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Pollak Gets Inside Phil Hendrie’s Head
In a recent interview with actor Kevin Pollak on his weekly streaming Chat Show, Talk Radio Network syndicated host and KFI/Los Angeles weekender Phil Hendrie revealed, among other tidbits, how he thinks his unorthodox show fits into the Talk radio landscape. “I’m the tie-dye department of the tuxedo shop,” he told Pollak. “If Rush [Limbaugh] and Howard [Stern] are Corvettes, I’m an off-road vehicle.” Hendrie also gives up just which family member in his life inspired one of his radio show’s most beloved characters, the infamous “Bobbie Dooley,” and reveals the name of the Hollywood heavyweight who recently dubbed him “a F*$#-ing genius!” Check out Pollak’s full interview with Hendrie (starting @ around the 24:50 mark) HERE.
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Phil Hendrie Gets Up Close and Personal with Kevin Pollak Actor Kevin Pollak invited his fellow actor and TRN/KFI-AM Los Angeles radio personality, Phil Hendrie, to be a guest on “Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show.” The intimate setting comprised of a black back drop and the two gentlemen sitting across each other at a round table lent a dramatic yet comfortable environment in which Hendrie opened up unlike ever before in the two-and-a-half hour long interview. When asked who Hendrie derives inspiration from, he said Laurel and Hardy, Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters and most telling, Jackie Gleason. Hendrie said of Gleason, “He was my Dad, a big man who would come through the door, ebullient and happy one night and the polar opposite the next…Gleason made anger and strife and the things happening in my home funny…Impotent anger makes me laugh my ass off!” Hendrie also revealed that the “Mmm, hmmming” Bobbie Dooley was inspired by his Mom. Hendrie says Dooley is, “a perfect dismissive suburban woman who is also a sociopath, not that my mom was a sociopath.” Pollak also told Hendrie about his friends who are long time fans of Hendrie such as Garry Shandling who has come by to watch Hendrie live in studio, as well as Larry David who said after seeing him at the Aspen Comedy Festival, “He’s a f**king genius.” Pollak asked Hendrie how his show fits in radio. Hendrie said, “I’m in the tie-dye department of the tuxedo shop…If Rush and Howard are Corvettes, I’m an off-road vehicle.” READ MORE
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Phil Hendrie Visits ‘Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show’
August 17, 2011 at 4:34 AM (PT)
Pollak and Hendrie
TALK RADIO NETWORK and CLEAR CHANNEL Talk KFI-A/LOS ANGELES host PHIL HENDRIE was a guest on actor KEVIN POLLAK’s internet video talk show this week.
The wide-ranging interview on “KEVIN POLLAK’S CHAT SHOW” included discussions of HENDRIE’s inspirations (LAUREL AND HARDY, LENNY BRUCE, JONATHAN WINTERS, and JACKIE GLEASON, of whom HENDRIE said, “He was my Dad, a big man who would come through the door, ebullient and happy one night and the polar opposite the next…. Impotent anger makes me laugh my ass off!”), the inspiration for his characters (“Bobbie Dooley” was patterned, he said, after his mother), and his show’s place in the radio business (“I’m in the tie-dye department of the tuxedo shop…If RUSH and HOWARD are Corvettes, I’m an off-road vehicle”).
POLLAK told HENDRIE, “Damn you for doing something no one else is doing, no one else ever or has done. Damn you for being original. You’re going to have to pay a price forever for being one of a kind.”
