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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Alan Thicke & Shecky Greene Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

GGACP marks the 40th anniversary of one of Gilbert's "favorite" gigs, the infamous late-night talk show "Thicke of the Night" (premiered September 5, 1983) with this ENCORE of a 2014 interview with actor, writer and producer Alan Thicke. In this episode, Alan reminisces about everything from his short-lived disco career to penning variety specials for Johnny Cash, Bobby Darin and Flip Wilson. Also, Alan and Gilbert swap wives, John Lennon praises commercial jingles, Merv Griffin composes the "Wheel of Fortune" theme and Paul Lynde drives into a ditch. PLUS: A special BONUS EPISODE with legendary funnyman Shecky Greene! 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.

0:29.9

And today, my co-host Frank Santopadre and I have a rather unusual episode.

0:37.9

First, I'll be speaking to my wife's swap co-star, the guy I swapped wife's with and my

0:48.6

old boss from thick of the night, Alan thick.

0:53.9

Hey, this is Andy.

0:55.9

If you're Gilbert Gottfried, except you're in the kit room, and you're going to be switching

1:02.8

waves, you're going to have a little wave swap with Gilbert Gottfried because he likes

1:08.2

to swap waves with Gilbert Gottfried and you know, it's a wave swap and so he likes to

1:15.1

have a wave swap with Gilbert Gottfried.

1:19.0

And then I'm going to have a very strange conversation with my recent Friars Club arch enemy,

1:30.0

the legendary comic Shakey Grief, best known for having the name Shakey.

1:38.6

You don't know who he is, but you have heard the name Shakey unlike the Muppets and stuff

1:46.0

like that.

1:47.7

Anyway, I was performing at this event, a Friars Club event and I was doing my usual type

1:58.4

of caseful material.

2:00.9

And I mean, look, it was a Friars Club event where I first performed the aristocrats

2:09.0

for a mess crowd and they loved it there.

2:13.8

That's what the Friars Club is about.

2:16.7

You could go there, Jack Benny and Milton Burrell would go there and do dick jokes.

2:24.6

Anyway, Shakey in the middle of my act gets up and walks out which shocked me in two

2:33.4

ways.

2:34.4

Number one that he could still stand up and two that he can walk.

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