{"id":629756,"date":"2024-08-04T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-covid-and-trans-jokes-taint-netflix-special\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:02:25","slug":"watch-covid-and-trans-jokes-taint-netflix-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-covid-and-trans-jokes-taint-netflix-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch COVID and trans jokes taint Netflix special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3641bd09340\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3641bd09340\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-covid-and-trans-jokes-taint-netflix-special\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_COVID_and_trans_jokes_taint_Netflix_special%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online COVID and trans jokes taint Netflix special&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-covid-and-trans-jokes-taint-netflix-special\/#%E2%80%9CCOVID_and_trans_jokes_taint_Netflix_special%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;COVID and trans jokes taint Netflix special&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_COVID_and_trans_jokes_taint_Netflix_special%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online COVID and trans jokes taint Netflix special&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCOVID_and_trans_jokes_taint_Netflix_special%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;COVID and trans jokes taint Netflix special&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Netflix has found the stopgap solution for the periods between Dave Ch<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>elle specials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Chappelle, the modern-legend co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n whose legacy has been complicated by the anti-trans material in his Netflix specials, has helped to clarify that the streaming service primarily cares about eyeballs at any cost. What is complicated, and heartbreaking, about Chappelle\u2019s recent material is that he is a generationally gifted comic storyteller who seems compelled by belief to speak out against trans people. Meanwhile, what seems clear about Joe Rogan, whose new special, \u201cBurn the Boats,\u201d aired live on Netflix Aug. 3, is that he\u2019s a sort of inverse Chappelle. He is not a generationally gifted comedian, or even a very good one, but his invocations of culture-war wedge issues bring him attention he would otherwise not have merited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This is not a revelation. Rogan \u2014 whose early career included acting on the sitcom \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>Radio,\u201d hosting the reality show \u201cFear Factor,\u201d and backstage interviews for UFC fights \u2014 has risen as far as he has by making a point of being counterintuitive, blunt, strategically mindless. On Rogan\u2019s Spotify podcast, \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/21\/1074442185\/joe-rogan-doctor-covid-podcast-spotify-misinformation\">his early-COVID-era experiments<\/a> in discrediting vaccines \u2014 less a crusade than aimless verbal noodling about whether vaccines might or might not be safe, based on little more than a career comedian\u2019s instinct for which button to push \u2014 got him attention. And that\u2019s the currency that brought him to Netflix, and that prompted Netflix to broadcast him live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s likely that, were his special pre-recorded, the streamer would have had some internal debate about what to cut \u2014 allowing the tape to run let them off the hook, and allowed Rogan to continue his shtick as the most dangerous man in comedy. It\u2019s certainly true that he has an easy and facile way with a slur, and with merging it into his particular way of seeing the world. I was genuinely impressed when he pivoted, in a moment, from saying that there\u2019s nothing wrong with two straight men using a homophobic slur in a private phone conversation to screeching that there is no such thing as a private phone conversation because, in screeched tones, \u201cthey definitely listen!\u201d Rogan, who has through the years come to resemble the UFC fighters he once covered, had, by this point in the special, sweated through his shirt, but the transition from needy self-justification to global conspiracy against him seemed unsweaty, practically seamless. His resentments are his own \u2014 and it just so happens that, incidentally, they\u2019re the world\u2019s fault. Simple as that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Throughout the special, Rogan seemed to be addressing or anticipating a hypothetical critic \u2014 so much so that criticizing him seems to be playing into his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. It seems naive to address, point by point, Rogan\u2019s claims in the form of comedy. It\u2019s an admixture of nasty cruelty (his description of the child of a \u201cpregnant man\u201d nursing was a failed-comic grotesque), faux-naivete (complaining about how \u201cthe world got weird\u201d when Rogan himself is a prime mover in shaping American culture), and, ultimately, a sensibility that seems 10 years late. Beyond the subject of COVID \u2014 which Rogan notes up top changed many of his interpersonal relationships (one wonders why!) \u2014 little in this special feels like it couldn\u2019t have addressed similar cultural wedges in 2013, right down to Rogan\u2019s complaint that he can\u2019t use certain slurs. (In getting those onto Netflix\u2019s air, Rogan guaranteed his audacity would win the headlines his comedy could not, and earned his paycheck.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Much of Rogan\u2019s comedy, here, was simplistic to the point of sketched-out. Rogan spoke mockingly of at least some trans people as \u201ccrazy people,\u201d saying that, while some transness is legitimate, untold others were like the villain of \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d; this is not only prejudiced, this is amateur stuff. A later bit about feeling intimidated around gay men because of Rogan\u2019s understanding of men\u2019s primal nature felt similar: Outdated. Tired. It ultimately came as a relief, even for the viewer who disagreed, when COVID came up in Rogan\u2019s litany, if only because it was a topic that hadn\u2019t already been chewed up by the culture like so many pieces of offal on \u201cFear Factor\u201d: Rogan, in describing it, wouldn\u2019t go so far as to disavow vaccines. But he mocked those who care about the issue on either side, those who believe in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> by his sneering mockery of Prince Harry\u2019s critique of him, and those who believe in Joe Rogan this way: \u201cIf you\u2019re getting your vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault?\u201d Throughout, Rogan has antic, darting eyes; his blocky physicality keeps him fairly glued to the stage, but he\u2019s signaling as best he can that he takes nothing seriously but the pursuit of the punchline. He continually walks up to a line \u2014 as when he praises the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, while noting he was wrong about \u201cone big thing\u201d \u2014 but doesn\u2019t seem curious enough to interrogate what in him, or in his audience, finds intriguing about pushing this boundary. It\u2019s simply fun to do, just like telling trans jokes from 1998.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    He doesn\u2019t find it as often as would suit: To the uninitiated, Rogan comes across in this special as somewhat inept, and it seems that Netflix broadcast it live to capitalize on his notoriety more than to give him pride of place among other recent live events on the streamer, like a Chris Rock special or the roast of Tom Brady. But give him this much: Rogan is at least mildly complicated. He may not be the odd and chewily enigmatic figure Chappelle is, but he\u2019s not solely a partisan. He complains, in the tone of a betrayed friend, that the worst coverage of his having purchased a comedy club came from Fox News (they referred to it as an \u201canti-woke\u201d salvo, while he claims there was no political valence at all). And he disavows basically everything he\u2019s ever said \u2014 not that he has changed his mind, but he seems to write off the concept of having a mind at all. He complains that the media \u201cwould take things that I had said drunk, high as fuck \u2014 put them in quotes, as if it was a thought-out statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Unfortunately, thinking things out \u2014 onstage, in the semi-privacy of one\u2019s studio, or on streaming \u2014 is what comedians are paid to do. And, in utterly disavowing his own work even as it\u2019s happening, Rogan shows that, for all he may have the trappings of a marquee Netflix comic, he lacks a fundamental quality the best comics share: Courage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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