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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Ernie Kovacs Centennial Celebration with Josh Mills and Ben Model

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

To mark the centennial year of TV legend Ernie Kovacs, Gilbert and Frank welcome historian Josh Mills and Kovacs archivist Ben Model for a look back at the pioneering broadcaster's lasting impact and influence on David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Monty Python and The Kids in the Hall (among others). Also, Billy Wilder comes to dinner, Ernie shoots a pilot with Buster Keaton, Jack Lemmon joins the Nairobi Trio and Josh remembers his mom (and Kovacs' widow), Edie Adams. PLUS: Percy Dovetonsils! "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"! Josh meets Groucho Marx! Edie dates Peter Sellers! And Gilbert "inspires" a silent film score! 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

0:23.1

with my co-hosts Frank Santopadre and we are now part of the Starburns audio network. We are.

0:34.4

That's I mean we get free coffee. It's totally different company.

0:40.4

So what the fuck did we move here? Take it up with Dan Horman.

0:46.0

Yeah. Ah, tonight we are today. Wow, whenever you're listening to it, we have two guests with us tonight for our celebration of the 100th birthday of groundbreaking comedian and broadcaster Ernie Cofax.

1:07.0

And Josh Mills, it's a producer or archivist and public relations executive and the foremost scholar and expert on the legacy and work of pioneering comedian Ernie Cofax.

1:27.5

He holds so supervised the estate of Cofax as well as the estate of his late mother and actress hits as late mother.

1:42.4

Yeah, you'll get through it. Cofax wife and frequent collaborator Tony Winning Singer and actress Edie Adams.

1:51.9

He recently oversaw the production and release of the box set Ernie Cofax, the Centennial Edition, produced the reissue CD, the Ernie Cofax album and he travels the country hosting and helping organize events, celebrating Cofax life and work, including recent events with

2:20.0

Monty Python Legends, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. He also says he met Irvey Villages one time and he was packing heat.

2:37.6

Ah, now pen. Ah, I need to shoot you.

2:42.4

Ah, Ben Modell is a producer, musician, composer and film historian who created one of the first Ernie Cofax fan sites on the internet.

3:00.0

He's the archivist for Ernie Cofax, Edie Adams collection and curated the Ernie Cofax collection of DVD box sets for short factory.

3:14.4

He's a foreshout factory.

3:16.4

foreshout factory.

3:18.4

foreshout factory.

3:21.4

He's a perfect record of the short factory.

3:24.4

Hey, it's my new album.

3:27.4

foreshout factory.

3:29.4

Say it right, I'll shoot you.

3:32.4

And he's also one of the nation's leading silent film experts and accompanies.

3:42.4

No one can say that word.

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