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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Adam Arkin and Alan Arkin Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the life and career of legendary Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin with this ENCORE of a 2020 interview with Alan and his son, Emmy-winning actor-director Adam Arkin. In this memorable episode, Adam and Alan talk about portraying villains, directing dark comedies, working with children, the precision of the Coen brothers and the Cold War politics of "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." Also, Pat McCormick hits the hard stuff, Groucho drops in on Second City, Stephen King praises "Wait Until Dark" and Alan (almost) directs "Blazing Saddles." PLUS: Captain Kangaroo! "Northern Exposure"! The brilliance of "The In-Laws"! Adam "reps" Chuck McCann! Alan records "The Banana Boat Song"! And Adam and Alan choose their favorite Arkin performances! (Special thanks to Marsha McManus, Estelle Lasher, Gino Salomone, Sherman Allen and John Murray) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Did you skillbert godfrey? This is Gilbert godfrey's amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts Frank Santo

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Bodery where pleased to welcome not one but two guests on the show this week

0:34.9

Adam Arkin is a producer Emmy-winning director and an Emmy and Tony nominated actor

0:43.0

who's been a fixture on the big and small screen for decades in films like Hitch the doctor

0:51.6

wrestling wrestling or nissemping waves a serious man the sessions and popularity

1:00.0

these shows like Chicago Hope Northern exposure the West Wing Frazier monk how to get away with

1:09.3

murder and Boston legal the newsroom he's also a sought after director of a claimed episode

1:19.4

of hit series such as Grey's Anatomy the Americans masters of sex Fargo just defined

1:28.7

billion sons of anarchy and succession and if we ask him nicely he might tell us about working

1:39.6

with Billy Barney and Pat McCormick

1:48.4

Alan Arkin is a director author children's book author improv teacher former folk singer

1:58.3

a Tony and Oscar-winning performer and one of the most admired actors of his generation or any

2:06.8

generation you know his work for memorable films like The Russians are coming the Russians are

2:14.7

coming catch 22 wait until dark the seven percent solution Argo Glen Gary Glen Ross and little

2:26.9

Miss Sunshine and the movie we've discussed at length on this show The In-laws he's also written

2:36.3

several books including the terrific two thousand and eleven memoir and improvise life

2:46.2

but even with all those achievements his one greatest thrill and honor was to share the big screen

2:57.9

with me Gilbert Gottfried in the 1985 Cinema Classic Fat Medicine

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I got Gilbert it was one of the highlights it was not the highlight

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I got it was one of two two or three others that in there that I hold in as much a skein

3:24.4

but that's a movie that will never ever be shown again

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