Brian Regan
Brian Regan’s rise to fame came slowly. He spent the aspiring stand-up’s mandatory time doing cramped clubs and small festivals across the country until breaking through big-time in the mid-1990s. Over the past five years or so, Regan’s star has continued to rise, selling out theater tours — since 2005 he’s visited about 80 cities a year — releasing a pair of Comedy Central DVDs, raising a family, appearing on numerous late-night TV shows — all while doing what he loves: coming up with “goofy things.”
For his second interview with Atlantic City Weekly — he spoke to us right before the first of his four Borgata appearances back in 2006 — Regan called from Las Vegas, right before a five-night stint in Salt Lake City. Look for the full interview in this week's issue.
Do you have any interest in doing movies or television?
Well, I was on a Web page last night because I was curious as to who had won the most Academy Awards in their career. Do you know who the answer is? I’m talking about an actor or an actress. [Starts singing Jeopardy! theme song.] We’re gonna have this interview me quizzing you like Jeopardy! You got four more questions after this! Then we go into the bonus round.
I’m drawing a blank. Can you give me the initials?
K.H.
Katharine Hepburn?
There you go. She has four. Then there are three people who have three. And there is a whole bunch who have won two. So that’s my new goal. I want to win five Academy Awards. And the first thing I have to do is to pass an audition. [Laughs] So once I get that out of the way then I’m going to go for five Academy Awards.
But seriously, would you have any interest in a sit-com or anything?
I would have an interest in that, yeah. It isn’t like a burning something like I have to do it, but yeah. I mean, I like doing stand-up and this is what I always want to do, but I would take a little break here or there to do something that was— if it was a TV show I’d want it to be about my comedy, but if it was a movie, man, if I could just get a tiny, little role or something like that? Yeah, that would be fun. I’ve never done anything like that [and] I’d be open to that. That would be cool.
Yeah, TV could use someone like you in relation to a new sit-com in my opinion.
I appreciate that. You know, but that would have to be about [my comedy.] You know, Jerry Seinfeld got very fortunate — Well, fortunate? He probably demanded that [Seinfeld] be about his comedy and that he have creative control. So if I did something like that I’d want it to be about my comedy and not about me just being some lead in a sit-com or something.
Brian Regan performs at the Borgata this Saturday, March 20, at 8pm.
'Usually people know that they will have that opportunity at the end of the show to yell out a thing or two. I don’t like to do it in the main body of my show because I feel like I have the right to say things I’ve thought of without people shooting at my feet like I’m in a saloon.'
A particularly sought-after stand-up comedian on the collegiate circuit, Steve Hofstetter brings his unique slant on social commentary to Richard Stockton College of New Jersey’s Lodge at Lakeside student center on Monday, March 28, starting 7pm. Tickets are $10 in advance.
Sevendust, the heavy-metal band from Atlanta, will be hitting Atlantic City with Disturbed, Korn and In This Moment for the Monster Energy Music as a Weapon Tour on Sunday, Jan. 30, at the House of Blues at Showboat. Founded in 1994, Sevendust released its eighth studio album, Cold Day Memory last April.
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