Jerry Hubbard: Tom, where do you hail from professionally? Is it the Big Apple as they call New York, I think? Or is it Hollywood? Tom Waits: I live at Bedlam and Squalor. It's that way. Barth Gimble: I think we've all lived there at one time. It's kinda strange to have a guy sitting here with a…
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Martin Mull
Martin Eugene Mull (born August 18, 1943) is an American actor, comedian and singer who has appeared in many television and film roles. He is also a painter and a recording artist. As an actor, he first became known in his role on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night. Among his other notable roles are Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film Clue, Leon Carp on Roseanne, Willard Kraft on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Vlad Plasmius on Danny Phantom and Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development. 2Early years and education Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Betty, an actress and director, and Harold Mull, a carpenter. He moved with his family to North Ridgeville, Ohio, when he was two years old. They stayed there until he was 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where he attended and graduated from public high school. He studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting. 2Acting career Mull's first well known acting role was as Garth Gimble in the 1976 television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. This led to work in the spin-off comedy talk shows Fernwood 2 Night (1977) and America 2-Night (1978), in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble (Garth Gimble's twin brother), opposite Fred Willard, as sidekick Jerry Hubbar
Jerry, here—I just met him, but I'm sure he'll grow on me.
Welcome very, very, very, much, Morton. I guess it was just our luck that you were stopped today as you were driving through town and it was the police chief's idea, and a pretty good one I think, to have you on the show because, well, it occurred to him that many Fernwooders or Fernwoodians or…
That's the problem with beer—you don't buy it, you rent it.
It's really almost mind-boggling in a way to think that a town that has gone so far as to actually, well, kill my brother would be so nice to me and welcome me with such open arms.
I think we have some of the finest people in all of Ohio, if not the entire Midwest, right here.
We had some [phone calls] for corporal punishment and we had some against corporal punishment, and we had some calls from people who just wanted to see more spanking.
I don't know that much about the Manson Family. I did not see the movie.