Blocks w/ Neal Brennan - Brian Regan

Episode Date: October 19, 2023

Neal Brennan interviews Brian Regan (Top 10 All-Time Comedian) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Complimentary Intro 4:08 Writing Undefinable Bits 10:50 Not Being Funny Offstage  30:58 Clean vs. Dirty Comedy 46:16 Line Anxiety 54:16 Can’t Hear Well  1:06:16 Social Obligations 1:10:03 What He’s Done 1:12:05 Goals  ---------------------------------------------------------- https://nealbrennan.com Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: GameTime App Code: BLOCKS for $20 off your first purchase Pavlok.com Code: NEAL for 40% off any device. MeUndies.com/NEAL for 25% off + free shipping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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because as Ali Wong said, all of my fans are depressed and they have to get to sleep early. NeilBrennan.com. People aren't comfortable with compliments. I relish in them. You welcome them? You challenge me?

Ladies and gentlemen, my guest today, let me explain to you my outlook on our guest today. My outlook on our guest today is people have been doing stand-up for roughly 100 years in some form. And I would guess that 20,000 people have tried it. And this guy finished in the top 10 of the 20,000 people that have tried it. If I was in the right mood, I'd go top five. Man, wow.

And a massive influence on, I don't want to say anyone who does stand up but i know a lot of people who can't listen to you or watch you because if they do they do you for a week i believe pete holmes has told me that mike berbiglia has referenced that me and mike berbiglia talked about you on his part or maybe my podcast I think Bill Burr owes you a debt of gratitude Sebastian Nate Bargatze like guys there are guys and I don't I'm not saying that like they're biting from you you're so good again it's hard I find myself when I do an act out, the longer I do stand up, the more I get into the Brian Regan crouch. On an act out. Seek Brian Regan out on your YouTubes and your Netflixes.

I'm going to keep talking so that you don't have a chance to butt in and ruin everything. The first time I went to a comedy club was the the new york improv in 1988 and i saw you crushing away i still don't think anyone has i've seen crushed like that maybe 87 chappelle saw you at the same period before you did stand up and we were both like what is this like what is this person doing you were doing a dog bit about dogs. Barking. Right. Would be a human being just yelling.

Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, amazing bit. Look it up. I've just ruined it, but you're such a good comedian and I'm so glad you're here.

Thank you very much. It means the world to me. Seriously. A compliment like that is really, really nice to hear. so thank you very much i would also like to tell everyone that you couldn't you would think brian ringer doesn't need compliments like it just says you just go brian ringer doesn't need compliments like it's like seinfeld you ever compliment seinfeld and he's like oh thank he's so grateful and you're

like dude you're jerry seinfeld what are you talking about he's like he thank he's so grateful and you're like dude you're jerry seinfeld what are you talking about he's like he it means a lot to everybody of course i mean you know we put a lot of effort into comedy and you know to have people laugh at it and have people you know tip their hat towards it if that's a correct expression i don't know why would you tip your hat towards comedy i don't know but Why would you tip your head towards comedy? I don't know. But it feels good when people say good things, especially comedians. Yeah. I always felt if you want to find out who's good at something, ask people who do that. When they first started letting fans decide who the major league all-stars were, I was like, if you want to know who the best third baseman is, ask third baseman.

Yes. They know who the best third baseman is. And so a compliment from a comedian is a high honor. So thank you. Of course. Did you ever feel like you just like, did you figure out what the type of bits you're you're, did you find yourself writing the same kinds of bits in the same area? Like most of your bits from the outside are i'm overwhelmed

and i don't understand what's happening yeah well that's a common thread you know um i've tried over the years to to write away from how people are starting to define me. As soon as I start feeling like people are saying, oh, this is what you do, then I would be like, all right, I don't want to be just that. I want to be more interesting. I want to have more perspectives. So I used to crouch around on stage

all the time and people go oh he's the guy who crouches around back and forth and i'm like i'll show them people would yell at you on the street i will stand erect now what are you gonna say yeah and then they go oh you're the guy who always feels stupid you know you always feel stupid so i started writing anger fantasies you know it's like I wanted to show me doing a comeuppance to other people. So I never wanted to be something that you could just easily define. I'd rather – and I think in some ways it's held me back because I don't have – I have a following. I have a nice following. But I'm not like huge, you know.

I mean, there are people who are huge, who are great and deserve to be huge. And I've never had that. And sometimes I wonder, well, maybe it's because I purposely don't want to be a particular thing that you can advertise or push. I know what you mean. You don't want to be known for one burr burr bill burr actually does between specials will like work on a new type of bit because he's like to your point and or like a basketball player doesn't want to be like once the crowd has the scouting report on you you don't want to and by the way buddies of mine that play basketball, the scouting reports are so thorough where they're like, we'll do one jab step, fake right, go left.

They know everyone's thing and they still get beat because it's impossible to beat. I was never good at basketball. I can only dribble with my right hand. Can't dribble with my left hand. All of my friends, brothers, everybody is athletic. For some reason, I can't dribble with my left hand. All of my friends, brothers, everybody is athletic. For some reason, I can't dribble with my left hand. So I'm playing on a pickup game with some friends of mine. And I got a guy covering me.

