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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13605345" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gilbert-gottfried" source="Orion">Gilbert Gottfried</keyword>, iconic actor and comedian has died at 67.</li><li>Gottfried's family confirmed that he had died of an unnamed illness.</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/category/gilbert-gottfried">Gilbert Gottfried</a> — the iconic actor and stand-up comedian famed for his harsh, grating voice while performing — has died at 67, his family confirmed on Tuesday. Gottfried died of an unnamed illness, according to his family."In addition to being one of the most iconic voices in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend, and father to his two young children," the post, that was written by his family, said. "Please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert's honor." In a recent statement, Gottfried's manager Tommy Nicchi told Insider, "Beloved and iconic comedian Gilbert Gottfried passed away at 2:35 p.m. ET on April 12, 2022, from Recurrent Ventricular Tachycardia due to Myotonic Dystrophy type II.""As an entertainer he was as close as you'll find to a living legend," Nicchi said. "He was a bridge in stand-up comedy connecting 6 decades, from the 1970s through the 2020s.""And as great as he was on stage and on screen, he was even greater at home with his wife and his kids where he was truly a beloved father and partner," he continued. "Gilbert was truly special and there will never be another one like him."Gottfried was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and started performing stand-up comedy at just 15. He was a cast member on "<a href="https://insider.com/category/saturday-night-live">Saturday Night Live</a>" during the 1980-81 season. He starred in his first major film role with his "SNL" colleague Eddie Murphy on "Beverly Hills Cop II."Gottfried was well known for voicing the role of Iago the Parrot in Disney's 1992 animated film "Aladdin" and Kraang Subprime in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." He has voiced characters for "SpongeBob Squarepants," "Family Guy," and also Aflac's famous duck mascot for the insurance company's commercials.Since 2014, he had hosted a podcast, "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast," which features discussions about movies and boasts <keyword id="6355064" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="celebrity" source="Orion">celebrity</keyword> guests. He recently appeared on the "<a href="https://insider.com/category/the-masked-singer">The Masked Singer</a>" this month to wish good luck to the Hydra character.Gottfried is survived by his wife Dara Gottfried, his 14-year-old daughter Lily Gottfried, and 12-year-old son Max Gottfried.

Gilbert Gottfried, actor and comedian known for 'Aladdin' and his iconic voice, dead at 67

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Actor <keyword id="591959" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Gilbert-Gottfried">Gilbert Gottfried</keyword> said he misses "old time lynch mobs" in a promo aired on <keyword id="85287" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fox-News">Fox News</keyword>.</li><li>Gottfried was a guest on <keyword id="10327240" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dan-bongino">Dan Bongino</keyword>'s new Fox Nation streaming show "Canceled."</li><li>Thousands of Black people were tortured and killed in lynchings from 1877 to 1950.</li></ul>In trying to make a point about "cancel culture," actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried evoked "old time lynch mobs" in a promo that aired on Fox News Monday morning.Gottfried, who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gilbert-goffried-fired-afl-2011-3">lost his role as the Aflac duck</a> after making tasteless jokes about Japanese people following the nation's deadly 2011 earthquake, was being interviewed by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/geraldo-dan-bongino-fight-hannity-fox-news-2021-4">Dan Bongino</a>, a Fox News contributor and host of the new show "Canceled" on the Fox Nation streaming platform.The promo chosen for Bongino's show airing on "Fox &amp; Friends" involved Gottfried comparing how he was "canceled" to Black people being hunted down and killed by mobs in the post-Civil War South."When I hear about another person getting in trouble now, I always think 'Oh, thank God them and not me.' 'Cause I've been through it a few times," Gottfried said."The internet makes me feel sentimental about old time lynch mobs," Gottfried continued after a cut in the promo. "At least lynch mobs, they had to put their shoes on, go out, get their hands dirty, and deal with other people. Now you sit in your underwear on your couch, there with your phone ... and you have a lynching there."Unlike calls to get someone fired online, lynchings resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths between 1877 and 1950, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html">Equal Justice Initiative's comprehensive study and mapping of the killings</a>, which primarily targeted Black Americans in the South after the abolition of slavery. Historians have struggled to get an accurate accounting of lynching murders because of a lack of historical records and the sheer prevalence of the practice through the Reconstruction era.Bongino's show is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-cancel-culture-tucker-carlson-gutfeld-new-show-2021-4">one of several on the Fox Nation streaming platform focused on cancel culture</a>, which has emerged as a top issue at the network amid a drive for subscriptions.After the Gottfried clip aired, Bongino promised "your jaw is gonna drop" from people he interviewed being "canceled for the most innocuous things" before plugging his podcast and radio show during his appearance on "Fox &amp; Friends."

