#2455 - Donnell Rawlings
The Joe Rogan Experience
February 17, 2026
Donnell Rawlings is a comedian, actor, and host of “The Donnell Rawlings Show” podcast. His most recent special, “Chappelle’s Home Team Presents: Donnell Rawlings: A New Day,” is streaming on Netflix.
Speakers Joe Rogan, Donnell Rawlings, Jamie
TopicsComedy
Joe Rogan (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.
SPEAKER_3 (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Really?
Joe Rogan (0:13)
Red meat?
Donnell Rawlings (0:13)
It's unfortunate.
Joe Rogan (0:14)
In any form?
Donnell Rawlings (0:16)
You know, like, I know it's weird. If I eat a burger, it's different if I eat a steak.
Joe Rogan (0:24)
Steak is a problem?
Donnell Rawlings (0:25)
Yeah, I don't know if my digestive system, just like you two older fucking busters down. I'm 58
Joe Rogan (0:32)
I'm 58 too. I eat mostly meat. I don't think it's age.
Donnell Rawlings (0:36)
What is it then?
Joe Rogan (0:38)
Well, what are you eating it with?
Donnell Rawlings (0:41)
Tito's.
Jamie (0:42)
Are we rolling?
Donnell Rawlings (0:43)
Tito's.
Joe Rogan (0:44)
Tito's vodka?
Jamie (0:46)
It can't be that, right?
Donnell Rawlings (0:50)
I'm eating a steak and I wash it down with Tito's and tonic. Because it resembles H2O so much. Sometimes I get thrown off until I do it.
Joe Rogan (0:59)
What? Tito's and tonic resembles water? The look of it.
Donnell Rawlings (1:05)
It's clear.
Joe Rogan (1:05)
That's all that matters to you?
Donnell Rawlings (1:07)
Yeah. I know at some point I need to change my life. I'm at the age now that I look at certain food and I'm like, oh my God, it looks good but you can't handle that. I think this is when I really need to be in love because I need to be with somebody that understands when I go places and when I want to pig out, they got to be like, he can't eat that.
SPEAKER_5 (1:29)
He's going to be in the sea.
Joe Rogan (1:30)
You need a handler.
Donnell Rawlings (1:31)
He's going to be thrown up.
Joe Rogan (1:32)
You need a female handler.
Donnell Rawlings (1:34)
A female handler. They call it geriatric. They're like, this is right here. This is what the streets are saying. Most men get to an age, it's the geriatric shit. When you just smash all the women you want to do and everything, now you're going to have to worry about somebody helping you with your pill diet, helping you with your dietary needs and everything. They say that's a lot of times when men fall in love, when they need somebody to take them to the Golden Ears. Or when you're about to be out of here, you need somebody to say, don't do that. You got to mash this food up. You got to chop it up. But I'm having digestive issues sometimes.
Joe Rogan (2:07)
With steak, huh?
Donnell Rawlings (2:08)
It's red meat. I want to say, and I'm a fan of it.
Joe Rogan (2:11)
So if you eat like a bowl of pasta with the Tito's, no problem?
Donnell Rawlings (2:16)
That's not a problem.
Joe Rogan (2:17)
Interesting.
Donnell Rawlings (2:18)
But it's definitely red meat.
Joe Rogan (2:19)
You should go to one of those doctors that checks people for allergies.
Donnell Rawlings (2:24)
Voodoo doctor?
Joe Rogan (2:25)
Yeah.
Donnell Rawlings (2:27)
I don't want one of them to sell it down. I had to date an Asian chick. They interviewed a really, really big time.
Joe Rogan (2:34)
Oh yeah.
Donnell Rawlings (2:35)
Oh yeah. They stabbed you with pillows and shit. You had pain in your neck. Is there any particular reason, Joe, and I haven't been here in a while, is there any particular reason why I am doing your show during Black History Month?
Joe Rogan (2:49)
No. You asked to come on. But you reached out to me.
Donnell Rawlings (2:53)
I reached out to you.
Joe Rogan (2:54)
You could have reached out to me in July. I would have said yes. You got an open invitation. You know that.
Donnell Rawlings (2:59)
I have an open invitation, but this is when, I don't know, I said, can I come to you? You said, this is what you told me. You said, I have a guest. And then you called back. I don't know if Jamie said, you know what month this is, right? I don't know if he and you called me right back.
Joe Rogan (3:13)
I moved somebody. I moved somebody for you because I knew you were coming here on a Monday. I had someone booked.
Donnell Rawlings (3:18)
Was it a Caucasian person?
Joe Rogan (3:19)
I don't know. I don't remember.
Donnell Rawlings (3:21)
Jamie, you know it was a white man or a black man.
Joe Rogan (3:24)
No, you know what?
Donnell Rawlings (3:25)
Did I bump a white person for black?
Joe Rogan (3:26)
It might have been Michael Jai White because he's here tomorrow.
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