Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #208: Gilbert & Frank's Twitter Mailbag
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Who are you?
I don't remember.
I'll have to check
the closing credits.
Are you John MacGyver?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
Everything must be run
according to schedule.
We'll have no slackers
in this organization.
Too late.
He's having a better career
with you doing him
than he actually had.
I know.
If only he was alive to see this and hear it.
My God.
We just had Andrew Bergman, the writer-director of The Freshman
and the writer of The In-Laws here in Blazing Saddles,
and he turned red.
He turned as red as a strawberry with laughter
when Gilbert trotted out his John MacGyver.
And we'll have to get John MacGyver's son in here.
Boris MacGyver.
Yeah, just so I can do.
Fine.
So, what's the name of the show?
Oh, I think it's
Gilbert and Frank's
Amazing Colossal Obsession.
We're here with Verteroso,
Ed Earwolf,
and Dara is here,
and Ray Bone.
The late Ray Bone.
The late Ray Bone is here.
It was a lovely ceremony,
that was.
Did Gilbert eulogize you as he did Abe Vigoda?
I'm hoping he'll do an impression of me.
That's what I'm waiting for.
That was one of my most successful...
Did you prepare material to go to roast Abe Vigoda when he died?
I had nothing prepared.
You just stood over the casket and just did material.
Yeah, just the stick.
And it was
in every, even in foreign
newspapers. I think he would have loved it.
Yeah. How did the family feel about it?
They loved it too.
Okay, so if I go first
before you. I'm hoping.
Okay.
I pray every day.
Nothing would make me happier than to be at your funeral.
These gifts that were sent, I am now keeping.
These were gifts.
We're going to open with this.
This is a little housekeeping that we like to start these colossal obsessions with.
These are gifts that were sent by fans to fans tonight.
This is from a gentleman.
And I resent the fact that these are being sent to my office for you.
Yes.
You know, pretty much an ingrate.
This is from Peter Swords of Phoenix, Arizona.
S-O-A-R-D-S.
I guess that would be pronounced Swords.
Sounds right.
And this is for you, a gift that he sent.
Dara, what's the area code of Phoenix?
Well, it's a t-shirt, I think, of some kind.
Dara showed a rare talent last week
that we didn't know she had.
Look what it says on the back.
You love a free t-shirt.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Grouch remarks.
There you go.
There you go.
And it's a medium
so it might actually fit you. Oh my
God, yeah. Or one of the kids could wear it
as a pajama and he sent you this
postcard. Dear
Gilbert, thank you for all the nights
we spent up all night.
It makes me
so happy that you
have a stellar podcast
where I can hear you every week.
How nice.
Oh, thank you.
How nice.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, Mikkel.
Dara, he also sent you this.
Oh, no, this is from a different gentleman.
Excuse me.
Yes.
Oh, and someone on our last show, they sent me a soap maker, but I don't know if it didn't have it or I lost the instructions.
Okay.
So if any of you out there can tweet, you know, at Real Gilbert the instructions to that soap maker.
I think I have it.
There's a Google now.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a Google.
You can get the instructions online.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I think I know the job. I can't think of it offhand, but at home I have Google. You can get the instructions online. Oh, okay. Yeah, I think I know the...
I can't think of it offhand,
but at home I have the name of the person who sent that.
Oh, okay.
Is Gilbert at the point where he won't do anything for himself
to the point where he won't even Google something?
Is that the level of stardom we're at?
I taught you how to use the Google.
Doesn't want to use it.
This is from another fan.
This is a sealed card for you.
And this was sent by Chris Ketchmark
who sent a box to my office
with all of these strange goodies. There's a
card for Dar, what I assume is a card.
Frank, this is for you.
I think they're gourmet chocolates
or bonbons.
There's no way those are going to survive
the night.
Actually, oh, listen, look at this. He's on point.
They are actually premium Mandarin
orange slices.
Covered in chocolate?
Covered in chocolate.
Have you ever had
such a thing?
No,
but I'm gonna,
I'm just gonna tell you
right now,
they're amazing.
