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The Mark Simone Show

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The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Richie Gold called Mark to praise Mark's 10:40 am guest today, Alan Zweibel! Richie is working on a similar project to Alan's. Film actor Gideon Fountain calls Mark to mention a talk he had with Billionaire John Catsimatidis, whom he recently ran into.

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0:00.0

Now, more Mark Simone on 710 W0R.

0:07.0

Well, let's take some calls.

0:08.4

Let's go to Richie Gold, the great comedian in Connecticut.

0:13.2

Richie Gold, how are you?

0:14.6

Good, Mark.

0:16.1

How are you?

0:16.9

Thanks for taking my call.

0:18.2

Great show as usual.

0:19.8

I was listening to Alainz Waddell. Great comedy writer. I remember him going back years when he used to write for Saturday Night Live. Now he's writing a music or Broadway play about Rodney Dangerfield. You must have worked with Rodney. Yeah, let me tell you something. Co-in thinking minds, comic minds parallel. Tony,

0:38.9

you know Tony Bavacca.

0:40.1

Tony Bavacqua, who is the owner of Dangerfields, who's out there in Long Island, lives near Bill

0:46.2

O'Reilly. Actually, Tony Bavacqua, great guy.

0:49.1

That's right. So listen to this. Tony and I have been working on a movie script talking about, writing about

0:55.7

Rodney Dangerfields and the birth of the Dangerfield Club.

0:59.9

It has all the elements of what happened to the club that people are trying to influence

1:04.6

it.

1:05.1

One way or other is talking about Rodney's history and Tony, how they got together, working

1:10.0

to, you know, the small rooms, officers at the downstairs, blah, blah, blah. So it just shows you out. I was Mr. Al-en-Warro, Zwebel, and I said, Tony and I are writing a movie about this. He's doing a Broadway play, and Tony and I are writing a movie about Rodney and Tony, how they came together and developed this idea for danger. Yeah, Tony Pavakle was a bass player, and they played together Rodney and Tony, how they came together and developed this idea for danger. Yeah, Tony Bovacqua was a bass player, and they played together Rodney and him in the living room. When Rodney opened a club, he got Tony to be the guy run the club, and he turned out to be brilliant at running a club, a comedy club. Yeah, you used to hang out there. I remember you, Rodney, everybody used to hang out at that club.

1:44.9

It was the in place to be.

1:47.1

It opened in 1969, and it ran for 50 years straight.

1:51.0

So you were there during a heyday, I remember, Mark.

1:53.8

Well, yeah, keep in touch with me, or I'll put you together with Zwebel.

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