Sonny Fox ENCORE

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank mark Memorial Day 2021 with this special ENCORE presentation of one of their favorite episodes, featuring producer, broadcaster and World War II veteran Sonny Fox, who discusses his life-changing experience as a prisoner of war, his years as host of the beloved children's show "Wonderama" and his memories of the notorious quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Also in this episode: Sonny hosts "The $64,000 Challenge," gets cut from "The Nutty Professor," takes a stand for Jack Gilford and looks back on his friendship with Robert F. Kennedy. PLUS: Allen Funt! "The Movie Game"! Mickey Rooney holds out! Patty Duke spills the beans! And Jack Klugman steps in for Bogie! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	What's up amazing colossal loilists?
0:24.0	We're going to take another bit of much needed time off
0:27.0	for the Memorial Day Week and Weekend.
0:30.0	So we're posting this best of Gilbert or Encore episode
0:34.0	from back in 2016 with one of our favorite guests
0:37.0	and that's Wonder Rama host, Sunny Fox,
0:39.0	the late Sunny Fox, who just left us actually a few months ago.
0:43.0	At age 95, bless his heart.
0:46.0	Now, if you heard this episode the first time,
0:48.0	you heard one of the most touching and unforgettable stories
0:51.0	we've ever heard from a guest on the show.
0:54.0	And that was about Sunny's time as a prisoner of war
0:57.0	during World War II.
0:59.0	Now, we won't spoil it for the listeners who have not heard this episode.
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