Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #92: 2016 Wrap-Up/Listener Tweets
Episode Date: December 29, 2016Each week, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedy writer Frank Santopadre share their admiration for lesser-known films, underappreciated TV shows and criminally underrated performers, discussing, diss...ecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried treasures. This week: Paging Don Gordon! Pursuing Tim Conway! Praising Tony Orlando! Remembering Alan Thicke! And Gilbert sings "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, this is Gilbert.
Hi!
Hi!
It's Gilbert Gottfried
and this is Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions.
I'm talking, of course, about Frank Santopadre.
And this is our year-end mini-ep.
I'm exhausted already.
Yes.
You want to introduce who's in the room?
Okay.
There's...
This is a quiz.
Dara Gottfried, no relation.
And there's...
Welcome, Dara.
Frank Verderosa.
Frank's here.
Hello.
And our trusted researcher.
See if Gilbert can do it.
Paul Raper.
Nice! Yeah. And is that what he is? Trusted researcher. See if Gilbert can do it. Paul Raper. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
And is that what he is?
He's the researcher.
Among other things.
Oh, gee.
Okay.
Among other things.
Okay.
Great socks, Paul.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
You don't do much good on a podcast, though.
Now, we should thank two people.
We should thank.
You want to thank this artist,
Catherine. Okay. So it's Catherine Laval. She drew a picture of me and gave it to me at
one of the clubs after I performed of me and Lon Chaney Jr. I think in a scene from
House of Frankenstein. Sounds right. And then now she just sent me another picture of me like chewing on a weed like Burgess Meredith and next to Lon Chaney Jr. as Lenny.
It's great.
We'll put it up on social media.
She's gifted.
Oh, very.
She's talented.
Yes, very much so. And I
want to thank
Mikey Anastasio
who sent me
a picture of a
naked girl changing
a light bulb. That is magic.
Merry Christmas, Gil.
It's kind of like a Christmas
tree. God bless us, everyone.
That's the highlight of the year. Yes. Anastasio sounds like it's one of like a Christmas tree. God bless us, everyone. That's the highlight of the year.
Anastasio sounds like it's one of mine.
You may have to apologize to Italian-Americans.
Do I need to start changing light bulbs without my clothes on?
No, I already do that.
Tara just asked if she would like Gilbert to do that in the house.
That falls under the heading of incidental nudity.
Oh, yes.
What if she installed some molding?
Would that be okay?
I don't know whether it changes the light bulbs.
Yes.
Gilbert's not handy around the house, Tara?
I just bought those ones that are supposed to last 22 years.
So I didn't have to worry about it.
Will he last 22 years?
I won't last
until the end of this episode.
And who else
did we want to thank?
Frankie,
an old friend of yours sent us.
Yeah, well,
Neal Schuster,
who I guess owns and runs
Scott and Ivy's Chocolate Factory,
sent a giant box
of dipped Oreos that have the Nutmeg logo
and a couple of different versions, Gilbert's face,
a drawing from Drew Friedman, other photos, the podcast logo,
and they're amazing.
You guys ate them and saw them.
Yeah.
I was pretty blown away.
So thank you.
And what's the name of their company, Scott and Ivy's Chocolate?
Scott and Ivy's Chocolate Factory.
Thank you. How did she say her name? Neela Schuster. Thank you, Neela.
Old high school friend, and she's awesome. We were all very surprised to see that. Dara
was thrilled to see her family immortalized on an Oreo. And then eaten by Gilbert. And then
consumed by Gilbert immediately afterward. We want to thank Mario, too. Mario Cantone. Oh, yes.
Just for coming here and working his ass off.
And on the mini episode and the full episode.
Oh, that was a lot of fun.
We have been deluged with social media, with posts, and with tweets.
And people loved you guys doing Baby It's Cold Outside.
Oh, yes.
With the post-stroke Betty Davis.
He did the post-stroke Betty Davis.
I did Tony Curtis. People said you sounded like Bernie Sanders. outside oh yes the post-stroke betty davis he did the post-stroke betty davis i did tony curtis
people said you sounded like bernie sanders that's that's what i was gonna say yeah well yeah there were a couple of people who thought oh he's doing bernie sanders
could you could you distinguish for us maybe the difference, the finer points between Tony Curtis and... Okay.
Hi, I'm Tony Curtis.
Hi, I'm Bernie Sanders.
They're very different.
Yeah, sure.
