Gilbert Gottfried fired by Aflac over Japan tsunami jokes

[PM5K]

Aflac considers Gilbert Gottfried, for years the voice of its trademark duck, to be "lacking in humor": The company fired Gottfried on Monday in reaction to jokes he'd tweeted making fun of tsunami victims and the situation in Japan following last week's massive earthquake. LINK (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/03/gilbert-gottfried-fired-aflac-tsunami-jokes.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef014e86b79622970d)

Umm, you hire a comedian as your voice actor and then shit your pants when he tells jokes? It's not like Gilbert has ever been anything other than tasteless either.

I think if I were him, and had a good gig with Aflack I'd probably mind my p's and q's though.

[The Reckoning]

lol he's infamous for his "too soon" jokes

[ChumpDumper]

I guess they never saw him work a Comedy Central roast.

[redzero]

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-10-worst-gilbert-gottfried-tsunami-jokes

[nkdlunch]

he should have been fired for the pathetic quality of those jokes

[phyzik]

I'll admit it, I chuckled at the girlfriend one.

[BlackSwordsMan]

he still has that aladdin money

[Viva Las Espuelas]

What idiots. Not knowing what kind of comic he is. I've never laughed harder in my life hearing him on Howard. His Seinfeld is hilarious.

[TDMVPDPOY]

wtf those jokes arent even funny at all, wheres the punchline?

[mouse]

I'm sure when someone gets rear ended Gilbert Gottfried doing commercials for the other driver's insurance really concerns them.

[Smart Ass]

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[Spurminator]

I honestly didn't realize it was actually Gottfried doing that voice... Just thought it was someone who sounded like him. I'm sure they won't have trouble finding a replacement.

75% of Geico's business is done in Japan. Aflac had to fire him, regardless of what they "knew" about his comedic style. It's not like they could have predicted a disaster of this proportion in their top market.

Just because his reaction was predictable doesn't mean their response was unfounded.

And speaking of predictable, I'm beginning to realize that the Internet is killing "too soon?" humor, because EVERYONE does it now. Gottfried's tweets might have been funny ten years ago when this sort of humor couldn't be found on every college douchebag's Twitter feed.

[Zelophehad]

75% of Geico's business is done in Japan. Aflac had to fire him, regardless of what they "knew" about his comedic style. It's not like they could have predicted a disaster of this proportion in their top market.


??

[Spurminator]

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Aflac, which does 75 percent of its business in Japan, also plans to donate $100 million to disaster relief.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gilbert-gottfried-fired-as-aflac-167382?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+R eporter+-+Top+Stories%29

[Spurminator]

Oh wait, I see what you're saying.

Geico/Aflac... yeah. I mean... okay. Damn.

[Cry Havoc]

Meh. Political correctness is a slippery slope.

He shouldn't have said that, but I'm sure that thousands of other people were making the same or worse jokes over the weekend.

I heard this one on reddit:

One poster wrote,
"I'm a Jewish African American. I cannot erase one stereotype of my people without confirming the other."

"How's the back of the oven treating you?"

[Viva Las Espuelas]

...................................and the crowd goes mild.

[Kermit]

wheres the punchline?

Uh.....

[JoeChalupa]

I'm not surprised by his jokes but can totally understand why he was termed.