I believe this qualifies as an example of what’s called in the ad business the vampire effect, which is where the content of the ad is so effective you forget what the product was. Commenter steelyjack links to a bit by Bill Hicks on the subject of sex in ads.  I think you’re now legally required to refer to him as “the late, great” Bill Hicks. It’s funny, I was just listening to him in the car yesterday doing the bit about Beelzebozo The Clown. Here’s some early Hicks from an appearance at Dangerfield’s, before he got all heavy and moonbatty. Dude was funny. The Wikipedia entry also discusses the controversy with Denis Leary.
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Perhaps Leary’s karma is to channel the talent knowing that someone in the audience knows who is really performing on the stage. Perhaps a spontaneous “WOOO-HOOOooo, that’s a good one Bill Hicks”, at Leary’s public performances would help properly load the karmic wagon Leary must pull till he joins BH beyond. “I’m an asshole! o di odi o…”
Hicks was prescient in a lot of ways, the ad in question only being one of those. The guy was a Truther and a conspiracy theorist long before the current trend was fashionable, and moonbatty as hell in so many others. With all that said, he was freakin’ hilarious. I agreed with him on some things, like his take on pop icons, the media, and methods of marketing/advertising, and disagreed with him on most other things, such as his politics. But agree or disagree, he always made me laugh until it hurt. Whatever his personal views, his death made the world less funny.
The controversy about Leary is also interesting. What I respected about Hicks is that though he obviously resented Leary’s success at his expense, he also didn’t obsessively and bitterly dwell on it the way Joe Rogan and others do about the success of Carlos Mencia/Dane Cook. Of course, being terminally ill with pancreatic cancer probably changes people’s priorities a bit.
That ad did absolutely nothing for me.
Except, My 20 year old self called and wants it’s hair back.
So, you looked like that when you were twenty?
Hair? She had hair?
Yep. I went back and looked at the ad and she had hair! Who wudda noticed?
Anybody know where I can find that product? Is it on the market yet?
The product has been on the market forever. It can currently cost you anywhere from nothing to just about all you have in some cases. The exciting part is you never know how much you will be paying.
Oh, wait, you meant the supplement. Can’t help you there.
cranky-d – I meant whatever she used on her bikini spiders. I had the magnifying glass out and everything.
How could you tell? The product was in the way.
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever!” The men who would put that woman in an all-purpose, one-size-fits-all black sack owe God a sincere apology.
Anyone check the photographer’s site? (johnnycrosslin.com) Only with your seat belt fastened.
Thanks Creole, full four-point harness required. Heaven’s Angels on a temporary visit.
I dunno what thet’re sellin, but I’ll take a case.
Hell yes he did. But Hicks didn’t have the clout (= cash) to shit on “the business” in public like Rogan does.
And he’s not bitter. He doesn’t call these guys out for himself, but on behalf of his friends who still have to make a living on the circuit, giving them “You know how Rogan is” deniability.
He’s a philanthropist, not a comedian.
(But he is a funny guy.)
“(But he is a funny guy.)”
Hell yes, he is. Looking back on it, psycho, you’re right, especially in terms of Hicks not having the clout to shit on th e business. I wouldn’t go so far as calling Rogan a philanthropist, but it was neat hearing him on Opie and Anthony just completely demolish a self-serving interview Mencia did. As funny as Rogan was doing it, I still got creeped out a little by the level of hatred he was delivering at Mencia. Not being a comic though, I have to wonder, hasn’t this been going on in comedy and other entertainment mediums for years?
The funny thing is, I used to think Dane Cook was funny. To a certain extent he still makes me chuckle, but a friend of mine went to see him live after he got really big and noticed a disturbing thing: the audience started to applaud his routines before he had really gotten into them. At that point, comedy seems to lose its edge, something people in the past like Hicks and current comics like Rogan, Norton, Attell, and Louis CK haven’t seemed to lose yet. Just my opinion, though.
Product?
cjd: Not being a comic though, I have to wonder, hasn’t this been going on in comedy and other entertainment mediums for years?
Oscar Wilde: “How I wish I’d said that.”
James Whistler: “You will, Oscar, you will.”
So yeah, a while. Heh.
Apropos of nothing, ever wonder why the people who make Egg Beaters don’t come out with a meat substitute?
Heh.
“He who steals from me is stealing twice.”
“He who steals last, steals best”
Rogan drove The Man Show off a cliff.
He played a minor dim bulb on the brilliant NewsRadio.
In between the two he made his fortune toking up while feeding people bugs. More piles of cash fell in his lap as he discussed brawling guys trying to establish a TV sport invented so that white guys who had cable TV could root for white guys on cable TV. Which, as soon as money came to the sport, black competitors found it. Natch.
Rogan’s ashamed that his money was not generated by his supposed humor so he turned himself into Mr. Comedy Cop. Pretty transparent. This explains all that “too much energy” anger towards “transgressors”.
The dude drips sanctimony whenever I hear him talk about anything. Including his lectures on the how, when, where and ferchrisakes why of ingesting ferchrisakes magic mushrooms. Ferchrisakes.
At first he irked me. Now I yawn and go elsewhere when he pops up on radio or TV. But tonight he irked me again. Oh well.
No doubt about it Leary swiped Hicks’ act. I watched it happen.
But by the time he did swipe it I was pissed about Hicks’ moonbattery so I actually enjoyed that Leary stole it.
When I later learned that Leary started life as an actor and he basically chose to act as though he were a comedian, essentially making Hicks’ life a multimedia script for the role I suppose, I thought there’s a unique bit of performance art.
Imagine arguing that defense in court.