Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor, known for his exaggerated shrill voice, strong New York accent, and his edgy, often controversial, sense of humor.
43 Facts About Gilbert Gottfried
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Gilbert Gottfried was known for his role as Mr Peabody in the Problem Child film series.
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The documentary Gilbert explored his life and career; it won the Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2017 deadCENTER Film Festival.
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Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was born on February 28,1955, in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the son of homemaker Lillian Zimmerman and hardware store owner Max Gottfried.
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In 1980, 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 season 6.
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Gilbert 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.
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Gilbert Gottfried did have one recurring character and two celebrity impersonations: David Stockman and Roman Polanski.
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From 1983 to 1984, Gilbert Gottfried was a regular performer on Alan Thicke's short-lived show Thicke of the Night.
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Also in 1987, Gilbert Gottfried made his debut appearance on The Howard Stern Show.
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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 October 1,1999.
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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 and Digit in Cyberchase, as well as 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 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 made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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Gilbert Gottfried was part of an online advertising campaign for Microsoft's Office XP software, showing, in a series of Flash-animated cartoons, 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 guest-starred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Santa Claus in the one-hour Christmas Special.
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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".
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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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On June 10,2018, Gilbert 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 five 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".
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Gilbert Gottfried 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.
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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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Gilbert Gottfried was known for speaking in a 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.
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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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In March 2011, Gilbert Gottfried tweeted twelve jokes about the earthquake disaster in Japan.
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Gilbert Gottfried was replaced by Daniel McKeague on April 26,2011.
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In 1992, Gilbert Gottfried suffered from Appendicitis and was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery and the treatment was a success.
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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; 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 himself.
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Gilbert Gottfried was buried at Sharon Gardens Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, with the epitaph on his gravestone reading, "Too Soon".
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Gilbert Gottfried was posthumously inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.
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The 2023 video game Justice League: Cosmic Chaos, was dedicated to his memory as Gilbert Gottfried was originally going to reprise the role of the game's antagonist, Mr Mxyzptlk prior to his passing as he was later replaced by Dana Snyder in the final product.