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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

241. Dick Cavett

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank kick off 2019 by welcoming back the legendary Dick Cavett, who shares delightful anecdotes about Jack Benny, Stan Laurel, Truman Capote and Walter Winchell (among others) and looks back on memorable interviews with Orson Welles, John Lennon, Frank Capra, George Harrison and Laurence Olivier. Also, Peter Lorre fails an audition, Lily Tomlin storms off the stage, Bob Hope comes to Lincoln, Nebraska and Jack Paar sabotages "Fat Jack" Leonard. PLUS: Oskar Homolka! "Chuckles Bites the Dust"! The return of Richard Loo! Johnny Carson disses Jerry Lewis! And Dick introduces Groucho at Carnegie Hall! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is where the DJ talks don't say anything. Okay. Hey, I'm Dave Thomas. You're listening to Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal cod

0:08.8

God pass

0:11.4

Copies. It's amazing colossal copies

0:19.0

Hi, hi, I'm Dave Thomas. You're listening to Gilbert Godfrey's colossal amazing podcast. Is it?

0:25.8

I'm Dave Thomas. You're listening to Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast.

0:32.8

Perfect. Yeah. Fantastic.

0:37.8

Perfect. Yeah. Fantastic.

1:08.8

Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrey. This is Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast. I'm here once again with my co-hosts Frank Santo Padre and our engineer Frank Ferdorosa.

1:25.8

Our guest this week is back for a third go round in the hot seat and we're both thrilled and surprised that he continues to indulge us.

1:34.8

He's a writer, comedian, occasional actor, best selling author, New York Times columnist, Emmy winning talk show host and one of the most recognized and admired pop culture figures of the 20th century.

1:50.8

You've seen him in numerous movies and TV shows including the Phil Silvershow, the Odd Couple, and he holds cheers, Beetlejuice, Kate Nally, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and Children's Hospital to name a few.

2:08.8

He's also appeared in successful stage plays including Into the Woods, The Rocky Harsho, which I did too.

2:19.8

And Hellman versus McCarthy in a long and a lustrous career he's hosted variety specials narrated documentaries perform both magic and stand-up comedy and written jokes for Jack Par, Johnny Carson and yes Jerry Lewis.

2:41.8

This guy sounds obnoxious.

2:46.8

As the host of his own acclaimed talk shows he's conducted interviews with dozens of influential figures including Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Orson Wells, John Lennon, Salvador Dali, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Catherine Hepburn, Jimmy Hendrix, and Alfred Hitchcock.

3:10.8

He's also interviewed people near and dear to this very podcast including John Caradine, El Salanchester, Rod Surling, and of course his long-time friend, Groucho Marx.

3:28.8

His wonderful book from a few years ago was called Brief Encounters and includes delightful anecdotes about everyone from Tony Curtis, The Jonathan Winters.

3:42.8

Please welcome back to the show The Podcast to start it at all, 235 episodes ago, and a man who had the guts to ask Betty Davis how she lost her virginity.

4:02.8

Our pal Dick Habit.

4:05.8

It's kept couldn't really be here tonight because he's a bit under the weather, but I'm his is his house made and I've come from the old country and I'm just a jolly piece of.

4:20.8

Is that your own O'Connor?

4:24.8

It's not even a conner supposed to be Hermione Gingholt.

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