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Randall Kleiser (Grease, Blue Lagoon, Flight of the Navigator)
Season 1 Episode 178
Director Randall Kleiser joined me to discuss his drawing style; his latest work Drawing Directors; Quentin Tarantino; Robert Altman; getting inspiration from other directors; Spike Lee; Oppenheimer;…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Barry Blaustein
Season 1 Episode 177
Barry Blaustein joined me to discuss watching political events of the early 1960's on a b/w TV; his comedy influences; going to school for broadcast journalism; "Broadcast News"; going to LA and gett…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer Aspinall (Street Trash, SNL 1987-93, Mad TV 1995 - 2019)
Season 1 Episode 176
Jennifer Aspinall joins me to discuss Universal horror movies; being shy, so stage makeup helped her; hired at a theater at 11; loving illusion; being on film sets at 18; being in front of the camera…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Deborah Paulmann (makeup artist SNL 84-89, 2000-05; Conan 2000 - 2019)
Season 1 Episode 175
Deborah Paulmann joined me to discuss starting work in the makeup industry; not liking working in a salon; trying to get in the union; Bert Ruff; how the rules are different now; make-up is a dying a…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Steve O'Donnell
Season 1 Episode 174
Steve O'Donnell joined me to discuss Mike Chisholm; stand up; Sarah Silverman; Norm MacDonald loving to tell comic road stories; Massapequa; Jerry Seinfeld; Carson Daly; Larry Jacobson & Groucho; Edw…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Mark Reisman (writer / producer Frasier, Sydney to the Max, Summer Rental)
Season 1 Episode 173
Mark Resiman joined me to discuss the brilliance of the Dick Van Dyke Show and working with Carl Reiner on "Summer Rental"; meeting Woody Allen as a teenager; Robert Klein and Rodney Dangerfield; see…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
William S. Bickley ( show runner, first 2 seasons Happy Days; creator - Family Matters)
Season 1 Episode 172
William S. Bickley joined me to discuss faking watching television; watching Liberace with his grandparents; finally getting television and watching anything; family sitcoms were an escape from an ab…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Arthur Meyer Returns
Season 1 Episode 171
Arthur Meyers joins me to discuss Ted Cruz's odd Eddie Murphy obsession; the reasons for the WGA Strike; AI; trying to create through AI a short story about if Hitler's name was Steve; AI can't deliv…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Kevin C. Haney (Oscar winning Makeup Artist -Driving Miss Daisy, SNL 1979 - 1985)
Season 1 Episode 170
Oscar winning makeup artist Kevin Haney joined me to discuss growing up in Cinncinnati; watching monster movies but not being a fan of gore; working with Rick Baker and seeing Tom Savini while at Let…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Barbara Lieberman (film producer Saturday Night Live 1981 - 1985)
Season 1 Episode 169
Barbara and I talk about her getting the job as film producer at Saturday Night Live; opening the 1981-82 season with Prose and Cons; The Khaddaffi Look; filming some of The Last Days of Silverman's …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago