Funny gals month continues! The gal-pals tell their favorite jokes, fall in love with an adorable dog named Sparkle, and share their love of the one and only Gilda Radner.
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This week’s episode on YouTube has live video.
Show Notes & Extras
- We’re recording on Zoom so that means video!!!!
- The gal-pals this month are Dr. Leah Leah, Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris and Debbi Sponsler
- We have already talked about Mabel Normand, and Lucille Ball.
- Get-to-know-you question: tell us your favorite jokes
- Bonnie’s 1 Cool Funny Gal is Gilda Radner
- Gilda’s book It’s Always Something is available at the Gal’s Guide Library!
- Early life in Detroit
- “Overweight” as a child
- Diet pills at the age of 10
- Dippy inspiration
- Father died
- Adult life in Canada
- Second City
Second City comics in 1975 … Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Rosemary Radcliffe and John Candy. Photograph: Courtesy of The Second City & The Guardian
- She dated a good number of funny guys
- National Lampoon Show (more history on NPR)
- SNL needed a girl
- Roseanne Roseannadanna
- Emily Litella (took us a bit to remember the name of the little old lady sketch)
- Eating disorder & pressure to lose weight
- One woman show on Broadway. Available on video as Gilda Live!
- Married G.E. Smith
- Met Gene Wilder on the set of Hanky Panky
- Sparkle (the dog)
- Gilda & Gene got married in France
- Trying to have a baby (more from The Independent)
- Health problems
- CLARIFICATION – the disease doctors thought she might have had that Bonnie was trying to remember is Epstein Barr Virus.
- Cancer
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg shout out
- Gilda’s book was published two weeks after her death
- Gene’s book Kiss Me Like a Stranger
- Bonnie shows pictures on a podcast
- NPR interview with Gene Wilder (NPR)
- Documentary Love, Gilda. Currently available on Hulu and Amazon
- Gal pals memories of Gilda
- SNL vs SCTV
- Googles
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