Watching the Gilbert Gottfried documentary and was reminded of the Hugh Hefner roast in 2001, they say how appalling his joke was.

I think it might be more appalling that known CIA asset Hugh Hefner was celebrating so publicly.

A roast for the musician Kid Rock was announced in November 2010 and scheduled for January 2011, but was later replaced by the Donald Trump roast.

also,

Some roastees have stated that certain topics are off limits…

…Donald Trump only prohibited anyone making jokes about him not being as wealthy as he says he is.

>>1552433

Uh, I forgot to mention it was just a little more than a week after 9/11, which was the point of I was trying to make.

Fuck, let me try this again, my brain is foggy today.

A little more than one week after 9/11, the Friars Club roasts known CIA asset Hugh Hefner, it was the first “comedic” programming on television following 9/11, if you remember everyone was too afraid to make a joke of any kind on TV.

Gilbert Gottfried made some joke about a flight having a connection at the empire state building that did not go over well. So he then thought hard about what he could tell next and decides to tell his version of the “aristocrats” joke.

The “Aristocrats” joke is like the occult of the comedic world (as detailed in the documentary this moment inspired), it’s a joke told amongst comedians but in general never to the public and this was really the first time it had been told on television.

It seems more than coincidental that this was the joke Gottfried thought of to turn around his routine. He went from telling a joke referencing thousands of people dying on 9/11 (which didn’t get any laughs) to telling a joke about a traveling family who commits scatological incest on stage for entertainment (which got tons of laughs).

All in front of Hugh Hefner, and the joke is called the Aristocrats.

Ok, you can ignore me now, just wanted to get the thought out there.