Funny New TV Commercials
A Dummy's Puppet's Ramblings - from Chip Martin, Puppet
Mannequin American views and guidelines on marketing/PR trends, news from the world of puppets and ventriloquism, bits of humor and other interesting but useless information. I post every Tuesday and Friday. For information on this puppet's background, go to http://www.dale-brown.com/.
Back in Stock
For those of you who ordered Making It Up As You Go, Writing Original Comedy Dialogs for Ventriloquist Characters or Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is, all three books are back in stock and will be shipped this week. Sorry for the back order. But who knew there'd be any demand?
If you're interested in any of these publications go to http://www.dale-brown.com/ and click on "On Line Store," for details and prices.
Funny Commercials Aimed at Proper Audiences
If you like funny TV ads click here to see how Holland Casino clearly identifies its audience and demonstrates why casinos are more entertaining than "high culture." The theme is "It's more fun when you take part". It actually made me laugh. I was not expecting, "IS IT A BOOK...?!" Click on it. It's funny and very short.
And speaking of TV ads, who needs political platforms full of platitudes when you have the Miller High Life Guy stumping the Common Sense Platform? A beer-fueled presidency is probably a good answer to what this country needs. Click on the link to see the entertaining and effective Miller High Life Dude for President! Oh, and Drink Responsibly.
But this is the best recent commercial of all ... and it's never aired on television. Instead you have to go to http://www.budtv.com/ to see it. But apparently it's worth it because it has been viewed over 12 million times! In fact, Anheuser-Busch won its first-ever Emmy for the spot which is titled "Swear Jar." In the commercial employees at an office add change to a jar every time somebody swears. When the secretary reveals that the money might be used to buy packs of Bud Light for the office, even the top execs see motherbleep!in' bleep!suckers around every %$#&'! corner. Everyone in our office laughed out loud at this commercial. So click here to see it. Seriously, it will make you laugh.
Latte Art
I recently read that some Starbucks locations provide customers with Latte Art. Although I do not spend money on frivolities like up-scale coffee, I do appreciate the experience required to produce latte art. Here are some of my favorites from other coffee shops around the country.
What a Great Tagline
Unlike cars that wave their ostentatious extras in your face, you can't even see Volkswagen extras. You know why? Because they're made up of "service," according to the company's new tagline: "The extra Volkswagen part on every Volkswagen. Volkswagen service." Now that's a great tagline! They even repeat the company name three times. I'm surprised no one came up with that before. Click here to see the German commercial. It's clever, entertaining and it introduces that great new tagline.
Would You Go to This Web Site?
In my professional opinion the ad below works on a couple of levels. I think you can see them both. It states simply the name of the advertiser and provides a URL to the advertiser's site. But the ad must have distracted me because when I typed in the Web site address the first time I used ".com" instead of ".net." The Web site is for "What Mobile" a magazine about mobile gadgets. So if you're into that sort of thing, check it out. Oh, and they have a gallery of cover girls ... what a surprise.
