175. Frank Conniff

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

"Push the button, Frank!" Writer, comedian and actor Frank Conniff ("Mystery Science Theater 3000") stops by the studio to share selections from his new book of MST3K-related essays and to weigh in on topics ranging from Superman's Jewish roots to the outsized cinema of Bert I. Gordon to the meta-comedy of ArtMetrano. Also, Jack Webb directs, Pia Zadora meets Kris Kringle, Frank defends Ed Wood and Gilbert hangs with Sid Melton. PLUS: Richard "Jaws" Kiel! The Rip Taylor Trio! "Monster a Go-Go!" Billy Wilder teams with the Marx Brothers!? And the worst musical ever made! 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 with my
0:27.4	co-host Frank Santopadre and once again we're recording at Nutmeg with our engineer, Frank Ferdurosa.
0:36.6	Our guest this week is a gifted comedy writer and actor who has written for popular TV shows
0:44.8	such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Invaders Sim and the Drew Carey Show and appeared in programs
0:55.7	like Totally Bias with Camo Bell. Camo Bell. Oh God, I think I fucked up about 12 names so far.
1:08.2	Stenguly. Yeah, Space Hospital and Cinematic Titanic. He's also had a recurring role in the aforementioned
1:20.8	Sabrina the Teenage Witch as the baby turned adult Rudy Kazooty, but he's best known to audiences
1:31.2	as TV's Frank, the villainous but beloved henchmen and lab assistant on the long running and
1:40.0	wildly successful Comedy Central series mystery science fiction theater. No, mystery science theater.
1:54.1	This might take another week. I show he also wrote for her for five seasons. Currently he's the
2:04.4	co-host of the online series and podcast Cartoon Dump and he performs all over the country with his
2:15.3	old MSD co-star Tracy Bell you close. Tracy Bell you and Mancer Bag tour. He can also be heard
2:33.6	every day as the co-host of John Fugel sings. I pronounce that name correctly. Tell me everything
2:44.2	on serious radio and his latest books are called Tax V. Conif and 25 mystery science theater
2:56.8	3000 films that changed my life in no way whatsoever. Please welcome to the show an artist of
3:07.9	multiple talents and a man frequently compelled for reasons known only to him to bring up the name
3:17.8	Sid Melting our pal Frank Conif okay yeah this this is in your book and we we we have to get
3:30.4	this out of the way yeah but we're not going to make him read the title again. No okay now you
3:37.1	mentioned Sid Melton yes and I five I've met Sid Melton oh you have a couple of times been at his house
3:45.4	yeah I played with his dog he had a house right by the airport and anyway in it in this part you say
3:58.2	we have been put on alert that in all likelihood there was going to be a Sid Melton reference in the book
4:07.0	we assumed it would be tied in somehow with his work with Danny Thomas or maybe even his daughter Marlow
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