Wednesday's Child Is Full Of Woe

Outlived another one. Outsourcing appreciation of Mr. Gottfried to News From me.

Still reeling a bit from the news about Gilbert. Here's one interesting thing about him. When he first came upon the stand-up scene, his act consisted of clever bits that he (I assume) wrote. Some of them were brilliant and quite unlike anything anyone had ever done…but his performance of that material was at least as funny as the material itself. At some point, he did a one-eighty and switched to just telling dirty jokes…material that he didn't write and that others had done. And again, because of the performance, he was just as funny. He wrote new stuff for those Comedy Central Roasts and other special occasions but if you went to see Gilbert at a comedy club, you heard — and enjoyed the hell of — a lot of old dirty jokes with some embellishment.  Most comics couldn't get away with that.

Here & a video. The recommended documentary Gilbert is available w/o charge on Peacock, Pluto TV & The Roku Channel.