The comedian, whose circle of relatives introduced Tuesday that he died on the age of 67 after an extended sickness, shared a photograph of him and fellow comic Chris Rock.
Rock was once slapped via Will Smith whilst presenting on the Academy Awards after Rock made a comic story about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Which is the worst crime?,” the caption at the photograph of Gottfried and Rock learn. “Chris Rock being bodily assaulted or Chris Rock telling a comic story?”
Gotfried additionally shared the submit on Twitter.
In a 2012 opinion piece for CNN, Gottfried defended fellow comics.
“If a comic tells a comic story that you just in finding humorous, you snigger. If he tells a comic story you don’t in finding humorous, do not snigger. Otherwise you may be able to pass so far as groaning or rolling your eyes,” he wrote. “Then you definitely stay up for his subsequent comic story; if that is humorous, then you definately snigger. If it is not, you do not snigger — or at very worst, you’ll be able to go away quietly.”
