Fred Willard
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Sep 11, 2026
Yiannis InesHOST
Best in Show came out in 2000, and For Your Consideration came out in 2006.
Yiannis InesHOST
Both... starring very similar casts, you know, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard.
Yiannis InesHOST
I definitely would recommend both of them.
Yiannis InesHOST
Really right up my alley.
Douglas VivianiHOST
These two shows were wonderful shows that were so different.
Douglas VivianiHOST
Martin Mull and Fred Willard, both of them have passed just recently.
Douglas VivianiHOST
And to me, in my formative days, I was 15 and I would watch them and And I didn't realize too much, although I did realize, especially Fred Willard, there was quite a bit of ad-libbing going on there.
Douglas VivianiHOST
But maybe you could tell us.
Douglas VivianiHOST
I'm going to play a little clip here of you on that show doing the mental illness home test as a doctor.
Douglas VivianiHOST
there we go.
Douglas VivianiHOST
That seems to be a little bit of ad-libbing
David CohenHOST
there, and here and there you can hear Fred Willard
JamieHOST
he's just, you know, he's a really funny dude.
JamieHOST
Most people know him I think being married to Fred Willard and Roseanne and stuff.
JamieHOST
So like later on in his career or the Golden Girls as the hippie dude that wouldn't come out of his apartment that Dorothy ended up coaxing out of the apartment.
DomHOST
Do you remember that episode? Yes.
Marty SchwartzHOST
but yeah that's you know just one of a million things i love about this movie is it's not really a plot point it has a bit of a payoff in the six months later coda but mostly it's just because christopher guest wanted to try improvising with the ventriloquist's dummy and see if it was funny and it turned out to be really funny And of
Scott SharplinHOST
course, like, let's extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to Jim Piddock, who played Trevor Beckwith, because he had to sit next to Fred Willard, who turns in the greatest Fred Willard performance of his career.
Marty SchwartzHOST
Oh, it's Titanic.
Marty SchwartzHOST
How funny that man is.
Marty SchwartzHOST
Yeah.
Marty SchwartzHOST
Oh, fuck.
Marty SchwartzHOST
What's one of your favorite lines? What are your favorite Fred Willard lines? Let me ask you something.
Marty SchwartzHOST
How
J. Keith van StraatenHOST
Tell us about how you two know each other.
Lou WagnerGUEST
I was doing a show with a real buddy of mine, Fred Willard.
Lou WagnerGUEST
We were doing sketch comedy because of T. Sean Shannon put a show together.
Lou WagnerGUEST
So T. Sean mentioned during the show that we were doing that I was Lucius in the Planet of the Apes.
Lou WagnerGUEST
And he did 25 minutes of me.
Lou WagnerGUEST
Yeah.
Dana GouldGUEST
T. Sean's a good buddy, and he didn't need to tell me who Lou was.
Dana GouldGUEST
And I lost my cookies.
Ray LesserGUEST
There are a lot of comedians, cartoonists, and comic actors who've come out of Cleveland.
Ray LesserGUEST
Peter Bergman with the Fireside Theater and Molly Shannon from Saturday Night Live, and I think Fred Willard also.
Ray LesserGUEST
We all went to Shaker Heights High.
Ray LesserGUEST
There's people like Martin Mull, Drew Carey, Arsenio Hall, Steve Harvey, Tim Conway, Gulardi, Bob Hope, Harvey Picard.
Andy BorowitzGUEST
And Mayor Ralph Perk, who was doing a photo op using a blowtorch, which he had never bothered to use before a tryout before the cameras rolled, caught his hair on fire.
Andy BorowitzGUEST
And these were both kind of national headlines that didn't help our gravitas, kind of reinforced this image of flammability for the city that was not good.
Andy BorowitzGUEST
So I kind of think Now, Fred Willard is going back a ways.
Andy BorowitzGUEST
That's certainly some of the other people you mentioned, like Bob Hope, going back a long time before, you know, my childhood and my experiences.
ClaytonHOST
You know? Well, listen, we're in your time square.
ClaytonHOST
Listen, Fred Willard, RIP, rest in porno.
ClaytonHOST
It's a different time.
ClaytonHOST
You know, he would go and he would look, he'd watch these pornos.
ClaytonHOST
Yeah.
ClaytonHOST
And I realize that.
ClaytonHOST
But that was a long time ago when Fred Willard went to the porn theater and got caught pulling his pud.
ClaytonHOST
It's a different time.
John AtkinsGUEST
That's what I've always wanted to do.
John AtkinsGUEST
And so I went to London to the Red Rose Comedy Club for what was called the FWA Star Search and sort of volunteered my services as commentator, ring announcer, all around, whatever they needed.
John AtkinsGUEST
And didn't hear anything back for months and months and months.
John AtkinsGUEST
And then eventually just before Christmas, they called me up and said, yeah, do you want to help us put some posters up? And I'm like, yeah, okay, why not? And ended up moving to London, getting really heavily involved from that.
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John AtkinsGUEST
And that was the most exciting film I'd ever seen at that point.
John AtkinsGUEST
amazing movie so yeah
DinoHOST
film was written and directed by Michael Raven Michael Scully and Pete Smith previously mentioned Michael Raven played Jimmy Swagger in the film he was the play-by-play commentator who had a thing for quote midgets
JoeGUEST
little people yes
John SpearsHOST
There are wonderful cameos in this thing.
John SpearsHOST
Fred Willard's in it.
John SpearsHOST
Vince Vaughn, Tim Robbins.
John SpearsHOST
Fred Willard's the head of the TV station.
John SpearsHOST
You never saw Anchorman, Tony?
Tony BurkeHOST
I just saw parts.
Bill SimmonsHOST
Christopher Guest is like that too.
Bill SimmonsHOST
He's like, "I love Fred Willard."
Sean FennesseyHOST
[laughs]
Bill SimmonsHOST
"Every movie I make, he's gonna be in it."
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