August's Moments of the Month

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It's a taster of all the shows broadcast through August 2025, including Michael Dapaah talking about why Bernie Mac was such an influential comic, Tiff Stevenson running through some of her astonishing accent skills, Jake Lambert on the hunt for the person who shot his cat and a story about Howie Mandell from Red Richardson that you simply won't believe. Tuck in if you haven't heard any of them and if you hear something you like why not circle back and chow down on the whole episode? Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, nice to have you here. This is August Moments of the Month. There's no new shows in here. It's just a showcase of the best bits of all our shows in August, and it was a crack in month of the shows.
0:18.7	First up, we had YouTube sensation behind the international comedy here,
0:22.9	Man's Not Hot, it was Michael Dapper,
0:25.2	and it went like this.
0:29.6	What is your next brilliant thing?
0:31.5	Bernie Mac.
0:33.8	Bernie Mac.
0:34.9	Bernie Mac is, I just think, yeah, he's like my, my favourite comedian.
0:41.3	Kick it.
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	It's, what's fascinating about that set, the set that kind of broke him on Deaf Comedy Jam, two things.
0:49.3	He's got a picture of his own face on his jeans.
0:52.3	Come on.
0:53.3	Which is, you know, great. But he was scared going into that. Which is really like, so that whole kind of kick it, you know, I'm not afraid of you. Yeah. Was born out of fear. Yeah. And yeah, it looks like it's this sort of beautiful kind of gimmick of a comedian that's in complete control.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	But isn't it weird to think that in that moment, he didn't know it was necessarily going to go well before he went out.
1:21.6	And yet it's a set that we're still talking about now.
1:23.6	It's electric.
1:25.6	Crazy.
1:26.6	But he's...
1:27.9	But you would never think that he was scared.
1:48.0	Yeah, crazy. Until you kind of found out later, you go, well, he wasn't mucking around. That was a defense mechanism. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know? It's crazy. Isn't it mad? It's mad. And I think, like, I'm... He's... So I love comedians, but I feel like I actually fell in love with the art of that stand-up through Bernie, you know,
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