#ripGilbertGottfried— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) April 12, 2022Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander tweeted that “Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh at times when laughter did not come easily.
What a gift”. Gottfried was born in Brooklyn, the son of a hardware store owner and a stay-at-home mother. He began doing amateur stand-up at the age of 15. “Gilbert’s brand of humour was brash, shocking and frequently offensive, but the man behind the jokes was anything but,” Gottfried’s friend and podcast co-host Frank Santopadre said in a statement.
He added that those who “were fortunate enough to share his orbit knew a person who was sweet, sensitive, surprisingly shy and filled with a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder”.
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