Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

Amazing

rest in peace to Gilbert Gottfried who has probably the best sequence in game show history on Hollywood Squares. if you're not an old hag like me who remembers the rules, both contestants needed his square to secure the 5-square win, but he decided to troll both of them pic.twitter.com/Egzyzygudd

— manny (@mannyfidel) April 12, 2022

Well I guess that leaves me...

I watched that live at the age of 15 and holy shit did it blow my mind. Was he the first comedian ballsy enough to try a 9/11 joke?

― frogbs, Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Frogbs, did you not see 'the Aristocrats'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxrBrkOE8E

What a career this guy has had.

I saw Joan Rivers do 9/11 jokes right after the event, in midtown Manhattan. They were really gross jokes too, but not far out of line with the rest of her act.

Watching that Emmy footage, it's insane to think of him as like, this outre legend spending the last 20 years racking up amazing Stern appearances, headline-making dirty jokes, roast appearances, podcasts etc... and meanwhile he's had like a whole other 20-year career as like a mainstream character actor, Disney cartoon, SNL cast member, cable TV host...

on Sesame Street as Denny the Distractor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzr5JajCXZM

Huge content warning on this, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSqEP97hJEA

It's wild to watch this because now that Gilbert and Norm are gone (and, before them, Joan and Rickles), I think this entire style of humor is probably gone with it, a style where you could do 10 minutes of the most offensive joke imaginable and then defuse it by just your personality, a kind of academic deference to the source material and a sense of being "in" on something. The Schumer/Lampanelli/Jeselnik axis def veers more towards "edgelord" than this. Ross is close, I guess, but he's way less subtle. Note how everyone laughs at the set-ups like "here it comes." I suppose an argument could be made about how it's probably for the best that these types of jokes are going to die, but it still feels like we're losing a piece of history

Like Norm and Gilbert were probably the only guys that could still kill exclusively with material that was no newer than 75 years old

wow that sesame street clip is an accurate depiction of the inside of my head

also... i lol'd mightily at that roast clip. probably the funniest parts were gottfried attempting to explain the really illogical jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PZlXWekkX4

Walter Chaw: https://decider.com/2022/04/13/gilbert-gottfried-walter-chaw/

Feeling so sad that with GG’s passing we’ll never know for sure what kind of citrus fruit Cesar Romero had his boys fling at him… and we’ll never get a clear view of what was happening on Danny Thomas’s coffee table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjCROtJ1tk

Came across that after reading the article linked here: T/S: Lou Reed "Live: Take No Prisoners" vs. Andrew Dice Clay "The Day The Laughter Died"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLcyPfrdac

From Gilbert's daughter Lily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNO-mVMuzY