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Need 40 insane ads? Bring in Gary Busey.
Conventional wisdom has it that Gary Busey is crazier than a sack of weasels. (Check out the 197,000 hits for Gary Busey and crazy on Google.) Perhaps it’s an act. Whatever the case, it gets him commercial work from companies that have little to lose. Recently, we saw him promoting the video game Saint’s Row 2. Now, he’s filmed 40 new off-the-cuff spots for something called GotVMail. An e-mail sent my way says the company’s “young founders, Siamak Taghaddos (26) and David Hauser (25), reveal that Busey’s connection to their company is in his first name, as ‘Gary’ is the name of GotVMail’s mascot.” Hard to argue with that. I didn’t watch too many of the spots. In fact, I stopped after the one above, in which Busey utters the phrase “stupid, misfortunate placenta.” |
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Whether you like Busey or hate him.....you can't deny he draws attention and has a following. And it certainly seems he doesn't know a thing about business.
Posted by: franky174 | Jul 17, 2008 1:13:59 AM
Well, the ignorance and the misfortunate placenta bit is probably an act, but it's hard to say whether these ads serve Busey or Gotvmail more, since they're so random (gotvmail is a great business, with actually a lot of rep to lose: they deserve better than the "gotvmail song" that Busey squawks out...yes, I know it's supposed to be funny, but still). And it's hard to know whether the audience most drawn to Busey is likely to benefit from gotvmail's services. You know, it's hard to know anything watching these ads, cause you feel like you're in "bizarro world".
Posted by: patfues | Jul 17, 2008 3:32:27 PM
AKA Gary Abusey
Posted by: Gregory Solman | Jul 21, 2008 3:48:17 PM
Either way whether it is an act or not the guy is either truly crazy or acting crazy...he is funny.
Particularly love this one http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNjhXSd-LP8 ....can't wait to see what he is going to be buried in.
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