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Bo Burnham expertly mocks Joe Rogan podcast bros in The Inside Outtakes-Mel Evans-Entertainment – Metro
The Inside Outtakes have delighted the punters.
Bo Burnham mercilessly mocks Joe Rogan in Inside outtakes
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If you thought you’d seen the last of content from Bo Burnham’s epic Netflix special Inside, you’d be mighty mistaken.
So mistaken. He’s got more.
This week Burnham released the Outtakes from the special, which saw us look at Jeff Bezos and white women’s Instagrams in a whole new light, and there’s a new addition to his repertoire that’s got the internet buzzed.
It’s an apparent takedown of Joe Rogan-esque podcasting.
At one stage, about 20 minutes into the hour-long offering uploaded to Burnham’s YouTube on Tuesday – just like the good ol’ days (*wipes away nostalgic tear*) – he launched into a faux podcast that appeared to mercilessly roast the Joe Rogan bros who pray at the altar of these sorts of podcast interactions.
In the clip titled ‘Bo Burnham’s Inside the Podcast with Bo Burnham and Bo Burnham’, the comedian was seen on a split-screen interviewing himself, in what many have perceived to be a shot at Rogan’s The Joe Rogan Experience, which thrives on bemoaning cancel culture.
He said: ‘We are two comedians who are talking s**t, no filter, not giving a f**k what anybody thinks and not apologising for it.’
It was, quite frankly, epic (Picture: YouTube)
The pair then chat about ‘PC culture’ (which is ‘f***ing exhausting, bro’) as well as ‘SJW (social justice warrior) feminist freaks’ who are ‘anti-comedy and anti-joke’ and how ‘it’s gotten to the point where you can’t say anything, literally’, in a sounding off against those who blame ‘wokies’ for being held to account for offensive comments.
During Burnham’s send-up, it was also shown the podcast was ‘sponsored’ by Manstuff, which are ‘products made for men, by men, with men in mind because of men in general.’
‘They don’t understand comedy,’ they agreed on the podcast. ‘We’re joking, it’s not that serious, guys. We as comedians are philosophers…we hold the mirror…comedy is an art form.’
Joe Rogan’s podcast seemed to come up a lot in responses from fans (Picture: NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Burnham and Burnham then discuss being ‘cancelled’ after suggesting comedy was ‘one of the only art forms that’s not…gay’, before insisting they would use a different word if there was a different word that described it…
They said: ‘We can’t say that, but yeah, gay. Now they’re gonna come after us…if there was another word that meant gay that wasn’t gay we’d use that, but there isn’t.’
Of course this comes not long after conversation around Rogan being ‘cancelled’ emerged after multiple stars boycotted Spotify – which exclusively airs Rogan’s podcast – after the presenter was accused of sharing misinformation amid the Covid pandemic.
Addressing the controversy himself, Rogan said: ‘If it gets to a point that I can’t do it anymore, where I have to do it in some sort of weird way where I walk on eggshells and mind my p’s and q’s, f**k that!’
Earlier in the day Burnham, who stopped performing live in 2016 after suffering panic attacks, gave us a short heads up the extra footage would be dropping.
He wrote on Twitter: ‘a year ago today, i released a special called inside. i’ve spent the last two months editing together material that i shot for the special but didn’t end up using. it will be on my youtube channel in one hour. i hope you enjoy it.’
And we did.
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Sharing the clip to Twitter, one suggested: ‘Bo Burnham just summarised every episode of the Joe Rogan podcast,’ while another echoed similar sentiments: ‘Bo Burnham just made every single right wing podcast host look like a f**king buffoon…’
‘The Joe Rogan podcast reference didn’t go unnoticed…’ another fan of Burnham’s mused, while a follower of the pair wrote: ‘I love both Joe Rogan and Bo Burnham so this just made my day💀💀💀 Spot on.’
PS the deluxe Inside album is out on Friday…
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