Bobcat Goldthwait

At 62 years old, Bobcat Goldthwait has this physical status:

Robert Francis Goldthwait (born May 26, 1962) better known as Bobcat Goldthwait, is an American comedian, director, actor, voice actor, and screenwriter best known for his acerbic black comedy, delivered with a vivacious stage persona with an unusual gruff and high-pitched voice.

He rose to fame with his stand-up specials An Evening With Bobcat Goldthwait – Does He Like That All the Time? Zed in the Police Academy film, among other things, is his acting debut. Goldthwait has written and produced a number of films and television series, most notable the black comedy Shakes the Clown (1991), World's Greatest Dad (2009), God Bless America (2011), and Chappelle's Show, "The Larry Sanders Show"; Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2004–07), and Maron (2013–15); and several stand-up specials, including Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Time (2014). He has also worked as a voice actor in Capitol Critters (1992–95), Hercules (1997), and Hercules: The Animated Series (1998–99).

Early life

Robert Francis Goldthwait was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Kathleen Ann (Welch), a department store employee, and Thomas Lincoln Goldthwait, a sheet metal worker. He was born in a working-class Catholic family.

Goldthwait vowed to work as a comedian early on in life, inspired by his friends' laughter. Goldthwait would host performances for his friends on a daily basis during his time at St. Matthew's Grammar School, one of them being future voice actor Tom Kenny. Goldthwaite will continue to experiment with new content and has acquired a huge passion for props.

Goldthwait and Kenny graduated from Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School in East Syracuse, New York, in 1980. The Generic Comics, a comedy group, was created. They saw an advertisement for an open-mic night in Skaneateles that featured comedian Barry Crimmins with the moniker "Bear Cat" in their mid-teens. As a salute to Crimmins, He and Kenny attended the parade and performed under the monikers Bobcat and Tomcat, respectively. Goldthwait co-wrote with Martin Olson, who is listed as writer on his first two comedy specials Share the Warmth and Don't Watch This Show early in his career.

Personal life

Goldthwait has been married twice. Ann Luly's first marriage dates from 1986 to 1998. They have a daughter, Tasha.

He was engaged to Nikki Cox in 1997, but their relationship came to a close end in 2005.

From 2009 to 2014, Goldthwait was married to Sarah de Sa Rego, his second wife.

Since being 19 years old, Goldthwait says he hasn't consumed opioids or alcohol since he was 19.

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Career

Goldthwait performed as a solo stand-up comedian and appeared on "Meat Bob" and two televised concert specials in the 1980s; Does he Like That All the Time? He is best known for his unique brand of comedy, which incorporates elements of political satire and in some cases, a strange or troubling black comedy.

Goldthwait performed stand-up material as an opening act for Nirvana on what would be their last North American tour in 1993. Kurt Cobain, a frontman who is a fan of his comedy, had been selected for the slot, and the twosome formed a friendship over the course of the tour. During a phone interview, he also appeared in a promo video for the band's album In Utero, and once fooled an interviewer impersonating Dave Grohl. Kurt Cobain led a countdown at midnight on New Year's Eve 1993.

In 1995, Goldthwait produced a half-hour HBO special and another comedy collection in 2003 titled I Don't Mean to Insult You, But I Look Like Bobcat Goldthwait, and in 2004 Goldthwait's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties began. Goldthwait announced his retirement from stand-up in 2005 and staged a "final" run in Vegas in September 2005; he appeared in Winnipeg on April 3 and 4, and again in Omaha on August 29 and 29; he returned to Winnipeg for four shows on April 9 and 10. In 2011, He created a one-hour stand-up special. You Don't Look the Same Either!

Goldthwait and Robin Williams appeared on the same bill together, but not as a comedy team, using the terms "Jack Cheese" and "Marty Fromage." When Williams made a cameo as Mime Jerry in Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown, he was billed as Marty Fromage when he appeared in Tapeheads.

Goldthwait has appeared in numerous films. Zed was his first big role in the Police Academy franchise. He appeared in One Crazy Summer, Burglar, Scrooged, and Hot to Trot. Goldthwait wrote and starred in Shakes the Clown in 1992. In addition, he appeared as a writer in Radioland Murders.

Goldthwait appeared in Twisted Sister's official video to "Leader of the Pack" and "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" from Come Out and Play in 1985.

Goldthwait appeared as a guest-co-host of the second episode of The Ben Stiller Show in 1992. On the Married... with Children, he also appeared as a distant cousin of Peggy Bundy, where he and his wife dropped one of their numerous offspring on the Bundys.

Goldthwait appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 1993, where he threw furniture and ran around the room, then into the audience.

Goldthwait became outraged that the service was cancelled as a visitor on one of the last episodes of The Arsenio Hall Show in April 1994. At the time, Because Late Night with David Letterman was heading to CBS, Goldthwait took his anger out on He stood on the set's couch, spray-painted "Paramount Sucks" on a glass wall, and threw video equipment around the studio. Hall was ordered to restrain Goldthwait until the time was called, and security was dispatched.

Goldthwait appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 9, 1994, where he briefly lit the guest chair on fire. He was fined $2,700 more for the chair ($698) as a result of his attendance; he was also required to tape several public-service announcements about fire protection. He is convicted of arson due to this occurrence. Despite protests against a banishment, Leno invited Goldthwait to appear seven days later for a brief period of buried up to his neck in dirt, with Goldthwait buried up to his neck in rubble.

