Bert is in a tough spot. He's always been immature and never really grew out of the frat boy phase. This has allowed him to become rich and famous, but at the same time if you don't mature a little bit and accept that you have to slow down as you get older you won't end up getting older. I hope he realizes that if he slows down he can still maintain his fame and success.

Steve-O cackling at Bert for saying "I'm not an alcoholic." says it all 😂

“There’s addicts and partiers. The partiers stop when the party’s over” Bert, the party stopped 30 years ago

The fact I was able to realize how deep into alcoholism I was at 26 versus Berts delusion still at the age of 51 is baffling. Addiction is an absolute monster.

It’s shocking how long Bert has been doing stand up. I don’t think I could ever do something that long and still not be good at it.

“That’s alcoholism, man” Theo is that buddy every single man should have, but only some of us get.

My dad died a month ago and Bert talking about enjoying ''Sneaky drink, whilst the wife is with the kids'' is literally word for word what alcoholism addiction is. I done seen it. Bert needs help.

Ari is a genuine sociopath. Bert is the nerd in high school who lets the football team haze him cause they told him it’d make him cool. Hope his kids do better.

Dude... Insulting my daughter like that will probably send you to the hospital unless you're a goddamn wordsmith.

bert internalized "being a crippling alcoholic is cool" at a young age and has just rode that wave

Saying you don't need to drink but then setting a time limit until you can finally drink again, and then celebrating your "sobriety" by getting shit faced drunk is peak alcoholism.

I'm an alcoholic and I've been sober for 7 years now. Now, I can't imagine why I ever thought I enjoyed being drunk. I've come to realize that I didn't. I had just gotten divorced and was living with my grandparents with only a small bedroom to myself. At the time, it was escape or kill myself. Bert is my favorite comedian and even just going by his stories on stage, I think he rationalizes it like all addicts do. The reality is he will probably never quit because his wealth will mean he never has to hit rock bottom mentally. A lot of the time, it takes losing everything to make someone work to get it back.

"I thought I did great" "that's alcoholism man" 😂

i'm an alcoholic, age 29. everything bert is saying sounds like how i used to justify it before i realized "shit, i really cant stop" i used to cry on my way to the store to get more alcohol. once you realize its a problem, thats when you'll start taking steps to cut it out altogether. you cant drink in moderation if u are an alcoholic. it's an all or nothing mindset with the beast of addiction. bert is fucked. ive never seen an adult in so much delusion.

YOU DO NOT DRUG YOUR FRIENDS. Ever. Full stop.

Killed me when he spoke about secret drinking. Used to love when my girlfriend was up later on a weekend so I could morning drink without her judging me 😂 Its such a sad life to lead, hopefully he sees things differently in the near future before it kills him.

I'm not comfortable diagnosing someone with addiction unless I know them really well. I hear your point, but there are two things in my head. 1. Burt is a comedian who is paid to play a caricature of himself. He's a performer and knowing where the performance begins and real life ends is very difficult for the audience. 2. If there is an issue with him, deciding to do anything about that problem is a very personal decision. He tells the audience that he doesn't believe he has a problem and until/if he reaches out for help, it's not by business.

Bert has reverse body dysmorphia 😂 but on a real note, I am a recovering alcoholic myself and when he started talking about "the best alone drinking you can do is behind someones back" and proceeds to explain the rush of happiness he gets when he sneaks drinks, that's true addict/alcoholic thinking. 110%

what Ari did to Bert (and has done to a lot of his friends) is literally sadistic. the fact Bert let him bully his own daughter about something she can't help also says a lot.

As a guy from FSU who has been over to Potbelly's once or twice (referred to as pots by people in Tally) I can easily say that while I am not the biggest party guy, I can absolutely see how people like Burt can easily take their lives in that direction. It is a city that lives and breaths a constant electric energy through the day from all the people waiting for the sun to go down so they can go crazy, I have been the most intoxicated in my life living there, I have seen fights, been a block away from a shooting, carried people home, seen people urinating in the streets, had roommates and friends nearly die of alcohol poisoning after puking all down the dorm hall, etc, all experienced in one year before I decided to take a gap year to work on my financial situation. Bert really kept the persona of a Tally college kid to this day, a severely unsustainable path to be sure.

