Tv Guidance Counselor Podcast

In this episode recorded live at Gary Sohmer's Southcoast Comic Con at the Hanover Mall, Ken welcomes The Monkees Micky Dolenz to the show. Ken and Micky discuss the innovation of the Monkees TV show, the Marx Brothers, the influence on MTV, directing television, Metal Mickey, Circus Boy, working behind the scenes in England, the 1997 Monkees reunion movie, "Head", Mickey's Rock N Roll tastes, Little Richard, Hellzapoppin', the divide between TV and movie actors, Michael Nesmith's Different Drum, pop music, Randy Scouse Git, Til Death Us Do Part, the surprise of the 80s Monkees revival, the 1986 reunion tour that was scheduled for 12 weeks and lasted three years, working with Disney, Boy Meets World, Jack Nicholson, how the Monkees lead to Easy Rider which lead to a Hollywood revolution, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls", being at the crossroads of old and new Hollywood, the iron fist of the network censors, the Devil, playing the part of a drummer, The Beatles, Headquarters, The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Circus Bo

January 6-10, 1996 Today Ken welcomes actor, writer, comedian Langston Kerman to the show. Ken and Langston discuss Ken's weird house, RC Cola and Moon Pies, health drinks, white people MacGuyvering things to get high and things to have sex with, pranks, teenage fight clubs, school suspensions, The Green Day Riots, poetry, Jesse Jackson, Tito, 1995's Top 10 Performers, Chicago, OJ, ER, Keith Olberman, Fraiser, 10 Shows that Clicked, Seinfeld, writing for the Oscars, Chris Rock, aliens, how Langston became Language, Dragon Ball Z, stand up, In Living Colour, The Wayne's Brothers, Blaxploitation, Mad TV, Ellen, working with Larry David, Blake Clark, Ghosts, Boy Meets World, pretending to be Derek Rose, suburban teenager danger, and getting jumped.

April 24 - 30, 1976 Today Ken welcomes writer, comedian, raconteur, Dylan Brody to the show. Ken and Dylan discuss Dylan's wife's similarities to his father, nicknames, Thomas vs. Bob, being almost Canadian, small town upstate New York, Coxsackie, Tituba's Spell, Ken vs Kenny, birthday viewing, Dick Van Dyke, booze as medicine, I Dream of Jeanie vs. Bewitched, The Marx Brothers vs. The Three Stooges, The Ritz Brothers, Dylan's Cinema Education from his Film Professor Father, Forest Gump, how to pitch, Roseanne, Dog Police, Mid-Season pilots, replacing cast members, Ed Asner, Bob Newhart, Vaudeville on TV, joke math, mystery musical comedy, skipping Sunday, insulting Steve Martin, George Carlin, Lorenzo Music, Boston Documentaries, Spenser for Hire, Rich Little, impressionists, M*A*S*H, James Bond and Alan Alda and your blueprint for dealing with women, living in London, realizing the minds behind Marvel Comics, Touch of Evil, Beretta, Strong Kids Safe Kids, Shields and Yarnell, Welcome Back Kotter, Steve Lade

May 1-7, 1999 In this episode recorded LIVE! at the 5th Annual Philly Podfest at the Trocodero in Philly, Ken welcomes musician Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad13) to the show. Ken and Sadie discuss feeling old when you're young and feeling young when you're old, Must See TV, growing up in Manhattan, The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Babyface, Animorphs, crushing on Hawk boys, Calista Flockhart, Alley McBeal, lawyers in Boston, a pre-Goodburger world, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, SNICK, why nobody remembers Third Storee, Will Smith's singing, Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler, why the world is split into before and after Spongebob, Jerry Spinger's podcast, Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story, Ben Affleck's dating history, Mummy jokes, font issues, X-Files, Charles Rocket, Becker, Ted Danson, Bill Cosby's cross-over madness, Sweeps Week, Brooke Shields wrestling Hulk Hogan, Noah's Ark, Car Bras, Face Bras, breaking your knee, Ken's pants ripping off, Just Shoot Me, Hagfish, Sadie's fear of snakes,

Today Ken welcomes writer, director and sometimes actor Carl Gottlieb (Jaws, The Smothers Brothers, The Jerk) to the show. Ken and Carl discuss classic Hollywood apartments, growing up in Manhattan, Your Show of Shows, Champagne tastes on a Beer Pocket Book, Howdy Doody, Milton Berle, The NBC Symphony, how radio begat television, The DuMont Network, having a pet mouse, Carl's TV debut, Tom Corbitt Space Patrol, being a Sci-Fi fanatic, The Shadow, Amos and Andy, how a car can cost as much as a television, how parody thrives when an audience is well informed, pretending to be in the orchestra to get into Your Show of Shows, writing for the college newspaper in Syracuse, joining The Committee, Harry Brandt Theaters, fighting in the War, San Francisco, The Smothers Brothers, Steve Martin, Rob Reiner, Bob Einstein, Lorenzo Music, Saturday Night Live, working with Lorne Michaels on Flip Wilson specials, the Square Generation, writing "The Air Traffic Controller" for Bob Newhart, Carl's favorite sketch, winning an E

