The Uncle Floyd Podcast
Step into the wonderfully offbeat world of show business with Scott Gordon — longtime “second banana,” engineer, and trusted sidekick to the legendary late Uncle Floyd Vivino.
With more than 60 years in entertainment, Scott has seen (and survived) just about everything the business can throw at you. From nearly three decades on the television classic The Uncle Floyd Show to his work in radio and live performance, he brings stories, insight, and hard-earned wisdom to every episode. Mentored by the one he affectionately called “The Genius,” Les Paul, Scott is also an accomplished guitarist in his own right — and a born storyteller.
Each episode, Scott answers your questions about anything and everything showbiz — the triumphs, the chaos, the legends, and the laughs.
Over the years, fans of The Uncle Floyd Show included icons like The Ramones, Paul Simon, David Bowie — who once called Uncle Floyd “one of the best barrelhouse piano players I’ve ever heard” — Iggy Pop, and John Lennon, among many others.
You never know who might be listening right along with you.
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Episodes
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
In episode #31, Uncle Floyd was not available in the rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, so Scott Gordon has, as a special guest, fellow cast member and friend, Charlie Stoddard joining him for some reminiscences of the goings on of The Uncle Floyd Show. He and Charlie talk about what it was like to work together, their mutual history in music, crazy happenings, and Charlie’s current work with The Bell Bottom Blues, the preeminent Eric Clapton tribute band which is currently touring and available for appearances. This is a little bit distorted due to the phone connection between Scott and Charlie.
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Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
In episode #30, recorded on May 29, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about Paul Winchell, Peter Tork, Davy Jones, off camera laughter, The Ramones, pie throwing, personal appearances, old school comedians, Burlesque, viewer artwork, Cyndi Lauper, old school wrestling (“Captain” Lou Albano, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine, The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, and George “The Animal” Steele), and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions (he was a bit tired this week).
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Saturday May 24, 2025
Saturday May 24, 2025
In episode #29, Uncle Floyd was not available in the rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke due to a full afternoon of testing, so Scott has put together some of the Uncle Floyd on the Radio comedy bits, Floyd’s technical abilities (or lack thereof), how they were able to created 260 shows per year from 1974 to 2001, and how The Uncle Floyd Show met and became friends with David Bowie.
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Saturday May 17, 2025
Saturday May 17, 2025
In episode #28, recorded on May 15, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about the early days at channel 68, Zacherle, Svengoolie, “circus freaks, sponsors and selling advertising, “Snap It Pal”, character creation, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions (he was a bit tired this week).
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Saturday May 10, 2025
Saturday May 10, 2025
In episode #27, recorded on May 8, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about learning piano, drawing, Hermit Crabs, syndication, the original channel 68 studio, New Jersey Network telethons, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions. To submit a question for the next podcast, email to UFPodcast@SGE-Inc.comTo help us continue this podcast, please click here (or go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8CTC4H483NPLS
Saturday May 03, 2025
Saturday May 03, 2025
In episode #26, recorded on May 1, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about old songs, an old local movie house, the Club Bené, old sponsors, the pressures of production, The Marx Brothers, our records, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions. Uncle Floyd was a bit tired from his physical therapy earlier in the day but he insisted on doing this podcast so that you would not be disappointed.To submit a question for the next podcast, email to UFPodcast@SGE-Inc.comTo help us continue this podcast, please click here (or go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8CTC4H483NPLS
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
In episode #25, Scott Gordon was not able to drive to visit Floyd at the rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, so he called up friend and fellow Uncle Floyd Show cast member “Looney” Skip Rooney to have a conversation about getting a start in comedy, writing comedy bits, early days of performing, Bozo the Clown, the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Gleason, Frank Nastasi, Soupy Sales, working on The Uncle Floyd Show, and life in Showbusiness.
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Saturday Apr 19, 2025
Saturday Apr 19, 2025
In episode #24, recorded on April 16, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about life lessons, their records, guest artists, puppets, character creation, lawsuits, baseball, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions. To submit a question for the next podcast, email to UFPodcast@SGE-Inc.comTo help us continue this podcast, please click here (or go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8CTC4H483NPLS
Saturday Apr 12, 2025
Saturday Apr 12, 2025
In episode #23, recorded on April 9, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about records, concerts, Uncle Floyd Show puppets, Tom Carvel, Jean Shepherd, performing in the Catskills, Howdy Doody, the New York World’s Fair, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions. To submit a question for the next podcast, email to UFPodcast@SGE-Inc.comTo help us continue this podcast, please click here (or go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8CTC4H483NPLS
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
In episode #22, recorded on April 2, 2025, at the inpatient rehabilitation facility where he is recovering from his stroke, Uncle Floyd and Scott Gordon answer your questions, and talk about 1950s and 1960s New York kid shows, how Floyd routines his standup show, Oogie, his brothers, Pinky Lee, the Catskills, Bruce Springsteen, how medicine tastes, the history of The Uncle Floyd Show, and their life in Show Business. It is recorded during the breaks between Uncle Floyd’s treatments and physical therapy sessions. To submit a question for the next podcast, email to UFPodcast@SGE-Inc.comTo help us continue this podcast, please click here (or go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8CTC4H483NPLS
How Many People Can Say...
...that David Bowie wrote a song about them (listen to Slip Away from his HEATHEN album)?
...that they had a TV show where they gave many well known entertainers their first television exposure (Bon Jovi, The Stray Cats, The Smithereens, Dramarama, Cyndi Lauper, and many others)?
Uncle Floyd can say all of that and more!
Join Uncle Floyd and his long-time friend and co-star, Scott Gordon, as they chat, reminisce, telling all the deep, dark, hidden stories of what it was like. They will joke around as well.
And, by the way, Scott Gordon is a musician, voice actor, audio engineer, and entertainment technology consultant. Scott learned electronics, recording, and even some guitar at the side of the legendary Les Paul from the time he was 14.