User Reviews

Don't get me wrong it was funny. Brian is funny.

But I was disappointed with this special. It's about 90% recycled material from a selection of his most classic bits. With several of them a sketch has been made to elaborate on the point of the joke. Didn't really do much for me.

Brian Regan is a legend and his stand up alone is worth watching here. But the show format is somewhat contrived and feels forced and deliberate in some parts. The audience questions are interesting enough but appear pre-arranged and coming from super fans (like me). The "floor manager" is completely unnecessary and too obvious as a cue for segues to segments or banal reactions. A complete distraction. Can he not host this himself? In essence, great, original comedy delivered in poorly conceived concept that adds unneeded waste and insults the viewer's intelligence.

I love Brian's standup and he's great at his bits in this but the format does not work. Brian doesn't need a contrived overenthusiastic 'live/studio' audience. He's an immense talent in search of a concept and a point of difference. Greatest hits standup throwing to TV screens with sketches doesn't seem to be it. The show 'Seinfeld' successfully interspersed standup with a sitcom based on the standup. This show has Seinfeld as a producer and it is trying to intersperse standup with sketches based on the standup.

I went to check this out thinking it was a new standup special. I was intrigued to discover it was a series, then disappointed at the execution. The audience interaction and Beth banter are further unnecessary and distracting contrivances.

The standup is fine. The sketches are mostly solid. I love lap griddle and the restaurant with tables too close. But the means by which the standup and sketches are brought together is clunky. I'm sad to not be able to recommend this and, given the mass of other comedy choices to watch, won't be returning to view any future efforts should there be any.

I don't understand and the negative reviews here. I've liked Brian for a while. I have most of his CDs and have seen him live twice. I was prepared for disappointment with the show based on the IMDB reviews and instead found myself laughing out loud.

I give this a sold rating and recommend it!

If you're new to Brian's standup act, you may find this very enjoyable. Otherwise, it's a lot of recycled material. Some of the acted out bits are pretty funny, others not so much. The interaction with the "floor manager" and the audience seems forced overall. Was hoping for better.

This is a really good show. The switch between the stand up and the sketches is a tad awkward but it's worth it. BR is a stone cold killer. It's pretty much all winners.

He's my favorite. And this show does have a few moments. But overall it just misses. Whoever had the idea for the 'floor manager' should re-evaluate their creative skills. She's painful to watch and it feels like Brian is forced to talk to her. Just a painful show killer. Same with the reoccurring 'I'll fix this'. I wanted this to work so bad. Oh well.

Seriously, Brian Regan is hilarious! Sure it has some of his old material but it's still just as funny. His sketches are hit and miss, but always entertaining

Jerry Seinfeld is a producer and public promoter of the show, and it is quickly apparent that Regan appeals to a similar sense of humor. Adding a bit of color and bravado, he succeeds in modernizing the "Why do people..?" approach; however, this show tries to do too much.

The cutaways from live audience to sketches is reminiscent of successful comedy Key & Peele, though Regan's primary skill is in his live stand-up, not his acting, so the comedy routines dominate the show. Some of the skits featuring other people feature pretty poor acting, but this actually brings out Regan and his teams' tremendous ability to bring the routines to life. Particular actors are able to steal the show, however, and over time these figures should be used more often (think of how Key and Peele both rose to fame on MadTV).

Then there's Beth and the audience dynamic. I have no doubt Beth adds to the show and probably knows much more about producing than Brian; still, the conversations with her seem very forced. It is impossible not to think of Andy Richter on Conan, but it is possible to realize it doesn't work well here.

Overall, the experimentation with the audience will most likely work itself out, and the mix between stand-up and sketches will probably swing more towards sketches. Though this show still features more stand-up than Seinfeld ever did, the earliest Seinfeld episodes showed much more stand-up, than fully developed as David and Seinfeld improved as writers. This first season paves the way nicely for Regan, with still some things to fully figure out.

I like Brian but this is out dated and unfunny. I mean a whole skit on turning on a landline??? And the floor manager thing and audience question is forced. He can do better.

Yes, it was some of Brian Regan's older material, however, it is basically a concept show at this point. Once it becomes established it will be even more funny than it already is. Remember, "Seinfeld" was almost a flop in the beginning, and this show had a very decent start.

Brian's comedy has never really evolved over the years, which is fine for the most part but it shows its age here. Especially since, as mentioned in other reviews, a lot of it is recycled material.

It was only 4 20(ish) minute episodes so it was pretty painless, but two days later and I really only remember one skit being funny. There were a few chuckles here and there, but hopefully they don't green light a second season.

Brian is hilarious but the format seems really forced. Wish Netflix gave him true standup time, not this

Brian Regan has been a great comic for decade, so I was happy to see him get a new opportunity, but almost everything about this show is terrible. The production is so bad that you actually think the choices made are intended to add to the comedy. Unfortunately, it's not. It's 100% serious.

The stand-up by Regan in between sketches is just regurgitated material that he did in a half hour special on Comedy Central in the late 90s. He has so much more material than that. Why is he only doing the same 20 year old jokes?

