Bruce Vilanch Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

GGACP marks National Book Blitz Month and celebrates the recent release of Bruce Vilanch’s memoir, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time” by presenting this ENCORE of a 2018 interview with the legendary writer-performer. In this episode, Bruce looks back at the “golden age” of TV variety shows and specials, including “Donny & Marie,” “The Brady Bunch Hour,” “The Star Wars Holiday Special” and “The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.” (all written or co-written by Bruce himself). Also, Margaret Hamilton makes her move, Robert Reed channels Carmen Miranda and Gilbert takes over the new “Hollywood Squares.” PLUS: Jack Palance! Bob Hope’s filing cabinet! “Wayne Newton at SeaWorld”! And Bruce hangs with Tallulah Bankhead! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Peterailbert Godfrey. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host, Frank Santo Padre, and we're once again recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank Ferd Rosa.
0:56.1	Our guest this week is a producer, actor, songwriter, activist, TV personality, and one of the
1:05.4	most prolific and sought-after comedy writers in the history of the entertainment business.
1:13.5	As a performer, you've seen them in movies like Mahogany, the morning after.
1:19.6	You don't mess with the Zohan.
1:23.0	I fucked up already.
1:24.9	You don't mess with the title.
1:26.4	And the aristocrats.
1:29.9	Yes.
1:30.8	I'm familiar with that one.
1:32.5	As well as hit TV shows such as The Nanny, the Simpsons, the Martin Short Show,
1:42.7	Rupol's Drag Race, Hollywood Squares,
1:46.8	another one I think I've caught, as well as the Broadway production of hairspray
1:54.6	in the role of Edna Turnblad.
1:58.6	As a writer, he's contributed to dozens of specials and award shows,
2:05.7	including Comic Relief, the Primetime Emmy Awards,
2:11.4	the Tony Awards, the People's Choice Awards,
2:15.7	and the American Comedy Awards, as well as an impressive 23 Academy Award
2:25.3	telecasts. He's also taken home six Emmy Awards himself for his writing. But wait, there's more.
2:36.6	He's also wrote some of the most iconic, for lack of another word,
2:43.5	variety shows and specials of the 1970s, including the Donnie and Marie show, the Brady Bunch Friety Hour, the Paul Lynn
2:57.7	Halloween special, and less, but definitely not least, the Star Wars Holiday Special.
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