Tuesday, April 12, 2022

RIP Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)

Sad news to report as comedian Gilbert Gottfried has died.


Gottfried was known for his deliberately loud and obnoxious stage persona and appeared on SNL,The Cosby Show, numerous guest appearances, stand up specials, and voiced Jaffar's parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin

He made several Muppet-related appearances over the years including the 1994 
 "She Drives Me Crazy" music video;


as Kermit's "date" on the Randy Quaid episode of Muppets Tonight;


voiced a possum on the Bear in The Big Blue House episode "Welcome to Woodland Valley" 



Appears on Sesame Street episode 4182 as 
"Denny the Distractor" in 2009; 


and originated the voice of Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronic AFLAC duck. 



Gilbert Gottfried was 67. 

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