Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal 6th Anniversary Show: Part Two
Episode Date: April 13, 2020GGACP celebrates its 6th anniversary and the recent release of Episode #300 with PART TWO of a live evening of story and song from New York City's Cutting Room with Mario Cantone, Marilu Henner, Richa...rd Kind, Paul Shaffer and surprise guest performer David Yazbek -- as well as special guests Susie Essman, Barbara Feldon, Tom Leopold, Jackie Martling, Jeff Ross and Alan Zweibel. Also in this episode: Gilbert and Jeff star in "CSI," David and Paul pay tribute to Ed McMahon, Tony Curtis puts the moves on Bette Davis and Richard and Mario (finally!) debate the merits of "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol." PLUS: Mason Reese! "Wait Until Dark"! The Island of Misfit Toys! The musical stylings of the Gilbert Gottfried Orchestra! And a Broadway icon drops by to join the fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Please enjoy responsibly. Hey, it's Gilbert Gottfried,
and we hope you guys got a kick out of part one
of our live Amazing Colossal 6th Anniversary show with Richard
Kind and Mary Lou Henna, as well as some surprise guests on video.
Here's part two, featuring the one and only Mario Cantone, the brilliant Paul Schaefer,
and even more surprise guests
who stop in to wish us well.
Enjoy.
Gil, wait.
Is that the sheep wrangling you're talking about, Richard?
I have a surprise guest.
Oh!
Before you read that card.
People love a surprise.
Did you hear that gasp?
Not Billed.
Not on the poster.
He's been on the podcast.
He's a friend.
He's an Emmy-winning writer.
He is a Emmy-winning writer he is a Tony winning
composer of the hit Broadway shows the full Monty and dirty rotten scoundrels
and Tootsie and the band's visit which was sensational our guest from episode
23 where is he the great David Yazbeck. There he is.
They just played the theme song from Carmen Sandiego,
which is the thing I'm... I don't know why I'm sitting here.
I was going to come and sing a song,
but let me just...
It's okay.
Can I just say something?
Schmooze for a few minutes.
I can remember Forrest Tucker's gigantic...
Yeah, come on.
I wanted to alert everyone here
to and remind you as a public service
to request some Tupperware some
doggy bags because Richard Kind is going to take all of the leftovers home if
Gilbert and Gilbert will take the rest of the yeah that was it that's how I was
gonna end the joke the other joke I was gonna tell which I have not crafted yet
has something to do with the Jerry Colonna virus.
No other audience but yours would get that.
Can you do Jerry Colonna
briefly?
Disgusting, isn't it?
It's possible.
It's possible. It's spreading.
It's a possibility.
Who the hell remembers Jerry Colonna?
No.
Or anyone from Richard's song?
No.
This audience.
Prematurely old Jews, basically.
And some who are not prematurely old.
I'm sitting at a table full of correctly old Jews.
So I'm going to go over there, right?
Yes, you are.
I won't be needing this.
Okay.
David Yazbek, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know why I was inspired to do a real Jewy song.
I have no idea why tonight.
For me.
A long time ago,
the maternal side of my family,
my ancestors, came over from the old country
and populated areas with exotic Native American names
like Patchogue, Syosset, Islip, Oakdale, Sayville, Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Amityville, Copic,
Lyndon Hurston, Babylon, Change of Babylon,
little LIRR joke.
So this song is basically a, I have no memory,
but I do have little flashes of visual memories
from Long Island Jewish type stuff.
In the summer of Summer of Sam,
of the serial killing,
and New York...
Yeah!
And it was a great time.
And New Yorkers lived in terror.
It was a hot summer.
It was miserable.
People stayed inside.
But they finally caught him,
and his name turned out to be
David Berkowitz. And the whole
mother's side of the family was like,
that is not good for the Jews.
That was their entire takeaway.
At the same
time, there was a commissioner of baseball named
Bowie Kuhn.
And his
whole thing was, is it good for baseball?
That's all he cared about, supposedly.
Anyway, this is sort of a mashup of those two things.
It's called Sandy Koufax.
And the only thing that matters about it, really, is the chorus.
Richard Kahn is going to help us out when we get to the chorus.
I would like you all to sing along toward the end of the song.
But also watch me. There are cues. I'm going to ask you to stop at one point. I'm going to deliver a great joke.
Is it hard to sleep underneath the heap, underneath the heap that you're under?
Hard to relate when you masturbate difficult to
feel the thunder patio gravel and the plastic grapes novelty soaps in assorted shapes up in
the playroom with the metric out drapes everybody can hear you screaming is it good for baseball is
it good for the jews good for baseball is it good for the jews good for baseball is it good for the Jews? Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Is it right to choose the electric fuse for your underused libido?
Right to explore when the trigger's sore on your Bangalore torpedo?
When the dugout's empty, pitcher's dead, who still remembers what the Fuhrer said?
Was it the liver in the wedding bed of the designated Hitler?
I'm going to sing it again.
It's a good joke.
