256. J. Elvis Weinstein

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Writer, comedian, filmmaker and original "Mystery Science Theater 3000" cast member J. Elvis Weinstein visits the podcast to talk about the early days of MST3K, the originality of "Freaks and Geeks," the perverse appeal of "Skidoo" (and "Robot Monster") and the long lost art of novelty records. Also, Gregory Peck taunts Nazis, Foster Brooks breaks character, "WKRP" inspires Tom Servo and Albert Brooks sends up Dickie "Mr. Jaws" Goodman. PLUS: "Ghost Dad"! "Manos: The Hands of Fate"! The eccentricities of Michael Des Barres! The abandoned Casey Kasem movie! Gilbert runs a Halloween scam! And J. Elvis reveals the Greg Kinnear donkey incident! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Robert Wegner and you're listening to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:11.0	And these guys are going great.
0:30.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried.
0:37.0	This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:42.0	I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopodre and our engineer Frank Burtaroza.
0:49.0	Our guest this week is a comedy writer, stand-up comedian podcast host documentary filmmaker,
0:58.0	regional actor and a founding member of the pop culture sensation known as Mystery Science Theater 3000.
1:10.0	He's written popular TV shows such as Tux-Tuxue, later with Greg Kanier, America's Spaniest Home Videos, and Greeks and Geeks.
1:23.0	But our obsessive listeners would most likely know him as the original voice of the puppet Tom Servo and Gypsy.
1:36.0	And you bet.
1:38.0	And as mad scientist Dr. Lawrence Earhart on the beloved series MSD 3000.
1:49.0	In 2008, he reunited with his MSD co-stars, including our former podcast guest, Frank Kanier, for cinematic Titanic,
2:04.0	and which toured the country as a live show and produced 12 DVDs now available as a boxset.
2:16.0	He's also the director of two recent documentaries.
2:21.0	I need you to kill and Michael Daybar.
2:26.0	Who do you want me to be? His very funny podcast, Thought Spiral, which co-hosts with comedian Andy Kindler, is available everywhere.
2:41.0	And we're going to have a dragout fight over his review of the movie The Swimmers.
2:52.0	Please welcome to the show an artist of numerous talents and a man who had his name changed, so that his initials would spell out the word Jew.
3:11.0	The pride of Saint Louis Park, Minnesota.
3:16.0	Jay Elvis Weinstein.
3:20.0	Wow. Wow. I found myself just grinning here in Gilbert just described my career to me.
3:28.0	It's a little like an opit.
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