Six years after his last stand-up special, one year after opening his Austin club Comedy Mothership, and deep into his $250 million deal with Spotify, Joe Rogan is back on the comedy stage with the Netflix special, Burn the Boats. Ironically, the best thing Rogan has in his favor is the fact that he’s never been known as that good of a comedian. Host, fighter, conversationalist, salesman, podcaster, and conspiracy theorist? He’s absolutely great at those things. But in the art of stand-up comedy, he’s no George Carlin or Dave Chappelle. He’s somewhere between Dane Cook and Brendan Schaub, and Burn the Boats sadly does nothing to change that.