As a grown ass adult, someone drugging me is reason to get arrested for assault and battery

Adam Sandler getting fed up with Bert made me laugh so god damn hard!😂

23:40 that hit especially close to home for me. Thank you for this video. Addiction is a terrifying thing man, my dad died back in 2021 right after I turned 18. He ODed on methadone in December 2018 and almost died, got out and lived with my grandma for a year. He was clean for that whole year. I visited him every weekend for the whole weekend. A lot of my family on his side went to Florida for the holidays at the end of 2019, the night before our flight, he picked me up and we went to a tattoo shop so he could get a Narcotics Anonymous tattoo on his hand. I was so proud of him. And the trip was great, but 3 days in, he somehow got his hands on heroin and was found high and unconscious in the basement of the resort house my grandma rented for us all to stay at. I didn't talk to him for the reat of the trip, even on the ride from the airport back to my grandma's house. When I was off to go back to my mom's I said bye to everyone but him. About two months later, I see him again while I'm at church with my grandma (I'm not religious but I still go occasionally), he just showed up and sat right next to me. I was shocked, nervous and a little angry but I didn't say anything, and afterwards we talked a little and it was actually a great conversation about a lot of things, but mainly he told me he was doing better and staying with his friend who got him a job. And he did have a car which was how he got there. I didn't know it at the time but that was the last time I ever saw him. I was supposed to see him again but two weeks later my grandma texted me and told me it's not safe to see him, he's still high, and got caught by an undercover cop selling crack and heroin. This was literally one week before my school got shut down because of COVID too, so his trial was delayed for a long time, and I was left in shock. I confronted him about it over text and he called my grandma a bitch, a liar, she's awful and I should never talk to her again, and that none of those things are true. I got mad and never texted him again. He tried texting and calling me from NINE different numbers and I just stayed silent the whole time. And then he died in 2021. Even though he's been in and out of prison my whole life, has struggled with addiction for longer than I've been alive, and worlds of help from my family couldn't save him, I still feel so guilty about how I handled it. I regret so much. I wish I would've called him back at least one last time. Went out to lunch with him or gone to see a movie, anything at all. A part of me still blames myself for him dying. He told me a few times that my sister and I are the only things he lives for. My sister lives across the country with her mom and I ignored him. But I have to remind myself that no matter what, everything that happened to him was his choice. It's what he wanted. He loved the high more than he loved life. He ended up being homeless because he stole from his friend too. It's so sad and it hurts me so much to say this, because I loved him so much and since he died I haven't been able to bring myself to love anyone anymore at all, but that was his karma. To anyone else who has gone through the same thing, always remember that. It's not your fault. They did it, not you, that was their choice and they knew the consequences.

Dude, "Happy Madison" is Sandler's production company. How did you miss this? How has no one else corrected this?

My “friend” spiked my drink once cuz she wanted me to “stay and keep partying”. I forgave her, but years later realized how fucked up what she did to me was. It was laughed off my most of our mutual friends because I’m a dude and she wasn’t “planning on doing anything bad”, but to this day I’m still angered by it

as a father, letting ANYBODY disrespecting your daughter/family, is diabolical

I wish him well. We've seen this play out 1000 times and it almost always ends the same way.

The jack daniels ad before the video really sets the mood.

I’m 43 and been sober for 10 years. Bert is doing what many of us alcoholics do. I was just as delusional. I truly feel for him, but it has made it hard to listen to him. I feel more for his family and friends that aren’t addicts. They have no idea what’s coming. It’s going to be very hard for them if something happens. I just hope they don’t blame themselves, like most people do that love the person with the disease.

