GGACP Rewind: Episode #4: Paul Shaffer

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Musician, comedian, actor and composer Paul Shaffer was heavily influenced by the musical (and comedy) acts he grew up watching on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” so it was only fitting that we interviewed him in the “Ed Sullivan Room” of the famed New York Friars Club. Not many people can say they worked with James Brown, John Belushi, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jerry Lewis, Brian Wilson, Mickey Rooney AND the infamous Phil Spector, but Paul has — and he shares memorable anecdotes about every one of them. Also, Gilbert and Paul discuss their mutual obsession with a certain Cindy Crawford/Valerie Bertinelli infomercial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.6	Now, most of us know Paul Schaefer as the musical director
1:30.8	of the David Letterman Show, which he's been doing for, I think, a thousand years now.
1:36.8	But did you know that every year, he's the director and producer at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
1:47.6	Did you know that he helped create the Blues Brothers with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd?
1:55.5	And he was the musical director of the House fan for Saturday Night Live for several years and he was the
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