"You Fool!".... Well, Gilbert Gotfied got himself fi : Othor Games

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:36 pm

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-14/aflac-fires-duck-voice-gottfried-over-japan-tsunami-remarks.html

This was actually surprising to me... Twitter is so casual now, that its almost become like a double edged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles hanging over the podium.

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(For those that don't catch the title... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3djXcx2ewQ)

(Yes, I messed up his name with a missed R and T)

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:24 am

The joke is probably no match for some of the memes I've seen. As long as it's a joke and not some of the honest idiotic remarks I've read...

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:16 am

What exactly did he say?

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:26 am

What exactly did he say?

Google it. I'd hate to see it repeated here, personally. You can find it somewhere.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:28 pm

What exactly did he say?

If it wasn't so (deadly) serious, and tragic, it would be just par material for him; About something else and it could have been harmless... Bad judgment on his part.

I won't re-post the quotes, but they were easy to find. Basically they made light of the disaster using assumed situations.

Apparently '50 Cent' did the same!?

*Except that Foxnews link had quotes worse than Gottfried's (IMO)

That was unexpected... Gottfried at least has a history of this...

Gottfried, whose voice served as that of the Aflac duck, isn’t known for either tact or good timing; he famously made a 9/11 joke just three weeks after 9/11 happened. And the comedian’s Twitter stream is replete with jokes that some might describe as tasteless or insensitive.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:17 pm

One bad joke and I wouldn't care but to keep posting them is amazing.

I can't say I'm sorry that I won't be hearing the Aflac duck.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:25 pm

What an idiot.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:06 am

He is a comic. Tasteless comments are their bread and butter.

It seems that Aflac is really the only one here who made a mistake, and that mistake was hiring a comic to voice their spokesduck and expect him to always remain completely separated from some kind of politically incorrect controversy.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:54 pm

He is a comic. Tasteless comments are their bread and butter.

It seems that Aflac is really the only one here who made a mistake, and that mistake was hiring a comic to voice their spokesduck and expect him to always remain completely separated from some kind of politically incorrect controversy.

Indeed.

*Its curious that they did not fire him after 9/11.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:04 am

I've just seen the 'jokes'. Wow, so incredibly tame.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:48 am

Aflac doesn't know a gold mine when they see it. This is the kind of joke that young men tell to make their buddies giggle.
Don't they charge more for car insurance premiums for teenagers? Don't dis the demographic dudes.

/sarc off/

My .02 and I don't give a ducks ass. The joke is beyond the pale, and it's hard for me to imagine anyone thinking it's actually funny.
I think 'ol Gilbert needs to grow up.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:40 am

Just looked the tweets up, they're the kind of jokes people tell each other every day, but of course, I forgot famous people aren't allowed to do anything human. Way to overreact. :rolleyes:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:54 am

Oh wow, I found a top ten list of the worst... what a [censored], no wonder he was fired. How could any sane person think those were okay to make?

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:04 pm

Oh wow, I found a top ten list of the worst... what a [censored], no wonder he was fired. How could any sane person think those were okay to make?

Was it a site called buzzfeed? Those are fake (from what I can see anyway)

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:04 pm

Was it a site called buzzfeed? Those are fake (from what I can see anyway)

Are you sure? I was linked to it from two other sites (including the huffington post) that posted his "tamer" ones, so I didn't see much reason to doubt their authenticity.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:27 am

Wow really, maybe I am desensitized but that was pretty tame.

Floodlights joke made me lol, but really nothing bad.

God forbid any news sites find sickipedia.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:28 am

Wow really, maybe I am desensitized but that was pretty tame.

Tame as some of them may be, I don't see making jokes about this as any different than making jokes about 9/11, or any other big disaster. It's just not something you should do, especially when it's less than a week after the disaster and bodies are still being found...

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:59 pm

Are you sure? I was linked to it from two other sites (including the huffington post) that posted his "tamer" ones, so I didn't see much reason to doubt their authenticity.

Wait, I thought he just said these 2 jokes:

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* “Japan called me. They said ‘maybe those jokes are a hit in the U.S., but over here, they’re all sinking.’”
* “I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said ‘is there a school in this area.’ She said ‘not now, but just wait.’”

Which is why I said they're incredibly tame.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:35 am

Wait, I thought he just said these 2 jokes:

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* “Japan called me. They said ‘maybe those jokes are a hit in the U.S., but over here, they’re all sinking.’”
* “I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said ‘is there a school in this area.’ She said ‘not now, but just wait.’”

Which is why I said they're incredibly tame.

I found

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What do the Japanese have on in their homes ?

Floodlights.

I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say there will be another floating by.

I find the second one to be a bit bad, but the way people are acting, it just seems like they could be worse.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:09 am

These kinds of jokes should be kept to yourself and not spewed out on the web. That's so insensitive of them. I hope they both drown to death, just to see what it would have been like to be in the situation in Japan.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:55 pm

These kinds of jokes should be kept to yourself and not spewed out on the web. That's so insensitive of them. I hope they both drown to death, just to see what it would have been like to be in the situation in Japan.

An ironic death would be good, but really these people are better than the pearl harbour folks, atleast they arent serious, one is dark humor (which is up to you if its good or bad) the other is just hate/ignorance.

Ok now that family guy writer can go drown, he started that pearl harbour [censored]

You know what, I am not posting here anymore, its just brining attention to these people, and I feel bad just quoting them when this is still an issue.

&#34;You Fool!&#34;.... Well, Gilbert Gotfied got himself fi

"You Fool!".... Well, Gilbert Gotfied got himself fi