Of the designated Hitler.
Is it good for baseball?
Is it good for the Jews?
Good for baseball.
Is it good for the Jews?
Is it good for baseball?
Is it good for the Jews?
Good for baseball.
Is it good for the Jews?
That's the story of, that's the glory of 5,000 years
in the major leagues.
So I'm wandering and I'm pondering,
where else could I go?
Let me go.
Let me go. Oh shit, I just remembered something.
I wrote a song with Paul Schaeffer in 1984 or something.
Paul's over there, incidentally.
Do you have any memory of that Paul?
It was something like, it was for the spokesmodel of the year. It was like, it was something like
Thank, thank, thank you Ed. You made my dreams come true. Because it was Ed McMahon, it was Star Search.
because it was Ed McMahon, it was Star Search.
Thank you, Ed.
And all you had to do was reach for a star.
And this time you caught one.
If this chick, Tracy, who won that year, were pushing Edsels, that's who would have bought one.
Thank you, Ed.
Anyway, back to the song.
That's the moral of, that's the quarrel of
5,000 years on the LIE
So I'm waiting here, like I'm pondering
Where else could I go?
Let me go, let me go And it's hard to sleep underneath the heap
Underneath the heap I'm under
Hard to relate with your head on a plate
Difficult to feel the thunder
The dugout's empty and the score is tied
Who still remembers how the pitcher died?
Was it the pill with the cyanide?
Was it the pretzel with the cheese inside?
Good for baseball, good for the Jews
Good, almost, for the, good for the Jews
Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Here comes a joke
And you can throw out the food
You can cancel the band
Cause the moil gotta boil on the meat of his hand
For baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Sing along
Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews? Is it good for baseball, is it good for the Jews? Sing along. Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Is it good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
One more.
For baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Is it good, is it good?
Good for baseball, is it good for the Jews?
Now we're going to stop. I'm not afraid to be alone David Yazbeck.
David!
Surprise guest.
Unbelievable.
Shouldn't we?
All right, kids.
You're going to introduce somebody.
I'm going to go work the crowd.
Okay.
We'll go over a little.
Frank's not going to be here.
We'll go over a little.
Frank's not going to be here.
Right.
You're sitting on a mic.
Our next guest.
What do you mean?
It's a comedian, actor, and yet another Tony-nominated performer who's appeared on this podcast a record six times,
and somehow he still has a career.
and somehow he still has a career.
Please welcome to our annual Christmas guest and our very own elf on a shelf
and a man who's still haunted
by unsubstantiated fag rumors, the hilarious Mario Cantone.
Well, well, well.
Hello, well.
Hello, everybody.
Hello.
Oh.
I love you.
You're such a wannabe homeless person.
I'm sitting on this.
Was that supposed to be a... I'm offended.
I'm offended.
A gay joke before I even fucking sit down.
He sat on a mic. Ha ha.
He can take it.
Fags.
Hi, faggot.
What's up?
You old dead Jew, you.
Hello, darling. Oh, yeah.
Turn it around. You know where the head is,
don't you?
Oh, darling. Oh, yeah, turn it around. You know where the head is, don't you? Oh, God.
Well, hi, everybody.
So, it's nice to be here at the cutting room
with Richard and Mary Lou and you.
You know, they could stuff you like a taxidermist
and just put you there and the show would be the same.
and just put you there and the show would be the same.
I just got back from Seattle, you know.
I know you didn't know because you have no fucking research skills.
I did. I was in Seattle. I did a musical called Bliss.
I actually went out of town. You know I'm a recluse. I don't go out of town.
I turn it all down. I'm like out of town. You know I'm a recluse. I don't go out of town. I turn it all down.
I'm like, fuck you.
Have fun in Minneapolis.
But I did go out of town to do this musical Bliss
that was really, really great.
But I got to tell you,
Seattle is the worst
fucking city in the country.
Oh, it's awful.
I'll say it publicly.
Come get me, you fucking
mentally ill meth head motherfuckers.
They look at you
when you jaywalk and I'm like, what about the meth head over here and the mentally ill meth head motherfuckers. They look at you when you jaywalk,
and I'm like, what about the meth head over here
and the mentally ill bastard behind me?
I hate it there.
It's a very sketchy city.
It's scary.
The homeless are aggressive.
They flail at you.
I'm like, no, no, no, that doesn't happen here.
Yeah, it's coffee, donuts, and ice cream.
That's all they fucking have.
I hate that city.
I hate it.
I will never. And my husband lives there a lot of the time because he's the
artistic director of the village theater which is not the theater we did the show
at and I I hate that city so I can't bear that city I'll never go back oh
isn't it awful I just and they're also passive aggressive.
And the theater was unprepared.
They just fucking blew.
I'm so glad to be back.
I love doing the show, but I can't tell you how happy I am to be back.
I don't want to go anywhere.
I'm like, if David Yazmik ever wrote me a fucking musical and he was going to Minneapolis,
I'd be like, go fuck yourself.
I'm not going away anymore.
