Gilbert Gottfried and Maggie Betts

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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You know Gilbert Gottfried, right? That comedian with the crazy loud voice who tells gross, sometimes kind of tasteless jokes. He was the voice of the Aflac duck at one point, too. There's really two Gilbert Gottfrieds, though - there's that guy, and there's the pretty quiet guy who has a wife and two kids and, you know, picks up paper towels on the way home or whatever. Now, he's talking about all of that. He's the subject of a new documentary, it's called Gilbert. He talks with Jesse about the process of revealing his private side on camera for the first time. Then, a deep discussion about Catholicism, love, and privilege with filmmaker Maggie Betts. Her debut film, Novitiate, tells the story of nuns-in-training in the mid 20th century as their lives and society were in total upheaval.

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0:20.5	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org
0:25.7	and is distributed by NPR.
0:30.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:33.8	You know Gilbert Gottfried, right?
0:35.8	The comedian with the crazy loud voice who lately he's been famous
0:40.8	for telling gross kind of tasteless jokes.
0:43.7	At one point, he was the voice of the Aflac duck.
0:46.6	There's really two Gilbert Gottfried's.
0:49.6	There's that guy, the guy on stage.
0:51.9	And then there's the pretty quiet guy who has a wife and two kids.
0:58.3	And you know, picks up paper towels on the way home or whatever.
1:02.4	And until now, he's been really reluctant to show that second side of him.
1:08.7	Actually kind of terrified.
1:10.3	It's just like I remember for years after I do a set.
1:16.9	And sometimes I do a great set.
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