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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

GGACP Classic: Michael H. Weber

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday of a friend and a recurring guest, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Michael H. Weber ("The Disaster Artist," "500 Days of Summer," " The Fault in Our Stars") with this CLASSIC of a frequently hilarious interview from 2018. In this episode, Michael discusses the studio development process, the many eccentricities of Marlon Brando (and Tommy Wiseau), the cinema of Richard Curtis and the importance of truth in storytelling. Also, Jane Fonda takes a seat, Bill Murray thanks Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman pursues Hannibal Lecter and the boys list their favorite romantic comedies (and romantic comedy cliches). PLUS: Evel Knievel! "The Knack...and How to Get It"! Gilbert hangs with Paul Rudd! In praise of "Jerry Maguire"! And Michael swaps punchlines with Steve Martin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Whatever it is, he does. He paid him money.

1:51.8

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my

2:01.2

co-hosts Frank Santopadre. We're once again recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank

2:08.1

Ferdarosa. Uh-huh. Our guest this week is an award-winning film and television producer

2:15.4

and screenwriter-apopular movies, including 500 Days of Summer. The fold in our stars

2:24.7

are sold at night, the Pink Panther 2. The spectacular now. And the recent hit the

2:34.5

disaster artist for which he and co-writer Scott Newsstadter have been nominated for an Academy

2:45.0

Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Or adapted. I adopted it. As I was saying it, you got

2:54.8

a new status somehow, but not adapted. That was impressive. It was in an orphanage. The

3:04.8

minute that came out, I said, that didn't come out the right way. In just a few years,

3:13.7

he's gone from working as personal assistant to Robert De Nirol to becoming one of the

3:21.1

most sought after screen and television writers in the business. In his young career, he's

3:28.4

already worked with and written for Jane Fonda, Steve Martin, Kevin Klein, Shadeleen Woodley,

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