The laughter from the crowd is probably genuine, especially when Regan is doing stand-up, but they don't mute the crowd noise after cutting to sketches so it ends up sounding like a laugh track. Cringe.

The transitions into the sketches involve a "producer" who feigns stupid and interrupts with uncomfortably forced questions or comments related to the topics of the bits. It's so terrible and unnecessary.

The camera work in the sketches is super shaky and they make 15 cuts in a 6 second period. The stand-up segments do this as well. It's almost as if they were trying to impress you with how many cameras they have recording the show.

Even the intro to the show has ridiculously corny narration, music, and visuals. It feels like a horrible 80s tv stand-up production.

So many comics have done this formula well (stand-up to sketches) and it is not a difficult one to follow. It's almost impressive to screw it up so much.

Stop over-producing and over-editing the show. Stop using the same tired, old material. I feel bad for Brian Regan because there's no way in hell this gets another season. If you are a fan of him, do not watch this.

Though some material is reincarnated, the addition of breakaway segments adds a new layer of comedy to the act. Comedy that is just funny, Brian has no need to shock the audience with rediculous sexual accounts or loud fowl language to get a reaction. The real to life situations and funny observations brought my wife and I to tears from all the laughing. This show is a much needed addition to the Netflix repituar.

This was so hard to watch because Brian is one of the funniest people on the planet. The editing was awkward and the stage manager thing was annoying. Most of the bits are from his standup and the punch lines didn't have the same zing without the build up of the whole set.

I used to LOVE Brian. When i found him like 15 years ago, i thought he was a genius comic. His physical comedy augments his material PERFECTLY. I love that he works clean. I had gone to see Brian 5 or 6 times live in the northeast area over the years and as each visit happened, i noticed something that was clear. He was relying on decades old material on each successive event. And this was over a period of 10 years. He of course has people shout out from the audience to do these old bits, but i don't understand that. I almost thought it was plants in the audience to do it...even when they DONT shout out requests, he still does bits that he's done from the early 90's; a LOT. I ALWAYS give material he puts out a good shake. This show included. But unfortunately, it's been the same. To get me back, he needs to do a lot more recent material. That's my take.

I've been a big Regan fan for years. His style of observations about the world mixed with clever jokes and his facial expressions have always had me giggling in the past. As a big stand up fan I was beyond excited to see a new Regan special. I came to find out it's actually a show. So this is great news right?

Well unfortunately I found absolutely no redeeming quality in this. I had to force myself to watch the entirety of the first episode as I wanted to turn it off after only minutes. The fact that he is rehashing his old material in itself is not such a bad thing. If done in a proper way I actually would love to see some of his crazy and zaney ideas expanded upon. The delivery of this however leaves one to wonder "did I just watch the worst tv show / stand up special ever?" Unfortunately I would have to say pretty darn near close.

We are practically in 2019 and I thought my days of hearing laugh tracks are over. This show does not use a laugh track, however the audience is actually worse. I actually would rather have the Full House laugh track as opposed to this audience. They actually start to laugh BEFORE the punchlines sometimes. It is extremely forced and contrived. I do not believe I am exaggerating here when I say I feel this is the most annoying audience I have ever had the displeasure of seeing/listening to. They literally laugh at everything and in the same almost "monotone" way. It is incredibly distracting and has to be one of the worst decisions a tv show has ever made... It's 2019 for pete's sake! This would have been outdated in the 80's!!

Then there is that producer woman (I think her name is Beth?). Her banter with Brian is once again very forced. It is so bad you get the feeling she is being forced to do this under threat of death or something because she is the most insincere "actor" I have ever seen. It is pretty hard to make Brian Regan unfunny but well... She's making it happen. I just wanted Brian to pull some cord and a giant bucket of slime falls on her the entire way through watching this. This person has no business doing what she is doing.

Now it wouldn't be fair to just blame her and the audience. After all Brian obviously had a large creative hand in creating this (although that is an assumption). Even if he didn't he should have enough sense to see this as a train wreck a mile away and steer clear. I sure hope he is making a pile of $ for this and that's what this is about. He's a great guy and totally deserves it and I would not lose respect if that's what he's doing. Because he sure as heck is not doing this for critical acclaim. He himself is as unfunny as I've ever seen him perform. He seems to have about as much energy as he had when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and that is to say he had no energy. His previous stand up specials are full of energy.

This special was so bad I felt compelled to post a review online. I've never done this before and had to create an account just to do so.

This guy has been around the block a few times, so you're going to see a pretty polished act, but that's likely the problem. You want to watch this for one bit though...a fake informercial for the "Lap Grill", it's fantastic.

Brian Regan is the only major comedian that I know off who's hell bent on STILL recycling his jokes 20 years later, every special, every new thing he does - same tired, aggressively outdated jokes again and again...

And this one is even worse because there's an annoying, forced interaction with someone called a 'floor manager' - and it's very cringy.

Brian used to be fresh, animated and super funny in the early 2000s but wow, he hasn't tried being any of those things since. I hope for at least one more fresh special from him someday.

Write some new jokes, Brian. Even non-comedy fans who don't know you have already heard of your current jokes by now. There's recycling and there's just being lazy and disrespectful to your audience.