Video: David Cross for AOL (1995)

If only this were funny.

[#1 posted by scaught , November 24, 2008 6:52 AM]

That little shrug at the end is actually painful.

[#2 posted by btb , November 24, 2008 1:50 PM]

I smirked

[#3 posted by Rob Beschizza , November 24, 2008 1:53 PM]

That would make even Gandhi want to smash his face in.

[#4 posted by isaacb2 , November 24, 2008 2:19 PM]

I'm thinking it's supposed to be bad, so it's actually good. You know, it's self-knowingly ironically bad.

[#5 posted by porkchop , November 24, 2008 2:47 PM]

A paycheck is a paycheck.

I still love you, David Cross.

[#6 posted by homestarrunrun , November 24, 2008 2:54 PM]

Rolling Stone magazine says "No."

[#7 posted by Foxhearstherabbit , November 24, 2008 2:57 PM]

David Cross has a pretty significant role in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. As a fan of his stand-up, I'm forced to conclude he was CGI-ed in without his permission...

[#8 posted by All Jelly No Toast , November 24, 2008 5:13 PM]

Even Shakespeare gots to get paid, son.

[#9 posted by Honad , November 25, 2008 8:31 AM]

The pan will burn you, it's not that super.

[#10 posted by shMerker , November 25, 2008 12:26 PM]

I think you have the wrong thread honad.

[#11 posted by Anonymous , November 26, 2008 12:07 PM]

A friend of mine once told me that despite what we used to think, that 10,000 monkeys on 10,000 typewriters WON'T recreate the works of Shakespeare. Instead, we got AOL.

[#12 posted by Teufelaffe , December 4, 2008 4:08 PM]

I was working for AOL as a phone-rep when this ad was first released. We watched it at work for the first time and one of my colleagues said after a brief pause, "Did...did we really just release an ad that essentially calls all of our members, monkeys?"