I only liked his last special triggered. Everything before that i agree is garbage

Netflix made segura but i get your point. Aris stand up sucks but i like his podcast. Diaz is a great guest on shows. But not a great comic, people like hitchcliff and redban are the worst though idk why he likes them. Joes podcast is great but he picks the worst friends lol

He likes people who suck because he sucks. If he had somebody with talent in his clique they'd be the star of it because more than faggots in Affliction shirts would like them. Like let's say Doug Stanhope lived in Los Angeles and was in the Deathsquad (what kind of faggot gives his comedian clique a name like that?) nobody would give a shit about Joe because Stanhope is incredibly talented.

what kind of faggot gives his comedian clique a name like that?

Opie gave them that name and they ran with it. True story

Yup it all makes sense now! I believe the exact quote was when Joe was coming in studio years ago when they first got on XM and Joe came in with two MMA fighters and Opie goes "Here come's Rogan with the deathsquad"

hitchcliff and redban are the worst

Anybody that read this comment and didn't upvote is a tard. Tony Hitchcliff (hinchcliff? who fuckin cares.) is such a SHIT comedian.

i listened to rogan's end of the world podcast from election night. stanhope&bill obviously killed throughout the entire four hours, but the fucking 'golden pony' tony hinchcliff fucking brought it to a complete stop every single time he'd chirp in. very opie-esque.

Oh that was brutal man. But admit it Joe was fucking awful then too. I think he was just hammered/high but when he pulled that white knight shit and called out Bill Burr for saying "pussy" in a derogatory way when he knew the context, just to get brownie points from the unfunny cunt comedian on stage I physically got goosebumps from douche chills.

that may have been bill's peak - shutting down sara tiana and morgan murphy. i used to be an ardent listener/follower of everything ol freckles did, but i watched his last special and it just felt...different. ive tried explaining to other bill fans around me that he's changed his comedy ('yeah but he shits on hillary too!') but thank god i wasnt alone in this feeling.

i listen to jre for the guest, not the host. alex jones, jordan peterson? yes. eddie bravo solo? begrudgingly and only to kill three hours.

also interesting that you can always tell what level of celebrity/power/stature joe is at on the pecking order based on the guest and length of the episode. case in point - jamie foxx for what, an hour seven where eight minutes of it is joe's stupid marble-mouthed reads upfront?

We are on the same page 100% besides Eddie Bravo as a solo guests. Fight companions when his opinion actually matters a lot? Sure. But hearing him babble about conspiracies but avoiding debates literally give me an involuntary feeling of hate.

bro youre gonna believe nasa?

That's cgi! I know cause I watched a documentary! (15 min YouTube video of aspergers teen in front of a tv playing footage of the international space station. No really that's what he was referring to as evidence). LOOK INTO IT

He has a fanbase that loves him because they love MMA, his show and WEED DUDE WEED. I don't even think his biggest fans are going to say "Joe Rogan is my favorite comedian." They just like him, not his comedy. They think he's an alpha bro who has life figured out because he has a flotation tank to meditate in and they're too stupid to not pick up how pointless his ramblings are.

It's the podcast. Joe isn't going to fight anybody because they talked shit about him unless they said something about his kids. If it's just "Joe Rogan sucks" he's not going to be that mad about it, but he wouldn't do business with them.

do you think it's a classic case of a guy being already famous through tv, UFC, podcasts, and that's what sells the tickets?

That's it exactly. If he were to go back and try to attain the same level of success through the merit of his stand up alone he'd be sharing an apartment with 3 open mic'ers and performing in front of 7 people in a Chinese restaurant somewhere.

He'd be sleeping on Mike Vecchione's laundry pile next to Jay Oakerson's couch.

So he'd be finoia?

Dolla Dolla Bills Yall

He's really good at getting an audience, mediocre at everything else.

Another thing about Joe that bugs me is he's afraid of having anybody on he's not going to be in control of the show for. Like he's supposedly afraid to have Katt Williams and Sam Hyde on because he's afraid he'll lose control of the interview and look weak. He thinks Katt is going to rip him a new ass for being a hack and Sam is going to do a bit shitting on his beliefs.

He also smothers any attempt from a guest to be funny because he knows he isn't.

Jamie's videos are his Instant Feedback.

He sure likes to laugh his ass off at anything he says himself and then looks around the room to make sure everyone else is laughing too.

I love Joe Rogan and I don't care about weed or UFC. His podcast is great. His last stand up Triggered on netflix was great too. Take it the dicks out of your ass.

