# So Bob Goldthwait - Does he really sound like that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266 "2003-04-08T07:42:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SLASH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SLASH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SLASH)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/21 "2003-04-25T01:11:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Where is he these days? i don’t know where he is, but I do know that he married Nikki Cox ☹ ---
**Author:** ![martin\_ibn\_martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@martin\_ibn\_martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martin_ibn_martin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/22 "2003-04-25T01:27:30Z")
Howard Stern played a tape of Gilbert leaving a message on his answering machine. It was totally unrecognizable. Very cultured sounding. Goddfried was upset because he is contractually required to keep the voice up for all publicity stuff, I think. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*And what about Gilbert Gottfreid? > Does he ever sound “normal”? > I ask cause he does a voice on the cartoon CyberChase. > Now he’s actually on a commercial (for garbage bags, i beleive). > So now my son knows what he looks like, but he wants to know if he always sounds like that. \*\* Martin ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/23 "2003-04-25T03:03:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by seriousart \* > \*\*If you get a chance to see him live, I’d really recommend it. He’s a hell of a lot funnier than most of his movie/ tv performances would have you believe. \*\* Bobcat live is VERY different from Bobcat in movies. He made a point of this in the interview I did with him for an article. He said – with some surprise – that the only people that ever let him improvise were the Disney people when he was doing Hercules. Come to think of it, I should have asked him if this was also the case for Shakes The Clown. Would have made for an interesting answer either way. But yeah, he has his gimmick but according to him, it’s only used for other peoples’ scripts. Live, he’s brilliant. I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/24 "2003-04-25T03:46:06Z")
Did any of you see tonight’s episode of CSI? Goldthwait, looking almost unrecognizably old, thin, and haggard, did an excellent acting job using a voice that had the barest edge of the Bobcat character, just enough to make you realize - after a double take - who it was. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/25 "2003-04-25T07:59:41Z")
And he even played the killer. How cool is that? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/26 "2003-04-25T12:23:39Z")
Geez, **Bryan** , nice use of the spoiler! I’d never, ever have guessed what you put in the spoiler box! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/27 "2003-04-25T14:31:01Z")
Winnie, I thought the drug dealer in Blow was Pee-Wee Herman. In fact, I’m sure of it. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/28 "2003-04-25T14:42:07Z")
If you saw last night’s CSI you would not be asking the OP…Though I know it was written waay before last nights CSI. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266/29 "2003-04-25T14:43:22Z")
OOPS I didn’t read **Exapno’s** thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-bob-goldthwait-does-he-really-sound-like-that/167266.md?page=1)