Fox News airs promo for Dan Bongino's streaming show with Gilbert Gottfried saying he's 'sentimental about old time lynch mobs'

Comedy may equal tragedy plus time, but minutes after the first plane flew into the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the denizens of the web forum SomethingAwful were already cracking jokes."I just woke up after hearing a crash," a user called 0n0g posted at 8:52. "There's a big-ass hole in the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-silverstein-developer-book-9-11-world-trade-center-2024-8">World Trade Center</a>, and smoke's pouring out of it. My suitemates are freaking out! That kind of sucks …""I thought my morning had sucked so far!" a user called DZ responded.At 8:55, someone with the username USAR NAEM quipped: "There's a band from here called I am the World Trade Center. They should do their next show while being on fire." Too soon? Not for this anonymous proto-social-media platform.SomethingAwful still exists, a shell of its former self. But before the likes of Facebook and Twitter conquered the social web, it was one of the early 21st century's primary destinations for dark humor, birthing plenty of memes. On 9/11, the first meme dropped at 8:56 a.m. "That is a big fucking hole in the World Trade Center sirs!" DogWelder wrote, attaching an image from the 1999 film "Fight Club" with a caption that loosely quoted Brad Pitt's character, Tyler Durden: "In the industry, we call these cigarette burns."A few minutes after United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower at 9:03, another meme followed, as monkeu posted "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" and beneath it a photo of the Radiohead front man Thom Yorke looking upset, with the caption "DON'T MAKE THOM ANGRY!" On and on went the increasingly caustic and chaotic memes as the national tragedy unfolded that morning.In the aftermath of the attacks, comedians, pundits, and citizens grappled with the nature of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-thinks-ai-can-save-comedy-2024-7">comedy</a>. They debated when it would be OK to make jokes even tangentially related to the collective horror experienced that day. What's politically correct? What's even funny anymore? Late-night talk shows suspended their programming for weeks, and when they came back, most were mournful, solemn, and tepid. On September 29, Gilbert Gottfried was booed during a stand-up set after he joked that he couldn't get a direct flight to New York because the pilot had to stop over at the Empire State Building first.But that discourse about what's OK to joke about and when it's OK to joke about it missed a crucial point. As those SomethingAwful posters demonstrated in watching and processing the events of September 11 in real time, everyday people were using the freewheeling language of the internet with little care about whether society felt it was gauche. 9/11 was destined to become a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ai-startup-viral-memes-wants-to-upend-the-market-for-compute-2024-9">meme</a>.Twenty-three years later, however, 9/11 memes have become so diffuse and abstracted from the tragedy, and the people creating and sharing them too young to remember 9/11 as it happened, that a crucial question has emerged: What does 9/11 even mean to the internet anymore?When the "unsinkable" Titanic sank and claimed more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912, it made newspaper headlines around the world. It was a nightmarish tragedy that shocked humanity's psyche. Within two weeks, the first Titanic joke had already been logged.In a short story dated April 28, 1912, the Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek quipped that the ship sank because its passengers "were not praying on its board throughout the voyage," adding, "They did so only when the ship was sinking but God punished them, it was too late." The iceberg the ship struck, however, "prayed and so nothing happened to it." Ba dum tss. Hašek was far from alone. In a 2019 essay for the International Journal of Humor Research, the Czech linguistics scholar Jan Chovanec chronicled dozens of jokes and cartoons printed around the world in the tragedy's immediate wake, including the canned joke about the guy who complains about