Brian Regan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBko_3wT44Q

One of my favorite comedians is Brian Regan, who uses ridiculous gestures and actions to make the audience laugh. In this performance, he discusses food and food labels, and throughout the entire routine he does a good job transitioning from one joke to another. Regan begins by saying his doctor told him he needs to read food labels, to try to eat healthier. He begins by reading the label of a Fig Newton box, which to his astonishment the serving size is a whopping two cookies! He then goes on to portray a situation in which an insane person attempts to eat three whole entire cookies, and is sent to the emergency room, and the whole time Regan uses gestures of eating the Fig Newtons, and his methodology of eating with the “newton shavings flying past his face,” and then the doctor having to try to save the three fig newton eater from cardiac arrest.

Regan then talks about eating ice cream, and the half a cup serving size of that. Regan says it was a joke in the factory and then they got sent off like that. Regan’s serving size for ice cream is until the spoon hits the bottom of the box and you can’t scoop anymore, which he demonstrates to comedic effect. After the part about ice cream, he says his doctor told him lay off dairy, which opens up my favorite part of the joke. Regan sadly demonstrates walking through the grocery store, having to avoid the dairy aisle which he says has people “wearing party hats” in it. This leads him to the juice aisle, where Regan remarks at the ridiculous amounts of drinks involve Cranberry, which I find to be absolutely hilarious.

The audience finds this funny because Regan doesn’t mind looking like an idiot on stage, he’s willing to do anything to make everyone laugh. I love Regan’s gestures, but the thing about him is he doesn’t just look like an idiot to make people laugh. His gestures actually apply to his jokes, rather than making random movements that are funny but don’t really make sense like some other comedians do. I think Regan is very funny, and I really like the fact that he is able to make people laugh without cussing or talking about sex or drugs, unlike many other comedians.