While living in Boston and working on his stand-up, Rogan held several jobs to secure himself financially, including teaching martial arts at Boston University and in Revere, Massachusetts, delivering newspapers, driving a limousine, doing construction work, and performing duties for a private investigator. At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery, he performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at a Stitches comedy club in Boston. Nothing had made me laugh like that." Rogan's friends from gym and Taekwondo school, whom he would make laugh with impressions and jokes, convinced him to have a go at stand-up comedy. He was a fan of comedy from a young age, and comedian Richard Pryor's film Live on the Sunset Strip affected him "in such a profound way.
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Rogan had no intention of being a professional stand-up comedian, and initially considered a career in kickboxing. I couldn't imagine myself working a 9-to-5 job. I didn't have a direction until I became a stand-up comedian. He lived in the Boston area until he was 24. He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but found it pointless and dropped out early. Rogan also practiced amateur kickboxing and held a 2–1 record he retired from competition at age 21, as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and feared he might sustain worse injuries. He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a Taekwondo instructor. When he was 19, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight. So I really, really gravitated toward it." At age 14, Rogan took up karate and, a year later started Taekwondo. It was a big deal for me." Martial arts were "the first thing that ever gave me hope that I wasn't going to be a loser. I knew that I could do something I was terrified of, and that was really difficult, and that I could excel at it. He recalled being "terrified of being a loser" as a child, and martial arts "gave me not just confidence, but also a different perspective of myself and what I was capable of. Rogan participated in Little League Baseball and developed an interest in martial arts in his early teens. They later settled in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, outside Boston, where Rogan attended Newton South High School, from which he graduated in 1985. I don't hate the guy." From ages seven to eleven he lived in San Francisco, California, after which his family moved to Gainesville, Florida. But I don't want to complain about my childhood. Rogan recalled: "All I remember of my dad are these brief, violent flashes of domestic violence. Rogan's parents divorced when he was five, and he has not been in contact with his father since he was seven. His father, Joseph, is a former police officer in Newark. He is of three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish descent. Joseph James Rogan was born on August 11, 1967, in Newark, New Jersey, US.
He hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast in which he discusses current events, comedy, politics, philosophy, science, and hobbies with a variety of guests. Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American podcaster, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television presenter.