In times of tragedy some people try to be funny, and it's usually not appropriate. Just ask
Gilbert Gottfried:
From The Street we learn comedian Gilbert Gottfried has been fired by Aflac for his “jokes”:
Gilbert Gottfried was fired by Aflac on Monday after the comedian made a number of distasteful jokes about the devastation in Japan.
“Japan is really advanced,” Gottfried tweeted on Monday afternoon, “They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.”
Aflac quickly cut ties with the comedian following a string of similar comments.
Hollywood Reporter has more: Aflac, which does 75 percent of its business in Japan, also plans to donate $100 million to disaster relief.
Gottfried has yet to apologize for the jokes, which included: “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘They’ll be another one floating by any minute now.’”
Free speech means you can say what you think, but it doesn't mean there won't be consequences. My only attempts to lighten things up were
these:
With Japan getting hit by an EQ, tsunami, volcano (and a nuke disaster thrown in), Mother Gaia should be flagged for unnecessary roughness.
We can't do a darn thing about earthquakes and tsunamis, but we're supposed to believe our SUVs will destroy the earth.
I'm available, AFLAC, if you need a spokesduck with a bass voice.
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3 comments:
Got that Dixie Duckling quackery.
It is distasteful and he should thought about consequences. I am not surprised they fired him.
I'm glad that they fired him. It's just poor taste and poor judgment to make the kind of jokes that he did. This crisis is still going on, they are still finding bodies! The jokes were lame and unfunny, anyway.
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