Some early shit. It's still shouty because he was doing a Kinison/Hicks/Rock/early Stanhope thing, but that old material was densely written, not say-keyword-and-pause-for-WOOOOOOOOOOOO! style. He has some well-made bits now, but his overall thing has gone to hell. Happens.

Dude that whole album was fucking great. All of his other work though...

Good point. I liked his set, but I saw him in 2006.

West Coast comedy in general is not funny.

But he's from Boston, the same age as the greatest crop of comics ever IMO: Louis, Burr, Patrice, DiPaolo, Dane Cook, Stanhope, etc

I like how you just casually tossed Dane Cook's name in that group of all-star comics....

They are all in the same age group and were all at the same clubs in the 90's... During which time Dane was the biggest. And then he turned into the biggest comic in the world. I'm not a fan of him either but his name belongs there when someone mentions that group of comics from Boston.

lol dane cook
what are you an ovulating high school girl on myspace?

And he's been living in LA for the past 20 years :(

I find that whole deathsquad stuff painfully unfunny.

Is deathsquad even a thing anymore? I thought basically all the podcasters left to join all things comedy or stuff like that.

that hack comedian that runs deathsquad should quit comedy, only reason he's where he's at is because of rogan

These are my exact thoughts. He's very interesting and smart, he's a great interviewer but I always thought his standup was severely lacking. Not terrible but not really good either. Overall Im pro-Joe Rogan. His shows good and he always has funny people on.

Also I despise the pretentious, know it all pothead fans he breeds. I don't hate Joe either, just don't think he's THAT great and his fans are douches. Exactly the way I feel about the band Tool.

Tool fans are infuriating.

As a tool fan, I agree. There are members of the audience who think listening to the band makes you smarter than everyone else, or they act like it's a religion. It's a fucking rock band, you dimwits. At the last show I saw live, I had to cringe at about 75% of the audience for being complete fucking douchebags. About 15% of the crowd where completely cool people. The rest were just the usual concert crowd.

They all just ingest psilocybin and croon over the vague esoteric lyrics.

I mean, that goes for literally hundreds of bands.

it's not vague lyrics. think for yourself and question authoirty is pretty obvious

... But when they look at Maynard as an authority figure and kind of think like him instead of thinking for themselves... It's really contradictory to the "message".

I think Tool is highly overrated.

Listen to the woooooooords maaaaaaaaaan

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I love blowing aTool fans mind by convincing them that Maynard would despise them and they're sheep-ish nature just on principle alone.

And Maynayrd is such a great guy to look up to, a real Ray of fucking sunshine...

He was actually really cool on the last few podcasts I've heard him on. I'm not really a Tool fan, but he seemed upbeat, funny, laid back, not a weirdo at all.

Yeah, hearing about how viable and sensible it is to start a wine farm in a desert isn't weird and pretentious.

I especially liked when he didn't have an opinion on anything.

K

Also I despise the pretentious, know it all pothead fans he breeds

Don't forget about conspiratards

I agree. You can also tell when he has been listening to Hedburg, Hicks, Kinison or Stanhope, he basically switches through a plastic version of all 4 personas with a little DIaz influence sprinkled in.

LIstening to his podcast, its obvious how his thought stream works, he says something silly, someone makes an astute funny observation, Joe tags it with something stupid and now its Joe's joke and you'll probably hear a derivative version in week.

He's also not very smart, well he seems smart to below average people because he reads the headlines of articles with long words in them but he isn't very logical at all. It's not a very funny combination to have a stupid person who also takes themselves extremely seriously.

Yes he takes himself too seriously meanwhile spouting Wikipedia information. It like a man preparing a tv dinner in the microwave, who says: look what I made man! Meanwhile someone else did all the thinking and preparing.

A chemical called dimethyltryptamine and 11 hydroxy thc produced in your liver.

Thanks "professor Rogan" from the university of wikipedia.

The new special was really quite unpleasant to watch... he does these voices that are stolen from Dave Chappelle, Anthony Cumia, and something that sounds like Carlos Mencia ..?

