Takes him 45 seconds to get one sentence out and his jokes are just lame. Please stop casting him in these. Totally unfunny
shareI thought he was funny in this roast. He has been awful in previous roasts. He finally wrote some good jokes, although the pubic hair joke went on for too long, in my opinion.
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I thought he was hilarious, he really commits to his jokes and goes overboard. One of the greatest moments in Roast history was when he told the Aristocrats joke on Comedy Central and everyone went wild. It wasn't aired of course.
shareI totally agree - Gilbert has an irritating voice and even more irritating jokes. Rozilla - come on please - why the hell was everyone laughing??
shareYou may not like his style or humor, but, if you watch the crowd and on-stage roasters, Gilbert is killing big time. There's just no one like him.
"Martha Washington was a hip, hip, hip lady, man."
I looked at it like this: Two of the most obvious and most lazy jokes anyone could make on this roast would be about the facts that a) "Jane Lynch is a lesbian" and b) "Roseanne Barr is overweight".
Much like Carrie Fisher mocked Jeffrey Ross's tired "ho ho ho, old women, menopause, hilarious" gags, Gottfried seemed to me to mock some of the lazier comedians who came before him for going the obvious route with their jokes - by taking those ideas so far above and beyond anything as to make them completely absurd. That he plunged in headfirst and with such gusto made it even funnier.
It's not only an acquired taste, but GG has a style that is perfectly calculated in its bizarreness. There's a method to the madness. He's brilliant in his energetic and awkward delivery. He definitely knows what he's doing, and he's instantly a character that reels you in, even while being a tad difficult to swallow. I don't know if that's major talent, or if he's just naturally that crazy fool of a character. It's hard to tell, and also hard to believe that someone might actually be that way day-to-day in his actual real life. If it's the latter, it's highly interesting. If it's the former, then it's an impressive talent.
He's supposed to be different with weird jokes that are borderline corny. But he is strangely witty and stands out like crazy.
He's not lame. You just don't dig his style.
I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way
See I love his kind of humor, and he is something different in the roast format. No one else does his jokes, no one else could pull them off. I could switch around the scripts for most of the comics on any dais and they could do it, they'd be fine. If I handed anyone Gilberts script they'd never do it, they couldn't make it work. He's the only comic I know of who got on stage and just told the audience that "All a roast is is telling a dirty joke and putting the persons name in there somewhere" and then proceded to tell joke book style jokes and everyone would pretend he said the person's name. It's insanity, no one should do that... and Gilbert absolutely makes it work
shareGilbert could read the phonebook and i would still lmao.
shareWell said, he takes the obnoxious jewish thing to new levels. He pushes and pushes until you think he couldn't possibly squeeze anything else out of his premise, then he does.
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Surrender Dorothy!
Given how hard he killed the audience in this roast, I'd say your finger is about as far from the pulse of the comedic community as Carrot Top's.
Everyone who ever loved you was wrong.