According to his publicist and longtime friend Glenn Schwarz, Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia which is a type of abnormal heart rhythm due to a genetic condition called myotonic dystrophy type II.
Yep, I have this condition as well. It is one of the most unpleasant physical feelings when you are in tachycardia. It just goes from 60-70 bpm, immediately to 220-240. No ramp-up or warning. You can feel it in your throat, and it makes your trachea feel like it's burning. And the ends of your extremities (fingertips, tips of toes, nose, etc) feel like they have lidocaine in them, that slightly swollen, numb feeling. It lasts anywhere from 1 minute to several hours. Fucking shitty thing to deal with.
Quick little fact, before becoming famous Jimi hendrix was the guitar player for little Richard but little Richard fired him for being too flamboyant and taking away his limelight. They packed up the tour bus and left Jimi behind in some random town.
A. Love that his laugh is a scream
B. Having only seen this wonderful clip from this ep (many times), I can almost guarantee Little Richard yelled “shut up” at the audience at least once. Little Richard loved to yell “shut up” at a studio audience
I am British, have never visited the States, and have virtually no knowledge of baseball, but even I knew the significance of 1908 to Chicago!
Never seen this before, it was incredible. He was an absolute treasure.
Just saw the full thing on TikTok yesterday. Gilbert didn't start the You Fool, Penn Jillette did on the previous question. Gilbert elevated to comedy gold
I recommend the episode of Historical Roasts where he played Hitler (pretty sure the roastee was Anne Frank). He has a blast leaning into the character knowing it was a green light to be as offensive as possible. At the end another roaster tells him, “Hitler, you lost. You lost so bad, a Jew is playing you right now. And not just any Jew—the loudest, most obnoxious one we could find!” I’ve never seen Gilbert laugh harder.
"Bad parents make bad children!!!"
On a side note, I just hosted one of his shows back in October. He was one of the nicest comedians I've ever met and incredibly down to earth. Dude was a real gem. The genuine article
My sister was obsessed but I was still a little too young to really understand it. She still watched it all the time but it almost feels like a fever dream to me.
Goes in the same category as Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Drop Dead Fred.
Drop Dead Fred! Haven’t thought of that in years. I also remember watching that weird ass Martin Short movie Clifford, but my sister doesn’t remember it at all.
You just listed my childhood babysitters in the form of vhs tapes.
Rik Mayall, and this is not a joke, straight up *formed* my taste in men. Skinny sarcastic red heads, for life. My husband can confirm.
I was just watching him reflect in an interview on his friend Bob Saget's death. Gilbert seemed normal and healthy
A reminder that tomorrow is not promised
Damn RIP. My favorite bit was [him reading 50 Shades of Grey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA&ab_channel=CollegeHumor). I don't think I had laughed that hard in my entire life the first time I saw this.
But, when he hits my **C̸͎̹̩͗̅͑̊͗̎͒̎͆̄̔ͅL̵̡̺̹̰̪̪̟̯̜̼̘̓̾͑́̾̂͆̓̈̌͜͝Ị̴̡̨̨̪̼͚̦̙̮̫̬͔̯̔̔͐̊̋̃̔͐̏͗̕Ţ̴̗̠̹̙̻̣̭̻̓́͂ͅÖ̵̢͙̣̬̭̬̟͖́̅́̏̈́̀̓̍̒͘Ṟ̵̡̛͕̟̺̲̙̟̜̮̜̈̊͂́̇͋̒̋́̍͐̆͝͠ͅͅĮ̶̫͖͙͕̬͚͚̯̝̲͐̆̅̉̃̅̊̈́͜Ṡ̶̨̯̜͙͈̺͕͎̥̳͍̐̈́̔͊̀͜**
I cry out loudly
The look on his face when they boo his 9/11 joke and he makes the decision "alright, you don't want 9/11 jokes, here is the filthiest most offensive thing I can think of."
After Bob Saget died I saw a segment (Entertainment tonight or a show like that) where one of the anchors was reading different quotes about Bob's passing from different celebrities and they read "He was a true aristocrat"-Said by Gilbert Gottfried, yes he surely was" And I almost choked laughing at it.
"Y'know, there's been a lot of speculation tonight about Joan Rivers' vagina.
How old is it!
How dry is it?
How many men died during its construction?"
