# I don't understand why Bobcat Goldthwait ever had a film career **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061 "2013-09-17T16:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/61 "2013-09-20T01:46:14Z")
Don’t forget Fran Drescher. I couldn’t stand The Nanny because of her screechy voice. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/62 "2013-09-20T14:28:23Z")
One of my favorite interviews I heard with him on the radio…there was a time when he was dating another actress who was the epitome of smokin’ hot at the time. She was playing a knock-off of Christina Applegate’s character from the show I only remember as “The Bundys” Anyhow, the radio host asks him about her and he says something to the effect of “I never realized what a worthless piece of shit I was until I started dating her, and everyone says ‘SHE’s your girlfriend?’” ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/63 "2013-09-20T14:43:46Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > One of my favorite interviews I heard with him on the radio…there was a time when he was dating another actress who was the epitome of smokin’ hot at the time. She was playing a knock-off of Christina Applegate’s character from the show I only remember as “The Bundys” > > Anyhow, the radio host asks him about her and he says something to the effect of “I never realized what a worthless piece of shit I was until I started dating her, and everyone says ‘SHE’s your girlfriend?’” Probably the afore-mentioned Nikki Cox (see post #43). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/64 "2013-09-20T20:06:03Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > One of my favorite interviews I heard with him on the radio…there was a time when he was dating another actress who was the epitome of smokin’ hot at the time. She was playing a knock-off of Christina Applegate’s character from the show I only remember as “The Bundys” > > Anyhow, the radio host asks him about her and he says something to the effect of “I never realized what a worthless piece of shit I was until I started dating her, and everyone says ‘SHE’s your girlfriend?’” As noted, it was Nikki Cox. Keep in mind that at the time they were engaged, Goldthwait was 35 (and still married to his first wife) and Cox was 19. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/65 "2013-09-20T20:33:30Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > Screeching? Crying? I always thought it was pretty clear that the character he was doing was in a full-on, drug-fueled freak-out. His recurring character on “The John Larroquette Show” was rather inspired. He played a recovering alcoholic from John’s AA group and would switch between the “normal” voice and “freak-out” voice depending if he had been drinking or not. Unfortunately, I cannot remember if drinking = “normal” or drinking = “freak-out”. One would think the former. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/66 "2013-09-22T15:36:36Z")
> [@TheBoltEater](#): > > Film career? I can’t get past the idea that he was dating/engaged to Nikki Cox for something like 8 years. Bobcat freaking Goldthwait was engaged to [this?!?](https://www.google.com/search?q=nikki+cox&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GSU6Ut-TJcm4yQHUoIGQDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1745&bih=868&dpr=1#q=nikki+cox+unhappily+ever+after&tbm=isch). That’s unpossible. I don’t care if it actually IS true, I choose to live in a world where it’s not. Sounds like a Jessica Rabbit thing: “He makes me laugh.” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/67 "2013-09-22T16:40:26Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Nobody here has had the balls to ask the question: [Bobcat or Bjork](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQXZx-etXLU)? That Family Guy bit must have been put together by a stupid deaf guy who thinks everyone else is a stupid deaf guy. But thanks for playing! ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/68 "2013-09-25T19:50:25Z")
A really funny story he shared with Maron is one time a woman came up to him and said “I don’t want to insult you but you kind of look like Bobcat Goldthwait” and he said “It is me, I just look like a fuck pie now.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061/69 "2013-09-25T20:06:43Z")
I saw an HBO special he did, where an audience member shouted out something like, “You’re hot!” His response was, “I’m hot? I’m fat, balding, and sweating like a pig. There’s a dozen guys just like me at the methadone clinic down the street.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-why-bobcat-goldthwait-ever-had-a-film-career/669061.md?page=3)