Comedy icon Gilbert Gottfried, who died this week at the age of 67, is remembered for never being afraid to cross the line.
And there isn’t a single moment that stands out more than his version of the rude old standard called “aristocrats,” he said during the celebrity fire in New York after the 9/11 attacks.
“I just wanted to be the first person to joke about bad taste on 9/11,” he told HuffPost in 2015. “I stood up and said,“ I have to leave earlier tonight, I’m going to take a flight. LA I can’t get a direct flight, we have to stop at the Empire State Building. ‘”
The crowd kissed and whispered.
“One guy yelled‘ premature, ’which I think means I didn’t have a long enough pause between the installation and the punchline,” Gottfried said.
Seemingly lost in the audience, Gottfried said he decided to go in a different direction.
“I just realized I had nothing else to lose, I was going to hell and making fun of the aristocrats,” he said.
His attempt won many in the crowd. However, Gottfried did not notice a definite point of change.
“Did they cheer and shout and just prove it was a terrorist attack? ᲪSudy taste. Incest and animalism? “It’s delicious,” he recalled.
Gottfried’s view was a joke in the 2005 documentary Aristocrats.
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Source: Huffpost
