A lot of the club owners thought I was another actor with seven minutes trying to headline somewhere.
After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.
All three astronauts retired shortly afterwards. The head of NASA retired days before the launch. Days before the biggest accomplishment of his entire career! There were no interviews, either.
Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.
Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
Did you think I was going to start singing Bible songs?
George Carlin was arrested for saying certain words that he thought were funny.
Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.
Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet.
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
I never thought people would think that I was funny.
I prefer older people to college kids for the most part. I want people with life experience.
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
I talk so much about sex that girls just want to meet me.
I think I'm less susceptible to the downside than some people are. Some people are a little more worried about rejection and need more acceptance.
I would never go 30 days without sex.
I would prefer the audience be laughing really loud before I get there. I want everyone to have fun.
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do, and at this point in my life if makes no sense doing a watered down version of my act.
I've had old people get really upset at me. Who's the dummy? You're the one who sat through my set for an hour. Didn't you figure out after the first 10 minutes what was up?
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
If they don't laugh at me, my thought is, anyone that would get offended or wouldn't laugh at something I would say is not somebody I want to hang out with anyway.
If they see you on TV, they want you to be exactly like that when they see you live. And if you're not, some of them get upset.
If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
If you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.
It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.
It takes a long time to build word of mouth. Howard Stern helped a lot. But what hurt it was Napster.
It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting.
It's hard to have a relationship as a male. We are biologically programmed not to be monogamous. Your DNA is programmed so that you fertilize entire villages.
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.
My act is very sexual. I'm brutally honest about a lot of things on stage. People relate to me. They feel like they know me.
My album is out but I haven't been paid because we've been fighting on all these points. They wanted my domain name, which is never going to happen.
Network folks, being the sheep that they are, started a bidding war for me. I got a pile of cash and wound up on a Fox sitcom.
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
Nobody works harder than Ray Romano, and it shows. The show is great. It's added new life to the traditional sitcom genre.
Overpopulation is one of the biggest threats of human nature.
People for the most part can smell lies.
People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
Some of Notorious BIG's stuff was brilliant. He was expressing himself in a way that he would if he was hanging around with his best friends.
That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
The attitude of the city has a lot to do with the type of comedy it spawns.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
The Comedy Store is a pretty insane place.
The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
The way people are right now makes for more suppression than probably 20 or 30 years ago. I think there was probably less suppression in the work place.
These nice people are suppressed and can't laugh at sex. They have baggage. There is something wrong with them, whether it's their raising or their upbringing.
They had no idea if I could act or not, and they just gave me the money and the opportunity.
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Videos are very intoxicating. You see a happy moment, some weird expression, or a very free look on their face and it just haunts you.
When guys open for me, I pay them well. I pay for the plane ticket and hotel. It makes it a lot easier for me too.
When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.
You don't know how great it is to just show up at clubs four or five nights a week, go on stage, tell jokes, and express yourself. People laugh their asses off.
You learn detachment and not to care what the audience thinks of you. You learn to do what you think is funny. In the end, that is all that really matters.
Rogan is friends with conspiracy theory radio host Alex Jones.
Rogan took Dimethyltryptamine, the most powerful hallucinogen known to man, and had profound experiences of communicating with alien beings while under a DMT induced trip.
Joe Rogan: Did you think I was going to start singing Bible songs?
Joe Rogan: Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
Joe Rogan: Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.
Joe Rogan:Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.
Rogan appeared in an episode of Chappelle's Show in which Tyrone Biggums was a contestant on Fear Factor.
He is a user of psychedelic drugs.
Rogan and movie actor Wesley Snipes were in negotiations in late 2005 to fight a mixed martial arts match in the UFC, however, no deal has been made. Snipes also has a background in martial arts, specifically karate, kung fu, and capoiera.
He is distantly related to Gerard Way and Mikey Way of the New Jersey-based band My Chemical Romance.
Is the half-brother of Bryan Callen (of "MADtv" and, more recently, "7th Heaven" fame).
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