All right.
So we're going to read some tweets here for the end of the year.
A lot of them are about Mario's episode,
all kinds of different things.
Oh, I also want to thank all these people
who've done Photoshop through the years.
Oh, yes.
Through the year, through 2016.
There's another one.
This is the second one of you
as Buddy Hackett on your deathbed.
Oh, yes.
Drinking the malted.
This is the second person who's done this.
Really fantastic.
Steve Hanna.
We have to thank all the people who do this this. Really fantastic. Steve Hanna, we have to thank.
All the people who do this art that just continues to amaze me that people do this stuff and have the time to send us art and bring us things and shows.
Who is it who put up a clip of Paul Lynn singing, but they dubbed in my voice.
Yeah, we have to...
Kids!
Yeah, that was great.
Oh, the Bye Bye Birdies song.
Oh, yes.
Whoever that is,
whichever listener that was,
please let us know.
Identify yourself.
That was great.
I'm constantly impressed
by the great lengths the fans go to
putting these things together.
Yeah, it's nice.
Very nice.
It means a lot, I's nice. Very nice.
It means a lot, I think. It really does.
And I went to see Mario last night at the cutting room,
and he honored us by doing Betty Davis, post-stroke Betty Davis,
with his husband Jerry doing Baby It's Cold Outside.
So here are a couple of tweets of various things.
Mario, Shane Simon says, I am not worthy
of this episode. Mario and
Gil need to do a singing tour.
So you had said
the Jew and the...
The Jew and the fag.
What do you think?
Ken McKenna wants to know
how many times has Gilbert paid homage
to a strawberry milkshake as Buddy Hackett on the show?
Do we have a number?
Someone out there's got to count them up.
I haven't been keeping score.
I'm sure.
It's more than two.
Let's see.
Big Daddy wants us to know that PIX11 is exclusively airing the long-lost original Yule Log from 1966.
Oh, my God.
This year, which will be fun.
50-year-old log.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Has anyone seen the replacement for the Yule Log that someone put up?
No, what is it?
It's the scene of Darth Vader burning from, like, one of the episodes.
And they just looped it, and that's this year's Yule Log.
Codename Gary7 writes,
Will Jordan, so professional, a great historian and teacher.
He may have missed his calling.
If so, I'm glad he did.
Will Jordan episode, very popular.
Oh, yeah.
Episode.
Yeah, he was a lot of fun, Will.
Buddy Spencer wants to know if Gilbert remembers the movie Dementia 13, which I think Francis Coppola made.
Oh, yeah.
And I don't remember it that way.
Slasher movie with William Campbell.
And do you know these actors?
Are you afraid of death by drowning?
Have you ever attempted suicide?
Have you thought about committing murder?
These are some of the questions you will be asked
in the unprecedented, not unprecedented, D13 test.
You don't know this film?
No.
I remember it coming out.
I remember that Coppola was the creator, but I don't even know if I've ever seen it.
Gareth McKibben writes, hey, you guys say oranges, I say tangerines.
What could that be?
I don't know. We should say he just asked, Gilbert just asked
Burt Ward about the Cesar Romero story, and I wish you could have seen his face, folks.
Yeah, Burt Ward looked like, I thought, oh, this could be the end of this interview.
He's going to run out of the room.ip armstrong i feel like i'm preaching to the choir
but how about john saxon oh my god yes yes yeah heard you heard you mentioned time tunnel and
he was in that plus lots more uh lots of people talking about the betty davis and tony curtis
did you and gilbert ken mckenna wants to know did you you guys ever see Batman vs. Gilligan's Island on Family Feud?
No. With Vincent
Price. Did you guys know that existed? No.
It's up there. Now,
is Don Gordon still alive?
I think he might be.
Don Gordon, who everybody mistook
for John Saxon. Yeah, I could
never tell the two
of them apart. We'll look for
Don Gordon. I'm sure he just died if we mentioned it.
There's a lot of that going around.
Dodd-Gordon, let me see.
Look him up.
Paul's going to look him up.
Philip Armstrong also says, good afternoon.
We were just watching The Searchers, and after a quick Google,
Vera Miles is a good fit for the podcast.
Also from Psycho.
Oh, okay.
Still around.
Wow.
What do you think?
Kevin Cunningham says,
we watch a lot of Christmas movies
with the kids.
Lemon Drop Kid and Holiday Inn
is my favorite racist double feature.
