Gilbert Gottfried, a comedian who has been doing commercials for insurance company Aflac for over a decade has been fired after making a bunch of jokes on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake.
The Jokes Are:
- "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'There'll be another one floating by any minute now.' "
- "Japan called me. They said 'maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they're all sinking.' "
- "What do the Japanese have in common with howardstern? They're both radio active."
- "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."
- One can laugh about anything, but Gottfried shouldn't be surprised that a corporate sponsor would fire him for publicly joking about an unfolding tragedy. This is particularly true here because, as the AP notes, Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan. But what's really shocking about those jokes isn't just how offensive they are, but how bad they are.
Mar 15, 2011
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