35. Bob Zmuda

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2015

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Writer, comedian and producer Bob Zmuda has had a busy career, performing, writing and producing comedy specials, co-creating the charity Comic Relief and collaborating with the late (??) great comedian/performance artist Andy Kaufman. Gilbert and Frank rang up Bob at his house in Lake Tahoe to talk about (among other things) his early days as half of the comedy duo Albrecht & Zmuda, his role in bringing the Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon" to the screen, his controversial new book about Andy's life, and his theory of how his old friend and collaborator pulled off the greatest hoax in comedy history. Also, Eddie Murphy takes a phone call, Tony Clifton (or was it Jim Carrey?) invades the Playboy mansion and Garth Brooks (almost) portrays Bob on the big screen. PLUS: The ventriloquist team of Dick & Stinky! Andy gets a woody! Larry the Lobster gets a reprieve! Gilbert gets the axe at SNL! And a surprise guest crashes the podcast! 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
0:28.6	time here with my co-host Frank Santopadre. You know, years ago when I started out in
0:35.5	stand-up I used to play the improv in New York and one of the people I would run
0:42.4	into at the club was the late, well, supposedly late anyway, and the Kaufman.
0:51.1	Frank and I phoned up Andy's old partner in crime Bob Zimuna to get the
0:57.9	lowdown on Andy's fascinating life and possible death. Enjoy. Hi, this is Gilbert
1:09.2	Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I hear it
1:15.4	by co-host Frank Santopadre and our guest today is a writer, actor, author and
1:22.5	producer who has created and produced comedy specials for NBC and HBO. He's the
1:31.3	co-founder and co-creator of comic relief, a charity that's raised over $80 million
1:40.4	to help combat homelessness and he was the wingman comedy partner and
1:48.5	co-conspirator of the legendary Andy Kaufman and probably the person who knew
1:56.9	him best. His new book is called Andy Kaufman, the truth finally. Welcome to the
2:05.2	show Bob Zimuna. Thank you Gilbert. Thank you very much. Welcome Bob.
2:10.6	Welcome Bob. Thank you. You did one of our comic reliefs for us many years ago
2:15.8	with Richard Belzer. Yes, yeah, we were we were Dick and Stinky. Yeah, you were
2:22.1	actually a wooden troublemaker's dummy. Yes. I don't remember Dick and Stinky. Can
2:27.4	you tell us a little bit about that? Yes. It was I remember being oh go ahead Bob.
2:34.4	Are you you said if you recall it was just like a ventriloquist act Belzer came
2:40.3	out he was the ventriloquist and you sat on his lap and they drew the lines
2:46.0	coming down from your from from either side of your chin and and Gilbert
2:52.6	looks so I can tell he looks so much like a ventriloquist. They kind of had that
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