Dara, do you guys watch
Christmas movies in the house?
We watch racist films.
We're quite fond of racist films.
When it's holiday time.
I would like to know how the Gottfrieds celebrate the holidays.
Well, first we watch Birth of a Nation.
And then you watch Election Day 2016.
Oh, my God.
And then we get some films sent over by the Klan.
God almighty.
How are we doing on Don Gordon?
I got it.
So listeners may have figured out by now that Frank has a unique ability, rather spooky ability, to tell who is alive and who is not.
So here we go.
Don Gordon.
John Saxon's alive.
I know that for a fact.
Well, we're not talking about John Saxon.
I think Don Gordon's with us.
November 13th, he turned 90 years old.
There we go.
Don Gordon is 90?
90.
He just turned 90, but there's no rush.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's take our time.
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We talked about Barry Gordon as the actor who was the singer in Nothing for Christmas when he was a boy.
And he was in that Bobby Darin film.
Pressure Point.
Yeah, where he plays a young Bobby Darin.
And, oh, he's been in a bunch of things.
Well, Nick O'Time tweets to say,
I know Barry Gordon as an 80s Ninja Turtle.
The man is so Jewish,
he played a rabbi on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
You do a Ninja Turtle voice, don't you?
Oh, yeah.
I'm the voice of Krang the Subprime.
Which we've recorded here a number of times. Yes.
Have you done it here?
Yes.
With Andrea Romano directing,
who I read a thing recently, she's
retiring. I worked with Andrea Romano
in LA. She's amazing. She's the best.
After working with me. She said
this is it, I'm done. I can't do this
anymore. No, she, you know,
whenever you hear her voice down the line, you know it's going to
be great. I worked
with her on some Sylvester and Tweety cartoons
that I wrote in LA, so it's a small
world, isn't it?
Norm Mailer writes,
I'm going back
through the podcast I've missed.
Lee Grant is my new
favorite guest.
Smart and funny.
Oh, terrific.
Wasn't that a highlight, Dara?
Amazing.
And wasn't it great
when we got off,
she has one of those elevators
that opens into her apartment
and we cut off the elevator
and she was waiting for us.
She was so happy
to have us there
and she was so gracious.
Oh, God. A lovely, lovely woman.
She wore jeans.
Yeah, and she loved Gilbert.
She just wanted to adopt him.
Yeah.
I'm not sure what that was about.
Yeah, she was like grasping my arm as we were walking out to her.
Motion Worker writes,
Hey, guys, can we make sure Gilbert
visits a pizza store today?
That's
because I always say pizza store
instead of pizzeria.
Rest in peace, Buddy Spencer. Rest in
peace, Bernard Fox. Dr. Bombay
died from Bewitched.
And Dara mentioned that.
Maybe other than Tabitha, the little girl who played Taritha,
whose name was Erin Murphy,
Bernard Fox would have been the last surviving cast member from Bewitched.
They're all gone.
Elizabeth Montgomery, both Darrens, Alice Ghostly's dead, Paul Lynn's dead.
Talk about the curse of Bewitched.
Yeah.
What about the curse of this show?
Yeah.
I'm kind of afraid
being in here right now.
I mean,
Dick York,
he had some kind of
like back disorder
or something
and he had to quit the show
because he was
in too much pain
and then he lost everything.
He had no money. He said at one point his kids
went out and got bottles and cans out of the garbage that's sad to turn in for money and he
had something where he lost all his teeth and he was like uh he took a job cleaning people's houses.
It was... Oh, and speaking of people passing, we really should talk for a minute about Alan.
Oh, yeah, Alan Thicke.
About our friend Alan Thicke, and you and Dara worked with him on Wife Swap.
And, Dara, you posted something very touching about him.
What did you call him, your fake husband?
My fake husband.
Yeah.
He was.
Yeah.
See, but he actually had sex with her that's the difference
although tanya held out on you right yeah that and and i was a shock alan thick is one of those
people i busted his ass so many times over the years which is unlike me none like you totally
unlike you but he was one of those people who
could take it and laughed along with it and had a great sense of humor. He did. About what his
image was in the business. He did. Ambivalence, in fact, tweets, we are all expecting some kind
of Alan Thicke impressions by Gilbert on the next Colossal Obsession, so don't let us down he would be honored yes Gilbert was right right on with
Dick York by the way.
He died of emphysema.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Way to bring the room down, Paul.
Yeah, yeah.
