Brian Regan is actually a highly revered comedian. If you can't understand his humor because it's not crude, entirely laced with foul language, or thriving with vulgarities... then go watch something else. I personally really like his humor.
I can understand his humour - it is not exactly subtle. I don't like it because it is obvious and unfunny.
I did not know that comedians could be "highly revered" -wow, almost likea university professor or a doctor or something. Making wisecracks in front of a bunch of half-cut people is not an esteemed profession.
Yeah, well English is actually my first language, so I did not even have to run to the dictionary. To revere is to hold someone in high regard or esteem. Sure, anyone can be revered, but I just think it is unusual to speak of having such a high opinion for a stand-up comedian. I save my reverence for more crucial members of society. You know, bartenders, strippers and the pharmacist that doles out my methadone.
I have a somewhat amusing story of when I was hospitalized for major surgery. Here is one of them:
(The scene is a standard hospital room with two beds and the curtain that can be drawn between the two beds. I am lying in the bed near the window, and a coronary patient is in the bed near the door.)
(I'm lying there with any number of hoses coming out of me, and stitches from my belly button to my sternum. I'm in major discomfort but little pain due to the morphine. The nurse or some intern comes in and draws the curtain to work on the guy next to me. )
Intern: "Mr. Smith, I am here to insert the chest catheter before your surgery. OK." Smith: "Why wasn't I informed of this procedure by the doctor?" Intern: "It is standard to use a catheter for this procedure." Smith: "OK, what does it involve?" Intern: "I will numb up this area, and then feed the catheter up to the proper position." Smith: "OK" Intern: "This will numb the area." Smith: "Ouch!"
(I have a grin on my face because the ouch was really loud)
(A few minutes pass to allow the anesthetic to take effect, and there is some small talk between the two)
Intern: "I will make a small incision now. There we go."
(There is a struggling as a package is opened. The catheter I presume.)
Intern: "This won't take long." Smith: "goddamn it! That hurts!" Intern: "Just relax Mr. Smith and this will be done in no time." Smith: "Fuck! What are you trying to do?" Intern: "Almost there. Umm, I have to start over." Smith: "Do you know what you are doing? Are you a real doctor?" Intern: "Relax Mr. Smith. I almost have it."
(This goes on like this for almost a hour)
Intern: "Mr. Smith, this will have to be done in the O.R." Smith: "Get the fuck away from me you son of a bitch!"
(The intern departs, and Smith continues swearing in his absence)
(I am almost choking, and in a great deal of pain because I cannot laugh without tearing my stitches)
[ The following morning with the same scene, but the nurse has come in to take Smith's temperature ]
Nurse: "Morning Mr. Smith how are you doing today?" Smith: "I'm lucky to have survived that idiot that I had yesterday." Nurse: "OK Mr. Smith, I will have to get your temperature before you go to surgery, OK" Smith: "OK ......"
(At this point I her Smith spit out the thermometer and hear it break on the floor)
Smith: "YOU GODDAMN BITCH! THAT'S MY RECTAL THERMOMETER! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME! YOU GODDAMN BITCH! ...."
(I could not hear the nurse as he was yelling, but I nearly died laughing that morning)
Try waking up in recovery, after emergency surgery to remove a good portion of your inner workings, only to discover two nurses at your bedside struggling mightily to figure out a new-fangled, state of the art, automatic pain-killing medication dispenser. They couldn't get it to work. I waited helplessly as they tried to discern which button did what on the computerized panel. That was fun.
At any rate, I enjoy the hell out of Brian. I hear him on XM radio sometimes, LMAO. I think it's his delivery that strikes me funny. And he's a little off-beat. He has just a little different angle on ordinary stuff. You should hear his pop tart bit. Nothing funny about a pop tart, you might say. But it's a riot.
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