Joe Rogan’s latest Netflix special has sparked a liberal meltdown, after the podcaster removed transgender people and COVID.
The 56-year-old comedian defended some of the controversial views he has expressed on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience about COVID vaccines and transgender people in his Netflix live special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats on Saturday.
He also lashed out at media critics who have accused him of spreading misinformation.
But many leftists who watched the Burn the Boats special criticized Rogan for his comments on controversial topics, calling him “weird,” “unfunny” and “stupid.”
“I mean, at least be funny if you’re ignorant and offensive,” Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali wrote in X.
Joe Rogan angered liberals with his latest Netflix live special
‘Joe Rogan’s main crime during his comedy special was that he wasn’t funny. His cult loves it, so it doesn’t matter, but he’s making too many smart people stupid.’
Joshua Reed Eakle, co-founder of the Liberal Project He also wrote that ‘Rogan is a testament to the dangers of entering the world of the “red pill.”‘
“Avoid it at all costs. It rots your brain.”
Another X user, meanwhile, saying Rogan proved that “he was right when he said he couldn’t tell jokes anymore: just not in the way he wanted to.”
In the special, Rogan questions whether society has become too tolerant of biological men who identify as trans women, a debate that has been reignited after Olympic boxer Imane Khelif failed a gender eligibility test.
“I want to be very clear. I believe in trans people,” Rogan told an audience in Austin. “Because I believe the world is strange and nature can surprise you and make you believe you’re in the wrong body.”
‘And I fully support your right as an adult to do whatever you want to be happy.
“I believe in freedom and I believe in love, but I also believe in crazy people,” the podcaster continued.
Liberal Project co-founder Joshua Reed Eakle said the special “rots your brain”
Another X user said Rogan proved he was “right about not being able to tell jokes anymore – just not the way he wanted to.”
-I have an open mind. I just want to know what happened.
“It’s almost as if a perverted wizard has cast a magic spell on the entire world. ‘With one wave of this wand, you can walk into the women’s locker room with a hard penis and anyone who complains is a Nazi. Abracadabra! ‘ And it works!
He went on to say that what’s strange is the “new reality.”
‘You can’t just put on lipstick anymore and now you can shit in the ladies’ room!’
In another clip that went viral, Rogan jokes that he’s become more open to believing in conspiracy theories following the COVID pandemic.
“We have lost a lot of people during COVID and most of them are still alive,” he joked.
“Before COVID, I would have told you that vaccines are the most important invention in human history,” Rogan continued.
‘After COVID, I’m like, “I don’t think we’ve been to the moon. I think Michelle Obama is crazy. I think Pizzagate is real. I think there are direct energy weapons in Antarctica.”
‘I’m just kidding. I don’t think Michelle Obama has anything to do with it, but I do believe in all that other shit.’
He then attacked media critics who claimed he was spreading misinformation.
‘But my take on it is this, honestly: If you’re getting vaccine advice from me, is it really my fault?’
At one point he made a joke about Michelle Obama, saying that he doesn’t think she has a big penis.
On other occasions, Rogan joked about not wanting to be “surrounded by gay men.”
“I think of gay men the same way I think of cougars: I’m glad they’re real, but I don’t want to be around them,” he said.
“They’re a bunch of guys who sleep with other guys. I don’t like my chances, okay? They’re not unicorns, they’re just men who sleep with other men.”
But Rogan said he is “not remotely homophobic.”
“I’m the complete opposite. I wish I was gay.”
He also recounted how a female TSA agent once asked a “male attendant” to pat him down, and he asked her, in a mock-judgmental tone, “Did you just assume my gender?”
The New York Times wrote that Rogan “leans into stereotypes that have made drunken club crowds laugh for generations.”
The Wrap also criticized Rogan, saying he “became a conduit for anger.”
Those moments proved to be fodder for critics, with the New York Times Writing that Rogan “relies on stereotypes that have made drunken club crowds laugh for generations.”
“Rogan has found a podcast audience that likes conspiracies and cultural battles with the left,” writes columnist Jason Zinoman. “And he delivers.”
“But he also lets himself be carried away by his own obsessions and eccentricities.”
The wrapper He also hit at Rogan, saying he had “become a conduit for anger,” and the Daily Beast said ‘The entire hour focused on men receiving sexual pleasure in ways the comedian considered unnatural.’
“Rogan did not disclose how much of his Netflix salary he planned to donate for all the insults he used in his hour-long live broadcast,” wrote columnist Sean L McCarthy.
DailyMail.com has contacted Netflix for comment.