We were having too much fun at 63.
This is a holiday show.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
No, Dick York.
And Dick York, wasn't he in a very famous Twilight Zone episode?
Oh, yes.
Which one was that?
Can you look that up?
While Paul looks that up, Bob Ducart says, so Betty Garrett was a hardcore communist.
We talked about that.
Irene Lorenzo from All in the Family.
Yeah, that emerged in the Will Jordan episode.
Do you remember?
So I just have the name of the episode so far, The Purple Testament.
A penny for your thoughts.
Yep, that's the one.
I don't remember, what was that one?
Tell us the plot.
I don't have the plot.
I think in that episode he's married to a witch.
Nicely done.
And he goes, Samantha.
The story of a man who can forecast death.
Yeah, yes, that's the one in the army
Yes
That's it
Yeah, World War II
He sees a glow
Lieutenant Serbian, World War II
He sees a glow around people
Another great Christmas episode
Big Daddy again with Mario Cantone
But can real Gilbert
Can Gilbert please cover more Rankin-Bass songs?
You have any in you?
Well, I don't want to kill my voice.
Joe Dutra writes, I can't breathe from laughing.
Baby, it's cold outside.
My God, I almost pissed.
You are geniuses.
Tears in my eyes.
People love that.
People went bananas for that.
I heard it and I kind of thought, this is going to work. And boy, you guys People love that. People went bananas for that. I heard it and I kind of
thought, this is going to work.
Boy, you guys ran with that.
The other one was good, too. The Santa Claus was coming
to town. You had to be
Peter Lorre
and Paul Lynn. People
are tweeting Tim Conway on his birthday
saying, please do the show.
With Gilbert and Frank. Tim Conway, I think,
turned 83. How are we doing on Tim Conway, I think, turned 83.
How are we doing on Tim Conway, Dara?
What happened there?
I've got to try again.
I'm going to try again for after the New Year.
Okay.
Was he a Roger person?
He was, and he said he would do it, and then I don't know what happened. I think they were moving.
I think he and his wife were moving.
Empty City Squares, that's our friend John Fodiatis, who says the Mario Cantone episode is right up there with the last 15 minutes of the Steve Cox episode.
I think Gilbert knows what they're talking about.
John also says, I'm not sure what I love more, Mario Cantone's Liza on Ambien or Gilbert's Squatty Potty commercial.
That's become, I get a lot of tweets about the Squatty Potty.
I actually just saw one in person.
The creative director here at Nutmeg, a guy named Dave Rogan, got one from his secret Santa.
Oh my gosh.
Are you serious?
It's a Squatty Potty.
We use them in our house.
We have them in both our bathrooms.
I used the wrong one.
I pooped on it.
I didn't know how it worked.
I'm glad you're using the products.
I can't say I own a Squatty Potty.
Shane Simon, I re-downloaded the One Hit Wonders episode and Gilbert singing Judy in the Sky with glasses.
Oh, Judy in disguise with glasses is a life highlight.
Yeah. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And a brand new car. Come to me tonight. Come to me tonight.
Judy in disguise with glasses.
Nice.
Nicely done.
No rehearsal?
You just went right in and did that?
Yeah, it's amazing.
We get more Cesar Romero tweets than anybody.
I don't know why.
It's just people.
Someone, S. Cassidy, tweeted us a photo of Cesar in the Joker surfs up episode with a Joker holding a green.
A green.
Said he's ready to throw avocados.
Oh, my God.
Let's see.
Mel Cicilla.
I hope I'm getting that name right.
I played the Mario Cantone episode twice while driving across New Mexico
just to laugh again.
These people are obsessed.
Frankie, you'll cut out the dead spots here, right?
What?
What?
Then we won't have a show at all.
Two minutes.
Post-stroke Betty Davis, hilarious.
Beautifully composed.
Someone, Screen Themes, is tweeting about the TCM. Did you see
the TCM video, the tribute to all the people who passed this year? It was rather touching.
She writes a beautifully compiled tribute, so many sad losses this year. I'm going to use that
to plug our upcoming In Memoriam episode, which will do uh very very soon uh by demand see i
think sometimes the oscars really fuck it up and they'll have to do it well what they don't always
do it well do they yeah they'll do leave people out they still and also they get too artsy where
the camera will pull back and show the entire stage in the audience.
And you go, no, we want to see the person on screen.
Put that person on the screen.
Yeah.
