108. Marilyn Michaels

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Impressionist, singer and comedienne Marilyn Michaels has spent her entire life in show business, performing in the Yiddish Theater at the tender age of 7, signing with a major record label as a teenager, working the Copa, the Catskills and Vegas showrooms and appearing on virtually every TV variety show of the 1960s and '70s. Also, Marilyn idolizes Judy Garland, duets with Frank Gorshin, smooches Phil Slivers and takes advice from Jack Benny. PLUS: Gottfried "meets" Streisand! Danny Kaye makes his move! Orson Welles gets verklempt! Ethel Merman lays down the law! And the rise and (tragic) fall of George Kirby! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey, and this is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast.
0:28.7	I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopodre, and we're once again recording at Nutmeg.
0:36.5	Our guest this week is a singer, actress, comedian, and the greatest and most versatile female
0:43.9	impressionist in the history of show business.
0:47.5	Steffi Godstage, for the first time at the tender age of seven, she went on to perform
0:55.0	in the Catskills and the world-famous Copa Cabana, starred in the National Tour of Funny
1:02.7	Girl, headlined on Broadway and Vegas showrooms, and appeared in popularity-v-shows like the
1:12.9	love boat, the name of the game, fantasy island.
1:18.6	She also starred in a show near and dear to the podcast, The Copa Cats.
1:28.6	But variety show appearances include the Dean Martin Show, the Red Skeleton Hour, the
1:42.0	John Finlander Show, the Hollywood Palace, the Ed Sullivan Show, the Blip Wilson Show,
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