No, David, I'd go anywhere for you.
You know I saw Tootsie three times, you know that?
Three times.
Yeah, that's, well, no one has any taste.
You know, look at what's still running sometimes.
You don't fucking know.
Like what?
I don't know.
Don't test me, David.
I'll come there and break your glasses in two.
Mr. Cantone.
Yes.
Oh, where are you?
Oh, I'm like Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark.
I can't see you.
I'm like, the drugs are in the doll!
The drugs are in the doll!
Oh, I cannot.
Where are you?
I love that you're... I see you.
Okay, oh, yeah.
Look, you've got a red light there.
Like, you're sucking some laser dick.
What is that?
I'm doing the Phil Donahue thing.
Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, it's more interactive
that way. Don't interview anybody. I'm still
up here, okay? You can interview me.
You've done six Christmas shows.
I thought it was seven, but it's six.
Six of the Christmas shows, which are
arguably our most popular shows.
Yeah, arguably.
And I think
we outdid ourselves with the 12 Days of Christmas.
Yeah, we really did.
We really did.
Which was my lovely wife's idea.
Last year I didn't even want to attempt it.
But you guys were absolutely wonderful.
Do you and Richard want to settle the Mr. Magoo dispute?
You really like that.
You're out of your mind.
You're out of your mind.
First of all
The first five minutes when he comes to the theater
Is the worst thing in the world
And then all of a sudden it's charming
And the music is great
And it's
He wrote a short novel and it's a short telling of the thing
It's fantastic
No
It's no little drummer boy
Stop it Wait hold on It's great little drummer boy. And so Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol. Stop it!
Wait, hold on, hold on.
Wait, hold on.
It's great to be back.
Back, back.
Oh, that's the worst show.
That's the worst song.
No, but they're all great.
A hand for each hand was planned in the world.
And a hand for each hand.
Oh, my God.
I love Mr. Magoo.
It's terse and it's fun.
It's fabulous.
And I don't understand.
It's a sense of humor.
Who was on drugs to hire Mr. Magoo?
Where did that come from?
Then he comes to the theater and destroys the theater.
I'm sorry.
I thought I loved you.
I hate it.
You're really, really wrong.
I love it.
You're wrong.
My favorite Christmas special is The Little Drama Boy by Rankin Bass.
Okay, they're great.
That's the one.
They are great.
That's the one.
That's a snort comparison.
It's brilliant.
Because they killed the mother and father
at the very beginning.
The desert bandits.
Yeah.
In the Middle East,
the desert fucking bandits
kill the mother and father
of the little Jewish boy
and they throw a knife
at one of them
and then they burn
and they're puppets.
They're wood
so they go up
and fucking flay.
And it's just devastating
and that little Aaronaron who is so
angry and he yells at his he has a magical drum and he's his eyebrows are just pointed and he's
so he yells at like the camel and and the little sheep to dance he's like dance you fucking lamb
he's so pissed he's like i'll whip your rack out and grill it. He's just brutal.
It's my favorite. And then he sees, even at the end when he sees Jesus, he's still
like, I have no fucking gift to bring.
He's still so angry.
It's the best one. It's my favorite one.
Okay. That's it.
I understand. And I like Rudolph
and I like Santa Claus
coming to town. I can't bear... Frosty's
great. Frosty's unbearable.
Well, we...
You know what?
I can't know.
He goes into the greenhouse with a little girl at the end,
and he gets hot, and he melts.
We both have the same anger.
Oh, gosh.
With...
At least I use it for good.
Not in Seattle, where they use it on people on the street.
Yeah, with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Well, I've been saying this for fucking 20 years,
and I'm going to tell you something.
It's a gay story because he's born...
You know this bit.
I mean, am I actually going to do it again?
All right, so he's born with a little red nose, right?
And the mother is sympathetic.
The mother's like, oh, my son.
And the father's like, no son of mine is going to have a red nose.
You're going to wear this piece of shit on it and you're going to like it.
And he's like, I don't want to wear it.
You're going to wear this piece of shit and no son of mine is going to have a red nose.
What he's really saying is no son of mine is going to be a little faggot.
That's what he's really saying.
And then he goes to those reindeer games with Comet, that fucking gym teacher with the baseball cap.
I fucking hate him he's like
come on Rudolph let's see what you got right right and then he flies he's better than everybody and
then someone's hoof hits his nose the shit comes off and he's all glowy and they all panic and
they're like oh like he got a hard-on in shower in gym class. It's all there. It's all there. And then Santa is like, oh, oh, oh, too bad. He had a good takeoff too. Really?
He still doesn't have a good takeoff because he sucks same sex reindeer dick. I don't get it.
And then he meets, then he meets Hermie, the dentist. He's like, I don't want to be an elf.
I want to be a dentist. And they go off together. We're a couple of myths, the dentist, who's like, I don't want to be an elf, I want to be a dentist.
And they go off together.
We're a couple of myths, like two fags skipping through the snow.
It's ridiculous.
