As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Gilbert Gottfried 
And that is to say nothing of the EVEN MORE obvious fact that anyone who knows anything about Gilbert Gottfried knows that 85% of the man’s career is making insensitive jokes. Remember that movie, The Aristocrats? That entire idea for that movie started because Gilbert Gottfried told the joke at a Hugh Hefner Roast. The roast was taped shortly after 9/11, and Gilbert Gottfried told a 9/11 joke, at which point people yelled “too soon!” and then, as a way to keep from bombing hard and ruining the show, he went into his insanely dirty version of the old joke The Aristocrats and brought everyone back. Can you see what I’m getting at here? THIS IS THE SAME GUY WHO SPAWNED ‘THE ARISTOCRATS’, WHICH ITSELF WAS SPAWNED BY HIM TELLING 9/11 JOKES RIGHT AFTER 9/11. And he was the voice of the Aflac duck for a FULL DECADE after that.
So big thanks to our video editor, Oliver Noble, for putting together this short mashup of just a few Gilbert Gottfried jokes that DIDN’T get him fired (as performed by the Aflac Duck), in honor of those moral highgrounding sh*tbag hypocrites over at Aflac. Who, let’s not forget, are IN THE F*CKING INSURANCE BUSINESS. The same exec who made the decision to fire Gottfried is probably some doughy A-hole who spends his vacations shooting captive animals on game preserves and screwing 10-year-olds in Southeast Asia. But, yes, let’s be sure to distance ourselves from some guy who made JOKES on f*cking TWITTER.
POST EDITED FOR RIGHT WINGERS: Why come Gilbert Gottsfried kin joke about our dead 9/11 patriots, but the minute he tells a joke about dead Japs he gits fired?? I THOUGHT THIS WAS ‘MURICA! DEY TOOK YER JOB! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!
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Had the Tsunami happened in 1992 I might not have had to suffer through USA’s Up All Night throughout highschool? Who’s the real victim here Japan?
A joke about a disaster draws attention to the victims. A reprimand for the joke draws attention to the celebrity.
Industry cock: Oversensitive pricks didn’t like your tweeting so we’ll have to stop your quacking.
Gottfried: SO TSU MI!
“Listen, Gilbert, I can deny someone’s life insurance claim because a tsunami isn’t the same as a monsoon, but you can’t joke about it.”
-Mr. Aflac (probably)
I don’t think he had a legitimate job to get fired from when he made the 9/11 jokes, can someone check on this?
Too tsunami.
Of course the real irony (probably using this word wrong again) of this entire shit sandwich is that the very people who would be offended by his Twitter remarks are too old to use Twitter
I find it way more offensive that he was in Problem Child.
POST EDITED FOR RIGHT WINGERS: Thank you, from Burnsy and Donk.
Lince, “Starboard Wingers” is the preferred nomenclature.
The Mighty Feklahr is a “back-afty” kinda guy, Himself! Hubba hubba!
Frigin’ Japs. First the American automotive industry and now this.
For the record, I don’t believe Oliver Noble is a real person.
He got fired because Aflac Japan is a major part of their customer base and if the company spokesperson is making light of the tragedy, its not good for the overall image for their main consumer of their service. I agree 100 percent with you on how he is ( and should) say whatever he wants to joke about as a comedian. Aflac rightly knew who they hired (thus staying after the 9/11 jokes), though once he hit home with what will effect profit for the business, the job goes bye bye.
/well that was long
Whatever, there’s no excuse for being a spineless pussy and distancing yourself from your spokesperson who was doing exactly as he had always done. Fuck excusing this bullshit as “it’s just business.” Fuck that. Be a human being first, then worry about your fucking business. Would you stop being friends with someone who was just doing as he’d always done so that you could still hang with the popular kids? FUCK THAT.
once he hit home with what will effect profit for the business, the job goes bye bye
Yeah, cuz every fucking slant in Japan stopped from cleaning up wreckage and worrying about nuclear fallout long enough to boycott AFLAC for having (a perceived) insensitive person voicing the fucking DUCK in their commercials. Thanks for the insight, dumbfuck.
Just because there’s a logic to something doesn’t make it an okay thing to do.
Yeah, take that you Vulcan snobs!
If they replace the Aflac duck with Gary Busey voicing it, I would say this whole thing is a wash.
And that ended with an unintentional tsunami joke.
Why isn’t anyone referring to him as Gilbert Gottfired?
@Vince: the entire concept of a “spokesman” is that they “speak” for you- you’re paying the person to be associated with your sports drink/car/insurance/ugly Australian footwear, trying to boost the public’s perception of your product. If the company no longer gets that benefit because public opinion shifts, why continue associating with the person?
