Episodes

Author Joey Green has written 60 books! He was a writer for National Lampoon and top ad agencies. You’ve likely seen him on TV polishing furniture with Spam and moussing Conan O’Brien’s hair with Jello. And now, Phil and Ted ...

Phil and Ted welcome Shelley Herman, author of her tell-all book, My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page. “I’m not ashamed of anything,” says Shelley, which is a good thing having come of age in the 1970s. Shelley talks abou...

Phil and Ted are in New York to speak with Tulis McCall, a true, one-woman show, renowned monologist on her podcast “Monday Musings” and storyteller at a local NY cabaret. Tulis covers the NY stage on her website, thefrontrow...

Phil and Ted welcome Radio legend, actor and comedian, Frazer Smith. "The Fraze" is a culture jammer who hosted manic shows on LA's biggest rock stations. Frazer co-hosted subversive, alternate audio commentary to television ...

Beloved actor and environmental activist Ed Begley Jr. shares hilarious and poignant stories of his improbable life, focusing on his relationship with his legendary father, adventures with Hollywood icons, the origins of his ...

More rain?! Phil and Ted welcome TV weatherman and stand-up comic, Fritz Coleman. Fritz was a fixture on Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV for 39 years. Fritz co-hosts the MEDIA PATH PODCAST with Louise Palanker, which looks at media and ...

Greg Laemmle runs Los Angeles’ cherished Laemmle Theaters. We discuss the present and future of movie theaters, and their dramatic struggles in the post-pandemic and video streaming age. Also, the remarkable Laemmle family le...

Veteran film, TV and stage actress Phoebe Dorin played “The Wild Wild West” ingénue and bad girl, “Antoinette.” Despite nearly dying on set repeatedly, she never let Hollywood lick her (or at least Robert Conrad). Phoebe almo...

Ted and guest co-host, MC Gainey welcome actor, master storyteller, and funnyman, Troy Evans. Troy has appeared in countless movies and is perhaps best known for his television roles as Desk Clerk Frank Martin in “ER” and mor...

Summer is here and time to watch out for sharks at the beach! Phil and Ted welcome Carl Gottlieb, screenwriter of "JAWS." Carl shares amazing inside stories about the making of the very first summer blockbuster movie that ch...

Phil and Ted welcome TV weatherman and stand-up comic, Fritz Coleman and veteran radio producer and documentarian Louise Palanker. Fritz was a fixture on Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV for 39 years and Louise co-founded Premiere Radio ...

Phil and Ted welcome Noel Blanc, the son of Looney Tunes voice legend, Mel Blanc. Noel shares personal stories about his dad and his remarkable career, ranging from close friendships and personal encounters with Jack Benny, R...

Actor, writer and social activist, Ian Ruskin trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and is a veteran of stage and screen. Performing his one man show for audiences around the world, Ian brings to life the st...

Lawrence is a long-time Hollywood producer, agent, and actor. He produced and acted in films and television, including "Death Before Dishonor," "Merchants of War" and the TV series "Hunter." From the early 1970s through the m...

As the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright is at the center of the cultural phenomenon, “The Simpsons.” America’s longest-running television series has made America laugh for over 30 years. In this engaging and fun interv...

Beloved actor Paul Dooley dressed up as a clown and juggled his way out of a hardscrabble rural West Virginia childhood and onto the Broadway stage opposite Walter Matthau, and later played “Wimpy” in Robert Altman’s classic ...

Guests include Morgan Freeman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Walken and others, including Rocky Rococo… thanks to master impressionist, big screen actor, comedian, artist and renaissance man, Jim Mes...

It may be easier to list what Jamie Alcroft hasn’t done, than to list all his many talents and accomplishments. He’s a comedian who with his partner Mack Dryden hosted a hit TV show, “Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie” that he...

Is Jay Johnson doing Satan’s bidding? Or does he just suffer from mental illness? Neither of course, but it’s a good thing that Jay is working in the 21st Century where master ventriloquists win Tony Awards, unlike more super...

As a long-time Hollywood producer, Steven Leiva has enjoyed a front seat in the film animation world, working with greats like Looney Tunes’s Chuck Jones, Brad Bird, Yutaka Fujioka, Gary Kurtz and others. When animation was d...

Paul Magid is a master juggler, comedian, playwright and co-founder of the world-renowned Flying Karamazov Brothers. The Flying Karamazov Brothers , the world’s most innovative juggling act, began as a couple of college stude...

Actor, author and professor, Armin Shimerman, is best known as “Quark”, the first Ferengi alien character in the TV series Star Trek: the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. You’ve also seen him on many TV shows including, “...

If you’ve enjoyed The Office Space, The Larry Sanders Show, Cheers and countless other TV shows and movies, Paul Willson has made you laugh…a lot. His on-screen characters are deadpan hilarious. Paul’s fast-draw talent comes ...

As a 1960s Goldwater conservative, Roger was drafted into the military, shipped to Vietnam to work in psyops, dropped acid and talked his way into a free pass to travel anywhere in-country to help shaken residents and refugee...

World renowned film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, author of Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, joins Phil and Ted for a conversation all about movies. Will movie theaters come back after COVID? Leonard talks about how COVID...

Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show with Producer and Director Neal Israel

SNL original cast member, Laraine Newman

Actress, Comedian, Author, Survivor and Hero, Alison Arngrim has lived a remarkable life. Famous for her villainous role as “Nellie Oleson” in the hit TV series, ‘Little House on the Prairie’, Alison continues to make waves. ...

Phil and Ted welcome record and film producer, Harold Bronson

Phil and Ted welcome improv legends, Larry Hankin and Paul Willson. Plus comedy from the Firesign Theatre. Paul and Larry talk about performing comedy in San Francisco in the 1960s, and how they witnessed and participated in ...

Weird Al Yankovic has a huge and fanatical fan base for good reasons. He’s a five time Grammy winner and member of a rare group of musicians (U2, Michael Jackson, Madonna Kenny G,) with a top 40 hit for four decades running. ...

Gerald Casale is the co-founder of the iconic rock band DEVO. In Part 1, “Are we not men?” Gerald tells how he was caught in the crossfire of the May 4 Massacre at Kent State University, a personally shattering event that gav...

Phil and Ted continue their conversation with Gerald Casale the co-founder of DEVO. In Part 2, DEVO is discovered by David Bowie, launching them into a platinum record sensation that all came crashing down… or as Gerald calls...

Thom Hartmann, #1 Progressive Talk Show host and New York Times best selling author, shares with Phil and Ted how conservatives took over talk radio and made a liberal like him so popular that he receives regular death threat...

Actress, author, comedian and RUGRATS voiceover star with our co-host Phil, Melanie Chartoff shares never before told stories including about acting on Broadway, where she and 30 fellow cast members had a near death experienc...

Part One with magician, TV star, self proclaimed carny trash and renaissance man Penn Jillette, the speaking half of Penn & Teller. Penn offers an eye opening look at the world during COVID and how Las Vegas is “doing badly”...

Part Two with magician, TV star, self proclaimed carny trash and renaissance man Penn Jillette, the speaking half of Penn & Teller. Penn shares remarkable stories about spending hours with Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice...

Actor Kevin Pollak plays the hilariously obnoxious Moishe Maisel in HBO’s hit comedy series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Kevin is also known for his roles in the films, “A Few Good Men” “The Usual Suspects” and his own HBO c...

Actor John Goodman talks about sheltering in place, shares stories about his career and performs comedy.

Comedian Harry Shearer discusses his Corona Virus lockdown, and his amazing career from The Credibility Gap, Spinal Tap and the Simpsons.