Well,
these are for you.
So you enjoy those.
Wait,
who is that from?
Chris Ketchmark.
Chris Ketchmark.
You are a rock star
among men.
In fact,
can you just get on
Old Forest
and we'll fling it
at your ass?
We agreed to not
talk about that on air.
You want me to open the card?
Darren wants me to open the card.
I also want to point out, I don't know if you guys ever had it,
but I had a boss that used to give these out at the holidays.
It was a chocolate orange that when you unwrap the foil,
there would be all these tightly put together chocolate wedges
of orange flavored chocolate.
And they're God's gift to the holiday season.
So if you haven't had it, get it.
This is perfect.
This is a sympathy card about you being married to Gilbert.
It says, there are no words,
but there are heartfelt wishes and healing thoughts.
All are being sent your way during this difficult time with sympathy.
And then he writes, this is very sentimental.
He writes, thank goodness Gilbert has you.
And by the way, your family is adorable.
So he's obviously seen the movie
or he's stalking you.
One of the two.
I would check when I got home tonight.
Chris Ketchmark.
That is very nice.
That's a very sweet sentiment.
Gilbert, these are also for you.
These are two books.
You can tell the listeners what they are oh okay this one is a perfect book for me it's called why the jews
it's called why the jews the reason for anti-semitism there's probably be a photo of me in there. Perfect. The most accurate predator of human evil.
And the other one.
Oh, it's Neil Gabler's book.
Oh, an empire of their own.
That's a great book.
How the Jews invented Hollywood.
I read that book.
Yeah, that's a terrific book.
Why they think I'd be interested in Jewish topics.
I have no idea.
He writes on it.
He puts a post on it.
It says, books for Gilbert to read when on the road.
So you don't read on the road, do you?
He's looking at SpectraVision porn when he's on the road.
He's very busy.
And I saved the best for last.
This came with a rubber band and a post-it for Old Blind Raybone.
Old Blind.
I'm going to hand this across the table to Paul.
Keen-eared listeners can probably figure out what that is.
I'm looking at it.
I'm holding it, and I can't figure out what it is.
Open it up quickly.
It's only a half-hour show.
Can you get it out of there?
I don't know.
There.
Just got to rip the wrapping
as an audience waits.
This is what they call dead air in the business.
Hold on a minute, Paul.
I'll open it for you.
This is like the fucking cookie fiasco all over again.
The night Paul took three hours to open it.
Gilbert knows what it is.
He's figured it out.
This is actually a blind man's walking cane.
Oh, my God.
Oh!
Excellent!
It's for Blind Raybone.
One of those fold-up walking canes.
It's a folding walking cane.
Who is this from?
Excellent Taste.
This is a big step up from the single dollar bills
I've been getting in baggies.
Exactly.
Soon you'll get an iron lung.
A bunch of people will pitch in.
That's funny.
I hope you all enjoyed your gifts.
They'll give you a GoFundMe funeral.
If you'd like to see Raybone buried.
I also want to thank Paul Ekstrom
who sent me a wonderful book.
He sent me The History of Primetime Television Shows, which is, have you seen this book?
No.
Which is, I didn't bring it with me, but it's a giant volume of just about every television show ever made.
Wow.
To the date.
I think the last, the most updated version of it was in the 90s.
Anyway, I will bring it in, and we will definitely pull it together,
a mini episode from it.
I thought it would be fun if we just randomly opened pages
and see if we remembered those shows.
I mean, every TV show,
going back to the Dumont Network,
is in this book.
I sound like Ed McMahon now,
in a Carnac bit.
Let's do some tweets,
because there were some people that wrote to us that
couldn't get on
the call-in show
and we'll try to
get to some of them.
I guess some of them
are buried in here.
Jim, which was a
big success by the way.
It's surprising.
I posted that thing
on Monday and I
thought I don't know
what the reaction
to this is going to be
but your instincts
were right to keep
Dr. Fred on the line
because he was a big hit.
I was going to give him the heave after about 30 seconds. That was the neurologist who thought he was funny.
Yeah.
