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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

GGACP Classic: Peter Bonerz

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday (b. August 6) of actor and director Peter Bonerz, by revisiting this interview from 2018. In this episode, Peter shares his views on the state of television comedy, the pros and cons of laugh tracks and the rights and wrongs of improvisational theater and looks back on his decades-long friendships with Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette. Also, Redd Foxx changes his tune, Carroll O’Connor cashes a check, Woody Allen brings down the house and Peter directs Gilbert in an episode of “Wings.” PLUS: Rod Serling! Captain Kangaroo! The wit and wisdom of Buck Henry! Murphy Brown meets Walter Cronkite! And Peter remembers the late, great Bill Daily! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey guys, Frank here. Everyone at Fun for All Ages is thrilled that so many of you are listening and enjoying the new show. But FYI soon will no longer be available at the Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal podcast feed. So the only place you'll be able to listen and join in on the fun is on the official Fun for All Ages podcast feed. So make sure you come over.

0:21.8

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to the new show there

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so you don't miss any episodes.

0:26.0

Links can be found

0:26.9

in the show description.

0:28.7

We'll see you all soon. TV, comics, movie stars hit singles and some toys.

0:46.3

Trivia and dirty jokes, an evening with the boys.

0:51.3

Once is never good enough for something so fantastic

0:57.0

So here's another Gilbert and Franks

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Here's another Gilbert and Franks

1:03.0

Here's another Gilbert and Franks

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Colossal Classic.

1:37.1

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host, Frank Santopadre.

1:49.7

Our guest this week is an accomplished actor and stage and screen, an Emmy nominated and DGA award-winning director of feature films, TV movies, hundreds of hours of network television. As an actor, you've seen

1:58.4

them in movies like Fuzz, Funny Man, Medium Cool,

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whatever happened to Aunt Alice, Catch 22, Serial, and Man on the Moon,

2:10.4

and in the popular TV series, The Adams Family Sanford and Son, 9 to 5, murder she wrote, home improvement, and parks and recreation.

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But he's perhaps best known to audiences for playing the sarcastic dentist, Jerry Robinson, Barb Pardley's friend and office mate, on one of the most

2:40.3

beloved situation comedies of old time, the Bob Newhart Show.

2:48.7

In a performing career spanning seven decades, he shared

2:54.5

the big and small screen

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