#JOE ROGAN SPOTIFY PROFESSIONAL#
He secured his first major acting role in the 1994 nine-episode Fox sitcom Hardball as Frank Valente, a young, ego-centric star player on a professional baseball team. After a period of negotiation, Rogan accepted a development deal with the Disney network. Rogan declined, but it prompted Sussman to send tapes of Rogan's performances to several networks, which sparked a bidding war. The appearance led to the network offering him a three-year exclusive contract and a role in a pilot episode of a "dopey game show" for $500. In 1994, Rogan relocated to Los Angeles where his first national television spot followed on the MTV comedy show Half-Hour Comedy Hour.
Rogan later cited Richard Jeni, Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks as comedy influences. As a full-time comedian, he was "scratching and grinding" for money, and stayed with his grandfather in Newark for the first six months. At the show was talent manager Jeff Sussman, who liked Rogan's act and offered to become his manager. One night, Rogan convinced the owner of a comedy club in Boston to allow him to try a new, five-minute routine. Meanwhile, his blue comedy style earned him gigs at bachelor parties and strip clubs. While living in Boston and working on his stand-up, Rogan held several jobs to secure himself financially, including teaching martial arts at Boston University and in Revere, Massachusetts, delivering newspapers, driving a limousine, doing construction work, and completing duties for a private investigator. At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery, he performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at a Stitches comedy club in Boston. Nothing had made me laugh like that." Rogan's friends from gym and Taekwondo school, who he would make laugh with impressions and jokes, convinced him to have a go at stand-up comedy.
He was a fan of comedy from a young age, and comedian Richard Pryor's film Live on the Sunset Strip affected him "in such a profound way. Rogan had no intention of being a professional stand-up comedian, and initially considered a career in kickboxing. I couldn't imagine myself working a 9-to-5 job. I didn't have a direction until I became a stand-up comedian. He lived in the Boston area until he was 24. He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but found it pointless and dropped out early. Rogan also practiced amateur kickboxing and held a 2–1 record he retired from competition at age 21 as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and feared he might sustain worse injuries. He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for four consecutive years and became a Taekwondo instructor. When he was 19, he won the US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight. At age 14, Rogan took up karate and, a year later, started Taekwondo. So I really, really gravitated toward it". Martial arts were, "the first thing that ever gave me hope that I wasn't going to be a loser. I knew that I could do something I was terrified of, and that was really difficult, and that I could excel at it. He recalled being "terrified of being a loser" as a child, and martial arts, "gave me not just confidence, but also a different perspective of myself and what I was capable of. Rogan participated in Little League Baseball but developed an interest in martial arts in his early teens. They settled outside Boston in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, where Rogan attended Newton South High School, from which he graduated in 1985. I don't hate the guy." From ages 7 to 11, the family lived in San Francisco, California, followed by a move to Gainesville, Florida when he was eleven. But I don't want to complain about my childhood. Rogan recalled: "All I remember of my dad are these brief, violent flashes of domestic violence. Rogan's parents divorced when he was five, and he has not been in contact with his father since he was seven.
His father, Joseph, is a former police officer in Newark. He is of three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish descent. His grandfather had moved his family there in the 1940s. Joseph James Rogan was born on August 11, 1967, in Newark, New Jersey, US.
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