4 Stand up Comedy Deep Dive Podcasts

Joe Rogan and comedian-writer Owen Smith dive deep into standup craft, career setbacks, and the long road from raw talent to polished headliner. Owen recounts pivotal experiences with Russell Simmons, Dave Chappelle, Damon Wayans, Mitch Hedberg, and others, showing how early rejection and industry politics shaped his voice. They contrast pure standup with Hollywood’s executive culture, arguing that TV development, notes, and fear of controversy often dilute comedy’s edge. The conversation also touches on yoga, athletic greatness, drugs, and how podcasts and independent projects now offer comics more control than traditional gatekeepers.

Joe Rogan and Dave Attell spend the episode talking shop about stand-up comedy: the evolution of club scenes, how new comics develop today versus the 80s/90s, and Rogan’s new Austin club as a ‘mothership’ for comics.

Joe Rogan and Nikki Glaser have a long-form, loose conversation that hops between dogs, veganism, exercise, sobriety, sex, language taboos, fame, and stand-up craft.

Joe Rogan and Tom Segura dive into Tom’s new Netflix sketch-anthology series “Bad Thoughts,” how he backdoored it into existence with self‑funded short films, and why it feels like finally realizing his original dream of making comedy movies. They expand into a broader critique of modern comedy and studio risk‑aversion, the economics of making truly funny R‑rated films, and Tom’s upcoming summer comedy movie project. The conversation then sprawls through standup craft, hypnosis‑like crowd control, killing material, and the pressures of touring, before veering into health, addiction, fitness, food, AI, gambling, combat sports, and even simulation theory. Throughout, it’s a long, loose hang between two veteran comics reflecting on careers, risk‑taking, and the strange incentives shaping entertainment and society.