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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Dick DeBartolo and Al Jaffee Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank celebrate the 100th (!) birthday of Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee with this encore episode from 2016, featuring Al and longtime Mad writer Dick DeBartolo, who discuss their friendships with publisher William M. Gaines, their admiration of Jack Davis and Mort Drucker and the secret origin of the term "potrzebie." Also, Al remembers Harvey Kurtzman, Dick falls for Lauren Bacall, Stephen Colbert pays tribute to a comedy hero and Gilbert bashes "Up the Academy." PLUS: Gloria Swanson! "To Tell the Truth"! "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"! Al parties with Jason Robards! And the warped genius of Don Martin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, Loyalist Frank here.

0:04.3

So Gil and I have been working hard to crank out shows for the last three months straight

0:09.5

without a break.

0:10.5

And we're going to take one this week.

0:12.0

We're going to take a little Easter Passover break.

0:14.7

And we're going to run an encore episode from back in 2016.

0:18.7

It's a favorite episode of ours that we talk about a lot.

0:22.6

This is in celebration of the 100th unbelievable 100th birthday of the legendary comedy writer

0:28.6

in cartoonist Al Jaffee, our friend Al Jaffee.

0:32.3

And this was recorded back in 2016 when Al was a mere lad of 95, four years before he

0:39.6

would eventually retire at the age of 99.

0:43.2

And it quickly became a classic episode.

0:46.4

Long time mad writer Dick DeBartello joined us too.

0:49.6

And we got into a lot of things.

0:50.9

We got into William M. Gaines and the history of Bad Magazine and Dick's experience in game

0:56.4

shows and of course Al told many touching stories about his childhood which you will hear.

1:02.3

But lots of enlightening and entertaining conversation.

1:06.2

And as I said, it's a long time favorite episode of ours.

1:09.1

So happy 100th birthday, unbelievable, to the great unsinkable one of a kind Al Jaffee.

1:19.5

And we hope you guys enjoy this encore presentation from 2016.

1:24.3

And then we'll see you next week with a brand new show.

1:28.3

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried.

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