Joe Rogan Explains Ultimate Fighting | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
(Original Air Date: 2/15/98) Joe Rogan explains the UFC, and his thoughts on Steven Seagal movies.
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Joe's transformation from a Latin heartthrob to Benito Mussolini is astounding.
There's nothing astonishing about it, he got old, you'll get their too buddy
HGH, what a wonderful molecule
😂😂😂😂
@@mindfulstoic3095 exactly. the extra mass that we've seen HGH add to the heads of Rogan, Dana White and now Conor McGregor is truly astounding. I wonder what he would have looked like had he aged without abusing the shit out of HGH for a couple of years.
@@ion1984 The worse in my opinion is his belly, Google HGH Gut Joe rogan, it is something else.
not a single person in 1998 would have guessed that both joe rogan AND UFC would be 2 of the most successful things in entertainment history
As a fan from all the way back to ufc 1 i can say without question i knew it would be way bigger than boxing. Anyone paying attention when it first started could see that just like Rogan did and many others. Tito vs Ken Shamrock was one of the moments that solidified that.
Or Amazon
To his credit. JR simply took notes of what works, inserted himself into the mix of entertainment and one of his personal interests, martial arts. Didn't get too kocky and kept a steady pace moving forward. It's awesome really, it's like he slipped in, as if he were meant to be there all along.
wish i could have invested in joe rogan in 1998
I was fifteen in '98, probably watched this episode of Conan the night it aired because I loved the show (the original Conan, not so much the new Conan), and can concur that neither of them would have felt remotely likely.
He alienated the crowd so fast with his little scream at the start
I laughed at it though
lol then turns is like hey whats up lol @@gr3123
It's what we all wanted
He really did.
the crew literally laughed at everything he says even when he is serious
joe immediately turns off girls by mocking their cat calls😂😂😂
@@Wolf_runner12 the screeching in beginning he made,he was mocking the girl's screaming.
your lang says something else luv
That's why they egged him on to do gay porn LOL
Not real women
Joe Rogan. The only man in history to go through puberty twice.
I wonder why that is 💉T💉
i literally laughed out loud. Thank you!
So weird watching this, your brain goes from this guy is full of crap selling some gimmicky ppv sideshow. And then your memory of the last 25 years kicks in.
amazing lol
😂
Man Joe truly is a massive part of MMA history
No, he is just a commentator for UFC. Ffs
This interview is likely before uncle dana too
@@kpcartdude he's one of the main popularizers of it to the mainstream
There are endless videos of Joe going onto mainstream sports outlets in the 90's and explaining/debating MMA to skeptics who wanted to keep it out of the public eye. He was definitely a pivotal voice in the sport becoming legitimized and eventually mainstream. He essentially pioneered high level grappling color commentary during the early UFC days. His show introduced a massive audience to jiu-jitsu who probably would have never learned about it otherwise. He also continues to give high level MMA fighters a platform to speak and promote their businesses/gyms. To say Joe isn't a big part of MMA history is just patently false.@@kpcart
I thought this was Enrique ingleses
4:45 Conan "would it ever degenerate to people just slapping?" 25 years later Dana introduces Slap League LMFAO 🤣
Dana's wife agrees, specially during the holidays
Nick Diaz slaps
I read this comment right when he said this 😂😂
I would have dropped dead if he mentioned Gobekli Tepe. 😂😂
Or elk meat..
He wasn't into gobekli tepe that time though :D it all came through his podcast
Lol! "Conan have you ever done DMT?"
🤣😂
That is hilarious
Joe went from Enrique Iglesias to himself😂😂😂
Lmao
😂😂 I was wondering what I was thinking and you nailed it it! God bless you and everyone that can read your comment!!
Haha thought exactly the same 😂
Bruno “ Did anyone tell you that you look like Enrique Iglesias “ Ron Paul “ no… (shaking head) “
Damn he did look him huh
This interview was back in the day when UFC was a joke and cage fighting was seen as mental. Now it's one of the world's most popular sports. Changed days.
It's still viewed as mental.
@@hikesystem7721Yeah and it totally doesn’t get sponsorships by major companies, doesn’t have its top fighters on talk shows like Conan, doesn’t have mma gyms everywhere in the world
Maybe by grandmas. Most people view it as a standard sport filled with the most elite athletes in the world @@hikesystem7721
The depraved love UFC.
Yet old cranks and neocons still cry about how our generation is softer
It's inspiring to see Joe's honesty, true confidence/no BS attitude intact through the years.
