184. Ed. Weinberger

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank are joined by veteran comedy writer and producer Ed. Weinberger, who looks back on six decades' worth of career highlights, including touring Vietnam with Bob Hope, penning jokes for Johnny Carson, firing Tony Clifton (but not Andy Kaufman) and befriending the late, great Dick Gregory. Also, Dino hits the sauce, Vaughn Meader hits the skids, George C. Scott hits the roof and Ed. remembers the infamous Harry Crane. PLUS: When Orangutans Attack! "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School"! Ol' Blue Eyes places a bet! Gilbert makes like Lenny Bruce! And Ed. auditions to play...himself? 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 with my co-hosts, Frank Santopadre.
0:29.0	And we're once again recording at Not Meg with our engineer, Frank Ferdarosa.
0:36.0	Our guest this week is a nine-time Emmy winner and one of the most prolific and successful comedy writers and TV producers of the past six decades.
0:50.0	Credits include the tonight show with Johnny Carson, the Dean Martin show, the Betty White Show,
0:58.0	Phyllis, Amen, Deer John, the Martin Short Star of the Associates, and a little program called The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
1:12.0	He also co-created two of the most successful situation comedies of all time, the Cosby Show and Taxi.
1:25.0	He began his long career working with the late great Dick Gregory and would go on to work with Enright for just about everyone, including Bob Ho, Bridget Pryor.
1:41.0	Steve Martin, George C. Scott, Henry Fonda, Madeline Con, Albert Brooks, and Andy Kaufman, as well as former podcast guests, John Amos, Stuart Margolin, De Wallace, Dick Van Dyke, and Amy Heckling.
2:05.0	In addition to those nine Emmys we mentioned, he also won three Golden Globe Awards and a Peabody.
2:15.0	And in 2000, he received the writer's Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award.
2:25.0	His new book, Co-written with former podcast guests, Ed Asner, is called The Grouchy Historian.
2:36.0	An old-time lefty defends our Constitution against right-wing hypocrites and nut jobs.
2:47.0	Please welcome the creative mind behind some of the funniest hours in television history and a man who once provided the voice of a talking orangutan and wineburger.
3:09.0	I don't remember half of those credits myself, but we go deep, Ed.
3:17.0	Okay, before we go on to anything else, I think it may have been on on thick of the night, I don't think so.
3:28.0	Or something I had worked with three orangutans.
3:32.0	They used to be an act, I forget what they call themselves.
3:36.0	One of those orangutans went on to be the star of the show, Mr. Smith, where it was...
3:47.0	Part of the show was an actual orangutan. The other part was like a obviously faulty animatronic puppet orangutan.
4:00.0	Bill Cosby saw me on thick of the night and recommended me to do a guest spot on Mr. Smith and I auditioned and didn't get it.
4:16.0	You auditioned for the voice?
4:18.0	I know, but I just guessed the appearance.
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