3321 – Going down in history with Kliph Nesteroff
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In studio notes by Garon Cockrell
Editing and additional notes by Darryl Asher
@ClassicShowbiz
00 Strong start!
Welcome!
It’s rainy in los angeles!
Jimmy was gonna share his lock song but he can’t remember it now because another song is stuck in his head.
After some hunting he remembers it! Lock lock lock, lock lock lock, lock that door now!
Flooding on the 405!
Eliot talks about his voice. He yelled a lot!
Here’s the thing!
5 – Lots of trouble with Eliot and FedEx.
People aren’t paying attention on the road it seems.
Chekov is not Eliot’s favorite and he told them so!
10 – Eliot’s Sondheim improv show went very well!
Jimmy talks about doing a comedy show to one person. The headliner, if Jimmy remembers right, sat down and maybe had dinner with the guy.
Eliot talks about doing a show to 4 people that kept shrinking because a fight was going on outside and the audience kept leaving to see it.
Jimmy shares a story about auditioning to do a sketch show at The Icehouse to an audience of one guy, the owner.
20 – Elise and Charlie (and friends) went to see the MJ Musical.
It goes through Dangerous.
Celebs with HIV – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reed
Jimmy compliments John Mulaney’s hosting of the Governor’s awards.
30 – Jimmy loved Mean Girls!
He wasn’t a fan of the original movie, but he enjoyed the musical much more! He also didn’t see the stage version.
35 – Jimmy talks about the people sitting in front of them and how he thought they were gonna be annoying because of how they were behaving during the trailers. Turns out they were great and no one enjoyed the movie more than them.
40 – Matt recalls times when people got up and left before the movie credits.
One Love the Bob Marley movie talk!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley:_One_Love
https://people.com/rhea-perlman-danny-devito-still-married-despite-breakup-years-ago-7507165
We’ll be right back!!
45 – We’re back with Kliph Nesteroff!
Jimmy talks about Kliph’s books!
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kliph+nesteroff&crid=3HQJLAJT52XSV&sprefix=kliph+nest%2Caps%2C181&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Talking Gary Mule Deer – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Mule_Deer
He’s white!
Gary Mule Deer doc – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14714354/
Show Business Is My Life But I Can’t Prove It
50 – Jimmy asks Kliph how he got into comedy and his love of the old school days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Woodbury
Stay tuned after the show for some before show stories!
55 – Jimmy recounts the Bud Freidman roast and Red Buttons absolutely KILLING it. “the young guys love me!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Buttons
https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2015/03/acrimony-not-hilarity-the-contentious-story-of-the-red-buttons-show-by-kliph-nesteroff.html
Kliph gives us more comedian stories from the early days!
60 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joker_(Anthony_Newley_song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shecky_Greene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Roman
1h5m – Kliph talks about interviewing Tommy Smothers and it leading to Steve Martin calling him on the phone after Tommy told him to call him.
Kliph tells Jimmy about the first time he saw Jimmy perform. It was up in Vancouver when Jimmy was there doing 4 Match Games.
1h10m – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Rayburn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bauman
Kliph has all the game show tea!
Jimmy recounts the story about his teacher raging when he mentioned Bert Convy to her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Convy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Carter_(comedian)
1h15m – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Salmi
Frank Gorshin Jack Nicholson impression – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtg-vJYYP0
1h20m – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnip_Gnop
Eliot’s making noises!
Kliph talks his books!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gautier
1h30m – Kliph talks about talking to Mort Saul on his cellphone and mort not hanging up correctly so he could hear everything he was doing.
Full trivia results below!
We’ll be right back!
We’re back!
Stay through the credits!
Kliph was a producer on the Albert Brooks doc! He talks about how he got hired.
Albert Brooks ASKED for Kliph to be part of the doc!
Kliph talks about the doc, footage from Stephen Spielberg, and Rob Reiner directing his zoom call.
Rob Reiner has an editing house, it used to belong to Henry Fonda.
1h40m – Round the horn!
Double Feature!
The Beekeeper and The Iron Claw
Eliot’s here and had a nice weekend.
1h45m – Kliph reads the REAL headlines from the inside cover of his new book.
1h50m – We’re done!
A joy!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brennan
See you next time!
Jimmy’s face illiterate?6
Bye!
Trivia Results:
Category: Publication History
Question: Every year Tim names a person of the year, the very first person was this famous flyer in 1927.
Garon: Amelia Earhart (8 pts)
Eliot Charles Lindberg: (5 pts)
Matt: Charles Lindberg (1 pts)
Kliph Nesteroff: Amelia Earhart ( pts)
Jimmy: Charles Lindberg (2 pts)
Answer: Charles Lindberg
Eliot wins!
My pleasure,
Garon/The Beast/Mush Mouth Shy Guy/The Notekeeper/Lazy Queen/Sloth/Little Asshole
