#80 - For Gilbert Gottfried

Lewis Black's Rantcast

Lewis Black

Stand-up, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this week's episode, Lewis pays tribute to his friend and fellow comedian Gilbert Gottfried, a foul-mouthed angel who made a career out of finding the line of taste and then crossing right over it. He revived the Aristocrats joke as a way to recover from a post-9/11 moment of comedic transgression, and could make almost anything funny, including waiter’s trays. He will be terribly missed and if anything has happened “too soon”, it is Gilbert passing. In other news of the week, a federal judge ruled that the CDC’s mask mandate on public transportation was enacted without a proper mandate, just in time for new variants to put the lives of the immunocompromised (and the unvaccinated) at further risk. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' turn toward autocracy continued with his attacks on the House of Mouse, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's turn away from having any recollection about anything at all also continued, as she took the stand to recall her part in the January 6th Insurrection and her mind, like her policies, was a vast emptiness of ahistorical reactionary presentism. It would be an admirable trait in its Zen-like focus only on the now, if it weren’t accompanied by a tendentious desire to use that disregard of history as a way to continue the repression of historically marginalized communities. The live rants come from the shows in Cincinnati and Akron OH, where we learn that the denizens of the Buckeye state are not too enamored of their state government. But they do like to put chili on top of noodles. Want to see Lewis live? Tickets are available here: https://www.lewisblack.com/tickets Check out Lewis’ Grammy-nominated special, Thanks For Risking Your Life https://tlbrecords.lnk.to/LewisWE New episodes arrive every Wednesday. For advertising opportunities/contact email: rantcast@thesyn.com SUBMIT RANTS TO LEWIS https://www.lewisblack.com/live SUBSCRIBE TO THE RANTCAST https://www.lewisblacksrantcast.com FOLLOW LEWIS www.lewisblack.com www.youtube.com/officiallewisblack www.instagram.com/thelewisblack www.facebook.com/thelewisblack www.twitter.com/thelewisblack www.tiktok.com/@thelewisblack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.4	I'm just a rubber chicken. Okay, I know you're angry.
1:14.2	I know you wanted to work, but no, please stop that. There are plenty of time for us to talk.
1:19.6	We've got to get on right now with Rantcast, number 80, entitled for Gilbert Gottfried.
1:29.0	In my small way, I just, in this really, I mean, this is for him, this rantcast, just to remember his name.
1:42.0	And it's another huge loss in terms of our community and for all of us.
1:52.3	I was lucky enough to have Gilbert get to know Gilbert to spend time with him. I wouldn't say
2:00.3	we were close friends, but we certainly enjoyed each other's company and
2:05.6	had the great thing about being a comic is to have access to people who are just whose
2:12.7	minds are unbelievable when it comes to making, well, to making folks laugh.
2:21.4	And we have direct access to that.
2:24.7	And they're sitting in a room and we hear things that would just,
2:29.5	that they couldn't, they couldn't handle Gilbert.
2:31.4	Gilbert was a foul-mouthed angel in the sense, in the same
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