R.I.P. Gilbert Gottfried

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Shocking, politically incorrect, crude, insensitive, unfiltered – and always fucking hilarious.

Gilbert’s roast of Joan Rivers, in which he even manages to crack up the prickly Greg Giraldo:

The Post paid homage to Gilbert’s most tasteless jokes.

Norm MacDonald spends two hours with Gilbert on the former’s podcast:

Part 1

Part 2

(In that podcast, Gilbert turns out to be a surprisingly good mimic. I read somewhere that in his early days as a comic he insisted on coming out last, whereupon his entire act consisted of mimicking and ridiculing the other comics. Allegedly, Seinfeld refused to appear in any show that also included Gilbert.)

5 thoughts on “R.I.P. Gilbert Gottfried”

  1. Maybe the last podcast he did was for the 50th anniversary of The Godfather. He did long riffs of it from memory in character voices . . . starting with the opening “I believe in America” speech.

    It’s pretty impressive. I didn’t realize he was ill.

  2. Goddamn that was raw…

    Makes the G.I. Jane joke look like even more of an overreaction than it already is.

    1. We were out of town for The Slap. We finally saw it after we got back, we had the exact same impression: looks fake. Of course, that could just mean that good actors’ fake slaps look a lot like the real thing. But the ratings of the show are falling every year, I wouldn’t put it past them to try to juice it.

      If it was real, I hope it was for telling a shitty ‘joke’ instead of taking offense on the wife’s behalf.

      1. My favorite comment about THE SLAP is this one (I don’t know the original author, and I may have phrased it differently):

        The thing we all have to remember about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is that Ginni Thomas, the wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas, actively participated in an effort to overthrow the elected, legitimate government of the United States. And has gotten LESS media attention.

        I dunno, maybe that’s dumb, but it’s my reaction to THE SLAP. I either don’t care at all, or I wonder why really outrageous stuff gets less attention. I guess people are sick of politics, which I understand perfectly, but the American Right really trips my trigger.

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