Jen Brister | The Optimist (Full Comedy Special)
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If middle age has taught Jen Brister anything, it’s that optimism does not come naturally to her. In fact it’s fair to say that her cup is very much half empty and she’s making no attempt to fill it. Can Jen work against her natural instincts and finally see the light? Or will she stay the same old pessimistic naysayer she’s always been. I mean, I think we know the answer to that, but let’s try and be optimistic.
“No one does furious better than Brister” The Guardian
“A phenomenal display of sinewy stand up” Chortle
“Her energy is explosive. Her use of space and delivery, mesmerising"" The Sunday Times"
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Written and Performed by Jen Brister
Executive Producers: Ian Adkins, Ryan Bitzer, Damion Greiman, Anthony Leo
Producer: Laura Rouxel
Director: Stuart Laws
Directed for the Stage by Rachel Stubbings
Director of Photography: Anton McCrae
Editor: Alastair Clayton
Camera Operators: Clare Frances, Kash Khan, Tuğçe Özbiçer, Matt Riley
Camera Technician: Paul Hellard
Sound Recordist: Matthew Talks
Production Assistants: Natalia Gajowniczek, Jacob Quinn
UK Production Services: Turtle Canyon Media
Special Thanks: Hollie Ebdon
Artist Representation: Hollie Ebdon at Ebdon Management
Special Thanks: Hollie Ebdon and my support acts on tour, Chris Cantrill, Ingrid Dahle, Katie Mulgrew, Allyson June Smith, Maureen Younger
Пікірлер: 107
Never heard of this lady but she is HILARIOUS.her inner thoughts bit reminds me of Kirson
@SoulReaver753
2 ай бұрын
Jen is great, seen her live a few times
Loved this show! Absolutely hilarious and really relatable for me.
So glad this came up in my feed! What a brilliant set this was, hugely enjoyable and thorougly hilarious. This goes straight to the top of the pile. What a talented comedian you are Jen, thank you for making me smile so very hard with my face. I look forward to seeing much more of you in the future. Absolutely first class 🙏😎😂😂
@JohnSmith-tz4on
6 ай бұрын
And thank you for making me smile with my ass
I couldn’t stop laughing! She’s hilarious!
Amazing closing bit. Wow. Don’t know that I’ve seen something that strong before. I felt she was feeling it emotionally and deeply also. Weird bec I teared up (wet eyes) after that.
@charitygoldart
6 ай бұрын
It was a great closing wasn’t it? I saw this live in Norwich & she actually did tear up when talking about her mum. She said “it’s obvious that I’m upset, and that’s ok.” Nothing weird about empathising with this!
What an absolute gem this is!
I love Jen Brister! 😂😂😂
Give-a-fuck optometer... does NOT FLICKER PRICELESS 👏👏👏👏👏👏 😎😎😎😎😎😎
I love Jen Brister; I have seen her a few times and found every show hilarious. This show is a real winner for me. I laughed from beginning to end. I wish she were on our screens more. She’d be hilarious on Taskmaster
Love the bit about clapping for the NHS. Top notch, Jen!😅😅😅
One of the best tours of last year for me. The kids with walkie talkies section is legendary.
First time lurker here. You are one funny lady. Thanks for giving me some good chuckles tonight.
Love her to bits. You can tell she misses her mum. That was sad. xXx
Rollercoaster of emotions! This is how you do the best stand-up, over.
Love the Spanish accent. She’s great !!
The chin hair bit lolol😅😅😅😅😅
Amazing show. I rarely watch things twice, but I enjoyed this massively watching it again after seeing it live last year. Jen’s just fabulous and in my next life, I’m hoping I get to marry her, lol. 😂
Loved it! 🙏🙏🙏
Omg just hilarious very talented comedian 😂
This was absolutely top notch.
"Give me that, you spoon!" might be the funniest thing ever said to a child. I will be using it lberally from now on.
Absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂
Absolutely hilarious!
