Ducking the Issues

Gilbert Gottfried did a little interview this weekend with Fairfield, CA's Daily Republic, and wouldn't you know it? - The Aflac gig thing came up.

In public, you have a personality that is so obnoxious. Why?

Well, I've never been one of those persons they're hiring for Shakespeare. People ask if my parents talk like that, I have no idea! I don't know where or when it happened. I even see it in the AFLAC commercials.

Yes, those commercials are annoying, too.

They had me audition for it, which makes it insane because AFLAC was my only line. I said this was a waste of time, boy, what a stupid commercial. Now look at it a few years later. So don't listen to me for career advice. (He laughs) They'll have me there a few hours saying the same word and they'll keep re-recording it.