Podcasting Day: Pink Lady and Jeff with Dan McQuade 🌭
Added 2023-10-04 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
This week we’re joined by Defector’s Dan McQuade, the Man Who Killed Bill Cosby, to finish the searing Jeff Altman trilogy we didn’t realize we were doing. It began with the Thunder in Paradise episode where Hulk Hogan used his smartboat to blast through time and save the Confederate Army, it continued on Baywatch’s Scorcher where every plotline from every show happened simultaneously and were ignored, it concludes with Pink Lady and Jeff, the Disco variety show that aired years after both of those things died. Listen here, or anywhere! That’s how podcasts work.
Pink Lady and Jeff was a vehicle for two stunning Japanese music superstars, Pink Lady’s Mie and Kei, so it’s too bad it aired in the US because nobody had ever heard of them. It also starred Jeff Altman, so it’s too bad it aired anywhere because nobody had ever heard of him. The show was an insane money furnace based off of 1980 America’s demand for Japanese pop, and Jeff Altman’s hilarious impressions, neither of which existed. There were no punchlines, only frantic scene changes and quaint racism. Jeff Altman says he has sexy round eyes, he does a blackccent, he makes pregnant cow noises, he meets Sherman Hemsley, he gets a thorough bathing by both ladies, he is cockblocked by a sumo. They just don’t make them like this anymore and to prove why, here’s Pink Lady and Jeff!
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Comments
I’m a bit older than you guys.. I remember watching this show, but I kept thinking it was the Peanuts (too many Godzilla movies)…
Robert Murdock
2024-07-12 07:40:41 +0000 UTCIf you're talking about oversaturation/death of variety shows in the late 1970s, you have to talk about how _The Muppet Show_ was the apotheosis of that whole genre
Daphne Lawless
2023-10-07 22:46:09 +0000 UTCI remember watching this as I was thrilled to see a Blondie video (for Shayla) on the show. I recall absolutely nothing else about it.
MIchael Branch
2023-10-07 21:47:20 +0000 UTCYeah... yeah, you can.
Jeff Orasky
2023-10-04 16:57:16 +0000 UTCYou can add "and Jeff" to almost anything to make it sound dissapointing.
latsöm
2023-10-04 14:27:14 +0000 UTCGreat, yet another episode where I'm terrified my headphones are loud enough for other people at the supermarket to think I'm in a hate group.
Brendan McGinley
2023-10-04 13:16:41 +0000 UTC