Love Jen...learned about her from episodes of the Apollo from Britain
The Gwyneth bit….PERFECTION…! PURE GENIOUS!
My 20's were a roar, my 30's were a blur My 40's, I'm not so sure, but I'mma make 'em purr
She's funny because it's true 😂😂😂
😂 great set 👏🏼 too many favourite bits to mention
Thank you I loved it!
What helps with my grief is the realization that the more it hurts the more love I've had in my life. Turns from bitter to kinda bittersweet.
@brainbrain542
7 ай бұрын
I like what you wrote. I’m still trying to figure out the depth of it though. I felt she was really feeling the loss of her mother at the end and now I’ve totally lost it sobbing after what you wrote.
The NHS clapping was so hilarious - Fawlty Towers Basil sort of hilarious 😂
Love Jen!!!! Brilliant!
It’s been ages since I have had the patience to watch an entire stand up show. This was just fabulous. I am a 47 year old married man with no kids. I suddenly feel like my wife and me need to befriend some 40+ lesbian women. Life would be much more hilarious. 🤣
Absolutely Fabulous!
Brilliant set.
I would love to see her live show. This was hilarious! 😂
Genuinely surprised this special isn’t getting more traction.Your stage presence and commitment to a bit is phenomenal, and your comedy is insightful and relatable. Keep up the good work, and fuck the dudes who bailed after 50 seconds because they have the attention span of a goldfish.
Amazing stand up!!!
that was phenomenal
We don't come to comedy for optimism. We come to comedy to acknowledge real life and take the piss out of it. If comedians aren't honest about our circumstances and successfully desensitize us to their gravity, we remain utterly depressed and unable to cope. Laughter truly is the best medicine. And Jen Brewster is pharma-grade funny. Plus a wet T shirt isn't a disappointment.
She’s really funny 😂 Loved it 🏳️🌈
She's 48! She looks 10 years younger than that!
Oooh can't wait!! Made it back just in time....🎉
Cannot stop laughing😂
Yes!! Awesome Jen!!❤ Damn, I wasn't expecting the Spanish mom part.. such a great surprise! It was genius and it touched my heart ❤ Also just wanna say.. Please don't listen to these people, you don't need to justify yourself and your work Keep being the great comedian you are!! (As you are doing:) ) Honestly this thing about people complaining to comedians is so infuriating They are COMEDIANS! Of course they love THEIR children and THAT is what gives them the the right to JOKE ABOUT THEM! fuck's sake! This is also what happened to Romesh Ranganathan who said the same thing as Jen and it's pretty obvious from his special that he restrained from doing his usual jokes and he felt like justifying himself.. and that's so unfair and a bloody shame! Thanks for your brilliant art and thank you for the (thought provoking) laughs!! We need them!
She is looking very fucking good for 48
40:57 “don’t vote conservative” Excellent advice!
Very funny
This woman is hilarious. A shame her yelling a lot of the time but not all the time started to unnerve me and my particular hearing loss and sensitivity. Couldn’t enjoy all of it because of that but still gave a like because she is hilarious without all that nerve wracking energy getting in the way of my enjoyment with my personal particular hearing problems and sound triggering ptsd. Hope to get back to her comedy one day so of course, had to like and comment lol
You are fucking hysterical. I absolutely loved every single second of this show. You carry on being YOU. Love you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Everything is gonna be alright ❤
She's quality.
You are so hilarious. Love watching you. Come to the US! We need more fucking hysterical middle aged lesbians!
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Jen reminds me of the comedian Andrews Lawrence - think it's the eyes
Can I laugh yet.
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...or "devolvarant". OOH! Or "Floop Goop"!
Fellow Jen here, also 48. I can't stand Gwyneth Paltrow either. So annoying. You are amazing. 😂❤
I always thought Gweneth Paltro's "Goop" magazine should be called "Floop", since the candle. Incidentally, I sniffed the candle once. If her mommy parts smell like the perfume in that candle, she needs a qualified medical professional to do some investigation. There's a problem.
