I keep seeing ads for his show on TWOP. Who is he?

He wrote that book, "He's Just Not Into You" and I think he was involved with Sex and the City too.

Oh, okay.

I guess he's "Changing lives or going home". Yuck.

Great. Another hack pundit who will castigate single women for being stupid and gullible. Just what we need.

Oh blah, I can't stand this guy and his stupid book that my female friends all thought they had to read. It did nothing but make them feel incredibly stupid and blame themselves even more than they had before. What the hell is going to do on his show anyway?

Parts of his stand-up act, no doubt.

I know.

I saw him on Conan and I don't know how anyone can take him and his Barry Manilow hair seriously. My hairdresser mother always told me to never trust a man who sits in the hairdressers chair longer than I do. Hit the bricks, Greg. And take your cheap-ass, brassy highlights with you.

I saw a promo for this show this summer, and thought it looked like it should be shown online at best. The commercial was so poorly shot and grainy, and was basically a camera following Greg around what appeared to be a trailer park or mobile home park (ostensibly he was outside the new set of his show). I think in my area it is being broadcast on one of the WB channels that is "paid programming" 50% of the day.

Wasn't he supposed to become one of the "Today" show's regular contributors at one point? I thought he was introduced as such once, but I only saw him twice, and then assumed that he was given the boot after everyone realized what a boorish, ultra-irritating hack he is.

All my guy friends hate "He's Just Not That Into You" because that book basically says if a guy isn't trying to get into your pants the first night, you shouldn't be with him because he's just not that into you. What? Maybe he has manners and is decent.

This guy was on the most recent Celebrity Poker Showdown, and came off as a tool. A nervous, shifty-eyed, emotionally needy, attention whore of a tool. With Heatmiser's hair.

Said traits were only exacerbated by the fact that he sat across the table from Michael Ian Black, who was an island of cool amid the fratty badness that was Behrendt. He was Un-Behrendt, imperturbable, Zenlike. Effortlessly, laconically funny.

You know how, in high school, there was Cool Funny Guy, and how, whenever you hung out with Cool Funny Guy, there was also, always, Loud Jackass Who THOUGHT He Was Cool Funny Guy? And how Cool Funny Guy could have utterly destroyed the fragile psyche of LJWTHWCFG with a single arched eyebrow and exposed the yawning black hole of need at LJWTHWCFG's core, but refrained, because he was, well, cool?

Yeah. That.

This dude is so fug, I don't care how good his show is - I couldn't stand looking at his face on my TV every day. Not to mention his book sucked. Ick.

I haven't read his book (since I haven't been single since the Cretaceous Period), but I actually enjoyed his appearances on Oprah--and I didn't expect to. For one thing, his personal style just screamed douchebag to me. But hearing him explain himself, I could understand his message, and it seemed well-meaning and grounded in common sense--if not easy for some of the women guests to hear.

His book may not convey the same impression, and judging from the Oprah thread, there are certainly viewers of those episodes who would disagree with me about the way he came across. (For me the main problem was Oprah herself shrieking throughout the hour: "HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU!")

Not that I'm planning to watch his show.

Wow- I'm really surprised. Apparently I'm the only one really looking forward to this show. I think Greg Behrendt is really funny, and I LOVED He's Just Not That Into You. I saw a lot of my friends in that book- always making excuses for the guys they liked when they should have just given up and moved on. I don't agree with everything in the book, but I think he's dead-on about most things and I can't wait to see what he does with his show.

Today this show debuted in my TV market. I saw about the first 20 minutes of the show. Needless to say I was not impressed.
While his books may be useful (I haven't personally read them), I didn't see any brilliant pieces of wisdom coming from his show. In fact the guy sounded (and dressed) like a moron. Im also convinced that his outfit and studio audience changed during his first segment with the couple (first he is wearing a corduroy jacket, in the next shot he is wearing a leather jacket --- also note that the woman sitting behind him changes during the same segment).
His supposed comedy also fell incredibly short. On his top 5 ways to tell that you have broken up number 2 was that the guy repeatedly says "We've broken up." Oh hahaha. How hilarious! I still cant figure out what the studio audience was laughing at....
Anyway I won't be watching this show again...I'm guessing it lasts a season tops.

