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Speaker 6 (01:33):
I'm planning ahead for you because earlier in the show
we had the absolutely unbelievable Sarah Brightman on the show,
and Sarah Brightman is playing in Denver on December fourth,
which is.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
A Wednesday, so you should go do that.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And then the next night on December fifth, what you
do is you go to Paramount Theater in Denver and
go check out Mody.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Mody Rosenfeld just an.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Unbelievably funny comedian, probably quite a different kind of comedy
than you've experienced unless you're an old jew who grew
up in the Catskills and just such.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
A funny dude.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
And I'm so happy to have Mody join me on
KOA right now. Mody Rosenfeld, welcome to KOA.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Thanks for having me, my god, Rosenfeld Kamensky, this sounds
like a minion.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
This sounds like the board of Congregation Beth Shalon.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Indeed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Indeed, So I grew up not not politically, but religiously conservative.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What about you.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Traditional?
Speaker 7 (02:46):
I mean, we just we had everything in the house,
and we just I was able to experience everything just
so I can make fun of it and have fun
with it, and so kind of more also conservative orthodoxy
kind of yeah, I mean, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have bake in the house?
Speaker 8 (03:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, okay, right, no, I.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Can I barely hear you.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
But we had we had two types of plates, meat, milk,
and then for the non kosher.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
All right, So tell tell people about a little of
your early life story.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Where did you start? When'd you move a little of that? I?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Uh, well, I began, you know, I was in investment
bankings but thirty years ago. And then my friends said, Duke,
you know I used to imitate the secretaries that were
on the that I used to work with, And my
friends said, do that on stage, and he opened me
up to doing an open mic night at the at
a small comedy club on seventy eighth and Broadway, and
later on in December, five blocks down, I'm doing three
(03:46):
sold out shows at the Beacon Theater. That said three
thousand seat theater, three shows sold out. That's how things
have evolved in between that. I've done everything from the
cat Skills to comedy clubs to UH to Say the Gods,
to churches.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
To everything I've done.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
And I'm looking really, really looking forward to Denver. It's
a market we didn't hit yet hard and we're doing
the Paramount and it's selling well and it's gonna be
an amazing evening.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, it is gonna be an amazing evening. You're gonna
you're gonna love it.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Here.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Tell tell us a little about your childhood. Where were
you born, when did you move?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
I was actually born in Israel.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
We moved here when I was seven years old to America,
and and you know, I got the we lived in
New York. It was like moving back into Israel. Uh,
the area that we lived in, and so it was
a very Jewish esc group growing up. And uh, you
know when people are watching my comedy that they're like,
(04:46):
they're a portal into the Jewish world through laughter and pride.
So that's basically what you're going to be seeing that
night and everybody. And what's amazing is that my audience
is now since the comedy special I released No Your Audience,
We've begun to have a lot more audience that aren't.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Jewish coming to the shows. Yeah, and they are loving it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And folks, you can probably easiest place to start to
get your tickets is Paramount Denver dot com and you
can just look on their on their calendar and you'll
find MODI on December fifth and you can click on that.
I think it'll take you over to Ticketmaster, but it's
it's just easiest to start at Paramount Denver dot com.
Now I have the same I have the same twenty
(05:27):
three and me story as you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I did twenty three and me, and it came back
ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Points something percent Ashkenazi and and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was hoping for a little Cherokee or something.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
I was voping for everything.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I was all my friends were getting all these amazing results, Norwegian, Scandinavian, Navajo, Indian,
all of this stuff. My husband's got like thirty different things.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Going on there.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And me it comes back ninety eight point eight percent Ashkanazid.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
You that was it. That was all it was so depressing.
It was so it was so.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I was like, really I needed that to tell me that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
So it just the way you throw in there. Oh
that's that's just like so classic.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
It's just it's just.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You know, if you're like, if you're not Jewish, yeah,
it is it really, it really is. And folks like,
if you haven't hung out with a lot of Jews,
like you gotta we gotta laugh because otherwise we'd be
crying all the time. And mody is just the best
and kind of I think introducing, you know, what Jews
are like to people who aren't Jewish in a way
(06:37):
that is so true and funny at the same time.