the price of his lobster only for his waiter to say it was found near the site of the Titanic wreckage, so, who knows, there could be diamonds in it.While neither of these jokes from a century ago is funny by today's standards, they and the dozens of others Chovanec found are similar to 9/11 jokes. Much of the dialogue on post-9/11 humor has focused on its power and intent to cope with grief. The 2021 documentary "Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11" features comedians breathlessly explaining how their craft helped the country heal and "push back terror." But Giselinde Kuipers, a Dutch sociologist who has extensively studied 9/11-related internet humor, has found that disaster jokes are primarily made to entertain others — and an easy way to do that is to make light of an event everyone's familiar with. 9/11 jokes, in other words, often have very little to do with 9/11. They're much more like Hašek's strange joke about the iceberg praying, a way to comment on the world using a widely shared reference event.Kuipers argues that while the nature of most disaster jokes hasn't changed, the difference is that 9/11 happened to occur during the rise of the social internet, when this once hard-to-find, "very specific, niche kind of dark humor all of a sudden became very accessible."Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor of digital platforms and ethics at the University of Oregon, says that when major disasters occur, something called "appropriate incongruity" — a perfect mashup of unrelated things — takes hold in online communication. "With September 11 humor, you saw a lot of references to the Kool-Aid Man bursting through the towers or<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/53gaDr3amca5t/status/1812709159525061092"> Hulk Hogan</a> or other cultural touchstones," she said. Hulk Hogan "is so far removed from a terrorist attack," she added, that the joke is simply the outrageousness connecting the two ideas.This appropriate incongruity happens time and time again. When Donald Trump was shot in the ear on July 13, for example, X and Instagram were flooded with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/the_okayest_computer/p/C9YeoyevcDB/">memes</a> about Claire's, the ear-piercing store ubiquitous in 1990s and 2000s shopping malls. Why do we do these things? In part because we can. "Whatever your motivation would be, if it wasn't so easy to do it, people wouldn't do it," Phillips says.The thing about memes is that they add layers of abstraction to the original thing they reference — until they're either meaningless or full of meaning but meaning something altogether different. Perhaps the most pervasive 9/11 meme of recent years is a simple one, a riff on one of the defining images of the 21st century. It's the photo taken during President George W. Bush's visit to a Florida elementary school showing the White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispering the news of a second plane hitting the twin towers to Bush, who stares wide-eyed ahead off camera. I see this 23-year-old image almost every single day on Reddit and X. Perhaps second only to my own in the mirror, Bush's face in 2001 is the face I see most often in 2024. The image is typically coupled with the phrase "a second [thing] has hit [something else]." It might be about Kamala Harris' idiosyncratic aphorisms: "A second coconut has hit the context of all in which you live and what came before." Or about JD Vance's college years: "Sir, a second JD Vance drag photo has hit the internet." Or about the sculpted star of "The Bear" posing in his underwear: "Sir, a second Jeremy Allen White Calvin Klein campaign has hit the internet."The photo is now so seared into the brains of the terminally online that it sometimes requires no caption at all. Over the weekend, when the rapper Kendrick Lamar announced he would perform in the Super Bowl halftime show, @DDotOmen posted a stand-alone photo of Card whispering in the ear of not Bush but Lamar's vanquished rap-beef adversary, Drake. The idea of context collapse is often derided as a negative effect of the modern web, but it's also the engine that's allowed abstract humor to become the memetic language of the internet."Seinfeld" had been off the air for more than three years on 9/11, but