Alex Agnew – Be Careful What You Wish For (Quick Scoop)

“Alex Agnew – Be Careful What You Wish For” is a large-scale stand‑up comedy show by Belgian comedian Alex Agnew that ran as a major tour in Belgium and the Netherlands and was later released for TV and on DVD.

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What the show is about

In Be Careful What You Wish For, Alex Agnew dives into the cultural and political tensions of the late 2010s, mixing sharp social commentary with his typical loud, high‑energy style.

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Key themes include the gender debate, feminism, the #MeToo movement, trans issues, “white privilege,” and modern identity politics.
He also riffs on seemingly trivial topics like nose picking, Tarzan and even Quidditch (“Zwerkbal”) as absurd entry points into bigger conflicts.
The underlying message: there is so much “bullshit” and outrage in the world that people are drowning in it, and artists end up becoming a kind of reluctant “voice of reason.”
Agnew’s own summary of the idea behind the show is basically: “Everyone should act normal for two seconds, or it’s going to end badly.”

“Artiesten zijn precies de stem van de rede geworden. En dat is erg, want ze zouden niet zo belangrijk mogen zijn als we zijn.”[3][1]

Timeline: tour, TV & DVD

2019: Sportpaleis premiere – The show premiered in spring 2019 in Antwerp’s Sportpaleis (now the Afas Dome), with three huge arena dates selling out quickly; these were the kick‑off for a broader theater tour.
2019–2020: Theater & arena tour – The show toured venues across Belgium and was announced for Dutch theaters, including the DeLaMar Theater in Amsterdam in early 2020.
Just before Covid‑19 – Agnew played this show right before the pandemic disrupted live performances; in part because of that, the show became especially associated with the “last big tour” before lockdowns.
Television broadcast – Play4 in Belgium scheduled the TV premiere of the show across three Sunday evenings from 12 September (three weeks in a row, prime‑time at 21:50).
DVD release – After Covid hit, the official website promoted “Be Careful What You Wish For” as a DVD release so people could still watch the show at home.

Where (and whether) you can still watch it

Finding the show has become a surprisingly hot mini‑topic on Belgian forums, because it’s not as easily streamable as some of Agnew’s older work.

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One Reddit thread from 2025 notes that the show appears to have “disappeared” from streaming platforms and YouTube, leading fans to wonder if it was pulled for controversy or rights issues.
Users there point out that the DVD was still for sale on Bol.com, even when it had vanished from other platforms, though the official merchandise store listed it as “no longer available” (likely sold out rather than censored).
The official site and distributor links describe the DVD as the way to see the show after the theater run stopped due to Covid‑19.

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Format	Status / Notes
Arena / theater show	Originally ran 2019–2020 in Belgium and the Netherlands, with multiple sold‑out Sportpaleis dates.
TV broadcast	Aired as a three‑part TV premiere on Play4 on Sunday nights from 12 September (prime time).
DVD	Released on DVD; at one point not available on the official merch site but noted as available or previously available on Bol.com.
Streaming / VOD	Fans report little to no official streaming availability and almost no YouTube presence, which fuels “disappeared show” discussions.

Style, tone & controversy angle

Agnew leans into being a loud, opinionated presence, openly wrestling with what he calls the “conservative old‑man voice” in his head and how it clashes with contemporary progressivism.

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He talks directly about masculinity, trans people, feminism and “white privilege,” often from the perspective of a self‑aware, aging, straight white guy trying to make sense of shifting norms.
The show is not a “neutral lecture”: it’s confrontational, mocking many sides in the culture wars, while also criticizing outrage culture and the way online debates go off the rails.
Media coverage framed the core message as: calm down, stop turning everything into an ideological battle, or society will “crash” under the weight of its own melodrama.

“Wat zowat de crux van Be Careful What You Wish For is, en eigenlijk ook van Unfinished Business: doe allemaal twee seconden normaal, of het gaat brokken geven.”[2]

Forum & fan discussion

Online chatter about “alex agnew be careful what you wish for” in recent years focuses less on the content of the jokes and more on the strange availability situation and the show’s place in his career.

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Some fans remember watching it on VRT or catching clips on YouTube but now struggle to find any trace beyond a trailer and some press blurbs.
Others point out that older shows by Agnew are still easy to find on DVD, which makes the scarcity of this particular title stand out and fuels speculation that it sold out quickly or had more complex distribution rights.
The recurring explanation from fans: the DVD was likely printed in smaller runs and eventually sold out, while streaming rights were never widely rolled out or were time‑limited.

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