The comic died following a long illness, according to a statement from his family.
Love, the Gottfried family."
He then rose to prominence witha series of promosfor the newly-launched MTV, which were almost entirely improvised.
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Or, something resembling a career."
“I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates,” Gottfried later wrote inan op-ed for CNN.
“If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks.
Gilbert Gottfried.Bobby Bank/WireImage
One mask is tragedy.
It looks like it’s crying.
The other mask is comedy.
It looks like it’s laughing.
Nowadays, we would say, ‘How tasteless and insensitive.
A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'”
