GGACP Classic: Joe Franklin

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

To coincide with this week's "Fun for All Ages" salute to 1960s and '70s New York television, GGACP revisits this 2014 interview with a legend of local broadcasting, the one and only Joe Franklin. In this episode, Gilbert and Frank drop in on Joe’s infamously cluttered (an understatement!) Times Square office to nosh on chicken salad, dodge falling stacks of collectibles and ask the “King of Nostalgia” about his memories of Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and John Lennon (to name but a few). PLUS: The Ramones! Remembering the Toastmaster General! Joe interviews Boris Karloff (and Bela Lugosi?)! And the greatest entertainer of all time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.3	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability. You know, I remember God knows how many years ago this was that when I'd be watching TV late at night, after a certain hour when everybody else was asleep, a show would come
0:41.3	on called the Joe Franklin Show. And he was a very peculiar guy with a love of Hollywood
0:50.3	and show business. And he's someone you find, has interviewed Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield,
0:58.4	Bing Crosby, Bill Cosby, Eddie Cantor, Barbara Streisand.
1:04.0	He's written 23 books about Old Hollywood.
1:09.3	He's been called the King of Nostalgia.
1:13.9	So, we had to get him on this show because he's interviewed everyone.
1:21.2	I think on one of his shows, he had both James Dean and Al Pacino.
1:26.5	He's had the weirdest combinations of major stars, some of them while they were still working
1:34.5	as waiters.
1:35.4	So ladies and gentlemen, Joe Franklin.
1:48.5	This is the amazing colossal podcast.
1:51.2	I'm Gilbert Gottfried.
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