Ugh, this guy is the worst. So, KirbDogg, is the show, or at least the part you watched, dedicated completely to 'helping' women with his philosophy? Cause that's going to get old real fast - I mean, isn't "he's just not that into you" the equivalent of "show me the money" or 'all that and a bag of chips' by now? Except, much much worse.

I didn't read his book, but I did see him on Oprah and he and his stupid haircut were annoying as hell. That being said, I might give this a whirl if its bad enough to be funny.

I think his haircut is distracting... but I may get used to it. I enjoyed the show and his laser like accuracy with the tool that was his first guest.
Mehinks 'Krystal' liked the attention and hot mess that is/was her boyfriend - doesnt' really want him to change tooo much and may regret this was how she chose to spend her 15 minutes...

Sej208 I didn't find that the show was all about giving women his "invaluable" advice. He seemed to come down on the guy more than the woman in the first couple. My real objection with the show is that he really didn't say or do anything that someone with half a brain couldn't figure out. I mean he told a couple where the boyfriend was unhappy that his girlfriend had seen her ex-boyfriend "trust your girlfriend." He told a woman who wanted to get back together with her cheating ex to "not get back together with him." This just doesn't seem like such brilliant advice -- its just common sense. Perhaps if they had framed the guest's situations a bit more it may have been interesting enough to watch. But if his advice is just common sense its not worth watching!

Gah, why is he doing an Opray-style show? Why do stand-up comedians always leave stand-up comedy to do things that are less entertaining than their stand-up comedy?

He was funny when he was the "there might be cake" guy.

I think he wrote the episode of "Sex & the City" that Miranda became aware the guy she was dating" was not that into her! " Hence the phrase and Greg Behrendt parlaying it into a cash cow, i.e., books pimping himself on talk shows! ITA with ArthurCurry, Greg Behrendt tries waaay to hard to be hip and cool and is so not! Oh well as for his show besides being lame I guess "I'm just not that into it!"

And with that, ArthurCurry, you show more insight, wit, and thoughtfulness than we can expect from this twitchy famewhore for the entire (brief) run of this pathetic show. "Changing lives or going home..." (?) My money is on going "home."

I actually know a few people who know him and when I heard about him getting his own show, I was all "WTF?" and they all said they had the same reaction. On the few times I have met him he has been decidely untoolish.

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I tried to watch this for the snark value but it was horrible and I turned it off in 15 minutes.

This is not a good show. I gave it a chance and have seen parts of two episodes. It is supposed to be a relationship show where Greg Behrendt gives "advice" to people, but it all really seems to come down to man-bashing every time and the guy in the relationship is pressured to change his ways. The one I remember is the Fever Pitch/Red Sox-Patriots superfan who had to sacrifice two games a season to spend time with his wife. OK, I felt a little sorry for her when I realized that with baseball and football, she really doesn't have a break from his sports, but she knew he was like that when they married, so there's really no excuse. I hate when one partner expects the other one to change.

And why is Greg Behrendt propped up as an expert on relationships? Because he wrote a stupid one-idea book that offers a startling bombshell to women- that guys are jerks.

Who greenlit this crappy piece of masturbatory nonsense? Is he going to mention "He's just not that into you" in every episode?

And dude, seriously, even the lead singer of Sugar Ray gave up that look at the turn of the century. You're like, what now? 55? 60? That hipster haircut, big belt buckle, patterned jacket and sunglasses hanging from your shirt is wayyy over.

I refuse to watch a show that has a host who is giving relationship advise while sporting a fe-mullet. It's just . . . so wrong.

