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at audible.com slash Best of the Year. I'm just kidding. Good afternoon, Michael Malice here. Let that be a welcome for the next hour, guys. You're in for a treat. We have returning guests, comedian Dave Landau, always fun talking to Dave. I was just giving Dave crap. I'm going to talk about his book, which I finished and I had to have you on because I thought you did such a good job. And I want to talk about why I thought it was a good job and why so many comedian books are such crap. Shit. And I noticed you're recording from what seems to be the remnants of a beehive. That's correct. It's a honeycomb. No, it's it's just wood. I wanted it to look more retro like the 70s, like an old Carson set or an old. I just wanted something more weird that didn't look like most people studios. I'm getting a studio redone and the notes were super filled in there. So we're really going all out and I'm very excited to make that happen. I don't feel like that's 70s at all. I don't know, I could be wrong. I didn't put it together. Why is the undertaker getting kicked in the head? That's just a coincidence. By the way, that if there's the undertaker, there's a Drago, the fan fiction book Okay, and this is a karate first place champion Davy Karate Dave Landau That is so cool. Yeah, you can make your own trophies Wait, you didn't earn that Oh, I know I wish it was I wish my name was Karate Dave Wait, why don't you have your book behind you? I should. You make a good point because behind me is Bill Cosby's fatherhood as well as theology to two books that I had before. I want to state that before I found out. At this time, I only thought he was an adulterer, but it turns out more more than that Yeah, I should get my own book back there next to Danny DeVito. I I loved his company, but now I admire him as a man Right like I used to think he was okay, but now I think he's one of the greats. I really enjoy him. This whole thing is just a whole thing about how to mix drinks. It's really something. Bill Cosby's cocktail book. It really is so great. He would sue though. He might not at this point. He's getting up there. Do you think so? Is he like that? His layers are. I mean, that's a very lucrative brand still. Like it's not completely ruined. No, it's impossible to be completely ruined. I mean, he's the guy who united America in the 80s. He was like the first black TV dad that everybody related to, I mean he really

did. He was sure he had a gynecology office in his basement. No one seemed to notice that as an issue on the show. Wait, was that where his office was? It was in his basement, yeah. You mean, okay, wow, I didn't realize that, okay. Yeah, so is this go down stairs and see Dr. Cosby OB-GYN.

Wait, he was a gynecologist?

He was a gynecologist.

No, you're joking.

I'm not joking.

He left his head. Dr. Cosby OBGYN. Wait, he was a gynecologist? He was a gynecologist.

No, you're joking. I'm not joking. He left a lot of bread crumbs, let alone whole pieces of toast for us to see that we completely ignored. I have a confession about the Cosby show. Yes. And I don't think I've ever said this before and I'll admit it. There are certain things, you know how I think Scott Adams said I believe like a third of

people can't perceive humor. And I don't think I've ever said this before and I'll admit it. And there are certain things.

You know how I think Scott Adams said, I believe like a third of people can't

perceive humor. When I watch the Cosby Show, it's, you know, when I watch Big Bang Theory, I know what the punchlines are. I just think they're excruciating and I want to, you know, Big Bang my head. When I watch the Cosby show, most of the time I say majority, the audience laughs and I legitimately don't perceive what the punchline is and why they're reacting. When they do that song and he's making those faces, I'm like literally I don't understand what's funny to the point where I think people think I'm putting on airs because they're like, well that's obviously obviously what the joke is. I'm like, I don't perceive it. And I could never watch the show because of that. Do you like his stand up? Yes. It's excellent. Okay. So like if you watch Bill Cosby himself, I mean, but it is, that's just brilliant storytelling. I mean, again, don't agree with them on everything, but if we're talking strictly stand-up comedy. Yeah, that is just storytelling. I think a lot of it was just faces, and I don't know, I enjoyed the show, but I couldn't necessarily tell you why it was funny. Yeah, I was a lot of secounters like that to me, where I genuinely just liked them as a kid, but I couldn't, I can't really tell you they were hilarious. Okay, so this is what happened. So the YouTube algorithm, which is quite good, recommended to me a compilation of Mother Jefferson on the Jefferson's. You and I both, I'm sure, grew up watching the Jefferson's. It was a great show. Something that's interesting to me, which once you pointed out you cannot notice it, is TV was so much a transition from theater that most of these old sitcoms by old, I mean like up to the 80s and even the 90s, are staged like a play. Like it's very clear what the set is and if there's an audience there, instead of being organic, like having a 360, it's very much just like a play. Yeah, it's a total play. Yeah, right, yeah. So you go back and you watch and I'm like, I haven't seen this show since I was a kid. It was so funny. Like the George's mom being that mother-in-law trope or she's like some notches to the wife. She was really mean to feel it was so funny. I remember that show being laughed out loud funny. I remember married with children being laugh out loud funny where I would actually laugh really hard, you know, watching that show. Those were the main two, I think, that I really thought were good. I mean, and of course, that was just a take on all in the family. But I think that show also had some really solid moments. But yeah, the Jefferson's, I think, was one of the first sitcoms that actually made me laugh. Yeah. It's, I've shocked how good it is because I was waiting to cringe and I was not cringing at all. There's just this one moment where the mother comes over, mother Jefferson and she goes, Oh, I won this in a raffle. And as soon as I saw it, I thought of you, Louise.

And she opens it up and it's like a vase

in the shape of a hippo. And she's like, what are you ever saying you should have? It's just, it's snow over the top and I'm not just, I was like, this is, and you can see how as a kid, you're dying. Yeah, and as a kid, you don't get the racial undertones, like they're not supposed to be moving on up to the east side.

Right, that's true.

So all their interactions have this kind of undertone of racism in it, but they handle it so well like they come out on top of it. Yeah, his wife is especially, you know, but he's it's he was really good and amen was actually a pretty good show that he was on. I couldn't watch amen. I like 227. I like 227 too. Yeah, that might have been I was that I came up with a cause be spin off. No, no, 227 is Marla Gibbs who was the maid on Jefferson's. That's what it was. And then she that's what it was. And then yeah, because she would live in the apartment building. And yeah, I used to watch that show all the time. It was so good. Yeah, so that was the thing kids these days don't know. And I think this is something that's been lost and it reflects in our politics that everyone had four shows to choose from at any given time. And we all watched pretty much all of them. So there was this problem cultural language. And now it's a wrap.

And to be honest, what I liked about it was, I don't know what I said to be honest,

but the humor in it was so different

that the next to be honest about how I feel about sitcoms.

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