Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

no, he's definitely not the funniest man alive, but I do find him unironically hilarious. Though maybe I'm laughing more AT him than with him. Can't tell.

Beyond that, ahhh....

... Okay, I would listen to a Gilbert Gottfried comedy record before a Colin Quinn comedy record.

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2007/10/08-15/gildbert-godfried.jpg

haha

He looks like a lesbian there?

what happy lesbians!

haha xp

BLACK CHUCK TAYLORS
OH NOOOO

chaki do you consider that photo evidence for or against yr chuck bias

my chuck bias was fake tom i was just trolling. i admitted that at the end of the thread.

maybe i should be banned :(

That guy is always going to be on my good list 'cause of his years on USA Up All Night during lonely adolescent years.

for the record, i love gilbert.

and sullivan.

yes but chaki I am asking you to keep up the troll about chucks I thought it was an interesting character bit

work some Stan Smiths into it

huge stan smith fan though. but i mostly wear jack purcells.

Rod Lavers

...only come in white

http://www.zappos.com/images/A/Adidas145/70832-d.jpg

well tickle my balls..

Gilbert Gottfried on Stern show is classic though

yah he was on today.

note to self: renew Sirius subscription

USA Up All Night = yes!

This picture is really gross.

im glad he's happy

Gottfried's Andrew Dice Clay parodies really are great.

<3 gilbert gottfried

He wrote an intro to a Mad magazine compendium that includes the sentence "Now I am a parrot." So true.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/gilbert-gottfried-fired-aflac_n_835692.html

RealGilbert

Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them.
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What do the japanese have in common with @howardstern? They're both radio active.
about 20 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
Japan had put out this urgent plea...." PLEASE SEND US A FEW BIlLION RUBBER DUCKIES!!!!!"
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Japan called me. They said "maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they're all sinking.
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I fucked a girl in japan. She screamed "I feel the earth move and I'm getting wet."
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My book #rubberBallsAndLiquor was released in japan. It's making quite a splash.
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What does every Japanese person have in their apartment? Flood lights.
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I asked a girl in Japan to have sex with me. She said "okay, but you'll have to sleep in the wet spot."
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What do Japanese Jews like to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.
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I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said "is there a school in this area." She said "not now, but just wait."
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My Japanese doctor advised me to stay healthy I need 50 million gallons of water a day.
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I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, "They'll be another one floating by any minute now."
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what a horribly formed "joke"

<tiniest font ever> one of those made me laugh a little bit.

yeaaaahhhhhh... he's not gonna recover from this. and the commercials were becoming tedious anyway - i'm not going to miss him.

Those jokes are great!

opens in NY this weekend

I'm glad to see he takes the Megabus to gigs, as I would

The doc is good, if a bit...over-scored (?!). I'm surprised that it passes completely over his SNL days, though perhaps this is to give more time to more recent career setbacks--I didn't realize that he took to the Aflac thing so hard--as well as some fairly candid family stuff (the film is dedicated to his sister, who passed away a few months ago). Mostly, though, I just want a pair of Max Gottfried's glasses.

the season he was on SNL is widely regarded as The Disaster Year, and there's only so many clips of bad sketches you can inflict on an audience (one?).

doc is good!

Doc is solid, could've done with a little less "OMG how did this misfit freak end up with an attractive wife and a family!?"

for sure

tbf like every third guest on his podcast feels the need to echo that sentiment to him on the air.

the season he was on SNL is widely regarded as The Disaster Year, and there's only so many clips of bad sketches you can inflict on an audience (one?).

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)

clips from the 1672 season of snl are hard to come by

It had to happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaF6NfyVqqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftMb7wLrqsw

Still one of my favorite stand up bits. :(

Thread name change?

R.I.P💔 pic.twitter.com/KObq2B2QEd

— DoogieHowser (@MattHowserMD) April 12, 2022

got me scared that Jeffrey Ross had died too

We can always pretend that's Madeline Albright

was just watching an old Dr Katz ep last night with Gilbert & was crying with laughter. he was not playing along with the improv at all, just screaming random interruptions at Katz: "You know Gilbert, Sigmund Freud once said-" "HE SAID THIS TO YOU??? WHEN DID YOU TALK TO HIM???"

