Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian With a Distinctive Voice, Dies at 67
Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian who gave voice to the parrot in the hit Disney animated feature “Aladdin” and the duck in commercials for Aflac insurance — and whose manic, loudmouthed and highly original stand-up routines mixed old-fashioned borscht-belt shtick with cringeworthy vulgarity — has died. He was 67.
His family announced the death on social media. The announcement did not specify when or where he died or the cause of the death, beyond saying that he died “after a long illness.”
Mr. Gottfried’s voice-over work — notably his portrayal of the excitable parrot Iago in “Aladdin” (1992) and its sequels and spinoffs — earned him a legion of fans. Many of them were too young to have seen, or even known about, the Gilbert Gottfried who was captured telling a graphically filthy joke in the 2005 documentary “The Aristocrats” — which he told in the fall of 2001 to a crowd that had grown suddenly hostile after he tried to joke about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A complete obituary will be published shortly.
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