Billy Domineau knew exactly how Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer would have reacted. In 2016, the superfan published "The Twin Towers," a masterful spec script that imagines the nihilistic quartet in the days after the attack.George, ever an opportunist, is mistaken for a first responder and gladly accepts the undeserved hero's honor. Elaine learns that her latest beau perished in the towers but accepts it: "I was gonna break up with him anyway." She then learns, to her dismay, that he survived and she's stuck with him. Jerry is annoyed and grossed out by the dust he sees everywhere in the city — in his food, in a date's teeth. Kramer, meanwhile, is irate that he won't be able to get back the prized box cutter he loaned to his "crazy friend Mo Atta."Domineau told me that 9/11 was an entirely humorless affair for him as a middle schooler in the Boston suburbs. He remembers being completely overwhelmed, refusing to watch news coverage of it that night and instead putting on a VHS of "Happy Gilmore" to dissociate. He wrote the script, he says, not to make light of or even offer commentary on the disaster but simply as a way of "playing with the limits of 'Seinfeld' itself, the tropes of the series, and the characters as we know them."He also had lofty goals for it, hoping it might help him break into the world of professional comedy writing. Despite some chatter about whether 15 years later was still too soon and whether it was written in bad taste, "The Twin Towers" went viral, received glowing reviews, and eventually helped land Domineau a writing job on "Saturday Night Live."But the highest compliment he received was from another comedian, Dan Gregor, who tweeted, as Domineau paraphrases, "If this had come out in the aftermath of 9/11, we could have avoided the Iraq War." Domineau feels that when tragedies are treated like sacred cows, when we as a society don't allow humor to allow us to heal, we dangerously relinquish control. If we're not allowed to laugh at our collective trauma, he says, "basically the government just owns the rights to both talking about the issue and deciding how we'll respond to it."Unlike Domineau or those anonymous SomethingAwful posters, many people making and spreading 9/11 memes today are too young to remember 9/11, if they were alive at all.In July, for example, a 23-year-old from Las Vegas who goes by the X handle @aquatic_ambi posted to her 15,000 followers a video she made from a "Legend of Zelda" game with the caption "the horses in this game are so beautiful." In the video's foreground, the player's character walks toward a horse, while in the background a flying machine crashes into one of two makeshift towers in a fireball explosion. The post has received more than 245,000 likes. She says 9/11 memes have always been popular with her cohort. "People always tend to make humor in everything," she said. "I think it's just an easy joke to make since two towers are an instantly recognizable thing and easy to portray in memes." She posted the 9/11 video only after another irreverent meme of hers found success on the site. "I made a JFK assassination video in 'Zelda,' and a comment requested I do a 9/11 one too," she said. "I assumed it had already been done, so I never thought to do one until then."Domineau says it's only natural for young people to take 9/11 jokes to the next extreme. "When you inherit a piece of cultural trauma that you weren't alive for, there's a numbness or lack of appreciation," he says. "It's always been on the table to play around with."In some ways, that play is a vital sign of America's resilience and resolve. But it also underscores the need to teach subsequent generations what happened and what it felt like for those who experienced it. As Domineau puts it, Gen Zers need to learn about the history of 9/11 in detail so that they "can hopefully — to some extent — be as shocked and horrified as people who were already living in the world when it happened." Otherwise, "Never Forget" just becomes another 9/11 meme.<a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/scott-nover">Scott Nover</a> is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. He is a contributing writer at Slate and was previously a staff writer at Quartz and Adweek covering media and technology.

