Gilbert

Today would have been Gilbert Gottfried's 70th birthday so the folks at Cracked rounded up a whole mess o' folks to tell seventy Gilbert Gottfried stories.

I only knew the guy a little. Met him once. Did his podcast once. But I thought he was very funny in a way that no other comedian was ever funny. You just looked at him and started laughing even before he said anything because you knew that what he would say was going to be (a) funny and (b) outrageous. There are a lot of guys who can do one but not both and, of course, there's nothing sadder than a comedian being outrageous without being funny. That was never a problem with Gilbert. He always delivered on both counts.