And I'm able to get around him on the right, go underneath the basket, and do one of those Dr. J underneath the hoop things. Got the ball again. Did the same thing. Went around him to the right. Did the underneath i i'd never been able to play like that in my whole life i made two baskets in a row both underneath you know with the yeah bam and a friend of mine the other team calls time out

and he goes and talks to the guy and i know he's telling him he can't dribble with his left hand so from that was the last point that i scored so he just covered me over on the right and i was dead and that's it yeah and you're afraid the audience is gonna do that yeah right like this guy's gonna go low don't laugh if he crouches don't laugh exactly but i will say a bit you wrote that and i had the thought when did you do that joke about um they want to give us a lot of credit 2017 the other team yeah i literally thought how the fuck is he still writing bits this good oh thank you this 35 years into writing jokes like it was because it was different and it was like was it a concerted

effort or you just had the had the got the idea and we're like that's that'll be fine i never know how to come up with a bit you know like some people say you you sit down and you write for an hour yeah some people say they're disciplined like that yeah i've tried that if i sit down in front of a blank piece of paper for an hour an hour later it's going to be a blank piece of paper i don't i don't know how to manufacture something out of my head i have to just go through my life and see something or hear something or experience something and then you know whatever part of that brain that goes hey man that's kind of funny then then i can then i can sit down and go all right i can put some words around this and see if i can try it on stage so a lot of credit is just watching the you know everybody say that after ball games after you hear it like the fourth or fifth time you go

this what is the other team supposed to do with this exactly yeah that they're so then you just act out the fantasy of how ridiculous it is that the other team would care you know i won't be able to clear the bit because it's youtube but but the bit is basically when a team wins they go well we won but you got to give the other team a lot of credit give You got to give them a lot of credit. And then I do the thing of, I wonder if that news ever gets to the loser's locker room. And then I have a guy running over going, hey, fellas, great news. I just came from the winner's locker room.

You are not going to believe this. They are giving all of you a lot of credit i'm not kidding i i got here as quickly as i could but it was hard with the balloons and the champagne i got here as fast as i could to share the news that you're getting a lot of credit for their championship and they're inviting all of you to come over and kiss their new rings there you go that's right if you don't know who brian reagan is that's pretty you don't have to clear the clip now the only reason i did it is so you wouldn't have to clear the thanks mister we don't got to clear nothing we got it we own the bit now now i sell it yeah this is how it works out then welcome to the internet dumbass if i if i were smart i would

say all right well then this interview is over yeah you're not smart no i'm not smart i'm gonna do more bits i'm gonna do more bits for you yeah we've seen are you you have that one too and you own that one too i'm i'm sensing a pattern yeah you're old you don't get it we don't need to we this is fairly emo this podcast we don't i don't think that's your thing really but we will discuss the the things that make you what we call blocks right things that make you feel like something's wrong with you you wrote number one funny offstage what is what do you mean by that i should have i should have written no you can tell me and i'll own it not not being funny offstage i'm i'm incredibly capable of being

incredibly unfunny i don't know how to be funny in certain situations. If I am introduced at a party or something like that as a comedian, the moment I feel like there's a prove it to me aspect, comedy shuts down. I have zero ability to prove it to you. And I have a chip on my shoulder. Like, why do I have to prove it? And there are times when I'm like just hanging out with people who don't know who I am. And I'm being very unfunny. It's as if it's like an activity. I'm purposely being unfunny. That's not true.

We made up. I just don't know how to be funny. And I often wonder, how am I able to do it like on stage? But I've had enough experiences on stage where it's like, well, I know I can do it at least occasionally. I know I can do it enough to have some audiences like it where I can make a living at it. So I'm not naive. I know that I can do it, but offstage. But in that moment. Offstage, I don't, I'm not good at it.

That's one reason why I'm uncomfortable with podcasts and stuff like that because I don't feel as naturally funny as a lot of people who are really good at comedy are in situations like that if i wanted you to punch me in the face at a party i would go like you're a comedian not being very funny now literally that you want to talk about anger fantasy the things i've done in my mind to people that have said that to me i've murdered them i've put their i've dipped their bodies in acid i like the awful thing because it's so insulting and it gives them the up makes them funny somehow right do you know what i mean like then they have the upper hand and uh i don't

like that and also that feeling like what what entitles them to be the ultimate judge on whether that person validates me and what I do. I was on a flight one time. I never, ever say what I do unless I'm asked point blank. If somebody asks me point blank, then I'm going to be honest. You know what I mean? But if somebody's just being- Point blank, like, so what do you do for work? Is that point blank? That's point blank then i'm i'm gonna be honest you know what i mean but but if somebody's just being point blank like so what do you do for work is that point blank that's point blank okay that's point blank but if somebody's going uh you where you headed right i i don't know it's funny

i'm going to one of my stand-up comedy shows where i'm i'm very funny do you like stand-up comedy yeah so surely you're familiar with me so if they say uh where are you headed i'll just go i'm going to uh new york oh yeah how long are you going to be there i'm going to be there for a couple days are you working there yeah i'm doing some work like i'll just keep trying to dodge dodge dodge dodge but if they go well what do you what do you do what do you do for a living? Then I will cop to it. So I did that to one guy.

I'm sitting next to him on a plane. He's telling me what he does and all that. And, you know, I'm not that good at that small talk stuff, but I'm trying to hang in there. And he goes, what do you do? So I said, well, I'm actually a stand-up comedian. And he goes, I could do that. well, I'm actually a stand-up comedian. And he goes, I could do that.

Like right out of the chute. Automatic. Automatic. We're both equals at what I do. Yep. I'm like, wow. Have you ever tried it? He goes, no, but I would be good at it.

And I'm like, okay. you don't have the time i mean i found you know when you talk about your anger fantasies and stuff like that it was like i mean talk about insulting you know yeah i mean i'm not saying that i'm a better person than this guy i i i doubt i could do what you're a fucking lootly, a better comedian. I'll give you the list of who was allowed to say that. And I promise you, they weren't on it. They weren't sitting next to you on a flight. The people can go, I could do that.

Well, that's that part of that is the illusion. You make it look easy. It's the difference between skate, watching someone's skateboard and trying to skate. You ever try to skate? You ever just stand on a skateboard? It's so hard.

Right. And terrifying. But you see Tony Hawk or these guys do it. You're like, I feel like I can do that. When we were kids, we were watching surfing. These guys were surfing on these big giant waves and a family friend came in,

watched for about a minute and said, it's just balance. I mean, technically he's right. He's not wrong. And what do you, what do you, you're just talking. It's just balance. And you're just talking. It's, it's just getting on stage and being funny. I mean, yeah.

