Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #65: Gilbert and Frank Read Listener Tweets

Episode Date: June 23, 2016

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: ”The Story of Mankind"! Rondo Hatton Alert! The tragedy of "Caligula"! And the return of "Dr. Butcher, M.D."! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And we're once again being recorded at Nutmeg with our engineer, Frank Fartarosa. And this is Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsession. It is. And I'm out of birthday tributes, so there's no one we can malign this week. This is Gilbert and Frank's amazing, colossal obsession. It is. And I'm out of birthday tributes, so there's no one we can malign this week. Well, we can still malign that anti-Semitic Paul Lynn, who his homosexual playmate could have called an ambulance, but he let him die. Unproven.

Not disproven, but unproven. I thought this week we would do some tweets because we haven't talked to our... No, disproven. It's not unproven. I'm telling you, disproven. Is that what you're doing? What's his name? Skippy Rogers? What was his name? Skippy Rogers? What was his name?

What was that guy? Oh, Amos Hernandez. No, no. Who was the guy that you used to do that you did last week? The guy that said, oh yeah. Oh, that's Timmy Rogers. Timmy Rogers. Yeah. Oh yeah! Alright, we haven't done a mail. I always say viewer

mail. We don't have viewers. We have listeners. And we haven't talked to our fans on social media in a while on this show. So here are some questions. Charlie Wilson, any chance of getting Ed Wood alum Conrad Brooks? I saw that. On the podcast. Yeah, I saw that tweet. That would be.

Conrad Brooks. You remember Conrad Brooks? Yeah. The guy that played Kelton the Cop died,rad Brooks. You remember Conrad Brooks? Yeah. The guy that played Kelton the cop died, Paul Marco, in Plan 9 from Outer Space. I guess Conrad Brooks is still around. Yeah, that might be a really good one. Should we look into him? God knows.

Here's a guy, Reed Hawkins, tweets to say, Hey, guys, I saw a movie on TCM with Lon Chaney Jr., Hillbillies in a Haunted House. Yeah. Can you comment? Worst movie ever? I've heard of it, and I don't think I've seen it. I think it would be too sad even for me.

Really? Yeah. You don't know every Lon Chaney Jr. movie? Yeah, I know most of them. I know I'm no of it, but I don't know if I ever. It might be one of those things I saw when I was three when they would show every single movie on TV. Okay, here's a gentleman named, his Twitter handle is Immortality Project. I guess that's his, I don't know if his project is business.

He's quoting the Bogdanovich episode we did. My name is Jack Ford and I make westerns. Yes. And he writes goosebumps. That was a great moment. We got a lot of nice tweets and a lot of nice Facebook posts about the Bogdanovich episode. Yeah. It always surprises me.

People's reactions. Yeah, especially Bill Schaefer writing, Gilbert was on his best behavior with Peter Bogdanovich. People expect the worst from you. Dean Norton. Norton! Yeah. You guys need to do a small show on Henry

Mancini and the movies he scored like Hattari. Yeah, Henry Mancini. We should do a Henry Mancini episode. Henry Mancini and the movies he scored, like Hattari. Yeah, Henry Mancini. We should do a Henry Mancini episode. Henry Mancini also did these early horror and science fiction films. I don't think I knew that. Yeah. Like what?

I don't know if he did. When he was first starting. Yeah, I don't know if he did Creature of the Black Lagoon. But he did a bunch of these low-budget horror and science fiction films. Wow. Yeah. This I did not know about Henry Mancini. Oh, and I met Henry Mancini.

I don't know. I was doing some special at, oh, what's his name? Phil Collins was doing a special. Gilbert Gottfried was on a Phil Collins special? I was on it with, what's her name, former Miss America. Betty Furness? No. Vanessa Williams. Oh, yes.

Did you sing Invisible Touch? You were on this Phil Collins special. And Henry Mancini stopped by the set. Paul Rayburn is here, our researcher. What do you got, brother? He joined Universal Studios in 1952. Go right into the mic, my friend. Did you say Creature from the Black Flags?

Yes, yes. I was right! Wow! So, the Creature walks among us. It came from outer space. Say it into the mic, Paul. Which one? Right there.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, so we got Creature from a Black Lagoon. Well, say again, tell him again how I was right. Gilbert said, in the Mancini, how am I doing? Very good.

I scored for Creature from a Black Lagoon and Gilbert was right. This is proven. This is proven. The Creature walks among us. It came from outer space. Tarantula, this island Earth, and The Glenn Miller Story. Well, that's a horror film in its own right. That was very scary. Steve Allen.

