“We are devastated to announce the death of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness. In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father of his two young children. “Sad day for all of us, please keep laughing out loud in Gilbert’s honor,” his family wrote in a Twitter post. CNN contacted Gottfried’s spokesman for further comment. Although the audience knows him by his intense tone, it was not yet his signature when he made his cast debut on “Saturday Night Live” for a season from 1980 to 1981, one of the few seasons without him. Lorne Michaels at the wheel. He played mostly stand-up during the 1980s, appearing regularly on Howard Stern radio. Although he played a role in the success of the ’80s “Beverly Hills Cop 2”, Gottfried’s fame rose in the 1990s. Throughout the decade, he used the scream-speak feature in parts of animated films. such as “Aladdin” as Iago’s mouthpiece, as well as live-action comedies such as “Problem Child”, in which he played a fraudulent adoption clerk. In the 2000s and 2010s, Gottfried appeared in voice roles in series such as “Family Guy” and as a contestant or “speaker” in reality series, including “Celebrity Wife Swap.” (Exchanged spouses with the late Alan Thic.) In his stand-up comedy, however, Gottfried’s style was dirty and rendered at high decibels (you may have heard him say the famous blue joke “Aristocrats”). He also spoke on extremely sensitive frontal issues, recalling a 2012 CNN opinion article on a 9/11 joke he made during a Hugh Hefner roast in Manhattan a few days after the attacks (his audience did not appreciate it) . In the same piece, he defended the tweets he published about the 2011 tsunami in Japan as “stupid” and “stupid”, although these tweets later led Aflac, to whom he gave the voice of the duck mascot, to fire him. “I always felt that comedy and tragedy were roommates,” he wrote on CNN at the time. Gottfried’s blue material was at home during the baking of many celebrities such as former President Donald Trump in 2011. Even when the audience did not see him so often on screen, he made his voice easily available. For almost a decade, he interviewed comedians and entertainers on his podcast, “Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.” A new episode was released earlier this month. Many fellow Gottfried comedians and former co-stars paid tribute to social media. “Gilbert Gottfried was never funny,” wrote comedian Dane Cook. “He was a great guy, always friendly and made a lot of people happy.” “Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh at a time when laughter was not easy. What a gift,” wrote actor Jason Alexander in a tweet. Apatow. “It could put you in spasmodic hysteria. He was also the sweetest man. His podcast is a treasure trove of comedy. What a terrible loss. “
