US Comedian Fired for “Crude” Quake Jokes
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 15, 2011 18:59 JST
- Tags: Earthquakes, Internet, Marketing, Mass Media, Twitter, USA
American comedian Gilbert Gottfried has been sacked from his job of voicing a duck after making a series of “crude” and “insensitive” jokes about Japan’s recent earthquakes.
The jokes in question, published as a series of Tweets and already deleted:
Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.
What do the japanese have in common with @howardstern? They’re both radio active.
Japan had put out this urgent plea….” PLEASE SEND US A FEW BIlLION RUBBER DUCKIES!!!!!”
Japan called me. They said “maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they’re all sinking.
I fucked a girl in japan. She screamed “I feel the earth move and I’m getting wet.”
My book #rubberBallsAndLiquor was released in japan. It’s making quite a splash.
What does every Japanese person have in their apartment? Flood lights.
I asked a girl in Japan to have sex with me. She said “okay, but you’ll have to sleep in the wet spot.”
What do Japanese Jews like to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.
I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said “is there a school in this area.” She said “not now, but just wait.”
My Japanese doctor advised me to stay healthy I need 50 million gallons of water a day.
Twitter’s ability to cause almost any celebrity it comes into contact with to self-destruct remains as impressive as ever.
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Didn't like the jokes but that's just my taste.
There's no such thing as a badly timed joke, every joke will offend someone no matter when you say it. Just get the popsicle stick out of your butt and have a laugh, if you can.
I have friends in Japan who were making jokes themselves. And my New Orleans relatives did the same thing after Katrina. We sometimes use humor as a defense against the agonies of paralyzing terror.
this is true, reality in itself sucks but once you realize that life is just one big joke, shit like this just kinda glazes over and life can then go on. The Japanese will recover and the world will continue to move on. end of story.
Yes, it's normal for the people touched by a disaster to make some jokes to try and lighten up the horror of it all.
But some jackass living thousands of miles away, trying to get attention and possibly profit from such jokes, cold and untouched by the dramatic situation, is a completely different thing.
He's a jerk, and deserved to be fired.
No, he is a good comedian. I laughed at the part where he got fired.
Here's another joke, He's now Gilbert Gottfired
I loled for real. Good one :D
I see what you did there. xD
lol
>I fucked a girl in japan. She screamed...
>“I feel the earth move and I’m getting wet.”
YYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
If he even got one....
the jokes weren't funny but the fired part made me laugh XD
Lily White, that was fucking amazing :D
lol!
Bravo sir. *golfclap
hahahahhaa nice one =)
GOTTFIRED! HA! SOUNDS CLASSIC!!!
...
but really, he deserved it! that is absolutely not funny!
good one :D
He created a great career, he's on fire(d).
Like always, Twitter, Devil's tool using celebrities.
really good in fact
those are so lame and/or tasteless i had to laugh
If people think this is bad....then they haven't heard his Aristocrats take....
Damn straight, most of them where morbidly hilarious! I thought he only did one, but this many?! Damn; he must of been high to post so often.. wonder if it was some hollyweird dare?
oh well, at least this guy didn't have much of a career to lose. Honestly, I thought his career would have died when he discovered his daughter sold her soul to Kyuubey in order to get people to laugh!
lol hes mean and careless but the jokes would have gone over fine if he had said it like 3 or so months down the road. though sadly they wouldn't be as recent and therefore not as amusing. I may be bias (since I do like gilbert) but overall I think a good portion of the ones posted above were funny though there were some I didn't much care for.
Too soon? The man has made 9/11 jokes right after 9/11 happened. He deliberately makes 'too soon' jokes.
Yeah that's the thing about him, he has no problem making fun of something as soon as it happens. He understands that even in the worst crisis a joke can be found. A lot of people in the world need humor to make it through a hard time anyway.
I think it was pointless to fire him, because as everyone in this country know, that's just his comedic style.
They're just reacting to his jokes without knowing anything about him really.
But yeah, Aflac are the real hypocrites, he was on Howard Stern and the like making "nigger jokes" and making fun of stuff like little girls being raped during the news segment through his career as the duck.
So earthquake jokes "aren't cool" but everything else is?
Aflac is just butthurt that they are going to have to pay out all those insurance policies in Japan. Gottfried's jokes just rubbed it in.
Ugh, that's disgusting.
Really, they aren't the most funny jokes ever but are fine, it's just that it's too soon.
there are lines you can cross and there are lines you just dont fucking cross
he crossed the wrong line
I agree....he will never have another good job again...Oh wait, he never had a good job to begin with....what a prick.
well I have to say, it was too early
i want to se aflack save him now LOL
If I remember this guy correctly on hollywood squares
"YOU FOOL!"
Wait, He had a job?!
I'm so going to Hell for this, but I laughed at most of his jokes.
I hated that stupid duck. Many I can sit thru comercils now.
I was just on google and he's the voice of the Aflac duck, also I saw that it seems 50 Cent made jokes on his twitter as well.
Gilbert? pfft! Just ignore him (like he's been for many years now).
I only laughed a little bit at the very first joke since Yahtzee (Zero Punct) made a joke about his town Brisbane going something like... "Well the waters of Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us!"
But I'd say that this is a bit more serious...
only problem with that is it wasn't the beach water that came up, it was the river water that came down.. so it was a poor joke to begin with.. but can't expect too much from a queenslander..
Most of those jokes were groan-inducing. Sounds fun. Let me try that...
....It sounds like Gilbert...
*sunglasses*
...Gott Fried...
(YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHH...!!!!)
hahaha.. fired .. it's not japan's fault ! it's his own fault .. that stupid jokes can't make me laugh at all
Is he a retard?
Those are the most unfunny jokes I've ever heard.
He should change his name to "Gilbert Gotfired", AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAA. Not.
Quote from Gosick:
"Ho ho ho ho ho..."
I thought they were pretty funny. It's just a joke, who cares of the context just lighten up. He was also the one who made the 9/11 joke like a month after it happened.
I think you meant Victorique "Har Har Har"
Not everyone knows that laugh was to mock to joker, so no, anon 23:32, it was a response to a tasteless joke.
that was pretty funny anon
wait... i dont get how he even had a job as a comedian if his jokes were all as unfunny as these... i guess this is what made his employers realize that they had hired a comedian that is unable to be funny.
it's not funny at all... plain stupid ,yea ?
^that's better than his jokes,you should replace him :P
This was better than every single joke he just made.
Actually that's how I read his name for the first time.
Apparently you're not familiar with Gilbert Gottfried. He was never funny to begin with.
I love Gottfried simply for the fact of his perpetuating lameness. He certainly didn't wait when it came to 9/11 jokes.
I can just hear his voice in my head now...
His last name alone is a mispelled joke, especially in this case.
Gottfired?
Yes, true.
LOLz
stupid duck-tard :P
no, it's funny, just not in the right time and place
american comedian.. so yes, he's retarded