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Gilbert Gottfried’s Final Comedy Album Is Helping Explore Treatment for the Rare Condition That Led to His Death

Dara Gottfried says a portion of sales from 'Still Screamng' will aid research on finding treatment for the condition that led to her husband's death

Multimedia producer Dara Gottfried, who was married to the comic’s comic — known for his manic, squinching delivery, and voiceovers as the parrot Iago in Disney’s Aladdin and the duck in AFLAC Insurance Company commercials — for 15 years, says a portion of proceeds from sales of the album will benefit the Gilbert Gottfried Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 Research Fund at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. In October 2001, Gottfried made headlines when three weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he told the crowd at a Friars Club roast of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in New York, that he couldn’t get a direct flight from New York to California because “they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.” After cries of “Too soon” — which Dara had inscribed on his tombstone — Gottfried redeemed himself by telling his version of “The Aristocrats,” a classic joke (and arguably the filthiest in comedy), which is personalized by the darkest thoughts of the comic telling it. Almost 10 years after his Friars roast performance, Gottfried lost his job as the voice of the AFLAC duck after tweeting jokes about a deadly earthquake that hit Japan.

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