Happy Mother's Day. For this special episode, Ira sits down with the woman everyone in his life has called hilarious for as long as he can remember — his mom, Sheila Taylor. She's the first non-comic guest on First Mic, the first mom, and (sorry Murf) the first one to take her shoes off on camera.

They get into her first live comedy show at Powers Auditorium in Youngstown back in the late '80s, what it's like watching her son show up on TV commercials and Walmart displays, and the sister-and-fiancée tag team that keeps trying to put her on Tinder. Sheila explains why peace and quiet beats a partner who can't take the trash out, runs through her favorite Columbus comics (Tyson Carson, Sister Lou, Larry Danflows, Murph Henderson, Wendy Ferguson, Def Goldblum), picks Steve Harvey as her Kings of Comedy MVP, and reveals exactly how she'd handle a heckler — and yes, prayer is involved.

Whether she'll ever actually do an open mic? She says one time, with a drink, with Jackie and Myra in the front row. We'll hold her to it.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:14 Welcome to a Mother's Day First Mic

2:31 Murf, the shoes are off

3:08 First non-comic guest in show history

5:04 First live comedy show: Michael Blackson at Powers Auditorium

8:12 Watching her son in commercials

10:14 Why your "intimate community" still counts

13:33 Would Sheila ever do stand-up?

17:00 Plugs: Da Fuck, The Valley, Rehab Tavern open mics

19:18 The Tinder situation

19:35 "I can buy myself flowers"

22:07 Favorite Columbus comics

25:48 Favorite comics, living or dead

28:20 How Sheila would handle a heckler

29:50 Why she left social media

32:55 Happy Mother's Day

PRESENTED BY

The Independent Comedy Collective

OPEN MIC LINEUP

Fridays — Dafuque Beer Company

Wednesdays — The Valley (with Def Goldblum)

NEW: Rehab Tavern open mic, sign-ups 7pm / start 8pm

Filmed at Rehab Tavern, Franklinton, Columbus, OH.

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