And not close to what a real joke is.
Did you see the response on social media?
Oh, they love it.
Is there any chance we were being punked by another podcast?
Possibly.
You didn't think he was on the level?
It was like joke after joke about 9-11,
which may or may not have impacted Gilbert's life.
Right.
But it was just almost...
That's what I thought it was.
I thought it was like a send-up.
He was trying to spoof Gilbert.
But what's the fun of the send-up
if they don't reveal who they are or something, shouldn't they?
I have to go back and listen to it.
You listen to it several times.
That makes a lot of sense, actually.
I think it was real.
I think it was legit, which is so frightening.
I don't know if it's really out there.
Yeah.
And I thought it would be funny in Las Vegas if the building in New York had an airplane sticking out of it.
Yeah, every joke was a 9-11 joke.
Yeah, it's like, is he trying to lose Aflac?
I don't know what it was, but it was a success.
So, you know, we'll do more of them.
I heard Aflac dropped him from their insurance after they heard the podcast.
Possibly.
Dara said there was a lot of social media engagement for that episode.
So we're going to do something similar.
Maybe even in a couple of weeks.
Or we might even do like a call-in trivia show.
I think we need to do an episode according to social media.
Where it's just that guy and David McCallum talking the whole time.
Sure.
You know who you are.
Jim Spahr.
Jim Spahr.
Looking at your pod swag, why do you guys sell an Obama pin?
He thinks your pin is...
He thinks you look like Barack Obama.
During his administration, I'd have people put up on Twitter a picture of me next to Obama.
Yeah.
It's not the slight resemblance.
Yeah.
Here you go, Frank.
Harold Itzkowitz.
In discussing Edward Mulhare, David McCallum asked if he did
My Fair Lady. He actually did. He replaced
Rex Harrison on Broadway.
And of course, Mulhare did Harrison's role
in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. These are people
auditioning for your research job, Paul.
Harold Itzkowitz, send us a
resume. And they have the answer.
Did you see this cartoon, Gilbert?
The duck saying,
have plaque, have plaque.
Oh, yes.
In the dentist's office.
That was sent by Louis Lepton,
who said he thought of you.
William Lanham writes to say,
I found Norman's Corner.
People are obsessed with finding Norman's Corner.
Oh, yes.
Which is readily available on YouTube.
You know, if you tune into Norman's Corner,
you can't even tell some of those scenes were shot against a green screen.
It's so seamless.
That's like industrial life.
I don't know how they do it.
Yeah, it's Gilbert's finest hour.
Arnold Stang's quite good in it, by the way.
I know it was your idea to put him in it.
Is it on Larry's resume, you think?
Norman's Corner?
No.
Jed Allen died.
You know that name? He was the host of Celebrity Bowling. Oh, you think? No. Jed Allen died. You know that name?
He was the host of Celebrity Bowling.
Oh, my God, yes.
Celebrity Bowling.
84, which Gino Salamone is obsessed with.
Gino, if you're listening, I have more Celebrity Bowling goodies for you.
This was sent by Tim Hanlon.
Let's see who else is on here.
Maybe Paul can open a gift to kill time here.
I can't even read this guy's name.
T-H-A-A-Z-F?
How would you pronounce that?
You weren't bad.
Superb interview with a truly fantastic guest.
Who is he talking about?
I think David McCallum.
This was such a great episode.
Everyone should check it out. Gilbert's podcast
is brilliant. It's touching. It's fascinating
and hilarious stories by artists
who have lived amazing lives.
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A Grimlock girl
wants us to do more one-hit wonders.
Dara, there's a person after your own
heart. Bruce Vane
sent a very funny video of Danny
Thomas teaching
Macaulay Culkin how to do a spit-take
on the old Letterman show. Do you know
this clip? And what's he spitting out?
Water. Or maybe it's
coffee.
David McCallum
MB Truman writes, he's embedded in my
memory as a huge childhood crush. He hooked me
on blondes with accents for life.
Can't wait to listen to this.
If Danny Thomas was really funny
he would have been spitting out chocolate
pudding.