In this episode recorded LIVE! at Denver Comic Con 2017 Ken welcomes a panel of legendary Hollywood stunt and fight coordinators, Mark Grove, James Lew, Carl Ciarfalio and Rick Avery. Ken, Mark, James, Carl and Rick discuss martial arts, how one gets into the stunt business, Big Trouble in Little China, Kung Fu, the Knotts Berry Farm Stunt Show, being a fun fighter, being a good looking man, car guys, Harold Lloyd, learning from old Hollywood, why sometimes cardboard boxes are best, John Travolta, Blow Out, Kenpo, Jeff Speakman, The Perfect Weapon, Jet Li's "The One", and nerding out of Martial Arts.

Today Ken welcomes actor (Supernatural, Revenge of the Nerds, Moonlighting) and author of the new memoir "Revenge of the Nerd: Or...The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would be Booger" Curtis Armstrong to the show. Ken and Curtis discuss the mid 60s, Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beatles, living in Switzerland, Detroit, how being forced to watch something other than the Wonderful World of Disney can change your life, the horror of stopwatches, The Avengers, being an anglophile, watching Help! while living in Help!, Rock N Roll shows on TV, loving the Universal Monsters, Famous Monsters, visiting Forrest J. Ackerman with Gilbert Gottfried, meeting Ray Bradbury, Moonlighting, working on Cybill, reading the script to Better Off Dead on the top of a Canadian Mountain while dressed as a caveman, working with Savage Steve Holland, the Boston fame of "Boogah", How I Got Into College, and what may be Ken's favorite story ever told on the show, a story of Gary Busey fighting with an extra about what

Today Ken welcomes the legendary "Weird" Al Yankovic to the show. In this episode recorded LIVE! at the 2017 Denver Comic Con in Denver, CO Ken and Al discuss why Al was never Magnum P.I., ALTv, the early days of MTV, Eat It, visual parody, Dr. Demento, Spike Jones, voice over, Warner Bros, growing up outside of Hollywood, The Weird Al Show, Saturday mornings, Billy Barty's kids show, Sheriff John, milk drinking contests, the golden age of theme songs, Green Acres, jumping on a parody, Al's original compositions, the badge of honor of being parodied by Al, UHF, Michael Richards, Transylvania 6-5000, sketch shows, SCTV, streaming media, Whaling Songs, Chris Guest, The National Lampoon Radio Hour, missing genres, avoiding being Spinal Tap, the magic of "The Complete Al", Paul McCartney in Al's Brain in 3D, almost giving Orson Welles his final job, and when Japanese TV out weirded Weird Al.

April 17-23, 1982 Today Ken welcomes comedian, author and fellow Bostonian Jen Kirkman to the show. Ken and Jen discuss Jen's awe at Ken's west coast TV Guide collection, being torn between two issues, Ripped from the Headlines, AIDS, The Day After, Red Dawn, unsupportive terrifying fathers, Happy Days, being a defacto only child, bus station TVs, listening to TV on the radio, making audio tapes of Moonlighting, Back to the Beach, The Brady Bunch house, The Love Boat, high fashion on the high seas, Halston, The Mandrell Sisters, the final years of Variety, Boston Lies, James at 15, Spenser for Hire, special kids on Highway to Heaven, Jen's Mother's mistrust of Michael Landon, punk rock scare shows, ChPs, sitting in a tent at the beach, One Day at a Time, kids cooking shows, Alice, living the dream waiting tables in a diner, having a maid, Today's FBI, Ballet, Ken's ignorance of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gov Weld defunding mental health facilities, The Reagans' war against the arts, Gary Marshall Night, female hear

In this episode recorded LIVE! at the Denver Comic Con 2017, Ken welcomes casting director, voice director and animation legend Andrea Romano to the show. Ken and Andrea discuss The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, SCTV, Hanna Barbera, Daws Butler, The Jetsons, the "Tiffany" controversy with Jetsons: The Movie, the golden age of voice actors, Huckleberry Hound, how work you love can extend your life, the secret to casting voices, Frank Welker, Mel Blanc, the horrors of replacing actors, Al Yankovic gone evil, Ducktails, Animaniacs, growing up in a big family in the Hamptons, moving to California to escape Winter, Smurfs, Snorks, Orson Welles becoming The Brain, working with rappers on the Boondocks, the difficulty of directing actors to use the n-word, getting "name" actors into voice work, the golden age of streaming TV, and the fingerprint of people's "S sound", and why Kevin Conroy IS Batman.

