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Oh Hey, Matt Besser and Seth Morris, You're in the New Apple Ads

by | July 30th, 2012

The videos star Josh Rabinowtiz, a stand-up who just performed as part of the Just For Laughs New Faces showcase last week.

Despite the comedic talent, the ads have not been particularly well received. Ken Segall, a former ad man who had worked with Steve Jobs, wrote on his personal blog:

I know it’s hard to say after viewing the new batch of Mac ads that debuted on the Olympics. I’m still in a bit of shock myself.

Sure, Apple has had a low point or two in its advertising past — but its low points are usually higher than most advertisers’ high points.

This is different. [...]

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Background Ads for Zookeeper Digitally Inserted Into Reruns of How I Met Your Mother

by | July 6th, 2011

Listen up, pal! You're gonna see Zookeeper this weekend whether you like it or not! Sick of the ads for it? Too bad! You can't even escape them by watching a TV show that originally aired two years before Zookeeper began filming.

Yes, an episode of How I Met Your Mother from 2007 has been digitally altered to include and ad for Kevin James' latest assault on comedy in the background. See it up there? Here's what that scene looks like on the DVD:

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Is This Ashton Kutcher Video Racist or Just Unfunny?

by | May 2nd, 2012

Ashton Kutcher is doing a new campaign for PopChips in which he portrays different characters in a bunch of "dating videos." One of them is "Raj," an indian man that you can see above. It's being called racist by a bunch of different people, most notably by tech pundit Anil Dash. Is it racist? He's wearing "brownface," which isn't the same as blackface, which is offensive and racist because of its history, not just because people are wearing makeup. And I don't like flinging accusations of racism or offensiveness at comedians unless it's really, truly warranted; comedians deserve the benefit of the doubt for the most part. [...]

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Colbert's Pine Fresh Dick Scrub: Because Everyone's Genitals Are Wrong

by | July 26th, 2011

It's about time our God-fearing American vaginas finally found a voice in Summer's Eve's talking vagina ads, whether those vags happen to be connected to a woman's body, or suddenly attached to the ends of Stephen Colbert's arms. As for the ads themselves: multiculturalism is a positive, elusive goal, but the African-American vagina literally does a sassy head bob. And when the Latina vagina says, "Ay ay ay"? My anthropomorphic vageene started to head bob. Luckily, in the interest of a fair and balanced approach to junk offensiveness, Colbert's Dick Scrub now promises an Autumnal Afternoon Pine Fresh experience for the bouncer at Ball Mountain. Cool Ranch and [...]

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