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Watch TJ Miller in a Super Bowl ad for Shock Top
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Watch TJ Miller in a Super Bowl ad for Shock Top

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016

Here’s the extended 90-second version of what will become a 30-second TV spot for Shock Top debuting during Super Bowl 50 and starring T.J. Miller. Miller and the orange wedge atop a Shock Top keg handle get into it, trading roast jokes. Roll the clip!

Watch Kevin Hart in this Super Bowl 50 ad for Hyundai
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Watch Kevin Hart in this Super Bowl 50 ad for Hyundai

February 3, 2016

More Super Bowl TV ads already are live on YouTube for your consumption and approval. This spot stars Kevin Hart as a father lending his Hyundai to a teen boy taking his daughter out for a first date. Roll the clip!

Watch Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen’s Bud Light ad for Super Bowl 50
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Watch Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen’s Bud Light ad for Super Bowl 50

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016

Because Super Bowl ads no longer debut during the Super Bowl, let us now enjoy this early look at the minute-long Bud Light ad that stars Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen — with cameos by Paul Rudd and Michael Pena — that’ll start airing on TVs during Super Bowl 50. …

Episode #54: Rob Huebel
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Episode #54: Rob Huebel

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016

Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer host the popular weekly comedy showcase Crash Test at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, and for one epic night, they took Crash Test on the road – hosting the show from a tour bus along the streets of Hollywood. Their Crash Test: With Rob …

Thomas Middleditch was clowning on McDonald’s in 2006, got paid for his viral video parody
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Thomas Middleditch was clowning on McDonald’s in 2006, got paid for his viral video parody

September 18, 2015

Years before Thomas Middleditch was an award-nominated star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, he was just another comedian hustling for fame in Chicago, and in 2006, he didn’t imagine that his rap video mocking McDonald’s chicken mcnuggets would amount to as much as it has. Because McDonald’s bought the video Middleditch …

Eli Manning is a better bad comedian than you, for DirecTV
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Eli Manning is a better bad comedian than you, for DirecTV

August 17, 20151

How have we not talked about this summer’s DirecTV ad featuring Eli Manning with a “Bad Comedian Eli Manning” alter-ego yet? Roll the clip!

KFC replaces Darrell Hammond with Norm Macdonald as Colonel Sanders in new commercials
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KFC replaces Darrell Hammond with Norm Macdonald as Colonel Sanders in new commercials

August 17, 2015August 17, 20151

Just a few months after Kentucky Fried Chicken revived its famous founding father, Colonel Sanders, via Saturday Night Live‘s Darrell Hammond, the fast-food chicken giant has pulled a switcheroo, swapping Hammond for his former SNL colleague, Norm Macdonald. “Other than not quite looking like him, his voice being different, and …

Gilbert Gottfried in a Super Bowl commercial with Snoop Dogg for EAT24
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Gilbert Gottfried in a Super Bowl commercial with Snoop Dogg for EAT24

January 30, 2015

The Super Bowl commercials come out earlier each year, and online, so are they even Super Bowl commercials? It’s a moot question, because any company that pays the millions of dollars for a 30-second or 60-second spot during the biggest football game and TV event of the year will get …

10 Promotional Opportunities Ron Burgundy Turned Down For Anchorman 2
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10 Promotional Opportunities Ron Burgundy Turned Down For Anchorman 2

December 5, 2013

Will Ferrell was scheduled to appear today as guest anchor Ron Burgundy on ESPN’s SportsCenter. He’s shown above in a pre-recorded interview with Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (who owns Papa John’s franchises and has been a spokesman for DirecTV, Buick, ESPN, Gatorade, Reebok, Sprint, MasterCard, Oreo and more). Previously: …

Matthew Weiner’s made-up stand-up connection to the Mad Men season 6 premiere?
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Matthew Weiner’s made-up stand-up connection to the Mad Men season 6 premiere?

April 8, 20133

Spoiler alert. One of the subplots to the season six premiere of Mad Men — timed to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays at the end of 1967 — placed one of Peggy’s ad campaigns in peril thanks to a stand-up comedian’s performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. …

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