9/11 has became an internet meme

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12917662" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bob-saget" source="Orion">Bob Saget</keyword> was found <keyword id="6358947" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dead" source="Orion">dead</keyword> in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday.</li><li>Saget's "<keyword id="12918096" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="full-house" source="Orion">Full House</keyword>" costar John Stamos <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnStamos/status/1480354937267576833">tweeted</a> that he was "broken" and "gutted" over the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword>.</li></ul>The stand-up <keyword id="12129121" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="comedian" source="Orion">comedian</keyword> and "Full House" <keyword id="11901052" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="actor" source="Orion">actor</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/bob-saget-comedian-full-house-actor-dead-at-65-2022-1">Bob Saget was found dead</a> in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, according to authorities.Saget, 65, performed stand-up in Jacksonville the night before his <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death" source="Orion">death</keyword>, posting to Instagram that he loved the set and praising the audience."I had no idea I did a two hour set tonight. I'm back in comedy like I was when I was 26. I guess I'm finding my new voice and loving every moment of it," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYgKvadOAJ8/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=1a4955c5-7ba3-4014-a5a3-2a205ef9d2af">Saget wrote</a>.Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, who starred in "Full House" alongside Saget, paid tribute to their co-star in a statement shared on Monday with the <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/mary-kate-olsen-ashley-olsen-share-statement-honoring-bob-saget-rcna11562">TODAY</a> show. "Bob was the most loving, compassionate and generous man," their statement read. "We are deeply saddened that he is no longer with us but know that he will continue to be by our side to guide us as gracefully as he always has. We are thinking of his daughters, wife and family and are sending our condolences."Another of Saget's "Full House" costars, John Stamos, <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnStamos/status/1480354937267576833">tweeted</a> that he was "broken," "gutted," and "in complete and utter shock" over the news."I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby," <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnStamos/status/1480354937267576833">Stamos said</a>.The actor Kat Dennings also wrote a social-media tribute for Saget, whom she starred alongside in "Raising Dad." The sitcom aired in 2001 <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285397/">and had one season</a>."I'm speechless," <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CYh7ZrDJzVX/">Dennings wrote on Instagram</a>. "Bob Saget was the best. So kind. I was his TV daughter for one season and he was generous, protective, caring and wonderful. He talked about his kids constantly. Rest In Peace."Because he doesn't use social media, the "Saturday Night Live" cast member Pete Davidson <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveSirus/status/1480351433757270020">released a statement</a> through the comedian Dave Sirus, saying Saget was one of the "nicest men on the planet.""When I was younger and several times throughout our friendship he helped me get through some rough mental health stuff," Davidson said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveSirus/status/1480351433757270020">statement</a>. "He stayed on the phone with my mom for hours trying to help in any way he can - connecting us with doctors and new things we can try. He would check in on me and make sure I was okay."The actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who participated in a <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276947/">2008 Comedy Central roast</a> of Saget, commemorated the loss of his longtime friend and shared a photo they took together on Twitter."Still in shock," <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGilbert/status/1480348016116748296">Gottfried tweeted</a>. "I just spoke with Bob a few days ago. We stayed on the phone as usual making each other laugh. RIP to friend, comedian &amp; fellow Aristocrat Bob Saget."The comedian Patton Oswalt similarly expressed disbelief in a Twitter statement, saying they had plans to catch up over coffee after Saget finished editing a documentary."Bob was at my house in October interviewing me for a documentary. He was sharp and dark and funny as always," <a href="https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1480342872788402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1480342872788402177%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2022%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fbob-saget-dead-hollywood-mourns-1235149893%2F">Oswalt tweeted</a> alongside several photos of Saget.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and other costars, comedians, and friends commemorate the life and legacy of Bob Saget

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Jackie Mason, one of the last Borscht Belt comedians, died Saturday at age 93.</li><li>Mason had been hospitalized for more than two weeks.</li><li>Mason was known for embracing Jewish themes and political incorrectness.</li></ul>Jackie Mason, the legendary stand-up <keyword id="10156" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Comedian">comedian</keyword> who rose to prominence in the 1980s with a series of one-man shows on Broadway, has died. He was 93.Mason died Saturday evening after being hospitalized for more than two weeks at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, celebrity lawyer Raoul Felder told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-arts-and-entertainment-jackie-mason-1a4c1b51d538a6871edd5cad52c2f14f?utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter=Twitter">Associated Press</a>.The rabbi-turned-comedian was one of the last Borscht Belt comedians and was known for embracing Jewish themes and political incorrectness.Tributes to Mason have poured in since the news of his death. Fellow comedian Gilbert Gottfried <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGilbert/status/1419103387346419716?s=20">tweeted</a> a photo of him and Mason, writing, "One of the best."