He probably is 1 of the most rarest human alive, especially ESPECIALLY someone from California, (if you know what Cali does to aspiring people) as well as knowing his own life history through his mouth in podcast, I'm rarely humbled by things in life but Joe just starting and doing podcast was 1 of the best thing on the planet.
what about that Dwayne Johnson podcast episode? was it all honesty and true confidence no bs in the questioning and talking there?
@@streetplaya23 Please, elaborate. Not familiar with that episode.
@@piticfilms youtube 'problem with rogan and dwayne johnson podcast' and search up other terms like that and you can see the analysis and comments in those videos, check the comments in the podcast clips of that episode as well. it was the recent episode with dwayne.
i still like joe at the end of the day. big platform that advocates for free speech but he does disappoint with certain guests tho@@piticfilms
The way nobody laughed at his scream in the beggining😂
Seeing him with hair seems illegal 😂
You must be young lol.. He had hair the entire Fear Factor series
@@AttilatheThrillahe looks different here though. He looks like he's all jacked up on crack
He looks like he did in 1998. 25 years ago!
He is cocained out of his mind .
Cocaine a hell of a drug 😅
"No one has died in the history of the UFC." Crazy how that's still true 25 years after he said that.
people have died in mma though, including former ufc fighters
RIP Joe Rogan
Hes not dead, nobody listen to this guy haha@@BrainFuck10
@@JackhammerPossessorpartypooper!
wait for Tony Furgson
Please have Conan and Joe sit on a room, do a podcast and talk for a couple of hours. I dream about this. I have so much respect for these two. Real people who do not allow fame, success and money to take over their lives.
Werd
Who would have guessed that, today, both of these men have podcasts...and Joe's is vastly more successful?
Are you on crack dude? Rogan went full hack fraud.
Dude u need to go outside
Wait c9nan was on JRE i am positive lol
I can see what Danna saw in Joe after watching this clip. Danna said he found Joe: intelligent, funny, he knew a lot about ultimate fighting, was a fighter himself, he was passionate. These two were a great combination.
dana
"Does it ever degenerate to people just slapping each other?" Conan was an oracle.
Bas and Frank Shamrock?
Slap league. Clever girl.
Nate Diaz: Let me try
I mean they just talked about Seagal movies, so it was natural to come up with that question.
Good to see cerci from Happy Days back on TV
Joe really had the Tony Montana thing going back then
I think maybe a little chris Kattan.
You mean coke?
@@regulartower17my thoughts exactly... Hell I like Joe but yea.. Btw... Night at the Roxbury is the only watchable wil Ferrell movie
average Italian. runs in the blood...
Tony was Cuban.
My uncle used to play Quake with Joe Rogan in the 90s
Best multiplayer even to this date, especially Quake 3 OSP. Played so much pickup games from 2000-2005 on IRC, today we got discord 😄Wish it was still around, would love to casually play it again. Always get memories when so eone mentions Quake.
@@gollese But... did you play Action Quake 2? That's the real deal.
"It's in a cage [...] That way you _can't_ get away" lol
Don't tell Diddy!
So relaxed, humorous, and stoned out of his mind. I love it.
Joe Rogan sucks.
he didn’t smoke during this time
Relaxed? He was wildly defensive about UFC the entire time. Sounded like an overcaffeinated teenager.
@@nyfolkhero exactly only coke in those days
@@strats991he should’ve been defensive tho
Crazy how much stigma the sport had back then
Take a look at UFC 1 and you’ll see why
@@Eric-lx8hp fair enough 😂
back then they allowed eye gouging and groin strikes and ton of other crazy stuff lol the stigma was deserved
@@asdsdfbhgbggtrrergthats was like the first two ufc competition. By the time dana got in a lot of that was stopped in the ufc.
No cap lol taking multiple fights a day @@Eric-lx8hp
Legendary interview
Idk how but it feels like I fell into an alternate reality Joe Rogan and Conan my two biggest inspirations talking
The way he mocked Steven Seagal was great... and this was in '98 no less
He was the easiest to mock in 98. He had no popular movies post 95.
"Grab the ponytail" 😂
yeah, mockery had only been recently invented
He still mocks him after this many years. Real recognize real
@@nathanreiber6819precisely. before '98 people actually took Seagal seriously
Am i the only one who finds his little scream in the beginning funny but akward at the same time lol?
It’s a 90s thing
Thought only I saw that lol
Love how absolutely no one responded to it. Everyone just blanked him.
@@Ojthemighty when I watched it I thought that he was taking the piss out of the audience for screaming like that. He definitely wasn't trying to get them to do it back...
