Kliph Nesteroff

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Show business historian and New York Times bestselling author KLIPH NESTEROFF returns to the podcast for an entertaining and (as always) educational discussion about banned cartoons, politically incorrect mascots, the history of Hollywood stereotypes and his new book on Native Americans and comedy, "We Had a Little Real Estate Problem." Also, Buddy Hackett pulls a knife, Howard Hawks disses Rowan & Martin, Peter Sellers sends up Charlie Chan and Frank Sinatra's goons rough up Shecky Greene. PLUS: "Go Go Gophers"! Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel! Allen & Rossi "inspire" Charlie Hill! Jack Carter feuds with Al Jolson! And "F-Troop" rips off a Redd Foxx routine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast
0:24.9	with my co-hosts Frank Santopadre.
0:28.5	Our guest this week is making his fourth appearance on this show and I swear that one of
0:35.3	these times I'm going to get his name right.
0:39.5	He's a writer, producer, curator and occasional podcaster, a cultural historian and a New
0:47.7	York Times bestselling author.
0:50.3	He's been called everything from the human encyclopedia of comedy to the King of Comedy
0:57.4	Law and has conducted live on stage interviews with everyone from Mel Brooks to Buck Henry
1:06.8	to Fred Willard to triumph the insult comic door, just the name of you.
1:13.6	He served as the host of a TV series Funny How and was a consulting producer on the popular
1:22.7	CNN series The History of Comedy.
1:27.4	His bestselling critically acclaimed 2015 book The Comedians Drunk Steve Scoundrels and
1:38.0	a history of American comedy was selected as the book of the year on the LA Weekly
1:45.8	and Los Angeles Times.
1:47.9	That book as well as his terrific blog of interviews with Golden Age comedians, classic showbiz
1:57.7	are essential reading for listeners of this podcast or anyone interested in, or anyone
2:08.1	interested in 20th century popular entertainment.
2:13.4	His latest book from Simon and Schuster is called We Had a Little Real Estate Problem,
2:23.2	the unharrowed story of Native Americans and comedy.
2:30.0	And he's here to talk about it as well as other subjects will throw at him.
2:37.2	Now please welcome back to the show A Man Who could personally verify that Jack Carter
2:46.4	was the angriest man in showbiz.
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