The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan Experience #1148 - Andrew Santino

Andrew Santino is a stand up comedian and actor. You can also see him the show “I’m Dying Up Here” on SHOWTIME.

Joe RoganhostAndrew Santino (very short interjection/bit)guestJamie Vernonguest

Jul 27, 20182h 49mWatch on YouTube ↗

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino riff on fame, sports, and insanity

Joe Rogan and Andrew Santino spend a long, free‑form conversation bouncing between comedy, pop culture, sports, technology, and the absurdities of modern life. They reminisce about cultural icons like Bruce Lee, Shaq, Liberace, and Sarah Palin while skewering everything from aging athletes and video‑game culture to fat‑shaming debates and airline behavior. Mixed in are behind‑the‑scenes stories about stand‑up, hidden‑camera shows, Just for Laughs, Netflix, and how TV work can dull a comic’s edge. The episode is essentially two comics pressure‑testing ideas in real time, blending sharp social observation with deliberately outrageous, taboo‑poking humor.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Cultural impact isn’t tied to lifespan.

They note how Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison died young yet remain more influential than most people who live full lives, highlighting how intensity and originality matter more than years lived.

Aging in performance fields is brutal and highly visible.

Watching retired NBA players struggle in The Big Three or fighters taking damage late in their careers shows how sports built on youth and explosiveness turn sad quickly when athletes stay too long for money or identity.

Esports and streaming overturned old ideas about ‘wasting time’ on games.

Where parents once dismissed video games, Rogan and Santino point out that top players and streamers now earn serious money, buy their parents houses, and build full careers sitting at a PC instead of on a tennis court.

Shame is largely cultural, not inherent.

They argue that many sexual or personal behaviors people feel ashamed of are only ‘wrong’ because of upbringing or religious norms; in a different household the same acts would feel normal and unremarkable.

Over‑policing comedy risks gutting what makes it work.

A Just for Laughs ‘code of conduct’ document banning anything vexatious or inappropriate is mocked as fundamentally at odds with stand‑up, which relies on talking shit, pushing boundaries, and inhabiting uncomfortable truths.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

Isn’t it humbling when someone dies really young and they did way more in their life than you ever will?

— Joe Rogan

Parents used to tell their kids not to play video games — now the kid playing Fortnite is buying the house.

— Andrew Santino

You need fucked up people to make rock and roll and comedy and rap music.

— Joe Rogan

In order to do comedy, to really do it, you can’t do anything else.

— Joe Rogan, paraphrasing Louis C.K.

This is harassing in its own way — a list of all the things you can’t do to people who weren’t going to do them anyway.

— Andrew Santino on the Just for Laughs code of conduct

Legacy and early death of cultural icons (Bruce Lee, Hendrix, Morrison)Aging athletes, combat sports vs. basketball, and The Big Three leagueSports media personalities and comedy crossovers (Michael Rapaport, Shaq, UFC weight limits)Video games, esports money, and generational shifts in what’s considered a ‘real’ careerParenting, profanity, sex and shame, and how kids pick up adult behaviorComedy industry dynamics: Just for Laughs codes, Netflix saturation, hidden-camera and sketch conceptsTechnology trends: VR viewing, smartphones, cameras, and how they’ll reshape watching sports and stand‑up

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