Then they go to the island of Misfit Toys,
and there's like the little girl with the, I don't know what's wrong with her.
She doesn't have a vagina.
I have no idea what's wrong with the little doll.
And then they see that Jack in the Box.
They're like, it's a Jack.
He's like, no!
I'm not a jack-in-the-box. I'm a
Charlie-in-the-box.
Rudolph, let go of my key.
You're dragging it too tight.
Oh! If you want to stay on the
island of misfit toys, you have to
talk to King Moonraiser. There he is right
now, flying over the moon.
It's the island of... It's a gay bar.
It's a big fucking gay bar. It's the island of... It's a gay bar. It's a big fucking gay bar.
It's the fire island of misfit toys.
It's true.
I've been saying this for 20 years,
and the New York Times just did an article on it.
I'm like, you're a little fucking late, you stupid asses.
And then at the end, you know, Santa was brutal to him,
and then it's like, it's foggy, and he's like, oh, Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my...
Fuck you, Santa.
I'd be like, you humiliated me my whole life.
Crash and burn, you fat fuck!
All right, that's enough.
I've been doing that bit for 20 years.
I can't believe it still gets a reaction.
But it gets more and more relevant because of what's happening today.
What's happening today with all the kids.
I hate the children.
You get angrier each time you tell it.
I do, and I do.
I just...
When am I today?
What did you think of Renee Zellweger winning the Oscar for playing Judy Garland?
I'll tell you.
I have a mixed bag with it, but I thought her acting was quite good.
I really did.
I thought her acting, her close-ups were great.
The movie's not good.
But she's very...
Well, first of all, she comes on stage.
They don't even know if she's drunk or she can't sing.
And they start throwing scones and crumpets at her
because they're in London.
But they're throwing food at her.
And it's like, wait, she hasn't even opened her mouth yet.
Do you remember that scene?
When she's drunk, but they don't know?
It's very weird.
But I have to say this.
She doesn't sound like her when she sings.
She doesn't move like her when she sings.
So that was a problem for me.
But good for her for making the effort
to want her to sing her own shit.
Because she definitely had some emotional moments while she was singing, I thought, even though it wasn't anything like her.
Because they give an Oscar to someone who lip-synced half his fucking performance in Bohemian Rhapsody.
And I don't understand that.
I'm sorry.
Didn't like it.
Didn't think it was good.
And how do you give someone an Oscar for lip syncing half your fucking performance
look at
look at Sissy Spacek
and Beverly D'Angelo
and Cole Miner's daughter
that's
that's when you
that's when
I want to see someone
really do their shit
I mean and I get
no one sounds like Judy Garland
except for me
but that's not the point
before you do it
before you make the crowd happy,
here's a quick question for all three of you about Gilbert.
Oh, God.
Three actors on the stage,
and this has come up on a couple of podcasts recently.
Do you think, in your opinion,
we'll start with Richard and move down the couch,
do you believe that Gilbert could play,
convincingly play, a serious dramatic role?
Yes.
Rich?
Yeah.
Yeah, you know,
I suppose so
because in hearing him do imitations,
he is absolutely in the moment
and can mimic what that emotion is.
I don't think he feels a thing.
But I believe that he is such a good mimic that he can mimic,
honestly, he could mimic the intention and the whatever the
emotion is uh yeah and you know when you see that the i i think it's great that it's 300 episodes
and it sort of makes me cry but this whole the the whole podcast made me cry because when they had on, I think it was Eddie Munster, who's the kid who plays Eddie Munster?
Butch Patrick.
Butch Patrick.
And I go, and that's around, maybe a couple of episodes before.
So why would you do that to somebody who can't help it?
He was a kid.
He can't help being Eddie Munster.
This is what he did, and now that's all he knows about.
Why are you going to pick on him, and you don't?
You treat him with such glory.
And that's what's amazing about the podcast.
I mean, you give verbal blowjobs to every one of these actors.
True.
And I believe that that is inherent in Gilbert Gottfried.
So yes, I do believe there is emotion.
Wonderful answer.
Ms. Henner.
Thank you.
Okay, okay.
Now that I've met his family,
his beautiful family and wife
and the kids and stuff.
Okay.
First of all,
I don't even think he'd have to mimic.
I 100% know he could be
a fantastic dramatic actor
and I hope you get the opportunity.
No question about it.
And not just
mimicking somebody, which is fake.
Okay, Mayor.
And I didn't get my verbal blowjob,
but that's okay.
Mario, same
question. What was the question
again?
You're going to make me do this again.
Could Gilbert,
where he's so inclined, be able to pull
off a dramatic part,
a dramatic role?
No. The fact that he works more as an actor
than me is unbearable to me.
I lose sleep over it.
No, I do think he can, because I've seen him
walking on the streets like
a wannabe homeless person.
