Gilbert Gottfried wrote:
If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:52 pm
by rass
Never a good sign when you load up Twitter and everyone is posting YouTubes of the same person…
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:24 pm
by bfj
Gilbert wrote:Rae and Ben Stern (Howard’s parents) are proof that Hitler wasn’t all wrong.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:25 pm
by pruitt2
His podcast was often very funny.
Check out the episode with Bob Costas - it is hilarious.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:00 pm
by EnochRoot
I was watching a Wings “Christmas” episode a few months ago where Helen throws a holiday party. Gilbert Gottfried was playing his typical (annoying) character and busts into the party uninvited. After the faked pleasantries, his character (“Lewis”) busts into the kitchen where Helen is talking with either Joe or his sister:
“Excuse me. Do you have any toothpicks? I’ve had some food stuck in a tooth for a while now and it’s driving me cra…Oh, never mind. It just broke loose.”
Bummer. Watched his son play for the Timbers a few years back for a brief stint.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:43 am
by wlu_lax6
Robert Morse...Bert Cooper Mad Men (and 2x Tony winner)
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:07 am
by L-Jam3
The Mad Bomber Daryle Lamonica yesterday at 80 certainly deserves a mention. The original "fuck it, Branch or Biletnikoff's gotta be down there somewhere!"
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 2:40 pm
by pruitt2
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:07 am
The Mad Bomber Daryle Lamonica yesterday at 80 certainly deserves a mention. The original "fuck it, Branch or Biletnikoff's gotta be down there somewhere!"
My father claimed that Lamonica had the strongest arm he'd ever seen.
The iPod Classic contained pretty much the greatest user interface in the history of modern civilization. The scroll wheel is just off the charts in its brilliance.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 10:50 pm
by brian
I bought a 1st Gen iPod (which itself would be worth some dough if I still had it) and remember thinking I should buy stock in Apple. Sliding doors.
man, Lanier probably worthy of a thread for some including my dad who went to college w him. Dad still laments the broken leg and blames/hates Chris Ford to this day for "costing the Bonnies the title" (unsure if really true but I let him ramble)
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 8:43 am
by The Sybian
brian wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 10:50 pm
I bought a 1st Gen iPod (which itself would be worth some dough if I still had it) and remember thinking I should buy stock in Apple. Sliding doors.
I recently found my 3rd Gen iPod. I can't believe how heavy it is.
As the title character in his film “Broadway Danny Rose” (1984), Woody Allen is a hapless talent agent known for his stable of weird, hard-to-book novelty acts: a blind xylophone player, a stuttering ventriloquist, a balloon folder — and Gloria Parker, who plays music by rubbing her moistened fingers along the rims of 28 crystal wine glasses.
“She is the Jascha Heifetz of this instrument,” Danny says in one scene, pitching her to the skeptical owner of a summer resort as she plays “The Band Played On.” “It’s incredible. Never took a lesson. This is self-taught. Next year, my hand to God, she’s going to be at Carnegie Hall.”