I can't do that i'm gonna go in the other room and do hard stuff that's not surfing something more hard than surfing or stand-up comedy and but but i also think seinfeld had a joke where he's like everyone that comes to a comedy show is the funny person in their group so they all are kind of like and then at a certain point you have to wear them down to the point of like you couldn't do this i know you it's fun to think you you have been funny but not but and i also i try to be careful like i don't mean it like from a cocky perspective, like, wow, I'm, you know,

I'm really good at this. It's just, everybody chooses a different thing to do in life, you know? And I, I've chosen to do standup comedy. I worked a lot at it and, you know, I,

I, I have a, a little bit of an ability to make some people laugh sometimes. You know what I mean? So, uh, yeah, it's just awkward it's funny

you're you and you're more humble about it than the guy sitting next to you yes you've been crushing in a way that i can't believe i saw it 35 years ago i still remember it this guy's never seen it less humble than you are that that's the are you ever confident and i don't mean this in a cocky way like if someone was like if someone said you're not funny does a tape start playing i'm like motherfucker no you wouldn't say whatever um you mean like i i i know a lot of people in my i put myself in this, which is I'm defensively arrogant. If you insult me, I have a list I can read. If we're normal, I'm walking around fairly, I would argue, like a regular, maybe lower self-esteem but like if you if like bumped i it's like oh huh i would i would i

wouldn't be surprised if you did or didn't i want to be a nice guy in life you know it's like i usually try to go the nice guy route so i i don't get combative with somebody like that even that guy even in your head though oh in my head of course that's what you're talking about anger fantasies of course i've got those i I've got violent fantasies left and right. Maybe I shouldn't claim that. This will come back to haunt me like in a court of trial sometime in the future. Well, you said you had the violent fantasies. It wasn't an accident.

You knew the microphone was in front of you, and you said it. You said it right to the camera that you knew was your camera. You were told ahead of time which camera it was. So, yeah, there's like two things going on in my head. I was saying the other day that sometimes I feel like you see those big fire trucks where there's a guy in the front driving, but there's a guy in the back also with a steering wheel. Sometimes I feel like my brain is like that. guy in the front driving but there's a guy in the back also with a steering wheel sometimes i feel like my brain is like that there's there's there's two things going on and they're always combating each other and you know you got the one guy in the front going well we got to be reasonable and

fit in and then you got the life of the mind of like trying to be normal and trying to be like yeah i'm gonna go about this in a regular thing and then the conflict with like yeah but also, again, another incredible bit, which you're about to do. No, I'm kidding. But the UPS bit. I called UPS. That's more, I guess that would be overwhelmed, but an amazing bit about the conflict of like, you're acting like I should know this. How would I know this?

How could I possibly, I want to be nice and i i guess everyone learned this at some point i don't remember that is what you're really good at so i'm happy to hear that like even saying i've never heard someone say did you say anger fantasy or revenge fantasy it is such a great i realized that you said it like yeah you did start doing bits like that. It was when I felt I was starting to do too many, I feel like when I say you too at the wrong time and stuff like that. Taking the cab to the airport coming out and I'm getting out and the driver goes, hey, have a good flight. You too. You too, you have a nice flight too. In case you ever fly someday i mean i like those bits but those were always me feeling like an idiot in society and i'm acting out the fantasy of it

being even more ridiculous than it actually is and then i'm like well there's more to me than that you know and it's like um i want to do where I'm observing the other people being dumb, and then I want to do my fantasy of me, you know, one-upping them. What you were saying is, look, I'm not the only dumb person. Right. I'm looking at a lot of other dummies. Right. And guess who's about to be in the spotlight?

Right. I don't want to be the guy behind the microphone like I'm the moron. I want to be like an observer of myself. I want to be a guy who feels that about himself at times, but who also knows that he's an okay person and that other people are also doing dumb things. And the world is also not the way it should be. I want the observer to be intelligent, even though the fantasies are stupid or angry. But I want the observer to be a guy who's on his game.

It's so funny because you are, even the conflict is that. And you write bits and you're like, yeah, but i'm not me i do say me too at the wrong time but also and you yeah ups was overwhelming but but also i'm not the i'm not an idiot i'm a moron but i'm not an idiot like i i get this is not set up correctly and let's talk about these setups a little bit like the guy that again another incredible bit that's popping in my head

the guy at the party says that ain't nothing who's the he's the he's the idiot right correct and that one i want him to be the the moron he's the one who's you know that that needs to be uh taken down taken down you know and it's like i i don't so it's fun to be able to do those kinds of jokes as well and then when you get an audience laughing with you it feels good because it's like they feel they feel the same way everybody i think everybody's a bit uncomfortable. You know, maybe some people are completely secure in themselves, but I think everybody has that two thing going on in their head, you know, and you're at a party or a social situation at work or whatever it is. You know, there's always that. Am I doing the right thing here? Am I doing the right thing?

Or is that guy doing the right thing? You know, and both of those can be funny. Yes. is that guy doing the right thing you know and both of those can be funny yes the bit if i may blow it and then i'll i'll it's a sting operation where i do it poorly and then i make you do it brian's at a party tells a story and a guy says that ain't nothing right it just completely negates everything that led up to that. Yep. And I don't even remember the bit. These bits come and go for me sometimes.

No, I believe it. And then you talk about Neil Armstrong. Oh, got it, got it. That's the, okay, that's right. That's where that comes from. Yeah. And then I say the ultimate fantasy would be one of the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon because they can beat anybody's story whenever they want. And then you let some guy do his whole thing about his traveling. And, you know, I travel all over the world. I got planes. I got a fleet of sports cars. I travel.

