I miss the days when he was doing stand up and straight up telling people "I'm an idiot. Please don't take me seriously." It definitely is better than now, where he is still an idiot but people do take him seriously.
Well the in between period was fun, I spent hours watching podcasts with taxidermists, mountain climbers and lots of other people passionate about some random thing, who where doing research or had written a book, and they talked about that subject or anything else.
Then the era of the political guests dawned and episodes turned into political conversation after political conversation, that either dragged you into the right wing abyss together with Rogan or you stopped watching. There must have been a concerted effort, because I think several people in his orbit seemed to all have followed the same path.
I liked him in News Radio, but I would also have said the same about Andy Dick. Come to think of it, both of them played idiot savant characters so maybe it was just the genius casting in that show.
He was also perfectly cast in Fear Factor. It was like something he was born to do.
His stand up was atrocious, I hate even listen to him talk about comedy and comedians because it'd be like me talking about nuclear physics and how our brains work.
You don't like his stand-up? You don't like to hear about almond nipples and Kim Kardashian while he's hunched over a stool?
In all seriousness, I was so disappointed in his stand up when I was a fan. For a guy that talks to so many people about so many different topics, his stand up was so boring.