Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Amy Yasbeck Encore

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

GGACP celebrates American Heart Month by presenting this ENCORE of a 2020 interview with actress, activist and founder of The John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health, Amy Yasbeck. In this episode, Amy talks about golden age comedians, the directing style of Mel Brooks, working with Gilbert on “Wings” and the “Problem Child” franchise, and the playfulness and generosity of John Ritter. Also, Morey Amsterdam sings “Yuk-a-Puk,” Gilbert gets nominated for a Razzie, Amy cuts the rug with Leslie Nielsen and Jack Warden changes accents in mid-movie. PLUS: Emil Sitka! “The New Love American Style”! Anne Bancroft plays Maria Ouspenskaya! John borrows shtick from Jerry Lewis! And 6-year-old Amy pitches the Easy-Bake Oven! https://johnritterfoundation.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Offer ends March 3rd, 2025. Terms and conditions apply. Invest with RBC today. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santopadri. Our guest this week is a talented actress of both the big and small screen, as well as an aortic awareness advocate and the founder of the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. You know her work from popular TV shows such as Dallas, Magnum P.I., Designing Women, Get Alive, Just Shoot Me, Hot in Cleveland, Bones, Wings, in which she starred as the uptight, high-strung Casey Davenport. She's also done memorable work in feature films Pretty Woman, The Mask, home for the holidays Robin Hood men Robin Hood men tights Dracula did I

shut the fuck up track men and tight Robin Hood man in tights, Dracula dead and loving it. And perhaps her proudest moment, sharing the big screen with her favorite entertainer, me. In problem child, and problem child and problem child too in a four decade career that big in a four decade career she began playing she which that she began by playing a Russian spy with an accent she swiped from a Bullwinkle cartoon. She's worked with Mel Brooks, Richard Gere, Jim Carrey, Julia Roberts,

Jodie Foster, and Robert Downey Jr. As well as amazing Colossal Podcast guests, Richard Lewis, Kara Leifer, Steven Weber, Tim Matheson, Jason Alexander, and Dick Van Dyke. Please welcome to the show a funny, versatile performer, and a woman who Mel Brooks once described as Deborah Carr with a little Jewish old man inside. Ask me, Gilbert, how many times we've worked together?

Oh yes, ready? Okay. So Amy, how many times have we worked together? Four? I think so. Like two problem child one, problem child two, wings twice? Wings twice.

Wings twice, yes. But I would just like to say you never write, you never call. Yes. And now he's calling. Sure. You were Lewis, right? You were the grandson of the sleazy come the sleazy stereo salesman I think I pronounced Jewish yes and my I was there with

what was supposed to be my uncle the late great Bill Hickey right right as a matter of fact I watched the episodes last night. Amy, your character is sitting at the, what is that, the coffee bar? I don't know what it was. The lunch counter? Yeah, lunch counter, lunch counter. Gilbert, you come over and make a pass at her,

and she says, oh, let me see how to put this exactly. Ah! Yes, I stick my finger down my throat. We are assuming that Casey had a gag reflex. Still intact. But I never fully developed her back story, so I think I was faking it. You're in the Christmas episode too, Gilbert.

You're all in the house and all the, they get them all the wallets go missing You don't remember I do I do remember the Christmas episode Wasn't that strong the Christmas episode I don't know I thought it was a humdinger I didn't remember it It's the 30th anniversary of wings by the way. You know what? Shut your fucking face. See how I look. I look.

That's not a good sign. I remember a line from wings that I don't know if I did it with you or. Why even bring it up? You're gonna hurt my feelings. Well I don't know. If not, you'll tell me to go fuck myself. That's correct.

Or with that, the other, what was her name? The blonde. Farrah Forkey? No, the blonde. Crystal Bernard. Crystal Bernard. Crystal Bernard. But I remember there was one where one of you says to me,

you are the most loathsome, disgusting person I ever saw. And I go, oh, so you've been checking me out. That'd be me. That's right. But that was improvised. I was just, I didn't know they were rolling. I was just trying to tell you something about how I felt about you. Yeah, she says head to trying to tell you something about how fleshy about you. Yeah, she says head to toe,

you're the most repulsive man I ever met. Yes. Yeah, for some reason, Amy, your debut episode called Twisted Sister is not on Hulu, it's missing. What? From the wings run. Yeah, we need to investigate this.

That's very weird. Let's call, who would we call? Steve Levitan. We'll call Steve Levitan. Let's call, who would we call? Steve Levitan. We'll call Steve Levitan. We'll call somebody. We'll call Weber. No, don't. Don't get it started.

Don't poke that bear. Tell us about working with him, because we had him on the show. We love him. He's become a friend. I'm crazy about him. 100% crazy about him. And I got him a really good job one time.

Oh yes, and Dracula. Yes. Mel Brooks, Mel as I call him had had somebody else in mind for the the part and I said have you met Stephen Weber and then they fell in love Stephen Mel and then he was he was in Dracula dead and loving it. Or as somebody just wrote to me, literally, literally on Facebook, yeah, I'm on there, okay, Boomer, whatever, there was a lady that wrote to me, a girl, and her name was Amy Yazbek. I'm not gonna say the last name

because I don't want anybody to check her out, but with a nice Colombian last name. But her first name was Amy Yazbek. So I wrote her and I said, hi, nice to meet you. with a nice Colombian last name. But her first name was Amy Yazbek. So I wrote her and I said, hi, nice to meet you. Is this a family name? Because there are Yazbeks all over. It's a Lebanese last name.

And we got around. And she wrote back in Google Translate, it's like, no, my father named me in your honor. He saw you in a movie called Happy Dracula I almost don't want to say it out loud because I could have used it as my password for everything So the Yazbeks sometimes spell it with an S and sometimes spell it with a Z like our friend David Yazbek You're very correct. You're David's cousin. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. I'm going to say yes on that because Lebanon is small and I know kind of what town his family is from.

Our family, we Yazbeks, are from a town in northern Lebanon in the mountains called Turza. And my cousins, like my dad's brothers and sisters, spelled it Y z, b e c k and still do. It's like however, like when you came to Ellis Island, you said, yes back and they went okay, and wrote it down as if you sneezed and they were trying to like at you is it a hot as it but it's all the same. We all have the same. Can you say he definitely is a relative? No.

So we can use it as a story. He thinks he's related to you, Amy. OK, here's the deal. David Yazbek, Y-A-Z-B-E-K, is definitely some kind of cousin. All the Yazbeks are related and I'm also a musical genius. Ooh. Just by having taste and thinking David Yazbek is the shit. He most certainly is a musical genius.

I am not a musical genius, but he is. And we of course starred in the Both Problem Child. Are we back to us now. Yes, yes. And you are missus Haley in the first one and then you are some unknown woman who John her just the nurse she said yeah, you I was I was that my last name yeah young so my yes, I was nurse any young my yes, I was nurse Annie Young. Oh, yes. And it was fantastic to play both roles because I'm a

master of I don't know. I played a nurse and the other one and I still have those little glasses that I wore and I just made them into reading glasses. I don't throw away a thing. Oh, you saved all that stuff, huh? I am terrible. You guys met at the table read at Dennis's house? I could tell you. At Dennis Dugan's house?

