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Joe Rogan’s ‘Burn the Boats’: A Self-Styled Provocateur’s Jokes Feel Decades Too Late
Joe Rogan's live Netflix special will continue the Spotify personality's reputation as a provocateur
Rogan — whose early career included acting on the sitcom “NewsRadio,” hosting the reality show “Fear Factor,” and backstage interviews for UFC fights — has risen as far as he has by making a point of being counterintuitive, blunt, strategically mindless. It’s an admixture of nasty cruelty (his description of the child of a “pregnant man” nursing was a failed-comic grotesque), faux-naivete (complaining about how “the world got weird” when Rogan himself is a prime mover in shaping American culture), and, ultimately, a sensibility that seems ten years late. He continually walks up to a line — as when he praises the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, while noting he was wrong about “one big thing” — but doesn’t seem curious enough to interrogate what in him, or in his audience, finds intriguing about pushing this boundary.
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