It’s like Burger King: public opinion turned against ads featuring a creepy plastic “King” invading people’s bedrooms, so they dropped the campaign.
“Why did you fire Charlie Sheen, CBS? You knew he was a completely insane wife-beating coke fiend when you hired him?”
A corporation is not a person, therefore we can’t really be upset with them for not behaving like a human being. And for that reason they can’t and don’t make moral decisions. Only business decisions. It may be inconsistent and baffling but they’ve got every right to protect their bottom line if their spokesperson no longer represents their company the way they’d like him to. This isn’t some kind of censorship. He’s got every right to say whatever he wants, but he’s not entitled to being the Aflac spokesperson. People get fired from their spokesperson jobs for doing stupid shit all the time. I don’t see why this one is particularly deserving of a rant.
I’m sure it wasn’t a Japan-easy decision.
It also makes you look like a bitch when you fire someone for doing what he does and has always done on his own time. Also, keep in mind, they hired the motherfucker to say “AFLAC” once a month as the voice of a duck. Are people really going to be sitting there going, “Fuck dis, duck a racist!”
I’m sorry, I have a zero tolerance policy on being a whiny, bitch-made pussy over a guy who made naughty jokes.
yes, this is my problem with corporations as a whole, they have no fucking accountability. Hence why you can run an investment bank that loses trillions, while you collect hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, and then when the company gets fined for its shady practices, you can just bail while the company pays the fines with the very money they collected in a bailout from the people who fined them. This is the same kind of shit, which is why I’m ranting against it. Everyone at Aflac can just fire the guy and we all just go along with it because it’s this big faceless corporation with no accountability or morality. I know that’s “just how it works,” but don’t yell that at me for pointing out that “how it works” is fucked.
The irony for me is that I didn’t realize Gilbert was the spokesman for Aflac until they fired him. I probably never would’ve noticed. I also never saw Gilbert’s tweets about Japan.
So by distancing itself Aflac told me it associated with a person I didn’t pay attention to. Great PR!
@ Vince. People would probably cry racism or something eventually. People pick apart stupid shit all the time. Conclusions would jump to “THAT AFLAC DUCK LOVES WATER AND DESTRUCTION!!!!”. Sad that they pussy out but it would be inevitable for Aflac firing him.
Can we just sum this up by saying, “This is Filmdrunk and AFLAC can eat our soggy biscuit after they get done mo-capping Brunsy.”?
I couldn’t agree with you more that the way corporations work as a whole is completely fucked. I don’t think this is a particularly good example of it, but if that’s what we’re upset about here then I wholeheartedly endorse this rant.
I admit I wrote it right after my first cup of coffee, but if there was ever a surefire way to get me really pissed off, it would be to somehow combine unfunny people telling comedians what they can and can’t joke about, and the total lack of accountability among corporations.
@MilkLizard I just wanted to turn the bogus PR talking points back on Aflac for appearing to care more about Japanese tsunami victims than 9/11 victims. Fight fire with fire, so to speak insensitively.
damn vince your righteous anger is turning on your jack off couch
I might be biased since GG kills it every time he’s on Stern but what seems to be getting swept away in this here brouhaha is the fact that he was a voice for a fucking duck for fuck sakes!!! It’s not like T Woods where he was the face of a product, 999 out of 1000 Japanese in no way knew who quacked AFLAC! Fuck AFLAC, and you go Vinnie!
Man oh fucking man, what a gigantic shiteating pussy Vince Mancini is. Seriously, this guy has to be the biggest vagina ever to write a piece-of-shit article.
Noone gives a fuck about your whining. Go imagine sucking off Gilbert Gottfried somewhere in private, you repugnant faggot.
Can we get back to the real point here?
Gil’s joke sucked, clearly the dead hooker’s veins would be runny.
#5thGradeBiology
Willing to bet if he made these jokes at one of the roasts it would have been overlooked, but since it’s on Twitter it’s viewed as insensitive.
A corporation is not a person.
According to the supreme court it is, COMMUNIST!
Funny how judges are only considered ‘activist’ when they use their powers to endorse immoral positions like a woman having control of her own body or people being allowed to marry people with the same kind of naughty bits as themselves.
</fucking political>
So nice of you to show up, Aflac guy. I’m pleased you gave so little of a shit that you created a login, password, and avatar for my website. Though you do get not-giving-a-shit points on your punctuation and grammar. PS, YOUR MOTHER SUCKS COCK IN HELL.
Also, I think Aflac should make a commercial that uses the same duck with a new voice riding a surfboard on the tsunami waves.
