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Joy Behar Holocaust Jokes | Gilbert Gottfried Japan Jokes | Video | Mediaite: "“Too soon!” or “Inappropriate!” or “Typical.” are reactions often thrown around when people in the media – like, say, Gilbert Gottfried – make controversial jokes about recent, tragic events. Gottfried, you may recall, was fired from his job voicing the “Aflac duck” after he took to Twitter to make a string of jokes about the ongoing series of disasters in Japan.

Comedien Joan Rivers weighed in on the controversy by defending Gottfried:

Oh come on people-this is just outrageous! Gilbert Gottfried was FIRED from Aflac for making jokes about the tsunami in Japan.

That’s what comedians do!!! We react to tragedy by making jokes to help people in tough times feel better through laughter.

Gottfried was, needless to say, quite pleased indeed."

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