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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 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 currently voices a crazed dentist on the show The Fairly OddParents.

Since 2000, he has also been the voice of the duck in the AFLAC commercials and of Digit in the math-mystery cartoon Cyberchase on PBS Kids GO!, as well as the magical imp Mr. Mxyzptlk on Superman: The Animated 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.

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.

Gottfried was a cast member of the NBC late night series Saturday Night Live
during its nadir, the 1980-1981 season. Gottfried's persona as displayed in SNL sketches was very different; he spoke in a mellow, low voice. He appeared for twelve episodes before being one of the several cast members fired when Dick Ebersol took over the producer's chair.

Around 2002, Gilbert Gottfried appeared in an infamous McDonald's commercial parody. It featured a grossly obese woman dragging her child into a McDonald's restaurant while the child screamed and desperately tried to escape her clutches. Gilbert's voice could then be heard saying, "EVERYBODY'S SO FAT! AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF MCDONALD'S! I'M LOVIN' IT!!!"

Gottfried was part of an online advertising campaign for Microsoft's Office XP software, showing the Clippy office assistant would be removed, showing its demise as part of a series of Flash-animated cartoons.

Notable Filmography

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
: Duck
Clerks: The Animated Series
: the voice of Jerry Seinfeld
and Patrick Swayze
Doctor Dolittle: Compulsive Dog
Ren & Stimpy: Jerry the BellyButton Elf
Thumbelina: Mr. Beetle
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
: various sketches
Aladdin
: Iago
Look Who's Talking Too
: Joey
Problem Child: Mr. Peabody
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
: Johnny Crunch
Beverly Hills Cop II
: Sidney Bernstein
Saturday Night Live
: various sketches

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Actors - Gilbert Gottfried

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