Bad Japan Jokes On Twitter

A comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who has been doing commercials for insurance company Aflac for over a decade has been fired after making a bunch of jokes on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake.

• "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'There'll be another one floating by any minute now.' "
• "Japan called me. They said 'maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they're all sinking.' "
• "What do the Japanese have in common with howardstern? They're both radio active."
• "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."
• One can laugh about anything, but Gottfried shouldn't be surprised that a corporate sponsor would fire him for publicly joking about an unfolding tragedy. This is particularly true here because, as the AP notes, Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan.
• But what's really shocking about those jokes isn't just how offensive they are, but how bad they are.