Just been enjoying a few of Joe Rogan’s podcast episodes. One reason I like his shows is his eclectic broadminded choice in guests. Having lived in the UK I am quite familiar with Jimmy Carr, the British standup comedian who is quite successful these days with his rapid fire joke-machine comedy style.

As the two comedians compared notes talking a bit of shop, Rogan seemed to want to keep the conversation a bit more general and less rarified. Carr, on the the other hand, started to wax more and more worthy, rolling out one stale mock pearl of wisdom after another.

It’a a strange thing I’ve noted with some successful musicians or comics or media pundits. They seem to be wanting to emit some kind of ‘higher’ knowledge to us mere mortals. The fact that this benevolent bounty rarely amounts to anything more than motherhood statements and the most trite psycho-babble and redundant religiosity seems to utterly escape these would be new gurus.

Just being funny is no longer enough perhaps. There might well be a noble quest there but it would be refreshing if the new path embarked upon is less fixed upon themselves and how the world makes them feel.

What’s up with that?