As per news reports, comedian Chelsea Handler has expressed disbelief about Joe Rogan topping the Forbes Highest-Paid Podcasters of 2026 list. According to Forbes, Rogan earned about $82 million between June 2025-2026 and is the highest paid podcast of yesteryear.Handler took to social media and commented on an Instagram post on Forbes' handle. Slamming Rogan's $82 million salary, Chelsea questioned who is paying Rogan so much money and that this money could be given to animals and children instead."WHO IS PAYING JOE ROGAN 82 million?" Chelsea commented on a Instagram post, "Give that to our vets, or our children!!! 82 million to be completely uninformed and say ‘whoopsie doodle,’ every time he’s wrong, which is FREQUENT?"The comment garnered over 3000 likes with netizens expressing their support in the comment section.Other podcasters in Forbes Highest-Paid Podcasters 2026 include names like Mel Robbins, Jason and Travis Kelce, Jay Shetty, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, Alex Cooper, Ashley Flowers, Bill Simmons and Dax Shephard. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostAccording to Hollywood Reporter, Chelsea Handler is about to launch a podcast network with iHeartMedia. Yamaneika Saunders hosts You're the Problem... with Yamaneika, the first podcast produced as part of the partnership.Joe Rogan's podcast and controversies around it Joe Rogan, a UFC podcaster and comedian, is one of earliest players in America's podcast scenario. He started his podcast titled The Joe Rogan Experience in 2009. Over the years, his podcast has become one of the most popular podcasts in America with an average of around 11 million listeners and downloads per episode. The podcast is also on the top spot on the list of Apple podcasts and Spotify's top global podcast. Meanwhile, Chelsea Handler launched her podcast Dear Chelsea in 2021. Joe Rogan has been under scrutiny before for allegedly spreading misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rogan criticised the use of vaccines in his podcast.In January 2022, artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell decided to remove their Spotify, which is the official distributor of the Joe Rogan Experience, to protest against Rogan's comments and theories on Covid-19 vaccines. In the month of February that year, singer India Arie also shared a five-minute montage of him using the racial term over a dozen times, forcing him to apologize for using it.The stand-up comedian later made an appearance on Instagram and apologized grovelingly, saying, "I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast.""And I now concur with that. It's been years since I said it." Rogan went on "But for a long time, I would simply pronounce the word rather than "the N-word." I believed that people would comprehend what I was doing as long as it was in context.""It's not my word to use," Rogan continued. "I'm not racist, so I never used it to be racist, but when you have to declare, "I'm not racist," you've made a mistake, and I have obviously made a mistake."Joe Rogan has also been critical of Donald Trump's administration and has expressed disbelief on America's role in Iran war and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the country.