Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

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 film, Popeye.  On the way, he performed comedy in New York’s Greenwich Village Vanguard and watched Lenny Bruce get his start. He sat in on several Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows and later filmed his own memorable comedy stunts on Candid Camera. Paul was an early member of The Second City group and worked with many legends from Buster Keaton to Art Carney.

While known by millions as America’s most lovable screen dad, Paul was having his own real dad issues from his own father to his kids.

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 Meskimen.

Jim shares fast and funny stories about his work, spanning from his amazing YouTube and TV performances to acting in “Apollo 13” and a soon to be released movie starring Sean Penn and Julia Roberts.  

In brilliant form, Jim explains his creative process that anyone can apply and thrive with. 

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 helped launch the careers of Kevin Pollak, Ellen DeGeneres, Paul Reiser and others. He’s a silversmith and dad to pop star, Hayley Kiyoko. Oh, yeah, and he’s also the recipient of a heart AND liver transplant. Best of all, he’s a terrifically funny storyteller with amazing tales to tell.  Your ears are in for a treat!

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 superstitious times when the stagecraft of “throwing a voice” was associated with demonism, fraudsters and God forbid, sewage!  

Jay became nationally known as the ventriloquist in the landmark TV comedy series, “Soap” and has since acted in many films and TV shows. He won a Tony Award for his hilarious one-man, hit Broadway show, “The Two and Only.”

Jay explains the fascinating art of ventriloquism and how it has rattled and amazed audiences for centuries. Hit “play” now and hear amazing stories that you won’t see coming…

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 down and out in the late 1970’s, Steven correctly predicted that animated films would become Hollywood blockbusters, but only if studios appealed to adult audiences and not just children. He was the animation producer for "Space Jam" with Michael Jordan.

Steven shares inside stories about old Hollywood and the geniuses behind animation classics like Bugs Bunny, Iron Man, Japanese animation and the advent of computer generated imagery (CGI) mastered by studios like Pixar, makers of “Toy Story.”

Steven is a prolific author, and shares a taste of his new comedy novel, Creature Feature, A Horrid Comedy.

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 students who just enjoyed the attention. Their fortune began unexpectedly one day when they took off their hats off as they street performed and to their surprise and delight, spectators threw money in them, which heralded the custom of throwing cash in the hats of street performers. 

Paul and his pals never looked back and juggled their way across the world and appeared on major TV shows and motion pictures, and eventually becoming a smash Broadway hit. 

Paul tells the story of how they named themselves, The Flying Karamazov Brothers while hitchhiking to their first big gig and getting picked up by a couple of beautiful women, including Ed Sullivan’s niece, who were driving west, looking for Coors Beer (when that was a thing). 

Paul shares amazing stories about how juggling is accomplished more by music and hearing than sight, and that throwing sharp knives and sickles at your friends can really be a bloody mess of a job!

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, “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer”, “Boston Legal” and, “Beauty and the Beast.”  Gamers know him from countless video games, including as “Dr. Nefarious” in “Ratchet and Clank”.

Armin is an accomplished Shakespearean actor and professor of the life and works of Willam Shakespeare at USC. He brings Shakespeare to life in 16th Century, not-so “Merrie Olde England”, where the average life span was only 22 years and everything was dangerous. Armin tells stories that will fascinate bardology fans and the uninitiated. Sword fight, anyone?

Press “to play or not to play” now for some laughs and mind-expanding conversation!

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 from groundbreaking work in political comedy improvisation groups in the wild days of 1960’s San Francisco, where he grew up.

It’s also where Paul witnessed the birth of the counter-culture movement and became politically radicalized. Paul describes an amazing San Francisco that is unrecognizable today. He remains politically astute about today’s societal discord and offers a no-holds-barred approach to address it. 

Press “play” now for some laughs and ear-opening conversation!

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 refugees. He was ordered to dump propaganda leaflets from low flying planes on panicked and illiterate villagers, while he distributed Firesign Theatre recordings to U.S. troops from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta, who were tuning in and turning on in the battlefield.

Roger returned stateside a different man and spoke out about the war, while sharing his love for poetry and reggae music, eventually writing seven books on the subject.  Roger became friends with reggae great Bob Marley and went on to create the world’s largest collection of Marley material.

Roger takes us down a wild and trippy path through war-torn Vietnam and into the violent streets of 1970s Jamaica for an insider’s look at how Reggae music was born in 1968 and quickly overtook the world. 

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 changed his viewing habits and what he’s watching now.

His pet peeve these days is cancel culture and its threat to filmmaking’s 100 year historic record. Can being “woke” go too far?

Leonard explains why 1970s films are so interesting, and how that period of film industry desperation opened the doors for breakthrough talent like Robert Altman, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Coppola, Mike Nichols and other directors.

Click here for Leonard’s “Maltin on Movies” Podcast.