Jackie Mason, legendary stand-up comedian, dies at 93

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hq-trivia-game-show-app-host-scott-rogowsky-iphone-comedian-interview-2017-12">Scott Rogowsky</a> has become a familiar face over the past few months, as the mobile game show HQ Trivia became a cultural phenomenon. Each day he asks hundreds of thousands of contestants random trivia, so we decided to turn the tables on him and make him the contestant. We asked him 12 questions about classic game shows to see how well he knows his stuff. Following is a transcript of the video.Scott Rogowsky: I'm as ready as I'll never be.Q1: What popular game is "Hollywood Squares" based on? a. Hangman b. Tic-Tac-Toe c. Crossword PuzzlesScott: I'm gonna say Tic-Tac-Toe?You fool! Ok ... Loved "Hollywood Squares." Shout out Gilbert Gottfried.Q2: What is the name of the AI that competed on Jeopardy in 2011? a.Watson b. Winston c. SiriScott: Watson!Q3: How many years did Bob Barker host the Price is Right? a. 10 years b. 25 years c. 35 yearsScott: 35 years. You're talking to the bad and boujee Barker right here.Q4: What was the popular catch phrase from "Press Your Luck?" a. Survey Says b. No Whammies! C. Physical ChallengeScott: No Whammies! Big Bucks, big bucks! No Whammies!Q5: How many people are surveyed on "Family Feud"? a. 10 b. 100 c.1000Scott: 100. Survey says: 100!Q6: What is the name of the Oscar-nominated film about a game show starring John Turturro? a. The Truman Show b. Magnolia c. Quiz ShowScott: "Quiz Show!" Ding, ding, ding!Q7: What is the longest running game show in U.S. history? a. The Price is Right b. Wheel of Fortune c. JeopardyScott: "Jeopardy." What is "Wheel of Fortune?""The Price is Right!" I should have guessed Bob Barker! Q8: What famous game show did Anne Robinson host? a. The Weakest Link b. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire c. Deal or No DealScott: "The Weakest Link." You are the weakest link. Goodbye!Q9: On "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" contestants can "Phone a Friend," "Ask the Audience" or what? a.50:50 b. Get a Hint c. Skip the AnswerScott: 50:50.Q10: Who was the first host of "Wheel of Fortune?" a.Pat Sajak b. Chuck Woolery c. Merv GriffinScott: Merv Griffin.Woolery! Oooh ...Q11: What was the very first televised game show? a.Jeopardy b. Spelling Bee c. Let's Make a DealScott: "Spelling Bee." That was a guess.Q12: Who is the current record holder for the highest earning contestant on a US game show? a. Ken Jennings b. Neil DeGrasse Tyson c. Brad RutterScott: Brad Rutter? Who is Brad Rutter?I don't know who he is. I just know that he's got a lot of money.See, if the questions were all about trivia, or game shows, I'd do pretty well.I know my steez!<div id="categorypromo" style="border:1px solid silver; min-height:90px; padding:10px;vertical-align:top;"><a href="http://read.bi/next-smartphone"></a>EXCLUSIVE FREE SLIDE DECK: The Next Smartphone by the BI Intelligence Research Team. <a href="http://read.bi/next-smartphone">Get the Slide Deck Now »</a></div>

We asked the host of HQ Trivia 12 questions to see how much he knows about game shows

