Time to get rid of Gilbert Gottfried in the Tiki Room?

[theww228]

Gilbert Gottfried has been fired from Aflac after his horrible and insensitive remarks about the tragedy in Japan. Should he continue to be in the Tiki Room? My thought is no, what is yours?

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

My thought is that Gilbert Gottfried has always been Gilbert Gottfried.

In other words, his "comedy" has always been like this. Made similar comments after 9/11. Why change now?

People have unbelievably short attention spans and will forget this in short order. JMHO.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Maybe......

http://www.wdwmagic.com/Attractions...culation-of-a-return-to-the-original-show.htm

 

[Millermom0606]

I kinda think Aflac is the one that over reacted here........

 

[Reddog1134]

If you fired someone every time they said something stupid, the unemployment rate would be even higher than it is now.

I don't think you should remove him from the Tiki Room because of that. Would you remove all his scenes from the Aladdin movie?

 

[BillSears]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

 

[Millermom0606]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

OK - I'm with you!

 

[stargazertechie]

No, I don't think he should be removed from the Tiki room, nor do I think he should have been removed from Aflak. They're the ones that overreacted.

Comedy is not always politically correct, and honestly, I read the tweets and they weren't that bad.

 

[Timmbco]

would LOVE to have him gone from Tiki room....don't care what reason

 

[bigdaddy511]

You can't be a cutting edge (sort of) comic and also represent a large corporation that wishes to offend nobody. Gilbert picked his poison. Hope he won't miss that Aflac paycheck too much.

Since the Tiki Room isn't open anyway-- will Disney jump on board and re-do it and dump Iago?

 

[aimeeg]

He is not the first Disney Star (it's kind of hard to call him that) to mess up. Vanessa Hudgens has a new set of *graphic* photos that just hit the internet. One could argue they should remove her likeness/voice from all the HSM stuff. Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus are both Disney stars that have not made the best choices but I can't seeing Disney dropping them.

 

[notfrostyjosh]

Aflac does about 80% of its business in Japan. Gilbert probably didn't know that.

 

[Ciciwoowoo]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

I agree with you!!!

Lets start a get rid of Gilbert and Iago petition immediately.

Heck, maybe they can replace him with that bird from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

 

[aimeeg]

I agree with you!!!

Lets start a get rid of Gilbert and Iago petition immediately.

Heck, maybe they can replace him with that bird from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

I know you are joking but . . . the guy who voices Skelly (or is it Skully) just got out of rehab.

 

[Micca]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

I'm with Bill on this. Thing is, Gottfried is the voice of Iago in Aladdin, and that isn't going to change. As long as Iago is represented in such fashion that you hear the voice, it's got to be Gottfried. If Gottfried goes, Iago goes with him. As Bill said, go ahead and dump Iago, let's get back to the original version.

 

[Bradsdadg]

Meh. he was just making a joke. Maybe it was too soon for some people, maybe some people thought it was funny. I don't see the huge deal with it. I like the Tiki Room the way it is, don't understand why people are always crying about changing it back to it's old self. If they are going to change a ride back to the original, they should start with El Rio Del Tiempo.

 

[*tinker*bell*]

YES!!!! But not because of his jokes. I just want the old Tiki Room back.

one can only hope!

 

[Salukfan]

The fact that Aflac would be shocked that Gilbert is at times inappropriate makes me laugh SO much.

I'm of the opinion that I'd love Under New Management to stay, because I'm a just a huge, huge Iago fan (he's easily my favorite Disney character ever. ♥). Bias alone makes up this opinion, yes, but him ripping on the Tiki Room makes me laugh hysterically, and I really don't think it's that big of a deal.

 

[homedad]

I feel stupid because I have no idea that he said anything. OK just say something on cnn, tweeter strikes again