Comedian Gilbert Gottfried Live at The Cabot Theater

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried's live concert at the Cabot Theater. His delivery of a joke is as good as any comic. Some of his impersonations are dead-on, or are at least sound kinkier than the real-life person did! Gilbert is a national treasure, and I'm blessed to live in a time when he can be so accessible to me. His humor has gotten me through the roughest parts of my life and taught me the extreme importance of irreverence in the face of challenge. He is an unapologetic habitual line stepper, and I simply love him.
Gottfried started out performing comedy at open mics at the age of 15 and moved up to performing in major New York City clubs such as Caroline's throughout the '70s and '80s, and continued after he broke through as an actor. Once a regular fixture among the bevy of comedians on "The Howard Stern Show," Gottfried hit the road for a few weeks out of each month, performing at clubs, bars, malls, and any place that will have him (even the occasional gun show) until the very end.
Gottfried was known for speaking in a loud and grating voice, which was not his natural speaking voice. Mark Binneli of Rolling Stone described Gottfried as a "squinting, squawking mass of contradictions", noting his status as "one of America's filthiest stand-ups" while simultaneously being "one of the most successful voice-over artists in children's entertainment". He was also known for joking about recent tragedies, prompting fellow comedian Bill Maher to dub him the "King of Too Soon". In a July 2012 op-ed for CNN, he wrote, "I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'"
On April 12, 2022, at the age of 67, Gottfried died in Manhattan from recurrent ventricular tachycardia, complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy. He had been hiding his condition from the public.
Gilbert Gottfried just might be one of the most famous character actors of all time - and he was certainly the owner of one of the most recognizable voices in Hollywood history. With his roles as Iago in "Aladdin," Sidney Bernstein in "Beverly Hills Cop II," Mr. Peabody in the quite popular "Problem Child" trilogy, and dozens of memorable cameo roles in countless movies and TV shows, Gottfried's persona of an annoyed (and annoying) guy with half-closed eyes screaming through his lines in a shrill, exaggerated New York accent made him a constant screen presence through the '80s and '90s. More than just that voice, Gottfried was a versatile performer, getting his first major exposure on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1980s, which set his career off and running.
His last few years were certainly lower profile than, say, the early '90s, but that doesn't mean Gottfried wasn't kept busy until his death in 2022.
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