11.02.09 DIRECTV HIRES MORE DEAD CELEBRITIES
Jared from Landline TV just sent me this video and I’m posting it, because can you imagine an easier way to do this job? The premise: Ignoring widespread outcry over the alleged tastelessness of their Chris Farley ad (after the jump), DirecTV has gone ahead and hired more dead celebrities, including Heath Ledger, John F. Kennedy, and Jesus. Wait a second, I found a flaw in this parody. To quote my favorite catchphrase that never really took off, “Jesus is not dead, are you gay?”
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DIRECTV HIRES MORE DEAD CELEBRITIES
The south park guys should sell Isaac Hayes to directTV.
But would Hitler endorse DirecTV? I mean if you want a spokesman to truly invade the public’s consciousness, so to speak.
JFK likes the reception he gets with digital DirecTV. That way, he doesn’t have to move his dish back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back and to the left. Back…and to the left.
All these actors want to be upgraded to zombie. Up-up-lemme-upgrade.
If Jesus is a celebrity, then I should be, too. I spend every day just hanging around and getting nailed.
Just wait until DirecTV starts attacking the contract requirements attached to going with their competitors.
I anticipate Uma Thurman interrupting the climax of ‘Kill Bill: Volume 2′ to talk about how you shouldn’t get tied up in long contracts.
What’s so tasteless about the Farley-Spade ? It’s like a fun puzzle to figure out which one is more dead.
Geico has silently pulled their “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…because I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico” add.
Dead guy in a commerciaaaaaal.
DJ AM promotes both High and Def.
David Carradine wants you to know that all DirecTV subscribers get Oxygen.
“Hi, Anne Frank here. I wanted to be able to watch television so we had the cable company come run another line. Well, the nazis saw the cable running into the attic and now here I am in Auschwitz. I should have used DirecTV!”
Peet, you get Bravo.
“You get all the important stuff, like the Golf Channel, the Travel Channel, and Lifetime,” says Payne Stewart.
Rock Hudson, ‘Get DirecTV, or I’ll sodomize you and give you AIDS.’
Bon Scott makes sure you get TNT.
Patrick Swayze wants you to know he’s had the time of his life. Direct TV can go straight to hell.
Jesus is selling out as a sponsor for DirecTV? Freakin’ Jews will do anything to get to coins to rub together.
Michael Jackson will make sure that your children get TLC.
tutu to too two teeewhooooooo!!
Hey Dish Network, you should one-up Direct and start filming (Lohan, Winehouse) ads now. They’ll probably be hot commodities for the dead-celeb pitch soon enough.
Hunter S. Thompson wants you to know that there is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an cable binge.
Switch today!
Patrick Swayze: It’s cheaper than chemo!
Fun Fact: The man who came of with the idea of using dead celebrities in DirectTV ads wrote “Weekend at Bernies”.
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