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• #BRIAN REGAN POP TART DRIVER#

Tickets are $45-$55, available at or 80.

See Brian Regan live at the Paramount Theatre, Sunday, May 14, 7 p.m. The laughs come when Regan acts out friends, wondering, “Has he seen it yet? How can he not see it?”Īs Seinfeld commented, “Brian’s just a straight-up goofball.” That was when Regan guest-starred on Seinfeld’s web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” On the way to the Los Angeles cafe, Seinfeld picked up Regan in an $80,000 muscle car, a 1970 Dodge Charger T/A. Letterman has retired, so the indefatigable Regan has become a regular on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” where Regan jokes about things such as finding a giant hair shooting out above his nose. (It was the comedy network’s first live stand-up concert.) 26, 2015, Regan proved just how cool he truly is - doing an hour-long show at Radio City Music Hall, broadcast live on Comedy Central. “But he’s been uncool so long that he’s become kind of cool.” The Times noted Regan isn’t “edgy” enough for the likes of HBO. He makes mountains out of the mundane, poking fun at the directions on a box of Pop-Tarts and the clichés of post-game interviews.” Instead, “he has a broadly accessible, archly observational style that was the signature of 1980s comedy. In 2015, a New York Times article noted Regan is a “clean” comic who doesn’t need to curse on stage for cheap laughs. I couldn’t believe I was in this amazing theater.”Īfter graduating from Ohio’s Heidelberg University in the 1980s, Regan has been performing as a stand-up comic pretty much nonstop. “They were all there to see Jerry - but I didn’t care. “No one paid any attention to me,” Regan said. He took small satisfactions from that experience, recalling one show at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. As a young comic, he became a favorite of David Letterman, eventually making 28 appearances on “The Late Show.” He hooked up as the opening act for a Jerry Seinfeld tour a few years ago, warming up the audiences for the headliner. He stuck with his gentle, goofy, PG-13 comedy and soon enough was able to buy a car to drive to shows across the country. “I was just so happy to be doing comedy,” he recalled. Others might have said, “This is a sign - I’m done with this life time to get a real job.” Not Brian Regan. (He does a superb bit about the stupidity of asking athletes if. Here’s the thing about Brian Regan: He didn’t mind. He makes mountains out of the mundane, poking fun at the directions on a box of Pop-Tarts and the clichs of postgame interviews. So, Regan was soon headed down the road on a hot, crowded bus.

#BRIAN REGAN POP TART DRIVER#

“There’s no seats left,” the driver told him. This is a short but utterly gut splitting clip of Brian Regans visit to The Nerdest Podcast when the subject of his family friendly comedy came up and what it would be like if he did his act for. “He said, ‘In all my time driving this route, no one has ever been at this stop.’ ”

“The bus pulls up, the door opens - and the bus driver just starts cracking up,” Regan recalled. He was standing next to a road, waiting to catch a Greyhound bus - but wait, it gets worse. Brian Regan was deep in the heart of Texas early in his career, on his way from one low-paying comedy show to another.