“The Daily Show” takes on Joe Rogan in a new installment of its “Daily Showography” series, exploring the podcaster and comedian’s rise to becoming a leading figure of the manosphere.
The segment, titled “The Path to Roganlightenment,” playfully skewers Rogan’s television career, health and fitness regimen and conspiracy theories. The seven-minute clip will play during Wednesday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” hosted by Desi Lydic at 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central.
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“For millennia, the great philosophers have sought to answer life’s most profound questions. And today, a new thinker has emerged to grapple with the mysteries of our universe,” the video opens, just before cutting to Rogan asking, “Why do Black people like menthols so much? What’s that about?” In another clip, Rogan, clad in an elf costume, says, “Everything has a consciousness. Literally everything — even tables.”
The satirical “biofilm” claims Rogan is “the world’s greatest thinker” and “wisdom’s greatest champion.” It tracks his journey from famed martial artist to stand-up comic to host of “Fear Factor.” Eventually, his career led him to becoming the world’s most famous podcaster.
Over a montage of “Joe Rogan Experience” guests including Guy Fieri, Alex Jones and “The Daily Show” host Michael Kosta, the narrator says: “Having reached his evolved form, Rogan began his true life’s project of absorbing the collective wisdom of the world’s greatest wise men — and, every now and then, a woman.”
“The Daily Showography” has also produced mini biofilms of Jeff Bezos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marco Rubio and Vladimir Putin. The Comedy Central program has received two Emmy nominations this year for editing for a segment in a variety program — for its episodes on Stephen Miller and Kamala Harris.
Watch “The Daily Showography of Joe Rogan: The Path to Roganlightenment” below.
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