Joe Rogan’s latest Netflix special has sparked a liberal meltdown, after the podcaster obliterated transgender people and COVID.
The 56-year-old comedian defended some of the controversial views he has made on his The Joe Rogan Experience podcast about COVID vaccines and transgender people in his live Netflix special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats on Saturday.
He also hit out at media critics who have accused him of spreading misinformation.
But many leftists who watched the Burn the Boats special hit out at Rogan as ‘weird,’ unfunny and ‘stupid’ for his comments on the controversial topics.
‘I mean at least be funny if you’re being ignorant and offensive,’ Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali wrote on X.
‘Joe Rogan’s main crime during his comedy special was he wasn’t funny. His cult loves it, so it doesn’t matter, but he’s making too many smart people stupid.’
Project Liberal cofounder Joshua Reed Eakle also wrote that ‘Rogan is a testament to the dangers of going down the “red pill” rabbit hole.’
‘Avoid at all costs. It rots your brain.’
Another X user, meanwhile, said Rogan proved ‘he was right to say he can’t tell jokes anymore: just not in the way he meant.’
In the special, Rogan questions whether society had become too accepting of biological men identifying as trans women – a debate that has been reignited after Olympic boxer Imane Khalif failed a gender eligibility test.
‘I just want to be real clear. I believe in trans people,’ Rogan told an audience in Austin. ‘Because I think the world is strange and nature can throw you a curveball and you believe you’re in the wrong body.
‘And I fully support your right as an adult to do whatever you want that makes you happy.
‘I believe in freedom and I believe in love. But I also believe in crazy people,’ the podcaster continued.
‘I’m open-minded. I just want to know what happened.
‘It’s almost like a pervert wizard waved a magic spell on the whole world. “With a wave of this wand, you can walk into the women’s locker room with a hard c***, and anybody who complains is a Nazi. Abracadabra!” And it just works!’
He went on to say the ‘new reality’ is what is weird.
‘You can’t just put lipstick on and now you can s*** in the women’s room!’
In another clip that went viral, Rogan jokes that he’s become more open to believing conspiracy theories following the COVID pandemic.
‘We 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 went to the moon. I think Michelle Obama’s got a d***. I think Pizzagate is real. I think there’s direct energy weapons in Antarctica.
‘I’m just kidding – I don’t think Michelle Obama’s got a d***, but I do believe all of that other s***.’
He then hit out at media critics who claimed he was spreading misinformation.
‘But here’s my take on that, sincerely: If you’re getting your vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault?’
Other times, Rogan joked about not wanting to be ‘surrounded by gay men.’
‘I think about gay men the same way I think about mountain lions: I’m happy they’re real, but I don’t want to be surrounded by them,’ he said.
‘They’re a bunch of dudes who f*** dudes. I don’t like my chances, OK? They’re not unicorns – they’re just men who f*** men.’
But Rogan said he is ‘not even remotely homophobic.’
‘I’m the opposite. I wish I was gay.’
He also recounted how a female TSA agent once asked for a ‘male assist’ to pat him down, and he asked, with mock judgment: ‘Did you just assume my gender?’
Those moments proved to be fodder for critics, with the New York Times writing that Rogan ‘leans into stereotypes that have cracked up drunken club crowds for generations.’
‘Rogan has found a podcast audience that likes conspiracies and picking culture war battles wit the left,’ columnist Jason Zinoman writes. ‘And he gives it to them.
‘But he also indulges his own obsessions and eccentricities.’
The Wrap also hit out at Rogan, saying he ‘fashioned himself as a conduit for anger,’ and the Daily Beast said he ‘fixated throughout the hour on men receiving sexual pleasure in ways the comedian felt were unnatural’.
‘Rogan did not disclose how much of his Netflix paycheck he planned to donate for all of the slurs he used in his live hour,’ columnist Sean L McCarthy wrote.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Netflix for comment.