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Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Ken Kwapis

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.83.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank talk to Emmy-nominated TV and film director Ken Kwapis about working with primates, borrowing from Buster Keaton, falling in (and out of) love with movies, adapting "The Office" for American television and his new memoir, "But What I REALLY Want to Do is Direct." Also, Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, Alan Arkin (reluctantly) plays volleyball, Steve Coogan seduces a Keebler elf and Ken finds inspiration in "The Bellboy" and "A Night at the Opera." PLUS: "American Graffiti"! In praise of drive-in theaters! The cinema of Joan Micklin Silver! The comic mastery of Steve Carell! And Ken shares memories of Peter Falk, Faye Dunaway, Robert Redford and Captain Kangaroo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts Frank Sandoval.

0:27.0

Our guest this week is a producer, writer, author, and an acclaimed Emmy-winning director, a popular film and television shows.

0:37.0

You've seen this work in feature films like, he said, she said, the sisterhood of the traveling pants, licensed to wear, sesame street presents.

0:50.0

Follow that bird, big miracle, Dunston checks in, the robber Redford Star, a walk in the woods, and he's just not into you, just a name of you.

1:05.0

As a director, he's been an important part of some of the most successful and admired TV shows of the last five decades, including several episodes,

1:17.0

in the pilot of the Larry Sanders show, as well as episodes of amazing stories, eerie Pennsylvania.

1:26.0

Eerie Pennsylvania.

1:28.0

Eerie, what's that for? R-H-C, I think I'm through for tonight.

1:34.0

That was an underrated show, eerie Pennsylvania.

1:36.0

This has been Gilbert Kennedy's amazing colossal podcast, and I did a quarter of the introduction.

1:47.0

We'll go back to that.

1:48.0

Next week, and I'll tell the rest of the introduction.

1:53.0

Pick it up from that part, we'll sew it together.

1:56.0

From Eerie Indiana.

2:00.0

Okay.

2:02.0

And this is with a page in front of me.

2:05.0

Joe Dante is going to be furious at you.

2:07.0

Yes, as well as episodes of amazing stories, eerie Indiana Freaks and Geeks, the Bernie Mac show,

2:17.0

happiest, Malcolm in the middle, Parks and Recreation, and of course the office,

2:24.0

and directing several unforgettable episodes as well as the pilot and the final series finale.

2:36.0

In a long and fascinating journey that began when his parents gave from a super eighth camera at the age of ten,

2:47.0

he's gone on to work with Steven Spielberg, Jim Hanson, Robin Williams, Robert Redford, Peter Foll,

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