In case you missed them yesterday, here are all the Super Bowl commercials starring cool comedy people. The first is Will Ferrell's ad for Old Milwaukee, his second consecutive Super Bowl ad for the beer brand. Like the last one, it only aired locally (in three cities), which is pretty awesome. Hit the jump for Amy Poehler's Super Bowl ad and one starring Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Bob Odenkirk, both of which aired in more than three cities:
To avoid competing with the Super Bowl for ratings this Sunday, HBO has made the newest episode of its series Girls and Enlightened each available on its streaming service HBO Go right now. The episodes will also air on HBO early this Saturday (in additional to their normal Sunday timeslots) to avoid a Super Bowl scheduling conflict. Or you could just ask every one at your Super Bowl party to take a quick half-hour break from the big game to see what Lena Dunham and her friends are up to. Your call.
CBS's Late Late Show is doing a post-Super Bowl show after the game on February 3rd, and some big names are set to join host Craig Ferguson for what's being dubbed The Craig Ferguson Super Bowl Special. TV Line reports that the show will be heading to New Orleans, visiting Jackson Square (the Super Bowl location), Bourbon Street, the Tremé District, and other local spots for segments and that Craig Ferguson's guests will be Steve Carell (promoting his movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone), Neil Patrick Harris, footballer player Drew Brees, Big Brother host Julie Chen, and Twilight actress Nikki Reed. This is Ferguson's second post-Super Bowl special after hosting one when [...]
If you turned off your TV after the Super Bowl to cry yourself to sleep with disappointment or to run out to the streets in celebration, here is what you missed: Jimmy Fallon pumping up the Adele and partying with cheerleaders, mascots, a guy in shower caps, and of course the Roots. It's Indiann-mother-flipping-apolis! This is probably what they do every night!
This re-enactment of Ferris Bueller's Day Off starring Matthew Broderick for Honda's Super Bowl spot is an excellent example of advertising. Not that I condone advertising. Or any -ising for that matter. -isings in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ising, he should believe in himself. I quote Ferris Bueller, "I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.'" Good point there. After all, he was Matthew Broderick. I could be Matthew Broderick. I'd still have to do commercials for Honda.
Here's "Running Out the Clock," a fake Bob Dylan song that Tim Heidecker of Tim & Eric fame released in advance of Bob Dylan's fake performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, which is not a real thing that will happen this Sunday. I would actually watch the Super Bowl halftime show this year, though, if Tim Heidecker was planning on charging the stage and grabbing the mic from Beyonce so he could sing this song as Bob Dylan.
The BIG GAME is next week, and we're spending every waking moment preparing for it. After some initial confusion regarding the Super Bowl vs. Big Game Hunting, we talk about various foods found at Superbowl parties, Domino's Pizza foray into different types of food, the merits of having a party every Sunday evening, why Superman can't play in the Super Bowl, why Batman is a bad detective and debate whether or not an NFL player should be allowed to get a free pass to Disneyworld if it's possible that he was involved in a violent crime.
We also announce the details of our upcoming tour in UK and Ireland [...]
Billy Eichner did a report for Conan on the big Madonna concert in Indiannapolis this weekend, but a lot of the people attending – even the ones who call themselves "giant fans" – didn't even seem to CARE that she was performing. Plus, the big guys everyone was interviewing were in some kind of locker room for the entire performance. This country really needs to work on its apathy problem. (Side note: The lady who shows up at 0:44 sounds exactly like Vanessa Bayer's impression of Miley Cyrus. "Madonna? Oh, yeah, I like her. She's pretty cool.")
In this 30 Rock webisode, it's fallen to Jack Donaghy to find a new act for the Super Bowl halftime show. If anyone can do it, he can – even while animated. Because he can make any business deal in any medium. "Lemon, I once persuaded the cast of Friends to do an tenth season via Morse code." P.S. Childish Gambino rapping over the Knight Rider theme song would make a dope halftime show and NBC should seriously consider it.
Are you ready for some Thank You Nooooooooooootes? NBC has announced that Jimmy Fallon will broadcast live from Indianapolis next February 5, 20112 following Super Bowl XLVI, which I'm assuming will entail a celebrity-studded blowout edition of Jimmy's Pro Bowl Shuffle. The Roots will also be coming along for the event, so I'm politely requesting that the show's entire cast and crew journey to the Midwest via tour bus, during which they take part in some sort of insane prank war. Thank you.
Here's Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen pitching ideas for a Samsung Super Bowl ad to Bob Odenkirk in a 60-second teaser for Samsung's upcoming 120-second Super Bowl commercial. I liked it, but I wish there was a 30-second teaser for the teaser I could have watched before committing to watching this 60-second commercial.
Jimmy Fallon announced a new video project on Late Night Friday that the wildly-talented Gregory Brothers are putting together for the show in honor of the Super Bowl. Watch Fallon explain what you can do to be a part of the video above, or just sit around like a lazy slob and kick yourself next week when you see whatever the cool thing the Gregory Brothers made without your help is.
These two Super Bowl ads really show that great commercials can come in all shapes and sizes. There's NBC's "please just watch some of our programs, we're literally begging you" spot, and then there's a Will Ferrell ad only seen in North Platte, Nebraska. On the one hand, you have an entire network of stars doing choreographed singing and dancing to a song from a Broadway show, from Community to SNL. And on the other, just a guy walking up in a field, and taking a cold drink from an Old Mi-
Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno are giving Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller ad a run for its money with their own Super Bowl ad for the Acura NSX. Well, they say it's for the NSX, but it's really just as effective as an ad for dancing holographic monkeys. Or the professional services of Jerry Seinfeld as a butler and personal entertainer. Either of which I think most of us would pay A PRETTY PENNY for, am I wrong?
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