By now I’m sure everyone but me has seen the very funny and oddly caustic late night commercials for the ShamWow and the SlapChop. I saw the ShamWow ad for the first time last week, and have watched it about ten times since. I think it’s hilarious and give the ShamWow guy huge points for being so acidic and non-salesman-y. I mean, come on. Saying that Olympic divers use the ShamWow to dry themselves off. I can’t even believe that’s in the final cut, it’s so awesomely ridiculous. I then read that this guy is a comedian named Vince Offer who in 1999 released a movie called Underground Comedy Movie that generated a number of lawsuits, including a suit against the Farrelly Brother for apparently lifting scenes from his movie into Something About Mary and then sued Anna-Nicole Smith for breach of contract for not appearing in his movie and then sued the Church of Scientology because they declared him a criminal. And now he’s cracking me up with these weird ads telling me that I’ll live an exciting life I use the SlapChop. Sidenote: I posted a ShamWow bit on my FB status and it generated the most comments of my short-lived FB career. Being one who’s typically late to the game, I guess I’ll have to start watching TV after midnight more often.
Formed in 1997, Schad began performing sketch comedy on Chicago’s north side. The troupe has since performed at countless venues around the world including The Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Steppenwolf, Lollapalooza, ImprovOlympic, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (LA), HERE (NYC) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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I like the part in the slap-chop ad where he references his nuts.
So I could’ve kept my Fauxhawk, I thought people were starting to stare.
I like when he goes this one last “one week” this one lasts T E N Y E A R S in an over dubbed voice because they would be sued for this dick originally saying “This one lasts for one week, this one lasts for fuckin ever, like your wife on my sack, right camera guy?”
This guys sucks shit and I hate his deformed face. I also hated the late night commercials for “underground comedy movie” which looked like just a bunch of camcorder footage of a clown skateboarding.