140. Ronnie Schell

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Ronnie Schell has shared the stage and screen with virtually everyone in show business, including Andy Griffith, Carl Reiner, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Goldie Hawn, George Carlin and even Groucho Marx. Gilbert and Frank track down Ronnie at his LA home to talk about his early days on the nightclub circuit, his decades-long friendships with legendary funnymen Bill Dana, Pat McCormick and Harvey Korman and his memorable role as Gomer Pyle's bunkmate, Duke Slater. PLUS: Billy De Wolfe! The Kingston Trio! The reclusive Jack Burns! Sinatra drops by the Blue Angel! And the prodigious talents of Theodore Bikel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. I'm here with my co-host Frank Sandopadre and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:29.8	Our guest this week is a comedian and actor who's been working pretty much nonstop since the 1950s.
0:37.2	He was a fixture on television for decades, appearing on hit shows like The Paddy Duke Show, The Andy Griffiths Show,
0:46.4	That girl, love American style, The Dick Van Dyche Show, Mesh, Sanfordonson, The Loveboat, Mark and Mindy Coach,
0:56.0	and yes, dear, just a name of you.
0:59.4	You forgot the McLean Stevenson Show, an NBC lasted three episodes.
1:03.8	Okay, okay, the McLean Stevenson episode, McLean Stevenson Show, if you caught any of the three episodes,
1:14.8	you would have seen Ronnie Shell. But if anyone watched the McLean Stevenson Show,
1:22.2	it wouldn't be off the air. That's right. Yeah, he would have liked it at least for show.
1:29.6	He also starred in his own CBS series Good Morning World. Yes, sir, but it's brahat.
1:36.6	Yes, I got interrupt. I can. It'll be it'll be starting January, all the reruns with an antenna TV.
1:45.8	You guys have antenna TV. Oh, yeah, great antenna. Yeah, sure. Good morning world.
1:50.8	Well, let him get through this. There's a lot about you here. Got to be CBS.
1:54.8	Go ahead, go ahead, Gilbert. He thinks it says show. He thinks it says show.
1:59.8	But it's perhaps best known as Jim neighbors friend and bunkmate. Hey, hey, careful.
2:08.8	Bunkmate, dukes later on a long running and wildly popular situation comedy,
2:22.8	gomer pile, USMC bought me a house. Feature films include the world's strongest man, the
2:34.8	Shaggy DA love at first bite. The devil and Max Devlin. He's a crack. That was a piece of crap.
2:44.8	I can say that now because it started Bill Cosby and I don't give a shit about him anymore.
2:48.8	So you co-starred with a sexual offender. That's good. Keep that in there.
2:59.8	You forgot the great comedian that I did an animated film with playing his best friend called
3:05.8	I'll get the chase who was Rover Dangerfield. Oh, yeah, sure. We got we got it on our list here.
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