Bert Kreischer is more complicated than we give him credit for dedicated family man….. who spends as much time away from them as possible Hard worker….. who thinks that allows him to reward himself by overindulging in bad habits Generous boss/friend…… who thinks being loose with his money, and making sure people have fun means he doesn’t have to be a better person Successful comic…. Who nobody thinks of as a particularly talented comic.

Love these focused documentaries Pat!! Keep ‘em coming

I'm in my 40s and I still distinctly remember hearing commercials on the car radio in the 90s about how "sneaking drinks and drinking alone can be the first sign that you or a loved one may be struggling with alcoholism".

the story about Molly, him proudly telling it, and people laughing at it is absolutely insane. I feel like im in an alternate universe. how can you not hear that story and be disgusted by it. the only person with the appropriate reaction was Tom Segura. But he has also similarly traumatized Bert. Jesus. What a terrible community of people

Hes a great example of “peaked in high school” only it was college

Rejecting the possibility that you have an addiction to Steve-O is wild

As someone who is about 4 years sober from Alcohol, it's definitely hard. But it's worth it. I was hospitalized 3 times with pancreatitis, the last time was necrotizing, which almost killed me before I turned 30. Sometimes you have to give up things you love in order to stay alive.

My dad always had a saying for people like Bert: "I've never met an alcoholic that drinks."

I went to the Hot Summer Nights Tour. It actually wasn’t an awkward format, and you could absolutely hear the laughter. Most people were outside tailgating together in small groups.

My father was a heavy smoker and a drunk, started when he was about 19. He died from pancreatic cancer (at 68) and went to his grave KNOWING it had nothing to do with his lifestyle. This is what I see in Bert’s future.

I've been in recovery, as well as working in the addiction field for over 10 years. You can't tell someone they're an alcoholic, but I can tell Bert he's got a hard road ahead of him.

I’m genuinely blown away about the molly story. Why is the guy who did it basically let off the hook for it? It’s crazy that this is the first time I’ve ever heard about it in any video about Burt

Every time I watch any video from Patrick.....all I really remember is "stay hydrated; drink lots of water" then the typical sip out of the cup. Love all the videos....only getting better with time.

I’ve got a 400lb friend who had one Dr tell him that he wasn’t having a heart attack, and he took that to mean “perfectly healthy.” I know the type.

Growing up with an alcoholic parent isnt easy. You start resenting them when you can constantly smell alcohol on their breath, or they're slurring, or acting like a fool. As a dad who is trying really hard to break that cycle (and has already failed a couple times) it's how my drinking might effect my wife and especially my son that keeps me strongest.

It's crazy Ari is not in jail for all the crap he's done to people.

“I stop when the party’s over”…”my favorite thing is alone drinking behind people’s back”

Dude, this was a good freaking video. Loved the content!

Like Will Smith hasn’t taken enough L’s these past two years. Now we all know he’s responsible for Bert Kreisher 😂

It’s funny that Bert didn’t want to do a solo podcast, but now he talks over every person he does podcasts with.

At this point I think Bert's just trying to burn out bright instead of fading away slow. He's overachieved his dreams and he can't lose it all and become nobody again.

We just laid our uncle to rest this year. My other uncles begged him and pleaded with him to stop drinking but he didnt care. It was so bad that his friends would pay him with alcohol (he was a mechanic). Last year October he had a stroke. It was almost 1 hour before someone found him. As a result of him getting no medical attention when he had the stroke, he lost the ability to talk and move the left side of his body. In January of this year, he died. It is so hard to watch a family member destroy their life when they constantly refuse help and he truly believed that he didnt have an addiction.

Best thing that was ever said to me... When you have to control it, it's already a problem... RIP Sam 💖 That fact that Bert had to "prove" to himself he wasn't an alcoholic already says that he is.

Openly admitting LIVE that you secretly spiked your “friends”drink with Molly only to regret not spiking his wife’s drink IS WIIIILD!! How is Ari not in jail? Or worse, especially if he is like this to other people?

This is the first new year's eve im sober, 30 years is too long. Watching this video made me sick to my stomach. I hope Bert gets better soon before it's too late

Least funniest man on the planet, period.