I was against Zurich, the Mount Kilimanjaro expedition. We're going to have to cancel that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I walked on the moon and then he's flattened yep a lot there's a lot of assholes in that story um so the funny offstage thing have you do you try to neutralize it or you just try to stay away from any place where you're expected to be funny that you don't think is hospitable to you being funny i put myself out there you know it's like you got to go to family gatherings you got to go to uh get togethers and things like that but i'm never 100 comfortable i'm always especially if i'm around people who don't

know me or you know um so it's just it's a constant quest to try to find comfort and i i don't know if i've ever hit it i don't know that you're gonna i think you're right like i either i feel the same way about me or like a lot of people it's like it, it's just kind of, that's what it's going to be. That's kind of the preset. You can maybe make it a little more manageable, but it's like, that's kind of what you're here for is to be uncomfortable and talk about it. That's one reason why I really like hanging out with comedians because

it's you can be unfunny around comedians and they understand that yes and we all know we all know that we're sometimes funny and sometimes yes and and and so you get the whole gamut of a personality but when you're around somebody who doesn't know what a comedian is and and then they somehow think that you're just going to be a clown for them you know that's where it gets weird for me there's also a thing with comedians like we know when we're like oh we're all gonna jump this we're all gonna be funny now and then we all there's like a big thing of meat and everybody's got their their knife and we're just all going after the same it's like we're like oh someone starts it and then we're like oh are we gonna

oh fuck great yeah yeah um it's great it's like a it's like a text chain for regular people it's like a text chain but in person we're all just fucking yeah we've talked before about the padlock the little shocker thing that i wore on my netflix block special this thing gives me a small electric shock every three minutes on stage to remind me to smile more been happening the entire show where uh i wear it on stage and it would shock me and it's a tiny electric shock it's not like it's just like it would remind me to smile more see i can always use it it's a good product i was like waiting for it then it came on the market i was like i'll take i think i bought two pavlok is a wearable tracker with a twist it can administer a mild electric shock which most things can't

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Did you used to do, in the 80s, somebody told me that you would do, when you would headline a night or a weekend, you would do two different hours at eight and 10. Is that true? Yes. That is so goddamn impressive. Well, thank you. It was when one man shows were starting to become a big thing.

Yep. And there was pressure from people to say, right. Or one man show, like, like make it more of a theatrical kind of thing where, and I didn't want to do that because I like standup comedy the way it is. I like that you can talk about basketball in one minute and talk about a restaurant in the next minute and it's okay.

Yep. You know, so I didn't want to do a one man show, but I thought, well, what could I do that would, might be interesting enough to be able to stay at a place for a longer period of time, a comedy club. And then I thought, well, and it was at that time where I was starting of time a comedy club and then i thought well and it was at that time where i was starting to write and have more and more material and i was like well i'm already kind of i've already got like a few hours of stuff so i decided to split it into two different one hours and i called it the idiot and the oddity uh and i would make a calendar and i would go to like the improv in washington dc and i would be i would be there for a month and there would be calendars on the people's tables and so

if they came and saw my show at the end of the show i wanted the mc to say well if you liked what you saw brian has a completely different hour and you could come back and see the other show you can check out the schedule tonight's was the idiot and and then you know it'd be like second show saturday would be the oddity or whatever i had a schedule and it worked people would come back you know people go wow he was good and then they would like bring friends and come back yeah it it it worked in in a short-term way and people would come back. But then the downside was after people saw both, they would say, wow, we like both of those. Next time you come here, you're going to have two new hours.

And I'm like, what am I doing to myself? Yeah. I like to think I did a good thing here by offering two different one hours doing you a favor audience and so i i just decided i mean i did that for maybe a half a year or something like that and then i was like i can't do this anymore because i i want to be able to go back six months later and do a joke or two that i did the previous time and have you not go wait a second that was in that show that's why I don't even title my tours. You know, people always say, title your tour, call it this tour, that tour. I'm like, I don't want

no title because a title suggests that that material is in that title. And if they come back two years from now, I want to be able to do two-thirds new stuff and maybe one-third that they've heard without them going, wait a second, that was in the other titled show. So I just want it to be Brian Regan on tour. I also think maybe less than 10% of people remember that you did it. But it does stick with you where you're like, they still paid, I don't want to disappoint them. 90% of people are like, yeah, I don't know like people remember vaguely your bits but i don't

think they remember them as specifically as we might believe they do okay so the clean versus dirty thing do you feel like what's the downside for a clean comedian? Well, first of all, I wasn't always clean. When I first started. We used to be filthy. Well, I was never filthy, but I had jokes. I had four-letter word jokes, and I had some sexual references and stuff like that, but I was always like 80%, 90% clean. Yeah. And that's the kind of stuff that was more interesting to me anyway. 80, 90% clean.

Yeah. And that's the kind of stuff that was more interesting to me anyway. So I, I'm out on the road and I'm, I'm new to being on the road. And one reason why I decided to be clean was not because of any moral thing or I just, I feel like I have like this meticulousness in me that I wanted to be 100% something. So I'm like, I can be 100% clean. I like the challenge of trying to see how hard I could get people laughing without hitting certain words and hitting certain topics. So it wasn't like I was trying to.

It wasn't like you dirty people. No, nothing, nothing, nothing to do with that. In fact, I love dirty people. No, nothing, nothing, nothing to do with that. In fact, I love dirty comedy. I love comedians who are dirty as long as it's truthful and organic and that's what they do. So it was never a statement. It was just, this is just how I want to do it. And, um, and it ended up, there was a nice by-product to it. You know, people.

More people. A lot of people like it because it's clean. It's like a board game eight to 80. Right. They'll come out because of that. And it's like, okay, but that's not my intention. If you're coming out because that's one part of it that you like, that's fine. But I never liked people leaning on that too much.

In fact, to me, it's a negative. people leaning on that too much in fact to me it's a negative if somebody has not seen what they what i do and they go oh there's a clean comedian playing down the road i would think a lot of people wouldn't want to go see it yeah that's interesting because they're going i don't want to go see some yeah candy ass comedian you know um whereas if they went they might laugh right or yeah probably would laugh and have a good time and not even think about whether it was clean or not yeah you don't want to be boxed in i don't want to be a thing i don't want to be a guy i don't want to be a guy on a white horse yeah and follow me clean is better than dirty yeah it's never been about that for me yeah and it bothers me when some people think incorrectly that that's my mission statement you know yeah i would when you

were doing your four-letter word jokes would you uh would you would it feel different meaning did you notice like i don't like doing these because i have a like section of my act right now where i'm like this is like the red light like this is we're getting into like a sort of darker area of my act like energetically it's like a little more the like the audience like a little more like uh did you feel different doing dirtier jokes or did it not make a difference that's a good question i i i felt like me not doing dirtier dirty jokes was more truthful for me it was it was more of how i think yeah i had a i had a dirty thing i used to close with on my school routine. I did the whole school routine and I used to close, I'll do it for you. You have to, legally you have to.

