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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Amy Yasbeck

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Actress and activist Amy Yasbeck visits the show to talk about golden age comedians, the directing style of Mel Brooks, working with Gilbert on "Wings" and the "Problem Child" franchise, and the playfulness and generosity of her husband, the late, great John Ritter. Also, Morey Amsterdam sings "Yuk-a-Puk," Gilbert gets nominated for a Razzie, Amy cuts the rug with Leslie Nielsen and Jack Warden changes accents in mid-movie. PLUS: Emil Sitka! "The New Love American Style"! Anne Bancroft plays Maria Ouspenskaya! John borrows shtick from Jerry Lewis! And 6-year-old Amy pitches the Easy-Bake Oven! 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

0:26.6

with my co-host Frank Santopadre. Our guest this week is a talented actress

0:34.0

of both the big and small screen as well as an aortic awareness advocate and the

0:43.8

founder of the John Ritter Foundation for aortic health. You know her work from

0:52.1

popular TV shows such as Dallas, Magnum BI, Designing Women Get a Life, Just Shoot Me,

1:01.5

Hot and Cleveland phones, Modern Family Pretty Little Liars and the show that I did

1:11.1

two episodes with her, Wings in which she starred as the uptight, high strung

1:20.5

Casey Davenport. She's also done memorable work in feature films Pretty Woman, The Mask, Home for the

1:31.1

Holidays, Robin Hood, Men, Robin Hood, Men and Tights, Dracula, Dead, I shut the fuck up.

1:40.7

Tracked, Men and Tights, Robin Hood, Men in Tights, Dracula, Dead and Love again and perhaps her

2:00.7

proudest moment sharing the big screen with her favorite entertainer me in problem child and

2:13.6

problem child too. In a four decade career that big in a four decade career when she began playing

2:28.6

she began by playing a Russian spy with an accent she swiped from a bullwinkle cartoon.

2:38.8

She's worked with Mel Brooks, Richard Gear, Jim Carrey, Julia Roberts, Jody Foster and

2:46.6

Robert Downey Jr. as well as amazing colossal podcast guest, Richard Lewis, Carol Leapor,

2:56.2

Stephen Weber, Tim Mathis, and Jason Alexander, and Dick Van Dyke. Please welcome to the show a

3:05.5

funny, versatile performer and a woman who Mel Brooks once described as Deborah Carr with a little

3:16.8

Jewish old man inside. Ask me Gilbert and how many times we work together. Oh yes, ready? Okay.

3:26.3

So Amy, how many times have we worked together? Um, four. I think so.

3:33.9

Problem child one problem child to, uh, wings twice.

3:39.6

Wings twice. Wings twice. Yes. Right. But I would just like to say you never write you never call.

3:45.7

Yes. And now he's calling. Sure. Now you were you were Lewis, right? You were

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