Joe Rogan Debunks Golden Globes Snub With $500 Claim

Joe Rogan missing out on the Golden Globes nomination list looks like his own doing, at the very least, that’s what he’s saying.

The podcaster has come on air to refute claims that the award ceremony snubbed him, as an alternative he clarified it was a deliberate act on his part to exclude himself from the lineup after he was approached for payment.

Joe Rogan’s podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” has turn into one among the rallying points for controversial topics lately, including allegations that he actively contributed to Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral victory.

The media personality responded to circulating theories that anti-woke figures like him were dropped from the list. He declared on the Thursday episode of his podcast that he actually didn’t submit his podcast to be nominated against the circulating theories.

“In order that they asked me to undergo be nominated for the Golden Globes, and also you needed to pay $500, and the $500 was like for paperwork or whatever. I said no,” Rogan stated. He stressed that, so far as he is anxious, he already won and award shows is not going to make him think otherwise.

In response to the podcaster, “I have been primary for six years in a row. Hastily, you are gonna have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedoes, and also you’re gonna say, ‘Now I’m not primary?'”

Rogan’s comment got here after Bill Maher, a fellow podcaster, slammed the Golden Globes for failing to acknowledge the YouTuber and his huge platform. Maher urged Hollywood people to get out of the bubble, noting that they’re “f-cking smug as-holes who’re hard to defend.”

The award show got here with many surprises on Sunday, January 11, when Teyana Taylor clinched the Best Female Supporting Actor award for her performance in “One Battle After One other.” 

Deadline reported that the actress snatched the win over other nominees within the category, including Amy Madigan for “Weapons.” These nice surprises also got here with their fair proportion of snubs, which saw some front-runners of their categories go home empty-handed.

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” didn’t secure a win alongside Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s “Wicked: For Good,” whose predecessor, “Wicked,” won the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award in 2025.

“Bugonia,” a movie starring Emma Stone, earned several nominations but didn’t steal the hearts of Golden Globes voters. “Sinners” was also snubbed for the Best Motion Picture-Drama win, because the voters preferred Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.”

Apart from the snubs on the event, the award show also suffered a severe drop in its viewership rankings, adding salt to the injury of the 26% drop witnessed by organizers last 12 months.

As reported by The Blast, the 2026 edition of the show received 8.66 million live and same-day viewership, indicating a 7% drop from last 12 months’s 9.27 million viewership.

Compared, this 12 months fared higher than the eightieth edition in 2023, which experienced a paltry 1.1 rating with 6.3 million views. The show last aired in 2021, where 6.9 million viewers enjoyed the show and gained a 1.5 rating amongst adults.

The Golden Globes experienced a setback in 2022 when it lost NBC as its broadcast partner on account of allegations of shady financial practices and a scarcity of diversity and representation. In 2024, the ceremony aired continue to exist CBS and experienced a 50% climb from the dip in 2023, recording over 9 million viewers.

Despite interviewing him on his podcast weeks leading as much as the 2024 elections, The Blast noted that Rogan broke his silence last July and gave a review of the president’s mass deportation policies carried out under the auspices of ICE.

“The targeting of migrant staff, not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction staff. Showing up at construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners, like, really?” Rogan said on the time, adding that nobody would have wished for that to occur.

The media personality’s statement caught the eye of Mark Ruffalo, who reminded Rogan that he helped him get elected by offering him his platform for publicity despite several warnings of what would follow should he get re-elected. In response to the Marvel star:

“It’s good that you just’re speaking up, but please be honest with yourself in regards to the role you played here.”

The actor reminded Rogan about Trump’s Project 2025, which included a pledge to perform an expansive deportation in america that might ensure over 10 million undocumented immigrants return to their countries.

The 58-year-old checked in again last December and dissected a few of the decisions taken by Trump since he resumed office along with his guest, comedian Tom Segura. 

The podcaster continued that it had turn into imperative for the president to get himself a trusted “right-hand man” who would rein in his excesses and provides him strong advice. 

Rogan referred to the assassination attempt on Trump throughout the campaign season for his second term and the way it could have stressed him, making it obligatory for his trusted ally to get to work.

“The stress of going through what that guy went through…Like they were trying all the things they might to destroy him, just that alone has gotta break your brain, after which they took a shot at him,” Rogan explained.