F = Face drooping - Look for an uneven smile A = Arm Weakness - Is one arm weak? - Can you lift both arms? S = Speech Difficulty - Listen for slurred speech - Do people understand your speech? T = Time is brain! - Call 9-1-1
I just watched his Hugh Hefner roast on YouTube and man was that funny. His delivery, his comments to the audience and his other roasters was just spot-on and incredibly funny. He really was a comic legend.
Posted this upstairs, but I'll post it down here for those who don't venture there.
I'm heartbroken right now. Gilbert Gottfried was truly one of the funniest people I've had the pleasure to meet. Someone referred to him as "the King of Too Soon", but he was much more than just that. He had a knack of delivering some of the most tasteless material in a way that almost made you forget what you were laughing at. But more than that, he was just downright funny. His bit about Michael Douglas getting cancer from Catherine Zeta Jones is one of my favorites, and his performance at the Hugh Hefner roast just days after the 9/11 attacks was epic. He started with several airplane jokes, which weren't going over well, then launched into one of the greatest versions of the Aristocrats jokes ever told, helping to lead to the movie "The Aristocrats".
I was lucky enough to see him live several times. The first time, I thought I was having a stroke because my head was pounding so hard from laughing. At that show, he did a bit that in anyone else's hands would have been cringeworthy, but leave it to Gilbert to heckle himself for five minutes and get away with it.
He was always the highlight of the roasts on Comedy Central. His Dracula Gottfried on the Howard Stern Show was always worth the wait. Playing Abraham Lincoln in "A Million Ways To Die In The West", then Adolf Hitler in "Historical Roasts". Imitating Andrew Dice Clay, maybe better than anyone else.
A true legend.
RIP, Gilbert. And thank you.
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Such a loss. And his podcast was excellent. Who knew he could become the new Joe Franklin?
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