This Week on the TV Confidential Radio Show

Ed Asner, Peter Onorati, plus the Most Dangerous Profession in Showbiz

The only actor to win a Prime Time Emmy Award for playing the same role in both a comedy series and a drama, Ed Asner earned five of his eight Emmys for playing Lou Grant (three for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, two for his own hour-long spinoff, Lou Grant). Ed is currently bringing both his political comedy God Help Us and his critically acclaimed one-man show A Man and His Prostate to venues across the U.S. and Canada throughout October and November. We’ll talk to him about that, plus we’ll ask about Ed’s upcoming new series, Briarpatch, as well as read email questions from you. Ed Asner joins us in our second hour.

This week’s show will also include a return appearance by Peter Onorati. One of the most visible actors on network and cable television over the past twenty-five years, Peter is particularly known for his many collaborations with Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Steven Bochco, including Civil Wars, Murder One, Murder in the First, NYPD Blue, and the cult classic Cop Rock. Fans of NBC’s This Is Us know Peter for his recurring role as Jack’s father, Stanley Pearson, while viewers of the CBS reimagining of S.W.A.T. know him as Hondo Harrelson’s rival Mumford, a character that Peter played over the past two seasons.

Also this week: We will welcome comedy historian and longtime entertainment publicist Jeff Abraham. Jeff has represented some of the biggest names in comedy over the past thirty years, including David Brenner, Andrew Dice Clay, Firesign Theatre, Carl Reiner, George Lopez, Rita Rudner, Rhonda Shear, Bobby Slayton, The Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, and, for the last eleven years of his life, legendary comedian George Carlin.

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