Comedian Gilbert Gottfried died on Tuesday of myotonic dystrophy, a rare, degenerative muscle disease. He was 67. Gottfried has one of the most recognizable voices in Hollywood, and while his acerbic comedy was adult, crude, and sometimes over-the-line, he was best known for his role as the parrot Iago in the Disney cartoon “Aladdin.” KCRW revisits a 2017 interview with Gottfried, his wife Dara Kravitz, and filmmaker Neil Berkeley about the documentary “Gilbert.”
In Gilbert Gottfried’s jokes, sensitive subjects were fair game
Gilbert Gottfried became famous in the 1980s through his brash comedy, and decades later, he reinvented himself as a family man. Credit: YouTube/Gravitas Ventures.
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Guests:
- Gilbert Gottfried - comedian - @RealGilbert
- Dara Kravitz - wife of Gilbert Gottfried
- Neil Berkeley - filmmaker - @neilpberkeley
