Video: David Cross for AOL (1995)

If only this were funny.

1. [scaught]

   That little shrug at the end is actually painful.

2. [btb]

   I smirked

3. [Rob Beschizza]

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

4. [isaacb2]

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

5. [porkchop]

   A paycheck is a paycheck.

   I still love you, David Cross. <3

6. [homestarrunrun]

   Rolling Stone magazine says “No.”

7. [Foxhearstherabbit]

   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. [All Jelly No Toast]

   Even Shakespeare gots to get paid, son.

9. [Honad]

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

10. [shMerker]

    I think you have the wrong thread honad.

11. [Anonymous]

    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. [Teufelaffe]

    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?”