172. Bill Macy

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In one of their funniest episodes to date, Gilbert and Frank are joined by veteran actor Bill Macy ("Maude," "The Jerk," "My Favorite Year") for a highly entertaining look back at his seven-decade career and his collaborations with everyone from Bea Arthur to Norman Lear to Steve Martin. Also, Bill praises Carl Reiner, understudies Walter Matthau, ticks off Tony Curtis and shares the screen with Art Carney (and Lily Tomlin). PLUS: "Oh! Calcutta!" Remembering Joe Bologna! Gilbert plays a Spaniard! William H. Macy changes his name! And Bill convicts Bialystock and Bloom! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I'm here once again with my co-hosts, Frank Santopadre.
0:29.0	And we're once again recording at Not Make With Our Engineer, Frank Burderosa.
0:35.0	Our guest this week is a popular and prolific actor with dozens of movie, theater and television roles to his credit.
0:45.0	Films include The producers, The Late Show, Bad Medicine, Serial, O'Calcata, The Jerk, and Lies This, The Hollywood,
0:58.0	and a movie we've discussed quite a bit on this show my favorite year.
1:05.0	You also know him from numerous TV appearances and shows like All In The Family, St. Deltswear, Chicago Hope, L.A. Law, The Love Boat, my name is Earl,
1:20.0	how I met your mother, Norm, Seinfeld, and of course as Walter Finlay, the accommodating and long-suffering husband of the author's title character on the iconic CBS series mod.
1:41.0	In a career spanning seven decades, he's worked with and shared the stage with End the Screen, with artists such as Art Carney, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Gene Wilder, Lily Tomlin, Julie Harris, Peter O'Toole, Tony Curtis, Alan Arkin, and Walter Mathau.
2:10.0	As well as our previous podcast, Norman Steinberg, Call Riner, Richard Benjamin, and Norman Lear.
2:22.0	Please welcome to the show one of our favorite performers and the man responsible for actor William H. Macy going by the name William H. Macy.
2:39.0	The very funny Bill Macy.
2:43.0	By the way, Gil.
2:45.0	Yes. He had put an H in his name because when I became an actor in 1950, the union said, what's your name?
2:57.0	And I said, my name is William Garber, and they said, wait a minute, and they went to the file.
3:03.0	They said, we already have a William Garber.
3:06.0	You can't use the same name for another individual.
3:10.0	So what's your middle name? I said, Macy.
3:13.0	And so they said, well, use William Macy.
3:16.0	And so I finally made William into Bill, and I became Bill Macy.
3:20.0	Thirty years later, William Macy came along and his name is William Macy.
3:27.0	And I said to the union, he can't use my name.
3:32.0	They told him about it. And he said, okay, I'll put an H in the differentiator theme.
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