Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santobodre.

And we're once again recording it, not make with our engineer Frank Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is one of the most

likable, most recognized and most popular actors of the last seven decades. He's been in iconic films like the Blackboard Jungle,

Toratorator, the greatest story ever told. Heavy traffic, cannonball runs, scrooge the Gung Show movie, and two favorites of this podcast,

which suits you get a girl and who's minding the mint. His memorable TV roles are too numerous to list, but what the hell?

My three sons, the Andy Griffiths Show, the flying nun of American style, I dream of Genie F. Troop, Get Smart, Barnaby Jones, the Nightstalker, met about you, and family guy to just name a few.

And he's featured in a TV movie we've discussed at length on the show Murder Can Hurt You. Along with his journey, he shared the screen with a dazzling array of talent, including Sydney Pottie A. Dara State,

Lucille Bull, John Hetston, Bert Reynolds, Dean Martin, Roger Moore, Danny K. Sammy Davis Jr. and yet, John McGiver, as well as our former guest, and this is just a few of them.

Dick Van Dyke, John Bina, Jessica Walter, Carl Reiner, Marvin Kaplan, and Marty Allen. But with all of his many appearances and achievements, he'll forever be beloved to audiences all over the world, as the conniving but endearing Max Klinger, on what many considered to be the greatest half hour comedy,

in television history, Mesh. Please welcome to the show of versatile actor, who's played everything from a hippie to an apostle, and a man red-skouten one's called a Doctor of Comedy, the pride of Toledo Ohio, Jamie Far.

I didn't realize he did all this. You know what Gilbert? I'm too big for your show. I didn't realize he did all those things. I haven't worked since then, but that's okay. Jamie, welcome. Thank you, Frank.

Thank you. We got to go to the most important topic that we were discussing before we got on. Yeah, I don't even care about Mesh.

I, I do. I got to go to the mailbox and see if a residual. I haven't had any fresh money in a long time, Gilbert. I got to get the old residuals. Yeah. What is it that you wanted to talk about?

You are quote from you. Is Jews have been very good to you? They have indeed. As I told you before we, before we actually went out of the air, you know, I, I have a lot of my Lebanese friends back at my hometown at Toledo, and every time I go back to visit them, they say, please say hello to our cousins in California, because as you probably know, Abraham and, and Heygar, the Egyptian had the first Arab, which was Ishmael.

So we are cousins, my friend. There you go. Cousin Jamie.

Cousin Gilbert. This is cousin, Jaymala.

Well, you know, all the people that helped me in this business, of course, were my first movie, as you know, was Blackboard Jungle. Sure.

And Pandro S. Burman was the producer of that show. He had done all the big movies with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at R.K.L. and moved over to the MGM and Richard Brooks, whose real name I think was sacks, who was from Philadelphia.

And he, he was the screenplay writer from Ivan Hunter's book, Blackboard Jungle, and also the director of the movie. And so I actually auditioned to a screen test and won the part.

My first agent was Bert Marx, who was Sam Marx's brother. Bert Marx was an agent. He handled Tom Drake and a few other actors at MGM. And of course, Samuel Marx had produced a national velvet and discovered Elizabeth Taylor and sure and did a lot of the other things at MGM.

Wasn't you also wrapped at one point by the legendary Meyer Michigan? Oh, Meyer was my favorite. Meyer attended my wife. Also Marvin Kaplan. Yes. Yeah, Marvin Kaplan. That great story. Marvin goes in to see Meyer. Meyer was a tiny short little man. He had a very high voice and he talked like this. And Marvin Kaplan. I hope the audience knows who Marvin had him on this show.

Oh, he was wonderful. Marvin came into when he goes, Maya, you know, I haven't been waking lately. And Maya says, well, Marvin, you're special. And Marvin looked at me, says, Maya, nobody should be this special.

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