And maybe it's funny because it's true.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
It's it's true, it's funny, and it's a community, you know,
the Jews that are anywhere I'm performing, they come. It's
like a community and not just fans like, hey, there's
a Jewish event happening.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Modi's coming, let's go see him and we laugh.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
And especially in the times now that are just so
crazy with all you see in the news, the name
of the tour is called pause for Laughter.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
You've got to take a little pause, laugh.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And then get back into your new cycle whatever you're doing,
and uh, you know you've got to take some time
to laugh. And this is an amazing way to do it.
And it's again not just Jewish, it's it's for everybody,
and uh, it's an amazing The tour has been going great.
The materials are.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Brand new, all new from that hour.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
It's my and we're adjusting it and tweaking it and
having fun with it. At a place like the Paramount
Theater is like the exact place of comic wants to
do it.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You know. It's like it's a nice size room. It's
not under any umbrella of some organization. It's like it's
it's a comedy night at the Paramount.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
And the tickets are on modilive dot com or the
like you said, the Paramount Theater.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So get a few.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
And I always tell people be the friend that brings
the friends to the comedy show. If you don't just
get two tickets, get four six, invite your friends, they'll
be like oh what, yes, yes, yeah, common we should
defer go to comedy Instead of singing in some restaurant
ordering a season salad with chicken. You're singing in a
night you having fun with your friends. You have a
good laugh. It's it's so it's such a going to
(08:10):
comedy show. Is that the best thing you could do?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I couldn't agree with you more. I love comedy. I
go a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I go to comedy works a lot as well, and
I just I love it. And I love the fact
by the way that you're like selling tickets that that's
that's as you should do, like you said in your
previous specially you are not a nonprofit organization.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Exactly. We don't joke about it. You know.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
It's funny my husband on the road. You know, I'm
old school. I'm old school comedian. My husband produces these shows.
So he's been going out and thanking the audience for
for for buying tickets, and he says, he goes, thanks
for buying tickets so that I can buy stuff. And
it's it's exactly what say, isn't the special.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's fantastic And so yeah, Mody Live.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That's probably easier even than Paramount Denver, md I. By
the way, m O d I live dot comun buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
There for December. It's Thursday, December fifth at.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
The Paramount in Denver and one of the one of
the things in your in your special, in your YouTube special,
remind me.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Remind me of the name of the YouTube special I
just watched it. In the title is Escaping Me.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
It's called Know your Audience, Know your Audience, Know your Audience.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So one of the things I love to Know your
Audience was.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Your description of a Jew watching England after the death
of Queen Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Can you talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
No.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
The comparison is is that you know, when Jews die,
we bury them right away, right away.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They're in the ground within twenty four hours. And uh,
the joke and it's.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Like, it's not a joke, it's a whole skit I
do because I don't really do one liner. Yeah, it's
about how long it took them to bury that queen
and I act it out and we do it. But
you know it's not gonna be there on Denver because
that's that's in the special.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Watch that.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Watch that at home. Prepare yourself, do your homework. Watch
Know your Audience on YouTube. It's free. It's free.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
We put it on YouTube so everybody can get to it.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Know your Audience. And then and it comes see the
new Hour. You're gonna have the best time in your lives.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
It was.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
It was just really funny hearing you tell that story
because I think and and I didn't realize. You know,
maybe it's because I'm Jewish, but I had a similar
reaction to you, Like they're rolling the queen around from
one place to another for a for a few weeks,
and it's like I get.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It, but it's still odd.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Oh god, it's it's so I'm just saying that for
a Jewish person, like I built it up on how
we buried right away. Yeah, it was so not how
the families having fights behind her and what they're saying,
and it's a it was such a.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Fun bit to watch everything with the Crown.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
By the way, I did a Hasidic character. I played
it and I talked about the Crown and people in
England loved it. We just did the Palladium in London. Wow,
what a three thousand people all together.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
It was so good. If we sold it out, we
couldn't get another date.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
So we're going back in February and we just sold
that one out too.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Wow, that's faculable.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I mean, Denver, people are buying tickets. You get your
tickets too well to be a market that I go to,
you know, whatever it is every twelve months or eighteen months.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
You can forward to building up this market.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It should be. Denver is a great market for comedy.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
And you know, I don't know if you're ever open
to playing you know, a smaller place than Paramount, but
Comedy Works is one of the great clubs in America.
