Ari Shaffir
American stand-up comedian, storyteller and host of the podcast You Be Trippin'
Ari Shaffir (American stand-up comedian, storyteller and host of the podcast You Be Trippin') has appeared as a guest on 2 episodes in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Sean Strickland vs. Khamzat Chimaev, The End (storytelling series), Elizabeth Street Garden.
In their words
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Shaffir says encountering foreigners criticizing America during his travels made him more nationalistic.
“so many people who shit on America while I was traveling, it made me more nationalistic”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2493 - Protect Our Parks 16 (May 1, 2026) · Listen from 1:53:33
Shaffir advises comedians not to shape their material around short-form video formats.
“It's got to have a punchline at 59 seconds, or I can't put it on YouTube Shorts. That's a dumb way to be building your stuff”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 2:33:23
Shaffir says reactions he got in ten countries convinced him that stand-up comedy is the coolest job in the world.
“Bro, we have the coolest job, and I've tested this, in the world”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 2:31:53
Shaffir says his father, a Holocaust survivor, works as a docent at a Holocaust memorial and would like to share his story.
“He would love it because he works at the Holocaust Memorial as a docent or something”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:32:42
Shaffir claims late-night hosts kept talking about Trump for money despite knowing it helped him.
“They knew after Trump won that like talking about him helps him”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 24:39
Sean Strickland vs. Khamzat Chimaev
Shaffir observes that Rogan tends to talk up the fighter he expects to lose.
“you give it up more for the person you think is not going to win”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2493 - Protect Our Parks 16 (May 1, 2026) · Listen from 2:22:46
The End (storytelling series)
Shaffir says The End recouped its budget on its first day of release.
“I mean, we made our budget back day one”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 2:21:57
Elizabeth Street Garden
Shaffir says he is a single-issue voter on protecting Elizabeth Street Garden from redevelopment.
“So yeah, single issue voter. I don't know about the rest. You got to protect that park”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:59:39
Gaza war
Shaffir says people he met while travelling distinguished between opposing Israel and opposing Jews.
“They really were like, we don't have any problem with Jews. But they would be very staunchly anti-Israel”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:21:14
Painkiller (TV series)
Shaffir describes how, per Painkiller, opioid marketing expanded use from severe pain patients to people with mild pain.
“Why don't we just extend the pain threshold to three to 10? And that allows a lot more people in”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2492 - Ari Shaffir (Apr 30, 2026) · Listen from 30:35
Appearances
#2493 - Protect Our Parks 16The Joe Rogan Experience · May 1, 2026 · 3 h 24 min
Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir reunite for Protect Our Parks, riffing on news, drugs, comedy, surveillance, healthcare and UFC.
#2492 - Ari ShaffirThe Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 30, 2026 · 2 h 42 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Ari Shaffir discuss Shaffir's seven months of off-grid travel, psychedelic drug policy, MMA weight cutting, Gaza, ancient megaliths, and his storytelling series The End.
Discussed in
#2523 - Ali SiddiqThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 7, 2026 · 2 h 47 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Ali Siddiq discuss sports betting, social media pressure on comics, organic career building, comedy club stories, ghosts, psychedelics, TV shows, and meat.
#2520 - Tommy LeeThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 30, 2026 · 2 h 29 min
Joe Rogan and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee discuss aging rock stars, music industry excess, bonsai, drumming stunts, muscle cars, and Ferrari's electric car.
#2505 - Tom SeguraThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 25, 2026 · 2 h 50 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Tom Segura discuss Segura's Netflix show Bad Thoughts, Uday Hussein's sadism, AI anxiety, Noah's Ark, Canada's assisted dying, fight betting and government overreach.
#2499 - Marcus KingThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 14, 2026 · 2 h 53 min
Joe Rogan and guitarist Marcus King discuss sobriety, antidepressants, cannabis policy, the state of rock music, porn-era cinema, and VR gaming.
Often appears with
- Joe Rogan · 2 shared episodes
- Shane Gillis · 1 shared episode
- Mark Normand · 1 shared episode