As long as the voice of the duck is soothing, like Morgan Freeman, it’ll really show the Japanese that this new duck is ultra sensitive to their issue and is truly there for them.
Because that’s what this is all about, making the people of Japan realize that the Aflac duck is here to save the day.
lmfao. What a retard. Both of those attempts at defending yourself were as piss-poor as your shit article and shit comments. Writing a mass quantity of stupid shit down onto a website doesn’t make you a “writer”, nor does it make anything you say worthwhile. Need proof? I’m glad you asked. You, a complete moron, write idiotic crap down onto your own retarded website. Case closed.
Quit being a pussy, pussy. I’m just here to let you know that your article is shit, your comments are shit, your ideas are shit, and you’re altogether the biggest dumbshit currently alive. Accept the facts, kill yourself, and we can all move on happily ever after.
Hey, Aflac guy, I think I broke my wrist dismissively wanking at your comments. Can you cover maintenance on my jack-off couch for a few months? This was almost certainly work-related.
The following “warning for right-wingers” would’ve been enough to suffice:
Gilbert Gottfried is a Jew.
When did Squints get so uppity?
I was really hoping that if anywhere, I could come to this comment section and read some good tsunami jokes. Instead, I find all this? This is far more depressing than the disaster itself.
*cue the times they are a changin’
I realise I’m late to the party here, but Fek and Vince both argue that people in Japan are too busy to notice this. I’m from Christchurch, which was hit by a devastating earthquake a few weeks ago. Then, Expedia accidentally sent out an email advertising cheap trips to tourist attractions that were destroyed. People were stuck at home and angry and scared, and they would like to have someone to blame. Expedia copped it bad as a result, and so, I expect, would Aflac.
Lame..those jokes didn’t involve actual people who just died. They weren’t directed at any real individuals so the comparison is a fail. I noticed 911 jokes aren’t acceptable even 10 ears after the event. Fact is words affect people. I think what the OP and people like Gottfried don’t get is that just because it doesn’t bother you doesn’t mean it won’t bother others. If a comedian ever got wasted for saying something offensive like that, put me on the jury because I’m voting not guilty. If someone wants to push the buttons of people who lost loved ones they get what they deserve
How would Gottfried like this?
I recently went to Auschwitz and it was one of the most depressing experiences of my life.
No gift shop
What’s grey, runs along walls and kills Jews?
Gas Pipes.
In Germany they can jail people for denying the holocaust. Why? Those are just words also even if they don’t publicly say it, it wont stop them from believing it.
What is the New York City Fire Department’s favorite song?
“It’s Raining Men”
What was the last thing going through Mr. Jones’ head when he was working on the World Trade Center’s 90th floor?
The 91st floor.
What’s the biggest difference between 9/11 and the Oklahoma City Bombing?
Foreigners once again prove they can do it better and more efficiently.
Have you heard about the decision about the memorial at the WTC site?
The city decided to go with an open park and the worlds largest franchise of the “International House of Pancakes!”
I don’t know about Gottfried, but I laughed my ass off.
This is the problem with comedy being treated especially different for being something enjoyed subjectively. As far as I’m concerned, nothing is off limits. The funniest story I ever heard was about a good friend of the family who had lost her legs and had Alzheimer’s, and at one event they forgot to strap her into her wheelchair so she threw herself onto the dance floor because she forgot she had no fucking legs.
People without a sense of humor like that LYG dickbag above should pull their hands out of their vaginas and then die in a fire.
Incorrect, Martin, and, as you’re clearly a retarded dumbfuck, this is hardly surprising. My sense of humor is large, in charge, and in full-force. I totally agree that your family friend doing something idiotic and making a huge ass of herself is fucking hilarious. Matter of fact, I find every instance that’s either humiliating or unfortunate for your entire worthless family and social circle of retards to be fucking hilarious. If someone slit your throat, lubed up their hard dick with the blood gushing from your neck, and then fucked your mom in the ass, I’d laugh uncontrollably with boisterous joviality. That shit would be comedic gold.
Anyways, quit being a pussy and gain a sense of humor, faggot.
I fully expect Bret or Brendan to confess trolling as LYG on this week’s frotcast.
@martin your right I think nothing should be off limits. If a Japanese person is offended by you or Gottfried, they should have a right to send you and yours to the next dimension
Gilbert Gottfried made jokes about the tsunami, jokes that most of the crowd would consider “insensitive” and “wrong”. A company can’t allow themselves to be associated with someone who does “insensitive” and “wrong” shit. It’s terrible fucking publicity.
Just look at all the shit that SNL got for allowing woman-beater Chris Brown to perform at the show.