It takes so much energy to be an alcoholic...When I was deep in it, it was so hard to keep it up but you just couldnt stop

If Bert dug in his heels against Ari, he knows he would have been out of the Roganverse.

Hes like that drunk uncle you used to think was amazing when you were in your late teens than you grow up and realise its kinda sad that hes still the drunk uncle and your just waiting for the wheels fall off.

Nailed it !!! "That's alcoholism" 😂

Definitely one of those guys who never left the frat after finishing school, still drives to campus to party with the current bros to talk about the 'old days', drink everyone under the table and often pass out on the couch. Some of the behaviors he shows, like the "sneak drinking" and drinking just to have that buzz. Been sober for almost 7 years, and it's been the best thing I could have done for myself. It's good to see others here commenting on their sobriety journey and can only hope those still struggling can find their way out.

Didn't know about Ari spiking Bert's drink. He's incredibly lucky Bert chose to be extremely forgiving about it b/c Ari deserves far, far worse.

Been alcohol free since 1/3/24, I've lost wieght and i feel and look alot better. Hearing Bert celebrate 4 months sober by going on booze cruise was actually heart breaking and made me double down on not going back to alcohol.

Didn't expect it, but the end of this video just made me cry a bit. After being a full blown alcoholic and opiate addict for 8+ years, I finally got sober earlier this year, and been sober for 221 days. But I then relapsed 2 days ago, because I fucking suck. I've known about Berts alcoholism for a bit, so when I learned in this vid that he had actually stopped drinking, I got pretty inspired from it. Just to see 2 seconds later that he excitedly jumped straight back into a full bender without feeling bad about it, which just made me sad, relating to that fucking failure of myself and my self control, that I exhibited 2 days ago when I relapsed.

well done video. Your analysis of bert felt balanced and considerate, even consiudering how critical in nature it is.

I’m 27 now. In my early 20s I drank pretty heavy. In the marines we would drink till 4 and PT at 5. I’d go through multiple bottles of whiskey through the work week, and a few more on weekends. We would rage drink. Once I got to college, the drinking didn’t slow down. I would out drink all of my friends combined, which seemed cool and all when you’re 24/25, but I remembered seeing bert one day and randomly getting a wake up call, which was weird because I had been a big fan for years. But suddenly I had a realization that that’s what I was afraid of becoming. My drinking was out of control and I was putting on a noticeably high amount of weight. (I grew up skinny, got jacked, and now I was fat.) I knew I needed to change, and around this time (early 2022) I hurt my back (herniated disc) so I couldn’t go to the gym. Last year I got back in the gym on a very limited routine and drastically cleaned up my diet. I’m 6’4, and went from 278 to 225. FINALLY had surgery 2 months ago, and slowly inching my back into the gym. Nowadays, I only have a beer or two max, for special occasion, probably once every two months roughly. I get uncomfortable with anything more than that, and don’t even enjoy being drunk anymore, and don’t touch liquor anymore. Nowadays, I’d rather eat a gummy or a few bong rips and chill with my dog. I genuinely feel SO MUCH HEALTHIER. I used to be a fan of bert, but now I just cringe because it reminds me of the kind of guy I used to be

Its the lies he tells is what I dislike the most about him. I know most comedians tell stories just to be funny but bert actually goes off camera and believes his own lies. There's a whole documentary on youtube documenting his lies, its disturbing to be honest. Plus ari shaffir isn't anyones friend.

I feel like a lot of these podcast comedians are just narcissistic bafoons.

In regards to your speech at the end about addictions and quitting, my Dad always told me, "You gotta wanna."