I could tell you, but I didn't have to kill you. I guess so. Yes. No, not Gilbert. Gilbert, you weren't there. No. I didn't. I wasn't.

No, he was talking about John and me. You and John. Yes. We did. John, I'm sorry. It was a table read, but it was more like we were sitting on a bunch of couches around the thing. What what I remember is when we were making that well, I remember the last day on that movie.

On the first one. On the first one. I was already wrapped for all my scenes. And I was about to head home the next day and I said to John, okay, it's my last day. It's been fun working with you, blah, blah. And he says with like a depressed look on his face, he says like, oh, well, you know, the way it is. Yeah. You do these, they offer you something, you do it.

And then you hope for the best. And I think he he was waiting for problem child to be the disaster. Of course. Yes. I think we all were. Well, it was you know, it was like it was like a cartoon. It was really huge. You know, I mean, like played really come on, Gilbert, it's you. Yeah, and it's me. I was doing my version of it. Ah, you know, we were all just screaming. John was the most realistic and you know, method of all of us. That's trouble usually when John and even Jack, Jack Warden was like, everybody was like, hey, he had a southern accent. Jack Warden. Yeah, Jack. He Jack Warden also did some scenes with a southern accent.

I noticed that. And then the others like a New York accent. He was like foghorn, leghorn for some of it. Wah wah wah ah ah tell ya boy. I'm Big Ben and I'm here to say wah wah wah and some of it it's like hey so anyway. Good for him. Fuckin who cares he was great. I still have a button that says Big Ben for mayor.

Oh, I have so much stuff. Jack Warden was always great. So listen, so on the second one, we were shooting down at, remember the, oh God, Gilbert, remember the pizza fight? Yes, yes. And the stuff they used on the pizza to make it look, you know, the practical effects,

I don't know what the fuck I'm saying, that the stuff to make it look like stringy mozzarella was more like, oh, I'm gonna throw up. Oh God, I really just got, it was more like snot, remember? Yes, it was like a weird. It was like that slime. Slime, but not, but. That they used to drop on people at whatever, the MTV awards.

I believe that was not the MTV awards. I think that was Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon. They would drop slime. Doesn't matter. Don't try to get me off the subject. And so we were- Oh, no, no.

That is my least favorite scene, and I'll tell you why. Do you want to know why? Why? They had me because do you remember? Oh my God, I could go. So they went primary colors. I don't know if you know all this. John always wore blue.

This one always wore red. Nurse Annie always wore white. And they had me, it's like a decorator designer thing. I don't know. I'm not that good at the girl stuff. So, but they had me in like a white sweater and like stretch pants or something. And I've never had a butt. And I haven't even, I didn't even have one to work off.

I was small, very subtle butt. But in that scene, there's a, in that scene of us throwing pizza, there's a shot of me. God, I've never who gives a fuck? I'm old now. I'm happy to have any but at any time at all. Now it's like behind my knees. I don't know what that is. It could be I could be have back of knee goiters. That could be my butt that fell anyway. And I'm throwing and I'm throwing the pizza and there's a shot. And maybe just to get some loft on

the pizza because I was trying to throw it at you and your date in the booth. I kind of squeezed my cheeks together and it is the most unflattering view of my... and I was 28, 7, whatever years old. I should have... I know that's not what we're talking about. But anyway, so during those times when we were shooting... not Disney MGM, what do we call it? Universal. Yes. Remember, okay. And there were trailers and Jack Warden

would always sit on the steps of his trailer, smoking a cigar. And John said, you've got a great trailer, why don't you go in here? And apparently in World War II, he spent World War II in a submarine and was extremely claustrophobic after that. So he could not go in there and even have the door.

I remember one time he was in there and even the screen door on it blew shut and he came out like, no! It was very scary, but I loved him. He was terrific and such a talented actor. He and John would do many, many things that the thing where it's like, well, I remember when this was all orange groves as far as the eye could see, like acting like they were like really old.

Well, when I grew up here and they also used to do things about what you say to people when you see them in a play and it sucks and you've been invited. Like, what do you say when you see them in a play and it sucks and you've been invited like what do you say when you go back so they had a certain kind of comic shorthand together the two of them they would come up with things to say like after a take and and like jack would walk up to john after a particularly terrible take or just to fuck with him and go wow you should have been where i was in other words you should not be in front of the camera. You should have been in this chair because you shouldn't be there.

It was like, nice to see you back on the boards, kid. And then roll your eyes and slap him on the back. Now, Gil, this could be bullshit too, but I heard that Dugan, Dennis Dugan, the director, was enjoying your improvisation. So he shot a lot of film. Do you know? There is that. Yes.

Have you had Dugan on? Have you had Dugan on? We haven't had him yet, no. Oh please. We'll have him on. But he supposedly shot something like 18,000 feet of film a day and the studio was on his ass because he kept trying to capture something special from you.

Yeah. That doesn't sound right. That sounds like Gilbert sucked so they kept rolling on him. That's not a compliment. He was nominated for the golden raspberry. Yeah, that's how they shot that much video of the little twin girls on full house to like one word at a time. And it's like getting back to the pizza fight not only was there the green slime.

It wasn't green. It wasn't green. It was clear. It was a phlegm. It was phlegm. Yes. Yeah, it was snot. It was it was it was like phlegm and then a little bit of the pizza sauce. So total goo. And and and the crust was made out of rubber, a heavy rubber. Yeah. So when they flung it, you got smacked in the head. Unbelievable. It, your brain would be ringing.

You know, it's surprising things that look hilarious like that. I did a movie that was not mentioned just now called The Nutty Nut, also known as The Nut House. We're gonna bring it up. Oh, yes. Really? You worked with an actor that Frank and I have discussed many times on this show. Tracy Lortz?

Not Tracy Lortz, although she was in it. Emil Sitka. Who's Emil Sitka? Emil Sitka to all the Three Stooges fans are screaming. Oh yes, yes, yes! Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Oh my God. Oh my God.

