Viewers slam Joe Rogan’s new Netflix special for being ‘offensive’ and ‘painfully unfunny’

The stand-up special features joke about trans people and the Covid vaccine

Burn the Boats is Rogan's first stand-up special since 2018, and the trailer does seem him warn it will feature "some ride-home arguments." However, he tells the audience they are "just jokes."

As an outspoken voice against so-called wokeness, it predictably isn't long before the 56-year-old turns his attention to the subject of transgender people.

Whilst he says he considers himself "open-minded", he tells those watching that trans men have been accepted too quickly by American society.

Rogan said: "It's almost like a pervert wizard waved a magic spell on the whole world.

"'With a wave of this wand, you can walk into the women's locker room with a hard c**k, and anybody who complains is a Nazi. Abracadabra!' And it just works!"

He continued: "And everyone just accepts this new reality, and it's fucking weird.

"I just think we need standards. You can't just put lipstick on and now you can shit in the women's room!"

Rogan adds that he supports every adult's right to "do whatever you want that makes you happy", but that he also believes "in crazy people."

"Somehow or another, that got left out of the equation," he said. "All of a sudden, crazy people just went away like the flu in Covid!"

Moving onto the subject of Covid-19, Rogan said that before the pandemic he "would have told you that vaccines are the most important invention in human history."

But he went on: "After COVID, I'm like, 'I don't think we went to the moon. I think Michelle Obama's got a dick. I think Pizzagate is real. I think there's direct energy weapons in Antarctica.' I'm just kidding — I don't think Michelle Obama's got a dick, but I believe all of that other shit."

Whilst the subject of some of his jokes angered some, plenty of others were more wound up by how unfunny they found the whole thing.

One person wrote on X: "Randomly watching Joe Rogan's live special on Netflix and I did not know he was this unfunny. Like objectively bombing."

Another said: "Joe Rogan proving he was right to say he ‘can’t tell jokes anymore’ just not in the way he meant."

A third commented: "I mean at least be funny if you're being ignorant and offensive. Joe Rogan's main crime during his comedy special was he wasn't funny. His cult loves it so it doesn't matter but he's making too many smart people stupid."

You can see some of the other online reaction below.

If this still sounds like your sort of thing, then 'Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats' is available to stream on Netflix now in the UK and Ireland.