Joe Rogan
Joseph James Rogan is an American comedian, podcast host, and mixed martial arts color commentator. Rogan began his career in comedy in August 1988 in the Boston area. He has also worked as a television host and an actor. In 2009, Rogan launched his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Joseph James Rogan is an American comedian, podcast host, and mixed martial arts color commentator. Rogan began his career in comedy in August 1988 in the Boston area. He has also worked as a television host and an actor. In 2009, Rogan launched his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which led him to \”fame, wealth and podcast superstardom\”. Rogan was born on August 11, 1967, in Newark, New Jersey. He is of three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish descent. His father, Joseph, is a former police officer in Newark. His parents divorced when he was five, and he has not been in contact with his father since he was seven. He was a fan of comedy as a youngster and his parents took him to see comedian Richard Pryor’s film Live on the Sunset Strip, which affected him in such a profound way. He later cited Richard Jeni, Sam Lenny, Bruce Bruce, Bill Hicks and Bill Hicks as influences as well as comedy legend Bill Bennett. He moved to Los Angeles in 1994, where he signed an exclusive developmental deal with Disney, and appeared as an actor on several television shows including Hardball and NewsRadio. In 1997, he started working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship as an interviewer and color commentator, and released his first comedy special in 2000. He retired from competition at age 21 as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and feared he might sustain worse injuries.
He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but found it pointless and dropped out early. At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery, he performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at Stitches comedy club in Boston. In 1990, he moved to New York City as a full-time comedian; he stayed with his grandfather in Newark for the first six months for the time, and stayed with him for the rest of his life. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. He also has a daughter and a son with his ex-wife, who he met at a bar in New Jersey in the 1990s. He lives in New York with his family and has a son and a daughter with his fiancee, who is also a comedian. He had no intention of being a professionalStand-up comedian, and initially considered a career in kickboxing. At 19, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight. He was also a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a Taekwond instructor. At age 21, he quit kickboxing as he suffered from headaches. He then moved to Boston area until he was 24, and then move to New. York City. His blue comedy style earned him gigs at bachelor clubs and strip clubs. In 1994, he appeared on the Half-Hour Hour Comedy show on MTV. In 2000, he was the host of Fear Factor.
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