Comments on: Seinfeld and Celebrity Computer Endorsements [Updated]

By: gwafa_darren

gwafa_darren — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:48:55 +0000

thats right…good list

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By: Stella

Stella — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:54:02 +0000

Could have been worse–they could have hired Dane Cook to promote Microsoft.

An even better choice than Seinfeld would have been Denis Leary in my opinion. Only instead of touting Microsoft’s positives (of which there aren’t many…), he’d just rant on and on about Apple: “Apple! What kind of company names themselves after a piece of FRUIT?!!! What the @#$%?!!!”

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By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:18:12 +0000

It must really irk you Mac fans that Vista is still very handily outselling your beloved OSX :-)

By: joey

joey — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:13:41 +0000

@Chris Applegate: You're right -- I was writing about The Office but thinking about Extras. I'll go fix that. Thanks for the heads-up!

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By: Chris Applegate

Chris Applegate — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:28:36 +0000

Just a quick pedantic correction – Stephen Merchant co-wrote the UK version of The Office with Gervais but did not star in it (a small cameo role in one episode aside). You’re probably confusing him with Mackenzie Crook, who sounds a bit like him and played Gareth.

By: Phil Gyford

Phil Gyford — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:35:11 +0000

British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise did some ads for Atari in the 1980s. Here’s one, with a couple more linked to from the ‘Related’ section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM0gvwJisLc

I can’t imagine many people less likely to play Atari games than Eric Morecambe.

By: brocaine

brocaine — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:17:44 +0000

Jeff Goldblum apple ads:
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQZn7epHAI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj7STruKgQ

By: gsmith

gsmith — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:05:01 +0000

If PC were to come up with an ad campaign to take some of the cool back from Mac, he would have Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld appear in them.

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:55:05 +0000

Whoa! You forgot all about the Alan Alda ads for the Atari ST line!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!

By: Hoju

Hoju — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:25:15 +0000

Very interesting list! It did also remind me of a series of ads that comedian Denis Leary did for IBM some years ago (late 90s?).

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:05:44 +0000

Microsoft? Out of touch? Never!

By: joey

joey — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:52:55 +0000

@Mike K.: I cut my BASIC teeth on a TI 99/4A at a "Compucentre" store back in my middle school days in the early 1980s. They tolerated me hanging around because I answered customers' questions free of charge while the staff went for their smoke breaks. It had some impressive hardware specs -- hardly a surprise since Texas Instruments was known for all sorts of tech-fu, from chips to calculators to cool devices like the Speak and Spell -- but it was so locked down that for a programmer like me, they might as well not have been there. The 99/4 was missing several keys including the arrow keys and a question mark. There was no way to save and load programs -- not to disk and not even to cassette! The software was pretty sad -- can you name any apps of note that ran on the machine? Finally, the BASIC (accessible only as an option on any of the standard app cartridges) was pretty weak in comparison to Apple's AppleSoft Basic and the TRS-80 Level II BASIC. Hence my declaration that the TI 99/4 was lame. Bonus Reading: It hurts me -- nay, it shocks me -- to say this, but I find myself agreeing with Dvorak!

By: Tomz

Tomz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:40 +0000

Excellent timeline of videos!

Here’s a recent one to add:
Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant (of the Office UK fame), doing a training videp for Microsoft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKyV-l8i5lg
There’s also a part 2 on youtube