236. Alan Alda

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank welcome a sought-after guest, writer-director-actor Alan Alda, who discusses (among other topics) growing up in Burlesque theaters, working with his father Robert Alda, coping with the pressures of sudden fame and learning to live life "in the moment." Also, Buster Keaton does a backflip, Mickey Rooney "hails a cab," Sarah Silverman forms an unlikely friendship and Alan remembers M*A*S*H colleagues Harry Morgan, Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson. PLUS: The Great Blackstone! "The Beast with Five Fingers"! Revisiting "Crimes and Misdemeanors"! Beetlepuss rescues Bela Lugosi! And Alan shares the stage with Red Buttons, Phil Silvers and Mae West! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast
0:25.1	with my co-hosts Frank Santopadre and our engineer Frank Ferdarose here at Earwold. Our guest
0:34.9	this week really needs no introduction but we wrote one and damn it he's gonna get one. He's a
0:43.2	writer, producer, director, TV host, New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, and one of the
0:52.3	most recognized and admired actors of the 20th and 21st centuries. You've seen his work in films
1:02.2	like same time next year, The Seduction of Joe Tynon, Grimes and Mr. Meeners,
1:10.3	Bridges Bridge of Spies, the aviator for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
1:19.2	Supporting Actor. He's also written and directed several pictures of his own including sweet
1:27.3	liberty, Betsy's wedding and the four seasons. Memorable TV appearances include ER, the Westway
1:38.0	30 Rock, the Blacklist, Scientific American Frontiers, and of course as Captain Benjamin Franklin
1:49.2	Hawkeye appears on one of the most revered programs in the history of the medium mesh.
1:58.4	More you want from the guy? Okay, he's won six Emmys, six Golden Globe Awards, two directors
2:09.3	killed awards, and two writers killed awards and in early 2019 he'll receive the Screen Actors
2:19.9	Guild Award for Life Achievement. He also inspired the creation of the Allen Alders Center for
2:29.9	Communicating Science at Stony Brook University and in 2016 he was awarded the National Academy of
2:42.4	Sciences Public Welfare Medal for his extraordinary application of the skills honed as an actor
2:53.3	to communicating science on TV and stage. His new book is called If I Understood You, What I
3:03.8	Have This Look on My Face and his brand new hit podcast about the art and science of communication
3:14.9	is full clear and vivid. Frank and I are excited to welcome this podcast. Frank and I are excited
3:25.9	to welcome to this podcast a person of many talents and interests and a man who spent part of his
3:36.5	childhood being jealous of a pig. Allen Holder. I was wondering what that was going to turn out to be.
3:50.2	I was jealous of a pig. That's true. So can you explain maybe? Yeah, I'll leave us hanging out.
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