Actually, its painfully funny. The joke being: who in the hell thought this was the kind of spokesperson you needed to sell the super-towel?
"I know! We'll get one of those squinty eyed guidos fom the lower east side who deal the sidewalk card games! It'll be brilliant!"
Also: "You know the Germans always make great stuff."
My bad, this version doesn't include the part of the pitch that focuses on German ingenuity. You can see the bold red MADE IN GERMANY! at the end though.
As a matter of fact, there is. Sometimes at malls and such you'll see booths with these guys hocking the product. They all wear the same shirt and they all have the same headset.
Maybe... they pulled him out of the call center to make the advert. Maybe they just thought it looked important and sales-like, akin to Boiler Room or something.
He is Johnny Knoxville and Moe Szyslak's love-child.
I was going to submit this about a week ago, but I couldn't find the long version. I don't understand why he's so rushed about everything. It's like he's doing us a exhausting favor telling us about this towel.
The sad part is, this product is direct competition for another one of these chamois things that IS sold by Billy Mays. Both of the ads run on the TV station i work for. I'm still waiting for the opportunity to put both ads back-to-back.
The "ten year" warranty sort of things you see on these commercials is a meaningless guarantee to get you to feel confidence in the person selling you the product. The fact is, the product simply will not be made in ten years time - let alone one years time - so the warranty is worthless.
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