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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

29. Henry Winkler

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2014

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Manhattan-born Henry Winkler overcame a difficult childhood to carve out a memorable acting career that would see him work with everyone from Gene Kelly to Katherine Hepburn and portray one of TV's most indelible characters, Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli. Gilbert and Frank dialed up Henry at his L.A. home to talk about his struggles with dyslexia, the genius of a young Robin Williams and Henry's enduring friendships with Ron Howard and John Ritter. Also: Henry helps discover Marlee Matlin, meets John (and Julian) Lennon and explains the mysterious disappearance of Chuck Cunningham. PLUS: Fonzie parts the Red Sea! Sly Stallone paints his windows black! Henry turns down "Grease"! And Gilbert "sings" the "Lords of Flatbush" theme! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

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0:19.6

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0:30.0

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.

0:51.9

I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and our guest today is a celebrated actor, director

1:00.6

and producer.

1:02.4

He's been in hit movies like Night Shift and The Water Boy, worked with everyone from

1:09.8

Katherine Hepburn to Harrison Ford and played one of the most iconic characters in television

1:18.3

history.

1:19.3

Author, the funzarelli.

1:23.8

He's also our only guest to have his very own statue.

1:31.1

Welcome Henry Winkler.

1:33.5

Wow, I cannot wait to meet this guy.

1:37.5

What a wonderful introduction.

1:43.2

Yes, it sounds like it should be followed by Andy Pastaway and his Hollywood home.

1:51.0

Well, you know what?

1:52.0

That's so funny because I was thinking trumpets, but hey, I was thinking fanfare.

2:02.2

Now Henry, I think we've met.

2:05.8

You and I have met many times because I was lucky enough with my co-lebit to produce

2:12.6

two years of Hollywood squares.

2:16.9

We found that your humor, your wit, we didn't have a square large enough to house it.

2:28.4

We had to add on footage in order to have you on the show.

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