That's like the only person I talked to after a while because there was a lot of weird stuff going on. But yeah, Adam Rifkin ended up directing it. Somebody else fell off of it. I forget, but they wanted to get the world's record for the largest pie fight, food fight, pie fight, okay? So I've been in two food fights. I only got on Proble Child,

I got beaned a couple times with the rubber and the snot. The rubber was painful. Let's not just edit that where I just say, I got beaned with rubber and snot. We don't wanna hear about your personal life. I've never gotten paid enough for that. Ben Stiller in that movie to uncredited. I can't remember. So but wait, so there was a giant pie fight,

right? And so there's they're throwing pies, we had this whole thing set up. And what people don't realize about pie fights, I don't know what this means, is that so, and then somebody, it might have been Emil, I can't remember, was supposed to shove a pie in my face. And what you do in a pie fight is there's the tin, there's the pie, and then there's the whipped cream or the meringue, whatever, and you're supposed to throw throw it but you keep your hand on it and you stop and then the pie goes on the person's

face. He went like fucking karate style like through my face like he was he was aiming like behind my head and not only did pie and everything go up my nose but it kind of like went and like did a little and I thought it was broken. And that's the end of my story. Yeah, I it is. It is. Go ahead. Yeah, I felt like I was in a in a price fight. And that was crazy. Yeah. Because he would boy with that hit what it was. There were so many takes. And then the thing is, I believe we broke for a break, not lunch or something and we all had to go with like just crusty fuck it. I'm swearing a lot. Crusty, like clothes with all the goop on it.

It just felt, it felt very like, you know, Caligula, like, okay, now let's all drink. Now let's get back and reactivate our crust. It's so funny. The way you describe problem child was exactly the way I describe it. What do you mean? In that I also have said to people that every character there was like a living cartoon character. 100%. And in the center of it is John, who just seems like a nice guy. Isn't that great? Yeah, it was so I know. And maybe that was why like people dug it. But I also think they'll go over it. Tell me if this is true or if I'm making this up. Or just just tell me it's true because I'm too old to learn new things. Okay, so I

Feel like the movie was released in June or something and it was so weird and it made like all this money the first Weekend I mean whatever was a lot in those and I like 26 Thousand million not million. I don't know what money is So anyway, it made a lot, a lot of money. And then they did this crazy thing where they re-released it in theaters in September. I know, cause I went on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote it.

Oh my God, that was so good. So much fun. And I think the reason they did that was over the summer, remember this is before everything was everybody and kids were on there for, there was nothing, right?, this is before everything was everybody and kids were on there for there was nothing right? Why this all this was orange groves as far as the eye could see. So when kids got back in school and saw each other, they're like, Hey, did you see that movie? No, I wanted to see it with you. They re-released it in September. And it did great again, because

kids wanted to see it with each other. And it made money again. I and what I remember, not only did all of us think it would be a bomb, a dog, but yeah, a it was like one of the people at Universal, one of the exec said, what was his name? I forget his name, but he said, he said, we're just going to release this and we're going to, we're going to treat it like a wounded soldier on the battlefield. We're going to run and save our own asses. Said that? Yes. We need to have Dugan on to confirm all these wonderful things. We need to have Dugan on to confirm all these wonderful things. Yeah. It was great.

He was so much fun. He was. He was. That was great. Oh, I, mm. Those were the days, huh? Yeah. Gil, do you feel you earned that Golden Raspberry nomination?

Was it from that movie? Yes. Did I get? I've done so many things. We're supporting actor. Ha ha ha ha! I watched it again this weekend. I thought you were pretty damn smooth. Yeah!

Actually. Ha ha ha ha! I thought you were quite natural. Yes! Well yeah, but natural for Gilbert. Ha ha ha ha! I love that Larry and Scott say they were gonna up the ante for the second one and

write a John Waters movie for kids, which I also love. And the giant, yeah, I like the giant. Do you remember when the little, what was his name? The dog? Spiffy, puffy, the little dog in the second one, whatever his name was, he gets, he gets sick from eating dog food and then he takes a giant. Oh, yes. Yes. I love that part.

And as it all I remember that just the way like you played a different character in the second one. Yeah, I they said to me they were originally wanted a right that I was a strange ice cream salesman. It's a different dude? Yeah, for problem child too. Like they'd have all the same cast with all totally different characters. You weren't so you weren't Peabody at that point.

But he came back as Peabody. But as an ice cream man you wouldn't have been Peabody. I wouldn't have been Peabody. Yeah, but as an ice cream man, you wouldn't have been Peabody. I wouldn't have been Peabody. I see. But I came back as Peabody. Somehow, as an adoption agency worker, I got a job as principal. That makes a lot of sense. Of course it does.

Amy, tell us about your first impressions of John, who you met at the table, Reid, but you had seen him before, if I have this right, you had seen him around LA? I, let's see, I think there's that story about seeing him at a, was it a pet store? Yeah, at West Side Pavilion there was a pet store and they had puppies. I'm sure it was a straight up puppy mill, but what did we know in those days? And I remember seeing John in there from afar with one of his kids and they were looking at a Sharpay and John was doing filthy things

with the folds of the Sharpays skin. Which I heard also he had done when he did the Miss Piggy special because her ear looked like a vulva. And he would like poke his finger in Miss Piggy's ear because it looked dirty. God bless. And you said to me on the phone, you said to me on the phone that you have a bunch of photos of photos.

Yeah. And what were we all doing in the photos? Pretending like we were groping each other by having our hands in front. We were doing some special effects that later got some really interesting people like Al Franken in a lot of trouble, but none of us were asleep. Interesting. Yes, yes. A matter of fact, I may have been the ringleader on that

because that is a famous, famous, that is an interesting thing, but not famous, that I used to do. I believe in one picture, if I can find this one, and I will, and maybe you have a hand over hovering where John's sack and wallet would be. I guess, yes. And then John maybe has a hand,

but I'm saying hovering like, you know, in the foreground, but it just looks like, I don't know, it looks like we're all just doing things to each other. But then I realize almost all the pictures that I have I don't know, it looks like we're all just doing things to each other. But then I realize almost all the pictures that I have of John, some kind of hijinks were up, consensual hijinks. Yeah, I remember.

Yeah, I think at home I have one photo of me basically holding John's stick, but he's got his pants on. Or standing like behind with your hands around the front, like you're groping boobs. Was it? Right? Oh, everything. All funny until somebody gets kicked out of the Senate.

And getting back to- Of course getting back. You didn't hear a damn word I said. Getting back to Emil Zitka. That's the name of your book. Getting back to Emil Zitka. The life story of Gilbert Gottfried. Getting back to Emil Zitka. He was surprised at one point, Moe, after Larry had a stroke, Moe wanted Emil Zitka to be one of the Stooges. Really? Like the fourth Stooges?

Yeah, because I, you know, Curly and Shempo, yeah, Curly and Shempo were dead. Joe Bessa left. Right. And so he was, he already had, you know, Dorita. And he was gonna get Emil Zitka as the third. You're kidding. Yes, and to all of you Three Stooges fans, probably already know this, he was the preacher at

a wedding. I don't know who was getting married in one of the Three Stooges shorts and his classic movie line is, uh, uh, you may kiss the bride, you two lovebirds. I love that. That should be every, every. I love that. That should be every every priest should say that. You may kiss the bride. You two love birds. Gil, out of 300 plus guests, I don't think we've ever had anybody who worked with with with Emble Sitka.

Except for Amy. Let's see if we can find a picture of us together, shall we? Since you saved everything, you might have. Do you have a picture where you're grabbing Milsika's balls? No, but you know what? I can recreate one.