It's got a four letter word in it. Okay. So I don't know if people want to stop listening right now. So it was about diagramming sentences. And I said, I grew up in Miami, Florida. We had a new kid who had moved down from New York City, sat next to me in class. And the teacher was teaching about diagramming sentences. She said, all right, we're going to learn how to diagram sentences. Does anybody here know how to diagram a sentence? And this kid next to me said, go fuck yourself. And the teacher was like, whoa. And I say, she got got flustered she didn't know how to handle it she goes oh oh okay big guy why don't you see if you can't come up here and diagram that for the class and i say that was a bad move because he knew how so he went up to the board and he grabbed the chalk and he goes, all right, what is the noun here? The noun

is you. It's understood. So that goes in parentheses. And now what do you do? What is the action? You fuck. You fuck is the action. Go is a helping verb. So that goes down here it helps fuck now you fuck whom who receives that action yourself so that goes over here so mrs andrews you you fuck you go fuck you go fuck yourself and puts a chalk down and i used to close with that of course and it would crushing it would kill yeah and then when i had the opportunity to do my first special showtime special i was time r.i.p they're out of business as of like three months ago do you know that no i didn't know they're literally out they they're gone i did not take the app off your phone i I did it three days ago. They ain't coming back. Okay.

Well, you're special. You own, I own your special. Well, when I was going to do my first special, that was how that whole bit closed the whole school routine. And I just decided I wasn't going to do it.

It was like a line in the sand moment for the showtime. You were not going to do it. I wasn't going to do it. It was like a line in the sand moment. For the show time, you were not going to do it. I wasn't going to do it. Even though I knew it would kill. It's your closer, yeah. To me, I was like, I had to decide at that point, all right, now I'm going to be going out there into the public.

My whole act was clean up until that closing thing and I'm like, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. Even though maybe more people would have been aware of me or heard about me because of the bit or whatever like i'm just gonna go completely clean and see what happens and did what you close with frick you you frick you go no i didn't did were you doing was easy out in that bit in that hour yeah yeah yeah brian would do a bit about uh again i'm you have so many bit like sitting with i'm like oh my god easy out uh little league you're up at bat and the kids on the other team yelling i said it was hard

enough being up to bat you know i'm nervous. I don't know what I'm doing. And then the kids on the other team yelling, easy out, easy out. Everybody move in, easy out. And I'm like, they're walking towards me. I say, the outfielders were in on the clay. The infielders are looking through my pockets easy out easy out hey that's my gum i would also i watch you do this jim mcgaffigan owes you a debt of gratitude for his like well you're such a huge influence it's incredible um yeah it's dude it's like you could cook up a an anger fantasy if you wanted to i have some good news it's it's grounds for an anger fantasy um well now i'm you know that two part of my brain i'm like god should i have done that

diagram sentence because there are people out there who like you know and i'm clean and i'm like would they watch that and then be disappointed you know that's the fifth best bit you've done here as far as i'm concerned like it's it's i i remember i think i saw it live and it killed but i let easy out all the other stuff well there you go hey hey hey one reason why going at a other direction yeah but there's no you don't judge yourself for being a clean comedian you you just wish that you it seems like people read into it and you're like there's nothing to it other than it's my preference but you don't think you still think like richard pryor's pretty good and dave's pretty good and

chris is pretty good and burr and Patrice and like. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. In fact, I have this analogy, but it sounds incredibly self-serving. Go. The Beatles are clean. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

What if every interview they did, people go, why do you guys write clean? What is it about being clean? That's so important to you Beatles. What you, all your songs are clean. Is it a, if, if, if everybody just kept the drum beat of why are you so That's so important to you Beatles. All your songs are clean. If everybody just kept the drum beat of why are you so clean, wouldn't people go, that has nothing to do with the Beatles. It's not a barometer of anything. They're just songs.

They might happen to be clean, but that's not the point of them. So that's the way I feel about the comedy. I totally agree. It's like when people like crowd work and you're like, well, I want to see you be funny on the spot. Why? How did you come up with that as a barometer for how funny I am? Or people go like, you know, they improvised a lot of that movie. You know who doesn't improv at all?

Woody Allen, Shakespeare. I don't know. They seem to do pretty well from what I could tell. But no, there's no improv. The problem with Shakespeare is not enough improv. And still it had a nice end result. Yeah, like a real nice. Yeah, they ended up.

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am I going to have to say something if somebody's stepping into a line that I think this is the line other people are jumping in front? It forces me to be assertive. It forces me to make the decision. Am I going to squelch this and let the person step in front of me? Am I going to have to say something? Are you going to have to be a vigilante? Correct. And I've had my moments where I've snapped at situations where, I'll give you an example. It used to be, you could check in at the gate, right? At the airport. Yep.

Instead of out front, you could go to the gate and check in. So you're a million years old. Is that how old you are? You're a million. You just celebrated his millionth birthday, guys. I'm not talking about the air. I'm talking about to get on a stagecoach. You have to check in to get on the stage coach there'd be a varmint and you just yeah there'd be a grisly old man with a shotgun so there would be

you know a place for two reservationists but only one was working one time. So there's a long, there's a line of like 12, 15 people to check in with the reservationist. And then another reservationist came up. Now there's two reservationists. There's one line. So the next person in line goes and stands, gets served by the reservationist. The line doesn't move over into between them. It's still over here, but everybody understands that this line is now forking at the next available. It's understood, we think. So this business traveler, this woman, walks around, walks past everybody in line, and then just goes and stands right behind this guy over here and now my heart you know i'm having internal turmoil because i'm thinking the person in the

front it's his responsibility to he's the line monitor he's got to go no no there's a line here he doesn't say anything nobody says anything i'm like eight back and i can't let it go and i have to go excuse me we have to go, excuse me. We have a line here. That's all. You got to raise your voice. You got to like, Hey, well, yeah, you're eight back. I'm like, excuse me.

