![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I get the desire by some comedians to defend another comedian under attack. More recently, there was the backlash over Rogan’s Covid misinformation, and in May he claimed that what he calls “woke” culture is getting so out of hand that “it’ll eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk.” When that clip resurfaced in 2020, Rogan retweeted Diaz’s slam of those attacking him. In 2011, Rogan gleefully laughed when fellow comedian Joey Diaz described on the show how he had pressured approximately 20 aspiring female comedians to perform oral sex on him in order to get on stage in a comedy show he produced. He knew his audience would enjoy it, and at the same time, he was tacitly giving permission to his fans to use the word - at least in private, speaking with other white people. As a supercut video Arie released last week illustrated, over the years Rogan repeatedly used the N-word on his show. Rogan was brutally honest when, in an apology video he released Saturday, he said, “I was trying to make the story entertaining.” Rogan knows his audience. Rogan knew his story was racist, but he also knew his audience would laugh at him characterizing Black people as subhuman. … 'Planet of the Apes' didn’t take place in Africa.” Then, in a moment of self-awareness, he added, “That was a racist thing for me to say.” Playing to his audience is why in a 2013 episode of his show Rogan shared a story about getting dropped off by a car service at a theater in a Black neighborhood to see “Planet of the Apes.” He said, “We walk into 'Planet of the Apes.' We walked into Africa, dude.” As the other comedians on Rogan’s show laughed, he continued, “We walked in the door, and there was no white people. ![]()
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