We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are still having a lot of difficulty dealing with Gilbert Gottfried's passing earlier this week.
Why people who bring the world laughs, fun and joy are being taken out in rapid succession while the worst of the worst are still here, this writer cannot fathom.
Here's Stephen Colbert's tribute to Gilbert. . . It is HILARIOUS!
The best way to remember Gilbert is with clips of his standup comedy. Gilbert dubbing Dick Cavett on this episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien is unbelievably and indescribably funny.
This meeting of two comedy greats, Gilbert and Norm, is both side-splittingly funny and very very NSFW.
Cannot begin to express how much I will miss listening to Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast.
Thanks a million to the producers and creators of the pod, Gilbert's wife Dara and co-host Frank Santopadre.
The comedy and 20th century pop culture lovin' gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are deeply saddened by this awful news. Posted a tribute to Gilbert a couple of years back and have been avid fans of his podcast from its inception.
Goodbye, Gilbert - and thanks a million for the laughs. Say hello to Louie, Bob, Norm and "old Groucho" when you get a chance.
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.
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.
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.
