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.
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.