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Comic Joe Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Expertise podcast, has simply arrange his new brick-and-mortar comedy membership, Comedy Mothership, within the coronary heart of downtown Austin, Texas. The membership, positioned within the metropolis’s famed Sixth Road leisure district, has been a ardour mission of the comic for years. Alhough there was no particular coverage introduced, many consider that the venue will turn out to be a mecca for the “anti-woke” comedy Rogan favors. In different phrases, it might be a “secure house” for comedians to interrupt out their transphobic, homophobic, racist, and in any other case transgressive materials with none worry of “cancel tradition” interference.
Rogan bought Sixth Road’s historic Ritx constructing to deal with the membership. The situation has performed host to a number of leisure venues all through Austin’s historical past together with a film home, porn theater, punk membership, pool corridor, and, most just lately, the downtown residence of Austin’s native Alamo Drafthouse theater chain. The newly opened membership options two theaters, named Fats Man and Little Boy after the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan on the shut of World Warfare II. Adorned with Artwork Deco and aliens-inspired design, it options a few of Rogan’s personal alien memorabilia.
Rogan started contemplating opening a membership of his personal shortly after relocating to the Texas capitol in 2020. Talking on Theo Von’s podcast final yr, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Rogan mentioned: “I felt compelled to do it. I by no means wished to personal a comedy membership, and I all the time felt such as you simply needed to be good to comedy membership house owners since you by no means need to be a type of folks. However then, once I knew I used to be transferring right here, and [Austin’s Capital City Comedy Club] was already closed. I used to be like, ‘Possibly I can buy a f**king membership, and begin a membership.’ And that turned my focus.”
The opening evening featured a coterie of Rogan favorites together with David Lucas, Ron White, Tim Dillion, Roseanne Barr, and Tony Hinchcliffe. The $40 tickets offered out nearly instantly and had been rapidly being resold for as a lot as $500. In accordance with THR, the primary homosexual joke was instructed solely seconds after the primary act took the stage, adopted rapidly by one other about trans folks. The viewers howled with laughter in response.
“I need to thank Joe for constructing this glorious Mothership for comedians,” Roseanne Barr mentioned throughout her set. She then launched right into a bit about how Disney is Satanic.