Joe Rogan has confessed he refused to pay the entry fee to have his podcast submitted for a Golden Globes nomination.
This year, the awards offered a best podcast prize for the first time ever, but notably snubbed viewership juggernauts like Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.
Rather, the nominees were a Hollywood-safe list of politically correct picks like Dax Shepard, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Alex Cooper and winner Amy Poehler.
There was an explosion of controversy over the fact ‘anti-woke’ figures like Rogan were excluded, but he himself has now added another wrinkle to the story.
‘So here’s the thing. A lot of people say: “Why wasn’t Joe Rogan nominated for the Golden Globes? Why did Amy Poehler win?” I didn’t submit,’ he said while interviewing Bert Kreischer on Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
‘So they asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and you had to pay $500, and the $500 was like for paperwork or whatever. I said no,’ he shared.
Joe Rogan has confessed he refused to pay the entry fee to have his podcast submitted for a Golden Globes nomination this year; pictured on a different episode of his podcast
‘I don’t care. I already won. You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been number one for six years in a row. All of a sudden you’re gonna have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedoes and you’re gonna say now I’m not number one?’
His remarks came after Bill Maher, who attended the Golden Globes but was not nominated, used his own podcast Club Random to slate the awards show for neglecting to recognize Rogan with a nod.
Maher urged Hollywood people to ‘get out of your f***ing bubble,’ insisting that ‘I want to be one of you, I am one of you,’ while calling them ‘so hard to defend’ on account of being ‘f***ing smug a**holes.’
This year’s nominees for best podcast included Call Her Daddy by online superstar Alex Cooper and the eventually triumphant Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
SmartLess – hosted by sitcom alumni Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes – was also in contention along with the self-help Mel Robbins Podcast.
Rounding out the category was Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard – co-hosted with producer Monica Padman – and the NPR news podcast Up First.
In the wake of the Golden Globes, Rogan received an imprimatur from mainstream Hollywood in the form of an interview with A-listers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Their episode dropped on January 16, five days after the awards show, and as of this Friday night has amassed more than five million views on YouTube alone.
Amy Poehler is pictured accepting the Golden Globe earlier this month for her podcast Good Hang, for which she was nominated in a category that included her ex-husband Will Arnett
Various clips went viral from the episode as viewers delighted in the back-and-forth between Affleck and Damon, longtime best friends who rose to fame together.
On the episode that debuted two days before the Golden Globes, Rogan’s guest was yet another Hollywood heavyweight, Bradley Cooper.
Cooper was promoting his latest directorial effort Is This Thing On?, starring none other than Golden Globe podcast nominee Arnett, Poehler’s ex-husband.
Recent mainstream showbiz stars to have appeared on Rogan’s show include Russell Crowe, Ethan Hawke, John Mellencamp, Johnny Knoxville, Billy Bob Thornton and Jelly Roll, all in the space of the past three months.
