- [Kelly] All right.
I'm back with Ayo Edebiri and Jay Leno.
Give it up y'all.
(Audience Claps)
- So both are comedians who have played all kinds of gigs.
I doubt they have ever performed in front of a PTA meeting,
or I don't know, maybe you have.
Have you ever performed?
- Me? - [Kelly] PTA meeting?
- [Jay] Well, I, I mean, I've done school fun, you know?
- [Kelly] Okay.
- [Jay] Yeah, that kind of thing.
- [Kelly] School functions.
- Wasn't actually a PTA meeting.
- Well, then no is the answer.
(Everybody laughing)
- [Jay] That would be no. Yeah.
- [Kelly] I'm just kidding.
- No.
- It's the tequila.
So PTA meetings are the venue of choice for my next guests.
They call themselves the "Bad Momz of Comedy"
and they're from Chicago.
They're real mamas who do standup,
and they have a lot of fans here.
(Kelly makes gunshot sounds)
They, they do real standup for parents just like them,
and they are hilarious.
Please welcome Orly, Leah and Colleen.
(audience claps and cheers)
- So, Orly I'm going to start with you.
So you started this, and you're new to comedy right?
- Yeah I've been doing comedy a year and...
- [Kelly] Wow.
- I know, I walked into a comedy club
and I saw a flyer to do standup comedy
and there were those little like slits that you can take.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - And I took the whole flyer.
I'm like, this is for me.
I'm doing this.
And it was great.
Now, I mean, I have two teenagers.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - [Orly] And so I just needed,
- [Kelly] It's a lot of comedy there.
- I needed someone to listen to me for five minutes
- Cause they don't.
- Right.
(All laughing)
Exactly. You know, you know, my pains.
(Kelly laughing)
- I've had a teenage,
I've had all kinds of levels in my house, or ages.
Levels? What? Tequila.
(All laughing)
Do, ♪ tequila.
So wait, do your jokes land differently
when y'all do PTA meeting, meetings?
Like how do they,
- Absolutely. - [Kelly] How does that go?
- Absolutely. No, they hit, well,
so I've been doing comedy for 13 years
and I was doing comedy before I became a mom.
I did comedy while I was pregnant,
and then I'm doing comedy now.
And so, and I run an open mic.
And so I'll practice my open mic jokes, like at my open mic,
I'll, you know, and nobody will laugh.
And I'll just be like, well, that's gonna kill on Thursday.
You guys just don't know.
You know like. - You don't get it.
You have no, like, I do this joke,
like a sleep training joke.
And then I say, you know,
my, my husband will wake up in the morning and say,
"Oh my God, Leah, the, the baby slept through the night."
And I'm like, "No, Michael, you slept through the night."
(All laughing)
- "The baby and I finished season three, "Game of Thrones.""
(Everyone laughing)
- Exactly. Exactly. Totally. - You know what I mean, like?
- Yeah. My minivan jokes do really well at these shows.
They don't do so well at the open mics all the time,
but they do in these mom shows.
- But see, I'm a mama, I get all of these,
I get all of these.
So, wait, so Colleen,
what's the part you enjoy most about this group?
- I mean, other than the camaraderie,
and the community that we've created,
I feel like we're, we're bringing comedy
to a group of people
who don't normally have comedy geared toward them.
- Yeah.
- They're sort of underserved, you know,
in the comedy world.
So it's great to be able to find an audience
that you can just walk in,
do all these great parent jokes, they get it.
You walk out.
Yeah. You walk out feeling really good at the end of a show.
- [Kelly] Yeah. - And yeah,
everybody's got kids, and parents have,
kids have parents, and parents have kids.
And we can all laugh at each other.
- And moms are funny.
- Yeah. - Women are funny.
- And moms are funny, and parenthood is funny.
- We become funny cause life is hard.
- [Women] Yeah.
- And parenthood is hard.
- Yes, yes.
- If you don't laugh, you're gonna cry.
And it's been great.
They love it.
And they have a camaraderie too.
It's a PTA event without like the PTA stuff.
- [Kelly] Yeah, yeah.
- You know,
no one's asking you to volunteer or bake cookies.
They're just like, I get a drink and laugh.
- Yeah. - Sounds good.
- Way more palatable. - Love this school.
(woman laughing)
- And fine, judge me, I'm totally gonna buy the cookies.
So put them on a plate
(Women laughing)
- [Kelly] I'm there.
So Jay, Ayo, do you agree that comedy needs more voices?
- You know,
it's the most basic form of human, human communication.
With the exception, if you took away the mic,
it hasn't changed in a thousand years.
It's someone talking and other people listening and,
no, I think it's great.
