Joe Rogan

For his first UK arena show, the world's most popular podcaster, UFC commentator and supplement salesman has assembled a stand-up rally that will energise ...

Like almost every routine tonight, it’s sort of technically close to the bone, but what a ravaged and flavourless bone we’ve been left with by this point. His whole position is so staunchly individualist, so based in not caring, it’s interesting that he comes back so often to the critics and what he’s allowed or not allowed to say from his giant $200million platform. He says it’s this love that means he could never be homophobic, but despite his protestations he’s homophobic in a weirdly literal way, running through routines that seem to hinge on a genuine fear of gay men, what they might do to him, and becoming gay himself. So in the interests of balance, the context, as ever, is that they’re being a bit ironic about it. At one telling moment he begins to say that something is ‘crazy’ and then self-corrects to the R-slur. Setting the tone, he busts out a couple of mid-tier slurs right out of the gate, and moves swiftly on to material about Asian stereotypes, trans athletes and the differences between men and women.