If you haven’t seen this commercial for DirectTV, it will make you absolutely ill if you do. Well, it makes me want to puke.
It’s one of those commercials where they mix in old movie or TV footage with new footage, so you supposedly can’t tell the difference. I supposed it’s clever in it’s own way, a la Forest Gump, when Tom Hanks was shaking hands with Nixon.
In this mockery of human dignity, Chris Farley, from Tommy Boy is standing in a living room, in front of his movie and real lIf you haven’t seen this commercial for DirectTV, it will make you absolutely ill if you do. Well, it makes me want to puke.
It’s one of those commercials where they mix in old movie or TV footage with new footage, so you supposedly can’t tell the difference. I supposed it’s clever in it’s own way, a la Forest Gump, when Tom Hanks was shaking hands with Nixon.
In this mockery of human dignity, Chris Farley, from Tommy Boy is standing in a living room, in front of his movie and real life buddy David Spade, and saying, "look, fat guy with tiny jacket, fat guy with tiny jacket," and doing his muscle builder pose to split the jacket down the back. And, of course, Chris Farley is, you know … dead.
Meanwhile, David Spade is on the couch, but he’s talking to us, while the "dead" Chris Farley does his shtick.
The reason? To sell freakin’ DirectTV subscriptions!!!!!!!!
Really?????
Here’s the link to the commercial. http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=15571&count=0
Have we really sunk this low? Direct TV has, and so has David Spade. I guess being washed up drives you to do some pretty putrid things.
Somebody please convince me that’s there’s dignity left in the world …
