Matt Braunger: Big Dumb Animal

Matt Braunger is a man who’s willing to be the butt of the joke, even when he’s joking about how trying to keep up with his younger friends when they party is slowly killing him. He’s big, and he would seem to argue that, at times, he can be animalistic, but his stand-up special is too smart for him to be truly called “dumb.” Braunger would probably agree with that as well. Overall, he seems pretty agreeable and laid-back. Unless you cross him, at which point you may have to live in fear for the rest of your life.

There is nothing particularly inventive about Big Dumb Animal. Braunger stands on the stage and discusses his personal life while mixing in the occasional flight of fancy about gay people causing natural disasters and how fashionable the Nazis were. Most of his stories involve drugs and/or alcohol in some capacity. However, his stories on those well-worn topics are mostly funny, and Braunger is clear in vocalizing his opinions on these matters, even if his opinion tends to be that he has been an idiot.