Joe Rogan has revealed the real reason why he wasn’t nominated for a Golden Globe at this year’s awards show.
The former TV host opened up about the controversy during the latest episode of his “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Thursday.
“They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and you had to pay $500. And the $500 is like for paperwork or whatever,” Rogan, 58, explained. “I said no.”
“I don’t want to be a part of that,” he added.
Despite having one of the top podcasts on Spotify, Apple and YouTube in 2025, “The Joe Rogan Experience” wasn’t one of the six nominees up for the first-ever best podcast award at this year’s Golden Globes.
Instead, the nominees consisted of Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang,” Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes’ “SmartLess,” Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert,” Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” and NPR’s “Up First.”
Poehler, 54, ultimately took home the inaugural award.
“I’m sure it’s good. It won. I’m sure someone must love it,” Rogan said of “Good Hang” bringing home the Golden Globe for best podcast. “If it sucked, they would give it to someone else, right?”
“I just know that Amy Poehler won and a lot of people are upset,” he continued. “‘She’s had a podcast for six months and she won. Great, you gave it to a famous person.’ Which, you know, in that world that’s what they do.”
The UFC color commentator went on to repeat that he chose not to pay the $500 entry fee – before trashing the idea of the best podcast award category altogether.
“I just know that I didn’t submit,” he said. “I don’t want to be a part of that. I don’t care. You’re just a group of people that just decide, all of a sudden, that you’re going to give an award out? ‘I get a trophy’? F–k off!”
Rogan, meanwhile, said that he didn’t need a Golden Globe because he “already won” by having one of the most popular podcasts of all time.
“You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been number one for six years in a row,” he told guest Bert Kreischer. “All of sudden, you’re going to have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos and you’re going to say now I’m not number one?”
“F–k off…I don’t care that I’m number one, but I am, in fact, number one,” Rogan concluded.
But Rogan wouldn’t be the first celebrity to slam the Golden Globes and the newly introduced best podcast category.
Bill Maher, who failed to bring home a Golden Globe for best stand-up comedy for his “Is Anyone Else Seeing This?” special, blasted the Golden Globes as “f–king smug a–holes” for snubbing Rogan.
“Did you see that there’s a podcast category at the Globes?” Maher, 70, said during his “Club Random” podcast earlier this month. “They only nominated like the super woke stuff.”
“I’m sure there were good shows, but it was glaring that Joe Rogan was not nominated,” he added. “I mean, it is kind of popular.”
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