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Great news for people who love bad news! Joe Rogan is returning to NBC as the host of Fear Factor! (Oh, sorry, SIDENOTE: NBC is bringing back Fear Factor!) Yuck! Boo! Joe Rogan is terrible, Fear Factor is terrible, this is all just terrible. From TVGuide (via The Onion AV Club):
Joe Rogan has officially signed on to return as the host of NBC’s Fear Factor revival. Rogan, who hosted the show’s original run from 2001 to 2006, will be on hand when production begins at the end of July.
“It doesn’t seem real,” Rogan tells TV Guide Magazine. “It seems like some sort of bizarro dream world. But I’m looking forward to it. The idea of sitting at home and watching someone else host it would have driven me crazy.”
It doesn’t seem real*. Hahhaa. What is he even talking about? It’s just a dream come true for all of us, I’m sure. A friend was pointing out to me this week that they think the reason television is actually so good these days (Justified, Game of Thrones, Friday Night Lights, Louie, everything on the BBC practically) is in direct response to the rising popularity of reality TV, like, because that stuff is so huge now, the scripted stuff that does make it to the air has to be (and often is) incredible. That’s a really interesting argument and I think there’s probably a fair amount of truth to it. (I also think I have heard it somewhere before?) But that doesn’t mean we have to dig the old reality shows out of their grave! We already learned our lesson with this one. Sam has Quantum Leaped into the next bus driver’s body and has to solve new problems now. COME ON, ZIGGY, GIVE US A BREAK!
*It seems worth pointing out that while I still totally disagree with Marc Maron’s position in the WTF interview he did with Joe Rogan, because I think it was pretty dishonest insofar as Joe Rogan is hardly responsible for the stupidization of popular culture, and I also think that Marc Maron would have enjoyed the hell out of a Fear Factor paycheck back in the day if he had been offered it, the quote here about going crazy watching someone else host it definitely damages his argument that it was just a job and if he didn’t do it somebody else would. He loves his job! GO EAT SOME BUGS, YOU BULLY!
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I like Joe Rogan and I like Fear Factor!
(Swinging for the fences for lowest rated comment, do me proud monsters)
I’ll play your little game, Mailman!
Sorry, Mailman. Upvoted for honesty!
That’s disgusting?
That guy eating bull testicles?
No Joe Rogan
He is basically human bull testicles
Cut Joe Rogan some slack, Gabe. He’s just a hummingbird who lost the plot and will not move(This comment is brought to you in part by Stereogum).
and 2004.
Ziggy says there’s a 99% chance Joe Rogan has to die before you can leap!
Also, Al is a CYLON!
A lot of Quantum Leap fans on Videogum, I see.
Gabe and I are retiring to the Sunny Day Senior Care Center. Gotta get that early dinner.
It doesn’t seem real,” Rogan tells TV Guide Magazine. “It seems like some sort of bizarro dream world
Strangely enough, that is pretty much my exact reaction to the news. Although I replaced ‘dream world’ with ‘unspeakable nightmare kingdom’.
Guys, I think we’re missing that this is a blessing in disguise. As long as he’s hosting a garbage show we don’t watch, he won’t have time to pop up in stuff we like!
But how can he leave behind the lucrative world of MMA fighting? Or is he going to combine the two?
“You must eat these stink beetles while fighting this kickboxing kangaroo. Also you will be judged on style and poise. GO!”
at this point joe rogan is pretty much Gig Young in they shoot horses, don’t they?
except he doesn’t have the benefit of leaving the fictional dimension and winning an oscar for being such a slimey, two-faced creep.
with that, i withdrawl the lifetime pass [tm] he’s earned from Newsradio. i look forward to him coming onto this comment board and calling me a pussy loser in all caps.
He already comments here under the name Steve Winwood
What exactly is Joe Rogan’s skill set? I know he’s a comedian (or something) but it’s not like he was funny on Fear Factor. He just kinda stood there and briefly explained what was going on. They coulda (shoulda?) got Bristol Palin to do it.
Also, has anyone seen JR recently? I don’t like insulting a person’s looks especially since I’m so handsome (just kidding, I’m hideous!) but he looks like he’s addicted to cocaine and steroids and violence.
Nabby, don’t destroy Bristol Palin like that. Her slutty bitch mom is now going to say you are hateful and she doesn’t know why you are hateful. You said that just because that family runs a bunch of reality shows… very hateful.
Lots of weed, a sprinkling of HGH. He’s pretty honest about it.
Joe Rogan is unobjectionable. I mean, in reality he’s got some strong political beliefs and jokes and personality and all that, but just as a human who tells you what bucket to eat from, he is pretty plain. He is background music. His strength is that he is not immediately weird or quirky or distracting enough to take away from all the pig testicles.
It’s the same with Jeff Probst or Chris Harrison or any of these other walking blanks. White guy, normal look, good speaking voice.
I object! (see what I did there? Because you said he was unobjectionable, but I disagree so I object) Joe Rogan does not have a “good speaking voice” He always sounds like he just woke up too early in the morning after drinking whiskey and yelling at strippers or something. He’s one of those people who make me feel like I have to clear my throat when I hear them talk. Clear my throat and then punch them in the larynx.
Does he seem like a poor man’s Joey Tribbiani wannabe to anyone else?
I never thought of it before but now that you mention it, yes.
Marc Maron gets paid to talk about his sad boners [1], and really, what is the difference between HAVING a sad boner and EATING a cow boner?
Mythbusted!
[1] (c) Gabe 2011 all rights reserved
I like stealing Joe Rogan’s jokes. It’s the ultimate rush.
Newsradio.
“It’s just a dream come true for all of us, I’m sure.”
Dream Come True Garage Door Openers, silly.
not trying to rake in the downvotes at all, but i actually like Joe Rogan.
granted, i’ve never seen an episode of Fear Factor (and actually didn’t read the whole article linked above).
i know the cross section of monsters who are also casual MMA fans is very small (i guess?), but he does a pretty swell and informative job as a color commentator. There i said it (without irony).
Oh, and Newsradio.
I did really enjoy when he was a judge on Last Comic Standing, and just called everyone out on using old jokes. Because that’s the kind of thing I like, I guess.
Plus, you know, Newsradio.
Seriously, Newsradio. I went to a “Conversation with Stephen Root” when I was in college because Stephen Root and I went to the same college (yes I met him and yes I got an autographed picture of Jimmy James). He basically said the cast would joke with Joe Rogan about Fear Factor (this is obviously after they’d stopped filming NewsRadio) and how they were offended he’d never asked any of them to be on it, and Joe Rogan would say “dude, I like you guys. Please stay away from my show.”
He’s an alright commentator, but I don’t really care for him even then. He rubs me the wrong way so bad that typing the words “he rubs me” when talking about Joe Rogan just made me dry heave. Though in the interest of full disclosure, when I’m watching UFC I care less about the comments and more about the fightin’ and the occasional sexy dude in tiny shorts (Anderson Silva is cordially invited to all my makeout parties).
That’s weird. I thought he hated hosting Fear Factor.
Is this where we talk about how AMAZING the BBC has been recently? The Shadow Line? The last two series of Dr. Who? Luther?? You guys, if you haven’t been watching the new series of Luther, you are doing something wrong. It’s incredible.
I liked Joe Rogan on NewsRadio, but I can’t stand him since I learned he thinks the moon landing was a hoax.
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