"Best Of Series" "Laughs" TV Show With Milt Abel, Bruce Baum, and Chris Hobbs Show #238

Here is something different for my podcast listeners. In the 80's and 90' I produced several TV shows for local affiliates. On the podcast I am sharing the audio from on of these TV shows. Minimal editing and aired on TV in 1991. It features the comedy of Chris Hobbs, a short bit by "Baby Man" Bruce Baum (Los Angeles), and closing the show was Headliner Milt Abel (From Oregon in the 90's).

Chris Hobbs, Bruce Baum, and Milt Abel are distinguished stand-up comedians whose performances in the "Best of Standup Comedy Series" showcase their unique comedic styles and perspectives. Chris Hobbs, known for his witty humor and relatable anecdotes about marriage, often finds humor in everyday awkward situations, creating a personal connection with his audience. Bruce Baum, celebrated for his quirky and absurd humor, appreciates the rich history of comedy clubs and the art of storytelling, as seen in his famous parody hit "Marty Feldman Eyes." Milt Abel brings a light-hearted and self-deprecating style to the stage, delighting audiences with playful banter and affectionate stories about his family, all while maintaining a warm and engaging presence that highlights his genuine care for those around him.

(00:01:11) "Timeless Laughs: Comedy Gems Rewind"

(00:11:26) "Behind-the-Scenes Insights: 90s Comedians Stand-Up"

