Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

Neal Israel is a producer, writer, director for over 20 feature films and co-creator of the hit movie series, THE POLICE ACADEMY. He co-wrote and directed BACHELOR PARTY starring Tom Hanks and was Executive Producer for the Oscar nominated FINDING NEVERLAND starring Johnny Depp. He wrote an original book musical for Ringo Starr on NBC, and produced and was head writer for several Steve Martin specials.

Neal broke new ground in the 70’s with the comedy movies, Tunnelvision and Americathon, that was based on a stage show created by Phil Proctor and his comedy partner, Peter Bergman that remarkably foretold the future of television.

Neal discusses how the 70’s defined boomer comedy, and how it changed the course of entertainment. He shares fascinating and hilarious Hollywood insider stories ranging from how he got a movie green-lit in the bed of a studio head, to playing Monopoly with Brad Pitt for a month inside a Scientology sauna, and all for the love of women. 

Laraine Newman, an original cast member of Saturday Night Live is sexy, funny and brutally honest about her remarkable life and career. Laraine shares some never before heard stories featured in her new memoir, May You Live in Interesting Times. She studied mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris and was a founding member of the LA comedy group, The Groundlings. Laraine was invited to help launch Saturday Night Live and changed TV forever.

Laraine has had an equally adventurous personal life, from screaming at the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl as a child, to hanging outside LA comedy clubs as a teenager to watch the stand up greats get their start. After SNL, Laraine struggled to keep momentum and won a battle to overcome drug addiction. She now enjoys a successful voice acting career for TV and movies and shares some amazing and hilarious stories. 

This episode features a rare radio comedy skit starring Edie McClurg and Phil Proctor.

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. Her memoir, “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated” is a New York Times best seller. 

Alison shares jaw-dropping stories about growing up as a Hollywood kid, beginning as a resident of Hollywood’s famed Chateau Marmont at the tender age of 4 and accidentally taking a massive hit of LSD at age 8. Later, her day job was TV’s first child villain on America’s most wholesome show, while spending her underage nights in LA punk rock clubs. And through it all, she kept a terrifying, childhood secret about being sexually molested for years. Since adulthood, she’s crusaded for AIDS victims and child rights, changing laws and saving lives. And she’s funny as hell!

Harold Bronson is as much of a rock ’n’ roll music fan as he is a music industry trailblazer. As a UCLA college music journalist, Harold flew to London to meet and interview his idols, and later wrote the book, "My British Invasion- The Inside Story on the Yardbirds, the Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More.”

Harold shares little known, behind the scenes stories about his encounters with these music legends when they were still in their prime. He explains why he thinks the The Kinks stopped touring and why members of the Ramones didn’t speak to each other for years during their heyday.

Harold co-founded Rhino Records with Richard Foos, which became the standard for novelty and reissue records and the first label to produce CD Box sets in America, beginning with Richie Valens. He signed The Knack and executive produced their ‘Zoom’ album. Rhino also produce several Firesign Theatre records. Harold grew up in Westchester, CA, (next to LAX airport) with some neighborhood kids who became the hit band, the Turtles.

As film producer, Harold worked with Hunter Thompson to make “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, starring Johnny Depp. And he’s got Hunter Thompson stories to prove it!

Join Phil and Ted for fascinating, rock ’n' roll  stories from the 1960s and 70s.

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 the birth of the counter-culture movement. Paul is probably best known for his long run as a barfly on “Cheers” and has appeared in countless movies and TV shows including Larry’s crooked accountant in The Larry Sanders Show.

Ted also has a special conversation with Hankin, who has had a long and exceptional career and tells hilarious and brutally honest, behind-the-scenes stories about his performance in “Escape from Alcatraz” with Clint Eastwood, and as “Mr. Heckles” on the sitcom, “Friends” and most recently as “Old Joe” on “Breaking Bad.”

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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. Self-proclaimed “Weird Al obsessive” Lin Manuel Miranda credits Al as an inspiration for the hit musical “Hamilton.”  

It began when a door to door accordion salesman called on Al at the tender age of six. Al was unaffectionately nicknamed “Weird” in school, yet he embraced his weirdness and earned millions of fans. And did Al’s mom really serve him a bowl of sauerkraut every morning and watch him on the school playground through a pair of binoculars? Discover a fascinating side of Weird Al in this fun episode.

Al recently dropped his record label and is blazing into the unchartered mediascape. Find out what’s next from the brilliant and inimitable Weird Al!

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 gave birth to one of the most intense punk bands of the 1970s, DEVO.

Gerald offers his take on current events and warns kids today that they’re threatened with the same shattering lesson he suffered in the Kent State shootings.

He discusses the origins of DEVO as an art movement intended on making music video laser discs, not LP records and in the process pioneered the music video. DEVO’s unique sound was so new that they were widely criticized and even physically assaulted by NY punk bands for being “different.”

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 it, DEVOlution.

Gerald discusses collaborating with Brian Eno to produce their first album and how they were labeled as “difficult” in the studio.

Their biggest hit, “Whip It” was written as a satire of American exceptionalism, but when radio stations misinterpreted it as an ode to a twisted sexual fantasy, DEVO played along and produced a hilarious send up music video that played for decades on MTV.

Gerald offers a surprising reason for why DEVO eventually devolved as a band, and how the pandemic is taking a toll on himself and the band’s latest prospects for a reunion.

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 threats.

In this eye opening conversation, Thom explains his view of how the Reagan revolution will end with the Trump presidency, despite that many oligarchs and autocrats around the world are trying to reelect Trump. And find out who really killed JFK.

Experimenting with LSD in the 1960s propelled Thom from his Goldwater republican upbringing to liberal activism.

And hear the amazing story of his landmark research that redefined ADHD from a mental disorder to a forgotten and valuable trait that dates back to our hunter-gatherer days. Lean more about Thom at: thomhartmann.com.

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 experience on a collapsing stage, and when Melanie hit in Hollywood, how women of the night protected her from stalkers.

Melanie discusses how she and her friends are coping with the COVID lockdown, her teaching charisma to silicon valley super geeks, and reveals that she was felt up by Henny Youngman. “Take his wife, please!”

Melanie also reads her hilarious poem, “Is This Person Worth the Germs?” about the perils of shacking up during the pandemic. It’s part of her latest book, “Odd Woman Out.”