March 15, 2011
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Tsunami Jokes
Gilbert Gottfriend, “Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.” Here is the link: Link
Too soon?
Gilbert Gottfriend, “Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.” Here is the link: Link
Too soon?
Comments (145)
Lol.
Yeah, too soon.
Wish the tsunami would have washed California away instead… too many douchebags concentrated in one state.
I think that’s a compliment.
Wow, that’s pretty weak coming from Gilbert. Maybe he didn’t go full blown offensive because it’s too soon.
People need to quit being so sensitive. Like all jokes, some people find it funny and some don’t.
Too soon.
Its funny ’cause it’s true!
@starcrossedloversdivine - HA.
that is crazy! haha, I got a good laugh out of this even though it’s kind of sad at the same time.
how about the one where “no worries if your girlfriend leaves you in japan. another one will float by shortly….”
Anytime is too soon. But I’m glad to see you back.
Maybe people wouldn’t find it so funny, if they had been personally affected. But, no, that’s just me being “too sensitive”. Yeah, okay.
Well, hey. To the people, who think they can make jokes out of loss of lives and people who no longer have homes and have gone days without food, water or shelter, why not stop and think how you would feel if you were in that position? How would you feel that, while you’re wife or child is missing, some douche bag is making a joke out of it all.
Disgusting, if you ask me.
more like Not Funny.
Um, yeah, and not very funny even if it was six years down the road. But then Gibert Godfried was never known for his well-timed, sensitive humor.
@starcrossedloversdivine - yeah, I agree.
@AlluringAddiction -
Normally I’d agree, but this is a different situation. You don’t joke about people dying in wars or famines or natural disasters, that’s fucked up. What if it was like
you got raped by some dude, and four days later someone jokes about
you getting raped. I’m sure you’d love that. That’s pretty much what
happened. Japan got raped by the freaking ocean.
@starcrossedloversdivine - I’m not saying I’m on either side of the argument, but you just wasted your time and my time venting your little sob story.
That reminds me of a Yakov Smirnoff Russian reversal. In this country, you go to beach. In Soviet Russia, beach goes to you.
wonder if this would be even posted if it happened in a western nation.
Comedy is the way some people deal with tragedy. So it’s NEVER too soon.
Aflac fired him because of this. LINK
Everybody has a right to dark humor, it is a valid coping mechanism for grief and stress. Anybody who can’t deal with that can #GoFuckYourself. Also, as a spokesman, Aflac may have certain expectations of him. But unless he is actively portraying the aflac duck, Then Aflac has no right to associate with him. I did not know that was him until they brought it up. He does dark humor, always has, unless he is posting those tweets to the aflac ducks twitter page, it is none of there fucking business. All they did was punish as way of an apology to anyone he may have offended by him, but he wasn’t representing them at that moment or in that capacity, they had no right to affiliate with him outside of there professional relationship. He has done voice over in childrens cartoons for Gods sake, it doesn’t fucking matter what his comedy material consist of.
Is it wrong to admit that I giggled?
Pretty tasteless in light of what horrors Japan is suffering right now.
well, there’s a funny sort of too-soon… but the beach joke is def. not it.
@AlluringAddiction - agreed.
@Rob_of_the_Sky - We had so many jokes about that..it’s not even funny. Lol
@AceValentineRocks - Agreed
I’m finding humor in my personal tragedy…laughter helps the pain and sadness.
Pathetic.
yes its horrible, but i still went like this….hahahah oh my gosh.
way too soon
yeppppers. HOWEVER, it’s nevvvver too soon for a good Yo mamma joke. Oh, on a scale of 1 to 10? Yo mamma’s a 747…BURRRRN
Too soon indeed. :C
seems it isnt quite over yet
Too late.
too soon.
I don’t see how someone can make a joke about people who lost their homes and families. I don’t find it funny at all. I’d probably stick razors into the eyes of someone making jokes of the fact I lost most of my family to genocide.
Too soon…
The jokes that got him fired were much worse
there is nothing sacred with Gilbert but I personally think it’s too soon but sometimes we have to laugh or we would cry all the time.
I assume Gottfried is desperate for attention; otherwise, why would a public figure say such things?
the guy is a comedian ! everyone needs to lighten up !!!!……………………..and i resent the immediate requests for us to donate money, maybe they want to send us some of the jobs the stole from us !
