GGACP Rewind: Episode #13: Drew Friedman

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

To kick off the launch of his recent book, "Heroes of the Comics," Gilbert and Frank were joined by their favorite illustrator, the incomparable Drew Friedman. While sitting and admiring Drew's work adorning the walls of Manhattan's Society of Illustrators, the boys managed to cover everything from Drew and Gilbert's days at "National Lampoon" to Gilbert's Lon Chaney, Jr. obsession to the time a 15-year-old Drew paid a visit to the home of the legendary Groucho Marx. ALSO: "The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant"! Jerry Lewis kvells over Drew's portrait! The triumphant return of Milton Berle's schlong! And Drew reveals why he's Howard Stern's favorite artist! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.2	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried.
0:38.8	You're listening to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:43.6	Today, we're talking to one of the greatest illustrators and cartoonists of our time.
0:50.8	His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time, National
0:59.6	Lampoon, and the Wall Street Journal, just to name a few. So today, Frank Santopatra and myself sat down
1:10.6	with Drew Friedman at New York City Society of Illustrators.
1:15.8	The name of his brand new book is Heroes of the Comics, featuring 85 portraits of the legends of comic books published by Fantagraphics Books.
1:32.1	So now we talk to Drew Friedman.
1:36.6	Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried, and I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santo Padre, and this is the amazing colossal podcast.
1:48.8	We're here.
1:50.5	Today we're taping at the Society of Illustrators on 63rd between Park and Lex, where
1:57.8	they're currently having a whole gallery of the work of Drew Friedman.
2:04.9	And if you don't know that name, you'd recognize his drawings from like National Lampoon,
2:11.7	where I met him, and the New Yorker, and I think every other magazine.
2:17.1	Playboy, yeah, everywhere else.
2:19.5	So.
2:19.7	Entertainment.
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