- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 3, 2024
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If he says you shouldn’t trust what he says out of context while drunk and high in a three-hour long podcast, then perhaps you can get everything you need to know about him and decide for yourself by seeing and listening to what he says here while presumably stone cold sober but slightly sweaty for just over an hour.
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His stand-up here is cliché. .... As a showcase for him as a comic, the live format did not benefit Rogan. .... You can sense him busily trying to serve an audience in his stand-up. He’s giving people what has already worked. And he’s hustling doing it. But comedy is trickier than politics. Audiences want more than just what they want.
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It produces an underwhelming, exhausting, and lazily derivative hour of stand-up.
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In utterly disavowing his own work even as it’s happening, Rogan shows that, for all he may have the trappings of a marquee Netflix comic, he lacks a fundamental quality the best comics share: Courage.
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The positives I will say about this special are Joe Rogan has at least seemed to have learned joke structure, plus performing in front of a live audience made it impossible to fake which parts elicited laughs from his audience. More importantly, it highlighted the parts where they did not clap or cheer.