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Hate is an International habit but I swear that we of the internet have it mastered over everyone else. Whenever a celebrity crosses over into a different realm of entertainment (yes this includes sports), the first thing people look forward to is their failing – hard. It’s this attitude of “how dare they try and be good at more than one thing” which confuses me. The news of Serena Williams making a rap song hit Facebook and Twitter like a storm and blogs everywhere quickly jumped on it to offer up a critique “it’s aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight” seemed to be the consensus, corny, cliché but not necessarily terrible. Why did Serena do this? Well if you follow the tennis legend you would realize that her being young, single and richer than hell allows her to do what she likes off-season, including dabbling in fashion, modeling, making naughty commercials and yes having fun via whatever avenue she so… [Read more]

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I am about tired of these commercials, not because of the underlying clueless racism in them, but the fact that they are tired and very late to the party. Last year (2010) it was open season on black women as blogs and the media took to task the “solving” of the black woman’s single problem. Every single day on “black blogs” there was post after post bemoaning the plight of these women in their single-hood, while an underlying and sometimes well hidden insult was  being ushered against the black male. This was black people attacking black people about a problem that isn’t exclusively black – but let them tell it. From the war that ensued between the successful  but single women and the “relationship experts” who chose to capitalize on it their rose the image of the bitter black bitch. Who is The Bitter Black Bitch? Well turn on your television and you won’t have… [Read more]

I’m no parent so I won’t pass judgment on their PC Policing Ads left and right on blog commentaries and with letters to the companies. Recently Beyonce Knowles (resident hawte, wife to Jay-Z and top 100 lady) added the title “too hot for tv” to her resume as parents got her ad banned from UK television before 7:00 pm. You’re probably like huh!? So just check the video out after the jump and if you aren’t packing penitentiary steel in your pants after the 1:00 mark then you are not a man! (Just kidding). I love the commercial, well then again I love sexy women so it was obviously made for me… which… brings… to… question… erm Bey, who are you marketing the lava water to? Is it meant for guys like me to buy for our girlfriends? Because if we are the market consider it SOLD! But if you are trying to market to… [Read more]

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For those of you who showed much concern for your children and others who may have seen the AXE Ball Scrubber Commercial, AXE has taken note of your feedback and issued an Official Press Conference to address your questions. While I may have not found anything wrong with the ad, I do realize that my immature sense of humor may have blinded me from the wicked implications that an ad like it could bring to innocent eyes. But this was short-lived, as comments like the following from Gunluvr showed me that some people out there were truly offended by the idea of clean balls: “It is a disgusting and offensive commercial. Garbage like that should be shown on HBO or some other venue of scum to the moral and sexual deviants that it appeals to. One good thing about living in a Muslim country is that people who make commercials like this one are dealt… [Read more]

Okay I’m a little late to the party on this one but it is entirely too amazing a commercial to pass up. Michael Strahan ex-defensive sack master talks about his love for Doctor Pepper and even goes as far as sacking his good friend Donovan McNabb in order to prove his point. The hilarity has more to do with McNabb’s awesome acting as it does the sack itself. To think Strahan retired and is still punking poor McNabb in the off-season. This my friends is how you do a football commercial… but it’s for a carbonated beverage. In any event, if you haven’t seen it, here it is Dr Pepper and Michael Strahan’s “Sack”. Get the Flash Player to see this content.

And the award for best Super Bowl campaign goes to Doritos! It was a pleasure to watch their ads amongst the confusing nonsense of “Go Green”, GoDaddy yawn ads and the pathetic chicken commercials of Denny’s (seriously millions of dollars in Ad space just to move a friggin grand slam meal?) The Doritos and Bud Light ads were the only ones worth paying attention to outside of Megan Fox bathing… and the one that garnered the most laughter had to be the baby bitch slapping his mother’s boyfriend. I lolled and you will too, which goes to show that 1. Babies are always funny and 2. People getting bitch slapped is always funny on film. The next funny one was probably the new (not as cute as the older) E-Trade baby scamming on his girl with another. Still the Super Bowl as a whole was boring, the halftime show featured  safe, old people and ads… [Read more]

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So Axe has always been great at playing up to the inner perv in us all with their commercials involving chicks ripping off clothes, giving it up in libraries and licking chocolate men on trains (I can sooooo get down with this) – but this time around, I think they have outdone themselves. Presenting the Axe Ball Cleaner with actress Jaime Pressly (a certified lady Dragon) as tennis champ Monica Blake – demonstrating the product quite effectively. The funniest part of the ad has to be when hostess Denese Saintclaire begins playing with a pair of golfballs… you just have to see it. Good job Axe, I even remember the product you are really selling AFTER seeing the ad, so it works! Hell I’ll probably pick it up next time I’m out shopping., just in case it comes with a Jaime Pressly to scrub the… nevermind, I gotta go cool off. Peace!   NEW! Axe… [Read more]

Kudos to the marketing genius who conceptualized it and the big wigs who okayed it and cut Patrick Ewing a check. You remember Ewing right? One of the colossal, great centers of yesteryear when everybody in the NBA was godly and basketball was the sport to watch? I wonder what Pat was doing when he received the call to come dunk on some poor unsuspecting stranger? Was he getting it on with some stripper whore full on scandal style, or was he donning Angel wings for his next big movie role? Who knows, but he is back on the radar in one of the funniest commercials ever. This is kinda old but I can’t stop watching it and the more I watch it the more I want a Snickers… damn you evil candy bar, damn you to hell with your chocolate armor, chewy caramel insides and filling peanuts. I remember when kids used to hustle… [Read more]