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Related to Gerard Way and Mikey Way, lead singer and bass player (respectively) of the band My Chemical Romance (Gerard and Mikey are Joe's mother's cousin's sons)

Martial Arts Background

How bout some background on Joe's martial arts background, at the moment it only mentions that he is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, i found this quote about his Tae Kwon Do "Joe began practicing martial arts at the age of 13. Within two years, the Boston native earned a black belt and soon became the Massachusetts full contact Tae Kwon Do champion four consecutive years. By the age of 19, Rogan won the US Open Tae Kwon Do Championship, and in true Joe Rogan fashion, the lightweight champion went on to beat both the middle and heavyweight title-holders to obtain the Grand Championship. Joe credits Tae Kwon Do for his discipline and focus, two characteristics which have enabled him to accomplish many things."

pyschedelic use

maybe something should be added about his avid psychedelic use, like smoking DMT, also he has a sensory depravatoin chamber —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.240.184 (talk) 17:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confrontation with Mencia

I believe that the confrontation with Mencia should be incorporated into a sepreate section under joe rogan as it has resulted in some serious fallout.

It should be noted that Rogan was not bringing up Ari. Ari was there but was not the one who was about to perform. Check the clip.

Allegations of Homophobia

An article on TMZ dated June 14, 2007 talks about comedian ANT labeling Rogan a homophobe.[[1]] A blog entry on ANT's official myspace page dated the same day, provides more details.[[2]]

Seeing as Joe Rogan's accusations of material theft now take up more space than any other portion of his career, it's probably worthwhile. Max Overload 14:33, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seems Carlos Mencia got caught again, but this time not by Joe. Perhaps this verifies the claims?[3] Tavor 06:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Claims? Claiming another comedian stole your routine is itself a routine dating back to at least Vaudville. It's seems like it's making up the majority of Rogan's post-Fear Factor career. Too many comedians who deal with topical comedy fail to believe in any chance of parallel invention.Max Overload 16:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, Mencia has hacked jokes written years before by other comics whom he has certainly seen.75.111.57.38 19:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please provide this proof & it will be added, as well as added to Mencia's page. Zchris87v 03:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Similarly, I've removed the following part per WP:BLP: "Not mentioned by Rogan, was repeat of Ari's jokes by multiple other comedians. Indicating that Rogan has a hidden agenda against Mencia." If someone can find a reliable third-party source stating that Rogan has a hidden agenda against Mencia, then please add the information back in with a citation. ShadowHalo 08:26, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Flame War

I'm suprised there's nothing in here about the flame war that he had with "Kevin" a while back, created quite the stir on the interwebs. If anyone who cares enough about Joe Rogan to read this is willing to add it, please do.

Connection with Alex Jones

Is it worth noting in this article that Rogan is a long-time friend of Radio host/'Conspiracy Theorist' Alex Jones? He's appeared on camera with Jones several times throughout the years. --Baltech22 00:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Considering he disputes the moon landing, quite possibly.

http://redban.com/audio/CARLOS.wmv

UFC Career

I remember seeing Rogan on an old UFC PPV event (don't remember the exact date but is was probably around UFC 50-55) where he said that he started with them at UFC 14 back in the dark ages. That would contradict the statement in this article that he started at UFC 40. --Bk0 (Talk) 00:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just heard Rogan on Scott Ferrall's show (Sirius Satellite Radio), he said he started with the UFC in 1996 in Alabama. That would probably be UFC 10. --Bk0 (Talk) 22:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, when Rogan started he was only doing post fight interviews, I believe. Chaos0mega 10:34, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He didn't sign a contract until much later on, he just done UFC early on as a favor to the big man, heard that in an interview ( http://www.sherdogvideos.com/events/ufc67/ufc67_post_rogan.wmv ). he explains it there....

Neutrality

Most of the new information in this article is coming from Joe Rogan's personal website/blog. I don't think Mr. Rogan is maintaining a NPOV about the situation he's created and I believe it's bleeding over into the article. Also, a lot of the rest of the information in this article seems to come from unconfirmed claims made by Joe Rogan. One statement even includes in the same sentece that there is citation available to disprove the claim. Max Overload 14:49, 17 February 2007

I believe Joe Rogan has also accused comedian Dennis Leary of stealing material from Bill Hicks can this be verified confirmed?

He admits to as much on a blog entry. Unfortunately, I can't find said entry.

There exists a streaming audio interview which discusses this claim rather extensively, specifically the (Hicks/Leary) material about smoking. I believe the claim is made that the only reason that Leary is famous is because there is "no cure for cancer" (the title of Leary's album; Hicks died of cancer before it's release). I don't know where to find this now, it was years ago that I listened to it.

He makes the claim in an interview in Maxim or FHM, I can't remember which.

Also, he had in his blog a post stating that Carlos Mencia was half-german, which many of Rogan's fans have used as a reason to change Mencia's page upon reading without any background info. No source (aside from obvious enemy Rogan's claims) mention anything about this. Should this be added? Zchris87v 03:27, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, if we're going to call this an enyclopedia at least have some reputable secondary sources. My God, Joe Rogan's website as a key to stating factual information? To make matters worse, a few links to his website cited are not working. Secondly, Carlos Mencia is born to a Mexican mother and a Honduran father. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1809058891/bio http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578788/bio

Thridly, Ari Shaffir, DL Hughley, George Lopez, and Carlos Mencia all tell a similar joke about who is going to build a wall to ensure border security if illegal immigrants are deported from America..... So who's joke is it? It is imperative that the objective facts be included on this page and not hearsay. This link should definately be cited in the article: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kPuu_VE7KOA

new picture needed

that is the worst picture I have ever seen of someone on wikipedia. for god sakes find a better one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.233.91.85 (talk) 17:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

myspace page

myspace.com/talkingmonkey —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.41.229.114 (talk) 18:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

geneaology

The article says the members of MCR are "Joe's mother's cousin's sons" Is that not the same as being his second cousins? Yes, it is.

Allegations of Homophobia (actual discussion)

The addition of the section titled Allegations of Homophobia is slanderous, baseless, uninformative, and a self promoting act. Let me explain.
First of all the who. Who added the section with an unnamed IP address account? 72.37.142.131[4]. This IP began editing on June 13 and ran through June 20. The person in that time edited ANT’s wiki 15 times in 3 days. From June 13-15. Then on June 15 began editing Joe Rogans wiki (only adding this article). The editing by this IP began prior to the TMZ article and ANT’s original myspace blog on the topic. ANTs blog and the TMZ article are dated June 14. The 72.37.142.131 editor began his editing on June 13 with that IP address. This shows it is not a fan reacting to the blog or TMZ news. His edits include fixing the way ant is written (he likes it in all caps), adding his myspace link, adding his official website, correcting the age and birth date listed, adding his birthplace, general maintenance, and cleaning up recent vandalism.
This IP user has intimate knowledge of a largely unknown comic. He edits ANT’s wiki [5] 15 times adding helpful, information, and personal information. None of which harmful to ANT himself (adding nothing about the plagiarism charges) Then adds a slanderous article to Joe Rogan’s wiki. Then one more addition of self promotion, adding ANT’s website to the Celebrity Fit Club television show’s wiki[6].
I believe the IP editor (72.37.142.131) is ANT himself. And this addition to Rogans wiki is an act of self promotion and not illumination.
The title is bias, and slanderous. The blog that started this recent incident written by ANT was written about a radio interview Rogan gave on the Opie and Anthony radio program in the year 2005 [7]. In which Rogan mentioned ANT’s name while discussing the issue of comedic integrity and plagiarism in the stand up comedy community. He offered no immediate evidence in the interview to ANT’s theft. Joe Rogan and ANT had a professional encounter that perhaps triggered this incident. Joe Rogan was a judge on the television show Last Comic Standing. In which ANT was a contestant. As a judge Rogan called into question a joke ANT used. Claiming that he heard it before and attributed it to another comic, Jim David. This took place years ago. Prior to the Rogan radio interview. ANT’s response blog dated June 14 claimed Joe Rogan is a homophobe for criticizing ANT’s work. And then offers an unwitnessed, unsubstantiated claim that Joe Rogan called him a ‘faggot.’ In a post-Imus world such a claim can only be done with the intent to end someone’s career.
The title is slanderous and not representation of the entire incident but only ANT’s off topic response to a person who judged his comedy on a television show to be of poor quality.
The body of the article is more self promotion linking to the first press ANT has ever received(the TMZ story.) And sending users wishing more information to ANTS own myspace to read his blog.
If this incident is going to be recorded on Rogans wiki it should not be in this form and should be immediately removed pending revisions. It is a slanderous, uninformative, act of self promotion on someone else’s wiki page by ANT (72.37.142.131).----badwordwit June 22,2007

Bryan Callen - half-brother or not?

The Bryan Callen page says that they ARE half brothers, while this page says they are not. Both pages are uncited. IMDB says that yes they are half-brothers, which would mean that this page is inaccurate. See link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130437/bio

--Josh1billion 22:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I changed this article to say that they are half-brothers because of the IMDB entry (which is the only current source). I cited the IMDB page with it. I'm not sure how trustworthy IMDB's trivia section is, but it's better than nothing and it's the only lead we have to go on at the moment. If someone finds a source more reliable, feel free to cite it instead.

--Josh1billion 22:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]