I saw an episode of this last week. It's so bad it's like a Saturday Night Live skit mocking a bad relationship talk show.

Wow. I hope that the show makes everyone sign a waiver before going, because the advise he gives is so terrible...or obvious. "Be yourself...well, not really yourself...here, just say whatever I tell you to say...well, let's just move on to the next segment."

Now I know I said a few posts ago that this show sucks, but I have to admit, I have been watching this every day. It reminds me of talk shows in the 90s. Maybe it's the neon colors in the opening credits. It's also the completely fluff topics. A lot of talk shows these days are celebrity interviews or someone pushing a new diet book or a show on a "super serious topic that you need to be made aware of because you are otherwise just an ignorant doofus."

Also, Greg B. is starting to grow on me. The spiky hair, the tattoos, the sunglasses, the air guitar in the promos, it is all amusing. And he said something funny the other day. On the dating dilemmas show he was telling the two girls who needed makeovers that he had some people ready to perform the makeovers, and it is not going to be him, because he is in the corner trying on vests. OK maybe I didn't explain that so good, but point is, dude wears the vest/"vintage" tee combo like every day and he made light of himself.

Today's phobia show? Maury does it better. Although I think this is the first time I've seen phobia of cooked chicken.

He tells it like it is if you ask me. What woman alive hasn't analyzed a guy's behavior to the nth degree to somehow justify their behavior to fall in line with their beliefs. eg. 'he doesn't call cause of this or that or he's stressed or he's busy with work'... blah blah blah. Bottom line is, you're kidding yourself.

Just like Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil got all the negative criticism by some, Greg will get the same. I like him and the others too cause they 'tell it like it is' - but then again, you have to be willing to listen.

This is the reason this show will fail: It's about relationships, therefore geared toward women.

Today they had on Vida Guerra (sp?), this tanned, fake boobed, beautiful Maxim-type girl, and Greg was trying to get the audience (mostly female) excited when she came out. She came out to polite applause, then Greg started saying "huh? HUH?" to try and rile the audience up with how impressive this girl looks. No dice. Then she starts talking about how young girls should have self esteem and not want to look like...a Maxim girl.

Just won't work, honey.

This is true, but his philosophy and book still bother me because they still focus on paying attention to the guy's actions in order to realize that he's 'just not into you'. So, you're still trying to determine what the guy's thinking, you're just doing it based on the 'rules' in a book. I much better like the Sherry Argov philosophy of do what's best for you, all the time, and the good ones will follow along.



This grosses me out. Expecting the audience to leer and cheer at a woman because of the way she looks instead of waiting to hear what she has to say really says a lot about this doofus.

But I think it has less to do with following rules than with taking the hint. In a nutshell the point of this guys schtick is that women need not waste their time when a man's lack of interest is fairly obvious.

On the other hand, the people behind this show should take the hint and realize that just because his premise is catchy and has a nugget or two of common sense to it, doesn't mean that we are interested in a TV show. Plainly speaking we are just not that into Greg Behrendt!



Then again, the guest was Vida Guerra from Maxim or Stuff or FHM or whatever. She really doesn't have much to add to the conversation. Her looks are the best she has to offer.

Vida's question was pretty lame. Everyone takes rejections personally. Duh.

It makes me sad that the show is suffering from a high degree of Standard Talk Show Lameness. I like Greg; his standup is really funny, he's amusingly self-deprecating, he's clearly a feminist, and then this.

From what I gather, the point of The Book That Will Not Be Mentioned (HJNTIY) was that you should want to be with someone who wants to be with you. If the person you're into is making excuses not to be with you, or would rather do something other than be with you, then thanks, see ya, bye. Not that you should obsessively check on him and see if he likes you.

Anyway, it just bums me out. I really like him a lot, and this show is just sort of stock and ordinary.

And it's not like you can't change the channel and find the same advice being dispensed by another talk show hack, just worded differently.


