5. Marty Allen

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the late 1950's and 60's, the comedy duo of Allen & Rossi performed to sold-out Vegas crowds, recorded bestselling comedy albums and made hundreds of TV appearances (44 of them on "The Ed Sullivan Show" show). Sadly, Steve Rossi passed away recently but a few weeks back, we tracked down the other half of the legendary team, 92-year-old (and still performing!) Marty Allen, to talk about his 60+ years in the business, his brushes with Elvis and the Beatles and the origin of the duo's signature catch phrase, "Hello Dere!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know years ago on TV when I was a kid I remember I would watch TV and they had this
0:26.8	comedy team that would come on all the time named Alan and Rossi and it was like it was like
0:36.1	a Marty Allen he was this crazy frizzy hair comic and Rossi Steve Rossi was kind of his
0:46.4	Dean Martin the handsome straight man who could sing and but Marty was absolutely
0:55.0	out of his mind and and could always crack up an audience he certainly always cracked me up
1:01.8	and he was wild looking and made the weirdest faces and did dances that you figure only a cartoon
1:10.8	character could do now Alan and Rossi have the rare privilege of being able to say they followed
1:21.4	the Beatles on Ed Sullivan Ed Sullivan was already the biggest show on TV at the time and the one
1:30.3	that they had the Beatles on forget it that was beyond like everyone in the world was watching it
1:39.1	so they followed the Beatles since then they split up and Marty Allen's been working with his
1:46.0	wife and we we asked they they actually asked the TV show actually asked Marty Allen to go on
1:54.2	and he's like wow I don't know he's must I don't know if he's 90 yet or damn close to 90 or maybe
2:02.6	100 for all I know and he said I can't go on there I'm booked solid so now we talk to Marty Allen
2:17.8	hi this is Gilbert Gottfried you're listening to the amazing colossal podcast I'm here with my
2:27.2	friend and co-host Frank Santopodre hello Gilbert hi okay that's it for today
2:37.0	yes that's a wrap that's a wrap you literally touch me emotionally well that's the only way
2:46.5	I want to touch you Marty nice to meet you Marty yeah my pleasure now today you you want it well
2:59.3	I was just I thought it was interesting timing that it's the 50th anniversary of the Beatles playing
3:03.9	the Sullivan show this month in fact it was just oh yeah and I've done so many interviews I feel like
3:12.1	I'm the fifth beat a lot of fifth Beatles Marty so tell us about tell us about playing with the
3:19.8	meeting with them following them in 64 it was it was a fantastic first of all when we were it was
3:31.5	that the David Letterman theater you know where David Letterman is doing his show now and Steven
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