Just look at Michael Vick. He was involved in illegal dog fighting because he WANTED to, and now he’s playing again and getting new endorsement deals. I’m pretty sure that Vince wouldn’t be caught dead defending Vick or the people who hired him (after all, he’s a dog lover). Dog lovers were certainly offended, but there’s people out there who DON’T GIVE A SHIT if Vick offended dog lovers. There are people offended by Gilbert’s jokes, and there are people (like Vince) who DON’T GIVE A SHIT if people were offended.
It’s a matter of opinion, and it’s in a company’s best interest to get rid of someone who offends a lot of people. So fucking what if it’s his job? That doesn’t make it any more publicly acceptable. Those jokes (as well as the 9/11 one) can really hurt a lot of people’s feelings, and Aflac are right to stay away from a guy who causes that sort of trouble.
ROAST DUCK GOTT FRIED?
Are you fucking serious? There’s a pretty clear distinction between Vick or Brown and Gottfried: Vick electrocuted dogs to death. Chris Brown beat the shit out of his girlfriend. Gottfried typed words on a computer. That’s not a matter of opinion, it’s fact. You’re exactly part of the problem, where people can’t distinguish between words and actions.
Hey, I didn’t even MENTION those dudes!!
You’d think Gilbert would know more than anyone that you don’t make insensitive jokes about a recent disaster unless you have good follow up material. He needs to just tweet the goddamn Aristocrats joke again to save his ass.
You know, I’ve learned something today. I much prefer the term “faggette” over “dyke”.
I’m sad I missed this. I’ve been waiting for the voice of reason to come along and point out the victim in all of this senselessness, an unemployed duck.
Fucking internet.
I’m going to go to Japan and beat the shit out of Yoshihiro Morimoto, whose wife and daughter were swept out to sea in the tsunami.
Jack, I am sorry, you are fired. I cannot stand insensitive jokes. Ya faggoty mick.
See what happens when they take the comments away from WWTDD? The trolls get all pent up and then ejaculate stupidity on us.
Aflac: Gilbert Gottfried is repugnant!
*spends next five years litigating Japanese claims on based on technicalities*
Uhhh, what the fuck people. I think you’re missing the point, did you even listen to his other material? Tsunami, poonami! Seriously, please don’t put poop in my hooha to make your Dad want to boink me LYG.
Sure thing, bro, no problem. The request wasn’t necessary, anyhow. Anytime he or I need a shit-fix, we just head straight to your whore mother’s rotten cunt, where shit flops out freely and eventually decays into the stinking disease that is you.
See, guys? I make compromises in the spirit of comradery. Quit being a bunch of flaming pussies.
*incoming transmission*
a morbidly obese Klingon wearing a Punisher t-shirt and rainbow suspenders appears…He is holding a watermelon dressed up to look like a Romulan in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other
Qaplah! Did He make it in time for “Unhetero Failtard Night of Diminishing Laughs”? Dor sho gha! LYG started without Him!!!
the angry Klingon quickly scribbles “LYG” on the watermelon before obliterating it into Slurpee mush with the hammer
BONG!!!!!!!
*end transmission*
And for the sake of Kahless’ Beard, noname, learn to tell Jew jokes:
What do you do with a Jew with ADHD?
Put him in a concentration camp.
OR!
Hitler walks into the meeting room and turns to his trusted staff, “I want you to organise the execution of 10,000 Jews and 1 kitten.”
Everyone looks around the table and after a long silence, Goering pipes up, “Mein Führer, why do you want to kill a kitten?”
Hitler smiles and turns to the rest of the table, “You see, no one cares about the Jews.”
Wait, so is Vince a faggot or not?
Since when do faggots have clown hair and wear plaid
and play for the Lakers?*lowers bouquet sadly*
*pulls up in windowless van*
I think we’re all losing sight of what’s REALLY important here, and that’s the fact that Rebecca Black is currently unguarded.
What a sad, squalid state of affairs we’ve fallen into when we have to question whether our fearless leader is a faggot.
OF COURSE Vince is a faggot. What do you faggots think, that he’s NOT fucking around on his puppy-fisting couch all day thinking of ways that LordYourGod is superior to him in every fucking conceivable manner? Jesus Queefing Christ, you ninnies wouldn’t even know a faggot anymore if he tricked you into his rectory for a rousing game of “suck the old man off until he’s convinced you didn’t force your parents to separate.”
Donk, marry me?
Back o’ the line, Moreno.
*pilfers Chareth’s limp, lifeless bouquet*
Donk, that brought a tear to my ear, you crazy nancy boy.