{"id":1990945,"date":"2025-09-01T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1990945"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:01:23","slug":"youtuber-elephant-graveyard-applies-hypernormalisation-to-the-joe-rogan-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/youtuber-elephant-graveyard-applies-hypernormalisation-to-the-joe-rogan-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Elephant Graveyard applies HyperNormalisation to the Joe Rogan universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever noticed that Joe Rogan<\/a> sounds a lot like Heaven\u2019s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite? The YouTubers behind Elephant Graveyard have, and they\u2019re making some compelling arguments. For the last three years, through a mix of sound collages and video essays, Elephant Graveyard has been producing some of the funniest, most entertaining, and insightful critiques of the manosphere\u2014the UFC-influenced contingent of right-wing stand-up comics who have ascended from comedy clubs to the White House. Released two weeks ago, their latest video, \u201cComedy Jonestown,\u201d applies documentarian Adam Curtis\u2019 HyperNormalisation<\/i><\/a> to the Rogan-verse, arguing that the comics in his orbit have abandoned reality and established a hyperreality within the confines of Rogan\u2019s Comedy Mothership in Austin. Within their community, where there are only maybe (maybe) 50 real comedians in the world, Joe Rogan is the sun, moon, and stars.<\/p>\n

(We must issue a warning, though. This video is not for the faint of heart, particularly when Elephant Graveyard brings up Tony Hinchcliffe<\/a>, whose mere mention is a vibe killer.)<\/p>\n

Like Curtis, whose latest docuseries, Shifty<\/i>, would make for an excellent pairing with \u201cComedy Jonestown,\u201d Elephant Graveyard creates a hypnotic narrative that transcends its form. Both hilarious and atmospheric, \u201cJonestown\u201d connects the dots from the first organisms to exit the sea to Rogan\u2019s hypernormalized world, where his employees are his best friends who populate a microeconomy in which they are simultaneously outsiders, victims, and heroes, all while never telling a joke. Looking at human migration patterns and where we retreat to when there\u2019s nowhere else to go, Elephant Graveyard returns to the most vital questions of our time: \u201cHow did comedy get so shit? Was it ever good?\u201d<\/p>\n

Elephant Graveyard has long been on the Rogan beat, helping to popularize the theory that Rogan stole his idea for a DIY comedy empire from Tom Green. But Elephant Graveyard\u2019s work in the fields of Jerry Seinfeld and Tony Hinchcliffe are just as disturbing. At its core, though, their videos offer excellent and entertaining cultural analysis that, like Curtis, help make sense of a world where fucking Joe Rogan is the center of comedy.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever noticed that Joe Rogan sounds a lot like Heaven\u2019s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite? The YouTubers behind Elephant Graveyard have, and they\u2019re making some compelling arguments. For the last three years, through a mix of sound collages and video essays, Elephant Graveyard has been producing some of the funniest, most entertaining, and insightful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[359681,359679,33082,359683,359682,359680],"class_list":["post-1990945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-adam-curtis","tag-elephant-graveyard","tag-joe-rogan","tag-jonestown","tag-marshall-applewhite","tag-tony-hinchcliffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}