![]() GROSS: Who were the comics that you heard growing up? (Screaming) Kersplat (ph).įREEMAN: (As Jafar) I love the way your foul, little mind works. And then we drop papa-in-law and the little woman off a cliff. You marry the princess, right? And you - then you become the sultan.įREEMAN: (As Jafar) Marry the shrew, I become the sultan - the idea has merit. Jafar, why if you were the chump husband? GILBERT GOTTFRIED: (As Iago) Oh, wait a minute. Here's the two of them plotting together. We started with a clip from "Aladdin" with Gottfried as Iago, the evil pet parrot of the evil ruler, Jafar. It led to a hilarious moment in the interview that's always stuck with me. So what could I do? I went ahead with the interview. ![]() I couldn't talk Gottfried into just being himself. When he arrived there, I learned he was only doing interviews in his on-stage persona. With that voice, he played the evil, devious parrot in the Disney animated film "Aladdin." But Gottfried's sense of humor sometimes got him into trouble, like when he tweeted jokes about the 2011 tsunami in Japan and was then dropped as the voice of the duck in the Aflac insurance TV commercials. Gottfried typically performed in persona as an annoying, cranky, sometimes crude guy with a raspy, irritating voice that he sometimes exploited to say things considered inappropriate or in bad taste. ![]() Comic Gilbert Gottfried died Tuesday of a form of muscular dystrophy that affected his heart. ![]()
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