Technology is Amazing and Nobody's Happy

Louis C.K.'s Hilarious won for Best Standup Special over other, more prominent peeps like Ricky Gervais and Daniel Tosh at the 1st Annual Comedy Central Awards show last Saturday. Having never heard of the guy I couldn't help but bootleg it and see how he could possibly be more funny than the previously mentioned funny men.

Highlighted below is a "Hilarious" bit about customers unhappy with their wireless carrier...something I am becoming far too familiar with:

Watch All 61 Ads From Super Bowl XLV In 2 Minutes

Have a short attention span? Don't we all. No worries...Adweek was kind enough to edit all 61 Super Bowl spots down to just 2 minutes. That's 61 commercials in one commercial break. As Love Connection's host Chuck Woolery would say, "I'll see you in 2 and 2". Watch:

Call Him Names

Recently, I was watching yet another Heat game (I can't remember exactly which one because Miami games are on so much they're all starting to blend together) and the commentators in the booth were suggesting to the television audience new nicknames for the big three. One suggestion was "The Threeatles". After, one announcer made a good point stating that for one, there were four Beatles so that doesn't work and more importantly that nicknames cannot be forced, they're created naturally. He used Blake Griffin as an example to his point suggesting that the newest human highlight film in the NBA has yet to stake claim to any nickname but in time it'll just come. Well, thanks to me, that time has come. His play is menacing to opponents and his look (and team for that matter) is reminiscent of everyones favorite red-headed step child. He is Hollywood's new "Problem Child".

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Is Mother Nature pulling for Brett Farve's starting streak?

Small penis photos and shitty play are all Brett Farve has had to offer us thus far this NFL season but it seems that someone or something is still routing for the insufferable number four.

Orbit rips off RollingStone cover.

If you haven't seen the apparent "King of America's" smile on the RollingStone issue this month that's because it's hiding from you, along with an Orbit's Chewing Gum advertisement. MTV explains, "The cover is a "peel-off" edition that reveals another image of the rapper underneath, donning a black tuxedo jacket and black framed glasses." The "faux" cover is of Jay-Z's typical facade...you know the look, hard-core, cool guy glare, like he's a Boss (...well, technically I guess he is). However, the microscopic copy in the bottom left corner of the "faux" front cover questions Jigga's lack of smiling, asking, "Have you ever seen this man smiling?" The big reveal is when you turn over the camoflauge cover and see Mr. Big Pimpin's pearly whites next to a fold out, 8x10 Orbit's ad. While I find the ad to be extremely clever and well constructed, I hate to see RS sell space on their most dignified spot. The once priceless moment to be "...on the cover of the RollingStone" now instead has a price tag.

Who gives a flying...lizard!?!

Hey, I got an idea...let's play our next million dollar ad campaign off the fact that some idiotic research group figured out that some people are confused about the Geico gecko's ethnicity. Then once people see our commercial hint at his heritage a hundred times, they'll eventually visit the website for answers, ultimately resulting in purchasing car insurance. Is he a Brit or is he an Azzie, I don't know!?! Damn, the website doesn't say...oh well now that I'm here maybe I'll take 15 minutes to see if I can save 15 percent or more on car insurance.
...I wish the Caveman would just eat that lizard. Now that'd be a good commercial.

New Shoe Tagline Crosses the Line

This is another tragic case in the ad industry when the creative director failed to tell the copywriter that their "brief was showing". Someone in research decided that the target audience for this shoe's particular demographic happens to like energy drinks. So when it came time for the writer to actually concept some copy either he pulled this out of his brief(s) last minute or every other idea on the table
got shot down. For the writer's sake I hope it's the latter.