That’s fucking hilarious! He may be the funniest comic of all times.
oh crap! I didn’t realize it was be inappropriate and insensitive in order to get a bunch of too-cool for humanity hipsters to say “lol” day. Let me whip out my collection of 9/11 and holocaust jokes before it’s too late.
Which I do hold you accountable for to some extent, by the way. You’re on the shady side of acceptable here- you may only be quoting someone but considering the sizable weight you have on this site- you had a choice not to even front the question and the quote.
@GodlessLiberal - TheoSpam’s joke is so horrible it’s a tragedy unto itself. See, the beach is not the ocean. The beach is sand. A tsunami is made of water. So the joke sucks from the get go. What’s wrong with you people?
@AlluringAddiction - Just click the “ignore” button!
@theacematt2 - I kinda just wanted to backhand the brat.
Yah — way too soon! I can’t imagine, after the horrors of quake and tsunami, having to wait to see what happens with the nuclear power plants. NOT jokeworthy!
okay, I’ll admit it, I laughed. but it’s definitely too soon
Way too soon, I know someone who lives there. She’s really terrified.
I’d rather laugh at my own pain.
Kinda funny, kinda offensive, but whatever. Some people are really eager to be outraged by stuff. Give a fuck elsewhere, I say.
They knew he was tasteless when they hired him.
I think they hired him for his distinguishable voice and not so much his reputation. No matter how much time has passed, I don’t see how a joke about a tsunami can ever be funny. The same goes for 9/11. The people that say to get over it, let’s see something like this happen to your family and some insensitive prick trying to make their name makes a joke out of your family’s suffering.
Yep, too soon. And the people who say Japan “deserved” what happened from what they did to us at Pearl Harbor and for killing dolphins and whales just make me sick. They are still people and no one deserves to die until they personally take anothers life.
@starcrossedloversdivine - So let me get this straight. In your first statement, you say, “Wish the tsunami would have washed California away instead… too many douchebags concentrated in one state.” Okay, that’s exhibit A.
Then in your second, you say, “Normally I’d agree, but this is a different situation. You don’t joke about people dying in wars or famines or natural disasters, that’s fucked up,” and then use an outlandish hypothetical comparison. Which sucked.
I’m all about free voice and free opinion, but if you’re going to talk shit, PLEASE do not contradict yourself.
And as another one of the douchebags in California, I say Fuck You.
@AlluringAddiction - yeah because it’s so funny joking about a natural disaster that killed thousands of people. [sarcasm] i agree with you that people are too sensitive these days, but jokes like this go too far.
oh stfu. quit being so sensitive about it. big deal. Haiti had 300.000 death toll.
What the hell is wrong with you?
The cold dead bodies of thousands of men, women, and children washed up on the shores today. In one prefecture alone, the estimated death toll is nearly 10,000. I’m all for good humor, but this is incredibly tasteless. We all need to work together as HUMAN BEINGS to bring more global respect to this situation.
Comedians make jokes… So that means we know what his parents did for a living.
People have the right to make jokes about it. And I have the right to say I’m disgusted by those jokes.
Reminds me of the guy who got fired by his radio station for playing “Happy Birthday” on the anniversary of the Hiroshima A-bombing.
Many cultures like dark humor. PC societies sue over it.
Good old Gilbert once again sticks his foot into his mouth and down his throat.
50 cent, now gilbert
martha stewart is next to be fired!
I am alarmed that someone would make that sorta joke. He needs to have his mental health examined. he’s not thinking straight. shallow mind I’d say.
I worry about anyone who can make such careless jokes. I have read stories/blogs from people who were there, who watched as a whole city was wiped away… who heard a womans cries for help until they heard her no more because a wave had washed her away… who had to walk through the rubble & wreckage of what was left of families homes & belongings. So yes. I think it’s too soon. When is it ever ok to poke fun at people who are suffering so much while we sit here in our comfortable homes on our computers not having to worry about whether we will ever see a missing loved one again or not. Obviously, everyone has the right to freedom of speech… unfortunately some people are heartless or maybe just plain ignorant when it comes to such matters & take advantage of another’s horror for a cheap laugh.
classy. real classy.
@Brilliant_Innocence - thank you
@Brilliant_Innocence - I would like to see a Japanese man’s reaction to this pathetic excuse for humor. I say this because we’d probably get schooled in good character. Several slices of humble pie all at once.
@AlluringAddiction - I’ll keep you in mind next time a bunch of White people die.