He does sound like Carlos Mencia because Mencia stole a lot of his style from Joe, hence Joe's anti-Mencia video and rants. He talked about seeing Mencia all over LA at his different spots, and feeling uncomfortable with it.

i'm a douchey west coast stoner and I always thought Rogan was better than average.

upvoted for self-awareness, the rarest of commodities

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I don't think he's a natural comedian like a lot of the other Boston comics. He's just the type of guy that goes obsessively into whatever activity he has an interest in. Works very well for martial arts and other activities but for comedy you can only get so good without that natural talent.

It just shows that as long as you try hard and carry yourself like a proper stand-up, you can have a career doing it even when your jokes are pretty poor.

thank you for the update. It will be noted.

I want to like him, because he's held in high esteem by the comedians i like, but the podcast is a snorefest!!- one laugh per hour. He tries to kick too much knowledge, rather than going for the laugh.

I cannot stand his voice either. The thick-tongued voice is unlistenable. He Probably shouldn't smoke weed before/ during the show.

I saw him this year on my birthday for the first time. I do love Rogan, but I was surprised how um...not as funny he was as I would have expected?

To make it worse, he headlined after Bill Burr got up and A) Destroyed a room like no one I've ever seen, except a time Jay Mohr showed up to an open mic, and B) Delivered the single funniest set I've ever heard in my life. The muscles in my face hurt from laughing so hard, I've never had that happen. I was laughing so hard I was getting uncomfortable.

Joe gets up after and you can just feel the energy in the room roll back about 50%, it was weird. It reminded me of that thing Bruer always says about GNR going up after Metallica on the 91 tour.

True.

Some of the bigfoot stuff made me laugh, but yeah, not that great.

I do think it was his best special so far, perhaps a low bar, I know. I enjoyed it though and have no issue supporting Joe after the hours upon hours of free entertainment he's provided.

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If Joe wasn't so self obsessed, he'd probably be a little funnier (and likeable in general) but I don't care for the whole 'scream shit obnoxiously into a mic' style of stand up nor do I like people that always have to be right on every subject like Joe.

I've seen him live, back before he was banned at the laugh factory. It was a good show. I wasn't falling out of my chair, but it was a good set.

I agree that west coast comedy is inferior to east coast comedy.

Joe Rogan is not naturally funny for a comedian. He wasn't born with a comic's wit. He is, however, one of the best and most interesting people of that ilk. He's done a lot with a little.

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Go to r/joerogan with that shit

you can't even make posts on that subs, its links only.

the place is a locked down shithole.

The same can't be said about your mother's.

Well that sucks.. But joe rogans comedy does not

I loved his woods and a hatchet joke from 2006 but haven't like much else.

How am i getting downvoted for liking joe rogan. I thought everyone here liked him

How is Rogan's mom's shithole? Is it nice? (We checked our shitters lately?)

That sub is awful man, last time I went there they were all posting fat hating threads

Stand up comedy sucks a dick. This is something every comedian and comedy fan knows deep down, but pretends isn't true.

Of all stand up comedy, even of all stand up comedy that is widely considered "great" or "the best", only about 10% can actually make you laugh out loud.

Pryor isn't actually "ha ha" funnny. Neither is Carlin. If you watch a special by Dave Attell, Doug Stanhope, Bob Kelly, Tom Papa, Jerry Seinfeld, Sherrod Small, Keith Robinson, Nick DiPaolo, Rich Vos, Bonnie Macfarlane, Joe Derosa, Tosh, Anthony Jeselnik, etc, you will most likely not even laugh once.

The only comedians who can actually produce multiple out loud laughs with their act SOMETIMES are Louis CK, Bill Burr, Patrice and occasionally Colin.

Comedians are funny. Comedy isn't. Its time to accept this and stop throwing the term "great comic" and "very funny comic" around willy nilly.

You're not far off. A comedian's off the cuff line while riffing on O&A can often be WAY funnier than their actual stand-up special.

awesome broadcaster? lol

K