When you see the names Norm Macdonald and Steve Buscemi, what comes to mind? Perhaps funny or edgy or, in the case of Buscemi, a bit scary looking? I would tend to agree. How about gingerbread men? When you see those names does it elicit a vision of Macdonald and Buscemi as a father-son gingerbread duo? No, I didn't think so.
And yet here they are, in all of their gingerbreadiness, in a holiday commercial for AT&T's GoPhone. In the ad, Macdonald's character wants a cell phone, but all that Buscemi's gingerbread father wants to do is make sure that no one eats anymore of his house this season. In a touching moment the son gets the phone he wants.
Unfortunately, tragedy strikes as we see a human hand breaking off a piece of the gingerbread man's roof, exposing the lovely gingerbread mother in the bathtub. It's probably one of the funnier holiday ads this season (although the Verizon 'Pony' commercial is pretty good) and you can see it after the jump.
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12-20-2007 @ 4:00PM
Tele-Toby said...
The Gingerbread Men ad is still the funniest for me, but it's the Setanta ad with sportscaster Des Lynam as Setanta Claus that keeps me coming back for more.
Gee, I can't explain why......
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wFRhZuUIlwI
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12-20-2007 @ 4:11PM
KMF said...
This ad cracks me up.
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12-20-2007 @ 5:17PM
erica said...
Late
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12-20-2007 @ 10:51PM
becca said...
I like the Verizon one better. But this one is funny too.
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12-21-2007 @ 5:53AM
Michael said...
The Verizon ad is great but I got tired of it after seeing it run a couple of times. This ad never ceases to get a chuckle out of me. Steve Buscemi is hilarious!!
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12-21-2007 @ 9:33AM
Jeff Goebel said...
The thing that most amazes me about this ad, is that Norm MacDonald has been the voice spokesman for Bell Cellular and Bell Canada for years... He's the Gordon Beaver of Frank and Gordon, and hearing him talk about cell phones as a gingerbread man was a shock.
Actually... he might be the Frank Beaver.
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