Bobcat Goldthwait is no longer that Tab-fueled, crazed comic icon of the 1980s whose fans formed lines around the block to see stand-up’s version of Elvis.
And that’s fine and dandy with the 45-year-old Boston native, now secure in writing screenplays and directing.
“I like my life now,” Goldthwait said. “I’m happy behind the camera.”
Still, after “three or four years” of stand-up hibernation, Bobcat is back on stage. He’ll headline today and Saturday at the Comedy Works.
Thank the recently ended writers strike for urging Goldthwait to re-emerge.
“It’s given me a chance to get in touch with my roots,” he said of the strike. “It’s made me go back and do stand-up. I was retired. Now I’m back.”
Rusty? Not the Cat. It’s like riding a bike. A very old bike, he hinted. “It would be hard if I wrote new jokes,” Goldthwait said. “I’m pretty lazy. It’s the same stuff.”
Hey, classics are classics.
“I wouldn’t want to go see Poison and they didn’t do ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn,’ ” Goldthwait reasoned.
It’s late in the week and Goldthwait sounds relaxed after six morning media interviews. Surprisingly, he was able to muster a periodic laugh though mourning the Feb. 6 death of his brother, Thomas, 53, in a home fire near Syracuse.
“The past couple of weeks have been rough,” Goldthwait said. “But I’m fine.”
Getting back to stand-up has been good for his psyche, he said.
“I feel my age all day long, except when I get backstage,” he said. “Then I’m alive. It revitalizes me.”
Goldthwait was in the middle of directing a movie that was halted because of the strike.
“Hopefully, I’ll get it back going,” he said, adding that there’s another movie pending “with Robin (Williams) attached to it. I hope.”

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OK, let’s get one thing cleared up before we start the recap of the show…
YES, Joanne did bungle and let the pre-taping cat out of the bag last week. She said “Sunday” (the day she and the ladies actually taped their performances), then quickly attempted to cover it with “I mean, Wednesday” (referring to the day the show was broadcast.)
YES, as confirmed by my behind-the-scenes AI contact, the performance shows at this point in the competition ARE pre-taped. Currently, the boys are singing for their supper on Saturday, the girls on Sunday. Do I think some transparency of this fact would have been appreciated by the general populus before Joanne’s tongue trippage?
Of course. But then, I’m a big fan of the truthiness.
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising, given the current number of contestants and the extreme amount of work to be done between shows: Picking songs, rehearsals, Vommercials, hair, make-up, photo shoots, interview packages, schooling for the young ‘uns, you name it. Oh yeah, they try to sleep a little too.
Does it take a little of the excitement away from Tuesday and Wednesday nights right now? I think so. And according to all the emails I have received from AI fans asking if the pre-taping rumor is true, they do too.

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