Bert Kreischer: Razzle Dazzle

One of the best stand up performances I've watched in a while. Nothing against Chris Rock's new special, but I thought this was way better.

The show revolves around funny things that happens in his family life. I wouldn't recommend this to people that are offended by off color humor. Although I wouldn't recommend comedy in general to people that are easily offended.

Anybody that enjoys Burt Kreischer on podcasts will be thoroughly entertained. IMO Burt is starting to approach Bill Burr and Eddie Murphy territory as an all time great. He has a little ways to go yet, but the dude is killing it and deserves the shine.

I've enjoyed some of his older stand up specials but this sadly felt like the worst of his work to date.

His punchlines barely got a chuckle out of me at best and there's a lot of reusing his old tropes. As an example, I don't get why there is a a slow-mo of him bursting out of his shirt and why being shirtless has become his 'thing' because while it might have some value the first time, I just don't find it funny the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time.

I felt his stories left me puzzled in this special, which is a shame because his most famous 'the machine' story is so well polished and funny. These jokes fell flat because I constantly was finding myself questioning the believability of his stories and that he is simply trying to make them as crude as possible because that's what he thinks the audience wants (and if it works well more power to him, it's just not for me).

I was expecting an overworked special since everyone has had to wait 3 years to put out new stuff.

Yes there are his "clichés", or is "Bertisms" but it's well constructed and funny.

I know he is 50 and a comedian for a long time but what angers me about Bert is that deep down he has what it takes to became a worldwide famous comedian, an household name, and even though he is extremelly famoun in the US, he falls short in the rest of the world due to playing too much into his "frat boy" personna.

That's his identity, sure. But he should grow with it and the humour is still "I drink, my wife's a redneck, my kids are dumb"

Overall it's still a pretty funny special that very much exceeded my expectations, well done Bart!

Bert Kreischer is easily at the top of the index of least funny people relative to their fame. I don't want to say I despise Bert, because he seems genuine in a lot of ways outside of standup comedy, but this special is pretty terrible. My prejudices aside Bert against, Razzle Dazzle really feels like Bert phoned it in, reusing old jokes and harping on overexaggerated mediocrity of family story time. Normally I can stomach one of Bert's specials if I am pretty bored, but this was on another level that I could not finish it. Bert has done himself no favors if he believes this special while serve as pasturage for growing new fans. This special is a hard pass for me on a recommendation.

I hate to give this such a poor review because I'm genuinely a fan of Bert's. To me it this special was lots of recycled stories that were maybe a bit better polished. Only two jokes I hadn't heard before.

The first 1/3rd of the special Bert talked so fast and was out of breath, seemed nervous, he eventually settles in to a rhythm.

I've been following Bert since before his Travel Channel days, I have to say his comedy has suffered in recent years in the sense that I think his creativity is spread too thin, between podcasting and film projects.

Also when a person is in the public eye as much as Bert it's not as much of a "treat" to hear stories from the podcasts or his stand up 2 years ago. Too much exposure is a real thing.

I hate to use this example but look at Dave Chappelle, you don't see him but maybe once every month or two and it's exciting because he's having experiences and people want to hear about what he's been up to.

People know what Bert had for lunch last Saturday and how many drinks he had, he needs less exposure to be better at stand up.