History Creator / GilbertGottfried

Has [[http://www.jest.com/video/174214/gilbert-gottfried-reads-fifty-shades-of-grey done]] a DramaticReading of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.

Gottfried caught some heat while speaking at a roast soon after 9/11 and making an Empire State Building joke that popularized the TooSoon meme. He then saved himself by doing a take on TheAristocrats that opens up [[Film/TheAristocrats the documentary of the same name]]. He has been fired by Aflac for making jokes about the 2011 Japanese earthquake on his Twitter, showing that he has no fear of TooSoon jokes, nor enough sense to keep from [[DudeNotFunny making light of Japan's national crisis]] while also [[WhatAnIdiot representing Japan's top insurer]]. He has since responded to this by [[TakeThatCritics apologizing after virtually every joke]].
He's also shown sincerety for the loss of a couple of comedians, as shown [[http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/opinion/gottfried-robin-williams/ in this article]] mourning the death of Creator/RobinWilliams.

** TaremeEyes: When they ''are'' open.
* ManofaThousandVoices: He doesn't use this in any of his voice acting roles, but he is quite capable of doing impressions. You'll actually be surprised.

* OneOfUs: His namesake Amazing Colossal Podcast exposes Gilbert to the world as a passionate classic film buff.

* AlliterativeName
* BlackComedy[=/=]GallowsHumor[=/=]TooSoon: His comedy trademarks. It has gotten him into trouble repeatedly.

* WesternZodiac: Pisces.

Gottfried was also a cast member on the NBC sketch show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''...during its [[SeasonalRot widely-panned sixth season]] (1980-1981; the first season after Creator/LorneMichaels and the remnants of the original "Not Ready For Primetime" cast left the show due to creative exhaustion). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_u2sY5wzk During those years]], Gottfried had a full head of curly black hair, rarely if ever squinted, and ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness actually had]]'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness an indoor voice]] (though it did escalate into a NoIndoorVoice from time-to-time. Still, if you ever watch a Jean Doumanian-era ''SNL'' sketch, you'll be shocked to find that, once upon a time, Gilbert Gottfried was more-or-less soft-spoken).

* YouFool: Said this [[RunningGag repeatedly]] in an episode of [[Series/HollywoodSquares]]

Everybody's favorite squinty-eyed, grating-voiced, pint-sized, obnoxious, hilarious stand-up comic and voice actor. Known as Iago in the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' films (and by extension, the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''), Igor Peabody in the ''Film/ProblemChild'' movies, Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' (a role he would later reprise in ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]''), Jerry the Bellybutton Elf from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Art De Salvo from ''{{Duckman}}'', a troll from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', deranged dentist Dr. Bender and his son, Wendell, from a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', Creator/PatrickSwayze and Jerry Seinfeld from ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Digit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', monster toy Tickle Me Psycho on ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'', the Aflac duck, and years of comedy routines.

* DontExplainTheJoke: He often {{defie|d trope}}s this rule for the sake of comedy. His rendering of ''Film/TheAristocrats'' is a prime example.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: How he looked and sounded when he was a cast member on ''SaturdayNightLive'' is entirely different than how he looks and sounds now. As mentioned above, Gottfried once had a full head of hair, had his eyes open, and had a fairly soft-spoken voice.

He's also shown sincerety for the loss of a couple of comedians this year, as shown [[http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/opinion/gottfried-robin-williams/ in this article]] mourning the death of Creator/RobinWilliams.

* BlackComedy[=/=]GallowsHumor[=/=]TooSoon: His comedy trademarks.

Gottfried was also a cast member on the NBC sketch show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''...during its [[SeasonalRot widely-panned sixth season]] (1980-1981; the first season after Creator/LorneMichaels and the remnants of the original "Not Ready For Primetime" cast left the show due to creative exhaustion). [[http://snl.jt.org/cast.php?i=GiGo During those years]], Gottfried had a full head of curly black hair, rarely if ever squinted, and ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness actually had]]'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness an indoor voice]] (though it did escalate into a NoIndoorVoice from time-to-time. Still, if you ever watch a Jean Doumanian-era ''SNL'' sketch, you'll be shocked to find that, once upon a time, Gilbert Gottfried was more-or-less soft-spoken).

* NoIndoorVoice: Subverted in RealLife. Off the air his voice is still calm and subdued, as shown here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdbElWMnkyY

* YiddishasaSecondLanguage: He's Jewish. It's a given.

* NoIndoorVoice

Everybody's favorite squinty-eyed, grating-voiced, pint-sized, obnoxious, hilarious stand-up comic and voice actor. Known as Iago in the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' films (and by extension, the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''), Igor Peabody in the ''Film/ProblemChild'' movies, Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' (a role he would later reprise in ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham]]'', Jerry the Bellybutton Elf from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Art De Salvo from ''{{Duckman}}'', a troll from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', deranged dentist Dr. Bender and his son, Wendell, from a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', Creator/PatrickSwayze and Jerry Seinfeld from ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Digit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', monster toy Tickle Me Psycho on ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'', the Aflac duck, and years of comedy routines.

Everybody's favorite squinty-eyed, grating-voiced, pint-sized, obnoxious, hilarious stand-up comic and voice actor. Known as Iago in the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' films (and by extension, the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''), Igor Peabody in the ''Film/ProblemChild'' movies, Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Jerry the Bellybutton Elf from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Art De Salvo from ''{{Duckman}}'', a troll from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', deranged dentist Dr. Bender and his son, Wendell, from a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', Creator/PatrickSwayze and Jerry Seinfeld from ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Digit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', monster toy Tickle Me Psycho on ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'', the Aflac duck, and years of comedy routines.

Everybody's favorite squinty-eyed, grating-voiced, pint-sized, obnoxious, hilarious stand-up comic and voice actor. Known as Iago in the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' films (and by extension, the ''KingdomHearts'' series and ''HouseOfMouse''), Igor Peabody in the ''ProblemChild'' movies, Mr. Mxyzptlk in ''{{Superman The Animated Series}}'', Jerry the Bellybutton Elf from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', Art De Salvo from ''{{Duckman}}'', a troll from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', deranged dentist Dr. Bender and his son, Wendell, from a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', PatrickSwayze and Jerry Seinfeld from ''ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}'', Digit from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', monster toy Tickle Me Psycho on ''{{Robotomy}}'', the Aflac duck, and years of comedy routines.

Gottfried was also a cast member on the NBC sketch show ''SaturdayNightLive''...during its [[SeasonalRot widely-panned sixth season]] (1980-1981; the first season after LorneMichaels and the remnants of the original "Not Ready For Primetime" cast left the show due to creative exhaustion). [[http://snl.jt.org/cast.php?i=GiGo During those years]], Gottfried had a full head of curly black hair, rarely if ever squinted, and ''[[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness actually had]]'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness an indoor voice]] (though it did escalate into a NoIndoorVoice from time-to-time. Still, if you ever watch a Jean Doumanian-era ''SNL'' sketch, you'll be shocked to find that, once upon a time, Gilbert Gottfried was more-or-less soft-spoken).

He's also shown sincerety for the loss of a couple of comedians this year, as shown [[http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/opinion/gottfried-robin-williams/ in this article]] mourning the death of RobinWilliams.

* BlackComedy/GallowsHumor/TooSoon: His comedy trademarks.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: This ''is'' his comedy staple.

* MemeticMutation: "You FOOL!!!"