Actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried has died after a 'long illness,' his family said on Tuesday.
Gottfried voiced the mascot duck of the insurance company Aflac from 2000-2011, when he was
after making a series of jokes on Twitter about the deadly tsunami in Japan, where Aflac did most of its business.just three weeks after the attacks, at a Hugh Hefner roast in New York City. Upon realizing that he had lost the crowd, Gottfried then gave his take on the infamous joke known as"the Aristocrats," which won the audience back and was later turned into a documentary.
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