A Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog favorite among those fearless standup comedians active in the 20th century and still going 20 years in the 21st century (Stephen Wright, Norm MacDonald, Louis Black and Chris Rock among them), remains the one, the only Gilbert Gottfried, comic, cartoon voice artist and character actor who celebrates his 65th birthday today. Starting today's post: Gilbert's part in Beverly Hills Cop.
Enjoy his unconventional set on HBO's One Night Stand.
Here are two prime clips of Gilbert's wild and original standup comedy from back in the 1980's, the latter one of his many appearances on Late Night With David Letterman.
Gilbert's comedy is NSFW, hilariously funny and in the Dirty Jokes Hall Of Fame (along with LaWanda Page, Redd Foxx and Robert Schimmel).
We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are also unabashed fans of the wonderful and old school show biz-obsessed Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast featuring Gilbert and his co-host, broadcaster, journalist and writer Frank Santopadre.
Thank you to the Gottfrieds (Gilbert and his wife and podcast producer Dara) and Frank for doing this. The 300th episode aired earlier this week!
It is far and away the funniest and most entertaining of all podcasts.
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast is a frequent go-to for this writer and old school show business geek when he needs a laugh.
As far as Gilbert's role as Iago the Parrot in the 1992 Walt Disney cartoon feature Aladdin goes, the surprise is that it took so long for someone in animation to offer Gilbert a job as a voice artist.
Could we imagine Gilbert contributing voices to The Ren & Stimpy Show? Yes, definitely.
Happy 65th, Gilbert - and many more!
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