Oh good heavens.
Empty City Squares, our friend John Fodiatis.
Guys, that was a lot of fun.
Thanks for taking my call.
Michael Caine and Grandpa Al Lewis, thank you.
He did a pretty good Michael Caine.
Oh, yeah.
On the phone.
Not bad.
Do you do Michael Caine?
You don't do Brits.
Why?
You don't do foreign celebrities.
No.
I noticed.
You don't do like a Charles Aznavoir.
No, I just James Mason. Oh, James Mason. And you do Richard Burton. No, yeah. I stand corrected. I notice. You don't do like a Charles Aznavoir. No, I just, James Mason.
Oh, James Mason.
But MacGyver's kind of a...
No, yeah.
I stand corrected.
I think MacGyver's
kind of a British accent.
He's American.
Yeah, but I mean,
he had that kind of tone.
He was one of those people
I could easily be mistaken.
Rabbi David Kamarowski,
Kamarowski,
who writes to us often,
I'm in need of a neurologist
in Cleveland.
Can you guys recommend somebody who has a 10-minute set on Ebola,
the Spanish Inquisition, 9-11, and measles?
Very, very funny.
Which one is funnier than the other?
He's a hit.
Doug Douglas Henao.
Guys, the doctor from Ohio with the 9-11 chunk was classic.
Speaking of spit takes, Saltier Bit.
Boy, these Twitter handles.
Saltier Bit.
Hey, Frank, without this episode,
I'd never have known about Tony Randall
and Al Malinaro's back and forth spit take contest.
You should watch that.
It's on YouTube.
It's on the set of The Odd Couple,
and they're just kibitzing,
and they do a spit take contest,
which is wonderful.
Johnny T.
I just listened again to episode number 27.
That is the Steve Cox episode for the 50th time.
When Danny Thomas comes up, it is the funniest 15 minutes in podcast history.
Oh, that was a funny interview with Steve Cox. That's when I went up on your kitchen floor.
Yes.
Yes.
Rolling on the linoleum or the tile or whatever it is you have in your kitchen.
Yeah, we're trying to listen to that. Dara's saying, no, it's not linoleum. She tile or whatever it is you have in your kitchen.
Dara's saying, no, it's not linoleum.
She's shaking her head.
What is it, tile?
She's saying it's funny.
I was saying that was so funny.
Oh, that's so funny.
God, I was gasping for air.
That and the time he did the Squatty Potty ad.
Yeah.
Neil Martin, Neil Martin OBE.
I downloaded the 250th episode to listen on the plane back to London.
It did not disappoint, though perhaps a few too many plane references when you're in midair.
There you go.
Nikki Savitt, who is my new Facebook friend.
I was applauding throughout the 250th episode.
The doctor with the New York City jokes for the win.
He was a winner. Fred is a big hit. Reed Haw jokes for the win. He was a winner.
Fred is a big hit.
Reed Hawkins says the same.
For a laugh, I would see Dr. Fred.
For physical, I think I would feel safer seeing Trump's doctor.
Scott Stite, who called the show,
I have Stitcher Premium for the Real Gilbert Amazing Colossal Podcast
and the Marc Maron Archive.
It is also bonus gold.
Mark owes Gilbert a return visit, and I think Gilbert owes Mark a jacket.
Do we know what that's about?
Did he borrow a jacket when he was in the garage?
Oh, a sweatshirt.
A sweatshirt.
Yeah.
It was the birthday of our pal Rob Paulson.
Yes.
Podcast guest Rob Paulson.
So we wanted to wish Rob.
Oh, and I think it's the birthday of Sven Gulli.
Is it?
I think so.
Today's Barbara Felden's.
Oh, happy birthday, Barbara Felden.
Well, this will be up in three weeks.
But happy birthday, Barbara Felden.
And yesterday, I believe, was Al Jaffe's.
Oh, geez.
So we like to post that stuff.
If it's in three weeks and we're mentioning them,
should we just cut right to the funeral and condolences?
I'll tell you how Blaine was on my list.
Yeah, no shit.
There you go.
