swimming freestyle

Roller babies

A new commercial for Evian.

Slow jammin' the health care reform debate

Jimmy Fallon and The Roots explain the health care reform debate.

Rush Limbaugh Karaoke

Why not?

Clio award winners

Now in their 50th year, the Clios honor achievement in advertising.  Among the winners for television advertisements were Virgin Atlantic's 25th anniversary ad (quite fun in its retro style), T Mobile's Liverpool Station ad (featured here before), and a set of three ads for Crest "you can say anything with a smile" toothpaste (including a very funny one about head lice).

My favorite, though, was this United Airline advertisement.  Mixing heartfelt emotion with George Gershwin is a winner in my book.

An R rated Slushee commercial

I have a feeling this isn't going to be shown in the U.S.

The Motherlovers

Some irreverence on Mother's Day.  From SNL:

Funniest commercials

The One Club is a nonprofit organization "for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising" and every year conducts award competitions for, among other things, the funniest advertisement.  The Daily Beast recently posted eight of the nominees.  The Alec Baldwin/Hulu commercial was, without question, my personal favorite but some of the others are far less well known.  My favorite of the lesser known:

Sometimes high blood pressure is a good thing

From Suntory, an advertisement for Goma-Muji Cha, a tea for lowering blood pressure.

'Slap Chop' Rap

ShamWow guy really stretches.  Not only moving on to new products, but gettin' urban to boot.

Man undresses in 7.3 seconds

If you've ever seen Japanese game shows, this won't surprise you much.  A Japanese man gets undressed in record time.