{"id":7205,"date":"2008-09-06T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the_jerry_seinfeldbill_gates_commercial.html"},"modified":"2008-09-06T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:01:40","slug":"the-jerry-seinfeldbill-gates-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/the-jerry-seinfeldbill-gates-commercial.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jerry Seinfeld\/Bill Gates Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have the opportunity to have Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in a commercial, you expect something grand. After viewing this Microsoft ad below, I have to admit &#8212; it is one of the worst commercials I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>  <object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of this commercial is to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft-watch.com\/content\/marketing\/clowns_but_no_windows_at_the_shoe_circus.html?kc=EWKNLEND09062008STR2\">viral<\/a> and in that area it certainly works &#8212; as people will talk about how bad it is and forward it around. As I watched &#8212; I wanted to laugh. I was hoping it would be funny &#8212; it just wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p> So I came up with some lines that I think are funnier than anything in the commercial. They may not be home runs but hopefully you will like them.<\/p>\n<p> If computers are so smart, why do I have to write my own jokes?<\/p>\n<p> If computers are 1,000 times faster today than they were twenty years ago, why do they take so long to start up?<\/p>\n<p> Microsoft has done so much for mankind, when will they start helping aliens?<\/p>\n<p>I hear Superman uses Vista.<\/p>\n<p> There is nothing better than Excel on Vista for managing where I parked my Porsches.<\/p>\n<p>If any of these are used I will expect royalties of course. Big Top points are not accepted here. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/FCKeditor\/fckeditor\/editor\/images\/smiley\/msn\/sad_smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have the opportunity to have Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in a commercial, you expect something grand. After viewing this Microsoft ad below, I have to admit &#8212; it is one of the worst commercials I have ever seen. One of the goals of this commercial is to be viral and in that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}