Jen Brister | The Optimist (Full Comedy Special)

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[@debbythomas5579]

Loved this show! Absolutely hilarious and really relatable for me.

[@MonkeyboysToys]

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]

And thank you for making me smile with my ass

[@lastgentleman8099]

What an absolute gem this is!

[@TommyCambron95]

Never heard of this lady but she is HILARIOUS.her inner thoughts bit reminds me of Kirson

[@SoulReaver753]

Jen is great, seen her live a few times

[@Jazzy.girl.Sarah2023]

Love the bit about clapping for the NHS. Top notch, Jen!😅😅😅

[@stewarthodgins6020]

One of the best tours of last year for me. The kids with walkie talkies section is legendary.

[@sparkynurse12]

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

[@brainbrain542]

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]

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!

[@connectionista]

Same here! But so appropriate and still funny

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

"Give me that, you spoon!" might be the funniest thing ever said to a child. I will be using it lberally from now on.

[@charitygoldart]

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. 😂

[@joelbrown3479]

Give-a-fuck optometer... does NOT FLICKER PRICELESS 👏👏👏👏👏👏 😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@MW-ch4ii]

Rollercoaster of emotions! This is how you do the best stand-up, over.

[@brainbrain542]

Love the Spanish accent. She’s great !!

[@shellebigmama9051]

First time lurker here. You are one funny lady. Thanks for giving me some good chuckles tonight.

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

Absolutely Fabulous!

[@ErinGeange-cv7sv]

Omg just hilarious very talented comedian 😂

[@jaaberhallo2565]

OMG. I love her. I laughed so hard. I felt every minute of her telling lockdown with the children. Thank you.

[@liberate72000]

I couldn’t stop laughing! She’s hilarious!

[@janicecass2713]

Love her to bits. You can tell she misses her mum. That was sad. xXx

[@Ana-MariaSiegert]

She is absolutely fantastic!

[@emiliabeckers]

Absolutely hilarious!

[@garbonsai]

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.

[@Jazzy.girl.Sarah2023]

The chin hair bit lolol😅😅😅😅😅

[@deecohen1383]

The Gwyneth bit….PERFECTION…! PURE GENIOUS!

[@Jazzy.girl.Sarah2023]

Love Jen!!!! Brilliant!

[@RuthCrilly]

This was absolutely top notch.

[@rawdaaljawhary4174]

I love Jen Brister! 😂😂😂

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

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.

[@simracingcockpit]

Loved it! 🙏🙏🙏

[@deoge3278]

Love Jen...learned about her from episodes of the Apollo from Britain

[@helenagackowska8398]

"Some dust" "dane bowers" im crying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sb-b3071]

Absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

[@charlisky7531]

Love love love Jen Brister ❤

[@AmeenahAsante]

She’s really funny 😂 Loved it 🏳️‍🌈

[@juliashunda5037]

Thank you I loved it!

[@andyskywalker1979]

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. 🤣

[@canyeseemenoo]

😂 great set 👏🏼 too many favourite bits to mention

[@GibranJabbour]

Pure artistry! I am so thoroughly impressed. Thank you. Cerebral foreplay with so much nuance and grit. I am genuinely grateful and enriched. Humanity, ladies and gentlemen. We have arrived. Be well.

[@bluedragon1200]

I would love to see her live show. This was hilarious! 😂

[@edwinaflannery9828]

Shes amazing 😂

[@connectionista]

Triumphant! A real tour de force!!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@SG-nb6wb]

She is a genius! Amazing!

[@jojoba11]

The NHS clapping was so hilarious - Fawlty Towers Basil sort of hilarious 😂

[@howmuchdidyoupay]

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

[@menosproblemos6993]

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]

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.

[@notmedicgoddess911]

❤🙏

[@notmedicgoddess911]

​@@brainbrain542 ❤🙏

[@GibranJabbour]

Always enjoy both her comedy and lovely eye candy, but I'm typing before even halfway through the set and she busts out with an interpretation of American posters as a spot on Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women and I'm dying in laughter and so thoroughly impressed with the skill and intillect and creativity to conceptualize and execute so effectively. I applaud, I applaud!

