Gilbert Gottfried, the comic who gave voice to the parrot within the hit Disney animated characteristic “Aladdin” and the duck in commercials for Aflac insurance coverage — and whose manic, loudmouthed and extremely unique stand-up routines blended old style borscht-belt shtick with cringeworthy vulgarity — has died. He was 67.
His household introduced the dying on social media. The announcement didn’t specify when or the place he died or the reason for the dying, past saying that he died “after a protracted sickness.”
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 followers. Lots of them have been too younger to have seen, and even identified about, the Gilbert Gottfried who was captured telling a graphically filthy joke within the 2005 documentary “The Aristocrats” — which he advised within the fall of 2001 to a crowd that had grown out of the blue hostile after he tried to joke in regards to the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults.
A whole obituary shall be revealed shortly.
