# Bobcat Goldthwait **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970 "2002-03-19T02:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/21 "2002-03-20T09:45:36Z")
Anyone know where on the Internet I can find him setting fire to the chair on the tonight show… Jay Leno always tries to be so kind… (seems like a good guy). I want to see again how he handled that. ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/22 "2002-03-20T13:51:49Z")
I didnt see it, but fromwhat I heard, Jay was cool about it, just sent him a bill for the couch. The fire marshal on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/23 "2002-03-20T16:19:49Z")
I remember the very first time he was on tv. It was on Letterman. I thought he was excellent; couldn’t take my eyes off him. I once saw him in a movie called(I think) One Crazy Summer. He had the only funny line. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/24 "2002-03-20T17:05:13Z")
There was an episode of _Tales From the Crypt_ where Don Rickles played a ventriloquist with a real live dummy for a hand and Goldthwait played a budding ventriloquist who wanted to be just like Rickles. So, he followed him to his house, snuck in, and discovered his horrible secret. Goldthwait used his nervous voice and did a really “bad” job at throwing his voice. Later, Rickles cut off his hand and Bobcat got in a fight with it. It was _ghoulie_ bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/25 "2002-03-20T18:05:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TigoleBitties \* > \*\*What cracks me up is that he is busy bonking the hottie from Unhappily Ever After (Nikki Cox) > > And the world goes EWWWWWW \*\* Thank you. I couldn’t believe it when I found out they were engaged. How i the hell did he get someone so hot? ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/26 "2002-03-21T14:41:02Z")
He’s famous, thats how. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/27 "2002-03-21T17:01:15Z")
Goldthwait is supposed to be in the process of taping a new pilot for a sitcom. They were interviewing Bob Marley (A Maine comedian, not the singer) a few days ago about his part in the show. Sadly, I forget what the premise of the show is, but I remember it being really weird, and sounding like it was going to be as sucessful as that show about the talking infant. Maybe we can see how he sounds for a couple of weeks before the show is cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/28 "2002-03-23T10:52:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MyFootsZZZ \* > \*\*Anyone know where on the Internet I can find him setting fire to the chair on the tonight show… Jay Leno always tries to be so kind… (seems like a good guy). I want to see again how he handled that. \*\* He was on one of the last episodes of Arsenio Hall, as well; I think it was just a few days before the Leno appearance. He was expressing sympathy for Hall, saying how unfair it was for the show to be cancelled, and for some reason, decided to underscore this by spray-painting the set. Hall jumped up and grabbed him, either to calm him down or restrain him, maybe both. I also remember the Tonight Show incident; Leno tossed the contents of his coffee mug onto the flames. It was reported that he had words with Goldthwait; not necessarily harsh ones, but remonstrative, at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![madcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@madcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madcat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/29 "2002-03-23T16:58:06Z")
He & carrot top are the evil twin offspring of Jar Jar Binks and …? ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/30 "2002-03-23T17:05:18Z")
> [@](#): > > He & carrot top are the evil twin offspring of Jar Jar Binks and …? Norm McDonald ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/31 "2002-03-23T21:28:45Z")
The boy needs to pack on some pounds. He all-of-a-sudden lost a tremendous amount of weight some years ago and has never looked well since, like he’s in the final stages of cancer or something. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/32 "2002-03-23T22:29:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bdgr \* > **I think he is the funniest comic out there period. Dont judge by his movies, rent one of his stand up tapes.** Bobcat Goldthwait phoned me once. I work for a newspaper; he was doing a stand-up show at the local university and his publicist set me up with an interview to promote the event. His voice is like what you hear on TV. He exaggerates it for character roles but it’s still an exaggeration of his normal speaking voice. Regarding what bdgr said, Goldthwait said pretty much the same thing. In the Police Academy movies and Unhappily Ever After, he’s just doing other peoples’ material, with no ad libbing, whereas in stand-up you get to see the real Bobcat. Interestingly, he said the recent role he had where he was allowed to ad lib was in Disney’s Hercules. It surprised him, but still he was a Disney character, not fully himself. I honestly admire him as a performer. During the actual stand-up show (which I got to attend), he approached the front row and overshot the stage, falling off of it. Now, between the stage and the front row there is this sort of lip with a curtain hanging from it. The gap between the lip and the stage is about large enough for a human leg to fit into up to the knee . . . in proving this, Goldthwait sliced up his knee pretty bad. And no one who saw the show will ever be able to forget Goldthwait’s rather imaginative expletive when he fell. Even injured, he just kept on with his routine all the way through the end. Every now and then he’d pause to see how much he was bleeding, but he didn’t ever leave the stage. On top of that, he put on a damn funny show and handled the hecklers really well. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/33 "2002-03-23T22:39:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > \*\*How i the hell did he get someone so hot? \*\* It’s the puppet. It’s gotta be the puppet. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/34 "2002-03-24T11:36:01Z")
Okay well I just saw bobcat last night and you guys are all sooooo wrong! He was incredibly funny and barely used the “voice” That seems to have been his 80’s schtick. He was incredibly creative and original. He did more jokes about himself and his experiences than about other comedians as someone noted earlier that he used to do. OMG he was funnny! I almost pee’d my pants. If you get the chance go out and see his stand up then judge him. Don’t say he isn’t funny because of movies that he did 15 years ago! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970/35 "2002-03-24T14:57:54Z")
Damn, and I watched him waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when he was doing stand-up at a local theatre in our (collective) hometown. Funny then, too. Annoying, but still funny. Of course he wouldn’t remember me. I was just in the audience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobcat-goldthwait/98970.md?page=1)