![]() Musker and Clements saw the squawking bird as a warm-up act to Robin Williams’s Genie. Iago served an important purpose in Aladdin: comic relief. Enter Iago the parrot, who spends his days loudly commiserating with his evil master. ![]() And like every great Disney villain, he needed a sidekick. Their film’s bad guy was the power-hungry vizier Jafar. ![]() But Musker and codirector Ron Clements weren’t looking for someone cute and cuddly. The famously filthy Gottfried, who died this week at age 67 from a form of muscular dystrophy, wasn’t exactly Disney material. When he was on-whether winning back the crowd at the Hugh Hefner roast by telling the “Aristocrats” joke or yelling at contestants on Hollywood Squares-everything he said was hysterical. He’d invented a ridiculously heightened version of himself, the kind of Catskills resort comic who told jokes so off-color they’d make your bubbie blush and storm out of the dining room in anger. He was, Aladdin codirector John Musker says, a “guy who sounds like he gargled a grenade.”īy the 1980s, Gottfried’s uniquely abrasive act had made him a legend in the stand-up comedy world. ![]() On stage, words seemed to explode out of his mouth. No one had a voice like Gilbert Gottfried’s.
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