Andrew Krakowski, Gilbert, you'll love this.
He's got some kind of show on SoundCloud.
This week we take a page out of Frank and Gilbert's book
to look at the 1978 TV film Bud and Lou.
They're doing a special episode on how strawberry malted can kill. page out of frank and gilbert's book to look at the 1978 tv film bud and lou doing it they're
doing a special episode and how strawberry malted's can kill somewhere i think there's a
wikipedia page that has a mention of our podcast wow and the strawberry malted wow or so there are
several there are several wikipedia entries that that uh and i keep like, on different shows and movies, orange wedges and glass coffee tables.
We're going to get Dave Mandel on here, who's the EP of Veep.
Dara, there's a booking.
David Mandel.
He'll come on and do the show.
My old poker buddy.
And I say that because I played poker with him once.
Yes.
And he's the guy Gilbert is accusing
of stealing our Danny Thomas thunder.
Along with Emma Stone.
Did you see the favorite yet?
Did you see the orange throwing scene?
No.
You didn't get a screener?
No.
Fuck you, Emma Stone.
I have the screener.
I'll give it to you.
And didn't they do something
of either Danny Thomas
or Cesar Romero on Will and Grace.
I don't know.
Let's put Paul on it.
Paul, you want to do some research?
I'm sorry.
I'm still trying to catch up with strawberries on Wikipedia.
Oh, there you go.
Patty wants us to know you guys have a lot of female listeners.
There was a whole thread on the Listener Society today.
It was all women.
The amount of pussy that this show brings.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm pulling it down over my ears.
Let's see.
Here's a guy shaming us for not having enough Twitter followers.
So we'll have to work on that.
Did they let you vote is his Twitter handle.
How in the hell does the best and funniest podcast on the earth only have 8,000 Twitter followers?
This is madness.
So we have to.
We only have 8,000 Twitter followers?
What we need is.
Huh?
We need to get somebody famous to be associated with the show who has a big Twitter following.
Now, who would that be?
And then use that Twitter following.
And have them tweet from their account.
And then maybe let people know that it exists.
It's just hypothetical.
You're talking crazy now.
I have easily 85 followers,
so we can throw that in the pool.
Oh, put Grandpa back in bed.
Michael Coker or Cocher wants to say,
he loved the Rob Paulson episode.
Pat Buttram and John MacGyver in Raging Bull
is still a classic.
Oh, yes.
Do you remember doing that?
Yes.
With Rob?
Can I go back to something 20 minutes ago on the show?
I have no idea what the hell this thing is,
but on Wikipedia it says,
Frog Raccoon Strawberry Wiki.
And there's a cartoon of Gilbert and a frog,
and the frog says,
It's Gilbert Gottfried.
He's surprisingly inexpensive.
Wow.
Wow.
You turn up in some strange places, my friend.
I'm sorry.
Can I just point out something?
Not to steal Paul's research thunder.
Yeah, go ahead.
I know.
That's what you call thunder?
I know.
Well, grumbling.
Low rumble.
I know a certain famous person with a podcast
that has 393.2 thousand followers on Twitter.
Now, if we could harness the power of half of those by saying, How would we do that? 393.2 thousand followers you don't say on Twitter now
if we could harness
the power of half of those
by saying
how would we do that
I don't know
tweeting from that account
now you're just
rambling
so what you're saying
is if he promoted
the podcast
from the account
that had the most followers
yeah
instead of yelling
into the vacuum cleaner
to tell people
there's a show
that's radical Frank that's radical, Frank.
That's radical.
ML Kennedy, I was sad that I couldn't call in for the call-in episode so I could talk
about my weekly schedule of grocery shopping, but no way I was topping the 911 neurologist.
He will now be known as the 911 neurologist.
I bet you he's getting more patients than ever.
He was spooky. We've got to
get to the bottom of him. Stitcher
congratulated us on 250 episodes.
That was nice of him.
Nice of him. Nice of them.
Over at Stitcher. Let's see
what else. Hal Blaine died. As I said, Frank
is having a laugh because Hal Blaine was somebody
that we wanted on the show. My wife said,
you really got to start with the 90-year-olds and work
in reverse.
