The Best Joe Rogan Podcast Guests

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Vote up the best guests of all time from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is one of the oldest and most successful podcasts of all time. This isn't surprising though, as he may be considered one of the best stand-up comedians. With well over 1,000 episodes and hundreds of guests from all different niches, the Joe Rogan podcast has something for everyone. Almost every episode goes roughly three hours long, so there are few other platforms that allow you to get such a personal look at some of your favorite actors, athletes, scientists, and performers. 

On this list, you'll find over 100 different Joe Rogan podcast guests. All of these guests brought something different to the JRE podcast, including mainstays such as Joey Diaz, Duncan Trussell, Bert Kreischer, Eddie Bravo, Steven Rinella, and Graham Hancock, to bigger names who showed up for one-off appearances like Elon Musk, Jamie Foxx, Mel Gibson, Jay Leno, and Ronda Rousey.

You can listen to all episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience on Youtube, iTunes, and plenty of other outlets. If you hover over each Joe Rogan podcast guest on this list, you'll also find a link to one of their most recent episodes on the show.

Who is the best Joe Rogan podcast guest? Go ahead and vote up your favorite guests on the Joe Rogan Experience. After you are finished, head on over and vote on this list of the 10 funniest comedy podcasts.

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  • Joey Diaz
    1

    Joey Diaz

    2,783 votes

    Episode 1072

    José Antonio "Coco" Díaz (born February 19, 1963) is a Cuban-American standup comedian, actor, and podcast host. Born in Cuba and raised in North Bergen, New Jersey, Diaz began his stand-up career in 1991. He had roles in the television series My Name Is Earl and the films The Longest Yard and Taxi. Since 2012, Diaz has hosted the podcast, The Church of What's Happening Now, is a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, and produced an autobiographical documentary.
  • Bill Burr
    2

    Bill Burr

    2,784 votes

    Episode 967

    William Frederick Burr (born June 10, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has released multiple stand-up comedy specials, most notably Why Do I Do This? (2008), Let It Go (2010), You People Are All the Same (2012), I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (2014), Walk Your Way Out (2017), and Paper Tiger (2019). The latter received a nomination for Best Comedy Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
  • Graham Hancock
    3

    Graham Hancock

    1,947 votes

    Multiple Episodes (142, 360, 417, 725, 872, and others)

    Graham Bruce Hancock (; born 2 August 1950) is a British writer and journalist. He is known for his pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilisations, Earth changes, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths, and astronomical or astrological data from the past. Hancock's works propose a connection with a 'mother culture' from which he believes other ancient civilisations sprang. An example of pseudoarchaeology, his work has neither been peer reviewed nor published in academic journals.
  • Theo Von
    4

    Theo Von

    1,588 votes

    Multiple Episodes (925, 1141)

    Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski (born March 19, 1980), known professionally as Theo Von, is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, television personality, YouTuber, and actor. He is the host of the This Past Weekend podcast and occasional co-host of The King and the Sting podcast.
  • Jordan Peterson
    5

    Jordan Peterson

    4,387 votes

    Multiple (Episodes 877, 958, 1070, 1139, 1208)

    Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.Peterson has bachelor's degrees in political science and psychology from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill from 1991 to 1993 before moving to Harvard University, where he was an assistant and then an associate professor in the psychology department. In 1998, he moved back to Canada as a faculty member in the psychology department at the University of Toronto, where, as of 2019, he is a full professor. Peterson's first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and several other topics such as motivation for genocide. His second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, was released in January 2018.In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing political correctness and the Canadian government's Bill C-16, "An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code". The Act added "gender identity and expression" as a prohibited ground of discrimination, which Peterson characterised as an introduction of compelled speech into law, although legal experts have disagreed. He subsequently received significant media coverage, attracting both support and criticism. Peterson is associated with the "Intellectual Dark Web".
  • Elon Musk
    6

    Elon Musk

    4,101 votes

    Episode 1169

    Elon Reeve Musk (; born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. He has a net worth of $19.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world.Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and later that year became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla) and operates as its chairman. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet. Musk has stated that the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.