Gilbert Gottfried Was More Than Just a Funny Voice
The late comedian helped move stand-up beyond the realm of the merely observational and create space for the absurd.
by Eric Farwell
Apr 13, 2022
3 minutes
Gilbert Gottfried, who died yesterday at 67 of complications from muscular dystrophy, was probably best known as the voice of Iago the parrot in Disney’s , as the Aflac-commercial duck, or for any number of projects that put his brazen, just-shy-of-whiny voice front and center. As a comedian, he was often characterized as “offensive,” given that a lot of his most high-profile (and, at , ) work involved insulting . But his
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