died Tuesday at the age of 67, wasn’t afraid of pushing boundaries with his salacious stand-up routines. The controversial comedian — whose family said he suffered from a “long illness” — frequently hit headlines for jaw-dropping jokes that many deemed “tasteless and offensive.” The foul-mouthed funnyman came under fire for quipping about the 9/11 terror attacks just weeks after they took place, and he lost a lucrative gig with Aflac after making jokes about the 2011 Japanese tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people.
However, the comic paid no mind to cancel culture, mocking the concept in a 2021 interview with The Post. “It’s as if the whole world is your wife,” Gottfried quipped. “You apologize 24 hours a day, whether you did something wrong or not.”He humorously added: “I enjoy watching other people getting in trouble.
I like to sit back, relax and see somebody else being destroyed by the public.”Gottfried’s long history of shocking audiences — both online and in-person — began back in the 1980s, with a stand-up bit about his first “meeting” with former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
The comedian claimed he met Kennedy Onassis at a cocktail party, before delivering the line: “I went up to her and wanted to break the ice… So I said, ‘Do you remember where you were when you heard JFK was shot?’” Back in 1991, Gottfried sparked outrage after making masturbation jokes during a live broadcast of the Emmy Awards.
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