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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

GGACP Classic: Don Reo

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

GGACP once again pledges support for striking TV and film writers by revisiting this 2019 interview with comedy writer and showrunner Don Reo. In this episode, Don regales Gilbert and Frank with anecdotes about Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Jackie Gleason and Bob Hope and shares backstage stories from classic shows like "Rhoda," "Sanford and Son" and "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." Also, Groucho takes a call, Tom Waits provides inspiration, Robert Altman cuts to the chase and Don joins forces with the legendary Slappy White. PLUS: ”Action”! Phil Spector Week! "The Rifleman" loses his cool! The return of "The Honeymooners"! The comedy stylings of Elton John! And Don remembers the late, great Clarence Clemons! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's another Gilbert in France.

0:58.0

Colossal Plastic.

1:01.0

People, this is Phil Rosenthal and I'm on Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal Podcast. Why aren't you listening?

1:25.0

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal Podcast.

1:31.0

I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and our engineer Frank Ferdorosa.

1:38.0

Our guest this week is a producer, author, director, Emmy nominated television writer who scripted some of the most popular TV shows of the last 40 years including.

1:54.0

Rowan and Martin Sleffin, old and the family, meshed the Mary Tyler Moore show, Roda, Sanford and Sun and Dinesh, the Golden Girls.

2:06.0

He even had the pleasure and honor of doing two episodes of Dildet with Gilbert Gottfried.

2:15.0

Finally a sitcom guru who hired you.

2:20.0

And he's done two and a half men and everybody hates Chris.

2:26.0

He's also the creator of hit programs like Blossom, the John Lyra Ketchow, my wife and kids and the Netflix series The Ranch starring Axton Kutcher, Sam Elliott and Deborah Winger,

2:43.0

which is entering its fourth and final season in a career that started way back in the 1960s with a personal invitation from Sleffy White.

2:56.0

He's written for and worked with a whos-hoo of showbiz icons including Jimmy DeRandy, Bob Hope, George Burns, Red Fox, Shared, Lily Tumlin, Goldie Holt,

3:12.0

Steve Martin, Jerry Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Alice Cooper and David Cosby.

3:23.0

And yes, he has worked with Milton Burrell and yes I do have a question.

3:31.0

He's also worked with many of our previous guests including Ted Watts, Iliana Douglas, Ot Matrano, Norman Lear, Alan Ulta and John Amos.

3:46.0

Help the guys even work with Sid Melton.

3:52.0

He's also the co-author of a terrific book about his late great friend Clarence Clemens called Big Man, filled with entertaining stories about their lifelong friendship and life on the world with Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band.

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