Gilbert Gottfried carved out an impressive career as a stand-up, actor, and voice over performer. Revisit Rolling Stone's 2012 conversation with the comedian.
and countless other cartoons. He also never stopped performing his stand-up act, which was as filthy and shocking as his cartoons were family-friendly.
Does fear of that ever make you hold back? I mean, a comedy club used to be a totally safe space. Now it’s been invaded with cellphone cameras. Well, years ago it was the old cliché of being around the water cooler. Anytime there was a tragedy that occurred, every single person was either around the water cooler or at school or in a bar exchanging these bad-taste jokes. And it was perfectly OK, because they were jokes, and that was it.
Well, you might not do the jokes because you realize how much trouble you’d get into. I remember one guy tweeted, “Aflac fires Gilbert Gottfried after discovering he’s a comedian.” Is the only reason to hold back on a joke because you might get in trouble? Do you ever hold back because a topic just feels inappropriate?
People say to me, “Why don’t you change the reference from Fred Gwynne to Justin Bieber?” It just doesn’t have the same impact. More and more, the only thing out there isYeah. I do get offers. It’s just . . . I watch them, and I don’t get it. It’s their own form of reality. It’s set-up situations. Set-up reaction shots. When somebody in a reality show says something, they could flip to a reaction shot from five days ago, and the person could have been thinking about their laundry.
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