Shirtless to collars in ‘Free Bert’. Picture: Supplied Until stream scrolling for something to watch on Netflix, the name Bert Kresischer was not exactly a flashing neon sign saying, ‘funny ahead’. While the American comedian is not particularly well known in Mzansi, this show will make him a household name and place him alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Leon Schuster, David Kau, and Ricky Gervais.
Free Bertis a six-part, thirty-minute comedy series that is as funny as it is cringe. Bert plays, well, Bert, and he and his family move to Beverly Hills as his standup comedy career goes from strength to strength, But, of course, Bert is not exactly woke, clean-cut and sophisticated La La land material. Instead, he’s the comedian whose brand is all about booze, being shirtless, and a bit of chaos.
His family is not far behind. Aarden Myrin plays his wife, LeeAnne, who admits in an episode that the trailer she grew up in was about as big as the shoe closet of her Frenemy, surgeon’s wife Chantell Vanderthal (Mandell Maughan). Younger Ila, on the other hand, is as foul-mouthed as her dad and muscles through her days effortlessly.
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The setup is a recipe for hilarity, andFree Bertserves it up in American-size portions. From the moment that Bert performs at a Rob Lowe dinner party through to his disastrous T-Pain podcast interview, his attempts to fit in with the “boys club” of Beverly Hills through to how he transforms from a shirtless belly-guy through to a respectable golf-shirt-donning suburbanite; it’s all loaded with dark humour and a generous helping of cringe.
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