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They’ve got a Pepper Bar!

First, I’d like you to view what I feel is the greatest commercial ever filmed:

That has to be one of the strangest ads I’ve ever seen. Weird, ugly puppets, singing badly. With bad green screen effects. Who in their right mind would make this ad, and then try and sell sandwiches with [...]

The Best Use of a Clown in a Bankruptcy Commercial Award Goes to…

I was reminded of this fine commercial by Bubs over at the Sprawling Ramshackle Compound.
I’m proud to say that my friend and colleague Kate plays the frightened woman in this spot. She told me that the guy who played the clown came to the shoot directly after playing Othello at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. [...]

Jesus Cro-Magnon Christ.

No, not him. Check this out. You know those Geico caveman commercials? I find them pretty funny in 30 second doses, but ABC has a show premiering about them. A SHOW. I’m not making this up. They are basing a TV show on a commercial for car insurance.
I wish [...]