Who is Joseph James Rogan?
A: Joe Rogen is an American podcaster, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television presenter.
When was Rogan born?
A: August 11, 1967.
Where was he born?
A: Newark, New Jersey.
Of what descent is he?
A: He is of three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish descent.
His father, Joseph, is a former what?
A: Police officer in Newark.
Rogan's parents divorced when he was how old?
A: Five.
Rogan has not been in contact with his father since he
was how old?
A: Seven.
From ages seven to eleven he lived where?
A: In San Francisco,
California.
Where did Rogen move to after San Francisco?
A: To Gainesville, Florida.
They later settled where?
A: In Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, outside Boston.
Where did Rogan attend high school?
A: Newton South High School, from which he graduated in 1985.
Rogan participated in Little League Baseball and
developed an interest in what?
A: Martial arts in his early teens.
At age 14, Rogan took up what?
A: Karate.
What did he start a year later?
A: Taekwondo.
When he was 19, he won what?
A: The US Open Championship taekwondo tournament as a lightweight.
He was a Massachusetts full-contact state champion for
how many consecutive years?
A: Four.
Rogan also practiced amateur what?
A: Kickboxing.
At what age did he retire from competition?
A: At age 21, as he began to suffer from frequent headaches and
feared he
might sustain worse injuries.
He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but
found it what?
A: Pointless and dropped out early.
He lived in the Boston area until he was how old?
A: 24.
Rogan had no intention of being a professional stand-up
comedian, and initially considered a career in what?
A: Kickboxing.
He was a fan of “what” from a young age?
A: Comedy?
Rogan's friends from gym and Taekwondo school, whom he would make laugh with
impressions and jokes, convinced him to have a go at what?
A: Stand-up comedy.
At 21, after six months preparing material and practicing his delivery,[22] he performed his first stand-up routine on August 27, 1988, at an open-mic night at a Stitches comedy club in Boston.[11][20]
In 1990, Rogan moved to where?
A: New York City.
As a full-time comedian, he was doing what?
A: "scratching and grinding" for money and stayed with his grandfather in
Newark for the first six months.
In 1994, Rogan relocated to where?
A: Los Angeles.
Rogan secured his first major acting role in what
sit-com?
A: The 1994 nine-episode Fox sitcom Hardball as Frank Valente, a young,
egocentric star player on a professional baseball team.
Around this time, Rogan began performing where?
A: The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
From 1995 to 1999, Rogan starred in what NBC sitcom?
A: NewsRadio as Joe Garrelli, an electrician and handyman at the show's
fictional news radio station.
The role was originally set to be played by whom?
A: Actor Ray Romano, but Romano was let go from the cast after one rehearsal
and Rogan was brought in.
He began working for the mixed martial arts promotion
Ultimate Fighting Championship as a what?
A: A backstage and post-fight interviewer.
Rogan became interested in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 1994
after watching what?
A: Royce Gracie fight at UFC 2: No Way Out.
Rogan won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Award for
“what” twice?
A: Best Television Announcer and was named MMA Personality of the Year four
times by the World MMA Awards.
In 1999, Rogan secured a what?
A: A three-album deal with Warner Bros. Records.
He began tentative plans to star in his own prime-time
televised sitcom on Fox named what?
A: The Joe Rogan Show.
In 2001, the development of Rogan's television show was
interrupted after he accepted an offer from NBC to do what?
A: To host the American edition of Fear Factor.
Rogan's role as host of Fear Factor led to what?
A: Further television opportunities.