Well, I recommend everybody take a look for the ones TCM does.
Turner Classic Movies are perfect.
They're pitch perfect.
It's always the right piece of music.
They include everybody.
They take their time with it. I thought oscars this past one did it right yeah because
they just had each person on screen they didn't pull back and get artsy or anything like that
craig peters writes holy shit i'm going back through the catalog. Tony Orlando episode is fucking epic.
My favorite.
That was your favorite episode, Tony Orlando.
I loved Tony Orlando.
Wasn't he sweet?
Didn't he just fill this room?
I got a call from him recently.
What did he want?
What did he?
He left me a message.
I saved it on my voicemail.
Really?
Yeah.
He said just how much he loves us and how much he loved the show and how much he'd love to come
back i think we got to have him back it was time and he's just genuinely just such such such a nice
guy he apparently got over the bad moment when gilbert sang two or three verses of tie a yellow
ribbon and he finally said would you let me sing so let me sing he called my parents so that gave
me serious credit that That was another thrill.
He got on the phone with your parents and Gilbert's sister.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
What a sweet man.
What is your favorite episode, Frank, of the year, of 2016?
There are too many, but—
You love that Dr. Katz thing.
Dr. Katz makes me let that whole losing it moment.
Because there's just something about his rhythm and his his setups that just i
die but i've always been a fan yeah that was a great one and then certainly you know bob einstein
ripping everyone apart was pretty great oh wasn't that just magical yeah we got to have both those
guys back together bob einstein and dr katz
oh and paul you liked the Dominic episode.
He's sitting right in that chair serenading us.
Such another nice guy.
Who says actors and comedians aren't nice?
So many of the people we met.
People who meet Gilbert.
Yeah, exactly.
But Dominic Chiesi made me cry in much the same way that Gilbert often makes me cry.
Well, I got to tell you.
When either one of us sings.
A friend of ours who plays in Dominic Chiesi's band when the band is performing said they're talking about getting everyone together again for shows.
So we'll have to all go see him play.
Yeah.
He's the sweetest man.
Spalding writes, just finished up all your episodes of Real Gilbert.
Somebody went through every episode.
134 we're up to?
Some crazy number?
It's hard to pick a favorite, but I sure hope Pat Cooper is on again.
Oh, Pat Cooper was great.
If his heart can stand it, we'll bring Pat back to rant some more.
Maybe a quick mention to Peter Gatt posted a little picture,
a poster of Zsa Zsa Gabor from Queen of Outer Space.
We lost Zsa Zsa.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, 99.
How many of her eight husbands survived her?
Was she married eight times?
I think so.
I think she was married to a Hilton.
Yep, Conrad Hilton.
Was she married to Conrad Hilton?
Yep.
Tim Maples writes, Mario Cantone is the best gift you could give your fans.
Merry Christmas to all involved.
That was, I tell you, he brought it.
He always does.
I can't watch Rudolph anymore, though.
It's going to change me.
Well, yeah.
This big daddy's writing here, I will never look at Comet the same way again.
He is the evil gym teacher.
A highlight was you guys singing the Island of Misfit Toys.
Oh, yes.
And you surprised me.
You know the lyrics.
They just come out of you.
Big Daddy also says, he's producer of the month, so we're giving him a lot of airtime here.
Matthau as the boss elf and Brando as Hermie.
I snorted my morning coffee.
That was fun.
You guys together.
Lots of laughs this week.
Uh, people are sending their own novelty songs.
Again, Madam, I'm Adam.
Uh, also known as Peeps Gelato.
Any chance Tim Conway is on your guest list?
I gotta get to that right away.
We gotta get to Tim Conway.
Um, we're, we're chasing him.
Hey, listen, we got some people that we wear them out.
We wear them down.
Burt Ward took some doing, and we got him.
Let's see.
I have a question, Buddy Spencer.
Do any of you remember a comedy team named Rogers and Rogers?
No, I saw that.
They were on the Mike Douglas show.
We've got to put that out. Rogers and Rogers, unless you want to look that up, Paul. Oh, you saw that one. They were on the Mike Douglas show. We got to put that out.
Rodgers and Rodgers.
Unless you want to look that up, Paul.
Oh, you know who we have to get?
I hope Timmy Rodgers.
Oh, yeah.
How do they spell Rodgers?
Oh, yeah.
Rodgers just playing without the D.
Oh, you know who we have to get who's still alive?
