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Posts Tagged ‘Advertising’

A 1917 Subway Car Back In Service In NYC

There is a subway that I sometimes ride that shuttles back and forth all day between Grand Central Station and Times Square and it is the most wonderful subway advertising experience because the entire interior of the train will be designed as a giant ad for something—be it the baseball playoffs or a Broadway show [...]

Daily Hilarity: Best Of Sarah Haskins’s “Target Women”

Sarah Haskins always provides the most hilarious and incisive commentary tearing into the lousy logic and vapid condescension packed into advertisements targeted at women on her recurring Infomania segment called Target Women. Her dry witted satirical media criticism would be a perfect fit on The Daily Show and in logic classes. Every time I watch one of [...]

Daily Hilarity: Eric O’Shea On Elmo And TV Commercials

Apparently this clip’s been around awhile but it’s new to me and so hopefully it’s new to some of you too.  Pretty funny stuff.  The first 1:17 are his great Elmo impression and 1:18 begins his suggestions for songs to go with different products in commercials: Here’s a performance with a bunch more, some the [...]

Daily Hilarity: Target Women

The satire of drug commercials and religion I posted earlier put me in the mood for this classic from the ever-awesome Sarah Haskins: