The Weekly Show with David J. Maloney

This week David chats with impressionist and actor Jim Meskimen about his actress mother Marion Ross from "Happy Days", Ron Howard, Apollo 13, impressions and comedy, "Hunters" and "Gaslit", his wonderful Apple+ TV show "The Big Door Prize", working with Chris O'Dowd, and so much more! Don't miss it!

This week David chats with Oscar nominated actor Eric Roberts about his incredible career in the film and TV industry. The pair chat about his early life, his breakout role in King of the Gypsies, Sterling Hayden, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Mickey Rourke, Star 80 and Bob Fosse, Runaway Train with Andrei Konchalovsky and Jon Voight, Danny Trejo, his role of Sal Maroni in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's Joker, siblings Lisa and Julia Roberts, daughter Emma Roberts, Quintin Tarantino, and so much more!

This week David chats with acclaimed acting coach and director, Michelle Danner, about her career in Hollywood and her fantastic new feature film "Miranda's Victim", starring Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Donald Sutherland, Andy Garcia, and countless other heavyweights. You don't want to miss it!

This week David chats with director Brent McCorkle about his highly anticipated feature film, "Jesus Revolution". The pair also chat cinema, storytelling, Lonnie Frisbee, Kelsey Grammar, Jonathan Roumie, The Chosen, and countless other things besides. Don't miss it!

This week David chats with renowned animator and director Gary Trousdale about directing Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", "Hunchback of Notre Dame", and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", his collaboration with his co-director Kirk Wise, the skills of Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Howard Ashman, James Newton Howard, his work on "The Lion King", "Aladdin", and countless insights into the production of his films, including stories about Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner.

This week David chats with one of the most recognizable child stars of all time, Alison Arngrim. She spent 7 seasons as the infamous villain Nellie Oleson on one of the biggest television hits ever, "Little House on the Prairie," and went on to have an incredible stand-up career and to write a NYT bestselling autobiography, "Confessions of a Prairie B*tch" detailing her time on the show and the blessing and curse of growing up while playing such a villainous role. We talk about all of it, so don't miss it!

Tune in to find out the incredible piece of movie history that lay hidden under the set for Little House on the Prairie!

This week David chats with the actor who made us all believe, all those years ago, that we could fly, that aliens could be friendly, and that kindness and goodness will win out. His portrayal of Elliot in Steven Spielberg's iconic movie "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" launched him into international stardom with its raw power and emotion, and he has recently exploded back into the public consciousness with star turns in "The Haunting of Hill House", "The Haunting of Bly Manor", "Midnight Mass", "Doctor Sleep", and "Fall of the House of Usher" with frequent collaborator Mike Flanagan. We talk about it all. Don't miss it!

This week David chats with David Paich of Toto, the Grammy winning singer, songwriter, composer, and keyboardist responsible for some of the most iconic songs in one of the most iconic bands of his era. David talks about his father's influence, not following him into jazz, Boz Scaggs "Silk Degrees", putting Toto together, Toto I, "Childs Anthem", Toto IV, the story of "Rosanna", Thom Bell and the Philadelphia sound, combining keyboards and guitars, the "secret sauce" of "Africa", how he wound up singing the verses, the meaning of the lyrics and where they came from, his studio work with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, Toto's work on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album, why he waited so long to release a solo record, "Forgotten Toys", putting together the band for the record, Don Felder, Michael McDonald, Nathan East, Steve Lukather, the origin of many of the songs, and so much more!

This week David sits down with record 4 time Emmy winning actress Michael Learned to discuss her incredible career, time on "The Waltons", and her recent run on Netflix's blockbuster hit, "MONSTER: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story".

This week David chats with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett about his stellar career, the origins of music in his family, what music was available growing up in England, the ad he placed in "Melody Maker" that led him to Peter Gabriel, his progressive outlook on music and performance, his feeling after "Nursery Cryme", John Lennon calling Genesis "true sons of the Beatles", his influence on guitar style and Eddie Van Halen, the Mellotron, "Foxtrot", "The Firth of Fifth", "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "Super's Ready", "I Know What I Like", "Cell 151" from Highly Strung, Steve Howe and GTR, "When the Heart Rules the Mind", Clive Davis, and a thousand stops along the way. Don't miss it!