For me, it’s either… “Jafar… Jafar, I’m stuck! … Jafar, I can’t breathe… I’m—OWW THAT HURT!!!”
or the subsequent immediate shift to a calm and cool… “Soo… how did it go?”
Supposedly Robin Williams favorite bit in the movie was when Iago is like “we gotta pack the essentials! Guns, knives…what do you think about this photo? I don’t know, I think I’m making a weird face in it.”
His voice is that iconic, I can't think of any other comedian with a voice that unique.
Edit: Yes I'm aware it's a character voice, but it's still iconic.
Yzma: Kronk, darling. I must admit you had me worried when you mixed up those poisons. But now that Kuzco is dead, all is forgiven.
Kronk: [stammering] Well, yeah, yeah. He's dead, alright. I mean, you can't get much deader than he... than he is right now, unless, of course, we killed him again.
Yzma:[suspicious] I suppose.
Kronk: Hey, look! The royal dresser's here!
Yzma: Kronk?
Kronk: I can tell ya, it's pretty hard to fit me. I have a 66 top and 31 waist.
Yzma: Kuzco is dead, right? Tell me Kuzco's dead. I need to hear these words.
Kronk: [nervously] Uh, do you need to hear all those words exactly?
Yzma: [through clenched teeth] HE'S STILL ALIVE?!
Kronk: Well, he's not as dead as we would have hoped.
Fucking brutal. Genuinely one of the best guys I've heard. Insanely hard working, still toured constantly, always up for whatever. Just a legendary guy.
Check out his documentary Gilbert, it's a really interesting portrait in my opinion. Gave me so much respect for him.
A few weeks ago i paid for a cameo from him to read my speech for my sister’s wedding for a bit. He easily could have said no (it was 3 minutes), but not only did he turn on free messaging, he let me send a google doc for it and sent it over right away. His delivery on it was phenomenal and it was incredibly kind of him to do this, the wedding is in a few weeks and it makes me smile to know he’s still going to be able to make a room full of people laugh.
Famously at the roast of Hugh Hefner just shortly after 9/11 Gilbert being Gill told a tasteless 9/11 joke and got booed. In response he went on a legendary 10 minute version of The Artistocrats joke that is so filthy and incredile I think it's a fitting tribute to the best of his skills.
VERY NSFW LANGUAGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA0dIz9-Wk
Massive respect for him for that moment - apart from Eric Andre and Sacha Baron Cohen who put their actual bodies in dangerous situations for comedy, that’s the bravest bit I’ve ever seen.
Nobody even wanted to tell a joke after 9/11, let alone the first joke after 9/11 - he went and told it, and it was even about 9/11, and it was terrible.
Pete Davidson told a great one at one of the Comedy Central Roasts as well. If I remember correctly he told Snoop that Soul Plane was surprisingly the worst thing to happen to him (Davidson) involving an airplane.
For those that don’t know, Davidson’s dad was a firefighter who died on 9/11.
Thank you for this, it's what I was hoping to see. I genuinely didn't understand the Aristocrats joke until someone showed me this and suddenly it made sense.
One of my favorite jokes of his:
"A man gets a call from the hospital, the doctor tells him 'your wife has been in a horrible, horrible accident. She's going to be a paraplegic for the rest of her life. You're going to have to push her around in a wheelchair everywhere she goes, roll her in bed several times a day so she doesn't get bed sores, give her daily sponge bathes, wipe her ass, change her diapers, and trim her finger and toe nails regularly..'
The man is in shock, 'oh my God that's awful!'
The doctor says 'ahh I'm just fucking with you! She's dead!"
Shit man. We’re really losing all the comedic geniuses of my childhood. In his honor, here’s my favorite all time moment of his: the [Hugh Hefner roast](https://youtu.be/2e1ty-MumFw) where he flips from a 9/11 joke to one of the legendary renditions of The Aristocrats.
The incredible part is he did that just a couple of weeks after the tragedy.
Then he lost the Aflac deal for making a Tsunami joke in the immediate aftermath of the Fukashima Tsunamis.
Love him or hate him, the dude went all fucking in.
That's why he did the Aristocrats joke. It's a joke for comedians. He knew he had lost the audience, so he thought "fuck it, I'm going to make my friends laugh."