(00:17:08) Late-night Phone Call Sparks Dating Disaster Story

(00:23:34) Critical Temperature for Hydrogen Liquefaction

(00:25:22) Dating Mishaps and Hilarious Relationship Stories

Transcript

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Hi everyone. Welcome back to Standup Comedy. Your host and MC for over five years we've been diving deep into the world of standup comedy, sharing stories, insights and laughs with some of the most talented comedians, club owners and industry insiders around. Now we're taking you on a trip down memory lane with a special Best of Series. We've handpicked some of the most unforgettable moments, greatest laughs and top insights from past episodes. So whether you're a longtime listener or just joining us, these episodes are packed with gems you won't want to miss. So sit back, relax and get ready to relive the laughs. This is Stand Up Comedy. Your host at mc the Best of Edition. This is another episode of Standup Comedy, your host and emcee celebrating 40 plus years on the fringe of show business stories, interviews and comedy sets from the famous and not so famous. Here's your host and emcee Scott Edwards. Hello and welcome to this week's show. I hope you've been enjoying the podcast. We've been mixing it up with a combination of interviews and also comedy sets from entertainers that we work with from the 80s and 90s. The interviews of course are recent for the podcast, but we mix in stand up material from all the years that we had the comedy club chain Laughs Unlimited. This week I wanted to take it to another level. Some of you may or may not know, but I also produced television shows in the 80s and 90s. We did a one hour special for Fox. We also did a full 14 show series for the CBS affiliate in the late 80s. And in the early 90s we did a short 10 episode series for the ABC affiliate here in Sacramento called Live Almost from Laughs Unlimited. Now what I was going to do in this week's podcast is play the audio portion of that TV show with minimal editing so that you get a feel of what was happening. Now, not everything comes across on the podcast as it did on the TV show, especially visually of course. I think you get a feel of the energy that was happening live on stage and also came across on the TV show and I think that will pass through to the podcast. We'll see if you have comments on what you've been hearing as far as the historic comedy sets, the interviews or things I'm doing like this where it's a little bit different. Be sure to contact me through the website www.standupyourhostnmc.com and let me know what you think. I do want to keep this entertaining for everybody, so your feedback is very Important. So the audio version of this show, live almost from Laos Unlimited from 1991, does feature three terrific comics. One of our local comics, Chris Hobbs, you heard him earlier on a podcast. We also have the standup and prop comedy of Bruce Baum. Now, this doesn't come across as well through audio only, but Bruce is such a funny comic and was such an important part of our comedy history. I wanted to make sure to showcase him. Very funny guy. Did a lot of music. In fact, at the end of the set, you hear a little piece of Marty Feldman eyes, which was a part of his song and album that did get aired on radio. And closing the TV show, and thus closing this podcast, is a set from Milt Abel. He's a very funny comic. Started off in Los Angeles, now works out of Northern California, and I still work with him today on particular fundraisers and other events. He's a very funny guy and a great friend. At the end of this TV show, we used to do little short interviews with the entertainers, so you'll hear Chris Hobbs and Milt Abel talking with me. We ran this during the credits of the TV show. So, anyway, this will be something a little different, as I mentioned, if you have any comments or critique of how this podcast is going or what you think of these unique setups, contact me through the website and let me know what you think. All right. We hope you enjoy this. Something different, some great comedy from back in 1991. Here we go. Now. Would you like to take a laugh, have a giggle today? Send your troubles away can't you hear me say? Come on, let's laugh just you and me what a time it will be Ha ha, he he. You'll feel better, you'll see if you just laugh Take a laugh, have a giggle today Send your troubles away can't your image say Come on, let's laugh at Laughs Unlimited? Hey, now what do you say? Come on, let's laugh. It's Laughs Unlimited Almost Live, sponsored by the new Y92. Today's hits, yesterday's favorites, 92.5 on your FM dial. And now, here's your host, Scott Edwards. Hey. