It's only just now that I found a way to fit it on this blog — a goodbye to Gilbert Gottfried.
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"I'm here to supervise balloons!"
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"Thank you, mein Führer"/"Only Gilbert can get away with that."
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April 22, 2022
"I should've worked in a pie factory. I knew I missed my calling."
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About five years ago I almost physically ran into Gilbert coming out of Penn Station.
I had that, 'Isn't that???' thought, and by that time he had smiled at me and walked on by.
I still kick myself for not telling him that he told the funniest story I have ever heard. By the time he was finished with the story (this was on an early 'Letterman' show) I was actually crying and almost fell out of the chair.
His podcast is good too if you like inside showbiz stuff that you won't hear anywhere else.
Like Norm Macdonald, I never knew he was ill...
P.S. at 48 seconds or so, Jerry Rivers looks like such an insufferable douchebag.
Btw, that is not Gilbert's 'real' voice...pure schtick that he kept up for decades.
Great clip. Absolutely hilarious bit when he presented the desserts at the end of the 'family meal'.
And the 'mein Führer' was just classic.
One of his best bits was playing god and moses having an argument at the same time. That might have been on howard stern.
I love Gilbert and he was great with Norm on his podcasts. IRC, that's really not his natural voice, that's his show biz voice. At least that's what I remember from a terry gross intereview, where he refused to "get out of character" when answering her "Fresh air" questions.
He was pretty left-wing, but made an effort to keep politics out of his comedy and just rely on smut and bad taste for the laughs.
Ann thanks for the clip!
The funniest line was "Geraldo was great, and he'll tell you that himself". I was surprised that Gilbert sorta winced when he got fired, but maybe that was just acting.
His style would give me headaches, but I'm sure if i were around him I'd be busting a gut all day long.
He was very funny. It wasn't so much that he took it to the edge, but rather that he made fun of the edge.... There does seem to be a lot of comedian deaths lately. There's something edifying and instructive in the death of rock stars, but there's nothing funny about the death of a comedian.
When faced with something he'd prefer not doing, Gilbert would say "I'd rather take a pill from Adolf Eichmann." Always made me laugh...
Shakespeare kept the death of Falstaff and Lear's fool offstage. No great dying soliloquy for them. They should stop reporting on comedian deaths. It's too depressing.
I had an uncle who was a mathematician.
He worked in a pi factory
Show business
I'll just quote my favorite Godfrey punchline, and let you all hear it in Gilbert Godfrey's voice: "The Aristocrats!"
NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA0dIz9-Wk
You fool!
Thank you, Ann. I hadn’t realized just much I missed his comedy until this montage
Gilbert Gottfried's REAL VOICE on the Howard Stern show!
Gilbert Gottfried was a delight and showed that delightful and annoying aren't necessary mutually exclusive.
Trump didn't seem that scary, though -- or any crazier or more egotistical than anybody else in show business. What's up with that?
mikee's link had me laughing SO hard it hurt.
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