Six years after his last stand-up comedy special, one year after opening Comedy Mothership in Austin, and closing his $250 million deal with Spotify, Joe Rogan He's back on the comedy scene with a Netflix special, burn the boatsIronically, Rogan’s greatest asset is the fact that he’s never been known as a good comedian. Is he a host, a fighter, a talker, a salesman, a conspiracy theorist? He’s all very good at those things. But as a stand-up comedian, he’s no George Carlin or Dave Chappelle. He’s somewhere between Dane Cook and Brendan Schaub, and he’s no better than George Carlin. burn the boats Unfortunately it does nothing to change that.
burn the boats It's the latest live-action project from Netflix, following the successful Netflix Is a Joke festival with Tom Brady Criticized, John Mulaney Presents: Everyone in L.A., And Kat Williams' own, Wake up FukiThis, combined with the fact that Rogan is a scapegoat for the left-wing mainstream audience and has a long history of silly mistakes, initially adds a certain danger and expected joy to the comedy special, which quickly fades. It ends up being as serious as a high schooler with acne asking to dance at prom, and the topics Rogan touches on are similarly inchoate and awkward.
Aliens, Drugs and Bars
Rogan starts his talk by placating the Texas crowd and discussing pot; then he mentions cocaine, acid, and mushrooms with the energy of a college freshman who laughs. Been there, done that. He discusses aliens and evolution, fear challangehomophobia, and all have something to do with penises in one way or another. He seems to be obsessed with male genitalia in the same way that Amy Schumer's terrible comedy is obsessed with vaginas..
Rogan talks about men at length, without wisdom, charm or humor. “I love gay men,” he shouts, “but I think of them the same way I think of mountain lions. I’m glad they’re real, but I don’t want to be around them. They’re a bunch of guys who have sex with guys, and I don’t want to miss out!”
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Does Joe object much? It's jokes like this that pretend to be “logical” and “relatable” rather than homophobic, but even if they weren't homophobic, they still wouldn't be funny. They're just narcissistic and weird. It mixes with all the other traditional cancel culture stuff like, “Look at me, I said something bad, ain't I a bad boy?” Like Ricky Gervais’s never-ending acting, making fun of his supposed gender, his inability to swear, and how kids would dress up as Hitler for Halloween when he was growing up. It’s all so boring. There are seeds of humor in all of this, but Rogan makes no effort to let them grow. Instead, He just yells about bars and complains that he can't say the N-word.
Don't Take His Advice! Joe Rogan and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
He desperately tries to appear like a normal, sane man in an increasingly insane world, not a billionaire capable of influencing the minds of millions of young people. “Don’t take my advice!” he shouts, refusing any responsibility. It would be really malicious and sarcastic if he weren't just a really stupid person, almost to an endearing degree, like an accidentally racist puppy. He doesn't realize reality despite his screams that he's one of the last sane people left. He says:
“I understand why young people want to be sober, I really do. The old people have ruined the world, so let’s try communism. I understand. You don’t know any better, I understand. You’re young. I understand. And also, people desperately want to be on a team. We’re tribal, and there are only two teams in this country. There’s the left and the right. You know, you don’t want to be independent.”
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But more than that, as with all his many mistakes, he literally does not know that the number of registered independents has been greater than the “left and right” for many years, and that this number is at an all-time high. He does not know that the vast majority of young people do not want communism at all, but are fed up with the inequalities imposed by the capitalist system, and at the extreme, some want democratic socialism. But what is more, this is what makes it so difficult for anyone to imagine that communism is the solution.Ogan's worldview is not defined by the world, reality, logic, science, etc. It is shaped by long conversations with strange people and comedians.So it is tragically ironic that Rogan says at one point, apparently without being aware of his own Dunning-Kruger effect:
I hate stupid people who make mistakes and are confident in themselves.
The words of a man who became a joke better than a joke. First as a tragedy, then as a farce, Joe. Joe Rogan: Burning Boats It premiered on August 3, 2024 on Netflix and is streaming via the link below:
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