It had been about a month since Gilbert Gottfried lobbed those brutally crude jokes about the Japanese tsunami when I met him earlier this week. He still seemed a little stunned by the reaction, which included a public drubbing by the morality police, and being fired as the voice of the Aflac spokesduck. Still, he couldn't quite make himself grovel for forgiveness. "You start to feel sorry, and then you wonder what you're feeling sorry for," he says. "That I made jokes?
Oh not just jokes, but totally insensitive morally reprehensible ones.
No one stopped him actually making these jokes, but reacted to them as a normal person with a heart would.
It's not edgy, it's human.
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