Fernwood 2 Night

yeah? He was, but where I...

got to know him shane was this awesome show called and it was a fake one a satire called fernwood tonight and fred willard was his co-host uh martin played a guy named barth gimble and uh willard played his sidekick jerry hubbard and it was the set is hilarious it's from the late 70s if you can find it it's ridiculously stupid but ridiculously funny His acting helped pay for him to be a prolific painter.

Really? And I had no idea.

So I'm going to, we all are going to get to explore Martin Mull as a painter in the latter part of his, well, for the last 30 or 40 years, it was financed by his acting gigs.

If you grew up in the eighties and nineties, there's a good chance that Martin Mull was in your living room even before you knew his name.

He was Colonel Mustard in Clue.

He was Leon, Roseanne's boss on Roseanne, Principal Kraft on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Gene Parmesan, the private eye of disguises on Arrested Development, and late in his career, he earned an Emmy nomination for Veep.

And then there's Mr.

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Oh my gosh.

I, you know, I probably am, am of the age where I was introduced to him first through Clue and Mr.

Mom.

So Martin Mull was a big deal for me, I think Jamie too, and for Gaffigan.

I mean, I just, you know, forget Fernwood Tonight and all that stuff, but like...

i was which we all watched that his stand-up alone

mr mom every movie he shows up and he's

Yeah.

And Norman Lear wants to put this kind of parody talk show that parodies things like The Johnny Carson Show out there, and he- it's gonna be called Fernwood Tonight.

Yes.

[laughs] Oh, my gosh.

Who, of course, goes on to be the dad in Growing Pains, right?

Right.

So anyway, Fernwood Tonight is this vehicle that Martin Mull is in and does 54 episodes of this show.

And on July 4th, 1977 and August 17th, 1977, there's a character on the show called Mayor Merle Jeeter.