Gottfried hosted Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast (2014–2022), along with Frank Santopadre, which featured discussions of classic films and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians, musicians, and comedy writers. The documentary Gilbert (2017) explored his life and career.[2]
Early life
Gottfried was born Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City on February 28, 1955,[3] the son of hardware store owner Max Gottfried and homemaker Lillian Zimmerman. His father and grandfather ran the store, above which the family lived.[4] He was raised in a Jewish family, but later said of his unusual upbringing, "I ate pork. We weren't that aware of the holidays or anything like that, but were aware of being Jewish. It's like I kind of knew that even though I was never bar mitzvahed and we didn't follow the holidays, I knew that if the Nazis came back, I'd be in the same train coach with everyone else."[5]
He was the younger brother of Karen Gottfried and photographer Arlene Gottfried (1950–2017).[6]
Gottfried's first routine on stage was at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village during one of its Hootenanny Night events when he was 15 years old.[8] His two sisters Arlene and Karen accompanied him, having thought the performances he did for the family were good enough for the stage and encouraged him to try it out.[9] His early routines focused on impressions of old time actors and celebrities, including Boris Karloff and Humphrey Bogart.[7][10] From there, he worked the local comedy circuit and became known in the area as a "comedian's comedian",[11] and started to perform edgier material when he became bored with his usual routines. One such incident occurred when Gottfried opened for Belinda Carlisle, which was attended by younger girls and their mothers: "I tried doing my regular act for about five minutes, then I just launched into the filthiest stuff I could think of. And the next day, I got a call from my agent saying, 'Everybody there loved you,' which is show business talk for, 'You're fired.'"[7]
In 1980, when Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians, the producers noticed Gottfried and hired him as a cast member for its sixth season.[12][13] Gottfried's persona during Saturday Night Live sketches was different from his later characterization: He rarely spoke in his trademark voice and never squinted. During his 12-episode stint, he was rarely used in sketches. Gottfried recalled that a low point was having to play a corpse in a sketch about a sports organist hired to play inappropriate music at a funeral. He had one recurring character named Leo Waxman (husband of Denny Dillon's Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch "What's It All About?") and two celebrity impersonations: David Stockman and Roman Polanski.[14]
From 1983 to 1984, Gottfried regular performed on Alan Thicke's short-lived show Thicke of the Night. In April 1987, he headlined a half-hour comedy special that aired as part of the Cinemax Comedy Experiment series. Gottfried played accountant Sidney Bernstein in Beverly Hills Cop II, in which he reunited with friend and fellow SNL alumnus Eddie Murphy.[15] In August that same year, Gottfried made his debut appearance on The Howard Stern Show and went on to make over 100 appearances on the radio show over the next 25 years.[16] That year, he also starred in the sitcom pilot Norman's Corner, co-written by Larry David prior to creating Seinfeld.[16]
He was a recurring guest star during the Tom Bergeron era of Hollywood Squares and became the center of attention in a bizarre episode that aired on October 1, 1999. In this episode, the two contestants made nine consecutive incorrect guesses, six of which were to be game-deciding questions asked to Gottfried. As the only remaining square left, whoever captured him would have five squares and therefore win the game. Penn Jillette, who was a guest alongside Teller on the same episode, berated a contestant earlier for giving an incorrect guess by shouting, "You fool!". Gottfried himself began to use the phrase, with most of the other stars (including Bergeron himself) eventually joining in with every successive wrong guess, beginning with the second question he was asked. As a result, it took the episode's entire half hour to play only one game; however, he was eventually captured on the last possible question. Appropriately, the episode became known as the "You Fool!" episode.[19][20] Gottfried was temporarily fired from Hollywood Squares after this incident, returning about a month later.[9]
He appeared as Peter's horse in an episode of Family Guy entitled "Boys Do Cry", in which Peter is excited to learn that Gottfried is providing the voice of the horse. He also voiced himself in some episodes. He also guest-starred in Hannah Montana as Barny Bittmen. In January 2009, Gottfried worked again with David Faustino for an episode of Faustino's show Star-ving.[26] In 2011, Gottfried appeared in the episode "Lost Traveller" on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Leo Gerber, a sarcastic computer professional working for the NYPD's Technical Assistance Response Unit, which producer Warren Leight said could become a recurring character.[27] Gottfried read a section from the hit book Fifty Shades of Grey in a June 2012 YouTube video, which was created with the aim of using his trademark voice to make fun of the book's graphic sexual content.[28]
In 2011, Gottfried published his only book Rubber Balls and Liquor.[16]
On May 28, 2014, Sideshow Network premiered Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, an interview podcast where Gottfried and his co-host Frank Santopadre discussed classic films and talk to "Hollywood legends and behind-the-scenes talents" who shaped Gottfried's childhood and influenced his comedy.[32] His first guest was Dick Cavett.[33] His final guest was Brenda Vaccaro in a two part episode released on April 25 and May 2, 2022.[34] Gottfried would be hospitalized a few hours after the episode's recording.[35] Since Gottfried's death, the podcast continued by re-uploading older episodes in honor of his legacy.
