252. Andrew Bergman

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

"Serpentine!" Screenwriter-director Andrew Bergman regales Gilbert and Frank with behind-the-scenes stories from two of cinema's most unforgettable comedies, "Blazing Saddles" and "The In-Laws," and looks back on working with showbiz legends George Burns, Red Buttons, Maximillian Schell, Jack Warden and (notably) Marlon Brando. Also, Johnny Carson turns down the Waco Kid, Richard Libertini "destroys" Alan Arkin, Gilbert writes a fan letter to Lon Chaney Jr. and Andrew's dad pens gags for Victor Borge. PLUS: "Honeymoon in Vegas"! The genius of Bob and Ray! Deconstructing "Duck Soup"! Mel Brooks sends up "The Caine Mutiny"! And Bert Parks sings to a Komodo dragon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nancy Allen and you're listening to Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal hot plant.
0:10.0	Oh, thank you.
0:13.0	This could take a while.
0:15.0	This could take a while.
0:16.0	I wish I had been crossing this.
0:18.0	Okay, I'm Nancy Allen and you're listening to Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal podcast.
0:25.0	Gilbert, you eat shit.
0:31.0	You're a very sick person.
0:35.0	I hate to tell you.
1:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrees.
1:10.0	This is Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santopadre and our
1:19.0	engineer Frank Berderosa.
1:22.0	I guess this week is a novelist playwright, occasional producer and greatly admired screenwriter
1:30.5	and film director whose work includes some of the most memorable comedies of the last
1:38.0	50 years.
1:39.0	He's written four novels, The Big Kiss Off of 1944, Hollywood and Levine, Tender is Levine,
1:50.0	and sleepless nights.
1:52.0	He's also written for the stage, including the critically acclaimed Broadway play Social Security,
2:01.0	which was directed by Mike Nichols and the book for the Broadway musical version of his film,
2:10.0	Honeymoon in Vegas.
2:12.0	Screenwriting credits include soap dish, Oh God you devil.
2:19.0	The scout and the original fletch as well as classic comedy that Frank and I talk about frequently
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