Photoshop is my absolute friend. I have the first thing, I don't know anything about computers, except for how to make myself look good, get out of trouble and also, um, you know, implicate people in sex crimes. Is that all right? Girls gotta live. We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast after this. FanDuel Casino's exclusive live dealer studio has your chance at the number one feeling,

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Amy, tell us, I think our listeners would be interested to know your connection. I forgot there were listeners. Yes, there are for you, there are a handful. Tell us about your connection to the Easy Bake Oven. I don't think even Gilbert knows this about you. No, I did, I saw this in her bio. Ah, yeah.

This is the true thing. She was a cover girl. Well, let's not go crazy. Let's not go crazy. My sister, Patty, who is still smoking hot at, I'm going to say she's 70, and she is, but she was a model in Cincinnati which is a thing don't don't even worry about it and she somehow the photo I think

goes like this photographer that she was working with his next thing he was going to be photographing the box for the Easy Bake oven because Kenner toys which was that at that time now bought by I I'm going to go Hasbro, I don't know, was in Cincinnati, where I'm from. So she showed, she showed him my school picture, which I had cut my own bangs and he thought that was adorable. Anyways, I got the, I got the gig. And I went at six years old, she came to get me out of class at my Catholic school, so I'm a country day school. I think she probably said I had a doctor's appointment if the if the nuns

had known I was going to do something show busy. They might have grabbed me by the heels and said no, don't go down that path and yet I fucking got away. And so then yeah, I did like a photo shoot and I got to like be behind the scenes with the easy bake oven and in the other room as a full on chef making the things so you know. And for those people out there too young to remember the Easy Bake Oven, it was a little plastic oven the size of a bread box and it had a light bulb. Two 100 watt light bulbs.

Yes, yes. and it had a light bulb. Two 100 watt light bulbs that cooked things. But some of it, so what most people did and what I clearly did is, cause I look at, I can't cook right now. I have no idea what I'm doing. And I'm the person that like eats the cookie batter and like that equals two cookies, I'm fine. Throw the rest away.

But so people would get the little packages, they'd be like little envelopes, and you're supposed to mix it up and kids would just go yeah, and they basically just eat it like liquor made. Oh, sure. It was called something else to where you'd have like a little sweet tart like shapes like spoon and you would lick it and stick it in the powder. Like pixie sticks. Like it's the same kind of powder as pixie sticks. Yeah. Hey, do you having to do with Like, it's the same kind of powder as Pixie Sticks, yeah. Hey, do you, having to do with nothing,

what's the, do you both remember those straws where you used to sip the milk? Pixie Sticks. Oh, oh yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it would have like some kind of powder or something. No, no, no, there was strawberry and there was chocolate. Yes, of course. Wow. So my, so my, so in Cincinnati,

the big, you know, General Electric is in Cincinnati, it's other places too, but also Procter & Gamble. So my dad had this little store and even though there were Kroger's and big stores, he had this little grocery store, but somehow they would try out like new products. And I remember the day my dad brought home like a can of Pringles and we looked at it like it was from 2001 Space Odyssey, like, what is it? Opened it up and we, everybody like looked

at a Pringles potato chip for the first time. We're like, this is somebody's playing God with potatoes. But it was good. But yeah, we had those little straws. What about the crazy straws, Gil? The ones that used to go in 26 different directions that you put in the milk? Yeah.

Kids today don't know what they're missing. And they used to be that stuff, those tablets. Oh, maybe they were fizzy's. Fizzies, yeah. Yeah, you drop them in water and they were allegedly supposed to taste like Coca-Cola, but they never did. Well, that Animal House joke.

Who dumped a truckload of fizzy's into the swim meet? I've never seen Animal House. Don't tell Jamie Widows. When I see him, I always pretend. You know Jamie Widows? Oh, it's fun. Yeah. Yeah, he was Hoover in the movie.

He was Hoover and he's also a director. Yes, yes. And can we get to Mel Brooks? It's up to you. This is on your dime. Yeah, can you, what was it like working with Mel Brooks? Well, working with Mel Brooks was a dream absolutely come true.

That was, that's the thing. That's the thing when I'm like, it was a dream, but also a joke, but a dream, because it's like, it just never felt, it never felt real until one time he yelled at me, oh, it felt so real. It was so great. Why did he yell at you?

Oh, because I was, I think I'm a good dancer, which everybody says you can't dance. And in Dracula, Dead and Loving It, also known as Happy Dracula, I think I'm a good dancer, which everybody says you can't dance. In Dracula, Dead and Loving It, also known as Happy Dracula. In Happy Dracula, there was a thing where Dracula and I, Dracula and I have to dance the Tarantella. I'm saying all these words. I had to, we had dance ins for us, of course, this famous couple, I can't remember their name, I should,

they're in the credits, that were famous, like, tango ballroom dancers. And she looked pretty much like me, that was pretty good. But there was a scene where they would cut from her doing this dancing, dressed like me, to me, and I had to do one thing, which was Dracula had his, like, arms out, like, holding his cape out or something.

And I was behind him, and I had to, like, look at him in the eyes and then, like, roll, like, my head away from him down his arm. And I just couldn't do it. And Mel was so used to us being really far away. But Video Village, or whatever they call it, like, where he was sitting with all the camera, with all the video and stuff, was right next to me.

So I could hear him saying, Ugh, this is how she dances. I didn't expect this. Wait, what? Honey, can you do it? Can you? You know what? How about just have you? And then he goes, okay, great. And he goes, have you seen someone dance? Do you know what dancing is?

You know, and I'm like, to Rudy DeLuca and those guys. And I'm like, oh, my God. But anyway, and I'm like, I'm trying as hard as I can. He goes, yeah, it's very trying over here, too. And I'm like, I'm sorry. But other than that, it was a love fest. Gil, Anne Bancroft's character in that movie is named Madame Ouspanskaya. Oh wow. That one's for you. Easter eggs everywhere. Easter eggs everywhere. You sent to get that

that you sent a tape of a Carson appearance to Mel Brooks to get... Who said that? Now you're full of crap. You did? I said I sent a tape of a Carson experience? You had your agent send the tape of your Johnny Carson appearance to Mel Brooks? Oh, you know what? For Men in Tights? I think maybe he did do that. God, where are you? Oh, I guess I did.

Gosh. Hmm. Boy, I have been lying so long I can't remember what... Deep research, Amy. Deep research. You know what? I'm going to need you someday when I'm in the home and you go, hello, Ms. Gadsby? I'm going to need you someday when I'm in the home. And you go, hello, Ms. Gadsby.