Gottfried was the third contestant fired during the fourteenth season of the NBC reality show The Celebrity Apprentice. In 2016, he played the "Pig Man" in a comedy / fantasy film titled Abnormal Attraction.[36]
In 2017, he appeared as himself in Episodes, where a contestant on a fictional TV endurance game show is penalized with "48 hours of Gilbert Gottfried".[37]
On June 10, 2018, Gottfried appeared in a special segment of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver where, for UK viewers only, a segment about the UK's law restricting broadcast of debates from the Houses of Parliament was replaced by 5 minutes of him reading "3-star Yelp reviews" along with host John Oliver telling the audience "you brought this on yourself because of your stupid law." He returned on November 18, 2018, in the show's last episode of the year to read out extracts from the Brexit agreement, again for UK viewers only.[38] He had previously performed as "the real voice of Jared Kushner" in dubbed film clips on the show.[39][40]
On January 10, 2022, he guest-starred as God in the penultimate episode of Smiling Friends[42] Season 1. On October 18, 2022, he appeared in the Somebody Feed Phil Season 6 episode "Croatia" in the "Joke for Max" segment on a video call with the show host Philip Rosenthal where he tells a few jokes in honor of Phil's late father Max. Released in the same month, The Paloni Show! Halloween Special includes a skit with Gottfried voicing an "apartment manager who doesn't want to deal with his tenants."[43][44][45]
In April 2023, he had a posthumous guest role on the second episode of Adult Swim's Royal Crackers as a "fixer" hired to dispose of a dead body. The episode ended with a dedicated message to Gottfried saying "Thank you, Gilbert" before the credits.
Podcast
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast launched on June 1, 2014.[46]GGACP was a long-form interview podcast[47] and was hosted by not only Gottfried, but his friend and professional comedy writer Frank Santopadre. Gottfried's wife Dara served as executive producer and it was recorded weekly until his death in 2022, with re-uploads of older episodes continuing afterwards in his honor.[48]
Standard episodes ran about an hour in length and featured interviews with a variety of entertainers, writers, and directors, including Dick Cavett, Tippi Hedren, George Takei, Brenda Vaccaro (who ended up being his final guest), Bob Costas, Susie Essman, Dick Van Dyke, Alan Arkin, Phil Rosenthal, Lee Grant, and many more. Several guests made more than one appearance, but none more often than Mario Cantone. Cantone would annually help Gottfried and Santopadre celebrate the Christmas season with a mixture of songs, jokes, and cheer.
Starting in 2015, the podcast featured shorter mini-episodes around half an hour in length on more specific topics like particular character actors, films, or songs.[48][50] The mini-episodes were later rebranded as Amazing Colossal Obsessions.
