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 ...

The duck is such a marketing icon now that it has endured even after Aflac decided to fire its celebrity voice, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, in 2011 after Gottfried wrote a series of insensitive tweets ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Comedian Gilbert Gottfried apologized on Tuesday for a series of jokes made on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, comments which got him fired as the voice of ...

“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 is apparently not quite ready to move on from his recent comedy disaster. The annoyingly voiced, irreverent comic ignited controversy this month after tweeting a couple tasteless ...