Joe Rogan to Perform Live Comedy Special ‘Burn the Boats’

Podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan will return to stand-up in Netflix comedy special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats, Netflix announced Tuesday. The comedy special marks Rogan’s first special on the streamer in six years. Rogan’s previous Netflix specials include 2016’s Joe Rogan: Triggered and 2018’s Joe Rogan: Strange Times.

“Don’t get mad at me,” Rogan says in the accompanying trailer announcing his return. “You know why you came here.”

In February, Rogan signed a multiyear partnership worth up to $250 million for his podcast the Joe Rogan Experience, as Wall Street Journal reports, making his contentious podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and YouTube. The podcast was previously exclusive to Spotify from 2020 to 2023.

Rogan’s podcast, which has released more than 2,200 episodes, has been criticized for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and conspiracy theories. In 2022, several musicians including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their tracks from Spotify to boycott Rogan’s anti-vax rhetoric. Spotify also removed several episodes from the Joe Rogan Experience, which launched in 2009, following reports of him using racial slurs during show recordings.

Indie.Arie also announced she’d be pulling her music from Spotify in protest of Rogan and shared a subsequent compilation of clips featuring Rogan using the N-word. Although Rogan said in an Instagram video that it was the “most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly,” he said it was “taken out of context.”

“It’s not my word to use. I am well aware of that now, but for years I used it in that manner,” he said during the six-minute video. “I never used it to be racist because I’m not racist.”

Rogan’s live special Joe Rogan: Burn the Boats will be filmed in San Antonio, Texas, at the Majestic Theater. It premieres Aug. 3 at 10 p.m. ET.