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The Coz

Bill Cosby Has A New App, Giant Fireplace

by | March 7th, 2011

I'm not going to criticize Bill Cosby or the Bill Cosby iPhone app. The man is an institution, a legend, and as this video points out, a charming grandpa that I wish would hold court from my parents' living room each and every Thanksgiving. "I will tweet you better than anyone has every tweeted you," Cosby promises. Bill! That's the filth. I will however take umbrage with whoever filmed and produced this commercial. The man is crammed into the lower 1/8 of the shot! This is an ad for an app, not a heavy yet tasteful mahogany mantle piece. They were also using a mahogany microphone and mahogany sound [...]

Ads

The Comedy Lessons of Terrible Super Bowl Commercials

by | February 7th, 2011

Ugh, Super Bowl commercials. These ads, which have become events worth paying attention to by virtue of their pricetags, pretty much provide a master class in what not to do as a comedy writer. They're full of lazy, sometimes-offensive punchlines, and they all follow unsurprising formulas that we've seen a million times before. If people tried to write crap like this into sitcoms, they'd never get work. Or maybe they'd get work on the most popular comedies on TV on CBS? I don't know, guys. Let's just look at some examples.

Local News

Seth Green Receives Key To New Orleans For Excellence In Rally's Commercials

by | March 7th, 2011

Was 1991 a particularly slow news year? Or did we just miss out on the rampant Seth Green fever that swept through the Gulf states during the early nineties? In this painfully earnest human interest story from WVUE New Orleans, we meet Seth, just your average seventeen-year-old carrot-top struggling actor actor who's catchphrase in a Rally's commercial ("Cha-CHING") earned him a trip to the French Quarter, a key to New Orleans, and the love of thousands of Saints fans. New Orleans must have given away an unquantifiable number of keys if even the Rally's kid was getting one.

Quicklink

Annoyingly Loud TV Commercials About to Become Illegal

by | September 30th, 2010

Not much seems to be getting done in congress these days, but at least they are getting one important thing done: "The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt."

Christopher Guest Directed Groupon's Gross "Tibet" Ad

by | February 7th, 2011

So you know those god-awful Groupon commercials that made light of the suffering in Tibet? That whole campaign was directed by…Christopher Guest. Buh?

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