Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #2: Boss Hogg and Martin Scorsese

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

In another topic-focused GGACP mini-episode, Gilbert and Frank share their love of unheralded films, underrated TV shows, underappreciated pop songs and often unknown performers, discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: Boss Hogg comes to Brooklyn! Scorsese satirizes SoHo! And the big screen’s first (and last!) Jewish James Bond villain! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah, I was actually surprised by the big response that we got. There were people screaming. There were crowds. I wanted an accounting of how many people watched the swimmer. I had to hire a small army with rifles to shoot people who try to swim toward my house because now I live on an island. I should get away. Because the response from that light show was so amazing.

Pitchforks and Torches. So this week, what's your movie pick, Gil? Okay. And I'm in suspense because you haven't told me this week. Yes. So I'm about to be surprised. Now, this is an odd one because it's funny. I, like on Turner Classic movies,

Robert Osborne has a thing that he calls essential movies, the essentials. Okay, this one's not an essential. It's a movie that's not perfect. So it's optional. Yeah, yeah. It's one of those, I would put it in that give it a chance category. And it's like, so I would put it, I would make a new category the give it a chance. Okay.

And I'm intrigued. It's, it's a movie, a comedy called Bye Bye Braverman. Ah, yes. And it starred George Siegel. You've talked about it when Atel was on the show. Yes. And one of my old co-stars from the Problem Child movies, the late great Jack Warden, it also had Sorrel Book, who was boss hogs.

Right. So I always thought it was pronounced Sorrel book. Oh, maybe Surrell. Sorrel book. Okay. Yeah, the late Sorrel book. You know, it was Dukes of Hazard. He was Boss Hogg. And I'm very proud of this. I think the only Jewish bond villain. And that's... Ah, Joseph Wiseman.

Yes. Very good. Yes. Who was playing an Asian. He was Dr. No. Right. A Jewish guy playing an Asian bond villain. Only in Hollywood. What is the plot of Bye Bye Braverman? Because I've never seen that one. It's a very odd movie where Braverman is a childhood friend of all of them.

They've been friends for years. And they're all like kind of Jewish intellectuals. And he was a friend who dies. And the whole movie is they're like, they're living in Brooklyn. And they all squeeze into a car, a Volkswagen, of course, which Joseph Wiseman refers to as a legacy of Hitler. And the whole movie is they're driving through Brooklyn. They don't have the exact address of the funeral.

And it's like they're kind of lost and wandering and getting into these weird misadventures. Sidney Lemaitt directed it? Sidney Lemaith, the legendary Sidney Lament, who himself said it's not a perfect movie. But he did say it's his most personal movie. Bye-bye Braverman, starring George Siegel. And Alan King pops up in it.

Oh, that's right, because we talked about that. As does Godfrey Cambridge. What a cast. Yeah. Godfrey Cambridge, we should explain, who was most famous for a movie called The Watermelon Man. Oh, yes. With a very, very convincing white makeup.

Yes. Yeah. I love Godfrey Cambridge. Okay, so Bye Bye Bye Braverman. Yes. Okay. I want to talk about, before I jump on to mind, Bye Bye Braverman's show on television at any point? I don't know.

It's popped up on TV. I think your chance of finding it. Does TCM run it? I don't know. Right. It's sort of, my knowledge of it is limited. And again, because I haven't seen it. Well, your knowledge on everything.

Most things. I've worked with you. And I can honestly say, the only thing lesser than your knowledge is your talent. My knowledge is not essential. It's sort of like a Missouri film a little bit. Yes, yes. It's an odd comedy.

I want to recommend a comedy that's a little more contemporary. It's called After Hours. It's a Martin Scorsese comedy. And again, as with the Changeling, which I recommended last week, it's not the world's most obscure movie, but I think it's fairly obscure

as a Scorsese movie because it's not one of the movies that's mentioned when you talk about Martin Scorsese, raging Bull comes up and Goodfellas comes up, and he didn't direct a lot of comedies. This one and the King of Comedy, I think are the only two out-and-out comedies,

although Goodfellas has its funny moments. And it's just a screwball comedy. Griffin Dunn plays a guy who goes down to Rosanna Arquette's apartment on a date, and he just enters this nightmarish situation where he basically can't get out of Soho. Yeah, he's stuck there with no money. Right.

And it's pouring rain outside. And one thing turns out. It's a movie that you love, particularly if you're a New Yorker, or you ever lived in New York City. And Cheech and Chong pop up in it. Cheech and Chong and all-star cast. Terry Garre, Catherine O'Hara, which are Rosanna Arcad, who I mentioned.

It's a very, very funny. John Hurd, very, very fun. movie, very black, written by a guy named Joe Minion. You know, the movie Shaved was very black. So, it was watermelon men. You're incorrigible. And as Leopold said, I wouldn't encourage him. So after hours, Martin Scorsesey picture, I think it's 19, I'm going to guess on the year, 82 or 83.

But for you? Maybe later, actually. Anything else you'd like to say about Bye Bye Braverman? Not particularly. But no, I also, I love that a lot of it as are these like helicopter shots of Brooklyn. And Bye Bye Bye Braterman. So it might be me being a Jew from Brooklyn. I love the movie.

I love 70s movies where you get to see Old New York, like taking a Pellum 1, 2, 3, and Serpico and the Super Cops, and you see in the French Connection. Oh, yeah. And you see old Manhattan. You could see cigarette machines. Oh, yes, yes. And taking a Pelham, one, two, three. Yeah, and then Serpico, there's like a candy machine in the subway.

I love it. And they don't have those anymore. No, they don't have cigarette machines either. So we both pick movies set in New York City. Yes, and during the 70s, I think, unless Braverman might have been the 60s. I don't know. I think I'm going to, I think it's right on the cusp. Oh, yeah.

And after hours, I think, I think 85 now that I think about it, we should really research these before we actually recommend them. And bye-bye Braverman has this, I think the Braverman waltz playing through it. 1968 on Bye-bye Braverman. Darragut-Rae, thank you very much. That's like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So if you like these suggestions and you watch them or you know about them or you want to talk about these films, tweet us, leave comments on iTunes, contact us on Facebook or Twitter at Real Gilbert or at Gigiap or at Frank Santopadre. And this is Gilbert Gottfried saying, if you ever wanted to be a co-host, please, please call me.

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