Oh, hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.

Our guest this week is an Oscar-nominated producer, Emmy-nominated director, a successful

children's book author and one of the busiest and most admired actors of his generation.

You know from hit TV shows like The West Wing, on Teraj, Friends, The Good Wife, Girls,

Seinfeld as network executive Russell Darrymple and he spent a considerable amount of time in

the director's chair, helming episodes of amazing stories, tales from the dark side,

the twilight zone eerie Indiana Oz and Nurse Jackie as well as an Emmy-nominated

biopic of artist Jojo Keefe and 1989's Cult Horror Feature Parents. He's been a fixture on

the big screen for an impressive five decades. In popular films like Midnight Cowboy, Catch 22,

Closon Countess of the Third Kind, Altered States, Prince of the City, waiting for government,

Deconstructing Harry, Ghost World Capote, a mighty wind, the Gran Budapest Hotel and Gospher Park,

which he is also conceived and produced. He's worked with everyone from

Paul Newman to Bill Murray to Francois Truppo to Milton Burrell and for everyone from Mike Nichols

to Sydney LeMeth to Steven Spielberg and Wes Anderson. Please welcome to the show A True

Renaissance Man and an Actors Actor and a Man Who Says He's one of the happiest people

who's ever worked in showbiz and a seething culture and a frenzy. I don't claim to have said that.

The Talbot Bob Ballaban. That's a funny and a good introduction but a lot of it isn't really

true but good. Thank you. Which isn't true Bob. It's a part of an unwonderful item but thank you.

Welcome. Now Bob, what are you so happy about? I don't know whoever sent that.

I have a great ability to forget when I'm unhappy. Does that make me happy?

Well, no, it means you get unhappy but then you forget. Yes, I forget I was unhappy.

That's from an actual interview. You're going to see now. And speaking of being two old,

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