Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show

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 jus...

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, spec...

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...

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 c...

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...

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...

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 spec...

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 Saturd...

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...

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 littl...

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 Lar...

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...

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 shatterin...

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...

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 t...

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 C...

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" with it. Penn discusses his family life while isolated together, and how society is being forever transformed by the pandemic. And how we're consuming too much food and inform...

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 and how he eventually landed on Trump "most hated list." Penn explains how he breaks his work day into 27 minute and 27 second segments, his close friendship with Lou Reed an...

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 comedy specials. After reviewing his wikipedia page with Phil and Ted, Kevin shares insights about the making of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", what's next for the series and how...

John joins us from South Carolina, where he's sheltered in place and waiting to star in the new season of HBO's, "The Righteous Gemstones." John discusses his career start on stage to "Raising Arizona", "The Big Lebowski", "Roseanne" and "The Conners." He offers his take on the pandemic and the future of his home city of New Orleans, stories of his youth, struggles with fame and how he became sobe...

Harry Shearer, the hardest working man in show business, continues to work on the 32nd season of the Simpsons. Harry discusses his long career beginning as a child actor on the Jack Benny Show, to Spinal Tap and his many voices on The Simpsons. Harry talks about his long running radio show, LeShow, how he performs his many voice impressions and shares some of his radio comedy work. Also featured a...

Our dear friend, Phil Hendrie, is a creative genius -- just ask him -- chock full of characters, comedy and commentary, Phil's uniquely famous for concocting a cast of fictional characters, all of whom he plays on air while simultaneously serving as host of his national talk-radio program ( www.philhendrieshow.com ) He is also an actor and regularly voices characters on FOX's popular animated seri...

David Ossman, a founding member of the legendary comedy group The Firesign Theatre joins the show from his plague bunker in Washington State. David and Phil catch up on the latest about Firesign Theatre and share little known stories about the history of the trailblazing comedy group. Plus a special visit with former, Not Insane Vice Presidential Candidate George Papoon. Also featured are comedy s...