Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

I called you a dick once for singling me out when I was trying to be helpful in the first place. I used the term once more when defending my position. I didn't say anything that anyone else hadn't said and I was, I think, a lot nicer about it than some and yet you chose to attack me. I'm sorry I called you a dick and admit that wasn't very nice but I only did so after you called me out for something I didn't even do and for misinterpreting what I was trying to say in the first place.

Whiney, are you still that butthurt about the star wars thread?

Also at least one other poster said you were being a dick way before I did and you didn't go apeshit on them.

I honestly didn't notice that, kind of hard to keep track of who all was dumping on me itt.

easier to just go for the 1 bitch

I know better but I can't take this ... jon whatever goodwill you had at the beginning of this thread is completely gone because you called Erica a...you know what you called her...to prove a point.

If you're going to fight your fights based around wounding words and the use of offensive language, do everyone a favor and hone your rhetoric skills first...and don't automatically assume that everyone's against you.

you've done this on the IA thread too and I'll be damned if I'll sit back and watch it happen again

yall i didnt even know gottfried was the voice of the afflac duck

Whiney, are you still that butthurt about the star wars thread?

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:27 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm butthurt that you and fellow worthless poster Robert Spiralli spent my 30 day ban talking shit about me when I couldn't defend myself and now that I'm back I just want you to know how very little i think about you and your crappy, hypocritical, hysterical posting style

the jokes are obv., um, joke-worthy but gottfried's timing is ridiculously insensitive. dude couldn't even wait 3days before he goes on a diahrrea-run of everything he could possibly think of. i'm perfectly willing to laugh at some of the onion's 9/11 humor - but that was 10 YEARS ago.

they're still finding thousands of bodies washing ashore atm... i just couldn't find these jokes funny remotely as o fnow.

HDU talk shit about my girl ENBB!! :( I didn't get to read the 300 or so posts after that (yet) so hopefully there is a spot where Jon comes to his senses and sees that no one was trying better to mitigate the rage than our star.

This thread inspired me to check out GG's twitter and it is incredible that for such a reaction-baiting asshole, most of his tweets are individual Thank Yous to people! Very nice IMO.

anyway, classic:
@RealGilbert
Gilbert Gottfried
.@howiemmandel Congratulate me. I discovered a way to send germs via twitter.

hahahahaha

i used to have a tiny, adorable afflac duck that my work gave me and it SCREAMED "afflac" seemingly randomly, somehow i could never get rid of it, like i would always think it was thrown out and then id find it in the closet or w/e -- would be worth BILLIONS now

lol @ germs via twitter

okay that's funny

i'm butthurt that you and fellow worthless poster Robert Spiralli spent my 30 day ban talking shit about me when I couldn't defend myself and now that I'm back I just want you to know how very little i think about you and your crappy, hypocritical, hysterical posting style

Dude, I honestly didn't say anything about you when you were gone. In fact, iirc, in that very thread I explained why I DIDN'T suggest ban you and explained that I was just hoping you would tone it down.

yall i didnt even know gottfried was the voice of the afflac duck

i didn't either!

Guys can we just end this? It's not going to be helpful to anyone and it's clearly not going anywhere. I said I was sorry for resorting to name calling out of frustration. I'm done. Let's just talk about GG now. OK?

yall i didnt even know gottfried was the voice of the afflac duck

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:28 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark

Awesome. You can join Goole and I in the clueless club.

And Donna R.!

The stuff that the Family Guy writer said or the FB stuff about Pearl Harbor disgust me because you can tell that they reflect real beliefs on some level, but what Gottfried did was just like a pure jokemaking exercise. Maybe that's why I find it so persistently difficult to accept it as monstrous and offensive.

