Microsoft fires Seinfeld from their new ad campaign

[hanselthecaretaker]

Now, don't get all up in arms over us suddenly hating on one of the greatest comedic shows on television. Trust us, we're big Seinfeld fans, and as long as they keep playing the reruns, we'll keep watching. However, what we aren't a big fan of is the once-great comedian who decided to turn his witty, clever humor into a cartoon movie for children, and more recently a horribly constructed commercial for the largest computer company in the world.

Over the years Jerry Seinfeld has gone from uber comedian to Side-Show Bob material, and we can't help but ask: What the hell happened? Bee Movie bombed, even after Seinfeld arrived at Cannes dressed to the nines in his ridiculous bee costume. Age has not been kind to Seinfeld's comedy or his acting skills, which is made painfully clear in Microsoft's new ad campaign -- and it will reportedly cost them $300 million when completed. While scheduled to front the ads just as Apple's Justin Long does, Seinfeld only managed to appear in one ad with Bill Gates before getting fired. Hmm, not quite the vote of confidence Seinfeld or Microsoft were looking for...

AskMen.com - Daily Blog: Sick Of Seinfeld?

I wonder what they'll do now. Isn't firing a Jew bad karma in the world of show business?

 

[-Ariel-]

Sorry Hansel... this is a digression
But that commercial where they use vista and call it something else...
horrible commercial, basically promotes idea that of conceding the thought that culture hates vista...
which it does, but to publicly promote this only does more damage...
Bad marketing.

 

[heatherrae]

I think it was the writing that made seinfeld such a brilliant show.

 

[goin on 4T]

I think MS needs Newman to explain the unnoticed nuances of Vista!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Sorry Hansel... this is a digression
But that commercial where they use vista and call it something else...
horrible commercial, basically promotes idea that of conceding the thought that culture hates vista...
which it does, but to publicly promote this only does more damage...
Bad marketing.

I agree there. They should've just put a fork in Vista and focused on damage control at that point.

I think it was the writing that made seinfeld such a brilliant show.

Larry David is a comedic genius. He set the bar and then raised it again with CYE.

 

[Dial_tone]

Sorry Hansel... this is a digression
But that commercial where they use vista and call it something else...
horrible commercial, basically promotes idea that of conceding the thought that culture hates vista...
which it does, but to publicly promote this only does more damage...
Bad marketing.

Actually it promotes the idea that MS has to trick people into using it.

The Seinfeld ad was beyond stupid. I never got the point of what they were trying to do.

 

[cindylou]

Sorry Hansel... this is a digression
But that commercial where they use vista and call it something else...
horrible commercial, basically promotes idea that of conceding the thought that culture hates vista...
which it does, but to publicly promote this only does more damage...
Bad marketing.

I thought the exact same thing. it was horrible. basically admitting that most people thought vista was crap, but you get a bunch of dumbasses in the room who didnt know what it was to like it, thats supposed to be a commercial?

 

[lartinos]

They shoulda gotten Larry David instead.

 

[lartinos]

or Leon would be even better, them together the best!
YouTube - The Best of Leon

 

[binö]

cye>seinfeld