That joke has an iteresting history
It was delivered by Gilbert Godfrey. At the Friars club roast after 9--11 he was the first person to crack a joke about the twin towers.
The reactions was powerful with yeslls of TOO SOON and OH NO but it also was cathartic, not for closure but for liberating the angst in all their souls be it in protest or laughter.

Of course Gilbert was prompmtly fired by AFLAC, You see he is the voice of the goose who gets ignored in the commercial.

The last I saw of Gilbert he had an odd smirk as he carried a card borad box with a white goose in it past the AFLC offices with photographers snapping away.

Love him or hate him, deep down we need him.