It's there with the Comedy Seller and whatever. The biggest
clubs are in la As like the favorite places that
the biggest comedians like to play. Even though it's not
a huge room. I'm sure you know all those people.
(11:55):
But if you don't have to introduce you.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I know my friend David tell there my a lot
of comics.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I know broke that that room.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
I don't know my audience somehow appreciates the theater more.
I don't know what is I love Listen, I love
a comedy club. This is It's like it's like when
you're in a law firm.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
You know, there's the lawyer. He's the lawyer in the
law firm.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
When you when you're in a performing someone's country club,
you're in their club, you're on their turf. When you're
in a theater, there's something about the fact that it's
a neutral ground, the performers coming, you're coming. It's it's
like there's a neutral ground to it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
That that's also like a type of excitement.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I like that makes a lot of sense. All right,
just a couple more minutes.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I want to ask you about your previous career a
little bit, because I.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Guess you were in investment banking.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
My my career before radio was waving my hands and
yelling on the options exchange floor in Chicago. So that
was what I did straight straight out of college. So
my that I'm a markets guy, and so I'm kind
of curious, which is not the same as investment banking,
but I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'm curious about your previous job a little bit.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Wait, but let's talk about yours for a minute.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
That's the kind of job that fits radio because there's
no moment of silence for you, there's no dead air.
You are constantly screaming and yelling and bidding and bidding
and asking and bidding and bidding.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That's it. That really fits a radio personality. With where
us you can't have dead air.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Investment banking is a different thing completely, and I used
to be there. I used to my husband said, I
was a personality higher. I wasn't like that big of
a banker, but I would be able to know the
people and work well with everybody.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
And the people that I worked with.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
It was an international division, so there was all these
accents and over the top people, and I used to
imitate them for my friends when.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
We got home.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Let'd be sitting at a restaurant a bar, and I
would just do them and they were like, you've got
to do this on stage, and they they set it
up for me and open mic night. They bought a
few friends and I did all these invitations on stage.
And the owner of the club back then, Kerrie Hoffman
at the new Stand up in New York, which was
just recently bought by somebody else. That's where I began,
(14:14):
and that's how it began, just because I was always
like at work, I wasn't looking at the stock exchange.
I was looking at these secretaries and how they were
talking and how they were speaking and the big hair,
the long nails that I was. I was mesmerized by them,
and I bought it on stage and that's how it happened.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, well, folks, Mody is coming to play Thursday, December
twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I guess that's just two weeks from today.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, December fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I said, yeah, December fifth. I said it wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Two weeks from today though, is correct to December fifth,
two weeks from today.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So gosh, almost December already. So mody live, m od
I live.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
But let me ask you quitt.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, after we do this interview, are you plugging somebody
for December sixth?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I gotta go look at you.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
I just pluged someone for December four.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
I know, but dude, you're in pretty good company. The
previous plug was Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Do you know who she is?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Of course, yeah, of course, so you.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It's not bad not bad company's I just wanted to
set it. Also, just congratulations on your success. I mean
to go from you know, doing accents and a little
club on stand up night to sold out show after
sold out show and specials and it's just absolutely freaking fabulous.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And I'm so glad that a member of the tribe
is doing this.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And there's actually a long tradition of Jewish Jewish comedians,
but you're right in there.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
I appreciate that. Thank you. Very very much for saying that.
Very sweet of you. I hope to see all of
your audience at the show on the fifth of December.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
M O d I Live dot com or Paramount Denver
dot com to get tickets.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Could you talk to you, Mody, thank you, thank you
so much.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
All right, all right, So that's fabulous, Moody Rosenfeld.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He's man. That dude's really really funny.
