{"id":1434042,"date":"2022-04-12T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434042"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T23:15:04","slug":"gilbert-gottfried-beloved-comedian-and-aladdin-star-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gilbert-gottfried-beloved-comedian-and-aladdin-star-dies-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert Gottfried, Beloved Comedian and \u2018Aladdin\u2019 Star, Dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgilbert-gottfried-beloved-comedian-and-aladdin-star-dies-at-67%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GilbertGottfried1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian, <em>Aladdin<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Problem Child\u00a0<\/em>star, has died after battling a long illness, his family has announced. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness. In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for all of us, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert\u2019s honor,\u201d his family wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/STHhfpVSKU\">pic.twitter.com\/STHhfpVSKU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealGilbert\/status\/1513960910217486342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gottfried was a fiercely independent and intentionally bizarre comedian\u2019s comedian, as likely to clear a room with anti-comedy as he was to kill it with his jokes.<\/p>\n<p>He first came to national attention with frequent appearances on MTV in its early days and with a brief stint in the cast of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Gottfried also did frequent voice work for children\u2019s television and movies, most famously playing the parrot Iago in Disney\u2019s \u201cAladdin.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>He was particularly fond of doing obscure and dated impressions for as long as he could milk them, including Groucho Marx, Bela Lugosi and Andrew \u201cDice\u201d Clay.<\/p>\n<p>In his early days at the club the Comedy Store in Hollywood, the managers would have him do his impression of then-little-known Jerry Seinfeld at the end of the night to get rid of lingering patrons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gottfried was especially beloved by his fellow comedians and performers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sad to read about the passing of Gilbert Gottfried,\u201d actor Marlee Matlin said on Twitter. \u201cFunny, politically incorrect but a softie on the inside. We met many times; he even pranked me on a plane, replacing my interpreter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeinfeld\u201d actor Jason Alexander tweeted that \u201cGilbert Gottfried made me laugh at times when laughter did not come easily. What a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGilbert\u2019s brand of humor was brash, shocking and frequently offensive, but the man behind the jokes was anything but,\u201d Gottfried\u2019s friend and podcast co-host Frank Santopadre said in a statement. \u201cThose who loved and him were fortunate enough to share his orbit knew a person who was sweet, sensitive, surprisingly shy and filled with a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gottfried is survived by his wife Dara, sister Karen, 14-year-old daughter Lily and 12-year-old son Max.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this article.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian, Aladdin\u00a0and Problem Child\u00a0star, has died after battling a long illness, his family has announced. 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