Marty Feldman

But then they end up digging the wrong person.

They dig up Marty Feldman.

And it kind of spirals from there in this kind of horror comedy, kind of old school fashion.

So, yeah.

He was in a wheelchair.

And he was almost like Marty Feldman.

in Young Frankenstein where with the hump was always moving and there was always a different explanation.

And like, he would talk about like mistakes and like, I didn't know if it was, if he lost it in Vietnam or if it was like a car, like every, he's like, boy, do I know about mistakes? And like, it was, and I like Chuck and I'm not throwing any shade on Chuck.

No, but who-

Or Marty Feldman.

Marty Feldman, who played him in Frankenstein [laughs] or something.

Yes, Frankenstein.

The Young Frankenstein.

... now anyway?

He, he actually died on set.

What, Marty Feldman?

He's a working screenwriter and television writer, but he hasn't really broken out into features yet.

And so he starts writing The Hunchback of UCLA and gets encouragement from, of all people, Marty Feldman.

Yes, the late great English comedian who by that point had already played a hunchback in the Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein.

That's how I was introduced to him as a kid.

And Marty Feldman gave Alan Katz's script a look because they were friendly.

You know, sometimes they would go to each other's houses and hang out.

They had mutual friends.

But he doesn't want to play the hunchback of UCLA.

Film credits include The Best Man with Henry Fonda, Divorce American Style with Dick Van Dyke.

Every Home Should Have One with Marty Feldman, 80s cult favorite Teen Witch, 1989, with Burt Reynolds in The Last Producer in 2000, Meet the Fockers in 2004, and now I finally get it, Jeff, why Simon from Sweden thought somehow the name of this show was Little Fockers.

Remember he said that in the trivia, the MacGyver Five.

So this is why.

We see a balding portly man in a white undershirt and yellow and red boxer shorts strapped to a table, a raised table, where a mad scientist...

And he's running around like Marty Feldman as Igor a little bit, if you know that reference.

The mad scientist is Humbert Carpenter, and the man strapped to the table is his nephew Hubert Carpenter.

Hubert says...

Not so much now.

When they returned from the movies, they were all falling out laughing at this one scene, at the famous scene, as you know, Julian, of Marty Feldman telling Gene Wilder as, you know, the hunchback, you know, Igor, you know, walk this way, master.

And he's walking and he's like, no, no, no, walk this way with the cane.

And they just could not get that out of their head how funny walk this way was.

No, you just get...

Unless he's got eyes like bloody Marty Feldman, how can he

tell? I just think

it's