Quack Quack! Gilbert Gottfriend's In Town But He Can't Say Quack No More
Apr 29, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Fri. April 29
Even if he didn't just get himself in the news for getting sacked from being, ahem, the quack of the AFLAC TV duck, we'd recommend going to see the scabrous, caustic and hilarious Gilbert Gottfried at the Harvard Coop Friday April 29. He was evidently deep-sixed because in the wake of the twin Japanese catastrophes of earthquake and tsunami he made some inappropriately funny tweets. I haven't seen 'em and the news coverage was oblique. It was, however, noted AFLAC does 75% of its business in Japan. Now, Gottfried might have been truly offensive; he might have been funny/offensive. He may have broken the golden role of comedy: Tragedy + time = comedy. (That is, he may have forgotten about the "time" role and figured we live in an instantaneous age now, so why not just skip to the comedy? And, really, isn't comedy one of the ways we deal with the horrific? Think Mel Brooks and Hitler or Louie C.K. on the aging of his body.) I was also wondering how he could get fired. I mean isn't that quack (or those quacks) sampled and used at will. He doesn't quack anew for every ad does he? Can they use his old quacks even if they've fired him? How will they ever find someone else to quack like that? (Gilbert's good, but I'm sure they can. What if Gilbert has copyrighted that quack? Then what?) Perhaps the diminutive and abrasive-voice comic will discuss these things at the reading/signing he's doing at 7 for his latest bok of rants, "Rubber Balls and Liquor." It's free.
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e quack of the AFLAC TV duck, we'd recommend going to see the scabrous, caustic and hilarious Gilbert Gottfried at the Harvard Coop Friday April 29. He was evidently deep-sixed because in the wake of the twin Japanese catastrophes of earthquake and tsunami he made some inappropriately funny tweets. I haven't seen 'em and the news coverage was oblique. It was, however, noted AFLAC does 75% of its business in Japan. Now, Gottfried might have been truly offensive; he might have been funny/offensive. He may have broken the golden role of comedy: Tragedy + time = comedy. (That is, he may have forgotten about the "time" role and figured we live in an instantaneous age now, so why not just skip to the comedy? And, really, isn't comedy one of the ways we deal with the horrific? Think Mel Brooks and Hitler or Louie C.K. on the aging of his body.) I was also wondering how he could get fired. I mean isn't that quack (or those quacks) sampled and used at will. He doesn't quack anew for every ad does he? Can they use his old quacks even if they've fired him? How will they ever find someone else to quack like that? (Gilbert's good, but I'm sure they can. What if Gilbert has copyrighted that quack? Then what?) Perhaps the diminutive and abrasive-voice comic will discuss these things at the reading/signing he's doing at 7 for his latest bok of rants, "Rubber Balls and Liquor." It's free.
