REST IN PEACE: Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian who played Iago in 'Aladdin,' has died at the age of 67. He died from a long illness, his family said in a statement posted to Twitter. 🙏🏼🕊️♥️
Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II, a disorder that affects the heart, his publicist and longtime friend Glenn Schwartz said in a statement.
Gottfried was a fiercely independent and intentionally bizarre comedian's comedian, as likely to clear a room with anti-comedy as he was to kill with his jokes. Gottfried began doing standup as a teenager in New York City. He first came to national attention with frequent appearances on MTV in its early days and with a brief stint in the cast of"Saturday Night Live" in the 1980s.
Gottfried also did frequent voice work for children's television and movies, most famously playing the parrot Iago in Disney's"Aladdin." "Gilbert's brand of humor was brash, shocking and frequently offensive, but the man behind the jokes was anything but," Gottfried's friend and podcast co-host Frank Santopadre said in a statement."Those who loved and him were fortunate enough to share his orbit knew a person who was sweet, sensitive, surprisingly shy and filled with a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder.
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