Those Mitchell and Web Ads
March 19, 2007
It was inevitable – a comedy duo as popular as M&W were bound to be offered a lucrative advertising deal sooner or later. But do you giggle at their Mac ads or feel compelled to put a picture of their faces on the nearest Mac screen then smash it with a large hammer?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih41uU17P_o – Lee and Herring’s take on the ads)
Discuss… you can see them all here: http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/)
(posted by Holly)
Frankly I think they’re really endangering their careers as comics. You wouldn’t catch Cannon and Ball doing that. Mitchell and Webb have committed that carnal sin of getting into bed with big business. Other poverty stricken comics are bound to feel resentful, surely, and will TV networks want to sign up comedians who associate their brand of humour with commerce? I think not.
I’ve kind of got used to being dissapointed by Mitchell and Webb now. They did some great work on Peep Show 1 and 2 (which they didn’t even write i’ve heard) then ruined it with That Mitchell and Webb Look which is a lame excuse for a sketch show.
It’s no suprise that when they were offered a shitload of money by Applw they took it and ran… by now it should be obvious that they don’t have any quality control.