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Saturday Night Live has mocked advertising and our relationship with it over 41 seasons. From the first season’s Bass-O-Matic, down through the years from Mom Jeans to Bad Idea Jeans, Schmitts Gay beer and Colon Blow cereal. But now, for every fake ad SNL may air after the guest host’s monologue …
Comedians Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) got engaged over the holidays, and Booking.com found just the perfect tie-in, booking the couple for a series of new TV ads imagining them planning their wedding and honeymoon. Roll the clips!
If you watched any of the Final Four these past couple of nights, then you saw the brand-new TV commercial for Chrysler’s Pacifica starring comedian Jim Gaffigan, his kids, and even a clip of his stand-up in the seat-back monitors. That makes two big national ad campaigns currently running for …
Today’s guest, Milana Vayntrub, is recognizable to anyone who watches TV, owns a cell phone or even watches TV on their cell phones, as she has portrayed the friendly saleswoman Lily in TV ads for AT&T since 2013. Vayntrub also has appeared in episodes of Silicon Valley, ER, Key and …
KFC teased another change to its ranks of comedians playing the late great founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders was a handsome man. From the looks of this ad, he still is. https://t.co/5hnviEnd6V — Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) February 7, 2016 And just before kickoff of Super Bowl …
Talk about counter-programming. Squarespace hired Key & Peele — aka Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele — to provide live running commentary throughout Super Bowl 50 while playing the roles of aspiring sportscasters Lee and Morris this Sunday. Only they’re not going to talk about the actual football game. Or say …
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!
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!
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. …
Today’s guest, Wayne Federman, has been recording stand-up comedy sets in clubs across America for more than 30 years now since starting out in New York City in the early 1980s. He’s also a classically trained actor, studying in college straight from Stella Adler. No wonder, then, he has so …
