Via the AOL viral video site This Just In (AOL also owns TV Squad) comes a video featuring a very young-looking Mike Rowe (currently the host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel) selling a cat toy on QVC. Rowe was a presenter on the channel in the early '90s.
Give Rowe credit, because he's trying his best to sell a product that is, for all intents and purposes, a glorified grocery bag, but how enthusiastic can the poor guy get about a bag that even QVC's resident cat doesn't seem to care about? I suppose he could have got inside the bag himself . . . oh wait, he did.
I'm a fan of Rowe on Dirty Jobs because he strikes just the right balance of "fella next door" and genuine smart-assery. That combination is apparent here, too, but in the QVC setting where every product is supposed to be presented as if it's the most important purchase you'll ever make, Rowe's barely-contained sarcasm is doubly hilarious.
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7-07-2007 @ 11:53AM
Shannon said...
HAHA I love Mike Rowe, I have the biggest crush on him. I was aware he was on QVC, but I have never seen footage. I can't wait to show this to my husband.
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7-07-2007 @ 12:12PM
Diane said...
I love it, it's everything I love about Mike's current hosting of Dirty Jobs, he "gets it" he understands that sometimes, it doesn't have to make a lot of sense, but you have to do it.
I think this cements Mike's role as "everyman" spokesperson.
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7-07-2007 @ 5:38PM
Hank said...
Did this cost him hos QVC job? Because, well, I would have quit. That's the stupidest item I have ever seen someone try to sell.
And Mike Rowe is great. He just straddles that line between ahole and goodguy in exactly the right way.
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7-09-2007 @ 11:11AM
Tna said...
LOVE that hair; holy crap! Seriously though, I could listen to him talk about nothing; that voice; yum!
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