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Gilbert Gottfried Fired as Aflac Duck After Japan Tweets

The insurer blasts the comic for a series of earthquake and tsunami jokes that are “lacking in humor.”

Aflac Inc. has severed ties with comic Gilbert Gottfried, the longtime voice of the insurer’s duck mascot, after he made a series of crude jokes about the Japan earthquake and tsunami via Twitter.