The late Gilbert Gottfried, who was the original voice of Aflac’s Duck mascot, was fired in 2011 by the insurance company, and fans have since been curious about why it happened. Before his firing, ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- Aflac Inc. said Monday it has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the abrasive voice of the insurer's quacking duck in the U.S., after the comedian posted a string of mocking jokes about ...

Multimedia producer Dara Gottfried, who was married to the comic’s comic — known for his manic, squinching delivery, and voiceovers as the parrot Iago in Disney’s Aladdin and the duck in AFLAC ...

One of Gilbert Gottfried‘s signatures, in addition to a voice that makes nails on a chalkboard sound like Mozart, is his propensity to say the wrong things at the wrong time. If there’s ever an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disability insurer Aflac Inc fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of its iconic duck on Monday after a series of Twitter jokes about the earthquake in Japan, Aflac's most ...

Aflac has fired Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian who is the voice of the insurer's quacking duck in the U.S. Gottfried, who has voiced the duck in numerous commercials since 2000, posted a string of ...

Now here’s a job that’s absolutely ducky. Wednesday, Columbus, Ga.-based Aflac Inc. will begin the search for the new voice of its iconic duck. The job became available when, following the tsunami in ...

“I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families,” he says. By Mark Cina A day after he was fired as the voice of Aflac Inc.’s iconic duck, controversial comic Gilbert ...

Gilbert Gottfried’s nasally obnoxiousness has wormed its way in (and out) of America’s hearts for decades — through his stand-up comedy, his voice-acting work as Aladdin’s Iago and Aflac’s duck, his ...