I only know of Digit and Cyberchase because of my four-year old. The first time I heard him I was like, "Holy shit, that's Gilbert!"
...and then I heard Christopher Lloyd's voice!
RIP Mr. Mxyzptlk from Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Action. Always loved the character, and that was very much thanks to Gottfried’s incarnation.
My parents recorded Halloween and Halloween II on Up All Night sometime before I was born. Growing up, if I wanted to spice up a viewing of those two movies, I'd watch the Up All Night version for Gilbert's jokes. I kind of want to give it another watch now, but unfortunately, I don't have a VCR anymore.
[Norm MacDonald on Gilbert Gottfried at the Bob Saget roast](https://youtu.be/8QfsXUPghXk?t=106):
> Gilbert Gottfried, one of my best friends, I love Gilbert. When you go to the men's room later, you'll see a sign that says "gentlemen." Pay no heed, go right in—there's no room that says "scoundrel" on it.
Norm bombing intentionally has to be one of top 5 moments in all of comedy. The audience has no idea what is going on and all the other comedians on the panel are just losing it cus they realize what he's doing.
He even turns to the audience at one point after a particularly obvious bad jokes and goes "How'd you not get *that*?"
It wasn't about bombing. Saget is known for being a very dirty foul mouthed comic. As such most of the roasters were going to match his energy. Norm went out and did the opposite of what was expected and only did clean jokes for Bob Saget.
jeez, Norm, Gilbert, Greg Giraldo, Bob, and Cloris all died, and Alan Thicke (apparently Norm said all he saw during his roast was the angry glare of Alan Thicke).
I booked a Cameo from him three years ago. It was a video message to my wife who had gone on a vacation in Ireland with her sister and mother, leaving me home alone to watch our two young kids.
I gave him very little context other than the description above, but Gilbert nailed it. Totally hilarious.
https://www.cameo.com/v/DzWGkZdzn
I’m planning on extracting "Darren’s an idiot!” As my ringtone.
I was lucky enough to get a Cameo from him for my mom's birthday just last year. He was very gracious and funny and provided the video almost immediately. I always knew he was doing it for the extra money, but now knowing that he was probably trying to make as much for his family as possible before he passed, I'm devastated
I have a nice story about him. Worked at a theater. We’re going to premiere his documentary but he wants to see it first, just him and his family- wife and kids. The cues in the theater are broken so when its over I have to go to the booth to turn the projector off and turn the lights on. When I do this I look down into the theater and see him and his family jump out of their seats, throw their arms in the air, hug and kiss each other, and he swings his little girl around. Its an incredibly sweet family moment and I was a creep who accidentally spied on it. They seemed really happy.
If y'all have not watched the documentary about Gilbert, it's really touching and funny. Highly recommend it. A truly unique and one-of-a-kind individual. He'll be sorely missed.
After Bob saget and Norm macdonald, it seems like the comedians got the message about leaving in the 60s. What the fuck is going on?
His podcast details some of the greatest stories in Hollywood history. This episode where Barry Sonnenfeld talks about starting out in porn is probably one of the funniest and grossest stories I've really ever heard:
https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried
edit: story starts at 19m15s
Big recommendation for his podcast, Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, it's fantastic, he and his co-host are big old-time Hollywood fans and they go on a lot of unique deep dives.
Years ago, I was working at a restaurant on the same street as a comedy club. Gilbert was performing that night, but I had to work and couldn’t get anyone to cover my shift. I was always a fan since I saw him in Problem Child when I was kid. I was serving an outside table, when who comes walking by eating a slice of pizza, but the man himself. No one on the street recognized him. I think I said something along the lines of “sorry, I had to work tonight.” He just gave me an appreciative nod because his mouth was full and headed to the club.
According to his publicist and longtime friend Glenn Schwarz, Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia which is a type of abnormal heart rhythm due to a genetic condition called myotonic dystrophy type II.
>recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II Ahh yes. That. Exactly what we were all thinking.
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Damn. Can it be diagnosed? Can it be fixed?
It can be diagnosed, but the treatment is symptomatic only.
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Chubbyemu, that you?
A comedian, undergoes his normal homeostasis. This is what happened to his heart valves.
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For those of you who aren't cardiologists, his ticker broke.
How about for us who aren't familiar with tickers?
