diff --git a/ircbot/DrBotIRC.py b/ircbot/DrBotIRC.py
index 75a0755..1774b5f 100644
--- a/ircbot/DrBotIRC.py
+++ b/ircbot/DrBotIRC.py
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
         The provided method should take as arguments:
             * nick          the nick creating the event, or None
             * userhost      the userhost creating the event, or None
-            * event         the raw IRC event, which may be None
+            * event         list of the raw IRC events, which may be None
             * from_admin    whether or not the event came from an admin
             * groups        list of match.groups(), from re.search()
 
@@ -276,9 +276,13 @@ class DrBotIRC(irclib.IRC):
 
         """
 
-        if not event in self.regex_handlers:
-            self.regex_handlers[event] = []
-        bisect.insort(self.regex_handlers[event], ((priority, regex, handler)))
+        if type(event) != list:
+            event = [event]
+
+        for ev in event:
+            if not ev in self.regex_handlers:
+                self.regex_handlers[ev] = []
+            bisect.insort(self.regex_handlers[ev], ((priority, regex, handler)))
 
     def remove_global_regex_handler(self, event, regex, handler):
         """Removes a global regex handler function.