Joe Rogan Experience #1707 - Kyle Dunnigan & Kurt Metzger
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1707 - Kyle Dunnigan & Kurt Metzger explores rogan, Dunnigan, Metzger Skewer Wokeness, Comedy, Crime, and Culture Joe Rogan hosts comedians Kyle Dunnigan and Kurt Metzger for a loose, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour conversation that bounces between their viral sketch work, the dysfunction of Hollywood, and broader cultural absurdities. Much of the episode centers on how they create face‑swap political parodies and why traditional TV networks are too risk‑averse to air truly edgy comedy. They also dive into topics like social‑media censorship, mobster and killer podcasts, gender‑identity trends, media dishonesty around COVID treatments, and high‑profile frauds like Elizabeth Holmes. The overall tone is irreverent and highly critical of “woke” culture, legacy media, and institutional hypocrisy, while repeatedly circling back to their creative process and struggles as working comics.
Rogan, Dunnigan, Metzger Skewer Wokeness, Comedy, Crime, and Culture
Joe Rogan hosts comedians Kyle Dunnigan and Kurt Metzger for a loose, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour conversation that bounces between their viral sketch work, the dysfunction of Hollywood, and broader cultural absurdities. Much of the episode centers on how they create face‑swap political parodies and why traditional TV networks are too risk‑averse to air truly edgy comedy. They also dive into topics like social‑media censorship, mobster and killer podcasts, gender‑identity trends, media dishonesty around COVID treatments, and high‑profile frauds like Elizabeth Holmes. The overall tone is irreverent and highly critical of “woke” culture, legacy media, and institutional hypocrisy, while repeatedly circling back to their creative process and struggles as working comics.
Key Takeaways
Edgy comedy thrives more on YouTube than on traditional TV networks.
Dunnigan and Metzger describe how their most ruthless face‑swap sketches were rejected or neutered at Comedy Central but can flourish online, where they can self‑produce, iterate, and take risks without network censors.
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Collaboration works best when different creative gaps are filled by different people.
They explain that Dunnigan’s impressions and editing skills pair with Metzger’s joke‑writing and structure; they also credit producers and other writers, underscoring that the best sketches come from complementary strengths, not solo genius.
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Legacy media’s framing of COVID treatments has eroded trust among skeptics.
Rogan revisits the Rolling Stone ivermectin hospital story and the “horse dewormer” narrative as examples of sensational, under‑verified reporting that drove clicks but later collapsed, reinforcing mistrust of mainstream outlets.
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Diversity and identity politics are reshaping writers’ rooms and hiring practices.
Metzger recounts firsthand examples of shows seeking specific identity categories (e. ...
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Online gender and pronoun culture is seen as a symptom of a prosperous, bored society.
They mock neo‑pronouns and TikTok “identity bracelets,” then reference Douglas Murray’s idea that late‑stage civilizations fixate on gender and identity as a form of indulgence when basic material needs are already met.
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Fraud and hype can capture elite institutions when wrapped in the right narrative.
Their discussion of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos highlights how a compelling story (young female “next Steve Jobs,” turtlenecks, deep voice) seduced billionaires and the media despite weak underlying science and internal warnings.
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Artists and comics must often choose between institutional support and creative freedom.
From Emmy credit disputes to Comedy Central’s fear of offensive material, they argue that awards, networks, and big media money come with constraints, whereas independent platforms offer reach with far fewer creative handcuffs.
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Notable Quotes
“You guys are silently creating the best comedy show on the internet.”
— Joe Rogan
“Our process is better than how they do it with other shows, because we can shoot, see that it doesn’t work, and reshoot. TV just locks in a script and you’re stuck with it.”
— Kyle Dunnigan
“Journalism has become so clickbait‑driven that a great story gets printed without anyone checking if it’s true.”
— Joe Rogan (on the Rolling Stone ivermectin piece)
“If you’re hired just because you’re a ‘they,’ well, they then did their job: ‘I showed up and I’m they.’”
— Kurt Metzger
“It’s so indulgent… people looking to be special when there’s nothing about you that separates you from the herd, so you decide you’re ‘kittenself.’”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much of Dunnigan and Metzger’s success is due to YouTube’s relative freedom versus their specific comedic talents?
Joe Rogan hosts comedians Kyle Dunnigan and Kurt Metzger for a loose, three‑and‑a‑half‑hour conversation that bounces between their viral sketch work, the dysfunction of Hollywood, and broader cultural absurdities. ...
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Where should the line be drawn between genuine inclusion in writers’ rooms and tokenistic box‑checking for optics?
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In what ways has sensational COVID coverage permanently changed your trust in mainstream news sources?
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Are TikTok‑driven gender and pronoun trends mostly harmless self‑expression, or do they create real-world confusion and policy issues?
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What responsibility, if any, do comedians have to fact‑check and nuance their critiques of media, politics, and public health?
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I'm, I'm terrible in that position. Like, I have to be really... Some people instinctively are like, "We just don't talk about that." I know how to do that. I don't have no... I can't, I can't do that.
Yeah, I know you don't. That's what I love about you. You just spit. (laughs)
Yeah, that is good. (laughs)
He says things to people are like, "Oh my God." He said something to a comedian that I won't say, but like, uh, oh my God.
Yeah, but it was good-
It was good advice. He gave some advice. It, it was honest, which is good.
One, like one-
Did he tell them to kill themselves?
(laughs) No. No, it's-
It was a woman.
Uh, uh, uh-
Oh, told her to quit?
No. No, I... Well, I don't want to get into it. Gonna embarrass me.
Yeah, okay. Don't, don't do this.
I don't even know if I would do that and upset anyone.
I won't, I won't say a name. I'm gonna leave.
What have you done, Kyle?
I'm leaving, I'm sorry.
(laughs)
Why did you...
As a team, you two-
He's just, he's honest, yes.
Yeah.
Go ahead as a team.
You two, you two balance each other out in a very odd way.
We... Yes, we are... We fill gaps.
Yeah.
Sometimes it feels like-
Fill gaps.
... we're inside each other.
Whoa.
Yes, yes.
Is that...
That's a, that's accurate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
'Cause we have like-
Is that blurting out anything or...
No. We do like opposite things and, like, the things I have gaps in, he fills up. I mean, per his-
(laughs)
It does sound sexual, but I'm not being sexual.
It sounds incredibly sexual.
No, no, but I know what you're saying.
Yeah, I mean-
But-
... he's an amazing, like, joke machine, you know? And, um-
It all sounds sex... Every part of it is sort of sexual.
It does.
You guys are silently creating the best comedy show on the internet. I really believe that.
Thank you.
Well...
Your shit that you guys have put out, these face swaps, this fucking The Fresh Prez.
Yeah. (laughs)
This, this Joe Biden sitcom.
Yeah.
Like it... I, I am astonished it hasn't caught on more than it has. It's caught on a lot.
Right.
But it should be one of the biggest fucking things in the country. You guys are doing the most ruthless, hilarious shit. I can't support it enough.
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