Actor Comedian Gilbert Gottfried Fired by Afflect For Tsunami Jokes

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Aflac Fires Gilbert Gottfried For Tsunami Jokes
Article by: Phillip Brunelle
Hollywood SHAME
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HOLLYWOOD, CA  -  The well known voice of the Aflac Duck for the nationwide Aflac Insurance company is none other than actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried. That was until he was just fired Monday, March 14th, 2011 for making some highly inappropriate jokes about the recent Tsunami.

In just one day following the March 11th Tsunami in Japan, actor Gilbert Gottfried released some public jokes via Twitter about the natural disaster which has left thousands of people dead, and thousands more still missing. Talk about a very inappropriate time for jokes about a sensitive topic... not that any time would be a good time. I don't think American's would like it very much if a public figure joked about 9/11.

A couple of the Tsunami jokes tweeted by Gilbert Gottfried on Twitter are below:

Gilbert Gottfried has yet to release a public apology for the uncalled for Tsunami jokes, but certainly he will be sorry for getting kicked to the curb by Aflac and destroying his reputation with a few tweets... I thought ducks quack? Silly duck, tweeting is for birds! For this reason Gilbert Gottfried has gone from Hollywood Fame to Hollywood Shame... Welcome to our Hollywood Hall of Shame Gottfried!!

Aflac has since released a statement saying "Gilbert’s recent comments about the crisis in Japan were lacking in humor and certainly do not represent the thoughts and feelings of anyone at Aflac ... Aflac will immediately set plans in motion to conduct a nationwide casting call to find a new voice of the iconic Aflac Duck."

We attempted to get Gilbert Gottfried to comment, but the only comment we got from him was "How did you get this number?!" My response to Gottfried was "I just looked you up in the D-Lister's in Hollywood, it wasn't hard to find you" and just like that Gottfried dropped the call... almost as quick as Aflac put an end to this quack. - Phillip Brunelle - HollywoodShame.com

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