Tyler Fischer: Stand-up comedian, impressionist, and actor known for viral Fauci impressions, recently relocated to Austin to perform at the Comedy Mothership; appeared in Daily Wire's Lady Ballers and Adam Carolla's Mr. Birchum.
What this episode covers
Tyler Fischer joins Joe Rogan shortly after moving to Austin to be part of the Comedy Mothership scene. The conversation ranges across his childhood being raised by a gay father, the COVID era and his refusal to get vaccinated, and the career fallout that followed. Fischer describes recording agents and managers telling him they would no longer represent white men, which became the basis of a discrimination lawsuit. He and Rogan discuss free speech, social media bans, identity politics, and how comedy clubs run by comedians as meritocracies protect creative freedom. The episode closes on the history of comedy in Texas and the building that became the Mothership.
Recommended on this episode
George Carlin's American Dream
HBO
“I just watched the George Carlin documentary did you see that I don't know if it's on HBO or whatever it is so good”— Joe Rogan
The guest's own work
Lady Ballers
The Daily Wire
“the only way to get a movie roll for me I was in that daily wire um lady Ballers”— Tyler Fischer
Mr. Birchum
Adam Carolla
“I'm actually playing a Dei officer a Jedi he's called Justice Equity inclusion officer in um Adam Corolla has a new C now Mr burum”— Tyler Fischer
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
Neuralink
Neuralink
“he's the first neuralink patient we have him in uh the other day and now with this neuralink he can play video games”— Joe Rogan
Take the Money and Run
Woody Allen
“what did he get arrested for there that's from a movie Take the Money and Run I think yeah”— Jamie
Big reveals from this episode
- Fischer says he lost almost every friend and job and was branded a far-right Trump supporter after deciding not to get the COVID vaccine.
- A manager told Fischer that not representing white guys was company policy, prompting him to start secretly recording these conversations.
- Fischer's Instagram account was banned, cutting off his main income from selling tickets, until a former Instagram employee flipped it back on.
- After posting on Instagram that he was turned down for being white, a discrimination attorney took his case, now an ongoing lawsuit.
- Fischer reveals he was raised by a gay father since age seven and hid it from friends growing up in 1993.
- Rogan recounts that Fischer's childhood priest blew his brains out at the altar when Fischer was eight years old.
- Fischer says his TikTok was frozen for three years; renaming his profile 'queer disabled comedian' suddenly got him ad offers.
Worth remembering
- Fischer moved to Austin within roughly two weeks of making an offer on an apartment after auditioning at the Mothership.
- Beau Biden's brain cancer is believed by his father to be linked to exposure to military burn pits in Iraq.
- George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut at Yale New Haven Hospital, not Texas as he portrays.
- Dick Cheney had an artificial heart pump that left him with no pulse while awaiting a transplant.
- Neuralink patient Noland Arbaugh, paralyzed from the neck down, can play video games using the implant, calling it a built-in aimbot.
- Wild white-tailed deer have tested positive for COVID-19, showing the virus has animal reservoirs.
- The herbicide atrazine can chemically castrate male frogs and cause them to change sex, the basis of Alex Jones's frog claim.
- The Comedy Mothership building dates to 1927 and was previously a pool hall, punk rock club, nudie theater, and Alamo Drafthouse.
- During renovation, the crew found a swastika painted on the brick and sandblasted it off in a way that left an even clearer outline.
- At his peak Fischer's videos got over 3 million views and he gained 10,000 to 20,000 followers a day before being banned.