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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

52. Paul Dooley

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank chat with one of Hollywood's busiest character actors and favorite "movie dads," Paul Dooley ("Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," "Runaway Bride") who looks back on everything from tackling the role of Wimpy in Robert Altman's "Popeye" to creating characters for PBS' "The Electric Company" to improvising with Alan Arkin and Joan Rivers. Also, Paul performs standup for Jack Paar, understudies for Art Carney and shoots a commercial with Buster Keaton! PLUS: Richard Libertini! Nichols and May! "The Indestructible Man"! Paul does Lionel Barrymore! Gilbert does Walter Matthau! And Paul gets "probed" by aliens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For the month of May, the producer of the month is Dave Bre.

0:29.1

Thanks for your support Dave. Now one of our Patreon supporters who I should mention is Will Barsar.

0:40.4

Now if a cheap cocksucker like Will Barsar can afford to sponsor this podcast then you can too.

0:53.0

So, fuck Will Barsar and fuck anyone who knows him.

1:01.6

Go to patreon.com slash Gilbert Gottfried and support the podcast for the love of all that is holy.

1:15.3

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santopadre.

1:25.7

Our guest today is one of the busiest, funniest and most popular character actors of the last 50 years.

1:34.2

You know him from movies like Popeye, Robert Altman's a wedding, waiting for Guffman, a mighty wind runaway bride, 16 candles.

1:44.4

And the long suffering dad and breaking away.

1:48.4

Speaking of dads, he's played the on-screen father of everyone from Mia Farrow to Helen Hunt to Julia Roberts

2:00.8

and the father-in-law of Larry David on curburentthusiasm.

2:08.4

Other TV roles include Grace Undefire, the practice, my so-called life dream on and Star Trek.

2:18.9

Deep Space Nine, please welcome actor writer comedian and cartoonist, The Versailles and prolific Paul Dooly.

2:30.6

I can't wait to meet this guy.

2:33.2

That's amazing.

2:37.4

And I should tell the audience if you're not familiar with the name Paul Dooly, you know, just google it

2:46.5

because you're one of those people, they're gonna immediately go, oh that guy.

2:53.1

You know, I was once in a cab in New York and the cab driver said to me, I know you.

2:59.0

I said, oh, he said, well, I don't know your name, but you got a household face.

3:04.8

A household face. I love that.

3:06.8

And that's the thing about character actors, you know what I mean?

3:10.6

Well, we would see him say, oh, I know that guy.

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