We, in the U.S., need to come together as one despite our differences in the past. Japan didn’t deserve this, nor do the people living there deserve to die.
Did anyone in Japan laugh at the humor intended?
Its Gilbert Godfreid. That guy is still around? Weird.
It is NEVER too soon to joke about a tragedy. I was guarding a military base overnight on 9/11/2001, and joked about the singles bars in New York being absolutely hopping in a month. I told one of the guys I was working with, “I’ve heard a grieving widow will tear you up” When he called me a sick MF, I said, “You call me sick now, but you know you’re gonna be there!” Bahaha!
after something horrible happening, its always good to throw in a joke to ease the pain a little…
Well, I confess I don’t think it’s funny.
But I don’t think AFLAC should have fired him for it. Honestly, he’s Gilbert freakin’ Gottfried. If you’re sensitive, don’t hire him in the first place!
Sickos.
Dan, I know we haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but come on, man… really? You’re going to post fucking jokes about Japan while people are still dying from this?
What if it was one of your kids? Or your wife? Would you think it was funny, then?
In short, you’re an insensitive asshole.
@AceValentineRocks - Our forebears needed a laugh or two when they were huddled in a cave, and monstrous critters were trying to eat them. Humor is a safety valve in stressful times. You nailed it, ace.
Way too soon… and it’s only too soon because people are still dying and being found dead.. and stuff’s still blowing up and melting down. You’re supposed to at least* wait until a crisis is over before you joke about it. -_-. .. and considering this one involves tragedy to the tune of tens of thousands feared dead, a couple thousand already confirmed dead… I don’t see that there’s ever gonna be a right time to joke about this.
That’s like people making 9/11 jokes.. although, it has been a decade, so maybe that’s fair game now. Don’t think there’s an American alive who wouldn’t stone Gilbert for even touching 9/11, though.
too soon :/
Probably. I don’t think they’re at the “look back on it and laugh” stage yet.
@coolmonkey - I feel honored.
@danaenicole - *shrugs* It’s all relative.
that aint funny
What’s not too soon is the words of Donald Trump – “You’re Fired”
Insensitive. Unnecessary. Don’t follow you much at all, but you used to have more legitimate posts. Oi.
@davidian - good point.
Well, I guess to lighten up the situation, we should make a joke about it.
I was expecting jokes, plural. Is that it?
i’d say too soon for this scenario. although i made too soon jokes after heath ledger passed. but it wasn’t meant to be mean, the guy was a fantastic actor.
comedy equals tragedy plus time- G.G. is simply investing.
Tasteless.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. My brother and I said “Oh well, they probably birthed enough babies today to replenish their population”
I never thought Gilbert was all that funny anyways. This just proves me right.
It’s funny, considering the nature of the joke is rather innocent, not as dirty as most out there. Do I think it’s awesome to make fun of Japan right now? No. But I did chuckle at that joke.
really? you’re gonna fish for more comments on this? let this die. hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of nuclear disaster, and you’re laughing about this?
Gottfried rules.
@Brilliant_Innocence - I totally agree.
too soonnn
Let us make Holocaust jokes. Too late?
I think it’s funny. But I’m a fairly fucked up person.
Yeah too soon.
But I found someone’s comment about “another girlfriend will float by” kinda amusing =X
yup, it’s too soon but hey, nobody saw this coming.
People find it easy to joke about because it didnt happen here. 9-11 joke anyone??
The joke isn’t even that bad. I found 50 Cent’s funnier though. I have a really strong connection to Japan and I’m not butthurt. Relax, people.
Everything is funny until it affects us. Holocaust jokes are funny if you aren’t Jewish, showing the Islamic prophet in a cartoon is funny if you’re not Muslim, Jesus jokes are funny if you’re not Christian, and gay jokes are funny if you’re not gay. Most jokes insult someone or another. Does that mean most jokes should be censored? No.
Insensitve morons
I laughed -_- I know, I’m horrible. It wasn’t that bad honestly.
@davidian - It most likely wouldn’t have. Obviously, the post was motivated by a compulsion for attention. Whether that motivation will one hour be “explained” as an experiment to present the unmitigated ugliness and ethnocentric bigotry of those who responded with laughter as opposed to those who found it unarguably beneath contempt or whether the poster found it personally humorous or not, is beside the point. The underlying reason will never be known because once it is posted as it has been posted, the sick egotism of it will always remain intact.
