A video of Joe Rogan impersonating a baby with an mental incapacity throughout a stand-up routine has resurfaced and gone viral.
"Joe Rogan impersonates a baby with mental disabilities throughout his stand-up," the favored "Fifty Shades of Whey" Twitter account posted on Friday, alongside a brief clip that has already been seen greater than 200,000 occasions.
The clip— from Rogan's 2006 comedy particular Joe Rogan: Stay—reveals Rogan imagining how a boy with an mental incapacity would react to the biblical story of Noah's Ark.
"You inform the story of Noah and the ark to an 8-year-old retarded boy, he is gonna have some questions," Rogan says within the clip.
I ponder if @spotify is conscious that they threw $100 million to somebody so painfully unfunny that he impersonates a disabled little one in his "comedy" as a punchline.
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) February 4, 2022
Rogan regales the viewers with the story, earlier than doing an impression of the kid's response that sees him rocking backwards and forwards on a stool and shaking his head repeatedly.
"I ponder if @spotify is conscious that they threw $100 million to somebody so painfully unfunny that he impersonates a disabled little one in his 'comedy' as a punchline," Fifty Shades of Whey added in one other tweet.
It comes as Spotify continues to face strain over Rogan's podcast, The Joe Rogan Expertise, which the corporate reportedly paid greater than $100 million to license.
Final month, Neil Younger eliminated his music from the platform and accused Spotify of permitting Rogan to unfold COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Spotify lately introduced that it'll begin to fight COVID-19 misinformation by including a content material advisory earlier than all podcasts that debate COVID-19, directing listeners to up-to-date data from scientists and specialists.
However the discontent has continued, with singer-songwriter India.Arie citing Rogan's previous use of racial slurs as her purpose for pulling her music from Spotify.
The award-winning Black singer-songwriter additionally posted a video compilation that confirmed Rogan utilizing a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span.
Rogan has apologized, saying in a video posted on Saturday that his use of the N-word within the compilation the singer posted was the "most regretful and shameful factor that I've ever needed to speak about publicly."
However he claimed that he hadn't mentioned the phrase in years, and that the clips had been "taken out of context."
Since then, clips from a 2017 episode of his podcast the place Rogan argued that individuals needs to be allowed to make use of the N-word and mentioned a number of different racial and ethnic slurs have gone viral.
Rogan additionally mentioned the N-word throughout his 2006 particular. "That is a magic phrase. N*****," he says.
"See?" Rogan provides when the viewers reacts to the slur. "See even explaining that that is a harmful phrase to say and saying the phrase, everyone's like, 'oh, this will begin some sh**!"
He continues: "Solely Black persons are allowed to say it and I respect that. I by no means say that phrase... until I am constructive. there is no Black individuals round. After which even once I say it, I do not say it in a racist manner. I am not racist in any respect. I say it simply because it sounds fairly cool. It isn't honest that you just guys get to make use of that phrase."
Rogan and Spotify have been contacted for remark.
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