[@yasemin-yasi2000]

Brilliant set.

[@chiara7886]

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!

[@wallissmithson2098]

I had the best lock down ever, clean air, friends called every day, we spoke thro the window, i didn't have to hoover up, allotments were well tended, i got a smart phone, discovered u tube. Happy days.

[@ShannyFMinstereo]

Nice one lol 😂

[@walterclayton45]

Amazing stand up!!!

[@FrederickJDavies]

Oooh can't wait!! Made it back just in time....🎉

[@anafernandezsaiz]

Cannot stop laughing😂

[@elaineporiazis9931]

You are fucking hysterical. I absolutely loved every single second of this show. You carry on being YOU. Love you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Elena0210]

Thank you! ❤❤❤

[@criedel1000]

You are so hilarious. Love watching you. Come to the US! We need more fucking hysterical middle aged lesbians!

[@patch3002]

that was phenomenal

[@louise3728]

Fantastic set. Love the spanish accent too 🙌

[@N.Jersey]

Very funny

[@stevenlerner5515]

amazing set

[@B1gstar14]

Camping? She's right, it's pants!

[@mariestack920]

She's funny because it's true 😂😂😂

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

40:57 “don’t vote conservative” Excellent advice!

[@eyebrowman1]

She's quality.

[@miprimerachamba.s]

Everything is gonna be alright ❤

[@jaydaniels6172]

She's 48! She looks 10 years younger than that!

[@leenb.7936]

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

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

...or "devolvarant". OOH! Or "Floop Goop"!

[@loucarm9656]

Jen reminds me of the comedian Andrews Lawrence - think it's the eyes

[@redrobins731]

This woman is almost 50?? She looks 37!!

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

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.

[@JD-dh7bk]

Fellow Jen here, also 48. I can't stand Gwyneth Paltrow either. So annoying. You are amazing. 😂❤

[@memphismilano1415]

💜💜💜

[@harryturner8701]

She is looking very fucking good for 48

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

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...

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

I would expect the "Post O Glow" to not be a makeup as much as a scrub.

[@tamarrotem8589]

i wish u come to amsterdam the best one

[@eyebrowman1]

Amazing and a real talent in a a sea of mediocrity.

[@MartinMcKenna-i2j]

Can I laugh yet.

[@lalah9481]

✨💖✨🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✨

[@lydiaquayle3574]

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.

[@user-tc5pl3zw3h]

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.

[@hannahwootton6491]

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

[@markjustesenwildesthubcaps1565]

0:33 Optimized

[@BoDiddlee]

🫣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..

[@markjustesenwildesthubcaps1565]

1:11:33 It’s American Pop

[@Inga-nb7gt]

Do they pay extra when you push their agenda?

[@Isaacize]

So you and Kerry Godliman same joke same style what’s going on here then? 😂😂

[@NeilTremblay-rg7hk]

LIberal lesbian.

[@scarypumpkin5716]

But you are super pretty!! You don't need your 20 year old face imo

[@jenniferbaurn8240]

This was so PAINFUL to sit through.

[@2wirrallads]

what an awful performance. we cringed for 15 minutes and switched it off

[@craighudson7294]

She was funny until she did the usual boring predictable politics crap.

[@chillmegachill]

holy moly this is boring

[@Papakoolaid]

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]

No one cares.

[@JD-dh7bk]

No one needed your criticism.

[@grammartrot1917]

Cheers Terrence we were all desperately awaiting your review xx

[@french.toastman]

Dude, we get it. You like Skrillex.

[@sarahsue42]

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

[@rasdenniso.alvarez4448]

Couldn't go past 51 secs. This is garbage.

[@yoxat1]

Boring

[@benwoodard6851]

Which part was funny?