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Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast,

and our guest this week is a director producer, podcast, a memorabilia collector and Emmy-winning

comedy writer and a man who has listened to and enjoyed this very podcast. So there goes

any respect we might have had for the guy. Right off the bat. You know, his outstanding

writing and directing work from so many comedy films and TV shows include, Saturday Night

Live, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm Clerks, Clerks The Animated Series, The Commedians

and Movies Like Euro Trip and The Dictator. The HBO movie Clear History, and of course

the Seinfeld, for which he scripted or co-scripted memorable episodes like Bazarogerry, The

Fryers Club, The Buttershade, The Puerto Rican Day. He also served as a showrunner on the

multiple Emmy-winning series, Vipe, writing and directing several episodes including

The Critically Acclaimed for Now. In a career that started way back at the Harvitt Lampoon,

he's gone to directing right for and worked for dozens of comedy icons including Larry

David, Al Franken, Phil Hartman, Sasha Baron Cohen, Lauren Michaels, Julia Louis Dreyfus,

Martin Moe, and podcast guest Michael McGee and Bob Einstein and the biggest star of

all, Gilbert Gottfried. He's also a comedy historian and a lover of Abidon Castello and the

Marks Brothers and a genuine horror and sci-fi geek who penned the classic Planet of the

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