Gilbert Gottfried fired

[dmcowen674]

On the other hand, maybe they will get rid of that stupid annoying duck.

Negative

They immediately announced National Casting call for his voice replacement.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Gilbert Gottfired

too soon man too soon

 

[NFS4]

Aflac does 75% of their business in Japan. So yeah, he's a dumbass.

 

[Lamont Burns]

Right b/c he's never done anything like this before. Oh wait he's been doing it for decades.

He's not even the duck voice in Japan.

 

[Krazy4Real]

He'll find another gig soon enough.

 

[Eli]

Wow, some uptight people out there.

It was probably too soon. But I lol'd.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I don't care how people joke (short of physcially hurting someone), and it's not like he needed the job so I guess I all around don't care.

 

[sactoking]

Last night my wife got mac n cheese with hotdogs for dinner with a side salad for a little nutrition. I started digging through the fridge and like 5 minutes later she asked what I was looking for. I told her I was looking for the Asian Toasted Sesame dressing. She asked why I wanted that one instead of one of the others we had out already and I told her "Because it's got a tsunami of flavor!". She didn't think that was funny.

Less than 5 minutes later when I was finishing up putting together the hotdogs n mac I asked her to 'Make like Lorrena Bobbit and bring me that cut up weiner'. She thought that was funny.

 

[Wyndru]

Gottfried is one of those comics that needs to shock people to get attention. Even at the roasts, he just says shit that gets people going. I don't think he is that funny, he just tries to be obnoxious and annoying. Unfortunately he isn't significant enough to pull it off without consequences.

That being said, I wonder how many people would be upset if Daniel Tosh said the same joke. I remember when he made an awful joke about Michael Jackson around the time he died and people thought it was hilarious.

 

[NFS4]

That being said, I wonder how many people would be upset if Daniel Tosh said the same joke. I remember when he made an awful joke about Michael Jackson around the time he died and people thought it was hilarious.

Pedophiles are fair game

 

[ShawnD1]

Pedophiles are fair game

Um.... Japan? The place where you can buy used underwear from a vending machine? "loli" porn?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Gilbert has been doing this kind of tasteless, edgy, and sometimes funny comedy for years. Why this is a shock to anyone is beyond me. It's what he does.

 

[BoomerD]

Gilbert Gottfired

heh-heh...well done.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.salon.com/news/japan_ear...ure/2011/03/15/gilbert_gottfried_japan_tweets
apparently he did this after 9/11 as well, nothing new.

 

[BoomerD]

never mind

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Even Johnny Carson knew it was still too soon to make jokes about Lincoln.

Gilbert should have known better. He had a sweet gig. Oh well... back to the stage.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Can someone tell me how anybody relates the humor of a rather annoying comedian with the squawking of a fictional insurance mascot?

It would be like if the voice of the Gecko was found with a prostitute. Would that REALLY effect your choice of purchasing motorcycle insurance?

The whole thing is stupid on many levels.

 

[nageov3t]

Can someone tell me how anybody relates the humor of a rather annoying comedian with the squawking of a fictional insurance mascot?

It would be like if the voice of the Gecko was found with a prostitute. Would that REALLY effect your choice of purchasing motorcycle insurance?

The whole thing is stupid on many levels.

75% of Afflac's business comes from Japan, so yeah... not stupid at all that they would want to distance themselves from these comments.

 

[Minjin]

Can someone tell me how anybody relates the humor of a rather annoying comedian with the squawking of a fictional insurance mascot?

It would be like if the voice of the Gecko was found with a prostitute. Would that REALLY effect your choice of purchasing motorcycle insurance?

The whole thing is stupid on many levels.

Some people are apparently so pure in character that if they find one fault in an external entity, they want nothing to do with that entity. These are the people who think Tom Cruise sucks because he is now a Scientologist. Or that want to boycott Amazon and Visa because of supposed counter-Wikileaks activities. Or that suddenly hate Orson Scott Card's books after discovering that he is a Mormon and hates homosexuals. Or that refuse to shop with Groupon because they didn't like their Super Bowl commercials. And on and on...

People like to find a reason to be offended and then perform armchair activism to feel more important. These people aren't going to go away and hence, businesses need to cater to them.

 

[nageov3t]

Some people are apparently so pure in character that if they find one fault in an external entity, they want nothing to do with that entity. These are the people who think Tom Cruise sucks because he is now a Scientologist. Or that want to boycott Amazon and Visa because of supposed counter-Wikileaks activities. Or that suddenly hate Orson Scott Card's books after discovering that he is a Mormon and hates homosexuals. Or that refuse to shop with Groupon because they didn't like their Super Bowl commercials. And on and on...

People like to find a reason to be offended and then perform armchair activism to feel more important. These people aren't going to go away and hence, businesses need to cater to them.

why would you employ someone who publicly insults your largest customer?

 

[Minjin]

why would you employ someone who publicly insults your largest customer?

When did he insult the largest customer?

 

[nageov3t]

When did he insult the largest customer?

Japan = Afflac's largest customer.

75% of their business comes from the country.

 

[Minjin]

Japan = Afflac's largest customer.

75% of their business comes from the country.

So? I'm still waiting for proof of the supposed insult. To make such an absurd statement, you need to prove:

1) that a joke made by a comedian to nobody in particular is an insult to an entire country
2) that the Japanese even took it as an insult...was there a big uproar? a call for a boycott? a call for his head?

I can just as easily say that you're insulting the Japanese by insinuating that they are so thin skinned and bothered by trivial concerns.

 

[Beev]

I don't like the concept of "too soon," but I recognize that some people are more easily offended than I am.

 

[gorcorps]

I'm shocked that he actually can get fired from such a gig. I always though they just had him record like 50ish different ways of saying Aflac in his voice in one sitting, and they've just been pulling from that audio bank ever since. Knowing they actually record each commercial separately is... odd, and terribly inefficient.