Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28 1955, in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American stand-up comedian and actor noted for his grating voice, his squint, his Brooklyn accent and his tendency to shout. Although he has a rather clean image on television and film, his stand up routines and appearances on The Howard Stern Show can be raunchy and racially explicit. He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin (1992) and all sequels and spin-offs and co-starring in the Problem Child movies (1990 and 1991). Although not a regular, he also appeared in the short-lived 1992 TV series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys and voiced a crazed dentist "Dr. Bender" on the show The Fairly OddParents (The show's creator, Butch Hartman, took over his role.).

Since 2000, he has also been the voice of the duck in the AFLAC commercials and Digit in the math-mystery cartoon Cyberchase on PBS Kids GO!, as well as the magical imp Mr. Mxyzptlk on The Animated Series. He also played a nasty wisecracking criminal genius named "Nick-Nack" who used toys to commit crimes on Superboy (TV Series). Gottfried makes regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He shocked the audience in a Jeopardy! parody portraying Eminem repeating "Biatch" many times. He also is a notorious favorite of Howard Stern, appearing on his shock-radio show many times a year. Most famous for his impersonation of "Dracula Gottfried" he is also well known for his numerous, and often raunchy/racial, parodies of public figures including 50's B movie stars. Gottfried also does an accurate impersonation of Jerry Seinfeld, which he has showcased on the Stern show as well as The Animated Series.

While it has been said that Gottfried's re-telling of the venerable Aristocrats joke at a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner just three weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks inspired Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza to produce a film about the joke, Jillette and Provenza point out that they had already filmed Gottfried and that, in fact, it was their project that inspired him to choose that joke as his response to the audience's claim that there are certain unspoken limits in comedy. Gottfried initially began his performance at the roast joking that he had intended to catch a plane but couldn't get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first." As audience members responded with gasps and cries of "too soon!", he launched into The Aristocrats.

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RT @comedybot: No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
tWordBird (Wordy Holiday Birdie) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:55:44 -0000
RT @comedybot: No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
RT @wamathai: RT @comedybot No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺I like that
wacum (wacu mureithi) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:33:55 -0000
RT @wamathai: RT @comedybot No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺I like that
RT @comedybot No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
wamathai (Wamathai) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:30:43 -0000
RT @comedybot No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
comedybot (comedybot) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:23:28 -0000
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -Gilbert Gottfried ☺
@SquidyUK the real Gilbert Gottfried? why?
bdum_bdum (bdum_bdum) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:19:56 -0000
@SquidyUK the real Gilbert Gottfried? why?
I hope Gilbert Gottfried's on Facebook Chat tonight.
squidyuk (Jonathan Sloman) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:10:34 -0000
I hope Gilbert Gottfried's on Facebook Chat tonight.

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