Name: Gilbert Gottfried on Being Complimented by George Carlin
Uploaded: 2021-11-04T17:29:50.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gilbert Gottfried on Being Complimented by George Carlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gilbert Gottfried on Being Complimented by George Carlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-04. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. One time I was getting on a plane and a few
miles down from me I saw George Carlin and well yeah he was a few miles ahead
of me and I you know I'd never met him before so I didn't want to bother him
and
I sat down and then he he gets up from his chair and he starts he looks at me
and he's walking toward me and I got so excited I thought George Carlin he
wants to talk to me and he comes over to me and he says I got to work on some
stuff I'm writing I got to read something and then I'm gonna take a nap so I
can
talk to you and he walked it was like basically he went out of his way to tell
me to go fuck myself
wasn't he just being courteous because otherwise he would have said I would
talk to you
yes yeah but at when it was getting near the end of the flight when they
announced that we're gonna be descending soon he came over to me again and he
scribbled his phone number down on a piece of paper and he said to me next time
you're appearing on TV I want you to call me and tell me because I want to see
what's going on in that brain of yours and and that was like holy fuck yeah I
only got I saw him perform live a few times I saw him perform live in New
Hampshire when I was like 21 in like 1988 I saw him there and I saw him at the
comedy store later and I ran into him once the comedy store and he was so
unassuming yes he just walked by said hi to everybody hello hello like it's
like
real friendly easy and just was there to do his work and super nice guy and the
funny thing is I had you know George Collins number which when I thought that
was like a tremendous thrill George Carlin's a fan I thought this is
unbelievable I also met Jonathan Winters and he gave me his phone number and I
didn't call either one of them because I I've had those you know what it's like
a
couple of celebrities who've given me their numbers it's like you know we meet
then they're my best friend the whole world we hit it off like lifelong pals
and
then you call them and you go hi it's Gilbert oh hello it wore off yes it's
kind of to me
it's like when you meet a girl and you get her phone number and and she's like
oh
here's my number don't lose this don't lose this and here's here's if I'm not
at
this number here's my other number please call me call me call me all
excited and then you call them up and you go hi you know remember we met at Joe's
party and it's like oh yeah yeah I think some celebrities just get exhausted by
people wanting things from them oh I'm sure absolutely just you're constantly
someone thinks that they can get further up the show business ladder just by
being
friends with you being around you that's why when they act normal it's uh it's
so
refreshing well it's like when people come up to me and say uh could you give
me some advice
or some pointers I always feel like underneath it is like can you like uh press
that button that
makes me a star can you help me yeah give me a lift up yeah yeah but which
doesn't exist
yeah no one can do that it's like I think they they'll look at you if when you're
known and they'll
think oh you know somebody sprinkled some dust on you magic dust and you
immediately yeah became
known and you'll be able to tell me how I can do yes yes where I can get this
dust from and I'll
sprinkle on myself yeah well I think people just look at shortcuts all the time
oh yeah yeah and I
think that's also one of the reasons why celebrities are a little standoffish
with even when they meet
other celebrities you know I think they just get but then sometimes they feel
like those are the only
people that they know yeah they can talk to like I feel like uh who can the
cast of friends talk to
people right right they're all oddly famous yeah in a weird way one of the
weirdest uh celebrity
encounters I ever had uh was Robin Williams he came to one of my shows by
himself yeah and I didn't
know it was him until a few minutes into talking to him he had a big crazy
beard oh okay and a baseball
hat on and I'm talking that I was doing like this little meet and greet after
the show and I'm just
talking to this guy yeah and he's like I really like that bit I really love
this I loved how you did
this and that and then I'm in the middle of talking to him I'm like holy shit
this is Robin Williams oh
yeah I didn't realize it until like a couple minutes into talking to him I just
was talking to him like
he was just a regular guy and he acted like a regular guy oh yeah I there were
a couple of times
at those clubs he would pop into those clubs all the time and there were a few
times he called me up
on stage with him to riff with him which was great and uh what I remember most
about him
I was at the improv and I wasn't known at the time I mean I was known to the
comics and
everything like that and uh and uh I guess he had seen me a few times there and
uh so I'm getting ready
they're just about to introduce me and then the door opens up and uh Robin
comes in so of course
they go uh oh oh Robin uh you're you're on uh Gilbert uh go away and Robin you're
on next
and and Robin said to them he goes oh he goes oh I have a few people in the
audience to see me
and I'd like them to see Gilbert first wow and that always stuck with me that's
so nice of him
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