YouTube/HBO"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."On Sunday, "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" had a 22-minute segment delving into the qualifications of Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner, her husband, for working at the White House. Oliver points out that for liberals, the popular assumption is that both will be a moderating influence on President Trump. But is that really the case?The host of the HBO show broke down their roles: Ivanka is an unpaid "assistant to the president," while Kushner pretty much has his hand in everything, including being responsible for brokering peace in the Middle East and revamping the entire federal government. "It is not unusual for powerful men to give their son-in-laws do-nothing jobs, but leave it to Donald Trump, who can't even get nepotism right, to give his a do-everything job," Oliver said. But is this all just window dressing? Though Ivanka has been a staple in Trump's businesses and TV shows since she was a teen, her involvement since Trump's candidacy doesn't seem to have shifted Trump's thoughts, Oliver argues.Ivanka was reportedly the one who got her father to meet with Al Gore at Trump Tower, but three days later, Trump named climate change denier Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. And issues she's gotten behind, like family leave and childcare, don't seem to have influenced Trump. His proposals would give families who have incomes between $10,000 and $30,000 average annual benefits of just $10 a year. John Minchillo/APPresident Donald Trump (L), Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner.Though Ivanka is perceived to be the opposite of her father, Oliver found a passage from her 2009 book "The Trump Card" that might make you think otherwise.In one section she wrote, "Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.""She's pretty much telling you to your face not to trust any assumption you are making about her," Oliver said. "It is possible she is doing nothing to moderate her father."Kushner, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a glowing business resume. He bought a swanky Manhattan building for a record $1.8 billion, but 10 years later the building is struggling with debt payments. However, he's the primary point of contact for two dozen different countries.Those who know Kushner have praised his listening skills. "So hold on, he's brilliant because he's quiet?" Oliver asked. "Just because you don't talk does not necessarily mean you're thinking something amazing."Oliver also touched on the fact that many people have no idea what Kushner's voice sounds like. So he dug up an old interview with Kushner, but when he played it, the clip actually had comedian Gilbert Gottfried speaking over Kushner with his trademark high-pitched voice. "This may seem like an evisceration of Jared and Ivanka, but it's really not," Oliver said. "I don't know enough about them to eviscerate them, just as you don't know enough about them to justify putting any real hopes in them. Because it is dangerous to think of them as a moderating influence, as reassuring as that may feel."Oliver added a warning about Ivanka and Jared for liberals: "If they are the reason you are sleeping at night, you should probably still be awake."Watch Oliver's entire segment on Ivanka and Jared below: <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/storylines-plot-game-of-thrones-season-7-jon-snow-cersei-daenerys-2017-4">7 storylines we hope are resolved in season 7 of 'Game of Thrones'</a></h3> Please enable Javascript to watch this video

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>"Saturday Night Live" host Sarah Silverman impersonated her late, good friend Joan Rivers in a sketch about the comedian roasting other celebrities in heaven.
Steve Jobs, Richard Pryor, Lucille Ball, Freddy Mercury, and Benjamin Franklin were her main targets. 
Eartha Kitt introduced Rivers: "We've just received word that one of the greats has joined us here on the celestial stage. Ladies and gentleman of heaven, please welcome Miss Joan Rivers!"
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"Thank you, thank you! Me? In heaven? I can't believe it" Rivers began. "I guess I should be here I'm practically a virgin. The last time someone was inside me it was Melissa!"
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"My old friend Richard Pryor is here," Joan continued. "Richard, you could never keep it in your pants. I don't want to say Richard fooled around, but the longest relationship he ever had was with multiple sclerosis."
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"So many incredible people here tonight, even Steve Jobs!"
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"Steve, I hope you're forced to buy a newer, better casket every six months so you can see how we feel! Am I right?"
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"Oh please, look, so many beautiful people here tonight. Ava Gardner, you look so young! Who did you sleep with to get here? Oh right, everyone."
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"I'm killing with Ben Franklin. Hey Ben, where did you get that outfit? Forever1721? Something tells me that those bifocals aren't the only things bi about you."
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"Speaking of bi, I see you Freddy Mercury! When Freddy died, people were surprised he was gay. Are you kidding me?! You're so gay even your teeth aren't straight!" (Freddy Mercury was played by "SNL" musical guest, Maroon 5's Adam Levine.)
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"Lucille Ball, you're a comedy legend. That scene in the candy factory, wasn't Lucy hilarious eating the chocolates? You stuck more chocolates down your throat than the Kardashians!"
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"Listen people, comedy is to make people laugh and deal with things. So open the gates and let me in here and let's start this show!" Watch the full sketch below:

Comedy Central did a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1413788/" target="_blank">roast of Joan Rivers</a> in 2009. Everyone from Don Rickles and Tom Arnold to Kathy Griffin and Gilbert Gottfried showed up to roast the comedy vet.
Rivers <a href="http://www.hitfix.com/articles/sundance-interview-joan-rivers-on-her-piece-of-work-doc-makeup-less-face" target="_blank">said after the show</a>: "With the roast, what I was worried about is what I was gonna say back to them. So I worked very hard. And I won. For every comedian, if you're not insecure you're not funny. If you're happy, you're not funny."

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