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

Our guest this week is a writer-producer, a war-dwinning director and one of the most admired and versatile stage and screen actors of the last four decades.

You've seen its work in hit TV series like Weeds, The West Wing and Stranger Things.

The made-for-TV movies, What the Deaf Man Heard, Too Big to Felt, and the documentary Operation Barsity Blues.

The college admission scandal, as well as HBO's and the band played on for which he was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Many Series.

But it is work on the big screen that's brought him into national acclaim and recognition in films such as Screamers, Fishin Quest, Birdie, Baby It's You, Orphans, Married to the Mob, Memphis Bell, Shortcuts, Equinox, and any given Sunday.

The Dark Knight Rises and Cutthroat Island. And of course, as the wise cracking private Joker in Stanley Cougar X 1987 anti-war epic full metal jacket.

In a professional career that began way back when he saw a movie about the making of Oliver in his dad's driving theater.

He'd eventually work with some of cinema's most esteemed actors and directors including previously mentioned Stanley Couprick, as well as Albert Vinny, Gary Omen,

Sir Ian McKellen, Julianne Moore, Bruce Stern, John Slesinger, Alan Parker, James Ivory, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Christopher Nolan, and Robert Oldman just a name of you.

He's also a cheap success as a writer and director, helming music videos as well as award-winning short films such as Jesus Was a Comedy.

He's a comedy, when I was a boy and I think I thought the guy even won the new media award for Best Act for Matthew Modins of the Full Metal Jacket Diary.

He paid a project, but let's be honest folks, for all of his numerous accomplishments, this man's most memorable work to date was sharing the screen with me, Gilbert Gottfried in the 2004 screen classic, Funky Monkey.

Frank and I are excited to welcome to the show one of our favorite artists and a man who says that are showing of the movie Midnight Cowboy practically led to his family being chased out of the state of Utah, the multi-talented Matthew Modi.

We should stop right there. That's the show.

That's the show.

Now, ever since word got out that we'd be interviewing you, the overwhelming messages we were getting was fuck full metal jacket.

We want to hear about Funky Monkey.

Let's start now.

Now, you always hear about these films that were based on a foreign film. Now, Funky Monkey, wasn't that originally a French film?

The funny thing is it was we began filming in the South of France and they were supposed to bring chimpanzees from America that were trained in martial arts, these chimpanzees.

The French said, no, no, we have chimpanzees. We don't need judge chimpanzees. We use French chimpanzees. These chimpanzees who had been trained to work on camera and do martial arts and stuff were brought to, they were never allowed to immigrate into the South of France to work on the film.

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