I'm going to get there before you. No, I used to work as a candy stripper in a nursing home. And my job was, and I've always, I never thought I would need it, but especially now I do. My job would to be, instead of going in, and the lovely people who I loved, I love old people. I love it so much, I'm turning into one. But then they would say, so instead of them going,

what day is it or what's your name again? You would walk into the room and say, hi, oh, it's Amy. You might not recognize me, I have glasses on today. So nice to see you and then say their name. And it's such a sunny Tuesday for March isn't it? Gosh what is it? March 17th so you're like giving them all the information so they don't feel like they have to ask for it and I really would appreciate that much much much as a matter of fact. That's how Gilbert and I interact now. Is it? Absolutely. What about all those old comedy pros? Wow she's

quick hashtag she's quick go ahead. Between two movies, between the Dracula movie and Men in Tights. I mean, Dom Deluise, Avery Schreiber, Robert Ridgely, Chuck McCann. Yeah, Chuck McCann. I used to run into Chuck McCann all the time. I can't remember why. In LA? Yes, we McCann. We had him here. On the poster. We had him on this podcast.

Okay, go ahead. What about Harvey Corman? I mean, what was it like being around these guys? This is like centuries of comedy. No, but that is a hundred percent when you say like show business. That's what I thought like show business was That's all I ever wanted it to be the Dean Martin not the roast the Dean Martin show There was a girl in my girl, a woman who apparently dated my brother and her name was Patti Pavarnick and she was from

my town and she she she was one of the oh they're called gold diggers. The gold diggers. Yeah. The gold diggers and she was I think she changed her name to Patti Pavar and I remember that she was on I remember I'm a kid she was, I think she changed her name to Patti Pavar. And I remember that she was on, I remember I'm a kid, she was on Happy Days, like one episode of Happy Days. And it wasn't like you can, let's watch it on the DVR. No kids, there was a time before that. And I remember seeing Patti, didn't know her, but my brother did, Patti Pavar, Nick, Patti Pavar, and it was so exciting.

And then I think she married Marty Ingalls. So shit happens. Wow. Before he was married to Shirley Jones? Wait, married Marty Ingalls so shit happens. Wow before he was married to Shirley Jones? Wait not Marty Ingalls I apologize Marty hello no not him. Marty Allen. Wait a minute say this over again. I can't. She can't repeat it. So there was a girl in my neighborhood named a woman who was my brother's age, who's 12 years older than I am. Her name was Patty Pawarnik.

She went to Hollywood. We were all excited. We heard that she was in Hollywood. It might have been in the fucking paper, either the Cincinnati Enquirer, which is a thing, or the Northeast Suburban News, or the Blue Ash Tattletale, some fucking newspaper in my hometown. Patty Pawar, change her name to Pavar instead of Pavarnik, because you can, and she was on an episode of

Happy Days and then she was one of the gold diggers. Remember they were like the dancing girls? Yes, yes, yeah. And then she married, what's his name, Marty Allen? Well, she might have changed her name, but Marty was married to Frenchie, whose real name was Lorraine, and then he was married to Karen Blackwell, but he's only married twice. Wait, so who am I thinking of?

I don't know. What was the catchphrase? I think she just fucked him. Huh? Oh, that's even sadder. Ha ha ha ha Allen? It wasn't, he didn't say hello there. Hello there. No, that's, that's the other guy. That's Marty Allen.

That's Marty Allen. Wait, who's the Shapoopy? Shapoopy, Shapoopy. Shapoopy. From, from, from Music Man. Shapoopy. Oh, Buddy Hackett. Oh no, it wasn't Buddy Hackett.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Who was it? This is a fun game. I know it. I might be wrong. Red buttons was ho ho. I met red buttons. Oh, red buttons.

I met red buttons. I met, I've met, you guys, you don't even know. I met Milton Berle, just enough to win. And I'll. Yeah, yeah. I've met everybody. Steve Weber on Wings, we would talk and I would say, oh yeah, I met him at the thing. Oh yeah. And he goes, you are the most famous, non-famous person in the world. He goes, how do you know all these people? I'm like, cause I would just go up to them because I don't, it's not like, oh, I'm a showbiz person

like you. I'd go up, I go, hi, I'm a big fan. And once in a while they'd go, aren't you on that show? Or yeah, but most of the time I was just like a fan girl and then we get to talk and I'd be like, I'm kind of in show business too. But so who do you wanna know? I know every name it, I'll tell you if I met. Well, you worked with Norm Crosby on.

I love Norm Crosby. Oh, Norm Crosby did the what was it called? Malapropism. Yes. Malapropism. Kind of like Leo Gorsy used to do that. But but let me tell you something. So there was a show and it was. OK, the husband of was his last name,

Yarnell, not not shields in your now there's Shields in your now. No, no, not but I love them but no no no What's her name the agent from ICM Tony whatever her name is and her husband's name is something you are now Okay, he produced this thing called the new love American style. Sure and the nit don't say sure you don't know thing called the new love American style. Sure. And the new don't say sure you don't know. Believe me we do.

You do? Yeah. Marsha Wallace was on that show. Get with me. So so so they would have the interstitials which on the old one would be like no way that's. Wait stop. Hey shut the fuck up.

We had on Stuart Margolin. Yeah. He was the guy that did the blackouts in the old Love of American. Okay, in the old one, Gilbert, listen to me. No. Just for a second, just pipe the fuck down for a second. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Dara told me I might have to say this. Okay, just kidding. So, but in the new ones, instead of like, that was like a, in the old ones, the interstitials were like pushing a brass bed down the street at night, like all of the, but in the new ones, they were like little comedy bits. Like a joke, beep, bop, bop, beep, bop, bop.

Like a laughing kind of thing. So it was, here's who got hired for it. Danita Jo, can't remember her last name, Marsha Wallace, Arsenio Hall, me, Barry Pearl. You know Barry Pearl? You should. And what'd you say? Norm Crosby.

So on two weekends, we did, we filmed all of the interstitials. So it was just the corniest bullshit. You don't really have to be quiet, Gilbert. Are you mad at me? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I was walking out.

No, you weren't. I could see you. You fucking dramatic queen liar. So it was crazy because I got to like hang out with, and then he had said, well, I'm going to be in Las Vegas if you want to come and see the act in Las Vegas. And so I went with my boyfriend, Jay, at the time, and we went and Norm Crosby from the stage, he would do this.

It was at Caesar's. He did this whole big act, but then he would, he worked my name into one of the things that he's like, and then the pioneers went out over the, over the country and they set out for their destiny going down the old Yazbek trail and da da da. Oh, I almost jizzed. He was great. Norm Crosby. He's still around. He is great. You're great. Norm. I love norm Crosby. I have to yell louder than that. A little louder.

I met him a couple of times. He was, he's- Really, he never mentioned you. Yeah. Oh, should I mention? No, I don't like it. I don't like it. Among these nonsense sound words,

Yeah. there was Maury Amsterdam from Dick Van Dyke in his act. He used to go yuck a puck yuck a puck. Oh yeah. Yeah. And what does it mean? Nothing. Just about the same as your poopy. I'm not. Yeah. But in that category, which yuck a puck. Yuckapuck. Yuckapuck. Ka-fuf-ka-fefe. Yuckapuck. I like it. Hashtag yuckapuck. Let's get it going. Let's get it going, people.