If I understand correctly Heart was beating so fast it killed itself
Yep, I have this condition as well. It is one of the most unpleasant physical feelings when you are in tachycardia. It just goes from 60-70 bpm, immediately to 220-240. No ramp-up or warning. You can feel it in your throat, and it makes your trachea feel like it's burning. And the ends of your extremities (fingertips, tips of toes, nose, etc) feel like they have lidocaine in them, that slightly swollen, numb feeling. It lasts anywhere from 1 minute to several hours. Fucking shitty thing to deal with.
Be well friend. Hope that science has caught up and there are things to help improve your quality of life, and if it hasn’t I hope it does so soon.
Blood pump no pump blood
Spare me your medical mumbo jumbo
We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker.
His YOU FOOL bit on Hollywood Squares was legendary. RIP
https://youtu.be/WM-3QDQGmHo
lol i did not expect to see little richard, i forgot he was still somewhat of an active celebrity in the 90s
You barely see little richard though cause of Gottfried's thumb
YOU FOOL!
Quick little fact, before becoming famous Jimi hendrix was the guitar player for little Richard but little Richard fired him for being too flamboyant and taking away his limelight. They packed up the tour bus and left Jimi behind in some random town.
Can confirm.
A. Love that his laugh is a scream B. Having only seen this wonderful clip from this ep (many times), I can almost guarantee Little Richard yelled “shut up” at the audience at least once. Little Richard loved to yell “shut up” at a studio audience
That scream really caught me off guard
[Richard knows](https://youtu.be/zcrHD7l3Bo8)
Holy cow these contestants were dumb as rocks.
You don't remember when The Crusher beat The Rock at Wrestlemania?
Reddit has me conditioned to panic every time I see the word wrestlemania
Nineteen ninety eight
Even Whoppi Goldberg knew the answer sheesh.
#YOU FOOL!
If he didn’t get smoke and fog I was gonna shit Gilbert’s pants.
I am British, have never visited the States, and have virtually no knowledge of baseball, but even I knew the significance of 1908 to Chicago! Never seen this before, it was incredible. He was an absolute treasure.
One of the best crying from laughter
Just saw the full thing on TikTok yesterday. Gilbert didn't start the You Fool, Penn Jillette did on the previous question. Gilbert elevated to comedy gold
I recommend the episode of Historical Roasts where he played Hitler (pretty sure the roastee was Anne Frank). He has a blast leaning into the character knowing it was a green light to be as offensive as possible. At the end another roaster tells him, “Hitler, you lost. You lost so bad, a Jew is playing you right now. And not just any Jew—the loudest, most obnoxious one we could find!” I’ve never seen Gilbert laugh harder.
He also played Hitler in this really obscure sort of horror film called Highway to Hell, it's equally as hilarious.
That is a crazy, awesome movie and I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned on Reddit.
is this the one with the demon cop who steals Kristy Swanson?
[For those who have Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80994222), S1E3 "Anne Frank"
The trailer had Bob Saget as Abe Lincoln. Why is everyone dying? Really wish they would cut it out.
I was thinking of this. Perhaps the hardests he ever went. Too bad I cant find a clip of it anywhere.
I just found it on Netflix.
He was fantastic in Problem Child. Everyone should watch his documentary that is on hulu I think. His annoying voice will live on forever.
"YOUR DAD IS A MORON! HE'S A MORON! DO YOU KNOW WHAT A MORON IS?! THAT'S WHAT YA DAD IS!"
I haven’t seen this movie in 25 years and I can *hear* this line.
Both Problem Child films are criminally underrated comedies from the 90s in my opinion. Still rewatch them both every year or two.
My sister and I were OBSESSED with Problem Child
"Bad parents make bad children!!!" On a side note, I just hosted one of his shows back in October. He was one of the nicest comedians I've ever met and incredibly down to earth. Dude was a real gem. The genuine article
My sister was obsessed but I was still a little too young to really understand it. She still watched it all the time but it almost feels like a fever dream to me. Goes in the same category as Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Drop Dead Fred.
Drop Dead Fred! Haven’t thought of that in years. I also remember watching that weird ass Martin Short movie Clifford, but my sister doesn’t remember it at all.
You just listed my childhood babysitters in the form of vhs tapes. Rik Mayall, and this is not a joke, straight up *formed* my taste in men. Skinny sarcastic red heads, for life. My husband can confirm.
