Gilbert Gottfried, the standup comedian behind the voice of the Aflac Duck commercials, was fired by Aflac after a series of tasteless jokes about the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.
Some of the jokes he tweeted include, "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them," and "Japan called me. They said 'maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they're all sinking.'"
Gottfried may have found the jokes funny, but Aflac didn't because the insurance company does 75% of its business in Japan.
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