GG persisting with *that* voice is one of the greatest comedy moves ever imo

RIP Gilbert

GG’s “old Groucho Marx” impression was the best thing ever. Sad that we never got an old Gilbert Gottfried.

damn rip gil, he was great

RIP to one of the best to do it

jake fogelnest posted this great old clip

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcQ4InClqDA

got me scared that Jeffrey Ross had died too

he would be the only one id be ok with kicking the bucket

This collection of early-ish (1985-90) Gottfried standup appearances on Letterman is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fii2DPoNfZo

We got to work with him once, he was everything you’d hoped he’d be. pic.twitter.com/uWT6oyw4Q7

— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) April 12, 2022

a recap of the 9/13/01 Hefner Roast including Gottfried’s set

quite a thing

https://observer.com/2005/08/why-have-a-night-like-this-in-times-like-these/

I watched that live at the age of 15 and holy shit did it blow my mind. Was he the first comedian ballsy enough to try a 9/11 joke?

Remember when a bunch of people lost their shit over this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qTiqQz29t8

losing Gottfried makes me even sadder that Morbs isnt’t with us

shit just keeps getting less funny :(

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_foueV9OFU

Tony Curtis talking to Gavin McLeod

pure genius

Writer Eric Spitznagel on Facebook:

I interviewed Gilbert Gottfried a half dozen times over the years. I even ghostwrote a few magazine essays for him. He didn't need me. He was always hilarious, and yes, that was his actual voice. Once, the Dame was out of town and I had a call with him, and Charlie (who was maybe 3 at the time) wouldn't leave me alone so I handed him the phone and let him interview Gilbert for awhile. I still have the tape of their conversation somewhere. At the end, Gilbert exclaimed, "That kid is going places! [Long pause.] Prison, most likely. But still, places!"
He used to call me months after a story was published, and say, "Spitznagel, it's your Jewish friend. Listen, I came up with better jokes. Could you stop the presses?" I still clearly recall one of the last messages he ever left me. He said, "Spitznagel! I thought you were dead. That's not quite true, I HOPED you were dead. Anyway, call me. You said everybody at Playboy loved our first draft. Does that include Dorothy Stratten?"
To this day, his number is still in my phone, because you never knew when Gilbert might call. I see no good reason to remove it now.

the 2017 doc “Gilbert” is streaming on PlutoTV - highly recommend if you are a fan, its a very sweet snapshot of him & his family, v touching

Amazing

rest in peace to Gilbert Gottfried who has probably the best sequence in game show history on Hollywood Squares. if you're not an old hag like me who remembers the rules, both contestants needed his square to secure the 5-square win, but he decided to troll both of them pic.twitter.com/Egzyzygudd

— manny (@mannyfidel) April 12, 2022

Well I guess that leaves me...

I watched that live at the age of 15 and holy shit did it blow my mind. Was he the first comedian ballsy enough to try a 9/11 joke?

― frogbs, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Frogbs, did you not see 'the Aristocrats'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxrBrkOE8E

What a career this guy has had.

I saw Joan Rivers do 9/11 jokes right after the event, in midtown Manhattan. They were really gross jokes too, but not far out of line with the rest of her act.

Watching that Emmy footage, it's insane to think of him as like, this outre legend spending the last 20 years racking up amazing Stern appearances, headline-making dirty jokes, roast appearances, podcasts etc... and meanwhile he's had like a whole other 20-year career as like a mainstream character actor, Disney cartoon, SNL cast member, cable TV host...

on Sesame Street as Denny the Distractor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzr5JajCXZM

Huge content warning on this, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSqEP97hJEA

It's wild to watch this because now that Gilbert and Norm are gone (and, before them, Joan and Rickles), I think this entire style of humor is probably gone with it, a style where you could do 10 minutes of the most offensive joke imaginable and then defuse it by just your personality, a kind of academic deference to the source material and a sense of being "in" on something. The Schumer/Lampanelli/Jeselnik axis def veers more towards "edgelord" than this. Ross is close, I guess, but he's way less subtle. Note how everyone laughs at the set-ups like "here it comes." I suppose an argument could be made about how it's probably for the best that these types of jokes are going to die, but it still feels like we're losing a piece of history

Like Norm and Gilbert were probably the only guys that could still kill exclusively with material that was no newer than 75 years old

wow that sesame street clip is an accurate depiction of the inside of my head

also... i lol'd mightily at that roast clip. probably the funniest parts were gottfried attempting to explain the really illogical jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZlXWekkX4

Walter Chaw: https://decider.com/2022/04/13/gilbert-gottfried-walter-chaw/

Feeling so sad that with GG’s passing we’ll never know for sure what kind of citrus fruit Cesar Romero had his boys fling at him… and we’ll never get a clear view of what was happening on Danny Thomas’s coffee table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjCROtJ1tk

Came across that after reading the article linked here: T/S: Lou Reed "Live: Take No Prisoners" vs. Andrew Dice Clay "The Day The Laughter Died"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLcyPfrdac

From Gilbert's daughter Lily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNO-mVMuzY