WTF?
Posted on 03/14/2011 3:00:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
COLUMBUS, Ga.— Aflac has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian who is the voice of the insurer's quacking duck in the U.S. Gottfried, who has voiced the duck in numerous commercials since 2000, posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter over the weekend.
"I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'They'll be another one floating by any minute now," he tweeted Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
(btw, isn't being a snarky rascal part of his 'gig'? making)
I’m amazed anyone pays attention to his “tweets.” How lame does your life have to be?
WTF?
Wow, he seems like such a charmer. I’m surprised his girlfriend broke up with him
Too soon?
A good ending for the guy that was named the world’s most unsexy man.
I’m sorry..had they not seen any of his work ?
The funny thing is...it’s not like he’s never, ever, ever made a tasteless joke in his life before. They had to have known this.
[cue Mike McGlone]
“Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?...Does Gil Gottfried have really bad impulse control?”
His tweets are in character ... or lack thereof.
Shut the duck up.
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Who?????
From the article:
Aflac Inc., which does 75 percent of its business in Japan...I had no idea that Aflac was so heavily involved in Japan.
Cool! Thanks!
never liked him. Shame on him for such insensitive comments. Well, he has to live with himself and better him than me. Some people have no respect, no class and no soul!!! Pity the fool.
Wow, small world, huh? That’s a sizeable chunk of folks.
The Lord only knows how many of their insured cars and trucks they watched get washed away.
Doesn’t matter. No company can have a rep or anyone associated with it make statements such as these and not can them.
You would think people would understand the import of twitter, facebook, etc. by now.
Very crude, unfunny and disrespectful. He compares well to Obama and his reaction to deaths of thousands and the crippling of a nation, one of our better allies. This a$$hat makes a stupid joke and Obama goes golfing.
Perhaps he’d be a good boyfriend for Pee Wee Herman.
Of course when you look at this moron, it’s possible to conclude that he might not have been joking.
We had the unfortunate chance of seeing this moron years ago at a comedy club. Before he was a famous azzclown, he opened for the headliner. He got all of about 5 or six laughs and started fighting verbally with some guy in the audience who said he sucked...he got booed off the stage.
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