Netflix viewers warned of ‘brain rot’ from watching Joe Rogan’s stand-up special

Netflix viewers have been urged to avoid Joe Rogan’s stand-up special ‘at all costs’ after horrifying with bigoted material.

During his third show for the streamer Burn the Boat, Rogan, 56, made ‘jokes’ about trans people and gay men, saying that he ‘wouldn’t want to be surrounded’ by the latter.

The routine has outraged Netflix fans on X with @JoshEakle warning others to ‘avoid it all costs.’

They wrote: ‘Rogan is a testament to the dangers of going down the “red pill” rabbit hole. Avoid at all costs. It rots your brain.’

Echoing their sentiment, @AdamQuesnell said: ‘Thoughtful Comedy Viewer: It is impossible to imagine transphobic material more straightforward and s****y than Chappelle’s! Joe Rogan: Hold my brain.’

@VertigoTheatreP commented: ‘No part of @joerogan is funny, his Netflix ‘stand up’ is just out dated Covid jokes, trans jokes and gay jokes. I swear people around him keep telling him he’s funny. #burntheboats #Netflix.’

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@MettaWorldSteve also added: ‘As expected, Joe Rogan’s new special is essentially a trump rally, hitting all the right wing bigot talking points.’

@fake_biden, who has dodged Rogan’s work, advised viewers: ‘I’m very glad to say I have never listened to a single word Joe Rogan has said. Life is too short to give attention to idiots. IMHO.’

In Burn the Boat, Rogan implied that America had been too accepting of trans people – after he made references to ‘pregnant men’ and claiming he was ‘open-mimded’

He said: ‘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 eoom with a hard cock, and anybody who complains is a Nazi.”

‘And it just works! And everyone just accepts this new reality, and it’s f***ing weird. I just think we need standards. You can’t just put lipstick on and now you can s*** in the women’s room!’

Rogan also turned his attention to gay men and said: ‘I love gay men. But 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. They’re a bunch of dudes who fuck dudes. I don’t like my chances, OK?’

The American star has long been at the centre of controversy online with his podcast, which has released more than 2,200 episodes, previously criticised for spreading misinformation about Covid-19.

In 2022, several high-profile musicians – such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell – pulled their songs from Spotify, where Rogan’s pod is platformed, in a boycott against his anti-vax rhetoric.

This prompted Rogan to deny intentionally spreading misinformation as he vowed ‘to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people’s perspectives’, agreeing with a disclaimer being placed at the beginning of his videos.

Streaming service Spotify also removed a number of episodes from the Joe Rogan Experience, which launched in 2009, after he was found to have used racial slurs in recordings.

Most recently, Rogan was slammed after he took aim at Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who earned her first-ever Olympic boxing medal on Saturday.

Khelif’s participation in Paris has been met with controversy after she was disqualified from the Women’s World Championships last year for failing International Boxing Association (IBA) gender eligibility rules.

The 25-year-old has always competed in the women’s boxing division and has identified as female since birth and The International Olympics Committee (IOC) has confirmed that Khelif is biologically female.

A spokesperson for the organisation said: ‘The Algerian boxer was born female, was registered female, lived her life as a female, boxed as a female, has a female passport.

‘This is not a transgender case. There has been some confusion that somehow it’s a man fighting a woman. This is just not the case. On that there is consensus, scientifically this is not a man fighting a woman.’ 

An online clip shows Rogan saying: ‘The problem is when you’re trying to get me to deny science and you start saying sh** like, “I’m a biological woman I should be able to compete with women in women’s sports.”’ 

Rogan has long been an outspoken critic of transgender women competing in women’s sports – and has also criticised ‘cancel culture’ for suppressing those who hold right-win views in the media.

Joe Rogan: Burn The Boats is available to stream on Netflix.

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