And maybe that's good advice.
Way too logical.
Way too long.
Patrick Connor,
I am stuck in a tunnel
listening to the 250th podcast.
I'm laughing my ass off.
A guy honks the horn and says,
what are you listening to?
I got you a new listener.
Wow.
By the way, Rip Taylor is still alive.
Oh.
Probably not by the time this airs.
Yes, yes.
With the way we've been.
We shouldn't ask for him because that'll kill him right now.
With the way we've been going.
David Fantel, our friend David Fantel.
Oh, yes.
Who told us that a dog once went down on Jacqueline Bissett.
If that's how you want to remember it, that's fine.
If that's how you want to remember it, that's fine. And, you know, so anybody who thinks you're somehow superior to dogs,
just remember a cocker spaniel went down on Jacqueline Bissett,
and you didn't.
How envious are you of that cocker spaniel?
Oh, my God.
I never even said hello to her.
Jacqueline Bissett's around.
Should we try to book her and have her confirm or deny?
Yes.
That story?
We should just have her in for like a minute.
To go, did a dog go down on you?
Please, by the way, please, if Jacqueline Bissett is on Twitter, fans, do not tweet at her.
Do not harass the woman.
This is from Three Oranges.
I just pulled up to a drive-thru, rolled down my window, and... No, I'm not going to
read that one.
I appreciate the tweet,
Three Oranges, but it's a little dicey.
Let's see.
Someone
is making a joke that we
look a little pale in a photograph
with Alan Alda. Yes!
Bill Pitts. We had a
professional photographer here that night who took really wonderful pictures. That's one of them. That's not one ofa. Yes. Yeah. I saw that one. Bill Pitts. We had a professional photographer here that night
who took really wonderful pictures.
That's one of them.
That's not one of them.
Sure.
No.
His lighting was better.
Well, he took it outside.
That was one of the ones
he took outside.
We have better ones.
Well, I feel like
they took the worst one.
That's on me
because that's the one
I sent them.
Oh, you sent to them?
Yeah.
Frank.
There was a rush
and they wanted to get it up yesterday.
Oh, I'm muting my button.
Uh-huh.
Bill Pitt says, hey, guys, get outside, get some sunshine.
You're blinding me.
He thinks we're a little undersunned.
Let's see, let's see, let's see.
One more.
Am I going to read that one?
Anderson Pooper.
That's his Twitter handle, Anderson Pooper. That's his Twitter handle.
Anderson Pooper.
I enjoyed your 250th episode, start to finish.
Speaking of the Danny Thomas show.
Yes.
I have not missed a single episode,
and it just reminded me why I cannot wait for Sunday nights.
How is this guy getting episodes on Sunday nights, Dara?
Do we know?
Is it Australia?
No, I think...
Is he down under?
I think the Stitcher stuff comes out
earlier. Really? I think the Thursday
show is out Wednesday night. Like three
in the morning? Yeah, I think they
put it up pretty early. Wow.
So that when you wake up, it's already
in your podcast device. Here's the
last one. Sean Rogers says,
Hey Frank, I listen to 250. I'm
from Sydney, so I wanted you to know
that your listeners here are Jennifer, a
wallaby, and me. And our friend
Maurice Bershtinsky, who is also down in
Australia. Thanks so much for doing what you guys
do. And once again, I am a
massive Richard Kind fan here
too. Richard Kind fan. That's
not easy to say. Yeah, we have to share
all this stuff with Richard. And by the way, I shared with
Dara today, I got an email from somebody who's a
writer on the show Empire.
Oh, that was good.
Who said they listen to
the podcast in the writer's
room.
Can you imagine that?
Why aren't they writing?
They never miss an episode.
Why aren't they writing?
It gives me an idea.
I'm going to hire some guys
to tie me down and throw
oranges at me to publicize
the show and help my career.
Yeah.
Good idea.
Isn't that the show where
that happened?
Good idea.
Yeah, Empire. Yeah. I think we can't that the show where that happened? Good idea.
