Tag: TV commercials

All this and a car started, too? Good job, DieHard. Not the movie. The battery manufacturer. Here's their new ad featuring virtuoso Reggie Watts. (Thanks to Videogum for pointing this out to me) Roll it! If you'd like to see and hear more from Reggie Watts, then you're in luck! …

It's 5 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving. Are you in line for a big holiday shopping deal? If so, I wonder if you're hunting for bargains at Target. The Minnesota-based discount retail giant turned to a comedian from its home state, Maria Bamford, to voice its holiday ad campaign. …

Chris Gethard may be known to Upright Citizens Brigade fans for his ability to improvise, or perhaps for his curious impersonation of Darryl Strawberry. But on the TV, for ESPN, he is the Superfan. Here is Gethard's latest commercial for ESPN. When can we get our own Me + Lo …

When this TV ad appeared before my eyeballs this morning, I had to hit the pause and rewind buttons on my remote control to make sure I wasn't still dreaming. Nope. That was comedian Bobby Tisdale in a new Sony TV ad. Oh, right. He was being sold on Sony …

Some comedians make their names via commercials, and some commercial campaigns seek out name comedians to lighten up and brighten up their brands. This new holiday gift TV ad blitz by eBay definitely falls into the latter group, going to go-to guys Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart, Michael Ian Black and …

MTV asked British comedian Russell Brand to host the channel's Video Music Awards for a second straight year, but watching the show broadcast last night from NYC's Radio City Music Hall, you may have wondered why. Seriously. Why? Brand caused enough of a stir in 2008, I suppose, to earn his …

I had heard about these new ads for Midol, but until last night, I had not actually seen any of them on my TV. That's when comedian Lynne Koplitz showed up in high-definition plasma, depicted onstage in a comedy club setting, to say this: Nice to see Koplitz get the …

David Wain rediscovered this old commercial that he and some of his fellow members from The State – Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney — did for the Nintendo Game Boy Pocket. This is what passed for hip in the mid-1990s. Memories!