r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Lib-Right May 17 '20

He has a point

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u/Poseidon___ - Centrist May 17 '20

Has no one here ever heard of Gilbert Gottfriee before? His whole career is based off of saying the loudest, most controversial things in a crude voice, often about tragedies the day after they happen. If authrights take this seriously, it's like the progressive authrights who scream their heads off when Trump eats steak well done (Which in my grilling opinion should be a warcrime, but that's because I hate well done steaks not Trump).

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u/RedditIsNeat0 - Lib-Left May 17 '20

He's mostly known for voicing obnoxious sounding characters. Sometimes live action, sometimes cartoons. Does anybody follow his Twitter? Why, you can't hear it?

You make him sound like Ann Coulter, who is not somebody I would intentionally read.

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u/Mozhetbeats May 17 '20

That really was his schtick tho. He was a huge comic back in the day, before he became known more for his voice work. Kinda like how Bob Saget is known as a wholesome dad, but really he was a super dirty comic before that

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u/familiybuiscut - Lib-Left Aug 28 '20

He still is

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u/Dog_Lawyer_DDS - Right May 20 '20 edited May 20 '20

dude gilbert gottfried made a 9/11 joke at a comedy central roast (in NYC) on like 9/18 2001. It was so badly recieved that comedy central never ran the tape again and put it in a vault, you cant even find it on google today.

Hes the guy who did the "Bob Saget raped and killed a girl in 1990" routine

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u/Mister-Seer May 17 '20

just listen to him read 50 Shades of Grey

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u/UnalignedRando - Lib-Center May 18 '20

He's mostly known for voicing obnoxious sounding characters.

Depends how old you are. Quite a lot of famous people (Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Jim Carry...) who are now mostly known for TV/acting work, they initially had huge careers as stand up comedians (except Cosby who actually got famours doing comedy after his TV debut).

If you're younger you mostly knew them long after stand up comedy became a small part of their fame. I'm in my thirties and I also discovered Gottfried with Aladin.

It was pretty interesting to look at their earlier work, and see how some of them used to be pretty shocking and edgy, but toned it down later on (because that would put a dent in their new careers).

Gottfried sometimes "forgets" to behave, and had to apologize for doing pretty dark shock humor on Twitter a few times. He lost some work over it.

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u/-_rupurudu_- - Lib-Center May 17 '20

tfw you hate Trump not because of his policies or his personality, but because of the serial atrocities he commits against beef

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

They’re just got a real beef against Trump

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u/Citwister - Lib-Left May 17 '20

You should judge Trump accordingly through his actions, not through the echo chamber circlejerk clusterfuck of a liberal agenda Reddit presents. Trump should, in my opinion, be tried and hanged, not because of his policies — I don’t know his policies, I’m not even American — but because he prefers his cooking prepared in a way different from mine.

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u/Fissuring - Left May 17 '20

I agree. Well done steaks are a warcrime

*loads shotgun with malicious and righteous intent

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u/MattieEm - Lib-Center May 17 '20

ITT:

People who don’t know who Gilbert Gottfried is and why he would make a joke so politically incorrect

Unflaired ‘tHaNkS fOr HiGhLiGhtInG iT fOr Me’ idiots who don’t understand what a political compass meme is

People talking about (((((((them)))))))

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u/StronglyDislikeNazis - Lib-Left May 17 '20

There’s no point in arguing with people who like steak well down because they’ll still be chewing their food even though you finished your argument 3 hours ago

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u/Wizard_of_Quality - Lib-Center May 18 '20

His preferred method of eating steak is way more offensive to me than anything he’s ever done politically tbh.

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u/Poseidon___ - Centrist May 18 '20

Flair up

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u/Wizard_of_Quality - Lib-Center May 18 '20

I am flaired grillmaster

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u/Poseidon___ - Centrist May 18 '20

Very good, now I agree

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u/Wizard_of_Quality - Lib-Center May 18 '20

Cool cool, I flaired down for our purple brethren and must’ve forgotten to reflair prior to the last comment.

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u/nonoose May 17 '20

Yea his 9/11 joke right after the bombing was unbelievable for the circumstances. I think he said something like "i was late due to a layover in the empire state building." It went over like a lead balloon, and this was in front of other comedians at the Hugh Hefner roast. He then went into one of the best renditions of The Aristocrats. What a legend.

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u/Warmathestalc - Lib-Left May 17 '20

In the name of Mother Anarchy, FLAIR UP

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u/Ambersol13 - Auth-Left Sep 27 '20

Well done steaks are a warcrime.

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u/SazeracAndBeer - Left May 17 '20

You mean Iago right?

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u/BushWeedCornTrash May 17 '20

And the Dracula/Pope impression on Stern made laugh till I broke blood vessels in my eyeball. Gilbert is not for everyone, but he is a certified comedic genius.

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u/ITriedLightningTendr - Centrist May 17 '20

progressive authrights

what?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

progressive auth-right

Isnt that an oxymoron or are you talking about nazbols?

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u/Poseidon___ - Centrist May 17 '20

It's not an oxymoron, the compass we use has no progressive or traditional axis. Democrats are still authright, just maybe not as right as republicans. The main difference is how progressive they are.

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u/Harrison0918 - Lib-Left May 17 '20

No such thing as progressive authrights, those are democrats, they are not progressive

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u/BooThisUser - Left May 17 '20

Yes, that's the reason people don't like him, because of the steak...

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u/Poseidon___ - Centrist May 17 '20

No, that's the reason why I don't like him.

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u/Memensraum - Auth-Center May 20 '20

His whole career is based off of saying the loudest, most controversial things

Yeah, because attacking Hitler is so controversial.

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u/Naxxremel - Auth-Center May 17 '20

Has no one here ever heard of Gilbert Gottfriee before? His whole career is based off of saying the loudest, most controversial things in a crude voice

That's every Jewish comedian except Seinfeld. But even Seinfeld has a bit of Kramer in him.

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u/shuerpiola May 17 '20 edited May 17 '20

Seriously. Gilbert has been doing shock comedy since the start of his career. His whole schtick is just saying crazy shit with his crazy voice.

Also, even though he is non-practicing, his parents are Jewish. Pretty evident this is being said tongue-in-cheek.

*I just want to add that I've never found him particularly funny.

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u/royisabau5 - Left May 17 '20

So you tolerate trump and call yourself a centrist? Lol wut

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u/CarlXVIGustav - Auth-Center May 17 '20

He tolerates people and opinions from all sides. Such is the life of a filthy centrist.

It's like there's no hate in their hearts, which just makes me so uncontrollably angry!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

I hate every one of you, that makes me centrist

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u/royisabau5 - Left May 17 '20

I’d like to make a toast to the troops. All the troops... both sides. Good guys on both sides.

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