3 Stand up Comedy Deep Dive Podcasts

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 Jimmy Carr dive deep into the craft, business, and philosophy of standup comedy, framing it as both a personal calling and a potential school-taught art form. They discuss community-building through Rogan’s Austin club, the golden age of comedy, and Jimmy’s vision for a structured methodology to teach joke-writing. The conversation branches into broader themes—gratitude, discipline, mental health, drugs, censorship, historical conspiracies, and the trajectory of Western civilizations—using comedy as a lens on culture. Throughout, they return to the idea that finding and pursuing one’s authentic voice and purpose is central to a meaningful life.

Joe Rogan and comedian Jeff Dye have a long-form, freewheeling conversation that moves from stand-up comedy craft and club culture to COVID-era life changes, psychedelics, and the design of Rogan’s Comedy Mothership. They dive deep into drugs, war, drones, and the absurdity of laws around cannabis while contrasting them with more destructive legal substances. The discussion veers into Bigfoot, aliens, evolution, and how humans process fear and belief, before returning to how competition, sports, and stand-up reflect our warlike instincts. Underneath the humor, they keep circling themes of personal responsibility, mental health, and the importance of honest, grounded thinking in a confusing world.