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Speaker 6 (01:33):
I'm planning ahead for you because earlier in the show
we had the absolutely unbelievable Sarah Brightman on the show,
and Sarah Brightman is playing in Denver on December fourth,
which is.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
A Wednesday, so you should go do that.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
And then the next night on December fifth, what you
do is you go to Paramount Theater in Denver and
go check out Mody.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Mody Rosenfeld just an.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Unbelievably funny comedian, probably quite a different kind of comedy
than you've experienced unless you're an old jew who grew
up in the Catskills and just such.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
A funny dude.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
And I'm so happy to have Mody join me on
KOA right now. Mody Rosenfeld, welcome to KOA.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Thanks for having me, my god, Rosenfeld Kamensky, this sounds
like a minion.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
This sounds like the board of Congregation Beth Shalon.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Indeed.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Indeed, So I grew up not not politically, but religiously conservative.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What about you.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
Traditional?
Speaker 7 (02:46):
I mean, we just we had everything in the house,
and we just I was able to experience everything just
so I can make fun of it and have fun
with it, and so kind of more also conservative orthodoxy
kind of yeah, I mean, did you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have bake in the house?
Speaker 8 (03:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
No, okay, right, no, I.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Can I barely hear you.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
But we had we had two types of plates, meat, milk,
and then for the non kosher.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
All right, So tell tell people about a little of
your early life story.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Where did you start? When'd you move a little of that? I?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Uh, well, I began, you know, I was in investment
bankings but thirty years ago. And then my friends said, Duke,
you know I used to imitate the secretaries that were
on the that I used to work with, And my
friends said, do that on stage, and he opened me
up to doing an open mic night at the at
a small comedy club on seventy eighth and Broadway, and
later on in December, five blocks down, I'm doing three
(03:46):
sold out shows at the Beacon Theater. That said three
thousand seat theater, three shows sold out. That's how things
have evolved in between that. I've done everything from the
cat Skills to comedy clubs to UH to Say the Gods,
to churches.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
To everything I've done.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
And I'm looking really, really looking forward to Denver. It's
a market we didn't hit yet hard and we're doing
the Paramount and it's selling well and it's gonna be
an amazing evening.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, it is gonna be an amazing evening. You're gonna
you're gonna love it.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Here.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Tell tell us a little about your childhood. Where were
you born, when did you move?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
I was actually born in Israel.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
We moved here when I was seven years old to America,
and and you know, I got the we lived in
New York. It was like moving back into Israel. Uh,
the area that we lived in, and so it was
a very Jewish esc group growing up. And uh, you
know when people are watching my comedy that they're like,
(04:46):
they're a portal into the Jewish world through laughter and pride.
So that's basically what you're going to be seeing that
night and everybody. And what's amazing is that my audience
is now since the comedy special I released No Your Audience,
We've begun to have a lot more audience that aren't.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Jewish coming to the shows. Yeah, and they are loving it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And folks, you can probably easiest place to start to
get your tickets is Paramount Denver dot com and you
can just look on their on their calendar and you'll
find MODI on December fifth and you can click on that.
I think it'll take you over to Ticketmaster, but it's
it's just easiest to start at Paramount Denver dot com.
Now I have the same I have the same twenty
(05:27):
three and me story as you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I did twenty three and me, and it came back
ninety nine.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Points something percent Ashkenazi and and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was hoping for a little Cherokee or something.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
I was voping for everything.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I was all my friends were getting all these amazing results, Norwegian, Scandinavian, Navajo, Indian,
all of this stuff. My husband's got like thirty different things.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Going on there.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
And me it comes back ninety eight point eight percent Ashkanazid.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
You that was it. That was all it was so depressing.
It was so it was so.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I was like, really I needed that to tell me that.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
So it just the way you throw in there. Oh
that's that's just like so classic.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
It's just it's just.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
You know, if you're like, if you're not Jewish, yeah,
it is it really, it really is. And folks like,
if you haven't hung out with a lot of Jews,
like you gotta we gotta laugh because otherwise we'd be
crying all the time. And mody is just the best
and kind of I think introducing, you know, what Jews
are like to people who aren't Jewish in a way
(06:37):
that is so true and funny at the same time.