I mean, that that's, I, I think it's a terrific idea.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- And it's, it's really not that unique.
- A lot of people have been doing it,
without realizing they're doing it.
Because if you're any kind of public speaker,
and you go to speak to a group of parents,
you always want to have an ice breaker.
You know, they talk about an icebreaker,
and you always watch those bad people.
The joke gets no laugh and they go,
"but seriously as we move forward."
You know, all they do is provide the laughs
that the others don't, you know?
- Yeah. I love that.
What do you feel about-
Did you feel like you had like,
comedians kinda look up to you, like, when you were young?
- Yeah. I, I feel like it, it is,
I don't know as time goes on,
there's just like more and more comedians who you get to see
and be like, oh yeah, it's nice.
It's nice to feel like representation.
It's nice to have people who make jokes and or, you know,
provide work where it's like,
you feel like you can relate to it.
- Yeah.
- And people do like have this preconception that like,
Oh, well you're a woman, oh, you're black,
Oh you're X, you're Y or Z.
So you're only gonna be able to tell jokes
about this experience.
And it's like, I'm a human being and I'm funny,
just like you are.
- [Women] Yes - I, I got jokes.
(All clapping and cheering)
- Yes, Yes.
- But that's like comedy.
I feel like music, comedy, like certain things transcend.
Before the show,
Jay graciously agreed to meet with Orly
to offer some advice before she performs.
So check it out.
- I am about to go meet Jay Leno.
(band show music plays)
- Hi
- How are you, Jay, nice to meet you.
How you doing?
- Jay, Mr Leno, so nice to meet you.
- Mr Leno, that's me. No, no.
Sit down. Sit down.
You want a laugh every six to nine seconds.
That's generally a good ratio.
And after about seven or eight minutes,
I can move on to another topic.
You're a career woman, you've run a business.
There's a lot of laughs in there.
Any stories that you have about your children,
about your job, that you've can incorporate
on stage without obviously being embarrassing or...
- Right.
- You know, risking something.
I think you're well on your way and have fun with it.
- I am.
- And try to get as much stage time as you can.
- Yep.
- I really appreciate every second you have spent with me.
Ah, sweet.
- Good luck.
- Thank you, thank you.
It was such a pleasure, thank you.
- We'll see what happens.
(audience clapping and cheering)
- All right.
So Ayo, what about you?
From a female's perspective, you know,
Any last minute advice?
- Oh. No.
(Ayo laughing)
- She said ♪ No.
- [Ayo] Just have fun. I don't know.
- Like don't throw up lady.
- Yeah, probably that, probably that.
Just keep it all.
- There's still the smell of pork cake.
- Write joke, tell joke, get check.
(women laugh, audience clap)
- [Kelly] All right so-
- I love the last, I love the last piece of advice.
- Yeah exactly, get check. - Get check, I love that.
So wait, Orly,
do you want to do a few jokes for us right now?
- I would love to. - [Kelly] Okay, let's do it.
- Do you guys want? - [Kelly] Let's do it.
(Everyone clapping and cheering)
- [Kelly] All right everybody.
- Oh, I love that. This gentleman just handed me a mic.
He's like, "You got this girl."
How many moms do we have in the audience today?
(audience members clap and cheer)
Oh, those are not cheers of, "Yay, I'm a mom."
Those are cheers of, "Yay. I'm away from them today."
(audience laughing)
Those are cheers of, "I put on real clothes, with buttons."
(audience laughing)
Yeah.
I, this month I'm celebrating 20 years of marriage.
(Everyone clapping)
- Yeah.
And 20 years of marriage means that I,
have a PHD in my husband.
(audience laughing)
I am not switching majors this far in.
(audience laughing)
By the way, I should point out,
my husband and I are fine in the bedroom.
Okay. And don't say, oh, after 20 years you have to say it.
No, Orly doesn't have to say anything.
(people clap and laugh)
I mean, does it look like
I would put up with mediocre marital relations for 20 years?
(audience laugh)
No. He is,
(audience laughs and claps)
- but I'm not.
I think that's good, I think we're good, I think we're good.
(All clapping and laughing)
- I love it, I love it.
One more time, give it up for Orly
and the rest of the "Bad Momz of Comedy" y'all.
(all clapping and cheering)
- Oh my god. Mama Grande,
What did you think? You having a good time up there?
- [Grande] It was way better than the pork cake.
(all laughing)
- [Kelly] I actually didn't mind the pork cake,
but I do agree.
If you wanna see the "Bad Momz of Comedy" perform,
they'll be at Zanies in Rosemont,
Illinois Wednesday, November 2nd at seven pm.