Gilbert Gottfried ✝

Since 2014, Gottfried has hosted a podcast, Gilbert Gottfried\'s Amazing Colossal Podcast, which features new episodes each week featuring discussions of classic movies and celebrity interviews, most often with veteran actors, comedians, musicians and comedy writers. Gilbert, a documentary film on Gottfried\'s life and career, was released in 2017.\n', ' At age 15, Gottfried began doing amateur stand-up in New York City and, after a few years, became known around New York as "the comedian\'s comedian." In 1980, Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians; the producers noticed Gottfried and hired him as a cast member for season 6. Gottfried\'s persona in SNL sketches was very different from his later characterization: he rarely (if ever) spoke in his trademark screeching, obnoxious voice and never squinted. During his 12-episode stint, he was given very little airtime and seldom used in sketches. Gottfried recalls a low point was having to play a corpse in a sketch about a sports organist hired to play inappropriate music at a funeral. Despite this, he had one recurring character (Leo Waxman, husband to Denny Dillon\'s Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch, "What\'s It All About?") and two celebrity impersonations: David A. Stockman and controversial film director Roman Polanski.\n', ' Gottfried also played accountant Sidney Bernstein in the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II.\n', '