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Lamps Unlimited Almost Live right here, shot in old Sacramento. You guys having a good time? Hey, we've been here a while. We got a great show coming up for you tonight. Our headliners, a regular hero, Laughs Unlimited from Los Angeles. Milt Abel is here tonight. Let's hear from Milt Abel. Also, ladies and gentlemen, the Lapse Unlimited flashback. Later on in the show, but Right now, another special treatment. A comic who've gone to great expense to fly in from Citrus Heights, California. Hey, regular hero, Lance Unlimited. Please, a big round applause. Chris Hobbs right here. Chris Hobbs. Thanks very much. You guys look very nice tonight. Very lovely. Actually. I was going to try to look good for you, get a haircut today, but what happened? I went up to the beauty salon person. I said, look, I'm starting to get this receding hairline I'd like to cover up. And she's like, oh, no. What you want to do is you want to get a haircut that brings attention to that. You want people to focus in on that. I mean, it's like the same person who would tell Roseanne Barr, oh, wear a half shirt. That'd be good. So I'm originally from Sacramento, and I come back all the time. I was recently here for my grandmother's 75th birthday party, and we have one for her every year. It's really fun, except that her friends always come over because every year I see him, it's like the same thing every time. You know, they always say the same thing. It's like, my, chris, are you grown? Boy, you're handsome. I tell you, if I was 30 years younger, they're always so nice. I feel like I should be nice back. It's kind of like, gee, Mabel, you sure have shriveled up, but you're really pretty. I tell you, if I was about 100 years older. And every year, my grandma complains that she doesn't get good stuff for her birthday. So what I did this year is I saved up all the money that I've made in comedy so far, and I got her a blue velour shirt. She was so excited. She walked around the house all day going, dark blue, light blue, dark blue. I actually like how I did get my grandma some pretty good stuff for her birthday. Like, remember those little cars when you were growing up and you used to go, zoom, zoom, zoom, and then they would just go by themselves? I got her a walker like that. It's really great, man. You do it like 50 times. Zoom, zoom, zoom. Drags her right to Kmart. And my grandma always says that she never gets any phone calls. So for her birthday, I put one of those how am I driving Bumper stickers on her car phone's pretty much ringing off the hook now. And my grandma's so happy, every time the phone rings now, it's like, hello, yes, this is the old bag who can't merge. She's very happy. So I was Watching tv, dating guys. I saw the best TV commercial is for a cockroach spray. And I don't know. Their slogan was so cool. Their slogan was, we kill roaches where they live. Isn't that great that they don't go and embarrass them at work? That is so cool. And I was watching tv. Sound and music came on, which is great, because I like musicals. I think musicals are kind of silly, though. You ever watch musicals? They are all kind of the same. There is always two people just talking. All of a sudden, there is this huge orchestra from nowhere. And one of the people starts singing to the other person. And the other person doesn't act surprised or anything. I mean, just one time after the song, I'd like the other person to say, did you just make that up? Because that is a really good song. I was happy to see that Pee Wee Herman didn't get in much trouble. I think that was pretty great. I was actually comparing what happened to Pee Wee Herman to what happened to Rob Lowe. I don't know if you remember, Rob Lowe got in a little bit of trouble for, like, sleeping with underaged women. But most people in America didn't even care, especially men. Because men were thinking, God, I wish I was that guy. But with Pee Wee Herman, I think most guys are thinking, I am that guy. So I didn't want to be in love, though. I love dating. I really want to be in love. You have to admit, love is pretty weird, you know? Like, you ever been in love for, like, a week and then it just wears off? And that person actually physically changes right in front of you. You know what I mean? Look at that. A week later, what used to be this cute little freckle has somehow become this really gnarly mole. And that wandering eye is just somehow less exotic. I think the hardest part about love, though, is once you fall and actually tell somebody, because you really have to open up, you know, reveal stuff about yourself. It's really hard. You know, it's like, um. Honey, when I was six, I accidentally touched my dog's weenie. I love you so much. It's just a joke for my act, you guys. I never, you know, actually touched anything. I. I mean, I may have, you know, brushed up against it a couple times. Well, slow dancing. But, God, some of you are laughing. Thanks a Somebody. Just keep giving me this blank stare like you're having some kind of weird John Denver nightmare or something. Thanks a lot. I said that. You know, I said that last show, this lady actually stood up in the back, she said John Denver. Oh, no, no, no, no. He's much more masculine than you are. Oh, that's pretty funny. Well, she wasn't laughing later in the parking lot when I was beating her up, I'll tell you that. Anyway, you guys been a lot of fun than. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Hobbs. We'll be right back with Fort Common and Mill Dable right after this. Okay, right now I'm going to interrupt the TV show to explain a couple things. On that show, of course, there was actually TV commercials that were interrupting and breaking up the show. And we also had put in some sections to represent the history of the club. Now, this was in 1991, and we'd already been open over 10 years. And so we were showcasing some of the material in comics from the eighties decade of comedy at Laughs Unlimited. So this next short section features a very, very funny and close friend, Bruce Baum. Now, you may recognize the name Baby Man. Bruce Baum not only worked clubs all over the country, but was seen often on television. And he came out with a record that featured a hit single, Marty Feldman Eyes. That was a takeoff of a popular song. And I think you'll hear a little bit of that at the end of this on the TV show. And then we go into our headliner. So I'll just do this one interruption to explain how Bruce Baum ended up on this TV show and why it sounds a little bit different than the rest. Well, we hope you're enjoying this unique version of the podcast. Here we go, the very funny Bruce Baum. Ladies and gentlemen, when you're in a fix, when you're in a bind, there's only one crime fighter to call, and that's Baby Man. Baby man accidentally breastfed for 26 years. We're not talking about Batman chafed wussy. We're not even talking about Superman. A blue panda kisser. We're even talking about the flying heroine Wonder Woman over that Hare Krishna temple. Went over that Hare Krishna temple and tried to sell him some airline tickets. You know, people come up to us all the time and they say, Bruce, just how come you guys never do anything nice and easy? When we say, hey, whenever do we. Think nice and easy? We would nice and rough. Ready, girls? Her head is blowing fall. She says it's not her fault. She's the party. Welcome back to Laughs Unlimited Almost live, ladies and gentlemen. You guys are having fun, right? Yes, we hope so. Coming up on stage, our headliner tonight, one of the funniest guys has been working here a Long time. And he's a tad bitter about it. But anyway, he's from Los Angeles, California. Very, very funny. Please welcome a good friend of ours, Milt Abel. Right here. Milt Abel. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for that applause. That's encouraging. Thank you. I'm stoked, actually. It's good to be here. I'm glad to be away from home. I do not sleep well at home. My neighbors have a rooster that is blind. It has no idea when the sun rises. Takes shots at it all night long. Cock a door. I do have some good news. I recently got married. Thank you very much. Playing a monastery here. Yeah, it's wonderful. We had a lovely outdoor ceremony. Except for the sniper. That's her dad with a BB gun. I'm going to do it. Quit popping me, damn it. Actually, we weren't sure what kind of ceremony we wanted. She wanted some sort of sacrifice. We settled on my lifestyle. It's morally wrong to judge. And, well, you know. And we did a lot of traditional things. You know, I'll tell you something. I was a little nervous about that ceremony because. You know why I was nervous? They asked the guy first. So, you know, my wife had a tremendous potential to make me look incredibly stupid in front of everybody. You take this woman to death, you part. I do. And you take him. No way. But things went well. We did a lot of traditional things. She threw who bouquet to a bunch of her single lady friends who fought over that thing like an NBA rebound drill. I shot her guard at a bunch of my single guy friends and they would not touch that thing. They ducked out of the way and. Hit the ground in front of them. They just kicked it around like it was a dead snake. Look at that thing there. That's a garter snake there. That's what that is. Look at that. I think it's closer to you. We had a nice honeymoon, went to the Caribbean, two weeks, got a tremendous sunburn. Brown hair, pink body, white butt. I look like Neapolitan ice cream. Big scoop with two legs. But I'm glad to have that dating thing behind me. Boy, dating's tough, isn't it? Duh. I think the worst experience I had dating was one night. I spent the night with this gal. That's not the bad part. But the first night I was with her, she got a phone call

