In 2011, when Joe Rogan was about to embark on an even raunchier reboot of the show he'd hosted for six seasons in the first decade of the 21st century, he did an interview with comedian Marc Maron on his podcast WTF. According to Vulture, he admitted to Maron that hosting Fear Factor those first six seasons was no walk in the park. "There were a lot of times I didn't enjoy [hosting] at all," he said. "While I was doing it, I was making fun of it."
So just how did he make it through so many seasons of bringing shameless degradation directly to the living rooms of decent (can we really be called that after Fear Factor?) American families? "The first season I did sober," he said. But then he apparently realized that wasn't going to be possible from there on out. "The second through the sixth season, I was high as f*** ... for 90 percent of the episodes." Actually, after having gotten to know Joe Rogan better over the years, that's really not too surprising.
He also defended the show as something classically American. "The show was hot dogs. Are hot dogs bad for you? Well, you shouldn't eat them all day every day. But sometimes I want a steak, and sometimes I want a f****** hot dog." Can't argue with him there.
