Comedian Gilbert Gottfried has been the voice of the Aflac duck for ten years but the company fired him from his gig after a series of controversial tweets about the earthquake in Japan. As the death toll in Japan crept closer to 3,000, Gottfried decided the timing was right for tasteless Japan tsunami jokes and Aflac decided to terminate their relationship saying the actor’s comments were “lacking in humor and certainly do not represent the thoughts and feelings of anyone at Aflac”.