Joe Rogan says there’s something you need to know about him not winning a Golden Globe Award.
Rogan said his lack of a nomination from the Globes was not a snub, but because submitting for a nomination came with a $500 processing fee that he didn’t want to pay.
The Golden Globe Awards have been presented since 1944 for film and television excellence. For the 2026 awards earlier this month, a Best Podcast category was added to represent an increasingly more regular form of broadcast entertainment.
The award went to Amy Poehler for her “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast. Also nominated were “SmartLess,” “Call Her Daddy,” “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” “The Mel Robbins Podcast” and “Up First.”
“I didn’t submit,” Rogan said on his “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, which has been the No. 1 most-listened-to podcast in the country six years running. “They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and you had to pay $500 – and the $500 is like for paperwork or whatever.
“I said no. I don’t care. I already won. You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been No. 1 for six years in a row. All of a sudden, you’re going to have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos, and you’re going to say now I’m not No. 1? Like, f*ck off.”
The Globes formerly were given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but several years ago the organization was overhauled to represent an appropriately diverse membership. Not long after, the podcast category arrived.
Much of the criticism from entertainment circles about the first year of the Best Podcast award was that it didn’t allow for differentiating subjects – the way movies or TV are broken down into drama, comedy, documentary, etc.
So in that realm, how does a voter judge a short-length news podcast like “Up First” against a purely entertainment-driven celebrity interview show like “Good Hang”?
The Globes reportedly took eligibility for the award from the Top 25 podcasts, of which Rogan, as he’s wont to remind, is No. 1.
“I just know that I didn’t submit,” Rogan said. “I don’t want to be a part of that. I don’t care. You’re just a group of people that just decide, all of a sudden, that you’re going to give an award out? ‘I get a trophy.’ F*ck off.”
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Joe Rogan unleashes on Golden Globes, explains no nomination
