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Demtri Martin borrowed from this guy!

What an amazing nugget of trash. Thanks so much for posting.

Hey Jeff Just watched your HBO special 😂😂 How are you these days? Are in still in Cali? My good friend Tony Valentine would really enjoy catching up with you Take care

Thanks so much for posting this. I’m the kid in the segment with Gene and Capt Frank Adams. So many great memories.

ABC messed up picking Rick Dees. I heard he sucked as a talk show host

Jeez... this guy is so hilarious and the room is dead.... RIP DENNIS... you are unique and irreplaceable

I have not even heard of these peopke!

You probably would have had to change the title to Jeff Marder or The Jeff Marder Show to avoid confusion in Central Time Zones. Like for instance if it is midnight In New York it is 11 in Chicago

This was taped in 1993 and the internet was actually in development at the time. Hell, prodigy was in existence!

Is that Leeza Gibbons announcing?

That should have made it. Rick Dees' show was a bust

All 5 comedians are awesome! But Dabney Coleman really sucks. Somebody ought to tie him up & leave him in the exec. chair fr. 9 to 5.

Tony looks like Charlie Robinson who played Mac on Night Court.

The Hudson Brothers should have taken what they could get. I like this better than No Relation. The show that FX had at the time.

Bill Bradley would lose that year in reelection.

They got itt wrong. It was the 1962 governor's election not 1964

Would have been good for syndication

Chris looks like Miles Silverberg!

Dennis had me in stiches so many times. I miss his routines. RIP

I had this recorded on a Betamax back in 89. Great show, good to see it again. Love Dennis! Great history here.

1989 was indeed a banner year for comedy and it was an honor to appear on "The Mondo Variety Show" with host Jeff Marder that year. I was the one who handfarted the themes from "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Green Acres". 10 years later the legendary Smokey Robinson would open for me on "The Donny & Marie Show". He did 55 minutes, I did the last 5.

Brilliant

You should've cut this right before you went to get the second mic and had part 2 start with that.

Hey Jeff, did Cosby steal that, "Oh, God. Oh, Baby," bit from you? Because I heard him do a somewhat extended version of that in the mid-to-late 90s. Also, it's very easy to see what might have been the origin of Craig Shoemaker's "Love Master" character in John Mulrooney's set, right at 24:35.

"I've got the Chrysler Building in me!" Dennis was truly one of a kind. My father had this special on VHS, and I watched it so many times I wore the tape out. I still randomly quote "college ga-ga-ga-wah" and "Anyway..."

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Are you related to Barry Marder?

Are you related to Barry Marder?

You'd think Jeff wrote the script for Forrest Gump.

Like Richard Jeni, same era, he fell into relative obscurity despite his national exposure. In Jeni's routines, I heard lines and concepts used in "Married With Children". In Marder's, lines from Forrest Gump. Ghost writers, paid script consultants or coincidence? I hope Jeff's happy, great set. As for the pope, probably in Nice...France.

I watched this 29 years ago and I still remember the fast food joke.

Putting it in an access time slot means going up against Wheel or Jeopardy

I remember watching this in the 80's. Damn, revisiting this, the very first comic brings up TWO seminal ideas from Forrest Gump. "Life is like a box of Chocolates" and "Shit Happens". Did this guy work on the script?

Jeff, to this day I stamp my foot and whisper "hurry" because of this.

More cowbell.

Not only does this man hold no grudges, he actually got me a job writing on the Dees show for summer fill-in host Brad Garrett. Thank you, sir.

I remember watching your stand-up and laughing so hard my tummy ached. Those were the days. I miss them so much. Comedy just isn’t the same anymore.

LOL Tripping down memory lane. Jeff, you look so young. 👏👏👏👏🤣😂👍

49:08 they are Jewish Not Jew it is a big difference if you are a Jewish it is a religion if you are a Jew you come from Africa he does not look any parts African LOL

I thought Don Reed did a great job with the Kung Fu ... That was too funny

RIP Dennis who also played "Guschi" on Quantum Leap.

8:54 Muddy Mudskipper!

Dennis is just great. Too bad he passed. RIP

This was the first special that I watched over and over again. Had it on VHS, played it to friends. So memorable. This made me fall in love with stand up, impressions, and WTF one liners. Bravo Jeff thank you.

That was great! I probably saw it back then... wow, got to be on Johnny! 😊

Great material.. 👍🏼

Nice hair,Jeff😊

Also Harris Peet ftw.

Shame this wasn't picked up. It's still a pretty cool pilot though.

Wow! This is like finding Walter White's stash! I remember this special. Where have you been?