A biography for Joe Roganhasn’t been written yet.
“On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.”
“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.”
“Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.”
“Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.”
“Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.”
“I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.”
“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 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.”
“Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.”
“זה בטח לא יועיל לך.”
“חישבו על הרמה הטכנולוגית שבה פועל העולם, כמה מאיתנו באמת מבינים את זה?”
“כשנשים הולכות לראות גברים מתפשטים, אנחנו אף פעם לא מאשימים אתכן בשנאת גברים.”
“כלא זה לאנסים, גנבים ורוצחים. אם אתה כולא מישהו בגלל שעישן צמח שעושה לו שמח אתה הוא העבריין.”
“Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.”
“Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.”
“You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.”
“We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.”
“I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.”
“The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.”
“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.”