Is there a story, Amy, about when you and John were on the Cosby show? Because Gilbert has some information about the Cosby show. What? More? Can I? More? More information than has been spoken of course? show. What can I more I I did. Then yeah, then spoken by the way, how do you like the fact that he made himself an obstetrician on that show Gilbert?

I yes. Which we've never discussed. I love it better than anesthesiologist which was. I did an episode of Cosby. I know, I know. And what the two of the writers told me this, that in his schedule set aside, like for say, you know, 3.15, an hour was set aside to teach comedy to Asian models. No. Yes.

No. That's what I heard. You sure he didn't say agent models? No, Asian models. That's why there are so many funny Asian models around. That would do it. I don't think he got around to teaching them comedy. Is that real?

That's so, how can that be real? Is that real? How could you have How can that be real? Is that real? How could you have a hard time believing that? Yeah! No, that, no, but I mean that the two writers told Gilbert that. Yeah, I believed them. That's the only thing? No, 100%. Okay. Here's my story. Do you want me to tell you the whole story?

Yeah! Please. Do we have two seconds for me to pee and come right back? Sure. Okay, here we go. And it doesn't mean I'm snorting coke or anything. It means I'm peeing. Do we have two seconds for me to pee and come right back? Sure. Okay, here we go. And it doesn't mean I'm snorting coke or anything, it means I'm peeing. Goodbye. Oh my god, I love it.

Someday I'll tell you the real story of what just happened. I, well, we know you peed. No, you don't know anything. You just know what I told you. You told us you peed. Yeah. I'd like to go with that. That's a good story. Okay. All right. I peed off the balcony. I didn't. Okay. Cosby.

So, first of all, John was, God bless him, the biggest Cosby fan of all time. When he was at SC, all of this of course before I was born. He based like his like cool wardrobe as Cosby's character on I Spy. Wow. Like with plaid things and white belts and trying to be cool. He's just, and he always thought he was just wonderful. He loved me.

He just. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And I loved him. I fucking loved him when I was a kid. But listen, Gilbert, when I was a kid, we had the record player, right? And we had like a 45 of like Winchester Cathedral. Oh yeah.

Oh yes, yes. And then what else do we have? Oh, like the Letterman singing. Oh, it's gonna be a long. See you in September. Okay, and we also had what goes up. Let's come down. Let's win tears. And that's all we had. And then we had Cosby comedy albums. So my whole

life that was it. I was just loved and loved and loved him. So when john was asked to come on the Cosby show, they're like, well, do you know anybody that would you be interested in like playing your wife on the show? And he's like, oh, yeah, there's this one person, Amy Asbeck. Let's not go into how that works. Anyway, so I go to New York. So now we're at the Cosby show and we ran through it and stuff and it was fine. And then there was a time before the show

on the night of the taping where they said, well, Cosby always likes to have dinner. And he has a big, so there was a chef and there was this big room. Did this happen to you Gilbert or was it just John? Cause he was a big star. Oh, he-

Were you invited to like a little dinner thing before I know. There was a big, so there was a big table. And there are all these people sitting around it and he was sitting at the, you know, the the end of it like the fucking king. And there was like, I want to say Miss Columbia, Miss Nick a lot, something Miss teen something there with her parents. And they're like, we want to take a picture. And he pulled her down on his lap. And John's just looking at me like, ah, and she's he's like, she's, I'm mentoring her. And I was

like, Oh, okay. And John and I were just like, rolling our eyes like, okay, let's not get involved. I don't know what's happening. The parents are here. I'm sure it's fine. And then on the night before we went on, Bill Cosby said, I have a cappuccino maker. Can I make you guys some cappuccinos? And John loved coffee, but it made him very like sweaty and anxious. And he said, I can't have caffeine. And Cosby said, that's fine. I won't make it with caffeine. I got, I have all the different things. Okay. He comes back. Wow. So he gives me, yeah. He gives me a coffee, gives John a coffee. We throw it back. And then Cosby comes up in my ear,

like right on my shoulder, dare I say Joe Biden style, but I'm going to vote for Joe. But, and he like in my ear whispers, that was caffeine. And I'm like, why did you do that? And he's like, for energy to give him a little bump of energy before the show. And I said to john before we went on, by the way, this is my first multi camera show, I had never been on a stage like that before. And I'm with Cosby. And john, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing. But I just had

to john there was caffeine in that. And he said, he's a poisoner. And so we always called Cosby the poisoner. He goes, who does that? That's like if somebody's like in the, in the program and you're like, actually that wasn't a virgin boy. Yes. So we always called him the poisoner crazy. Wow.

Once John misread, miss said his line 15 times cause he was so fucking high on this caffeine, and I said to John, you're sweating like a pig. I didn't know that I was miked. I didn't understand how things worked. And the audience heard it and it was all terrible. But yeah, we called him the Poisoner. Oh my God.

How about that, Gil? That's chilling. But we also loved him. He did rub my feet in a weird way once, but who knows? Hey, Amy, I got some questions from fans for you. Wait, how does that work? Well, we had them do it ahead of time. We do a thing called Grill the Guest on our Patreon page,

and we said we had you coming, and... I want a Patreon page. Here's one. That would work. Okay, go ahead. Here's one. Uh, let's see from a Geter or Jeter with a G. Could you tell us about the raw sexual energy between you and Gil on the set of problem child? What did you do to keep from jumping his bones? I think the between problem child one and problem child two, the affair that that Gilbert and I had really helped us concentrate when we finally did the problem child two, we would just look each other like the the knowing the knowing look knowing that we knew where every fucking mole and dimple and hots spot was on each other's body. Oh, my God.

Oh, here's another... The fact that John watched. I mean, I don't know. He was pretty progressive. Here's one from Mike Dobson. Would Amy agree... I hate Mike Dobson. Would Amy agree that the condom scene in Skin Deep...

They called me Mamie. Would Amy agree that the condom scene in Skin Deep? You called me Amy. Would Amy agree that the condom scene in Skin Deep ranks as one of the funniest scenes ever in film history? I would say that's true. John had a great moments in that movie. 100% yes. Funnier still in that movie is after he gets the treatment with the the electricity and you can't walk straight. Okay, but let me tell you something. Let me tell you something kid.

We were on John, I were walking on Larchmont across from Paramount, you know, that used to be Orange Grove as far as the eye can see. And a guy came up and he's like, Oh my god, John, I played your dick. And John's like, I'm sorry, what? I think he said he played with your dick? And he's like, no, I played. So I guess what they did was, in the scenes where the lights are off, they had two actors or whatever.

I mean, I guess John did that too, but you know, to do whatever, where they kind of choreographed it, the glowing penis scene, they had actors with glowing phalluses and the lights were off and this guy played John's dick. That's hilarious. So I fucked him. He's very good in that film. He's very good in the Bogdanovich film. We were talking on the phone about it, and they all laughed. Oh, my God. He's playing Bogdanovich in that, you know.