We've got a line here. And she turns and she goes, I'm in this line. And I said, oh, okay. I said, so you think we're all stupid. None of us are smart enough to see the short line. We're all stupid over here. Because I get my moments where I have to like, and then she reacted and said, oh, and then went and got behind the line. But even after that moment, I still don't feel good because like i had i had to now i'm the

guy that you know yelled and so i've had situations like that over and over in my life where it's lines that are unclear and you know boarding a plane i had it today boarding a plane the funnel yes and who's gonna there's i was talking to somebody last week the when i think about like we were like you must travel a lot that must be hard or whatever all i the only thing i the worst part of flying for me is going through tsa because as like growing up Catholic and I just already feel like I'm doing something wrong. And then there's different rules. Sometimes.

Yeah. Scissors. Come on through. We welcome scissors at this franchise at this TSA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like water cough syrup. syrup no no cough syrup this we're

anti-cough syrup you had last week i got popped for having two different cough syrups where they're not it's mercury it's it's iron supplements because i'm vegan so i got it you know what i mean i gotta hit i gotta get it somewhere else but i had two different one was 4.6 ounces and just like this is so fucking humiliating why are we doing this and then then you're into the lines how about boarding zones when you're when you're staying when we're all standing now you're looking at a couple guys that are boarding zone one, and that's from putting in the work. Right? Not because we're super wealthy. We just happen to fly a lot.

You've been flying since you could check in at the gate. So you're a million miler on a lot of airlines. Yeah. mile are on a lot of airlines yeah but when you're all standing and they go boarding group one and you see people starting to move and you go i don't think you're boarding group one and then they move up a little bit then they stop but now they're in your way and then you have to be like a cocky businessman but it's life is rife with those and And the two choices are let it go. I'm going to get on a plane. What does it matter if this guy got in front of me?

Yep. Let it go. That doesn't feel right. And then the other option is say something, and that doesn't feel right. So that's why I have line anxiety because those are the only two options that are available. And both of them don't feel good. that are available and both of them don't feel good how do you like going to other people's shows and figuring out tickets and laminates and wristbands do you like that because i don't right it's a similar thing status ah directions infrastructure i remember going i was

performing at a comedy club a whole group of people were going to go to a bar afterwards. So I get there, but I'm not with the group. And there's a long line of people to go in. And I don't see any of the people that I know. I figured they're already in there. And I don't know, did they say they were from the comedy club am i supposed to say something i'm in line that looks like it's going to be 45 minutes before ever and if you say you're the comedian you're an asshole that's what i did i got out of line and i went up to the bouncer and i said i don't know if it matters but uh i'm performing over at the improv down the road and the guy guy goes, uh, you're right.

It doesn't matter. Okay. I was just, that's why I asked. I didn't, I didn't know if it mattered or not, but now that I know it doesn't matter, I'm going to go get back in line.

See you in 40 minutes. I'll be back up here. I'm going to go find my place in the back of the line there. I didn't know if it mattered and it didn't. So it was, it was clear to mattered and it didn't so it was you made it clear to me it was a it was binary it was either gonna matter or it wasn't and it didn't and that's right now i have the information i need to know where i should go stand and that's in the back of this long and then this may have been before cell phones but when you finally got

in they were like you should have said something why didn't you tell them yeah this is why um i don't do anything this is why i just stay home because it's too much it's too much it's too much get it man yeah you get it you understand why i'm a shut-in this didn't surprise me when i read it but it it can't hear well. Yeah, I have a hearing, I should wear my hearing aids all the time. I go through periods where I'll wear them for a week and a half and then I'll stop wearing them. I'm not wearing them right now. Thank you for trusting me. I figured we would be close enough.

And the difficulty for me is in loud environments when there's like ambient noise or whatever. And go to a hockey game and there's a lot of stuff going on and people somebody next to you is talking to you I can't I can't hear it and it's really hard because I'm a comedian I'm hanging around with comedians who are saying funny things and I can't hear what they're saying and I have to guess when to laugh and it's just I find myself more and more withdrawing from social situations because of the hearing and this hearing app thing i have you know it says like speech and noise like there's supposed to be a setting for that but it doesn't right it doesn't help there's another one like outdoor motorcycles and you're like what how how are you coming to these categorizations?

Right. There should be like a setting, like loud noises in the back, but person next to you telling you subtle comedy story. Uh-huh. Oh, I need this one. Dry humor. Dry humor. I need to hear dry humor at this moment. Yeah.

And because of that, it's like, I don't want people to think I'm not a good audience. You know, if somebody says something funny, I want to laugh. It raises the point of like what we consider someone being weird or an asshole is just their own worry. They're deficient or they're not even deficient like you have a problem that reads as it's like most people that are weird are just anxious or or they they're people that drink a lot they're just they have a lot of anxiety and that's how they're everyone's just trying to deal with the the thing and it's not like you have regan regan's not coming because you know antennas coming out of his ears yeah like but they don't know that's what's worse of course

they don't know why and you also don't want to be known as that right so you don't want to be known as that. Right. So you don't want to be like, are we all speaking up? What are we, where's the venue? You need to stand in front of me and you need to yell at me. Send me a blueprint of the area. And I'll find the most acoustically safe place for me to stand to be able to have a conversation with you people. Yeah. Life is very awkward. And there's just a lot of ways in which it's harder than we act like it is.

