My favorite film of all time is Blazing saddles. In fact, there used to be a subway/bus poster for the film hanging where I now hang my LPs. There’s plenty around Fort Awesome Studios to indicate my love for this film and anyone who had anything to do with it. So, only a few months after getting to play Hedley Lamarr onstage, I was honored to speak with Andrew Bergman by phone from New York about my favorite film, which started from a kernel of an idea, turned into a novella that I desperately want to read, and became a classic, sparking off the career of my favorite director. I had a wonderful time, and Andrew was a super-classy, nice, insightful writer – everything you’d hope. Enjoy.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Andrew Bergman
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This week is filled with milestones. Our two-year anniversary (yay) our 50th episode (at least half a milestone) and our first time covering a previously discussed album (finally). If this podcast has taught me anything, it’s that perspective is everything. All I ask is that you the comedy of Mr. Kevin Allison with that of this week’s guest, Mr. Graham Elwood, to see how the same album can have a profound effect on two different brands of humor.


This is what this podcast is all about. A guy whose work I admire exposes me to something new. Paul Zaloom was (and still is) Beakman from Beakman’s World, a political satirist, performance artist and puppeteer. This week, he talks to my good pal and brilliant humor person Alex Salem and I about the insane and awesome Lord Buckley.