Gilbert Gottfried

Gilbert Gottfried was an American actor and stand-up comedian. Gottfried's persona as a comedian featured an exaggerated shrill voice and emphasis on crude humor. His numerous roles in film and television include voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin animated films and TV show, Digit LeBoid in the PBS Kids show Cyberchase, and Kraang Subprime in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Gottfried was the voice of the Aflac Duck until 2011. He appeared in the critically-panned commercial hit Problem Child in 1990.

From 2014 until his death in 2022, Gottfried hosted a podcast, Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, which featured new episodes each week featuring discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians, musicians, and comedy writers. Gilbert, a documentary film on Gottfried's life and career, was released in 2017. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Per cousin Mark Yarnold:

Gilbert is a nationally famous comedian and has many, many accomplishments such as:

the voice of the AFLAC Duck, veteran of many episodes of Hollywood Squares, good friend and regular on Howard Stern's radio program, voice of many cartoon characters, seen on many television programs and much more. And how can forget that his wife is the beautiful daughter of Steve and Heather Kravitz and Gilbert and Dara have two gorgeous daughters.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
  • Name: Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried; Marriage License Date: 3 Feb 2007; Marriage License Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA; Spouse: Dara Susann Kravitz; License Number: 243.
• "Gilbert Gottfried." Wikipedia, revision of 12 April 2022. < link > Accessed 12 April 2022.
• Gottfried, Gilbert." Rubber Balls and Liquor, p. 19. New York: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2011.
  • "Where I was born, in Coney Island, it wasn't the most Jewish neighborhood. In other parts of Brooklyn, though, and all over New York, we were a regular plague. Okay, so maybe I'm overstating. We Jews tend to do that, I've heard."
• Hamedy, Saba. "Gilbert Gottfried, iconic comedian, dies at 67 after long illness." NBC News, published 12 April 2022. < link > Accessed 12 April 2022.
• Risen, Clay and Peter Keepnews. "Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian With a Distinctive Voice, Dies at 67." New York Times, published 12 April 2022. < link > Accessed 13 April 2022.