And I see him in his downtime. person and I see him in his down time
so when you see him in his down time
you see that all that
bubble flatten
out and settle like a bad
bottle of champagne and
you see his
seriousness oh yeah
I don't know if you would want to do it
or if you would actually
go like go there and dig deep if
you'd want to do that i sound like stella adler this is ridiculous but i absolutely think you
could do it yeah i do i do we're we're we're sad clowns i don't believe he could do a play.
He would go off book constantly
and be late for entrances.
He'd be tired of it
by the third rehearsal.
How would Larry David feel that way?
I think Larry David
wanted to bail.
Although you've been doing the same act for 45 years.
So who knows?
It's exhausting.
I just did this musical, and I haven't done a run in a long time.
I'm telling you, I'm old.
It's fucking exhausting.
And even when something's really great, you get bored.
It's like Groundhog's Day.
It's like, I can't believe I'm fucking doing this.
Did you ever get bored?
Getting there, you go, oh my god, I can't believe it.
But when I'm on stage, I don't feel that.'t believe it but when I'm on stage I don't feel that
well no
when I'm on stage
I don't feel it
it's different every night
the audience is so different
every night
but as a comedian
it's fun to act
I torture myself
it's fun to be the guy
but I'm saying
it's a different show
every night
because the audience
is so different
if you want to see
a good show
go on Thursday
because everybody
has rested up a little bit
or Tuesday
because they've had the rest over the weekend.
That's true.
Sometimes the Tuesday's tricky, though.
I think the Tuesday's going to be good.
It depends on if people have been flying.
It's like going to the gym.
You go, oh, my God, oh, my God, I've got to go, I've got to go, I've got to go, I've got to go.
You guys.
And then you get there and it's fantastic.
Do you torture yourself?
You do the same thing I do, don't you?
When you lose the laugh on something after so many times and you're like, what the fuck? How did I lose that laugh? Oh, yeah. And you torture yourself? You do the same thing I do, don't you? When you lose the laugh on something after so many times,
and you're like, what the fuck?
How did I lose that laugh?
Oh, yeah.
And you torture yourself.
I'm telling you, as a comedian, you torture yourself.
I always say the ride home is the worst thing in the world
because you relive what you've just done for two hours.
You go, why did I do that?
Oh, my God.
Why wasn't I concentrating?
Why did I smile during that?
Mr. Cantone.
Yeah.
Richard mentions Gilbert's art of mimicry.
This is a segue.
Oh, okay.
Should I get that mic?
Yeah.
Should I?
All right.
Paul will help you.
I hope I remember this because I take my gay card away.
This one?
Oh, okay.
Do you want Gilbert to help you with the setup?
No.
Well, yes.
I'll try to
out hello I'll I'll try I'll try to cue him you know I'd like to hi everybody
I'm mrs. Norman Maine do you James Mason for me congratulations my dear I seem to have
made it just in time there's no need to be formal I know most of you gentlemen
on a first-name basis I need to job job. Yes, that's it. That's my speech. I need a job. It's not
just drama. I could do comedy as well. Well, play something, Norman. Come on, Norman.
Everybody, look the other way.
I'd like to sing a song for Gilbert because it's something that I think I would sing at his funeral.
And since he won't be there, I'd like to sing.
I hope I remember the words.
Look, I have an iPhone. Liza gave it to me. Because she doesn't know how to work it.
But I think I'll... You can cue me in case I fuck up.
Alright.
The night is bitter
The stars have lost their glitter, the wind grows colder and suddenly No more
Is he a call
The writings
On the wall
The dreams you've dreamed
Have all gone astray
The man that won you gone astray the man
that won you
has run off and undone you
that great
beginning
has seen a final inning
don't know what
happened
it's all a crazy
game It's all a crazy game
No more that old time thrill
For you've been through the mill
And never a new love will be the same.
Good riddance, goodbye.
Every trick of his you're all too.
But fools will be fools and where's he gone
to
it's rubber it's lonelier and tougher with hope you'll burn up tomorrow he might turn up
You'll burn up, tomorrow he might turn up There's just no light up, the live long night and day
Ever since this world began
There's nothing inside of there
A one man woman
Looking for the man that got
Away away
The man that you're
away
Thanks for your funeral. I had a little chest call tonight
I would have done it in another key
But I had to lower it
Eliza gave me the coronavirus
She drank so many of them
she just got a virus
corona
I said have a lime Eliza
it'll take care of everything
Mr. Cantone
I'm back
I channel I have to stay in it for a second
I'm out
speaking of Christmas
did I really get two calls?
Oh, God.
I said, speaking of Christmas.
Oh, yeah, we got to do it, right?
I have bad news for Gilbert.
He has to stand up.
All right, come on.
We got to do this.
What?
We are reprising a greatest hit from one of the Christmas shows.
How is he going to follow this without it highlighted?
Oh, God, we're in fucking trouble.
Gil, you're doing the second part
on the page.
You know that, right?
He's got it.
He's a pro.
Isn't he adorable, this one?
All right.
He is.
He's on The View.
He's the stage manager of The View,
so I know him very well.
Paul Terrasio, where are you?
