Tuesday, April 26th 2011
The Aflac Duck's New Voice Has Been Found
Last month, Gilbert Gottfried became Gilbert Gotfired when Aflac surgically removed his vocal cords from their duck after he made a bunch of jokes on Twitter about the tsunami in Japan. Aflac held a nationwide search and chose Minnesota radio sales manager Dan McKeague out of 12,000 voices. Above is Dan's first commercial. Which end of the Aflac duck is Dan voicing exactly, because that sort of sounds like a fart from a butt with laryngitis? Come to think of it, that's what Gilbert sounded like too. Success?
via NYDN
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I wonder if GG was mean about the Japanese people because they were on the German side in WWII?
Well, not good to Twitter your true feelings about a sensitive issue, but I can relate to holding a major grudge.
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Commercial: LAME. Sorry, but when I can see the greenscreen effect, that's lame-lame-lame. And picking a new voice for the duck that sounds like the old voice? Meh. Good way to get publicity though. America loves a Cinderella "plucked from obscurity" story. So hey, good on the guy for getting a plum job in a crap economy. If I could skwawk like a duck, I'd've done it too.
@GREENISGOOD: My understanding is that AFLAC has a huge Japanese customer base (something like 60% of their business if memory serves), so there was NO WAY they could let Gottfried's rude comments go without firing him. I'm sure there was something in his contract because, at the end of the day, he's just an employee.
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Gottfried has been a controversial comedian for years. AFLAC knew that when they hired him. Yes, the tragedy in Japan was horrifying, but Gottfried was doing what he always does. His commentary is often shocking. Thus the reason he's had a 20+ year career. He brings media attention.
Was there an "Inappropriate Comment" clause in his contract with AFLAC? Particularly when he's not on the AFLAC clock, i.e. his work with the company.
His comments were in no way associated with the company he was schilling for. He's aloud to say whatever he wants, regardless of whether it's in bad taste.
Tired ass campaign. Time to spend money on a new (and better) idea not some guy who looks like a retired frat BRAH who leads in the office fantasy football pool
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LOL!! SPEAK ENGRISH!
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I don't even know what Afflac is, but FUCK them for firing Gottfried!
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Anybody's better than Gilbert
Lame
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Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 9:18pm.
Good background on Twin Cities radio. Tom Bernard was funny back in the day. I've heard him on lots of national accounts.
It's bizarre they chose a sales guy & not a professional voice over talent. But nobody really cares that much.
All insurance companies make me gag.
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Never seen the commercials, probably never will. Anyhoo, its of note--not rising the level of mildly interesting--that dude is in a sales job for KQRS which has the morning show in mpls/st paul that has the most listeners.
Tom Bernard, who runs the morning show, has lots of voice-over experience, and I think he mentors the other workers on the show to get that sort of work.
Maybe he helped this guy, or at least gave him a referral.
Some years ago, perhaps more than 10, the KQ morning show was very funny.
Ugh, he sounds like he's choking. Almost like that opera singer when the Three Stooges kept throwing grapes in his mouth. He sucks.
I think he needs to retire.... but I did like the silent commercial when he's aced by the train after saving the fem fetale.... so romantic!
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I knew some shit was going down because last week my son brought home a stuffed aflak duck he was given at school. that being said, who gives a wet shit anyway?
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This guy blows, and I will not be buying AFLAC any time soon.
That being said, I never had bought it before, and I like Gottfried, BECAUSE he is a racist asshole. Motherfucker makes fun of everyone in any minority, Including old people, catholics, jews, blacks, and yes Japanese.
So who the heck cares. Dude sounds like a bad Donald Duck imitation. They should of got that lady that snorts the AJAX out of Cheech and Chong.
I will never, never, by and Aflac product, ever.
Gilbert Gottfried got the job because Aflac needed a recognizable voice - which he has. Now that they know he's a douche he is now disposable. Big companys need to do their homework before banking on dirtball celebrities. Young executives show their age when they don't have enough experience under their belts to know what dirtballs they really represent. Gilbert can go fuck an Aflac duck - which is probably too smart to let him.
His voice annoyed me to the point where I would never buy anything that ass was selling.
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Why does anyone even have to know who the voice of the AFLAC duck is? He says ONE word. Shit, where's the love for the guys who were every single cartoon voice in the 80s? You heard the same voices in every damn show,
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This deserves an entire post and Phoebe Snow's death does not? C'mon, MK.
queerness
Speaking of the Budweiser frogs, when I was in Australia, these loud ass frogs were keeping us up at night, and I thought they sounded like they were saying, "ROBOT, ROBOT, ROBOT, RO-BOT!"
And then I was like, "Oh! That must be where people got RIBBIT from!"
Out tour guide thought they were saying "FROG, FROG, FROG, FRR-OG!"
They obviously went with some unknown to save some $$$. I hate those commercials so I don't really care who the replacement is.
I loved the Budweiser frogs, too!
Whitney Houston would be so good at this now.
Aw, how precious. My friends and I were actually talking about the Aflac duck Easter evening and since I do not own a tv and haven't seen any of the recent commercials, they were telling me that the new commercial is in black and white and has the duck just standing there and that it is "really sad."lol And then I had thought that they changed the Aflac spokesperson to an emaciated pigeon.lmfao!
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If I had known their standards were so low, I would have tried out myself. This guy's voice has nothing interesting to it.
He's fine. Gorfired was an asshole anyway.
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Bleh, Gilbert may have been a stupid fuck for saying stupid shit at the wrong time, but I liked his take on the Aflac duck. This guy sucks major dick.
Does MK have a double eyeroll tag?
They should have gotten the guy who does the rooster crow for the Ambien commercial. My cat is fascinated with that one.
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Sucks. I liked whoever did the Aflac voice (the actual voice, not the "AFLAC!" noise) before Godfrey.
Meh...
My favorite animal sound commercial was with those toads in a swamp croaking "BUD ... WISER ... BUD ... WISER..."
They should've given him a sophisticated snob voice. "Aflac...And do you have any Grey Poupon?"
Well at least the duck is cute in the commercial.
lol. The Stephen Hawking parody was hilarious...
Wtf?? I thought they were going to do something new and clever? This dude sounds like he's doing a bad imitation after his 5th damn martini.
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Oh damn, I thought they'd use GOLDEN VOICE to smooth over things with the clients. Meh.
Awful. There was something endearing about Gilbert's voice. He shouldn't have been fired. He's a COMEDIAN for Cheesus's sake! Inappropriate jokes are supposed to be made. I'm more disgusted that Aflac turned this into some kind of marketing scheme. My dog could fart "AFLAC!" better than that guy.
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Let's be real here...did they really need to do a Nationwide search for this mess? Just about anyone can make that annoying as sound, I'm sure half of those 12,000 applicants could've 'won this thing. It's like replacing the voice of Gordan the Geico with another male voice-over actor with a British accent. Prob wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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He sucks!