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Razzle Dazzle

Bert Kreischer

Netflix · 2023 · 62 min

A shirtless father of two gets bullied by his own family.

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Bert Kreischer walks out on stage, immediately sheds his shirt, and leans into his persona as a chaotic, hard-partying patriarch who has become the primary target of his own household’s mockery. The core of the hour relies on how his domestic life has caught up to his perpetual fraternity-brother reputation—best exemplified when his wife and daughters dub him “baby walrus” due to how he behaves when trying to dress up for public events. It is a set built on the realization that while he still tries to act like a wild animal, his family remains completely unimpressed.

Filmed at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, this 2023 release caught Kreischer at a high-water mark of commercial momentum, dropping just before his feature film The Machine hit theaters. The stories include his struggles with excessive body hair, his inability to explain his work to his kids, and a family escape room outing that ended in disaster. While some critics and viewers felt the storytelling was highly embellished and over-rehearsed, his core fan base embraced his signature physical commitment and willingness to serve as the butt of his own jokes.

The set list

6 bits

  1. Body hair grooming and accidental nudity in front of his kids

    Recounts graphically asking his wife to shave his butt hair and being caught by his daughters.

  2. Daughters bullying him with nicknames like 'Baby Walrus'

    Details self-deprecating anecdotes about his weight, lack of intellect, and daughters mocking him behind his back.

  3. Snow machine incident at a choir performance

    Humorous retelling of a chaotic mishap involving a snow machine during his daughter's choir show.

  4. School auction and buying spite raffle tickets

    Encourages his daughter to use 'Razzle Dazzle' at an auction and purchases 660 of 700 raffle tickets to spite other parents.

  5. Daughter's school dance and parental wokeness

    Critiques over-wokeness among Los Angeles parents when a teacher is reprimanded for pairing students boy-girl at a dance.

  6. Family birthday trip to an escape room

    Recounts a chaotic family outing where his father panics and throws his grandmother into a steamer trunk.

How it plays

Tone
Crude, raunchy, irreverent, and self-deprecating.
On stage
Shirtless, bare-chested party animal with boisterous audacity, leaning into self-deprecating, crude humor.
Pace
High and vibrant energy, opening with a dramatic move where he rips off his shirt.
About
bodily emissions, parenting and family life, being bullied by his daughters, body hair and physical appearance

What the critics said

Critics viewed the hour as a boisterous, fun showcase of Kreischer's charismatic, crude family storytelling, though noting his reliance on familiar party-animal tropes and raunchy premises.

In the room: Thunderous applause and high laughter from a receptive crowd at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha.

Summed up from reviews, articles and listings. Sources: bbfc.co.uk, jaxmedia.com, imdb.com, decider.com, readysteadycut.com, rottentomatoes.com, letterboxd.com, hollywoodreporter.com.

Backstory

Kreischer began writing the material in January 2020 prior to the pandemic, adjusting his jokes as his teenage daughters matured, with Georgia heading to college and Ila starting to drive.

Details

Released
Taped
Orpheum Theatre, Omaha
Runtime
62 min
Where
Netflix
Director
Jeff Tomsic
Topics
Before
Hey Big Boy (2020)
After
Lucky (2025)

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