Joe Rogan rips Stephen Colbert for stoking ‘mass psychosis’ with vaccine song

Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan hit out at CBS "Late Present" host Stephen Colbert for a song-and-dance skit touting the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Joe Rogan took goal at Stephen Colbert throughout an episode of his Spotify podcast on Wednesday, calling the CBS late-night star “bizarre” and criticizing his chumminess with prime Democratic Social gathering officers.

Throughout an interview with MMA fighter Jake Shields, Rogan additionally hit out at Colbert for a skit on his CBS present that featured dancers dressed as syringes who did a quantity to advertise the COVID-19 vaccine.

Colbert, in accordance with Shields, is “cringe.”

Rogan agreed, commenting: “He’s bizarre, proper!”

Shields then talked about a June 2021 skit on Colbert’s “Late Present” that includes “The Vax-Scene,” a dance troupe dressed as vaccine syringes.

“The vax factor, you’re like oh my God that is so onerous to look at!” Shields stated.

“The vaccine songs! That was unusual,” Rogan stated in response.

Rogan additionally accused Colbert of desirous to be among the many “in” crowd by being chummy with prime Democrats.

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“I wanna be within the assembly the place they pitch that. Like right here’s the factor ‘We’re gonna go da — da — da — dada — da vaccines!’ Like the place’s the joke? The place’s the joke? Are folks going to look at this?”

When Shields questioned if Colbert is “comfortable” or whether or not it’s “identical to the cash,” Rogan stated: “I wager it’s, for positive, very profitable, he will get some huge cash.”

Rogan added: “I wager he enjoys being the star of a present, he enjoys being on the in — on the in-crowd.”

Colbert featured a skit on his present known as “The Vax-Scene,” a dance troupe that includes performers dressed as syringes.

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The podcaster then talked about a viral video exhibiting Colbert and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democrat from New York, dancing and high-fiving throughout a charity live performance final summer time.

“There’s this video of Colbert dancing with Chuck Schumer they usually high-five one another,” Rogan stated.

“It’s so unusual.”

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Rogan stated that he would by no means be provided an opportunity to host a late-night speak present.

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He added: “They’re high-fiving and Schumer is dancing exterior with a masks on.”

“Like that is going to go down in historical past, like this time — this is sort of a mass psychosis,” Rogan stated.

The dialog between Shields and Rogan initially turned to Colbert when the podcaster stated that “if I had been born in some other period, all of my jobs besides being a slapstick comedian can be nonexistent.”

“You'll in all probability be doing like a late-night speak present,” Shields noticed. “Suppose how horrible that will be.”

To which Rogan replied: “They might by no means give me one. I assure you they’d by no means give me one.”

“Otherwise you’d must be like Stephen Colbert,” Shields stated, including that it was “unhappy” to see what has develop into of the previous Comedy Central star.

Colbert has made no secret of his pro-Democratic leanings. Final month, he criticized his bosses at CBS for hiring a former Trump administration official, Mick Mulvaney, as an on-air commentator.