And maybe it's funny because it's true.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
It's it's true, it's funny, and it's a community, you know,
the Jews that are anywhere I'm performing, they come. It's
like a community and not just fans like, hey, there's
a Jewish event happening.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Modi's coming, let's go see him and we laugh.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
And especially in the times now that are just so
crazy with all you see in the news, the name
of the tour is called pause for Laughter.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
You've got to take a little pause, laugh.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And then get back into your new cycle whatever you're doing,
and uh, you know you've got to take some time
to laugh. And this is an amazing way to do it.
And it's again not just Jewish, it's it's for everybody,
and uh, it's an amazing The tour has been going great.
The materials are.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Brand new, all new from that hour.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
It's my and we're adjusting it and tweaking it and
having fun with it. At a place like the Paramount
Theater is like the exact place of comic wants to
do it.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You know. It's like it's a nice size room. It's
not under any umbrella of some organization. It's like it's
it's a comedy night at the Paramount.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
And the tickets are on modilive dot com or the
like you said, the Paramount Theater.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So get a few.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
And I always tell people be the friend that brings
the friends to the comedy show. If you don't just
get two tickets, get four six, invite your friends, they'll
be like oh what, yes, yes, yeah, common we should
defer go to comedy Instead of singing in some restaurant
ordering a season salad with chicken. You're singing in a
night you having fun with your friends. You have a
good laugh. It's it's so it's such a going to
(08:10):
comedy show. Is that the best thing you could do?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I couldn't agree with you more. I love comedy. I
go a lot.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I go to comedy works a lot as well, and
I just I love it. And I love the fact
by the way that you're like selling tickets that that's
that's as you should do, like you said in your
previous specially you are not a nonprofit organization.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
Exactly. We don't joke about it. You know.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
It's funny my husband on the road. You know, I'm
old school. I'm old school comedian. My husband produces these shows.
So he's been going out and thanking the audience for
for for buying tickets, and he says, he goes, thanks
for buying tickets so that I can buy stuff. And
it's it's exactly what say, isn't the special.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's fantastic And so yeah, Mody Live.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That's probably easier even than Paramount Denver, md I. By
the way, m O d I live dot comun buy tickets.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
There for December. It's Thursday, December fifth at.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
The Paramount in Denver and one of the one of
the things in your in your special, in your YouTube special,
remind me.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Remind me of the name of the YouTube special I
just watched it. In the title is Escaping Me.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
It's called Know your Audience, Know your Audience, Know your Audience.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So one of the things I love to Know your
Audience was.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Your description of a Jew watching England after the death
of Queen Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Can you talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
No.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
The comparison is is that you know, when Jews die,
we bury them right away, right away.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They're in the ground within twenty four hours. And uh,
the joke and it's.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Like, it's not a joke, it's a whole skit I
do because I don't really do one liner. Yeah, it's
about how long it took them to bury that queen
and I act it out and we do it. But
you know it's not gonna be there on Denver because
that's that's in the special.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Watch that.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
Watch that at home. Prepare yourself, do your homework. Watch
Know your Audience on YouTube. It's free. It's free.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
We put it on YouTube so everybody can get to it.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Know your Audience. And then and it comes see the
new Hour. You're gonna have the best time in your lives.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
It was.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
It was just really funny hearing you tell that story
because I think and and I didn't realize. You know,
maybe it's because I'm Jewish, but I had a similar
reaction to you, Like they're rolling the queen around from
one place to another for a for a few weeks,
and it's like I get.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
It, but it's still odd.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Oh god, it's it's so I'm just saying that for
a Jewish person, like I built it up on how
we buried right away. Yeah, it was so not how
the families having fights behind her and what they're saying,
and it's a it was such a.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Fun bit to watch everything with the Crown.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
By the way, I did a Hasidic character. I played
it and I talked about the Crown and people in
England loved it. We just did the Palladium in London. Wow,
what a three thousand people all together.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
It was so good. If we sold it out, we
couldn't get another date.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
So we're going back in February and we just sold
that one out too.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Wow, that's faculable.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I mean, Denver, people are buying tickets. You get your
tickets too well to be a market that I go to,
you know, whatever it is every twelve months or eighteen months.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
You can forward to building up this market.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It should be. Denver is a great market for comedy.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
And you know, I don't know if you're ever open
to playing you know, a smaller place than Paramount, but
Comedy Works is one of the great clubs in America.
