Nobody told the joke of the aristocrats like Gilbert Gottfried. The comedian with the dirtiest mouth, the sluttiest humor and the shrillest voice (and iconic) has died in Florida at the age of 67 after a long time suffering from a strange disease, Steinert’s myotonic dystrophy. Her family has only made one request On twitter: “Although it is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as you can in honor of Gilbert”.
I will take care of myself
Although Gottfried is known worldwide for giving the voice to Iago, Jafar’s parrot in ‘Aladdin’, Gottfried started, like most comedians, on ‘Saturday Night Live’ after going through the stand-up stages of New York . lasted 12 episodes and they didn’t let him do anything he does best. Of course, it allowed him to scratch a small role in ‘Super detective in Hollywood II’, and start A Fabulous Career as a Deluxe Comedy Supporter.
In 1990, Gottfried was cast as Igor Peabody in ‘This Boy’s a Devil’ and its sequel, which brought him international fame. and this fame grew even more with the famous role of ‘Aladdin’which would repeat in all the games, sequels and spin-offs of the saga (except the remake in real image, where he was replaced by Alan Tudyk). Gottfried appeared every week on American television and became an iconic face.
From the 2000s he cultivated himself as a voice actor: he put his screeching tone in hundreds of episodes of animated series and was the semi-official voice of Mr. Mxyzptik, the villain of Superman. At the same time, he became infamous for telling, three weeks after 9/11, the joke “I couldn’t catch a direct flight because they said they had to stop first at the empire state“In his favor, it must be said that he put the public back in his pocket with, obviously, the joke of the aristocrats.
Gilbert Gottfried was always there. Perhaps we didn’t realize it, but his histrionic voice, his exaggerated face, his dirty humor and his desire to make us laugh out loud were always there. On the same day the 11th appeared the (now) last episode of his podcast, Gilbert Gottfriend’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, and if you dig a little on the Internet you will find all kinds of signs that he was one of the most beloved characters of the world of Hollywood.
And now let’s tell a joke in his honor: the owner of a talent office he is sitting in his officea family enters and…