More so than many talk show hosts, Rogan tends to let his interviewees drive the direction and agenda of episodes.
When featuring on The View, Goldberg stops being just another actor and becomes an implicit authority on whatever subject is being discussed.
Problematic celebrity outbursts are by no means confined to the world of talk shows. But there’s something about the format that is particularly conducive to controversy.
Earlier this week, the actor and talk show presenter Whoopi Goldberg found herself at the centre of one such controversy, after suggesting on her American TV series The View that the Holocaust “wasn’t about race”.