I was on the edge of my seat. No, not Steve Allen. That one was Jimmy Stewart. Wow. And many, many, many more. I didn't know he scored. I was thinking of Baby Elephant Walk and Pink Panther. Pink Panther, yeah. I didn't know he scored all those horror films. That's cool stuff. Yeah, that, many more. I didn't know he scored. I always think of Baby Elephant Walk and Pink Panther. Pink Panther, yeah.

I didn't know he scored all those horror films. That's cool stuff. Yeah, that is cool stuff. Speaking of the creature from the, thank you, Paul, for that interlude. Speaking of creature from the Black Lagoon, Rico Browning is still alive. Oh. The Gill Man. Oh, my God.

Should we call him? Yes. Get him in here? Now, now. Thank you, Paul. Who? Oh, Blake. Oh.

Blake Edwards. Yeah. Here's an old joke. What did Blake Edwards say when he found out that his aunt just died? Dead aunt. Dead aunt. Dead aunt. Dead aunt.

Dead aunt. Dead aunt. Dead aunt. Dead aunt. That's a joke that should stay old. Wow. Da-dant, da-dant, da-dant, da-dant, da-dant, da-dant, da-dant. That's a joke that should stay old. Wow. Sean. Where did you pick up these things? Sean Tomes or Thomes.

I think it's Tomes like the River Thames. Could you guys talk about Under the Rainbow, the Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher comedy? Oh, we were talking about that with Chevy Chase. We loved it as a kid. We did talk to Chevy about that. Yeah, and he was talking they were drunken, farting dwarves. And you shared the famous Hollywood urban myth about the shadow of the hanged munchkin. It's believed that in one scene in Wizard of Oz, a munchkin hung himself,

and you could see his body hanging from the tree. Yeah, remember Chevy? And I guess the cameraman missed it because they're so small. So it never happened. Codename Gary7. That's a good Twitter handle. He writes to us a lot. Oh, this is too good.

Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson. Is that the Black Sleep? He recorded it off of his television. And I think Akeem Tamaroff is in it. Akeem Tamaroff. Akeem Tamaroff. Yeah. The Black Sleep.

It was a movie. It was fun. Not as much fun as it should have been. Right. Yeah, there were a lot of slow parts. Drew sent me, Drew Friedman sent me some photographs. There were some great photos of them having lunch in the commissary. That was more entertaining than the movie.

All of them. In fact, I heard people were complaining. They would come in with their scary makeup on, and these people are losing their appetite. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I urge people to go on Google it. There's one where, like, Tor Johnson's head is sticking through the table, and Lugosi, Carradine, and Cheney all have knives and forks.

Yeah, it's weird. But they're candid shots where they're just reading menus. Oh, my God, yes. It's weird. But they're candid shots where they're just reading menus. Oh my god. It's odd. Our friend Mark Talley, he's a big fan of the show. I just got through listening to Gilbert sing Tie a Yellow Ribbon with Tony Orlando. Very sorry. I was in on that one too. And I can't

stop laughing. Thank you for that. We appreciate that. Mark, that is a nice compliment from Timothy Roach with 100 great episodes. The Bogdanovich episode tops them all. Yeah. So many great stories. And yeah, that was that one where Cecil B. DeMille wanted to get rid of, I think, Joseph Mangum.

Well, he wanted him to sign a loyalty oath. A loyalty. And he was ready to get rid of him. And that's when John Ford spoke up. And what makes that story extra interesting is that Ford's politics were very much to the right. Such total pro-conservative. And, yeah, he said, I'm John Ford. I make Westerns.

Jack Ford. I'm Jack Ford. Jack Ford. That's what made it so great. Yeah. He said, I'm Jack Ford, and i make westerns and i don't like you see yes yes i don't like what you said here yeah yeah i think robert wool told us the same story yeah on the podcast i had heard that story before it's a good one worth repeating

big daddy and he's got a great rankin bass uh uh image what do you call that twitter uh it's got a great Rankin-Bass image. What do you call that Twitter? It's got a name for that thing that's escaping me. Did I hear Stuart Margolin will be on the show? Yes. Yes, you did. Yeah, he agreed. I can't wait for Stuart Margolin. We're looking forward to him. He was on our short list early in the game.

