1. Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York accent, his squint, and his edgy, often controversial, sense of humor.
40 Facts About Gilbert Gottfried
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Gilbert Gottfried played Mr Peabody in the Problem Child franchise, the only actor in the series to reprise his role in all three films as well as the animated television series.
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One such incident occurred when Gilbert Gottfried opened for Belinda Carlisle, which was attended by younger girls and their mothers.
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In 1980, when Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians, the producers noticed Gilbert Gottfried and hired him as a cast member for its sixth season.
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Gilbert Gottfried played one recurring character named Leo Waxman and did two celebrity impersonations: David Stockman and Roman Polanski.
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From 1983 to 1984, Gilbert Gottfried regularly performed on Alan Thicke's short-lived show Thicke of the Night.
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Gilbert Gottfried played Sidney Bernstein in Beverly Hills Cop II, in which he reunited with friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Eddie Murphy.
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Gilbert Gottfried went on to make over 100 appearances on the radio show over the next 25 years.
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Gilbert Gottfried was the host of the Saturday edition of USA Up All Night for its entire run from 1989 to 1998.
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Gilbert Gottfried 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.
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Gilbert Gottfried himself began to use the phrase, with most of the other stars eventually joining in with every successive wrong guess, beginning with the second question he was asked.
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Gilbert Gottfried was temporarily fired from Hollywood Squares after this incident, returning about a month later.
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Gilbert Gottfried provided the voice of the duck in the Aflac commercials, Digit in Cyberchase, Dr Bender and his son Wendell in The Fairly OddParents, and Mister Mxyzptlk in Superman: The Animated Series.
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Gilbert Gottfried reprised his role as Mister Mxyzptlk in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Justice League Action, and Lego DC Super-Villains.
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Gilbert Gottfried played a nasty wisecracking criminal genius named Nick Knack in two episodes of Superboy.
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Gilbert Gottfried co-wrote an issue of Superboy, which featured Nick Knack's origin.
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Gilbert Gottfried made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has played Harry Potter and Yoda.
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Gilbert Gottfried was part of an online advertising campaign for Microsoft's Office XP software, showing that the Clippy office assistant would be removed.
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In 2006, Gilbert Gottfried topped the Boston Phoenix's tongue-in-cheek list of the world's 100 Unsexiest Men.
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Gilbert Gottfried voiced Rick Platypus in an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey entitled "That Darn Platypus".
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Gilbert Gottfried 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.
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In January 2009, Gilbert Gottfried worked again with David Faustino for an episode of Faustino's show Star-ving.
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In 2011, Gilbert Gottfried published his only book Rubber Balls and Liquor.
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Gilbert Gottfried was a commentator on truTV Presents: World's Dumbest.
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Gilbert Gottfried would be hospitalized a few hours after the episode's recording.
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Gilbert Gottfried was the third contestant fired during the fourteenth season of the NBC reality show The Celebrity Apprentice.
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Gilbert Gottfried had previously performed as "the real voice of Jared Kushner" in dubbed film clips on the show.
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On July 31,2019, Gilbert Gottfried appeared as a guest in episode 170 of the Angry Video Game Nerd.
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The episode ended with a dedicated message to Gottfried saying "Thank you, Gilbert" before the credits.
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Gilbert Gottfried was best known for speaking in an exaggerated loud and grating voice, which was not his natural speaking voice.
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Gilbert Gottfried was known for joking about recent tragedies, prompting fellow comedian Bill Maher to dub him the "King of Too Soon".
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At the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards, Gilbert 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 [Gilbert Gottfried] should be on death row.
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Gilbert Gottfried said that producers stated he would not be invited back and Rolling Stone wrote that the monologue resulted in his blacklisting.
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Gilbert Gottfried later stated he thought "too soon" meant he did not take a long enough pause before the punchline.
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On March 14,2011, Gilbert Gottfried tweeted 12 jokes about the earthquake disaster in Japan.
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In 1992, Gilbert Gottfried suffered from appendicitis and was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery.
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Gilbert Gottfried was a longtime resident of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Gilbert Gottfried often walked instead of using public transportation because he did not want to pay the fares.
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Gilbert Gottfried 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.
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Gilbert Gottfried was posthumously inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.