JoeRogan-related stories
Posted Jun 20th 2009 10:35AM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Interviews, Reality-Free
In his breakout role on
NewsRadio fifteen years ago, Joe Rogan played Joe Garrelli, a maintenance man with deceptively deep springs of knowledge. In a sense, Rogan has been playing that role for his whole career, hosting
Fear Factor and
The Man Show, commentating for the UFC, while writing increasingly smart stand-up comedy. Rogan's new special,
Talking Monkeys in Space (Spike TV, June 20 midnight), is his best work to date.
Rogan takes on the legalization of marijuana, Dr. Phil, and technology with brutal logic. His last television day gig,
Game Show In Your Head, is over but he says he doesn't mind. He's still doing what he loves most - stand-up comedy and commentating for the UFC, and he's got a new Web series on Crackle.com, a sort of
Inside the Actors Studio for stand-up comedians, he says will start within the next couple of months.
I spoke with him about all of that, how having a one-year old daughter has changed his perspective, how his personal philosophies have evolved, and the treatment of his frequent rival Carlos Mencia on a recent episode of
South Park, in which Mencia was beheaded by Kanye West for stealing a joke he couldn't explain.
Continue reading Talking Monkeys and the evolution of Joe Rogan
Posted Apr 7th 2007 12:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Celebrities
This link is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Notice I didn't use the standard internet abbreviation "NSFW," because I didn't want some benighted person in an office thinking, "'Not Suitable For Winger?' That has nothing to do with me, I was never in that band, and I don't even like the song 'Seventeen.' Everything about that acronym tells me to click that link."
Continue reading Hear a snippet from Joe Rogan's new comedy album
Posted Feb 16th 2007 3:29PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities
Things are getting interesting for Joe Rogan, stand-up comedian and former host of
Fear Factor. First, he was
banned from The Comedy Store for getting up on stage and calling comedian Carlos Mencia a fraud (
see the NSFW video here). Now, his agent has dropped him. On his
personal website, Rogan explains that he and Mencia were represented by the same guy. That agent called Rogan yesterday to tell him that he had been forced to choose between the two clients, and he chose to stick with Carlos Mencia.
And that's not all. Via this agent, Rogan was told that Mencia is demanding an apology. Rogan laughs it off, saying, "I told them that was f***ing hilarious, and said it's been fun working with them."
So, what do you think? Should Rogan apologize?
Posted Jun 13th 2006 4:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, ABC has a repeat According To Jim, followed by the Mavericks vs. the Heat NBA game.- CBS has repeats of NCIS and The Unit, followed by the series premiere of Tuesday Night Book Club.
- NBC has the season premiere of Fear Factor (featuring reality stars) 8, followed by a new Last Comic Standing and a repeat Law and Order: SVU.
- Over on FOX at 8, two repeats of House.
- The WB has repeats of Gilmore Girls and Pepper Dennis, while UPN has repeats of America's Next Top Model and Veronica Mars.
- At 9, Bravo has a new Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List, followed by a new Queer Eye.
- Former VP Al Gore talks to Larry King on CNN at 9.
- At 10, MTV has a new Real World, followed by a new Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up.
- Also at 10: FX has a new ep of Rescue Me.
Posted Mar 8th 2006 9:10AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Web, Celebrities
The unfiltered venue the internet provides, coupled with the promise of
anonymity, has made it easier than ever for people to be rude and obnoxious to one another. I've been doing this
"Web" thing long enough and seen enough hastily-typed insults from "anonymous" posters that I've
learned the best approach is to simply ignore them.
But this isn't about me. This is about Joe Rogan (39), who does not, dag nabbit, ignore anyone who dare to lob a
disparaging remark in his direction. When a 20 year old college student sent Rogan (who, again, is 39) this
pithy message through MySpace: "Joe Rogan, I hate you... you're not funny... " Rogan (did I mention he's in
his late thirties?) immediately shot back, resulting in this e-mail
exchange. I haven't seen a battle of wits like this between a young kid and a grown man twice his age since
yesterday when I got in a shouting match with a fifteen year old girl over whether Bubbles or Buttercup was the
better Powerpuff Girl.
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