Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

this thread feels like it needs nabisco to say some long otm things idk

not what dr. plax ordered, but here goes nothing:

I wasn't really offended by GG's tweeter jokes, mostly because they were so worthless & perfunctory that they hardly seemed penned, more churned out by a HackBot 7000 which of course would be insensitive to catastrophic human suffering...tbh I first thought they were a deliberate attempt by GG to get fired from his sweet-gig/thousand-little-deaths-of-the-soul AFLAC job, and now that I know that 80% of AFLAC's business is done in Japan--something GG HAD to have also known--well, there's not much room left for doubt now is there...?

that being said, I was super-livid at seeing on the real Japan thread pics of all the Joe Everydays being all "12/7/41 NEVER FORGET!!!!!" and I'm not following that thread...if JVC is in fact following this thread, then I can almost forgive JVC for wishing death & destruction on everything Tam Tam holds dear (lashing out at ENBB = a totally diff't story). I can't imagine even GG thinks that anyone's going to laugh much at his limp one-liners, whereas the ppl invoking Pearl Harbor are clearly indicting me in my refusal to forsake human compassion for some sort of deluded jingoism that conveniently forgets Hiroshima (there's something to write a paper about)...one good thing about GG's termination and the subsequent news media outrage cycle is that it has doubled as a righteous smackdown for all these shit-for-brains that have managed to completely disgrace the nation they claim to love.

But again I didn't really get that Tam Tam was laughing at Japan; the impression I got was that he was just a big GG fan, which is why I think JVC's reaction seemed ott...

i think that tam tam was prob just saying "eh i dont get the big deal and some of it was kinda funny" which is sorta my take on this as well. sorry yall.

note: i also do not hate japan or whatever.

this is a strange universe where the aflac duck is more deliberately offensive than neil hamburger.

Full disclosure: I first thought the 'school' in the real estate joke referred to a school of fish

Been thinking about Neil Hamburger, too. I mean, who would want an apology from him?

Google Image Search is mildly amusing.

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/7379/screenshot20110315at105.png

I would just like to point out – Japan has v cute Aflac ads w/a maneki neko cat & duck – they should just start using them here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d53aQ4EVCs8&feature=related

ok that was adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGZ4rEX2s4&feature=related adorable

best animal friends

The ones without the maneki neko are cuets too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TVaecx29bI&NR=1

i know people do often laugh in the face of tragedy, i have done it myself, but right now i can't imagine ever laughing about what is happening in japan, it's one of the worst, saddest things i've ever heard of, and when i read his tweets they seemed so unstoppable and self-destructive and cruel.

― estela, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

agreed

i think that tam tam was prob just saying "eh i dont get the big deal and some of it was kinda funny" which is sorta my take on this as well. sorry yall.

note: i also do not hate japan or whatever.

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:26 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think he said that the tweets were 'great!'
which jon overreacted to but, uh, i dont think they are great

The block of pictures from the google image search containing Gilbert holding a goose, the shamrock shake, tsunami destruction, and Gilbert pushing a carriage(?) is like some terrifying image-poem/nightmare.

Rebus deluxe

frogbs did not have to drop the n-bomb upthread - as he's a new poster whom I like a lot I feel it is appropriate to say so idk

No, he didn't. But anything for a chuckle round these parts.

I never understood the Aflac commercials. There was a duck, and he yelled "AFLAC". If I'd realized GG was the voice, I would have gotten it. He was always a comedian that yelled stuff. That was the joke. USA network used to GG on their cable, and he was yelling and cutting up.

NASCAR used to have that duck walk across the screen and yell "AFLAC" each episode. DW and Larry really seemed to love that duck.

I never understood the Aflac commercials. There was a duck, and he yelled "AFLAC". If I'd realized GG was the voice, I would have gotten it. He was always a comedian that yelled stuff. That was the joke.

No - the joke is that the duck dreams he is a viking.

you are so wrong

I read this in the paper this morning, so I think it's new--sorry if someone's already posted it:

In a statement, the comic said Tuesday, "I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy...I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families."

ILX apologies to follow.

those were his Twitter posts from yesterday

they should hire Artie Lang to be the new AFLAC duck

Iago the Parrot for the win. He was the best part about Aladdin, not that stupid blue genie.

zing

DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES

FREE NELSON MANDELA

HARVEY KEITEL FOR NEW AFLAC DUCK

SAN TE TO STFU

lol roxy

Slate's Jack Shafer defending Gottfried

http://www.slate.com/id/2288387/

Key line for me is this: Before posting, Gottfried must have thought, Who but a lover of daring comedy would follow me on Twitter? But he was wrong. The new rules have made everybody—including edgy comedians—accountable in the public sphere for the things they say "privately" in social media spaces.

VERY interesting conclusion

"If you didn't make an immediate connection between Japan's nuclear disasters and Godzilla, the mutant product of atomic radiation and the star of dozens of films, you're a better man than I."

you know i really didn't think about godzilla at all until everyone in newspapers and everywhere started talking about godzilla. but maybe godzilla isn't one of the first things i think about when i think about japan.

people get paid to write for slate, no? man, that's a pretty sweet gig. the standards are so low online. you can write anything.

The first thing my son thought of was Godzilla, but not in terms of the nuke thing - he was just hoping the big guy was okay.

wait really? that's adorable.

it's a good thing i never made my ILM parody thread about Pitchfork giving scores of 7.9 and 8.8 to albums by a band called Earthquakes in Japan

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Tsunami-_A_Brilliant_Mistake.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Adolescent_sex.jpg

so did anyone see him 'curating' on TCM last spring?

https://twitter.com/RealGilbert/status/319896388852912128

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

― estela, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 02:30 (2 years ago)

It is sad this beautifully subtle pun was lost in the mire of joke upmanship.

" Even Gandhi loved a good nigger joke."

jesus

I listened to his podcast interview of the freshly dead Joe Franklin, which is notable for 1) IDing the most ludicrously untrue JF stories and 2) GG's impression of George Jessel.

Any other good episodes? Roger Corman?

http://sideshownetwork.tv/podcastsDetails.cfm?podcastid=104

At this stage in the game, doing an impression of George Jessel is the equivalent of dressing up as a Gibson Girl for Halloween.

yeah well there's a Rolling Stone interview w/ GG where he's told "you're a 59-year-old with the taste of a 95-yo."

Butch Patrick
Barbara Feldon

both are really great interviews, lots of good stories

Danny Aiello is great

oh nm, that already came up on the comedy podcast thread

http://www.avclub.com/article/gilbert-gottfried-his-amazing-colossal-podcast-ala-229522

Currently listening to Gilbert's interview with Chevy Chase. Gawd even around people he likes, Chase is difficult.