Name: Gilbert Gottfried on Norm Macdonald & Bob Saget
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gilbert Gottfried on Norm Macdonald & Bob Saget' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-02-16. Transcript available.

which brings us to two uh notable comedians and two friends of gilbert's and gilbert
you might have
to do the driving on this one uh let's start with the late great norm yeah i
remember i remember
doing norm's podcast and you know as always it turned with any of my comic
friends who would
turn like deranged and uh he was he was very funny with that he'd always talk
with like a
sneer you know it's like and and i remember right at i i put that photo up a
few times it's one of my
favorite photos afterwards after doing norm's show uh norm and i joined uh uh
jeff jeff ross and of
course uh uh bob saget yeah and i remember that being a night of just non-stop
laughs you could
tell even from the still photo yeah that you guys were ripping it up yeah it
was just so much fun
truly original truly original i i never met him you know it's funny i'm i i'm
in comedy a long time and
i know a million comedians and i've gotten to work with a million comedians and
for some reason our
paths never crossed and we wanted to get him on this show gil as you know yes
and he and he was he
was norm so he was strangely he was strangely hard to pin down or non-committal
or could do it and then
couldn't do it and well i i i can't i i know i don't really know yeah i i
possibly i i know i'm working
one one of the truly great comic minds though and that last that that his last
appearance on letterman
where he got so emotional um you know and in ways it sounds corny i felt i knew
him uh uh through
his work and obviously a lot of mutual friends that letter your appearance you
really kill your your
appearance on his podcast that that whole podcast was so good it was so funny
let's not let's not
diminish that gilbert it was it made history your appearance and also the einstein
episode
yeah yeah norm yeah i remember when i when i was on norm's podcast afterwards i
just felt like i like
i ran a marathon it was just like just got crazier and crazier netflix owns
those owns that show now
and and they're not because they're not available to the public unfortunately
and yeah and they're
sitting on them hopefully one day it would be great if if that podcast was re-released
because yeah
there's that bob einstein episode is also legend yep uh uh you know what can
you say about the guy i i
i mean a really rare a truly original comic voice oh it just really and i love
such a loss and more
than life itself uh he um by the way norm's book uh based on a true story not a
memoir which is so
funny the the audiobook he narrates it so if you're if you miss norm and you've
never heard him reading
his book it's it's brilliant now i gotta get it yeah i i regret never meeting
the man and uh gilbert
i'm glad you had such wonderful times with him yes he was a lot of fun it's a
big loss it's a loss
just like a total smart ass yeah i i wish i wish my our paths had crossed
so let's move on to bob last but not least which was a blow and not expected
and i had just i will
say that i had just reached out to bob we just recorded our 400th episode a
couple of days ago
gilbert and i and i reached out to bob uh and i said will you come and do this
with us and he said
i think i'm on a plane that night and we were going back and forth and trying
to arrange something and
then i sent him the link which has been shared online i sent him the link to uh
to don rickle's uh
estate auction did you see that oh yeah i did on a couple things you've been on
a couple of things
and i got none of them bob bob's face was on a couple of items that you know
like there was
pictures of them together in a poster or something and i said hey you might
want to bid on some of
these things and he wrote me back and he said that this just makes me sad
actually and he said but but
life goes on and i was i had said to my wife i have to call bob i have to text
bob we have to
we move the date of the 400th episode and i got a phone call from my sister-in-law
probably 20 minutes
later telling me she just heard that he was gone it was very shocking and still
is um
and i had just spoken to bob like a few days before he died and we were on the
phone and
as always the minute anything turned at all sincere or uh serious we we turn it
to just complete
filth and and make it reverse and and it was always fun and and it was like i
always remember like
when the aristocrats came out people were saying can you believe bob saget
talks like that
and to people who knew him they said we couldn't believe he could speak any
other way
it wasn't danny tanner no i didn't i didn't know him that well i certainly didn't
know him well as
well as gilbert but uh uh you know but that was part of him but there was a but
there was such a a a
a a gentleness to the guy yes i mean his humor was so edgy and so dark and so
it could be so
scatological as you'll hear because we're rerunning the uh the second episode
that we did with him
uh but but he he didn't want to he didn't want to injure he didn't want to hurt
anybody he was
very very very sensitive guy did he always tell you that he loved you before he
hung up the phone
gilbert yes as dara as dara shared with me there was a real a real kindness to
him that you couldn't miss
and and uh yeah and i were i i remember i i got a call from jeff ross who said
uh oh sad news bob saget
died and i swear i thought oh this is gonna be a funny sick joke and i said oh
okay and i was waiting for
the punch line and then he said uh no seriously he died and i i i still have a
hard time grasping that
it's a gut punch it really is and you know you gilbert went you you made the
rounds you you went
on cnn you went on television you you said some love you said some lovely
things about him but
you know 65 i mean it's it's it's it's too young it's it's too big a loss for
for and and it seemed
like he was another one starting out again like he he would just would did a
live show yeah and he was
really excited to be getting back to live performing and uh going back to the
second podcast with him
and he started that podcast bob saget's here for you and it did seem like he
was entering another phase
of his career and another phase of his life it seemed like he was because he
was more wistful
and and and and trying more to be of service i mean he was you know that's why
he was pleasant
to be around there really was no show business at all to the guy yeah you know
um and he struck me
again didn't know him well but he struck me as as as also having a sadness
about him do you think that
guilt did you feel that yeah a depth and a sadness about him and and he also
well he had two
sisters who died yeah that's right one from scleroderma which was a uh a
charity he did loads of work
for yes to his credit and um and see there's another thing that shows that i've
always said about comedy
and tragedy i he he he made i remember being with him a few times where he made
jokes about his sister
you know really deranged stuff but then you see i mean you know he loved his
sister of course and his
family was totally traumatized by it but he he could just be completely sick i
i i think if you could
communicate with the dead and get in touch with bob saget he would make
completely bad taste jokes about
his own death he he was that that kind he would just really staying staying
true to his art to the end
yes yes to the bitter end it's a big loss for us personally for gilbert and and
jeff and and uh and
stay most and and obviously a lot of his friends and fans and and i i i put up
a photo too i was on the
beach with jeff and we're holding up a phone and on the phone is bob saget
because we're was sitting
on the beach and said hey let's call bob i saw the picture yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah not much else we can
Add, rest in peace, Bob.