<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110316/od_nm/us_aflac_gottfried_odds"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20110316/i/r3630464593.jpg?x=130&amp;y=86&amp;q=85&amp;sig=9L1K4NjTdXs1HXlNjInwpw--" height="86" width="130" alt="Gottfried, ex-Aflac voice, apologizes for tweets   (Reuters)" style="float: left; border: 0px;" />
</a>Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters)- Comedian Gilbert Gottfried apologized on Tuesday for a series of jokes made on Twitter about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, comments which got him fired as the voice of insurer Aflac.</p><br style="clear: both;" />