Joe Rogan Turns 53

Joe Rogan turns 53 on Tuesday. 

Rogan was born August 11, 1967, in Newark, New Jersey. He spent much of his childhood and early adulthood living in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Joe Rogan, now famous for his The Joe Rogan Experience—which Spotify recently offered up $100 million for multi-year licensing rights for his podcast—is also an actor (the 1995–99 NBC comedy series NewsRadio, which also starred Dave Foley, Maura Tierney, Andy Dick, Khandi Alexander, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis and, at the time of his death, Phil Hartman); a television-reality host (NBC’s 2001–06 and 2011–12 Fear Factor); a UFC commentator; and, of course, a standup comedian (with numerous albums and television specials).

Rogan is also a hell of an interviewer. I sense, with his The Joe Rogan Experience, he is this generation’s Johnny Carson. Like Carson, Rogan is a very engaging host, and interviewer, who is focused on and interested in his program’s guests. Not a lot of people can pull this off—and I count ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, CBS’s Stephen Colbert, and NBC’s Jimmy Fallon among late-nighters who do not—with the consistent excellence as Rogan interviews numerous and various people of different stripes.

In his personal life, Joe Rogan is married since 2009 to Jessica Ditzel. They have three daughters. Rogan recently announced he, and The Joe Rogan Experience, will move from California to Texas.