Anecdotes

Pleaded no contest to charges stemming from setting his chair on fire on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). Goldthwait was fined $3,880 and ordered to do public-service announcements to promote a local burn center. Along with the fine and PSA's, he was given three years informal probation.

Was very close to the late Robin Williams.

Was a close personal friend of Kurt Cobain.

During his May 9, 1994 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), he poured lighter fluid on his chair and set it on fire.

He's a longtime childhood friend of "Spongebob Squarepants" voice talent Tom Kenny.

He attended Bishop Grimes High School in East Syracuse, graduating with voice actor Tom Kenny, who is best known for his work on Bob l'éponge (1999). Goldthwait & Kenny were in the class of 1980.

He trashed the set of The Arsenio Hall Show (1989), during his appearance in 1994. He tried to break a TV monitor, moved the guest couch several times and spray painted a wall with the following: "Paramount Sucks".

He played "The Sandman" in an episode of the children's television show, Fais-moi peur ! (1990) titled The Tale of the Final Wish (1993).

Was the subject (sort of) of the independent film Calling Bobcat (2000). In a key part of the film, the two main characters theorize about the sobering effect that drinking olive oil before drinking alcohol can have on the human body. This is a reference to lines spoken by Bobcat Goldthwait's character in the film Pie voleuse (1987). After the stunt fails, the two characters spend much of the movie trying to track down the comedian.

Since 2000, he has directed other segments for shows on Comedy Central including Chappelle's Show (2003), The Man Show (1999) and Strip Mall (2000).

Currently directing ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), where ratings have sky-rocketed since he joined the show, to touring the country with his unique comedy style. (avril 2005)

Since Bobcat Goldthwait released his new film "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (a.k.a. Juste une fois! (2006)), he is now a TV/film director. It's not his first time directing for television, though. In his October 2006 interview in Suicide Girls, he announced that he's not going back to stand-up comedy and has no interest of doing so. He also admitted that directing is his favorite thing to do. (décembre 2006)

has a new comedy album on CD coming out on September 23, 2003 by Comedy Central Records. The name of the album is: "I Don't Want To Insult You, But You Look Like Bobcat Goldthwait" (a.k.a. - The Uninspired Ramblings of a 40 Old Has-Been). (septembre 2003)

Goldthwait's film Juste une fois! (2006) was recently bought by Roadside Attractions & Samuel Goldwyn Films at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival for the North American rights to the film. Gaumont also bought it for the international rights to the film.

His father was of English and German descent, and his mother was of Irish ancestry. The Goldthwait family line traces to Samuel Goldthwaite, who was born in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, in 1637, to English parents.

Finishing up his stand up tour during the writers' strike. (février 2008)

Recently between June 9 - 17, 2006, Goldthwait attended the 2006 CineVegas Film Festival. He's also the panelist for the CineVegas "Outlaw Cinema Panel", which started on June 11th. Reviews after this day complemented him as the most talkative and the most interesting panelist.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 186-187. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387.

On the Les Griffin (1999) episode, The Perfect Castaway (2005), "Peter Griffin" recalls being on a game show, Bobcat or Björk, where he heard a sound and had to guess if it was by Bobcat, or Icelandic vocalist Björk. He guessed it was Bobcat, but the host tells Peter it was Björk.

Current feature film in production starting July 2008: World's Greatest Dad (2009). (juin 2008)

Born on exactly the same date as Genie Francis (of Hôpital central (1963) fame).

Goldthwait possesses roughly 40 minutes of a thought-lost Ed Wood film, Operation Redlight (1968), according to an interview with Goldthwait in the Blu-ray box set Hard Wood released by Severin Films. The footage is silent but is nevertheless the first footage from Operation Redlight that has surfaced to date.

Younger brother of assistant/second unit director Jim Goldthwait.