Going into Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats with zero expectations, I wasn’t really surprised or taken aback by the brand of Gen-X humor that Rogan and his cohorts have been bellowing into microphones for the past 30 years. But what sets Rogan’s special apart from something that Bill Burr would put out is that he’s generated a palpable amount of bad PR over the last few years, which he wholly addresses in this Netflix special.
Most importantly, he acknowledges the negative press he got from making light of the pandemic that took so many lives. Extending an olive branch to his audience, he makes light of the fact that when he was diagnosed with COVID, how ironic and funny it would have been if he had actually succumbed to the illness and passed away after running his mouth. I’m paraphrasing because I’m not a comedian, but the takeaway is that in his final moments on his death-bed, he’d look around, shrug, and confirm that his death would have been kind of funny given the context.
He also caps off the bit by stating, “We lost a lot of people during COVID and most of ’em are still alive,” acknowledging how many friends he lost during his public fallout.
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