Who's that?
Tony Sandler.
Oh, Sandler and Young.
Oh, that has to happen.
Yeah.
That has to happen. Oh, whenler and Young. Oh, that has to happen. Yeah. That has to happen.
Oh, when those saints come marching in
and so do they, Lord.
All right, one or two last tweets
and we will...
So, Tony Sandler
and Papillon Susu,
please, get in touch with us.
What was Young's first name? The other partner. Was it Ralph Young? Tony Sandler and Papillon Susu. Please, get in touch with us. What was Young's first name, the other partner?
Was it Ralph Young?
I think, yeah.
Tony Sandler and Ralph Young.
Yes.
Our friend Quinn Sutherland.
Mario Cantone Shelley Winters' impression is genius.
That was fun.
Let's see.
And we'll go out on this one.
Reporter X. This is an odd one. And we'll go out on this one. Reporter X.
This is an odd one.
And maybe we can have Paul research this.
Do you or Gil remember a million-dollar movie that had nearly full frontal stripping, a stripper, stripping out of a bear or gorilla suit?
That doesn't fall into your category.
Although I could get into it.
I am starting to get an erection.
That's casual animal nudity.
Yes, yes.
Do you want to plug anything?
This is going to air when?
I'd like to plug Scarlett Johansson.
We've established that in previous episodes.
Any upcoming dates?
Yeah, Zany's in Nashville.
Okay.
Anybody else?
I'm also in that documentary, Life Animated.
Yeah, what's the latest with that?
I have no idea.
It could be nominated for an Academy Award.
It could be.
January 24th, we find out.
They announced the nominations on January 24th.
It took 15 documentaries out of like 150 or something, and it made that list.
And now they narrow it down to five.
Wow.
Fingers crossed for Ron Suskind.
Yep.
And Owen.
They are lovely people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, so we'll go out on this.
You say I get Rogers and Rogers?
Hit me, brother.
It's a law firm in the East Bronx.
Okay, great.
Mike Douglas was hard up for guests.
You didn't find the comedy group of Rogers and Rogers?
I couldn't find the comedy group.
This guy had a dream.
This guy dreamt it.
And since I'm used to promoting this, I also have a podcast called Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast.
I love that sidekick.
Yeah.
Well, then this conversation's over.
He doesn't get enough credit.
Anything else, Tara?
It's been a wonderful year.
It's been a wonderful year.
A lot of fun.
A lot of laughs.
And we are on the move.
More on that later.
Frankie, any last thoughts?
Happy New Year, everybody.
You've been indispensable this year.
And Paul, would you like to say, there's no need to fear, underdog is here.
I would like to say something, but as usual, I'm not prepared for the show.
What is the name of the book again, Paul?
The Game Theory Parenting.
Fantastic.
Isn't it the Game Theory Guide to Parenting?
Jesus, I know the title of this book better than he does.
I said I wasn't prepared.
I lied.
I'm going to take us out on one last tweet.
Gilbert, you'll love this one.
This is from Anthony Carreri, and he says,
Boy, nothing says Christmas like James Mason getting anal.
Thank you, Anthony.
See, I like to do subtle comedy.
I know that.
You want to take us out as James Mason and wish everybody a happy new year or any impression of your choice?
Yes, hello, it's James Mason.
And we'd like to thank you for listening to Gilbert and Frank's amazing colossal obsessions.
And now I'd like to do me getting anal.
Oh, yes.
Maybe put some Vaseline on it first.
This is a holiday episode.
Okay, I'll bend over the desk
like you insist.
We want to thank everybody
for their tweets, and we will
make good on our promise to do a Facebook
viewer mail episode.
Everybody says, why Twitter? Why only
Twitter? Because it's easier to do once we're in the booth.
So, thanks to
everybody for the year. It's been great.
Dara, any last words? I'm going to go change
some light bulbs.
Now I'm aroused.
Paul, thank you. Frank,
fantastic year.
We'll see you guys in 2017. I want to know about Papillon Sousou
Or Long Chaney Junior
It's something we're used to
Colossal obsessions
These things that we've studied
Like why Groucho helped Chico
Cause he needed the money
If you have a comment
On Cesar Romero
And those oranges thrown by
Those young caballeros
You can ask what you want
Anything on our bits
But please keep it short
Just like how they finish it
Listen up, man
Listen up, man
Yeah, we'll answer your questions
And that is a promise
Even the ones
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