Artistry and image
Danny Gallagher of the Dallas Observer wrote that "Gottfried has one of the most original formulas in the history of comedy," adding, "You don't just laugh at the punchline when Gilbert Gottfried tells a joke. You laugh at the setup. You laugh at his comments about the joke. You even laugh at the segues between his jokes."[51] Eric Falwell wrote of his influence in The Atlantic: "Gottfried's work as a stand-up shaped many comics today, whether they would say as much or not. He was a figure who ... pushed stand-up to move beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd."[52] In 2022, the Jewish Journal named him one of "The Top 10 Jewish Reality TV Stars of All Time."[53]
Gottfried was best known for speaking in an exaggerated loud and grating voice, which was not his natural speaking voice.[54] Mark Binneli of Rolling Stone described Gottfried as a "squinting, squawking mass of contradictions", noting his status as "one of America's filthiest stand-ups" while simultaneously being "one of the most successful voice-over artists in children's entertainment".[55] He was also known for joking about recent tragedies, prompting fellow comedian Bill Maher to dub him the "King of Too Soon".[56] In a July 2012 op-ed for CNN, he wrote, "I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'"[57]
At the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Gottfried told a series of masturbation jokes in reference to Paul Reubens' arrest for masturbating in an adult theater, saying if it was a crime, he should be on death row.[58] Viewers in the Eastern time zone saw the entire set live, but Fox censored the broadcast for the West Coast delay.[59] Fox issued an apology, calling the jokes "irresponsible and insulting".[58] Gottfried said that producers stated he would not be invited back[60] and Rolling Stone wrote that the monolog resulted in his blacklisting.[55]
During his monolog at a Friars Clubroast of Hugh Hefner, 3 weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane, but could not get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first". This was one of the first public examples of 9/11 humor. Audience members responded with hisses and a cry of "too soon!". Gottfried later stated he thought "too soon" meant he did not take a long enough pause before the punchline. Realizing he had lost the audience "bigger than anybody has ever lost an audience",[61] Gottfried abandoned his prepared remarks and launched into the famous Aristocrats joke, which won back the audience.[62]Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza used Gottfried's monolog as a segment in their 2005 film The Aristocrats.[63]
On March 14, 2011, Gottfried tweeted 12 jokes about the earthquake disaster in Japan.[64]Aflac, which does 75% of its business in Japan, responded by dismissing Gottfried from voicing its mascot and announcing a casting call for his replacement, despite Gottfried later apologizing for his jokes.[65] He was replaced by Daniel McKeague (who did an impression of Gottfried) on April 26.[66]
Personal life
In 1992, Gottfried suffered from appendicitis and was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery; the treatment was successful.[8]
In late 1997, he met Dara Kravitz at a Grammy Awards party. On September 3, 2007, they married and had a daughter Lily, born June 12, 2007, and a son Max, born May 18, 2009, named after Gottfried's parents.[67] He was a longtime resident of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.[68]
Gottfried was known for his frugality; he often walked instead of using public transportation because he did not want to pay the fares. In another incident, illustrator Drew Friedman recalled that Gottfried would visit his apartment unannounced in the late 1980s to watch films on his VCR because he did not want to buy one of his own.[16]
Death
On April 12, 2022, at 2:35 p.m. ET, Gottfried died at a Manhattan hospital of recurrent ventricular tachycardia, complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy, which he had privately suffered with for many years. He was 67 years old.[69][70][71]
His family released a statement on his Twitter account, writing: "We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness. In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert's honor."[72]
He was buried in the Sharon Gardens section of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, with the epitaph on his gravestone reading, "Too Soon"; a reference to his Friar's Club controversy, as well as his death.[74]
Legacy
Gottfried was scheduled to appear as a special guest at the Ebertfest film festival to discuss the documentary film about him entitled Gilbert.[75][76] Ebertfest announced it would dedicate its 2022 event to the memories of Gottfried and Sidney Poitier.[77] Gottfried was also posthumously inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.[78]
^Gottfried, Gilbert (2011). Rubber Balls and Liquor. New York: St. Martin's Publishing Group. p. 19. ISBN9781429978569. p. 19: Where I was born, in Coney Island, it wasn't the most Jewish neighborhood. In other parts of Brooklyn, though, and all over New York, we were a regular plague. Okay, so maybe I'm overstating. We Jews tend to do that, I've heard.
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