decided, okay, you know, we re going to be able to do this again. and they slowly brought us through it. i think it s one of the finest moments in snl history. live from new york, it s saturday night! right after 9/11, i had to fly to new york to roast hugh heffner for comedy central. and we didn t know what was going to happen. the question becomes, how do you go about joking again, right? you re living in too-soon territory. the one and only gilbert gottfried. tragedy and comedy are roommates. if you joke about a tragedy, you re kind of beating the tragedy away. so i did a joke, i said, today i ll be using my muslim name, hasin beenlaid. there s no black or white answer to when it s time to laugh and when it s time to laugh at.
i ll be using my muslim name, hasin beenlaid. there s no black or white answer to when it s time to laugh and when it s time to laugh at. i wanted to do a joke that totally is over the line. and i said, i had to leave early tonight, i have to catch a flight to l.a. i couldn t get a direct flight. we have to make a stop at the empire state building. i lost an audience as big as anyone in the history of performing. somebody said, too soon! and that didn t slow gilbert down. that pushed him to a whole new place. the sister starts [ bleep ] the telling the aristocrat s joke. which is like comedic jazz. it s license to offend just for the [ bleep ] of it. and i remember laughing so hard that i was sort of crying. it was just such a release. and it was just what we needed. it couldn t have been a better
right after 9/11, i had to fly to new york to roast hugh heffner for comedy central. and we didn t know what was going to happen. the question becomes, how do you go about joking again, right? you re living in too-soon territory. the one and only gilbert gottfried. tragedy and comedy are roommates. if you joke about a tragedy, you re kind of beating the tragedy away. so i did a joke, i said, today i ll be using my muslim name, hasin beenlaid. there s no black or white answer to when it s time to laugh and when it s time to laugh at. i wanted to do a joke that totally is over the line. and i said, i had to leave early tonight, i have to catch a flight to l.a. i couldn t get a direct flight. we have to make a stop at the empire state building.
fly to new york to roast hugh heffner for comedy central. and we didn t know what was going to happen. the question becomes, how do you go about joking again, right? you re living in too-soon territory. the one and only gilbert gottfried. tragedy and comedy are roommates. if you joke about a tragedy, you re kind of beating the tragedy away. so i did a joke, i said, today i ll be using my muslim name, hasin beenlaid. there s no black or white answer to when it s time to laugh and when it s time to laugh at. i wanted to do a joke that totally is over the line. and i said, i had to leave early tonight, i have to catch a flight to l.a. i couldn t get a direct flight. we have to make a stop at the empire state building. i lost an audience as big as anyone in the history of
live from new york, it s saturday night! right after 9/11, i had to fly to new york to roast hugh heffner for comedy central. and we didn t know what was going to happen. the question becomes, how do you go about joking again, right? you re living in too-soon territory. the one and only gilbert gottfried. tragedy and comedy are roommates. if you joke about a tragedy, you re kind of beating the tragedy away. so i did a joke, i said, today i ll be using my muslim name, hasin beenlaid. there s no black or white answer to when it s time to laugh and when it s time to laugh at. i wanted to do a joke that totally is over the line.