And a lot of times it's a group, you know, three or four people standing around in a loud place. And it's like, I'm just like, I don't want to be here. Yeah. Not that I don't like the people i just i can't hear i don't know what anybody's saying and it it's very very frustrating i sympathize i sympathize because like yep i get it that would be i can totally understand i get when i can't hear someone my first instinct is at annoyance at them for like for not for whatever or like why you're and it might be my hearing's bad but i'm still mad at them it's kind of why old people are so crotchety i think

is because like everything's broken when i was a kid there was a friend of mine's dad would sometimes drive us home from school and he was very soft-spoken like so we're in the back seat and he was very soft-spoken the guy's dad and he would ask me questions that i couldn't hear but he's like an authority figure and i didn't want to tell him i couldn't hear and i would guess at answers like from the he'd be in the front going so ryan and i go well you know you never know you know trying to like pick the vaguest response and you go i heard that you sometimes sometimes you have to go like what could he have heard right what are the things he could have heard i don't know i can't three three three syllable thing that he may have heard about right yeah kind of yeah and then i would just wait to get out of the car like

yeah and just hope he's never uncomfortable to tell the guy, I can't hear you. Yeah. Cause you feel bad for him. You feel bad for yourself. It's just not, there's so many problems. It's like you ever,

you ever, uh, when they talk about China, just as a country, like they don't, they can't, the internet's closed. They can't, they're everyone they can't the internet's closed they can't

everyone's yeah it's like what would you do if you had a 1.3 billion people what would you do i sympathize with china i'm like yeah i don't know i don't know how i do it maybe i wouldn't give everybody the internet maybe i wouldn't maybe i would murder someone if they said anything bad about me because there's a lot of people this shit could get wily soon so let's i i think china's like a 70s parent where they just like we're you're locking you're locked up they were soldering people in during covid they were welding people into their houses at the start of covid i don't know they got a lot of people they clearly they got it maybe they have dude they know stuff about 1.3 billion people we don't know maybe that's what the kind of stuff he was asking so brian you think they should be soldering people into their homes

maybe maybe sir you never know when you said he's an authority figure, I had the thought, I kind of feel like you think everyone's an authority figure. Most people, because you just like deferential naturally. There's a weird hierarchy in life. I was, as another line thing, a line and a hierarchy thing. In line at Starbucks at an airport. And a hierarchy thing in line at Starbucks at an airport. And, you know, 20 people in line waiting patiently for their turn to get whatever they're going to get. And a pilot walked up and said, excuse me, everybody.

And he just walked past. He goes, I'm just getting pumpkin bread. Excuse me, everybody. Excuse me. I just stepped in front of everybody. Excuse me. Just getting pumpkin bread and walked right up to the cash register ordered his pumpkin bread and said all right thank you all and then walked off did he pay for it yeah yeah he paid for his pumpkin bread but

not waiting patiently like everyone else and you know i it was one of those moments where i didn't say anything you know like um that we all just want something too yeah and we have to go i don't do are we all unemployed to you like are you the only one that has a job where you have to be there on time we all have places to be you gotta go sit in your you know the flight deck and we have to sit in the plane seats we're all we're all living life you you know the the difficulty of all these things there's a there's a reddit thread i don't know if you're on reddit but it's just like you pick subjects that you like and then they just feed you people's posts about it's and you might like it but there's one called am i the asshole okay and so that's most of our and some of the people are like i'm 70

did i do this wrong am i the asshole my stepsister wants to come to my daughter's party but she was mean we'll never know i don't think anyone ever i don't think people die and go like i figured i know how to do everything i believe that there is etiquette used to be like a big thing and then it fell by the wayside like i've seen as this stodgy like uh old school who cares whether your napkin is on the right or on the left and but i i think there needs to be a resurgence of etiquette discussions right um just because we're all trying to live together in this world and there's all these little things that are vague that nobody knows what the rule is and uh you know it's like well what's cool um guy i'm working with with, Steven Rogers got on a flight and,

uh, you know, the two, uh, electric plugs. Yep. The guy next to him was using both of them. Mm-hmm.

He had his phone in one and the computer in the other one as he sits down and he's like, is it first come first serve or is it one plug per person? There's no rule. Yeah. There's no, there's no, there's no placard there's no there's no one announced there's no placard yeah you know and so who gets to decide what's cool or not i mean most people i've talked

to about that says it should be one plug per person well there's a bigger issue which is half of them don't work right and they're also tilted like this a little bit so they just do just erectile dysfunction just like boop boop falls out falls out so and then and then there's another problem where you got to twist it to even catch the electricity i mean they're and then there's steven's problem so he the other guy is probably like i've been trying to find plugs that'll work my whole day and I finally got two and I'm going to use them. So I'm not saying one person is right and one person's wrong. I'm just saying there are all kinds of situations like this in life where what's the etiquette and there needs to be a public forum to discuss. What do you think? What do you think? So at least people have an idea of what other people think yeah because people are just making behavior decisions on what they think is fair

and just assume that because they think it's fair that's what the rule should be yeah i mean it's it is a disorganized that's the problem of uh it's a long way to go, but atheism. I know. I really went pretty long with that. I threw it as far. Meaning. Pumpkin bread went to China. I know. And then this is going to atheism.

See, I'm a big thinker, Regan. Meaning people need more guidance than we thought they did. Like we thought like, no, we don't need religion. We need religion. We do. We need rules. We need laws. Like, oh, no we don't need religion we need religion we do we need we need

rules we need laws like oh if we don't prosecute uh uh stealing from cvs people will be cool about it nope people were not cool about it they're just going in and doing supermarket sweeps and just taking everything off the counter now so that all the razors are locked up. Most things are locked up at CVS. Rich Hall had a great joke when there were riots in the past and there was looting and they had helicopter shots of cars going to places to loot. And, you know, people are throwing rocks and stuff through the windows and going in and walking out with TV sets. Yet in the parking lot, people were putting on their blinkers and driving around and parking properly. Looting. They're not savages.

There's got to be some kind of rules. Yeah, there's got to be some decorum. You got to park properly. Then loot. Then put your blinker on and get back out on the road. We're looting. It's not a riot. Please.