March 25-31, 1978 Today Ken welcomes actor, filmmaker Stacey Travis (Hardware, Earth Girls are Easy, Ghostworld) to the show. Ken and Stacey discuss dog withdrawals, CBS Turning 50, The Partridge Family, Little House on the Prairie, Sanford & Son, Dallas, The Brady Bunch, Good Times, Maude, All in the Family, sometimes having enough of children's entertainment, Hardware, Dream On, embarrassing your children, The Naked Truth, Seinfeld, studying acting in London, Earth Girls are Easy, Julie Brown, having a stand up comedian as an older brother, Just Say Julie, Allee Willis, Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Chicago Hope, Picket Fences, Man of La Mancha, going to film school, Lukas Haas, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, not judging people for having a bad day, never getting on the West Wing, Desperate Housewives, Eddie Albert, Green Acres, meeting Dick Van Dyke, sticking with shows long after you probably should, losing your regional accent, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, when your heroes become your rivals, child actors,

FALL PREVIEW ALERT! September 9-15, 1972 On his Birthday Ken starts the show with discussing his plans for the day. He then welcomes writer and occasional actor Dino Stamatopoulos to the show. Ken and Dino discuss slaughtering Dino's name, Dean Martin, hookers, Chicago, growing up in a bar, why there are 40 in the top 40, not knowing there was color TV, Charlie Kaufman's refusal to believe Superman and Clark Kent are the same person, the lost Skank! spin off, The Ben Stiller Show, how Greeks can break the Toaster Oven Theory, why Boston may be the punchinest city in America, Chicago Nostalgia, Mary Tyler Moore, The Lonliest Runner, Made For-TV Movies, The Lone Ranger, The Treasures of Black Cinema, Black News, Hee Haw, Liza with a Z, Gold Diggers, The Violent Universe, Father Knows Best vs. Hogan's Heroes, unraveling ropes, The Bob Newhart Show, The Anderson Tapes, panel shows, SCTV, Monty Python, Jamie Gertz, John Stamos - Race Traitor, Auto-focus, childhood hiding spots, being trapped in a fold out couch, b

Today Ken welcomes actor Lynne Stewart (Pee Wee's Playhouse, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) to the show. Ken and Lynne discuss children's television, the origins of Miss Yvonne, the Pee Wee Herman Show reunion, meeting Tuesday Weld, growing up in Los Angeles, when Ken's dad was on Bozo, Phil Hartman, the MTV generation, the influence of Pee Wee's Playhouse on Japan, teaching kids how to scream, The Candy and Nancy Show, buying your own Candy for $300, Engineer Bill, the wonders of Facebook, Lynne's mother as a Facebook Phenomenon, the shared experience of media, being a dancer, The Groundlings, M*A*S*H, Cindy Williams, Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti, Andy Kaufman, being cut out of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, living like you have no money when you do, Tiki, Edie McClurg, The Jimmy Stewart Show, why Lynne's father was mistaken for Jimmy Stewart by John Wayne, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, playing nuns, giving back, buying your own dolls, keeping Miss Yvonne's Christmas dress, Night Court, It's Always Su

May 18-24, 1968 Today Ken welcomes the fantastic musician Fred Schneider to the show. Ken and Fred discuss Boston's industrial Nieman Marcus, having to watch what your mother likes, The Flintstones, I Married Joan, SNL, being trash talked on Carson, meeting David Bowie, Beanie and Cecil, F Troop, Petticoat Junction vs. Green Acres, Night of the Living Dead induced vomit, Alien panic attacks, Mama's Family, Forbidden Planet, loving bad movies, Martha and the Vandells, meeting Jimmy Page, Dinosaurs, Monsters, and MTV's hatred of hot dogs.