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00 in the morning. She goes, hi, Liz, I can't talk to you right now. I'm busy. No, I'm not going to tell you who it is. Guess. Duh. Duh. No, not them. Oh, I wish. No, I gave her a gift certificate to Planned Parenthood. Another cool gift. Bean bag chairs to grandparents. They never come out of again. If you notice. They're like Venus flytraps to grandparents. Grandma looks like a turnover turtle in there. Just somebody roll her over. Roll her, Bella. She'll fall asleep. Beanbag chairs. You know what my favorite piece of furniture is? And it has been even since I was a kid. I love this piece of furniture. The sofa bed. That bed inside of the couch. I thought that was as a kid. I thought that was neat. Now I know why. It's transformer furniture. I'm a bed. I'm a couch. You know, I did something that only kids do. And I felt so stupid about it. I left my jacket a couple weeks ago, I was up in Canada. Left my jacket during the course of the day. Just forgot it. Abandoned. Completely forgot about it. Remember as a kid you do this major article of clothing just left somewhere. Come home, Billy. Where's your jacket? And we don't do this as adults, do we, Thompson? We got that sales presentation. Why don't you get your jacket? You came the office with a jacket. I did. I didn't wear this. I want to go home right now. There's something we do as adults we didn't do as kids. We grunt more as we get older. Have you noticed that you grunt on more occasions anyway? Sure. You would never see a six year old kid grunt to pick something up like, are those my marbles? I'm never dropping those again. Gee, I think I pulled a muscle. Playing tag this morning. All right, I'm gonna warm up. I'm not five anymore. You know, after breakfast I just wanna take a nap. I just wanna. No, leave those cartoons on. I'm watching that. Who threw this in my mouth? Almost fell asleep there. I've been having trouble sleeping the rooster. And my wife told me recently that I yelled out in the middle of my sleep. What a scary thought. That your vocal cords will betray you when you're unconscious. The money's buried underneath the bird bath. What was that again? I'm worried about it because my dad has tremendous sleep disorders. Narcolepsy, that disease. We fall asleep for no apparent reason. Yeah. I had a professor in college as a carrier, so my dad went to a dream research center. Or at least he thinks he did. My dad and I are going to be better friends. I did not get along that well with my dad because he did all the disciplining. It wasn't fair, you know, I hope you parents out there split it up. Because it wasn't fair. I'd get in trouble. My mom would say, wait until your father gets home. I'd rather not. And it wasn't fair. My dad would come home and say, hi, son, I haven't seen you all day. Gotta beat you. You still love it, don't you? Oh, yeah. Cherry. Cherry, visit. And where's the logic in this? When parents would say, you could have hurt yourself, don't ever do that again. Well, thanks for taking the chance out of it. What's the point? What's the point of when you're running out of gas to lean forward in the car. What good does this really do? I'm cutting down the wind resistance here. This is helping like a knife right now. Superman does this. I'm a super saving gas guy now. I know maybe you're thinking, I'm this much closer to the gas station. If I could climb on that hood, I'd probably make it. Driving is an expensive thing. Auto insurance. Doesn't auto insurance tick everybody off in this room? You know what the problem is? We look on accidents these days as fortune rather than misfortune. And we're all suffering from that attitude. It really ticks me off. These people have these bumper cigarettes, say, hit me. I need the money. Take the car away. I'm paying a couple thousand dollars a year for auto insurance. I live in la. Apparently, LA is second only to Beirut in risk. And it gets worse. I have $1,000 duck, first thousand dollars fixed my own car. It's just going to cause more accidents. If somebody just dings me, I'm going to say, stay right there. Buckle up. I got to get my money's worth. All right, well, that's my show. Thanks very much, you guys. I'll see you later. Mill table. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be back with more of Chris H and Mill D for this important message. Unlimited Almost Live has been brought to you by the new Y92. Listen to Paul and Phil every weekday morning on 92.5 FM. And now back to your host, Scott Edwards. Hey, welcome back to the show. We're having a good time. Let's hear from Bill N. Do a great job. Come on, Milt. Thank you very much for being a. Part of the show. Oh, well, it was certainly my treat, Scott. They had, they wrote down a couple questions for me. It says, what temperature does hydrogen liquefy? I don't know. Who is secretary of defense under Woodrow Wilson? Sheila. Scott, I think you got the wrong questions. There. Mine are at the bottom. Oh, I'm sorry. Sit right here. I was afraid I'd get it wrong. Do you like large breasts on women? Yeah, those are mine. Well, yes. That's a total setup. I do. I don't have to drag it out. Yeah, it's nice. So, you know, how many breasts do. You like in a woman? Oh, whatever they come with. And what about Woodrow Wilson? What about. Oh, you know. And his secretary. That's what I want to know. I'm a happily married man. Although my wife has a black belt and pout. But in pout. Yeah, she's kind of one. When she gets mad, she doesn't yell. She gets much worse. Gets quiet. You know, you can just feel the heat. Heat coming off their body. You come in there and go, gee, it wasn't this warm outside. She must be ticked. And then. Chris, great set. Now, did you ever get a day job? Or did you ever have a day job or you'd been. I used to have a day job. It was pretty good. Swinging this way. Kind of lost it. Maybe you can. You ever done this? You guys, I'm sure you have. You ever. At work, you're, like, in a backroom storage area, you know, somewhere private, and you're shooting up heroin. Yeah. And someone walks in on you. You try to play it off by saying something like, hey, Matthew, I suck at darts, or what? That never happened to me. But it only happened once. That's it. Are you dating anyone now? Not really. I'm kind of a lull right now. Oh. I wanted to say it's nice to see you back in men's clothing. Oh, that's very good. Wonderful. Gets better every year like a fine wine. Gotta love the classics, don't you? Sure. So who are you dating? Everyone's trying to help me out. All my friends give me advice, you know, it's just they have no advice for me at all. What kind of advice are they giving you? Well, I say, like, you know, Christianity. Women go up to a woman who smokes, ask her for a cigarette. I. First of all, you know, how do you know? I loved women with yellow teeth who hack and wheeze a lot. Thanks. Like, you're laughing. Thanks a lot. Because usually there's, like, a woman in the back just going, that is not funny. I think she's right over there. She's very pretty. Well, that's good. Thanks, man. Is that your wife? There you go. As you tell. She's kind of quiet. Ex wife. Right now, you told me that you do comedy to meet people. Sure I do. One of my favorite lines is I seem to look around the I say, excuse me, I seem to have lost my morals here somewhere. It kind of works. But that's behind me. I'm married now, very happily married. I got a really sweet wife. Is she here? I heard she was here. Yeah, she is here. She's back there wheezing. That was Chris Hobbs and Milt Abel and doing a little sit down interview at the end of the TV show Live Almost from Laughs Unlimited, a 1991 television production I produced, and we hope you enjoyed this audio version of the show. It was something a little different, but I thought it'd be interesting for you, the podcast listener. Hey. We hope you have been enjoying all the various shows, interviews and comedy sets that we've been featuring on the podcast. Be sure to let us know what you think, share it, rate it, and we look forward to having you listen. Next week there's a new show each and every Sunday. Thanks a lot for listening. Bye. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Standup Comedy. Your host and emcee. For information on the show, merchandise and our sponsors, or to send comments to Scott, visit our website at ww standup. Your host and mc.com look for more episodes soon and enjoy the world of standup comedy. Visit a comedy showroom near.