Brian Regan - Profile

• Regan grew up in Miami, Florida.
• He began doing stand-up comedy in the early 1980s.
• In 1988, Regan won $10,000 in the "Funniest Person in New York" contest held by the radio station K-ROCK.
• He released his first stand-up album, Brian Regan Live, in 1996.
• In 2007, Regan signed a deal with Comedy Central to produce two stand-up specials, release the DVDs, develop a series and headline a tour.

Ft. Lauderdale. He would perform regularly at the club, working out his material and delivery over the next five years. In 1986, Regan was ready to pursue stand-up on the East Coast and moved to New York City. In just two years, Regan made a name for himself and became a star of the New York scene, winning K-Rock Radio's "Funniest Person in New York" contest in 1988.

Regan continued to grow in popularity as he toured the country throughout the rest of the '80s. By the early '90s, Regan began making television appearances on late-night talk shows and starred in two Showtime stand-up specials.

In 1995, Regan won the American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic; one year later in 1996, he won the award again. In 1997, he released his first stand-up album, Brian Regan Live, which to date has sold over 150,000 copies. In 2000, he taped his own Comedy Central Presents special, which continues to air in regular rotation years later. In 2004, Regan put out his own stand-up DVD, I Walked on the Moon, recorded live at the Irvine Improv.

By 2005, Regan was performing 40-city tours; by 2006, it had expanded to 70 cities. He also moved from performing in clubs to performing to larger audiences in theaters.

In 2007, Regan signed a unique deal with Comedy Central to record to hour-long stand-up specials to air on the channel with a subsequent DVD release. The deal also included a show development with Regan and a stand-up theater tour, "Brian Regan in Concert: A Comedy Central Live Event," which ran from 2007 to 2008. His first Comedy Central special, Brian Regan: Standing Up, debuted in June of 2007. His second, The Epitome of Hyperbole, premiered in September of 2008. Both are available on DVD.

• Regan first appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1991.
• He made his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995 and has returned to the show at least once a year ever since.
• Regan is a regular guest on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show.
• Regan's brother, Dennis, used to sometimes perform comedy with Brian and was a writer on The King of Queens.