Gilbert Gottfried the 56 year old American stand-up comedian renowned for his trademark loud grating voice as the Aflac duck in the Insurance company’s commercials, has been dismissed from the Aflac duck role following his posting of jokes on his Twitter account about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Aflac receives three-quarters of its business from Japan and while quite attuned to Japanese sensitivities in the wake of the disaster, seems to be a gross over reaction to what comedians generally do – make light of grotesque situations in providing a catharsis. Gottfried has deleted the jokes from the Twitter account and found it necessary for some reason to apologize.  Another victim to political correctness and corporate censorship of the arts. Inspired by Jack Shafer ow.ly/4kvhD image source Slate ow.ly/4kv9e I was born without a censor button (March 24 2011)

Gilbert Gottfried the 56 year old American stand-up comedian renowned for his trademark loud grating voice as the Aflac duck in the Insurance company’s commercials, has been dismissed from the Aflac duck role following his posting of jokes on his Twitter account about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. Aflac receives three-quarters of its business from Japan and while quite attuned to Japanese sensitivities in the wake of the disaster, seems to be a gross over reaction to what comedians generally do – make light of grotesque situations in providing a catharsis. Gottfried has deleted the jokes from the Twitter account and found it necessary for some reason to apologize.  Another victim to political correctness and corporate censorship of the arts.

 

Inspired by Jack Shafer ow.ly/4kvhD image source Slate ow.ly/4kv9e