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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

GGACP Rewind: Episode #5: Marty Allen

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the late 1950’s and 60’s, the comedy duo of (Marty) Allen & (Steve) Rossi performed to sold-out Vegas crowds, recorded best-selling comedy albums and made hundreds of TV appearances (44 of them on “The Ed Sullivan Show"). Sadly, Steve Rossi had passed away earlier in 2014, but Gilbert and Frank tracked down the other half of the legendary team, 92-year-old Marty Allen, to talk about his 60+ years in the business, his brushes with Elvis and the Beatles and the origin of the his signature catch phrase, “Hello Dere!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.4

Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. You know, years ago on TV when I was a kid, I remember I would watch TV and they had this comedy

0:57.9

team that would come on all the time named Alan and Rossi. And it was like, it was like

1:06.4

Marty Allen. He was this crazy, frizzy-haired comic, and Rossi, Steve Rossi, was kind of his Dean Martin, the handsome straight man who could sing.

1:21.7

But Marty was absolutely out of his mind, and could always crack up an audience. He certainly always

1:30.8

cracked me up and he was wild looking and made the weirdest faces and did dances that you

1:39.2

figure only a cartoon character could do. Now, Alan and Rossi have the rare privilege of being able to say

1:49.6

they followed the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Ed Sullivan was already the biggest show on TV at the time,

1:59.6

and the one that they had the Beatles on, forget it.

2:04.8

That was beyond like everyone in the world was watching it, so they followed the Beatles.

2:11.4

Since then, they split up, and Marty Allen's been working with his wife and we, we asked, they actually asked,

2:20.9

the TV show actually asked Marty Allen to go on and he's like, wow, I don't know.

2:26.6

He's must, I don't know if he's 90 yet or damn close to 90 or maybe 100 for all I know.

2:34.6

And he said, I can't go on there.

2:38.0

I'm booked solid.

2:40.1

So now we talk to Marnie Allen.

2:47.5

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and you're listening to the amazing colossal podcast.

2:55.1

I'm here with my friend and co-host, Frank Santo Padre.

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