'We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness,' the late comedian's family wrote on Twitter. Tributes have been pouring in from fans and fellow comics like Jason Alexander, Marlee Matlin and Dane Cook.
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, whose iconic voice gave life to the villainous parrot Iago in Disney’s DIS, +0.15% “Aladdin” as well as the Aflac AFL, -0.46% duck, has died after a long illness, his family reported Tuesday. He was 67.
His rep Glenn Schwartz said in a statement that Gottfried died from a heart abnormality called ventricular tachycardia, which is a type of abnormal heart rhythm when the lower chamber of the heart beats too fast to pump well, and the body doesn’t receive enough oxygenated blood. Gottfried was born in Brooklyn, the son of a hardware store owner and a stay-at-home mom. He began doing amateur standup at age 15.
In fact, Gottfried had tweeted a photo in January showing himself, Saget and Anderson posing for a selfie together. “This photo is very sad now,” he wrote as the caption when tweeting it on Jan. 21.
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