He was taking the piss out of the audience
2 of my favorite guys in one in one interview!
"Beavis and Butthead are in the crowd." lmao😂
I am utterly disappointed to not hear Joe explain that UFC is high-level problem solving with dire physical consequences.
Dire. Let's see, a poem with dire in it..tire, retire, lier, complier, dryer, dyer, fire, wire, exciter...
With shorter segments idk if even guests get to talk about anything substantial ever. Sometimes Conan and Craig Ferguson would extend the slot with the guests if they like them, but it's been done for a few of them only.
I agree fully. He makes it seem so casual. As if anyone can do it.
@@sclogse1excellent work
Man Rogan has indeed the best definition of why UFC is super awesome. This comment made me laugh because I also borrow this explanation every now and then to explain my love for the sport!
Joe Rogan went from acting in Scarface to being the #1 podcast. Badass!
He wasn't in scarface.....? Tf? Next time you think about leaving a comment, dont....
@@ThatTempesTGuyDude, are you stupid? He looks a bit like Pacino in scarface here. This comment was more than likely a joke! Jesus Christ....
@@ThatTempesTGuy he was. you should really be doing your research properly.
@@ThatTempesTGuy😂😂 dense
Lol I tho the same when I first saw it , I was like "is that Pacino from Scarface "
Thank you for making this available👍
That shirt and that earring totally dates this clip. spot on.
Conan mentioning a slapping contest ahead of its time 😂😂😂
He should sue for stealing his idea lol
This guy should have a podcast
Yes, you are right, he really should! This kid is going places, I tell you!
Counterpoint...
I don’t know man feels like he lacks character, if he was bald or buffed up on roids it would be a completely different scenario
His name is Joe Rogan he's also into taekwondo and hunting. Maybe one day he'll have a podcast
Both of them
Joe's a legend, he's been supporting the UFC his whole life and helped make it extremely popular.
Yeah…I’m sure whatever he’s get paid is quite significant and we all know how it turned out for him anyways…that first Spotify deal was like 200-300 million and I think he just signed another one or is about to…he’s set up for generational wealth…like worth at least half a billion once that second Spotify deal is signed…again if it isn’t already…
5-10%?? If each person got that, the $6 billion would be split between 10-20 people. Think before you write.
How different Joe was back then! I wish someone did a podcast with Joe about how he retrospects- who he was back then.
His gay days
this isn't Joe Rogan, this is Joe Rogaine, with that amount of hair on his head.
😂😂😂
Hahahahahha
Oh my this comment
Looks more like Joe Rogane.
He looks Italian AF
Young Joe was so hilarious and awkward at the same time. But still had that Quick wit.
by quick wit do you mean simple jokes go straight over his head and no one laughs at his jokes?
@@nklin6did we watch the same video? cuz that didnt happen here
Not seeing anything awkward
Why does it have to be awkward?
You’re watching another video
This guys gonna be big one day I can feel it
being one of the few who watched UFC 1 live on PPV this is a trip
3:21 - The Segal impression. 🤣 Plus, it's hilarious the way he goes in on the ponytail and girdle.
Yes, he is one of my "haters" lol. It was right around this time that I was full on attacked by Soros and the WEF/NWO. 😉
Give this guy a chance. I am sure he is going to make it.
He looks like Enrique
nah he is a nobody
@@user-en1zg7tq2yhey would you look at that! A nobody…. just like you! 😃
OK user-en 1 z g 7 q2y :DDDD oh the irony. The biggest NPCs with no purposse in life talk about people that made it that they are no bodies.... what a sad little life you have there :D @@user-en1zg7tq2y
"Make it"....? Huh? What a dumb comment.. If having a podcast on youtube is "making it" then everybody has "made it"..... What a loser
Old mate is cooooooooooooked out of his mind. love it.
The fact he jokes about pillow fighting in the ring and now it is an actual sport is hilarious.
Years of interviewing fighters and regularly podcasting has sharpened Joe's speaking and conversational skills.
I don’t think he did that bad tbh
Actually it seems that Conan is the one who improved a lot since
That’s not it. He’s different now because of psychedelics. They got him to relax and just be himself instead of relating to people through a defensive ego. Hes relating to people more genuinely now, instead of trying to uphold a persona.
@@foogentog👆
@@foogentoglmao the psychedelics did it…
Dude joe is looking like Tony Montana right here😂
Joe is geeked tf out right here. That shoulder twitch is gettin it
I think it’s crazy I know Joe from when I was a child living in my country Venezuela and now I’m 36 and been in America and I am still his number one fan ❤
He looks like Chris Kattan 😂 in A night at the Roxbury 🤣
Omg totally haha
LOL, this is true!!!