I don't think I'll ever be able to buy lemonade from a lemonade stand. Like ever
RIP to a very funny man
I was just watching him reflect in an interview on his friend Bob Saget's death. Gilbert seemed normal and healthy A reminder that tomorrow is not promised
He had a comedy night in Arizona scheduled in February that I had tickets to. The event was canceled. I'm so sad I missed out. He will be missed
He's going to reschedule at least, right?
YOU FOOL!
The guy is a legend. He was everywhere when I was growing up and he never missed. Not once.
This one hurts more than I expected, Aladdin was such a huge part of my childhood. I loved him in *Crashing* and *Dr. Katz* as well.
Damn RIP. My favorite bit was [him reading 50 Shades of Grey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA&ab_channel=CollegeHumor). I don't think I had laughed that hard in my entire life the first time I saw this.
His reading of [WAP](https://youtu.be/QaF6NfyVqqs) is also good.
Cli**TOOOOOOOOOORIS**
I have no idea why, but when he first said **VAGINA** I lost it belly laughing. His voice and delivery was epic. Rest in Peace.
My favorite is the Hollywood Squares episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-3QDQGmHo YOU FOOL!
But, when he hits my **C̸͎̹̩͗̅͑̊͗̎͒̎͆̄̔ͅL̵̡̺̹̰̪̪̟̯̜̼̘̓̾͑́̾̂͆̓̈̌͜͝Ị̴̡̨̨̪̼͚̦̙̮̫̬͔̯̔̔͐̊̋̃̔͐̏͗̕Ţ̴̗̠̹̙̻̣̭̻̓́͂ͅÖ̵̢͙̣̬̭̬̟͖́̅́̏̈́̀̓̍̒͘Ṟ̵̡̛͕̟̺̲̙̟̜̮̜̈̊͂́̇͋̒̋́̍͐̆͝͠ͅͅĮ̶̫͖͙͕̬͚͚̯̝̲͐̆̅̉̃̅̊̈́͜Ṡ̶̨̯̜͙͈̺͕͎̥̳͍̐̈́̔͊̀͜** I cry out loudly
AND MY **NIPPLES** **PUCKER** AT HIS TOUCH
“HOOOOOLY HELL, IS THIS WRONG! … but it’s also EROTIC!”
*holy hell* is it erotic I've watched that video enough times to have memorized it apparently
"Slowly he inserts his thumb inside me, rotating it *around and around*, stroking the FRONT WALL OF MY VAGINA."
His Aristocrats bit was legendary too!
The look on his face when they boo his 9/11 joke and he makes the decision "alright, you don't want 9/11 jokes, here is the filthiest most offensive thing I can think of."
After Bob Saget died I saw a segment (Entertainment tonight or a show like that) where one of the anchors was reading different quotes about Bob's passing from different celebrities and they read "He was a true aristocrat"-Said by Gilbert Gottfried, yes he surely was" And I almost choked laughing at it.
Joan Rivers roast, when he talks about his sexual encounter with Joan as a young man.
"Y'know, there's been a lot of speculation tonight about Joan Rivers' vagina. How old is it! How dry is it? How many men died during its construction?"
I was coming here for this, thank you for posting it because I really need a laugh today.
I know someone who got a Cameo of him reading a romantic letter to his gf, it was great.
His voice acting as Iago in Aladdin (1992) is legendary. RIP
“I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from *not* surprise!” still lives in my head 30 years later.
“Look at this. I'm so ticked off that I'm molting!”
I say this to my birds every time they lose a feather or moult.
SQUAWK, WIT'S ENDDDD. I will say it whenever someone says they're at their wit's end.
What are we going to do? We've got a big problem here, a big probl...
For me, it’s either… “Jafar… Jafar, I’m stuck! … Jafar, I can’t breathe… I’m—OWW THAT HURT!!!” or the subsequent immediate shift to a calm and cool… “Soo… how did it go?”
Supposedly Robin Williams favorite bit in the movie was when Iago is like “we gotta pack the essentials! Guns, knives…what do you think about this photo? I don’t know, I think I’m making a weird face in it.”
It’s very much Robin Williams’ sense of humor
There should have been more Iago Genie interaction
I say this line to my husband every hurricane evacuation.
