Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #2: Boss Hogg and Scorsese

Episode Date: March 25, 2015

Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their appreciation of lesser-known films, underrated TV shows and hopelessly obscure character actors, 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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Yes, there were people screaming. There were crowds. I want 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 can't get away. Because the response from that live show was so amazing. Pitchforks and torches.

Yes. 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, um, 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 and so it's optional yeah it's one of those i would put it in that give it a chance category and um it's it's like so it's a 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 and it starred george seagull you talked about it when a tell 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 Hogg's son. Right. So I always thought it was pronounced Sorrel Book.

Oh, maybe Sorrel Book. Sorrel Book. Okay. Yeah, the late Sorrel Book. You know, it was Dukes of Hazzard. 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.

Is Sidney Lumet directed it? Sidney Lumet, the legendary Sidney Lumet, who himself said it's not a perfect movie. But he did say it's his most personal movie. Bye Bye Braverman, starring George Segal. 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, who was, we should explain, who was most famous for a movie called The Watermelon Man. Oh, yes. With a very, very convincing white makeup on. Yes. Yeah. I love Godfrey Cambridge.

Okay, so Bye Bye Braverman. Yes. Okay. I want to talk about, before I jump onto mine, Bye Bye Braverman 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 is limited. 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 Mazursky 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. 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'll 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, an all-star cast.

Cheech and Chong pop up in it. Cheech and Chong, an all-star cast. Terry Garr, Catherine O'Hara, Rosanna Arquette, who I mentioned. It's a very, very funny. John Heard, very, very funny movie, very black, written by a guy named Joe Minion. You know, the movie Shaft was very black. So was Watermelon Man. You're incorrigible. And as Leopold said, I wouldn't encourage him.

So after hours, Martin Scorsese picture, I think it's 19, I'm going to guess on the year, 82 or 83. But for you, 1862. 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 are these like helicopter shots of Brooklyn. And Bye Bye Brigham. 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 of Pelham 123 and Serpico and the Supercops. And you see the French Connection. Oh, yeah. And you see old Manhattan. see the French Connection. Oh, yeah. And you see old Manhattan. You could see cigarette machines. Oh, yes, yes. Taking a Pelham 123. Yeah, and in 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 picked 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 85 now that I think about it. We should really research these before we actually recommend them. Bye Bye Braverman has this I think the Braverman waltz playing through it. 1968 on Bye Bye Braverman. Yes.

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