You need to ask him about the Monkees and Kelly's Heroes. Oh. Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood and I believe Don Rickles. Yes. And I want to ask him basically about Death Wish because he's the Western guy who gives Charles Bronson a gun as a gift. Right. Right.

Right. That's right. That's right. I want to ask him about Love American Style. Oh, yeah. I remember I was on a radio show, and the host of the radio show said, hey, remember they used to be that actor? He was always good at leering. And I said, Stuart Margolin?

It could have been Frank Nelson. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's you again. Jeffrey, we're looking forward to Stuart. Next week, Jeffrey Grant writes, rest in peace, Janet Waldo, the voice of Judy Jetson. Oh. She passed away. She was also the voice of Josie, of Josie and the Pussycats.

Wow. She did a lot of voiceovers. Don't forget to follow us on our Facebook page, Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, on Twitter at Real Gilbert ACP, and on Instagram, Gilbert Podfried. You see, it's kind of a pun on the last name. Yeah, skip it. Also, visit our terrific new website, gilbertpodcast.com, for the latest news, episodes, synopsis, behind-the-scenes photos, the scenes photos and videos and other cool stuff and if you like the show and you know you do please rate and review us on itunes can't you see we're star perfection for the love of God! Here, Rob Dunn writes, let's see, I blame this purchase on you. And he took a picture of the swimmer and of Mice and Men.

Yes! So there you go. I picked both of those movies to discuss with Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies. That's right. We presented The Swimmer, the original Chaney, Burgess Meredith of Mice and Men, and Freaks and the Conversation. All good choices. Yeah. That was fun to do. I get a lot of these things, people blaming us.

Like somebody will take a picture of Skidoo and say, you owe me $10. I like this tweet from Artemis Fowl. But, dot, dot, dot, I liked Yellowbeard. We're sorry to hear that. Yellowbeard was Bluebeard. He was turned on by people pissing on his face. So they made a movie called Yellow Beard. I didn't know that.

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they're still doing comfort movies. God bless them. The story of mankind and all star flop. And yes, Chico needed the money. Sure. On that one, we should maybe devote an episode to the story of-star flop. And yes, Chico needed the money. For sure on that one. We should maybe devote an episode to the story of mankind. And they had all three Marx Brothers separately. Yeah.

That was like. Well, Harpo was Isaac Newton. Yeah. And I think Groucho was Peter Minuit. With Pocahontas. Somebody. One of them was Peter Minuit, who... With Pocahontas? Somebody. One of them was Peter Minuit, who bought... Yeah, I think one of Groucho's current wives at the time, you know, this wife who was like 18.

It would be Melinda's mother. Yeah. Yeah. And she was there as the Indian princess. Oh, it was Melinda's best friend, the one he married. Oh, yes, yes. And it was weird and creepy. Did you see this? I will

retweet it. Did you see Russell's bat signal with the orange? Oh, yes! The orange rind. Russell, wonderful job. I'll retweet it. It's great. He made a bat signal out of an orange rind. Winding

this one down, a lot of people corrected us. It was Bluebeard, not Blackbeard, the Richard Burton Strangler movie. We can always count on corrections. Kelly, excuse me, Keddie, Keddie Ogilady. Keddie Ogilady. That's quite a name. All-star cast flops.

How about Caligula? Oh, my guess. That one's just depressing. Malcolm McDowell. Malcolm McDowell. Malcolm McDowell. Yeah. And also John Gielgud. Oh yeah.

And it was a bunch of people. It was Bob Guccione, the Penthouse publisher. Yeah. Apparently lured all of these respected British actors I think who else is it? Helen Mirren's in it. And Peter O'Toole. Yeah. Apparently lured all of these respected British actors. I think who else is it? Helen Mirren's in it. Oh.

And Peter O'Toole. I can honestly say I worked with Malcolm McDowell. On SNL. Yeah. We got to get him. As terrible as any of the other shows. We got to get him. I like this one.

Timothy, Trinity Viduri. Trinity Vidori Trinity Vidori You fool! It saddens me that Gilbert doesn't have Seinfeld and Larry David money How does he know you don't? Yeah, you don't know how much it saddens me But I'm thankful because

then you wouldn't have interviewed Peter Marshall. Oh, well, I like Peter Marshall, but he's not worth giving up Seinfeld Larry David money. Right. Here's the last one we'll do unless you don't have a response to this

one. Johnny Pomato. I just watched the bizarre screwball Simone Simone comedy. How did she say her name? One that was in Cat People. I just watched the bizarre screwball Simone Simone comedy. How did she say her name? One that was in Cat People. Simone Simone. I think Simone Simone. Johnny doesn't live here anymore.