This woman is almost 50?? She looks 37!!
I would expect the "Post O Glow" to not be a makeup as much as a scrub.
The only thing worse than lying to very young children is telling them the truth about everything. "No, there is no such thing as Santa. He was a cleric in the dark ages who did great work for poor children. He's dead now. Night night!" "No, mom and I were not wrestling when you walked in without knocking last night." "Yes, there are endless things to fear in the dark. Sleep tight, muffin." "Yes, Daddy is blind, but I can still see everything YOU do wrong. Go and sin no more." OK, that last one may have been a lie, but nobody's perfect, and every parent needs their own lore. 55 years later, mine is still in effect, and almost a religious belief with both of our kids. I am legend. But after 20 years of therapy for both of them, now they've decided to just lie to young kids no matter what, and no matter whose kids they are. My daughter is a craftsman with fiction. She told a stranger's kid just the other day, in queue at Target that SHE is the tooth fairy, and she was going to get ALL of the kid's teeth tonight. I blame myself, really...
As I was wiping my five year old-who's-about-to-start-school-and refuses-to-understand-that-teachers-won't-do-this-for-him's bum just now, and listened to him yet again ask if I could smell that and did I like it..I reflected that every single person who has ever criticised a single word you've had to say about your kids in a comedy routine, is a prick.
Amazing and a real talent in a a sea of mediocrity.
I'm 26 and i get a mustacho and some little hairy chin bits so when im 45 ill probs have the full beard im getting old before my time i think
0:33 Optimized
I'd like to suggest some other hobbies I've heard many middle-aged women doing beyond the three Jen minetioned. Piano forte, guitar, learning Mandarin Chinese, making one's own uniquely-scented candles, bridge, literature ("The Knobbit", for example), or hot yoga.
1:11:33 It’s American Pop
🫣I've seen her before.. And loved her.. Dunno what all the unnecessary screaming was about for first 10mins.. Made the set unwatchable for me but glad people enjoyed her..
Do they pay extra when you push their agenda?
LIberal lesbian.
So you and Kerry Godliman same joke same style what’s going on here then? 😂😂
But you are super pretty!! You don't need your 20 year old face imo
This was so PAINFUL to sit through.
Don't be a keyboard warrior says Jen the keyboard warrior This was moderately funny and i LOLed a couple of times but the head banging/repetition is really not as amusing as she thinks it is
11:29 US accent needs work. Never heard from a region/identity class mix that sounds like that. You’ve got both white and black women combined. Best I can decompose is a mix from Nashville to Georgia white woman, churchy suburban Texas, and bits of midwestern black woman and British. 11:29
@charitygoldart
6 ай бұрын
Yeah because Americans are SO good at doing foreign accents themselves that they really deserve a perfect rendition of their own. 🙄 Every American I’ve ever heard attempt British sounds like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Anyway, it’s a comedy show, not a serious dramatic acting performance. Also I’m guessing you meant ‘decipher’ & not ‘decompose’… that was awkward for you.
what an awful performance. we cringed for 15 minutes and switched it off
She was funny until she did the usual boring predictable politics crap.
She looks like a transitioning Mike Feeney
18:33 sorry, but you teach kids by showing utility, coolness, power first then mathematical details. 18:33 Either don’t believe or this is under rubrivk of shitty parent remark which would help joke if reiterated.
Which part was funny?
holy moly this is boring
Too few punchlines and too much yelling.. felt like an awful attempt at def jam. Gave it a shot this special just wasn’t for me
@pmtrout
7 ай бұрын
No one cares.
@JD-dh7bk
6 ай бұрын
No one needed your criticism.
@grammartrot1917
6 ай бұрын
Cheers Terrence we were all desperately awaiting your review xx
@french.toastman
6 ай бұрын
Dude, we get it. You like Skrillex.
Boring
Not offended but you definitely are not good.
Couldn't go past 51 secs. This is garbage.
not the best parenting in my opinion...
Do they pay extra when you push their agenda?