198. George Shapiro

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Legendary talent manager and Emmy-winning producer George Shapiro joins Gilbert and Frank to reminisce about the glory days of the Borscht Belt and the golden age of variety television and to discuss his personal and professional relationships with Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, Carl Reiner and Jerry Seinfeld. Also, Elvis praises Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer inspires Tony Clifton, "Dem Bums" visit "The Martha Raye Show" and George explains his lifelong love affair with comedy (and comedians). PLUS: Marty Feldman! Buddy Holly and the Crickets! Nichols and May bring down the house! Richard Pryor plays God! And Danny DeVito plays...George Shapiro? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	Hi, this is Eddie Deezant. You are listening to Gilbert Godpreet's amazing colossal podcast.
1:23.2	Hi, this is Gilbert Godpreet. This is Gilbert Godpreet's amazing colossal podcast.
1:53.6	With my unidentified male companion, Frank's Tento Padre.
2:01.3	No other unidentified.
2:04.8	And with once again, recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank Verde Rosa.
2:12.0	Our guest this week is a multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winning producer and one of the most
2:19.6	successful talent managers in the history of popular entertainment. Among the performer he's
2:27.2	repto worked with at various points in his impressive career are the smothers brothers Steve Allen,
2:36.1	Jim Napers, Bill Dana, Gabe Kaplan and Marty Feldman as well as former podcast guests,
2:45.9	Robert Wall, Bill Persky and Carl Reiner. As television agents he and his longtime friend and partner
2:57.2	Howard West packaged hit programs such as the smothers brothers comedy hour. That girl,
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