John Amos Encore

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the birthday (December 27) of “Good Times” and “Roots” star John Amos with this ENCORE of a memorable interview from 2016. In this episode, John reminisces about everything from his days as a struggling comic to his breakthrough role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to working with Eddie Murphy and James Earl Jones in “Coming to America.” Also, John remembers Ted Knight, cuts up with Tim Conway, shares the screen with Lena Horne and moves into Archie Bunker’s old house. PLUS: Yaphet Kotto! Famous Amos! “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”! Praising Ernest Borgnine! And the mystery of the misheard theme song! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried.
0:27.6	This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:31.8	I'm here at my co-host, Frank Santopadre, and we're once again recording at Nutmeg
0:39.0	with our engineer, Frank Verde Rosa.
0:42.0	Our guest this week is a celebrated and versatile actor, writer, producer with a long list of
0:49.1	credits.
0:50.1	You've seen his work in films like Die Hard 2, Ricochet, The Beastmaster, American Flyers.
0:57.5	Let's do it again, coming to America, Medea's Witness Protection, The World's Greatest
1:04.6	Athlete.
1:06.8	Memorable TV appearances include Maud, Sandford and Sun Love American Style, Future Cop,
1:14.2	The Eighth Team Hunter, Two and a Half Men, All About The Endersons, Mouth and Trees,
1:22.0	The West Wing, and of course, as the TV weatherman, Gordy Howard on Mary Tyler Morsho.
1:32.2	From 1974 to 1976, he starred in a groundbreaking situation comedy Good Times, as the strict but
1:42.2	lovable James Evans, and in the 1977, he was nominated for an Emmy for his outstanding work
1:51.6	as the adult Kuntekinte in the landmark ABC miniseries roots in a career spanning more than
2:02.9	five decades.
2:13.6	James Earl Jones, as well as former podcast guests, Ken Berry, Ed Asner and Dick Van Dyke,
2:27.0	the first TV show to name a few.
2:36.2	The multi-talented John Amos.
2:41.4	You started actually as first TV the main thing was the Mary Tyler Morsho?
2:47.2	No, it was work before that.
2:48.7	He was a writer first.
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