Gilbert Gottfried Told Me How "The Aristocrats" Changed His Career

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From left: Hugh Hefner, Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Kimmel, and Rob Schneider during the Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner, at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City, Sept. 29, 2001.

Gilbert Gottfried didn’t know the meaning of the words “too soon,” although they seem to have been designed just to reply to his jokes.

But it wasn’t always that way.

As I d…