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Gilbert Gottfried Apologizes for Offensive Japan Tweets

“I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he says.

A day after he was fired as the voice of Aflac Inc.’s iconic duck, controversial comic Gilbert Gottfried has apologized for making a series of mean-spirited Twitter jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.