Tag: ads/Archives

Levitol- MADtv

Keegan-Michael Key asks his doctor is Levitol is right for him, from MADtv, Season 12 Episode 5:

Big Bill Hell’s Cars

Truth in advertising? Check this (anyone know who did this?) mock radio spot for Baltimore’s “Big Bill Hell’s Cars” (1:00 mp3; and definitely NSFW– Sensitive Ears Shouldn’t Hear This):

via Art da Nipper.

TAL– TRIKZ da silva

Catch This American Life this weekend? Here’s the Nike vid of Luis “TRIKZ” da Silva from Act One:

Pubradio Talent Quest

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Job Intervu- POTUSA

NPR’S Political Junkie, Ken Rudin, alerted readers to this Richardson ad-for-Prez, the funniest so far:

Slave in a Box

To file under “Things I Never Knew:”

The first illustrator for Aunt Jemima advertisements was none other than N.C. Wyeth.

“Aunt Jemima’s ready-mixed products offered middle-class housewives the next best thing to a black servant: a ‘slave in a box’ that conjured up romantic images of not only the food but also the social hierarchy of the plantation South.”

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Beijing’s Pressure Point Found

In some martial arts, there is an emphasis places on exploiting pressure points. Political activists trying to get China to review its cozy relationship with Sudan over Darfur finally found one in the 2008 Olympics. Apparently, it is really a chain of pressure points since Mia Farrow, in an editorial warned Steven Spielberg that he could “go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games,” for his role in helping promote them. He, in turn, wrote a letter to China’s president, Hu Jintao, decrying China’s support of Sudan’s government.

Perhaps the new logo for the 2008 games should look like this:

(or maybe a picture of Hu Jintao wincing)