Tag: COMEDIAN

Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian best known for being irritating, has lost his job as the voice of the Aflac duck after posting a series of offensive tweets about the recent disaster in Japan. Never one to squander a chance to ridicule tragedy, Gottfried took direct aim at Japan's tsunami victims with a slew of jokes that seem to have been sculpted with a sledgehammer. The comedian deleted the ...

It's a happy coincidence that Twitter's 140-character limit happens to be the perfect format for dishing one-liners, wry observations, and, of course, those always satisfying X-rated tirades. Thus, it's an ideal way for comedians to try out new material and broaden their fan bases, and a never-ending source of free content for comedy fans -- a win-win for everyone. To share the wealth with our ...

Okay, all you Twitter haters, to pique your interest in the microblogging site, and to bring a smile to your faces, Mashable has created an exhaustive list of over 80 comedians who provide tweeting hilarity. (We're not sure exactly how many, since the headline says 85 and the article itself says 90-plus. And we definitely aren't going to count them.) We've already praised the comedic twitterings ...