And then he writes, Rondo Hatton alert. Oh, wow. So there's a Rondo Hatton movie. Well, any movie with Rondo Hatton's worth it. Got to look that one up. I will end on this one. I lied. Roger Raines.

Hey, all-star flops. How about Holy Moses? Oh, my God. Which we asked Lorraine Newman about. Yes. That's the one with her and- Was Dudley Moore? Dudley Moore was, yeah, yeah.

He was the lead. Oh, yeah. And I think, I want to say people i want to say marty feldman is in that one who was also in yellow beard let's let's get someone to look this up hey paulie paul hey pauluch hey paulie look up what do you got look up holy moses what do you got on holy moses but it's spelled Holy with an W? Lorraine Newman, Dudley Moore. Talk among yourselves.

Yeah. I want to say Peter Boyle, but I think that's Yellowbeard. Yeah. Yeah. Holy Moses. Yeah. Marty Feldman, right? Wait a minute.

This is the band. No, not the band. The German thrash metal band. No, we don't want that. That's not it. Okay. We don't want the thrash metal band. And speaking of the mic, my lad.

All right. But if you could sing 99 Luftballons. 99 what? Luftballons. Holy what? Luftballons. Holy Rose is not the German thrash metal band. Nope. Who was in it? An IMDB.

IMDB. Okay. Yeah. All right. Who's in the cast? Top build cast. Dudley Moore. Dudley Moore.

Lorraine Newman. Yeah, that was her big role. James Coco. Oh, James Coco. Always loved him. We got to was her big role. James Coco. Oh, James Coco. Always loved him. We got to rise on that one. Love him. Paul Sand.

Oh, okay. Paul Sand we got to get. Those are the top guys. Now, the smaller players, there are no small players. Jack Guilford, Dom DeLuise. Wow. John Hausman, Madeline Kahn, David Lander, and Richard Pryor. It goes on and on.

Oh, yeah, Richard Pryor. John Ritter. Yeah. Old Star Stinker. That's a good one. Old Star Stinker. And it's wholly, it's W-H-O-L-L-Y. Yes, directed by, I believe, Gary Weiss, who took over the short film duties from Albert Brooks on the original SNL.

Do we know him? No. That's it. No. A lot of stars. That's it. Wow. the short film duties from Albert Brooks on the original SNL. Do we know him? No. That's it. A lot of stars. That's it. Wow. And one more. A guy tweeted you about Dr. Butcher, M.D. Oh, yes. Did you see that one? Living Deliciously. Yeah, that

was one of those where I kept saying it was an Italian production. Oh, look at those names. For Dr. Butcher, M.D. Because it's on the film. He calls himself like John Martin. What do you got, Paulie?

Yeah. Like the director is John Martin. This was that movie we reviewed where you were basically slurring my people. Yes, with good reason. Just see Dr. Butcher. The one you saw in the defunct movie theater? It was a Guinea horror film. That's a subgenre.

Yeah. Go to Gil's mic. Dr. Butcher, who am I looking at? Is he the character? Dr. Butcher, who am I looking at? Is he the character? Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviant. Because I searched Dr. Butcher MD film and I got Zombie Holocaust. That's the same. I think that's the same one.

Is that it? Yeah. Now find the director's name. Director. Who is the director? Cast. Wait a minute. I don't have the director right away.

Do you need the cast? No, no. The director. Director. Zombie Holocaust. Oh, wait a minute. I don't have the director right away. Do you need to cast? No, no, the director. Director. Oh, wait a minute. Okay, here we go. Directed by Marino Girolami. Ha? Ha? Ha? Am I wrong about these skinnies? Also, Zombie Holocaust, also known as Zombie 3 and Dr. Butcher.

Yes. Gilbert was right again. Yes. He's always right. We're changing the name of the show to Gilbert is always right. Gilbert's always right. You want a rap? Sure.

I usually end the show with a rap. A little Grandmaster Flash. About yellow beard. Thank you, guys. I think Paul Lynn was paying for a yellow beard when he had the heart attack. Now cut that out. The guy was being honest. Paul Lynn would go a month without shaving and he would hire a boy to piss on his face. Oh, no.

It was a yellow beard. I need to work on my jack baby. And anyway, this has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions. Thank you, guys. Keep the tweets and the posts coming. We love you. Listen a man

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