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:26 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is sorta how i feel about it, too, tbh.

xp i had no idea either!

oh, sorry bout that then, jon. #olivebranch

I have never heard of Aflac in my life.

see? i got TOTALLY DUMPED on upthread for not knowing that

xp ahhaaha

I didn't know either !

yeah i mean it obv makes sense but it almost seems too good to be true!!

xpost that's otm re: family guy et al

haha thx for paving the way for us goole, it was like the Stonewall of people not knowing GG was the afflac duck voice

but if you think about it now it's so obviously him, right?

makes perfect sense in retrospect, i guess

oops x-post

i also did not know.

hmmm

i feel sorry for GG

totes, but, like, does he say anything other than "aflac"?

spirally is NOT a worthless poster, he is hilarious

did some research and i think in mn they replaced him with the voice of don pardo which is prob why several of us are confused

does the aflac duck ever say anything besides "aflac"?

xpost ha

I feel sorry for the duck

nope, just aflac afaik

god how much did GG get paid to say one fukkin word i wonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5UTr2xbnY

theres a thin line between using humor to deal with an immense tragedy & embracing tasteless humor to be 'edgy'

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090922/SNL/Gilbert-Gottfried_l.jpg

daw

also, now that I have actually read the whole damn list I also agree with the distinction between GG and the Fam Guy stuff as drawn by PTT

yeah i think hes too old too care about being edgy, i think he was just trying to make topical jokes tbh!

obviously he was trying to make tasteless jokes also, but i dont think his point was trying to be on the cutting edge

Don Pardo? Waht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSorefCdmQ0

haha yeah whaaa? xp

i used to have a tiny, adorable afflac duck that my work gave me and it SCREAMED "afflac" seemingly randomly, somehow i could never get rid of it, like i would always think it was thrown out and then id find it in the closet or w/e -- would be worth BILLIONS now

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:30 PM Bookmark

This happened: AFLAC sales guy came to our company's mailroom and sent out a flyer saying if we'd hear him out, we'd get a stuffed AFLAC duck.

So I went and listened to his spiel, and he gets ready to quote me a price, he starts asking these innocent little questions, taking out his AFLAC pencil and saying, "Now, Mr. Plains, I know you don't smoke, correct?" I say no, I don't. He checks a box and then says, "That's good. It's likely then you've never had cancer."

I could only think THIS is what they're teaching them at Dale Carnagie? I tell him, yeah, actually I have had cancer. He then basically folded up his book and I didn't get my stuffed duck.

Looked the asshole up on the Internet, and he was kicked out of the pulpit for waving a gun at an undercover officer in an interstate rest stop.

Yeah, I mean, you're dead wrong. Look at all the people on the earthquake thread talking about how sickened/shaken (heh) they are by this, most of them having zero practical connection to the tragedy besides the ability to empathize with human suffering - this is clearly something that's traumatic to deal with even for people who aren't involved.

The stuff that the Family Guy writer said or the FB stuff about Pearl Harbor disgust me because you can tell that they reflect real beliefs on some level, but what Gottfried did was just like a pure jokemaking exercise. Maybe that's why I find it so persistently difficult to accept it as monstrous and offensive.

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I guess I feel like it's kind of ludicrous for people with 'zero practical connection' to the events to claim that they are being traumatized and therefore need to laugh at crappy tasteless jokes in order to get over their non-existent ordeal. Plenty of people are going through actual trauma because of this stuff, they don't really need to be lumped in with a bunch of people sitting on their couches watching the news and claiming to be 'shaken' before getting on with their lives undisturbed.

But the main thing is that as a 'pure jokemaking exercise' the tweets really aren't very good.

yeah i guess GG didnt audience test well here so they subbed him out? ill see if i can find a localized youtube xposts

if my mind ever made the connection, i probably though 'huh they got some guy who kind of sounds like gilbert gottfried to yell 'AFLAC' into a microphone a bunch of different ways'

cos if you think about it, it's kind of a waste of money to hire gilbert actual gottfried

xp to PP damn that beats my story

Didn't know about the Family Guy writer till now. A different league of douchebaggery.