Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

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.

I know I've been out of MN for years but even in my youth I would have put money on "who sounds more like a duck: Gilbert Gottfried or Don Pardo?"

Maybe some out of work music teacher has been giving MN ducks voice lessons...?

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

this is exactly what i was thinking

also: JJ i thought you were kidding!!!!

Y'know, Gilbert Gottfried put this on his Twitter account. It's not like he went on Leno and pulled unsuspecting 55-to-75-year-olds into his zone of comedy. Not like he posted it on a thread about the disaster in Japan. That's a pretty tactful use of his First Amendment right.

i just had a terrible vision of gg apologising for getting carried away.

Now, if Gilbert went on someone else's show, started an apology, and then had it evolve into what he does best, that would both be inappropriate and what he does.

I mean, don't follow Paula Deen if you don't want to read about fried things.

afflac "accident insurance" was the best insurance i ever had

just covered weird shit that came up like poison ivy or spraining your ankle or w/e, and it was cheap

and i got the duck. your story is :/ PP but lol that you googled him and lol @ result

sad lol that you did not get the duck

peligro otm

Eazy, you ignore how RTing works. It's not like only people who follow GG read those jokes. Once they go viral you can't pretend you're only addressing a certain audience.

I wonder how many more people are going to lose their jobs because of some silly shit they said on Twitter before people get their heads around how it works.

you cant get rid of the duck though, it just keeps coming back. so maybe it was a blessing

rime of the aflac mariner

can we start a rumor that "aflac" actually means "schadenfreude" in like Old Church Slavonic or something

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

Well, then get mad at or unfollow whomever you follow who RT'd one of his jokes.

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.

― peligro, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Why is it ludicrous? And it's not about getting over an 'ordeal' it's about interfacing with the everyday miseries of the world - it's just easier for me to react to this by exchanging jokes with people than if I decided to get all handwringy over the details of this horrible tragedy. You're just twisting around this natural human reaction so you can have an opportunity to sneer at people who deal with things differently from you.

can someone link to the family guy writer thing, i dont know what it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PM3s3B473w

can someone link to the family guy writer thing, i dont know what it is

google "al3c sukl1n"

This might be the most attention Gottfried has received in his entire career! Kudos for his brand, Boo-dos for his lack of sensitivity.

sorry, "sulk1n"

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/family-guy-writer-apologises-for-japan-remarks_1207328

lol Boo-dos

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.

i think there's a kind of.. not trauma but feeling of immense sadness and powerlessness at such a brain-breakingly awful thing happening and crass jokes can offer - as gbx says - both a way out (permission to suspend these sensations for a second) and a way in (because the jokes only "work" insofar as you recognize the extreme inappropriateness of them, a recognition that requires sympathy in the first place)

after a shitstorm he posted this: Yesterday death toll = 200. Today = 10 thousand. I am sorry for my insensitive tweet. It's gone.

maybe you didnt intend it this way but when i read the princess tamtam internet character laughing at jokes making light of thousands of deaths i didnt think 'ahh hes dealing with tragedy the only way he knows how,' i thought o lord hes being 'edgy' again. where do u draw the line between everything you do being acceptable because on the inside, you really feel for people, and recognizing how people might perceive it?