GG: The idea of me naked makes you laugh and cry at the same time. Sounded like something you’d slap on a poster, a blurb of your own making.ĭN: You allowed yourself to be so naked in front of the camera. GILBERT GOTTFRIED: Thank you! One critic said the same thing, that our film will make you laugh and cry. Of course, I laughed my ass off, but then I would often find myself kinda misting up at moments.
Showing his warm, fuzzy side, veteran comic revels in vintage showbiz gemsĭAVID NOH: This film really surprised me. She and the film’s talented director, Berkeley, joined Gottfried for an often uproarious meeting with Gay City News in Chelsea.
It also includes, surprisingly, a very happy family life, two adorable kids who brought out the natural, quite wonderful father in him, and a very lovely wife, Dara, who’s quite funny herself, and, obviously, a model of forbearance. His résumé includes an early “Saturday Night Live” stint, appearances at every comedy club you can name, TV and movie work (disconcertingly, in Disney’s “Aladdin”), and the voice of the Aflac duck (before he was canned for insensitive statements about the Japanese earthquake).
