Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem<\/a>. He promises a \u201cclean\u201d show free of what he calls \u201cthe noise.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019re not going to get upset, politically, in any way. You don\u2019t have to worry about that,\u201d Breuer says. \u201cLet\u2019s just get back to everything that makes humanity tick, and most of the time, it\u2019s our own personal lives. Technically, if you’re coming to the show, you’re paying for my therapy.”<\/p>\n
He later adds, \u201cWe have enough to worry about, with your mother getting Alzheimer\u2019s (Disease), with your nephew who now has a Down Syndrome kid, or this one\u2019s who\u2019s autistic, or how do we take care of our neighbor who\u2019s going through a divorce? When we start realizing none of that matters \u2014 who we vote for or how we identify ourselves \u2014 we get together a lot closer and have to find the funny. The funny\u2019s always the beginning of healing every situation; every humble situation we have, it begins with laughing at ourselves, to become humble and so that\u2019s a lot of what this tour is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Breuer recalls his own watershed moment in his search for the funny. It happened while he was attending high school on Long Island. Breuer says a friend of his asked him to play Noah in a Bible-themed sketch \u2014 but with a caveat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want you to play Noah but you have to imitate Eddie Murphy. I went, what? Because I\u2019d walk around the hallways nonstop, acting like Eddie Murphy caused I loved Eddie Murphy. He came out with \u2018Delirious\u2019 and it was \u2018Beverly Hills Cop.\u2019 Big Eddie Murphy fan,\u201d Breuer says. \u201cAnd I came out and I did Noah, but as Eddie Murphy and the place went berserk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Breuer says it was an overnight boom that changed how he was viewed by classmates. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t standup but this me gave me the, oh yeah, I can bring it. I can bring it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like his comedy idol, Breuer would also find his way to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where he spent three seasons as a cast member on \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d Although Goat Boy arguably became his most recognizable character, Breuer says his favorite was Gunnar Olsen, who delivered the news with a heavy-metal twist on \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really goofy. I did a stage dive at the end and the place went nutso, absolutely nutso,\u201d Breuer says. \u201cIf it had some breathing room, that guy would have been a monster.\u201d<\/p>\n
Breuer says he became addicted to what he calls \u201cthe chug\u201d after hearing Foreigner\u2019s \u201cJukebox Hero\u201d for the first time. \u201cI started waiting for more chug and then hard rock metal came and I\u2019m like, oh my god I found my promise land,\u201d Breuer says. \u201cI\u2019m pretty convinced in my past years I was a Viking or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While heavy-metal and hard rock are still part of his DNA, Breuer says his life is a lot quieter now.<\/p>\n
\u201cNative flute music is the top Spotify pick for Jim Breuer these days,\u201d Breuer says with a laugh. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to go back to AC\/DC a couple times. I even tried to go to Metallica a couple of times. I\u2019m just not here emotionally anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim Breuer performs Thursday night at the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show time is 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 There are many sides to Jim Breuer. For many fans, he\u2019s the heavy-metal loving, goat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,1681],"class_list":["post-185715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}