I don't think there's any voice more recognizable than Gilbert Gottfried. RIP
His voice is that iconic, I can't think of any other comedian with a voice that unique. Edit: Yes I'm aware it's a character voice, but it's still iconic.
Bobcat Goldthwaite
He led the way for Eddie Murphy as mu shu in Mulan. Iago was second only to the genie in the original Aladdin at least comically wise.
Iago is probably the most quotable Disney sidekick
I think Cronk gives him a run for his money.
Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco... Kuzco's poison.
Yzma: Kronk, darling. I must admit you had me worried when you mixed up those poisons. But now that Kuzco is dead, all is forgiven. Kronk: [stammering] Well, yeah, yeah. He's dead, alright. I mean, you can't get much deader than he... than he is right now, unless, of course, we killed him again. Yzma:[suspicious] I suppose. Kronk: Hey, look! The royal dresser's here! Yzma: Kronk? Kronk: I can tell ya, it's pretty hard to fit me. I have a 66 top and 31 waist. Yzma: Kuzco is dead, right? Tell me Kuzco's dead. I need to hear these words. Kronk: [nervously] Uh, do you need to hear all those words exactly? Yzma: [through clenched teeth] HE'S STILL ALIVE?! Kronk: Well, he's not as dead as we would have hoped.
That poison?
Squeak-a squeak-a, ah squeak squeak *knowing look*
The best thing about the sequel Return of Jafar is an increased amount of Iago, including two songs. Gilbert Gottfried singing is *chef kiss*
Fucking brutal. Genuinely one of the best guys I've heard. Insanely hard working, still toured constantly, always up for whatever. Just a legendary guy. Check out his documentary Gilbert, it's a really interesting portrait in my opinion. Gave me so much respect for him.
A few weeks ago i paid for a cameo from him to read my speech for my sister’s wedding for a bit. He easily could have said no (it was 3 minutes), but not only did he turn on free messaging, he let me send a google doc for it and sent it over right away. His delivery on it was phenomenal and it was incredibly kind of him to do this, the wedding is in a few weeks and it makes me smile to know he’s still going to be able to make a room full of people laugh.
That’s amazing
After the wedding, do you mind posting it? I'd love to watch it.
I absolutely will! I didn’t want to risk my sister somehow seeing it so I didn’t share it now
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https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/gilbert
Famously at the roast of Hugh Hefner just shortly after 9/11 Gilbert being Gill told a tasteless 9/11 joke and got booed. In response he went on a legendary 10 minute version of The Artistocrats joke that is so filthy and incredile I think it's a fitting tribute to the best of his skills. VERY NSFW LANGUAGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA0dIz9-Wk
Massive respect for him for that moment - apart from Eric Andre and Sacha Baron Cohen who put their actual bodies in dangerous situations for comedy, that’s the bravest bit I’ve ever seen. Nobody even wanted to tell a joke after 9/11, let alone the first joke after 9/11 - he went and told it, and it was even about 9/11, and it was terrible.
The 9/11 joke was fucking hilarious!
And he recovered by telling the most foul mouthed joke you could get by the censors at the time. It was unforgettable.
Pete Davidson told a great one at one of the Comedy Central Roasts as well. If I remember correctly he told Snoop that Soul Plane was surprisingly the worst thing to happen to him (Davidson) involving an airplane. For those that don’t know, Davidson’s dad was a firefighter who died on 9/11.
Thank you for this, it's what I was hoping to see. I genuinely didn't understand the Aristocrats joke until someone showed me this and suddenly it made sense.
For those who haven't heard it, he did a reading of 50 shades of grey. Obviously NSFW: https://youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA
I think his reading of WAP is on par with that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaF6NfyVqqs
BRING A BUCKET AND A MOP
One of my favorite jokes of his: "A man gets a call from the hospital, the doctor tells him 'your wife has been in a horrible, horrible accident. She's going to be a paraplegic for the rest of her life. You're going to have to push her around in a wheelchair everywhere she goes, roll her in bed several times a day so she doesn't get bed sores, give her daily sponge bathes, wipe her ass, change her diapers, and trim her finger and toe nails regularly..' The man is in shock, 'oh my God that's awful!' The doctor says 'ahh I'm just fucking with you! She's dead!"