What's that? He's playing Peter in that. I know. I know. And the glasses, the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, no, he loved Peter very, very, very deeply. And I like him, too, in a movie called Hero at Large, which we urge our listeners to find.

Anne Archer. Yeah. And I like him too in a movie called Hero at Large, which we all urge our listeners to find. Anne Archer. Yeah. I have so met, and you know what? In one scene, he's actually in a scene and a day player was Kevin Bacon. So one degree of separation. Oh, there you go.

I worked with Peter Bogdanovich. On what? I'm not in the final cut. It was the worst. Oh, wait, wait. I just thought of a better name for your book. Yeah. I'm not in the final cut.

Yeah, exactly. He was in Tatum O'Neill's part in Paper Moon briefly. Where are you? We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast, but first a word from our sponsor. No, I was in, I was going to be in the last Wilder prior film.

Oh, and which was what it was called another you. Yes. And it came out and it sucked a high heaven, but that's a great song. There will never be another you. Yeah. Well, you know the old pop tunes, Amy. There will be other nights like this, and I'll be standing here with someone new, or maybe I'll sing another song, but there will never be another you, stop.

John was great with his fans, wasn't he? I read an interview with you, and you were talking about how everybody wanted their John Ritter moment. And he had this in common with Alan Alda that rather than sign an autograph, he would prefer to shake someone's hand and actually have a human interaction. Oh, no, I know he signed thousands. Plenty of autographs. Go on eBay. Plenty of autographs. What it was was when he was with his kids. Uh huh. Oh yeah. When he was when he was with his kid like at Dodger Stadium, you know, which was his absolute happy place that was like being in temple.

I mean, you know, and if people came up, especially if they were like standing and he couldn't see the play, but and they would like, can I have your because he didn't want everybody turning around and looking at him and he'd say, Hey, I'm just a dad today. I'm just being with my my kids I'd love to shake your hand. I don't know what he would do nowadays I love to point to my mask and swear that I'm smiling from everything I read you know people would scream Jack and him or people with people with people still call him Jack yeah, a cost him and you're so lucky to be married to Jack Tripper and Jack

Oh, you were so lucky to be married to Jack Tripper and Jack Ritter. And yeah, he really, he was that, he, yeah. Well, the other thing is, and Gilbert, you know this, even though you're a big fancy movie star, there are some people that seem approachable. John seemed and was approachable, I think, because people is different now, there's movies on TV, but it was different if you would see a movie star out

in the world, I imagine, and you'd just be like, oh, huh. Then when you would see Jack Tripper, who was in your living room with his bouncy titty friends all the time, you would kind of like, ah. So people really felt like they knew him, and they'd come up and tell him really personal stuff, which was fantastic. And approach him and accost him in men's rooms, too, didn't they?

Yes. People would be like, he would be peeing, and somebody would be peeing next to him, like, hey. And they would take one hand off their dick. I'm not sure how dicks work. And they'd put their hand on a chick's hand, and it's like, really? But yeah, I don't know if he did it then.

I also found this Gilbert you'll find this fascinating that John was a lifelong fan of Saturday Night Live and he knew this but but when they asked him to host for some reason he was reluctant to do it. You know they asked him all the time Gilbert but he was so you know what the part he was scared about? What's that? The monologue, just the monologue. He loved- Really? He loved skits and bits and things. But just the, hi, I'm John Ritter.

He was so not that guy at all. He never pulled that. Now, I mean, you maybe can talk to people who worked not on any movie, I was with them. But he had this like kind of great reputation of knowing all the crew's name and he was really good his kids are like that too which is fantastic I'm an asshole no I'm good he would have been a great host on that show yeah 100% but he could he would sweat bullets like he was on the fucking Cosby show. Matter of fact, all the rest of his life when he would do Perfuse sweating, he would point

to his forehead and go Cosby. Like somehow Bill Cosby came in and poisoned him with Cosby. Oh my god. I also- Go ahead. No, I was going to say I love that you got to, this is a hero of Gilbert's and a hero of John's as it turns out, you guys got to go backstage after Damn Yankees and meet Jerry Lewis, which was important to John.

Jerry Lewis was John's fucking idol. You know, it's funny you say it because when I would watch Three's company. Yes, he stole from him and Lucy and they knew it and they loved it. There you go. I'd look at facial expressions and a crazy look. Yeah, and I go, oh, he's doing Jerry Lewis now.

He studied Jerry Lewis. And if you think about it, like in those days, it wasn't like Jerry Lewis. Well, I guess the Jerry Lewis show with Dean Martin, oh my god. When we were together, he would show me every Jerry Lewis like show with Dean Martin. Oh my god. When we were together, we he would show me every Jerry Lewis thing. I loved it. But I would like recognize I'm like, Hey, and he's like, Yeah, yeah, I kind of do my own version of that. But I was very, very cool. And his, his dad, John's dad, Tex

Ritter, who was singing cowboy, Tex Ritter, he was a gene Autry in them. As a matter of fact, Gilbert, John's dad, Tex, his moniker was America's most beloved cowboy. And John has a brother, Tom, who John always thought was spoiled and they loved him more. So I used to call John America's most beloved cowboy's most beloved son's brother. He liked that.

It was wrong, but it was applicable. But Jerry was Jerry was good to you guys. Well, Jerry was was great to us. But it was there you go, John, because well, no, I know, is he an asshole? Well, he didn't always have the reputation of being kind to everybody. Jerry Lewis. No shit. Jerry Lewis I met a few times. Oh. And I can honestly use that classic line,

which is, well, he was always nice to me. Oh, yeah, me too. Yeah, I get it. I totally get it. And I've heard so many, many things and John knew all that stuff. And so when we went to see, we went to see, Dan Yankees,

and it was with Markey Post and her husband, Michael Ross, who's writer and actor. And we sent a thing backstage, something, we sent a bottle of champagne or some bullshit. And then intermission, somebody came out and said, Mr. Lewis would like you guys to stick around in the theater afterwards and come backstage. It was like, oh my God, we're all gonna fuck Mick Jagger. I mean, it was like, we couldn't like,

we couldn't sit, we were like vibrating with excitement. Markie was like squeezing my hand for the whole second half of the show. Cuz we're like, we're gonna see Jerry Lewis. I'm sure it was good. I remember the times I would see him in person. It was like, my God, he actually exists in real life. Exactly. And he said, so we went up to his thing.

We saw the thing, saw the picture of his dad, Jerry Lewis's dad in his dressing room, who he said he did it all for because his dad always wanted to be on Broadway and he wasn't. He's like, there dad, I made it. There was like some psychology there. And then we said, well, we're going to go to Sardis afterwards, which also, I'm at, I'm me, I'm from Ohio. I'm me, Amy from Cincinnati. All of these words seem crazy. This is not me name dropping. These are me the whole time going, holy fuck, how did I get here?

Okay, we're going to Sardis after. And so Jerry Lewis is like, well, I guess I could meet you there at some point. And we're like, no way. So we went and burst through the door, Jerry Lewis in a plaid car coat. You know what I mean by car coat? Do you know what a car coat is?