@Child_of_Technology - Wait till it happened to a loved one. I hope you’ll not sing a different tune then.
@dead_cockroach - Sorry for trying to lighten up a seriously fucked up time. Also, don’t guess what I’ve been through, thanks.
A joke is never meant to be taken seriously.
Seeing as humor is how I cope with my own life crises, I don’t fault others who function similarly. His motivations would have something to do with it, I think.
What a cunt. Glad he got sacked.
It was funny, it’s not like Japan will be fixed if he didn’t tell the joke.
much too soon~ they still haven’t even found all those dead/ missing. bad taste on gottfreind’s part.
That one was funny, but it is too soon. They are still trying to find any survivors, and dig out the dead. Too much grief, for us to be making jokes about it. Yet, that is a funny joke.
Oh, that is funny.
Yeah, I know some people are going to say, “too soon,” but those people are also the ones who say that it’s too soon for, “Other than that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you like Dallas?”
Gilbert Gottfried is advanced he does not need to shut up but his firing from AFLAC did it for him.
You’re as bit like that whore at school.
Too soon…wait 2-3 months then maybe I’ll laugh.
Everyone has a different opinion of whats funny and what’s not. Don’t find it funny? then stop reading them and then wasting your time QQ’ing over it. If someone likes it I highly doubt they give a damn about what you think. So get off your high horse and go somewhere else, maybe a page where other people are in disagreement.
I hate Gilbert Gottfried. He annoys me.
Your kind of…. an asshole.
horrible joke, yet its funny XP maybe too soon still =P
He’s a sick puppy who doesn’t have real feelings. Someone stomp on his toe and then laugh like a hyena. Stomp hard!
Gilbert Got Fired (by AFLAK, for this horseshit he pulled).
Was it too soon, for that one too?
Not too soon. Too Awesome.
Here’s a Question for you Dan; in light of Katrina and the Japanese response, how much should we respond with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
Japan
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said that it would provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. Japan also identified needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and provided up to $1,000,000 in emergency supplies such as tents, blankets and power generators if they receive requests from the U.S. for such assistance. Private and corporate donations totaled over $13,000,000.[33] One Japanese individual, Takashi Endo, donated USD $1,000,000 from his personal funds to Katrina relief efforts.[15]
I don’t think it’s funny personally. It wouldn’t be funny even years from now. People lost their lives and there is never anything funny about that. I’m all for dark humor but there is a line you just don’t cross.
Do people not know Gilbert Gottfreid? He’s not a sensitive comic. He’s loud, he’s crass and he’s funny. He was just the first to make the joke.
Way too soon..
and not even that funny.
I don’t find the beach one particularly inflammatory. To me, it doesn’t ridicule or belittle the loss of life, but rather adds some humor to an awe inspiring natural disaster (i.e. a huge tsunami). If there was little or no loss of life in the tsunami, this joke wouldn’t even have been controversial. However, I do think the girlfriend one goes too far. Although different people have a different appreciation of humor, jokes regarding loss of human life are always balancing on the knife-edge of propriety and that one is just too insensitive.
ya think?
@starcrossedloversdivine - what the hell, I live in California. your comment is not funny
Yes, too soon.
Wow…incredibly poor taste.
Some people are just too afraid to have a sense of humor.
@millionofstars - I already have in my will that there will be jokes told at my expense at my funeral.
Ah, everyone’s favorite squawking jackass.
I don’t know…..I have friends stuck in Tokyo who can’t evacuate. The Nuclear fumes seem to be going seaward, and the worst of the quakes and tsusnami is clarly over. It’s scary as hell, but that’s is when tasteful humor (not the kind of humor we saw on 9/11 about the people who jumped out the windows) can be helpful to relieve us from the unending stress of living in tragedy.
Lord Byron said, “And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘Tis that I may not weep.” I think that would apply in this situation.
If I were Japanese i’d think it was funny. And I think it’s funny anyhow- I laughed.
@jamesnorcross - I like that.
@starcrossedloversdivine - Agreed.
I just got a fucked up sense of humor anyways, i’d probably laugh at just about anything
Just like how there’s 1 rap song that the rapper says that his “punchlines hit like Chris Brown’s fist in the face of Rihanna”
I just find shit like that funny… even if it’s so very offensive
It’s not funny man. We should never make fun of people who went through such tragedies.