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Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal Podcast. I'm

hew at my co-host Frank Santopadre, where once again, recording at Nutmeg with our

engineer, Frank Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is an Emmy-winning writer, comedian, producer

and actor, who got his first TV job at the tender age of 24 and never looked back. He was

one of the original writers on the groundbreaking and controversial smothers' brothers, Comedy

Hour, and went on to write and produce dozens of variety shows in the 1960s and 70s, including

the Sonny and Chair Comedy Hour, the Sonny Comedy Review, Red Fox, Van Dyke and Company,

Joey and Dad, the Hudson Brothers, Razzled That, The Hudson Brothers, Razzled Asseld Show,

Pat Polson's Comedy Hour, and a personal favorite of this podcast, The Ken Berry Wow

Show. In 1980, he co-created and produced a successful sketch comedy show, Bizarre, starring

another former guest, John Biner, which ran for six seasons and helped popularize the

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