{"id":7148,"date":"2020-04-20T00:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2020-04-20T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:33:20","slug":"fran-and-ex-dish-with-billy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/fran-and-ex-dish-with-billy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran and Ex Dish with Billy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 April 2020<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuADWtAzWKw?start=1760\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8220;Who\u2019s \u2018They\u2019?&nbsp; We were writing the show.&nbsp; He did that.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe did everything\u2026including write the scene probably!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Fran Drescher <\/strong>on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> when I asked who cast her at-the-time straight<br \/>\nhusband <strong>Peter Marc Jacobson <\/strong>as a gay actor on <strong><em>The Nanny<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Why\u2019d he play the role?&nbsp;<br \/>\nCheck out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a> \u2013 the answer may surprise you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Week three of <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> has been a banner one.&nbsp; It kicked off with our very own <strong>Judy Gold <\/strong>and <strong>Varla Jean Merman<\/strong>.&nbsp; Let me warn you \u2013 while Varla was in full regalia, Gold was deathly ill and had just come from being tested for Covid-19.&nbsp; And yet, the show was hysterically funny, while also filled with great insights.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, we had the fabulous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YuADWtAzWKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Fran Drescher<\/strong><\/a>!&nbsp; You may have noticed, I\u2019m only booking people I personally know and like.&nbsp; So if you ever wondered what Fran is really like, check out this episode.&nbsp; She\u2019s everything you want her to be\u2026and more.&nbsp; The stories we got \u2013 it was like friends chatting in her living room (which we kinda were).&nbsp; To top things off, I surprised her with even more people she loves, including her ex-husband <strong>Peter Marc Jacobson<\/strong>, her first agent, <strong>Dan Guerrero<\/strong>, her attorney, <strong>Mark Sendroff<\/strong>, and the incomparable <strong>Lainie Kazan <\/strong>(who has played both her mother and her aunt).&nbsp; To get every drop of the tea we spilled, watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YuADWtAzWKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full show<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\/TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com\/TV<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of spilling tea, you know that <strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>is one of my best friends.&nbsp; And she\u2019ll be on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> on Tuesday, April 21<sup>st<\/sup>.&nbsp; Needless to say, the opinions of Miss Lewis are hers alone and are no reflection on <em>Billy Masters Multimedia<\/em>.&nbsp; The one thing I can promise is that it\u2019ll be memorable.&nbsp; You won\u2019t wanna miss this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 April 2020 &#8220;Who\u2019s \u2018They\u2019?&nbsp; We were writing the show.&nbsp; He did that.&nbsp; He did everything\u2026including write the scene probably!&#8221;&nbsp; \u2013 Fran Drescher on Billy Masters LIVE when I asked who cast her at-the-time straight husband Peter Marc Jacobson as a gay actor on The Nanny.&nbsp; Why\u2019d he play the role?&nbsp; Check out BillyMasters.com\/TV \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}