Yeah, Empire.
Yeah.
I think we can do the same thing.
You did a Jussie Smollett
call.
The police will come
to my apartment
and they're going to
find a case of oranges
and some orange juice,
nothing.
But go on about this idea
about tweeting from the
account that has the
thing.
The logic is,
and hear me out here
because this isn't crazy.
If out of like the
nearly 400,000 people
that follow,
let's say, let's call him Schmilbert.
I don't want to reveal his identity.
All right.
If 100,000 of those people tuned in.
Frank, you've been drinking again.
Come get your oranges.
But I have to say, Dara has pointed out she does, in fact, tweet from that account.
Yes.
Many episodes are tweeted from that account.
So we're just having fun.
We owe you an apology, Dara.
Can I offer you some
chocolate-covered
oranges?
Those are mine.
And a blind man's
stick.
We'll eat them with
the stick.
We will do another
call-in episode soon.
We've got some ideas.
Gilbert can't be here
for it, but, you know,
Paul and I will do
what we can to carry
it.
So we're wrapping up
a little early tonight
which is unusual
so before we go
people have to go home
before we go
I'm going to go home
and watch a movie with Elizabeth
what should we watch?
oh
any kind of era
particular ballpark
maybe a classic of some sort
any
any genre
I'll leave that up to you guys
black and white
could be
want to watch a comedy
comedy would be good
a classic comedy want to recommend a classic comedy Comedy would be good. A classic comedy.
You want to recommend a classic comedy?
Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.
Good choice.
Sarah Spieler's Day Off.
How about BAPS?
Have you seen BAPS?
No.
A booty call?
Oh, deadly.
I will recommend,
you serious about this?
Yeah.
Old school, 40s?
Yeah.
Sullivan's Travels.
Really?
Yeah, you ever see it? No. No, you'll thank me. Yeah. Who school, 40s? Yeah. Sullivan's Travels. Really? Yeah, you ever see it?
No.
No, you'll thank me.
Yeah.
Who's in it?
No one you know.
Yeah.
Veronica Lake?
Nobody I know.
Joel McRae?
Joel McRae I know.
And in that movie
you'll find out
where
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
comes from.
Oh really?
Yes, you'll find out
a lot of things.
Sullivan's Travels.
Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturgis. That's just off the top of my head. I'm so glad I asked you'll find out a lot of things. Sullivan's Travels. Sullivan's Travels.
Oh, sounds great.
That's just off the top of my head.
I'm so glad I asked.
If you want a comedy.
Yeah.
You want a drama?
You've seen The Third Man?
Yeah, I love The Third Man.
Love The Third Man.
How about Touch of Evil?
Seen Orson Welles' Touch of Evil?
I don't think so, no.
Okay, so you'll watch Sullivan's Travels
and you'll watch Touch of Evil,
two completely different moods and animals.
Sounds good.
Okay.
Can I make a quick announcement?
Go.
In the time that we've been talking, Gilbert Gottfried's Twitter went up to 393.3K followers.
What are we going to do with those people?
Just a mere suggestion in the universe of more people.
It jumped.
If only we could harness that power.
It's live. It's live.
It's live.
Do you want to plug Cameo, by the way?
Oh, yes.
All right.
Go ahead.
Quick.
Yes.
I do this thing, Cameo.
It's at cameo.com.
I film myself and record myself.
You what yourself?
I send, I go fuck myself. And I blow myself.
But I can send
any message you want.
I love you. I hate you.
Congratulations.
Merry Christmas. Happy birthday.
Wasn't Anthony Weiner
an early adopter to this whole cameo?
He was. He taught
me everything I know.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
You just got to put yourself out there is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Say goodnight.
See, it wasn't the Belasco Theater.
It was the Morosco Theater.
And it was Lady, Lady, Be My Baby.
This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing,
amazing Colossal Obsessions.
Yeah, very good.
And right now, the mark has arrived
to take away Ray Ball.
The meat wagon is here.
I've got my stick.
We love you, Paul.
I love you back. Thank you.