The Female Half of the Staff, who's been listening to the radio all day, says, "There's a flight outta Burbank, headed to NY...whaddya suppose the odds are that there's a comic on it?" And she's got CNN on and she's cycling through all the cable news outlets.

We kick it around for a few minutes over dinner. It was leaving kinda late... Comics in LA almost always fly to gigs "day of." Hmmm... not sure if there would be.

Then we get this today, from Adam Gropman:

Hey, guys: Check this out. My buddy David Race called me late last night with a breathless report of this crazy Jet Blue landing-gear malfunction/near crash story that I had been unaware of until he called because I was away from media news outlets since around 4PM. Anyway, what made the story more pertinent for us, David told me, was that when the news went to do a sort of close up on a passenger who had a video camera and and had taped a "goodbye and farewell" to his girlfriend in hopes that she'd see it after the plane crashed, that passenger was Dave Reinitz, an L.A. comedian, producer of the Uncle Clyde's Comedy Contest, and talent manager with H2F Productions! We both know Dave, see him around, and I did his contest just a few weeks ago.

You can see more about Dave Reinitz at his own website as well as H2F and Uncle Clyde's sites.

The Female Half is a genius.