Insulting to Chris. Chris actually pulled it off well
Its so effortless for Joe to talk on national television. And to think this was the very beginning of his career.
He’d already been doing standup for almost a decade…
I know that a couple of years ago Joe and one of his guests criticized Andy, but there is no way that alone is enough to keep these two legends apart. I just wish they could talk. The best guy in late night show and the best in podcast. Those two are absolute legends everyone should respect them. Conan, team, please go on JRE or have him (Joe) on Conan Needs a Friend.
If you'd told me Joe Rogan used to kind of look like Enrique Inglesias when he was younger I would never have believed it.
taking the piss out of the audiences screams at the start :') what a legend.
The Titanic episode was Hartman’s final one before being killed. The first two episodes of the next (and final) season are basically tributes to him. The world lost countless millions of potential laughs, RIP Phil.
Anyone else who remembers watching this when it aired originally??? lol nostalgia to the fullest 🙂
Conan needs to be on the podcast!!!
this guy does interviews really well, he should do it for living!
Conan did, he made quite a career
Gay 😂
This video is kind of surreal to watch when you really think. JR nor MMA was well known, audience reaction to everything is hilarious. Fast forward to now. Not only is JR and MMA worldwide and mainstream, but he spearheaded podcasting, which overtook late night interviews like the one he’s on, and Conan now has a podcast. Such an interesting vid to look back on
It's also great to see that he's never conformed to the rhythm and fakeness of Hollywood/late night television. His recent comments about this world being weird asf is clear and his responses to the audiences reactions to nothingness is priceless. He deserves to be in the UK.
I agree but I bet if the same interview happened today exactly the same you’d get the same reaction from the audience because I feel like the people who tend to go to those shows aren’t capable of evolving
Tom green pioneered podcasting, look it up
joe at the end mentions they should fight with pillows. Well now they do, ultimate pillow fighters XD
Could feel the energy in that roomfrom here (;
nobody could take his place in ufc. he is the voice of the ufc
I miss Goldie. Lol I know he was awful, but he was the ultimate hype man “heeeeere we goooo!!” and just hilarious
@@Seryma86he was never awful man
@@Seryma86 Mike Goldberg was awesome. Nothing awful about him. Joe Rogan trips over more words than Goldie. BRING GOLDBERG BACK!
"They're some of the most intelligent guys you'll ever meet." Imagine sitting down and having a conversation with Tito, Chuck or Randy back in the day 😂
😂😂😂😂
Randy and Chuck? Yeah. Tito was only coherent in the EARLY days of the UFC. Watch those first two or three interviews Tito did. He’s actually a good trash talker. But that went away REAL quick. Got hit a few times and started trying way too hard to trash talk.
Pretty sure all three of them are college educated btw
@@americandissident9062 tried way too hard to talk in general. Tito is mush brain now
@@luckylanomusic yea college athletes that pass joke degrees without doing anything
Both Conan and Joe are in their early 30's here. Amazing what they achieved.
Wow I saw this and without listening clicked around to find Joe. Then listened and BAM. Joe's little brother!
rogan's composure against obrien and the crowd is amazing
Polished actor and stand up comic for years before this.
This is 1998, but Joe is dressed like it's 1982.
No he’s not, not even close, he looks exactly like 1998
nah this is very late 90's, the latin style Ricky Martin look up top with dark jeans, all loose fitting. If it was 1982 he'd be wearing a letterman jacket
This is spot on late 90s lol
@@imageword5576 right
No this is pure 90s.
I didn't know what to expect from this video but holy hell, it wasn't this. Joe's transformation from this to who he is now is remarkable.
Joe's jazz hands and bedazzled shirt 😂
How did he go from cooked surfer dude to roided deer hunter
a man changes in his 40s
He was staunchly against weed at this point. This was his angry young Rogan period.
a lot can happen and change in a person over 25 years
Time
Joe is one of the funniest dudes when he's not trying to be funny
Been saying this for years
It's so cringe every time he refers to himself as a "comedian"
Facts. It's why he's a much better podcaster than standup comedian. I would give up 2-3 chuckles to his standup sets at most, but some of his JRE episodes had me dying.
you are wrong at the "one of the funniest...", it's ok to say he's funnier when he doesn't mean to be...
Brilliant comment of the week.
Interesting that Conan has a stake in the UFC now. I love watching clips from that period when I started watching Conan when school was off in the summer.
