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Gilbert Gottfried
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Gilbert Gottfried has always been a kind of enigma. Anyone who witnessed his uncomfortable performances as part of the 1980 debacle version of Saturday Night Live would never have imagined that he had a stellar, surreal stand-up comedy act buried somewhere deep inside his nerdy nebbish form. Yet all throughout the 1980s, thanks to numerous appearances on David Letterman and other showcases, Gottfried proved his eclectic humor chops, most memorably on his HBO specials. Even those only aware of him from his decided Disney-fication during the last decade (he was the voice of Iago the parrot in Aladdin and that equally irritating AFLAC duck in the current insurance ad campaign) would probably pause when given a chance to see his current approach to wit. Indeed, Uncle Walt is probably spinning in his cryogenic chamber to learn that one of his vaulted voiceover artists is currently making his living telling the dirtiest, filthiest jokes imaginable.
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Recorded live in New York City, Gilbert Gottfried tears down the walls of good taste in this hilarious, gleefully foul-mouthed performance! At his most shocking and hilarious, he builds to a now-legendary grand finale known as the Dirtiest Joke of All Time (featured in the hit film The Aristocrats)! may even be unsuitable for adults! Includes over 30 minutes of jaw-dropping bonus features! An insane collection of impressions and intimate personal details about Gilbert that will not be found anywhere else. Bonus segments include: - How to tell a dirty joke - Intimate details about Gilbert's personal life - Fond recollections of famous friends like JFK, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Charles Lindburgh - Gilbert on Brando - Gilbert on Groucho - Gilbert on Lugosi
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The outrageous Gilbert Gottfried breaks down the walls of good taste in this hilarious, jaw-dropping DVD, recorded live in New York, City. He gleefully bats aside political correctness and fires an onslaught of jokes guaranteed to offend, building to a grand finale of filth known as the Dirtiest Joke of All Time (... featured in the film The Aristocrats). The laughs continue in some of DVD's funniest bonus features ever, filled with wild stories, indignant ranting and unique celebrity impressions.
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Gottfried famously told the venerable Aristocrats joke at a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner just three weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It has been suggested that this performance inspired Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza to produce a film about the joke. However, Jillette and Provenza point out that they had already filmed Gottfried. In fact, it was their project that inspired Gottfried to choose that joke as his response to the audience's claim that there are certain unspoken limits in comedy. Gottfried initially began his performance joking that he had intended to catch a plane but could not get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first." As audience members responded with gasps and cries of "Too soon!", he launched into the Aristocrats joke, effectively winning back the audience and having roastmaster Rob Schneider literally falling out of his chair laughing.
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Gottfried was a cast member of the NBC late night series Saturday Night Live during its nadir, the 1980-1981 season. Gottfried's persona as displayed in SNL sketches was very different; he spoke in a mellow, low voice. During his twelve episode stint, he was extremely underused (with even the featured players garnering more airtime), leading to a deep depression that affected his performances. When Dick Ebersol took over as producer before the end of the season, there was an overhaul of both the cast and crew, and Gottfried was dismissed.
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Variety Magazine said " But the star of this smut-off is unquestionably Gilbert Gottfried. Raspy-voiced comic raises scabrous invective to new lows of sustained bedazzlement, both in straight-to-camera comments and, especially, in a tape made at a private roast of Hugh Hefner that's rightly saved for the docu's climax. Gottfried's ever-escalating ferociousness is enough to reduce even heard-it-all audiences to helpless tears of laughter".
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