# ID This Comedian, Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754 "2019-07-09T02:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754/21 "2019-07-20T22:10:41Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > That clip is from some sort of Rodney Dangerfield Presents the Young Comedians special bank in, I think, the early 90s. That same special introduced Bobcat Goldthwaite to the world. I taped it, and rewatched the Nelson and Golthwaite routines for many years. 1. _Rodney Dangerfield’s 9th Annual Young Comedians Special_. This was like the Holy Grail of short-form stand-up; 9 comedians including: Sam Kinison Rita Rudner Bob Nelson Louie Anderson Yakov Smirnoff Bob Saget (I still tell some of his jokes from this special) Sorry, but your memory’s faulty: Bob Goldthwait was not on this special. By 1985, he had already appeared in _Police Academy 2_, which opened several months before the RD special aired. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754/22 "2019-07-20T22:53:13Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > That clip is from some sort of Rodney Dangerfield Presents the Young Comedians special bank in, I think, the early 90s. That same special introduced Bobcat Goldthwaite to the world. I taped it, and rewatched the Nelson and Golthwaite routines for many years. Can I just sidetrack a bit in praise of the days when we could choose something we liked on TV and save it and watch it whenever we wanted? Today even Blu-Ray is being phased out, in favor of a system in which we have to pay each time we watch something, and what we want to watch may not be available because the rent-collecting companies arbitrarily cycle the offerings in and out. It’s not better. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754/23 "2019-07-20T23:15:59Z")
I am a “hardcopy whenever possible” kinda guy, even if I have to make it myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedian-please/836754.md?page=1)