He draws fulsome praise from everyone from Chris Rock to Marc Maron (“the guy people look up to . there’s Brian Regan and then there’s other people”) to Patton Oswalt (who once marvelled at how Regan can take up “a premise that every comedians knows has not one scrap of flesh left on its bones, and find a new angle of attack that yields prime cuts”). Jim Gaffigan, with whom you have much in common, used to be a dirtier performer and it just dropped away as he formed the persona he’s known for. What was the less-formed Brian Regan like onstage? Then, little by little, I started dropping the dirtier stuff for the stuff that entertained me more.

Source: thestar September 06, 2017 21:56 UTC