Gilbert Gottfried Fired Over Japan Tsunami Jokes

Gilbert Gottfried has joined 50 Cent by landing in hot water after making some sick jokes about the Tsuanmi in Japan, but Gilbert has gone one step further and not only received backlash but he has now been fired by Aflac Inc.

Gilbert has been the voice of Aflac Inc’s iconic duck since 2000 but yesterday they handed him his pink slip after he made a series of bad jokes about Japan, which is apparently Aflac’s most important market. Here is some of his Tweets:

“Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them” and “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘they’ll be another one floating by any minute now’” and “I fucked a girl in japan. She screamed ‘I feel the earth move and I’m getting wet.’”

All of the Tweets have since been deleted and he hasn’t updated his account since Sunday but either way Aflac weren’t laughing at these jokes and fired his ass, announced they are holding a nationwide casting call to replace him and are also donating $100 million to disaster relief. They also 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. There is no place for anything but compassion and concern during these difficult times.”

Considering that 75% of Aflac’s business comes from Japan, this is really the only move that they could make isn’t it? What a dumb ass. Speaking of jokes, I’m sick of hearing them and none of them make me laugh.

Gilbert Gottfried Fired Over Japan Tsunami Jokes

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