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SethInMI

gilbert g remembers comedy after 9/11

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I listen to "Good one" the vulture.com comedian interview podcast. The one released yesterday was with Gilbert Gottfried. They reminisced about the joke he told to a roast in NYC a month after 9/11. He went there with the line "I have to catch a flight back to LA after this. It is going to take longer than usual because we have to stop at the Empire State Building"

And he completely lost the room. 

And completely got it back with "The Aristocrats".  Even with 9/11 18 years removed, his joke feels a little raw, so it was interesting to listen to their discussion of what is "too soon", and what is a joke "so wrong it is funny in its wrongness".  Billy V. would I think approve of it all.

https://headgum.com/good-one-a-podcast-about-jokes/gilbert-gottfrieds-the-aristocrats

 

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