No. What? Is that not a thing? Is that a Midwest thing? Maybe. It's like a coat that you would wear in the car. Like in the old days of like 10 Lizzie cars, like a big thick wool plaid 23 skidoo coat.

So he comes in the place, everybody turns around and Jerry Lewis just starts doing bits, starts kicking people out of chairs, putting the chairs up on the tables like he's closing the place, you know, firing, pretending to fire waiters, goes over to the wall to where John's picture is and like starts like making out with it, it was the best thing ever. And then he like came over to our table making many jokes, it's very fun. But I was in the bathroom when this was happening. So all I know is he came over to the table and he said, Markie and I were in the bathroom. And he said, we're at a broads like a joke, I hope. And John said there it and so Markie Post and I were on separate toilets, no matter what you've heard,

in the ladies' room at Sardis when we literally hear coming up the stairs, ladies! Ladies' room! So that's good. But yeah, yeah, he was always nice to me. But do I know people he was an asshole to? Yeah. Well, at least John got to meet a hero and have a good outcome.

And they kept in touch. That's nice. And Jonathan Winters, too. John loved Jonathan Winters and got to meet him. That was a big deal. And Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, who John had the biggest crush on. Wow.

So John- Isn't it time for you to go to bed? Amy, both of us. Amy, tell us about your work now with the John Ritter Foundation. That's become your life's work. It's important work. It's really important work. Here's what it is. JohnRitterFoundation.org, if you want to look at it.

When John died in 2003 of an aortic dissection, I had no idea what that was. And he died because they treated him, immediately assumed it was a heart attack, treated him for a heart attack. And you know, it's everything that's not a heart attack. It's not your heart, it's your aorta, and it's not a blockage, it's a tear.

So there was a lot of fucking up from the beginning to the end, very sad. And nobody ever said, hey, this could be genetic to me. And so when I went on Google and was reading stuff about it, I was like, what? And so then luckily I was put in touch with some people, met the real scientists and doctors behind this and the people doing the genetic research.

So now there is the John Ritter research program in aortic and vascular diseases. It's long, but it's just a genetic research program in Houston that my foundation helps fund, set that up. And just for people to be able to understand that it's not that rare, but it is often mistaken for other things, there's a genetic component. And then we came up with these Ritter rules because finally the guidelines

were set in 2010 for the treatment guidelines for this. So we took out a little part called Ritter rules and then we just teamed up with a group in England called Synkeorta. Here was bad timing for that. So this was like in January, maybe, I sent maybe 12,000 Think Aorta posters to 6,000 emergency rooms around the country. And we were gonna be like, okay, doctors take pictures with the Think Aorta poster

and you get a free t-shirt. And it's like now all hell is broken loose around the world. But when we're back to Oh, yeah, eventually the world again, I'll give you more information on that because it is it's surprising. I mean, I don't it's like somebody shitty, some shitty asshole said to me, trying to be a shitty asshole, so are you doing this because you thought you couldn't save John and now you're trying to save everybody else? Waiting for me to go, no! And I went, yeah, probably. So, who cares? Well, you've turned a tragic situation into something that's going to help thousands of people. Right. There was maybe one gene to kind of look for,

and now there are dozens and dozens, and on the horizon there will be 40 different genes that you can be tested for, that you will know if you have chest pain or other things. And you go into the emergency room, you go, hey, I have the gene for aortic dissection, they're not gonna kill you like they did John. And if you go if people go to the website they can see the Ritter rules there and they can educate themselves? You can see everything there. As a matter of fact, JohnRitterFoundation.org. I talked to a lot of people that go on there for information and people who have had like because there's surgery for it. Oh John's brother Tom. So John died in

2003 and all of the first degree relatives, we behave, they behave as if they have the gene because we don't know yet. But so you get echocardiogram every year, whatever. You should do that anyway, Gilbert, just because you don't know where they have it. So in 2007, Tommy goes in for his like annual one of those. And there's an aneurysm, which is how it starts right where John's was.

And it started growing fast. And you know, the quote unquote natural history of whatever genetic predisposition this is, clearly people in their early 50s is when it starts growing. I mean, it's different for every people. So John's brother, finally we got him up to Stanford where they monitored it and went, no we got to fix this. And they replaced his aortic arch and he's fine. Wow. Because your aorta is like that big candy cane shaped thing that comes from, like when they show like pictures of an anatomical heart and it's got like the three little sprainy things on top well

that where it comes off of goes all the way down your body and your heart can be in really really great shape but if it's pumping into a tube that's shredding on the inside you are super fucked so this has become your life's work. It is become my life's work. That and selling my ass on cameo.com. Oh, Gilbert, how much do you charge? You got company. Mine is 150. Wow, really?

You think you're worth that much? Okay. Yeah, cameo.com. You can get a video shout out. Can you give medical advice Gilbert? Yeah. Mine is, I'm doing 50 bucks and I'll tell you why. I don't know. Also, but then I'm thinking for a couple people I've done a lot of work I've

actually like because they tell me like I like this specific scene or I've been like again digging out pictures and like holding them up to the camera of different things and then I got a lot of free time by the way on on my iMovie thing on my my iPad iPad my maxi iPad with wings sorry it's a girl feminine protection situation joke there, which I can hardly remember because again 57, but you know what I do I film like little things and I make like actual little videos plus me bit. So anyway, that would be worth 150 I'm sure you just go hi is Gilbert Godfrey Not a bad impression go it's not bad I was that one bird and that other thing. Gilbert! What is this? Not a bad impression, Gil.

It's not bad. You know what I mean? Is that what you do? Well, a lot of times they'll ask me to roast them. Really? And I'll get lazy and I'll go, hey, fuck you! That's perfect. That's a roast.

Fuck you, never got a dinner, Gil. I love you, hey, fuck you. That's gross. Fuck you, never got a dinner, Gil. I love you, Gilbert. Call me sometime like a real person. Don't make it about show business. He'll never do that. Yeah, never. He'll carry your number around in his wallet for 12 years.

Amy, plug the website again, JohnRitterFoundation.org, right? Here's some websites, JohnRitterFoundation.org, cameo.com. That's stupid, but more importantly, JohnRitterFoundation.org, cameo.com. That's stupid, but more importantly, JohnRitterFoundation.org. But also I want to do a Patreon. How does that work? Can you tell me?

We'll explain it to you when we get off mic. Hi, I'm Gilbert Godfrey. Hey, shut the fuck up. I'm Gilbert Godfrey. Can I do it? Hi. Okay, please. Hi, I'm Gilbert Godfrey! Can I do it? Let her do it. Okay, please. Hi, I'm Gilbert Godfrey

with my friend, Frank Santapadre. He's also my co-host, and I have a colossal fupa, also known as a podcast. Moose knuckle hair out. Well, cut it together. Amy, thank you. This was a blast. I've had it with you two assholes. Wash your hands and go to bed.

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