Gilbert Gottfried gifts the world an Aristocrats-infused reading of Dune's Litany Against Fear

Thanks to a Cameo commission that requested this specific service, Gottfried has recorded himself sitting down in front of a microphone to breathe new life into an old, familiar text. “I was asked to read ben-nay-guess-i-rit’s Litany Against Fear from Frank Herbet’s Dune and the Aristocrats,” he says. This introduction is followed by a faithful reading of the text, which is already good enough on its own just because it includes him shouting “When it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path” or the classic, “Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.”

But then things change a bit because there’s a second half to the commission. Gottfried, wracking his brain for whatever gross shit comes to mind first, moves into describing how “Fear and obliteration walk into a talent agent’s office,” are joined by “Litany,” and describes an ad-libbed summary of the various sexual acts they perform for their show. It ends with excrement, bodily fluids, and, of course, Gottfreid stating: “The Aristocrats!”

Take note, Denis Villeneuve. If your Dune adaptation is going to include a second film and a TV spin-off, there should be plenty of room in the cast to get Gottfried in a stillsuit, summoning a sandworm by screaming obscenities into the desert ground.

[via Boing Boing]

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