Odder than anything he ever did on python
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Here’s John Cleese doing an ad for Tom Tom that I just don’t understand:
(Thanks, S.)
If he’s celebrating the concept of being free, even when he’s not, then what has that got to do with Tom Tom?
Is he celebrating the idea of how he might feel if he had a Tom Tom?
That’s strange.
Why not give him a Tom Tom and show him celebrating his improved life?
But then the song wouldn’t make sense, because it’s talking about wanting to break free.
They could change it to I’m Free by the Soup Dragons and Junior Reid.
Then it might make some sense.
It’d still be shit though.
“Watch more John Cleese videos on Facebook.com/tomtom”
Why in God’s name would I want to that? I’ve already wasted 2:03 of my life on your un-funny campaign. Fuck off.
I reckon Cleese’s last divorce cleaned him out so he’s forced to do any old shit. At least I’d rather believe that than consider the thought that he may have written this pile of old shit.
It’s all about people saying wtf, and joining the Facebook page out of curiosity. Liking the page should hopefully let you in on the ‘joke’. Once you’ve liked it, Tom Tom will appear on your news feed and they can start a ‘conversation’ with customers or some shit. My feeling is, there are better ways of getting people to ‘like’ your brand on Facebook. For example, posting insightful comments on industry blogs, with your facebook page at the bottom of the post.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Academy-Films/100350243370838
Has anyone been to see The Alimony Tour? I don’t care what terrible ad men ask him to do for money- Man’s still a god damn genius.
Another nail in the coffin.
Fuck me that’s shite. Close call as to whether its worse than other Cleese ad excrement. Remember the shouty Cleese Sainsburys ads a few years back Ben? Take it they weren’t yours?
Classic – ‘Stuck in traffic thanks to TomTom’.
i once worked with a director who shoots a lot with cleese over here.
and he told me that the first time they shot together, sensing he was dealing with yet another overwhelmed python fanboy, cleese took him aside and told him “look, you have to undertand one thing. I will do ANYTHING, ANYTHIHNG, for money”.
that cleared things up.
ad agencies offer him easy money, he takes it. makes sense.
I sort of get the idea, but the production value is rather shocking. I suppose they spunk all their budget in getting JC…
he’s stuck in traffic. like the late freddie mercury, he yearns for freedom. he expresses this yearning through the medium of dance. this yearning would be satisfied if only he had a satellite navigation device to take him to a piece of open road where he could openly frolic like a retard. tom-tom manufacture such a revolutionary device (this news will delight and astound a disbelieving public, who will hardly dare to believe that such a thing could exist outside the fantasies of some quixotic genius).
I have seen many less logical ideas. I have written quite a few.
you’re all being deliberately grumpy, just because it stinks like a busted drain which is all clogged up with someone else’s hair and the corpses of starlings.
Thanks for clearing that I up.
I guess I was just confused at how happy he seemed in his negative situation.
Hi Ben,
any chance of doing a post on the Ideas Foundation mentors scheme? Would be much appreciated. We’re trying to recruit as many mentors as possible (mainly creatives) to give just 3 hours a month, mentoring underpriveleged kids on creative briefs they get set. Kinda gives them a look at the creative industries they might not get and increases the talent pool. Its all done online so its dead easy. Loads of big and small agencies involved.
info at: http://www.ideasfoundation.org.uk
cheers Ben
Richard.
I once met another guy who would do anything for money. Walks like he shat a melon now.
J, not to nitpick but I reckon is was Queen that cost them not Cleese.
Didn’t I read somewhere that JC’s is one of the most downloaded voices that TomTom owners use as a substitute on their machines. Does it cost to download? (I ask because I have no idea). If it does then does JC get a percentage (I’m guessing he would). And therefore TT would be able to buy him at a preferential rate for stuff like this.
Does it follow that Freddie Mercury is also a popular TT download…? Probably not.
What happened to his wife in the passenger seat at the beginning? I know he’s a serial divorcee, but even for JC that’s quick work.
“Watch more John Cleese videos on Facebook.com/tomtom”
I’d love to. But unfortunately, I need to be gang raped by a group of squadies.
Perhaps later.
I become absurdly irrational in traffic jams. I like it.
Such a waste of money…
Fucking horse shit. As are Tom Tom sat navs.