Aw, he looked adorable in the 90s. Joe should have been a full time model back then
I'm always fascinated how for example I discovered UFC, JRE and Conan separately in the mid 2010s thanks to KZhead and then just now discover that there's this historical crossover. Same when you see renowned actors suddenly appear in an old 1980s flick and you realise there's so much more context and history than your limited knowledge of what the world is.
Yeah eh!! That’s the most fun part of getting deeper and deeper into the things you’re a fan of. I’m a big fan of the Beatles and one of the things I think we all love is that there’s this bottomless pit of stories and content you can just keep digging through. And I’m sure you get old and start to forget things so you just rediscover it again 😂
To this day joe still sits on a couch so awkwardly 😂
Haha for real he looks so silly sitting there like that. I love his jewelry too,
Looks coked up🤔
We need this interview redone in 2024.
Never knew Enrique Iglesias did such a good Joe Rogan impression
Joe Rogan is the best mma commentator and interviewer of all time, he definitely knows how the sport works. UFC just won't be the same without him, he's an icon.
RIP Joe.
Rip Joe Rogan, gone too soon 🥲
He mentioned a long time ago that its in his contract that if Dana ever leaves or is removed from the UFC joe will also be gone. So needless to say he will be around for as long as Dana is, which I imagine will be until he's dead lol
So am I the only who noticed Joe is geeking hard? Or are we all going to pretend like we didn’t notice that? 😂😂😂😂😂
Noticed as well.
I think it's because he's stoned out of his mind lol
What does geeking hard mean?
They are implying cocaine. Hes baked but Joe says he has never tried cocaine because he saw what it did to people. @MrBartman002
He has coke head vibes
This guy should do commentary for them. I think he would be good at it.
im old lol i remember watching these episodes as a kid back then
This was a surprisingly fun interview. Joe was a great interviewee. He had wit... with Conan and the audience.
Yeah, the guy could probably handle himself if he were the one hosting guests.
This interview got him job at ufc. Dana seen it n went thats my man amd joe originally said no but agreed to do one show if him n buddys got tickets. He then went n done next 13 shows for free haha
In a different timeline this is the actor being interviewed about playing himself, Joey Tribiani
that squeek in the beginning lmfaoooooo
So this was the inspiration for Jon Favreau’s character in Friends... 😂
Joe's transformation from Scarface to Kojak worked out well
You copied other comments :D
@@tropicalterrarium1742 Where?
I bet Conan forgot he once interviewed Joe Rogan
"I interviewed, Joe Rogan? Are you sure?" - Conan, probably.
10/10 comment lol
Dudes hilarious his Steven segal is spot on man 😂
I love how he is true in true out. No lies in him
A young Joe Rogan still passionate to this day about fighting! Love it!!! Putting it on the map!
He's nearly 30 here
a 30 year old is young compared to a 50 year old for example. It's always relative@@ACDZ123
@johannesschmitz6370 yes. 80 is young to 95 I agree
@markasread4349 wtf 😳 what are you even talking about ? What ignorant statement?
This guy should start a podcast!
And talk about bears and aliens
@@CurseEnforcerand DMT
Which one?
This reminds me exactly of Vince from Entourage 😂😂😂
joe hasnt changed a bit, love it
This interview is great, before it all started and Joe Rogan is still funny as hell!
these two make a good interview. joe was doing good crowd work too.
they had a good chemistry, you could tell Joe thought Conan was funny. Has Conan ever been on JRE?
he's either nervous or coked out lol
Joe pitched ufc so perfectly. Conan was making his jokes sure but you kept it grounded.
As a happy watcher of Joe, seeing him in this form is insane, and how you can already see his love and passion for the UFC in its infancy 🚼 GOAT!!✨️✌️💚
This is before he completely lost his mind, became insanely full of himself, and started in on the weird hippy crap. Maybe he wasn't addicted to pot and shit yet.
stand by what you love
hater@@frozencowboy6552
This is fascinating, not because it's young Joe like everyone's talking about (funny nobody mentions Conan he basically is the same dude) but how they had to straight up convince people ufc wasn't savagery
I LOVE HIS SPOCK SIDE BURNS
Those really arent even side burns.
@@armysniperman80 glued on and asian liitle boy hair on his head
@@user-rp5pp8hr6x umm thats what side burns are.
I really love how Joe Rogan has matured and developed his thought processes over the years. He's at a much higher level now but I can still see with this interview that he always questioned himself and worked towards improvement. It made him the Podcast king in this day and age.