These incidents were later the basis for his subsequent appearance on The Larry Sanders Show in August 1994, where the fictional talk show recruits him in the hopes of raising their ratings if he does another stunt. On MadTV, they also inspired a pseudo-fire safety PSA.

"Bobcat", "Surprise", "Anniversary," "Anniversary," and an uncredited appearance in the episode, "Kentucky Nightmare" was featured.

His voice is one of Goldthwait's most notable features. He has appeared on television shows "The Moxy Show (1992-1995), The Tick (1995-1995), The Tick (1995–1999), and Mike & Stitch: The Legend (1995–1999). Goldthwait has also appeared on Big Ass Show, Bobcat's Comedy Quiz Show (1998). In the later seasons of the Tom Bergeron-version of Hollywood Squares, Goldthwait was also a semi-regular guest.

On Adam Carolla's podcast episode on August 20, 2009, Goldthwait appeared as a featured guest. On August 26, 2009, he returned to guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! During a visit to Robin Williams, he revealed a tattoo of an anthropomorphized cymbal with a mustache and slanted gaze (a play on the Chinese symbol tattoo).

Goldthwait appeared on a show in September, where shop owner Kat Von D gave him a potato tattoo, impaled on a fork, on his upper right arm. Goldthwait chose the color to remind himself of where he comes from and to inform close friends and relatives that he had not lost his sense of humor. With a moustache on his buttocks, he also displayed his older tattoo of a cymbal.

Bill Maher's May 4, 2012, goldthwait appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on May 4, 2012. In Season 4 of Adventure Time, Goldthwait was a voice actor, voicing Ed in the episode "Web Weirdos." Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Goldthwait appeared on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! On May 12, 2012, he spoke about his film God Bless America and played the game "Not My Job" (he did win). On July 14, 2012, he made his debut as one of the show's panelists.

In 2012, he voiced a character named Pop Fizz, an overexcited gremlin chemist with the ability to drink his potion and become a wretched beast for Skylanders: Giants, an overexcited chemist with the ability to drink his potion and become a swarming monster. Pop Fizz, Skylanders: SWAP Force, and Skylanders: Fizzy Frenzy Pop Fizz as Fizzy Fizz, as Fizzy Gulp Pop Fizz, Fizzy Pop Fizz, and Skylanders: Big Bubble Pop Fizz. In the 2016 Netflix series Skylanders Academy, he reprised his role as Pop Fizz. In 2018, the show came to an end.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! In 2004, a girl named Michelle was born in Germany. Though the show's viewers increased to over 2 million viewers per night and soared 50% with teenagers, Goldthwait left to pursue his film career in May 2006. Goldthwait maintains contact with Kimmel and still produces for television and film. Jimmy Kimmel Live's "directing segments" have returned. In the summer of 2007, there was a drought.

Shakes the Clown is a dark comedy starring a birthday-party clown (Goldthwait) who is framed for murder and is depressed and inebriated by sadness and alcoholism. Different subcultures of clowns, mimes, and other performers are portrayed as gangnish, rivalry-dominated subcultures obsessed with priority and prestige. This was Goldthwait's bitter satire of the dysfunctional stand-up comedy circuit, which he encountered as a performer.

Sleeping Dogs Lie (originally titled Stay) by Goldthwait's third feature film Sleeping Dogs Lie (formerly known as Stay) starring Melinda Page Hamilton appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was part of the "Independent Dramatic Features" competition. Sleeping Dogs is about a young, impulsive act of oral sex on a dog that opens the door to a black comedy about the intricities of honesty. In the "Dramatic Features" category, it was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. On the 2006 Sundance Film Festival for the North American rights to the film, Roadside Attractions & Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the film, which was released on October 20, 2006. Gaumont bought the international rights to the film. It was announced in France on February 21, 2007, by Gaumont in France, and in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2007. It was announced as John Waters' annual pick of a favorite film at the Maryland Film Festival on May 4, 2007.

World's Greatest Dad, Goldthwait's fourth feature film, was released on July 24, 2009, on video-on-demand services ahead of its limited theatrical debut on August 21. Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, and Alexie Gilmore appeared in it. It was described on the web site of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as a "lusciously perverse, and resurrectably original comedy that addresses passion, death, and our curious quest for infamy." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave World's Greatest Dad 3 out of 4 actors 3 out of four, but the director claimed that the film might have been even darker in its satire, and he doubted whether it was the director's intention.

The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival premiered God Bless America and was shown at the Maryland Film Festival 2012.

Willow Creek premiered at the 2013 Independent Film Festival in Boston and was featured in films such as the Maryland Film Festival. On May 31, 2013, the film made its West Coast debut at the Arcata Theatre Lounge in Arcata, California, near its filming location of Willow Creek, California.

Willow Creek's international premiere took place on July 20, 2013 at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal.

Cliff Barackman, a cast member of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot, was born in Willow Creek but scenes were deleted due to editing.

At the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, Goldthwait premiered Call Me Lucky, his documentary about comedian/activist Barry Crimmins' life and work at the Sundance Film Festival.

Goldthwait and fellow comedian Dana Gould decided to film their two-person stand-up comedy in August, but the venture was postponed due to the pair's auto accident on the way to the first appearance. They were able to film four shows in February 2020 after recovering. Joy Ride was launched in October 2020 and Rotten Tomatoes gave her a 100 percent.

Misfits & Monsters, a Goldthwait anthology television series, premiered on truTV on July 11, 2018.

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