Author/journalist Mark Dawidziak who has written several books on television (he was the longtime TV critic/columnist for the Beacon Journal and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mark has written iconic books such as the ColumboPhiles, Twilight Zone, Kolchak:The Night Stalker, Shawshank Redemption, along with books on Mark Twain and others. He tells great stories about how he befriended Peter Falk and became his creative consumer on Columbo. It is a fascinating podcast

Our guest is author Bill Cassara who has four books on great performers such as Ted Healy who helped create the Three Stooges, Great comic Edgar Kennedy who starred with the Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, was an original Keystone Cop & more, Vernon Dent who was in countless Three Stooges as their foil and villain actor Henry Brandon. If you love comedy, you’ll enjoy this fun episode with a respected film historian and author

A great podcast with a true renaissance man-writer/producer/novelist/director Phoef Sutton. In our hour talk, Phoef talks about working with Bob Newhart, his eight years as an Emmy award winning writer/Executive Producer of Cheers- and about Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, George Wendy and more. Phoef remembers working on News Radio, writing the hit feature film, “The Fan” starring Robert DeNiro amd Wesley Snopes, writing the film- “Mrs. Winterbourne”, writing best selling books with Jabet Evanovich, his current series Darrow & Darrow with Kimberly Williams- Paisley, his great podcast Film Freaks Forever and much more. It’s a fun, fast moving hour!

Our guest is author Ron DeFore who wrote Growing up in Disneyland about his magical childhood as the son of tv and film star Don DeFore. DeFore was in 35 movies, was co-star of the Ozzie & Harriet Show as Thorny, Mr Baxter of Hazel with Shirley Booth, and friend of Walt Disney and owned the Don DeFore Silver Banjo Restaurant in Disneyland. Ron also worked for Steve Allen and grew up as Hollywood royalty. A great, fun podcast about a nostalgic time.

Our guest, Dick DeBartolo, has made his mark as a satirist, a writer, a game show writer and producer, and as a giz wiz on programs that include Regis Philbin to ABC World News Now. Dick saved Match Game from cancellation, was the “Maddest of Mad” writers for over 50 years, is the “Giz Wiz” on ABC News (currently), was a guest programmer with Robert Osborne on TCM, was the longtme creative consultant for Goodson & Todman for 18 years on shows such as Match Game, To Tell the Truth, What’s My :Line, Tattletales. ad many others. This is a special hour with the multi=talented wit, Dick DeBartolo

Learn how Alan Alda was upset with Mad’d parody of M*A*S*H and George Lucas loved his of Star Wars, how Dick saved the Match Game at its start, practical jokes at MAD magazine and much more on the podcast

Today's guest is journalist Geoff Dale who is based in Ontario, Canada. Geoff has been researching a book on Shemp Howard for three years. It will be published, possibly later this year by Bear Manor Media. Geoff talks everything Shemp and let's the listeners learn some great new information he discovered in his research. Geoff, as a veteran journalist for several newspapers, has done extensive research and has interviewed countless current comedians such as magician Penn Jillette about the influence of Shemp on current comedians. This is a fun podcast if you love the Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello, W. C. Fields or just great comedy. It's a fast paced hour of talk with the pre-eminent expert on SHEMP.

Funny! Famed comic/actor Bobby Slayton, known as the “Pitbull of Comedy” or “Yid Viscious” talks about doing 3 Woody Allen films (including Wonder Wheel and Amazon’s Crisis in Six Scenes (with Woody Allen, Elaine May and Miley Cyrus), his dinner with Woody Allen, starring in an episode of this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David, Richard Lewis and Jeff Garlin as Carl who has a wife (Jane Krakowski) with a magical vagina; starting off in San Francisco with comics Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Kevin Pollak, Paula Poundstone and others.

This is a hysterical hour with one of the hardest working and one of a kind comic who has worked for over 40 years on stage, films and television. Do not miss this hour!

BOBBY SLAYTON, A COMIC’S COMIC

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The NY Daily News called Slayton “Armed and Dangerous”, and the Las Vegas Review Journal pointed out that “Slayton’s refusal to compromise his art has always made him worth a special trip.”

Bobby Slayton, often referred to as “The Pitbull of Comedy,” has been performing his own intense style of comedy for well over 30 years, becoming one of the best known, respected, and energetic comics working today.

Audiences around the country may recognize Bobby from his scene-stealing roles in the movies “Get Shorty”, “Ed Wood”, “Bandits”, “Dreamgirls” and “Bandits”. He’s been seen on dozens of television shows, including “The Tonight Show”, “Politically Incorrect”, “Home Improvement”, and in Woody Allen’s Amazon TV Project “Crisis in Six Scenes”. Bobby’s many appearances on HBO have included “Comic Relief” and his own Showtime special, “Born to be Bobby”. He was a series regular on the HBO series “Mind of a Married Man”, and played Joey Bishop opposite Ray Liotta and Joe Mantegna in the critically acclaimed film “The Rat Pack”. Slayton’s distinctive gravelly voice has often been heard on animated shows, including “Dr. Katz’” and “Family Guy”, as well as many popular radio shows across the country including Howard Stern and regular appearances on SiriusXM.

Bobby recently completed filming Woody Allen’s latest film, and a guest appearance on the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, both scheduled for 2020 release.

PODCAST: Noted TV Director Howard Murray (Big Bang Theory, King of Queens, Grace Under Fire, many more) talks his career, his father famed comic Jan Murray and growing up with Sinatra, Berle, Rickles, Buddy Hackett, Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar and more. An amazing hour

Author Steve Randisi talks about his new book, The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story. From 1962 to 1986, The Merv Griffin Showflourished as one of television’s most popular variety/talk shows, offering thousands of celebrated personalities from all walks of life. The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story takes you behind the scenes of this iconic program through exclusive interviews with the producers, writers, talent coordinators, and publicists who helped sustain Steve talks about Merv, Blondie and Dagwood and much more.

Our guests, publicist and pop historian Jeff Abraham and documentary producer & journalist Burt Kearns are like most of us who love to hear the grisly details. Many of us who love entertainment have a morbid curiosity of the stories about entertainers who died doing what they love. Jeff and Burt have dug up and drilled down on the deaths of performers such as Dick Shawn, Karl Wallenda, Tiny Tim, Harry Einstein and many more who died performing. This is a book that offers all the juicy backstories and aftermath of these events. They created a fascinating book that satisfies your every question and prurient interest. Much like Hollywood Babylon, it is a must have book for those who love the backstories of show business.

Jeff Abraham & Burt Kearns are the co-authors of the recently book titled “The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage” (Chicago Review Press). https://theshowwontgoon.com

Authors Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns Reveal the Details of Show Biz Deaths on Stage including Comic Dick Shawn (It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) to Tiny Tim, comic Harry “Parkyakarkus” Einstein(father of Albert Brooks and Bob “Super Dave Osborne” Einstein who died in front of Lucy, Desi, Uncle Miltie & more