Biography
Joe Rogan is an American actor of Irish-Italian origin, comic, commercial sports programs, television lead and businessman, the former owner of the show "Fair factor", organizer of one of the most popular world podcasts "The Joe Rogan Experience".
Joseph James Rogan was born on August 11, 1967 in the American city of Newark, New Jersey. The police officer left the family when the boy was 5 years old, and the mother transported her son first to California, then in Florida and, finally, in Massachusetts.
As a child, Rogan played baseball, was a member of the team of the junior league. Then he was carried away by martial arts to be able to stand up for himself. Starting with Karate, the young man soon switched to Taekwondo, which was seriously engaged in seriously and by 19 years old won the US Open Championship tournament in lightweight and became a 4-fold champion of Massachusetts.
In addition, Joe's youth mastered the kickboxing technique and worked for some time as an instructor. Despite the appropriate physical parameters (height 173 cm, weight 88 kg), he was forced to stop the sports career due to the frequent headaches.
Rogan entered the Massachusetts State University, but considering the receipt of higher education meaningless, threw his studies and decided to do business. By preparing the first humorous program, Joe worked as a coach for martial arts, a peddler of newspapers, a limousine driver, a builder and a private detective.
Humor and television
The first speech of Rogan took place on the Standap-show at Stitches Comedy Club in Boston on August 27, 1988. Then the novice humorist honed the jokes on the boys in the strip clubs. After some time, Joe convinced the owner of the Boston establishment to provide him with a permanent place comedian in the evening program. At one such show, a talented young man was noticed producer Jeff Sssman and invited him to New York for regular speeches.
In 1994, Rogan moved to Los Angeles and first appeared on television, in a video on the Channel MTV. After that, the comic suggested a 3-year contract from which he refused, finding a more attractive version of cooperation with Disney Network.
The first major work on television for Joe was the role in the Ticket "Hardball", dedicated to the topic of baseball. Rogan played young player Professional League Frank Valente. The series quickly closed, as a good scenario fell into the hands of a bad producer. In parallel with the filming, Joe performed at the "Comedy Store" in Hollywood.
From 1995 to 1999, Joseph took part in the TV series NBC "NEWSRADIO" as Joe Garrellley, an electrician and a handyman on a fictional news radio station. The guy worked in collaboration with scripts, inventing the image and replicas of his character. Soon the show came comic, and he began to consider it as an easy way to make money.
In 1999, Joseph concluded a contract with "Warner Bros. Records »For the release of 3 albums of own jokes, the first of which -" I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday ... "- came out in August 2000. Excerpts from this disk regularly sounded on the radio in the Howard Stern Show along with the song "Voodoo Punanny", which became a separate single.
At the same time, Rogan began work on the series "Joe Rogan Show", where he planned to play a sports commentator on the Women's Talk Show "Viewpoint", and above the ideas for the film and a cartoon, conceived together with Comic Chris McGuire.
In 2001, Joe left his own projects and accepted the proposal of the NBC channel to become the leading extreme show "Fair Factor". Rogan doubted the success of the transmission, which became popular and brought him worldwide fame contrary to expectations. The number of spectators on the space-speeches of the comedian comedians increased ten times, and the "fear factor" received high ratings throughout 2001-2006 and 2011-2012.
The work of the lead Joe combined with acting career and other projects on television. In 2002, he appeared in the episode of the TV series "Magazine" as the boyfriend of the main character of Maya Gallo and commented on the christmas parade ceremony in Hollywood. In February 2003, Rogan became coordinating in the 5th season "Man Show" at Comedy Central.
In 2007, the premiere of the VDDDAP-comedy video version "Joe Rogan: Live, In Phoenix", shot by a comer for his own money. At the same time, Joe acquired scandalous fame, faced with Carlos Menxia, whom he accused the stealing jokes, on the "Comed Store" stage in Hollywood. The video hit YouTube, and Rogan banned the speeches in the club.
The next stage of the biography of the comedian was the appearance of the Game Show in My Head Cutcher on the CATTER project on the CBS channel on January 3, 2009. Roganus got the role of the lead, who gave strange comic tasks to the participants and followed their implementation by means of a hidden camera. Later, the actor called the transmission "meaningless, but very fun form of entertainment."
At the end of 2009, after "Game Show in My Head" closed, Joseph launched the Free Podcast "The Joe Rogan Experience", broadcast on the Internet on the USTREAM, which in a year entered the list of the 100 best podcasts on iTunes. In 2010, the debit of Rogan on the big screen in the films "Venus and Vegas", "My boyfriend from the zoo" and "fat man in the ring".
Soon after, Joe took the next video of his own performance at the Tabernacle theater. And in 2013 launched a show of 6 episodes called "Joe Rogan Questions Everything", on which leading and invited participants discussed various topics. One day, the guest of the program was a billionander Ilon Mask, General Director of the Tesla concern, who argued about the artificial intelligence and the creation of the electric spray. Live Joe offered the interlocutor to smoke a cigarette with marijuana and drink whiskey.
In 2014-2016, Rogan released 2 more video concerns in the genre of Standap-comedy "Joe Rogan: Rocky Mountain High" and "Joe Rogan: Triggered", and in 2017-2018 played himself in the films "Brightness" and "Robin Williams: Ploy to my soul. "
Sport
Since 1997, Joe began working in UFC, his debut took place on February 12 at the Shusky Day show in Dothan, Alabama, where he took a few interviews behind the scenes of the event. After 2 years, Rogan realized that his salary would not cover the costs associated with touring the country, and quit from the Fight Show.
Return to the post of sports commentator Joseph persuaded Dane White, who became the owner and the UFC president. In 2002, Rogan signed a contract with MMA and, together with Mike Goldberg, became leading sports events of the Association and the Weekly Television Show "UFC". He twice won the Wrestling Observer newsletter award as "The Best Television Speaker" and was recognized as a "man of the year" on "World MMA Awards".
Throughout the career, Rogan commented on many competitions with the participation of leading MMA fighters, including title fights. He shared an opinion on Losses Fedor Emelianenko, saying:
"He is tired of the speeches at the highest level."And on the page in Instagram Joe posted a post about Habiba Nurmugomedov after a fight with Michael Johnson, which says:
"One missed hit was the biggest trouble for Athlete from Dagestan, and that fight was a terrific one-sided beating."Personal life
In 2009, Joe Rogan married a waitress Jessica Dicell. Since then, spouses live together, they have two children. The first daughter was born in 2008, the second - in 2010. Family lived in the city of Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Bell Canyon in California.
Rogan loves his wife and daughters and, despite the tight working schedule, trying to spend as much time with them. Details of personal life man does not advertise.
Joe runs pages on social networks, where, in addition to the announcement of its own events, publishes photos with funny tattoos. The comedian itself is the owner of a surround Japanese ornament located on the right side of the body.
Joe Rogan now
In 2018, Rogan finished work on the film "Strange Times", published at the Netflix studio, which presents a lot of sparkling jokes performed in the traditional manner of the comedian.
Joe now continues to work as a commentator and lead the "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. The theme of the last release was fighting without rules, which the presenter looks and discusses with friends.
TV project
- 1994 - "Hardball"
- 1997- N.V. - "Ultimate Fighting Championship"
- 2001-2006, 2011-2012 - "Fair Factor"
- 2003 - "Good Morning, Miami"
- 2003 - 2004 - "The Man Show"
- 2003 - 2007 - "Last Comic Standing"
- 2005 - 2008 - "The Ultimate Fighter"
- 2009 - "Game Show in My Head"
- 2013 - "Joe Rogan Questions Everything"
- 2018 - "Robin Williams: Ploy to my soul"