He's so cute.
Our stage manager,
Paul Terrasio. Yeah are you? He's so cute. Our stage manager, Paul Terrasio.
Alright.
Shit, okay.
Oh Christ, alright.
You're doing Tony Curtis, right?
Yeah, I'm Tony Curtis.
And I'm Betty Davis after the stroke.
We're going to pretend that it's still Christmas time, everybody.
And this is one of our greatest hits, wasn't it?
Yes. Unfortunately, you made all the money off it and I made.
Let's do it.
Oh, yes.
I really can't stay.
Baby, it's cold outside.
I've got to go away.
But baby, it's cold outside this evening has been been hoping
very nice
oh you've already dropped your first line my mother will start to worry
beautiful what's your life father will be pacing the floor.
Listen to the fireplace roar.
So really I better scurry.
Beautiful, please don't hurry. Well, maybe just a little drink more.
Put some wreckage on while I pour.
Then neighbors might think.
No cares to be out of bed.
Say what's in this drink.
I'll take you
I wish I knew how.
To break the spell.
I ought to say
no, no, no, sir.
Mind I'm moving closer.
At least I'm going to say that I tried.
What's the saving hurting my throat?
I really can't stay.
Baby, it's cold outside.
So far, so bad.
I simply must go.
But baby, it's cold outside
The answer is no
But baby it's cold outside
Your welcome has been
How lucky that you dropped in
So strange and warm
Look out the window at the storm
My sister will be suspicious
Gosh your lips
oh yes waves of my man is vicious gosh
I've never uplifted before.
I've got to get home.
But baby, you'll freeze out there.
Get me a cold.
It's up to your knees out there.
You've really been grand.
I think when you touch my hand.
Oh yes, don't you see?
You see, there's bound to be talk tomorrow.
Think of my life tomorrow.
At least there will be plenty in pride.
If you've got the courage.
I really can't stay.
One, two, three.
Baby, it's cold outside.
Outside.
I love your portrayal of a homosexual in Spartacus.
We made it.
Mario Cantone.
Oh, my, my, my, my.
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We're going to do something a little different here.
We have some people here who have been on the podcast before.
You may know this lady right here who was laughing very hard at the last segment.
Susie Essman from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
In the house. Susie, stand up, take a bow.
You know, I want to say
I'm a little drunk, but I want to say, I'm a little drunk,
but I want to say I was on another podcast,
not one that's of any interest or whatever,
and they asked me who I thought was the funniest comedians working,
and I actually said, no shit, you two gentlemen right here,
Gilbert and Mario, who make me laugh more than anybody in the entire fucking world.
Well, that's the truth about you for me.
I always say you. Always. I don't say
him, but I say you. Yes, Gil.
Now, Susie, can you tell
a story about
how we were both working on
two separate HBO specials?
Oh, yeah. Gilbert and I
did, in 1992, I think,
we both did one night stands and we were on the same night.
And I fell, we were at the Doral Hotel, which now is famous for Asshole in Chief, whatever, we won't mention his name.
But I fell, I was doing something and I fell and I scraped my knee.
I was doing something and I fell and I scraped my knee and my boyfriend at the time,
not my husband who I'm with right now,
but my boyfriend at the time
swore that I had rug burns from fucking Gilbert.
And would not believe me for anything.
Would not, like I swore up and down
that I had not had sex with Gilbert,
but he swore that my knee burns
were from that being on my knees giving Gilbert a blowjob
Susie Essman
we got a couple of other people here, podcast guests.
Original Saturday Night Live writer,
the creator of characters like Roseanne Rosanna,
co-curator of Roseanne Rosanna Dana and Emily Littella,
and the co-creator of the wonderful It's Gary Shandling show
and a writer for Curb Your Enthusiasm and a million other things.
How many times have you been on with us?
Three times? Two times?
Two times?
Two times.
Oh, number three's coming up.
The great Alan Zweibel, ladies and gentlemen.
Not unlike Susie, I was on another podcast,
and I was asked who I thought were the two funniest storytellers and I told them Richard Kind and Mary Lou Henna. So we can put that together. This is one great show and
when I can't get over all the time that I'm with you Gilbert is Dara. I can't believe it's been five years and there was a, for your 60th birthday,
there was a dinner party and we went around the table and we gave toast to you. And I think it
was Paul Schaefer who said that Dara is the best thing that ever happened to you.
who said that Dara is the best thing that ever happened to you.
And I corrected him.
I said, no, no, no.
Dara is the only thing that's ever happened to you.
I'm thrilled to be here.
So is my wife, Robin.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday. And congratulations.
Let's see who else we have here Another pretty accomplished comedy writer
Of Seinfeld and Will and Grace
And cheers
The legendary Tom Leopold
A few words my friend
I refuse to cry
I refuse to cry. I refuse to cry.
Oh, you know, where are you, Frankie?
You know, I gave up my TED Talk to be here tonight.
Which is fortunate because I hadn't really worked it out.