I wouldn't be surprised if there was a minor spike in his book sales the week this premiered.

I agree, MingSchwazia, I love his stand up and really liked the book but his talk show is pretty weak. Not only that, the guests are so ridiculous that the advice is pretty self-explanatory (Guy asks you to marry him after an argument, maybe you should be marrying him?). And hitting up the audience for money?

Guess I'll just wait until the show gets pulled, so, like a week? And catch the next tour

What a tool. I thought his advice on Oprah wasn't bad, and his stand up was pretty funny. But my god, what a tool. The vests and tshirts, the horrible hair and bags under his eyes, the incessant use of "like"...arrrgh. Don't you just hope that he gets a divorce -- I think people who set themselves up as self-proclaimed models of awesomeness and dudeness are just asking for it.

I suppose this is an attempt to cash in while the getting is good, but this show is too late. Did we learn nothing from "Men Are From Mars..."

Never mind the fact that a shout-out on "Sex and the City" and a couple of "Oprah" appearances for yet another self-help book does not a phenomenon make, or that what little buzz there was for the show evaporated long ago. This show is excruciatingly dull and embarassing. Are women really this hard-up for advice?

I give Behrendt a degree of credit for realizing that he is way too old for the rocker antics, yet can't stop with them. There are just so many advice shows on the air, trying to compete with "Oprah" and "Dr. Phil", using real experts. Why would anyone care what some stand-up comic thinks? It's not unlike when Danny Bonaduce and Mario Lopez had a talk show. What makes for an interesting occasional segment on someone else's daytime show is a 60-minute death on its own.

In defense of Greg, he's a truly great comic, with a unique perspective that goes much further than just the "not that into you" schtick. He canceled an appearance on my show for his first Oprah visit, and it changed his life (Oprah, not cancelling on me) forever, but he hasn't changed as a guy.

I think as the show grows past just the relationship stuff, it could actually get good, because Greg is a genuinely funny personality.

I once saw an interview with Vida Guerra and it was one of the worse interviews I've ever seen. The interviewer was doing all the talking and she barely said anything except for a few words.

I think the first couple today (with the guy's best friend living with them) were actors. They just had too many one-liners at the ready. I will admit, however, that I giggled when Greg made the friend sit on the milk carton.

No comment on the Fair Brady's, other than it seems like they have a horrible marriage.

I'm bumping up this thread because I have to say, I stuck with the show, and I actually think it's growing on me. The comedy shtick is pretty cute, and I just feel like it's hit somewhat of a stride - the audience looks like they're having a better time, it feels more relaxed, etc.. I do think he'd do better in late night (because his stand up is really innovative and funny and that genre is more open to that kind of stuff), but I admit it, I like it.

Yea- I wasn't a big GregB fan at first lol. But he's pretty cool I like him. His shows are something NEW! and DIFFERENT! YAY! Don't see much of that anymore.

I like him too. I tell my friends he's like a young, hip Phil Donahue.

And like Phil, he once wore a dress on tv! Greg as a bride is a comedy classic! I still laugh, just thinking about it.

...and it's been cancelled. Just when I was starting to watch a few episodes and getting ready to post my thoughts here. I feel about Greg the same way I feel about Megan Mullally (who's also been cancelled); seems like a nice person, very talented in some respects, but just never able to get the talk show off the ground.

I mean I know he co-wrote that relationship book (that I couldn't read though because it made me feel like crap), but I always imagined Greg as a stand up comic, and just that...a stand up.

Well, maybe he'll go back to kicking ass in HBO specials, then. He's actually really funny, so I hope this exposure helped him.

I didn't know it was being cancelled. :'( I'm kinda sad. I like him. When will they stop airing new shows?

What I found really distracting about Greg Behrendt is his look. He's 43, but trying to look like he's 23. If he had only tried to look his age and ditched the kid clothes and the ridiculous facial hair, soul patch etc., his show might not be getting cancelled.