June 28 - July 4, 1975 Today Ken welcomes actor, comedian, David Higgins to the show. Ken and Dave discuss mid-western cold, the importance of outside, woods pornography, The Bi-Centennial, the glory days of the middle class, why the 70s were maybe a more enlightened time, Archie Bunker, Sammy and Company, Don Kirsher's Rock Concert, Poor Devil, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, Bernie, burned off pilots, M*A*S*H, the Casey Kasem tapes, The Red Tapes, The Monkees vs the Goodies, Night After Night with Alan Havey, The Comedy Channel, The Higgins Boys and Gruber, Supercar, Clutch Cargo, Pizza and a movie, the ORIGINAL Leonard Maltin Game, Larry Storch, when IMDB is wrong, Tapeheads, Hell's Highway, barcade, Starcade, SNL, Jan Hooks, The Idiotbox, The Nightstalker, mustache vs. un-mustached Burt Reynolds, Cannon, Barney Miller, The Love God, why Nat Hiken is the greatest, The Rockford Files, Tom Atkins, Fast Times, why MTV changed the world and how the Wrong Guy is a movie everyone needs to see right away.

Today Ken welcomes author, podcaster Scott Ryan to the show. Ken and Scott discuss Scott's new book, Thirtysomething at Thirty, an oral history of Thirtysomething, Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, Special Bulletin, Picket Fences, Fringe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the return of Twin Peaks. 

February 9-15, 1991 Today Ken welcomes comedian Josie Long to the show. Ken and Josie talk about coming from the UK, American misperceptions of Royalty, how Hollywood couples like Roseane and Tom Arnold keep it together. The Radio & TV Times, why Darlene is so cool, Kevin James' Rich White guy support of Donald Trump, how cocaine explains most things, BBC Three, UK Play, Twin Peaks, Iraq War, Operation Desert Storm, The Damned, The Young Ones, Fist of Fun, tough guy dry tea, multiple channels having the same network, why America is a big weird country, Austin City Limits, hanging out in a shed playing guitars on a Saturday night, why the UK keeps sex and cuts out violence, pro-bowling on television, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Surrey Quays, Dog Soldiers, playing hidden camera pranks on Stevie Wonder, the talk show boom: Rickie Lake, Jenny Jones, Sally Jesse Raphael, Morton Downey Jr, Jerry Springer in The Ringmaster, The Kids in the Hall, John Waters movies, the wonders of Designing Women, Josie sta

Ken welcomes writer/actor Terry Sweeney to the show. Ken and Terry discuss corporal punishment, Texas, living in the South, growing up in Long Island, old dirty scary NYC, "Do what now", Terry's Sicilian Mother, hunting for TV Guide, Dinah Shore, being "excited" by Jim Morrison, Bones, crime shows, Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brecht, Mr. Ball, Joan Rivers, Mad TV, Tripping the Rift, being in a hot tub with Madonna, Bruce McCullough, Mark McKinney, and television networks fear of desks.

December 23-29, 1961 Today Ken welcomes writer, artist Stephen Bissette (Swamp Thing, Video Watchdog) to the show. Ken and Steve discuss tips to get through governmental checkpoints, Swamp Thing, dinosaurs, Comic Cons, Doctor Who, Ultraman, Canadian TV, Vermont, Fear No Evil, Made for TV movies,  Monster Kids, 8mm Castle movies, Ray Harryhausen, Outer Limits, taking notes while watching TV, Carnival of Souls, turning roof antenna, color TV, the Bus Stop controversy, Fabian, Senate investigations into television, Lost in Space, Batman '66, growing up in a military family, Eyes Without a Face, realizing there are different edits of movies in different places, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Ray Bradbury, going to the Kubert School, Chiller Theater, Mario Bava, Blood an Black Lace, renting B movies on 16mm at college, the golden age of local TV, CBC, David Cronenberg, Watchmen, The Fly, Twilight Zone, George Romero working on Calgon commercials, Ducati, Jim Henson on Ed Sullivan, Bring Em Back Alive, Jungle Comic

January 20 - February 1, 1991 Today Ken welcomes comedian, podcaster and television personality Jonah Ray to the show. Ken and Jonah discuss mannequins in car dealerships, The Superbowl, how sports leads to day drinking, Sportsball, human Guess Who, Kevin Meaney, Steven Webber in The Shining, Frank from Murphy Brown, Wings, Tracy Ullman, Oceanic Cable, Hawaii, Tales from the Crypt, Dawn of the Dead, Hidden America, when pranks become assault, horror bros, the golden age of VHS, customizing a Mall Madness game into a Dawn of the Dead game, SNL, when Fox TV owned Sundays, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Bud Bowl, In Living Color, Pump Up the Volume, surprise boobs, Kube, Get a Life, getting lost in the parody, Cosby, moving to CT in a van with Tony Danza, why Jonah unfollows Ken on Instagram often, crew jackets, stunt men bars, Horror in Hawaii, The Wonder Years, Daniel Stern, meeting Fred Savage, Whip It, Growing Pains, Boston's constant aggression, meatball fights, Doogie Howser's theme song, San Pedro, punk bands,