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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Aflac Duck Finds His Voice In Minnesota

Aflac Duck has a new voice.

April 26, 2011 Daniel McKeague, a radio station sales manager from Minnesota, won the national competition to replace comedian Gilbert Gottfried — who lost the job after making offensive jokes related to the crisis in Japan.

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Two-Way

This Is Quazy: 'Aflac Duck' Search Goes National

Are you qualified?

March 24, 2011 Not only can you apply online to be the next voice of the Aflac duck, but you can also try to get into one of the casting calls (shouldn't that be "quacking calls?") that will be held next week in six cities.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Two-Way

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried Jokes About Japan, Loses Aflac Job

June 14, 2010 file photo: Comedian Gilbert Gottfried and "the Aflac duck." He's been the duck's commercial voice.

March 15, 2011 And Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has accepted his press spokesman's resignation after the aide sent around two "off-color" jokes, one of them about the tsunami that devastated much of Japan.

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