It's there with the Comedy Seller and whatever. The biggest
clubs are in la As like the favorite places that
the biggest comedians like to play. Even though it's not
a huge room. I'm sure you know all those people.
(11:55):
But if you don't have to introduce you.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I know my friend David tell there my a lot
of comics.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I know broke that that room.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
I don't know my audience somehow appreciates the theater more.
I don't know what is I love Listen, I love
a comedy club. This is It's like it's like when
you're in a law firm.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
You know, there's the lawyer. He's the lawyer in the
law firm.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
When you when you're in a performing someone's country club,
you're in their club, you're on their turf. When you're
in a theater, there's something about the fact that it's
a neutral ground, the performers coming, you're coming. It's it's
like there's a neutral ground to it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
That that's also like a type of excitement.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I like that makes a lot of sense. All right,
just a couple more minutes.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I want to ask you about your previous career a
little bit, because I.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Guess you were in investment banking.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
My my career before radio was waving my hands and
yelling on the options exchange floor in Chicago. So that
was what I did straight straight out of college. So
my that I'm a markets guy, and so I'm kind
of curious, which is not the same as investment banking,
but I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I'm curious about your previous job a little bit.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Wait, but let's talk about yours for a minute.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
That's the kind of job that fits radio because there's
no moment of silence for you, there's no dead air.
You are constantly screaming and yelling and bidding and bidding
and asking and bidding and bidding.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That's it. That really fits a radio personality. With where
us you can't have dead air.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Investment banking is a different thing completely, and I used
to be there. I used to my husband said, I
was a personality higher. I wasn't like that big of
a banker, but I would be able to know the
people and work well with everybody.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
And the people that I worked with.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
It was an international division, so there was all these
accents and over the top people, and I used to
imitate them for my friends when.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
We got home.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Let'd be sitting at a restaurant a bar, and I
would just do them and they were like, you've got
to do this on stage, and they they set it
up for me and open mic night. They bought a
few friends and I did all these invitations on stage.
And the owner of the club back then, Kerrie Hoffman
at the new Stand up in New York, which was
just recently bought by somebody else. That's where I began,
(14:14):
and that's how it began, just because I was always
like at work, I wasn't looking at the stock exchange.
I was looking at these secretaries and how they were
talking and how they were speaking and the big hair,
the long nails that I was. I was mesmerized by them,
and I bought it on stage and that's how it happened.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, well, folks, Mody is coming to play Thursday, December
twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I guess that's just two weeks from today.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, December fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I said, yeah, December fifth. I said it wrong.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Two weeks from today though, is correct to December fifth,
two weeks from today.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So gosh, almost December already. So mody live, m od
I live.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
But let me ask you quitt.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, after we do this interview, are you plugging somebody
for December sixth?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I gotta go look at you.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
I just pluged someone for December four.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
I know, but dude, you're in pretty good company. The
previous plug was Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Do you know who she is?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Of course, yeah, of course, so you.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And Sarah Brightman.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It's not bad not bad company's I just wanted to
set it. Also, just congratulations on your success. I mean
to go from you know, doing accents and a little
club on stand up night to sold out show after
sold out show and specials and it's just absolutely freaking fabulous.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And I'm so glad that a member of the tribe
is doing this.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
And there's actually a long tradition of Jewish Jewish comedians,
but you're right in there.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
I appreciate that. Thank you. Very very much for saying that.
Very sweet of you. I hope to see all of
your audience at the show on the fifth of December.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
M O d I Live dot com or Paramount Denver
dot com to get tickets.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Could you talk to you, Mody, thank you, thank you
so much.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
All right, all right, So that's fabulous, Moody Rosenfeld.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
He's man. That dude's really really funny.
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