Yeah. So I don't, as much as I'd like to believe that people can self, can self regulate. It's not, I'm getting the impression we can't. Social obligations. This is another one that's big for me. Which ones do you enjoy? Any of them? Sure.

You know, I, yeah, but what's weird being a comedian is your calendar is available to everyone. So I'm always getting calls going, uh, you know, I know you're off this weekend. You know, no one else's calendar is publicly available. Like the president. Right. And, um, Like sports people. Exactly. Yeah.

You know, it's like, I see you're going to be in town. So there's no, and, and I love socializing at certain times, but not all the time, you know, and, uh, And you don't want to have to be funny. It's challenging living in Las Vegas. I live in Las Vegas and other people don't check in with you about when they're going to come to Vegas. Everybody goes to Vegas when they want to go to Las Vegas and they think that you are like a firefighter and like, and you're cot and then they come to town and you're supposed to slide down the pole and socialize with them, you know, like, well, we're here. Yeah.

And it's like. And also know where to take them and what's a fun place and what's a good way of a good brunch over there. Exactly. And so as much as I like to hang out, there's always somebody you know in Las Vegas. Always. And you can't always say yes, and they don't realize, well, this is a constant. And I mean, some people get it, but a lot of people don't fully understand. Well, the other, I have a good lie for you.

Okay. Privates. You're doing a private gig. Doing a private corporate. Ah. Not going to be in town. But then you got're doing a private gig. Doing a private corporate. Ah. Not going to be in town. But then you got to kind of lay low. Right.

You know what I mean? You could don't go near the strip. Right. You got to be seen. Don't go to the machine gun range. Doing a shot of tequila. Yeah. That you love.

You love the machine gun place at the south of the strip. You're there two or three nights a week still right sure yeah yeah yeah still teach um i do both i'm a student and i teach i'm not good at either no um yeah no i'm with you i i'm with that the expectations all I can say for you is that you've milked anxiety for some excellent material. Thank you. Like that. So it isn't,

it isn't all anguish. I'll say that. I mean, maybe it is all anguish, but there is an upside, which is you can like then harvest it for, and then you can sell it. To have that outlet makes, I don't want to say life is a difficult thing.

I know, but it's just like weird. Yeah. I mean, I love being alive. I love friends. I love family. You know, I, I, life is wonderful, but there are uncomfortable things that it's great to have comedy as an outlet. If something weird happens to you to you can at least go well

maybe this can become a bit yeah you know and uh and then you get to be like the spokesman for that you're like the spokesman for the people like this is bad this is a bad system and here here and the reaction from the audience makes you feel like why you've hit a nerve you know like a lot of people feel this way yeah and then you become like you're like the you're speaking for them and then you can start a cult see how i jump um i have two big questions at the end well one of the things have you done how have you gotten how have you gotten better at being yourself? Has it gotten more pleasant to be Brian Regan in the last 30 years, 40 years? Minute to minute, have you figured out anxiety, any issues you have?

I don't know. I think it's a constant quest. I think it's a constant quest. You know, it's like I was with a group of friends recently and they were playing the if you only had one word to describe yourself, what would you say? And I said, uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, everybody else had positive.

You know, I'm resourceful. Yeah. I'm strong. Resilient. And I'm'm like i don't think i'm fitting into this game probably is that too many words i'm like i don't think we're playing the same game i'm uncomfortable and then when i said it it was sort of like a like it was like a downer you know and i'm like well you had i'm trying to be honest here yeah you know and then i said i'm kidding i'm virile and you punch the guy in the face yeah no that's about right and maybe it hasn't like i said maybe

you're not supposed to be comfortable but i would like you to enjoy you enjoy your uh talent and success level right when i when i'm on stage it feels like a million bucks i got a room full of people who you know they came out to kind of see the goofy stuff i think about and if i get them going it feels tremendous and um and i i like life off stage too. You know, that's, I feel like I'm over. No, I don't think I was. Yeah. Now inside of, um, you know,

and there's a lot of times, you know, my girlfriend is hanging out. It's beautiful experiences and, um, like being on a golf course. And, you know,

there's a lot of stuff about life that is wonderful. Yeah. Great. And is there, what is, what would be your like goal for yourself? Like what's your like blue sky, perfect goal, maybe not attainable, but like, man, that would be really cool if I could get there. I want to do. I'm probably a lot of people in show business too. And I've yet to really been able to get the planets lined up with other people going, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. My ideas are all weird.

They're all weird and quirky and off the beaten path. And, uh, when I pitch them occasionally to people, you know, you get the, well, you know, that's not, um, that's not what we have on our network. And to me, I would go, um, that's not what we have on our network. And to me, I would go, Oh, that's good. Isn't that a good thing? Yeah. But it's not a good thing to them. And so to think of ideas that are unusual, it's a tough sell. And I would love to, uh, have a part of my career where I'm creating projects and things. I have ideas for documentaries, movies, animation projects, game shows,

like all these ideas that I'd like to pursue. And so that would be a big thing for me to not only have a body of work as a stand-up comedian, but to maybe have some stuff out there that's a little bit different. Something that you could just make yourself. Might start doing that. Documentary for sure. Doesn't cost that much.

We're making one right now. Technically. I should like take this in and go, I should do something like this. Yeah, I mean, it's like literally not hard. Like you really could. Yeah, just ask like a. This is hard. Look how many cameras.

One, two, three, four, five cameras. You think I could do that? hard like you really could as like yeah just ask like this is hard look how many can't one two three four five cameras you think i could do that yeah i really may yes i think so um brian reagan guys go watch his stuff one of the greats truly i we always, we say lightly, this guy is so fucking funny. It's, everyone I know would go like, oh, fuck Brian Reagan. Like the best comedian, he's one of the best. Thank you. Thank you.

It means a lot to me. Very, very nice, high compliment. Thank you. Yes, Brian Reagan. Shake your hand. Shake my hand. Shake my hand. Brian, Brian,. Shake your hand. Shake my hand. Shake my hand. Brian.

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