Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life

Loved him in shrinking, He can play pure emotion and sadness. Loved him in Ted Lasso as Toy Kent. He's funny angry but thoughtful. All that and comedy stand up. He's brilliant! I would love to see more acting from him. He's already shown a wide range. He'd be scary in a thriller. Can't you see him menacing someone or perhaps an entire city with those world class caterpillars he sports for eyebrow? He's the whole package. Give him a break all you haters on his first comedy special. It's not like he wrote it all. He has a bright brilliant future and I for one look forward to seeing more of anything from him.

Brett Goldstein is definitely better suited to playing the moody handsome guy in comedies like Ted Lasso. Whilst his stand up wasn't awful, I laughed out loud in a few places, most of the jokes were "I'm British and America is strange, please laugh with me". He also did a few self deprecating jokes and briefly talked about his time on Ted Lasso. Then there was a strange bit at the end with some puppets that made absolutely zero sense other than he had a brief story about his time on Sesame Street.

So, if you're into that you'll enjoy it, just don't expect to be crying with laughter the whole time.

The genius of this special is that it seems like he has not been at this a long time, so you let your guard down ... The, BOOM! A vicious rib-hit of comedy! History will hopefully remember this as a great special. I mean, dude had imaginary friend puppets as a callback to his best day of his life, reminding you of a tight act. Bravo! I loved it and I was entertained as could be! I realize that perhaps I'm just a simple guy, but I've seen great standup and loved it. I know bad standup. This is so refreshing - yes, refreshing! The puppets got me. I also want to look up his mom! Superb special by HBO! I'll pay for more.

Zzzzzz is it over yet ???? I really wanted to laugh and was just waiting for something funny but it just never came though out the whole show, I mean it sounded like he was just talking about his own life experiences and don' t know who would find this funny maybe the Americans do but felt most of those laughs we're out of pity really (Ahhh look at the cute British guy trying to be funny !) Even his punch lines were miss timed and the jokes were long forgotten by the time they came. I don't know who wrote his material but I would have actually been embarrassed to repeat it in front of a live audience.

Brett Goldstein is an engaging, handsome and charismatic performer. This special had good pacing and some good jokes. If you like stand up, you'll find things to like in this stand up special. Overall I was amused and laughed out loud twice.

I cannot score higher because the delivery of the jokes felt really awkward. Typically comics act as if they are telling the audience the jokes organically and naturally. This performance felt like a dress rehearsal that perhaps should not have been filmed. I don't know if this is his style or if he was just nervous. I did find this element to be distracting.