“ You ca n’t really cull how you ’re going to be call back , ” Bobcat Goldthwait said last year on theWTF with Marc Maronpodcast . “ I could cure AIDS , and my obit pic is gon na be me in a uniform go WAAAAAHH ! ”
So what should we think about the comic , director , voice creative person andPolice Academystar ? permit ’s take a looking at .
1. He toured with Nirvana.
Kurt Cobain was a fan of Goldthwait ’s comedy and invited the funnyman to be the opening routine during the band ’s 1993 tour . For the New Year ’s Eve show , Goldthwait wore nothing but the wings show on theIn Uterocover and , as a needless stand-in for the traditional ball - drop at midnight , herepelledrappelled from the top of Oakland Coliseum Arena . In 2009 , former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic had a cameo working a foul powder store stand in Goldthwait ’s satireWorld ’s Greatest Dad .
2. He directedChappelle’s Showon Comedy Central.
In addition to directing four critically acclaimed independent films and intimately 300 episodes ofJimmy Kimmel Live , Goldthwait directed several of Chappelle ’s segment , include the first - ever aired scrap — aparody of a Mitsubishi commercial message .
3. He was fired fromHollywood Squares.
“ Nobody would call on me . One day , [ a protester ] need me to deliver the goods , two squares left , and the guy called on Judd Nelson , ” Goldthwait shared on stage in 2003 . “ I snapped : ‘ It ’s Tic - Tac - Toe , you f***in ’ cuckoo ! ’ Cut – they jerk me out of the lame . ‘ Do n’t trust at the contestants ! ’ ”
4. He set Jay Leno’s couch on fire.
5. But he’s not an arsonist.
“ I ’m not an firebug . I ’m a satirist , ” Goldthwait say on an episode ofComedy Productin 1996 . “ If I were an firebug , I would have been sexually aroused onThe Tonight Show . rather I was blase sh**less like the rest of America . ”
6. He has a tattoo of a “Chinese symbol” on his buttock.
[ double courtesyDisaster Russ . ]
7. He doesn’t really sound like that.
Bobcat fetch his scratch perform on stage with puerility Quaker ( and now vocalism of SpongeBob SquarePants ) Tom Kenny , as “ Tomcat & Bobcat . ” That ’s when the outspoken chords lead off to crack . “ Here ’s a guy who seemed like he just walked in off the street , ” Kenny saidin an interviewabout Bobcat . “ He seemed like a genial patient role who walked in off the street and grabbed the mike and was just blather . ”
8. He’s been clean and sober for 30 years.
“ I ’m not a spokesperson , ” he say last month . “ I encourage it . Go get f***ed up . ”
9. He is recognized by academe.
In 2009 , Goldthwait was thekeynote speakerfor his girl Tasha ’s commencement ceremony at Hampshire College and offered her course salvia advice establish on his disorderly , yet accomplished career :
“ Success is for weirdie . We already reinforce narcissism right smart too much in our culture , so I ’m go to order you guys is , Do what puddle you happy and be nice … The happiest I ’ve ever been is when I turned away from success … and , dear god , some of you call for to take a bath . ”
