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- Date Released: April 10, 2007
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Comedy
- Label: Comedy Central Records
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We Say...
Joe Rogan gets it out of the way almost from the word “go.” “I thought that thing was going to get canceled immediately. That’s why I did it!....Four years later…I’m staring at a girl with a mouthful of animal dicks going ‘You can do it. Hang in there!’” He’s talking about his stint as the host for NBC’s Fear Factor, of course, and it’s the exact reason that we only now see him following up 2000’s I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday. That and the fact that he smokes a lot of marijuana, a theme that comes up often on Shiny Happy Jihad, along with Rogan’s takes on medicine (“Big Dick Pills”), the war on terror (“Osama Bin Laden Is Right Out of a Comic Book”), homosexuality (“Gay Is Funny”) and himself (“Dumb People Out-Breeding Smart People”).
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They Say...
Way more productive for others than for himself, Joe Rogan was the host on the TV reality show Fear Factor, a cast member of the sitcom NewsRadio, and a commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship before the 2007 arrival of his Comedy Central debut, Shiny Happy Jihad. Right before the album's release, he went after fellow comics Dane Cook and Carlos Mencia big-time, accusing them of stealing jokes as if he was the keeper of standup law. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to the people who didn't regularly watch his website and its broadcasts or who missed his 2000 album for Warner Bros., I'm Gonna Be Dead Someday..., which barely made a blip on the radar. The relentless Shiny Happy Jihad backs everything up as Rogan spews forth a slew of hilarious and cutting observations that refuse to play nice, sellout, or settle down. He's grating, not for everyone, and dwells on the power of pot smoking to the power of two Bill Maher's, but he also pulls off the amazing trick of covering the beat-to-death topic of Brokeback Mountain and somehow makes gay cowboys funny again. Behind the scenes stories of Fear Factor explain how such an edgy and smart rebel handled, and ended up having to justify, a gig on such a successful and lowest-common-denominator show. His even stranger attachment to the UFC has a lot to do with his true love of the earlier, brutish UFC commentator Jim Brown and it doesn't take long to learn that TV is where he gets his money, standup is where he gets his artistic fulfillment. Seven years away from his first love -- at least as far as albums go -- meant the material was building up. Cutting it all down to the most effective routines gives the album an amazingly tight feel that's almost overwhelming, yet one of the great highlights of this live set is the casual question and answer session at the end which proves Rogan can be funny at the spur of the moment. Brutally honest and often just plain brutal, Shiny Happy Jihad couldn't earn Rogan any more TV face time than he already has, and it certainly isn't meant for that. It's meant to give hard evidence as to why he has earned the right to speak his mind on standup integrity. The fringe benefits are the amazing amount of laughs it takes to get there and the numerous times this hilarious effort can be returned to and still satisfy.
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| 01. |  |
Fear Factor |
3:03 |
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| 02. | |
Pot, Jet Packs and Peace in the Middle East (and Drunk People Yelling S**t on My CD) |
3:42 |
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| 03. | |
72 Virgins |
3:00 |
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| 04. | |
Suicide Bombings, Sad Penis and Big Party Girl |
3:32 |
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| 05. | |
J**k Off First, Safe Zone |
5:13 |
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| 06. | |
Bisexual Dudes Giving Advice |
3:19 |
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| 07. | |
Gay Is Funny, Brokeback Mountain |
3:02 |
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| 08. | |
Osama Is Right Out of a Comic Book and The Terrorist Cell Phone Network |
2:36 |
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| 09. | |
Boycotting and People Who Like Animals More Than People, March of the Penguins |
6:32 |
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| 10. | |
Weird Spots in the Middle |
1:07 |
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| 11. | |
Big D**k Pills |
4:41 |
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| 12. | |
P***y Whipped, Best Friends |
5:02 |
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| 13. | |
Dumb People Out-Breeding Smart People Explains the Pyramids |
9:47 |
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| 14. | |
I Was Raised Catholic, In Search of Noah's Ark |
5:10 |
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| 15. | |
We're on a Rock Flying Through Space |
2:20 |
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| 16. | |
Wesley Snipes, The UFC and Jim Brown |
2:21 |
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| 17. | |
Fear Factor Is Cancelled, Telemundo and Mike Goldberg |
1:42 |
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| 18. | |
Eddie Bravo, Show Me Your P***y and Text Messaging |
0:48 |
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| 19. | |
Lady and Her Son, Ex-Boyfriends Are Hungry Wolves |
4:12 |
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19 Total Tracks, 71:09 Total Length
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Credits
- Jeff Sussman - Producer // Ian White - Photography // Jack Vaughn - Producer // Joe Rogan - Producer // John Brown - Design // Christian Dwiggins - Editing // Christian Dwiggins - Mastering // Christian Dwiggins - Mixing // Tony Brooke - Engineer // Chandra Keyes - Producer
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