Art & Creativity Quote by Joe Rogan

Rogan’s “I wouldn’t totally rule out” is the classic half-open door: not a pitch, not a refusal, a posture. It’s the rhetoric of optionality, and it fits a comedian who built an empire by not needing the traditional gates anymore. The line performs a kind of casual dominance: I can do your show, but I don’t have to want you.

The key phrase is “appropriate for network censors.” Rogan isn’t just talking about profanity; he’s naming a whole ecosystem of taste-policing and risk management that late-night TV represents. Network bookings come with implied contracts: keep it tight, keep it broadly legible, don’t complicate the advertiser-friendly mood. Rogan frames that constraint as a creative narrowing, something that might accidentally align with his material (“a set that I just happened to write”) but isn’t worth chasing.

That “happened” matters. It casts mainstream acceptance as incidental to the work rather than a goal shaping it, a self-image Rogan has long cultivated: the comic as craft-obsessed grinder, not a brand-manager angling for prestige. The final sentence, “But I’m not going to go out of my way,” lands as a polite shrug with teeth. It’s independence marketed as nonchalance, a subtle flex that also protects him from rejection. If it happens, he chose it. If it doesn’t, the system was never the point.

Contextually, it’s a snapshot of comedy’s power shift: podcasts and arenas versus couches and censors. Rogan doesn’t need the old megaphone; he’s reminding it.