I agree but I honestly think it's because he spreads himself thin. He's into like, 1000 different things and can't focus on one discipline.

I don't know about that. He does research for UFC, but he barely does any for JRE since it's more of a free wheeling conversation than a "in 1997 you did this movie" interview.

I saw him live working stuff out a few yrs ago and both my ex and I enjoyed it a lot (vastly different tastes).

He was also very cool to fans after the show.

He's a really nice guy. So I don't hate him. And it's not even an Amy Schumer situation where lots of people pretend they're good. He has a huge cult following and is self sustained. So more power to him.

Stand-up in general really isn't that funny.

I didn't believe stool humping was a real thing until I saw Rogan do it.

Somebody never watched Comicview.

That's just how famous comedians are now. I remember I was watching Louis CKs new special and made it to about 15 minutes where he made a joke about 9/11 deniers but it was just 9 people who denied the number 11. I immediately turned it off after that

The first time I ever actually saw him live was 3 years ago, he followed Bill Burr at the Ice House. I'd never seen a comedian level a room like Bill did that night, it was indescribable.

Rogan went on afterward and you could just feel the energy suck out of the room. He came out all blustery and full of energy, and he was all noise and no jokes. I just sat there expecting to laugh and being like "any second now, he's gonna get on his feet...." Never happened. He was fucking awful. It was like Jim Bruer used to say, Guns N Roses trying to follow Metallica.

He got where he is by sheer numbers/work ethic. He's got enough of a "Michael Bay movie" effect where it's just people that wanted to get out on a Friday night and see a comedy show, they came ready to laugh at pretty much anything. After 20 years of that, you make a name for yourself.

I guess I respect him for that and for being a nice & supportive guy, I just dont think he or any of the guy he champions (Ari Shaffir, Duncan Trussell, Redban) are funny. Except for Joey Diaz.

Joey diaz is shit

I thought he was too until I saw him live. If you ever get to see him do stand up, he will win you over in about 40 seconds. He's a fucking monster.

JRE is an amazing podcast, he's way more funny on the podcast then his standup. To be fair though Jimmy is the same to me. A radio 3rd mic genius but a barely above average comedian.

One cringe worthy moment of note with Joe is last time he had University of Toronto professor, Jordan Petersen, on his podcast and he mentions to Joe that his impression of the Kardashian women being succubus demons on his latest standup special being "shocking and hilarious" and instead of just saying "Oh thanks man", he goes on to say "Well the weird thing is I become something different during that bit and it's actually scary. I'm no longer a comedian, I become a strange demon and I have to put myself in that dark place for the bit to work. It's like I'm out of my body looking down on myself becoming a demon."

Wow, you're a regular Daniel Day Fuckin Lewis there Joe -.-

Beneath all that testosterone and New Age pseudo-science lurks an absolute zilch. His only redeeming qualities are his open-mindedness, and the guests he gets on his show.

It's amazing how little is expected of him, and how far he's made it with those low expectations. Nobody tunes in expecting Joe to make them laugh, or to even make good points. It's all on the guests.

That doesn't explain him selling out theaters, though. His comedy is closer to Pauly Shore than George Carlin. His intellect is closer to Tits than Noam Chomsky.

The most infuriating part is who he undoubtedly views as peers. Stanhope is a 1,000x funnier stand-up and better writer than Rogan will ever be, but you know he thinks they're in the same neighborhood.

TL;DR - you'll never go broke making dumb people feel smart

Yeah, he's not the best stand-up, but he's generally a cool dude that gathers fans from his podcast and UFC, even though his show has turned into adolescent immature pot talk and an incessant obsession with feminism; his hatred for women is as excruciatingly tiresome and thinly veiled as Anthony's hatred for blacks.

EVERY comic who becomes famous through podcasting is terrible at standup so it's not surprising at all. This assclown, Marc maron, Chris nerdiest faggot? See a pattern here?

I like Joe and I think he means well. Even the O N N I T stuff, he thinks he's helping people. But the stand up thing is so fucking embarrassing. How he refers to himself as a "real comic" and talks about writing material all the time. No comic would dare call him on it because he's huge and has such a platform. He hasn't made me laugh once and I've listened to hundreds and hundreds of hours of his podcast and some of his stand up

I saw his last Netflix special and thought it was just okay. Wasn't blown away but thought it was way better than the average yokel that is promoted these days.

Yup it all makes sense now! I believe the exact quote was when Joe was coming in studio years ago when they first got on XM and Joe came in with two MMA fighters and Opie goes "Here come's Rogan with the deathsquad"