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Posted on 4/13/22 at 3:10 pm to NotoriousFSU
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Damn comedy legends dropping like flies. RIP
Who's left in the old school comedians?
B Murray
E Murphy
S Martin << this one is going to be rough
C Chase
J Seinfeld
L David
This post was edited on 4/13/22 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 4/13/22 at 5:38 pm to L.A.
Saw Kristy Swanson post this on Twitter and was confused. "That can't be right. We've just lost some other comedians. How is this possible?"
RIP Mr. Gottfried
RIP Mr. Gottfried
Posted on 4/13/22 at 6:58 pm to LSUlefty
I was surprised that the couple of obituaries I read didn't mention Up All Night. I loved that when I was younger.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
Posted on 4/13/22 at 7:30 pm to keks tadpole
quote:Truly old school comedians
Who's left in the old school comedians?
Shecky Greene, Pat Cooper, Pete Barbutti
Of the next generation, Robert Klein (b. 1942)
Posted on 4/13/22 at 8:42 pm to keks tadpole
The losses of late were more in line with the types that were never big mainstream but hugely respected by the hardcore stand up people…Norm, Saget, and now Gilbert
A dying breed that gave 0 fricks and understood a joke is a joke.
A dying breed that gave 0 fricks and understood a joke is a joke.
Posted on 4/14/22 at 10:53 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Kristy Swanson
Posted on 4/14/22 at 6:43 pm to Ace Midnight
Inside Gilbert Gottfried’s emotional and comedy-filled funeral
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Gilbert Gottfried was remembered by family and friends at a tear-filled funeral in New York City.
Page Six was inside the Riverside Memorial Chapel early Thursday, where we witnessed the comedian’s loved ones share heartfelt stories that made guests both laugh and cry.
Gottfried’s longtime pal Jeff Ross specifically had the crowd in stitches, eulogizing his “brother” – who died on Tuesday at the age of 67 – as a man “survived by his wife, and sister, two great kids and over 12,000 little bottles of shampoo.”
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“He was daring and provocative and subversive and so lovable that he could get away with jokes about skulls f–king a dead person. Not so funny now, huh Gilbert?” Ross quipped after a beat, prompting laughter from the crowd.
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Ross also recounted the time he asked Gottfried to play Adolf Hitler on a Netflix comedy show, which the late Jewish comedian eagerly agreed to – costume and all.
“We broke for lunch and he was still wearing the swastika. Then we did the show and we went to the afterparty and we can’t get Gilbert to take off the swastika,” he recalled with a laugh.
“And let me tell you something, he was the best Hitler ever! Mel Brooks once said comedy is revenge through ridicule and what better way to ridicule the Nazis than have their Führer portrayed by the loudest, most obnoxious Jew?”
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Appropriately, even the rabbi got in a couple of zingers.
“This weekend sees the confluence of Passover and Easter,” he began. “Tomorrow being Good Friday, remembering another Jew taken too soon.”
Posted on 4/14/22 at 9:17 pm to Kafka
Heard a replay of a 1992 interview with GG on Fresh Air on NPR today.
He had just recovered from a ruptured appendix which nearly killed him. “I was literally moments away from being remembered on Entertainment Tonight, followed by them playing that maudlin music - ‘da da da da da daaa’. I mean, it’s just their regular theme played slow, what the hell is that?!”
He had just recovered from a ruptured appendix which nearly killed him. “I was literally moments away from being remembered on Entertainment Tonight, followed by them playing that maudlin music - ‘da da da da da daaa’. I mean, it’s just their regular theme played slow, what the hell is that?!”
This post was edited on 4/14/22 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 11:44 pm to FearlessFreep
Posted on 4/16/22 at 12:24 am to Kafka
On GG's web page he thanked a number of people, finishing with this:
"Finally, I’d like to thank Osama bin Laden, just for being a dear friend.”
"Finally, I’d like to thank Osama bin Laden, just for being a dear friend.”
Posted on 4/16/22 at 4:32 pm to Kafka
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Shecky Greene, Pat Cooper, Pete Barbutti
quote:Whoever downvoted this deserves the miserable life that they’re obviously stuck in.
Of the next generation, Robert Klein (b. 1942)
Posted on 4/16/22 at 5:29 pm to Kafka
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“This weekend sees the confluence of Passover and Easter,” he began. “Tomorrow being Good Friday, remembering another Jew taken too soon.”
Posted on 4/16/22 at 9:07 pm to BayouBengal51
Top Cameo Star Gilbert Gottfried Leaves Behind 200 Hours of Content
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"Even when he was ill, Cameo was a way for him to earn money for his family and pay his bills," says Steven Galanis, CEO of the celebrity video message app, where the comic earned over $2 million.
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Gilbert Gottfried, the perpetually wincing comedian who died Tuesday at 67 after a long battle with muscular dystrophy, left behind a deep archive of recorded material, most of it never seen.
The videos were not taken in the smoky comedy clubs where Gottfried honed his act, but rather in his own bathroom, made one minute at a time.
That’s because Gottfried was among the biggest earners ever on Cameo — the viral app that sells personalized messages from celebrities to fans, for a fee.
In Gottfried’s case, it hovered around $175 — neither chump change nor an exorbitant amount, but, judging from the scores of five-star reviews left by satisfied customers on his page, well worth the price for the joy the dispatches imparted upon their intended recipients
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Gottfried recorded about 12,000 Cameo messages in all, earning him over $2 million.
“If Cameo had a Mount Rushmore,” says the company’s co-founder and CEO Steven Galanis, “Gilbert would certainly be on it.”
Gottfried was an early adopter to the platform, joining it in late 2018, just two years after its founding. But he was quick to emerge from the pack as one of its most popular requests.
“He had a magic voice,” says Galanis. “That voice worked so well on our medium. And he’d make faces. Every video is iconic. You want to share it.”
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Among his many Cameo missions, Gottfried was enlisted to comfort a terrified family awaiting an impending hurricane; put a smile on the face of a terminally ill man; and wish a husband a happy 80th birthday.
“My dad passed away last night,” wrote a grieving daughter in a review on Gottfried’s Cameo page. “I’m devastated, but over the last few months he showed everyone he saw the video that you made. I’m so glad you were able to do the video for him — it brought him so much joy.”
quote:Typical Gilbert Cameo
Galanis says it remains uncertain what will become of the over 200 hours of Gottfried Cameos.
“Nobody posts 10 Instagrams or TikToks a day,” he says. “But for people like Gilbert, this is by far the biggest social channel he’s ever had. The pure volume of content he made is longer than all his recorded hours of stand-up.”
Posted on 4/22/22 at 7:22 pm to Kafka
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