You know, I hadn't really figured out what I was going to say at the TED Talk.
What is your question, Frank? I don't really worked it out. I hadn't really figured out what I was going to say at the TED Talk. What is your question, Frank?
Gilbert, you know,
a lot of people say there's no place to be bad anymore.
And I think that you've established a place.
And God bless you.
God bless you.
And I love you.
And I love Dara.
Thanks, buddy.
I love this table.
Here's a man who's been on the podcast three times.
Very wonderful.
Terrific guest.
I think you know him as Jackie the Joke Man Martley.
First of all, thank you very much for the two-hour lesson in why i'm not as fucking famous as the rest of you you're all incredible i very millions of years ago i never
got any act i never got shit but me and gilbert got stuck in some horrible show that was on some
channel that was around for 15
minutes and we're in Las Vegas and I don't know whether there's a spring or
the fall but Las Vegas is a beautiful place during the day but then it drops
20 or 30 degrees and we're doing this horrible show and it's dinnertime so
we're in the trailer and I'm getting the full Gilbert. I got an hour of Gilbert doing Ed Sullivan cursing at Jackie Mason for giving the finger.
I thought I was going to piss myself.
And we're exchanging jokes and it's so great.
Finally they say it's dinner time.
Now we're the stars of this show.
So they're making steaks on the barbecue outside.
But it's like fucking 30 degrees out there.
And the entire cast and crew are in line freezing their balls off waiting to eat.
And we go out and go to the front of the line.
And, of course, everybody's pissed off.
And the guys are making steaks.
And they hand me a steak. And they hand me a steak.
And they hand Gilbert another steak.
And fucking Gilbert goes, can I have another one?
I dropped my plate and got the fuck out of there, man.
I love you, Gilbert.
I love you.
Thank you.
We also have to...
Gilbert, do you remember the first podcast,
well, really the only podcast,
where a guest ever fed us,
invited us into their home?
Who would that be?
There was lemonade,
iced tea,
fruit,
cheese and crackers.
Yes.
Out of 300 shows, only one guest ever invited us in and fed us, tea, fruit, cheese and crackers.
Out of 300 shows, only one guest ever invited us in and fed us, and that is the legendary Barbara Felden.
99 in the house.
I had to feed you because I'm not funny.
And when you asked me to do the show, I thought,
I feel very honored, but I was bemused that you would want to interview me.
And I was very nervous when the two of you came in.
And then, of course, Dara came with her like angelic kind of persona and
the afternoon I remember it so sweetly because you were so dear and you are so dear and Dara is such
a love and Frank was wonderful and I thank you for the opportunity and I didn't
need to be funny at all
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for being here.
And I say Barbara is still totally hot.
She is.
All right, we're going to make Barbara, because it's your birthday,
we're going to make Barbara give you one, right?
You know what to say.
You know he likes the... Oh, Max.
what better way to cut the sentiment, Gilbert,
than with the Roastmaster General himself.
The one, the only, Jeffrey Ross.
Oh, come on.
Terrific.
What a party.
Where else might I 69 with 99?
No expense spared.
You got the old couch from Harvey Weinstein's office.
I'm really enjoying this reenactment
of last night's Democratic debate. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha So the joke is on me. I couldn't miss this for so many reasons.
Dara and Gilbert are very, very dear friends of mine.
The fact that they're together is a fucking miracle.
And I do enjoy celebrating it all the time.
The fact that Gilbert has children.
Despite some of the things
he's said and done.
Years ago,
we, you know,
to talk about
the dramatic actor thing
for a second,
I did a dramatic part
with Gilbert
on CSI.
Do you remember this, Gilbert?
Oh, yeah.
By the way,
Gilbert will never get
another part
because he's been recently me too'd by
Dolores Del Rio
but we were on CSI
and we had hours to kill in the valley
it was very hot.
And the B story, you know, we were playing dramatic roles as comedians in a dramatic role where I was poisoned by my opening act.
And Gilbert was that opening act.
And it was very serious.
But the B story involved children.
So there were other trailers nearby with children.
They weren't in our scenes and we weren't in their scenes.
But we were a solid...
And they spent most of the day with tutors
and their parents would float around.
We didn't get too involved in what was going on
with that part of the show.
But just with an earshot,
he would test to see who could hear him.
While he was talking to me,
Gilbert would, apropos to nothing,
just say, big black cock.
Just to see the reaction,
to see if any of the tutors or parents
would just turn around.
And they're 50, 60 feet away.
But I'd say, Gilbert, how did your scene go?
It was great, but there was not enough big black cock.
And now you have children.
When Gilbert first had kids,
he's the first celebrity.
People magazine offered him a million dollars
never to take pictures.
But, you know...
Somehow you created this amazing life
and you give us, your friends, your fans,
so much joy.
A podcast, a live show,
whatever it is, Gilbert.
When I go on your show,
when you come on my show,
I always know it's going to be a home run
and I couldn't miss this.
So Tara, happy 50th.
Gilbert, whatever the fuck you are.
