Gilbert Gottfried, a stand-up comic with a screwy voice and a penchant for pushing boundaries with jokes about the Sept. 11 attacks and the Japanese tsunami, has died at age 67, his family said on Tuesday.
Gottfried, a former cast member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and the voice of a sarcastic parrot in the animated Disney film "Aladdin," suffered a long, unspecified illness, the family statement said.
"They said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first," Gottfried said, drawing laughs and moans of "too soon." "I love to go where it's a dark area. You never know what people will choose to be offended by," Gottfried told The New York Times in 2013.Seth MacFarlane, creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and director of the comedy film "A Million Ways to Die in the West," said Gottfried's outrageous send-up of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address in that movie made him laugh so hard on set that "I could barely do my job.
One of Gottfried's best known movie roles was as the voice of Iago, the loud-mouthed, sarcastic talking parrot of the evil Jafar in Disney's 1992 animated film hit "Aladdin."
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