And if you can't catch him there, he's on Netflix with a stand-up special ( Nunchucks and Flamethrowers) and a new sketch series ( Stand Up and Away!). Instead, he fills civic centers and arenas around the country. And that stuff doesn't feel real to me."Īt this point, the real Brian Regan is so popular, he doesn't do clubs anymore. "You want to feel like you're as in-the-moment as possible. "But I found that that didn't feel natural to me," he says. Regan says that when he first started doing stand-up, he had a few four-letter words in his act. There are comedians out there who work dirty who I think are great." He's trying to make a statement.' And that's not it at all. "Because I think when you see the word 'clean' associated with comedy, a lot of people think that that's the point of it," Regan says. While Regan is thrilled his stand-up has a multigenerational appeal, he bristles a bit at the "clean comedian" label. Pop Culture Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope "I just think the degree of difficulty is much harder for Brian and I just give him more credit for it." "Not to take anything away from crafting comedy and being blue," Romano says. Romano says Regan's output is even more impressive given that he doesn't curse or tell dirty jokes, known as "working blue." "I'm like, 'How can he write that much material?' It's just incredible," Romano says. He was known to go on tour with enough jokes to fill two completely different shows, so audiences could come back twice in one weekend knowing they wouldn't hear the same bits again.Ĭomedian Ray Romano, who shares the same manager with Regan, admits to being a little bit envious.
In the early years, Regan's work ethic gained him something of a reputation among his peers. He was invited back 27 more times - more than any other stand-up comedian on that show. Regan landed a spot on The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS in 1995. But I figured: I'm going to learn something every time I get on stage."Īfter that self-imposed boot camp, he started touring small clubs around the country. "It was at the end of the show after the other comedians were done," he says. For about two years Regan performed there every single night it was open. After auditioning for a spot at a comedy club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the manager told Regan he could perform as often as he wanted - but only after the headliners. He says his parents didn't like the idea - but also didn't stop him. "So imagine that phone call to mom and dad." "I dropped out of college to do it," Regan says. ("All my brothers and sisters are funny," he insists his brother Dennis Regan is also a comedian.) It was his college football coach, at Heidelberg University in Ohio, who encouraged him to try theater, which eventually lead him to stand-up. Regan grew up in suburban Miami with his parents and seven siblings. It's very important have momentum and, you know, we have our uniforms on anyway. "Maybe that rhymes in the Kennedy household: 'Put on Dora the Explor-ah.'"Īnother hit would be "Sports on TV," a riff on sports interview clichés: "Then I get to hear my favorite sports reporter question: 'Would you consider this a must-win game?' And they always feel they have to say yes. If he were a rock star, one of his hits might be called " Dora The Explorer." "First of all, do the producers think that rhymes?" Regan asks earnestly in one of his stand-up specials.
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And he also keeps his act clean - free of profanity or explicit jokes.
Regan has been "killing" on the road pretty much nonstop since the 1980s. The comedian Brian Regan, pictured here in his Netflix special Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, has earned a reputation as a comic's comic.Įntertainment Weekly once called Brian Regan "your favorite comedian's favorite comedian." Chris Rock has been quoted saying: "No comedian in the world says, 'Yeah, I want to follow Brian Regan.'" Bill Burr said on his podcast: "Brian basically goes out and, for 90 straight minutes, it sounds like a jet is landing, how hard this guy kills."
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