Frank, you're annoying.
Before we wrap up the show and we have a big finish,
we want to introduce another showbiz legend
who was kind enough to come down here and watch the show and support us.
A living legend, Mr. Ben Vereen.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Right here.
Right here.
Ben fucking Vereen.
Yeah.
Right here.
Ben fucking Breen.
Las Vegas.
Did you know that?
In Chicago with Mary Lou?
Yes.
Yeah, we did Chicago together.
We did Chicago together in 99.
And you were fabulous, girlfriend.
In 1999, it was a Tuesday.
Yeah.
Thank you, baby.
Future podcast guest, Ben Vereen.
You have to do it.
Ben, I need Ben Vereen to know,
my first Broadway show,
I was 12 years old,
was Pippin.
Yeah.
And I saw you,
and I'll never forget it.
It changed my life.
Unbelievable.
Changed my life.
Thank you.
And you were so magnificent.
When those fucking hands came up,
I was like,
what the fuck is that?
My head popped off.
So I think you're brilliant.
And I love you and all that jazz.
You're phenomenal in that.
You're just magnificent.
Thank you.
That's all.
I had to tell you. Thank you.
Wow.
I feel like Jerry at the telethon.
Another legendary pop culture figure,
Mason Reese, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, everybody.
Hey, guys, over here.
I'm the little guy that you can't see.
Gilbert likes to hang out with me
because he's taller than I am.
So that makes him very happy.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you, buddy.
Thanks for coming out.
Thanks for coming out.
What a night.
If only, Gilbert,
if only there were a man in the house,
a showman, a performer dynamic enough
to possibly close and cap such an evening.
I can't imagine anyone being able to do that.
Can you think of anybody?
It would have to be someone who truly
loves showbiz
and
loves the spotlight.
Somebody who loves showbiz.
Would he be a renaissance man,
Gilbert? A total renaissance
man.
He's a
gentleman and a
gentle man.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Schaefer!
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
First of all, I want to thank Frank and Gilbert
for giving me this spot in the show
because, my God, no, seriously,
to follow all these people is a thrill and a privilege.
But Frank said, go right to the piano
because the couch will be filled by the time you get on.
So he said, go and be like you're playing for Bette Midler
at the Continental Bass playing for Fagolas
and you've got to sit there at the piano
with a towel over your cock.
And I'm happy to do that.
I only wrote one song, so I'm going to get on and off fast.
I wrote this with the late, great Paul Jabara. Thank you. It's not my wife's favorite song.
She said, don't you want to be known for anything else? Why just that one song?
I said, you know, does Frankie Valli get tired of doing Sherry?
No.
Does it every single time.
So with that in mind.
piano plays
Humidity is rising
Barometer's getting low
According to all sources
The street's the place to go
Because tonight for the first time
Just about a half past ten For the first time, just about a half past ten.
For the first time in history, it's gonna start raining men.
It's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men, amen.
Well, I'm gonna go out, gonna let myself get absolutely soaking wet. It's raining men. Hallelujah. It's raining men. Every specimen. Well, tall, blonde, dark and lean. Rough and tough and strong and mean
God bless Mother Nature
She's a single woman too
She took all the heavens
And she did what she had to do
Well, she fought every angel
Rearr rearrange the sky so that each and every woman find the perfect guy Hallelujah, it's raining men. Amen. It's raining men. Hallelujah, it's raining men. Amen.
For me, weather moving in
About to begin
I hear the thunder
Don't you lose your head
Rip up the roof and stay in bed It's waiting, man
Hallelujah
It's waiting, man
Amen
It's waiting, man
Hallelujah
Man
Amen
You got the tall, blonde, dark and mean
Rough and tough and strong and mean.
Men, hallelujah, it's raining men.
Good God, it's raining men.
Yeah. Thank you all.
And to Gilbert Gottfried,
thanks to Padre.
Thanks, everybody.
We've got to go to bed.
Good night. go to bed good night
thank you guys we cannot follow the great Paul Schaefer.
We're going to thank the cutting room.
Steve and Susan and Gerard. We want to thank
again Sirius, our engineers
tonight for the podcast. Scott,
Dave and Nick. Paul Terrasio.
Where are you, Paul?
Paul Terrasio, our
stage manager. Joe
and Seth. How about for the Gilbert Godfrey
trio? Julie Let's go to our stage manager, Joe and Seth. How about for the Gilbert Gottfried Trio?
Julie and Joe McGinty and Seth Saltzman.
We want to thank Alan Zweibel, Mason Reese, Ben Vereen, Tom Leopold,
Jackie the Joke Man, Jeffrey Ross, Susie Eshman.
Who have I forgotten?
And these wonderful people. Mario Cantone. Susie Esmond, who have I forgotten?
And these wonderful people.
Mario Cantone.
Richard Kind.
Richard, where are you?
Come on out.
Richard Kind. Mary Lou Henner
David Yazbeck and the great Paul Schaefer thank you all for coming we love you Thank you.