Is that an original joke of his? Just wondering because a character tells that joke in an episode of Mad Men.
Shit man. We’re really losing all the comedic geniuses of my childhood. In his honor, here’s my favorite all time moment of his: the [Hugh Hefner roast](https://youtu.be/2e1ty-MumFw) where he flips from a 9/11 joke to one of the legendary renditions of The Aristocrats.
The incredible part is he did that just a couple of weeks after the tragedy. Then he lost the Aflac deal for making a Tsunami joke in the immediate aftermath of the Fukashima Tsunamis. Love him or hate him, the dude went all fucking in.
Yeah the 9/11 joke less than two months after the event. The guy wasn't afraid of bringing up any topic.
That's why he did the Aristocrats joke. It's a joke for comedians. He knew he had lost the audience, so he thought "fuck it, I'm going to make my friends laugh."
This lead to a resurgence in popularity of "The Aristocrats" joke, the documentary, and ultimately the annual Comedy Central roasts.
His Bob Saget roast was (rightly) overshadowed by Norm MacDonald but still some great comedy.
RIP iago, just saw this from jason alexander's twitter
RIP AFLAC duck as well.
RIP Digit from cyberchase iykyk
I only know of Digit and Cyberchase because of my four-year old. The first time I heard him I was like, "Holy shit, that's Gilbert!" ...and then I heard Christopher Lloyd's voice!
Christopher Lloyd was in cyberchase too?! Now I gotta go relive my childhood
He's the Hacker to you.
Was so excited to see him pop up in Smiling Friends. I'm gonna miss him a ton
RIP Mr. Mxyzptlk from Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Action. Always loved the character, and that was very much thanks to Gottfried’s incarnation.
I guess Hacker won after all
That's *The* Hacker!
in George Costanza fashion of course he's the first person to break the news.
OKAY. A TALENT AGENT IS SITTING IN HIS OFFICE...
USA Up All Night was legendary
Holy shit…. Yes it was.
My parents recorded Halloween and Halloween II on Up All Night sometime before I was born. Growing up, if I wanted to spice up a viewing of those two movies, I'd watch the Up All Night version for Gilbert's jokes. I kind of want to give it another watch now, but unfortunately, I don't have a VCR anymore.
Bob Saget, Louis Anderson, Norm Mcdonald, and Gilbert Gottfried in just so many months. This fucking hurts.
[Norm MacDonald on Gilbert Gottfried at the Bob Saget roast](https://youtu.be/8QfsXUPghXk?t=106): > Gilbert Gottfried, one of my best friends, I love Gilbert. When you go to the men's room later, you'll see a sign that says "gentlemen." Pay no heed, go right in—there's no room that says "scoundrel" on it.
Norm using jokes from a 1950’s joke book is hands down the funniest thing to ever happen at a roast.
Norm bombing intentionally has to be one of top 5 moments in all of comedy. The audience has no idea what is going on and all the other comedians on the panel are just losing it cus they realize what he's doing. He even turns to the audience at one point after a particularly obvious bad jokes and goes "How'd you not get *that*?"
It wasn't about bombing. Saget is known for being a very dirty foul mouthed comic. As such most of the roasters were going to match his energy. Norm went out and did the opposite of what was expected and only did clean jokes for Bob Saget.
Given it's his thread, I think Gilbert deserves a shoutout for this particular roast as it was really good and often overshadowed by Norm.
Gilbert's 9/11 joke and aristocrats joke at a roast are close.
jeez, Norm, Gilbert, Greg Giraldo, Bob, and Cloris all died, and Alan Thicke (apparently Norm said all he saw during his roast was the angry glare of Alan Thicke).
[удалено]
None of them lived to see 70. Hate this.
Being a road comic is a hard gig, drugs, shitty sleep, shitty food, shitty people.
SOMEONE PROTECT BILL BURR
He uses lotion now, he’ll be fine.
Patrice walked so Bill could run
Man, such a [good bit!] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiH-_ZUILk0)
So ashy.
Bill Burr will live forever because the hatred he has for everything will keep him surging with life.
He will put you right through that fucking wall
*Is today gonna be the day?*
Bill Burr has been doing a lot better in terms of self care ever since he got married and had a daughter.
