Alan Zweibel Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday of Emmy award-winning writer and friend of the podcast Alan Zweibel (b. May 20) by presenting this ENCORE of an interview from 2015. In this episode, Alan talks about penning jokes for Catskills comics, contributing to the glory days of “Saturday Night Live," co-creating the groundbreaking “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” and collaborating with everyone from Gilda Radner to Rob Reiner to Billy Crystal. Also: Alan heckles Larry David, “borrows from” Paul Simon, turns down “Hollywood Squares” and inspires a classic “Seinfeld” episode. PLUS: Totie Fields! Christopher Lee! The subversiveness of “Duck Soup”! Uncle Miltie gets banned! And Gilbert tries (unsuccessfully) to follow The Beatles! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Hi, it's Gilbert Godfrey's amazing colossal podcast and I'm here with my co-host
0:29.0	Frank Santo Padre and I'd like to give a shout out to two of our loyal contributors to Patriot.
0:38.0	The first one is Ryan Story.
0:44.0	And the second one is Frederick.
0:50.0	He didn't give me a last name.
0:52.0	So he's kind of a fan, but he doesn't want people to know it.
0:58.5	He doesn't want people to find him and go, you actually listen to Gilbert Godfrey that's what you do with
1:06.3	your life so he's just Frederick from Oslo Norway where it, I think most of my fans are from Oslo Norway, and but Frederick,
1:19.8	ah, get in touch with me and give me your last name. I'll say your last name on the air.
1:28.0	But, uh, also you can contribute to patron and it's
1:37.0	Well, God's sakes
1:40.0	What what what the hell do I have you here for the one time I need you?
1:47.8	Usually you're just interrupting me when you're not wanted,
1:52.0	but now all of a sudden I did you and you're just
1:57.6	leaving me out in the cold. Do you want to know what happens when people donate to Patreon?
2:03.6	Would you like to know?
2:05.2	Well, you donate a set amount every month and you get exclusive benefits.
2:09.8	Oh, okay.
2:10.8	Including early access to episodes, you get to take part in our very cool video
2:15.4	hangout which is just Gilbert images of Gilbert walking around and slippers he's
2:21.3	stolen from various hotels.
2:23.0	So you social media shout-outs like the one you just heard and also we will read your
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