Gilbert Gottfried
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Gottfried at the Montclair Film Festival in April 2016
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| Born |
February 28, 1955 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, film, television |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Genres | Satire, crude humor, blue comedy, improvisational comedy, black comedy, insult comedy |
| Subject(s) | Religion, race relations, racism, pop culture, sex |
| Spouse | Dara Kravitz (m. 2007) |
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| Website | www.gilbertgottfried.com |
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice actor. His numerous roles in film and television include voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin, Digit in the children's cartoon/educational math-based show Cyberchase and Kraang Subprime in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Gottfried was also the voice of the Aflac Duck until 2011.
Since 2014, Gottfried has hosted a podcast titled Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, which airs new episodes each week featuring discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians and comedy writers.
At age 15, Gottfried began doing amateur stand-up in New York City and, after a few years, became known around New York as "the comedian's comedian." In 1980, Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians; the producers noticed Gottfried and hired him as a cast member for season 6. Gottfried's persona in SNL sketches was very different from his later characterization: he rarely (if ever) spoke in his trademark screeching, obnoxious voice and never squinted. During his 12-episode stint, he was given very little airtime and seldom used in sketches. Gottfried recalls a low point was having to play a corpse in a sketch about a sports organist hired to play inappropriate music at a funeral. Despite this, he had one recurring character (Leo Waxman, husband to Denny Dillon's Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch, "What's It All About?") and two celebrity impersonations: and controversial film director Roman Polanski.
Gottfried also played accountant Sidney Bernstein in the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II.
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