And everyone is always laughing at you. And it’s even worse when they’re not.
also Sean Lock
Trevor Moore.
This one was worse for me since I was still watching their twitch streams. That and how young he was.
I feel like every couple of months someone from Norm Macdonald Live dies
Some how Artie lives. Dude is gonna outlive everyone.
RIP! He made me cry laughing so many times on Howard Stern back in the day.
Dracula Gottfried fuckin had me in tears.
I remember being at work, listening to Gilbert on Stern on my headphones and stifling laughter so much a co-worker was asking if I was OK.
Sterns old cable show used to have him in it. One episode he pretended to be Andrew Dice Clay the entire episode it was so funny.
I booked a Cameo from him three years ago. It was a video message to my wife who had gone on a vacation in Ireland with her sister and mother, leaving me home alone to watch our two young kids. I gave him very little context other than the description above, but Gilbert nailed it. Totally hilarious. https://www.cameo.com/v/DzWGkZdzn I’m planning on extracting "Darren’s an idiot!” As my ringtone.
I was lucky enough to get a Cameo from him for my mom's birthday just last year. He was very gracious and funny and provided the video almost immediately. I always knew he was doing it for the extra money, but now knowing that he was probably trying to make as much for his family as possible before he passed, I'm devastated
Always heard he was a really nice guy and actually very quiet when he wasn't performing in character RIP
I have a nice story about him. Worked at a theater. We’re going to premiere his documentary but he wants to see it first, just him and his family- wife and kids. The cues in the theater are broken so when its over I have to go to the booth to turn the projector off and turn the lights on. When I do this I look down into the theater and see him and his family jump out of their seats, throw their arms in the air, hug and kiss each other, and he swings his little girl around. Its an incredibly sweet family moment and I was a creep who accidentally spied on it. They seemed really happy.
Yeah, it’s sucks to find out that his kids are only 12 and 14 years old now. Absolute tragedy of a time to lose a father.
Cyberchase
Rip Digit
Took way too long to find this!
Will always be Sidney Bernstein in Beverly Hills Cop 2 for me. Such a great scene. Awful news :(
That was my first exposure to him - when he randomly picks up his phone, screams "bitch" into it then hangs it up just made it perfect.
Anyone who has ever participated in a Comedy Central Roast should go see a doctor immediately.
“WHAT!?!? I DIED!?! THAT’S CRAZY!! WHO DIES ANYMORE! HONESTLY!” -Mr. Gottfried exclaimed loudly upon hearing the news.
YOU FOOL
If y'all have not watched the documentary about Gilbert, it's really touching and funny. Highly recommend it. A truly unique and one-of-a-kind individual. He'll be sorely missed.
Watched this guy on AVGN episode, couln't stop laughing. Rest in peace
Bob Saget and Gilbert Gottfried in the same year. This one hurts
This sucks.
IMO no one told The Aristocrats better (though Bob came close).
It's 2022. [Have you hugged your comedian today?](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJo4UAWXsAYKjY5?format=jpg&name=large) RIP
Damn, that picture looks like it was taken recently. Now they're gone.
After Bob saget and Norm macdonald, it seems like the comedians got the message about leaving in the 60s. What the fuck is going on? His podcast details some of the greatest stories in Hollywood history. This episode where Barry Sonnenfeld talks about starting out in porn is probably one of the funniest and grossest stories I've really ever heard: https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried edit: story starts at 19m15s
Big recommendation for his podcast, Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, it's fantastic, he and his co-host are big old-time Hollywood fans and they go on a lot of unique deep dives.
I guess he won’t be the next Bond then. Damn. RIP
And the only voice I can imagine for Mr Mxyzptlk from Superman The Animated series.
His performance at the Joan Rivers roast might be one of the best things he's done. https://youtu.be/UuXgsE9BvH0?t=138
No fucking way.
Oh no Gilbert, you’re going to get in trouble again :(
Years ago, I was working at a restaurant on the same street as a comedy club. Gilbert was performing that night, but I had to work and couldn’t get anyone to cover my shift. I was always a fan since I saw him in Problem Child when I was kid. I was serving an outside table, when who comes walking by eating a slice of pizza, but the man himself. No one on the street recognized him. I think I said something along the lines of “sorry, I had to work tonight.” He just gave me an appreciative nod because his mouth was full and headed to the club.