Ian Talks Comedy

Arnold Margolin


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Arnold Margolin joined me to discuss his upbringing; favorite radio shows; first time watching TV; working as an office boy on Broadway; being an understudy in a William Saroyan play and going on; Garson Kanin offering him a role in the original Diary of Anne Frank; moving to LA; Garry Marshall offers him a job and a partner; My Mother the Car; Hey Landlord; Andy Griffith Show; He & She; writing Disney movies; Love, American Style; Star Spangled Girl; writing an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show which was a backdoor pilot for Bill Dailey; a pilot with Don Knotts & Eve Arden; trying to salvage the McLean Stevenson Show; pilot- The Dooley Brothers with Shelley Long; problems with Eileen Brennan on Private Benjamin; Growing Pains; One Big Family; That Girl; drug problems on Webster; working with a young Sally Field and Michael Constantine; how Joey Bishops not liking a friends script lead to him writing roast jokes that Garry Marshall saw; writing the Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley; Between Love & Honor about Crazy Joe Gallo.

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