{"id":2454228,"date":"2020-02-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=320434"},"modified":"2020-02-06T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:00:00","slug":"brian-regan-preps-for-new-netflix-stand-up-special-with-aspen-tour-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/brian-regan-preps-for-new-netflix-stand-up-special-with-aspen-tour-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Regan preps for new Netflix stand-up special with Aspen tour stop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comedian Brian Regan photographed at the NY Comedy Festival Event “Stand Up for Heroes” in 2007 at Town Hall in New York.<\/strong>
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After some four decades of doing stand-up, Brian Regan got hot.<\/p>\n

The veteran road comic \u2014 once dubbed \u201cyour favorite comic\u2019s favorite comic\u201d by Entertainment Weekly \u2014 spent years performing clean comedy on a \u201cnever-ending tour,\u201d doing Letterman regularly and growing a national fan base. But in just the past few years, Regan, 61, has hit show business milestones including signing a two-special deal with Netflix, making a Jerry Seinfeld-produced sketch show, and acting in the Oscar winner and \u201cDumb and Dumber\u201d creator Peter Farrelly\u2019s new series \u201cLoudermilk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regan doesn\u2019t swear on stage, he doesn\u2019t generally do topical or political humor. His genius is in mining comic gems from everyday observations with a goofy and self-deprecating charm, aided by a gift for a funny face and voice here and there. He doesn\u2019t chase trends, he doesn\u2019t try to fit into the styles of the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized a long time ago that I need to do what I like and hope that there will be people in the audience who like what I like,\u201d Regan said Wednesday from a tour stop in Casper, Wyoming. \u201cBut I\u2019m not trying to figure out where I fit in or what people are looking for or what people want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regan will headline Belly Up Aspen on Monday night, capping a five-date Colorado run that includes shows in Colorado Springs (Feb. 6), Denver (Feb. 7 and 8) and Beaver Creek (Feb. 9).<\/p>\n

Regan\u2019s show is presented by the Aspen Laugh Festival, the latest in a long line of annual Aspen stand-up festivals that stretches back to 1989 and the Aspen Comedy Festival, first broadcast by Showtime. Regan was here nearly from the beginning. He performed at the second annual Aspen Comedy Festival<\/a> in 1990, hosted by his friend and longtime champion Jerry Seinfeld (on Regan\u2019s recent episode of Seinfeld\u2019s \u201cComedians in Cars Getting Coffee,\u201d the pair tool around in a Cadillac, visit a golf shop and discuss young comics, comedy critics, psychiatrist doodles, left-handed spoons and the true oddness of why Marilyn Monroe\u2019s skirt blowing in the subway air in \u201cSome Like It Hot\u201d is considered so sexy).<\/p>\n

His best memory of that Aspen tour stop is skiing nearly deserted trails on Super Bowl Sunday: \u201cSki on Super Bowl Sunday and you have the whole mountain to yourself,\u201d he advised. \u201cIt was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regan is playing Colorado while fine-tuning material for a new hour-long special for Netflix, which he\u2019s planning to tape this spring and which is expected to begin streaming later this fall. It\u2019s his second for the streaming giant.<\/p>\n

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He is bringing material that sticks to his signature observational style, looking at family life and personal foibles (he\u2019s currently working on a bit about his OCD).<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to find peculiar stuff within those worlds,\u201d he said. \u201cBuckle up! I have jokes about food so that can get bumpy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, comedy is actually bumpier than ever in the bitterly divided Trump Era and new and more complex battle lines are drawn daily in the culture wars.<\/p>\n

Regan generally steers clear of politics and has never been one to seek controversy on-stage, though in his 2017 special \u201cNanchucks and Flamethrowers\u201d he did briefly refer to the newly inaugurated president and some of the political furor surrounding him.<\/p>\n

He began that nimble section of the show with a laugh-line of an admission: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever been more afraid to bring up a subject in my life,\u201d before going into absurd bits about using literal \u201cboots on the ground\u201d as a weapon in the Middle East and about Kim Jong Un\u2019s sarcasm ban.<\/p>\n

Regan said he \u201cput his big toe in that water\u201d again in the new material he\u2019s currently touring, but his is a political comedy that isn\u2019t out to pick any fights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to do the kinds of jokes that both sides can laugh at,\u201d Regan said. \u201cBoth sides might even think I\u2019m on their side. \u2026 The kind of comedy I want to do is the stuff where it doesn\u2019t matter what side you\u2019re on, you can have a good time. I don\u2019t want somebody in my audience saying, \u2018Man, I wish I didn\u2019t come here tonight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with his specials, Regan made the inventive four-part series \u201cStand Up and Away\u201d for Netflix in late 2018. A hybrid stand-up and sketch comedy show, it takes Regan\u2019s on-stage bits \u2014 many of them classics from his road act over the years \u2014 and translates them into sketches, with the comic also bantering with his audience and a producer. On the show a bit about astronaut bragging rights jumps to Regan in a sketch as an overcompensating Apollo mission member and one about food hops to a faux commercial for a \u201clap grill\u201d that allows you to cook Foreman-style while you drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was interesting to see what sketches went with what stand-up routines,\u201d he said. \u201cI enjoy both of those worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netflix only ordered four episodes of \u201cStand Up and Away,\u201d so he won\u2019t be making more for them. But Regan said he is now shopping the concept to other broadcasters: \u201cI\u2019d love to do that show exactly or something similar on a different platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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