The fact that you said, sometimes the person who needs help can’t see it themselves, and only you can see it. It truly breaks my heart. It’s incredibly true, I have a best friend that the girl is like my sister I would take a life and give my own for her, that being said, she’s been balls deep in an heroin addiction for three years, and I can’t put my own sobriety at risk to save her. Fucking kills me every day. The last I heard she was in rehab last year she overdosed more times than there is months. Unfortunately, the girl that I was so close to is no longer there, I just try to hold out hope that one day she returns If any of you guys have friends or telling you that you have a problem and you keep blowing them off just listen to them as somebody who used to blow off everybody I promise it’s gonna save your life

I met Bert at the Miami Airport one time, I distinctly remember him drinking three glasses of wine, and filling two waters bottles with alcohol before leaving. Was a very nice guy tho, wish him and his family the best

Goddamn Theo hit it on the head. “I think that Bert likes any hype he can get, I think he’s okay with it.” Theo knew that Bert loved the attention.

I genuinely believe this video will help people who have the same issues. Thank you for making this

It's like Bert took the first half of National Lampoon's Van Wilder to heart but got too drunk to catch the lesson in the second half for 25 years

Great video man, you got yourself a subscriber

I started drinking when I was 14 years old I started drinking I'm 35 now and I've been sober for 2 years. The only way I realized that I needed help is when I started to accept what my friends and family were saying to me that I was an alcoholic. I thank God everyday for my sobriety also that I didn't ruin my wife and kids life like my Dad almost did to us. Bert needs to face reality.

I wish the best for Bert. I don't have a drinking problem, I don't really like beer, and I hate getting drunk. I do, however, absolutely have an issue with food and am probably as fat, if not fatter than Bert. I don't make excuses for it. I've lost a ton of weight when I tried, but then I stopped trying. I see myself a lot like Bert in that way. I hope that, in wishing Bert well, I deal with some of those same issues myself. Good luck to anyone else who might be in that same boat.

What a great video essay!

I got two ads on this video - one was questlove selling whiskey, the other was for Mike’s hard lemonade 😅

Bert is the poster boy of what one should strive every day not to be.

bert kreischer is one of those dudes that told a joke once when he was drunk and made everyone laugh then made that his persona. I guarantee no russians called him the machine, they were probably laughing in his face

Damn i havent seen you in like 2 years. The videos amazing like always, the new mustache reminds me of the guy who stands outside my window at night.

I dont know this bert even then i didnt skip a second.... Thats how good you are at making content

The thing about alcoholism is that you KNOW it's destroying your life but the alcohol makes you "forget". I've never met an alcoholic that didn't know they were an alcoholic.

I would never trust someone that spiked my drink ever again. Doesn't matter if it's a harmless drug, you never know what could happen.

My heart hurts for him. You could literally see the sadness in his eyes.

6:08 honestly complaining/ranting is something Bill is uniquely good at. That man requires absolutely nobody to bounce off of. He works himself up entirely by himself. It's a talent that not many have.

I will credit him for one thing - his work ethic is absolutely insane for a man this self destructive. Somehow, he actually earned his fame despite all the odds.

Sad to say but Bert’s drinking helped me in quitting. I talked the same shit about never stopping and being “healthy” and hearing it coming from another person was eye opening.

Praying for him 🙏🏽I hope his wife gets through to him before it’s to late.

Bro this video hits hard my best friend passed away from alcohol 2 weeks ago at 29

Just wanted to say I appreciate the in-depth video without a bunch of mean and aggressive insults. So many of these types of mini docs just become hate pieces. This is well done!

sobriety is hard once you learn to cope with alcohol and drugs, i hope this dude can honestly get better

23:23 I love how he doesn't see the irony here 🤣

I feel bad for anyone dealing with addiction, especially the people that don't realize it. They have no chance to get out before it's too late

Theo is hilarious 15:15 Bert: I thought it went well, i was like nailed it. Theo: Thats alcholism there.

I only know Bert for being a fat alcoholic and telling a story that even a grade schooler would realize is a lie

Lol I love Bert and I hope he's with us for a long time.

Ahh Man I got two Mini Schnauzers that Ad hit me hard! Lol

"Like Pablo Picasso, or some other famous asshole." What a great line.

I've had minor drug problems for years and every time it gets to a certain point I fear I'm going to lose control. I wonder if Bert's so far on the other side that he actually just feels in control again.